Thread: Image backup for N810 without SD
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alexc is offline alexc
2011-08-04 , 18:24
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Originally Posted by maacruz View Post
So you try to flash just rootfs with flasher-3.5 ("flasher -f -r rootfs.jffs2") and it fails. And you have tryed extracting a new image and flashing it several times and it is repeatable. Isn't it?
Well, then probably 0xFFFF is failing. You'll have to follow the longer route: make a tar.gz of rootfs and then make a jffs2 image from the tar.gz.
Yes, that's right. The backup process appears to be fine each time, but the backup doesn't restore. I even tried using 0xFFFF -e on mmc1 and mmc2, in case one was corrupted, but the error was the same.

Having reflashed to the Nokia image, it only took me 3 hours to restore my old configuration, so I'm not so worried about flashing a backup now. But I'll try the tar.gz option next time; thanks. I have two N810s and I usually only break one at a time...