I think there is a couple of different issues going on. I have now just toasted my second N800. Just as the first one and as this title states "boots 3 seconds and dies"

I compiled the kernel and everything went fine, used the linux flasher-3.0 and flashed the kernel, and it would not boot. OK, no problem, used the flasher and unacked the original kernel image from Nokia image, flashed the original kernel back. Booted up and died. WTF, ok I will reflash the whole thing, used the flasher-3.0 and it started to flash, xloader ok, initfs ok, kernel wrote 256 and hung. After I was sure it was not comming back, I unplugged it and killed the process, it took a few but finally died. I tried again same thing but hangs at 512 written. Hearts racing, danm it. OK, Try in windows, flashes completely, thank goodness. Oh wait, still wont boot. Crap! 21 days will be tomorrow morning, we'll see how happy COMPUSA will be to replace the second one.


I tried all kinds of various things after the above to bring it back. I started having problems where I could not even turn it on. I held home plugged in the usb and put in the power cord and was able to reflash again. This brought it back to be able to power on again, but still no boot, reflash linux, reflash windows, reflash, kernel, initfs, rootfs manually. I think there is an issue where something is writing to the wrong place on flash memory. Not really sure though. I

Is there a way to unpack the entire image, mine always dies after unpacking kernel, rootfs, initfs, 2nd image dies? Is this what is needed for cold flash, would cold flash possibly fix it, i dont know. POOOOP!!!!


ANY BRAINIACS GOT ANYTHING TO TRY.