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bennypr0fane	2014-01-04 , 18:12
Posts: 466 \| Thanked: 335 times \| Joined on Jan 2010 @ Vienna, Austria	#11

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast

Well I have solved my issue.
I decided to try the USB2.0 ports on the rear of my desktop and everything worked.
However, any of the regularly used USB ports on the front will only flash rootfs.

In my experience, the front usb ports of desktop pcs are often prone to flaky behavior, especially if they're part of panel with a card reader and such, so I never trust them with anything more important than simple file copying. I have the micro-usb cable always attached to one of the ports in the back.

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udaychaitanya16	2014-01-05 , 12:17
Posts: 212 \| Thanked: 66 times \| Joined on May 2010 @ India	#12

I faced the issue a year back.I think Ubuntu is not the issue here because I always does the flash with my trusty ubuntu. What you have to check is ..
whether

1.the data cable is good or not.
2.the battery is in a good state.
3.as sixwheeledbeast said , change the usb port.

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sixwheeledbeast	2014-01-05 , 15:20
Posts: 2,292 \| Thanked: 4,135 times \| Joined on Apr 2010 @ UK	#13

Originally Posted by bennypr0fane

In my experience, the front usb ports of desktop pcs are often prone to flaky behavior

This is why I tried this.
One thing I noticed was the bus and device addresses.

Code:

##Front USB 3.0
user@crash:~/maemo$ sudo flasher-3.5 -i
flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)
USB device found found at bus 006, device address 047.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2204
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_MR0

##Rear USB 2.0
user@crash:~/maemo$ sudo flasher-3.5 -i
flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)
USB device found found at bus 002, device address 017.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2204
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_MR0

IIRC on the front ones the device address changes on each emmc flash attempt on the rear this didn't happen.