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I having been beating myself up on setting up openvpn.
I'm stuck with exec format error when I try to load tun.ko.
Is there anyone that has openvpn working on this model and how did you get it working?
***** EDIT WORKING *******
I will post here so you don't have to read to the end to find the answer.
This is how to get it working with Fresh Evo- thanks to appzattak
install OpenVPN Installer (this may not be needed, but it won't hurt) and OpenVPN Settings from the market.
run the installer.
grab the tun.ko from here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6792542&postcount=2
push the tun.ko file to /system/lib/modules/
place your openvpn config and key files and such in /sdcard/openvpn
download binary from http://github.com/downloads/fries/android-external-openvpn/openvpn-static-2.1.1.bz2
uncompressed and rename file to openvpn
push to /system/xbin
chmod 755 /system/xbin/openvpn
make a symbolic link in /system/xbin/bb to /system/xbin ('ln -s /system/xbin/system/xbin/bb')
Open open vpn settings and configure your paths
tun = /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
configurations = /sdcard/openvpn
openvpnbinary = /system/xbin/openvpn
put your openvpn conf file and keys into /sdcard/openvpn.
Reboot phone for good measure and you should be set.

good luck, i' too would love to have this but could never get it working....

Well I managed to make a little more progress. Here is what I have done thus far.
I installed OpenVPN Installer and OpenVPN Settings from the market. I then ran the installer. I grabbed the tun.ko from here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6792542&postcount=2
then i pushed the tun.ko file to /system/lib/modules/. Then I placed my openvpn config and key files and such in /sdcard/openvpn
Next I connected the phone to my computer and ran this:
adb shell
su
insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
then fired up openvpn setting and initiated my connection. It connects, but I cannot access anything. I did a logcat and did see an error with ifconfig so not sure what that could be. Also to note, the above insmod command seems to be run everytime the phone is rebooted. even though openvpn settings has a setting to make that happen before it tries, but it don't work.
Hope this helps others try and figure this out, and get it working.
--Steve
EDIT: Here is the error from logcat:
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/pebkac.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 843): Fri J
ul 2 13:22:19 2010 SENT CONTROL [server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/pebkac.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 843): Fri J
ul 2 13:22:19 2010 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,dhcp-option DNS
208.67.222.222,dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220,route-gateway 172.16.100.20,ping 1
0,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 172.16.100.230 255.255.255.0'
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/pebkac.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 843): Fri J
ul 2 13:22:19 2010 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) i
n [PUSH-OPTIONS]:6: ifconfig (2.1.1)
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/pebkac.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 843): Fri J
ul 2 13:22:19 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/pebkac.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 843): Fri J
ul 2 13:22:19 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: route-related options modified
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/pebkac.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 843): Fri J
ul 2 13:22:19 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modi
fied
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/pebkac.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 843): Fri J
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I got it working, did almost the same steps as @appzattak, only difference is I overwrote my ifconfig with busybox's ifconfig. Then openvpn connects and works perfectly, now I just need to figure out how to get dns to work with a split tunnel setup =)
Oh I have to overwrite my ifconfig everytime I reset, since I'm using unrevoked I can't permanently write to my /system/bin directory (I don't think anyhow?)
Let me know if you need more help.

delta18 said:
I got it working, did almost the same steps as @appzattak, only difference is I overwrote my ifconfig with busybox's ifconfig. Then openvpn connects and works perfectly, now I just need to figure out how to get dns to work with a split tunnel setup =)
Oh I have to overwrite my ifconfig everytime I reset, since I'm using unrevoked I can't permanently write to my /system/bin directory (I don't think anyhow?)
Let me know if you need more help.
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How did you overwrite ifconfig
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

U have too install busybox
used a app called gscript lite to run this command as root:
cp /system/bin/busybox /system/bin/ifconfig

delta18 said:
U have too install busybox
used a app called gscript lite to run this command as root:
cp /system/bin/busybox /system/bin/ifconfig
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awesome, got it working. I did have to use xbin instead of bin though...I already had busybox installed as I have fresh latest rom.
Thanks!

appzattak said:
awesome, got it working. I did have to use xbin instead of bin though...I already had busybox installed as I have fresh latest rom.
Thanks!
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I take it back, it is still not routing correctly. I thought it was but did not realize I was connected to my home wifi and my home vpn server, thus it worked...but now I'm away from home and it connects but I cannot access anything.....so how did you get your working exactly...and what rom are you using?

