Yeah, and as I said, I just got it, I assume (yep I know .. ass of you and me) that I will get better at doing this, but it will also get more customized. So .. I don't expect my time to get better, and I wonder if Nokia could not change their priorities and give us this fuctionality earlier .. sorry guys, but I think it's important. Gary Baribault Courriel: gary at baribault.net GPG Key: 0x4346F013 GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 Thomas Leavitt wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > >
