It crashes and isn't found, it never done that before.. My phone works now though. I didn't get round to flashing the eMMC though, but I'm happy till I get home.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=825929<- That's what happens.

Ok... Just so I make it clear on flashing of eMMC in the N900, please make sure that you have Nokia PC Suite installed. eMMC specifically equires the Nokia Cable Connectivity Drivers to flash it using the N900 PC Suite mode. I have done this myself.

If you are using Windows 7, and flashing through XP Mode, then make sure your XP Virtual Machine has Nokia PC Suite installed on it and when its searching for the device, click USB -> N900 PC Suite.
(This is only for eMMC. Do not forget to flash the FIASCO image without -R first before doing this step)

Dont bother about the dots hanging... Its just that your device is waiting for the eMMC blocks to flash itself. Make sure about the Nokia PC Suite being Installed.

hi all,
i'm having the same problem, i flashed my n900 as per the instructions in this post and it didnt work...
i used the following :

sudo flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f

and once it exited to terminal i entered the following:

sudo flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

BUT still the device didnt read my sim card

any advice ?

+1 here... I was having terrible problems after my new N900 got an OTA update, which led to WiFi being unavailable. My attempts to remedy that, led to a bricked N900 (in the sense that I neither had GSM or 3G nor WiFi, making the phone nearly unusable).

Today's attempt gave me back my 3G connectivity and ability to place calls.

I flashed

RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.002_PR_COMBINED_002_ARM.bin

instead of the previously used version

RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8.002_PR_COMBINED_002_ARM.bin

The reason for initially using the wrong version is that I simply was confused by the list order in the download page (the idea, that the "latest" release would be placed somewhere in the middle of the page did not occur to me, I thought it was simply a naming error, and that the "Third Maemo 5 USA variant for Nokia N900" was the most recent, even when the other list element read "latest"). Ok, logic isn't the same everywhere, and consequently I was confused.

I did the eMMC flashing each time before doing the combined, maybe this added to the poor phone's confusion? I did not boot in between, though.

Nevertheless, I am still without WiFi, will maybe give it a try tomorrow with another reflash of the eMMC. At least there is hope, after getting my 3G back, even the Wifi might return?

If somebody would be able to help with getting WiFi back, please don't hesitate.

Setup (for the moment being: Wireless distributed network, no security, which makes my hair stand on end, but I thought it might have been the routers WPA2, access control explicitly allows N900 to enter to all AP).