Comments on: Resolving ‘Power on drama’

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:57:29 +0000

@Joe:: my N810 powered up after some time before that update so shutdown, leave for 20 minutes and then it should start to flash.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:29:41 +0000

So…how do i flash my Tablet if i cant get it to power-on?

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:24:58 +0000

Charly: All instructions are on Maemo website.

By: Charly Oz

Charly Oz — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:50:09 +0000

Hi, I´m new on this. Where´s the “flasher” command? Do I need to open Xterminal? Thanks.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:50:24 +0000

John Baker: I put my n810 on charge and after about hour it booted into 'charging' -- then it was easy as reboot in that moment gives flasher responding. And I have no idea about Win32 flasher.

atleta: Central repository for Maemo? Sooner hell will freeze then Maemo will get one repository with software. And I do not know how many of software on my n810 is installable via appmanager as I do not use it due to it's crapiness...

By: John Baker

John Baker — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:41:08 +0000

but still it takes like 30 minutes of fiddling around instead of just starting an upgrade and letting it go.

for me and some other users, the fiddling around consisted of sticking the Nokia in the freezer because the flashing program said to turn off the device. I couldn't turn it back on so the freezer trick allowed me to boot up and continue with flashing.

btw, on Windows XP, are the flash options mentioned available somehow or these are only available on Linux?

By: atleta

atleta — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:13:56 +0000

Marcin: > They probably assume that users use only their applications…

The backup tool is actually quite good. I already reflashed the device once and it brings back all aplications that were installed using the app manager (i.e. from apt repositories and not from plain deb files).

However, I really don't understand this whole flashing idiotism. Why do we need to flash the rootfs at all? Why can't it be upgraded from a central apt repository?

It sounded terrible from the very beginning that one has to backup everything then reflash and then restore. Which, again works as a charm, but still it takes like 30 minutes of fiddling around instead of just starting an upgrade and letting it go.

The root fs has changed with this release too, at least the md5sum of the binary image, so it might worth it to compare the contents with the previous one.

By: Holger Macht

Holger Macht — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:58:26 +0000

You wonder why they didn’t announce the firmware update for the power up drama? The more that issue in the press, the more bad for Nokia. Well, I returned mine about 5 weeks ago, not having it back yet. Now I regret :-(

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:41:43 +0000

Santtu: Good to know (I am not so familiar with flasher util). Unpacked image will be handy to compare content of image to check does it really do not have changes (compared to 50-2 version).

ossi1967: It is easier for them to request reflashing images as they do not care about devices with extra software installed. They probably assume that users use only their applications...

By: ossi1967

ossi1967 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:36:23 +0000

So much better than flashing the whole thing… Why doesnt Nokia or the Maemo team publish this? Damn. Dont they use their devices?