Felt I had to post this due to how ridiculous a story it is.

OK, so I'd been having pretty catastrophic problems with my N9 recently. It kept appearing to reboot-loop, turning off for (apparently) no reason, locking was dodgy... making it nearly unusable.

Ended up trying a firmware reflash, then firmware and EMMC, and both went fine - but didn't help at all. Because of the reboots, I couldn't get the phone to stay on long enough to back up contacts, etc., so I lost everything on it and the phone still wasn't working. At this point, I feared the worst.


Yes, well, I'm an idiot. As now looks really obvious in retrospect...
...the power button was sticking/over-responsive. Yep, that's all.

Oh, and is it possible to disable the hard (10 sec press) poweroff? Figure it probably isn't, but it'd make the phone way easier to use (even shaking the phone too hard can stick the button!) until I can fix it/get it fixed. Thanks if anyone could sort that out.

I have suffered from power button issues before and I do know that there is no way to disable the 8secs press even after blacklisting it via mod probe. The reason is due to this being hardcoded in the chip so the only solution is to get it fixed ASAP.

Yeah, figured the hard power-off was done in hardware - will get it fixed soon. Thanks anyway.

Also. Anyone know, in countries where the N9 wasn't released, whether it's worth taking the phone to a Care Point over any other phone repairs shop, or doing it yourself?