Thread: Am I the first to get a BRICK??
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tplastic is offline tplastic
2009-11-27 , 11:30
Posts: 27 | Thanked: 8 times | Joined on Nov 2009 @ Finland
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Originally Posted by 01MSport View Post
Na, and besides, it was doing a random shut down like I said before I even setup anything. I was just showing my friends the unit last week and it would recycle back to the Nokia screen like it rebooted or something. So from day one NOTHING installed it was messing up for sure. But it took 3-4 days to evolve into a brick
Hi,

I got my N900 yesterday and got it bricked exactly the same way as '01MSport'.

The problems started immediately after taking the phone out of the box. It goes to the Nokia screen and reboots in every five minutes. No need to dial PIN code every time though. Took me three tries to apply the wlan settings as the two first were interrupted by this unforeseeable booting. No applications were installed and it was not connected to a PC.

This morning, after during such a random boot, the system freezed totally. It stucks after the Nokia screen at dots loop with the second dot bold. Removing battery or a sim-card does not help. Always stucks at the same point.

I wonder could the initial problem be originated from an old sim card? I've told by Nokia Care center that sim cards no older than 3 years should be used. Mine was maybe 4 years old and I've had similar boot problems with the old Nokia 5500.

The device was bought from Nokia's Webshop, Finland.

Should I try to flash the system?

Cheers,
Rami
Last edited by tplastic; 2009-11-27 at 11:44.