I have lots of Zune backups on my PC and I want to "extract" only my SMSs.. I opened the backup folder and into this I found the "RestorePoint" folder. Into this folder there is a file called "ActiveID.dat" and another folder which contains the folder "Data", which contains the "real" backup: there are lots of "Data.x.dat" and "Data.x.data.hash" files but I don't know how can I do to extract something from these.. How can I do? Does anyone have an idea?
Currently not possible
It seems that so far nobody has cracked the file format of those backups to extract things like SMS from them. See e.g. this earlier thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1614624
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Today I lost all the data on my phone.. no problem I thought, I shall do a restore using my backup activesync makes every time i plug my phone in, so all is fine and dandy. When it gets about half way through the restoration, activesync crashes (always at the same point). It is during processing a file called fldr1001dd8.
This means I cannot fully restore my device - very annoying!!
Can anyone help with this... can I make it so it skips errors instead of crashing? Any help at all appreciated!! Device is a Blue Angel, using ActiveSync 4.1
You want to download a free utility called STGViewer - this utility allows you to examine the contents of the backup file activesync creates so you can identify which data you want restored. If there is a corrupt file then you can decide not to restore that particular one but retrieve everything else.
Thankyou so much, I will try that!!
OK I have found it, but I cant work out how to delete a file from the archive with it. All it seems able to do is 'copy' files out of the archive :-(
Any tips?
You cannot delete individual files from the .stg file but the program does allow you to restore selected folders and files. So you can restore Program Files folder all at once - if that works then restore My Documents folder and so on.
You may find that by restoring individually there may not be any corrupt files. But if there are, then you just select everything else except the corrupted file - you can use drag and highlight to speed things up. A little bit tedious but at least you can get all your files back from a bad .stg file.
BTW, the file you mentioned is in Pegasus Databases which are system files
Have you used the program yourself Ian? If so could you please help me with the restore folder button.. when I select a folder, then the restore folder option on the menu, nothing happens. This is very frustrating!
Also, when I extract the files from the pegasus database and put them on the phone, the pegasus folder shows in the phone's file manager (obviously, because I just put it there). How do I restore them to the (presumably hidden) folder, where they are meant to be?
I appreciate all help on this matter, all I need back are my contacts, appointments and message data etc, the rest I can start afresh with.
No I have not used this to restore an entire phone, only to retrieve individual files. It does sound like you will need to start afresh and just use STGViewer to recover personal files from My Documents etc. Most installed programs in Program Files will work fine if restored via STGViewer- there is often no need to actually use an installation program as many programs work as standalone folders.
If you have synced with your PC previously, all your contacts, notes and messages will be in Microsoft Outlook so you can use Activesync to restore these back onto your phone. (assuming you had opted to sync these items)
I would suggest in future that you use Xbackup in the Programs folder to regularly save your contacts/notes data into permanent Storage. I also from time to time make a copy of my .stg file so that I do not need to start anew if my current .stg file is corrupted. Good luck!
I can't copy or move files stored in device ROM.
I've tried with Resco Explorer and Total Commander, but without success.
I didn't understand if there's a registry hack that allows these operations.
I've notice (or so it seemed to me) that I was able to substitute/copy/move some files having the ROM attribute, but many others not (eg: I've tried to copy the nleddrvr_sec.dll, obviously without success, otherwise I'd post this here!).
Surfing in many forums, I read many others asking for the same thing, unfortunately I haven't seen answers to their question about this.
Hope someone explains to me how to do or why is impossible to do.
Mersì bo q.
Gubbài.
You can not copy / move / delete files in ROM. Thats the point of "Read Only Memory"
These files are not stored as individual files but are in fact packed in a special way as part of the device image which can only be written (flashed) by special tools.
If you want to extract OS files you need to use a ROM dump tool.
I suggest you look in the WiKi.
What you can do is overwrite one or more "ROM files". What will happen in reality is that a copy of the file with the same name will be placed in storage memory and the system will go there. If you hard reset your device or rename the file it will go back to the original file.
levenum said:
You can not copy / move / delete files in ROM. Thats the point of "Read Only Memory"
These files are not stored as individual files but are in fact packed in a special way as part of the device image which can only be written (flashed) by special tools.
If you want to extract OS files you need to use a ROM dump tool.
I suggest you look in the WiKi.
What you can do is overwrite one or more "ROM files". What will happen in reality is that a copy of the file with the same name will be placed in storage memory and the system will go there. If you hard reset your device or rename the file it will go back to the original file.
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As you said here and here (Changing Files in Windows Dir )
it's impossible to move/copy ROM files, just overwrite 'em.
