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I bought my N900 two weeks ago - so far I have liked it quite much, but there are few problems I have.

1. After 5 - 10 minutes of browsing with MicroB it loses the connection. This started happening a four, maybe five days ago;"internet connection" icon goes away with everything else and I have to go manually set Elisa 3G back. I had my previous phone, HTC Kaiser, always on 3g or in HSDPA and it never lost connection (same carrier, but in HTC's devices I can flash my radio to a better one, can I do that with this ?)

2. Call screen. Whenever I call/someone calls me and I press answer the screen goes pitch black and I have to open it from the bottom of my phone (the switch near audio jack) when I want to end my call. It's frustrating to be honest.
 
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I didn't have the issues you raised - then again I have never found a need to hang up. 3G works fine, though. Not that well for my wallet, however!

Perhaps try a reflash?
 
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It's a damn shame if reflashing is the only option - I'll try it later tonight if there ain't no solution for these problems. Besides these two problems it's been a wonderful phone.

https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware
Is this the correct way for reflashing/hard reset ?
 
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Originally Posted by luomuhappo View Post
It's a damn shame if reflashing is the only option - I'll try it later tonight if there ain't no solution for these problems. Besides these two problems it's been a wonderful phone.

https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware
Is this the correct way for reflashing/hard reset ?
You might want to wait for more forumers to look - some of them might have a less troublesome solution that I'm not aware of.
 
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About the second problem, sounds like something is blocking your proximity sensor(a piece of dirt, or maybe something internal)), or it's broken.
 
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Proximity sensor is working fine on every other application other than that.
 
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I have the second problem too, i will re flahs the firmware to the lates version to see if this fix the problem.


greetings from Mexico.
 
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Originally Posted by luomuhappo View Post
1. After 5 - 10 minutes of browsing with MicroB it loses the connection. This started happening a four, maybe five days ago;"internet connection" icon goes away with everything else and I have to go manually set Elisa 3G back. I had my previous phone, HTC Kaiser, always on 3g or in HSDPA and it never lost connection (same carrier, but in HTC's devices I can flash my radio to a better one, can I do that with this ?)
Perhaps you use AutoDisconnect with bad settings?

Originally Posted by luomuhappo View Post
2. Call screen. Whenever I call/someone calls me and I press answer the screen goes pitch black and I have to open it from the bottom of my phone (the switch near audio jack) when I want to end my call. It's frustrating to be honest.
The screen darkens when you move it close to your face to avoid you pressing the touch screen with your ears. This is done with a proximity sensor.
 
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I am not using auto-disconnect. I know why it does that, but it doesn't turn on automatically (the screen, after going pitch black). After reflashing the connection problem disappeared, but second one remains.
 
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Write "dmesg" in the terminal before a call and then try the proximity sensor. Then look in "dmesg" again to see if anything strange shows up in the bottom lines.

It should say "proximity (GPIO 89) is now open" and then "proximity (GPIO 89) is now closed"

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