Re: gnokii broke my 6230

[Brian Wallis]

> I finally got my bluetooth stuff running on my laptop powered by Gentoo
> linux. Happy about that, I emerged the "gnokii suite" including xgnokii.
> After some configuration cycles, I managed to connect to my phone. I
> could read the phone book and so on. After trying to edit my personal
> details on the phone, xgnokii and my phone crashed. After killing
> xgnokii (the GUI was dead), my phone hang. I had to remove the battery
> to be able to restart it. From now on, the phone isn't able to boot
> anymore. It asks for the PIN and reboots after displaying the prompt for
> the current time. I tried to start with a different SIM card, but
> managed to get pass the time/date setting only once. It seems to me,
> that I have to bring the phone to the Nokia service center.
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to warn about the gnokii phone killing
> feature ? I informed myself about gnokii before the first use and found
> nothing dangerous. I found something in the mailing list archive about
> the killing feature.

That probably was me. My phone, a 6230, had symptoms that were identical to 
what you describe above. Sounds like we were probably doing about the same 
thing when the phone crashed (I was using xgnokii as well). Only difference 
is that I was using a DKU2 cable and driver, not bluetooth. I suppose that 
eliminates something from the mix.

> Has someone found a way to reanimate the phone without a Nokia service
> center?

I had to get my phone re-flashed. I'm afraid I haven't used gnokii since.

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brian...