This article shows the restore procedure for the Foxbox (ver. C) internal microSD

0) Requirements

In order to follow this guide you need just:

• a FoxBox versionC (on sale from November '12)
  
• a pc with Linux installed (here will be used the Ubuntu distribution);
• a microSD reader linked to your pc;
• a Phillips (Cross) screwdriver.

1) Reach the internal microSD

With the screwdriver extract the four screws from the back panel. See this image:

After having took off the electronic board, extract the microSD card from the FoxG20 board, pressing it. See this image:

2) Insert the MicroSD into your card reader

Using a common Linux distribution, the three internal partitions ("kernel", "rootfs"  e "data) will be automatically mounted and shown. Their addresses into your PC's filesystem are:

• /media/kernel
• /media/rootfs
• /media/data

3) Backup your relevant data

Below there is a list of most commonly saved files, anyway please remember to save ALL your other custom configurations, changes to the GUI, etc.

To save the "Address book", copy on your pc the file:
/media/data/dbs/gsmbox

To save the "Incoming SMS" list, copy the file:
/media/data/dbs/gsmin

To save the "Outgoing SMS" list, copy the file:
/media/data/dbs/gsmout

To save the "Incoming MMS" list, copy the files:
/media/rootfs/mnt/flash/root/db/mmsbox.sqlite
/media/rootfs/mnt/flash/root/documents/*

To save the "Valid users" list, copy the file:
/media/data/dbs/users

Obviously, after the restore you just need to copy back these files to the original folder.

4) Start the restore

!WARNING! This step will restore the filesystems, formatting the partitions.
So before doing it please verify that:

• You have saved ALL relevant files and configurations in the previous step. If not, they will be lost.
• You know the extact path of the microSD devices (you can discover it with the command "dmesg" from Console, usually the partitions are from /dev/sdb1/ to /dev/sdb4/). Note that if you launch the next script on the wrong device you could compromise its operativity. See this image:

Firstly you have to format properly the microSD card.  Usually, we do it with GParted (available on official repository) following this structure (we assume the usage of a 2GB card):

Then you have to download the files needed. They are:

1. The Bash script called "restoreVerC.sh", available here.
   
2. The files to fill the partitions, available under request to KDEV staff here.
   

Please place all of them in the same folder (later, as an example, we will use /home/test/). You have to unzip the one named "KernelVerC.tar.bz2", but not the others.  

Now you have to substitute inside the script the string "./rootfsXYZ.tar.bz2" with the name of the rootfs file provided, and the same for the string "./dataXYZ.tar.bz2".

Note that, only if your microSD is not in /dev/sdbX/, you have to substitute also the wrong occurences in the script with the right ones.

5) Execute the restore

Firstly, open a Console and move into the folder containing the files (with "cd /home/test/").

Then, launch the script with root-priviledges (with "sudo ./restoreVerC.sh").

At the end of the procedure, a message "== Restore procedure successful ==" will be prompted.
If some error occured during the restore, you will see the message "!! Restore failed (cod: N) !!". Please look into the script when this happened (so, when that code is generated) and fix the problem.

Note that you can already set the IP address of the device editing the file "/media/rootfs/etc/network/interfaces".

6) Reinsert the MicroSD

Just follow backwards the steps you made during phase 1 to reach the internal microSD.

7) Your FoxBox is back!