Would take me at least that long... took that long when I had to re-flash my N770 after a system crash, just a few days after I bought the thing. Now? Much longer, I'm sure. Probably several hours, continuous, and then several days of fiddling and oh I forgot that, etc. Thomas Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > I'm 3-4 hours. > > Nick. > > -----Original Message----- > From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] > On Behalf Of Gary Baribault > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 3:44 PM > To: Jac Kersing > Cc: maemo-users at maemo.org > Subject: Re: 4.2007.38-2 available > > I'm sure that some of the N800 owners can backup/flash/restore in 20 > minutes, but I would really be curious how many people take over 90 > minutes. I'm near there and have only had the toy for about 20 days. By > the time I'm finished customizing the application load, configurations, > ssh keys, and assorted other things, I will be well over that 90 > minutes, and I'm sure many other owners are even more customized! > > Anyone care to host a survey of all applications that we load and how > much time it takes to reflash/customize/restore? (Not to mention re-test > the restore!) > > > Gary Baribault > Courriel: gary at baribault.net > GPG Key: 0x4346F013 > GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 > > > > Jac Kersing wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Michael Wiktowy wrote: >> >> >>> Reality is that they are much closer to the resource constrains of a >>> cell phone and I don't know of a single cell phone that doesn't just >>> wipe everything that isn't on the SIM or external memory card on a >>> firmware update ... >>> >> Sorry, not true. All (recent) S60 devices are firmware upgradable, backup >> before, flash new firmware, restore and all applications are available. >> (Somehow they forget to save/restore the bluetooth pairing information, >> but everything works just fine) >> >> >>> All that being said, I am not sure how many apps you have but reloading >>> my IT after a firmware update has never taken me 2-4 hours. >>> >> Having to reinstall is a pain. Enabling blue pill mode for some packages. >> Resetting the root password after install of sshd. It is not cool to have >> to do every OS upgrade. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jac >> >> --- >> Jac Kersing Technical Consultant The-Box Development >> j.kersing at the-box.com CISSP RHCE http://www.the-box.com >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> maemo-users at maemo.org >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
