Warning on backup/restoring on different variant firmware
 

I've just discovered that if you backup your 203 UK unbranded and flash the device to use Global firmware (for the latest firmware) and attemp a restore of your backup, there are some problems associated with this.

I've only tried restoring Conversations & Calendar, so far it restored all contacts & calendar just fine but none of the IM nor Text conversations got restored.

I suggest if you're on a specific variant ie 203 UK unbranded or 205 UK Vodafone branded, stick with it wait for the update. Flashing phones to different variants risks losing data.

I've only tried Conversations & Calendar option so far, have not explore others such as Settings yet and have no plan to :p

I flashed it to Global to get PR1.1.1 but now back to PR1.1 on 203 to get all my conversations back :p

Re: Warning on backup/restoring on different variant firmware
 

i did the same and had no issues :|

Re: Warning on backup/restoring on different variant firmware
 

Odd :\
I tried restoring at least 3 times but couldn't get conversations back before flashing back to 203 PR1.1

Re: Warning on backup/restoring on different variant firmware
 

Right, just a quick update.

It seems it's the issue when you're restoring the backup to PR1.1.1

I've flashed to Global PR1.1 and restore immidiately and the conversation came back, then update to PR1.1.1 :)

Re: Warning on backup/restoring on different variant firmware
 

I had no problems with doing it this way either - I recently flashed my PR1.1 UK firmware to PR1.1.1 global, and my backup restoration was fine, with everything intact.

Re: Warning on backup/restoring on different variant firmware
 

Hmm I did the same thing and was just about to say my conversations were gone too, but it turns out they were there after restart.

Calendar and contacts were there before restart so ye I guess it's abug.

edit:
First I flashed with emmc and then (because wiki said so) I flashed with latest maemo 5 global image.

Re: Warning on backup/restoring on different variant firmware
 

i also flashed from 1.1 UK to 1.1.1 global (without flashing the emmc) and the restore worked like magic.
contacts, conversations, and almost all settings of the control panel where restored.
it then reinstalled my applications (except for the ones from extras-devel since i disabled that repository prior to the restore), and most application settings.