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ampda How To, CAB Files, Hacks all together in one place

Morning / Afternoon / Evening to All,
Not to be critical of this wonderful website which is full of great resources but, I have noticed that the useful info is hard to find.
So I thought it might be a good idea to post all of my items in the one place so here goes.
I will update these as i go.
TIP
If you want the CAB Files in remain in your PPC after install simply change the files preferences to "Read Only"

since i was just upgrade from wallaby to magician, i found all your posting, instructions and cab files very very helpful thanks a lot ampda, you rules :!:

Hello ampda , Great Work Friend . . . many thanx for these cabs and instruction files.
Cheers for taking the time to make them for the rest of us noobs

Glad to Help

verry nice indeed but there are simpler ways of doing the discribed below
(copied this out of pdf file )
3. Copying your “Extended ROM” Files before Big Storage
You need to copy the files from your “Extended ROM” before you go the Big Storage as you will need to install some of them after you’re finished, i.e. MMS etc. They will be deleted after the upgrade (and that’s the whole point).
a. To copy them from your Magician do a hard reset (push the power button and reset button at the same time).
b. Go through the screen alignment, time zone etc and get ready…….. when you reach the “Completed” screen it will ask you to “Tap your screen…. As soon as you tap the screen you get 3 sec to soft reset (push the reset button). If you miss it as I did just do a hard reset and try again.
c. After you do b. above go to the built in file explorer and under “My Device” you will now see the treasured “Extended_ROM” with all its files. Copy the directory straight to your SD Card then to your PC, keep them safe.
its just a bit easyer when you just fill in
go to windows folder on PPC and search loadvdisk.exe
run it and you will see your ext_rom (until you reset )
not to sure the usual file explorer can do this but Resco file explorer will find it
another progie that can find it is total commander :
find it here
http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm
no offence ment by this

Logos for Qtec, i-mate...
http://www.npo-hors.ru/logoqtek/logoqteks100.rar

Hi!!
Thanks for all your help!
Does anyone konw, or is there a way to save to the pc the SMS messages both received and sent??
Cheers!

use jeyo mobile companion. u can backup all of your messages, contacts (phone and sim), etc.

Hi!
Thanks for the tip!
By the way, and i think these questions are more tricky, is there any way NOT to charge the battery while the phone is connected to the USB?
And while using the calling software, when inputing the nunbers, to make the sim card entries dissapear and only have the ones that are in the contacts? Because most of the times i have a double entry and it really makes me mad!
Thanks!

The way to NOT to charge the battarie is to make some changes to your cable - cut +5v from USB (or make a switch).

the tray launch only app.... theres now way to BROWSE for the program you want on the tray?
sucks that you have to type out the entire path just to get it

Any idea whether these (or more specifically the camera speckles change) will work on a Wizard?

Remove Camera
Noob question here.
Once i install the camera & album to Storage how do i delete it from the \windows . Maybe not possible due to it being in ROM. In this case I end up with 2 camera software? So i'm curious what is the idea of installing in storage.

Halo ampda, i tryin to follow your how_to_ppc_upgrade.pdf buat I stuck in the step 4 backing up your existing rom to PC, in romupdate.exe I still confuse about the PORT things. can you help me to, which one to use?
please help...
thanks

Thanks for nice posting AMPDA..
I have a question,
I installed ampda_CameraV2.7b21026_RAM.CAB
but my camera version was 2.70 (build 18727) and it is still the same. I reset the device but still didnt become build 2026.
Do you have an idea?
regards

Guys,
This sharing is really useful. I just bought mine few days ago from ebay. Mine doesn't come with ANY EXT ROM at all! No software such MMS, smart dial etc.
Can anyone provide a link to get back those basic EXT ROM software so that I can upload it back? ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/ is not working for me. Any help pls?
Pillow...

Pillow write your email address. I'll send you them via email. (Those which are not device spesific).
What is the type of your device and rom versions?
smellypillow said:
Guys,
This sharing is really useful. I just bought mine few days ago from ebay. Mine doesn't come with ANY EXT ROM at all! No software such MMS, smart dial etc.
Can anyone provide a link to get back those basic EXT ROM software so that I can upload it back? ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/ is not working for me. Any help pls?
Pillow...
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Hi Lupusic,
Thanks a lot for your kind offer. I manage to pull up the files from the FTP using cuteFTP software. Some how my company laptop doesn't allow default browser connection....
My phone is O2 mini and has v.1.13 for both rom & radio. I think it's BigStorage (not sure though).
Any good advice for me? I mean anything at all....
Thx again
Pillow....

