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Flasher finds N900 but then goes to sleep

So I found my old N900 in the attic after not using it for ~3 years and after charging the battery in another phone I find it bootlooping at the uboot menu (I try to load the system, it hangs then goes back to uboot).

I made a lubuntu x86 live cd (couldn't get myself to put 32-bit libs on my system) but when I try to flash the phone it says this:

Code:

Image 'mmc', size 255947 kB

        Version RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA

Suitable USB device not found, waiting.

USB device found found at bus 001, device address 024.

Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101

NOLO version 1.4.14

Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_MR0

Booting device into flash mode.

Suitable USB device not found, waiting.

I've tried booting rescueOS, it loads just fine, but i don't know what to do after that. Also, for some reason, it says I have to plug in a charger to keep running and then when i run chargebat it says

Code:

Fault: Battery Overvoltage Protection

and

Code:

Full: 1 Wall: 0 Voltage: 4000 NAC: 0 level: 0 %

; the voltage keeps dropping.

Re: Flasher finds N900 but then goes to sleep

seems you are not following these steps

https://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware

you dont just flash emmc only. You must flash rootfs !
also, are you using n900 flasher ? (3.5)

Re: Flasher finds N900 but then goes to sleep

Yes, I'm using flasher-3.5. I'm trying to revert back to stock (delete everything) so I'm following the emmc-remove battery-rootfs. And yes, I'm holding the 'u' key when connecting the USB but it says what I put in the OP and then goes straight to uboot

Re: Flasher finds N900 but then goes to sleep

Try to hold the u key with the keyboard NOT completely open. Use some kind of spiky tool.

Re: Flasher finds N900 but then goes to sleep

Quote:

Originally Posted by saponga (Post 1496688)

Try to hold the u key with the keyboard NOT completely open. Use some kind of spiky tool.

lol, that worked! Thanks a lot! I ended up using a nail file to hold the u key with the keyboard completely closed and I flashed the rootfs; now it boots into maemo. I'll go and flash emmc and then rootfs again to get rid of the data since I no longer need anything on the phone