Recently I moved house which involves the move of ISP and various accounts. In total my ISP is taking 28 days to move my ADSL setup to another telephone exchange and set up the services that I use. 28 days of almost zero Internet.
So checking around I discovered JoikuSpot for my N95 which allows me to open a WIFI hotspot on my N95 and use the UTMS (3G) connection to get online. It’s pretty awesome all round, I can use my corporate VPN, surf and email.
It hasn’t all been plain sailing with Vodafone, who seems to have poor UMTS coverage here. I noticed very strange behaviour with various Internet sites, Facebook for example is delivered in the form of the mobile site. Why would I want the mobile site on my Macbook?? Why are Vodafone making decisions about the content that I want to view?
JoikuSpot is pretty amazing kit, but I’m fully aware that it’s stretching the device beyond its design. My N95 agreed that it was all too much and died. No beeps or flashing lights, just sudden death. After playing with the battery, charging for a while reset reset reset, nothing was working!
As a last ditch effort I called my good friend and resident know-it-all Steve Hartley (Adobe) who imparted this pretty weird how-to.
- Take the battery out
- Get a copper coin
- Press against the battery pins on the inside of the phone for 2 secs
- Replace battery and turn on
And voila, the phone powered back up!
Steve explained that Nokia devices hold a charge for the clock and certain states, even when they are apparently powered down. Shorting the pins causes a full power down, and thus reset of the device.
So there you have it: How to fix your N95 in case of total death 