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cpitchford	2010-05-17 , 11:38
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hows your sense of touch?

CTRL + SHIFT + X will launch an x terminal

If you can access the mass storage (perhaps turning the phone off and connecting to a PC it should start in mass storage mode without booting) you could upload a shell script and run it thusly:

sh MyDocs/script.sh

Putting commands to do stuff in the script, you could backup /home/user to the mass storage: For example, put the following text into a file called "script.sh" on your phone's mass storage:

Code:

flash() {
  pattern="PatternCommunicationIM"
  dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.mce /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_led_pattern_activate "string:$pattern"
  sleep "$1"
  dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.mce /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_led_pattern_deactivate "string:$pattern"
}

flash 2
echo MyDocs > /tmp/exclude
tar c -X /tmp/exclude -f MyDocs/backup.tar . 2>&1 | tee MyDocs/backup.txt

while true ; do
  flash 100
done

When the script starts it should flash the notification led, when it finishes it should flash it again continuously.. then you can power off and copy the backup.tar file off the mass storage.. hopefully

Last edited by cpitchford; 2010-05-17 at 13:15. Reason: only root has access to /sys led controls

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