Thread: Best application for the Nokia N900: $50,000 in cash - 10 days to go
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abill_uk is offline abill_uk
2010-06-02 , 06:51
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
But again.. what's the purpose of a "flashable" image if the restore from the built-in app provides everything you need? So that we have 2 ways to backup?

I have had to flash my phone a few times... and have not (personally) noticed anything missing after doing a restore.
Because the N900 is involved primarily for development and the way you suggest for backup can sometimes not only be long winded but elements are in fact lost due to eMMC restore AND when someone self creates a looping os stopping the device to start up then a simple one file flash that restores everything would be a much quicker and simpler way to get back to a known working point, taking the worry and frustration out of installing apps developed for testing that do in fact screw up the os for whatever reason.
So it does make sense to be able to produce a flash-able image to pc by a proper backup application, not one that only takes "snippets" from your os.