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2011-04-12
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If he can not see the device on the pc then he has no chance to flash,
Unless he has totally wiped the boot sector of his device but that should not stop the device from being seen on the pc,
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2011-04-13
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Wrong and wrong.
If he nuked the kernel, which is very likely based on what he's said, it will fail too boot enough to get it into "flash drive" mode. Windows 7 may simply have found the drivers for it's default mode (flashing) and installed them the first time it connected. It could now be quietly loading the device, and without anything to map, it's not showing signs it's loaded. If it's in flash mode, there may be no visible indicator that the device is connected.
Want proof? Hook up a USB scanner. Nothing visibly happens. Windows loads the drivers, adds it to the list of available devices in device manager, and does what it needs to to alert TWAIN capable programs. But on the desktop, nothing changes, there's no indicator that anything was just plugged in. Same would happen with an N900 in flash mode.
What he needs to do is make sure his battery is charged, load the flashing tools, start the flashing program and get it to the point that it's waiting for the phone to connect. THEN connect the phone, and power it up when holding down the U key. All documented in the wiki on flashing.
Even if he were to have deleted his boot loader, you can even flash that with the factory built in rom, also documented on the wiki.
All this is easily found with a power search for flashing. If you're going to ask for help, please at least try to search for the topic. And if you're going to offer "help" and are not sure about something, educate yourself before you try to help others.
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2011-04-14
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this is why in the beggining i said he MAY have a usb fault and the more i read the more i suspect BUT i do not know why if he has tried a fully charged battery from his friends mobile why it does not turn on.
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2011-04-14
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What should be looked at is the procedure he was going through to make all this happen in the first place because IF whatever he was doing has managed to delete his bootsector to the extent he has to load a temp boot sector to get back to normal then there is a serious flaw in the procedure he was trying to implement in the beggining and should be reported and documented as a serious warning if things go wrong.
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2011-04-15
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2011-04-15
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2011-04-18
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This just goes to prove yet again that people who do NOT read the flashing instrucions
I personally disagree strongly that software should be released to the public on this forum that has the capabilities of not only wiping out boot sectors but also do damage to the OS
The N900 is NOT a device for inexperianced and should have been kept purely for training and progression by experianced programmers, no way should it have been sold to the general public
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