Thread: Mediabox trashed my N800, won't boot
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DJames1 is offline DJames1
2008-01-07 , 16:34
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#20
Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Well, it matters in that you opened a thread blaming particularly MediaBox in its title for your trouble. I don't think it was this software alone that broke your OS, but I'm definitely interested in the circumstances under which this has happened.
N800 running OS2007 (latest version, original Nokia installation, never flashed)

Downloaded https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...92.1_armel.deb

1st attempt to install: needs Python 2.5
Installed Python 2.5 runtime from direct link in Application Manager (original version now gone of course, so can't verify exact file version)

2nd attempt to install successful.

Ran Mediabox. Worked successfully, but doesn't seem to auto-detect all the media on my N800. Playback of the default Nokia video is a bit choppy. Quit Mediabox.

Powered off N800.

Next attempt to power on: permanent boot loop.

As I said earlier, I don't mean to blame Mediabox unfairly - I understand what a difficult (and often thankless) job it is trying to develop and debug software like this - but it was most likely the action of installing and running Mediabox (and/or Python 2.5, which I didn't need before Mediabox) that trashed things somehow.
Last edited by DJames1; 2008-01-07 at 16:45.
 

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