n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

Suitable USB device not found, waiting,
what can i do. i'm using vista.
plz step by steb, i'm getting crazy.
thanks

Re: n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

I am also trying to flash the n900 after something going terribly wrong. and am getting the same error.

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Any ideas anyone?

Re: n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

Keep the flasher running and try another usb port.

Re: n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

Ok Tried that. Windows 7 tries to install a device driver and fails when I insert the USB cable.

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I had the same problem with XP 32bit sp3. I think i restarted the system and then after maybe ten inserts the flasher found my phone. Had to cycle usb ports because after i flashed my eMMC it didn't find my phone anymore. Good luck :).

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I finally solved this by using a Win XP machine instead of a Win 7.
It took about 3 or 4 attempts on the XP machine to finally get it but I was then able to flash.

Top Tip: Have a recent Backup so that you can restore your apps and settings etc. It makes things much easier after you have flashed the device to restore the settings automatically without having to download everything manually and position all of those icons etc.

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Hi,

I had the same problem: 'no suitable usb device found, waiting' (windows xp sp3).

Finally solved the problem by opening device manager and letting windows solve the problem (opening properties while my n900 was in update mode and plugged in. Windows said the device wasn't working properly and offered to fix it. And it did!) (eh?).

Anyway. It worked. Phone was flashed and boots again. Whew.

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Can someone please help me with this?

One day I was using the camera and all of a sudden the camera app closed and said there was an error. I was trying to take a picture, so I turned my phone off because I figured a reboot would probably fix it. Instead, I have never been able to turn my phone back on again!

My phone is stuck in an endless reboot cycle. As soon as I put the battery in, the phone vibrates and the word Nokia displays with no backlight. Then the phone turns off and the screen goes off completely.

Next, the phone vibrates and turns back on while showing "Nokia" on the screen (this time with the backlight on). Then the phone turns off again and the screen goes off completely. This part continues repeating forever.

The dots never show. And the power button is useless. Nothing works. If I plug in a USB cable, I do get the icon on the upper right of the screen. But when I try to reflash the device I get the "Suitable USB device not found, waiting" message. I have tried my own laptop (windows 7) in regular mode and in winxp compatibility mode. And I have also tried my friend's computer that has winxp installed. Both just sit at the waiting message.

Update: While i was typing this, after the phone rebooted several times and was plugged into my friends computer, it said "Malfunction! Device shutdown in 10sec" in green letters while the word Nokia was showing and the backlight was on.

How can I get this phone flashed? I have files and contacts I havent backed up :(

Thank you for anyone who can help!

Re: n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

1. turn off the phone, unplug it.
2. get the flasher to the "waiting..." message.
3. plug in the phone. It will start to boot and (hopefully) flash.

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thanks for the suggestion, but i couldnt get it to work

i got the flasher to the point where it was waiting, then i tried connecting the n900. but the computer doesnt even acknowledge that anything was even plugged in. this happens on 2 different computers. even though the n900 shows the usb icon in the upper right.

also, i cannot "turn it off". as soon as i put the battery in, the phone boots up right away and continues the endless reboot loop forever until i remove the battery. the device completely ignores the power button. the first boot has no backlight, then all the rest do. the dots that usually appear for a moment when you put in the battery never show up.

if i plug the phone into the computer, it will show the usb icon for just a moment the icon goes away, and the phone reboots. if i hold down 'u' then the icon stays and the phone doesnt reboot, but nothing ever happens. the flasher just says waiting and the phone is not acknowledged.

there have been a couple random times where the phone was acknowledged by the computer and it said "device not recognized". but i couldnt get anything more from it and the flasher still waited. i found a thread where someone suggested installing the cable drivers, but that didn't do anything. i also installed ovi suite in case that had any kind of phone drivers in it, but that didnt change anything. ovi suite also doesn't recognize my phone.

even if i cant get this to flash, does anyone know how i can at least access my files? at this point i cant get the phone's hard drive to show up on my computer. if i could at least get my files, i could send my phone in to nokia for the rest.

