Hi all,

I'm new here but having spent an entire evening trying to fix an N9, I really need your help!

I received this N9 dead from the owner (it was cheap) but the screen showed the Nokia logo when plugged into power so I thought it should be relatively straight forward to unbrick. Anyway, without having seen the device on, I was unsure exactly which firmware to flash, and looking on the sim tray I found:

040-096926

L1A11135

P1-1 v3.0

This didn't seem to match the files on Navifirm so I took a guess and went with the UK 16Gb black rom (I am from the UK and this is where I acquired the unit). The device responded well to being flashed in Ubuntu using Flasher (using commands flasher -f -F main.bin). however, it would not boot after this, and stopped showing the Nokia logo anymore. After a while I thought I would try the generic black 16Gb rom, but now flasher would throw up errors , a typical example is here:

root@lubuntu:/home/lubuntu/Desktop# flasher -f -F main.bin
flasher 3.12.1 (Oct 5 2011) Harmattan
WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result
in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.

Suitable USB interface (bootloader/phonet) not found, waiting...
USB device found at bus 002, device address 021.
Device identifier: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (SN: N/A)
Found device RM-696, hardware revision 1201
NOLO version 2.3.6
Version of 'sw-release': DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_001
Sending ape-algo image (7103 kB)...
100% (7103 of 7103 kB, avg. 13351 kB/s)
Suitable USB interface (phonet) not found, waiting...
USB device found at bus 002, device address 022.
Device identifier: 004402134209083 (SN: N/A)
Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.
Ping attempt 1 (250 ms)
Server application: 1.7.2
Found product RM-696 rev. 1201
Server implements softupd protocol version 1.8
Image SW version DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3.280.04.1_PR_280
Image moslo not present
Image mmc not present
Image tar skipped
Image config skipped

Battery level 100 %, continuing.

image [state progress transfer flash speed]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[x] cert-sw [finished 100 % 1 / 1 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-2nd [finished 100 % 95 / 95 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-algo [finished 100 % 789 / 789 kB NA ]
[_] cmt-mcusw [init 33 % 2048 / 6050 kB NA ]
[x] xloader [finished 100 % 23 / 23 kB NA ]
[x] secondary [finished 100 % 94 / 94 kB NA ]
[x] kernel [finished 100 % 2714 / 2714 kB 1772 kB/s]
[_] rootfs [writing 0 % 26624 / 1170774 kB 859 kB/s]
Raw data transfer failed: No such device

image [state progress transfer flash speed]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[x] cert-sw [finished 100 % 1 / 1 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-2nd [finished 100 % 95 / 95 kB NA ]
[x] cmt-algo [finished 100 % 789 / 789 kB NA ]
[f] cmt-mcusw [init 0 % 2048 / 6050 kB NA ]
[x] xloader [finished 100 % 23 / 23 kB NA ]
[x] secondary [finished 100 % 94 / 94 kB NA ]
[x] kernel [finished 100 % 2714 / 2714 kB 1772 kB/s]
[f] rootfs [writing 0 % 26624 / 1170774 kB 859 kB/s]
Fetching error list:
ERROR: Failed to flash images

Trying su flasher -i brings up this:

Suitable USB interface (bootloader/phonet) not found, waiting...
USB device found at bus 002, device address 015.
Device identifier: 004402134209083 (SN: N/A)
Found device RM-696, hardware revision 1201
NOLO version 2.3.6
Version of 'sw-release': DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_001
Successroot@lubuntu:/home/lubuntu/Desktop#

I also tried flashing the emmc along with the main rom as listed here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82693

but to no avail. Cold boot also seems to not do anything.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm all out of ideas. Any help would be so greatly appreciated, and sorry for the long post but just wanted to make sure you knew exactly what I'd done before anyone says RTFM!

Thanks,

Mark