strange n900 behaviour
 

Hiya, have been messing about with themes and removed my menu app, now i have a really basic menu with no app manager.
I have an app manager shortcut on my desktop but that aint working either?!?!?
have tried "restore original settings" in settings but no joy. no backup icon either!"!!!!!!

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Strange...very strange...
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Nobody had this or got a solution??
Is it possible to do a hard reset or will i need to re-flash???

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try both, or try to restore to the theme you were originally using

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How do you do a hard reset???

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what apps have you installed?

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i havent installed any from devel, have got a few on like.
it happened when i removed my menu, now i cant get into app manager to re-install

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There is no "hard reset". You will need to reflash if you've broken something in x-terminal.

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If you have root shell installed you can do
in the xterminal to reinstall mymenu which will hopefully give you access to the appmanager again.

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No good, cant access xterminal either!!!!

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you should report this as a bug in my menu.

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There's a key shortcut: Shift + Ctrl + x

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that has brought up xterminal
tried entering commands as per earlier post no joy
how do i get to 'root' ?

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[disclaimer] this might be fatal to your device!!![/disclaimer]

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has anybody else tried that bit of code??
what does it do exactly??

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that is how you get root. the command does nothing dangerous but anything typed after that could do.

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does nowt
asks about rd mode?!?!
might just have to re-flash tnite then!

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you haven't installed the rootsh package then.


so reflash is the only option now afaik

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You should be able to start the backup tool from xterminal
its called osso-backup
so type
and hit enter, the backup tool should now startup

I suggest just flash the root img (do not flash your eMMC! just the bare root image!) afterwards, the only things getting lost are installed programs as stuff like address-book and stuff are stored in the eMMC get not flashed (means you are more or less safe to flash without a backup).

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware

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Even if you haven't installed rootsh, the gainroot command works if the N900 is running in R&D mode. The same flasher program that is used to reflash the firmware can also set this mode so you might want to try it before reflashing. I believe that this feature is only available in the Linux version of the flasher program, but you could run it from a Linux live CD if you don't have a Linux machine handy. The commands are:

and
Instructions for installing and using the flasher are here:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

I don't recall where R&D mode is documented, but a search of the wiki and forum would find more information. I hope this helps you.

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tried osso-backup
opens backup utility but when i select restore nothing happens??

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Sod it, will just re-flash tonight!!

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I suppose it's a long shot, but if you by any chance happen to have ssh installed you could get root through that. Do "ssh root@your.ip.address" from a remot linux computer (there are ways to use ssh in windows as well, but I'm not familiar with them). It will prompt for the rootpassword, which was set during install. You could then try to install my menu as mentioned above.

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dont have ssh mate.

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I think the idea was to create a backup, reflash the rootfs and then restore.

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This is why I tell people step 1 for the N900 is to install ssh. It was the first package I installed, and absolute worst case I can always ssh into the device and manually change/tweak things.

So, reflash, then install ssh. :)