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ArchiMark 2012-05-31 23:05
Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Hope someone can please advise....

N900 was working fine...or at least appeared to be....

I shutdown N900, but today when I tried to boot it up, it seems to get 'stuck' at the part where the screen is black and you see the horizontal row of several blinking tiny little white dots.

Have waited for quite awhile for it to get past that part, but it doesn't, seems to get stuck there and so display doesn't change, just see the blinking white dots...

Any way to 'clear this' or do I need to reflash?

:confused:

Thanks!

MINKIN2 2012-05-31 23:21
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
No real fix other than a reflash IIRC?

I had this once many moons ago, after downloading a buch of apps all at once. The phone started to lag so I gave it a reboot, my only guess was rootfs had became full and could no longer boot?

ArchiMark 2012-05-31 23:27
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MINKIN2 (Post 1215719)
No real fix other than a reflash IIRC?

I had this once many moons ago, after downloading a buch of apps all at once. The phone started to lag so I gave it a reboot, my only guess was rootfs had became full and could no longer boot?
Was afraid of that....

I thought about rootfs space issue, but I had just recently deleted some apps, to free up more space....go figure....

:)

MINKIN2 2012-05-31 23:30
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
You post actually had me checking rootfs space too, 40mb free. I had better be careful too, lol.

Hope you get it sorted ok mate.

geneven 2012-05-31 23:30
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
You might have to flash., If you have used backupmenu lately, you can be back to normal in no time. First, though, make sure your battery is completely charged, using something other than your N900 to charge it, because this could just be a matter of recovering from that condition. Rebooting with a fully charged battery might get you past the dots.

misterc 2012-06-01 00:08
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1215716)
Hope someone can please advise....

N900 was working fine...or at least appeared to be....

I shutdown N900, but today when I tried to boot it up, it seems to get 'stuck' at the part where the screen is black and you see the horizontal row of several blinking tiny little white dots.

Have waited for quite awhile for it to get past that part, but it doesn't, seems to get stuck there and so display doesn't change, just see the blinking white dots...

Any way to 'clear this' or do I need to reflash?

:confused:

Thanks!
had a situation recently too where my N900 didn't want to start up any more neither.
i'm on GNU / Linux thus don't usually have LostDOS around (except @ work :() but for some reason had that started up & running that evening, so i tried to connect the N900 to that...
it took the PC (with se7en 64bit) a connection to recognize the N900 but after that NOKIA Suite (i had installed a few months ago to upgrade N8 to Belle) kuicked in and the N900 started up :D

if you have a PC with NOKIA Suite handy, it might be worse a try...

Estel 2012-06-01 00:14
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
+1 to what geneven said. Backupmenu is absolute lifesaver in such situations, and if you haven't had it (and habit of doing backups often) before, be sure to install it, after You set everything up on device, after sad reflash.

/Estel

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 02:42
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MINKIN2 (Post 1215724)
You post actually had me checking rootfs space too, 40mb free. I had better be careful too, lol.

Hope you get it sorted ok mate.
Hmmm.....As I recall, I had 48MB free and thought I better free up some more space. So, deleted a few apps I didn't really use....

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 02:44
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by geneven (Post 1215725)
You might have to flash., If you have used backupmenu lately, you can be back to normal in no time. First, though, make sure your battery is completely charged, using something other than your N900 to charge it, because this could just be a matter of recovering from that condition. Rebooting with a fully charged battery might get you past the dots.
OK, preparing myself for reflash.... ;)

I did use backupmenu not too long ago...so, should be in pretty good shape there...

As for battery charge, it did get very low on me all of a sudden....once I noticed that, I shutdown N900, pulled out battery and put it in the external charger I recently bought to fully charge up...put it back in and then had problem....

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 02:45
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1215737)
had a situation recently too where my N900 didn't want to start up any more neither.
i'm on GNU / Linux thus don't usually have LostDOS around (except @ work :() but for some reason had that started up & running that evening, so i tried to connect the N900 to that...
it took the PC (with se7en 64bit) a connection to recognize the N900 but after that NOKIA Suite (i had installed a few months ago to upgrade N8 to Belle) kuicked in and the N900 started up :D

if you have a PC with NOKIA Suite handy, it might be worse a try...
Thanks for the suggestion, misterc....couldn't hurt....

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 02:55
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1215740)
+1 to what geneven said. Backupmenu is absolute lifesaver in such situations, and if you haven't had it (and habit of doing backups often) before, be sure to install it, after You set everything up on device, after sad reflash.

/Estel
Agree 100% with your points about backupmenu and making frequent backups....probably been about 2-3 weeks since I did backup though....

