[About XDA developers] Donphillipe:
Please lift the 10 post minimum

Can anyone authorize my ID to post to the developer forum without the 10 post minimum. I have my phone factory reset attempting a manual backup and I am stuck at a particular step. I need to post to this forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1818321

Thanks in advance!

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I would like to post the following:

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I have 40 years in support, old mainframe programmer + Windows + DOS but no Linux. I am retired and so considering I spent about 10 years on each OS I worked on in the past, I don't have that many years left to learn a new one inside and out like you guys. Call me a slow learner if you will. At this point just looking for a backup of my existing "system" so I can try to learn without bricking a stack of new phones in the process.

Now from the directions here I have made it to this point on my brand new Blu Studio 5.5s Android. This phone has none of either of the recovery boot loader support, so it is a manual backup/restore or nothing. Considering my expertise in Linux, I certainly need a backup before beginning to delve into this unit. Installing root with no backup scheme was a serious leap of faith (the existing bootloader won't even dump the user data to the SD card so it is pretty worthless).

I just want to do a full backup - nothing tricky..... (Of course eventually the step by step to restore would be nice too.)

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dp@homepc /blustudio

$ nc 127.0.0.1 5555 | pv -i 0.5 > mmcblk0.raw

0 B 0:00:00 [ 0 B/s] [<=>

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dp@homepc ~

$ adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555

dp@homepc ~

$ adb shell

shell@BLU:/ $ su

su

1|shell@BLU:/ $ /system/xbin/busybox nc -l -p 5555 -e /system/xbin/busybox dd if =/dev/block/mmcblk0

555 -e /system/xbin/busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 <

dd: can't open '/dev/block/mmcblk0': Permission denied

1|shell@BLU:/ $ ls -lR /dev/block

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ls -lR /dev/block

/dev/block:

brw------- root root 7, 0 2014-06-27 21:34 loop0

brw------- root root 7, 1 2014-06-27 21:34 loop1

brw------- root root 7, 2 2014-06-27 21:34 loop2

brw------- root root 7, 3 2014-06-27 21:34 loop3

brw------- root root 7, 4 2014-06-27 21:34 loop4

brw------- root root 7, 5 2014-06-27 21:34 loop5

brw------- root root 7, 6 2014-06-27 21:34 loop6

brw------- root root 7, 7 2014-06-27 21:34 loop7

brw-rw---- root system 179, 0 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0

brw-rw---- root system 179, 32 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0boot0

brw------- root root 179, 64 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0boot1

brw------- root root 179, 1 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p1

brw------- root root 179, 2 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p2

brw------- root root 179, 3 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p3

brw------- root root 179, 4 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p4

brw------- root root 179, 5 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p5

brw------- root root 179, 6 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p6

brw------- root root 179, 7 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p7

drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-06-27 21:34 platform

drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-06-27 21:34 vold

brw------- root root 253, 0 2014-06-27 21:34 zram0

/dev/block/platform:

drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mtk-msdc.0

/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0:

drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-06-27 21:34 by-num

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0 -> /dev/block/mmc blk0

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0boot0 -> /dev/bloc k/mmcblk0boot0

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0boot1 -> /dev/bloc k/mmcblk0boot1

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p1 -> /dev/block/m mcblk0p1

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p2 -> /dev/block/m mcblk0p2

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p3 -> /dev/block/m mcblk0p3

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p4 -> /dev/block/m mcblk0p4

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p5 -> /dev/block/m mcblk0p5

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p6 -> /dev/block/m mcblk0p6

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 mmcblk0p7 -> /dev/block/m mcblk0p7

/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-num:

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 p1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p 1

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 p2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p 2

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 p3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p 3

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 p4 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p 4

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 p5 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p 5

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 p6 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p 6

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-06-27 21:34 p7 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p 7

/dev/block/vold:

brw-rw---- root root 179, 0 2014-06-27 21:34 179:0

brw-rw---- root root 179, 1 2014-06-27 21:34 179:1

brw-rw---- root root 179, 2 2014-06-27 21:34 179:2

brw-rw---- root root 179, 3 2014-06-27 21:34 179:3

brw-rw---- root root 179, 4 2014-06-27 21:34 179:4

brw-rw---- root root 179, 5 2014-06-27 21:34 179:5

brw-rw---- root root 179, 6 2014-06-27 21:34 179:6

brw-rw---- root root 179, 7 2014-06-27 21:34 179:7

shell@BLU:/ $

Thanks in advance for any advise.