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#141
Originally Posted by debernardis View Post
Robbie, do you have any new hints at the reason why restoring the rootfs from the device itself never works for some of us?
I think it has something to do with bad blocks in the flash, but I really don't know.
Also, its not just "some". If the current image is too different from the one needing to be flashed, it won't work. Why? I don't know. Perhaps some files aren't getting copied correctly, or some portion of the disk image.

Originally Posted by Dany-69 View Post
Ok i'll open a 3d here

Robbie there is a small problem here... there is a bit of italian .. but the error in writen in english

http://www.maemomeego.net/viewtopic....ngle_Post_View

What could be?
Post number 42
It's just giving an error saying "no error". I don't have a clue what that could mean - Perhaps it worked right?
 
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#142
No it doesn't work ... only nokia bootscreen

EDIT: Another one with thew same error .. .

"sto facendo la procedura. E' normale che al lancio della stringa:
flasher-3.5.exe -r Fastmantle_v1-rootfs.img -f
alla fine esce scritto:
finishing flashing... sending request 0x52 failed: no error
?????????????????????????????"

The process of flash arrives to the end ... but this line appear ...

Last edited by Dany-69; 2010-08-28 at 13:50.
 
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#143
@ RobbieThe1st

is this a bug that the keyboard wont turn the backlight on?
in the night its very hard to see the keys ^^
it would be nice when its starts working


and now
THX for the app
nice work
 
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#144
Hi Robbie,

it works great on my end...
Great work and appreciated here in the Netherlands...
2 questions left:

can we expect a GUI 4 this?
Does this backup all (like apps and other stuff like contacts and calendar)?

Regards
 
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#145
Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st View Post
3. As Dana was talking about, I thought for most of this topic that the Kernel was installed in the RootFS. Now, I'm not so sure, because when you flash PR1.2, then your RootFS image, you are back to the default kernel. This is because either A, the kernel is stored somewhere else, or B, the boot link to the kernel is stored elsewhere(whatever tells it which kernel to use). If you know which it is, let me know.
The kernel is stored in a separate mtd partition (not on the rootfs!) so you'll need to back it up or restore it separately. I forget the exact partition number, and IIRC the layout is different from the N8x0s but /proc/mtd should tell you.
 
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#146
Originally Posted by rolan900d View Post
Hi Robbie,

it works great on my end...
Great work and appreciated here in the Netherlands...
2 questions left:

can we expect a GUI 4 this?
Does this backup all (like apps and other stuff like contacts and calendar)?

Regards

I think it's a bit hard to have a better guy ... this is only a script that is loaded in the ram at the startup ... to do what you say we should install even some other files on an external support, just like a sd card, like being an operting system...
And yes, this backups EVERYTHING you can think
 
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#147
After restoring RootFS checksums seem not to match. Would you have any tips for that RobbieThe1st?
 
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#148
Robbie .. since yesterday I'm trying to fix that stupid error.
1) Tried with a mst MD5 checksums ... My tester hasn't a corrupted file.
2) Check the hardware revision. We have the same : 2101
3) I told the testers try to flash with the root image extracted from a fiascoimage.
That flash went fine.

So to two testers everything all right... and two with that error. ... and I do not understand why ..

Last edited by Dany-69; 2010-08-29 at 14:33.
 
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Posts: 24 | Thanked: 4 times | Joined on May 2010 @ Groningen, The Netherlands
#149
Yeah finally a complete backup app. Too bad bootmenu n900 isnt compatible with nitdroid. But not for long i think

Last edited by badabing; 2010-08-29 at 23:42.
 
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#150
Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st View Post
...I'm gonna try to figure out a different way of backing up and restoring that is more tollerant of bad blocks.
Presuming that this is still an issue... have you taken a look at ddrescue?
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

I use it to clone hard drives as part of my backup strategy for my laptop. It's wonderfully effective. I've no idea if anyone's even thought about compiling it for Maemo, let alone done so (I wouldn't be able to - I take one look at the Scratchbox installation docs and go into twitching fits), but it ought to help.
 
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