Lost.DIR - G Tablet General

I really have never really looked in this folder, the 1 or 2 times I have on my phone it was always empty. I have been flashing my gtablet like crazy and now the directory is chuck full of stuff but not taking up a to much space about 80mb.
Does anyone know what this folder is for?

It's a directory Mac OS X creates when it does a file system check and places any orphaned or corrupted files it finds in it.

ShinAli said:
It's a directory Mac OS X creates when it does a file system check and places any orphaned or corrupted files it finds in it.
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My phone's never even been near a mac (ok I might have placed it near my girlfriend's once or twice) but I got this directory after updating to froyo using kies on windows. Never had it on eclair.
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mlj11 said:
My phone's never even been near a mac (ok I might have placed it near my girlfriend's once or twice) but I got this directory after updating to froyo using kies on windows. Never had it on eclair.
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It must be a Unix/Linux thing since Mac has a BSD-based kernel. Since Android is Linux, it might have the same function to scan the file system and put any files lost into that folder, as the Mac does.
Windows does something sort of like this, but I can't remember off the top of my head where it puts the files.

I don't own a mac so there must be somthing else using the directory.

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expand a nandroid img file

for those who do not know how to do this yet, follow directions given here.
Just took this info from the web. None of this except for the guide is written by me.
I am not responsible for anything please do not contact me if a green sludge starts attacking your neighborhood eating one person at a time.
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http://code.google.com/p/unyaffs/downloads/list
made for linux, but if you know a bit of c, you can probably change it to work with windows, maybe I will do that if I have some time this week.
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http://jiggawatt.org/badc0de/android/unyaffs-x86-win.zip
or http://www.4shared.com/get/fgryPnPx/unyaffs-windows.html
for windows..... instructions below apply for both
if not included in the zips above, cygwin1.dll and unyaffs.exe are included as an attachment of this reply.
open up a command line, in windows vista/7 just press start and then type cmd press enter and change the directory to the folder with the unyaffs and the img in it. in xp press start>run>cmd... then the same
the usage is: unyaffs /path/to/img
example:
(if unyaffs.exe and system.img are both in c:\temp)
"c:\temp> unyaffs /temp/system.img"
note: the '/' is the way linux determines the pathname of a file and since it is built using cygwin(a file allowing for windows) it is preferrable that the path to the actual file is in unix POSIX format ie: / instead of \ between folders and files.
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this will extract to directory that unyaffs binary is in.
That's so weird -- I was gonna post the same thing tonight. Thx for writing this up. It's odd that more people don't talk or ask about this tool!
I remember reading this stuff back when I got my G1, and tonight I was trolling the themes and apps section cause I couldnt sleep. (which I rarely look at)
I was baffled that this wasnt common knowledge. I figured if there was no threads about it that people just knew how and didnt have any problems with it. My mistake lol...
enjoy.
can you please explain what is it? what it does? thanks
ericizzy1 said:
can you please explain what is it? what it does? thanks
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Umm, it expands nandroid img files not sure how else to explain it. Clockworkmod backups are in the img file format. This process allows you to extract those files to get stuff out of them
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When you create a backup in Clockwork recovery, it leaves you with a folder like this:
2010-11-18.08.52.49
As you can prob figure out, I made that backup on 11/18 at 8:52am
Inside that folder are .img files, such as: data.img and system.img
Those files basically contain your data (like apps you've installed from market) and system (..system apps that might've come with the phone).
In the orig post, he's explaining how to extract the files from these large .img files.
To give an example, I had a couple of corrupted clockwork backups, and wanted to ONLY pull out some database files (like text messages and call logs) which were not corrupted. Even tho the backup was messed up, I could still extract the files I needed by using the method above, then copied them manually to my phone.
decalex said:
When you create a backup in Clockwork recovery, it leaves you with a folder like this:
2010-11-18.08.52.49
As you can prob figure out, I made that backup on 11/18 at 8:52am
Inside that folder are .img files, such as: data.img and system.img
Those files basically contain your data (like apps you've installed from market) and system (..system apps that might've come with the phone).
In the orig post, he's explaining how to extract the files from these large .img files.
To give an example, I had a couple of corrupted clockwork backups, and wanted to ONLY pull out some database files (like text messages and call logs) which were not corrupted. Even tho the backup was messed up, I could still extract the files I needed by using the method above, then copied them manually to my phone.
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thx
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smeyerhuky said:
Umm, it expands nandroid img files not sure how else to explain it. Clockworkmod backups are in the img file format. This process allows you to extract those files to get stuff out of them
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Right, like if you wanted a file or a few files from clockworkmod img backup, then this process would give you an extended file system, other than what you would normally use to extract the img files. Just trying to understand this so, please correct me if im wrong.... I've been trying to get more knowledge of this, so im still learning.
I prolly sound like a complete idiot, lol...
Sweet! Thanks for this man. I'd been looking for how to do this for some time and kept ending up learning about emulation or some other tangential topic. This is the basic functionality I was looking for. Thanks for posting!
Np. I'm working on writing some stuff on top of the source code that should allow you to browse and pull just one our more file
Its been a but since I looked theory source code so it might take a while... Maybe in between semesters?
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Dode you saved my as** thx big thx
Great, now how can I re-compress back to .img after I've made the changes that I want?
EDIT: Nevermind. I just made a zip of the new system folder and flashed it in CWM.
This worked great for me.
Thanks,
Bud
Man, I do not know how to thank you. I was able to recover some important stuff off of my cwm recovery backup. THANKS!!