I'm still stuck in the same area.
I downloaded the tun.ko file that you posted. next I remounted the /system as read write. then i pushed the tun.ko to /system/lib/modules. I then remount the system as read only
finally I run this command and get this result.
# su
su
# insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
insmod: init_module '/system/lib/modules/tun.ko' failed (Exec format error)
any help would be greatly appreciated

bar3m3tal said:
I'm still stuck in the same area.
I downloaded the tun.ko file that you posted. next I remounted the /system as read write. then i pushed the tun.ko to /system/lib/modules. I then remount the system as read only
finally I run this command and get this result.
# su
su
# insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
insmod: init_module '/system/lib/modules/tun.ko' failed (Exec format error)
any help would be greatly appreciated
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I dont have that error, I actually run that command successfully, and I got OpenVPn setting to send that command first and it connects.

which Rom are you using?

Fresh 0. 5. 3
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

I will try that one and see what I can do, I was on Damagecontrol.
Will report back if I can get it working and resolve the routing issues.

ok, with Fresh I have it connecting now, but the client disconnects right away and the server does not know it. now to get to loging the client side so I can see why it disconnects right after the server thinks everything is good

ok, the connection stays connected now by changing dev /dev/tun to dev-node /dev/tun.
however if I run ifconfig or busybox ifconfig the tun interface does not show up....

Mine stay connected, but still cannot access any servers on the vpn side. Here is another snapshot of logcat where I think the problem is:
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:13 2010 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route 172.16.10.0 2
55.255.255.0,route 10.139.146.1,ping 10,ping-restart 60,ifconfig 10.139.146.6 10
.139.146.5'
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:13 2010 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [
PUSH-OPTIONS]:1: route (2.1.1)
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:13 2010 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [
PUSH-OPTIONS]:2: route (2.1.1)
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:13 2010 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [
PUSH-OPTIONS]:5: ifconfig (2.1.1)
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:13 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:13 2010 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:13 2010 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:14 2010 Initialization Sequence Completed
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/wci.ovpn]-daemon-stdout( 825): Mon Jul
5 22:11:14 2010 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1278393074,CONNECTED,SUCCESS,,69.198.200.238
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Also when I run the ifconfig or the busybox ifconfig, the tun interface does not show up either...odd....anyone else have any ideas here??

Bam! I got it working now. It seems that the binary that I installed which was the App OpenVPN Installer installs a messed up version of the openvpn binary. So I stumbled onto this and it fixed it.
http://code.google.com/p/android-openvpn-settings/issues/detail?id=26
Basically I downloaded that binary, renamed it to just openvpn and pushed it to /system/xbin. created that symlink it says and did a chmod 755 /system/xbin/openvpn, and a reboot for good measure. Then it worked me is very happy right now...w00t!

Sweet!!!
It is working properly with that. Now I can remote into my office and work on any server I need to from my phone.. this is great.

I hear ya...this is gunna make my life so much better as I connect to many clients that I install openvpn at.....I'm surprised more folks don't need this....

It surprises me as well... apparently not that many people using openvpn see the value of this .. or there just are not as many people out there using openvpn.

[How to] Transfer Angry Birds progress from a jailbroken iPhone to a rooted Android

