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Originally Posted by bazz2004

In User settings mine is set to Back button vibration off and Minimalist Display. There have been a couple of firmware updates. I thought there was an option for Factory reset or Recovery mode but its either gone or I can’t find it.
With a computer you have the BIOS which is very basic but it enables the hardware to communicate with the Windows OS. If the BIOS is corrupted or you have installed (flashed) the wrong version the PC can’t boot into Windows. Worst scenario is that the Alita firmware is like the BIOS. Whether or not you could sort that is questionable.
I’ve seriously curtailed my ambition with the Alita and just use it to read books with Librera. I wouldn’t dare do anything that might screw mine up so beyond looking for files on the device I’m not going to be much help to you.

Basically it is like a BIOS that is on a ASUS motherboard with the USB flashback feature as an example. If you flash the wrong BIOS you only need a CPU in there and a usb stick on the back to have it reflash a good one. RK tool is the usb stick and the Bootloader (booting with usb/pin in it is bootloader access ,this might be it's version of download mode I forget) is the Flashback Mode.

Dumping your device would not take your user data partition only the system ones and would not flash to the device as it's a separate process. I'v used this tool to dump (NOT FLASH) all my boyue devices before any OTA updates as they don't always go as planned and Boyue didn't use to give out any firmware period. https://forum.xda-developers.com/gen...mware-t2915363 Then they would use the dump to flash the individual partitions in there own Alita with RKtool instead of a single packaged image like Boyue has given as shown here. http://www.hotmcu.com/wiki/Flashing_..._Rockchip_Tool

EDIT: @Waldy has also made a decent guide on how to use the tool and it was what I used in the beginning and it shows how when you create the backups it dumps the partitions then also makes a config file so in a restore you can just load this config file and RKtool will know where to flash what as long as the hierarchy stays the same.

Originally Posted by ilyats

On my Muses (which has no SD card slot and apparently no hole for pin) I can get into recovery menu by powering it off and then powering on while holding back button pressed. Then I can navigate between menu entries by short presses of either 'back' button or power button and select entry by long press.

Yeah different devices have different methods. Some do use the touch screen but normally its some kind of physical or soft button and the panel does not have a touch driver in recovery unless it's 3rd party like TWRP.