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Need help backing up data with ADB on my captivate (broken screen)

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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

[Q] Urgent - need help with an issue on my xoom.

Previously I was using cm9, after that I upgraded to cm10. I wiped data, wiped cache in cwm recovery.
After that, I tried xfering some files over to my tab, it looked like this
i. imgur.com/T3LAU.png
From this picture, it can be seen that my internal memory has files and is not empty
yet when I enter the folder
i. imgur.com/Mn7lR.png
Completely empty, cant be seen.
Even after trying to copy and paste files in, only the new files appear, can no longer find my old files.
Can anybody help me? same thing for the SD card. SD card only detected when I removed and plugged in with external usb card reader to my pc.
(I can't post images yet, hopefully someone with >10 posts can hotlink it for me).
Really urgent because I have to use it for my lecture notes in school.

If you want a workaround on this issue, you can use a cloud storage app. For example, dropbox (go to my signature and click the dropbox logo) can allow you to transfer files without even plugging your Xoom into your computer

Managed to solve the issue by doing a complete memory wipe on my internal hard disk but backing up important files before hand w dropbox as the files are still accessible with astro.
No idea how this happened though.

It's called MTP. Hahahaha in other words windows sucks.
Really what happens is the file list directory isn't updated so it doesn't show up on explorer. I don't even use explorer, I just use ADB push or pull.

Cannot Resort Backups From d/l'd via ROM Manager After CM 10.1

So I was on CleanROM 5.6 and wanted to give 10.1 a shot. I made a backup and downloaded it to my computer via the ROMManager tool. I ran into 2 issues with 10.1 and decided I'd try again later, so I wanted to flash back to my CleanROM backup that I'd just made. Whether via ROMManager or going straight into recovery the process says it can't open the path to the file. I say the path, as this has occurred with the zip image on internal memory and when I've tried on the SD card.
Soooo, now I'm pretty stuck. Thoughts? I felt like it must have related to the new 4.2 file structure but again, this was an issue whether my zip was on internal memory or the card.
Thanks,
BH
The exact process is:
installing [path]
finding update package.
opending update package.
e: cant open [path] (bad)
installation aborted
CWM says it's leaving a log file but I am not seeing it.

Sounds like your filesystem is like this: "/sdcard/0" and if it is, then do the following:
use Root Explorer or a similar program and navigate to /sdcard/0/ press Menu should give you an option for Multi-Select, select all the folders/files in the /0/ directory, hit menu or down on the bottom choose Move (again depends on the browser) back up one level to the main /sdcard/ directory, and hit Paste. It will tell you there is files with the same information (because the ROM rebuilt the file structure) choose Merge, and let it do its thing. Depending on how many files you have, it may take a little while, just be patient.
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taken verbatim from here:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/37316-protip-42-and-recoveries/

I'm going to give it a shot now. I wouldn't have thought this would be an issue restoring since the zip was accessible and I even tried flashing from internal mem, but perhaps it's not as much as issue of reading the file as knowing where to extract the data? We'll see.
All in all, if I could just get 10.1 to stop giving me market errors (920) I'd probably just stick with that at the moment. Alas, have tried all of the interweb's solutions for that too.
Will update, thanks.

So I don't have a /0/ dir on the card, but I do have a /1/. Tried moving the contents of /1/ but it failed. May try another file explorer app (this was via CMs). Interestingly, I was able to flash a ClearnROM install zip, which is 4.1.1 based. Why would that work but the constructed backups wouldn't?
update: I can flash anything else regardless of location, and I am using the latest recovery. def seems like something specific to zip backups made/downloaded via the newest means in ROM Manager

