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Hi, I recently purchased a n810 and can't seem to make it flash. I run the flasher-3.0 program from my Ubuntu box with the correct parameters and it sits there waiting for a device to flash/usb connection. I hold down the double-box button on the n810 and press power. At that point it turns on and sometimes for a fraction of a second it will show the USB connection icon on thed n810 before it disappears and proceeds to boot. On the Ubuntu box it never shows any progress/errors at all.
Has anyone had similar problems or suggestions on how to fix this? I might add I'm using a 3rd-party USB cable to try and flash with meant for a Motorola RAZR and some other phones with the same connector. It seems to work fine for mounting the internal flash on the n810 from my PC so I'm hoping that it's not the problem. My n810 showed up with the wrong cable so I had to buy a proper one.

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Are you running flasher-3.0 as root (eg with sudo)?
 
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Please provide the exact commands you try to run.
Also see http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware
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lbattraw, typically when I flash and try to get the device into usb mode, I have to hold the double box button up to 10 seconds to get it to hold. One good way to do that I've found is to hold the button with your left hand, and plug the power in with your right to boot the device (the device with boot slightly in order to go into power off charging mode). That way you don't risk letting your thumb slip off the button while it's initially choosing operating modes.
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UPDATE:
I had several failures trying it under Ubuntu (Intrepid) where it would start to flash and then die. I left the battery out for about 10 minutes and tried it with the Windows flasher (running XP) and it flashed perfectly! Anyway, just a reference for anyone who has a similar problem. I'm still unsure why it didn't work under Linux since all the other tablets I've owned (770, two n800's) have flashed perfectly every time. I really don't like this business of having to hold down a button at startup to get it to flash. I realize for somebody who's new to the tablet it might be confusing to restart the tablet and have it hang on bootup waiting for a flash image to be sent over but it doesn't seem to be worth the hassle for more experienced users. It just adds an extra thing to goof up when flashing...


Originally Posted by Lord Raiden View Post
lbattraw, typically when I flash and try to get the device into usb mode, I have to hold the double box button up to 10 seconds to get it to hold. One good way to do that I've found is to hold the button with your left hand, and plug the power in with your right to boot the device (the device with boot slightly in order to go into power off charging mode). That way you don't risk letting your thumb slip off the button while it's initially choosing operating modes.
Thanks for the advice! It got me a lot further than the other methods. For reference I am using the command:
./flasher-3.0 -F RX-44_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

When I tried it the way you described it actually started flashing and got to the point where it was doing the rootfs.... and stopped. I believe at that point I had just set it down gently and released the double-square button. Now things are much worse-- it won't flash and it does the reboot ten times and switch off trick. I tried it after this on a Windows box but it never shows the USB icon or starts flashing. Any other ideas?

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Larry

P.S. I tried taking the battery out and letting it sit for 10-20 minutes and managed to get to a similar point as before. It will start to flash and then dies with the messages:
./flasher-3.0 -F RX-44_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R
flasher v0.9.0 (Jan 19 2007)

SW version in image: RX-44_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_MR0
Image 'kernel', size 1536640 bytes
Version 2.6.21-200842maemo1
Image 'initfs', size 2327808 bytes
Version 0.95.22-200842maemo1w38b3
Image 'rootfs', size 125435904 bytes
Version RX-34+RX-44+RX-48_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_MR0
Image '2nd', size 8192 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0808
Version 1.1.16-200844maemo2
Image 'xloader', size 9216 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0808
Version 1.1.16-200844maemo2
Image 'secondary', size 100736 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0808
Version 1.1.16-200844maemo2
Image '2nd', size 8192 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0801, 0802, 0803, 0804, 0805, 0806, 0901, 0902
Version 1.1.16-200844maemo2
Image 'xloader', size 9216 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0801, 0802, 0803, 0804, 0805, 0806, 0901, 0902
Version 1.1.16-200844maemo2
Image 'secondary', size 100736 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0801, 0802, 0803, 0804, 0805, 0806, 0901, 0902
Version 1.1.16-200844maemo2
Suitable USB device not found, waiting
USB device found found at bus 005, device address 017
Found device RX-44, hardware revision 0805
NOLO version 1.1.16
Version of 'sw-release': RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.42-19_PR_MR0
Sending xloader image (9 kB)...
100% (9 of 9 kB, avg. 3000 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (98 kB)...
100% (98 of 98 kB, avg. 10930 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending kernel image (1500 kB)...
100% (1500 of 1500 kB, avg. 14156 kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.
Sending initfs image (2273 kB)...
16% (384 of 2273 kB, 25600 kB/s)
Write failed after 393216 bytes
usb_bulk_write: No such device

Last edited by lbattraw; 2009-08-17 at 12:58. Reason: Update on problem
 
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