Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Can you try doing:

Post the output please. Thanks!

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Will do it right away and post the output. I assume rootfs to be the mainFirmwareFile.bin. I will rename it to rootfs and try as you said.

will be right back with the result.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Indeed rootfs.bin == mainFirmwareFile.bin :)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

No luck :(

OUTPUT:

flasher 3.12.1 (Oct 5 2011) Harmattan
Warning: --no-preserve is not recommended, instead use erase commands
WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result
in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.

Suitable USB interface (bootloader/phonet) not found, waiting...
USB device found at bus 002, device address 003.
Device identifier: 357923041060460 (SN: N/A)
Found device RM-696, hardware revision 1507
NOLO version 2.3.6
Version of 'sw-release': DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_009
Sending ape-algo image (7096 kB)...
100% (7096 of 7096 kB, avg. 30989 kB/s)
Suitable USB interface (phonet) not found, waiting...
USB device found at bus 002, device address 004.
Device identifier: 357923041060460 (SN: N/A)
Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.
Ping attempt 1 (250 ms)
Server application: 1.7.2
Found product RM-696 rev. 1507
Server implements softupd protocol version 1.8
Image SW version DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_009
Image moslo not present
Image tar skipped
Image config skipped

Battery level 95 %, continuing.

image [state progress transfer flash speed]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[x] cert-sw [finished 100 % 1 / 1 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-2nd [finished 100 % 95 / 95 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-algo [finished 100 % 789 / 789 kB NA ]
[_] cmt-mcusw [finishing 0 % 6050 / 6050 kB 3158 kB/s]
[x] xloader [finished 100 % 23 / 23 kB NA ]
[x] secondary [finished 100 % 94 / 94 kB NA ]
[x] kernel [finished 100 % 2714 / 2714 kB 1974 kB/s]
[_] rootfs [finishing 100 % 32768 / 1170206 kB NA ]
[ ] mmc [pending 0 % 0 / 0 kB NA ]
ERROR: SU_GET_UPDATE_STATUS_REQ terminated with error code 1: Unknown error

image [state progress transfer flash speed]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[x] cert-sw [finished 100 % 1 / 1 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-2nd [finished 100 % 95 / 95 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-algo [finished 100 % 789 / 789 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-mcusw [finished 100 % 6050 / 6050 kB 3158 kB/s]
[x] xloader [finished 100 % 23 / 23 kB NA ]
[x] secondary [finished 100 % 94 / 94 kB NA ]
[x] kernel [finished 100 % 2714 / 2714 kB 1974 kB/s]
[f] rootfs [finishing 0 % 32768 / 1170206 kB NA ]
[-] mmc [pending 0 % 0 / 0 kB NA ]
Fetching error list:
========================================
bb5_rdc_cert_read failed
bb5_rdc_cert_read failed
bb5_rdc_cert_read failed
bb5_rdc_cert_read failed
bb5_rdc_cert_read failed
bb5_rdc_cert_read failed
mmc: sfdisk returned status 1
mmc: Could not exec 'tune2fs -L rootfs /tmp/sudmmcMI74M0/internal0p2'
mmc: Could not remove mount directory /tmp/sudmmcMI74M0/mnt: No such file or directory
[Pipe 4] Finishing in error state with status 1
========================================

ERROR: Failed to flash images

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Hmm that error maybe due to corrupted .bin files or broken flash memory. Have you tried redownloading the .bin files? Also flashing another 009 pr_legacy variant?

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

yes, I have tried redownloading and flashing it several times. I have even tried the 009 variant of germany and norway as well. I guess this is the latest firmware and hence now i cant move forward nor backward - as downgrading is blocked by the flasher(even tried that)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

same too, help me ????

Should I flash this N9?
 

I am in Australia and purchased a new N9 from an internet vendor in Hong Kong which it seems is a Middle East model as the version is PR1.3(40.2012.21-3_PR_006).
I didn't think much of this at the time and proceeded to use the phone over wifi while I waited for my micro SIM to arrive. Many days later the SIM arrived but when inserted in the phone does not register.
I am able to use the exact same SIM in my N900 with an adapter with no issues but I am guessing the N9 is blocking it or my service provider is blocking the phone because it is a Middle East version.
Can anyone confirm if this would likely be the case?
If so is it ok for me to flash the phone to an Australian variant or will that brick it?
I cannot really send it back because I have been using it for two weeks and expect I would be waisting my time debating the issue with the internet vendor in HK.


Cheers for any help in advance.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Hi oldmate,

Welcome to the forums :)

Your phone may have been sim-locked to another carrier that's causing the issue but its very rare to come across such cases in MEA variants but more in Latin American sets.