:o

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 13:46
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
I just reflashed my N900, according to messages in terminal, it appeared to have gone well.....

However, after reflashing, I still can't boot up completely.....so, after discovering the thread about 'rescueOS', I thought I'd give it a try to see if it would allow me to boot up completely....unfortunately, I have not been able to get rescueOS to work right...so, back to 'square one' as we say....

Should I try re-flashing maemo again?

Do you think I need to re-flash the emmc too?

Thanks!

sifo 2012-06-01 13:55
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
[OFF\ TOPIC]
i saw many members here hate to reflash because of they need hours to re-install the needed applications so i decided to upload a backup contains all what you need but you must have 4 GB emmc or more ;) im gonna upload it as soon as i can :)

./sifo

[/OFF\ TOPIC]

geneven 2012-06-01 14:20
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1215961)
I just reflashed my N900, according to messages in terminal, it appeared to have gone well.....

However, after reflashing, I still can't boot up completely.....so, after discovering the thread about 'rescueOS', I thought I'd give it a try to see if it would allow me to boot up completely....unfortunately, I have not been able to get rescueOS to work right...so, back to 'square one' as we say....

Should I try re-flashing maemo again?

Do you think I need to re-flash the emmc too?

Thanks!
If you suspect flashing didn't work right, go ahead and flash again. I almost always flash the Emmc too.

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 14:35
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by geneven (Post 1215980)
If you suspect flashing didn't work right, go ahead and flash again. I almost always flash the Emmc too.
Thanks for the input.....

OK, will flash Emmc too....

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 17:32
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Hit another snag......

When I try to flash Emmc. I get a device busy message...per the wiki, I then did the modprobe command and then tried flashing again, but get same busy message.....

Any suggestions????!

Thanks

:confused:

misterc 2012-06-01 21:13
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216071)
Hit another snag......

When I try to flash Emmc. I get a device busy message...per the wiki, I then did the modprobe command and then tried flashing again, but get same busy message.....

Any suggestions????!

Thanks

:confused:
did you flash the EMMC 1st?
considering the fact that your N900 doesn't boot up anymore, this may not matter, alas.
that's where it would be handy to have a +real+ backup / restore tool (i.e. partimage) that would allow you to start Rescue OS, indeed, and either use earlier images (both of / and /opt) of your own functioning device or, at default, from any other working N900 :eek: :confused:

ArchiMark 2012-06-01 22:18
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1216138)
did you flash the EMMC 1st?
considering the fact that your N900 doesn't boot up anymore, this may not matter, alas.
that's where it would be handy to have a +real+ backup / restore tool (i.e. partimage) that would allow you to start Rescue OS, indeed, and either use earlier images (both of / and /opt) of your own functioning device or, at default, from any other working N900 :eek: :confused:
Well, considering that my initial rootfs flash didn't work out, so can't boot up, flashing EMMC next is like doing it first, right?

Agree that it would be nice if there was better way to deal with this...

misterc 2012-06-02 00:06
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216167)
Well, considering that my initial rootfs flash didn't work out, so can't boot up, flashing EMMC next is like doing it first, right?

Agree that it would be nice if there was better way to deal with this...
at the risk of sounding stubborn, did you try to connect it to a LostDOS PC with NOKIA Suite installed (since flashing rootfs)?

ArchiMark 2012-06-02 01:14
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1216201)
at the risk of sounding stubborn, did you try to connect it to a LostDOS PC with NOKIA Suite installed (since flashing rootfs)?
No, didn't do that.....don't know what LostDOS PC is....think I know what NOKIA Suite is though...

i thought you can use NOKIA Suite with Windows PC?....if so, I can possibly try it that way.......

ArchiMark 2012-06-02 03:39
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Installed Nokia Suite and tried connecting N900 to it via USB cable....after I few tries, I did see on PC that it recognized that a 'Nokia device' was attached, but doesn't see it as a N900....

N900 display lights up and then soon I see the blinking little white dots on the black background again....but doesn't boot up....

So, think it's back to reflasing Emmc and rootfs again.....

ArchiMark 2012-06-02 04:30
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Tried flashing Emmc again....but as the previous time, I get the error message that device or resource busy.....

I've followed the wiki instructions carefully, including the command to deal with this error message, but to no avail.....

Any other suggestions???....

Thanks!

:confused:

sifo 2012-06-02 06:03
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
i saw in other threads you were booting somthing with u-boot right ? maybe it is your boot loader i dont know but let cold flash the last thing you do :)
Good luck

./sifo

ArchiMark 2012-06-02 15:22
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sifo (Post 1216257)
i saw in other threads you were booting somthing with u-boot right ? maybe it is your boot loader i dont know but let cold flash the last thing you do :)
Good luck

./sifo
Thanks for your help!

