First of all an apology if this is covered somewhere. I am currently on an overseas trip and while I have done some searching for possible solutions I haven't exhaustively done so.

My N900 started continuously rebooting (while it was charging off a car-charger during a road-trip. No explicit action such as installing or updating a program kicked this off). It starts the normal boot sequence (the 5-dot animation) but after a short while the sequence always stops on the second dot from the left (unsure if this is of significance) and the phone reboots.


I have re-flashed the OS using flasher-3.5 several times. Regardless, the phone's behaviour has not changed. I have not yet flashed the eMMC as I don't want to lose the data on that, if at all possible, hence this posting.

Is there a way to boot the kernel into a minimal rescue mode which would let me access the eMMC from a PC to backup the content?

Alternatively is there a rescue kernel or custom firmware I can flash onto it to the same effect?

So far I have not found any info on kernel boot parameters for the N900 or special rescue/recovery modes it can be booted into. I have also not found a detailed explanation of the command-line switches to the flasher tool (eg, what is 'cold flashing'?)

Any help much appreciated!

- Micha.
(V.glad now that he took another phone with him on this trip...)