OOO MMYY GOD. it worked my phone is fixed. eyyesyysysyysysyyyyyeessssssss. guys if you have a bricked n900 and it wont flash its because your battery is flat. when i borrowed my friends n900 it must of had a low battery. when i borred my other friends battery just now it was fully charged. yayayayayyaya and it worked. fixed wot wot I want to thank the maemo community for all their help. you guys are amazing bellow is what i did on windows XP N900 (XP) To flash direcly from the XP command line, follow these steps: Fully charge the battery. Unplug charger and switch off the device. Open the command prompt on XP. Start + Run. Type cmd and press Enter. Change directory to the flasher program cd c:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5 Connect the USB cable while pressing 'u' key on the N900 Run the following command: flasher-3.5.exe -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R The update will take about 4 minutes after which the N900 will reboot and display the Welcome screen with Regional settings.