OS X Flasher [Archive] - maemo.org

Jaxxe

06-30-2006, 11:40 PM

Has anyone had success flashing their 770 with the OS X flasher utilities (either CMD line or GUI flasher)? I get this error message either way:

Invalid FIASCO subblock count (2)

This is the file I've downloaded several times: SU-18_2006SE_1.2006.26-8_PR_F5_MR0_ARM.bin

Clocks in just over 64MB.

Thanks!

waddell

07-01-2006, 01:48 AM

I don't believe that a maemo 2006 compatible flasher for mac osx has been released yet. The release notes that came with the BETA version of the new os were explicit about the fact that the old flashers will not work.

There is a new flasher for linux and one for windows. Perhaps a mac osx version will become available before the "official release" of the new OS?

DaveC

07-01-2006, 03:03 AM

Yup, same error on my system under OS X 10.4.7

Guess we'll have to wait for a new OS X flasher utility before we can update.

Sigh,

Dave

aflegg

07-01-2006, 04:15 AM

The previous flasher (which I use in my GUI wrapper (http://www.bleb.org/software/770/#flasher)) was available here:

http://maemo.org/downloads/d3.php

The flasher.macosx which is currently there is identical to the previous version. I've asked Nokia to provide a new one (http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/2006-July/001479.html).

Cheers,

Andrew

Jaxxe

07-01-2006, 05:10 AM

Thanks Andrew. Now it's just a waiting game, hopefully a short one at best.

Cheers,
Cornelius

Scurzuzu

07-01-2006, 10:35 AM

I'm in the same boat. Well, a similar boat, only mine has holes in it and is sinking. I tried using the old flasher and got the same error message described in post #1. Then I downloaded the Windows flasher and tried upgrading using Windows, only my XP machine wouldn't even recognize the 770.

So I gave up and decided to live with Beta for now, but out of curiosity I went to tableteer.nokia.com on my 770 and tried to download a new theme. I realize now that maybe I should have left well enough alone. The tablet hung up on "installing" the Lila theme for a good five minutes, and I eventually pulled the battery out to reset it.

THEN I went back to tableteer.nokia.com (out of sheer idiocy) and tried to download Maemo Blocks, and that's when my 770 froze and went into a permanent rebooting mode.

So... is it safe to assume that the only way I can fix this now is by reflashing via Linux? I've been lurking on the ITT forums for a while now, and that's the only thing I've seen that might remedy my problem.

And if so, is it possible to emulate Linux on OS X? I've installed Fink, but Fink's "gui" interface is a not-very-funny punchline--I have no idea how to use it, and the help manual is written for experienced Linuxers.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm currently looking around for neighbors/friends who have Linux so I can try on a "real" machine, but in the meantime, my 770 is dead to me.

(Note to self: read release notes from now on.)

andras

07-01-2006, 05:37 PM

Scurzuzu-

I haven't tested using the flasher-2.0 on Ubuntu on a mac laptop, but I do use the Ubuntu live CD on a windows machine to do all the flashing of my 770 with flasher-2.0 without any issues. You can download an iso of the PPC or Intel Ubuntu live cd from http://www.ubuntu.com/download and give that a try.

I generally use a small USB Thumbdrive to store a copy of flasher-2.0 and the images that I may want to flash onto my 770, and then copy them off the USB drive to the my home directory under Ubuntu, go into a terminal session, give flasher-2.0 execute permissions (chmod +x flasher-2.0) and then follow the rest of the flasher instructions.

Good luck, and let us know if the PPC Ubuntu works with flasher-2.0 (I haven't seen that answered anywhere yet).

Andras

Scurzuzu

07-01-2006, 09:24 PM

Thanks for the advice on Ubuntu. I downloaded the LiveCD for Ubuntu, burned a disc image of the iso, and presto! Ubuntu on my iBook! Very impressive.

But flasher-2.0 doesn't seem to work with it. I get the following error message:

cannot execute binary file

I also tried flasher.linux_ppc and got the same error message that's already been reported with Mac OS X's flasher:

Invalid FIASCO subblock count(2)

So as soon as I have access to a WindowsXP box, I'm going to try the Ubuntu LiveCD on that. I'm at least optimistic now (last night I was seriously considering putting the 770 on Ebay and washing my hands of it).

