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monkeyman 2011-09-02 00:34
Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
All of the info makes it seem dangerous to re-flash an N900 using a 64-bit Windows OS. Is this so? Has anyone flashed their N900 with Windows 7 64-Bit Professional?
Anything I should be aware of or need to do to protect the N900 for the re-flash with the Win 64 Pro?

Thanks everybody for helping me to prevent bricking my N900!

David

ayazpak 2011-09-02 00:51
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
I flashed my N900 with Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate several times. No problem at all

visN900 2011-09-02 01:03
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
even i have flashed my phone in win 64 bit.:p. use inf-wizard.exe.. that will help.
use this link:D

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

JohnLF 2011-09-02 01:15
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
I've not tried myself yet but read somewhere you can use Windows XP mode in Win7-64...o

Nokia 5700 2011-09-03 22:34
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
It works like a treat. You even get Aero working by default.
Minesweeper is a lot of fun.

don_falcone 2011-09-03 23:04
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1, flashed once, no issues.

nashith 2011-09-04 00:45
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Ditto on Win7 64bit Ultimate...

NokiaRocks 2011-09-04 01:19
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
No issues on Win 7 enterprise x64.

bennypr0fane 2011-09-04 01:24
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
I flashed 3 times on my netbook w/ Win 7 Home Premium 64bit. Worked like a charm once i got past the usb-update mode issue using inf-wizard. Once you get Windows to use that driver for connecting N900, it's fine.

MINKIN2 2011-09-04 01:37
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Done it twice with my PB-edition, had no problems at all. Arrrrgh!

droll 2011-09-04 02:00
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
why are you guys going on about windows 7? forget that crappy OS. you should really be flashing the N900 with OS400. rock solid.

i've flashed it only once on my n900 and it's been running well for the past 12 months ;)

monkeyman 2011-09-04 17:36
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
It was re-flashing (re-install) I was concerned about, not a straight update to the OS. I had no problem updating to 1.3 using Win Vista 64 Ultimate.
You may have meant "re-flash" but I want to be certain of that beforehand.
I just want to clarify..

David

Droll - We are discussing Windows 7 Pro 64-bit becasue it is the primary OS I am using. I've started another thread to try and decide which versions of the Linux distros to use for a multiboot system (I'll swap HD's when I need to move between Win 7 Pro 64 and the multi Linux). Feel free to bash Win 7 64-bit there.

Nokia 5700 2011-09-04 18:01
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
I thought everyone were trolling by saying they had flashed Win7 to N900...
Oh well... :p

volt 2011-09-04 18:11
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nokia 5700 (Post 1081882)
I thought everyone were trolling by saying they had flashed Win7 to N900...
Oh well... :p
We think alike.

anim1 2011-09-05 08:05
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ayazpak (Post 1080332)
I flashed my N900 with Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate several times. No problem at all
man how in the world was u able to accomplish this? it never ever worked for me. probably because im using a hp computer

anim1 2011-09-05 08:07
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by droll (Post 1081417)
why are you guys going on about windows 7? forget that crappy OS. you should really be flashing the N900 with OS400. rock solid.

i've flashed it only once on my n900 and it's been running well for the past 12 months ;)
ok sir what is a os400?

ste-phan 2011-09-05 08:17
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
I finally managed to have Windows X64 running as quick as XP light on the device but somehow My Virtualbox Linux machines run slower than before, damn Nokia for leaving us with 256MB RAM.

eme 2011-09-05 08:23
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Quote:
No problem with multiboot : maemo 5, nitdroid, suse linux and windows 7 32Bit.

the only problem with windows 7 is you can't use the FM transmitter :(
#joke off

try windows xp mode (its 32bit) - it worked for me

monkeyman 2011-09-05 16:42
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by anim1 (Post 1082068)
man how in the world was u able to accomplish this? it never ever worked for me. probably because im using a hp computer
I can only hope the problem wasn't because it is an HP computer. My primary box is an HP HDX18t....

My question is moot as I've decided to buy a second HD and set it up for multiboot with a number of Linux distros. I'll re-flash using one of those (Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian) in 32-bit so long as there is a copy of the flashing software from Nokia for Linux distros (It would make sense as the N900 is a Linux distro).

gryedouge 2011-09-05 17:03
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
@monkeyman and anim1

I have a dv7 Hp 64 with, then, a beta version of win 7 Pro. I flashed my N900 twice without any issues.

I don't think it is an HP issue.

mornage 2011-09-05 17:24
Re: Anyone Flashed an N900 with Win 7 64 Pro?
 
Yeah, wont be a problem with HP. The problem with windows 7 64bit is driver signing. Using the driver from inf-wizard.exe as described in the wiki works fine though. Have flashed my N900 many times using Win 7 ultimate without problem using that driver.


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