EMMC with only 455.5 MB size
 

Hi, sorry for my bad english.

My N900 have a "memory corrupted" a amazing lot of times in one year. I reflash it and in a day damaged again. Not conected via USB to pc and damaged again, with or without SIM card. Using it or only watching when die.

My N900 visit the Nokia Care (the place where the SAT see you and smile saying another stupid client thinking the care is the solution) for 6 times, but never with solutions, ever say "changed this or this..." but I think only reflashed. The next day or the same day or one time in the Care service, the phone damaged again, but Nokia not repare and not change my phone.

Now, I can flash, but when try vanila, never found the emmc, using Ubuntu, windows xp (testing another alternatives), etc... but imposible. The phone start, run, but no memory for nothing, demo, photos, etc... say 455.5MB size, available 44.8MB

Ubuntu or XP not see the device when is conected

Any alternative to get again the 32GB?

Thanks.

Re: EMMC with only 455.5 MB size
 

I think I have seen this problem. You have to try to fsck the fat partition but I don't remember the exact process.

Re: EMMC with only 455.5 MB size
 

Just force Nokia Care to really resolve Your problem. Push them harder.

// Edit

you can try fsck, but if reflashing with vanilla emmc image restoration was for no use, i doubt fsck will help You. It seems like hardware failure.

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Nokia Care? is like talk with a wall.

At the last visit, Nokia Care return me the N900 with this conclusion (or a great excuse to no see me nevermore): main board have oxid for liquid. IS TOTALLY FALSE, and now the warranty seal is broken, Nokia Care now not accept nevermore my N900 in warranty.

I see in other countrys, users with the same problem, and in the first visit at Nokia Care, Nokia change the phone.

In Spain, the Nokia SAT is not Nokia, is another enterprise, and is imposible contact with Nokia to explain my problem, ever must contact with this disaster enterprise.

15 years using Nokia with no visit to SAT, the first visit and never more I buy a Nokia.

About fsck, I must enter via root, but I can't download and install rootsh because "no memory available".

Now, I think I have a great brick made by Nokia.

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I don't get it. You say Nokia Care lied to you that your device was oxidised with liquid? Or oxidised parts were swapped for liquid? If it is totally false and now that the warranty is somewhat invalid, why not open the device apart and see if there were any damaged components?

Have you also tried other Nokia care stores? sure they could be far away but they maybe worth a try if your device wasn't damaged at all.

I really don't understand what is the whole kaboodle with Nokia SAT, never heard of them and it seems like either you tried to ask help from them or you didn't and think they are laughing at you.

Also I'm guessing at this point it might also be a good idea to check dmesg to see if the kernel reports the eMMC not as 32GB but as something else.

Is this device a second hand? have you sourced this device from a really weird place (like alibaba, which is notorious to sell cloned devices wearing genuine brand name badges). Has the device been subjected to anything that would have harmed the device such as:

• Dropped the device onto a hard surface.
• Dropped the device into water.
• Left the device in an area of high humidity.
• Overclocked the device.

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I think I'm a stupid man who think Nokia must repair or change my phone. If I open, the war end.

All Nokia Care sent the phones at the same place, Moviltech.

Yes, laugthing in my face

Is very large. Is posible save it at SD card? help is welcome

New from Vodafone, no droped, no liquid, no humidity, no overlocked.

Only time for use phone, email, web browser and Angry Birds :D

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You could connect your N900 to internet and paste it on here :) but yes its possible to save the output to a file on SD card and then use `sneakernet' to transfer the data onto your computer then paste it here.

Though seasoned linux users would have simply used SSH for it all :)

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Quite popular excuse from Nokia Care. Many users reported that they lied about oxidized parts (suggesting, that phone was drowned). If You're 100% sure that they lie - which I'm almost sure also, judging on experiences from other users - I would go along every step of formal complain process, and if that doesn't not help, I would try lawsuit. Really.

In meantime, I would write about my experiences to some newspaper magazines, federal consumer law organizations (or any equivalent in Your country), mobile devices forums etc. Nokia "oxym.oron" care is behavior is just unacceptable.

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Do you have none of the applications installed to gain root rights, like openssh, rootsh or sudser???
To get some information about disk space try the following code in the X-Terminal applicationEach of the lines is one command, the last one a real challenge for linux newcomers because it combines two commands with a 'pipe' symbol '|', this no small 'L' or large 'i' ! You may access the symbol on your N900 by typing first the blue arrow and then 'Sym'.

Try to gain some space back to install rootsh by disabling (removing) some applets from your desktops, try to remove some applications through the Hildon Application Manager (HAM), disable any repository in HAM but extras, it will refresh the list, then close HAM and reopen it. Try to install rootsh.

Re: EMMC with only 455.5 MB size
 

du -xk / | sort -n report a lot of dir, imposible copy here.

Uninstalled some aplications and now I have rootsh

Testing some options, ever say /dev/mmcblk0p1 not exist. Now, what is the way to create again?

One question, 32GB, contains 2 partitions, one whith this 455.5MB, and the other with the missing GB? If yes, why hardware damage, or all 32GB or nothing, not a part (or I'm thinking wrong)