Thread: Pr1.1 Has bricked my N900
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2010-01-20 , 16:44
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Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
When you hold down U and plug in the cable, does it go into USB mode (non-backlit Nokia logo + USB icon)?
No, it doesn't. The screen is always black. The yellow charging light goes on as soon as I plug in the cable. (even though it has been charged until light goes off, just before attempting flashing).
[..] What OS are you using for flashing? I couldn't get my PC to recognise the N900 using flasher on Windows XP, but using a bootable Linux flash drive, it worked fine.
I'm using a Linux laptop. Also tried a Linux desktop. The laptop is what I used when flashing my old N800.

The flash-3.5 tool is apparently waiting for an USB event to detect the N900, but it doesn't see any - and 'dmesg' output doesn't indicate that it's been plugged in at all.

I have successfully used the same laptop to access the N900 filesystem, through the same (original) N900 USB cable, before I started the failed 1.1 upgrade attempt.
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