Originally Posted by m4r0v3r

seems like a dead battery, into the flasher use the -i flag and then plug it in, does it vibrate? it is a faint light or a strong one?

Originally Posted by DS McGuire

As the title goes, my N9 is completely dead, It wont turn on I just get the LED light at the bottom right.

I have tried this: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ighlight=flash

Before I could get to the "device not working properly" screen. Now, a day later I can't get anywhere.

Can anybody help me out?

Originally Posted by robthebold

I doubt I can help you out, since I seem to be in the same situation as you, but there are a few other things I tried that might work for you even though they didn't seem to help me.

You said you followed the "Comprehensive flashing guide". Did all the steps appear successful then no vibrate and no boot, or was there an error reported in one of the steps? If your battery was totally dead, flasher should charge it before continuing.

BTW, with the phone off (after holding power button for > 8 sec.) will it appear to charge when plugged into USB port or charger? I.e., does the LED breathe (slowly turning on and off) for a while then remain on steady?

Have you tried the "Fixing MALF state" instructions? I followed them and was able to mount the N9's volumes. I did find a /var/malf file on my unit indicating too many software reboots. If you find this file on yours, you might check to see what error is reported.

Also, while you have your phone volumes mounted, you can recover some of your data/photos if you haven't already backed those up. Even if you've already done the EMMC flash, you can probably still recover the deleted photos and videos with "photorec" on Linux. Probably something similar for Windows, but I don't know. If you've already used the secure delete, this won't work.

Wishing you better luck than me.

Originally Posted by DS McGuire

When I used that mixing the MALF state guide I get this error

Code:

 WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result
in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.

WARNING: bad kernel format in vmlinuz-2.6.32.20112201-11.2-adaptation-n950-bootloader
FIASCO ERROR: vmlinuz-2.6.32.20112201-11.2-adaptation-n950-bootloader: No such file or directory

I don't know what that is.


When I tried the "Comprehensive flashing guide" I could only get as far as performing than

Code:

 flasher -i

I would normally get a screen showing "device not working properly and that would be as far as I could go because I tried

Code:

flasher -f -F main.bin

and it would say file not found.

Now, trying today I can't even get flasher to see the device, all I see is

Code:

flasher -f -F main.bin

in my terminal.

Originally Posted by robthebold

Well that's good news (sort of) for you, actually, since it sounds like you either haven't downloaded the proper files, or you aren't invoking the command in the same directory, or you haven't renamed the downloaded files the same as in the instructions. You may want to work through the Flashing Guide step-by-step, ensuring that you understand what you're doing in each step. You may want to locate some help locally to help with downloading, locating and renaming files before proceeding, since those are crucial prerequisites to the flashing procedure.