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2007-12-15 , 15:46
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Originally Posted by statwrangler View Post
Penguinbait and the General have often given valuable advice here. However, in this case I don't think they understand the old man's problem. He is asking about the N810. Penguinbait stated

"This does not list the N810, I do not know if it is compatible. I do not have an n810 yet, nor do I have a mac." So the old man still does not have a pointer to instructions for (macosx AND N810).

The old man knows that a new flasher 3 is required for (linux AND N810). He cannot find anything to suggest that the old flasher-2 would work for (macosx AND N810). He has probably read here that one user thought flashing had trashed his internal card including his passport. So he is concerned and still seeks information. i too have read and still cannot find the information.

The best place for this is in the obvious place in the wikis. As I have commented previously, it would be very helpful if someone with experience could edit the maemo wiki or the ITT wiki. I have left a hook for this in the new FAQ problems and solutions section of the ITT wiki.
The absence of any responses suggests that the attempt is lethal.

(I just grepped '810' on the maemo wiki page for flashing the latest software using macosx and found nothing.)

One sentence, informed by experience, added to the wiki would save all the readers of ITT a lot of needless reading in future.

If I have missed it on the wiki, please let me know.

I am still missing what instructions are needed, you download the flasher and you flash it. If you run the flasher without any args it will tell you how to use it. As for flasher , it was in the first link I gave? Did I spell out exactly what steps to do, no, I did not think hand holding was required.

At some point you need to make that first leap off the building and hope your just dreaming.

Here is an example:
./flasher.macosx -F Nokia_770_0.2005.45-8.bin -f -R

good luck, you must understand that this is a new peice of hardware and many documents and software packages have not been updated yet. The other problem is the people best able to help you do not have n810's yet so they do not have the experience to tell you anything. But I guess we were at least trying to help. If anyone feels my answers are not useful, please by all means ignore me.

I am still not exactly sure what the issue is, did he download the flasher for macos and try to flash his device? Did it not work?

The problem is he is perhaps the first person trying to do something, and he is looking for exact instructions, guess what , you need to write em, and add them to the wiki, and btw someone who has been working with computers since the beginning of unix should be used to pushing the envelope a little.

All this said perhaps I am just not understanding the major issue, and being a prick, it would not be the first time, and most certainly be the last
Last edited by penguinbait; 2007-12-15 at 16:29.