[Q] How to back up efs in motorola milestone

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hi guys,,

i have this problem with my milestone everytime i restore from nandriod backup..

the baseband is resorting to unknown as well as the imei,

i read the net about backing up the efs..
the problem is the instruction i got is seemed to be for samsung..

m having trouble backing it up..

is there any thread here that i can read to back up my efs..

and u if ur knowledgeable abbout this scenario..

can u please educate me on how to do this..

it would be greatly appreated..

pleas

As far as I know, there is no need to make a backup of EFS; since it doesn't exists in Milestone.

true, efs partition does not exist on milestone. I belive the exact same data on milestone is on the pds. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1558483 thread contains info if you wish to backup pds.

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Originally Posted by deathnote013

hi guys,,

i have this problem with my milestone everytime i restore from nandriod backup..

the baseband is resorting to unknown as well as the imei,

i read the net about backing up the efs..
the problem is the instruction i got is seemed to be for samsung..

m having trouble backing it up..

is there any thread here that i can read to back up my efs..

and u if ur knowledgeable abbout this scenario..

can u please educate me on how to do this..

it would be greatly appreated..

pleas

Search for some flashable radios for milestone. You flash them through OpenRecovery. Btw, there are radios already included in OpenRecovery.

And this post is really not for develeopment section. General would be proper place for it. There is no moderator for this forum and kabaldan is the only dev left but still...

thanks dude..

i tried flashing the radios as well using OR but still imei is unknown as well as the baseband..

i read the thread and tried to back up the pds using

tar -cf /sdcard/pds.tar pds

but it says that there is no such file... how can i back it up using console in OP and if i was able to back it up.. how can i restore it when i restored from nandriod

m running eclair right now.. 2.1

Originally Posted by deathnote013

thanks dude..

i tried flashing the radios as well using OR but still imei is unknown as well as the baseband..

i read the thread and tried to back up the pds using

tar -cf /sdcard/pds.tar pds

but it says that there is no such file... how can i back it up using console in OP and if i was able to back it up.. how can i restore it when i restored from nandriod

m running eclair right now.. 2.1

to access /pds on OpenRecovery console you must first manually mount the partition.

mkdir /pds
mount /dev/block/mtdblock5 /pds

I cant remember the correct mtdblock, but you can cat /proc/mtd | grep pds
Then you can backup

tar -cf /sdcard/pds.tar /pds

Originally Posted by drmedarius

to access /pds on OpenRecovery console you must first manually mount the partition.

mkdir /pds
mount /dev/block/mtdblock5 /pds

I cant remember the correct mtdblock, but you can cat /proc/mtd | grep pds
Then you can backup

tar -cf /sdcard/pds.tar /pds

thanks dude... very helpful..
and how can i restore it using OR??