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MINKIN2 2011-01-09 21:31
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Hi guys, Just want to say a big thanks to all who have helped us "first time flashers"

I have found myself in need of a reflash after I maxed my rootfs yesterday and could nolonger boot up. (I knew this day would come soon as I did have alot of crap and failed installs on the device, so a complete reinstall was for the best :P)

So, I have eagerly been reading your posts and scouring the wiki&how-tos for help. Just waiting for my phone to charge now before I start.

Anyhoo, Thanks again to all and good luck to everyone try to flash theirs :)

Vasikaran 2011-01-09 21:34
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Sorry for the posting the same post twice..My earlier post gone to the previous page..so doing this way.. Sorry again..


"Guyz...Splendid!!! I have done the flashing ..now the cmd prompt showing CMT flashed successfully...What next? Do I have to run the eMMC file as well?? Is it a must as part of the flashing?? "

funkmunk 2011-01-09 21:36
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasikaran (Post 916272)
Guyz...Splendid!!! I have done the flashing ..now the cmd prompt showing CMT flashed successfully...What next? Do I have to run the eMMC file as well?? Is it a must as part of the flashing??
The EMMC flash will wipe out all the data on ur internal 32GB storage.So hope you have a backup of it beforehand.

I would suggest a EMMC flash too. Read the Wiki.

Also after EMMC flash, u have to flash the kernel again & DO NOT reboot after EMMC flash...

gabby131 2011-01-09 21:37
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasikaran (Post 916276)
Sorry for the posting the same post twice..My earlier post gone to the previous page..so doing this way.. Sorry again..


"Guyz...Splendid!!! I have done the flashing ..now the cmd prompt showing CMT flashed successfully...What next? Do I have to run the eMMC file as well?? Is it a must as part of the flashing?? "
if your problem before flashing is due to apps that are malfunctioning or your MyDocs acts weird, then eMMC must be flashed.......

i have no problems since day one on my Mass Storage device so i have not flashed my eMMC before :)

Vasikaran 2011-01-09 22:02
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
A VERY BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE for your Supports..!!!
Guyz...I can't express my happiness...My N900 back to Life Again..!! Thank God..!! :) I have not done the eMMC as I don't want to loose few important data I have. I had unplugged the USB cable and powered on the phone.. The usual 5 dots were processing for some 2-3 minutes then the Phone is Back to desktop... :D My eyes were twinkling after seeing that ...Its all b'coz of you guys..The Camera also working now very fine. It is like I'm having a new device :D You have done a GREAT Job...is there anything do I have to do after this?
This Maemo Community solved my emotional feelings for the gadget as well :)
Would like to know one thing, do this flashing cause any other side effects ...what is the main purpose of doing the flashing..Frequent flashing is good for the device ? Thanks Again to everyone..:) :) :)

James_Littler 2011-01-09 22:07
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
It just wipes and reloads the OS the emmc flash formats and repartitions the emmc for home and MyDocs.

No side effects, annoying to do, as such do as and when needed.

gabby131 2011-01-09 22:09
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasikaran (Post 916307)
A VERY BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE for your Supports..!!!
Guyz...I can't express my happiness...My N900 back to Life Again..!! Thank God..!! :) I have not done the eMMC as I don't want to loose few important data I have. I had unplugged the USB cable and powered on the phone.. The usual 5 dots were processing for some 2-3 minutes then the Phone is Back to desktop... :D My eyes were twinkling after seeing that ...Its all b'coz of you guys..You have done a GREAT Job...This Maemo Community solved my emotional feelings for the gadget as well :)
Would like to know one thing, do this flashing cause any other side effects ...what is the main purpose of doing the flashing..Frequent flashing is good for the device ? Thanks Again to everyone..:) :) :)
we have the wiki in case you encounter more issues.

AFAIK, flashing is not that harmful, what i know harmful is, the reason(s) you are flashing,

i have flashed my n900 3 times on unboxing day, and more re-flash follows. most of my reflash is due to lack of education on maemo and linux, some are from testing and installing development apps and mods

Haider 2011-01-09 22:15
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Hey man. Did you flash it by the link I send you? Becaise I think its old.
One thing more I would like to suggest you is that you should consider repartitioning your drives because many users including me had their memory full in partition of applications. I cannot do it because there are loads of apps I have installed and I dont want to loose them. You dont have much apps at the moment so you should do it right now.