[Q] Has this happened to anyone else?

i switched roms acouple times today and this has happened one other time.
All my video files not the folders or subtitles or anything just the video files themselves have been deleted.
Using brilliant corners and bottle o smoke and bam they are gone...
all you have to do is make a no media file. basically make a new text doc on your computer and just save it as ".nomedia" You do not have to write anything in the file. This will tell the tablet not to delete any files out of this folder. put this file in every folder that has media items. I hope this helps.
Hmmm...I've never had that happen to me, but thanks for the tip fosser2
It's a known issue and easily fixed with the .nomedia file. Beware though that windows won't let you create such a file. I think most android file managers will allow you to create a file and rename it ".nomedia".
brettdwagner said:
It's a known issue and easily fixed with the .nomedia file. Beware though that windows won't let you create such a file. I think most android file managers will allow you to create a file and rename it ".nomedia".
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Use notepad++ to make files of this type in windoze...
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Thanks guys ill do this next time I put movies on.
brettdwagner said:
It's a known issue and easily fixed with the .nomedia file. Beware though that windows won't let you create such a file. I think most android file managers will allow you to create a file and rename it ".nomedia".
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You can easily make this file form windows. Right-click on any explorer window and choose New>Text file. Then just rename it to .nomedia instead of NewTextDocument.txt or whatever the default is.
Scratch that. Windows says "type a file name" or something. Just use notepad++ as someone else mentioned...

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?
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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.

Create own Rom

It seems to create your own rom is more involved than I thought. I knew I should have learned linux. I wanted to fool around and use different browser .apk files from one rom to another. I messed around with this when I had my blackberry. It also seems like its easier to brick your droid. With blackberry I had a list of .cods same as .apks to use. So to open your .tar or .md5 you need android-sdk and then use adb commands? Is there a list of which system files that can be changed from one update to another. I did some searching but I guess not enough. Is there a quick version to create I guess a system dump with what files that can be changed without killing you phone? From what I read you have to use Odin to extract files to your sd card then to your computer or use Sdk with commands. Once extracted to to use a browser one to another you transfer the .apk other files. Do I have the basics or is it way over my head which is why we have developers?
blueis300 said:
It seems to create your own rom is more involved than I thought. I knew I should have learned linux. I wanted to fool around and use different browser .apk files from one rom to another. I messed around with this when I had my blackberry. It also seems like its easier to brick your droid. With blackberry I had a list of .cods same as .apks to use. So to open your .tar or .md5 you need android-sdk and then use adb commands? Is there a list of which system files that can be changed from one update to another. I did some searching but I guess not enough. Is there a quick version to create I guess a system dump with what files that can be changed without killing you phone? From what I read you have to use Odin to extract files to your sd card then to your computer or use Sdk with commands. Once extracted to to use a browser one to another you transfer the .apk other files. Do I have the basics or is it way over my head which is why we have developers?
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Its way over your head! But even devs had to start somewhere. Guys like JT learned everything he knows thru google fu and he actually got the fascinate recognized cyanogen. So don't give up!
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I would love to start to learn how to dev.
Any one could point me in the right direction?
Lol Yeah I figured it was above me but will keep reading, ask some questions and see what happens.
blueis300 said:
It seems to create your own rom is more involved than I thought. I knew I should have learned linux. I wanted to fool around and use different browser .apk files from one rom to another. I messed around with this when I had my blackberry. It also seems like its easier to brick your droid. With blackberry I had a list of .cods same as .apks to use. So to open your .tar or .md5 you need android-sdk and then use adb commands? Is there a list of which system files that can be changed from one update to another. I did some searching but I guess not enough. Is there a quick version to create I guess a system dump with what files that can be changed without killing you phone? From what I read you have to use Odin to extract files to your sd card then to your computer or use Sdk with commands. Once extracted to to use a browser one to another you transfer the .apk other files. Do I have the basics or is it way over my head which is why we have developers?
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Look up harvard's cs50 course.. Its free and online and will get you started.. Ide post a, link.. But I'm lazy so google it
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ty ace
i'll look into it, I've been looking for info for awhile, and was wondering where to start reading up on a "how to"!

[Q] Need experts in Android VM

Ok, so my old android phone broke. I used an app called "Keepsafe" on it and had a few important images I need back. Luckily, the app saved onto my SD card so I have access to the encrypted .ksd files. The only way around this (at least that I've found) is to use another phone to install keepsafe, replace its main folder with the old main folder, and then view the files from the phone. I don't have another phone I could use, so I was wondering if this would be possible using an Android VM like Genymotion. I tried doing this myself, but I'm lost. Any help would be appreciated!
iatebreakfest said:
Ok, so my old android phone broke. I used an app called "Keepsafe" on it and had a few important images I need back. Luckily, the app saved onto my SD card so I have access to the encrypted .ksd files. The only way around this (at least that I've found) is to use another phone to install keepsafe, replace its main folder with the old main folder, and then view the files from the phone. I don't have another phone I could use, so I was wondering if this would be possible using an Android VM like Genymotion. I tried doing this myself, but I'm lost. Any help would be appreciated!
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try this, download BlueStacks to your pc, this is an adroid emulator, only transfer files to computer, you heve playstore on this emulator, download keepsafe, and convert files to his original extension, good luck

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