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I have a broken (completely black) screen on my captivate Im trying to back up all my files from the INTERNAL memory. I can't see the screen so obviously I can't mount the phone to view the files on my PC. I have gotten 'pull /system/ /local/' to work however when I try something like 'pull /data/ /local/' it says "pull: building file list... 0 files pulled. 0 files skipped."
Basically, how do I use ADB to get all of my files to my computer? Help is certainly appreciated. After this I will probably reset the phone and then maybe sell it as is. Not too sure.
Question: Do u happen to have any recent clockwork backup and/or tibu backups on ur phone? If either is present u could directly navigate to those folders (in adb) and pull the files u want.
Alternate option: U cud put in an external sd card, and copy the files from internal sd to external sd if u are not comfortable with the pull commands.
diablo009 said:
Question: Do u happen to have any recent clockwork backup and/or tibu backups on ur phone? If either is present u could directly navigate to those folders (in adb) and pull the files u want.
Alternate option: U cud put in an external sd card, and copy the files from internal sd to external sd if u are not comfortable with the pull commands.
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I do not have any type of backups apps or anything like that on the phone.
I have an external sd card however Im not sure how thats different than using adb to copy the files from the internal memory to my computer. I am fine with using pull but maybe im using the wrong directory name for my personal files?
Have you tried qtadb or droidexplorer. Would be easier imo.
newter55 said:
Have you tried qtadb or droidexplorer. Would be easier imo.
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That requires a rooted phone right? My phone is currently not rooted and I don't know if I would want to. How come I cant just use the adb pull command on the folder with my data in it?
edit - i might have found a command that works, i will update when finished.
ok this worked for me: 'adb pull / d:\backup\'
thanks everyone for your help.
Yeah. Assumed you were rooted sorry. Just thought that way you could see everything and point and click.
So I have a similar situation to this only I have a phone that isnt rooted and usb debugging isnt enabled. However I know the phone boots on, and I can also get into recovery mode where I am able to ADB to get a basic shell, and see the device but that is about it. I feel that if I could enable usb debugging thru recovery mode I might be able to mount the /sdcard and then pull files from there. anyone got any ideas if I could get a reboot with usb debugging enabled from recovery or maybe just a command that I could use in shell via recovery?? Please Please lol. I have a strong feeling i might have hit a wall.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1164598
when i launch link2sd it says "Mount script cannot be created. mount:mounting/dev/block/vold/179.10 on /data/sdext2 failed:invalid argument..
i had installed abround 300 apps on my sd-ext partition through "link2sd" app..yesterday when i installed some of doodle games , my link2sd was not able to mount sd-ext.. i tried through recovery mode to mount the sd-ext, bit it doesnt...i tried doing it through partition manager (easeus) on my pc..but it doesnt.
when i launch link2sd it says "Mount script cannot be created. mount:mounting/dev/block/vold/179.10 on /data/sdext2 failed:invalid argument"
i dont want to go through the hurdle od formatting my sd-ext & install all the apps all over again...though i have titanium backup..
please help me repair the sd-ext & be able to mount it ..
link2sd mounting error ...update
i came across a very good post for solving the link3sd problem as follows: "htp://blog.mx17.net/2011/08/howto-use-link2sd-with-cyanogenmod-703.html"
im using windows & have androidsdk installed on my pc..i can also execute the adb shell command but it doesnt accept the commands posted in the above link..
another thing i want to know is weather i should run cmd from windows-pc or terminal from my cm7...it doesnt work both ways when i connect my phone by adb..
please tell me detailed instructions for windows -pc if anyone knows
so please help...you may kindly send me a reply at [email protected]
also i would like to know your personal email so that i can contact u in future with ease..
vishalsignap said:
i came across a very good post for solving the link3sd problem as follows: "htp://blog.mx17.net/2011/08/howto-use-link2sd-with-cyanogenmod-703.html"
im using windows & have androidsdk installed on my pc..i can also execute the adb shell command but it doesnt accept the commands posted in the above link..
another thing i want to know is weather i should run cmd from windows-pc or terminal from my cm7...it doesnt work both ways when i connect my phone by adb..
please tell me detailed instructions for windows -pc if anyone knows
so please help...you may kindly send me a reply at [email protected]
also i would like to know your personal email so that i can contact u in future with ease..
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Hi, yesterday i got the same error ;(
maybe somebody already know solution ?
