Re: bricked n900 under 24 hours

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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:52 +0100, ext Timo Pelkonen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I got it working. Win 7 wants to install a driver of its own so it
> blocks very effectively functionality of flasher-3.5. No idea if there
> is a way to get around it. So Win 7 updates cant be done unless you
> get your device to pc-suite -mode unless somebody gets a way around
> (if).
> 
> I downloaded the firmware 42 three times and third time got it
> working. Managed to flash without problems using pen drive ubuntu.
> 
> but now the whole device isn't so much better from a solid brick.
> 
> -Web browser doesnt accept text input to text boxes, reloads the page
> couple of times when trying and finally renders a page
> "Päivitä"(its finnish with broken umlauts,päivitä, means: update)
> plus a link to the page you tried to open
> 
> -app manager can't install anything. tried to install foreca weather
> and log shows this:
> 
> dpkg:unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
> unable to open files list file for package 'fmtx-middleware':Structure
> need
> 
> -email app starts but shows blank screen and the circle that indicates
> loading
> 
> 
> have I done something wrong? is there something wrong in the 42 image?
> is there problems with my hardware? should I just file a bug per
> point?

Could you give the output of "cat /proc/partitions" and "mount"?  Maybe
your eMMC image is too old...

-Kimmo

> 
> 
> -Ossipena/Timo
> 
> 2009/11/24 Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         Hi,
>         
>         Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2009, 10:10 +0200 schrieb Timo
>         Pelkonen:
>         > How can i get my n900 connected to PC when it freezes when 5
>         bubbles
>         > are shown in screen in bootup (animated stuff, one bubble is
>         bigger
>         > and moves)?
>         >
>         > with n800 you needed to press one of the keys when booting
>         up, but
>         > atleast shift or blue shift (no idea what the real name is)
>         doesn't do
>         > the trick. machine sees the device for a second and thats
>         it.
>         
>         
>         if you want flash it you don't need to push a special key
>         anymore. Just
>         start flasher and then connect the n900 via usb to the
>         computer. If you
>         turn it on, flasher will gain control over the device.
>         
>         Good luck,
>         
>         Keywan
>         
>         
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