N9 camera + main screen icon arrangement + twitter problem! Please help! --SOLVED!!-- - maemo.org

junkfoodpenguin | # 1 | 2012-11-06, 06:00 | Report

Hello all,

I got my N9 since March and I've done my fair share of modding and flashing on it since. The phone was fine & dandy until the camera fail to boot up a few days ago. After I flashed the device again, not only did the camera app still fails to load, it introduced new issues such as the same tweet being displayed least twice on the notification screen, and then home screen will not save my icons whenever I tried to rearrange them and restart the device. I've detailed each problem and what I did below:

Camera not responding
I keep getting "camera not responding or restart the device" message below.

Here's what I've done:

I've turned on GPS positioning on the device
I've also ran the reinstalled camera command found on this thread http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86347

Notification Screen showing the same tweet twice!

I've tried removing the twitter cache from /home/user/.cache/data/twitter/twcache*
Here are some screen shots of my notification screen with the tweets displaying more than once

Home screen not saving icon arrangement upon restart

Whenever I restart the device, all the arrangement of my icons goes back to the default order. I honestly have no idea how to fix this. The problem still persist after reflashing. :/

Please help!
I could seriously use the help from the community as I really love the N9. As the N9 is my only phone at the moment, the past few days has been a truly infuriating experience as I can't take any pictures with my device, plus the I can't get to customize my icons.

Again, I've reflashed the device multiple times after all these problem were introduced, the the problems still persisted. I'm utterly out of ideas. I can't take it to the US Nokia as this is a North European variant. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. My device is RM-696 NDT NORTH EUROPE WHITE 64GB 059M5R3 running on PR1.3

Thanks a bunch!

Last edited by junkfoodpenguin; 2012-11-06 at 10:41. Reason: Problem solved

thedead1440 | # 2 | 2012-11-06, 06:14 | Report

So you mean you have done full flash (rootfs+emmc) a few times and the issue still persists?

junkfoodpenguin | # 3 | 2012-11-06, 06:20 | Report

Originally Posted by thedead1440 View Post

So you mean you have done full flash (rootfs+emmc) a few times and the issue still persists?

I've mainly reflashed the main.bin with the following command:

Code:

flasher -f -F main.bin

I'm actually not sure which emmc.bin my device take so I've never flashed with an emmc.bin

Feel free to suggest which commands and files I should flash with. Thx!

thedead1440 | # 4 | 2012-11-06, 06:25 | Report

Backup whatever data is required from your phone to your PC as a full flash will restore your phone to stock...

059M5R3:

rootfs.bin

emmc.bin

you can flash as follows:

Code:

flasher -f -F rootfs.bin -F emmc.bin -R

Note: rootfs.bin above is the same as what you refer to as main.bin

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junkfoodpenguin | # 5 | 2012-11-06, 06:27 | Report

Originally Posted by thedead1440 View Post

Backup whatever data is required from your phone to your PC as a full flash will restore your phone to stock...

059M5R3:

rootfs.bin

emmc.bin

you can flash as follows:

Code:

flasher -f -F rootfs.bin -F emmc.bin -R

Note: rootfs.bin above is the same as what you refer to as main.bin

Thx a bunch! I'll report back here after the reflash! Hope this works!

thedead1440 | # 6 | 2012-11-06, 06:35 | Report

Originally Posted by junkfoodpenguin View Post

Thx a bunch! I'll report back here after the reflash! Hope this works!

No probs...Just post the flash output too in case it doesn't work so we can be sure the flash was successful...

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junkfoodpenguin | # 7 | 2012-11-06, 06:39 | Report

Originally Posted by thedead1440 View Post

No probs...Just post the flash output too in case it doesn't work so we can be sure the flash was successful...

Do you mean the output from the command prompt after I run the flash command correct? If not, where can I retrieve the correct output?

thedead1440 | # 8 | 2012-11-06, 06:40 | Report

Originally Posted by junkfoodpenguin View Post

Do you mean the output from the command prompt after I run the flash command correct? If not, where can I retrieve the correct output?

