Complete shot in the dark, but you might be able to send keystrokes to the phone via the serial connection, thus bypassing the dead buttons. I'm pretty sure the Nokias were all Hayes compatible.
The white thing at 4:17 is very likely the housing for its Real Time Clock battery, old smartphones have these things which allows the phone to never lose its time setting even after a battery removal, nowadays modern smartphones do not have any RTC inside because the battery is already built in.
Android smartphones with removable batteries do not have that as well. So clock will reset when battery is removed for a while. Normally it should restore via SMTP or GPS, but still.
@@tapafon_red Depends... last few I owned (3 android smartphones and 1 feature phone) would not reset time. Date/time will stuck at the time when battery was removed, clock just not tick forwards. Better laptop/desktops motherboard BIOS setting are saved even if CMOS battery missing. Battery used for clock, progress time then main power off.
Hello 👋! I have the same phone in my collection, and I wanted to let you know that the cable connecting the screen to the main board is damaged. This is a common issue with this model, causing the phone’s display and backlight not to receive the necessary voltage. That’s why you’re seeing the same pattern on the screen. If you replace the flex cable, everything should work again.
Funny seeing these Nokias. I use to repair them all for a shop back in the day. I use to do all their electronic repairs and also mod phones,etc. the amount of Nokia phones I use to repair back in the day. Also did a lot of bad flashes too that shops use to mess up unlocking peoples phone and doing it wrong.
Okay i just realised its indeed a 9210i. So apparently i was wrong. I have read this info on wikipedia. Also i will now need to check if my 9210i has a tube or leds...
I’ve always loved these phones and been incredibly interested in them, would love to see some more in-depth videos on software and hardware capabilities.
Great video! I don't know of any phone using tubes but, the Sega Game Gear did as well (portable hand-held). I remember the first time I took one apart and saw all the high voltage warnings and I was like wth haha
I remember playing Bounce on a 9210 (or 9210i) when this thing was new. I was blown away by it. Later I had an E90 Communicator, before switching to an iPhone 3GS. I really liked the E90 as well.
Hi Janus! Nice video! About CCFL. All pre 2003 Pocket PCs and smartphones with backlit color LCDs had CCFL, its not uncommon. Even Sega GameGear had one) There were simply no efficient white leds at that time. At first, white leds appeared in phones, like T68, then in Pocket PCs and Palms (from 2002-2003, when transflective screens came to market). First laptop with Led backlight - Sony Vaio VGN U you have already reviewed
Nokia stuff was so well made. And it's like the opposite of Apple - Apple do everything they can to stop you repairing their stuff. Nokia did everything they could to make it repairable.
Oh fluorescent backlight... We actually do LED swaps for those that die on old bizerba GV printers. And yeah then the lighting is uneven but it bloody works! Those were made in 2006 or something, too...
In addition to the Palm IIIc the Handspring Visor Prism also had the same screen with that mini fluorescent tube. I have had a IIIc for like, idk, 17 years or so? And it still runs like new. The IIIc came out in the year 2000 and this phone was 2001 so I am not sure why it's tube died. Perhaps the corrosion seeped into exactly the wrong place. Ofc the IIIc/Visor Prism's tube is much longer so maybe that has something to do with it. It's a bit funny that all the old III series (as well as the Pilot) had the screen a bit off center and on the IIIc they used that room for the tube if I remember right. Pretty crazy that screens in the new millennium were using fluorescent tubes for a backlight but hey the white LED was only invented 4 years prior. You know I bet that phone probably is the only one with that tube as a backlight, I was only aware of the IIIc/Visor Prism and portable TVs having such small tubes, I never imagined a phone like that would have one. Nice find indeed.
My Handspring Prism also uses a fluorescent backlight. I was using it up to a few years ago with my grocery store rewards (I built an app that could show the barcode on the LCD) and it was always a problem when going to the register. I had to proactively turn the Prism on to let the light warm up to full brightness ahead of time, or they couldn't scan the screen.
There were a good few PDAs with CCFL backlight, such as the Pocket Loox 600 (I do think that's the model nr. anyway.) I'd wager a non-negligible sum that at least a few early PDA-phones had tubes as well.
Yup, definitely a broken flex cable. Good luck finding one, hard to find parts for these nowadays :( Just got a working battery for my 9210i by absolute luck and I was very lucky that I got it to take charge.
Maybe Kelly Rowland will finally get that text she sent out to Nelly through the spreadsheet application all those years ago (the American frame of reference for this device outside TechTV features). 🤭
Было очень интересно посмотреть! Прекрасное видео, как и всегда. Желаю удачных поисков исправных экземпляров! Увидеть такой тип подсветки дисплея было совершено неожиданно, даже не подозревал о таком❤Nokia
I keep fixing them all the time as well. With the Indextrons, it was the caps, just like the Librettos. With the F-07C, it was the internal wifi module, I have a vague idea that a PCIe lane is available to me and I will try to get lines to an external GPU.
it may sound funny but I have fixed a lot of phones with the Cillit Bang spray, I had a lot of corroded 3310 motherboards that won't turn on at all even when I cleaned the battery connection, but after 10 minutes soaking in the spray, cleaning with water and drying with hair dryer almost most of them worked. I also tried it with different tech like the Nintendo DS to clean non-working shoulder buttons or joysticks on phones like the Sony k310i. Works like new after it
Awesome video about awesome phone! I miss the times when Nokia was the leader of the market and phones were fun and not all the same. I will look forward to any possible continuation of the video! 🙂
Thanks for the video! It was fantastic, and seeing that little fluorescent tube really brightened my day 🙂. I actually have a fully working version of this phone, and I’d be happy to gift it to you! Just let me know the best way to get it to you.
1:15 I suppose based on my small experience - its flex cable, but could be also EEPROM, FLASH memory with stored firmware this thing is not timeless. Looses charge and looses data. Might be case. Noticed this to be issue with RAM - SPD flash memory that keeps data. So everytime i got any device i reflash bioses, firmware if possible. Even if no update is needed. My worst fear is HDD drive loosing firmware, even DVD drives - most crappy part is laser degenerates with time, they also do have it. No matter how hard you try one day all devices will die i suppose.
I need your help, I am looking for a CCFL of that size, or a cfl backlight like the one in the Atari Lynx, or the LCD Tv, for a personal project I am making. Do you by any chance have knowledge on where I can find one?
Hi 😊 I'm sooo happy you made a video about the 9210 ❤ that repair was simply incredibile 😢 would you consider to accept a 9210 in working conditions as gift? 🤗 please let me know and thanks again to keep the King alive 😍
