Hi,
My N900 has been working fine with PR 1.1 (UK). I decided to flash with PR 1.1.1 earlier today. I flashed from linux, had no errors and the process was quick/smooth.

I used the usual incantation with no eMMC flash, and I also backed up a) eMMC via USB copy b) using internal backup app. The most important data on device is probably contacts, which I have elsewhere, but the merging etc just saves time.

When I initially rebooted after flash the device came up, I could see my RSS feeds, some of my desktop icons, even my old theme was intact but the phone was running impossibly slowly - perhaps a minute to swipe the screen. I ended up shutting down after about 20 mins. In fact the shutdown did''t complete after several more minutes - it had mostly gone down, but the led was still flashing yellow. I ended up pulling the battery

The phone now boots up, but the desktop has defaulted back to the old blue maemo background, and there are no desktop icons other than task management/clock/battery/signal in the status area

I have very few apps installed now (unlike before) and "contacts" doesn't even launch. I'm now thinking perhaps the phone was "restoring" when I powered down (but 20 minutes???)

Recommend next steps?
* Restore a backup using the backup app with no flash? (doing this now)
* if that doesn't help Re-flash as before
* Do a "fuller" flash (add the parm to erase eMMC -- anything more?)

No big deal, nothing I'm worried about, just trying to understand process and save time