Thread: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for Jolla
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Raim is offline Raim
2014-02-06 , 18:17
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#278
Originally Posted by Thoke View Post
Well, I did recently, and I don't want it to happen again. I hope there is a way to recover with fastboot mode since that was the only thing left after formatting everything. Not possible?
fastboot mode also requires a working bootloader on the device. If you break the bootloader partition or the partition tables, it will be bricked. In case you only break the btrfs partition at /dev/mmcblk0p28 you might be able to recover from that with the recovery menu or with fastboot mode.

The new recovery menu includes a recovery shell. I have not checked yet which tools are available there, but I think the way described earlier in this thread about dumping the partitions using dd should now be possible from there without a custom kernel/initramfs.
 

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