Thread: How to flash N900??
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Bugslife is offline Bugslife
2010-02-20 , 09:45
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Originally Posted by ammadtira View Post
Please tell me how to flash N900.

I have downloaded and installed flasher 3.5 on windows XP.. I have downloaded and copied the latest firmware and copied it to the flasher directory.

I run the mobile on Flasher mode and I can see the USB icon on top right corner with Nokia written in centre of screen

When I give the command as specified in directory, it gives %m.. I dont know whts is that?? Following is the copy of commands and response from command prompt of Win Xp

D:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5>flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8.003_P
R_COMBINED_003_ARM.bin -f -R
flasher v2.5.2 (Sep 24 2009)

RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM.bin: %m

D:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5>flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8.003_P
R_COMBINED_003_ARM -f -R
flasher v2.5.2 (Sep 24 2009)

RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM: %m

D:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5>



i have the same problem when I flash with pr1.1 firmware. i always get the same %m.

Most probably the problem is your computer OS (win XP) can't read the long file name. My windows vista 32 bit is doing the same thing. When i check the firmware's filename in the directory where I stored it, the wasn't there even on the cmd.

Shorten (rename) the filename. Rename the filename RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM.bin to OS3.bin

if you can't find the filename download it again and before saving it change the name to OS3.bin OR pretend to download the file to the same dir. where you stored the previous file before you start the download it will show you the files in the directory and you should see the previous downloaded file. You can just right click and rename the file to OS3.bin (or whatever short name you want to).

On cmd type:

D:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5>Flasher-3.5.exe -F OS3.bin -f -R

You should be able to flash now.

next time you update, shorten the name. It's easier rather than typing the long name. You can rename the next update to OS4.bin or whatever you like as long as you shorten the name.
 

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