May i know what version of link to sd u using??u can try to update your link to sd to 1.9.4
vishalsignap said:
when i launch link2sd it says "Mount script cannot be created. mount:mounting/dev/block/vold/179.10 on /data/sdext2 failed:invalid argument..
i had installed abround 300 apps on my sd-ext partition through "link2sd" app..yesterday when i installed some of doodle games , my link2sd was not able to mount sd-ext.. i tried through recovery mode to mount the sd-ext, bit it doesnt...i tried doing it through partition manager (easeus) on my pc..but it doesnt.
when i launch link2sd it says "Mount script cannot be created. mount:mounting/dev/block/vold/179.10 on /data/sdext2 failed:invalid argument"
i dont want to go through the hurdle od formatting my sd-ext & install all the apps all over again...though i have titanium backup..
please help me repair the sd-ext & be able to mount it ..
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I just got solved, by reformatting the ext 2 to FAT 32 and solved the problem
I want to find an way on how to turn my asus tf700t into a storage mass usb so that i can run a recovery data software on my laptop and hope to recover photos and videos that i accidentally lost after I did a factory reset and wiped all my info!!!
Can you guys let me know if there is another way?
If your device is rooted and you have a microSD or SD card that is at least as big as the device's internal storage, you can make a full image of the data partition and try running your data recovery software on that image. The partition to copy is /dev/block/mmcblk0p8.
I do have root access and the sd card to conduct such procedure! now I need to figure out how to get to that particular file partition and copy it into my sd card.
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8.
manga\\//Colombia said:
I do have root access and the sd card to conduct such procedure! now I need to figure out how to get to that particular file partition and copy it into my sd card.
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8.
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Run this in adb shell:
Code:
su (if you are not already root)
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/Removable/MicroSD/data.ext4 bs=32k
For the full size SD card in the dock, adjust the output path appropriately. It will take a while, as it needs to copy almost 32 or 64 GB.
If the image is only 4 GB, that's because of a limitation in your dd commmand and you need to find a version with large file support. Of course you should not install any apps as this reduces your chance for data recovery.
Thank you for your time.! I will let you know what happens. if it works, it can help those who are in the same shoes. as of today, I havent really found an answer. Although I am not an expert on using adb shell. I see I need the SDK android install in my laptop to run a cmd and then the adb shell.
once I run the code you mentioned above. how do i manage to copy/ mirror that file into my sd card? any codes I need to know? sorry
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Run this in adb shell:
Code:
su (if you are not already root)
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/Removable/MicroSD/data.ext4 bs=32k
For the full size SD card in the dock, adjust the output path appropriately. It will take a while, as it needs to copy almost 32 or 64 GB.
If the image is only 4 GB, that's because of a limitation in your dd commmand and you need to find a version with large file support. Of course you should not install any apps as this reduces your chance for data recovery.
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manga\\//Colombia said:
once I run the code you mentioned above. how do i manage to copy/ mirror that file into my sd card? any codes I need to know? sorry
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The "dd" command with the given parameters copies an image of your /data partition into a file on the sd card.
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I am kind of lost--figuring out how to do that! sorry
I have connected my asus tablet to my laptop. I ran cmd and input the data! nothing happens..
manga\\//Colombia said:
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I am kind of lost--figuring out how to do that! sorry
I have connected my asus tablet to my laptop. I ran cmd and input the data! nothing happens..
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Your screenshot does not show what you typed. When you run "adb shell", you should get a prompt from your TF700 where you can run the su and dd commands (type Ctrl+D or "exit" and Enter to exit).
manga\\//Colombia said:
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I am kind of lost--figuring out how to do that! sorry
I have connected my asus tablet to my laptop. I ran cmd and input the data! nothing happens..
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You may want to check out this guide on adb and adb shell:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2141817
_that said:
Your screenshot does not show what you typed. When you run "adb shell", you should get a prompt from your TF700 where you can run the su and dd commands (type Ctrl+D or "exit" and Enter to exit).
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I followed the instructions..bernblb provided below... here it is a picture of what i got.
Am I supposed to run this adb shell command with a terminal emulator...install one and run the code?
manga\\//Colombia said:
I followed the instructions..bernblb provided below... here it is a picture of what i got.
Am I supposed to run this adb shell command with a terminal emulator...install one and run the code?
