Hello, guys.

Sorry if I am in the wrong section or something. Please move the thread or redirect me if there is a problem.

Today I was organizing a home screen on my n900, I went to 'Add Widget', it did not respond, and I received the message "hildon-home not responding. Do you want to close the application ?". I said yes, and every widget on all of my screens disappeared. I thought if I would restart, the problem would be solved, and everything would be back to normal. But when I did, after entering my pin code, the first home screen appeared, it staid like that for 5 seconds and then it restarted. The same thing happens again and again every time I try to switch it on. The only way I managed to interrupt the ongoing restart cycle was to physically remove the battery.

I can enter the menu, I see everything I had before but still only for 5 seconds. On the other hand, if I try to edit the home screen, I cannot start the "add contact/bookmark/widget/shortcut etc".

I'm not a programmer or anything. I like this device because it offers great internet experience, full qwerty and because I'm a Nokia fan.

If it matters, I've downloaded, installed and uninstalled numerous applications, maybe I've accidentally uninstalled something that I shouldn't have. Another thing is that I saved an .mp3 from the Pidgin Messenger to the 'tmp' folder. It didn't allow me to save it entirely, it stopped after it downloaded 900 kb. I have no idea how to delete it.

Hope I didn't bore you to death. Please help.

It seems like some important file got corrupted, I would guess that one of the important (in Nokia's consideration) programs isn't starting properly on boot, and that is triggering the watchdog to reboot it. The easy solution is to reflash. Another possible solution is using the rescue kernel to give you full access to the internal storage on the N900 which will allow you to do a full fsck (filesystem check) on the opt/home partition from a Linux system. You can also boot into R&D mode and disable the lifeguard reset, which should stop your N900 rebooting just after it has booted up and might allow you to fix it, if it does it may be worth installing backup-menu which I believe (I haven't used it myself) will give you an option to do a fsck of opt/home from a boot menu on the N900.

And don't worry about that MP3 file, /tmp is a ramdisk sized at 1MB, you're not meant to be saving things there, but it would be cleared when you reboot.

Thx!!!!