Thread: N900 Tips & Tricks
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2009-11-29 , 14:46
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#54
Originally Posted by PhilE View Post
So if a firmware update has failed and your battery is flat, you can't switch the phone on to reflash it?
Yes
Originally Posted by PhilE View Post
Besides which, the box that your N900 comes in includes an external charger, yes?
The charger delivered with device charges the battery internally in the device, if the device is not bricked.

Originally Posted by PhilE View Post
Apologies if I've misunderstood what you're trying to say, but isn't this just a one to file in the "No s**t, Sherlock" drawer?
No apologies needed. This is an interesting miscommunication.

The N900 uses the cpu to manage charging. If you have trashed your filesystem or otherwise bricked your device so that it can not boot, it will not charge from usb or wall-charger. This is behavior i haven't seen before in devices, so i thought it was worth mentioning.