On Aug 11, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Julien Wajsberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> So I read [1] again and I think the instructions delete all the data.
> The reason is that we use QA's script, and for QA this is important to
> revert to a clean state. For us, users, it's important to keep the data.
> 
> It should be possible to shallow flash gecko+gaia without removing the
> whole data. Backuping+restoring doesn't always work reliably (I just
> tried, I think maybe some prefs should not be restored) and anyway it's
> just longer than just flashing gecko+gaia.
> 
> Same when we flash images: I think it's enough to _not_ flash
> userdata.img over the device.
> 
> Any possibility the tools could be updated for this? Should I file a bug
> somewhere?

I would say file one here, if not already known.   
https://github.com/Mozilla-TWQA/B2G-flash-tool/issues

> 
> [1]
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/Flame#Updating_your_Flame_to_a_nightly_build
> 
> Thanks !
> -- 
> Julien
> 
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