Monday, March 22, 2010

Nokia N900 guide: Re-flashing firmware

After heavily using the N900 and installing an insane amount of extras-devel and extras-testing apps onto it, it finally broke down and all the text strings were replaced with their variable names.



The instructions to reflash the N900 are very comprehensive. They cover pretty much all the different platforms so beginners may find them a bit intimidating. However, if you just focus on one platform, for example, flashing the N900 from Windows XP, you will find that the steps are actually quite straightforward.
(Note that you can skip the eMMC section for the N900.)

As of this writing, the latest global release firmware for the N900 is "RX-51_2009SE_2.2009.51-1_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin".


http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

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