I can't believe how cool Ubuntu is, by the way. If I didn't love OS X I'd be installing it on my iBook tonight. Maybe some day I'll feel brave enough to set up a dual-boot arrangement. Thanks for the tips!

neps

07-01-2006, 10:35 PM

flasher-2.0 495344 flasher utility (Linux on Intel x86) utility for the Nokia 770 and for IT 2006 SE

wont run on a PPC mac, only the new mac intels most likely.

Scurzuzu

07-02-2006, 12:14 AM

It worked (on my Windows box)!

I used an Ubuntu LiveCD (I recorded the .iso to disc using ISO Recorder (http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm)) and restarted XP, Ubuntu started up, I opened the terminal and followed the standard instructions from there. My 770 is back in action, and now using the 2006 OS.

Thanks again for your advice, Andras.

(I realize this still doesn't answer the first post's question; my guess is that as of 1 July 2006, there is simply no way to upgrade using Mac OS X.)

neps

07-02-2006, 07:37 AM

Why would you run Ubuntu on a Windows XP machine, and not the Windows XP installer that Nokia provides? Seems like more effort than needed?

anidel

07-02-2006, 11:53 AM

Why would you run Ubuntu on a Windows XP machine, and not the Windows XP installer that Nokia provides? Seems like more effort than needed?

may be he doesn't want to install the .NET framework.
Like me.. I'm stuck between two machines (my Mac and my brother's PC running XP) and I can't upgrade my Nokia 770!!!
I can't install the .NET framework (as I can't reboot my brother's machine) and I can't use my Mac to flash...
Unbelievable..

I can't even run Linux on my Mac as the Linux version of the flasher has been compiled on a X86 and my Mac is a PPC.
:( :mad:

Scurzuzu

07-02-2006, 11:53 AM

Why would you run Ubuntu on a Windows XP machine, and not the Windows XP installer that Nokia provides? Seems like more effort than needed?

In my situation, I had somehow bricked my 770. When I first bought my 770 in April, I had to flash it with the most recent update, and I used XP. For the 2006 beta, I successfully used the Mac OS X flasher. But when I tried flashing the new 2006 OS two days ago, I ignored the release notes and tried both XP and OS X flashers and ended up with a tablet that XP wouldn't recognize at all, and that OS X said had an unusable USB board (or something like that).

So, my only hope at that point was to find a way to install Linux on one of my machines so I could try flashing it that way.

Running Ubuntu from a LiveCD is a little elaborate, I'll agree, but in my case it was my only hope for restoring my 770.

Jaxxe

07-03-2006, 01:38 PM

Yep... been a few days now... very disappointed that I cannot flash my 770 with the new update. Sure, I was able to flash the beta... I almost went out after work today and bought the WillCom Zero3 (I'm in Japan) running Windows Mobile 5.0. Sure, it runs Windows Mobile, but... Very conflicting thoughts here. We'll see how long it takes to get a flasher out. Nokia must realize that a fair number of their audience may not be Windows users... or am I wrong?! I wonder how many Linux and OS X users are out there?

aflegg

07-04-2006, 09:27 AM

I've finally got around to raising a bug:

https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=669

Please feel free to vote on it.

andymulhearn

07-04-2006, 09:50 AM

Just been released apparently http://maemo.org/downloads/d3.php?f=flasher-2.0.macosx

aflegg

07-04-2006, 09:54 AM

Indeed. I'm updating the GUI now.

aflegg

07-04-2006, 10:34 AM

I've now updated 770Flasher.app (http://bleb.org/software/770/#flasher), please let me know if you have any problems.

Cheers,

Andrew

omegaone37

07-04-2006, 10:58 AM

Andrew... are you in any way related to God? Thanks for your efforts and great programming skills. I just finished flashing my 770 via the Mac Flasher and your GUI. It worked flawlessly. Its good to know that there are concerned folks in our little community.

Thanks again for your dedication...

Omega
omegaone37@mac.com

omegaone37

07-04-2006, 11:15 AM

Just finished doing a backup from the card... and "everything" restored completely. Background image, color theme, contacts, presence, the whole enchilada!

Omega
omegaone37@mac.com

anidel

07-04-2006, 12:00 PM

Two of them now ?
What's the difference ?

aflegg

07-04-2006, 12:19 PM

Two of them what?

Flashers? The difference is mine (http://bleb.org/software/770/#flasher) is just a GUI for reflashing the OS, wrapping up the flasher.macosx if you don't want to use the command line.

For example, you can just drag the .bin file onto the 770Flasher icon and follow the prompts to reflash.

At some point I hope to redo it as a Java/SWT/full-blown Mac app, but at the moment it's a combination of CocoaDialog, Platypus and Perl.

