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Seeker
July 7th, 2010, 20:12
This mobile phone (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9379) has 2 memories:
Internal - da0 - 28 MB
External - da1 - 468 MB

I decided to experiment with Internal da0, so before editing it, I did:
# dd if=/dev/da0 of=/usr/downloads/sony_ericsson.img bs=1m

After doing what I wanted. I decided to revert it to original state:
# dd of=/dev/da0 if=/usr/downloads/sony_ericsson.img bs=1m
But it failed, at 6th MB and I had to unplug it, as any operation on it would result in input/output error.

After unplugging it, mobile phone worked.

Then I decided to take a second restoring approach:
# dd of=/dev/da0 if=/usr/downloads/sony_ericsson.img conv=sync
dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured
33238+0 records in
33237+0 records out
17017344 bytes transferred in 7574.571292 secs (2247 bytes/sec)

Now after unplugging it, It can't start!
When I push ON button or plug it in PC by USB, it start blinking, white/black screen infinitively.
The only way to stop it, is to take battery out, from it.
Now, when I connect it, to PC, it can't access it, in order to attempt 'dd' image writing again.
What am I supposed to do now?!

And why did things went so terribly wrong?! :q

fronclynne
July 7th, 2010, 23:24
Search the internet for your model of phone and see if there's a way to "hard reset" it?
Take the battery out and press the power button a bunch of times, maybe (this sometimes helps to discharge the capacitors inside)?
Take it back to the phone people?

I don't know much about phone hardware, but I'd guess the answer is "Don't do that". They don't call it "disk destroyer" for nothing.

lyuts
July 8th, 2010, 07:13
I had the same behaviour on my Sony Ericsson. The difference, I didn't experiment with it. It just started blinking, just like yours. Get setool2, mbn, fbn and customization archive to fix that. Make sure you get that files for the right CID.

Seeker
July 12th, 2010, 20:24
I had to flash it.
I've used XS++ for W810i
And I already had .mbn, .fbn files(still latest), as I re-flashed it 2 years ago, when I've bought it.
Done!