Hi Guys,
My XDA Mini S has lost teh ability to activesync! I have tried everything and i think my only option is to reflash it. However I want to backup my contacts, calendar etc first. What are the files i need to copy to back these up? I loked but couldnt find them!
Thanks in advance.
I had a similar issue. What I did was copy my PIM.vol file to my SD card. Once that was done, remove the SD card and reset your device. When you get it running again. Copy the PIM.vol file back to the device and replace the one that is there.
Hope this helps
David
I searched and couldnt find anything about this. I have a question is it okay to remove the nandroid back ups from the sd card and save them on your computer? (to save room on the sdcard) and if indeed i do need to use it pop the sd card into my computer copy it back over to the sd card and then run the recovery to use the back up? would this work? or am i missing something about the backup process.
never tried this before, but i am sure it will work.
Yeah, i dont think it would matter either. But i'd rather ask and get a positive answer before i do it, mess up and need it and it not work anymore lol.
Taylor08 said:
I searched and couldnt find anything about this. I have a question is it okay to remove the nandroid back ups from the sd card and save them on your computer? (to save room on the sdcard) and if indeed i do need to use it pop the sd card into my computer copy it back over to the sd card and then run the recovery to use the back up? would this work? or am i missing something about the backup process.
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Of course that will work and no, you don't have to take out the card, just use the Partitions menu in Koush's recovery to mount the phone on USB, then you can cut and paste from the card, or even format, to your heart's content on your PC. Just make sure you properly dismount the volume (only /sdcard shows up in recovery, not /emmc, for some reason) in your PC, then use the track button to dismount from the DI.
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Of course that will work and no, you don't have to take out the card, just use the Partitions menu in Koush's recovery to mount the phone on USB, then you can cut and paste from the card, or even format, to your heart's content on your PC. Just make sure you properly dismount the volume (only /sdcard shows up in recovery, not /emmc, for some reason) in your PC, then use the track button to dismount from the DI.
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Thank you sir, appreciate it.
I have installed A7Comb rom which mostly does a good job. The biggest problem is that external sdcard and usb are inaccessible. If I choose to go back to 3.01 where I had this capability, access to external sdcard is required to flash the old rom. Am I screwed or are there any other alternatives?
ooorah
im not positive, but if i remember correctly you have access to the external sd (using Root Explorer or something like it) there is /Mnt/sdcard check in there im not sure the exact directory, but im pretty sure it was in there when i was using A7comb, then you can copy and paste the update.zip to the root of the sd
Let me know if you can't find it, i will flash A7comb real quick to give you a hand
Catch-22 eLocity A7
smallba, Thanks for the reply. Can root explorer be used to do the rom flashing? I can get the 1.41 rom on the sdcard using my desktop, but the A7 can't see it. I've tried to flash using the start button routine, but it never recognizes the sdcard and sends me back to boot. Then I cant boot until I remove the sdcard. Also, even though I'm rooted and have superuser, root explorer always fc's. What a mess.
ooorah
ooorah said:
I have installed A7Comb rom which mostly does a good job. The biggest problem is that external sdcard and usb are inaccessible. If I choose to go back to 3.01 where I had this capability, access to external sdcard is required to flash the old rom. Am I screwed or are there any other alternatives?
ooorah
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Try mnt/external_sd ..
ooorah said:
smallba, Thanks for the reply. Can root explorer be used to do the rom flashing? I can get the 1.41 rom on the sdcard using my desktop, but the A7 can't see it. I've tried to flash using the start button routine, but it never recognizes the sdcard and sends me back to boot. Then I cant boot until I remove the sdcard. Also, even though I'm rooted and have superuser, root explorer always fc's. What a mess.
ooorah
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Do you have Sdhc adaptor physically plug the micro sdhc in the computer and then move the update zip to the sd?
What kind of sdcard are u using?
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Thanks for your reply. At /mnt/external_sd the sd folder is shown as empty.
ooorah
smallba I connect via usb to my desktop using a Targus adapter. The sdscard is Kingston 2gb formatted fat32. I cut/paste update.zip to the sd card.
ooorah
Do you have a cell phone to try the sd card in? I just want to make sure it is not corrupted, you have flashed before using this same sdcard?
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Yes I've used this sd card to flash on my Acer A500. I'm sure it's ok.
ooorah
What does it do when you put in and pull out the sdcard?
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When sdcard is installed I look at externai_sd and it's empty. I cannot reboot until the sdcard is removed. BTW, various mount apps I've tried fail to recognize the presence of a sdcard.
ooorah
I know I been asking many questions, but it recognized in the accer?
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Yes, sdcard was recognized in Acer 500. Content was shown under external sd.
A7
What rom are you trying to flash back to?
I had some issues reverting back from A7Comb.
I think I had to flash back to stock first.
Re: your previous post, how can I flash back to stock if I can't find external sd?
ooorah
Cant read SD
I reloaded my copy of A7Comb and will play around with it to see if I run into the same issue. If the SD can't be used, it may be possible to connect via USB/ADB and push the stock images.
However, I have never used ADB with the A7, only with other devices. I will also try and figure that out to see if that's a viable option. Will need to find the drivers and get those loaded. Been meaning to test ADB with this device anyway.
