Firmware upgrade problem
 

Hi to all.
I'd just bought a Nokia 770 on eBay, but it has some problems.
One of those is that I can't flash the firmware. The flasher app can't found the device, and the 770's display did not show the usb logo on the upper right corner of it.
Can someone help me?
P.S.: Sorry for my english :)

Re: Firmware upgrade problem
 

- hold home key when powering on the device
- do not use USB hub
- make sure you are root (for linux flasher)

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TNX, I do all of these steps, but nothing.

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well, of course you need to connect N770 over USB to (powered on :-) computer when you poweron the N770 with home key pressed. Then you must see the usb icon. If not then cable, n770 or your computer is broken.

It can be the cable, I've seen perfectly working mini-usb cable which did not work with N770 flasher. Then tried other two (one original, one from my digital camera) and both worked.

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I tried with two different cables. It is not a problem of the pc or of the cables
, i think it's a problem of the tablet's firmware... it's not?? The cables are ok and with these i could flash right another nokia...

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When I upgraded my Nokia 770 one time, I had a similar issue. I think somewhere it is mentioned that you need to have the latest version of Microsoft's Dot Net Framework installed on your computer for the flash to work. Once I downloaded this, I was able to, quickly Flash the Nokia 770.

I think downloading that will do you a world of good, if you are going to use a Windows Machine to Flash the Nokia 770.

This is also to say that the computer has to know that a USB device such as the Nokia 770 is connected. The Nokia 770 has to be recognized fully by the computer before you can actually flash it. There are some computers ( like my Laptop Computer ) that will not recognize the Nokia 770 any which way. :)

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There have been a few cases reported of 770s being unable to flash, and no icon showing. So far I've personally seen 2. Unfortunately I don't know of a fix.

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So Arjun, thanks so much for your interest. I'll try to flash the tablet after have installed the latest dot net framework as you said. I have to say that i have flashed another tablet with the same computer, in this case my mac, and all went right. I'd also tried with a linux pc and only one thing went better. The usb symbol at start-up appears for more time and not only for just an istant. I don't know what i have to do...

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Guys, help me!
I'm still trying to flash my device but it still want go right.
I've a news... the pc gave me a message:
Suitable USB device not found, waiting
USB device found found at bus 001, device address 056
Unsupported board (id = 0x0000)
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Can you tell me something about this?????

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You may have to use the new Flasher Sw for Linux.Try re-flashing it on a Linux Box with the new ' Flasher-2.0 '.;)

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Arjun - the latest flasher is flasher-3.0 on Linux! :)

Maemo download page: http://maemo.org/downloads/d3.php

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Thank you guys!...
I have tried with 2.0 and 3.0, as you told me, but they hasn't found any device :(

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Hmm, now we're getting somewhere. But this sounds bad, really bad. If both cable and your PC is OK and you know this for sure, then the tablet might have something screwed in flash (probably config partition holding the board id) or the USB chip is broken. having such device I would be happy if it still boots and did the boot from mmc hack as soon as possible or your first reboot loop might be your last. No flashing means no recovery. It is vital to have one perfectly booting system (either in flash or mmc or both) so you can fix things in flash directly on the device.

But still it may be problem with cable or that specific PC and its USB interface. Trying other PC or operating system or cable is your only hope.

Does the USB in your N770 work fine otherwise i.e. can you see your MMC card as a storage drive when you connect it to PC when N770 system is booted?

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Thank you fanoush. Yes i can mount the mmc drive, browse and modify it, on mac linux and windoz. Than i think that the usb cable and 770 connector are ok... But the problem is...: can i flash the device from itself mmc card slot???

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im having a similar problem

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You may already know this - but - make sure that the 770 power cord is NOT plugged in.

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I once had problem with flashing with xp. Flashing was interrupted. I finally figured out that I was logged in windows as power user, not admin. Logged in as admin and all went well

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I am having an issue as well with my 770. A couple of weeks ago, I uploaded a theme (Aqua), and suddenly, I couldn't boot from either the flash or the mmc. It starts to boot, and then goes back to the Boot Menu.

I attempted to re-flash, and I started with a test load:

sudo ~/bin/flasher-3.0 -l -b -k os2006-linux-2.6.16-39-1+ipv6+ext2+mmcplus52Mhz-zImage

and what I got back was:

Version of 'sw-release': <no version>
Sending kernel image (1357 kB)...
100% (1357 of 1357 kB, avg. 658 kB/s)
Sending request 0x82 failed: Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown

Any ideas on what I can do to correct this problem?

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Perhaps both flash and mmc is somehow corrupted. Or maybe (just guessing from your second issue) you flashed wrong kernel and now rootfs doesn't like it?

And what is the actual problem? Yo don't like the message or something else is not working? I've seen this when flashing from vmware but did not see any real problem with it (except the message).