Some steps may be unnecessary and some could be performed using different tools.
The general idea is that there are two files that need to be copied from your iPhone to your Android phone matching the owner and permission.
The tools you use are up to you and depend on your skills.
If you find ways of achieving this without jailbreaking or rooting your phone please post them. Probably a combination of iTunes backups and Titanium may work.
To follow this guide you will need:
- A jailbroken iPhone.
- A rooted Android phone
- Some knowledge of Unix-like system, access using ssh your phone, permissions, gid:uid owner, etc. It's not rocket science but I'm not going to explain these concepts here.
1. Getting highscores.lua and settings.lua
1.1 Jailbreak your iPhone if you haven't done it yet.
1.2 Download i-Funbox in your computer. If you don't use Windows, you can install Openssh on Cydia and follow this guide accessing your iPhone with a ssh/scp client to copy these files. Files are in /private/var/mobile/Applications/(very long string)/Documents
1.3 Connect your iPhone, open i-Funbox and click User Applications.
1.4 Find Angry Birds folder, go to Documents folder and copy highscores.lua and settings.lua to your computer.
We are done with the iPhone. I'm assuming that in your Android phone you have installed Angry Birds, successfully completed one level at least and closed the app completely.
2. Copying highscores.lua and settings.lua
2.1 Root your Android phone if you haven't done it yet and install SSHDroid from the Android Market.
2.2 Open SSHDroid and wait until it generates the keys.
2.3 Access your phone using a ssh client.
2.4 On Android, highscores.lua and settings.lua are in /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/files/
Code:
cd /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/files/
2.5 Backup highscores.lua and settings.lua renaming them to highscores.bak and settings.bak
Code:
mv highscores.lua highscores.bak
mv settings.lua settings.bak
2.6 Copy iPhone's highscores.lua and settings.lua to /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/files/ (any scp client you know how to use)
2.7 Check the gid:uid owner and permissions of highscores.bak and settings.bak
Code:
ls -l
total 48
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 52 Nov 19 13:24 ServerIPsList
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 18 Nov 19 13:24 ab9ee6142b1cbf238e7b5f3fde8977d5dd9dfc53
-rw-rw-rw- 1 10069 10069 96 Nov 19 13:24 highscores.bak
-rw------- 1 0 0 15920 Nov 19 13:31 highscores.lua
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 7692 Nov 19 13:24 last_response_for_Burstly_Banner_Ad
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 2659 Nov 19 13:24 last_response_for_Burstly_Interstitial_Ad
-rw-rw-rw- 1 10069 10069 816 Nov 19 13:24 settings.bak
-rw------- 1 0 0 1888 Nov 19 13:31 settings.lua
2.8 Change owner and permissions accordingly
Code:
chown 10069:10069 highscores.lua settings.lua
chmod =rw,=rw,=rw highscores.lua settings.lua
2.9 Change timestamps
Code:
touch -r highscores.bak highscores.lua
touch -r settings.bak settings.lua
2.10 Verify .bak and .lua files now have same permissions, uid:gid and timestamps
Code:
ls -l
total 48
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 52 Nov 19 13:24 ServerIPsList
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 18 Nov 19 13:24 ab9ee6142b1cbf238e7b5f3fde8977d5dd9dfc53
-rw-rw-rw- 1 10069 10069 96 Nov 19 13:24 highscores.bak
-rw-rw-rw- 1 10069 10069 15920 Nov 19 13:24 highscores.lua
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 7692 Nov 19 13:24 last_response_for_Burstly_Banner_Ad
-rw-rw---- 1 10069 10069 2659 Nov 19 13:24 last_response_for_Burstly_Interstitial_Ad
-rw-rw-rw- 1 10069 10069 816 Nov 19 13:24 settings.bak
-rw-rw-rw- 1 10069 10069 1888 Nov 19 13:24 settings.lua
14. Open Angry Birds and enjoy.
I'm so busy at the moment and I can't create a step by step guide including jailbreak, rooting or applications to access both iPhone and Android. If anybody is interested in doing it, please feel free to do so. Not given credit is necessary.
I hope this usefu!

fombuena said:
If you find ways of achieving this without jailbreaking or rooting your phone please post them. Probably a combination of iTunes backups and Titanium may work.
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It's not possible without a root, because application data is private to it. Titanium also requires root to do backups.

YOU ARE A GOD! Thank you so much for this! I've put a ridiculous amount of time into all 3 games on my iPod touch. Since getting an Android tablet a number of months ago, I've quit playing the games because I like it so much better on the tablet screen, but I really didn't want to play through all of them 3 starring everything again. I suppose I'm a bit OCD about it. Rovio has been hinting at some sort of cross platform sync for the games since last spring, but the feature still hasn't shown up yet. My guess is that whatever the cause of the delay is, they will probably just introduce it with the inevitable Angry Birds 2 instead.
Anyway, I've been looking around for months trying to find a way to edit the Android score files or something to get the scores matching those on my iPod. I know there's tons of unlocking apps, but I didn't want to just unlock the levels. I wanted a way to move my stuff from the iPod to my tablet, and retire my Apple device!
As of last night, I found this thread. Instructions were simple enough and it worked like a charm! Thank you again so much for this information! My 3 year old loves playing it on the tablet as well, but he gets frustrated because I hadn't unlocked many levels. Thanks again!!
---------- Post added at 08:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:13 AM ----------
Brut.all said:
It's not possible without a root, because application data is private to it. Titanium also requires root to do backups.
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Root is definitely necessary for the Android side, but for the IOS side, there are a number of apps that can extract and browse files from an iTunes backup. My iPod was already jailbroken so I used the SSH procedure, but I don't think there's any reason why you couldn't use one of those apps to pull the LUA files out of the iTunes backup. Assuming that works, that would mitigate the need to jailbreak your IOS device.
You might be able to get around the Android root by using one of the Angry Birds backup utilities on the market, if there's a way to replace the LUA files in a backup from one of those apps. Some of those Angry Birds backup apps don't require root. The only problem is that you would need some way of viewing the time stamp and owner permissions of the current LUA files for the game. I'm not sure if there's any way to view that information without root. Can you view the entire file system (not edit) without root access?

