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Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

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Originally Posted by kingoddball (Post 899284)

OR!!
Just use: <link removed>

5GB opt
24GB MyDocs

You do realize it ~~might be~~ is illegal to post any images from the tablets-dev site right ;)

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Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

Could you provide us an output of your df? Or download fdisk and type this...

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sudo gainroot

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fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

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Type p

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Enter

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

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Originally Posted by Radicalz38 (Post 901363)

Could you provide us an output of your df? Or download fdisk and type this...

:(
I had finally tried to flash the emmc after the flashing the firmware..the firmware was a success but My emmc failed on "device not found, waitin.."
and that left Me with not only nothing in file manager..but also not allowing the device to boot..it goes up till the 5dots screen and off!

After searching alot on the forum, I came up with the only solution which is even given by wiki maemo too..to install a ubuntu live cd..I did that..and as per a tutorial video I saw(I dnt have the link ryt now..sry) I could place the .deb flasher file on the desktop but for sum weird reason I cound't place the emmc file on the desktop which I wanna flash the n900 with! :(
Left struck there again..

and finally I opted to give it to the Nokia care center..I collected it bk today..the device now starts wid frequent errors of application erro"calender closed" thats still fine but My file manager is still blank and My memory(emmc) shows 16.7gb free in device and 16.7gb for installable apps too!! :(
now whats this new problem by nokia?? :(

I want it normal..as it was :(
and I tried fdisk..I get the message "fdisk:/not found"
P.S: I have fdisk installed*

any help will be heartly appreciated!

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

Wow! Looks like nokia installed another custom EMMC on your device? 0.o weird...

Anyways do this for your fdisk...

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$ root

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copy fdisk to /usr/sbin

eg. $ cp /media/mmc1/fdisk /usr/sbin/

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$ chmod 777 /usr/sbin/fdisk

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$ fdisk

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

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Originally Posted by Radicalz38 (Post 901406)

Wow! Looks like nokia installed another custom EMMC on your device? 0.o weird...

Anyways do this for your fdisk...

eg. $ cp /media/mmc1/fdisk /usr/sbin/

Nokia-N900:~# cp /media/mmc1/fdisk /usr/sbin
cp: cannot stat '/media/mmc1/fdisk': No such file or directory
Nokia-N900:~#

this is what I get :s
I just tried connecting it in mass storage..n I dont get autorun or anything, when I checked My computer> I got removable disk E and F..non of them open up, Rem.Disk F doent give any mesg but when I try opening Rem.Disk E I get the message "Disk is not yet formatted. Format now?"

:s

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

Please post your partition table here to have some info about your device. Is rootsh installed or did the nokia people with their work erase it?

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sudo gainroot

sfdisk -l

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

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Originally Posted by michaaa62 (Post 901462)

Please post your partition table here to have some info about your device. Is rootsh installed or did the nokia people with their work erase it?

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sudo gainroot

sfdisk -l

~ $ sudo gainroot
Root shell enabled

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/home/user # sfdisk -l

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 977024 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 32768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 1 622720 622720 19927040 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p2 884865 950400 65536 2097152 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3 950401 974976 24576 786432 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/mmcblk0p4 622721 884864 262144 8388608 5 Extended
/dev/mmcblk0p5 622721+ 884864 262144- 8388600 76 Unknown
/home/user #

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

There's an extra partition on your EMMC...

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/dev/mmcblk0p5 622721+ 884864 262144- 8388600 76 Unknown

What you should do is to delete /dev/mmcblk0p4 then delete /dev/mmcblk0p1 recreate /dev/mmcblk0p1 then assign it's filesystem as 0c or fat32 to avoid reboot loop using sfdisk or fdisk. But I prefer fdisk. It's much easier to do than sfdisk.

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Nokia-N900:~# cp /media/mmc1/fdisk /usr/sbin
cp: cannot stat '/media/mmc1/fdisk': No such file or directory
Nokia-N900:~#

You must have a copy of fdisk in your external memory card. If your using windows you should put it in your memory card's absolute path..

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Ex.
E:/

specifically you should type

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cp /path/to/where/you/put/fdisk /usr/sbin

Anyways if you got fdisk working here's the step by step.

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type root then enter

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type fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 then enter

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type d then enter

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type 4 then enter

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type d then enter

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type 1 then enter

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type n then enter

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type p then enter

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type 1 then enter

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Hit enter twice

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type t then enter

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type 0c then enter

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type w then enter

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reboot your device

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

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Originally Posted by Radicalz38 (Post 901478)

There's an extra partition on your EMMC...

What you should do is to delete /dev/mmcblk0p4 then delete /dev/mmcblk0p1 recreate /dev/mmcblk0p1 then assign it's filesystem as 0c or fat32 to avoid reboot loop using sfdisk or fdisk. But I prefer fdisk. It's much easier to do than sfdisk.

You must have a copy of fdisk in your external memory card. If your using windows you should put it in your memory card's absolute path..

specifically you should type

Anyways if you got fdisk working here's the step by step.

I wanna do this step by step procedure so badly!!
but I can't install fdisk beyond this step "cp root/sbin/fdisk /home/user/bin/"
:(
Im installing fdisk through this site http://n900-pentesting.blogspot.com/...-internal.html <step 12>
This is the thing that ruined My phone :@
:(

Re: How to restore partitioned n900 emmc??!!

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Originally Posted by zohal (Post 901512)

So if your on step 12 of that site means you already installed fdisk?
So just fire up fdisk again and do the step by step procedure I listed and it should return your phone back to normal.
The step was just to delete the extended partition, delete MyDocs, merge the unknown partition and MyDocs and recreate it.