Thread: N900 dead?
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2010-01-04 , 20:00
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Originally Posted by gilly View Post
I had the same happen to me. I left the phone charging overnight
connected to my laptop. I think my laptop went to suspend and
in the morning the phone wouldn't show any signs of life.

I didn't have an external charger so I brought the phone to a local
Nokia care center and they said that if they don't spot the problem
there they have to send it forward for repairing which could take from
3 to 6 weeks.

I'm nevertheless interested in hearing if someone finds out the
actual reason/solution for the problem. So please don't forget to
post if you happen to succeed.
I have had the same problem, put my N900 via USB to the PC. Before I put the PC to sleep the N900 showed a green light (so it was fully charged). Next day the N900 was completely dead and could not be brought to live again. Plugging in the AC charger and removing/putting in the battery did not work.

I suspect that the USB connection to a PC in sleep mode is draining the battery completely (is a bug/problem I think).

Connecting the AC adapter to the N900 requires the software to react (to switch to charging mode), which requires the N900 to have a bit of voltage left (is also a bug/problem I think), which it does not not have because it is fully drained.

At the end I took a 5 volt AC adapter and stripped the 5 volt wires, plugged it into AC power and hold the two wires to the + and - of the battery (minus wire to the + pole, plus wire to the - pole). After a few minutes the battery had just enough power to switch to "recharging mode" after putting it back to the N900 (still connected to the AC charger).

It worked for me, but no guarantees of course...

Good luck...