How would I pull the data and system files from my phone?
Every time I try to pull my system file from my phone from the debug monitor it only pulls the apps, bin, and etc files.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
softwaredownloads
softwaredownloads.org
go and have a look,I think there maybe some softwares can help you,it is a nice place,Thanks!
Jamin13 said:
How would I pull the data and system files from my phone?
Every time I try to pull my system file from my phone from the debug monitor it only pulls the apps, bin, and etc files.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
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Gimme an hour my magical glass orb is currently guessing what phone you actually have.
Rain51020 said:
softwaredownloads.org
go and have a look,I think there maybe some softwares can help you,it is a nice place,Thanks!
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What does that have todo with anything?
And the orb predicts....*say Kyocera Echo*.
*gasps* How did you know?
All joking aside, I can't seem to pull these system files from my Echo. My Echo is rooted but I still can't.
What specific is missing ?
Just an idea copy the system dir to your sdcard, and pull from there.
You can copy it with adb it self or any explorer app.
*hidden advertisement* SD Maid in my signature can do the job ;-).
I've been trying too pull the framework .apk from it (and other stuff that's too long too list).
Sent from my M9300 using XDA App
Thanks for that, SD Maid worked like a charm.
Now, I just need verify that these are the correct files. I've been trying to get a system dump and it would only pull 4 folders.
Related
Ok I will put all my questions here rather than starting multiple threads.
I dont use twitter, Facebook, Flicker., Peep, Teeter, Footprints, Google Talk, LearnMore, Stocks... Is there any way to remove any of these and reduce the number of screens down to 3 or 5? I love the ROM but it is painfully slow some times and even after I task kill some processes come back. It would be nice the get a striped down rom and add the features that you like and make a backup.
Can we extract those for future distributions or cooking our own ROM's?.. the weather, clock, contacts and calendar widgets are the best out there. Love the office, wifi tether and flash implementations.
With WinCE there were kitchens and OEM's making custom ROMs easy to build. Is there something like that for Android???
At last... Can the apps be installed on the SD card instead? I never remove the card.
Using testsign,jar and adb you could remove SOME of the apps you want to.None of the google ones can be removed or you get process.gapps.com error and cant sign in to google.it really is trial and error really, Ive spent the last 2 weeks working out what i can remove from cyanogenMOD roms!
Can you elaborate on the procedure some more...Im new with Android... I have decent exp in WInCE but this is like learning a whole new world.
Have you been using android sdk at all? Im unsure on what exactly ive done to get it all lol
I could upload my android tools folder which has it all in if that makes it any easier?All i know is now when i right click a zip file it comes up with resign as an option.
I have found a helpfull thread here
I have used the ADk to flash devices not so much for rom building...
My understanding on the process...
get rom...
extract....
figure out what is needed and what is not in the data/app_s folder???
*.apk files ( Android Program Pack....right??? ) and .odex files (BTW what is this file i could not find any information on it.)
resign and repackage...
Flash recovery...
Wipe...
Flash UPDATE.zip...
hope that it works....
That sound right or am I missing something?
bonesy said:
Have you been using android sdk at all? Im unsure on what exactly ive done to get it all lol
I could upload my android tools folder which has it all in if that makes it any easier?All i know is now when i right click a zip file it comes up with resign as an option.
I have found a helpfull thread here
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Or if you are using Ubuntu:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538021
Thank you all for your help...
I got the apps uninstalled much easier. =)
SU File Manager & Terminal $$$. It costs money but it is well wort it. Makes editing files on the system much easier. It gives you root access to browse the system.
/data/app_s/...
change what you dont want to *.bak
make sure the system doesn't hang up.
When you are satisfied that its not a vital file move to SD card for later use or delete.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! You can screw up your phone bad... !!!! Its a powerful tool!!!
zambezy said:
Thank you all for your help...
I got the apps uninstalled much easier. =)
SU File Manager & Terminal $$$. It costs money but it is well wort it. Makes editing files on the system much easier. It gives you root access to browse the system.
/data/app_s/...
change what you dont want to *.bak
make sure the system doesn't hang up.
