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Re: Anyway of backing up though the bootloader?
I explicitly set the font to black, so hopefully it will be more readable.
Unfortunately ActiveSync is for Windows to Windows communication. Under XP there is a program running, wcescomm.exe, which is half of the pair for this to work. Without Windows Mobile running, the other half is missing. To read the ROM in the bootloader (assuming one could), an application would have to talk to the device directly through the USB port and act as if it was verifying a flash. I have read of some places doing data recovery on phones, but don't know if that is as extreme as removing the flash chip and reading it that way. It seems to me someone who could offer software to read a phone in flash mode, they could make some money given the prevalence of pda and smart phones on the market now.
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The other day my TP hung after I ignored a call while using it tethered. I soft reset it, but now it only boots to the TouchPro screen with red lettering on the bottom. Even though I have Sprite, it has been awhile since I ran a backup, however most of my important data is on a SD card. I was able to get into the firmware update screen and there use TeraTerm to run info commands. However I was very disappointed to find out that all of the MFG commands, such as 'd2s', 's2d', 'r2sd' have been removed. Obviously using Sprite ever day would help (I still use Archie for SMS messages), however it seems odd to me that no one has a ROM reader for this phone. When it is flashed does it not do a read back verify? I figured a post here wouldn't hurt, as I have looked extensively everywhere else. Has anyone put the boot loader back to .25 which had the ROM to SD command? I understand HTC reasoning behind removing these commands, still it would be nice if there was a way of pulling an image that way. Maybe Sprite could add it in to their backup software? My next step will be to re-flash and in doing so wipeout any chance of recovering more of my data. With a Windows based OS, there really needs to be more recovery options than what we currently have.
J!
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