my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since I've used my N810 which has been lying around for months.

Anyway, I wanted now to turn it on, clicking on the power button I see the blue led lights on for a second followed by the Nokia logo and the message "booting from mmc2". (my system is installed on the external sd).

What happens is that the blue progress bar fills up in the nokia boot page up to the end and at that point nothing happens... nothing is loaded.

Another weird thing is that I've plugged in the charger because it's also probably out of battery, but nothing happens...

Could you please advise at whats going on?
(I've ofcourse already attempted to take out the battery and put it in again, figured it might be some kind of contacts issue).


Regards,
Liran.

Re: my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

An update - plugging the charger when the device is turned on didn't do anything though I shutdown the device (by taking out the battery cause there was no other way) and then when it's turned off I connected the charger and it charged it to full battery.

Now when I turn on the device (charger is out) it is loading the progress bar but it's still stuck at the end.... any ideas?

Regards,
Liran.

Re: my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

If you remove the external SD will it boot from internal flash?

You could always reflash it with the Nokia updater.

Frank

Re: my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

Someone suggested that maybe it's running fsck which is why it's looking like it's hanging/freezing... To test that theory I'll let it run for a couple of hours and see if it ever finishes or not.

I'll next try the internal flash boot and next on the Nokia updater and reflash it completely.

Thanks.
Any other ideas except for doing this process like I just described?


Regards,
Liran.

Re: my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

There is no process to run fsck on boot.

Is this ext2 or ext3? If its ext3 then it would fix itself on boot and reread the journal. If its ext2 you may need to boot to flash, then fsck that mmc partition

How did you setup your boot from sd? Did you use a tool or manually?

Re: my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

Thanks for the reply.

Indeed seems that you are right because I left the device on all night in that boot screen and nothing changed. I've then tried the 2nd approach of booting from the internal flash so I simply took out the SD and turned it off, it now booted successfully. I turned it off again, inserted the SD card and turned it on and it works now.

I'm not sure what to relate the problem to exactly but it definitely has something to do with the SD.

What's weird about this is that I know that I've used that program to put all the OS on the external SD drive and when I booted without the SD inside it showed me the exact same OS as I remembered it... how would that happen?


Regards,
Liran.

Re: my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

This would lead me to believe you were never booting from mmc?

Now your up and running, can you open xterm and do a "df" and paste the output here?

Again how did you install bootmenu and clone, what did you use to do this?

Additionally, if the bootmenu is not displaying and its actually just booting to whatever, you should run this, so the menu will appear on boot.

As root run in xterm

chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:mmc2
or
chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:flash

This will set the default to mmc2 or flash and display a bootmenu for you to choose.

Re: my N810 is broken, please some thoughts...
 

'df' output is at: http://pastebin.com/m6de30df3

I find it hard to believe that I was running from the internal sd though it indeed may have happened and I haven't noticed because I remember that every time I did the on-the-fly n810 upgrades it screwed up the boot and I had to manually run the command to change the boot order, so I may have, at some point, neglected to do it and since then ran from the internal SD.

I don't remember to tell you how I moved the OS from internal to external because it was such a long time ago but I remember it involved running some script that someone released on the internettabletworking (it's a pretty popular thread so I'm assuming there's only one dealing with the clone thing).

I'll try setting boot for the flash and see what changes.