[maemo-developers] Needing help with dead unit.

[From: Tim Ashman]

Quim from nokia was able to figure it out.  Apparently I was mis-reading an 8 
to be a 6 on the tag.  I was able to then use the tablet-dev download site 
and get my unit reflashed.

thanks for the help

tim

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:13:27 pm Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:43:11PM +0100, pierre.amadio at laposte.net wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:00:20AM -0700, Tim Ashman wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 29 October 2008 08:30:51 am Ryan Abel wrote:
> > > > Did you go to the correct page for your unit?
> > >
> > > I did, not only that when I was on the phone with tech support I asked
> > > him to check my ID number and he told me it was invalid...  But offered
> > > no way and I asked how I could straighten this out.  he asked me where
> > > I purchased it, I offered to send him a jpg of the unit showing the
> > > sticker, etc.  Nothing not interested in really helping me.
> >
> > The clock issue seems to be known:
> > http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14362
> >
> > Your "wrong ID" number is really puzzling though. If i remember
> > correctly your ID is the mac address of your tablet network interface
> > (without the ":").
> >
> > You can get this value by launching "/sbin/ifconfig" on a terminal when
> > the wifi network is available.
>
> Or /sbin/ifconfig -a even when wifi is down.  Or Control Panel ->
> Device -> About.  But any of those is hard to do when the device won't
> boot, so the sticker on the box is the only way.
>
> > Be sure you try to download a n810 firmware with a n810 mac address, or
> > a n800 firmware with a n800 mac address.
>
> That is the most likely explanation.  If you go to the page for the
> wrong model, it will reject valid IDs with the invalid ID message.
>
> Marius Gedminas