please help can't get my n900 to boot. when i open it, my phone gets stuck at nokia logo screen together with the white light then it shuts down. this happened after i restarted it to boot nitroid. i have multiboot installed. i try to reflash but can't get it to recovery mode even when holding the "u" button

is there a way to recover my files before i try to reflash it? i really need those files for my work

Bumping...
Help, please?
Best wishes.

RescueOS, that can be used to load in ram and might get your files off => http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=75369


prior to trying I suggest to read all documentation very carefully:
http://206.253.166.96/N900/rescueOS/documentation.txt

Once in RescueOS, I think you need to cd to /RescueOS/
and issue /rescueOS/mass-storage-enable.sh

I never used RescueOS myself yet, so I can't help you on that matter but don't be afraid to post here your problems, if you run into any. Good luck

thanks mr_pingu! ill try this. you mean ill flash the rescueos on the phone?

it's quite complicated cause i need to use a virtual machine on it with linux. but it's doable thank you man i thought I'd lost my job all my projects are saved in my phone. and i so freakin love this phone i'm also using it for my presentations(tv out)

i need help on installing a virtual machine with linux on my windows xp

Well you use the flasher to load RescueOS in RAM, you don't actually flash anything



I would say go for the virtual SDK image, its pre-made and ready for direct usage however I can't find it with current repo-mess/migration. thedead1440, or anyone can help him out with that one?

Also you could use instead of a virtual machine a linuxlivecd (ubuntu) burn it on a usb or CD (use google for that) and boot from usb/CD: Download the flasher .deb -> Install -> Load RescueOS

A tip: Use the sdcard for really valuable data, much more easy to retrieve after device failure. Also if your project data is on MyDocs partition you could reflash rootfs only(so NO eMMC flash (vanilla)), this will keep MyDocs intact.

mr_pingu,

The SDK VM? Downloads at http://skeiron.org/tablets-dev/maemo-dev-env-downloads/

I think this is the VM image...

Yep, I know it was somewhere on skeiron but couldn't find it as it isn't listed from here: http://skeiron.org/tablets-dev/

Its an exact replica of the original tablets-dev so blame Nokia

From the main page you can click on Maemo 5->Command line flasher binaries are available here

or

From the main page click on "Maemo 4.1.2 Diablo kernel patch and new kernel image for USB Networking on Windows, ver 0.4"


Strange navigation but not skeiron's making

it won't go to rd mode even if i hold down "u" button before i plug it on th usb port. any suggestions guys? i've had problem doing this before when i reflashed it.. tried several times before i had success..

is it true that if the flasher is used in linux i dont have to press the "u" key to flash?