Getting rid of Android

Vasili Sviridov vsviridov at exceede.com
Mon Dec 29 18:12:29 CET 2008


Will it still work w/o debug board? All i got is the USB cable connection.

Vasili

Gothnet wrote:
>
> Well, if you can get sensible stuff out of u-boot then I suggest using the
> devirginator thing on the link I sent earlier to repare the uboot
> environmen. Then you should get back to a useful state.
>
> I used it to tweak the kernel partition size on the internal flash, so if
> (as I think you said before) you've got messed up partitions on the internal
> memory then it could well be the uboot environment that needs fixing.
>
> Can't hurt anyway, I wouldn't have thought. If the partition stuff is messed
> up then this should fix it and allow you to reflash with images as normal.
>
> Should fix your menu too, I also used it to fix the stuff that had been
> altered by the debian set up script.
>
> HTH
>
>
> Apologies if this gets to the list twice, my first attempt doesn't seem to
> have got through properly.
>
>
>
> Vasili Sviridov wrote:
>   
>> Well, here's the situation.
>>
>> I can power up into NAND or NOR uBoot. Option to boot from SD is 
>> available to me. If i do "screen /dev/ttyACM0" on the host machine I get 
>> the bootloader command prompt and can run those commands (e.g. i can see 
>> the partition lists for both NOR and NAND).
>>
>> So it's not a full brick yet. However after several previous reflash 
>> attempts i'm pretty sure that Android installation is corrupted, as I 
>> can no longer boot into it.
>>
>> There's still a possibility of booting from SD card into a regular moko 
>> environment (one of) and maybe flashing from there... At least I hope 
>> that it will work.
>> If not - i'll be looking for a person with a debug board in Vancouver :D
>>
>> Vasili.
>>
>>
>>     
>
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