Thread: How do I reset my N900 to factory default?
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timwatt is offline timwatt
2010-07-01 , 01:08
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Originally Posted by dchky View Post
Someone in the know please answer because the wiki is painfully (and stupidly) contradictory. Which is the CORRECT order to flash. No guessing, what is the actual answer! (I mean flash completely back to factory default settings)

EMMC then ROOTFS

or

ROOTFS then EMMC


A little further down the page from that it explains how you have to flash the EMMC
So I did EMMC then ROOTFS and yip i agree it is a little confusing.

I wanted to flash installed programs not just un-install. Mainly cpu wasn't flexible enough to manage skype calls after 1.2. and there were a few apps that wouldn't update.

The Wiki implied you probably only want to flash the EMMC if you had a pre-production device, but I can say my CPU usage is way down, better battery life than before (after installing about 90% of what I had installed before.) and while booting the little dots bounce backwards and forwards, as apposed to flashing randomly as they were doing after 1.2 upgrade. much happier now. the only extras app i have installed now is rDesctop.
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