e895 rare phone 300obo

[systdow666]

i have here an e895 egineering sample phone from motorola research and development team asking 300 obo pm me your offers will consider trades of any sort (reasonable)thanks and heres the pics

[sabrod]

What does 300 obo means?
Thanks.

[systdow666]

or best offer (obo) mmeans make me an offer if you dont like the price lol

[sabrod]

30 bucks ! (probably not totally working phone , that what research and devellopment sounds, to me...)
Did you meant 300USD ??? Dude, be more realistic!

[systdow666]

phone fully works and is ready to go just dont like linux or the wasy the phone operates i had to set a price why i put obo i take offers i dont like the phone but 30 bucks come on

[sabrod]

Hi systdow666
Still the phone is in your hands? Please do a backup before flashing! ( Backups - OpenEZX ), you have a quite rare firmware/ phone, in this area of the world!!
But reading the guide to flashing, a sticky on the a1200 subforum, you have a method to switch to flash mode without pressing any key on the phone
You plug the phone (booted, and in any mode, i think) and basicly you click on "show device" on rsdlite... It will swich to MBM flash mode "automaticly" (an ioctl in the kernel set a flag in memory, so the phone reboot on flash mode).
Or maybe try motorola PST , i can't tell if it's RSD or PST...

[systdow666]

what do u want me to do

[sabrod]

If you can go in MBM flash mode, using that motorola automatic method, then you can probably follow the wiki guide here: Backups - OpenEZX ...
basicely, on linux type:

#get the tools
wget http://people.openezx.org/wyrm/gen-blob/gen-blob
wget http://people.openezx.org/wyrm/boot_usb
#initilalise the phone
./boot_usb setflag usb
./boot_usb gen-blob 0
#read (backup the whole flash mem)
./boot_usb read 0x0 0x3FFFFFFF <backup_file>

But maybe you should cut the firmware in some parts... So you can either reach me by mail, or here, or PM if you want to know the real partitionning of the flash, or cut at random places... Say each 16Megs (=0xFFFFFFF in hexa base), this will make easier to reflash partial firmware, or retry a failed backup (in case)...

So backup like this example, it is preferable:

./boot_usb read 0x0 0xFFFFFFF backup_e895_1_0x0
./boot_usb read 0x10000000 0x1FFFFFFF backup_e895_2_0x10000000
./boot_usb read 0x20000000 0x2FFFFFFF backup_e895_3_0x20000000

./boot_usb read 0x30000000 0x3FFFFFFF backup_e895_4_0x30000000

Of course, if you want to mod into the jffs2, and cramfs codegroups (partitions), you need the real partitionning... (i can help you to extract and recover it)

[sabrod]

Oh, and when you ae in MBM mode, could you tell me the writings on it ?
I suspect the e895 codename is "barbados" but i'm not sure, and usually the MBM mode write this
Sorry, i'm very curious
ps if you have some difficulties (segfaults with bootusb, i could send you another one...)

[systdow666]

no clue what your talking about with this im not sure i have used rsd but never gen blob thats kinda why i wanted to get rid of this phone or trade it lol