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Any way to extract files from a .kdz file?

Anyone here know how to open/browse/extract files from a .kdz file? I've spent the last hour or so searching via Google and can't come up with anything that works.

Did you try winrar?
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
Did you try winrar?
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Yea it gives an error. Does it support that file type?

Have you tried 7zip? I've never seen an archive it couldn't open, it's like the VLC of compression.
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LordButtersI said:
Have you tried 7zip? I've never seen an archive it couldn't open, it's like the VLC of compression.
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I haven't tried that one. I'll try it as soon as I can convince my wife to stop shopping so we can go home ... lol ... Thanks for the suggestion.

LordButtersI said:
Have you tried 7zip? I've never seen an archive it couldn't open, it's like the VLC of compression.
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Just tried it and it wouldn't open it. Bummer.

Which file are you trying to extract?

FatalityBoyZahy said:
Which file are you trying to extract?
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The GB update kdz file.

You need an LG Utilties program to extract the KDZ files. There are some out there for the KP500 and GW520 but not sure if the same utility will work for the G2X P999 files. After that you need a program called unyaffsmbn (zips on internet) to extract the files further. Here is a GW520 Utility zip (attached to post) that I haven't tried yet. I was trying to do the same stuff you've been playing with. I haven't tried to extract the files yet. Another way is to grab them while someone is using the KDZ program to update their phone. The files are extracted and put into "C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone" but as soon as the program detects no phone the entire directory is blown away. Too fast to grab the files. If someone is updating a phone the files are there long enough to copy, but I am not going to update my phone again just to grab the files.

phburks said:
The GB update kdz file.
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They already have the GB update in the Development section. You could also just download the source code from LG.

People are after the baseband. That's not included on the rom files you mentioned.
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jboxer said:
You need an LG Utilties program to extract the KDZ files. There are some out there for the KP500 and GW520 but not sure if the same utility will work for the G2X P999 files. After that you need a program called unyaffsmbn (zips on internet) to extract the files further. Here is a GW520 Utility zip (attached to post) that I haven't tried yet. I was trying to do the same stuff you've been playing with. I haven't tried to extract the files yet. Another way is to grab them while someone is using the KDZ program to update their phone. The files are extracted and put into "C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone" but as soon as the program detects no phone the entire directory is blown away. Too fast to grab the files. If someone is updating a phone the files are there long enough to copy, but I am not going to update my phone again just to grab the files.
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Thanks. Will play around with this.

Sorry for my response. I did a internet search and got a lot of weird results.
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
Sorry for my response. I did a internet search and got a lot of weird results.
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Nah its cool. I was hoping I'd missed something and it would work. It didn't lol.

jboxer said:
Another way is to grab them while someone is using the KDZ program to update their phone. The files are extracted and put into "C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone" but as soon as the program detects no phone the entire directory is blown away. Too fast to grab the files.
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This was my first approach but I didn't know where the files were extracted to so thanks. I managed to grab the extracted files by creating a symbolic link named Phone in that LGMOBILEAX directory. I pointed the symlink to another dierectory. I named it Test since I wasn't sure if this would work. I then ran the kdz updater (without my phone attached of course) and it extracted the kdz file to .\Phone which in turn saved them in my .\Test directory. The updater aborted when it detected there was no phone and the extracted files remained in the .\Test directory.
So now I have 2 files (it only extracted 2), Star_Model.dll and a .wdb file that is undoubtedly the firmware because its like a 180MB file. I tried extracting from the firmware using a couple different versions of LG utils that were floating around because they have an option to extract files from a wdb file, but they keep giving an error. I'll keep trying lol.
Any ideas?

jboxer said:
People are after the baseband. That's not included on the rom files you mentioned.
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Exactly. I don't know why we don't have a flashable baseband yet and maybe my approach is going to be a dead end. Is a flashable baseband even possible on this phone? I dunno lol. Nobody seems to be paying it (the baseband) any attention.

I want to see a flasable baseband and other wind subscribers would as well because to get it we would have to flash the gb update. That changes the splashscreen to tmobile making it unable to change back since we don't have the stock rom that I know of.

ICS Browser - save page for offline, but where (path)?