HTH,

Andrew

Jaxxe

07-05-2006, 07:22 AM

Yep... nothing for flashing in OS X yet. Regrettable, but oh well. :rolleyes:

aflegg

07-05-2006, 07:34 AM

Eh? GUI for OS X flashing is here:

http://www.bleb.org/software/770/#flasher

I'm afraid you've lost me...

Manu

07-05-2006, 08:48 AM

Thanks for your great work Aflegg. Worked great !

Manu

gadget1974

07-07-2006, 01:12 PM

Thank you Aflegg - you are a hero :)

anidel

07-07-2006, 03:42 PM

well, when I wrote my message there were two executables for Mac OS X (actually three, I mean two of version 2.0). There were a slight differences in size.
Don't remember if I downloaded both of them, I'll check later and let you know.

Now there's only one ver. 2.0

--
anidel

ini_ps

07-09-2006, 08:33 AM

I get this error when trying to upgrade to OS2006

Suitable USB device not found, waiting
Error claiming USB interface: No such file or directory
SW version in image: SU-18_2006SE_1.2006.26-8_PR_MR0
Image '2nd', size 8704 bytes
Image 'secondary', size 87040 bytes
Image 'xloader', size 13824 bytes
Image 'initfs', size 1890304 bytes
Image 'kernel', size 1266560 bytes
Image 'rootfs', size 60030976 bytes
USB device found found at bus 002, device address 004-0421-0105-02-00

Anyone else got the same error?

Thanks in advance

fredly

07-09-2006, 11:55 AM

ini_ps

07-09-2006, 12:30 PM

Thank you for the answer.

Then i'll try out the linux flasher. Hope it works (I've been using linux for a very short time...)

ini_ps

07-12-2006, 04:43 PM

I've finally succeeded to flash the OS2006 image!!

Is it possible to add in the HOWTO FlashLatestNokiaImageWithLinux file that you have to run the chmod +x flasher-2.0 command?

I mean... It would be good for newbies like me

aflegg

07-13-2006, 12:22 PM

Feel free: that's the point of the wiki!

Lord Bodak

07-18-2006, 10:53 PM

aflegg

07-19-2006, 12:53 PM

Error claiming USB interface: No such file or directory

I've not seen that when I've flashed, and as I didn't write the bit which does the flashing, it's difficult for me to do anything about it.

Some questions, though:

The 770's connected directly to a USB port on the Mac, not through a hub or anything? (It should be connected directly)
The 770 hasn't booted completely and the MMC card mounted on the Mac? (It should be sat with a screen showing nothing but the USB icon IIRC)
What version of Mac OS X do you have? (I'd say it should be 10.3 or above, but haven't tested on anything below 10.3)
You've got a PPC Mac, not an Intel one? (flasher-2.0.macosx is a PPC binary, not sure how well it'll work under Rosetta)
What happens if you run it as root?

Any help available will be solely dependent on the amount of information you give, saying "I get this error" is useful, admittedly - but what's the 770 doing? what's the Mac doing? what's the Mac running? etc. etc. are all pertinent questions.

Cheers,

Andrew

Lord Bodak

07-19-2006, 01:09 PM

I've not seen that when I've flashed, and as I didn't write the bit which does the flashing, it's difficult for me to do anything about it.

Some questions, though:

The 770's connected directly to a USB port on the Mac, not through a hub or anything? (It should be connected directly)
The 770 hasn't booted completely and the MMC card mounted on the Mac? (It should be sat with a screen showing nothing but the USB icon IIRC)
What version of Mac OS X do you have? (I'd say it should be 10.3 or above, but haven't tested on anything below 10.3)
You've got a PPC Mac, not an Intel one? (flasher-2.0.macosx is a PPC binary, not sure how well it'll work under Rosetta)
What happens if you run it as root?

Any help available will be solely dependent on the amount of information you give, saying "I get this error" is useful, admittedly - but what's the 770 doing? what's the Mac doing? what's the Mac running? etc. etc. are all pertinent questions.

770 was completely off, plugged directly into a USB port. OS X version is 10.3.9.

The 770 sits there and does nothing (with the Nokia logo on the screen and the USB icon in the top right corner) when I turn it on and get the error-- the error doesn't occur until I turn the 770 on. Until then, I just have the "Suitable USB device not found..." message.