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That does not look as if you have root on your tablet. Here's what it looks like when I start an adb shell on mine:
Code:
C:\android-sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
C9OKAS062039 device
C:\android-sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ #
Here is where you would run the dd command.
What do you get if you type:
adb shell - then hit <enter>
su <enter>
manga\\//Colombia said:
I followed the instructions..bernblb provided below... here it is a picture of what i got.
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You forgot to run "su" before "dd".
I do have root access!!! check out my picture....
berndblb said:
That does not look as if you have root on your tablet. Here's what it looks like when I start an adb shell on mine:
Code:
C:\android-sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
C9OKAS062039 device
C:\android-sdk\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
[email protected]:/ #
Here is where you would run the dd command.
What do you get if you type:
adb shell - then hit <enter>
su <enter>
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okay.. after i typed su i got [email protected]:/ #... then i copy paste then dd command and i got this!!! i have a 32 gb micro sd card inserted in the asus tablet keyboard dock...
manga\\//Colombia said:
okay.. after i typed su i got [email protected]:/ #... then i copy paste then dd command and i got this!!! i have a 32 gb micro sd card inserted in the asus tablet keyboard dock...
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It's hard to help you if you don't read carefully what I wrote:
_that said:
For the full size SD card in the dock, adjust the output path appropriately.
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I assume you have the microSD card in a microSD to SD adapter, so you have to treat it as a full size SD card - change MicroSD to SD in the dd command line.
_that said:
Run this in adb shell:
Code:
su (if you are not already root)
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/Removable/MicroSD/data.ext4 bs=32k
For the full size SD card in the dock, adjust the output path appropriately. It will take a while, as it needs to copy almost 32 or 64 GB.
If the image is only 4 GB, that's because of a limitation in your dd commmand and you need to find a version with large file support. Of course you should not install any apps as this reduces your chance for data recovery.
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Hello _That
I did run the command with the proper SD path! but I got 4 gb image!!
in your response--regarding to find a version with a large file support? you mean maybe a 64 gb sd card?
I am gonna try to see if I can run a data recovery on that SD card and see what I can recover from there!! what data recovery for ext4 files software do you recommend??
manga\\//Colombia said:
I did run the command with the proper SD path! but I got 4 gb image!!
in your response--regarding to find a version with a large file support? you mean maybe a 64 gb sd card?
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No - as I wrote this is a limitation of the dd implementation. I think Busybox comes with a better dd, but you'd need to push it via adb to a temporary filesystem to avoid overwriting anything in /data. Try playing with the truncated image you have now - if you can recover any files from it, it's worth trying to make a complete image.
manga\\//Colombia said:
I am gonna try to see if I can run a data recovery on that SD card and see what I can recover from there!! what data recovery for ext4 files software do you recommend??
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I have no experience with any data recovery tools. Try googling "recover formatted ext4" or so. Note that the software must be able to work with an image file, not only a raw partition.
Free and open source recovery software that I can recomend. http://www.cgsecurity.org/
after running a recovery data soft on that external sd card where i copy the image of that 4 gb (partition) i wasnt able to recover the data i was looking for!!!! any ideas how to do step by step pushing that partition to a temp file system via adb
manga\\//Colombia said:
after running a recovery data soft on that external sd card where i copy the image of that 4 gb (partition) i wasnt able to recover the data i was looking for!!!!
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You have to run the recovery software on the image file, not on the card. If you can recover *any* files from the image, it makes sense to try the next steps with a complete image.
First of all, by sdcard I'm talking about Internal Memory, not external.
Dudes, I know, I've googled a lot about this, but it's for flashing a ROM, but that's not my case, please reply, advices or anything will be appreciated.
Ok, I got a phone from a friend and she wants it rooted, fine, got it, installed CWM, copy the root package in memory root and everything's fine!
The only problem is when I'm trying to flash the package, it can't mount the sdcard and I can't locate the package to flash. I would do it by sideload but there's no option to it.
Tried by deleting the SDcard content but no solution.
Please need help, advices, anything.
If there's no solution, I'll buy a 2GB sdcard.
By the way, the phone boots normally, can enter fastboot, adb, CWM, no problem. I can see the files in the sdcard in Android.
It's a Huawei Ascend Y210, with GB 2.3.
I have the exact same issue with my Moto G GPE
manudo said:
First of all, by sdcard I'm talking about Internal Memory, not external.