Anyone can point a file where ISC Browser saves pages for offline viewing?
It's not a simple file in /sdcard or Download folder...

Please someone could help on this?
Thanks!

I guess nobody at xda-developers knows about this...
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I was looking for the same thing - there are no webarchivexml files no where to be found. I need to extract the saved page quick but seems it's nowhere to be found.

It's not on sdcard. It's in phone's root. Here's the path I found mine in.
data/user/0/com .android.browser/app_databases/localstorage/
Look in there
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AlanB412 said:
It's not on sdcard. It's in phone's root. Here's the path I found mine in.
data/user/0/com .android.browser/app_databases/localstorage/
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But how did you open the files? Or they're just "there"...
Thanks!
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AlanB412 said:
It's not on sdcard. It's in phone's root. Here's the path I found mine in.
data/user/0/com .android.browser/app_databases/localstorage/
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I can't find there. There are some .localstorage files (sqlite3 db afaik), but can't find my saved pages...

Thread's a bit old ... but just in case it helped someone ...
Android ICS, the browser's save paged is \Android\data\com.android.browser\files\snapshots.db
The links are saved in this file "snapshots.db", look at it using SQLite Database Browser sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net

rufik said:
Anyone can point a file where ISC Browser saves pages for offline viewing?
It's not a simple file in /sdcard or Download folder...
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Hi rufik
I found my saved pages in : /data/data/com.android.browser/files. The ownership is u0_a60:u0_a60, just for your information.

Hello, sorry to open such an old discussion, but has anybody managed to open and view such files on pc? What is the fileformat (yes, I know it's a .gz archive, but I mean the file inside), what application on Windows (or Linux) can open it? Thanks in advance.

small app issue

i have the adownloader bittorrent app on my iinfuse, after i use it to download a torrent, in this case a hidden object game from extratorrent. i go to the download folder and click the downloaded file and i get this message, no applications can perform this action. anybody else seen this and is there a way around it.

cain308 said:
i have the adownloader bittorrent app on my iinfuse, after i use it to download a torrent, in this case a hidden object game from extratorrent. i go to the download folder and click the downloaded file and i get this message, no applications can perform this action. anybody else seen this and is there a way around it.
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hey cain, what's up? Ok, so what kind of **** did you get into now...LOL
long click/press on the file and click details...what kind of file does it say?

thanks man , its always something. it says its a exe file

huh a apk type file...?
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cain308 said:
thanks man , its always something. it says its a exe file
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exe then it's probably a PC file, or a self extracting file that needs to be undone on a PC then moved to your phone.. or some kind of malware that isn't what you thought it was.

nope, torrents will always be .torrent not .exe file
if u open a .exe on a pc your just looking for trouble. :crying:A torrent is about a target file,
it contains no info about the content of the file. Use trusted popular trusted torrent sites.
www.kickasstorrents.com KickassTorrents is my favorite well used site.
Others such as The Pirate Bay http://thepiratebay.org/

[Q] Reicast GDI to CHD

i was wondering if anyone has a copy of the GDI to CHD converter for Reicast for Shield
the link on another thread is dead and cant find it anywhere

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i was wondering if anyone has a copy of the GDI to CHD converter for Reicast for Shield
the link on another thread is dead and cant find it anywhere
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There you go. But wrong section, post questions HERE in future

Cannot get GDI to CHD converter to work
I cannot get above converter to work. I unzip, open "Dreamcast GDI to CHD" app, point source folder to folder containing all .bin and .gdi files for a single game, specify CHD destination folder, click Convert, and then get a "Batch operations complete!" message. However, a CHD file is never created. Have tried on Windows 7 and 8. What am I doing wrong?

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I cannot get above converter to work. I unzip, open "Dreamcast GDI to CHD" app, point source folder to folder containing all .bin and .gdi files for a single game, specify CHD destination folder, click Convert, and then get a "Batch operations complete!" message. However, a CHD file is never created. Have tried on Windows 7 and 8. What am I doing wrong?
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hmm you might need to launch as Admin...or maybe you removed short file name support from windows.
Maybe I'll sit down and update the script...if I don't already have an updated version laying around here...it's been a while since I wrote it.
** Update **
Yeah even I ran into issues with it.
I've updated the script massively...cleaned up the original...got it down to about half the lines of code...and working better...then threw that out the window and decided to have some fun...so went from around 100 lines to 600. (Original was about 200 lines) Anyways lots more features...that you probably don't want or need...and more prone to breakage.
hmm can't share the link to the update...oh well...I'll put it up else were and maybe you'll stumble upon it.

