In this forum I found the procedure for backing up the current ROM.
(with romupgrade.exe and ntrw.exe)
But how can I make a backup of the Extended Rom and the Radio Stack?
I would like to try some ROM and Radio Stack upgrades, but before I want
a backup of everything
Thanks in advance
Horst
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Hi there,
Does anybody know how to backup the full magician
including the radio stack and the ext rom?
thanks
JayEs said:
Hi there,
Does anybody know how to backup the full magician
including the radio stack and the ext rom?
thanks
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I am searching for an answer to this question myself!
I tried the method described in this forum (using Bootloader, mtty, "s2d", ...), but after reinstalling the backup, the radio and protocol version remained unchanged!!! So I guess that this method does NOT save the radio and protocol ROM. It does save the ext ROM, though.
Can anybody provide a map of the magicians memory?? At which address is the radio stack? Can someone post a list of the Bootloader V1.00 commands?
Thanks!
is really nobody able to help me/us?
Here you can find more information:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=MagicianRomLayout
When using the bootloader:
Typing "d2s" saves the whole WinCE ROM and the extROM to the SD-Card.
As far as I figured out, the Radio-ROM is located at 0x60000000, although I did not try to restore the image over another radio version yet. But I made a backup of the first 3MB of a MDAc (with 1.11.00 radio) starting at 60000000 to an SD-Card and compared the contents to the 1.11.00 Radio_.nbf file, and to me it looks like I am right.
So I would make a full backup like this:
- Enter the bootloader
- connect device to PC with USB cable
- Start the mtty-program on your pc
- insert SD-Card (>=128MB)
- type "d2s 80000000 04000000" to backup OS, extROM and device version + type information (be careful when loading ROM to a different MDAc!) (or type only "d2s" to leave out device info)
- type "d2s 60000000 00300000 sd a" to append the Radio ROM to the Image on SD-Card
- now you have a complete backup on your SD-Card.
There are different ways to make memdumps of the device. I chose the one using the Bootloader.
I cannot (at the moment) give you a guarantee that the described method really works. But I am quite sure. You could try to backup only the Radio to the SD-Card using "d2s 60000000 00300000" (without the "sd a"), then upgrade the Radio to 1.11.00 using an official update, and afterwards restoring your old Radio ROM from the SD-Card.
If that works, the complete backup should also work, cause I already copied a ROM from one MDA to another this way ("d2s").
Greetings, Stype.
hi, how I can do ROM backup ? I'm about to re-flash on new version a I don't want to lose warranty, so I need to do ROM backup of my Magician. Thanks
Unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=24779
Backup rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=19500&highlight=bigstorage
Bigstorage
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=22582&highlight=bigstorage
ou... does exist any "automatised" program on it ?
i will try that bigstorage... thx for the links
bigstorage does not work...
It does work, you have to do it correctly.
Why/how doesn't it work.
V
"source ROM file does not found" :?:
Hey,
Probably it is a stupid question, but I can't find it anywhere
I have a TYTN II with the original Dutch ROM on it. Now I want to update it with a custom ROM with WM 6.1, but how do I backup my old ROM if I want to go back to it?
Thnx already!
Most every body here will tell you to use SPB backup or SPB Clone and both work very well.
I personally prefer Sprite Backup. It has never failed on me and is very simple to use.
I think he meant a way to backup the whole rom rather than his files/settings.
Check out the following thread for how to dump and reconstruct your original ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=337066
Hi there,
I have another question today where I did not find any anwer to by searching the forum.
I am now about to give the Dr. Gonzo WM61 ROM a try. However in the unlikely case I do not like it I would like to go back to the original WM60 ROM provided by HTC.
As my current installation is heavily customized, is there any way to save the current installation and put it back if required? I mean with all settings, installed software etc.?
Something which I can easily do on a Windows PC by using software like Trueimage oder Ghost.
Is there a way to achieve this with Windows Mobile somehow?
Many thanks already for your thoughts.
Have a nice day
Andi
You can use Sprite Backup program but it is not recomanded to restore settings from one rom to another...
No problem with using sprite backup if you revert to your original rom.
Just reflash it. Install Sprite backup. Restore your backup and everything should be back as it was before flashing 6.1.
However if you keep 6.1, then you are better to re-install all your applications rather than restoring from the backup, unless you are carefull to only restore things that do not conflict with the new version.
Yes, heed the above advice. If you are WM6.0 and upgrading to 6.1 - make a complete and self-extracting backup using Sprite Backup. If you decide you don't like WM6.1, drop back to your original ROM and you can restore your backup to exactly how it was prior to your upgrade.
You can merge specific data from 6.0 to 6.1 however registry entries will not come over properly - which means all you can really restore are SMS and PIM.
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AndiP said:
Hi there,
I have another question today where I did not find any anwer to by searching the forum.
I am now about to give the Dr. Gonzo WM61 ROM a try. However in the unlikely case I do not like it I would like to go back to the original WM60 ROM provided by HTC.
As my current installation is heavily customized, is there any way to save the current installation and put it back if required? I mean with all settings, installed software etc.?
Something which I can easily do on a Windows PC by using software like Trueimage oder Ghost.
Is there a way to achieve this with Windows Mobile somehow?
Many thanks already for your thoughts.
Have a nice day
Andi
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This can be done by means enabling the r2sd function in the SPL. Unfortunately this is not really user friendly
Many thanks
Hello,
I am overwhelmed of that many answers and just say a big thank you to all who answered.
Will give SpriteBackup a serious try now, maybe also try the "user unfriendly" r2sd function afterwards.
Many many thanks for you, really making this forum a great platform!
BR
Andi
Hello,
I have flashed my Fuze with a WM 6.5 ROM without TouchFlo. I am now in need of TouchFlo, but do not want to wipe out all the data and contacts from my phone. Is there a place I can download a TF3D version (latest is good, but older version is fine too) to install WITHOUT flashing another ROM?
Thanks,
Walletless
just do a search, theres alot of versions and themes. its really not hard to find.
or you could back up all your data with pim backup or sprite and then flash to a rom with tf3d
walletless said:
Hello,
I have flashed my Fuze with a WM 6.5 ROM without TouchFlo. I am now in need of TouchFlo, but do not want to wipe out all the data and contacts from my phone. Is there a place I can download a TF3D version (latest is good, but older version is fine too) to install WITHOUT flashing another ROM?
Thanks,
Walletless
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Go here and snoop around: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=542113, post #4 is the download. DO NOT JUST GO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL!!! Read the information posts. There is good info in there and if you jack your phone up because you didn't read it's not anyones fault but your own. Hope this is what you were looking for.
Thanks everyone. I will try s8p8's suggestion