Followed those instructions, but at last step, I still get the error message that 'device or resource busy.....'.....

:(

sifo 2012-06-02 17:41
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
did you tried to flash emmc then FIASCO image then emmc ? or flash to pr-1.2 and if you able to access to OS then you can reflash to pr-1.3 if you want.
i dont knwo if this got any meaning or will work but i hope :)

./sifo

ArchiMark 2012-06-02 22:51
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sifo (Post 1216498)
did you tried to flash emmc then FIASCO image then emmc ? or flash to pr-1.2 and if you able to access to OS then you can reflash to pr-1.3 if you want.
i dont knwo if this got any meaning or will work but i hope :)

./sifo
Thanks for your help, sifo....appreciate it!

As for chronology, if you read through my posts, it describes the process I've gone through regarding flashing attempts....

In summary, I did the following as I recall:

1. Flashed FIASCO (rootfs...) image, but still only boots up to the blinking white dots part....

2. Flashed emmc image, got the 'device busy' message, and did command regarding this, but no go, still only boots up to the blinking white dots part....

3. Flashed FIASCO (rootfs...) image using the 'Cold Flashing' method you referred me to, but got the 'device busy' message, and still only boots up to the blinking white dots part....

So, it seems my key problem now, is how to deal with the 'device busy' issue, so, that the flashing process can take place properly.....

:confused:

misterc 2012-06-03 01:36
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216579)
Thanks for your help, sifo....appreciate it!

As for chronology, if you read through my posts, it describes the process I've gone through regarding flashing attempts....

In summary, I did the following as I recall:

1. Flashed FIASCO (rootfs...) image, but still only boots up to the blinking white dots part....

2. Flashed emmc image, got the 'device busy' message, and did command regarding this, but no go, still only boots up to the blinking white dots part....

3. Flashed FIASCO (rootfs...) image using the 'Cold Flashing' method you referred me to, but got the 'device busy' message, and still only boots up to the blinking white dots part....

So, it seems my key problem now, is how to deal with the 'device busy' issue, so, that the flashing process can take place properly.....

:confused:
take out the battery for 12 to 24 hrs.
(if you already took it out for a few hrs, this is probably not going to change anything, though)

MAKE SURE BATTERY IS COMPLETELY CHARGED BEFORE DOING THIS
when putting battery back in, start right away with a cold flash

ArchiMark 2012-06-03 15:40
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1216612)
take out the battery for 12 to 24 hrs.
(if you already took it out for a few hrs, this is probably not going to change anything, though)

MAKE SURE BATTERY IS COMPLETELY CHARGED BEFORE DOING THIS
when putting battery back in, start right away with a cold flash
Thanks, misterc....that helped!....

Now, I can connect with flashing process....

I did cold flash....

Then flashed emmc...went OK....

Then flashed rootfs....went OK partially....

Code:
Users-MacBook:nokia marks$ flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.002_PR_COMBINED_002_ARM.bin -f -R
flasher v2.5.2 (Nov 25 2009)

