Thread: PRS-T1 v1.0.07 Downgrade
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Old 07-09-2016, 04:59 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Why do you want to downgrade?
Here's why. I actually have two PRS-T1. One with firmware 1.0.05 and another with 1.0.07. I bought them very cheap because they had issues; they freeze when you access the dictionary. I read online that there might be an issue with the dictionary partition. There's a tutorial on a Russian site on how to make a disk image, reparation the internal storage and so on. The tutorial was written for firmware version 1.0.05. I wasn't able to make a disk image of my device. I checked the partitions on Linux and realized that there was definitely an issue with the dictionary partition. I readjusted the size of the system and data partitions, used e2fsck to check and repair bad blocks, restored the dictionary and system partitions using backups I found somewhere on this forum and lo and behold, the device hasn't frozen since and I have a 400mb data partition formatted in ext4.
So, I want to get the second PRS-T1 down to 1.0.05 because I want to apply the same procedure since all the backup images I have are for v1.0.07.
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