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Changing Themes and Rebooting Can Brick Youre N900





Changing themes to new buggy themes will brick youre device




This was the reason for me having to flash my N900 for the 1st time...

oh, and the 2nd time!!




But I have found that phone may be recoverable from this!

If it is only stuck while booting:
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Go here and try this! http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Flash
I am yet to try this, so cannot say myself if it works
so be careful!!

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I wish people would stop using the word "brick" when they really mean "cause you to reflash".
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thanks for the heads up!

ps - anyone install the "extra decoders support"...i did but then my device was lagging a lot so i uninstalled it. plus i couldnt see my media - hmmm, perhaps i didnt restart?? is that working well with you guys?
 
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Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
I wish people would stop using the word "brick" when they really mean "cause you to reflash".

its quicker *to write* and a well known term

plus i thought mine was bricked when it happened the 1st time..
 

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Originally Posted by HRZ View Post
thanks for the heads up!

ps - anyone install the "extra decoders support"...i did but then my device was lagging a lot so i uninstalled it. plus i couldnt see my media - hmmm, perhaps i didnt restart?? is that working well with you guys?

ive had it installed but no idea if it added extra media support etc..

no real noticable lagging for me..
 

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Do you have the output from dmesg before you reflashed? Which themes do you feel were the problem. How did you install them? Had you installed any third party apps? Were any from the testing or devel repos?
 
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Originally Posted by dick-richardson View Post
Do you have the output from dmesg before you reflashed? Which themes do you feel were the problem. How did you install them? Had you installed any third party apps? Were any from the testing or devel repos?

no idea wat dmesg is

themes i was trying: marina, matrix, other themes made with theme maker and some N800 ones

and apps from all repos i think

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this is why I'm trying to get people to stop posting themes that are not in proper packages.
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this is why I'm trying to get people to stop posting themes that are not in proper packages.
half of them were in deb
 
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Originally Posted by f2thak View Post
half of them were in deb
I still wouldn't install them in deb format right now since Theme Maker isn't working right. I would only get them from extras since those have all be repackaged after theme maker did its thing.
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