Thread: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-02-05 , 07:58
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Originally Posted by An9 View Post
I own computer for about 30.year now sens the lovely first Amiga 1000 i was able to have it, and i know about operation systems how they function and when the don't, but you mr.Joerg_rw, you don't even use winXP, and you don't even know what i do with PC's, and if you don't install correct drivers, you won't be able to start flashing the phone, but you are just talking... and you have not even try it for yourself!
Dear An9; There are different ways to flash the device, and some flashing operations take longer than other.

If you "clean-flash" the device, flashing both device firmware and emmc, it will take about 10 minutes. An example of this type of flashing is the following command:
Code:
sudo flasher -f -F DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_LEGACY_001-OEM1-958_ARM.bin -F 29FAD658_DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.13-7.NORTHERNEUROPE_EMMC_NORTHERNEUROPE.bin -R
If you flash just a new kernel to the device, it will be lot quicker, taking about 10 seconds. An example of this type of flashing is the following command:
Code:
sudo flasher -a DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_LEGACY_001-OEM1-958_ARM.bin -k zImage-2.6.32.54-dfl61-20121301 --flash-only=kernel -f -R
The flashing operation is dependent only on the type of flashing performed, and the bottleneck here is not the speed of the host computer but the flashing algorithm running on the device, how fast it can erase and reprogram the flash memory.

Consider the amount of data transferred in the process, when device is clean-flashed it will need to transfer and flash about 2.8GB of data, when flashing only kernel it will need to transfer and flash about 2.8MB of data.

When you "clean-flash" the device you actually clean it as new, hence you will propably feel that it is "fresh" and "snappy". I belive that is the way you did when you flashed the device long way.

It is no sense here to flame joerg_rw here, as this has nothing at all to do with your host computer, it does not matter what OS you run there or what drivers you have installed.
 

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