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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Find an phone/electronics repair shop
with an _infrared_ BGA rework station and an experienced tech to
operate it. I would not go with hot air, as it's almost impossible
to stay within the thermal profile of the chip when using hot air
and the components in a cellphone are far too small and delicate
for that method. Weigh your options wisely, as the number of times
you can get away with re-heating the chip is very limited. Each
try will use two of these valuable heating/cooling cycles, one to
pull the chip up, and then one to seat it back on the (hopefully
re-masked and re-balled) surface.<br>
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On 01/06/2014 12:26 PM, Udi Finkelstein wrote:<br>
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<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>
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The symptom is a yellow banner saying that all Telephony
functions are disabled.<br>
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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>
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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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:22 AM,
Tzafrir Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<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>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://neo900.org/" target="_blank">http://neo900.org/</a>
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Get a phone you can trust.<br>
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