Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

I am stuck in a loop.
I get a faint NOKIA image on the screen. Then it gets bright with the Nokia image and in the left hand lower corner a message that says Installing software update Please do not interrupt.
Then it goes off and starts that cycle again and again and again and again you get the picture.

I remove the battery as soon as I put the battery in the faint NOKIA image appears and that is where it sits.
Tried the Flasher taking the battery out putting it back in hooking up the usb while holding the u key same thing it starts the loop and I am stuck cannot flash it.

Anyone got any ideas?

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

Your battery may be too flat; It won't flash with a weak battery. The N900 doesn't charge in flashing mode and the battery takes a pounding. Beg or borrow one that's fully charged. Any one with an N900 or a Nokia 5800 has the right battery. Alternatively charge your battery with an external charger.

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

Possible but the battery was fully charged when I started the OTA that started this mess.

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

dont panic, try now with a manual flasher
and download the PR 1.2 image yourself and do the upgrade again.

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

Same thing happened to me...PR 1.2 bricked my n900 :( I did OTA and it just doesnt start, keeps showing the nokia screen and goes in an endless restarting loop.

I'm now downloading the firmware images from here:
http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N900.php

Then refer here :
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_f...ndows_7_32-bit

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

Hi TZM,
Can I use Nokia Software Upgrade in this scenario. Does NSU download the flash image itself ? Or is maemo flasher a better option

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

Listen, the same thing happened to me. Did you by chance attempt to install all of your old apps/update?

The only thing that helped me was re-flashing it, restoring the back up, and before updating all of my apps, I had to change the distribution of Extras. That's the ONLY change I made and the phone's working on PR1.2 now.

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

No, nothing. I just tried an OTA for PR 1.2 and the endless loop thingy happened...I'm going to reflash now using maemo flasher. Do you have to flash the emmc also or only flashing the firmware is fine ? I hv downloaded the file..Can you please explain briefly how u flashed to PR 1.2...i dont want to lose my precious n900 :(

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

My bad ! yes I didnot uninstall any old apps...just went for the pr 1.2 upgrade straight on.....I think thats what cauded it ? innit ? Will the flashing work in this case ?

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

I didn't flash through terminal. I have a mac, and all I did was use Flasher770 and only flashed the new firmware in. As far as I'm concerned, you shouldn't have to flash the emmc unless it's a pre-production device. I might be wrong; either way, only flash the new firmware

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

Thanks...Worked for me as well..Flashed only the firmware image.....Does extra d-level still work..Cuz i cant sync it

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

I am still having no luck I have downloaded the flasher program put a new battery in and tried the flash via command line in windows.

As soon as I put the battery in it starts that damn loop and will not get out it telling me that is installing software do not bother it.
Holding the u key down while plugging in the usb I see the usb symbol at the top of the screen as soon as I run flasher-3.5.exe -F RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin
another command window pops up runs through some stuff real fast for a couple of seconds then back to the loop again.

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

I finally got it to flash.. YEAH..

I had to take the battery out hook up the USB cable hold the u key down while slid the battery back in the loop stopped and it came up in USB mode and the flash took.

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

I think you could update both the FIASCO and eMMC without reboot in the middle.
But, note that this is errase all your data completely.. you might consider restoring the backup from external Memory card

Re: Update to PR1.2 and now I am bricked
 

i got the same problem , could someone help me ?