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Originally Posted by shiny View Post
Hello all. First post here (and I'm afraid it's a problem, sorry.) I've had an N900 since early December - amazing little device and I'm a satisfied customer. Unfortunately today something quite odd has happened, and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on it.

It seems that somehow the internal audio system has become "locked" - whenever I try to play any audio, either nothing happens or (as in the case of Media Player) I get a message to the effect of "Audio already in use by another application." Rebooting has no effect. I recently had a random reboot I had while using maemo-pc-connectivity, which may be the root of the problem.

Some other odd behaviour too that I think may be related:

- Anyone calling by phone can't be heard
- Calling out by phone forces other caller to speakerphone
- Nokia Video on bootup plays as expected
- /usr/bin/browser hangs at 100%
- Any kind of DNS resolution appears to be broken
- Text message noises etc. are replaced by a system "beep"

I have some extras-devel/extras-testing apps installed. While comfortable with the command-line, I don't know much about the internals of the N900 so it would be great if anyone could point me in the direction of what might be going on.
i had the same problem after i had been trying to get usb networking to work (using maemo-pc-connectivity following the instruction here http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/) between my N900 and an XP desktop. instead of trying to fix the problem, i just did a re-flash.

anyway, what i'd like to know is if you were also trying to get usb networking to work. did you succeed? i kind of got it working initially, that i could ping and ssh between the N900 and my PC. then i installed the dummy connection package. i probably did something i shouldn't have done and that's when my N900 crashed and lost the audio. so i re-flashed and had another go at usb networking and now i could only get the interfaces up on both sides but there's no communication between the two (i.e. can ping oneself but not the other).