rbz5416;550869 Wrote: > It seems that even something as basic as the factory restore doesn't > work properly as the device still has 7.5.1 firmware on it! I guess some info on what "factory reset" does is in order. It does NOT change the firmware to the version that was on the box at the time it was shipped. What it does is delete any changes you have made, either through the settings menus or manually logging in and editing files.
Details: the Touch uses a type of "overlay" file system. The firmware includes a base filesystem. Any changes (additional files, deleted files or changes to existing files) go into a separate overlay. The combination of the base system and the overlay is what the processor sees as the "file system". Factory reset deletes the overlay. What you end up with is the base filesystem for whatever firmware you have loaded. This is intended as safety net, no matter what you change, edit, delete, download or muck with you can always get back to a known state. The subtlety of this is what happens with a firmware update. The update process preserves SOME of the overlay across firmware updates, so you don't have to completely reconfigure the device every time a firmware update happens. It tries to do a good job of preserving user settings yet letting the firmware change things that are part of the firmware upgrade. Most of the time it does a pretty good job. With a factory reset the entire overlay is deleted so you have to start over again with all configurations. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79123 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