Hardest part is getting the files of the iphone.
Getting them on the android device is easy if you have a dropbox account. Rooted phone or tablet is not necessary, works with both.
There is a utility on the android market which allows backup to the device or to your dropbox account. Play all three games once on your android device, backup to dropbox and let it sync back to your pc.
Rename the files you got from the iphone to match those from your android device or in my case the ipod touch and overwrite the files in your dropbox. Let dropbox sync back with the cloud and then run the utility on the android device and this time restore.
Your in game scores, settings etc will be exactly as your apple device.
Simples

backlund said:
As of last night, I found this thread. Instructions were simple enough and it worked like a charm! Thank you again so much for this information! My 3 year old loves playing it on the tablet as well, but he gets frustrated because I hadn't unlocked many levels. Thanks again!!
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I'm so glad it was helpful and it worked for you. I wasn't sure if it was going to be of any use but decided it was worth to put it on writing.
I see there are more ways of doing this as I suspected. I hope people add info here or in any other posts so someone dealing with it can find more options.

transfer angry birds progress
I like this post. It meets my need.

Brut.all said:
It's not possible without a root, because application data is private to it. Titanium also requires root to do backups.
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jailbreak is not needed.

jerrywhite928 said:
I like this post. It meets my need.
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I like it thanks

Wow, brilliant solution. Only work for jailbroken iPhone? i usually use this app to transfer data from iPhone to Android. Although it costs a few bucks, it's more efficient to do with an automated solution instead of hands.

Share my network with my USB wifi card

Hello,
I don't know if is the right Forum but I've a TF 101.
My site doesn't have wifi.
I would like to connect my ASUS transformer to my desktop PC has a USB Wifi card in Ha Doc mode connected.
This system is working with my smartphone under Android.
My TF can see and record the "ha doc" wifi but doesn't want to connect it?
I rooted my TF, and the build version of Android is 2.6.39.4
I noted 2 wpa_supplicant files in the /system/bin of my TF with the right different
Code:
[email protected]:/system/bin $ ls -l ./wpa_*
-rwxrwxr-x root root 535380 2012-11-19 13:18 wpa_supplicant
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 481416 2012-05-21 15:44 wpa_supplicant2
the booth has the same version :
Code:
[email protected]:/system/bin $ ./wpa_supplicant2 -v
wpa_supplicant v0.8.x
Copyright (c) 2003-2011, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]> and contributors
[email protected]:/system/bin # ./wpa_supplicant -v
wpa_supplicant v0.8.x
Copyright (c) 2003-2011, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]> and contributors
How to connect my TF to my PC in Ha doc mode?
Thank for your help.... .

Since I hate posting a question a getting a lot of views, I will reply in hopes of getting this thread started, but to be honest, I have no idea how one should do that, since I've never tried it myself.
I am also interested in the answer though

There is a TF101 forum here on XDA Developers.
You may have better luck with an answer in that group.
Coming from the ground up

Try the TF101 forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1104

[Q] Request CIFS MOUNT Support

I use the Sony Xperia Z Tab (SGP312, WIFI 32GB) with
Omni Version 4.4.4-20141019-pollux_widy-NIGHTLY
Kernel-Info:
-------------
3.4.0-g9b5192a
[email protected] #1
Sun Oct 19 13:24:35 CEST 2014
LSMOD:
-------------
[email protected]_windy:/ $ su root
[email protected]_windy:/ # lsmod
wlan 2708183 0 - Live 0x00000000 (C)
[email protected]_windy:/ #
-------------
Is there any chance to have cifs-support accessing my local
NAS (9TB NAS4FREE) with this kernel?
Thank you for your support!
overkill1966

