Do you have any screenshots from before you flashed it? Also can you compare the specifications with those on the wiki [1].

The reason I ask is that there used to be some fake n900s listed on some sites, which were running some other OS, and would never run maemo. They often had different features from the proper n900; things like having dual sim slots and often smaller than the standard 32GB emmc etc.

Your remark about the possibility of Symbian being installed flagged up warnings in my mind. I don't think there was a port of Symbian to the n900.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900