efekt | # 11 | 2011-04-07, 11:50 | Report

I'd REALLY like to try and flash my eMMC without doing it in the 5 dots screen (I mean those 5 horizontal dots which usually show when Maemo is booting up, right after the "Nokia" logo screen, yes?), but the problem is that its just impossible now.
You see, this is what happens if I run the flasher while the device is connected:
1. I execute:
2. CMD shows:
The immediately the device loses the connection, and the CMD shows:

If I wait for a minute or so:
1. The device suddenly starts up again - only showing the 5 running dots.
2. The device reconnects to the PC.
3. The running dots freezes.
4. The flasher is now able to recognize the device, if flasher is started. flashing succeeded:

Now, flashing the firmware works and completes just fine and I don't have to do any tricks to make it work (holding 'u', connecting the device to the USB - I have to hold 'u' btw) but as I said - in the end the device would still not start.
If it matters for any reason - I'm using Windows 7 64bit and flashing through the Windows XP mode. It used to work just fine (though now it isn't )

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m4r0v3r | # 12 | 2011-04-07, 12:17 | Report

am blaming windows 7 for this. get a linux live cd and use that instead

efekt | # 13 | 2011-04-07, 15:36 | Report

Then don't
I just tried reflashing via Kubuntu - still, got the exact same result.

I even tried disabling watchdog, but it didn't help either (yea, I know, it was a long shot )...

pursueky | # 14 | 2011-04-07, 16:23 | Report

Have you ever dropped it off or sth like that ?
I broke my N900 too and it just appeared like what you described here. So if you want to have a try . That's here: Take your machine apart completely and put a piece of soft paper on the HDD. And also some helps in this url: talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=71089

efekt | # 15 | 2011-04-07, 16:46 | Report

Didn't drop it, well not as far as I remember... This problem just appeared by itself... A day before, the device was rebooted successfully when I had to replace its battery...

What? why?

pursueky | # 16 | 2011-04-07, 17:15 | Report

in my issue, the HDD loose.....

efekt | # 17 | 2011-04-07, 18:57 | Report

Nope, nothing was loose in my device. I opened it and everything was intact...

MohammadAG | # 18 | 2011-04-07, 21:09 | Report

Flash the COMBINED image without -R, then flash the eMMC image.

mrsellout | # 19 | 2011-04-07, 21:20 | Report

efekt I think you've missed a bit on the wiki about flashing the emmc. You need to remove the battery once the emmc has been flashed, presumably because the n900 is on at some level.

mrsellout | # 20 | 2011-04-07, 21:42 | Report

Apologies, I've misread what you've said, you've already done this.