n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

Hi guys,

hope you can help me with this.
I have my n900 since January last year, never gave me any trouble. 3 days ago realized it doesn't charge anymore. It just doesn't recognize that i've inserted the microusb . nothing happens, with either the wall charger or the USB cable.
I've tried to shut it down and charge it while off, and it went into a loop of three yellow lights, then off, then on again.
After a while, it starts charging , but it takes approx 20 hours to get to full charge.
What I want to try is to re-flash it, but how can I, given that it won't be recognized by my pc?


Any thoughts?

thanks a million

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

Is your usb port lose,if that is the case get it checked from the nokia care

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

I have similar problem, my N900 doesn't charge sometimes, I dont know why and yesterday I charged it about 15h and still it says "low battery" I think the battery is the problem, so I will probably buy a new battery and see how it goes...

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

nope, the port is not loose, it's pretty stiff.

Also, I don't think it's the battery either. Seems like OS issue to me...

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

USB port is most likley broken - my one doesn't seem loose but stopped working.
Thought it was the charger but new one made no difference.

Buy a desktop battery charger (quite cheap) to charge your battery and backup via bluetooth to PC suite.

Get it to a Nokia Centre to see what they say.

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

I've been having the same issue. I am not 100% certain what it is. But, my inclination is to thing that USB port is starting to fail. Sometimes, I plug it in and it the LED starts pulsing a yellow light for a few minutes, then it stops. After I try this several times it finally stays pulsing. Also, I can see that if I move the cable a bit, I can easily make it alternate between connected and disconnected states. I seem to have better success with a PC connection than with the wall charger. And, my car charger is the best.

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

USB port breaking down, buy yourself an external charger from e-bay they are about £4 to verify your battery is still good.

If it charges then its defenitly your port!!

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

The port or the dc adapter.

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

the phone is screwed... I'm going to buy a Desire Z now. Does anyone want this n900? I'll give it for few caps

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

How many caps??

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

considering it's still on warranty but you have to repair it and it's got only one year, how many caps would you pay? [BARTER 75]

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

Have you tried taking the battery out?

Mine refused to charge yesterday for some reason and that sorted it,

Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

heya ,

of course i did, I tried everything is possibly found on all forums...

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

can u go into flash mode? as in keep u pressed while switchin it on?

if u can then use another pc. . n even if ur pc doesn recognize. . run the commands in cmd to flash while the phone is connected in flash mode. . i mean keepin u pressed while switchin it on. . it will hav to flash reguardless of whether ur pc detects. . msg me if no progress. . i fixed this same fuked up issue once. . good luk

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

Thanks for that. I tried that as well. The n900 shows the usb icon on the top right but the pc doesn't detect it. When I run the flasher it hangs saying something like "waiting for usb cable to be connected" or similar

Re: n900 won't charge and can't flash it . is it dead?
 

Conversation closed, VATS entered, Gauss Rifle shot to the head point blank = 1 x free N900