Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

i just did as u said Rob and now my device turned on didnt test the signal yet but the problem is that when i go to memory status i still see 1.68GB free for apps ( but all the apps are uninstalled is there anykind of error happened or i should flash the eMMC to have it like it was now after the reflash i still have mostly everything videos messages but i only lost the widgets and apps but i need to make it like factory what should i do :) thank so much !! really thanks finally i can use my device :D

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

Yes, /opt is left untouched, so all the old installed apps will still be taking up space. If you're going to reinstall them then this isn't a problem, otherwise you'll probably want to reflash the eMMC as well (backup anything you want from MyDocs first though, as that will also get wiped).

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

Well my phone got bricked too with the mid Februari update. I did manage to flash it back with the VANILLA.bin. I did however loose all contacts, conversations, apps, emails and so on.

Luckily I had a backup, but they didn't contain my conversations (why not? thats just stupid!).

I like this phone, but today bummed me out a bit. All of a sudden I am feeling a bit less comfotable with this Nokia. We live in an age of Gigabytes. Backup the hole shabang!

Well, I have to reinstall a ton of apps and so. *sigh* This phone used to feel so right..

I'll just wait with the big update at the end of Februari untill others have installed it. A shame it went like this though.

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

so there isnt any problem reflashing the eMMC after i finish the eMMC i dont turn on my device right ? i mean i directly flash the new firmware too the newest one which was released 2 days ago? and is there any possible future failure if make this eMMC ?

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

1st of all thanks for your help :) ... then i appriciate ur concern well its not that i couldnt find out how to do it my self or something but i never ever used anything near linux before i was always Windows Mobile user and i used to test alot of firmwares and everything without panic then changed iphone 3gs didnt like it and got my n900 so i was scared doing something wrong especially i live in a far country which dont have N900 thats why :) so am trying to learn more about the meamo and these stuff to be good for future releases :)
but again thanks for your help and i appriciate ur concer and will read more about the maemo and wiki's before doing anything stupid again =)

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

thanks again all especially Rob1n i did an EMMC and then flashed a firmware i just booted up my device as if it is new from the nokia :) i really can't thank you enough bro have a nice evening :)
P.S : am heard a sound beap or punk when i turn my device off ( happened twice thats totally normal right ?
Thanks again :) :)

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

Yes, that's normal.

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

I had this happen to me this morning after intstalling Fuelpad!

Seems the only option is reflashing from skimming through this thread. Annoyingly, I'm out on a job for the moment! First time my N900 has played up :( I'm not even adventurous, only have 1 or two things installed from Testing and on from Devel (MaePad) which hasn't caused any problems in the days/weeks they've been installed!

Will flashing screw up my conacts?

I made a couple of backups previously on the device (which always seemed a bit odd to me!). Will flashing lose these backups?

I'm scared! :S

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

Flashing the firmware will leave your contacts and backups untouched. Flashing the eMMC, however, will wipe your contacts and (if your backups aren't on the memory card) the backups as well. You may need to do both - start with the firmware and see whether that fixes it first though. If you do need to flash the eMMC, try powering off the N900 and connecting it via USB first - this may start it up okay in mass storage mode and allow you to copy off the data from the MyDocs folder first.

Re: [help] N900 dont complete its booting & then it reboots
 

Thanks, hopefully I won't be long on this job now. And can get home and try and flash my N900 again! I now hate FuelPad! lol!

Wish I'd done a backup to the SD card now, only ot it working a couple of days ago!