I turned off my 770. I plugged it in via USB. I held the home button and the USB icon showed up so I released the button. The USB icon disappeared and the OS loaded. There is no USB icon on the screen and my PC can not find the device.
I removed the USB cord and plugged it in again, my computer found the device and I am now able to access only the files on the memory card when I go into My Computer. But the updating software can't find the device at all.
I tried this over and over and still no luck. I am trying to upgrade to the latest firmware but the updating software from Nokia can't find my 770.
Any ideas?
Edit: I switched to a different USB outlet on my PC and it found the Nokia 770 on the task bar but then decided to tell me that there was a problem installed the device. And the software upgrade program still can not find my 770.
Sometimes the Windows software doesn't work - I've never been able to get it to work. I suggest downloading a Linux livecd and using the Linux flasher.
These livecds can be pretty small, and this problem seems to occur again and again, I wonder if someone who knows how to produce livecds would make an image (including the flasher) that could be hosted here (or on maemo.org)?
A live cd is a distribution, typically Linux, that will boot from your CD drive and run the OS, without impacting your hard drive or native OS. For a list of live cd's, check out the following sites:
There is quite a variety, some of the popular distributions are Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, etc. I'm using a lightweight version of Ubuntu to do this now, on an older, 400 mhz laptop.
