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quinbus_flestrin - 2009-10-30 3:55 AM
BOD on 728 = 19/11/2002 and 06/02/2002
And hereby hangs a tale... the old saws about Activesync are perfectly correct. Here is one 720 "upgraded" to 728 by using a board from a scrapper... the BOD is 06-02-2002, and the test also shows different Serial Number and GUID to an original 728, which has BOD 19/11/2002.
The first Jornada has my favourite setup on it, and is also backed up via Activesync to Guest on an ancient Toshiba 4010CDT running 98SE. The second is a clean machine... upon which I was hoping to duplicate the first.
Now I'm no programmer, but I can see how the microbes at Microshaft might well have decided that duplicating a system setup on to another device was not in their interests or indeed the interests of their many commercial customers... and at the time maybe they had a point. But it hardly applies nearly so much now.
Given these three salient differences which we now know of... ROM Serial Number, GUID, and BOD, I have to wonder if this is actually what is at the bottom of Activesync's (3.8) blanket refusal to restore the image from one Jornada on to another equivalent. I'll be looking at these STG files with a hex editor next.
In trawling for an alternate backup program, which I had hoped might have a less inflexible set of rules, I have met with little success. However I have also found STG viewer... which doesn't help me much here I admit, but it may yet prove useful as this issue progresses. It does give some limited access to Activesync backup files after all.
And also in these trawls, I have found many posts on various other forums and concerning various other devices too, which have had a similar theme.
Perhaps a sage here can help more.
QF