Wichall | # 111 | 2010-11-01, 02:06 | Report

Having big problems here, if you quit out when it hangs, it still creates a readable seemingly complete tar file so i thought i'd try restoring the rootfs.

Just sits there forever saying restoring and size:n/a (guessing this should read a size) and rebooting the phone obviously results in a bricked device.

Just reflashed pr1.3 fiasco and going to try and restore again and see what happens...

Wichall | # 112 | 2010-11-01, 02:08 | Report

Still just getting size:n/a, going to leave this until morning and see what happens. Would greatly appreciate a fix on this soon so I can send my N900 off to be repaired (cracked screen) .

ndi | # 113 | 2010-11-01, 02:09 | Report

I have no feedback when restoring, I think it's a remnant of the old script. Just leave it finish.

On my device, it takes about 70 seconds for root and about 200 for opt.

joelteixeira | # 114 | 2010-11-01, 02:18 | Report

Buddy,

If you want to manually edit the files, you can get it this way:

Edit:
/usr/share/backupmenu/BackupMenu.item

Replace line 540 with:
date=`date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M"`

Replace line 643 with:
backupOptLocation="/tmp/mnt/sd/$date-o.tar"

and 645 with:
backupOptLocation="/tmp/mnt/mydocs/$date-o.tar"

Hope this help you.

joelteixeira | # 115 | 2010-11-01, 05:22 | Report

Guys,

Just to report my first recover. As my first language is Portuguese, there are a lot of diacritical marks... I particularly hate this but well, I can't just convince the people here to stop using =]

The point is, I was playing around with the "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51" file and guess what... My N900 stop booting. I had already did this some months ago and had to reflash it. Now, I used the recover from BackupMenu and everything back to normal.

Love you Robbie, I would even marry you if I wasn't already. ;D

RobbieThe1st | # 116 | 2010-11-01, 09:06 | Report

Done, in 0.50-1(if I can ever get it to you guys).
Once I have one that works and people are happy with.
Yea, I'll do that in a bit.

So am I.

Let me know when it's fixed and works.


Added in 0.50-1

I'd like you to try it with 0.50-1, as soon as I can get it up.


@others:
Thanks for the comments. I'm only one person here, and it's hard to do things when the damn repo's down. I'm trying to build a package myself, but it doesn't work quite right yet.

Tigerite | # 117 | 2010-11-01, 09:22 | Report

You're doing a great job Robbie, and rest assured all your hard work is really appreciated. The repositories are playing up which isn't helping anyone..

stevomanu | # 118 | 2010-11-01, 09:24 | Report

we know dude an your work is very much appreciated

Rob1n | # 119 | 2010-11-01, 09:35 | Report

Sure. I'm assuming you've already got multiboot 0.2.10 installed here - if not, you'll need to look up the instructions for that elsewhere (the multiboot/NITDroid/power kernel threads).

Unfortunately the only implementations of patch appear to be in the SDK repository, so rather than using the diff, just grab the patched files and save them to the MyDocs directory.

Now overwrite the existing multiboot files with the new versions:
That's the patched multiboot all done, so you now just need to create a new boot item. You'll need to create a file (either on the N900, or on a desktop/laptop then copied to the N900) containing:
Move this file to /etc/multiboot.d/99-BackupMenu.item (you'll need to be root to do this).

Now when you reboot with the keyboard open, you'll get an option for BackupMenu. I think this'll work irrespective of which OS/kernel you've been booting with, but I've only tested it from the standard Maemo kernel so far.

EDIT: Missed a bit - you also need to symlink evkey (which handles key detection) to where backupmenu is expecting it:

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Last edited by Rob1n; 2010-11-05 at 19:09.

stevomanu | # 120 | 2010-11-01, 09:41 | Report

right am i right i thinking , after phone is flashed install backup menu then i will be able to get my original backup going !!