Dudes, I know, I've googled a lot about this, but it's for flashing a ROM, but that's not my case, please reply, advices or anything will be appreciated.
Ok, I got a phone from a friend and she wants it rooted, fine, got it, installed CWM, copy the root package in memory root and everything's fine!
The only problem is when I'm trying to flash the package, it can't mount the sdcard and I can't locate the package to flash. I would do it by sideload but there's no option to it.
Tried by deleting the SDcard content but no solution.
Please need help, advices, anything.
If there's no solution, I'll buy a 2GB sdcard.
By the way, the phone boots normally, can enter fastboot, adb, CWM, no problem. I can see the files in the sdcard in Android.
It's a Huawei Ascend Y210, with GB 2.3.
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I'm basically bricked right now, really need an answer to this.
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I'm basically bricked right now, really need an answer to this.
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Well, I gave up but there's something you can do, remake Android system partitions.
I don't know how but if you do that with adb shell parted then you'll have the mmcblk0 file that you need to mount the sdcard in CWM.
manudo said:
Well, I gave up but there's something you can do, remake Android system partitions.
I don't know how but if you do that with adb shell parted then you'll have the mmcblk0 file that you need to mount the sdcard in CWM.
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I didn't know that, I'll look into it.
Hi, I have Sony Xperia L (C2105) with Android 4.2.2 and it is rooted. My phone should have 8 GB of internal memory. Only 5.57 GB is usable but it would not matter. 4 GB of 5.57 GB is separated and marked as "sdcard0". So I can't install applications there but I can only move data of applications there. Remaining 1.57 GB is used as internal storage and all aplications are installed to this small storage. My memory card is marked as "sdcard1". Is there any way to increase internal storage or merge internal storage and sdcard0 to one big internal storage?
Donald750 said:
Hi, I have Sony Xperia L (C2105) with Android 4.2.2 and it is rooted. My phone should have 8 GB of internal memory. Only 5.57 GB is usable but it would not matter. 4 GB of 5.57 GB is separated and marked as "sdcard0". So I can't install applications there but I can only move data of applications there. Remaining 1.57 GB is used as internal storage and all aplications are installed to this small storage. My memory card is marked as "sdcard1". Is there any way to increase internal storage or merge internal storage and sdcard0 to one big internal storage?
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If someone could make this Guide for Xperia L!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712253
Till then you could use FolderMount if you have root access and mount obb and app data folders to external storage!
I think i got em
david pro said:
If someone could make this Guide for Xperia L!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712253
Till then you could use FolderMount if you have root access and mount obb and app data folders to external storage!
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check this out, guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-s/s-development/tutorial-increase-data-partition-t2821058
david pro said:
If someone could make this Guide for Xperia L!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712253
Till then you could use FolderMount if you have root access and mount obb and app data folders to external storage!
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Please look into this post I made a few weeks ago...the thread's name it's posted in doesn't help in finfing it I must admit.
So here it is for our Xperia L:
Open a command window: CMD, then get into shell:
adb shell
Once in shell, type:
umount /storage
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print
This prints out the partition information of your phone's memory chip
You will see the partition numbers in the first column, partition names in the last one,
in between you have the start/end memory index and the partition size
------start---end---size
...
31---1795---3506---1711---userdata
32---3506---7818---4312---sdcardIn the above output, consider the values indicated in italic as not to be changed !
Now calculate (open a spreadsheed if you like) the new value for the end of the userdata partition,
and use the same value for the start of the sdcard partition
On your sheet it should look something like this if you added 2048 to the userdata size
------start---end---size
31---1795---5554---3759---userdata
32---5554---7818---2264---sdcard
Remove userdata and sdcard partitions:
rm 31
rm 32
Create the new userdata and sdcard partitions:
mkpartfs logical ext2 1795 5554
name 31 userdata
mkpartfs logical fat32 5554 7818
name 32 sdcard
Exit parted to go to the adb shell again:
quit
userdata partition (31) needs to have ext4 file system
The following will do the ext2->ext4 conversion:
cd /storage/sdcard1/fs-utils
tune2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p31
Now you can go to recovery and format the sdcard partition (default)
Then you can restore the backup you made before all this or do a clean install
I'm waiting for this phone which bought few days ago. Do we need to have firmware file for doing that? Could you please explain for dumbs the "
Now you can go to recovery and format the sdcard partition (default)
Then you can restore the backup you made before all this or do a clean install" thing??
