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Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

It seems to be a bug in QTN9 v9.5.5
I made the same action and obtained the same result as yours:
The loop of the death !
After a first Flash "Replace operating system (preserves user data)", it worked normally until I reinstalled QTN9, then the phone locked and the problem reappeared...just after starting the icon tool.
Only a Second complete Flash "Comprehensive reset (destroys user data)" seems to be effective to resolve this .
I never used Outlook, so I lost my complete personnal Agenda :mad:
Henceforth, even not using it, I've learned I'll do a regular BackUp with it now...
Professionally, the Lotus Notes tool is imposed to me.

Perhaps this adventure will help some others too:
I discovered a tool (for MS-Windows) I'll soon try: "DestopMirror"
http://www.livepim.com/index.htm
It can synchronize Outlook, Palm, Google, Lotus Notes & ACT between them.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Quote:

Originally Posted by robthebold (Post 1310886)

Today I did the Fixing MALF state again.

This time there was a 40 byte /var/malf file with the line:

I deleted it and unmounted the volumes.

Still not booting. No vibrate, no screen . . .

Ideas?

Still struggling with "N9 does not boot". I wondered if there was a problem with my firmware images, so I re-downloaded those with NaviFirm. That didn't seem to help, same result.

Then I caught a wild hare and thought I'd try another version, so I downloaded the Northern Europe 64GB firmware. And that's how I learned that LEGACY_001 is considered a downgrade from LEGACY_006, so that didn't help, I just got a "Security Failure" error because "Downgrade disallowed."

Anyone have any suggestions of anything else I should try before I toss out the phone or investigate shipping to a Nokia repair facility? (I'm in the US)

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Quote:

Originally Posted by robthebold (Post 1309111)

Still in the same situation. Tried flashing and N9 still won't boot up. Press power button and it never vibrates. Still can be turned fully off with > 8 second power key press. Here's what happens when flashing -- seems to work as far as I can tell:

Code:

rob@hymie:~/FlashN9/Firmware/059M5V1$ sudo flasher -i

[sudo] password for rob: 

flasher 3.12.1 (Oct  5 2011) Harmattan

WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result

in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.



Suitable USB interface (bootloader/phonet) not found, waiting...

USB device found at bus 001, device address 029.

Device identifier: 351669052798334 (SN: N/A)

Found device RM-696, hardware revision 1502

NOLO version 2.3.6

Version of 'sw-release': DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_006

Success

rob@hymie:~/FlashN9/Firmware/059M5V1$ sudo flasher -f -F main.bin --erase-user-data=secure

flasher 3.12.1 (Oct  5 2011) Harmattan

WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result

in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.



USB device found at bus 001, device address 029.

Device identifier: 351669052798334 (SN: N/A)

Found device RM-696, hardware revision 1502

NOLO version 2.3.6

Version of 'sw-release': DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_006

Sending ape-algo image (7096 kB)...

100% (7096 of 7096 kB, avg. 20689 kB/s)

Suitable USB interface (phonet) not found, waiting...

USB device found at bus 001, device address 030.

Device identifier: 351669052798334 (SN: N/A)

Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.

Ping attempt 1 (250 ms)

Server application: 1.7.2

Found product RM-696 rev. 1502

Server implements softupd protocol version 1.8



Battery level 94 %, continuing.

Erasing, this may take a while.

Erase done.

Image SW version DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_006

Image moslo not present

Image mmc not present

Image tar skipped

Image config skipped



Battery level 95 %, continuing.



    image        [state    progress         transfer     flash speed]

---------------------------------------------------------------------

[x] cert-sw      [finished   100 %       1 /       1 kB      NA     ]

[x] cmt-2nd      [finished   100 %      95 /      95 kB      NA     ]

[x] cmt-algo     [finished   100 %     789 /     789 kB      NA     ]

[x] cmt-mcusw    [finished   100 %    6050 /    6050 kB    2908 kB/s]

[x] xloader      [finished   100 %      23 /      23 kB      NA     ]

[x] secondary    [finished   100 %      94 /      94 kB      NA     ]

[x] kernel       [finished   100 %    2714 /    2714 kB    1722 kB/s]

[x] rootfs       [finished   100 %  978983 /  978983 kB   11629 kB/s]

Updating SW release

Success

rob@hymie:~/FlashN9/Firmware/059M5V1$ sudo flasher -f -F main.bin -F emmc.bin --flash-only=mmc

flasher 3.12.1 (Oct  5 2011) Harmattan

WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result

in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.



USB device found at bus 001, device address 030.

Device identifier: 351669052798334 (SN: N/A)

Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.

