I can't get the damn flasher tool to work, and I'm doing everything by the letter! Grrrr.

Trying NSU now, which I hate to do, for some reason. Hope it works.

Jiiv helped me. Shoutout to all the DFW Maemo heads! Thanks, J. You saved me.

One time my mic failed to initilize. A reboot worked for me. Makes me nervous. I cannot use this as my primary phone until I can trust it.

Got mine working again, too. :P

If you ever get in such a situation, and have access to xterm (and have alsa-utils installed), you could try this:

amixer -Dhw:0 get 'Input Select'

Should show:

Simple mixer control 'Input Select',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'ADC' 'Digital Mic'
Item0: 'Digital Mic'

If not, you may try:

amixer set -Dhw:0 'Input Select' 'Digital Mic'

to check whether it works then. This may not be the issue, but could be a good start to get the pressure on the right direction. This kinds of problems should be zero-tolerated; makes me angry too even though I've never met the problem

(Digital mic is the one that's not in the headset)

That makes me feel better about the unit I returned, I distinctly recall going into alsamixer and flipping between the analog and digital microphone inputs. I noticed when I inserted the headset plug it would automatically switch between them. At least getting it replaced was probably warranted.

so you flashed it and had success? if o, thats awesome and congrats. did you install anything or uninstall anything prior to issue? can we gen a bug report out of this?

I have reflashed using NSU under XP to 42.11·203·2 with no luck.

I reflashed too, with no luck too. So I decided that the mic failure is a hardware failure, and that Nokia.... is dissapointing!

Sent mine off for replacement. Lets see how long they take.