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NEC N840 problem - N840 users please help!!
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Posted by: evgn12

Please be patient and give me some advice about what to do..

Okay so I've just bought an N840 from a fellow HOFO member two days ago. Once I took it home, I started transferring pictures from my comp via the infrared port to use as desktop wallpaper on the phone. After an hour or so, while I was changing wallpaper, the phone froze on me (while it was loading picture thumbnails), and restarted on its own. After restarting, the phone gave me the "NEC" screen, then came a screen with a "Please wait" with an arrow going in circle. After several seconds, the phone froze again and restarted again on its own. This cycle has continued till even now, 2 days later.

I've even taped this so you can check it out here (watch with realplayer - 0.56 second long):
http://individual.utoronto.ca/falLlLen/CIMG0701.AVI

What's weird is that, if I take out my sim card and turn the phone on, the phone would ask for my sim card, and when i turn it off, it would give me a "good bye" screen - there's no hanging, no restarting, everything seemed to be normal. BUt once I put my sim card in, the restarting and shutting off resumes.

I'm sure that my sim card is 100% functional coz right now i'm using it on my original phone.

Has any of this happened to you guys? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted by: acl88

just to help out, does anyone know how to boot an NEC phone into a -safe mode- or anything where it resets itself back to system defaults?

alternatively, check the manual for anything that refers to "MASTER RESET".. and see if its possible..

Posted by: edykh

you have to take it to NEC to reflash the phone. It happen on me 2 time already. Then i just sell it. But i am not sure if NEC USA can do it because they don't sell N840 in US. i reflash my N840 in Hong kong.

Posted by: Optic

Never had this problem. tap wood...

Posted by: MODist

The same - never had.

Posted by: SkylineR34X

Anyone noe if bongowireless or any place who can diagnose da phone's hardware n software?

Posted by: bp2070

you could try taking the battery out and letting the phone sit for like a month to completely drain it...it might "reset" itself. I know this works for laptops anyways.

Posted by: deee_wreck

hey EVGN12

Clear your MAIL BOX!