Thread: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
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bhapca is offline bhapca
2013-12-29 , 17:53
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#1031
Originally Posted by rainisto View Post
Well 1st of all, you should never ever user --flash-only=mmc, why are you flashing with 2 seperate commands? Right way to do full flash is to use just one command.

flasher -f -F main.bin -F emmc.bin -R

If you get those aegis security errors even after that command, then your RAM chip is having hardware errors, and you can say goodbye to that device.
rainisto, thank you for your reply.

Unless I'm missing something, I believe the 2-step flashing, using that --flash-only=mmc option is shown as the "Comprehensive reset" method in the original post of this thread - which is supposed to be the authoritative guide for flashing. Given the random errors I've been getting while flashing, I think splitting them in 2 gives them a better chance to succeed individually.

I'm pretty sure I tried the usage you suggested above, with the same end result.

Eventually I managed to flash it using Nokia Software Updater, after making sure I closed the Nokia Suite (which I believe was trying to use the same USB port, causing troubles). But although the phone boots I'm getting frequent freezes and spontaneous reboots. You may be right about some hardware failures. Either that or Maemo took a turn for the worse from the days of Nokia 770, which was the last time I've used it.

No wonder Elop jumped off the burning platform. Maybe he had a similar experience. Brand new device. Makes for a nice paperweight with a clock.