Re: bricked n900 under 24 hours

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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:22 +0100, ext Timo Pelkonen wrote:
> I reflashed with NSU just in case and now it seems that every problem
> has perished.
> 
> Has there been any changes to 42.11 image recently? Or some transfer
> problems? It appears to be very mystical because the third time i
> downloaded the image it started to work at the first place and with
> that those problems appeared. But when reflashed again with Win7 +
> NSU, the device works as out of the box.

If you used flasher in Ubuntu, you probably flashed only the rootfs and
cellular modem (unless you flashed twice: first the rootfs and cellular
and then the EMMC image). But with NSU it flashed the eMMC (internal
memory card) also.

-Kimmo

> 
> -Ossipena/Timo
> 
> 24. marraskuuta 2009 14.02 Kimmo Hämäläinen
> <kimmo.hamalainen@xxxxxxxxx> kirjoitti:
>         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
>         >
>         >
>         >         --
>         >         Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni
>         >         http://www.prometoys.net
>         >
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