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impeham is offline impeham
2012-02-13 , 23:50
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#1001
Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st View Post
So, lets see. I dunno; I may come back and help a little again.
I've just grabbed all my old files, put together my n900 folder(fortunately most of my files were on my N900 so I didn't lose much when my HD got wiped). Also, I now have a N900 with a working USB port, so I can safely mess with things.

Anyway, I just grabbed the last copy I had, added libacl1 to the dependencies(just in case; there's a good reason I added it I'm sure), upped the version and uploaded it to devel.

Now, I've been out of the loop for many months; can one of you guys please give me a summary of what's happened, what changes I could make to improve, and what would help.

I can't say I'll be able to do everything - I now have a 40+hr a week job, and am only at my main computer on weekends - but I can help out a bit.
Also, I'm always in #maemo on Freenode, so...
Eventually i realized that there is no need to create & format the partition from a pc at all - just update the BackupMenu's files for ext4 instead of ext3, change the startup mount scripts to ext4 also and let Backupmenu format the partition (while running the restore for optfs process).

All is well now and finally i'm all ext4
 
RobbieThe1st is offline RobbieThe1st
2012-02-14 , 05:46
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#1002
That's actually... interesting. I might be able to just implement a switch for the optfs restore so you could simply say format as: ext2, ext3, ext4... and possibly do a proper search and replace on the startup scripts aswell.
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OC freqs: 0:22,90 125:22,90 250:28,180 500:30,360 550:32,400 600:34,430 700:39,430 750:41,430 805:45,430 850:47,500 900:50,500 950:54,500 1000:58,500 1100:67,520 1150:71,520
 

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guly is offline guly
2012-03-02 , 13:51
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#1003
having issue backupping my phone, using MyDocs on ext2, i had a look at backupmenu.item and hoply made it working with any vfat/ext2/ext3 partition with a simple
:%s/-t vfat/-t auto/
 
RobbieThe1st is offline RobbieThe1st
2012-03-05 , 01:57
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#1004
Hm, does that actually work?
If so, I'll change it immediately. I remember trying to do something like that at one point, and I had to specify the FS... but that could have been the UBIFS stuff.
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My devices: N770 + 8GB SD card soldered internally, N900 with 8GB SD card + Custom OC(125-950 typically).
OC freqs: 0:22,90 125:22,90 250:28,180 500:30,360 550:32,400 600:34,430 700:39,430 750:41,430 805:45,430 850:47,500 900:50,500 950:54,500 1000:58,500 1100:67,520 1150:71,520
 

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2012-03-05 , 07:59
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#1005
at least it seems to
 
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2012-03-05 , 13:10
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#1006
RobbieThe1st, I know that it's quite a bold idea - considering Your limited time - but, as we have proper framebuffer output now (via kernel-power, which, in near future, will become Community Kernel, bundled with CSSU) maybe it's worth to consider - in "unspecified future" - to use it, instead of text2screen?

I'm quite sure, that it would much simplify the code, allowing other people to more easily contribute patches, in the long run, reducing amount of work that You would have to do

/Estel
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arne.anka is offline arne.anka
2012-03-30 , 20:35
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#1007
while considering to update to CSSU, i wanted check out backupmenu first.
downloaded http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d....1.1-1_all.deb and inspected the package to see, what's about to be installed.

first thing, that strikes me odd, is

/usr/share/backupmenu/.functions.sh.swp

second, more serious, thing, is that the postinst script sends the device's IMEI as part of a request to

http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/BackupMenu/install.php?uid=<IMEI>

is there a reason why this kind of private data is sent? why is the IMEI required at all? as far as i can tell, it makes no difference if the IMEI is sent or not.
 

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Estel is offline Estel
2012-03-30 , 23:04
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#1008
RobbieThe1st explained it long time ago, as way to count installations on unique devices. I was rather skeptical about way it's implemented and suggested, to make more clear info about that.

In any way, I have no single doubt, that RobbieThe1st *isn't* using it for any evil reasons. Yet, it's only faith, so everyone concerned can remove this line and re-pack - everything will work fine.
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By the way, congratulations for proper "investigation" of code - it's rarely seen these days.

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N900's HDMI-Out
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Measure battery's real capacity on-device
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2012-03-31 , 10:57
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#1009
Originally Posted by arne.anka View Post
while considering to update to CSSU, i wanted check out backupmenu first.
downloaded http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d....1.1-1_all.deb and inspected the package to see, what's about to be installed.

first thing, that strikes me odd, is

/usr/share/backupmenu/.functions.sh.swp

second, more serious, thing, is that the postinst script sends the device's IMEI as part of a request to

http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/BackupMenu/install.php?uid=<IMEI>

is there a reason why this kind of private data is sent? why is the IMEI required at all? as far as i can tell, it makes no difference if the IMEI is sent or not.
Yup, robbie the thiest be harvesting our credz for nefarious schemes.

I am cool with it, robbie is a total bro.
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Mohammed Muid is offline Mohammed Muid
2012-03-31 , 13:41
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#1010
its a big thread so i coudnt follow it that much. but is it possible to use recovery boot with backupmenu. coz sometimes i need to access the terminal to fix something if i mess up anythng. for ex- to change the transition.ini of hildon-desktop
 
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