Backups

Before hacking on your EZX phone you should probably create backups of all contents on the phone, as things may break.

Flash Disks

Phone	AP NOR	AP NAND	BP
A780	32MB	64MB	??
A910	64MB	-	4MB
A1200	64MB	-	4MB
E2	64MB	-	4MB
E6	64MB	-	4MB
E680	32MB	64MB	??

	backup possible with 2.6.x kernel or gen-blob
	backup possible with motorola 2.4 kernel
	backup possible with RAMLDR
	no known backup method

Using the OpenEZX 2.6 kernel

• At the moment there is no mtd mapping on the code on git.openezx.org/openezx.git. But in general this is as easy as running

cat /dev/mtd? > firmware.bin

Using gen-blob

Download gen-blob, send it to the phone with boot_usb, while holding the VOL+ key pressed, you will see "USB ready" on the phone screen, now you can use boot_usb to read flash contents.

• send gen-blob to the phone:

./boot_usb gen-blob 0 # Dont forget to hold the vol+ key.

• backup the firmware:

./boot_usb read 0 33554432 firmware.bin # for phones with 32MB NOR
./boot_usb read 0 67108864 firmware.bin # for phones with 64MB NOR

Using the motorola 2.4 kernel (older method)

Please note that the newer moto-boot-usb method is much more safer and you shouldn't need to use those following methods.

For the record: Elvadas and Jumit wrote a backup tools in C, you can download it from here from motorolafans.com, or its source code to use it in another phone than A780, read it's instructions, send praise to the authors jumit & evaldas and install it! To copy your firmware, you will need to make sure that you have at least 52 MB (for the A780) available on your TransFlash drive (54,525,952 bytes). Now run DumpFW and allow it to finish (it will take a few minutes). Once it completes, copy the firmware files firmware.dump and tffsa.dmp to your hard drive. It is advisable to notate the firmware version you have extracted as well.

Another backup tool (made for E2, but can be used on other EZX phones with some modifications), is "getos" , see code.google.com/e2mod.

Note that from the stock user interface, as long as you can execute/write a script, or have a terminal access, some dd command should do the backup of the /dev/mtdX partitions, and /dev/roflashX as well. Theses command should be used to write on SD/MMC some working backups of theses respectives "codegroups". One can send these commands with a remote control access, using telnet, ssh or else (thrue the bluetooth Net, USBNet, WLan 802.11, GPRS... :-) ), just pay attention to the link quality when transfering the resulting backup files and prefer using directly a card-reader to copy them (avoid netcat! ).

Using Ramldr/Ramldr2

Ramldr is old flashing tool for nonlinux motorola phones. Can be found here. Since Ezx Gen2 BP is just same LTE2 as old phones, old tools can be used here. Keep in mind, Ramdldr2 cant flash our BP, just read or erase.