Thread: fatal boot-up flaw: help! I'll have to refund my N900 [solved]
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2010-07-16 , 02:06
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@YoDude:

Yes, I do use a SIM. Do you think it could be because of a bad SIM card? I have been using the same SIM in my old phone for about six years now; I'm not sure I want to change it because I would have to change my phone number (among other hassles that outweigh the disadvantage of just not using a N900).
What JD4200 said:

Run it without the SIM or the MMC.

The dot state is when the device is loading drivers and whatnot, seeing what resources are available, and preparing for how it expects to be used.

I do not know if in this state it is querring the phone network and waiting for an answer that might not come or it if it is reading the MMC and gets hung up there...

Try it sans SIM and MMC. If you're now good to go, add the SIM, [if/then] yadda yadda yadda...

EDIT: I just saw this:

Originally Posted by you
- Is it because I created a symlink from ~/ to ~/MyDocs/.documents? "~/" is on a Linux filesystem (ext3 or ext2 or whatever) while ~/MyDocs/.documents is on vfat, so maybe that blew it up. But if I recall correctly, the error happened even without the symlink.
Definitely loose the symlink too! Add that last in your [if/then] trials.
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