Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

Because the N810 comes with an extra built-in 2GB flash filesystem. Apparently some of them aren't properly set up to begin with. Not difficult to fix though, and not always critical (if you don't fill it all up with files).

No. The corruption doesn't appear out of the blue (when it's fixed it's fixed), and if you like the N810 features you should get one anyway.

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2747
Yes, everybody will.

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

Heh, this definitely can't be "by design", as the first commenter claims. If it were consistent between /proc/partitions and df and just changed from boot to boot, then it would be by design. :)

Oh, the horror! The suffering!

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

I don't quibble with the instructions themselves, which are very well written; however I'm with Krisse: the procedure is too long and involves too much detail.

What's needed is a noddy app, with no external dependencies, which checks the hardware revision and output of /proc/partitions, rejigs the partition map correctly and then prompts the user to use "Check Disk" on the card from a Windows box. Alternatively, bundle the app with its own copy of fsck which it calls to repair any corruption.

Hear hear.

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

I spent last night backing up and reformatting to fix this problem on my n810. One thing I would add is that if you are unlucky you may find that you have problems backing up the existing data. I connected my n810 to the PC using the USB cable, and ran chkdsk which found no problems, but one of the map data files wouldn't copy. The catch is that if you use Windows Explorer to try and copy all the files it will stop when it gets to an unreadable file. Fortunately the map data files are all easily downloadable again so losing one of those doesn't matter.

Anyway, I'd recommend using chkdsk first in case the disc is already corrupted, and xcopy rather than explorer to copy everything across to a PC for backup taking care at each stage to note any files which may be corrupted.

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

It was determined that my N810 is also corrupt. I cannot release (uncheck) my virtual memory. It gives me access denied therefore I cannot go any further with this fix. I was hoping to try the fdisk to format the internal memory card after successfully backing up all my data but couldn't get any further due to this error. Could someone tell me if I should just blow it away and start from scratch then try this fix or any other suggestions?

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

I disagree with Krisse too. I think putting them in the Newbie section is a bit funny (sorry) but the instructions are well layed out that there shouldn't be any problems.

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

If you talk about fdisk you probably can run stuff as root from command line. In that case run
and then try to reformat it from file manager. If file manager complains run mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1 directly and reboot.

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

That would probably work but I failed to mention that I cannot install any apps including gainroot so getting to the root dir is impossible. This problem may or may not be related to this but I think it is because only as of a couple of days ago, I started having this problem.
I am also getting a read only errors on my internal memory card.

Re: N810 OWNER ALERT, is your internal memory corrupted or will it be soon?
 

@rickyb

2 ways of installing.

Use Linux machine to set rd-mode. So then you can be root anyway.

Set application manager to red pill and untick use mmc to download packages. Then you can install easyroot/gainroot.