giff53 | # 31 | 2011-12-16, 23:15 | Report

mmm so I did:

./flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -u

which extracted a bunch of stuff, including zImage

then I tried:

sudo ./flasher-3.5 -f -k zImage -R

but, as usual, it hangs at Suitable "USB device not found, waiting."

I don't know, I don't think I should try flashing th emmc, or should I? I'd like to try to keep the data

Mike Fila | # 32 | 2011-12-16, 23:44 | Report

when you connect the device to flash what do you see on the n900?

giff53 | # 33 | 2011-12-17, 06:04 | Report

ok, recharged the battery fully, flashed the whole COMBINED package, worked!

Now, though, it entered this loop of nokia sign - 4 dots, all faded, which I read someone complaining about....

Mike Fila | # 34 | 2011-12-17, 07:05 | Report

never came acroos that ...ive had a boot loop before but it would atleast make it to the desktop be fore it rebooted ...i had to flash the emmc to get rid of it but hang on a little longer maybe someone has an answer and you can still salvage your data

giff53 | # 35 | 2011-12-17, 08:50 | Report

Now it can flash ok. Then it reboots, the screen lits up properly, I see the dots for a few seconds.... and it goes back into the loop of faded nokia logos and dots...
I tried enabling the rd mode, it loops in that mode too, only then the screen lits up and some info about the phone are shown (like the hw revision).

freemangordon | # 36 | 2011-12-17, 09:47 | Report

If the data on eMMC is important to you, you can try to flash uboot-pr13 kernel and boot from Meego CE(or whatever fancy name it has now) on SD card. You will have MyDocs visible under Meego. But according to how your device behaves I don't think information in your MyDocs is there. So by flashing eMMC you will lose whatever remnants are there in MyDocs, but at least you will have a working device (hopefully)

EDIT:
BTW it is possible you've cold-flashed with wrong HW revision, which one did you use?

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Hurrian | # 37 | 2011-12-17, 12:16 | Report

That's the weirdest thing I've seen.

Normally, it would take a few minutes for Maemo to optify stuff on first boot. (You will see yellow light flashing while it does this)

P.S. Are you using ext4 for /home partition?

giff53 | # 38 | 2011-12-18, 12:35 | Report

Yes, I flashed the 2101. I did it again now to be sure.

About your suggestions above, I will have to study a bit before I can try. Never heard of uboot-p13... Thanks.

giff53 | # 39 | 2011-12-18, 12:37 | Report

Well, that's what happens, the light flashes and the faded dots are shown, but it gets stuck in the loop...

Not sure, how do I check?

Hurrian | # 40 | 2011-12-18, 12:47 | Report

If you don't know about ext4 /home partition, then you didn't do it

At this point in time, since the dots mean that kernel is able to boot, and Xomap is probably started, we'd probably want to get some dmesg logs.

I have never needed to do this before, so maybe someone else may be able to help you.

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