N900 bricked while trying to reset to factory settings with maemo flasher by nube please help
 

N900 bricked while trying to reset to factory settings with maemo flasher by nube please help, i tried to flash it to factory settings and i fallowed all instructions but it would say usb device not found once i would put in the version i want to flash to , so after a few tries i gave up and decided to turn my phone back on only to find it would not go past the nokia hands and kept restarting itself.
how can i fix this?
im running a windows 7 home prem

Re: N900 bricked while trying to reset to factory settings with maemo flasher by nube please help
 

I had the exact same problem last night. I had to reflash it from Ubuntu. Neither my desktop or laptop, both with Win7 would recognize the device properly.

Follow the Linux instructions from Wiki.

Re: N900 bricked while trying to reset to factory settings with maemo flasher by nube please help
 

u seem to know what ur doing ive never used ubuntu , id appreciate it if u would take the time to guide me throgh the steps eeitehr throguh email or on the forum thanks

Re: N900 bricked while trying to reset to factory settings with maemo flasher by nube please help
 

here's a quick tutorial how to set up a Linux distro (in this case Ubuntu 10.x) as a virtual OS on your Windows OS:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox


After you have the virtual machine running, follow this wiki:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware#Linux

Re: N900 bricked while trying to reset to factory settings with maemo flasher by nube please help
 

i got ubontu to work however in the terminal when i fallow the instructions
listed here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware#Linux
i get something like no such file or directory on the first line