Thread: [SOLVED]How to flash N900 when hardware key (“U”) does not work?
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2012-11-14 , 16:48
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When flashing from a Linux PC, my method to flash is to remove the battery, run flasher command replace battery, and insert usb cable.

From the wiki

Note: You may not need to hold the U key - it seems to automatically flash if the flasher is ready at boot time.
Reading other parts of the wiki, it appears that pressing U is important when flashing from a Windows setup to enable drivers to be installed. This is genuinely not the case from an Ubuntu Linux setup when I have flashed my device in the past. In fact I need to do a reflash over the next couple of days, so I'll try it to confirm.
 

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