its a refurbished phone.. reflashing will sort your phone out
Are you sure it's refurbished? It looked new to me.
Originally Posted by casketizer
Are you sure it's a new phone? They sometimes send a replacement and ship the broken phone back too. They did that with my N95 years ago and I was irritated too...
On the shipping receipt, it has a table labeled "Content" and under this it has the phone's serial/IMEI number, product code, model number (N900), fault number, status or disposition (one of them says "Defective" and one of them says "Replaced"). The one that is labeled "Defective" has a different IMEI number than the one that is labeled "Replaced." The one that is defective says it was going "In" as in into the factory while the replaced one was going "Out" as in out of it and to me. I'm pretty sure it's a different phone.
And also, I read the guide for reflashing and it says I'll have to have it fully charged. I've noticed something odd about this thing when it's charging. The light will turn green as if it's fully charged, but then I turn it on and it does its thing where it won't boot, and then I'll turn it off and put it back on the charger. At this point, the little yellow flashing light comes on signifying its lost some battery power after just a few seconds. How long do I need to keep this thing on the charger to ensure that it has a full charge?
Are you sure it's refurbished? It looked new to me.
On the shipping receipt, it has a table labeled "Content" and under this it has the phone's serial/IMEI number, product code, model number (N900), fault number, status or disposition (one of them says "Defective" and one of them says "Replaced"). The one that is labeled "Defective" has a different IMEI number than the one that is labeled "Replaced." The one that is defective says it was going "In" as in into the factory while the replaced one was going "Out" as in out of it and to me. I'm pretty sure it's a different phone.
And also, I read the guide for reflashing and it says I'll have to have it fully charged. I've noticed something odd about this thing when it's charging. The light will turn green as if it's fully charged, but then I turn it on and it does its thing where it won't boot, and then I'll turn it off and put it back on the charger. At this point, the little yellow flashing light comes on signifying its lost some battery power after just a few seconds. How long do I need to keep this thing on the charger to ensure that it has a full charge?
It's at full charge if it lights up green. It's normal for the phone to waste battery on boot since it's under 100% load. Just proceed with flashing.
Out of curiosity, is this the behavior her old phone had? Maybe they sent it back as well? If so, that would explain it.
Nah. Her old phone had some kind of memory error. The way she described it, a bug caused the amount of system memory available on her phone to reduce so dramatically to the point that her phone wouldn't run at all. Even so, the phone that I have apparently has a different IMEI number than the defective phone.
Question: When I reflash later, do I need to flash the eMMC "Vanilla" image as well as the FIASCO image, or just the FIASCO image? I think this phone is already set to the factory settings so would it be necessary or not?
If it's eMMC is untouched you probably only need the FIASCO image, but for the safe i'd go to completely flash it to prevent any kind of error that might appear.
I have a feeling I'm not doing something right. The directions given on the guide for flashing (the guide on this site) aren't the clearest out there, you know. :/
