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hi, i'm a newbie. I want to make a backup of my roms before make any upgrade. Just to let it as original in case of any error. Could you please let me know how to do it? any simple tools or manuals yet?
I've been reading a time but i was not able to see how to make a copy of the rom, the radio and the extended on the PC. Something about SD, but i haven`t one.
Thanks in advance.
please, is it a difficult question?
Hello,
I've still installed my original ROM. But I want to upgrade to a WM6.1 version. Prior I want to backup my ROM so that I can go back every time. Actual my device is CID locked. So "r2sd" didn't work.
Is there any possibility (without charge) to backup my ROM?
E.g. I remember there a program called "grab it ...". This program is installed on a SD card and dumps the ROM to dump.bin on this SD card. But I've no idea if this backup is good enough and how to restore.
Possibly there are also other ways...
Joline
Joline said:
Hello,
I've still installed my original ROM. But I want to upgrade to a WM6.1 version. Prior I want to backup my ROM so that I can go back every time. Actual my device is CID locked. So "r2sd" didn't work.
Is there any possibility (without charge) to backup my ROM?
E.g. I remember there a program called "grab it ...". This program is installed on a SD card and dumps the ROM to dump.bin on this SD card. But I've no idea if this backup is good enough and how to restore.
Possibly there are also other ways...
Joline
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What brand is your device?
The ROM for it may already be available on the Wiki.
grab_it needs the ROM to be rebuilt to allow flashing, although if you upload the dump.bin file, I'll be happy to give the rebuilding a shot for your (for free of course!).
Alternatively, you can apply Hard/Soft SPL prior to using R2SD.
I did see an alternative method somewhere (specifically for Prophet) although I can't remember where!
l3v5y said:
What brand is your device?
The ROM for it may already be available on the Wiki.
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I have a T-Mobile TC 500. Unfortunatelly there is no ROM in the Wiki (because this brand is very rare). Maybe if I can successful backup this ROM I would publish this here in the Wiki...
l3v5y said:
Alternatively, you can apply Hard/Soft SPL prior to using R2SD.
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Do you think it is possible after applying Hard/Soft SPL that I can backup my original ROM?
l3v5y said:
I did see an alternative method somewhere (specifically for Prophet) although I can't remember where!
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What a shame!
l3v5y said:
grab_it needs the ROM to be rebuilt to allow flashing, although if you upload the dump.bin file, I'll be happy to give the rebuilding a shot for your (for free of course!).
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How does this works?
Joline said:
I have a T-Mobile TC 500. Unfortunatelly there is no ROM in the Wiki (because this brand is very rare). Maybe if I can successful backup this ROM I would publish this here in the Wiki...
Do you think it is possible after applying Hard/Soft SPL that I can backup my original ROM?
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Hard/SoftSPL allow bypassing of the CID checks, so it could work.
How does this works?
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The dump.bin file you get can be edited using ROM tools.
Looks like I found an alternative!
aWizard! It works fine to backup the ROM on my Prophet, and with a bit of playing around, the dump can be flashed back to the device!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=252957
l3v5y said:
Hard/SoftSPL allow bypassing of the CID checks, so it could work.
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I'll try SoftSPL at first.
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aWizard is an alternative. Thanks. If the Hard/SoftSPL will not work I'll try aWizard also.
Finally I could get the ROM using grab_it. I hope somebody will help me cooking a "flashable" ROM from dump.bin if this is needed.
Mainly I want to have a chance to go back to the original ROM if the new ROM doesn't work. So maybe I'll never use the backup...
Joline
With SoftSPL it seems to work. After running SoftSPL I was able to connect via MTTY and run "r2sd all". This command has done something. No idea, if this was correct...
Joline
Joline said:
With SoftSPL it seems to work. After running SoftSPL I was able to connect via MTTY and run "r2sd all". This command has done something. No idea, if this was correct...
Joline
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Restart the device, and see if it prompts you to load the ROM from the SD card.
If I restart to the 3-color-screen a question comes up to load the image from sd card. Great.
restore works?
Joline said:
If I restart to the 3-color-screen a question comes up to load the image from sd card. Great.
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Hi Joline!
I'm in the same situation! I also wanted to backup my original ROM (HUN) because of warranty since I haven't found it next to the downloadable original ROMs.
I did the same as you! I also got it dumped and the bootloader offered me to restore too. BUT I haven't tried to start the restore because I found on the net somewhere that a guy did the same and the restore was unsuccessful!
