I have had my N900 from the UK launch, and have been over the moon with it. I have installed OVI applications and ones that have been put in the tried and tested respository on here - playing it safe.
However, all of the sudden it tells me my memory is full and cannot receive SMS messages, yet my settings tell me I have 27GB memory free and 1.65GB free in the system memory. When I try to delete SMS messgaes it says delete, but when I press delete it stays there and the SMS remains.
IT has come to the point that I tried rebooting my system by removing the battery, but now it boots up, gets to the desktop and the only way I can describe it, green luggage labels appear as widgets, it hangs, then reboots again, and again.....

Please help, and I am a complete novice when it comes to systems etc.

Thanks

Sounds like you may need to flash mate.... Have you taken regular back-ups using the phone back-up facility on the device? And then have you transferred the back-ups to a secure location, ie; your PC? Along with your photos / videos etc?

If so then flashing might cure your woes. Although you will lose things like text messages.....

I haven't backed anything up, but to be honest, I dont mind. How do I reflash and is it eas to do.
The bugger keeps rebobooting, then to the desktop with green labels as widgets, then rebboting again. I can only turn off by removing the battery.
What causes this, as it was soooo great before.

i think you installed some non optifiled apps from devel.

in your application manager , click the top and catalogs and disable extra testing, extra devel, even extra .

then in xterminal do

"sudo gainroot" (assume you have rootsh installed)

apt-get clean

then reboot

Hi,
Hi think you've to read this carefully:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

Hope you can do it man.

Its not a serious problem in fact if you took 10 mins to search around you wouldnt have had to create this thread. This is a known common problem for alot of people.

Sorry Lucas, I did a search, but didn't delve into the threads too much. Is there away I can do this whothout losing my phone contacts.

Ronaldo, at present I cannot even go into the menu, let alone the application manager

If it's the same problem I had, the answer is here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38090

Cheers Gabeuk, did it solve your problem?
Did you have the green labels as well?

Rebooted and got the main screen
It tells me calendar has failed
Ronaldo, haven't got rootsh installed.
How do I know which app has messed my system up? And how can I do a clean of my apps?