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Fallingwater is offline Fallingwater
2012-08-19 , 16:48
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I bought a second-hand N900 whose previous owner turned on RD mode. I'm annoyed at the side keyboard lights flashing and staying on wasting battery power, so I want to disable it. The wiki article says this about the flasher tool:
N900 flasher

The same tool is located on N900 itself under name "flasher" (/usr/bin/flasher) and can be used for changing R&D mode, etc.
I ran it from the terminal on the N900, and it says "Suitable USB device not found, waiting.", then does nothing (yes, I did it as root). I downloaded the flasher on a Linux PC, connected the N900, tried again from there, and got the exact same result.

I read about pressing the u key to enable flashing mode, but I'm not actually trying to flash any firmware or image, I just want to disable RD mode. Besides, if I understand correctly, when the N900 is in flashing mode it doesn't actually load the system, so you couldn't use the flasher from its terminal.

Where am I going wrong?

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sixwheeledbeast is offline sixwheeledbeast
2012-08-19 , 17:27
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wiki.maemo.org/Reflash
http://wiki.maemo.org/R%26D_mode
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Fallingwater is offline Fallingwater
2012-08-19 , 17:50
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Huh. Apparently I did need to put it in flashing mode. Still not clear how one would do it from the device itself, then. Oh well.
 
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