Request CIFS MOUNT Support
overkill1966 said:
I use the Sony Xperia Z Tab (SGP312, WIFI 32GB) with
Omni Version 4.4.4-20141019-pollux_widy-NIGHTLY
Kernel-Info:
-------------
3.4.0-g9b5192a
[email protected] #1
Sun Oct 19 13:24:35 CEST 2014
LSMOD:
-------------
[email protected]_windy:/ $ su root
[email protected]_windy:/ # lsmod
wlan 2708183 0 - Live 0x00000000 (C)
[email protected]_windy:/ #
-------------
Is there any chance to have cifs-support accessing my local
NAS (9TB NAS4FREE) with this kernel?
Thank you for your support!
overkill1966
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Mounting volumes is one of the basic feature of an Linux/Unix system.
CIFS / SMB / NFS mount is strongly recommend on any Android-System.
no way out?

overkill1966 said:
Mounting volumes is one of the basic feature of an Linux/Unix system.
CIFS / SMB / NFS mount is strongly recommend on any Android-System.
no way out?
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You can try making the defconfig change and submitting it to Gerrit.
Otherwise, it won't get looked at until I have more free time... and I've been buried with non-Android stuff lately.

Request CIFS MOUNT Support
Entropy512 said:
You can try making the defconfig change and submitting it to Gerrit.
Otherwise, it won't get looked at until I have more free time... and I've been buried with non-Android stuff lately.
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thanks!
but: how to make the defconfig change and submitting it to Gerrit.?
I never did this before.....
overkill1966

I am not sure what is your purpose for mounting the NAS drives. But, if it is for consuming media, you can try "ES File Explorer" app. You can scan and map the drive, add it to your favorites or home page of the app. I use it to play videos and rarely for music.
But, if you have other requirement and need OS level mounting, then this won't help.
Sent from my FIND7 using XDA Free mobile app

subramanianv said:
I am not sure what is your purpose for mounting the NAS drives. But, if it is for consuming media, you can try "ES File Explorer" app. You can scan and map the drive, add it to your favorites or home page of the app. I use it to play videos and rarely for music.
But, if you have other requirement and need OS level mounting, then this won't help.
Sent from my FIND7 using XDA Free mobile app
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Good point there, I forgot that ES automatically supported CIFS mounts without kernel support - EVEN THOUGH I USE THAT FEATURE ON A REGULAR BASIS!

Android: dump/extract already deleted messages from FB messenger's cache

Hello everyone!
Does anybody know please, if it's somehow possible to dump/extract messages from the Facebook messenger application which have been already deleted by the user (read correctly as a 'cheating girlfriend') and which maybe left stored somewhere on device within the internal messenger's CACHE memory?
I am pretty sure that they still must have be stored somewhere secretly in the phone, because within the Apps -> Messenger -> Storage -> It still shows that some space is used as following: Application - 100MB, Data -325 MB, Cache - 60.14 MB Total - 486 MB. -> That's a clear evidence that application is using some internal cache storage somewhere...
I've already read many articles found on internet about how to 'very simply' recover deleted messages from the phone saying that you just need to check for subfolder "fb_temp" within the "com.facebook.orca" and WOALA - That's it!
But in fact, it's not so easy at all, because that folder always displays as empty, no matter whether I check it with windows explorer (when the phone is plugged to PC via USB) or using ADB shell.....the subfolder "fb_temp" always appears as an empty folder. Maybe it's because the phone is not yet rooted? I don't know.
Code:
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/[COLOR="Blue"]com.facebook.katana/fb_temp[/COLOR] $ ls -la
total 8
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]drwxrwx--x 2 root sdcard_rw 4096 2019-02-02 22:51 .
drwxrwx--x 3 root sdcard_rw 4096 2018-08-08 20:03 ..[/COLOR]
-rw-rw---- 1 root sdcard_rw 0 2018-08-08 20:03 .nomedia
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.katana/fb_temp $
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.katana/fb_temp $
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.katana/fb_temp $ cd ../../com.facebook.orca/fb_temp/
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/[COLOR="Blue"]com.facebook.orca/fb_temp[/COLOR] $ ls -la
total 8
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]drwxrwx--x 2 root sdcard_rw 4096 2019-07-18 23:14 .
drwxrwx--x 3 root sdcard_rw 4096 2017-11-27 00:29 ..[/COLOR]
-rw-rw---- 1 root sdcard_rw 0 2017-11-27 00:29 .nomedia
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.orca/fb_temp $
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.orca/fb_temp $
Does anybody have any experience with similar problem ? Maybe it's more for Interpol to ask instead of here ...but ... you never know :laugh:
I've also read several articles about how to correctly root the phone in different fashions, what are the pros and cons... but, if possible, I'd prefer rather to avoid of rooting the phone at all, because it always carries a a high risk of loosing the data / because during the rooting process (for example with combination of latest TWRP and Magisk) it is necessary to wipe all the data - Obviously really I cannot afford go ahead with that option. But anyway, the rooting method does not guarantee me the results which I need to achieve (extract the deleted messages).....OR? Please feel free to correct me if I was wrong.
Any ideas how to figure this issue out?
Some technical facts:
Is phone already rooted?: No.
Phone model: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (SM-935F)
Android version: 8.0.0
KNOX version: 3.1 , api level 25 , TIMA 3.3.0
FB messenger version: 224.1.0.18.117
has no SD card, only phone's internal memory is used
Your any feedbacks / hints or advices will be highly appreciated! :good:
PS: any advices like: "find a new girlfriend" are not accepted! :laugh: ...