monorailmedic said:
So I don't have a /0/ dir on the card, but I do have a /1/. Tried moving the contents of /1/ but it failed. May try another file explorer app (this was via CMs). Interestingly, I was able to flash a ClearnROM install zip, which is 4.1.1 based. Why would that work but the constructed backups wouldn't?
update: I can flash anything else regardless of location, and I am using the latest recovery. def seems like something specific to zip backups made/downloaded via the newest means in ROM Manager
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Well if the rom zip is on /sdcard or /extsdcard then it will flash fine. If your backups are on /sdcard/1/ then that's literally the same as /0/. Recovery is looking for your Nandroid backup on /sdcard but it's not there, it's actually been unnecessarily moved to /sdcard/1/ if I'm understanding you correctly. You will not be able to restore a nandroid until you get those files moved back to the proper file path.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Well if the rom zip is on /sdcard or /extsdcard then it will flash fine. If your backups are on /sdcard/1/ then that's literally the same as /0/. Recovery is looking for your Nandroid backup on /sdcard but it's not there, it's actually been unnecessarily moved to /sdcard/1/ if I'm understanding you correctly. You will not be able to restore a nandroid until you get those files moved back to the proper file path.
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I have a similar problem with my file system after flashing from 4.2 back to 4.1 that has me confused.
I flashed to a TW rom after being on CM10.1, and I was using the most recent TWRP when I originally flashed CM10.1. I had the usual problem that everybody seems to have being that the "0" folder was located on my card. I copied the fold over to my normal sdcard folder (unfortunately I used root browser instead of root explorer, which made this much more painful as it does not have the "merge" ability. Root Explorer - accept no substitutes)
After doing the merge though, I have 2 problems.
#1 - My external SDcard is now listed under "storage."
#2 - There is an Sdcard there called "sdcard0 as well as a "extSdCard" in this storage folder with all the same information as the original "0" folder that was on the internal sdcard. Also a bunch of folders named UsbDriveA, UsbDriveB, etc.
Why did this happen? And how should I set up my folders so that it behaves properly? In other words, what does a normal file system look like?

SlimSnoopOS said:
...Recovery is looking for your Nandroid backup on /sdcard but it's not there, it's actually been unnecessarily moved to /sdcard/1/ if I'm understanding you correctly. You will not be able to restore a nandroid until you get those files moved back to the proper file path...
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So this is where I am confused, does the zip not contain all of the appropriate backup data within itself, and it is looking elsewhere (in the wrong path) for backup data? This seems odd based on the whole idea as well as the size of the file. If this is not the case, when why is whatever scripting is included in the backup looking for an absolute and not a relative path to the data? It should always be relative to the location of the zip file itself.
I really want to try and understand this.

PeterGunz said:
I have a similar problem with my file system after flashing from 4.2 back to 4.1 that has me confused.
I flashed to a TW rom after being on CM10.1, and I was using the most recent TWRP when I originally flashed CM10.1. I had the usual problem that everybody seems to have being that the "0" folder was located on my card. I copied the fold over to my normal sdcard folder (unfortunately I used root browser instead of root explorer, which made this much more painful as it does not have the "merge" ability. Root Explorer - accept no substitutes)
After doing the merge though, I have 2 problems.
#1 - My external SDcard is now listed under "storage."
#2 - There is an Sdcard there called "sdcard0 as well as a "extSdCard" in this storage folder with all the same information as the original "0" folder that was on the internal sdcard. Also a bunch of folders named UsbDriveA, UsbDriveB, etc.
Why did this happen? And how should I set up my folders so that it behaves properly? In other words, what does a normal file system look like?
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See my attached photo for what your file system should look like. I'm using ES File Explorer and that's my file system.
What do you mean your external SDcard is listed under Settings/Storage? Both of mine are listed, internal storage is first then my external sd card is second. Care to screenshot what you mean?
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So this is where I am confused, does the zip not contain all of the appropriate backup data within itself, and it is looking elsewhere (in the wrong path) for backup data? This seems odd based on the whole idea as well as the size of the file. If this is not the case, when why is whatever scripting is included in the backup looking for an absolute and not a relative path to the data? It should always be relative to the location of the zip file itself.
I really want to try and understand this.
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If you're using CWM, it saves your backups for internal sd card in: /sdcard/CWM/backup and blobs. For your external sd card, it's saved /extsdcard/CWM/backups and blobs. If you flashed any AOSP 4.2 rom, it moves EVERYTHING from your /sdcard/ path to /sdcard/0. See the difference? Example, your music should be in this path /sdcard/Music but instead it's been moved to /sdcard/0/Music on AOSP 4.2. I get what you're saying how it should be looking for where the zip is BUT the multi-user support completely disrupts our entire thinking of how our file system should be because one user could be "rooted" whereas the other user would be completely stock depending on who signed in. It's too early to expect this to just work since Google introduced this in 4.2. It's a take it or leave it thing.
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For a standard backup that makes total sense. My confusion is how this happens with a zip, when all of the backup data is confined to that one archive file (or at least should be).