SW version in image: RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.002_PR_002
Image 'kernel', size 1705 kB
        Version 2.6.28-20103103+0m5
Image 'rootfs', size 185856 kB
        Version RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.002_PR_002
Image 'cmt-2nd', size 81408 bytes
        Version BB5_09.36
Image 'cmt-algo', size 519808 bytes
        Version BB5_09.36
Image 'cmt-mcusw', size 5826 kB
        Version rx51_ICPR82_10w08
Image '2nd', size 14720 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2217, 2218, 2219, 2220, 2120
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2217, 2218, 2219, 2220, 2120
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2217, 2218, 2219, 2220, 2120
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14720 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2101, 2102, 2103
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2101, 2102, 2103
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2101, 2102, 2103
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2307, 2308, 2309, 2310
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2307, 2308, 2309, 2310
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2307, 2308, 2309, 2310
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2407, 2408, 2409, 2410
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2407, 2408, 2409, 2410
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2407, 2408, 2409, 2410
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2301, 2302, 2303, 2304, 2305, 2306
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2301, 2302, 2303, 2304, 2305, 2306
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2301, 2302, 2303, 2304, 2305, 2306
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2401, 2402, 2403, 2404, 2405, 2406
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2401, 2402, 2403, 2404, 2405, 2406
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2401, 2402, 2403, 2404, 2405, 2406
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14720 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2104, 2105, 2106, 2107, 2108, 2109, 2110, 2111, 2112, 2113, 2114, 2115, 2116, 2117, 2118, 2119
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2104, 2105, 2106, 2107, 2108, 2109, 2110, 2111, 2112, 2113, 2114, 2115, 2116, 2117, 2118, 2119
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2104, 2105, 2106, 2107, 2108, 2109, 2110, 2111, 2112, 2113, 2114, 2115, 2116, 2117, 2118, 2119
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2501, 2502, 2503, 2504, 2505, 2506
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2501, 2502, 2503, 2504, 2505, 2506
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2501, 2502, 2503, 2504, 2505, 2506
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2607, 2608, 2609, 2610
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2607, 2608, 2609, 2610
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2607, 2608, 2609, 2610
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2507, 2508, 2509, 2510
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2507, 2508, 2509, 2510
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2507, 2508, 2509, 2510
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14720 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2201, 2202, 2203, 2204, 2205, 2206, 2207, 2208, 2209, 2210, 2211, 2212, 2213, 2214, 2215, 2216
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2201, 2202, 2203, 2204, 2205, 2206, 2207, 2208, 2209, 2210, 2211, 2212, 2213, 2214, 2215, 2216
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2201, 2202, 2203, 2204, 2205, 2206, 2207, 2208, 2209, 2210, 2211, 2212, 2213, 2214, 2215, 2216
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image '2nd', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2601, 2602, 2603, 2604, 2605, 2606
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'xloader', size 14848 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2601, 2602, 2603, 2604, 2605, 2606
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Image 'secondary', size 109440 bytes
        Valid for RX-51: 2601, 2602, 2603, 2604, 2605, 2606
        Version 1.4.14.9+0m5
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
USB device found found at bus 005, device address 007-0421-0105-02-00.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.002_PR_002
Sending xloader image (14 kB)...
100% (14 of 14 kB, avg. 805 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (106 kB)...
100% (106 of 106 kB, avg. 11875 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending cmt-2nd image (79 kB)...
100% (79 of 79 kB, avg. 4184 kB/s)
Sending cmt-algo image (507 kB)...
100% (507 of 507 kB, avg. 14930 kB/s)
Sending cmt-mcusw image (5826 kB)...
100% (5826 of 5826 kB, avg. 20883 kB/s)
Flashing cmt-mcusw... done.
Sending kernel image (1705 kB)...
 82% (1408 of 1705 kB, 15644 kB/s)
Write failed after 1441792 bytes
usb_bulk_write: Operation timed out
Users-MacBook:nokia marks$
What to do now?

Thanks!

misterc 2012-06-03 19:03
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216843)
Thanks, misterc....that helped!....

[,,,]
glad to be able to help, but...
afraid you got a serious problem here...
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216843)
Code:
[...]
Sending kernel image (1705 kB)...
 82% (1408 of 1705 kB, 15644 kB/s)
Write failed after 1441792 bytes
usb_bulk_write: Operation timed out
Users-MacBook:nokia marks$
What to do now?

Thanks!
looks like your EMMC is corrupt :(
if your N900 is still under warranty, NOKIA Care Center seems the only option to me

ArchiMark 2012-06-03 19:23
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1216918)
glad to be able to help, but...
afraid you got a serious problem here...


looks like your EMMC is corrupt :(
if your N900 is still under warranty, NOKIA Care Center seems the only option to me
Thanks for your input....but I don't understand why you think problem is with EMMC (as I noted that I was able to flash the EMMC successfully after doing the cold flashing) ?

Here's what I saw in terminal while flashing EMMC:

Code:
Users-MacBook:nokia marks$ flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin -f
flasher v2.5.2 (Nov 25 2009)

Image 'mmc', size 255947 kB
        Version RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
USB device found found at bus 005, device address 007-0421-0105-02-00.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.002_PR_002
Booting device into flash mode.
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
USB device found found at bus 005, device address 007-0421-01c8-02-00.
Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.
Image(s) flashed successfully in 39.245 s (6521 kB/s)!
The error message you refer I got while flashing the rootsf image after flashing EMMC....

ArchiMark 2012-06-03 19:49
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
UPDATE - SUCCESS ! ! !

Decided to retry flashing rootfs....figured WTH....

