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[Q] decompress a .7z on android?

Hey guys im fairly new to the android platform
And i love it more than the rest. and so far its been great until i hit a stump.
i was able to download the 210mb .zip my friend sent me of all his .apk's and i unzipped it woh ease in under 3 minutes. now i have a 23mb .7z compressed video my friend sent me from my birthday and i cant decompress it
Ive tried astro file manager and androzip
Theresult is always a 0 -byte .avi file and itssupposed to be 30mb
i tried it with a 29mb 7z file of a playlist and it also didnt work
So how can i actually decompress a 7z?
.rars and zips work
Just not 7z
and i dont have computer access either
Only my phone (samsung galaxy s, vibrant) , 2.1 eclair

try to use "AndroZip File Manager"

may I suggest AndroXplorer v.3

YongkiCA said:
may I suggest AndroXplorer v.3
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no App can decompress 7z

Archidroid.-
It's AWESOME and free.

iridaki said:
Archidroid.-
It's AWESOME and free.
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Archidroid stuck on "Preparation archive"

Any way to extract files from a .kdz file?

Anyone here know how to open/browse/extract files from a .kdz file? I've spent the last hour or so searching via Google and can't come up with anything that works.

Did you try winrar?
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
Did you try winrar?
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Yea it gives an error. Does it support that file type?

Have you tried 7zip? I've never seen an archive it couldn't open, it's like the VLC of compression.
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LordButtersI said:
Have you tried 7zip? I've never seen an archive it couldn't open, it's like the VLC of compression.
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I haven't tried that one. I'll try it as soon as I can convince my wife to stop shopping so we can go home ... lol ... Thanks for the suggestion.

LordButtersI said:
Have you tried 7zip? I've never seen an archive it couldn't open, it's like the VLC of compression.
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Just tried it and it wouldn't open it. Bummer.

Which file are you trying to extract?

FatalityBoyZahy said:
Which file are you trying to extract?
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The GB update kdz file.

You need an LG Utilties program to extract the KDZ files. There are some out there for the KP500 and GW520 but not sure if the same utility will work for the G2X P999 files. After that you need a program called unyaffsmbn (zips on internet) to extract the files further. Here is a GW520 Utility zip (attached to post) that I haven't tried yet. I was trying to do the same stuff you've been playing with. I haven't tried to extract the files yet. Another way is to grab them while someone is using the KDZ program to update their phone. The files are extracted and put into "C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone" but as soon as the program detects no phone the entire directory is blown away. Too fast to grab the files. If someone is updating a phone the files are there long enough to copy, but I am not going to update my phone again just to grab the files.

phburks said:
The GB update kdz file.
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They already have the GB update in the Development section. You could also just download the source code from LG.

People are after the baseband. That's not included on the rom files you mentioned.
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jboxer said:
You need an LG Utilties program to extract the KDZ files. There are some out there for the KP500 and GW520 but not sure if the same utility will work for the G2X P999 files. After that you need a program called unyaffsmbn (zips on internet) to extract the files further. Here is a GW520 Utility zip (attached to post) that I haven't tried yet. I was trying to do the same stuff you've been playing with. I haven't tried to extract the files yet. Another way is to grab them while someone is using the KDZ program to update their phone. The files are extracted and put into "C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone" but as soon as the program detects no phone the entire directory is blown away. Too fast to grab the files. If someone is updating a phone the files are there long enough to copy, but I am not going to update my phone again just to grab the files.
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Thanks. Will play around with this.

Sorry for my response. I did a internet search and got a lot of weird results.
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
Sorry for my response. I did a internet search and got a lot of weird results.
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Nah its cool. I was hoping I'd missed something and it would work. It didn't lol.

jboxer said:
Another way is to grab them while someone is using the KDZ program to update their phone. The files are extracted and put into "C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone" but as soon as the program detects no phone the entire directory is blown away. Too fast to grab the files.
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This was my first approach but I didn't know where the files were extracted to so thanks. I managed to grab the extracted files by creating a symbolic link named Phone in that LGMOBILEAX directory. I pointed the symlink to another dierectory. I named it Test since I wasn't sure if this would work. I then ran the kdz updater (without my phone attached of course) and it extracted the kdz file to .\Phone which in turn saved them in my .\Test directory. The updater aborted when it detected there was no phone and the extracted files remained in the .\Test directory.
So now I have 2 files (it only extracted 2), Star_Model.dll and a .wdb file that is undoubtedly the firmware because its like a 180MB file. I tried extracting from the firmware using a couple different versions of LG utils that were floating around because they have an option to extract files from a wdb file, but they keep giving an error. I'll keep trying lol.
Any ideas?

