Comments on: Nokia 2006 Beta

By: jecarey

jecarey — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:50:25 +0000

Andy,

I got it to work with my macbook. I reread the flashing instructions on maemo.org and followed your instructions. Thank you for your help.

John

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:46:59 +0000

Also let me say one other thing- I noticed that if I plug my 770 into my Macbook it Won’t recognize the USB drive built into it. However, if I plug it into my older G5, it works as it always had. This is with 2006 OS.

I wonder if the new Macbook/Pro have some sort of different USB? I have no idea, but do you have an older mac?

Also, I flashed this with my G5 of course. Perhaps the flasher itself is not compatible with the Intel Macs?

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:44:58 +0000

Again, the command in the terminal is:

sudo ./flasher.macosx -F BETA.SU-18_2006SE_0.2006.22-21_PR_F5_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

(all on one line)

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:44:16 +0000

Sure- just put both the flasher app and the image in your home directory, ie. the one with your login name.

Then run the Terminal app- it will start a shell in your home. Do a ‘ls’ you should see both those programs there. Then copy and paste that first line I have on this post. Run that. Type in your password. The program will wait.

Turn off the 770 (hold power down for ~ 5 seconds). Then plug in the USB cable (with the 770 at the other end) into THE COMPUTER itself- you can’t use a HUB.Then turn it on, but HOLD DOWN the HOME button (the one on the front with a house). the 770 will start and stay on the white screen, you should see the mac start to download stuff to it.

By: jecarey

jecarey — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:36:39 +0000

Would it be possible to give detailed instructions on flashing beta 2.0 to the 770. I’ve got a macbook and downloaded the beta and flasher.macosx but I’m not having any luck. Where should I put the downloaded files? Do I connect the 770 first?

Thanks,

John

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:40:37 +0000

One other thing- when you have your presense set on, and you are pinged for a chat, the 770 make a nice pleasnt ding-dong and the People Icon alternates from B&W to Color. If you click on it, you’ll see who has requested a chat at the bottom of that menu.