I had this kind of problem, and to start the flashing process, I had to plug, then unplug the power cable. The linux flash failed, the windows flash suceeded and I get back my Nokia, after having spent a few hours trying everything possible. Good luck Fran?ois 2006/1/20, skelso at nc.rr.com <skelso at nc.rr.com>: > > After a couple days of using my 770, I innocently turned it off and > took out the battery to read the product ID. Now it won't boot past > the initial "NOKIA" splash screen. I've seen others recover from > similar situations by flashing, but I can't get to a point where the > WinXP or Linux flasher will talk to my 770. I'd really like to avoid > doing a warranty return, because I know my local CompUSA doesn't have > anything with which to replace it. Any ideas what's wrong and how to > fix it? > > My experiments so far: > > 1) Pressing and holding the power button for a long time, with or > without the power adapter attached -- nothing happens. > > 2) Pressing and holding the power button without the power adapter, > then connecting the adapter while still holding the button -- the > display immediately turns on and the "NOKIA" splash screen appears. > The progress bar at the bottom of the screen never shows up. If I > release the power button, the backlight goes off after a few seconds, > but in the right light I can see the display is still on and hung > at "NOKIA". It stays this way until I unplug power, at which point > the display goes off. If I continue holding the power button rather > than releasing it, the backlight cycles at about 3s on/2s off. > > 3) Repeating the previous step with the USB cable attached to a WinXP > PC -- The PC complains that an unknown USB device is attached, but the > device isn't working correctly. If I continue to hold the power > button, the display and backlight flash about once a second until I > release the button. At the same time the PC cycles USB plug-unplug > events until I pull the power adapter. I'd successfully transferred > files from that PC to the 770 via USB before the 770 started > misbehaving. > > 4) Repeating the previous two tests, but holding the home button > before pressing the power button, makes no difference. Likewise for > the menu, escape, full-screen and plus/minus buttons. > > 5) Attaching the power adapter with the unit off does nothing. The > charging screen does not appear, and the display and backlight stay > off. > > 6) Attempting to flash from a WinXP system ? the 770 never comes up. > The PC cycles USB plug-unplug events, and eventually complains about > an unknown USB device that isn't working correctly. I know positively > this 770 + USB cable + WinXP system combination worked before, because > I'd used it to move files on and off the MMC. > > 7) Attempting to flash using the Linux flasher -- I first tried simply > resetting the device using flasher: > > "./flasher -R" > > That didn't work, so I tried actually flashing it: > > "./flasher -F Nokia_770_SE2005_3_2005_51-13.bin -f -R" > > In both cases, I never got past "Suitable USB device not found, > waiting". However, I could hear the Linux system's disk churning a > little about once a second when I was holding the 770's power button, > making me think my Linux system is seeing the same USB plug-unplug > cycling I got on my WinXP system. I tried all of the USB ports on my > Linux system, to make sure no internal hubs were getting in the way, > and unfortunately the 770 behaved the same on every one. I also tried > both as a regular user and root. > > This is the first time I've tried to flash my 770, although my saga > began when I took out the battery to get the product ID so I could > flash-up to the latest release. > > I also tried flasher's "-c" cold-flash option, but it wanted a serial > connection rather than USB. Anyone know the pinout to the connector > next to the battery? I'm guessing a few of those pads are the needed > serial port. > > 8) I considered maybe the flash code on the 770 is clever enough to > check for a charged battery before allowing flashing to proceed. My > battery could be low by now. But I measured it at 3.78V, so that > pretty much rules that idea out. > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060120/9ca0cc20/attachment.htm
