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I kno there must be a thread about this but I cant spend time searching for it!

I reflashed my N900 using the maemo flasher and it now shows the Nokia logo folowed by dim screen with the orange led pulsing twice then the siz dots just stay on and NOTHING happens?!

Please help me I need to fix this :S

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I know there must be an answer for this but I can't spend my time providing it!

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Normally I am fine to search. But I have exams and really need to revise. This was meant to be a nice run of the mil reflash and now my phone doesnt start properly so I had a brief moment of panic.

Could you please help me, even if its just linking me to threads.

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Do a complete reflash, follow the instructions in the Wiki.
eMMC first, don't reboot, then rootfs.

For some reason, flasher seems to be hit and miss with flashing rootfs. Odd, you'll have to try quite a few times.

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I cant lose the MyDocs section though :s

Any way I can back that up??

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u can try again i reflash and if it starts this time u can backup ur mydocs to ur pc and then do a complete reflash again with emmc within

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I dont understand at all though.

Why does the orange LED flash twice? Does anybody know the actual error thats happening here?

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Basically atm. I turn the phone on.

The Nokia logo comes on then followed by a dark screen and an orange led flashes twice. Then the Maemo loading dots appear but they do not go away and it stays like this. Nothin happens.

Could somebody please tell me what to do?

I cannot flash the EMMC as I have backups stored on the 32gb internal memory meaning if I do an EMMC flash ill lose all of that stuff plus some images that I was yet to backup to my pc.

Please help. I have looked through loads of threads and none have really helped.

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Leave the phone on. It has been known for it to take 20 minutes on the 'white dots screen' on first boot. This is because it is optifying apparently.

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But the orange led's are what ring the alarms in my head :/

I will leave it plugged in charging after another reflash attempt see the status in an hour or so.

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Just wondering. What will I lose doing an EMMC Flash. I have quite alot of stuff backed up in the MyDocs section. Phone backups as well as images and files like that. Will they be saved or completely removed?

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This is natural, mine flashes the led orange twic and then the dots appear. Just leave it 10 mins until it finishes optifying itself.

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I really hope so. Never saw this before so it kinda freaked me out :P

Lets pray it works :P Gonna leave it for awhile now :)

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If you flash EMMC you will loose your MyDocs stuff completely. (and i believe /opt/ too, thought not sure).
I've just reflashed my phone yesterday (both fiasco and vanilla images) and it was quite fast. around 5 minutes to flash both things, thought it didn't want to start easily after. The dots took a bit but nothing more than 2 or 3 minutes i guess.

Or I probably just lost the sense of time

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If it doesn't work, before you flash the emmc flash the flash the rescue kernel and you can access the MyDocs folder in USB mass storage mode.

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Been about 30 minutes now and no change on the dots situation. Something seems wrong to me. Shouldnt take that long even if its optifying itself.

Thanks for the rescue kernel info, didnt know about that. Gonna let the phone charge for an hour or two and then follw them instructions. Well depending on how impatient I get :P

Is there any instructions for using Rescue Initrd on a Windows PC?

Also will RnD mode help at all?

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I've never had to install the rescue kernal, but looking at the instructions given, you need to download the packages (the wget commands) then extract and move the relevant files into the right place rhen run the flash command. I google rpm extracter windows and this is the first thing that came up, so use that or find another program to extract the files within the rpm packages.

Thinking on, it would probably be easier for you to burn an Ubuntu live cd and follow the MeeGo instructions.

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Managed to figure it out using 7zip :)

All backed up and just need to start flashing the EMMC stuff. Never done this before. Lets hope it all goes smoothly :)

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Thanks guys! The EMMC flash worked perfectly :)

Just restoring all my data noww :)