What I would suggest is to do a clean rootfs+emmc flash to the same 006 Legacy. You could chose a NDT variant which would mean a general 006 Legacy varaint. When you first got the phone its always advisable to do a clean full flash so might as well do it now. Try things out then ;)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Thanks, according to the SIM tray the variant is 059J228 which means RM-696 NDT MEA1 MEA2 Black 64GB according to NaviFirm Plus. Any suggestions as to what variant would be best to try?

Thanks

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

The one you posted is right since its a general MEA variant and not a telco MEA variant ;)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Wouldn't that then suggest the SIM should not be locked?
The reason I ask is that there is no branding at all evident on the device. I will flash it as suggested but that will be a job for another day and there may be a few questions along the way if that is ok?

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Sure ask any questions here. You may want to read the first post too before doing anything to have a clearer understanding of things :)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

My N9 died and is not booting up (I accidentally deinstalled facebook and mp-harmattan-001-pr) anymore :o

EDIT:

OK my bootloader is not demaged... but is it possible to boot it up without loosing your Apps? :rolleyes:

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Ok so I flashed the phone both main and emmc with variant 059J228 RM-696 NDT MEA1 MEA2 Black 64GB with no issues.
Unfortunatly it made no difference and the SIM card is still not detected.
So what next should I flash the phone with an Australian 005 variant?

Cheers,

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

You won't be able to flash the 005 variant as downgrading is disallowed...

I'm suspecting maybe a hardware failure is at play here or just the sim being the one at fault (unlikely as you have it working on another device)?

Maybe somebody else could advice on how to diagnose for suspected hw failure in this case...

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

I will try the same SIM in my brothers Lumia 800 and his SIM in the N9. The SIM is actually a Nano SIM in a Micro SIM adaptor, maybe inside it is not aligning correctly, but I don't think so.

Thanks,

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Damn, I have some problems too with flashing...

here is the output, I tried everything and couldn't solve it.
Hope anybody can help me with this:

:(

EDIT:

Somehow, after trying to boot it, and then reflashing it again, it did work.... strange...

Hope this info can help other users too :)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Hi, I got my N9 back after long time and I still have SIM error.
It has become very slow and about dialog just doesnt show IMEI etc,
Following is output of flashing process.

I want to know meaning of error log , can we know if there is hardware failure? What "CMT RFS failed" signifies?

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Hey,
How can I be sure I'm in open kernel mode ?
Thank you

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Thank you,
sorry for double post. I have deleted my post here.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

No probs; brought back your post here ;)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

See "Revovering from flash errors" at the bottom of the guide.

You need the old firmware (probably 003/China variant - look at the code printed on the SIM tray) and flash with the

argument.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Thanks for reply, I have read that section. My phone is central european. Now I have flashed with German fw hence it doesnt allow downgrade. I am suspecting it is hw issue.
Just wanted to know if there is any way to confirm this based on error description.

Looking for N9 059J202 firmware file - navifirm fails
 

Hi all,

this is my first post, so apologies if this has been answered before but I searched the forum for two hours and could not find an answer.

I recently bought a used N9 (my third!) and while my others are of the 001 variant this is a 009 variant for which I didn't have the firmware files on backup. The previous owner has messed up with various things and it is necessary for me to restore it to "clean" condition.

I managed to download the emmc file but each time I try to download the rootfs .bin file from navifirm+ or from the following link:

http://nds2.fds-fire.nokia.com/p/d/f...M1-958_ARM.bin

it fails at the 221MB mark.

I believe there has been an attempt by the community to preserve the N9 firmwares independently from Nokia. Does anyone have the file I am looking for or can point me in the right direction?

thanks in advance!

Re: Looking for N9 059J202 firmware file - navifirm fails
 

http://mrcrab.net/nokia.html

Welcome to the forums :)

Re: Looking for N9 059J202 firmware file - navifirm fails
 

Thank you very much for your quick reply.

This too stops downloading after the first 221MB as it is essentially from the same source the link I provided points to.

At first I thought it is an internet connection issue but I tried from both home and work. Does anyone have some other source to try?

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Use wget to download it; i just used the same on my remote box and its at ~440MB without any disruptions...

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Hey, first time posting here, but here goes.
So I fudged up my n9, and now it seems like the only way to get the phone to boot is to flash it. I have followed the instructions listed up to the point where I have to connect my phone to my PC. And this is where things get complicated. When I plug my phone to the PC, my phone tries to boot. Just to clarify, my phones power is off, but when I connect it to my PC it tries to boot itself. Because of this I am unable to flash, and I have absolutely no idea how I should continue.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

murhanaama,
Power off your device by holding the power button for 8-10seconds. Plug in your device to your PC only when the command prompt on PC shows the message "Suitable device/phonet not found blabla..."

