Hi, all

Long time troller, first time caller...

Youtube video.. http://bit.ly/dneT0y

in response to the n900 "no memory" bug that gave a lot of prompts I wanted take the n900 back to original state. Not so easy with a n900.

I thought I had to flash the OS, but that did not work so I read in a maemo forum about a command line tip to rm the usr folder. After typing that in and pressing "y" to the following prompts, I needed up in an infinite loop.

I have tried flashing the OS and harddrive on win, mac and linux since.

I'm #@&* bricks and the wife is going to kill me. Please help!

"I read in a maemo forum about a command line tip to rm the usr folder."

Yeah. Who needs that "usr" folder, anyway.

Please don't go around posting stuff like that, a user who doesn't know about linux (like the poster) might actually do the command.
At least include a small warning indicating you're being sarcastic.

Oh please, I can't believe that post was actually reported (not yours Mo, but Aranel's). Can we please stop bubble wrapping anything that is sharper than a golfball? The OP already said he found it on a forum, and in the very same sentence explains his N900 is now bricked.

I don't know about you, but that sounds about as good a disclaimer as any could be. And if you didn't see the sarcasm dripping all over Aranel's post, it might be time to pick up a book.

For what it's worth, his sentence is the most common form of sarcasm.

Besides making up for lost self esteem, is there any benefit to a negative attitude towards newbies?

If the person is not being lazy or plain wrong why not cut them some slack?

For median folk coming from a win/mac GUI background, the maemo file system is not intuitive.

Those conditioned my Jobs and Gates it is against the stimulus response compatibility to think there are system files in a folder that looks like a "user" or "personal" folder.

That you can even "brick" a mobile is an new concept to people like me.

To the Automatic System it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.

You can have the coolest mobile OS on the planet but if the maemo/MeeGo community can't go the last mile into helping with adaptation then It's a flash in the pan.

Those OSS communities that are changing the world are not CLI elitist but creating real value in everyday lives.

Hey everyone...how about not wasting bandwidth over silliness and trying to help the poor guy?

@ theansweris41: Post everything you've tried so far and how you tried it. Give details. Must have more info to help get you out of this mess.

/usr is roughly equivalent to C:\Program Files in Winspeak.
WTF is an 'Automatic System'?

And yes, you can brick almost any phone or anything else if you delete stuff before you know what you're doing. I doubt you'd delete C:\WINNT if you read about doing it in some forum. So some sarcasm here should be expected.

Morale: Learn first Do later.

I'm just saying, I saw someone do an rm -rf <you know the rest, it's with a / and a wildcard> even though it was VERY clear that it deleted everything in root

Not trying to be smart or anything but did you follow the instructions correctly from http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_t...rmware#Windows ?

Thanks guys.

Here is a screenshot of what I did in the windows command line.

In mac
I ended up using the 770flasher because I can't even navigate in there.

it seemed to work.
1. http://bit.ly/buGzd5
2. http://bit.ly/ajjOK5

from there the N900 starts up the regional settings. after pressing save it goes to the deskop but does the same thing as in the youtube video in the first post.

I then try the vanilla eMMC .bin
where the process seems to stall
http://bit.ly/ajjRUo

To try it in a Linux, I shouldn't use a virtual machine?

P.S. "Automatic System" is a behavioral economics term that is compared to "Reflective System". Like our inner Homer Simpson who is really in the control more then we usually give him credit for. Trending toward right brain, or Jung's unconscious. Or Freud's "subconscious" for the pervs.

I just read a cool book called Nudge on the subject that used two examples from the Simpsons and a Homer's brain x-ray.

oh, and i did hold down on "u" key.