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tele is offline tele
2010-12-31 , 12:25
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just wanted to share my experience :P
basically instead of the flashing the kernel image to the kernel, i flashed vanilla image to the kernel
and guess what happened. lost everything in MyDocs . the phone was able to boot up, no images. just boxes (square) on desktop and boxes in menu. no writing what so ever. i managed to connect the n900 to the pc and went into the nokia drive in My Computer. and it was empty
so lesson which was learnt was that. you wont brick your phone if you flash the wrong file ... and type carefully. dont rush
now its all fine. flashed the correct files and it up and running. although ive to reinstall everything

anyone else done anything similar??
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2010-12-31 , 12:48
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1 word.. LOL!
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rNeilC is offline rNeilC
2010-12-31 , 12:55
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tele was plainly sharing his experience .. =D

it is much better to rename the files for reflashing to a more common and short term right after download... like for example vanilla emmc file=emmc.bin and fiasco/rootfs to fiasco.bin..

better accuracy and wont give you the trouble of typing the whole name with the numbers on the flasher command line.. =D
 
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2010-12-31 , 13:43
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Originally Posted by rNeilC View Post
better accuracy and wont give you the trouble of typing the whole name with the numbers on the flasher command line.. =D
That's what tab-completion is for, however you still need to complete the correct file though
 
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2011-01-01 , 04:14
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Originally Posted by tele View Post
just wanted to share my experience :P
basically instead of the flashing the kernel image to the kernel, i flashed vanilla image to the kernel

anyone else done anything similar??
Are you sure you didn't mean to say that you flashed the kernel image to the eMMC area?

I'd be inclined to run a data recovery application (like restorer 2000 or similar) to get back very probably almost everything, if not absolutely everything. The kernel is only pretty small.
 
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