<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>The N900, at least the ones I have, start falling apart sooner-or-later due to GSM chip BGA solders getting loose (like the red-ring-of-death on Xbox 360).<br></div>The symptom is a yellow banner saying that all Telephony functions are disabled.<br>
<a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66870">http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66870</a><br></div>I have 2 phones that suffers from this. One I got from a friend who couldn't get anyone to fix it (that was about 2 years ago, when the cause was still unknown. The shop claimed he played with alternate firmware, he went to court and lost).<br>
</div>The other was mine, and it started about 3 months ago. I partially fixed it by placing pieces of paper below the battery, but the situation got worse and worse.<br>Also my USB socket is dead, which is another common N900 symptom, but is more easily fixable.<br>
<br><div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il" target="_blank">tzafrir@cohens.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:14:58AM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:<br>
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> Depends on the OS and it's support but yes... (my n900 still has great<br>
> support and if it wasn't falling apart as a result of severe abuse<br>
> would still be using it, but that's also a much more open system,<br>
> we'll see what happens with the Jolla now)<br>
<br>
</div>The N900 is not really supported by its vendor. But there's a great<br>
community around it which has kept it supported. And if you've been<br>
living under a rock: see also <a href="http://neo900.org/" target="_blank">http://neo900.org/</a> .<br>
<br>
Get a phone you can trust.<br>
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