I've tried running as root and as my user. But the biggest piece of information is that the old flasher and 2005 images worked fine. I've flashed quite a few times with it, including an upgrade to the final 2005 image just last night (before I downloaded the 2006 image, because I was being dumb).

ini_ps

07-19-2006, 01:27 PM

The 770's connected directly to a USB port on the Mac, not through a hub or anything? (It should be connected directly)
The 770 hasn't booted completely and the MMC card mounted on the Mac? (It should be sat with a screen showing nothing but the USB icon IIRC)
What version of Mac OS X do you have? (I'd say it should be 10.3 or above, but haven't tested on anything below 10.3)
You've got a PPC Mac, not an Intel one? (flasher-2.0.macosx is a PPC binary, not sure how well it'll work under Rosetta)
What happens if you run it as root?

Andrew

I'm also using 10.3.9, the rest is as you name it.

Lord Bodak , I installed it using Ubuntu. Maybe you can do it whith a Live CD, I think there was something about it in this or in another thread.

Odin

07-19-2006, 02:16 PM

Same error here. Any ideas on what might be causing this? I never had any problem flashing 2005 images with the old flasher. Very disappointed right now b/c I have no other machine to use to flash my 770.

I had the same problem, third try it worked. Follow this:

1) Good connection to Mac, direct to USB port (do not use keyboard or hub) with original Nokia cable.

2) All apps shutdown except for terminal, screen saver/sleep shut off.

3) Card removed from 770 (this is a gotcha!).

The above may just be ritual, but computers are magic, aren't they?

Lord Bodak

07-19-2006, 04:46 PM

I had the same problem, third try it worked. Follow this:

1) Good connection to Mac, direct to USB port (do not use keyboard or hub) with original Nokia cable.

2) All apps shutdown except for terminal, screen saver/sleep shut off.

3) Card removed from 770 (this is a gotcha!).

The above may just be ritual, but computers are magic, aren't they?

Tried all of that, still no luck. As an experiment, I tried flashing a 2005 image using the old flasher, and it worked, first try. Tried 2006 and flasher 2.0 again-- same error.

From those symptoms, it sure seems like there's some sort of bug in the new flasher.

Odin

07-19-2006, 06:53 PM

Tried all of that, still no luck. As an experiment, I tried flashing a 2005 image using the old flasher, and it worked, first try. Tried 2006 and flasher 2.0 again-- same error.

From those symptoms, it sure seems like there's some sort of bug in the new flasher.

Well, I guess you have probably downloaded again. I used 10.4.7 and there are differences from 10.3.9. We need to ask if anyone was successful with other than 4. That would certainly explain why the earlier one still works--who knows what Nokia is using to develop the Mac apps.

Also, if you are using a Core Duo Mac (Intel), then Rosetta may not be able to handle this.

Lord Bodak

07-20-2006, 05:40 PM

I did try downloading again-- no change. It's a PPC Mac, so that's not the problem.

aflegg

07-21-2006, 04:13 AM

What other apps do you have running/installed on the Mac? I'd suggest raising a bug report on http://bugs.maemo.org/ , however the Mac OS flasher isn't officially supported so it may take a while to fix.

Lord Bodak

07-21-2006, 04:28 PM

Nothing else running at the time, and all other USB devices unplugged.

I submitted a bug here (https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=712).

Keldar

08-01-2006, 12:52 PM

I'm having the same problem under dapper, I've tried memory card in and out, system resets, usb bugfix on the maemo wiki (http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Flasher_tool_usage?highlight=%28flasher%29)

Keldar

08-02-2006, 04:50 PM

I just ran the update in Slax with no problems, can be run from the live cd if you have a hard drive to usb key with the flasher and image

tten

04-08-2007, 01:28 PM

Nothing else running at the time, and all other USB devices unplugged.

I submitted a bug here (https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=712).
I tried using flasher-2 with a G4 running OS 10.3.9 and then a G5 running 10.4.9 . I tried several variants of the above tricks to load the ...49-2 update to OS 2006 for Nokia 770. I consistently got the error "Error claiming USB interface..." immediately after the flasher acknowledged the USB connection to the 770. With the other mac running OS 10.4.9 I ran the flasher via the command: sudo ./flasher-2... -F filename.bin -f -R. It worked with no problem. The "Error claiming..." message was replaced by a message acknowledging connection: "Found device SU-18, hardware revision 1602
NOLO version 0.9.14" Someone else in this forum tried a number of different macs and found some that worked and some that didn't. Theory: flasher-2 assumes a mac with USB-2. if this is true, it should be indicated.