Comments on: Now Pinch-Hitting for the x40: Nokia 770

By: stephen ogrady

stephen ogrady — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:33:02 +0000

Alex: hardware failures suck terribly. it’s killing me.

Donnie: yeah, i’m thinking my next drive will be straight up ext3. Reiser’s journaling is good, however.

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:38:07 +0000

Yet more of the many reasons I always use ext3 — less failures on abrupt power loss, more recovery tools.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:12:33 +0000

Hardware failures suck.

Unrelated FYI, the “remember personal info” option doesn’t seem to work anymore here.

By: stephen ogrady

stephen ogrady — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:09:16 +0000

got the update done. downloaded the Flasher-2.0 for Linux from maemo.org, along with the flash .bin image.

dropping those into a single directory, i then ran:

sudo ./flasher-2.0 –fiasco BETA.SU-18_2006SE_0.2006.22-21_PR_F5_MR0_ARM.bin –flash –reboot

and voila, i’m done.

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:26:39 +0000

I love my 770. If you can still boot into Windows, the easiest thing is the go here

http://www.nokiausa.com/support/phones/softwareupdate/1,8461,770,00.html

and grab the update wizard as well as the 4/18 image (the latest 2005OS update). Connect the 770 via the USB cable (but leave it off) and walk through the wizard. I found that I had to disable the Windows XP firewall or the update process hung at 10%. Other than that, it’s pretty easy.

Of course, to get the beta of the 2006 OS, you’ll need to go here:
http://www.maemo.org/downloads/nokia_770

But then you knew that I’ll bet…