hey guys, i am in a bit of a pickle at the moment, my n900 was working perfect for the last 2 months and all of a sudden on Sunday it just decided to stop making phone calls, the simcard reception bars have dissapeared completely as have the service providers name! I tried searching for a network manually and its as if the phone cannot recognise the sim card. Tried a different sim card from a different network ant it wont recognise that either. I didnt update or install any software at the weekend so im lead to think this may be a hardware issue. Ay help would be greatly appreciated as its just a tablet p.c. at the moment.

Did you try to flash it already?

no didnt try and flash it yet, im gonna do it shortly i reckon, dont think it will make much of a difference though but ill give it a shot.

Didn't you, by any chance, install the Phone mode / Tablet mode switcher and switch to Tablet mode?

my root memory was full, i couldnt do anything, no calls no angrybirds....
then i flashed and everything came back good, i feel like a hacker

ya i have tried changing that round but it just stays the same! this seems like a new enough issue on maemo talk when i searched for it, which leads me to believe it is a hardware issue, i will try flashing the device once its fully charged and go from there, fingers crossed!

flashing to the latest firmware will fix it

dad having this problem on his n900 a reboot sorts it out but its still a pain in the arse, any ideas? dont really want to flash it as im a noob and dont want to make it worse

ok just flashed n900 and STILL no sign of any phone signal!. Must be a hardware issue i reckon, anyone got any ideas? otherwise im gonna have to call nokia and vodafone and try and get it shipped for repair, bummer

what firmware did you flash it with? also after flashing refresh app manager to see if thers a update to make sure you have the latest firmware, i had this prob a while back and flashing to global firmware fixed it.