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N900 not booting

Yesterday I updated a package (mappero?). Today I've plugged the device with USB cable to a PC, but when selecting "mass storage" mode it says that the volume is busy. Then I've open a terminal and I've run on it:

Code:

sudo reboot

After it, the system doesn't boot on my device: shows the "Nokia" word, and remains all the time with the 'dots' splash screen. If I press the power button for a few seconds it doesn't shotdown: restarts with the same result. Same result if unplug the USB cable.

What can I do without loosing my data?

Re: N900 not booting

without loosing data could be hard...
did you try to take out the battery for a few minutes?
what kind of data you dont want to loose?
if you only flash the fiasco your multimedia would stay there.

Re: N900 not booting

Taken out the battery for 1 hour. Then started again but same bad result.

Is there any way to put boot parameters as "nosplash" ?

Re: N900 not booting

Trying to backup the contents:
I've tried to turn on the phone with the USB cable already plugged with a PC, but no volume is mounted.

- "lsusb" reports a device "Nokia Mobile Phones"
- Gnome disk utility (palimpsest) lists 2 devices called "Nokia N900" (sdb, sdc) but 'no media detected' in the volume list.
- Gparted doesn't list sdb nor sdc

Re: N900 not booting

I'm trying now to turn on the device with the "u" key pressed and with USB cable connected, and then run from PC:

Code:

flasher-3.5 --boot=nosplash

Quote:

flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)

USB device found found at bus 001, device address 032.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2204
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1_PR_MR0
Using kernel command line: "nosplash"

But no success (N900 reboots and running dots (splash screen?) is shown)

Also tried:

Code:

flasher-3.5 --boot=single

with same result.

Re: N900 not booting

Now I've tried to reflash the device:

Code:

flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

Quote:

flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)

SW version in image: RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1_PR_MR0
Image 'kernel', size 1705 kB
Version 2.6.28-20101501+0m5
Image 'rootfs', size 173568 kB
Version RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1_PR_MR0

...

USB device found found at bus 001, device address 066.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2204
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1_PR_MR0
Sending xloader image (14 kB)...
100% (14 of 14 kB, avg. 2900 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (106 kB)...
100% (106 of 106 kB, avg. 13359 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending cmt-2nd image (79 kB)...
100% (79 of 79 kB, avg. 9937 kB/s)
Sending cmt-algo image (507 kB)...
100% (507 of 507 kB, avg. 18129 kB/s)
Sending cmt-mcusw image (5826 kB)...
100% (5826 of 5826 kB, avg. 21904 kB/s)
Flashing cmt-mcusw... done.
Sending kernel image (1705 kB)...
100% (1705 of 1705 kB, avg. 9472 kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.
Sending and flashing rootfs image (173568 kB)...
100% (173568 of 173568 kB, avg. 15179 kB/s)
Finishing flashing... done
CMT flashed successfully

But no luck. After reboot there is the same result. Also trying to turn off, remove battery for some minutes, and turning on again.

Hardware problem? How can I see boot messages?

Re: N900 not booting

flash the emmc too.you know the emmc is your mass storage and if you have scarx problems with that i would suggest to flash it too.
read the wiki because its a little bit more complicated then the fiasco.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware

Re: N900 not booting

I understand that if I flash the eMMC I will loose all existing data in the device. Correct?

Re: N900 not booting

yes but it looks like you dont have a option.....

Re: N900 not booting

I'm looking for backups ways:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=735395&postcount=5

But the flasher tool is still unidirectional.