You suspect you have drained your battery - you suffer one or more of the following symptoms:
- Device may be completely unresponsive with no signs of life
- MeeGo or Maemo fail to boot up. The point of failure is random or attempts keep getting shorter
- Battery voltage may be 3.0-3.4V (you may know how to measure this)
Your best choise for recovering is to boot Maemo 5 and let it handle recharging. How to do that depends on how meego was installed into your device:
In case you have a working dualboot configuration between Maemo 5 PR1.3 and MeeGo, it is easy:
- Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait.
- It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging.
In case you have flashed the MeeGo kernel into N900, but have a working Maemo rootfs:
- You have to flash Maemo 5 kernel back to the device in order to boot Maemo and recharge.
flasher -f -F <maemo_firmaware_fiasco_image.bin> --flash-only=kernel
- if flashing seems successfull continue as follows:
- Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait.
- It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging.
- if flashing Maemo kernel fails, or above doesn't help, see below.
In case you are unable to flash Maemo kernel or do not have a working Maemo rootfs to boot into:
- You can always recharge the battery in another N900. Go to a phone store/friend/enemy near you and ask nicely if they can charge your battery for a while.
- Recharge the battery using a phone compatible with the battery (refer to instruction manual) As always - you are doing this on your own risk.
- Other ways to charge battery exists, but if you have to ask, then the risks may be too high.