The flash should now execute successfully.

Also welcome around :)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Well, I tried to power it down like you said, but it didn't seem to work. The phones LED blinked a couple of times, after which the phone tried to boot itself again :S

EDIT: Well I'm not sure what happened, but I left the phone off for the night, and when I tried to flash it again it succeeded.

another chinese N9 story
 

I have read the flashing tutorial. I am wondering if I am wasting my time trying to flash the firmware V 40.2012.21-3_PR_003. I am trying to get a western firmware w/ an english base lang. and the missing apps like Skype...etc I have been using a Phoenix/Nokia flasher and have received many flashing errors like firmware older than installed or "flashing failed in recovery" I prefer the Phoenix due to its simplicity, Is the win flasher able to overcome what appears to be a firmware lock inserted from the newer 1.3 firmware?

Has anyone successfully found a workaround to re-flash a Chinese N9 running 1.3 already to a western firmware.
firmwares attempted Singapore,central Europe,Australia,new Zealand,ROW,northern Europe,Ireland.
currently running 059J250, sim tray059M7K1

thanks in advance...

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

It would be doable with ubiboot.
I have not tried it but there is nothing really preventing you from restoring a clean backup taken from another phone that has been installed with european PR1.3

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

ubiboot sounds a bit geeky for me. I dont have another N9 to clone or anything running linux.

I saw a post about nemesis software and changing the product code.
then attempt a re flash. does anyone have thoughts on that?

thanks

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Hello everyone-

I currently a Cyan Nokia N9 16GB, an unlocked Malaysian variant to be specific. Anyway, I stupidly flashed an incorrect PR 1.3 firmware from 3 in Sweden a few months ago and I've had nothing but problems ever since. Beyond that, I also (stupidly) attempted to change the product code of the phone in order to downgrade the firmware back to the original one.

Long story short, I've continually experienced multiple glitches and problems over the past few months. To begin with, the battery life on the phone since I flashed the new firmware has gone to crap, meaning the phone now lasts then half a day if fully charged. I've also had bugs with my contacts not loading automatically at bootup, the Facebook app not working at all, Wazapp not sending messages, and a whole host of other issues. If anyone has any ideas for how to fix these problems I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance.

-Sincerely, bobofosho123

Device not working properly
 

hey guys I'm new to these threads

i fell in love with the moment i saw Meego and really wanted one but as a student i couldn't afford one and was locked on a plan with my Nokia 6700s and finally i got my n9 last march and i absolutely love it


recently (yesterday) i got n9 tweaks and of course made a back up before doing anything and today i did a full restoration which requires a reboot and that was the last i saw from my precious N9 this always shows up now when i try to open my phone :eek:
https://twitter.com/AussieEgyptian/s...661888/photo/1


i looked at all the other threads and nothing helped i tried to plug it in both a windows 98/xp/7 nothing worked and it just starts reading and then says error installing your device and Nokia software updater can't read it and the link for the flasher doesn't work (just shows an error and i can't by pass that screen please guys help i'm desperate what should i do

EDIT: it turned on and just ran out of battery straight away and when i tried to reboot it after plugging it in the charger no luck no luck what shoul i do ?

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

OK, so what has happened:

When you did some tweaks you modified some "protected" applications or files on the device, so that their checksum changed. Normally I think N9QuickTweak correctly recalculates the checksums so that device works normally (this is done via refhash.pl script)

When the device boots and the cecksums are incorrect it goes to "Malf mode" where it refuses to boot and shows this screen.

Additionally, you let the device run dry of battery which further complicates things as now there is not enough charge to boot it up.

The solution to both problems is to use flasher, fist to charge the device enough for booting, and then boot it to rescue mode to remove the Malf.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Hi JuiceMe, I don't suppose you have a solution to my problem?

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
 

Yes, the solutions to your problem exist here on the forum :D

1. You need to charge up your phone enough for it to boot. There are many threads about that, for example http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=87709

2. You need to fix the problem that was there in the first place. For that many solutions exist, but it depends on what you want to do how to proceed. You have backups; that is good because always there is the possibility of breaking something.

• You can clean flash the device, and restore your backups. This might be easiest if you do not want to go to open mode.
• You can install open mode kernel and remove the /var/malf file, which allows you to continue much like before, you do not need to restore anything. (you will need to recreate your accounts, however, and you will have the open mode warning on boot but otherwice it's pretty good)