Re: How to format n900?
 

No worries guys, if he is talking about a reflash Ill gladly give him all the directions needed.

But you guys obviously arent too windows savy I see. Back in the pre-XP days when Windows was running atop DOS, the term format c: was equal to wiping the hard drive and starting from scratch :D It was more about getting rid of the drives content in a quick way rather than wanting to tinker with the filesystem... In short: too many BSOD/Bluescreen of Death meant format c: is needed. Thus I guess cross3131 wants to clean up after gathering knowledge on what to install from devel and what not ;)

Re: How to format n900?
 

By far the quickest way out of trouble is to re-flash the Fiasco image with the latest 1.2 update, do you know how to do this?.

Re: How to format n900?
 

Yes i fully understand you but is not normal to format the N900 as the way forward is to simply do a re-flash which is the equivelent of a format so if you know how to advise him on that then go for it but i dont see him on this thread right now.

Re: How to format n900?
 

Well yes, on the N900 format in that meaning equals reflash... Sorry by the way Im answering from my N900 and obviously it took me too long to type in the answer. I didnt notice other people replied in the thread.

So as I suggested, cross wants to erase all the devices content and get back to factory default. The way to do this is a reflash, not of the OS but the data partition. Ill provide you with instructions once I get home. Give me 'bout half an hour...

Re: How to format n900?
 

all i would need to do is update my n900.I updated it and problem solved

Re: How to format n900?
 

So no more instructions needed?

Re: How to format n900?
 

Mind to share with us how you accomplish that? TIA,

bun

Re: How to format n900?
 

no more instructions needed thanks.I updated n900's software and problem solved

Re: How to format n900?
 

I REALLY wish someone would put together a Wiki about all the "levels" of wiping/replacing and what elements they touch and leave alone. E.g. re-flashing leaves the Cell info and some parts of /user untouched. Is there a process to put an N900 back to "out of the box" state? It seems there are a few "refresh" processes less than re-flashing.

Could someone make a table of all these elements (cell data/kernal/user data/...) are cleaned by which processes?

Thanks

Re: How to format n900?
 

It's rather simple. I don't quite know if you can go all the way "out of the box" but I think so. Reflashing both images without a subsequent reboot should pretty much equal exactly the state the device was in when it left the factory.

Flashing the OS wipes and reinstates the factory state of all core system functionality related data. All main system files plus the integrated stuff like browser executables, e-mail client and so on.
Flashing the eMMC wipes clean or better replaces that part of the memory where user generated content is stored with Nokias idea of content needed on a device leaving the factory (eg. demo music files, demo video clips, demo wallpaper images, demo [fill gap]). What else is there on the device other than the OS partition(s) and the user data?

Edit: I just checked the wiki. Seems quite clear to me what gets erased with which image. See yourself:
https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_..._does_it_do.3F