monorailmedic said:
For a standard backup that makes total sense. My confusion is how this happens with a zip, when all of the backup data is confined to that one archive file (or at least should be).
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When you made a backup with Rom Manager, it saved to /sdcard, since flashing 4.2, everything on /sdcard moved to /sdcard/1/... Rom Manager and any app honestly would have issues when the file location has changed suddenly and without its express permission. It's not the fault of Rom Manager that it can't find the file to restore your backup. Having an updated TWRP or CWM is supposed to help prevent the /sdcard contents from being merged to /sdcard/0, its not supposed to continue looking for the "new" file destination.

SlimSnoopOS said:
See my attached photo for what your file system should look like. I'm using ES File Explorer and that's my file system.
What do you mean your external SDcard is listed under Settings/Storage? Both of mine are listed, internal storage is first then my external sd card is second. Care to screenshot what you mean?
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Sorry, I can see what I said was confusing.
On the root of my device, among the usual folders, there is one named "sdcard" and another named "storage."
In the "sdcard" folder, all of the folders were empty; however, there is a folder named "0" which contained all of my sdcard contents from my internal sdcard.
In the "storage" folder from the root of my file system, it resembles what you have in your screenshot, except there are no asec and obb folders. In the sdcard folder is a replica of the 0 folder. It contains everything that was in my original internal sdcard. The extsdcard contains everything normally found on my external sd card.
When download something with the stock browser, it defaults to the sdcard folder on the root of file system.
I've attached some screenshots. Let me know what you think and thank you for the help.

PeterGunz said:
Sorry, I can see what I said was confusing.
On the root of my device, among the usual folders, there is one named "sdcard" and another named "storage."
In the "sdcard" folder, all of the folders were empty; however, there is a folder named "0" which contained all of my sdcard contents from my internal sdcard.
In the "storage" folder from the root of my file system, it resembles what you have in your screenshot, except there are no asec and obb folders. In the sdcard folder is a replica of the 0 folder. It contains everything that was in my original internal sdcard. The extsdcard contains everything normally found on my external sd card.
When download something with the stock browser, it defaults to the sdcard folder on the root of file system.
I've attached some screenshots. Let me know what you think and thank you for the help.
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Oh! This is actually funny, we've been looking at the same thing from two different viewpoints. I see what you mean, /Storage and /sdcard are perfectly normal when you see them on the absolute root file system: "/". I always go to /mnt, that's where I have my file explorer default to open when I launch the app. Sdcard0 = sdcard, and various apps will use the names interchangeably. I have exactly the same paths /sdcard and /Storage, and I do see /Storage/sdcard0 and /Storage/extsdcard along with the same empty USB Drive folders. This is just how the "/" directory is split up. There isn't a duplication of files taking up more space than necessary, it's just showing you another path to get to those files. To reiterate, on "/" you can get to your sdcard contents in at least three paths: /mnt, /sdcard, and also /Storage/sdcard0
All that matters is the /sdcard/0 aka /Storage/sdcard0/0 is GONE. Which, in your original post you said no longer exists correct?
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I am still not understanding how there is a problem with executing a zip file that contains all the backup data. It doesn't matter where I move this zip file, as it seems it should be all inclusive of the backup data. Why does it matter the path of this file? What is the script looking for during restoration? Shouldn't it be looking within the archive?
I'm sorry, I feel like a tool, but again, I'm obviously missing some very basic part of what is happening when the file is accessed. As it is all inclusive, why is recovery looking for content anywhere outside of the archive?

