I have a complete backup a little over 1 week old of my previous i-Mate PDA2k which holds over 10 years of appointments, contacts, etc. which I migrated from device to device over the years. My backup was made with the x-Backup application to an external memory card and the file CompactFlashBackUpNew has 97.2 mb. This device had the original rom and the operating system in English.It was purchased in 12/2004.
Last week I lost this PDA2K in a taxi so I shopped around (in Brazil) for a similar used device and was able to find a QTEK 9090, unfortunately no PDA2K showed up. This device has the original rom but the operating system is in Portuguese (rom version 1.40.15 PTB 3/11/2005). When I start the restore from the external memory card I notice that required space says 100299.17 KB (this looks ok) but the available space says 64396 KB which is of course much less. Since the device has 128 mb ram it's strange. I checked the memory settings and it shows that it has 125.77 mb main memory. I found with the old PDA2K that you can't really trust x-Backup, especially the percentages on the progress bar, so I went ahead anyway.
My problem is that after the restore finishes, the device doesn't work because no applications can run, not even the file manager. Just the configurations work.
I noticed in the configuration system screen that some icons are in English and some in Portuguese so my hunch is that both versions of the OS are there together and so take up much more room. I also tried to restore using the option "only contacts and appointments" but in this case the "start" button is disabled and the required and available space information says "none". However if I try to make a backup only of contacts and appointments it lets me do it. So right now I'm wondering hos to get my data back.
I thouhgt of flashing a rom in English but would like to avoid that if possible since it might also not help.
Any ideas of how I could go about restoring my backup?
I also have a QTEK s9100 (OS in Portuguese) available but on this one there is no x-Backup because it has a completely different version of Windows so that's the reason I went for the 9090.
Thanks.
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Hi everybody.
I use backup manager to do nightly backups to 40mb i-mate flash storage.
This night backup locked up, and after soft-reset, my "Storage" disappeared! It's invisible in file manager and in "Memory" applet of control panel.
"Storage card" folder & functionality A-ok.
Could someone help me to resolve this issue?
i'm no expert, however i have 2 xda2's, the newer one of which had no storage memory. i upgraded the rom to 1.72whatever on both of them and the storage appeared.
If you have a full backup that you can rely on its worth hard resetting your phone.
I had the exact same thing the other day! I have no clue what caused this.
Grtz,
DUTCH
To my it has passed me equal several times, because will be able to be. It has been solved you to you
I have got a 1gb SD card in my Orange SPV M2000 which i use all the time, i never take it out, but occasionally my Storage Card folder dissapears s i cannot load apps on the storage card. A soft reset restores everything, but it gets annoying especially when i sych my music off my media center pc, because when the storage card is not available it fills up my internal memory with the music instead and i have to manually delete it. :evil:
my next problem concerns Bluetooth & Wifi i can only have one on at a time. i have bluetooth on at all times and when i start wifi it does not turn on until i do a soft reset, but then i recieve an error on bootup that bluetooth can not switch on due to lack of driver memory. i can then use wifi without bluetooth but i then need to turn wifi off and do a soft reset again to get bluetooth working.
I have over 30mb storage and 30mb program memory and no adjusting of the slider will get this working. (i can find a setting for driver memory)
does anyone know how i can resolve this as i would like to use wifi quickly without the rigmarole of a soft reset.
can anyone else run Wifi and bluetooth at the same time on thier blueangel?? if so what rom version are you running?
I am running the rom versions below, its a cooked rom
Hi Fuzzysb
I had the same issues on the O2 UK ROM 1.31 WWE and to a lesser extent on the i-mate 1.40.176WWE.
I recently switched to the O2Asia ROM (in my signature block below) and things have improved a whole lot. This ROM has a much nicer wireless manager implementation and I can switch between GPRS and Wi-Fi very easily, with BT running all the time. I still get some out of memory messages and have difficulty accessing BT Settings and BT Manager, but one the whole much less than with other ROMS.
hope that helps
Regards
Chris
I seriously need to upgrade to the 1.40 rom. i havnt found the confidence yet as it invalidates the garauntee.
give me confidence ... o lord.
Hi alitech
Well, since the wiki site also has all the original shipped ROMS posted, you can always reflash it back to your original ROM, if for some reason you have to return your device. If you read the wiki site, you will see that you can use the MAUdate utility to flash any of the WWE ROMS to your device. then use it again to flash it back to the original shipped ROM if you ever need to. Hope that helps
Regards
chris
Yeah well, I just converted back to wM2003se 1.40.00 asian rom for my xda iis, and its wonderful and all but when I formatted my ROM from 128kb, I made it 16000kb which is almost 16mb, its about 15.58 it says when I unlock it, and I installed my extended rom on it and it still says I have some room left over, is this normal? I don't think I set it to the correct size but yet its still working =/
Hi
Yep... it's pretty normal.
Extrom (when unlocked) acts as a standard "storage" type disk.
You can add cabs to it or delete cabs from it. That's what makes these devices very nice to pre-configure.
