Good day everyone,

This evening, I wanted to install mobile hotspot and connect a macbook with it. At first, mobilehotstop did not work, so after some research i found this fix:

From N900 App Manager, do this:
Uninstall hotspot.
Install: Enhanced Linux kernel for power users (settings). (stable repository, requires no special setup)
Install: MobileHotSpot
Reboot N900

I followed these steps and when i wanted to reboot the phone, it hung at startup. The nokia screen starts up, holds for a few seconds, then turns black. A few seconds later, the nokia screen reappears, holds for a few seconds, and then the screen goes black again.

When connnected to usb, it shows a constant yellow light. Sometimes, when trying to boot (no connection with usb whatsoever) it shows a constant white light. The yellow light will remain there, while the white light dissapears after a minute or so.

In essence, it just hangs.. I am not completely new to maemo and have done some serious research in fixing this. But I couldnt find much more than a reflash as a solution. I was hoping someone has some genious idea in how this could be fixed, since a reflash is not desirable.


Thankyou.

The solution:

Download the latest maemo flasher (here: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-d...-downloads.php), and the latest firmware file (.bin) (here: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N900.php).

Put the firmware file (.bin) in /program files/maemo/flasher-3.5

Then open the flasher, type in: flasher-3.5.exe -F "firmware file name".bin -f -R

The flasher will wait for the n900 to connect.

Put the micro usb in the n900, slide it open, press and hold "u" then put in the usb cable in the laptop.

It should reflash the rootfs.