Therfor I'd like to be sure that the dumped ROM is OK before I start the restore.
Do you know how to verify the dumped ROM?
Did you try to restore it? Was it succesful?
I'm really interested in what you found out!
Maybe l3v5y can help us too!?
imee.h
Your best bet is to try and restore the backup, and if it goes wrong, you should get stuck in bootloader, at which point you'll have to flash a new ROM. You can dump the devices ROM to your computer (using pdocread, or the easier to use aWizard tool), which will allow you to reconstruct and reflash the ROM.
Previously, I just used DCD's pre-cooked ROM and Phone; however, I am considering getting the kitchen and cooking my own ROM. So my questions are:
I believe I can re-flash the phone software if necessary without losing everything on the phone. Correct?
What about the ROM itself? If I reflash it will basically hard reset my phone, correct? i.e. I will lose all my data/software. So how does everyone keep from having to reload everything every time they reflash? Would using Resco Backup allow me to restore stuff and not mess up the newly flashed ROM? If so, what is the procedure?
Thanks!
Chimp (Tom)
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Previously, I just used DCD's pre-cooked ROM and Phone; however, I am considering getting the kitchen and cooking my own ROM. So my questions are:
I believe I can re-flash the phone software if necessary without losing everything on the phone. Correct?
What about the ROM itself? If I reflash it will basically hard reset my phone, correct? i.e. I will lose all my data/software. So how does everyone keep from having to reload everything every time they reflash? Would using Resco Backup allow me to restore stuff and not mess up the newly flashed ROM? If so, what is the procedure?
Thanks!
Chimp (Tom)
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1. Yes it will keep your Radio ROM intacked so no lose there.
2. Yes it will be like a hard reset. Most use the UC option or a MortScript to reload applications and registry settings. Some good info here.
Hi,
I was trying to upgrade my atom life with one of the cooked ROM and followed the given instruction. But everytime when the *****mini-SD Detected**** appeared, the phone just dont do anything. It will stuck there without the percentage status thingy. Is there something that I have missed?
Please link me to the thread if this question have been ask.
Thank You.
pinkmota said:
Hi,
I was trying to upgrade my atom life with one of the cooked ROM and followed the given instruction. But everytime when the *****mini-SD Detected**** appeared, the phone just dont do anything. It will stuck there without the percentage status thingy. Is there something that I have missed?
Please link me to the thread if this question have been ask.
Thank You.
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Most probably your miniSD card problem, how's your card capacity? 2G? you can try a small capacity card, eg, 512M with FAT16 format to see how. You also can refer to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388669, similar problem with you.
Happy flashing!
sonofwind2008 said:
Most probably your miniSD card problem, how's your card capacity? 2G? you can try a small capacity card, eg, 512M with FAT16 format to see how. You also can refer to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388669, similar problem with you.
Happy flashing!
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Thank you so much for your reply.
Was using a Kingston 2GB but it didn't work then I tried using a Nokia 1GB and it worked! So happy now.
Have a question.
If i want to restore back to the original ROM, how would I go about doing it?
pinkmota said:
Have a question.
If i want to restore back to the original ROM, how would I go about doing it?
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pink,
Just go back to Atom's website here and get the ROM you want:
http://www.myxda.com/xda-atom-life_servicemenu.aspx#software
There is step by step instruction provided but you can download a copy now for save keeping....think most of us do(who is using cooked ROM)....
I was buyed my SGS 3 with Insert Coin ROM v2.3.1 (XXLJ4) installed, after few days, I was flashed WanamaLite Stock XXDLJ5. Before that i was make wipe cashe, dalvik-cache, and partition (clean state). After this ROM, i was flashed WanamaLite v4.3 XXDLJ5. On all 3 ROMs i have strange files in data/app, and dont know what is, is it safe for deleting ? If someone know abot that, please let me know. On picture attachment you can see about im saying.
Forwarding thanks on help.
Regards
Nobody can help me ????
Did you try to hard-flash (flash ICS again, then the ROM) and clear everything from your phone? Those might be leftover files from your old phone, but I bet that they are malicious files.
pendevous said:
but I bet that they are malicious files.
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What did you bet? NVMD, you loose, it is a part of standard set, you can have it if you'll buy brand new phone or after fresh flash with complete wipe.
@OP: is it painful? or just this?