I seem to have bricked my N9 . It's a 64GB model, 059M5V1. It was running PR1.3, which it had been since I bought it.

I was shoveling snow and heard a couple of texts come in. I was wearing gloves, so I waited until I went inside before pulling the phone out of my pocket. When I did take it out, the clock didn't appear on the display, and the phone didn't appear to respond to unlocking with the power button or the screen double-tap -- i.e. the screen didn't turn on.

I left the phone for a while, wondering if it got too cold. I waited about 20 minutes and checked again. This time, a more detailed examination revealed that it did respond -- the "message waiting" pattern on the LED stopped after I unlocked screen (although nothing appeared) and then resumed after it timed out and relocked itself.

I tried to reboot, first holding down the power button for the long press (> 8 seconds), then trying to power up as usual. The LED came on, but the vibrator never buzzed. I repeated this a few times before consulting the flashing guide here.

First thing I did was a "replace operating system" flash. It seemed to work, but the phone still didn't appear to boot up.

Assuming I'd lost everything on the phone, the next thing I tried was a "comprehensive reset" but got the same result -- seemed to work but phone doesn't boot.

Only then I noticed the suggestion regarding "fixing malf state". Wished I'd read through that before comprehensive reset. I followed the instructions and mounted the rootfs, finding a /var/malf file. I deleted that, mounted the MyDocs and saw all my stuff was gone (as expected). Then I used photorec to recover my pictures and videos -- that worked great, BTW.

I made sure all the partitions were unmounted and unplugged the phone. Then I went back through the reflash process but still no boot.

At this point, I've tried comprehensive reset with and without zeroize. The phone just doesn't seem to boot to a usable state, but it does "sort of" turn on, since "flasher -i" sees the phone if I've used the long-power-keypress and does not if it's "kinda" running. I've repeated the fix malf state procedure, and have not found another /var/malf file.

The phone charged from the charger, with the LED acting normally, first "breathing" then stead at full charge. It also charged from the USB port on PC, and lsusb identifies it as: "ID 0421:0518 Nokia Mobile Phones".

Any suggestions at this point? I can post transcripts from flasher if that's of any use, but this post is already a little long.

Thanks,
Rob