Ping attempt 1 (250 ms)

Server application: 1.7.2

Found product RM-696 rev. 1502

Server implements softupd protocol version 1.8

Image SW version DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_006

Image cmt-2nd skipped

Image cmt-algo skipped

Image cmt-mcusw skipped

Image xloader skipped

Image secondary skipped

Image kernel skipped

Image moslo skipped

Image rootfs skipped

Image tar skipped

Image config skipped



Battery level 95 %, continuing.



    image        [state    progress         transfer     flash speed]

---------------------------------------------------------------------

[x] cert-sw      [finished   100 %       1 /       1 kB      NA     ]

[x] mmc          [finished   100 % 1829147 / 1829147 kB   18817 kB/s]

Success

rob@hymie:~/FlashN9/Firmware/059M5V1$ sudo flasher -R

flasher 3.12.1 (Oct  5 2011) Harmattan

WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result

in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.



USB device found at bus 001, device address 030.

Device identifier: 351669052798334 (SN: N/A)

Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.

Ping attempt 1 (250 ms)

Server application: 1.7.2

Found product RM-696 rev. 1502

Server implements softupd protocol version 1.8

Success

Now I try to start the phone with power button, no vibrate, no display.

BTW, I've tried this with and without "--erase-user-data=secure".

Is it bricked for good?

I've got the exact same problem. Phone flashes ok, but will not vibrate or show anything on the screen. The phone is charging without a problem and the LED lights up as well. When connected to a computer, the Nokia PC Suite tells me that my phone is connected in a non-compatible USB mode.

I can't fix the MALF state either, because fdisk doesn't list my N9 in step 5. It only shows the live session USB-stick and integrated SSD.

dmesg gives me:

Code:

[ 5529.811625] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0421, idProduct=0105

[ 5529.811637] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5

[ 5529.811645] usb 1-5: Product: N9 (Update mode)

[ 5529.811651] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Nokia

[ 5529.811656] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 357923045720713

[ 5529.811927] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 5530.288863] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 94

[ 5551.860068] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 95

[ 5566.972095] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110

[ 5582.189049] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110

[ 5582.404071] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 96

[ 5597.516064] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110

[ 5612.732054] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110

[ 5612.949074] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 97

[ 5623.356047] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 97, error -110

[ 5623.468051] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 98

[ 5633.877049] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 98, error -110

[ 5633.877092] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5

[ 5634.284094] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 25

[ 5649.417058] usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110

Happened after I replaced the screen. Could it be a faulty proximity sensor? The screen won't turn on at all - not even during flashing.
My phone is the 059K0X6 North European 16GB version.

Any help?

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Quote:

Originally Posted by mihkel (Post 1312091)

I wondered about the proximity sensor too when the screen first didn't turn on when I pulled the phone out of the pocket. It seemed to unlock with the power/lock button but no display.

Then the never booting again thing made me think otherwise, but I really don't know the hardware start up sequence, so it still could be that, AFAIK.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Bought a new sensor yesterday because I managed to break the old one while changing the screen.
Exact same symptoms with the old and new sensor. It could be a faulty part I got from the shop but I doubt it.

Any ideas about the "device descriptor read/64, error -110" error I get while trying to fix the MALF state? I get the same error with Ubuntu 12 and Crunchbang live USB-sticks. I'll try it on another PC tonight.

--edit--

Tried with another PC and got the same "read/64, error -110" error. Google tells me that it's a power problem.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Does anyone have some advice, how can I flash Nokia N9 which is locked? (no code works, none was even set, phone just gone crazy).

I would like to keep EMMC of course (all user data) but I wanna also keep Contacts, Messages, Call log etc. Or is that also on EMMC?

Please advise or tell your experiences. Thanks.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rusnak-COBRA (Post 1312669)

chroot into the phone? Or does flashing an open-mode kernel disable the lock?

However I think chroot'ng in, taking away all your data as well as your userfs partition should work and then after a clean flash restoring them should work...

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

robthebold,

Have you tried cold-flashing the device? I think its with a -c flag; put both the rootfs and emmc in one command too and try...

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Phone is locked, not possible to do anything with it without entering the code.

Are contacts / messages stored on EMMC? or will they be flashed when flashing clean system?

I suppose you did not understand. I have no backup of those data - all data on mass storage + contacts + messages. I need to flash the device but keep those data untouched.

Re: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9

Rusnak-COBRA,
http://wiki.meego.com/N950/Fixing_MALF_state

You can chroot in with the phone locked too ;)

Contacts / Messages are stored in userfs partition and may/may not get deleted so its better to chroot in and rescue them first ;)