monorailmedic said:
I am still not understanding how there is a problem with executing a zip file that contains all the backup data. It doesn't matter where I move this zip file, as it seems it should be all inclusive of the backup data. Why does it matter the path of this file? What is the script looking for during restoration? Shouldn't it be looking within the archive?
I'm sorry, I feel like a tool, but again, I'm obviously missing some very basic part of what is happening when the file is accessed. As it is all inclusive, why is recovery looking for content anywhere outside of the archive?
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Backups cannot be flashed like other ZIP files. They need to be restored using the restore function of your recovery. The problem is that the CWM restore function is looking for its backups where it puts them (not surprisingly). Android 4.2 moved them to another location and you need to move them back.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Oh! This is actually funny, we've been looking at the same thing from two different viewpoints. I see what you mean, /Storage and /sdcard are perfectly normal when you see them on the absolute root file system: "/". I always go to /mnt, that's where I have my file explorer default to open when I launch the app. Sdcard0 = sdcard, and various apps will use the names interchangeably. I have exactly the same paths /sdcard and /Storage, and I do see /Storage/sdcard0 and /Storage/extsdcard along with the same empty USB Drive folders. This is just how the "/" directory is split up. There isn't a duplication of files taking up more space than necessary, it's just showing you another path to get to those files. To reiterate, on "/" you can get to your sdcard contents in at least three paths: /mnt, /sdcard, and also /Storage/sdcard0
All that matters is the /sdcard/0 aka /Storage/sdcard0/0 is GONE. Which, in your original post you said no longer exists correct?
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Correct!
You helped me solve my problem. I was so confused for awhile there.

What should I rename my sdcard after copying everything over from "0"?
I just flashed back to 4.2.1 (AOLP) and I cannot find the contents of my internal sdcard anywhere. In fact, when I check storage on the system settings it only shows that I have a little over 12gbs total space on the internal sdcard. The 8gb I have on TW on the internal sdcard are not recognized by the rom. Any thoughts?

Internal memory is FULL with NO APPS?! HELP

So i've been trying to research this problem for hours now. Ive jumped around a bunch of different roms since owning this gs3. MIUI 4.1 - Aokp 4.2.1 and currently synergy 4.1.2. I think since flashing aokp 4.2 that i get that "0" file when looking for files and such. I can tap "0" like 4-5 times to finally get into the files i want. I'm not sure if this is where my problem is coming from?
Let me say i don't have ANY backups. Im running clockwork and wiped,reset,cache all of that multiple times. I have ZERO apps installed and only a handful of pictures. My internal memory says its full and i get a warning at the top saying that my internal storage is to the max and that some programs might not respond. The bulk of GB used is in the "misc" folder. I've seen other people with this issue but it seems the only fix is to re-format the internal memory and LOSE EVERYTHING. I'm sure someone here can help :/

You delete all those roms you downloaded after flashing them?
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Install Disk Usage (if you have the space <grin>) and see what it says is taking up the space:

I feel as though it has something to do with the emulated "0" folders. I have literally 5 of them. I downloaded disk usage and it shows 5 different "0" folders.

Out of pure frustration, I went into the second "0" folder in file manager and deleted it. That in-turn must of deleted the other "0" folders? That free up 7 GB. My pictures and videos are still there but im wondering what else it deleted? It seemed like things would get stored in each of those "0" folders seperatly.

dincfool said:
I feel as though it has something to do with the emulated "0" folders. I have literally 5 of them. I downloaded disk usage and it shows 5 different "0" folders.
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Ah, yes, the joys of 4.2. I've never flashed a 4.2 ROM, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It's my understanding that when you flash 4.2, it takes everything on the internal SD (/data/media/ folder) and puts it into that "0" folder (part of that whole separate user accounts "feature"). So, if you've installed, let's say five, 4.2 Roms, then that info will have been copied 5 times and put into nested "0" folders.
If it were me, I'd run a nandroid and put it on my external sd. I'd also run a TiBu (under preferences you can switch default location to external sd). Once you're sure you have those, I'd copy whatever data you want to save from the internal (DCIM folder, music, etc) and move it to computer or external sd.
Have a copy of synergy on the external and go into CWM and wipe the internal SD card (mounts -> wipe system, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe internal sd), then reinstall synergy, restore from TiBu and you should be golden.