Vasikaran 2011-01-09 22:55
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Haider (Post 916331)
Hey man. Did you flash it by the link I send you? Becaise I think its old.
One thing more I would like to suggest you is that you should consider repartitioning your drives because many users including me had their memory full in partition of applications. I cannot do it because there are loads of apps I have installed and I dont want to loose them. You dont have much apps at the moment so you should do it right now.
Oh..Great. Yes. I have followed the link you provided. It helped me a lot. Thanks a lot dude. BTW, how to do the partitioning of the drive. Is there any forum on this in our maemo. Hope it should be. Thanks anyway :)

James_Littler 2011-01-09 23:01
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
open the emmc image with a hex editor and change the size of home from 2048 to 7168. its in the first few lines as far as I remember.
Then flash this edited emmc image.

Haider 2011-01-09 23:08
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasikaran (Post 916369)
Oh..Great. Yes. I have followed the link you provided. It helped me a lot. Thanks a lot dude. BTW, how to do the partitioning of the drive. Is there any forum on this in our maemo. Hope it should be. Thanks anyway :)
It should be available on the Maemo Community because I saw it somewhere. You should definitely do it because I cannot even install a 10 kb mod or something. It is bugging me now.
Secondly I am jealoused of your N900 because it must be working much faster than mine at the moment. :p

Vasikaran 2011-01-09 23:49
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Haider (Post 916384)
It should be available on the Maemo Community because I saw it somewhere. You should definitely do it because I cannot even install a 10 kb mod or something. It is bugging me now.
Secondly I am jealoused of your N900 because it must be working much faster than mine at the moment. :p
LOL..Yes dude..Of course. Now, I will not install the apps which I don't use.. :D

michaaa62 2011-01-10 08:07
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Make sure to backup everything important to youbefore.
Here is the wiki entry for repartitioning the internal memoryhttp://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning_the_flash

Vasikaran 2011-01-10 15:44
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by michaaa62 (Post 916611)
Make sure to backup everything important to youbefore.
Here is the wiki entry for repartitioning the internal memoryhttp://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning_the_flash
Hi,

Thanks for that Link. I would like to know what is the main idea of doing this repartitioning? We can anyhow utilise that 27GB internal space right?

funkmunk 2011-01-10 15:53
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
You can also repartition the flash using this guide.It has pictures too but u need Ubuntu for that. See post #1588

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1652293/+1587#

michaaa62 2011-01-10 15:55
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Since many applications are moved towards /opt, so-called optified, and only symlinks are still in /usr, there are scenarios, where the 2GB /home partition, that also contains /home/opt symlinked to /opt, is not sufficient.
With some clever methods you can customize the partition setup to your needs.

I like this!
Code:
df -k
Filesystem          1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                  233344    181276    47788  79% /
ubi0:rootfs            233344    181276    47788  79% /
tmpfs                    1024        84      940  8% /tmp
tmpfs                      256      100      156  39% /var/run
none                    10240        80    10160  1% /dev
tmpfs                    65536        4    65532  0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2        4737108  2479388  2017080  55% /home
/home/opt              4737108  2479388  2017080  55% /opt
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
                      4737108  2479388  2017080  55% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
                      4737108  2479388  2017080  55% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
                      4737108  2479388  2017080  55% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
                      4737108  2479388  2017080  55% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
                      4737108  2479388  2017080  55% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1        25587488  3219360  22368128  13% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1        15542416  4647288  10895128  30% /media/mmc1
Reading 2,3 Gb occupied and still 2,2 GB free for /home partition. My Docs reduced to 24GB.

funkmunk 2011-01-10 15:55
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasikaran (Post 916948)
Hi,

Thanks for that Link. I would like to know what is the main idea of doing this repartitioning? We can anyhow utilise that 27GB internal space right?
U can use the 27GB of internal storage any way you want. This partition allows you to install alternate OS's like NITDroid and so on..You can also increase the home partition where all your Maemo apps are stored with that guide i gave you. Its easy and you won't loose your files also but its always safe to keep a backup of everything.

jsable 2011-01-12 01:29
Re: Bricked N900 - HELLLPPPP!!!!
 
I think I've finally bricked my N900. I followed these instructions to install the gingerbread image on my eMMC:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ngerbread+eMMC

I went through these instructions to the letter, and when I rebooted, I get the Nokia N900 - Multiboot, showing "press a key to select". There is a 1 & 2 and both options are blank. When I press either one, the 30 second counter resets to [30]. When I press "0" it says:
Maemo (default)
booting - Please wait
Kernel: 2.6.28-omap1

everything else is blank and the system just hangs there. I tried to re-flash the eMMC, but when I start the flasher-3.5, I will recognize the N900, but then after a few seconds, I get a message that says waiting for device. It is almost like I cannot boot into flash mode. Any help would be appreciated. I have not seen anything like this before. Prior to trying the above, I did have NITDroid installed on my SD Card. Now, the boot menu will not see the SD Card on boot to load NITDroid.
I am officially stuck.

Thanks,

~John


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