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Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

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Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 51093)

Well, yes, but it is slightly more dangerous in the sense that if you flash wrong or incomplete kernel, you have device which doesn't boot and then you need to learn many relatively advanced things (i.e getting linux flasher working over usb) to get it working again. If you learn how to use nokia linux flasher before doing this, you just try again without any sweat. So basically with my flasher you can shoot yourself in the foot quite easily and then be surprised. But if everything goes ok (like kernel download being not corrupted or battery not going empty in the middle of flashing) it works just fine. In fact I need to implement at least kernel size checking to prevent incomplete kernels from flashing. It is in my TODO list for some time. I should do it or sooner or later someone may be very surprised.

I'm glad I wasn't surprised :-) I can see where it might end up being a problem for some, though.

One question - does that "becomeroot" .deb install stay in there permanently? Is it just a script that runs once when installed?

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

As everybody knows the stock 3.2007 firmware does not support SDHC cards. I tested today my 8GB SDHC card on "yet to be released" stock firmware (4.2007... I don't remember the rest of the version number.) and the card was recognised right away. :) In other words there should not be need to wait to upgrade to next firmware due to missing SDHC support.

Anybody asking how did I get a hold on the 4.2007 firmware? I didn't. It was in my friends N800 who is the beta tester (True tester) of N800.

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

I'm a brand new user of n800. Just got it in the mail yesterday.
Already flashed with 3.2007-10-7 but unable to use my 8gig Patriot SD...
Any ideas? Instructions mention "reboot". I did a power-off and power-on. Perhaps I didn't do something right?
P.S. My build-in SD reader in Aspire 5102 doesn't recognize the card either. But digital camera took it no problem.

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

After flashing the device with the 3.2007.10-1, have then need to update the stock Nokia kernel with the patched SDHC kernel - have you done this yet?

You probably need a new card reader as many card readers won't support SDHC.

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

No, I didn't realize I needed to do that! I just followed instructions for linux flashing of RX-34_2007SE_3.2007.10-7_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

I suppose I need to re-read the instructions!

There's suppose to be a hotfix for hcsd's for XP, but I wasn't able to locate it yet...

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

I don't think it's a Windows software issue - in the case of card readers it appears to be a hardware/firmware issue, either the card reader supports SDHC or it does not. In my case I purchased a SanDisk 4GB SDHC card which came with an SDHC mini card reader and this works fine with my XP and Linux PCs, but my Belkin multi-card reader plugged into the same XP PC does not work with SDHC cards at all.

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

That's okay, I will invest into a new card reader later on. My main concern is to make n800 recognize it :) Strange how I missed a whole chunk of information. I thought that flashing was enough.

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

Hopefully the next firmware (due real soon now!) will support SDHC out of the box. :)

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

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Originally Posted by Milhouse (Post 51536)

Hopefully the next firmware (due real soon now!) will support SDHC out of the box. :)

Yeah... Monday, right? :p

Re: SDHC Support for 3.2007.10-7 has arrived

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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens (Post 51546)

Yeah... Monday, right? :p

Where did you hear that? ;)