[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Anthony Newman:
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Subject: SMS Backup

From: Anthony Newman

Date: 26 Dec, 2002 20:08:08

Hi Folks,

Thanks again for all your great work on the site. I was just

wondering if I could pick your brains on an issue that's been

bugging me.

I've searched google with every possible permutation of this

query, and it astonishes me that no-one's covered it - have I

been missing something really obvious?

I'd like to back up my text messages. Inbox doesn't sync them

with Outlook, nor does it offer any kind of backup tool. Short

of copying and pasting the text, date and recipient of each

message into a text file or email, is there a database I can

backup and use?

The reason I ask is because I'm trying to cover every

eventuality for when I flash my generic Spaceneedle with the

T-Mobile ROM that was released recently. I've carefully

catalogued every preference, program and file on my device ready

for fresh reinstallation with the exception of my text messages.

I could, of course, do a backup with Sprite's excellent

software, but I'd rather not do even a partial restore of a

backup from an old ROM version.

Any ideas, folks? Many thanks in advance!

Subject: Oh, never mind.

From: Anthony Newman

Date: 26 Dec, 2002 20:37:18

Having studiously backed everything up, made note of all my

settings and got everything set up just perfect...

... the T-Mobile utility won't let me upgrade my device. I

receive a check error showing device differences, and the only

difference appears to be the following:

My model: PW10B1:100

The upgrade's model: PW10B1:002

Can anyone let me know what the differences between the numbers

after the colons are?

This is really frustrating, as in terms of actual hardware my

device is the same as the T-Mobile, and I'd love the increased

speed and stability of the new ROM. Any help?

Subject: Oh, and just another thing...

From: Ant

Date: 26 Dec, 2002 20:41:57

I'm aware that I can try flashing with the bootloader method,

but I wanted to check that there weren't any known issues first

:)

Subject: To continue my monologue...

From: Ant

Date: 27 Dec, 2002 00:21:39

My update went perfectly well, and I now have the new T-Mobile

ROM working nicely on my generic Spaceneedle with my O2 UK SIM.

Even GPRS works as well as it used to (which is intermittent at

best). Thanks for XDArit! :D

Subject: ROM Hack

From: mike

Date: 27 Dec, 2002 07:15:31

I was able to hack a ROM file with a hex editor to change its

version number. The version number is found within the first 32

bytes of the ROM file.

You also have to alter the checksum which is a number also found

in those first 32 bytes... three or four hex digits. IT should

be fairly obvious, since

If you increment an ASCII digit, you must also increment the

checksum. Decrement ASCII digit, decrement the checksum. Since

you'll change a 1 to a 0 (-1) and change a 0 to a 2 (+2), your

net change is +1 and you must add 1 to the checksum.

That said, whatever this ROM does to your phone is your risk. I

already screwed up my T-mobile phone, granted that was due to me

flashing the US radio with a European update, this shouldn't be

so bad, but do cross your fingers.

mike

Subject: .nbf files in RUU upgrade

From: XDA developers

Date: 29 Dec, 2002 14:21:29

You'll find that the XDArit already supports reading these files

and parsing out the bootloader and WinCE image. (We ignore the

checksum, but write the correct one for the bootloader on the SD

card...)