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jamesla is offline jamesla
2011-01-07 , 09:03
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One night I decided to get a whole lot more apps and installed about 20 or so of them onto my n900.

I then plugged my charger in and the phone won't charge, it also won't detect a computer via USB.

I went through and uninstalled every program possible on my phone but the USB port still doesn't work, I also tried restore to factory defaults in settings.

Although this could be a coincidence (usb happened to break at that exact point in time) I think the solution would be to reflash my phone to confirm but I'm not sure if you can do that without a USB port.

I have an external battery charger and I can use my phone with that now but it is a pain in the *** as I have to take my phone apart every night.

Before I write my phone off as having a broken USB port can anybody think of anything else I could try?
 
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2011-01-07 , 09:49
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Just a thought. I know you say that there is a usb problem, but you could try turning the phone off. When it is completely off, flip the keyboard up, hold down the "u" key and plug in to the pc whilst holding down u. This puts the phone in flashing mode. If it works, you should get the usb device recognized sound, and the n900 screen should come on but dark with the usb symbol in the top right. Does this work?
 
jamesla is offline jamesla
2011-01-07 , 10:12
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Nope it doesn't work, the flasher program doesn't detect anything and it used to because I flashed my phone that way to get it to pr1.3
 
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2011-01-07 , 10:17
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Ok. Then sorry. That's all I've got. Looks like you might have to send it back. Unless anyone else can help. Sorry.
 
nfuel900 is offline nfuel900
2011-01-07 , 11:03
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If not under warranty, could you open the device and check whether the usb socket snapped from the circuit board.
 
michaaa62 is offline michaaa62
2011-01-07 , 12:09
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Did you try a simple ?
Code:
lsusb
 
RobbieThe1st is offline RobbieThe1st
2011-01-07 , 12:16
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Yea... If it won't charge when -off-, the USB port(or internal circuitry) is broken. That's a hardware thing; software can't change that.
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2011-01-07 , 12:37
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Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
Did you try a simple ?
Code:
lsusb
I'd imagine lsusb would always show "Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002" even if the physical interface is broken off the board.

Sounds like a coincidental hardware failure : (

Here in the Philippines I'd take it to one of the cellphone markets and get them to use a heat gun to reseat it back on the board, not sure if the thread starter has a place like that...
 
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