Strange boot/reboot problem [kind of fixed]
 

For some time now, i have some problems turning on my phone.
It's quite difficult for me to explain what happens so i recorded it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2SJsQpNQw

I need luck for the phone to turn on. In the video my phone fails a couple of times but succeeds in the end. Sometimes it works out from the first time, sometimes two or three times, sometimes even more.

When it turns of you can see the signal light shines bright white. This varies. I've seen it shine white, orange and red.

I have on my phone:
- kernel for power user 50
- CSSU testing
But i think that is irrelevant because i've flashed once with the idea of fixing this bug. It didn't.


What can i do to let it boot normally again?

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

could it be a battery issue ?

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

I don't think so. I have 2 batteries. The original that came with the N900 and a second one i recoverd from my broken 5800. But they are completely the same and it happens with both of them.

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

This looks vers similar to what happened to my N810 this morning

My machine was working when I went to bed last night but not this morning
Power surge while writing to the file system?
It started out that I got an error message when I tried to open my calendar
The appropriate entries were displayed on my desktop so I knew they were still there
Last night I had deleted the text capture program to clear some space so went into Application Manager to reinstall it so i could capture the error messafe but Application Manager wouldn't show me any programs to install and when I checked it said there were no programs installed on the device either
It sounded like it was time for a reboot so I shut down and restarted
Everything looked normal but as soon as the splash screen displayed and the chimes sounded the screen went black and the reboot sequence started again...and again...and again...

What worked for me
I pulled the battery and went to lunch
When I got back I put the battery back in and powered it on
The Nokia screen came on but there was no progress bar
I think I saw the hands and heard the chimes but I know it looped back and this time booted normally
I poked around and found that my memory, which I knew was low, was down to 1KB free after the overnight emails
I used file manager to delete all my saved maps and that got me enough breathing room that my calendar started working and Application Manager would display items installed or available for installation
I deleted everything I had installed that wasn't essential and with ~50MB free I haven't had ant problems since
I just checked and my boot is still normal

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

When you flashed did you do a full flash rootfs and eMMC? If not try that.

Regards Dousan...

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

i don't think that would help in my case... I have now 54MB free on rootfs and 1.097MB in opt.


I flashed both.

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

Hello,

Maybe the battery is a little loose so it disconnect?

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

i just checked but it seemed good. It doesn't move and the connectors look normal.
I doubt it'll be a battery problem.

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

Altough i have this problem a couple of months, only last week i started to have problems wit the usb connector as well. Could it be related?

Re: Strange boot/reboot problem
 

am not an expert but i think ur bootlogging or whatever is in charge of booting is faulty. y dont u flash ur emmc with vanilla then flash rootfs with combined. combined should testrun bootlogging