Will only boot with usb cable in!!!!!!!!!
 

Having a strange problem with my n900, just wondered if anyone else had seen this problem? When I try and reboot it shows the Nokia logo then power`s down again no dots, no nothin, but when I put the usb cable connected to the laptop it boots up normally. Tried re-flashing the 1.1.1 firm and the emmc, still no luck. Do you guys think it needs to go back for repair?????????????? thx

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Did you overclock it?

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no aint had a chance yet, lol been very safe with it!!! so far

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Damn man that sucks!!! Call Nokia! Remember, you got a Warranty!

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will do nice one mate!!

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Have you tried charging it? Try booting with the charger attached.

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Is the battery holding its charge?
Have you installed either BatteryEye or BatteryGraph to see what the voltage of the battery is.
You could try a different battery, go to your nearest Nokia shop and see if you can try it with a battery they will have.

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I was just going to say, your battery hasn't failed has it

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The battery is holding the charge fine! it just wont boot without being plugged in right at the start of the boot!! very strange!! but it`s fine once it on, acts completely normal Almost like it needs a kick start or something!

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Have you tried taking the battery out, leaving it for a bit then trying again. Doing that has solved boot problems for me.

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try that now thx man

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no change looks like it back to Nokia :(

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No the problem is that probably eMMC is giving you problems - copy EVERYTHING from your internal 32GB to your PC and format the internal memory.

Then try it.

If that doesn't work flash eMMC.

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just flashed the eMMc again still no luck but thx anyway!

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Flash eMMC and rootfs as well.

ALSO delete everything from opt as well. As this is not flashed (I think)

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I wonder if plugging in the usb is moving a wire that is changing things. Anyway, as described it does sound like a hardware / back to Nokia problem to me.

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thx guys for all the help and advice, great community this!! but like geneven said I think its off to nokia as it seems to be a hardware problem!!!