Originally Posted by Kossuth

Status update:

My soldering skills and patience was not enough, I only got the USB-port in place and was enable to get the charging work (shorted the datalines after I found out that one of the data-pads was gone and used thin copper wire to connect directly to next component in line). Ok, so I cant flash, but after I got the charging to work I was able to use the phone without changing batteries. I installed latest version of Backupmenu and tried FSCK on the OptFS, but it gives me Segfaults, so no luck there.

Next I'll try to use the RootFS image found on the Robbiethe1st site http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/BackupMenu/ to "flash" the device from the backupmenu and see how that works. I'm hoping that this image restores also the OptFS to factory state, but I cant be sure, because it is named only RootFS, but normally in flashing they come in pair.

Edit: found in the site the folder named complete image, where the rootfs and optfs are separately, so I'm going to download them to the sd-card with my laptop and restore them with backupmenu on the phone. Does the backupmenu use the tar-packages directly or do I need to expand them first?

Has anyone repaired their phone in this manner, because I have never used the backupmenu before for restore, so any suggestions are welcome.