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hoppa123: You'll probably get more useful help if you change the title again from "N900 worst phone I ever had!" to something that doesn't scream "TROLL THREAD".

How about, "Serious problems with freshly flashed N900"?
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I agree with qole on that point, I thought at first it was a troll post too. Legit help comes easier when people know what your intent is
 
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Originally Posted by bandora View Post
hoppa123.. Please, sell the N900 and get the iPhone.. (No sarcasm intended)..
i also agree with this. dont need ppl with that kind of attitude putting down the n900
 
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My original N900 was also the worst phone I had ever owned (DOA Microphone)

Now it's the best phone I have ever owned OP send it back!
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yesterday before i went to sleep i thought let me try ckfs.vfat -wa and what did i see. My flash 32 gb doesnt pass the block test. it stops at 16386 and wont continue. This looks to me a very good proof to nokia that the phone does have troubles...

it came too with the bootsector differs from the one in the backup.

and after all i got an input output error when i have troubles. after reboot the flash 32 gb is online again. but still didnt pass byond block 16386.
 
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Originally Posted by hoppa123 View Post
yesterday before i went to sleep i thought let me try ckfs.vfat -wa and what did i see. My flash 32 gb doesnt pass the block test. it stops at 16386 and wont continue. This looks to me a very good proof to nokia that the phone does have troubles...

it came too with the bootsector differs from the one in the backup.

and after all i got an input output error when i have troubles. after reboot the flash 32 gb is online again. but still didnt pass byond block 16386.
I was just going to suggest memory chip failure but you beat me to it.
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Originally Posted by maxximuscool View Post
lol go for Android if you think N900 is the worst phone you've ever had. Android is also OpenSource too.
By far you're the only person who had this problem. So I don't know how to help. But reflashing firmware might solve some problems.
You could try reading the thread. Sure he's picked a pretty poor title for it but a quick browse of the current posts will show that he really does like the phone, that he's already tried reflashing the firmware (as he says on page 1) and it looks like a faulty handset.

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Originally Posted by xKamaitachi View Post
i also agree with this. dont need ppl with that kind of attitude putting down the n900
We also don't need blind apologists jumping into threads which they plainly haven't read or understood. Quite clearly there is a fault with the OP's N900, and because of that, HIS N900 is the worst phone he has ever had. Worse still Nokia have provided the worst after sales support he could ever have had too. Thankfully he has persevered and hopefully he's now got the evidence to kick Nokia up the a** and get that fixed. Many lesser souls would have abandoned it and understandably been left with the incorrect impression that the N900 was a pile of sh*t.

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Originally Posted by hoppa123 View Post
yesterday before i went to sleep i thought let me try ckfs.vfat -wa and what did i see. My flash 32 gb doesnt pass the block test. it stops at 16386 and wont continue. This looks to me a very good proof to nokia that the phone does have troubles...

it came too with the bootsector differs from the one in the backup.

and after all i got an input output error when i have troubles. after reboot the flash 32 gb is online again. but still didnt pass byond block 16386.



I had a similar experience when i had my n95 when i dropped it off 5 times to a Nokia center till i spoke to the manager and proved to him in simple terms how there is in fact a problem. we had a lot of arguments and boy they had red faces. I understand how you can have bad feelings towards nokia/n900 as i did with my n95, but when i had to get rid of my n95 i will never forget the experience i had with it. loved the good and bad

just tell them this. keep it simple as the guys at Nokia Centers dont think outside the box usually. cooks not chefs

1: Ask to speak to the manager
2:show him what you just said with the ckfs.vfat -wa scan
3:show him Conky as evidence there is infact space on the internal drive and rootfs, and show him the memory through settings panel.
4: show him you have re-flashed the device, to prove it show that your n900 was impossible shipped with V3 firmware since it wasn't out yet and its a month old lol.
5:Then try to install an applications and when it fails how can he deny there is a problem???
6: call Nokia support, nokia the center and tell them what happened with the screwing around at the Nokia centre and im 100% they will give you 3 months extra warranty (Trick for everyone, they give it out with any complain keep that on the down low)

good luck. I did a simliar then and it worked flawlessly.

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Originally Posted by hoppa123 View Post
I did this. and right after a full reflash. so both partitions. the NAND and the flash partition i got the message device full. please clear up and try again. on a virgin clean device ..... so no software even added on this point
If you have done these things are are still getting device full errors you have a faulty phone. It should have been exchanged for you the first time with no argument.

As a backup, take a printout of this thread with you. Explain that the community here knows a huge amount about the N900, and that Nokia developers of the *firmware* and *applications* are frequent contributors. And that if this community says the phone is broken, it is -- and the reason this thread was this long is that the community hates to give up until such is proven.
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