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This Howto shows you a way to backup the whole system on the AC100 to your hardrive. This is probably a good idea before you start playing with an alternativ OS. This Howto is written to be used on a Linux system, but it should easily usable on a Windows system as well.

For both procedures (Backing up and Restoring) your AC100 has to be in Recovery Mode!

Backing Up

  • Download the latest Linux For Tegra (L4T) package from here and unzip it
  • Open a terminal and change to the following directory: linux4tegra/nvflash
  • the following command sends the vanilla bootloader into your device RAM (it will not overwrite anything)
    # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./nvflash --bl ../prebuilt/fastboot.stock.bin --go
  • the following command saves your disk partitioning (very important!)
    # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./nvflash -r --getpartitiontable partitiontable.txt
  • use the following command with to save the partitions one by one to your harddisk (see Partition Layout for details)
    # for i in $(seq 2 14); do LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./nvflash -r --read $i part-$i.img; done

    You should endup with part-2.img, part-3.img [...] up to part-14.img, and partitiontable.txt.
    Keep them in a safe place if you intend to play a bit with your AC100.


Restoring

  • In the partitiontable.txt, you should see following pattern (you need the highlighted values for each partition you want to restore):

    PartitionId=[PartitionId]
    Name=...
    DeviceId=18
    StartSector=[StartSector]

    NumSectors=[NumSectors]
    BytesPerSector=2048
  • Open a terminal and change to the following directory: linux4tegra/nvflash
  • Reload the vanilla bootloader using the following command:
    # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./nvflash --bl fastboot.bin --go
  • For earch part-[PartitionId].img you want to restore, execute the following command:
    # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./nvflash -r --rawdevicewrite [StartSector] [NumSectors] part-[PartitionId].img
  • Reboot your device.
I used rawdevicewrite for part4, and my bootloader ceased to work until I also restored part2.



In case you forgot to backup your partitions first, you can get them from http://files.tomek.cedro.info/service/toshiba/ac100/toshiba-ac100-android2.2/. Note that partition 14 is a UserData and its size can differ among different devices hard disk size (please verify if partitions 2..13 are the same for all devices).


Easily Backing up and Restoring with AC100 Toolkit


The AC100-Toolkit is a shell based utility that makes the backup and restore process easier.
  • It automatically downloads and installs nvflash for you.
  • It can backup all your partitions with two simple commands.
  • Restoring your partitions also becomes easier.

For more informations, visit http://www.blogarm.net/ac100-toolkit




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OndřejŠeliga AC100-10N Can't restore user-data partiton after Ubuntu intallation 1 Dec 2 2011, 4:48 PM EST by xalps
Thread started: Nov 11 2011, 7:07 AM EST  Watch
Hi guys,

thank's to your great help I was able to install Ubuntu 11.04 to the internal partiton of my AC100-10N (32GB, no 3G). I used Ubuntu for few days, but one day it suddenly freeze and after hard-reboot it didn't start again. Because of slowness and instability of Ubuntu I decided to go back to original Android instead of trying to fix Ubuntu.
I restored all the partitions which I backed-up before the Ubuntu instalation, but I wasn't able to restore the backup of the biggest user-data partition (32GB in my case), which was formatted to nilfs and on which there is Ubuntu OS installed. Probably it was backed-up wrong. All other partitions was restored correctly. Now I can boot the Android OS, but I can't get the access to user-data partition. It is probably still formatted to nilfs. The problem is, that when I try to mount this partition on my laptop, it is unsuccessfull.
Few days after I have thus partitialy restored the Android, my laptop computers disk failed and I have lost all the backups.

Does anyone knows, what should I do? How can I mount nilfs formatted user-data partition? To which filesystem should I format it?

Thank's a lot in advance!
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deathraider No Backup from AC100-10V-8Gb 2 Jun 25 2011, 12:42 PM EDT by lawaa
Thread started: Apr 23 2011, 8:13 AM EDT  Watch
Hi GuterMoritz, hi all others,

unfortunately, I saw this HowTo much too late. :-(
I have flashed my AC100 following the HowTo by http://ac100.gudinna.com/README/ to SD-card which worked fine, nevertheless to slow.
I decided to do an internal Ubuntu flash following http://ac100.gudinna.com/internal/.
It is not so detailed, and it seems, I did a msitake during format partition /dev/mmcblk0p6 as
ext3 partition. I formatted the whole mmcblk0 STUPIDO !!!!, Now, I can not go back to recovery mode, even not with the SD-card.
The partition table seems to be intact, and I have a *.bin only from partition 5

Can someone please upload/send/ the necessary *.bins for restoring the partitions only to restore recovery mode. I do not need Android partition any more!

Thanks a lot

DeathRaider
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olias32 Have i bricked it? 3 Apr 30 2011, 2:00 PM EDT by olias32
Thread started: Apr 29 2011, 2:15 AM EDT  Watch
Hi everyone
I got the AC100 and tried to root it and install the Gapps (i needed Gmail and Calendar).
I messed around with the adb from Google SDK and i erased the files from "system/apps" by accident
so the device now got stuck on the startup screen (the android logo keeps flashing once per second)

I searched the web alot and found instructions on how to enter recovery mode
so know i have the ac100 conected via USB to my XP machine, and i have installed the nVidia USB recovery driver
(it showed up as APX in the Device Manager once i turned on the recovery mode).

Right now, the restore/update mode doesn't work anymore either (holding the HOME button while turning it on
doesn't show the 2 option update screen)

I have NVFlash downloaded and it sees the device (nvflash --sync displays info the way it should)


Can anyone please help with instructions on how to get my notebook working again?
I'll be pleased with the stock Android, i'd be happy with Cyanogen Mod.


Please help.
Thank you.
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