Since it seems that no one has figured out how to make a custom recovery for this phone with ICS yet (or will ever), does anyone know if I could simply do the following to make backups of my viper:
to backup:
to restore:
I have already tried this with recovery:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/recovery.img
and then
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
and recovery booted OK, so I am assuming that there is no reason why all the above commands wouldn't work. Is there any potential problem with this before I go and brick something?
I also noticed that the recovery image that I got form the phone was like 10mb larger than the one I originally flashed for some reason...not sure why, but when I flashed it back everything worked fine.
edit: hmm... it just occurred to me that you probably can't write to these partitions while android is running, can you?...hence the need for a recovery...
to backup:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p29 of=/sdcard/data.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 of=/sdcard/system.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/boot.imgto restore:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/data.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p29
dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p27
dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8I have already tried this with recovery:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/recovery.img
and then
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
and recovery booted OK, so I am assuming that there is no reason why all the above commands wouldn't work. Is there any potential problem with this before I go and brick something?
I also noticed that the recovery image that I got form the phone was like 10mb larger than the one I originally flashed for some reason...not sure why, but when I flashed it back everything worked fine.
edit: hmm... it just occurred to me that you probably can't write to these partitions while android is running, can you?...hence the need for a recovery...
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