[INFO] Backup the pds partition of your Atrix!

[Rayan]

Done...

Thanks!

Sent from my Atrix using Tapatalk

 

[fernandodistinto]

Done through adb. Thanks a lot.

 

[DeathKoil]

I did it through a terminal window on the phone, I have an external SD Card installed so I used the following string of commands:

su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard-ext/pds.img

The output I got was:

4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
2097152 bytes transfered in 2.746 secs (763711 bytes/sec)


This created a file on the root of my SD Card called pds.img
The file size is exactly 2MB.

If you see similar output you did it correctly.

DK

 

[shawnbuck]

dd stands for "dumb disk". What it does is read every bit of the source individually, copying them as is. It ignores things like formatting, so it is useful for copying whole images and restoring them.

 

[joe ferreira]

+1 vote for sticky!

 

[_Dennis_]

Ah. Thank you.

Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk

 

[nexxusty]

From Wikipedia: "dd is a common Unix program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data............. dd can also be used to copy regions of raw device files, e.g. backing up the boot sector of a hard disk, or to read fixed amounts of data from special files like /dev/zero or /dev/random.[4]"

So, I am a n00b on using adb (etc..) so I will explain the way I did it using adb.


1. Make sure you have adb.exe installed on your computer and connect the phone to the computer. (I got my adb.exe from the Gladroot script. Here is a link: http://goo.gl/jHiJc)
2. Open a command window
3. Browse to the directory where the adb.exe is and type the following (press enter after each line):
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard-ext/pds.img


Now, if you DON'T have a SDcard in your phone, take out the "-ext" from that last line.

The file (pds.img) should now be in either the internal sdcard or on your physical sdcard, as nexxusty described.

I hope that helps some as it took me a while to learn this.
Sorry if this is too noob for some, but I started from zero knowledge of this

Bang on bro.

Looks like you have the hang of things man!

 

[SolidHelix]

Everyone can't have the Unlock... Bell is denied for now.

This is sweet though. Thanks for the tip.

I understand this is true, but really... how many different hardware configurations did they make? and why? It hardly makes sense.. from a manufacturing standpoint its cheaper to make them all the same.. if they wanted different software for different carriers, wasn't the locked bootloader enough to prevent people from messing with it?

 

[KeRmiT80]

would be helpfull if some of you guys with a pds intact partition could tell us (whose have already broken it) which files or folders are inside,

we have partially restored our phones using the dump floating aro
und, but seems there are some cpu thermal sensors configuration we cannot find (and our phones run max at 50% cpu speed)

so if someone that knows could at least give us the directory scheme...

thank you

 

[xabierd]

would be helpfull if some of you guys with a pds intact partition could tell us (whose have already broken it) which files or folders are inside,

we have partially restored our phones using the dump floating aro
und, but seems there are some cpu thermal sensors configuration we cannot find (and our phones run max at 50% cpu speed)

so if someone that knows could at least give us the directory scheme...

thank you

How can u know your CPU speed?

I backed up my PDA partition after unlocking bootloader. Is it a good backup?

Sent from my MB860

 

[KeRmiT80]

/sys/device/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/

inside you can read with text editor from root explorer all the kernel values and curret freq too...

but you cannot edit without a module at least, we'll see if with gingerbread kernel devs will be succesfull...

if we cannot bypass the thermal throttle we can cheat the cpu its 100% are 2ghz so at least we can have 1 ghz cores running again

ps i see gingerbread made visible the /pds partition...

 

[wirednix]

/sys/device/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/

inside you can read with text editor from root explorer all the kernel values and curret freq too...

but you cannot edit without a module at least, we'll see if with gingerbread kernel devs will be succesfull...

if we cannot bypass the thermal throttle we can cheat the cpu its 100% are 2ghz so at least we can have 1 ghz cores running again

ps i see gingerbread made visible the /pds partition...

Do you still need that list of files inside PDS?

 

[KeRmiT80]

Do you still need that list of files inside PDS?

if possible
i think there is something missing we almost replace every damned partition img on the phone, now even the boot one...the problem must be in the pds

 

[jruweaver]

pds

bt
bt_bdaddr (17b)

lost+found(empty)

public
battd
batt_offset_data (10b)
batt_phasing_data (12b)
batt_tuning_data (256b)
hiddenmenu
data(empty)

security
iprm.dat (1.77kb)
keymaptable.dat (464b)
keyring.dat (1.28kb)

wifi
wlan_mac.bin (6b)

wmdrm(empty)

pds_formatted_v8 (0.00kb)

 

[perdurabo2]

This should work:

1. Install Android SDK per directions on site.
2. cd $SDK_DIR/platform-tools
3. ./adb shell
4. su
5. dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard/pds.img
6. exit
7. exit
8 ./adb pull /sdcard/pds.img ~/
or
8. Remove SD card and plug it into a computer adapter and copy the file off manually.

 

[jruweaver]

pds

bt
bt_bdaddr (17b)

lost+found(empty)

public
battd
batt_offset_data (10b)
batt_phasing_data (12b)
batt_tuning_data (256b)
hiddenmenu
data(empty)

security
iprm.dat (1.77kb)
keymaptable.dat (464b)
keyring.dat (1.28kb)

wifi
wlan_mac.bin (6b)

wmdrm(empty)

pds_formatted_v8 (0.00kb)

those are the contents of my pds folder

 

[KeRmiT80]

Thank You!

you have gingerbread, havent you? (pds_formatted_v8, v2 and v4 were froyo)

actually i have more directories

camera/lsc.isp
factory/byte , fti
tpapi/
whisper/installed0 , installed0.dat , whisper_only

but i'm missing

security/iprm.dat

 

[jruweaver]

Thank You!

you have gingerbread, havent you? (pds_formatted_v8, v2 and v4 were froyo)

actually i have more directories

camera/lsc.isp
factory/byte , fti
tpapi/
whisper/installed0 , installed0.dat , whisper_only

Yes i'm running the leaked 2.3.4

 

[fallchild]

hm

What about those of us who already ****** up our phones by partitioning the internal sd and have the half working touch screen with no use of buttons on the bottom row. Its weird as hell but ive adapted to using the phone by typing way off to text and using the task manager to switch around apps.. even going to the market to open apps i already have. My phone has been pretty much a POS for about 3 months now and i just came across this thread and i was wondering if this would help those of us who already ****** the phones up and dont have a copy of this file. Thanks

 

[Blue Puma]

What about those of us who already ****** up our phones by partitioning the internal sd and have the half working touch screen with no use of buttons on the bottom row. Its weird as hell but ive adapted to using the phone by typing way off to text and using the task manager to switch around apps.. even going to the market to open apps i already have. My phone has been pretty much a POS for about 3 months now and i just came across this thread and i was wondering if this would help those of us who already ****** the phones up and dont have a copy of this file. Thanks

Off topic, but here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14862229&postcount=9