N800 here, same problem.

And what would be the difference? Eventually, you will have to upgrade and the problem will be there anyway.

Technically no. Quite a few people choose not to update. Quite a few are running chinook. Nobody holds a gun to your head and says "update or die".
And the problem wouldn't still be there. My point was, if there is a bug in the update, you will find out by reading what other people have had to say. And they can fix it, and you can update say in a week or two after everything has calmed down.
I haven't updated because I wanted to see if there was a problem with the update. And obviously there is. I do the same thing with my windows machine. I wait to see if there are any issues that might come up with the update then I choose to do it.

Tapping the "More new email" notification now launches Modest.

My main point in starting this thread was to ask how to go about fixing this kind of thing, especially since it is the second time this has happened to me and I'm tired of rebuilding my NIT.

I am a person that has been running Debian "Unstable" on his desktop PC for many years and updates on it sometimes go bad too. The difference is that I have always been able to go in and fix it (ususally by just adding a few extra flags to the package manager commands). I would love to come up with a proceedure for doing the same with the NIT so I won't be so terrified everytime I do an update.

Is there some kind of better boot loader where I have the option to bail out of the normal boot procedure when it fails? How do I fix my NIT now or is it a doorstop?

Oh and as far as the upgrade command, it was the 33mb "Feature upgrade" that I just told the application manager to install. The command I used to attempt to re-flash the NIT, which was exactly what I used last time with exactly the same files and it worked was:

./flash -r RX=44_DIABLO_4.2008-23-14_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

It is possible that I flashed it from a different Linux last time however. My Desktop dual-boots into either Slackware or Debian and I'm unsure which one I used. I tried it from Debian this time, but then I also tried it from Slack with exactly the same result. Also both of these Linux installs have had many updates too over that time but did appear to be doing USB related things just fine.

My desktop also has W2k on it (I lied about "dual-boot", it actually "triple-boots") so I can try the Windows flasher too, but I suspect it would have the same result, any comments?

Just Re-Flashed and it's fine now.

Re-installing the programs only took me about half an hour, so it wasn't so painful.

@wartstew

I was having the same problem that flashing didn't work. However, it turned out that I was using the wrong command, and from what I can tell, you are too. The command should be:

./flash -F RX=44_DIABLO_4.2008-23-14_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

After I used that, it flashed fine. Hope that works for you.

You were right! Now where did I find those instructions again? I guess I need to hunt them down and see if they can be changed.

So now for part II, trying to come up with a system by which I can fix non-booting problems without having to do a full re-flash which is a real pain to re-install and configure all those apps!

Hi I have just experienced the same problem you were having. My Nokia N810 just reboots and reboots after upgrading. I am not familiar with these thing and I hope you could help me by sending an instructions on how to reflash my Nokia.

Where do I start.

Thanks in advance.

From the maemo.org Wiki: Updating the tablet firmware