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2009-08-28
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Originally Posted by Kryptos_log
If flashing corrected it, it's not a hardware problem. It's an issue with some piece of software you installed.
I just can't understand why Nokia releases the hardware with such a bug!
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2009-09-02
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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden
Is there a way then to reinstall the video drivers? Is there an apt-get command or a metapackage maybe that I could purge and reinstall?
Oh no! We're creating a generation of flashers!
J/K.
Yeah, sometimes the magic solution in some cases is just to reflash. Likely what happened is that your video driver got corrupted. It happens sometimes. There's no real explanation why, but it happens.
Unfortunately I don't know much about the OS structure of Maemo and what's good for what.
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2009-09-28
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I looked into this a little bit with apt-get and managed to solve the problem without having to re-flash the n810.
Here are the commands I ran to do this:
The last command will ask you for confirmation and then re-flash your kernel without wiping any of your data, applications or settings. Neat! 
Disclaimer: Even though this worked for me I can't guarantee it will work for you. Do this at your own risk and read some documentation before doing anything.
Note: If you didn't install android you probably don't need to run the first command. It won't do any harm to run it though so you can run all commands anyway just in case.
Last edited by sisto; 2009-09-28 at 04:37.
Here are the commands I ran to do this:
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sudo apt-get remove android-installer sudo apt-get remove kernel-diablo-flasher sudo apt-get install kernel-diablo-flasher flash-and-reboot
Disclaimer: Even though this worked for me I can't guarantee it will work for you. Do this at your own risk and read some documentation before doing anything.
Note: If you didn't install android you probably don't need to run the first command. It won't do any harm to run it though so you can run all commands anyway just in case.
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Yeah, sometimes the magic solution in some cases is just to reflash. Likely what happened is that your video driver got corrupted. It happens sometimes. There's no real explanation why, but it happens.
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Last edited by Lord Raiden; 2009-08-28 at 15:49.