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[Request] Unpack .RARs

Anyone know of an archive manager that supports unpacking password protected .RARs?

abcdfv said:
Anyone know of an archive manager that supports unpacking password protected .RARs?
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WinRAR, 7zip

afazel said:
WinRAR, 7zip
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Those aren't for android though

I'm afraid that I don't think there is one. You're probably stuck using a computer.
Or you could try to get unrar (linux command line) running on your phone and then do this from the command line
Code:
unrar e -p{password} file.rar
Let me know if you get unrar compiled on your phone

Originally Posted by Poodulz over at AndroidCommunity
Well try this out, download any .rar file you want from the internet to your Hero, open up opera browser and point it at http://www.unzip.co.nr/
Upload the .rar and click the button
It will upload it to the site and then decompress it for you, then you can download the decompressed file and voila, bobs your uncle, your shiny file is ready for use.
Updates by me.

quick search in market, gave me Unrar from Twanky Deuce Software

I use AndroZip for zips and rars, works well

Unrar is closed source, can't get it compiled for ARM.
Unrar and Androzip don't support passworded files.

[Q] Is there and app that can launch an apk from within a RAR archive?

Hi im looking for a file manager that can launch an .apk file that I have compressed into a .rar archive.
Astro Manager can do this for zip files but rar is a much better archive and has higher compression.
Does anybody know of one that is compatible with rar and can launch it "directly" from the archive, and not just extract it somewhere and you have to then manually launch it.

I don't know any file manager with RAR support built-in.
But there are 2 apps for RAR archives in the Market: Unrar and Unrar Pro.
So at least you can unrar the archive and then install the APK with a file manager (Astro, ES File Manager, ...).
Edit: well I missed the last part of your message : "not just extract it somewhere and you have to then manually launch it". Sorry...

Yeah bud, You see that's the prob, the only ones ive found are ones that have to extract somewhere and then you manually launch it.
What im looking for is same functionality as zip has with Astro where yu can launch the apk directly from inside a zip file. It will extract it first in background and then automatically launch for you so the extracted file stays in cache or some temporary folder.
Hopefully winrar will release an official app at some point or somebody releases a solution

Maybe ask to the team of one of the existing file managers if they can add support for RAR, instead of having yet another file manager, only for RAR.

I have done.
I was simply asking if there was currently one available in the mean time.
Hopefully ASTRO will integrate rar support, its by far the best file manager ive used.

Then you have not tried ES File Manager

snark_be said:
Then you have not tried ES File Manager
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Yes I have.
It doesnt do what im asking.
[edit] Infact ive just tried it again and it doesnt even support rar archives at all, it cant extract or load from them.
What im looking for is a program that can launch a spk fiel from within an archive. There are many managers that can extract files from them but what im looking for is something that extracts in background to temp files and launches the file directly via the archive when viewing, Just like Astro does with zip files but for rar.

Comparison of KJ2 File Sizes...

Hello, All,
I've downloaded JiN1337's very helpful emergency package for reflashing stock ROM, etc:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1593065
His KJ2 is 260MB in .jar fomat, while the other two KJ2 files still available for download in .tar are about 410MB. Is that b/c .jar compresses better than .tar? Or are these different beasts altogether?
Any illumination would be great, thanks,
Jake

Google is your friend
(In doobies voice from harry potter)
Idk much about tar files but to me it seems that it has a jar folder inside of it
But google will tell you the difference for sure ;D
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Just a follow-up note to say that I used 260mb .jar fiile and it flashed fine, giving the Sidekick 4G a factory-set KJ2. As for the larger file in .tar, I couldn't get to the bottom of its size difference to the .jar.
Jake

jakfish said:
Just a follow-up note to say that I used 260mb .jar fiile and it flashed fine, giving the Sidekick 4G a factory-set KJ2. As for the larger file in .tar, I couldn't get to the bottom of its size difference to the .jar.
Jake
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the tar file is for the odin i dont know exactly what it does but i know you need it to odin with the odin3 v1.61 you also may need a .pit file as well

JiN1337's package of goodies is the way to go. A couple of clicks and the thing was flashed. His readmes are execellent as well.
Jake

how to rezip a .tar file to .tar.gz???

hi, as title says, basically I had a tar.gz file and I somehow accidently unzipped it to a .tar file, is there any program or converter I could use to rezip it back to a tar.gz file??
thanks very much

Some context: tar is a relatively old archive format that basically does store many files in one file. I think it was developed for tape backups or something.
Many of the unix compression programs like gzip are meant to operate on a single file. So first you pack everything in a tar, then you gzip it and it will be named .tar.gz
Of course you can repack the tar with just applying gzip compression again to it. It depends on the programs you want to use. With the linux/unix gzip it would just be using "gzip file.tar" and it would create "file.tar.gz". With 7zip or so, it should also be trivial by just compressing it and chosing gzip.

Do u have a link to said converter as ive tried doing it from my computer but cant find nothing?
Thanks alot
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Any archive program that supports the creation of archives in multiple formats should support it. E.g. winrar. I mentioned 7zip because it's Free and Open Source software but any other like that should work as well. The tar.gz format is really nothing special, it's just one tar file in a gzip archive. It just depends on the software how archives are created.

dazza_84 said:
Do u have a link to said converter as ive tried doing it from my computer but cant find nothing?
Thanks alot
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won't winrar do it?

7-zip

prantoroy said:
won't winrar do it?
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+1

Why some android devices thinks that file with APK extension is a directory and others don't?

I have a private APK file hosted on some webserver, but that webserver downloads this as a zip file (it has to do sth with headers). I can just rename the file to use .apk extension and can install it with my Xiaomi, but the same method won't work with device like Lenovo Tab M10 HD (both phones running Android 10).
I have tried two file managers, one is top-downloaded and second one is a Total Commander
I am confused, looking for some ideas

proteancode said:
I have a private APK file hosted on some webserver, but that webserver downloads this as a zip file (it has to do sth with headers). I can just rename the file to use .apk extension and can install it with my Xiaomi, but the same method won't work with device like Lenovo Tab M10 HD (both phones running Android 10).
I have tried two file managers, one is top-downloaded and second one is a Total Commander
I am confused, looking for some ideas
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Try extracting the zip, does it have the apk inside the zip?

Droidriven said:
Try extracting the zip, does it have the apk inside the zip?
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No. I will check if I can modify return headers of web servers so it won't think its a zip, but damn right APK
Maybe there is some filesystem indexing issue

proteancode said:
(...) I can just rename the file to use .apk extension (...)
I have tried two file managers, one is top-downloaded and second one is a Total Commander
I am confused, looking for some ideas
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Using Total Commander, pack the apk file with the password (in TC check the Encrypted box) and upload it to the server.