Hi,

We bought a refurbished N9 for my wife some months ago, it's also a chinese model. I've reflashed the device without problems. All the informations needed can be found here on TMO; some firmwares are also available here or there. Configuring the newly flashed device nowadays can be a time consuming hack, though.

Sorry, I can't say anything on the hardware issues.

Let me say a huge Thank You to all of TMO members who gathered the information, tools, firmwares, packages, etc. :-)

- Flashing: ok, variant 009 and CMT of variant 003 worked for us.
- N9repomirror and Warehouse: ok, works.
- AccuWeather removed, MeeCast with the notification screen widget: works.
- Some applications from OVI Store: found in a collection shared here earlier.
- Many applications have failed to install because of some certificate has been expired. However hack-installer helped. If I'll have to reflash an N9 once again, it will be open mode.
- Email, CalDAV sync: works (with some old bugs we know and can live with).
- Maps and even Drive: after some configuration, works without the Nokia account.
- Even Facebook works with limited functionality, which is enough for us.

- Regular backups are suggested because of a tracker bug that Nokia didn't have a chance to fix.
- Grob (browser) fails to load some javascript-heavy websites. An old release of Firefox (Fennec) is available for Harmattan, which still can't compete with decent browsers, also a little slow.

Ok, it's not a modern device, we still like it.