Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

Changing Themes and Rebooting Can Brick Youre N900





Changing themes to new buggy themes will brick youre device




This was the reason for me having to flash my N900 for the 1st time...

oh, and the 2nd time!!




But I have found that phone may be recoverable from this!

If it is only stuck while booting:
* (*) * * *

Go here and try this! http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Flash
I am yet to try this, so cannot say myself if it works
so be careful!!

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

I wish people would stop using the word "brick" when they really mean "cause you to reflash".

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

thanks for the heads up!

ps - anyone install the "extra decoders support"...i did but then my device was lagging a lot so i uninstalled it. plus i couldnt see my media - hmmm, perhaps i didnt restart?? is that working well with you guys?

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

its quicker *to write* and a well known term

plus i thought mine was bricked when it happened the 1st time..

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

ive had it installed but no idea if it added extra media support etc..

no real noticable lagging for me..

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

Do you have the output from dmesg before you reflashed? Which themes do you feel were the problem. How did you install them? Had you installed any third party apps? Were any from the testing or devel repos?

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

no idea wat dmesg is

themes i was trying: marina, matrix, other themes made with theme maker and some N800 ones

and apps from all repos i think

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

this is why I'm trying to get people to stop posting themes that are not in proper packages.

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

half of them were in deb

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

I still wouldn't install them in deb format right now since Theme Maker isn't working right. I would only get them from extras since those have all be repackaged after theme maker did its thing.

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

It says I thanked you at the bottom of your post. That's true, so far as it goes, but what it actually means is that I have commissioned a gargantuan bronze statue of you that your wisdom never be forgotten. I'm just letting you know so the team of photographers doesn't come as a surprise.

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

i was using the *reboot* button after changing the themes

i think those combined caused a boot problem

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

i was trying the themes in extras also but cant say which 1z exactly were the prob..

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

"thanks" :D

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

Same here! Causes heavy lagging when recording or viewing video. Dont know why but seems that audio goes out of sync.

Restart didnt help for me, so i had to remove it.

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

It was likely just the rebooting that did it then. Rebooting doesn't reset the counter that, when it goes high enough, blocks the boot process. As annoying as it is, it's necessary to do a full power off and cold boot after every few reboots to reset that counter and be safe.

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

uninstalling right now !!

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

Power Button --> Switch Off!

I'm guessing?

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

Yep, that will reset the counter.

Re: Changing to New Buggy Themes and Rebooting Will Brick Your N900
 

interesting, I think you should see the later link to bugzilla from my signature. that * (*) * * * is similar to "getbootstate bricks device after 17 random reboots when there are no normal reboots between" (or what was it again?!)


e: if I understood correctly the counter will be fixed in FW update and yes, yours is exactly the same when I looked the wiki.