Re: n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

1. install ubuntu
2. never have errors again
3. start hating windows even more

Re: n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

Yea, lets try with a Ubuntu LiveCD - That could help, but you may also have a broken USB port or cable or something.

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I had some problems to connecting in win7.

First time it failed everytime connecting in mass storage mode. I hade to reboot the phone with cabel connected to pc.

If i use a usb Hub with other devices attached it fails to.

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Using Windows XP SP3 here...

I fixed the problem by updating the driver through device manager. The N900 showed up on device manager with a yellow exclamation mark on it, so I right clicked on it and picked "update driver". It went on the internet and grabbed whatever update was there and my PC then recognized the N900.

On device manger it created a new device type called Wireless Communication Devices and under that it listed Nokia BB5 ADL Loader USB Generic and Nokia BB5 ADL Loader USB Phone Parent

My dos window then showed that it had recognized the device and started the flash process.

Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
USB device found found at bus bus-0, device address \\.\libusb0-0001--0x0421-0x0
105.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2204
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1_PR_MR0
Sending xloader image (14 kB)...
100% (14 of 0 kB, avg. 14 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (106 kB)...
100% (106 of 0 kB, avg. 106 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending cmt-2nd image (79 kB)...
100% (79 of 0 kB, avg. 79 kB/s)
Sending cmt-algo image (507 kB)...
100% (507 of 0 kB, avg. 507 kB/s)
Sending cmt-mcusw image (5826 kB)...
100% (5826 of 0 kB, avg. 5826 kB/s)
Flashing cmt-mcusw... done.
Sending kernel image (1705 kB)...
100% (1705 of 0 kB, avg. 1705 kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.
Sending and flashing rootfs image (185728 kB)...
100% (185728 of 0 kB, avg. 185728 kB/s)
Finishing flashing... done
CMT flashed successfully

Note my N900 didn't reboot after the flashing was complete as some tutorials have stated...so i waited a bit and still no reboot. In the end I had to manually turn it on.

It also took a minute or two to reboot which seemed like an eternity and I was getting quite worried. The row of dots appeared on the screen and nothing much happened for a minute or two.

Finally it did boot *phew* and I got the screen to set the region and time zone.

I noticed that flashing the device did not erase any of my data like my pictures, sound files, videos, phone contacts, sms conversations, web browsing history, etc - which I was hoping it might do. I wanted the device to be exactly what I first got from the store, but this wasn't the case because all my data is still there.

Hope that helps.

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Even flashing emmc_Vanilla will not remove all of your settings and data, because all of those setting are stored in /home and are save from rootfs and MyDocs flashable images. Wipe them manually from X-Terminal or from within the application.

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I had similar problem. I am using MS windows XP SP3. I could resolve in my second attempt. Went to device manager - saw the phone was connected in PC SUITE MODE. Just uninstalled that driver there. Reconnected the phone and my device was found!!!

I could successfully install the OS. I love N900!!!

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Before today I had never experienced this problem, but both of my Arch, and a Windows 7 machine kept giving me this error.

Booting back into Arch with the cdc_phonet and phonet modules blacklisted I was able to reflash after a couple of failed attempts.

Re: n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

The best solution for this is here and use option 5
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_t..._Windows_7_x64

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i tried here with windows 7 and expected many problems.. so i decided to install ubuntu..
problem fixed, this and many others (not responding,virus...)
ubuntu lol

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Thanks dude :) best solution ever!!!!

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Tip: Don´t save the .ini file in system32 folder as originally suggested by Libusb, in my experience it fails to update the driver... use desktop folder for example...

n900 Suitable USB device not found, waiting
 

:DThis is because :rolleyes:

1) check any update is available then finish it
2) go to application manager and install linux kernel
and after that not install nokia kernel
3) go to terminal type root and
type mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb
if the above command is not working then type
mount -t usbfs usbfs /dev/bus/usb

If the above things are successfully completed then you can flash without any problem:)

Thank You:cool:

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sorry guys for such a late rply ... u should use this if u are using windows 64 bit... http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=20