I was installing and customising my phone and i ran into some troubles...
i had spb pocket plus, aebuttons and wm5torage installed (amongst others but...)
wm5torage converted all my spare memory on the 2gb card to flash memory and worked, but did not convert it back when the software was deactivated.
i had the aebuttons software installed, but did not work, and i also had the spbpocketplus installed on the card
the wm5torage blipped out and renamed the storage card to storage card 2, meaning that the spbpocketplus tried to ran it could not! this completely froze the orbit and refused to run. now by the safe mode that was with spb i managed to boot up the system, uninstall the offending softwares, renamed the storage card, took it out, booted, replaced and this basically set the phone to almost factory settings (minus the theme)
but this also destroyed some of the o2 custom settings that i liked (meters on the today screen, messages, device lock...) and also, the "extra" buttons 5 and 6 used for the camera and voice dial are now gone.
from the net ive found that the basics of these are found in the start > settings > today > items, but im left with 4 options in there, tasks, calendar, date and owner info.
whats the best option for me?
i reckon simply copying all the personal data to the storage card and taking the phone to the shop, who will just replace / send back to o2 for a reprogram of the rom, or is there a simple way for me to fix?
also, i know this is a stupid easy question, but how do i backup all my contacts AND extra data (if i backup to the sim i can only hold 99 names, and i lose secondary details (address, email etc..) also, i would like to backup so that when i get the new phone, i can run the backup again and my phone is back up to date...
i have the best part of 1500 messages, and 400 extended details of contacts that i can not afford to reinput into again!
thx
anyway, used the pim backup utility! excellent prog, stored all on the storage card, moved everything of value there also... then hard resetted and all is good!
reinstalled the progs i know work, put the theme back on and everythings great!
thx guys
hi,
this might be a stupid question being asked and answered 20 times before but i didn't find anything and that's why i'm asking here in particular:
is there a way to get rid of the extrom?
i did this with my blueangel before and it was easy and since the universal has too little memory for my needs and the programs in my extrom suck, i want to do it with that device too. plus i don't want the extrom to be flashed and compiled into a nbf file, but, again, comparable to the extrom for the blueangel i want it to be pt simply on the sd card, which brings the enormous advantage to be highly customizable and i don't need to carry around cabs (in the moment for programs that i don't want anyway) while i don't have space for the programs i need.
so my actual question would be:
- can i use repart_doc.exe and xda-unlock.cab to resize the extrom to 128kb and put an extrom on the sd card instead?
- does the extrom have the same format as on the blueangel (autorun.exe, cfg.txt, bunch of cabs)?
- can i do that in wm6.1, because on the BA i had to go back to wm2003 and couldn't do it in wm5 and above?
greetz, Chef_Tony
Don't think that by getting rid of extrom you will increase your memory. I think maybe blueangel was able to change amount of memory used between storage and program. This is not possible on uni, and it's set at 64MB a piece.
Perhaps wiki:MemoryStorageTypes will help.
the point is: it is generally possible, i know that from the blueangel, and it has nothing to do with the ratio of "program memory" to "storage memory" because that only exists for ramdisks, like back in the day in wm2003. the extrom is always a part of the storage space, just that it's hidden and locked by default, and with the blueangel you could easily resize it.
to explain a little more, since apparently this is not known to universal users:
the blueangel in wm2003 has:
32mb rom
112mb ram (program memory and ramdisk storage space, dynamically, still both lost in power failure)
44mb storage
16mb extrom
for wm6.5:
32mb rom (nothing changed so far)
112mb ram (ONLY program memory, RAM like known from the pc)
60mb storage (old storage space + old extrom made to one partition, usable for installing programs and storing files.)
don't get me wrong, i appreciate your answer, it just doesn't quite get my point.
and about your link:
let me quote a small passage:
Code:
ExtendedROM
Type: Internal Storage
Size: Is usually 9.96MB
What: Extra memory which doesn't survive a soft-reset.
Use: Anything you don't mind losing :)
eh?: This could be considered as a RAMDrive on a PC (that is, in that it's volatile, but not that it takes up any Program Memory)
+info: I use this for all cache (eg PIExplorer, Opera etc)
NB. Again, this is either made available or wasted space you can't use (see FlashDisk NB).
really? the extrom is lost after a soft reset? and how does it install the system enhancements after a hard reset? /irony
the contents of that article are simply wrong. or maybe something got mixed up...
i will just give it a try with the blueangel's tools, and if it works, i will re-post because it will revolutionize the way to look at roms, like it did in the BA section, although i fairly doubt that it would work since i can impossibly be the first to think of something like this.
thanks for your answer,
cheers,
Chef_Tony
ok, i fugured out how to unhide and unlock the extrom and deleted the contents. if i manage to join the former extrom, now "storage" with the original storage space, i finally can use the full memory potential of the device. if anyone wants to give me a hint, i would really appreciate it. probably then, the extrom can also be installed from the sd card and my original plan, not to carry around useless cab files, finally worked.
You are right, I've changed the wiki. Storage does survive soft rest (I wonder if it survives a hard-reset).
VNint did some tutorial on combined storage - can be found here. And Cotulla made a ROM - can be found here.
Hope this is helpful.
great to have you here at the Universal forum Chef_Tony. Sorry I can't offer any technical assistance, just came to give some encouragement
Keep up the good work!
-Jonny- said:
You are right, I've changed the wiki. Storage does survive soft rest (I wonder if it survives a hard-reset).
VNint did some tutorial on combined storage - can be found here. And Cotulla made a ROM - can be found here.
Hope this is helpful.
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Great change -Jonny-!!!
It is getting better every day!