re: Recovering PDBs from NVRAM in a dead T5

2010-03-03 Thread Harry
Hi Luc, if he is lucky it is not the mainboard causing the white screen. In say 50% of white screen cases we are able to resurrect the device with the following steps: 1. take out the battery (it is solded on the T5) 1.1 reconnect and try to boot with the same battery 1.2 try to boot with

Re: Recovering PDBs from NVRAM in a dead T5

2010-03-03 Thread Regis St-Gelais
Luc Le Blanc llebl...@cam.org a écrit dans le message de news: 188...@palm-dev-forum... Maybe not so relevant, but I take a chance asking here. Is there a way to recover PDBs from the NVRAM of a dead Palm T5? A friend lost all his cave survey data when his PDA died on him. The screen went

re: Recovering PDBs from NVRAM in a dead T5

2010-03-03 Thread Luc Le Blanc
My friend tried replacing the battery, to no avail. Then he disconnected and reconnected the LCD and his device turned itself on. All is well. Thanks for the suggestions. Luc Le Blanc http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe,

Re: Recovering PDBs from NVRAM in a dead T5

2010-03-03 Thread Dmitry Grinberg
in general you can read out the NAND using a microcontroller, then find (use google) the source code to TargetFFS, use that to mount the NAND partition, then use alex pruss's code to convert nvfs files to PDBs Best Regards, Dmitry Grinberg (847) 226 9295 On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Luc