Yes from the command prompt...

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junkfoodpenguin | # 9 | 2012-11-06, 10:26 | Report

Awesome!!! The full reflash did the trick!! My Unicorn N9 is alive once again!!! Mwahhahahha!!

It even feels snappier than before. Thanks guys!!

The flashing guide described the emmc.bin file was just for regional content. Which sounded like it has nothing to do with the operating system. I didn't know including the emmc.bin file would make such a difference XD

Hopefully somebody can elaborate on the emmc.bin file a bit.

Anywayz, here's the output for the reflash for those interested:

Code:

C:\Program Files\Nokia\Flasher>flasher -i
flasher 3.12.1 (Oct  6 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...
Found device RM-696, hardware revision 1601
NOLO version 2.3.6
Version of 'sw-release': DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_001
Success

C:\Program Files\Nokia\Flasher>dir
 Volume in drive C is Gateway
 Volume Serial Number is 2C02-8C47

 Directory of C:\Program Files\Nokia\Flasher

11/06/2012  12:56 AM    <DIR>          .
11/06/2012  12:56 AM    <DIR>          ..
11/06/2012  12:53 AM     1,666,272,645 29FAD658_DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.13-7.NOR
THERNEUROPE_EMMC_NORTHERNEUROPE.bin
11/03/2012  02:27 AM     1,248,135,798 DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_LEGACY_00
1-OEM1-958_ARM.bin
06/23/2011  08:44 AM             3,258 flasher-man.txt
10/06/2011  08:36 AM           342,096 flasher.exe
11/03/2012  01:47 AM    <DIR>          help
11/03/2012  01:47 AM    <DIR>          licenses
06/23/2011  08:44 AM             4,565 README.txt
11/03/2012  01:47 AM             2,840 unins000.dat
11/03/2012  01:45 AM           714,526 unins000.exe
               7 File(s)  2,915,475,728 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  21,894,688,768 bytes free

C:\Program Files\Nokia\Flasher>
C:\Program Files\Nokia\Flasher>flasher -f -F DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_LEG
ACY_001-OEM1-958_ARM.bin -F 29FAD658_DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.13-7.NORTHERNEUROPE
_EMMC_NORTHERNEUROPE.bin -R
flasher 3.12.1 (Oct  6 2011) Harmattan
WARNING: This tool is intended for professional use only. Using it may result
in permanently damaging your device or losing the warranty.

Found device RM-696, hardware revision 1601
NOLO version 2.3.6
Version of 'sw-release': DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_001
Sending ape-algo image (7096 kB)...
100% (7096 of 7096 kB, avg. 13594 kB/s)
Suitable USB interface (phonet) not found, waiting...
Ping attempt 1 (250 ms)
Server application: 1.7.2
Found product RM-696 rev. 1601
Server implements softupd protocol version 1.8
Image SW version DFL61_HARMATTAN_40.2012.21-3_PR_001
Image moslo not present
Image tar skipped
Image config skipped

Battery level 81 %, 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    3057 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    1226 kB/s]
[x] rootfs       [finished   100 % 1170282 / 1170282 kB    8183 kB/s]
[x] mmc          [finished   100 % 1627219 / 1627219 kB    8797 kB/s]
Updating SW release
Success

C:\Program Files\Nokia\Flasher>

Once again, thx for the help & support!

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thedead1440 | # 10 | 2012-11-06, 10:28 | Report

emmc.bin is indeed for regional content only but if you have a serious issue and a rootfs flash is not helping it could be there is some content stored on your MyDocs partition that is causing an issue...

A full flash solves it...

Actually I would have preferred a re-installation of some packages to try to get to the bottom of it but since you already had re-flashed rootfs.bin so many times it was better to do one reflash and fix it

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