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2007-10-05
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#82
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I blame Finnglish. 
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2007-10-05
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Originally Posted by fanoush
Hi Fanoush,
I have updated kernel flasher so it won't print that scary message about size mismatch. Now the size is properly checked (kernel has its size stored in its header). Smaller files (=incomplete downloads) are detected and flashing is aborted. Larger and already padded kernels (those extracted from full firmware images) are properly reported. I hope there is no additional bug introduced.
Thanks a lot for the effort to give us the flasher.
Really appreciated.
Chris
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2007-10-05
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Originally Posted by wahlau
Hi,
(hope i did not double post..)
thanks a lot for the kernel and scripts. i tried it and so far my n800 is still kickin. I wrote the steps down here, so perhaps others can refer to it when needed.
one thing i noticed after the update is the slight improvement of response time when i start a software or so. is it just a feeling, or generally something has been improved?
thanks agin.
After the update is done shouldn't you delete the two files downloaded to save space? I mean is it safe?
Just curious..
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2007-10-06
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Originally Posted by Milhouse
Hi Mlhouse,
Here you go, just the kernel image for 4.2007.38-2....
http://nmacleod.com/nokia/n800/zImage-4.2007.38-2 (1,317,632 bytes)
Thanks a lot for hosting the image.
Maybe this is a little OT but do you think your point back to: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...8223#post58223
is still needed with this kernel? I notice that after flashing only the kernel, my setting @ 1000 remains. Should we reset that back to default?
Thanks again,
Chris
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2007-10-06
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OK, so this firmware supposedly fixes the SDHC bug(s). But has anyone actually tried using a SDHC card yet? I don't want to install the new firmware until someone else has tried it out with a large capacity card. Any guinea pigs^H^H^H^H^H^H hands-on end user reports?
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2007-10-06
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Well, I'm posting this from an n800 with two Kingston 8gb sdhc card installed. (Root partition is on the internal card also.) No problems here. I built an identical system for my business partner also, and she's doing fine as well. However, I think the Kingston cards may be safer then others relation to the bug fix.
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2007-10-06
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Originally Posted by Saturn
Only the MMC/SD corruption issue is addressed in this new firmware (specifically with kernel changes and nothing to do with WiFi) so yes, I'd say the WiFi timeout tweak is still neeed when using the new firmware/kernel.
Maybe this is a little OT but do you think your point back to: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...8223#post58223
is still needed with this kernel? I notice that after flashing only the kernel, my setting @ 1000 remains. Should we reset that back to default?
Thanks again,
Chris
Your setting @1000 remained after you flashed only the kernel because the gconf settings are stored in your rootfs. If you had reflashed the entire firmware on to your device, your settings would have reverted to the default (200?) and you would no doubt experience WiFi connection problems again.
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2007-10-06
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Milhouse your contributions are highly appreciated.
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2007-10-09
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From following the reports in bugzilla it appears that the problem was reproduced and understood at Nokia the moment a certain Michael (IIRC) posted a report where it became clear that the card corruption was happening when the N800 light dimmed a certain time window after data was written to the card. Only then it became clear what was happening. It wasn't just a question of 'write a large file to the card, damm*t!' or some such.
You needed to have the conditions set up like described above to reproduce the problem. _None_ of the steps-to-reproduce posted earlier had included the user's light timeout settings, not to mention actually describing the connection to the light dimming. In light of this (no pun intended) I find the whining and yelling from some posters quite uncalled for. Instead, virtual beers and cheers to the bugzilla poster which actually came up with the _true_ way to reproduce the problem!
You needed to have the conditions set up like described above to reproduce the problem. _None_ of the steps-to-reproduce posted earlier had included the user's light timeout settings, not to mention actually describing the connection to the light dimming. In light of this (no pun intended) I find the whining and yelling from some posters quite uncalled for. Instead, virtual beers and cheers to the bugzilla poster which actually came up with the _true_ way to reproduce the problem!
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However, the official "release notes" with the bugfix is at least confusing and questionable:
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This new release (version number 4.2007.38-2) provides a software fix for a bug which may have appeared while copying large amount of data over-the-air or from external SDHC memory card to internal memory or vice versa. In some cases the downloaded data may have corrupted.
This new release fixes also a bug which drops in some cases voltage from memory card, though cards should manage this kind of situations without corruption.
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So, the last sentence should be the actual bug that was fixed. What bug the first sentence is referring? Was there another bug that I'm not aware???