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godofwar424 2011-04-14 14:43
Re: Help
 
Just wondering. What will I lose doing an EMMC Flash. I have quite alot of stuff backed up in the MyDocs section. Phone backups as well as images and files like that. Will they be saved or completely removed?

ammyt 2011-04-14 14:44
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Originally Posted by godofwar424 (Post 988220)
I dont understand at all though.

Why does the orange LED flash twice? Does anybody know the actual error thats happening here?
This is natural, mine flashes the led orange twic and then the dots appear. Just leave it 10 mins until it finishes optifying itself.

godofwar424 2011-04-14 14:48
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Originally Posted by ammyt (Post 988246)
This is natural, mine flashes the led orange twic and then the dots appear. Just leave it 10 mins until it finishes optifying itself.
I really hope so. Never saw this before so it kinda freaked me out :P

Lets pray it works :P Gonna leave it for awhile now :)

RiD 2011-04-14 14:53
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If you flash EMMC you will loose your MyDocs stuff completely. (and i believe /opt/ too, thought not sure).
I've just reflashed my phone yesterday (both fiasco and vanilla images) and it was quite fast. around 5 minutes to flash both things, thought it didn't want to start easily after. The dots took a bit but nothing more than 2 or 3 minutes i guess.

Or I probably just lost the sense of time

mrsellout 2011-04-14 15:03
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If it doesn't work, before you flash the emmc flash the flash the rescue kernel and you can access the MyDocs folder in USB mass storage mode.

godofwar424 2011-04-14 15:23
Re: Help
 
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Originally Posted by mrsellout (Post 988262)
If it doesn't work, before you flash the emmc flash the flash the rescue kernel and you can access the MyDocs folder in USB mass storage mode.
Been about 30 minutes now and no change on the dots situation. Something seems wrong to me. Shouldnt take that long even if its optifying itself.

Thanks for the rescue kernel info, didnt know about that. Gonna let the phone charge for an hour or two and then follw them instructions. Well depending on how impatient I get :P

Is there any instructions for using Rescue Initrd on a Windows PC?

Also will RnD mode help at all?

mrsellout 2011-04-14 16:41
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I've never had to install the rescue kernal, but looking at the instructions given, you need to download the packages (the wget commands) then extract and move the relevant files into the right place rhen run the flash command. I google rpm extracter windows and this is the first thing that came up, so use that or find another program to extract the files within the rpm packages.

Thinking on, it would probably be easier for you to burn an Ubuntu live cd and follow the MeeGo instructions.

godofwar424 2011-04-14 17:22
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Originally Posted by mrsellout (Post 988345)
I've never had to install the rescue kernal, but looking at the instructions given, you need to download the packages (the wget commands) then extract and move the relevant files into the right place rhen run the flash command. I google rpm extracter windows and this is the first thing that came up, so use that or find another program to extract the files within the rpm packages.

Thinking on, it would probably be easier for you to burn an Ubuntu live cd and follow the MeeGo instructions.
Managed to figure it out using 7zip :)

All backed up and just need to start flashing the EMMC stuff. Never done this before. Lets hope it all goes smoothly :)

godofwar424 2011-04-14 19:47
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Thanks guys! The EMMC flash worked perfectly :)

Just restoring all my data noww :)


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