Thanks DANO, I'd appreciate the help.
ooorah
I'll do what I can, I'm no expert, but I am very comfortable with ADB and have no concerns about messing with my A7. I've been meaning to do this for a while anyway. Will probably take me a few days to get get the A7 connected to ADB as its USB port doesn't play nice, and there are some tricks to getting windows/ADB to pick up the device. I'm also gonna try and lookup Dexter to see if he can give me some tips on doing this.
I used ADB last March and rooted my CRUZ 7" tablet. Whether it will work with a usb connection to eLocity A7 will have to be tried. I'll play around to see if I can get it working. If I get that far I'll have to wait for further instructions.
ps I can use a usb keyboard with no problem. ooorah
Yeah, keyboards, thumb drives, etc. should all work as the A7’s USB slot is set to host mode by default. The trick is flipping the switch to slave/device mode so we can use ADB to communicate with it.
Dexter’s A7Comb Rom had an App “OTG” for doing this (with a reboot), but when I tried it out, my Windows 7 box only saw the device but still didn’t fully communicate with it (ADB didn’t see it at all). Most likely due to the lack of a driver, or rather telling it where the driver was.
I’ve got some info on doing this, and I plan on trying to get this up and going tonight. Once I get ADB connected to the A7, I would think we should be able to push a new recovery image or something along those lines to fix whatever happened with the SD Card.
Just curious, have you tried a factory reset, data wipe, etc. (then reboot back into recovery), and tried to run the update.zip from the SD Card. I doubt this will work, but the A7 re-writes the recovery image with each update, therefore if something got corrupted, perhaps a wipe will fix whatever is broken in recovery by way of re-writing it. I’m not sure if recovery gets replaced with just a data wipe/reset, but if you don’t mind resetting your device it might be worth a shot.
Most all directions to installing a custom ROM always start with “be sure to do a nandroid backup.”
So I always do that to the 32 GB microSD card that I have added to my 16 GB Acer Iconia A500 when I install a custom ROM.
I have found that you can backup to the USB port as you do to a microSD card, if you have a flash drive attached to it. It will actually default to going there instead of the microSD card when you have both attached to the tablet at the same time. This must have been discussed before but I missed it.
However, there is one difference in the backups that I can see. The microSD card backup has 10 files in the directory for the backup while the backup on the USB port flash drive only includes 9 files. The file that is missing is the “android_secure.vfat.tar” file, 1.5k in size, and it's not on the USB port flash drive.
I have restored backups from both the USB port flash drive and the microSD card. The USB port flash drive backups appear to work the same as the ones from the microSD card. However, since they are missing a file, they must be missing some user information, but I’m not sure of what.
My question: Is the backup from the USB port drive OK or is there something internally wrong with it since its missing that one file, the android_secure.vfat.tar file?
What does that file do? And is it absolutely necessary for a backup? Can you add the missing information to the tablet afterwards, if any are in fact missing?
Thanks
Redevil06 said:
And is it absolutely necessary for a backup? Can you add the missing information to the tablet afterwards, if any are in fact missing?
Thanks
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1. Backups are not necessary if you like to live dangerously. You only need them if you mess up a rom install, or you can't boot up normally. What do you think?
2. Backups have some tab saving information in them, more specifically your UID number. Without this little number, you'll be in for a long method of restoring an OS if you mess up. If you haven't run a dmesg or used dmesgview to get your current UID, you should do so and write it down somewhere. Never know when you will need it.
3. You can check if your backups work, by just making one, and doing a Restore. Yes, sometimes, recovery backups get corrupted. So you should always check it out.
4. I would never try to transfer 1 file from 1 backup to another. But hey, try it and see if you can recover. Might work. Might not. More than likely you would get something like an MD5 Checksum error. At worst you'll start smelling smoke.
Thanks but does anyone have the answer?
Thanks for the answer but I understand why you make a backup.
It's why is there a difference in the backup files between that places you send the backups to that I'm really curious about.
The microSD card backup is the way that is described as the right way, which I don't disagree with.
It's the backup on the flash drive which is missing the one file that is puzzling.
Is it good? or is it flawed due to the missing file? It would appear that it is flawed but the backup does work. However, if it missing something about the user, can you just add that back as you use your tablet? and what exactly is it missing?
I really like being able to do backups to a flash drive. It's easy to attach and you can have a separate flash drive used for such purposes and free up the space on your internal microSD card for other storage. You don't have to carry around your backups with the tablet, and you can easily restore your system if you need to.
Thanks.
i deleted all of my system apps by mistake and now my phone is stuck in boot loop i have no way of getting into recovery HELP
Flash the rom you are on and voila.
And if you don't know which rom it is, then pick something close to it.
Google intolerant download Mode and Flash a Rom via Odin...
I have no access to a PC
Put the installation zip file on your SD card and install it from there.
You need a pc. There is no other way.
Well, if none of your friends have PC, maybe they can find a WiFi hot-spot somewhere and download a ROM via his phone. Then save it to its internal memory. You give him your SD card and he copies it to it... A bit of procedure, but with no PC, you have to be creative!