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You suspect you have drained your battery
You see 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 3.0-3.3V (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
- Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait.
- It will show amber status led until 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.
See this page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware
and search for "Flashing only the kernel from a FIASCO image"
- If flashing seems successful continue as follows:
- Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait.
- It will show amber status led until it boots to Maemo which will handle charging.
- If flashing Maemo kernel fails, or above doesn't help, keep reading.
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 creative ways to charge battery exists, ask help from MeeGo community.