When you are satisfied that its not a vital file move to SD card for later use or delete.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! You can screw up your phone bad... !!!! Its a powerful tool!!!
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there's also root explorer.
As i understand removing/adding apps to the app_s or app folder means you can uninstall them. Putting them in system/app means you can clear the data only?
I'm not sure what I could have removed that would cause this, but I'm attempting a restore. would anyone be willing to upload the standard contents of the /system/app folder for me?
kageurufu said:
I'm not sure what I could have removed that would cause this, but I'm attempting a restore. would anyone be willing to upload the standard contents of the /system/app folder for me?
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when are people going to learn to reNAME instead of reMOVE. it's a BAD idea to experiment like that without even having an SBF yet. I'd say from now on, stick to the list of apps that are "safe to remove" from droid x. I don't have the time to get the system apps right now but I may be able to when I get home later
Yes, you should just rename files so that you can restore them easily.
Check the system dump in the Themes and Apps forum.. see if you can reconstruct from that.
yeah, Im not even sure what messed up, I was going off the safe to remove list found droidxforums com/forum/droid-x-hacks/1347-removing-bloat-11.html#post13552
and its working again.
I just restored my backup, and it works fine.
Has anyone backed up the stock applications? I accidentally deleted audiotuning.apk and want to put it back, even though I haven't determined what it's for. If anyone has backed these up to their desktop, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send it to me so I don't have to reinstall.
Coming from a lifetime use of Blackberry, it seems we can't fix our mistakes as easily on Android
dmasjz45 said:
Has anyone backed up the stock applications? I accidentally deleted audiotuning.apk and want to put it back, even though I haven't determined what it's for. If anyone has backed these up to their desktop, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send it to me so I don't have to reinstall.
Coming from a lifetime use of Blackberry, it seems we can't fix our mistakes as easily on Android
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Attached.
I use the Sdx Stock App to backup and delete system apps. If you're rooted it's invaluable.
apogee82 said:
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I use the Sdx Stock App to backup and delete system apps. If you're rooted it's invaluable.
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Thank you!!!!
It seems I can't copy this over to system\apps. Looks like the .odex was deleted also. Could you please attach this for me too? Hoping that will do it. I'm rooted so I don't know why it's not showing up (using root explorer)
Or do I have to do this using adb ?
I am going to zip all these up and post them on here for other morons like me after
dmasjz45 said:
Looks like the .odex was deleted also. Could you please attach this for me too?
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Rename it to .odex it's not really a zip file. I had to name it that to get around the forum limitations.
I'm pretty sure you have to do it using ADB and mount the system/app directory as writable. If you install the Sdx tool you can backup a few apps, then navigate to the sdx directory on the sdcard that gets created and manually add the audioTuining files in there and then restore them using the Sdx app.
That's a long way around ADB but it should work.
Thanks again!!!
Jeeze what a hell of a job it is to push a few files to /system folder
Anyway, got them over there...Unavailable to actually install it (no idea why) but at least it's sitting back in there
That takes care of my OCD until I notice what it affected
where can i find that sdx tool? are there any other free apps out there that I can back up my phone with?
I'd be most grateful if someone could attach VoiceSearch.apk, and VoiceSearch.odex.
Accidentally deleted.
infamousjax said:
I'd be most grateful if someone could attach VoiceSearch.apk, and VoiceSearch.odex.
Accidentally deleted.
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do you mean voicedialer.apk and .odex? I don't see VoiceSearch
Edit:
the .odex file is in the rar
DevilDogVIKING said:
where can i find that sdx tool? are there any other free apps out there that I can back up my phone with?
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Attached to second post.
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Attached to second post.
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I can't believe I missed that, thanks
can someone upload the Sprint_App_Updater.apk?
You can get them all here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773142
If you want to delete an app, change a file or whatever when you get root, please be smart about it. Think before you delete something. Have a plan B (a failback plan). If you don't know how you will fix whatever you're about to potentially break, DON'T DO IT.
Try to learn ADB. I know it's not for everyone, but it may pull you out of the fire later. Think before you do anything.
