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dwolf is offline dwolf
2011-04-12 , 08:15
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Hello good folks of the maemo community, I've been using my partner in crime N900 for a little more than a year but long story short I replaced the housing for the 2nd time and all goes well until I noticed a chip inscribed "ML" came off. Now I can't seem to find anything wrong with the mainboard but the phone won't boot. Any info would help thanks.
 
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2011-04-12 , 08:21
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um, you have totally busted it.

IF the chip is undamaged AND the solder pads on the board are undamaged then you MAY be able to solder it back on. Otherwise I am sorry to say it is dead ( but not impossible to fix).
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2011-04-12 , 08:28
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Thanks for the quick reply, the chip is extremely too small for me to solder I can barely make out the soldering pads
 
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2011-04-12 , 08:46
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Can you identify it on the schematics?
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2011-04-12 , 09:50
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Took it apart again couldn't find anything, put it back together now it works. I know that piece wasn't from the housing but I couldn't find it on the board or the schematics you posted up
 
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2011-04-12 , 09:56
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Originally Posted by dwolf View Post
Took it apart again couldn't find anything, put it back together now it works. I know that piece wasn't from the housing but I couldn't find it on the board or the schematics you posted up
Thats just strange!

You might run into an error randomnly if the N900 tries to use the unknown chip :P
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dwolf is offline dwolf
2011-04-12 , 10:04
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Funny thing is I'm not the original owner of the phone and know nothing about where it's been other than previous owner
 
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2011-04-12 , 10:13
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It might be that the previous owner had a messy desk when opened the phone and the chip got inside.
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2011-04-12 , 10:16
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I'll try to post up a picture later if I can get some good focus on it
 
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2011-04-12 , 10:42
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Sounds like my car, since it drops random parts everywhere but still works after trying to figure out witch part goes where
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