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[Solved] Flashing N900 on Windos XP/7

Iam using this commad at virtual XP:

flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R
and it tells me that the suitable usb device isnt found!

Code:

Suitable USB device not found, waiting

Usb device found found at bus bus-0, device address \\.\libusb0-0001-0x0421-0x0105

Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101

NOLO version 1.4.14

Version of sw-release : 

Booting device into flash mode.

Suitable USB device not found, waiting

:

I probably tried it over 10 times and still the same.

Please answer, thanks

Boot an Ubuntu Live CD.

okey just follow me here ,
pressing U key and look for usb sign at right corner.
check as if the driver for your windows successfully installed or not for this process( flashing parent driver,Usb Rom etc ,if says NOT SUCCESFULLY installed,you better install them on your own )
better rename this file :RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin ( for example : park.bin
now run the flasher with the command : flasher-3.5 -F park.bin -f -R
let the flasher ask for USB (as it will not be connected at that time )
when it asks ,simply connect the USB to N900 ,it should be working perfectly for ya .
last night i spent 4 hours bickering with this bloody driver issue .
Follow every thing and you will be okey .(every one else may follow these instructions .its nice and easy ) i hope so ;p

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hurrian (Post 1075718)

Boot an Ubuntu Live CD.

this is probably the easyest way. If you can boot on usb sticks, even easier.

I know how to flash... but the wierd thing is the arm.bin flashed without any problems but Vanilla always says:

Quote:

Suitable USB device not found, waiting
Usb device found found at bus bus-0, device address \\.\libusb0-0001-0x0421-0x0105
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of sw-release :
Booting device into flash mode.
Suitable USB device not found, waiting

Edit: I tried it more then 20 times at WinXp Sp2
Windows 7 doesnt work at all.
Im gonna try it with ubuntu now

I believe you need SP3 to do it on WinXP.

Correct me community if I am wrong (not sure why I think it) but I did have a SP2 that it wouldnt work on and the SP3 would.

Wow... nothing works, what im i doing wrong
any other way i could install it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by razefox (Post 1075895)

Wow... nothing works, what im i doing wrong
any other way i could install it?

from Updating the firmware - 2.4 Windows - 2.4.1 N900

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flashing the eMMC in the N900

When flashing the eMMC content, the safe way is flash the eMMC/VANILLA image first, then remove battery for a moment, and then flash the FIASCO/Rootfs image. Do not boot up the device between the two i.e do NOT use the -R parameter at the end!

Also see troubleshooting section, bullet 6:"If you cannot establish..."

Rationale: on accidental booting in between the 2 flash processes, the sequence formerly suggested (rootfs first) will result in a broken system. The sequence "eMMC first, then rootfs" is checked back with Nokia affiliates and is proven to work. The former advice on tablets-dev.nokia.com was not based on any facts for the recent eMMC VANILLA image. It's fixed now and in line with this wiki
For users familiar with flashing and interested in a smooth fast process: you can flash combined first, and then *immediately* after that - without one 10th of a second of booting - directly continue with flashing the vanilla. The other way round doesn't work due to a bug in NOLO - so after flashing vanilla you need to remove battery to recover

not sure how to proceed if you already flashed the firmware, but guess restarting the N900 & all might be an option...

Also note that any backups created in your MyDocs area will need to be copied off the device to be safe across an eMMC flash as the MyDocs area and other partitions on /dev/mmcblk0 will be erased.

Just found an solution!
I followed this guide to install the driver for windows 7
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=20 I think it is a bug under windows xp that it can't flash the Vanilla.bin.

Raze

Quote:

Originally Posted by razefox (Post 1075924)

See post #7.

Re: [Solved] Flashing N900 on Windos XP/7

i have windows xp service pack 3 and i've flashed vanilla before :)

Re: [Solved] Flashing N900 on Windos XP/7

I had Sp 2, that was probably the problem.

Re: [Solved] Flashing N900 on Windos XP/7

odd that XP recognized the N900 for the firmware but not for the VANILLA :rolleyes: