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Re: Flash hasn't worked?

Of what you are describing here you probably filled up your rootfs.. so you need to empty it.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Free_up_rootfs_space

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

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Originally Posted by abill_uk (Post 660383)

Isnt it amazing how many people are having problems with either losing or finding their backup's.
It is all too easy to just flash regardless of making sure you got at least one backup somewhere on your pc and it is said everywhere to do a backup before flashing so the mind boggles as to why people just flash without backups.
Incidently many of the apps developed on this forum are the very reason the os is screwed up because they are just not written properly and not enough care is taken to check out the installs for damaging results to the os of the N900.
Many if not all of the "rebooting" problems are due to the dangerous apps on the download section of this forum and the only way to correct them is as you say a proper complete re-flash.
The mind boggles as to why it is not pointed out on this forum the actual danger of some of the apps available.

You do know theres a difference between extras, extras-testing and extras-devel? If so then you have surely seen many warnings especially when trying out a program from extras-devel. A program in extras-devel is under development.. thus unfinished. Not necessarily badly programmed.

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

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Originally Posted by AlMehdi (Post 660482)

But who can argue with the engineer.. :/

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

unstable phone, re-flash emmc!!

I had similar problem

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

Trying to flash eMMC now. I've done a normal flash and now trying to move onto the next stage (Flashing Vanilla Image) and I keep getting:

Image 'mmc', size 241163 kB
Version RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.41-1.VANILLA
USB device found found at bus bus-0, device address \\.\libusb0-0001--0x0421-0x0
1c8.
Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.
Using flashing protocol Mk II.
SU_GET_UPDATE_STATUS_REQ terminated with error code 1.

And then the screen on my n900 gets stuck on the 'Loading dots'.

Help??

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

Did you reboot the device after the first flash? You need to remove the -R from the end of the command to stop the automatic reboot and then you flash the eMMC.

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

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Originally Posted by hellnick (Post 660587)

Did you reboot the device after the first flash? You need to remove the -R from the end of the command to stop the automatic reboot and then you flash the eMMC.

Yeah i removed the -R,then did the first flash. That completed. Then I left the device connected to the usb and entered the cmd for eMMC flash. The dots came up on the screen then they just froze and the above message came up on my PC.

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

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Originally Posted by AlMehdi (Post 660477)

Of what you are describing here you probably filled up your rootfs.. so you need to empty it.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Free_up_rootfs_space

You need to empty up your rootfs.. could you write "df -h" in the terminal and paste the output?

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.8M 158.9M 64.6M 71% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.8M 158.9M 64.6M 71% /
tmpfs 1.0M 68.0k 956.0k 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 76.0k 180.0k 30% /var/run
none 10.0M 80.0k 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0k 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2.0G 217.4M 1.7G 11% /home
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 673.6M 26.3G 2% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 1.9G 470.1M 1.4G 24% /media/mmc1

Re: Flash hasn't worked?

The issue with failing to flash eMMC has come up in bug reports

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7433

Happens on different o/s and cause/solution seems unclear - comment 12 would be worth trying. Also a chap called bonerp had same error, might be worth PMing him to see if he managed to solve it (looks like he now has a Desire so not a good sign).