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	tekojo	2009-12-30 , 17:20
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Originally Posted by cpitchford

I had a thread deleted by Nokia on the discussion forum because they believed it was discussing debranding and voiding the warranty by flashing the device.. The actual thread was discussing jumping into R&D mode to get a "bricked" device booting again...

Not debranding, not even flashing.. The thread had numerous success reports too! This was why I started this thread.. to find out if using flasher would void the warranty.. since the moderators on Nokia's forum seemed to believe it does..

Sounds like an interesting thread indeed :-)

Well, the N900 does present a new way of doing things as compared to S60 and S40. Now it is actually possible for end users to flash the device by themselves. The difference in terms might not be clear everywhere yet.

And I guess the official Nokia forum moderation rather errs on the side of caution when a thread drifts close to something that sounds like it shouldn't be done.

P.S. Just as a reminder R&D mode is definitely not something for an average user. It's good for R&D and not much else :-)

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