[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yes, as requested by all of us to [MENTION=4161843]ktimque[/MENTION], the thread maintainer, it was added to the instruction guide and some changes were made because the guide itself had become old and outdated. After the page had been updated, the pds folder stuff was left out, and again upon requst to ktimque, that part was finally added. [MENTION=240993]casper[/MENTION] did a very good job explaining it to us. He is also correct to say if you do not have it, don't bother looking, it is gone forever. One thing you cannot do without it is to run the wifical.sh script as root in a terminal because the WiFi information bin file will be gone and you will get a generic address. There are some other camera, battery, and screen calibration files in there, however, the phone will still work fine without it. Those were the original specs for the individual device placed in that folder tree by the final inspector at the manufacturing plant. The general spec restore you get without it will work for most people, unless two of you have the same WiFi MAC on an wireless system that uses the MAC for access.

Casper is also right that if you need to restore your WiFi MAC address, it is possible to change it, but you will need to know what that address used to be. So go to /Settings/About Phone/ and scroll down where the WiFi MAC is visible and take a screenshot so at least you will *know* what it was before and can change it back.

So, if you still have it, back it up off the device to your PC, flash drive, or burn it to a CD just to keep it so it can be restored to it's initial location if you ever lose it. The permissions should also be properly checked or set, manually in a rooted File Manager. Without a Linux gernerated zip of the folder and it's children, made into a flash-able zip, then the permissions would need be set by hand. I have a backup of the folder and a listing of all owners and permissions on the file tree if anyone wants it. I will attach pds.txt which is a file listing that shows the owner, group, and all permissions for each file and folder.

[MENTION=1807728]brkahughes[/MENTION]

Hey Brian, you are good at making flash zip files. If I can create a Linux or Android zip file of the pds file and its tree of folders and files with the correct permissions set, do you think you can make a flash file that will unzip this file as root to the very root of the file system, "/"? If we can do that, it would allow one to flash the pds file in Safe Strap and all the correct file permissions and ownership would be correct if the zipping were done in a Linux or Android system. When stargo comes back, I can ask him how to pull the file tree with ADB commands, or do it myself with a little research, then zip it up so if unzipped on an Android to / it would unpack the contents in the proper place, with all of the proper permissions set. Do you want to join me on the project, Brian?

EDIT:

Just tried pulling the folder with ADB, once on Linux system, I was the owner and group of the files. Tried zipping it in ES File Explorer and could not retain permissions. You have to give me some time to see if this is even possible. Stargo will know, will ask him. :confused:

For now, if you ever have to restore this folder, do it with a rooted File Manager and then check/set all folder and file permissions manually. There are not many files and folders to do this with so the job is not that bad. But I sure love the simplicity that a good flash zip could do, IF, I could make one.