Thread: *really* backing up an n800?
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2008-03-06 , 08:31
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#13
Originally Posted by Quartz View Post
in any event, since I couldn't turn it on, I couldn't reflash it. and yes I tried leaving it out overnight with and without the battery.
Could be faulty hardware or you may be victim of this http://blog.homac.de/?p=58 a.k.a Power up Drama http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2673

As for installing initfs with bootmenu
You can still skip the final flashing part and download created initfs.bootmenu.jffs2 image (and initfs.orig.jffs2 backup) to PC and flash via official flasher if you want to be extra safe.
so there is a way even if you don't want to use mtd-utils on device. Still, even completely erasing initfs partition is not enough to cause symptoms you saw. See also
http://maemo.org/development/documen...e.html#OSLayer
http://maemo.org/development/documen...ure.html#Flash
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