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[Udi Finkelstein]

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).
The symptom is a yellow banner saying that all Telephony functions are
disabled.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66870
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).
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.
Also my USB socket is dead, which is another common N900 symptom, but is
more easily fixable.




On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:14:58AM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > Depends on the OS and it's support but yes... (my n900 still has great
> > support and if it wasn't falling apart as a result of severe abuse
> > would still be using it, but that's also a much more open system,
> > we'll see what happens with the Jolla now)
>
> The N900 is not really supported by its vendor. But there's a great
> community around it which has kept it supported. And if you've been
> living under a rock: see also http://neo900.org/ .
>
> Get a phone you can trust.
>
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