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That sounds about right. Man this right here is enough for me to never want to go to 4.2 until I have too. Is the easiest way to transfer all my files to external SD through a computer? Where abouts in the phone do you transfer/or assign your files to an external SD?

dincfool said:
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That sounds about right. Man this right here is enough for me to never want to go to 4.2 until I have too. Is the easiest way to transfer all my files to external SD through a computer? Where abouts in the phone do you transfer/or assign your files to an external SD?
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Have you installed Android SDK on your computer (ever used adb commands via command prompt)?
Edit: if you open up your phone in windows explorer, you should see 2 folders: Phone and Card (or something like that). You can drag the files from Phone to Card and they'll be on the external SD.

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Have you installed Android SDK on your computer (ever used adb commands via command prompt)?
Edit: if you open up your phone in windows explorer, you should see 2 folders: Phone and Card (or something like that). You can drag the files from Phone to Card and they'll be on the external SD.
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Gotcha, i'll try that. I have a feeling once more people start running 4.2 they're going to run into this problem as well.

If you do have the SDK set up, a faster way to do it (if you're moving a butt-load of data) is to open a command prompt on the computer and navigate to where you want the data. For instance, I use C:\Backups. I'll then create a 2 folders within Backups (one for internal and one for external sd) and give them the date as a name. For instance, C:\Backups\Internal_2_5 and C:\Backups\External_2_5.
Then I'll be in C:\Backups and issue these commands:
Code:
adb pull /data/media/ Internal_2_5
adb pull /external_sd/ External_2_5
Depending on how much data you're moving, it could take awhile. Now, you could pick and choose what you want to pull:
Code:
adb pull /data/media/DCIM Internal_2_5/DCIM
would only pull that DCIM folder.
When I dump all of it, I'll wipe everything, install my rom, get it all up and going, then go through each of those backup folders and delete the stuff that's not "mine" (ie the Android folder(since your new rom built it's own folder), etc), then I'll push it back to the phone:
Code:
adb push Internal_2_5 /data/media/
adb push External_2_5 /external_sd/
Clean wipe, clean install, and all the data that I wanted back.
(fair warning, if your cards are full, that push pull commands could take several hours...)

[Q] Don't understand change in my SD card folders

I was trying to update TWRP and downloaded the zip. When I used Root Explorer to see where the file had downloaded, I noticed that the folders on my SD have changed. (or at least I think they have). when I open "storage" I think I had different folders. Now all I see is extSdCard, sdcard0, and a series of usb drives:UsbDriveA, :UsbDriveB, :UsbDriveC, :UsbDriveD, :UsbDriveE, and :UsbDriveF,
I am pretty sure there used to be sdcard1 and no UsbDrives at all. Am I not remembering correctly, or has something changed in the folder structure of the SD card?

dweezle said:
I was trying to update TWRP and downloaded the zip. When I used Root Explorer to see where the file had downloaded, I noticed that the folders on my SD have changed. (or at least I think they have). when I open "storage" I think I had different folders. Now all I see is extSdCard, sdcard0, and a series of usb drives:UsbDriveA, :UsbDriveB, :UsbDriveC, :UsbDriveD, :UsbDriveE, and :UsbDriveF,
I am pretty sure there used to be sdcard1 and no UsbDrives at all. Am I not remembering correctly, or has something changed in the folder structure of the SD card?
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That's normal. Usb drives were always there for me.
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I think it's a microsoft affect. If your PC is running windoze one of things windoze does is write files on its own. Every time you hook up to it you lose a little space

alt230 said:
I think it's a microsoft affect. If your PC is running windoze one of things windoze does is write files on its own. Every time you hook up to it you lose a little space
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That's interesting. None of the USBdrives have anything in them. I'll see if any more show up when I connect to my windows 7 puter. I'm guessing that there is no harm in deleting some of 'em.