Thread: New n900 user!!!
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2011-02-22 , 08:12
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Originally Posted by Joseph.skb View Post
9000, I'm interested, should we backup the N900 content before reflashing? Normally is it recommended to backup using the micro SD or via Ovi Suite backup? And how do we get all the apps reinstalled after reflashing?

(sorry, I don't know much about this. Laptops normally came with a DVD you just need to run to 'reflash' the factory settings). I think this reflashing should come with the N900 manual.
Hi Joseph. I didn't recomend Ichigo7 to backup because he just got this N900 nothing to backup at this moment, I think.

Had you needed to backup your data, you could use backupmenu which can be found in the extras.

Your contacts and bookmarks could be kept if you just reflashed the ROM. All you data would be erased if you reflash the eMMC as well. Either case, your applications installed would not be kept, you could use the following command to backup a list of the package you installed:

Code:
dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt
Take this file installed.txt elsewhere before reflash. After you reflashed, you could put back the installed.txt somewhere and run the following command as root, provided you've rootsh installed already:

Code:
root
cat /<path to the file>/install.txt | dpkg --set-selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade
Last edited by 9000; 2011-02-22 at 08:15.
 

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