I unlocked the bootloader of my Xperia P (LT22i) before I could take a backup of the TA partition (which stores DRM keys, IMEI code, etc.)
Now I've read on several XDA threads and other websites that TA can not be backed up after the bootloader has been unlocked. And that once it's unlocked, everything in there is gone.
However, when I used the latest version of Backup TA on my phone, it could detect the presence of and backup the TA partition.
Now I'm not sure if the backup it created is a valid TA backup so is there a way to check its integrity and/or parse the contents of TA.img to see if it does contain valid DRM keys and other stuff?
P.S. I tried opening TA.img in a hex editor and searching for my phone's IMEI number. I found it in the file. I also found references to "marlin" and quite a few X.509 certificates. The uncompressed size of my phone's TA.img is 512 KB (5,24,288 bytes)
And if it helps, here's the part of the log from Backup TA where it finds and backs up the TA partition:
--- mmcblk0boot0 --- Searching for Operator Identifier...- Searching for Operator Name...- Searching for Rooting Status...- Searching for S1 Boot...- Searching for S1 Loader...- Searching for S1 Hardware Configuration...- Partition found! ======================================= BACKUP TA PARTITION ======================================= 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 524288 bytes (512.0KB) copied, 0.030456 seconds, 16.4MB/s ======================================= INTEGRITY CHECK ======================================= OK ======================================= PULL BACKUP FROM SDCARD ======================================= 2437 KB/s (524288 bytes in 0.210s) ======================================= INTEGRITY CHECK ======================================= OK ======================================= PACKAGE BACKUP ======================================= 7-Zip (A) 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 Scanning Creating archive ..\backup\TA-backup-20140722.010348.zip Compressing TA.blk Compressing TA.img Compressing TA.md5 Compressing TA.serial Compressing TA.timestamp Compressing TA.version Everything is Ok *** Backup successful. ***