My knowledge on this is reduced to flashtool and some root stuff. Thanks in advance
SoulFury said:
I'm waiting for this phone which bought few days ago. Do we need to have firmware file for doing that? Could you please explain for dumbs the "
Now you can go to recovery and format the sdcard partition (default)
Then you can restore the backup you made before all this or do a clean install" thing??
My knowledge on this is reduced to flashtool and some root stuff. Thanks in advance
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That means: If you have made a backup, use the backup. If not, flash some software (and wipe cache/data == clean install)
So I connect phone to pc, do the thing using ADB, then flash it with stock firmware(for example) wiping cache,huh? Seems easy. Many thanks
I'm trying it but adb won't let me do umount /storage, it sais "invalid argument" :S
SoulFury said:
So I connect phone to pc, do the thing using ADB, then flash it with stock firmware(for example) wiping cache,huh? Seems easy. Many thanks
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Hey man I just realized that after repartitioning you should better not flash stock firmware as I heard many cases in which the phone was bricked afterwards (with CM there is no problem)
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I've read about it too, but it seems to happen randomly :S. But my first problem is the "umount" thing
Up this guys, I really would like to do this thing
Kahana82 said:
Open a command window: CMD, then get into shell:
adb shell
Once in shell, type:
umount /storage
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print
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Did you do that first step?
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GreyLDroid said:
Did you do that first step?
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Did you try that with adb connected tot the phone within CWM recovery mode (not from your Android OS) ?
I've tried different ways
First of all, I have the phone with "usb debug" enabled, with my sdcard out and normally connected. If I do "adb devices" it launches daemon and show me my device connected
But when I enter the shell, if I do the same thing, devices is not showed, but I can access and do "ls" and navigate through the directories.
I can't either adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 mmcblk0.img, it sais that "remote object is not a file or directory", but it is.
I'm running Windows 7 SP1 with last version of Android Studio(SDK) and manually added my phone to android_winusb.inf
any idea? Thanks in advance
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I've tried different ways
First of all, I have the phone with "usb debug" enabled, with my sdcard out and normally connected. If I do "adb devices" it launches daemon and show me my device connected
But when I enter the shell, if I do the same thing, devices is not showed, but I can access and do "ls" and navigate through the directories.
I can't either adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 mmcblk0.img, it sais that "remote object is not a file or directory", but it is.
I'm running Windows 7 SP1 with last version of Android Studio(SDK) and manually added my phone to android_winusb.inf
any idea? Thanks in advance
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Try to navigate to the directory and then just use adb pull mmcblk0.img (without the path)
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Well, something is going wrong. If I do adb devices at first, it shows my phon, but when I do adb shell, althoug I apparently have acces to my phone directories, adb devices is empty :S
SoulFury said:
Well, something is going wrong. If I do adb devices at first, it shows my phon, but when I do adb shell, althoug I apparently have acces to my phone directories, adb devices is empty :S
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ah come on guys dont touch this if you are kinda that rookie... want to hardbrick your device?
i will explain you:
you do : adb devices
you do that ON PC
pc looks for devices and show you
then you do : adb shell
you will switch from PC to PHONE comand prompt
then you do again: adb devices
you do that ON PHONE ...
and on your phone there isnt another phone conected
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Ooooook thanks. First of all, only starting to be a rookie you'll become master XDDD. Until now, I've only flashed,rooted and modded some firmware on all of my xperias since x10 mini pro, and I hope I'll learn more and more.
Next, still having the thing about the umounting of storage.I've tried with sdcard out. Even pull command(out of the shell xD) doen'ts work with dev/block/mmcblk0
SoulFury said:
Ooooook thanks. First of all, only starting to be a rookie you'll become master XDDD. Until now, I've only flashed,rooted and modded some firmware on all of my xperias since x10 mini pro, and I hope I'll learn more and more.
Next, still having the thing about the umounting of storage.I've tried with sdcard out. Even pull command(out of the shell xD) doen'ts work with dev/block/mmcblk0
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adb devices
adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 c:/users/bla/mmcblk0.img
you have to do that ON PC command prompt.... dont switch to shell
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That's exatcly what I do and I get always "remote object '/dev/block/mmcblk0' not a file or directory"(and I've verified that it exist)