No matter what Android device it is, someone always has a post saying "Help! I deleted <insert app here> and I need it back!" Here are some tips:
Don't freeze or delete an app using Titanium Backup without knowing if it will crash your phone or not
If you're using ADB, rename a file instead of deleting it if you're not sure if it will crash your phone or not
Your /system folder is like the base operating system folder (think C:\Windows); before you change something BACK IT UP!
Code:
adb pull /system <destination_folder>
Since we only have temp root for now, if you're disabling packages, back up the packages.xml file
Code:
adb pull /data/system/packages.xml <destination_folder>
Learn from others' mistakes; if someone bricks their phone, read the thread and figure out how NOT to screw yourself and your phone
Heard of measure twice, cut once? Read three times, execute once. Listen to the Devs. Be nice to them. Don't piss them off. They do this on their own time.
Please be smart about whatever you do to your phone. We can't be dumb smart phone users. If you don't know something, ask in the appropriate section or thread. If you know something, don't tease others for not knowing. The occasional flame is funny and all, but at some point someone has to learn whatever they don't know - someone is going to have to step up and help them.
Thanks dawg...
I think and SD backup and Nandroid recovery backup on root will be good enough? <not condascending...just asking from your adb opinion?>
ROM_Guest said:
Thanks dawg...
I think and SD backup and Nandroid recovery backup on root will be good enough? <not condascending...just asking from your adb opinion?>
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I think of that as another layer. We're not there with the Sensation yet, but I always think it's a good idea to use any and all methods best suited for what you're doing.
For example, if you're flashing a theme someone customized which could change multiple apk and jar files, a Nandroid backup is best.
When someone goes to remove an apk or freeze an app, they usually don't think to take a Nandroid backup (because deleting or freezing takes only a second - Nandroid backups take longer).
1) we don't have that functionality yet and 2) it's very common for someone to try to freeze a critical app which can cause a boot loop, which can easily be fixed by adb (if a Nandroid is not available).
i tried:
adb pull / backup/
it started building a file list and then started the copy. after a time (dont know excatly when because i let it run beside) it stoped working at:
pull: /sys/devices/platform/msm_adc/batt_id -> backup/sys/devices/platform/msm_adc/batt_id
nothing more happend. now i got 4883 files, a total of 3.1 GB, backup directory. but it seems not all files are in. when i browse through the phone dir i see much more files in the dirs.
is there any other way of getting a complete backup? when i rerun the command will it skip the files it allready dumped to disk? any other command?
thx!!!
daSn00p said:
i tried:
adb pull / backup/
it started building a file list and then started the copy. after a time (dont know excatly when because i let it run beside) it stoped working at:
pull: /sys/devices/platform/msm_adc/batt_id -> backup/sys/devices/platform/msm_adc/batt_id
nothing more happend. now i got 4883 files, a total of 3.1 GB, backup directory. but it seems not all files are in. when i browse through the phone dir i see much more files in the dirs.
is there any other way of getting a complete backup? when i rerun the command will it skip the files it allready dumped to disk? any other command?
thx!!!
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All you really need is /system and /data if you want a complete backup. I know you see other files+folders, but those are mounted by the OS and kernel... or whatever. Someone with more Linux experience can explain better than I can. But if you want a complete backup, just get /system and /data.
The /system folder is like getting the base OS. The /data is all your user/personal data.
dumping /system worked fine: 1366 files pulled. 0 files skipped.
when trying to dump /data it freezes again and allways again at:
pull: /data/d/smem_log/dump_cont -> ../backup2/data/d/smem_log/dump_cont
so i dumped every dir in data manually only /data/d is missing now. but there are so many dirs in it, i dont want to dump every dir on its own
any idea?
daSn00p said:
dumping /system worked fine: 1366 files pulled. 0 files skipped.
when trying to dump /data it freezes again and allways again at:
pull: /data/d/smem_log/dump_cont -> ../backup2/data/d/smem_log/dump_cont
so i dumped every dir in data manually only /data/d is missing now. but there are so many dirs in it, i dont want to dump every dir on its own
any idea?
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That should be good enough for now. No one else is doing this manually, so until we get an official root this is all you can do to backup. Once we get permanent root, titanium backup will do most of this for us.
