Thread: N900 is virtually impossible to "brick" here is the chance for everyone to have input on this and put credibilty back to the N900.
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abill_uk is offline abill_uk
2010-05-28 , 05:42
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#38
Originally Posted by u2maemo View Post
I don't know the difference between N810 and N900. But I indeed bricked my N810 by doing
warning: please don't try it, if you don't know for sure.
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtdblock0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtdblock1
/dev/mtdblock0 is for bootloader
/dev/mtdblock1 is for config

Now there are nothing show on screen when do firmware flashing or firmware cold flashing by using USB.

I know there are Serial Console connector under the battery which perhaps can be used for cold flashing.
TTL level converter is needed and tools to access pad connector also needed. I have found this



I haven't try to unbricked it because I haven't bought these tools.

Under Nokia label, other pad connectors can be found perhaps for JTAG port. But no function for each pad connector can be found.

N810 don't have ROM/BootRom let user choose booting from NAND or from MMC/SD, when all code on NAND is zeroed, it will be bricked. That's all I know about this situation.
There has certainly been some clever thought out comments on this thread regarding the topic but really why bring in the jtag possibilities which is high level using specialist tools and high level code and we all know this is just not within normal programming done from this community and really is pointless to even talk about as the bricked situation i referred to was only regarding software being installed from developers on the community via the USB port OTA or wireless methods !.
When i referred to bricked mobiles on the threads asking help it was always obvious to me that it was in fact NOT a true sense of the word "bricked" and time to bring it to the forefront as a wrongly used and termed explanation of a fault brought on by self programming by whatever means.
This is also a means to give every "noob" user CONFIDENCE to play and take the worry out of killing the device altogether knowing their is a simple way to reset the N900 back to working order in any event.
Last edited by abill_uk; 2010-05-28 at 05:48.