Thread: [HOWTO] FLASH N900 Fremantle / Use rescueOS to Backup MyDOCS / locate FIRMWARE RX-51 files and flasher
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scy is offline scy
2014-08-19 , 15:39
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HOWTO possibly flash N900 and get it maybe working again

First, you might want to read this as well:
(a) HOWTO possibly recover MYDOCS from N900 using rescueOS
(b) HOWTO possibly FIND N900 FIRMWARE RX-51 ON THE WEB
(c) HOWTO possibly flash N900 and get it maybe get it working again

THIS MIGHT WORK OR NOT - IT WORKED FOR ME,
MAYBE NOT FOR YOU!
ALWAYS TEST AND THINK YOURSELF!
YOUR DEVICE WILL BE COMPLETELY EMPTIED - SO RESCUE DATA FIRST!

(0) Have flasher-3.5 installed, have firmwares ready (vanilla and combined)

Code:
ln -s <YOUR_VANILLA_IMAGE_eg_RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin> vanilla
ln -s <YOUR_COMBINED_IMAGE_eg_RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin> combined
ON YOUR PC, in LINUX TERMINAL:
(1) flasher-3.5 -F vanilla -f


N900 switched off, then HOLD "u"-key on N900, CONNECT USB-CABLE
(2) flashing of vanilla will start
Code:
-> # flasher-3.5 -F vanilla -f
flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)

Image 'mmc', size 255947 kB
	Version RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
USB device found found at bus 001, device address 009.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_MR0
Booting device into flash mode.
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.
USB device found found at bus 001, device address 010.
Raw data transfer EP found at EP2.
Image(s) flashed successfully in 27.471 s (9316 kB/s)!

(3) REMOVE BATTERY to power off, detach USB-CABLE

(4) flasher-3.5 -F combined -f -R

Code:
# flasher-3.5 -F combined -f -R
flasher v2.5.2 (Oct 21 2009)

SW version in image: RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_MR0
Image 'kernel', size 1705 kB
	Version 2.6.28-20103103+0m5
Image 'rootfs', size 185728 kB
	Version RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_MR0
[...]
Suitable USB device not found, waiting.

N900 switched off, then HOLD "u"-key on N900, CONNECT USB-CABLE
(5) flashing of combined will start

Code:
USB device found found at bus 001, device address 013.
Found device RX-51, hardware revision 2101
NOLO version 1.4.14
Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_21.2011.38-1_PR_MR0
Sending xloader image (14 kB)...
100% (14 of 14 kB, avg. 3625 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (106 kB)...
100% (106 of 106 kB, avg. 13359 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending cmt-2nd image (79 kB)...
100% (79 of 79 kB, avg. 13250 kB/s)
Sending cmt-algo image (507 kB)...
100% (507 of 507 kB, avg. 28201 kB/s)
Sending cmt-mcusw image (5826 kB)...
100% (5826 of 5826 kB, avg. 36190 kB/s)
Flashing cmt-mcusw... done.
Sending kernel image (1705 kB)...
100% (1705 of 1705 kB, avg. 32802 kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.
Sending and flashing rootfs image (185728 kB)...
100% (185728 of 185728 kB, avg. 14215 kB/s)
Finishing flashing... done
CMT flashed successfully

(6) System Reboots (it takes a couple of minutes)