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Huh - what HW version do you have?

hw version 2101

FYI mine is 2101 too... Sorry I guess it will not help you much

That's odd - I have 2101 also.

This means it's probably a software issue of some sort....

Not sure, sometimes (software) revision number is not always fully accurate... I mean sometimes, the board, the chips on it, the firmware changes, but because of laziness, or time shortage, the "software" revision number are not updated correctly. And are we sure that this revision number reflect all the subtle differences that a complete motherboard may have ? It's quite unusual that so much people have the same exact number...

I'm not an i2c expert but maybe we can use it to query the revision of all ship. If we got the same result, then it must be a software problem.. As I said, I made the test with a new flashed pr1.3 + power kernel (and of course backupmenu)

I should test it myself - it could be a software issue on my end; some conflicting package...

Hey Robbie..

Beautiful app. I feel safer already.

Quick question though .. My microsd's ext4 which it doesn't recognize; would it be possible to modprobe ext4 during the startup?

Um... Maby?
Why not just add it yourself for now:
Edit /usr/share/backupmenu/BackupMenu.item in your favorite text editor and add "modprobe ext4" to one of the first few lines - see if that helps.

If it works as advertised, I'll add it to the next version.

Hi Robbie hope you can help.
I have had BackupMenu for a while but think I was on the previous version. My N900 started to play with with random error so I thought of this app and went into the menu to do a restore. I chose to restore rootfs and opt as it was the recommended choice.
All seemed to start well with the backup but seemed to be taking a very long time extracting the image. Long story short I left it to work over night but when I woke this morning the phone was in a continous reboot loop and would not boot. All I now get is the Nokia splash and then it reboots itself. Even turning on with the keyboard open does nothing, not even loading the BackupMenu option. I have tried going for a reflash but the phone will not go into update mode(I have flashed many times so know the procedure well). It is also not charging, when you plug either the wall charger in or usb you get the faint nokia logo in the background for approx 1 minute then it reboots. I know that the phone cannot go into update mode with less than 50% battery life so that may be that issue which I will try later hopefully with a full battery from another phone.
Any ideas on where to go from here? My PC does not even recognise it connected anymore, not even a confirmation beep.
Thanks

it's backing up as we speak, great work, this makes life much easier than having to reinstall quite a lot of applications. Only issue I'd bring up is that it tried to copy some files at the beginning of the program and just press any keep to continue so I did. It failed to copy them though, but the rest is working fine.