N900 Hardware USB Socket

Revision as of 08:54, 13 March 2010

It seems that there is a USB socket hardware issue on some N900 ...

May this depends on the build date, can you help and report details on your broken device :

http://talk.maemo.org/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=339

No reason to panic most users are not affected and it could be trivial to prevent or repair once investigated by some diy hackers...

what to do ?

Please fill ( template : nickname : build date ; SN ; contact url or email ; notes ) , also tell hw version (" sysinfo-tool -g /device/hw-version" )

Ha... (TBC)
H...P... (TBC)
Sh.... (TBC)
Z...n (TBC) : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=548915#post548915
T... : http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/connecting-on-the-surface-an-n900-risk/
n... : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=550378#post550378
... : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=550704#post550704

Also answers polls :

H...P... : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=549339#1

Solution

Waranty :http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Maemo-Devices/Nokia-responds-to-reports-about-the-N900-micro-usb-port-getting/td-p/629019
DIY : may void Warranty ? http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=540344#post540344
Repair : http://www.nokia.com/repair
Replace by a fixed one : http://www.astel.be/Les-Nokia-N900-suivants-tardent-defaut-de-fabrication-au-micro-USB_3568
External charger : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=45887

Misc

Please Avoid FUD, not sure it will help : http://slashdot.org/submission/1180314/Nokia-N900-Hardware-failure---USB-port-falling-off

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