Doing so the system looking for these overwritten copies.
So now the question are:
- there's a registry entry that points to this substitute ROM files?
- to modify an existent file resident in ROM I MUST dump my ROM or another one same or similar?
Mersì bo q, anyway.
Gubbài.
As it seems to be a fairly common question, here is a guide on how to extract your clockworkmod recovery images.
This can come handy if you only want to extract certain apps, or files.
Put your Clockworkmod images in a folder on your computer.
Download this and put it in there, too.
Extract it in there.
Open a cmd-prompt in this folder.
Use this command to extract your data:
Code:
unyaffs.exe img_name_to_extract.img
Wait. the tool will display "end of image" when it is done.
Done. The data should be in the same directory as the tool is.
If you want to restore your contacts:
Extract the data.img
Your contacts will be in:
Code:
\data\com.android.providers.contacts\databases
I have not written the program used in this guide, just found it on my harddrive.
thanks much. so helpful
helped me to pull out contacts
I first had to download and install cgwin1.dll from here http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?cygwin1 and place it in the windows directory to get this to work. But after proceeding I get a "broken image file" when trying this on recovery.img and same thing with boot.img.
I am simply trying to recover some data from this nandroid backup specifically pictures in the sdcard/DCIM directory but I have no idea where it is. Is it located somewhere in the data.ext4.rar or system.ext4.rar files? If so I have looked through those and could not find a DCIM directory of any kind. Would anyone be kind enough to direct me?
Thanks
JDubbed said:
I first had to download and install cgwin1.dll from here http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?cygwin1 and place it in the windows directory to get this to work. But after proceeding I get a "broken image file" when trying this on recovery.img and same thing with boot.img.
I am simply trying to recover some data from this nandroid backup specifically pictures in the sdcard/DCIM directory but I have no idea where it is. Is it located somewhere in the data.ext4.rar or system.ext4.rar files? If so I have looked through those and could not find a DCIM directory of any kind. Would anyone be kind enough to direct me?
Thanks
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You won't be able to do that. The recovery does not backup the sdcard.
Thank you very much ,it help me much
Cheers buddy! Needed this to extract my data backup
When windows phone installs and uninstalls an app, is there a file that writes the app info into? My HTC HD7 in unlocked, and I can copy my app directories to my pc, but when I copy them back to my htc hd7 it doesnt recongnize them. or is there a way I can rexap the apps on my pc and redeploy them onto my phone? Any ideas?
Try entering a zip file the files included in the application folder (not the folder directly but only its contents. The folder is the one with the ID of the program) and rename this zip file in xap. Then try installing the xap.
P. S. Unfortunately I have my WP in my hands because it is being repaired and can not remember the name of the three folders in the folder "\ applications".
To be more precise, could you, please, remember the name of the three folders in the folder "\ applications"?
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Try entering a zip file the files included in the application folder (not the folder directly but only its contents. The folder is the one with the ID of the program) and rename this zip file in xap. Then try installing the xap.
P. S. Unfortunately I have my WP in my hands because it is being repaired and can not remember the name of the three folders in the folder "\ applications".
To be more precise, could you, please, remember the name of the three folders in the folder "\ applications"?
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applications\data\isolated storage is the one your looking for
applications\install has the actual program, some times you need to poke about in there rather than data, but most of the time, if its user data related it is under data.
I was looking for this path "applications \ install".
I think it should be enough to create one xap with the files in the folder "applications \ install \ <app ID>".
I repeat that to create the xap, just put the files in that path into a xap file to then be able to reinstall it.
Obviously if you want to make a backup of saves and settings, you can see the folders dell'isolated storage.
Hi!
For everyone who has lost his ThreemaID because of damaged phone, here is my solution.
All you need is an old TWRP/Nandroid backup that contains the data partition of your phone (you should have installed Threema before you backed up the data ) and a software like 7Zip (on Windows) or tar (on Linux).
Copy the TWRP/Nandroid files to your computer. On my XPeriaZ5 they are named from data.ext4.win000 to data.ext4.win006. These files are normal ".tar.gz" files. Rename them to data.ext4.win000.tgz ... data.ext4.win006.tgz.
Use 7Zip or tar to browse the archive and navigate to "/data/data/ch.threema.app/files/".
Inside this directory, you will find a file named "idbackup.txt".
Extract and open this file. It contains your ThreemaID in plain text format.
Start Threema on your new (unrooted) phone and tell Threema to restore your ID from text.
Enter the long code you found in idbackup.txt (you will be asked for your password)
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