[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Issues with using flasher utility on Linux and eventual solution

[From: Juha Yrjölä]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:23:52AM -0800, ext Aaron Levinson wrote:

> 1.  I turned of the 770 (switch off!).
> 2.  I plugged in the USB cable to the 770 and the computer.
> 3.  I turned on the 770 and held down the home key (to be more precise,
> the hardware button that has the picture of a house on it).  This worked
> as described in the e-mail thread.
> 4.  I invoked flasher (as root) as follows:  ./flasher --disable-rd-mode .
> 
> And this worked!  No more errors.  A subsequent call to ./flasher --reboot 
> worked fine as well.  I was able to repeat this process today, but it 
> seems that you have to be really quick with the home button press and then 
> really quick with issuing the flasher command.  This technique may be 
> easier when already in RD mode.

If the USB cable is connected when the device is powered up, there is approx.
two-second timeout in waiting for flashing commands.  If no flashing
commands arrive during the time period, we start the booting process.

If the home button is pressed while powering on, the timeout is removed.

Looks like your problem is indeed because of the timeout.  The timeout can
also be removed by setting the "no-usb-timeout" R&D flag.

Cheers,
Juha