f4nthomas said:
Hello everyone!
Does anybody know please, if it's somehow possible to dump/extract messages from the Facebook messenger application which have been already deleted by the user (read correctly as a 'cheating girlfriend') and which maybe left stored somewhere on device within the internal messenger's CACHE memory?
I am pretty sure that they still must have be stored somewhere secretly in the phone, because within the Apps -> Messenger -> Storage -> It still shows that some space is used as following: Application - 100MB, Data -325 MB, Cache - 60.14 MB Total - 486 MB. -> That's a clear evidence that application is using some internal cache storage somewhere...
I've already read many articles found on internet about how to 'very simply' recover deleted messages from the phone saying that you just need to check for subfolder "fb_temp" within the "com.facebook.orca" and WOALA - That's it!
But in fact, it's not so easy at all, because that folder always displays as empty, no matter whether I check it with windows explorer (when the phone is plugged to PC via USB) or using ADB shell.....the subfolder "fb_temp" always appears as an empty folder. Maybe it's because the phone is not yet rooted? I don't know.
Code:
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/[COLOR="Blue"]com.facebook.katana/fb_temp[/COLOR] $ ls -la
total 8
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]drwxrwx--x 2 root sdcard_rw 4096 2019-02-02 22:51 .
drwxrwx--x 3 root sdcard_rw 4096 2018-08-08 20:03 ..[/COLOR]
-rw-rw---- 1 root sdcard_rw 0 2018-08-08 20:03 .nomedia
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.katana/fb_temp $
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.katana/fb_temp $
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.katana/fb_temp $ cd ../../com.facebook.orca/fb_temp/
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/[COLOR="Blue"]com.facebook.orca/fb_temp[/COLOR] $ ls -la
total 8
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]drwxrwx--x 2 root sdcard_rw 4096 2019-07-18 23:14 .
drwxrwx--x 3 root sdcard_rw 4096 2017-11-27 00:29 ..[/COLOR]
-rw-rw---- 1 root sdcard_rw 0 2017-11-27 00:29 .nomedia
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.orca/fb_temp $
hero2lte:/storage/self/primary/com.facebook.orca/fb_temp $
Does anybody have any experience with similar problem ? Maybe it's more for Interpol to ask instead of here ...but ... you never know [emoji23]
I've also read several articles about how to correctly root the phone in different fashions, what are the pros and cons... but, if possible, I'd prefer rather to avoid of rooting the phone at all, because it always carries a a high risk of loosing the data / because during the rooting process (for example with combination of latest TWRP and Magisk) it is necessary to wipe all the data - Obviously really I cannot afford go ahead with that option. But anyway, the rooting method does not guarantee me the results which I need to achieve (extract the deleted messages).....OR? Please feel free to correct me if I was wrong.
Any ideas how to figure this issue out?
Some technical facts:
Is phone already rooted?: No.
Phone model: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (SM-935F)
Android version: 8.0.0
KNOX version: 3.1 , api level 25 , TIMA 3.3.0
FB messenger version: 224.1.0.18.117
has no SD card, only phone's internal memory is used
Your any feedbacks / hints or advices will be highly appreciated! :good:
PS: any advices like: "find a new girlfriend" are not accepted! [emoji23] ...
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We will not help you invade someone's device/privacy, regardless of circumstances or how much it matters to you.
Besides, that kind of stuff is not stored on the device, that is stored by Facebook itself in their server network. Recovering deleted messages isn't possible, it is only possible to retrieve messages that have been archived using the archive feature in Facebook/messenger.
The answer that you didn't want is exactly the correct answer in this situation. Forget about it and find a new girlfriend or forget about it and keep her, either way, forget about it. Your choice.[emoji16]
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