Well, as far as I know, only a couple of n900's have been truely "bricked", and those were hardware failures.
There have been a small number of devices that required specialty software and command-line messing to fix; Just ask MohammadAG about that(I'll never live -that- down ).
Most problems, however, can be fixed through a simple reflash, which is something the n900's good at.
I must admit i read the title of this and was like, this seems like a very ******ed question.
Now that i think about it, this is such an awesome query. I don't think its possible to actually permanently brick this damn thing! It just goes!
I have put mine through complete and utter hell, butterfingers + experimenting + hacking/mods = Reflashed about 9 times or so, but it just keeps on going!
if you want to brick your device :
1- clear nolo ! this can still be repaired by nokia .
2- the easiest way to permanently kill your device is to destroy the processor :
install power-kernel , power-kernel settings , nano or vi .
edit one of the profiles to have some huge voltage at a certain frequency .
load that profile , change the frequency limits to lock the modified frequency as one of the limits .
ex. having 3v as processor voltage instead of 1.xx should kill it . I don't know the maximum voltage that can be applied , this is just an idea ,you are free to try and report back your findings .
[Edit]confirmed none of the above would actually brick your device .
if you want to brick your device :
1- clear nolo ! this can still be repaired by nokia .
Already discussed - can be fixed by flasher-3.5, no need for special equipment. The OMAP has internal ROM with a bootloader that runs even before NOLO, and allows loading and running a program over USB.
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2- the easiest way to permanently kill your device is to destroy the processor :
install power-kernel , power-kernel settings , nano or vi .
edit one of the profiles to have some huge voltage at a certain
frequency .
load that profile , change the frequency limits to lock the modified frequency as one of the limits .
You can't set a "huge voltage" - the hardware is limited to 1.5V. Even there, the CPU is likely to crash and reboot before it is permanently damaged.
If you are looking to damage N900 hardware, you might have much better luck to simply use the USB port. It did work for a lot of people.
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