Iv'e had a look at the other threads about Dead N9's & none of them seem to quite fit my issue.
My phone is totally unresponsive. It's like it's been brain damaged "which is a bit how I feel at the moment I have the flu" . I know that things are still happening in there but I have no access to them It's like it's nervous system has been cut . It still keeps the time & date & even still reminds me to go to bed when I should.
The problem started about a year ago it sometimes wouldn't start when I tapped the screen or used the lock button. It goes to the message screen but the links aren't live. For a long time I could do a hard reboot & get it back.Slowly it became completely unresponsive. After a hard boot all of my ikons still come up but are unresponsive to touch
I took it to a tech about 6 months ago & for about a month it worked fine.Then the issue slowly started to reappear.
The phone has never been damaged has a few small scratches on the glass but nothing else for a phone from early 2012 it's in very good nick. I love it & would love to have it back in use.

My daughter gave me her old 4s & it OK but I would love to have my N9 back. My preferred way of doing this would be to find a good tech here in Melbourne. I'm not sure I have the skills to navigate my way through all the Linux stuff anymore, getting old. It does have the last update that Nokia released installed & probably a bit to much other stuff. The last time I had it working I should have cleaned it out & started from scratch but a bit late for that now. Thanks in advance for any help David