ReferencePlatforms/Imaging/Nokia N900

Imaging Steps

Launch the OS X Terminal then do the following

• On the imaging computer, run:

cd ~/n900-imaging
sudo ./flash.py

• Follow the steps in the script started above (flash.py)
• wait for the script to say 'Done! Unplug device'
• unplug the device. The screen will stay black with dots in the center.
• Remove and replace the battery and replace the back plate.
• Ensure that the camera shutter is closed.
• The device will start up on battery insertion.
• Once you see a prompt that says "Your Nokia N900 has the following settings" press the "save" button.
  • The screen will change to dots in the center of a black screen while the device finishes setup.
• Once the background of the device changes to a picture of a water stream pressing the 2x3 grid of squares in the top left corner of the screen to go to application chooser interface.
• Scroll down to "X Terminal" and tap that icon to launch.
• In the X Terminal run (substituting $num for the zero-padded host number, n900-001 becomes 001)

sudo initialize $num

• Once this command has completed, plug it into the charger in its final location and run the command:

sudo reboot

• leave the keyboard slider open

At this point, the device is set up and will go into staging automatically.

Sample Output of initialize

INFO: timezone set to America/Los_Angeles
INFO: Initialised n900-011

Machine Setup

THIS SECTION IS FOR SETTING UP A NEW IMAGING MACHINE The rest of the document is not applicable for flashing.

To make this go quicker, you can set up your MacBook (or any mac) to be a flashing computer.

Start by setting up the required Mozilla written tools

cd ~ #or wherever you want to work from
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/build/tools
ln -s tools/buildfarm/mobile/n900-imaging

At this point you need to obtain the following files:

• moz-n900-vNN.ubi - mozilla custom firmware
• RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.41-1.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin
• RX-51_2009SE_2.2009.51-1_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

The easiest way is to run

scp maemo@mobile-image02.build.mozilla.org:n900-imaging/moz-n900-*.ubi .
scp maemo@mobile-image02.build.mozilla.org:n900-imaging/RX-51*.bin .

Finally, you need the Mac OS X version of the flasher-3.5 program. Download 'maemo_flasher-3.5_2.5.2.2_i386.dmg' from here(live link doesn't work). Next you will need to obtain.