Many threads and help docs refer to two methods for backing up your current ROM to SD Card. First one is only "d2s" and second one is "d2s 80000000 2400000". What is different between these two options?? Please anyone explain in details....Will any of these option includes bootloader also to the backup??
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Since both xdarit and OSImagetool won't write to my sd card, I would like to ask some help in writing the syntax for using the psdwrite command foiund in Jeff tools.
I found from earlier post written by Itsme:
"you can write it to sd with psdwrite 0 7680 wallabypatch-sd.img
this will write the image to the sd card in your xda.
psdwrite can be found in the same tools collection as pnewbootloader."
Could some please make a brief IDIOT guide to use the command? Thanks a lot in advance....
it writes to the sdcard in your xda, the tool runs on your desktop pc, connect your xda to your pc via activesync, by putting it in the cradle.
it only writes raw images, so you won't be able to use it to write an nb1 to sd card. you will have to manually create the header and checksum.
it's main use is to write wallaby patch loaders to sd.
as parameters it takes the disknumber ( which is '1' for the xda-1, or on the xda-2 : '1'=extended rom, '2'=storage, '3'=sdcard )
followed by the starting offset in bytes on the disk.
followed by the length in bytes,
followed by the file where to read the raw image from.
THANKS
Itsme: THANKS!!
I managed to write the patch tool using xdarit.....it's been a strange experience for me with writing to SD cards. I used the same procedures and SD cards, but out of over 60 trials, I managed only twice. I have no idea why ...
Now my next challange is to write a flashable GSm ROM SD card. One guy mentioned that this is not possible . I tried to back up a GSm ROM to SD from another working xda, unfortunately the bootloader was a 5.17 (ALL xda here are 5.17). After patching, the GSM ROM to SD menu "disappear" from the bootloader. The owner would not let me 'downgrade' his 5.17 to 5.15
Could you plase kindly advice? THis questions is posted in:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=20936#20936
THANKS AGAIN!!!!!
Hi there,
I have searched for this problem and found various suggestions involving xdarit etc but none seem to help.
I am getting the above message following a ROM flash, using sd card writen with xdarit. I have tried 3 different roms all producing the same result. Originally tried flashing with a w2003 rom but would be grateful to get anything working!!
The xda will now only show bootloader and some checks.
Wallaby bootloader 5.15
Anyone able to help?
Kind regards
Have you tried another SD-Card? MAybe there is a problem...
Flashed my device about 50 times, and had sometimes (about 2 or 3 times) the same problem.
Reflashing worked then fine...
Stefan
Thanks
I have tried anther sd card with the same result.
FYI I am formating sd cards FAT before writing rom to them
Could I be using the wrong rom?
Kind regards
maybe a corrupt file sometimes files taken from the internet gets damaged on their way to you
Where should I obtain a bog standard rom?
bog ? as in a swamp ?
not sure what a bog rom is but here he have many roms
http://lumpistefan.dyndns.org/
bog standard AKA original basic unaltered rom
Thanks for the link, I have been using these roms but will try try again.
Q Should xda be on mains power when flashing or does it make no difference ?
yes it should have power from the cradle or the power connetor
Thanks
I am downloading another rom will try again.
Kind regards
Hi
I have just downloaded a new rom and written to sd with xdarit, flashed and received following message again.
"CHECKSUM is not correct"
Could this have anything to do with the formatting of the sd card?
Anyone have any more suggestions
Kind regards
should not as far as i know iso tool should give the sdcard it's own format which only the xda can read
and of cause the sd card have to be 64MB or over a 32MB card will not do
Hi
I am using 64Mb SD cards.
Just failed again, here's what I did.
Downloaded ROM, copied it to SD with axdrit, message "xdarit successfully copied image of 65026 blocks.
Inserted card into xda, got :-
Wallaby Bootloader v5.15 GSM OK screen then:-
SD Download
Card Type:
CE OS
Press Action to Download or REC to Exit.
Pressed action and got:-
Please wait for download
PRG 00000000
END 02000000
"Flash Writing"
Followed by :-
Download completed
CheskSum is not correct
COLD BOOT TO RESET
What is going wrong?
is that a problem? i remember getting the checksum is not correct problem as well in the end. but after cold reset, the device worked fine. or so it seems to. should i be worried?
Q: What is a checksum?
Q: Is it related to a failing battery?
I have used both XDAtools and XDArit to write my SD card and have tried several
ROMs from stefan's kitchen. but after downloading it would tell me that the checksum is not correct. Kindly help.
Solved the problem myself!
I looked for someone who has an xda1, asked if he could backup a copy of his OS installed in his xda. Got him to answer yes, and gave him my SD card for him to backup. Placed SD card in my xda, installed OS, cold reboot, and it works fine. Thanks to all.
Hi all !
My Question ist, how the bootloader saves the image, if the used card is bigger than the rom? The image doesn't seam to be empty after the first 64Mbytes....
anybody knows something?
greetz MatteZ
The non-emptiness after 64MB is just the garbage what was present before dumping your rom.
You can check it by writing a specific pattern to your SD & then dump your rom.
Regards, M
after some testing i came to the same result^^
But, thanks for answering! I'm sure you wasn't the only one who knows this!
MatteZ
Probably most readers had a 'well that's obvious dude' experience.
I found out that some people on the board are really inexperienced with any kind of computers & can be helped with a small explanation.
Cheers, M
??? im not to good with my ppc, are you sayin that you can install ur rom on to an sd card??? if so, does his meen that there is the 64mb fre on the ppc storage?
if this is right, can u tell me how?
Unfortunately not. You can dump your rom on a SD-Card & save that to your hard-disk or what-ever. The magician won't boot from your SD in a way that you can free up your internal rom-memory. Man I wish it would.
You can supply a new rom to your magician in two ways: the first is with active sync and the second is via a rom-image on a sd-card. The bootloader will recognize the rom-image on the sd & start flashing it into it's internal rom memory.
So Mattezh question was about dumping his internal rom on a sd-card. If you do this & save the rom image on your PC the program to read the image from your sd will not know where the rom image ends. So it just copy every bit from your sd to your PC & that's why there's a lot of garbage in the saved image after the 64MB size of the image.
Understandable? I hope cause I know I sometimes tend to write a bit weird, I know
Hello all, did all the correct things by saving to SD card using mtty etc. Experimented with assorted roms then low and behold went back to re installing orignial backup from SD, by the pda doesn't 'see' the backup. Any clues on this one?? Failing all suggestions, is there an actual o2 Asia ROM 1.11.923 complete out there that I could download?
Well for some totally unknown reason, the Sd restore worked. This was after several attempts of writing a modified version rom, re writing the 416b header, renaming the rom and writing back to the sd card and so forth....then...re- wrote the original backup rom file to sd card and to my astonishment it worked. It would still be good to have the actual 1.11.923 O2 setup rom on this site.