jboxer said:
People are after the baseband. That's not included on the rom files you mentioned.
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Exactly. I don't know why we don't have a flashable baseband yet and maybe my approach is going to be a dead end. Is a flashable baseband even possible on this phone? I dunno lol. Nobody seems to be paying it (the baseband) any attention.

I want to see a flasable baseband and other wind subscribers would as well because to get it we would have to flash the gb update. That changes the splashscreen to tmobile making it unable to change back since we don't have the stock rom that I know of.

How to unpack system.IMG

Im trying to unpack system.IMG from the ruu and running into.issues.
Unyaffs.exe gives an error. And every other unpack tool I can think of fails.
Any ideas? Has anyone unpacked this yet?
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It doesn't use the yaffs filesystem. you need to unpack with explore2fs.exe on windows or in linux since it is ext4

Serinety said:
Im trying to unpack system.IMG from the ruu and running into.issues.
Unyaffs.exe gives an error. And every other unpack tool I can think of fails.
Any ideas? Has anyone unpacked this yet?
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Its EXT4.
The attached tool "should" do it for you. Its what I used...
I cannot however attrribute credit to the tool because I honestly do not know where it came from but its freeware GNU 3. The license is in the Help -> About.
Enjoy!

con247 said:
It doesn't use the yaffs filesystem. you need to unpack with explore2fs.exe on windows or in linux since it is ext4
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I dont beleive explore2fs will read ext4. You need to use the one I posted above. Could be wrong as I am at work right now

scrosler said:
I dont beleive explore2fs will read ext4. You need to use the one I posted above. Could be wrong as I am at work right now
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your the man, that worked I thought it was yaffs and nothing I did worked, it was driving me crazy lol.
2nd thing tho. the img file is 1.2gb, but after i extract it its about 697mb.. are there some hidden files that are not being extracted?

scrosler said:
I dont beleive explore2fs will read ext4. You need to use the one I posted above. Could be wrong as I am at work right now
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It does I used it to extract the system image a couple weeks ago.

Serinety said:
your the man, that worked I thought it was yaffs and nothing I did worked, it was driving me crazy lol.
2nd thing tho. the img file is 1.2gb, but after i extract it its about 697mb.. are there some hidden files that are not being extracted?
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Your saying JUST system.img is 1.2GB but extracts to /system/ as 697MB?
Thats some serisous backwards compression
700 Megs sounds about right for /systesm/ image. I can look when I get home. Maybe Con has it close by?

con247 said:
It does I used it to extract the system image a couple weeks ago.
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What version do you have? I tried with the (what I thought was) latest and it wouldnt read it. I then tried with the other and it was fine. Can you post the version you have that read it?

scrosler said:
Your saying JUST system.img is 1.2GB but extracts to /system/ as 697MB?
Thats some serisous backwards compression
700 Megs sounds about right for /systesm/ image. I can look when I get home. Maybe Con has it close by?
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File Name: system.img
Type: Disc Image File (.img)
Size on Disk: 1.21 GB (1,308,618,752 bytes)
Folder name: systemimg_upack
Type: Folder
Size on Disk: 697 MB (731,574,272 bytes)
Contains: 1,370 Files, 58 Folders

Serinety said:
File Name: system.img
Type: Disc Image File (.img)
Size on Disk: 1.21 GB (1,308,618,752 bytes)
Folder name: systemimg_upack
Type: Folder
Size on Disk: 697 MB (731,574,272 bytes)
Contains: 1,370 Files, 58 Folders
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Wow, 500 Megs in slack? Now thats efficency!
But 700 megs sounds right to me for a sys img. I will in a few hours, at work now... Maybe can remopte desktop in... LMS...

