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GeneralAntilles
2007-02-04, 17:05
I was going to flash my N800 (release date purchase, woo!) to the latest release. So, I went over to find the latest flasher utility here (http://maemo.org/downloads/d3.php) and, lo and behold, there's no flasher utility for the N800 and Mac OS X. I'm figuring that the 2.0 flasher will work, but I don't want to risk bricking my device. Have any braver souls than I had any experience flashing their N800s on OS X?

TripleNickle
2007-02-04, 19:21
I would love to know too!

andymulhearn
2007-02-04, 20:03
As far as I know the flasher doesn't work on OSX and you can't use flasher 2 either so we're a bit stuck. I happen to have a Windows box but not having an OSX flasher is a bit of a pain.

NetGuy2
2007-02-05, 22:15
I am hoping to have such tool for my Mac!!

atmasphere
2007-02-05, 22:22
I've successfully flashed my N800 to the latest via Mac OSX using the 770 Flasher app -- http://www.bleb.org/software/770/

Works great!

rofltosh
2007-02-08, 01:48
I tried that last night... didn't work. :(

How'd you do it?

atmasphere
2007-02-08, 01:49
I definitely did not do anything special...

Make sure you remove your memory cards and disconnect from power with a good solid charge.

Zolt
2007-02-12, 02:03
I just successfully flashed my n800 using my PowerBook G4. Initially the 770 loader didn't see my USB port. I also had a similar problem with my PC. It finally worked when I plugged into the USB 2.0 port.

atmasphere
2007-02-12, 02:21
Yeah - I've got the PBook as well ... guess that USB 1 port won't help us much anymore. ;)

jeffmings
2007-02-12, 03:27
Flasher worked perfectly for me: G4 PB, OSX 10.4.7, N800.

anidel
2007-02-12, 09:08
Cool, that's great news!!
I was not aware of it working, and I had to go to my brother's house to flash my N800 with XP!!!
( I tried to install Canola, but something got corrupted and apps were crashing like crazy ).

Thanks for sharing, folks.

core
2007-03-25, 22:22
One question remains unanswered. What is the actual process of "flashing" the N800? I got the cable, I got the software, but its name ends with .macos . No application will open it, and I can not double click it to open.

How does the process work? Do I need to launch the console? The disk doesn't show up on my Mac OS desktop.

Bear with me, I am no Linux geek. The moment I bought the N800, I thought it was a consumer device. No one told me you need to know such tedious processes like flashing a device if something goes wrong. Worst of it all, Nokia doesn't have any official support for this problem either.

SeRi@lDiE
2007-03-25, 22:27
One question remains unanswered. What is the actual process of "flashing" the N800? I got the cable, I got the software, but its name ends with .macos . No application will open it, and I can not double click it to open.

How does the process work? Do I need to launch the console? The disk doesn't show up on my Mac OS desktop.

Bear with me, I am no Linux geek. The moment I bought the N800, I thought it was a consumer device. No one told me you need to know such tedious processes like flashing a device if something goes wrong. Worst of it all, Nokia doesn't have any official support for this problem either.

Here is how to for Mac

https://maemo.org/maemowiki/HOWTO_FlashLatestNokiaImageWithMacOSX

atmasphere
2007-03-25, 22:47
I put this together... hope it helps!

http://www.maemoapps.com/2007/03/24/updated-to-2007-v3-all-good-heres-how-you-can-prepare-with-a-good-backup/

bobhodgen
2007-03-26, 00:39
Hi:

The 770 flasher app worked for me.

I had to take out both sd cards. It didn't work on one of my powerbook's usb ports but did work on the other. . .go figure! So try all of your usb ports and take out your cards.

Bob

smd
2007-04-02, 17:03
I'm trying to flash my N800 with the latest software (RX-34_2007SE_3.2007.10-7_PR_MR0) on my MacBook using flasher-2.0 and I get the following message:

Found device RX-34, hardware revision 1201
NOLO version 1.1.3
Version of 'sw-release': RX-34_2007SE_2.2006.51-6_PR_MR0
To flash the bootloader, you have to supply the X-Loader image

Any ideas on how I can procced? Where do I download the X-Loader image from?

Thanks.