Originally Posted by theking2

I'm not doing this for kicks. The N900 died on me and could not be rebooted (and my life is in there).
Anyhow here are the steps:

1) Removed battery
2) ran "flasher-3.5.exe -F RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin -f"
3) press 'u' and connect USB cable, N900 starts
4) on computer

Code:

flasher v2.5.2 (Sep 24 2009)

Image 'mmc', size 255947 kB
        Version RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
USB device found found at bus bus-0, device address \\.\libusb0-0001--0x0421-0x0105.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2204
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_MR0
Booting device into flash mode.
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.

After that nothing works anymore. Disconnect/connecting with or without 'u' pressed; flasher stays waiting.
So the USB is recognized than the N900 is rebooted by the flasher and after that the N900 cannot be found anymore and the update is not working.

Anyone?