Android DAT/IMG File Unpack and Repack V 2.0

This is a thread on how to unpack and repack the system.img.dat file of your Android Rom,to see its content.
Starting from Android 5.x (Lollipop) Custom roms are not compressed like on previous android versions. Earlier all Files were inside the /system folder.And we were able to see all the system files
The problem started in >=5.0 versions because rom size increased and it was necessary to highly compress them again.
You Must Have Following Files Installed in your PC
1. Java SDK = Click here to download java
2. Python 2.xxx= Click here to download Python
How to decompress /Repack these files? Its Sipmle !!
Follow the Instructions Below To do that.
Download the Android Unpack Repack adithyan25.rar from here
Or you can download it from attachments
Run The File And Follow The Instructions As on screen. :good:
Video Tutorial
Special Thanks @xpirt
If you are a good Programmer You Can follow his method .View His Method here
If you Have any doubts or Enquired post in the Comment section

I got an error while repacking the system.img
"Input-IMG\file_contexts: No such file or directory"
Please help.

AmeyRanberg said:
I got an error while repacking the system.img
"Input-IMG\file_contexts: No such file or directory"
Please help.
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did you copy the files to the creard folder!??... watch the video

adithyan25 said:
did you copy the files to the creard folder!??... watch the video
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The rom that I had, only had system.img boot.img and those older folders. It didnt have file_contexts. But later I extracted it from boot.img and it worked thanks anyway.

AmeyRanberg said:
The rom that I had, only had system.img boot.img and those older folders. It didnt have file_contexts. But later I extracted it from boot.img and it worked thanks anyway.
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Great And thank u for trying my app

I falied system.img repacked
Hi~
I wateched your video.
So I succeed system.img unpacked.
But, I tried system.img repack. I failed.
Why failed? T.T
Start Repacking in system.img......
please wait......
Input-IMG\file_contexts: No such file or directory
critical error: main: failed to open input image : No such file or directory

did u copy fule_contexta

Similar to my friends.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...tool-tool-unpack-repack-dat-img-v2-0-t3284806

same the tool I make http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...tool-tool-unpack-repack-dat-img-v2-0-t3284806

Kritsada Chaitan said:
same the tool I make http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...tool-tool-unpack-repack-dat-img-v2-0-t3284806
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yeah tanks for the info... i made this tool using xpirt post and a screen shot of a software that i saw in google... any way great wrks... i made this through java..

AmeyRanberg said:
The rom that I had, only had system.img boot.img and those older folders. It didnt have file_contexts. But later I extracted it from boot.img and it worked thanks anyway.
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adithyan25 said:
did u copy fule_contexta
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what is file_contexta?
I dont understand..
same here. failed while repack
critical error: main: failed to open input image: No such file or directory

its a file along with the rom that you get.. just watch the video
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Problem/
No file " system transfer list". Where to get it? Firmware is given under SPFT.

hi @adithyan25
I'm so interested with this topic.
I tried but still stuck on file_context
please also make written tutorial on this thread.

kevin mitnick said:
hi @adithyan25
I'm so interested with this topic.
I tried but still stuck on file_context
please also make written tutorial on this thread.
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didnt you watch the video??? i think it had all the component you nedd.. still any prblm cmnt below
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adithyan25 said:
didnt you watch the video??? i think it had all the component you nedd.. still any prblm cmnt below
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i did.
but on video, tutorial about dat file..

Still unable to repack the dat.
Windows says rimg2sdat is not a valid Win32 application.
It works under Windows 7 at work but not under Windows XP Pro like I have at home.
Someone got another version? Is there a XP compatible version of rimg2sdat?
Thanks

Kritsada Chaitan said:
same the tool I make http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...tool-tool-unpack-repack-dat-img-v2-0-t3284806
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Thanks to the original work-works correctly!

Working perfectly with Android 6.0.1, Thanks Dev !!