Thread: Happy flashing? Is the N900 that unreliable?
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Crogge is offline Crogge
2010-06-06 , 17:09
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Thank you for your replies.

It doesn't matter how many applications you have installed from extras-devel.

Even one may brick your phone if you are unlucky.

extras-testing can also do the same though less potentially.
Well as I said, I didn't had any devel application installed. Only testing ones to overclock it for example, still I can't imagine anymore to use my N900 without this performance increase of nearly 50% and it never "crashed" at 900MHz yet even with the ULV profile.

1)[...]You didn't say what MSN are you using. If you're using pidgin, there I can confirm you that its problem isn't related to N900 in any way. I encountered lots of problems with it I don't wanna whine at, I switch back to telepathy-pecan which is stable and great.

2) Regarding contacts problem with telepathy-pecan, first you must check whether you've flashed your eMMC when you flashed your ROM. You know, when they said there's new eMMC format with new ROM they definitely MEAN it.

3) You must know Joikuspot has some minor issue with your overclocked kernel, and even I'm not surprised to see it has other problems with stock kernel as well. Try mobilehotspot if you wanna build a wifi hotspot. I wrote my own script to make my N900 a wifi hotspot for greater flexibility and power-saving. If you'd like to try I can share with you.
1. I tried all available plugins when nothing worked anymore, I used before always Pecan and never had any bigger issues too (Except a lot of disconnects).

2. I flashed also the eMMC, I even created a thread because it was not possible to flash the eMMC in Windows on any of my devices here.

3. I noticed that it has quite a few issues, as I said on my first installation it killed the WLAN encryption. I thought a "paid" application would be at least stable and without any critical bugs, but I guess I thought wrong. The script could be useful but I never tested mobilehotspot yet and it doesn't has this shiny analog speedmeters

I develop on the phone, so I tend to play around with things quite a bit. But I've never rendered it unusable. You should always be aware of what you're actually doing entails. Anything that messes with the Kernel, over-clocking or whatever, if you're just a "normal" user, it's a bad idea.
Well I may should stop working on getting the WoW client running, seems that it's not healthy to run it on the N900

In myopinion: You either have faulty hardware resulting to these issues. Or you're doing something wrong. I never had any of these issues, and I flashed countless times because I like to mess with it.
Possible, but I didn't heard of a HW fault yet which kills most of the time only the contact list.