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#387
Originally Posted by jaromrax View Post
On one hand, I have seen written several times, that lock code is not affected by reflash, on the other hand, after my reflashes, I have a faint feeling that I did input again, but I am not sure.
a.out is a default output of a gcc compiler, I can hardly imagine more anonymous name than that. Who did compile it?
up to PR1.2(?) it was like: lockcode got stored in CAL (and could get cracked with john, see start of this thread), while the flag if lockcode is to be *used at all* got stored in rootfs (particularly gconf). So reflashing rootfs would allow to boot device without lockcode, though you still dunno the actual lockcode stored in CAL.

with PR1,3(?) this obviously changed: lockcode can't be found in CAL anymore, at least not under the label it was before.[edit: seems incorrect. So it should still work] And the flag about actually asking for lockcode during boot now is stored in both rootfs and MyDocs, so you need to do a *full* reflash (both rootfs and eMMC) to regain access to a locked device. This is actually a sane thing, as now lockcode somewhat better protects your privacy, as flashing eMMC will clean all your private data on MyDocs.

HTH
jOERG

[edit] that's incorrect, I failed to grep the lockcode in CAL because of my installation of proper gnu-utils replacing the broken busybox grep among others. Using "busybox grep" instead of "grep" works still fine for the solution as of http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...522#post524522
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