This time it completed flashing.... :)

Code:
USB device found found at bus 005, device address 007-0421-0105-02-00.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.002_PR_002
Sending xloader image (14 kB)...
100% (14 of 14 kB, avg. 966 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (106 kB)...
100% (106 of 106 kB, avg. 11875 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending cmt-2nd image (79 kB)...
100% (79 of 79 kB, avg. 4184 kB/s)
Sending cmt-algo image (507 kB)...
100% (507 of 507 kB, avg. 4788 kB/s)
Sending cmt-mcusw image (5826 kB)...
100% (5826 of 5826 kB, avg. 20883 kB/s)
Flashing cmt-mcusw... done.
Sending kernel image (1705 kB)...
100% (1705 of 1705 kB, avg. 10727 kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.
Sending and flashing rootfs image (185856 kB)...
100% (185856 of 185856 kB, avg. 13550 kB/s)
Finishing flashing... done
CMT flashed successfully
N900 rebooted and Voila! it took a while, but finally booted up to setup screen!

THANKS to everyone that provide support and assistance. I truly appreciate it!!!

Now, hope not to mess up N900 again soon..... :rolleyes:

misterc 2012-06-03 20:32
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216933)
UPDATE - SUCCESS ! ! !

Decided to retry flashing rootfs....figured WTH....

This time it completed flashing.... :)

Code:
[...]
N900 rebooted and Voila! it took a while, but finally booted up to setup screen!
this is normal after a flash
1st boot takes longer.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArchiMark (Post 1216933)
THANKS to everyone that provide support and assistance. I truly appreciate it!!!

Now, hope not to mess up N900 again soon..... :rolleyes:
welcome... back! ;)
how about giving backupmenu a shot?
the only shortcoming it has is that you have to have the same Kernel (Power) version on the target device (the one on which you want to do a restore) and the source device (the one from which the backup was taken)
if it is the same device, obviously, you have to get the same kernel version back before being able to use the backup

davdav 2012-06-03 20:41
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
i am happy for you :)
i suggest installing backup menu for multiboot
it is really good search around you will find it
Good luck and welcome back ;)

geneven 2012-06-03 21:08
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
ArchiMark: Congratulations for not giving up!

ArchiMark 2012-06-03 23:27
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misterc (Post 1216944)
this is normal after a flash
1st boot takes longer.
Thanks for clarifying....

Quote:
welcome... back! ;)
Thank you....

Quote:
how about giving backupmenu a shot?
I had backupmenu on my N900 prior to this problem....I should have a backup file somewhere....probably a few weeks old....so, was planning on reinstalling backupmenu and trying to do a restore......


Quote:
the only shortcoming it has is that you have to have the same Kernel (Power) version on the target device (the one on which you want to do a restore) and the source device (the one from which the backup was taken)
if it is the same device, obviously, you have to get the same kernel version back before being able to use the backup
AFAIK, I was using the stock kernel.....unless having installed CSSU Stable installs a modified kernel.....

One question I have is whether any or the combination of the following things I installed or used on my N900 contributed to the major OS crash:

1. CSSU Testing

2. Backupmenu

3. EasyDebian

4. Extras-Devel Repo

5. Swappolube

There may be other specific items, but these are the first ones that come to my mind......

Or could be that I just didn't have enough free rootfs space?

Had about 48MB as I recall before this crash....

:confused:

Thanks.

ArchiMark 2012-06-03 23:30
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by davdav (Post 1216949)
i am happy for you :)
Thanks for the good words, davdav....I certainly feel a lot better now that my little N900 is back in the world of the living again.... :)


Quote:
i suggest installing backup menu for multiboot
it is really good search around you will find it
Good luck and welcome back ;)
Yes, was using backupmenu before....and will install again now and try and do a restore...

ArchiMark 2012-06-03 23:31
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by geneven (Post 1216960)
ArchiMark: Congratulations for not giving up!
Thanks, geneven, for your kind words....appreciate it and all the help here...makes these situations much more bearable than otherwise.....

sifo 2012-06-03 23:38
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
im sure this thread will help for any flash stuck in the future ;) thanks ArchiMark i wish you the best :) and of course many thanks for misterc
for the great help

./sifo

sifo 2012-06-03 23:41
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
as for those

Quote:
1. CSSU Testing

2. Backupmenu

3. EasyDebian

4. Extras-Devel Repo
i have them all from a long time ago till now and all good maybe because of playing with system files ?

./sifo

ArchiMark 2012-06-04 00:16
Re: Can't Boot Completely - Gets Stuck at Blinking White Dot Pattern
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sifo (Post 1217001)
im sure this thread will help for any flash stuck in the future ;) thanks ArchiMark i wish you the best :) and of course many thanks for misterc
for the great help

./sifo
Thanks, sifo.....

Yes, I always like to think that my bumbling around and other dopeyness has some redeeming value to the maemo community!......

:rolleyes:


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