I would only make backups of anything you change or delete at this point, but that's just me.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
Hello,
I just got my new Atrix 2
root it, and remove some apps including
all related to Yahoo.
Now I can't open any Contact, Contact Storage
com.motorola.contacts has stopped.
found some posts referencing
to Yahoo Mail Authentication, so I went to my TB Pro and select Yahoo Mail Authentication to restore, but TB get stuck on Restoring App Screen and not moving.
Is there another way to restore it?
Thank you.
P.S. Restore to Factory didn't help but lost root
DanDem said:
Hello,
I just got my new Atrix 2
root it, and remove some apps including
all related to Yahoo.
Now I can't open any Contact, Contact Storage
com.motorola.contacts has stopped.
found some posts referencing
to Yahoo Mail Authentication, so I went to my TB Pro and select Yahoo Mail Authentication to restore, but TB get stock on Restoring App Screen and not moving.
Is there another way to restore it?
Thank you.
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You CANNOT remove apps from this phone.
Please read the noob post, here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
You will have to get the fxz file from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415336
You can either flash this to your phone, which is what I recommend, since you did not read or search the forum, I am quessing you are pretty noob. This will take you back to 100% stock.
Or if you really want the abilty to f' up your phone more, or are more advanced than you have given the impression you are, keep reading.
You can use that fxz file, to extract the files needed from it to pack on your phone using the sdk, and pushing those files to your phone. I will not tell you how, but you can do some searches on XDA to figure all that out.
jimbridgman said:
You CANNOT remove apps from this phone.
Please read the noob post, here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
You will have to get the fxz file from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415336
You can either flash this to your phone, which is what I recommend, since you did not read or search the forum, I am quessing you are pretty noob. This will take you back to 100% stock.
Or if you really want the abilty to f' up your phone more, or are more advanced than you have given the impression you are, keep reading.
You can use that fxz file, to extract the files needed from it to pack on your phone using the sdk, and pushing those files to your phone. I will not tell you how, but you can do some searches on XDA to figure all that out.
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Thanks a lot for these links, I did found them before just hope not to go that path, I had faith in TB but looks like I shouldn't buy it.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
Titanium is like any tool it can help or hurt depending on how you use it
DanDem said:
Thanks a lot for these links, I did found them before just hope not to go that path, I had faith in TB but looks like I shouldn't buy it.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
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Try using the fxz files and extract the system.img I can't really tell you what to go and get to do that with, but a google search should help you.
Grab the sdk:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Install that and the drivers for the phone, from here:
This if on 32-bit:http://www.mediafire.com/?71c12qc4a1svqza
And this for 64-bit:http://www.mediafire.com/?ysphmaz131d3an9
find out how to mount that system.img file in windows, a google search will do well for that.
Copy those files you removed from the system/app directory/folder
and then find where you copied those files to and open a command prompt from there, and:
Code:
adb push filename.apk /data/local
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
cd /data/local
cp filename.apk /system/app
chmod 440 /system/app/filename.apk
You will do the push for each file you removed, and also the cp and chmod, just replace the "filename" with the actual filename of the files.
Worst case, if you completely f' your phone up, you can restore the fxz, with RDS lite 5.6 or higher. At least this way you might learn something in the process.
Jim,
Let me ask you a quick question, pushing files with adb does the same as copy them using RootExplorer?
I tryed copy them with Root Explorer into system/app folder, still having problem.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
DanDem said:
Jim,
Let me ask you a quick question, pushing files with adb does the same as copy them using RootExplorer?
I tryed copy them with Root Explorer into system/app folder, still having problem.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
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No, you can not use root explorer, it does something funny when it copies those type of compressed files, an apk, is kind of like a zip, and that can be "extracted" so to speak and run, without taking the zip apart.
You HAVE to use adb to push the files, then use the unix/android cp command. Just use the code I posted exactly the way I have it, or it will not work.
DanDem said:
Thanks a lot for these links, I did found them before just hope not to go that path, I had faith in TB but looks like I shouldn't buy it.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
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The best way is before trying to remove system applications (showing in red in Titanium), freeze it with Titanium backup. And only if your phone is working perfectly with this app frozen, you might think about removing this app. But why to remove it if it does not take any resources when frozen?