Ok, RDP and 4G is AWESOME!
I can confirm what you are seeing is 100% correct.
I never noticed that before....
I also compared this with an Evo 3D ROM and it matches up proportionately....

scrosler said:
Ok, RDP and 4G is AWESOME!
I can confirm what you are seeing is 100% correct.
I never noticed that before....
I also compared this with an Evo 3D ROM and it matches up proportionately....
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Wonder if its because Windows sees ext4 in a different way.. and mis represents its actual size
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Serinety said:
Wonder if its because Windows sees ext4 in a different way.. and mis represents its actual size
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Windows is not looking at it as a ext4 file system. Its looking at it as a single IMG file that is 1.x GB's big.

small app issue

i have the adownloader bittorrent app on my iinfuse, after i use it to download a torrent, in this case a hidden object game from extratorrent. i go to the download folder and click the downloaded file and i get this message, no applications can perform this action. anybody else seen this and is there a way around it.

cain308 said:
i have the adownloader bittorrent app on my iinfuse, after i use it to download a torrent, in this case a hidden object game from extratorrent. i go to the download folder and click the downloaded file and i get this message, no applications can perform this action. anybody else seen this and is there a way around it.
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hey cain, what's up? Ok, so what kind of **** did you get into now...LOL
long click/press on the file and click details...what kind of file does it say?

thanks man , its always something. it says its a exe file

huh a apk type file...?
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cain308 said:
thanks man , its always something. it says its a exe file
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exe then it's probably a PC file, or a self extracting file that needs to be undone on a PC then moved to your phone.. or some kind of malware that isn't what you thought it was.

nope, torrents will always be .torrent not .exe file
if u open a .exe on a pc your just looking for trouble. :crying:A torrent is about a target file,
it contains no info about the content of the file. Use trusted popular trusted torrent sites.
www.kickasstorrents.com KickassTorrents is my favorite well used site.
Others such as The Pirate Bay http://thepiratebay.org/

[Q] how to load .sav files on a gba emulator on my android?

I have pokemon and I can play it using my boy gba emulator. but I downloaded a .sav file from the internet so that all pokemons,are caught But the issue is, I cannot load. sav files on my phone. in pc, you can import the battery and can load the .sav file, but in android, I can't. please leave a solution

Suarezian said:
I have pokemon and I can play it using my boy gba emulator. but I downloaded a .sav file from the internet so that all pokemons,are caught But the issue is, I cannot load. sav files on my phone. in pc, you can import the battery and can load the .sav file, but in android, I can't. please leave a solution
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You should be able to load the .sav file if it's in the same folder as the ROM itself.
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guitarman2010 said:
You should be able to load the .sav file if it's in the same folder as the ROM itself.
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I can't load .sav files. The saved files of the emulator are in
st0,st1... format
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Suarezian said:
I can't load .sav files. The saved files of the emulator are in
st0,st1... format
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What GBA emulator are u using?
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guitarman2010 said:
What GBA emulator are u using?
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I tried with my boy gba emulator and also gameboid
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Its actually quite hard and confusing but i figured it out.
Follow my steps exactly!
1. First you need to run the gba file and save IN GAME.
2. Download a save of the internet, it cannot be .SAV or any other type. It has to be .sav with no caps
3. Locate your saves folder for my boy through a file editor app (ASTRO) internalstorage/simcard->myboy->saves.
4. Delete your .sav file and replace it with the save you downloaded off the internet with the same name, filetype etc.
5. Run your game and there should be an option to play your downloaded save!
If this does not work, repeat. If it still does not work try downloading a different version of your gba file.

Okay. So I've been having a similar issue. I transferred my .sav file from gpemu (chrome store emulator) to my android. That worked fine. But getting it to RUN on my boy has not worked whatsoever. I've tried the above method and similar ones to no avail. I don't know if it doing it wrong or what but the file is just sitting there.

Cuboner said:
Okay. So I've been having a similar issue. I transferred my .sav file from gpemu (chrome store emulator) to my android. That worked fine. But getting it to RUN on my boy has not worked whatsoever. I've tried the above method and similar ones to no avail. I don't know if it doing it wrong or what but the file is just sitting there.
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Did you find a solution, because I have the same problem.

use multi gba s apk from play store or app store