Guys, I'm not able to run Boot Image Tool. It gives me this error
Component 'mscomctl.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid
Any idea?
Thx....

Hi AMPDA,
Thanks for all your postings on big storage which gives detailed instructions step-by-step. Very brief and consise. Also now I notice you have put everything into 1 place like a table for pick and choose. Can it get any better ? Can't ask for anything more. You have so many useful cabs and instructions. I have benefitte a great deal. ONCE AGAIN Thank You.

[UPDATE!] AMAZING ALL-in-ONE CAB :) WM6.5 or WM6.1 - EASY INSTALL!

#4 - ADDED MY SOURCE FILES!!!! Just in case u wanna change something
Ok guys...here we go again I try my best to put some of t7he things i like into the same cab...looks huge...but looks nice Some of the best features without touching too much the rom. DISCOVER YOURSELF Is all I can say
1. Random contacts retouch
2. Volume retouch
3. M2D DJ Koa retouch and retouch with Landscape
4. workaround Honeycomb...DJ Koa retouch (best feature is with Josh 21198 v1 ...seems to be fast and skin works better)
5. Keyboard Skin
6. DJ Koa 6.5 Skin (i try to put big menus...but fixing)
7. ...some more tweaks specially on manilla
PS - I will keep adding/fixing things Hugs
Ai ai ai....people complaining about loosing data with this cab. Well..I tested pretty much times with different roms. In any case, please backup ur data before install and please: make sure you have enough space to install and work. And follow the proper steps down. Is easy. And please feedback with ur rom's so I can keep testing.
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Pre-install:
YOU MUST HAVE A SDCARD!How to install?
1. DISABLE TOUCH OR M2D IN TODAY!
2. RUN CAB
3. DON'T LET IT SLEEP WHILE INSTALL!

More caps
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Looks nice but how do we install two zip files?

Source files!
Ok my friends!!!! I decided to share with you guys the source files for this so that everything is clear If u feel u can change source.
I used Cabwiz to pack it. I FEEL THE Source!
1. Install cabwiz
2. Create a folder to cabwiz folder and unzip the inf into there
3. Unzip the other zips to same folder
4. Run ..\cabwiz "DJKOA M2D 1.00.4000.1903.inf" /compress
it will generate the CAB.
Cheers

Won't install for me, says installation unsuccessful because of insufficient system privileges.
Phone was connected to pc all through installation so did not got to sleep.

thankssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Good stuff mate but this should be posted in Kaiser software section Anyway, going to have a spin at this.

piplewis said:
Won't install for me, says installation unsuccessful because of insufficient system privileges.
Phone was connected to pc all through installation so did not got to sleep.
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djkoa, this is probably because of a single file. Ussaully a dll will cause this. Some dll's don't like being installed via cab. They must be manually copied. Another problem could be that piplewis has a dll or file installed that can't be overwriten. Another usaully a dll problem. I've noticed some dll's, once you replace it, you can't replace it again. The work around I found is to rename said dll as .bak which will cause the ROM to use the original again and allowing the file to finally be replaced.
Overwise, great job, only ther suggestion. I thought about making 1 big cab myself, but realized large cab's are difficult to uninstalled. If the user changes 1 small thing, it won't uninstall and will cause them to need to hard reset. Have that problem with NeoTitanium. People change a registry or something and BAM, can't uninstall it.

piplewis said:
Won't install for me, says installation unsuccessful because of insufficient system privileges.
Phone was connected to pc all through installation so did not got to sleep.
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Same for me. Im really hoping we find a solution to this cuz this looks awesome. I dont have M2D installed though, i dont know if that matters.

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
djkoa, this is probably because of a single file. Ussaully a dll will cause this. Some dll's don't like being installed via cab. They must be manually copied. Another problem could be that piplewis has a dll or file installed that can't be overwriten. Another usaully a dll problem. I've noticed some dll's, once you replace it, you can't replace it again. The work around I found is to rename said dll as .bak which will cause the ROM to use the original again and allowing the file to finally be replaced.
Overwise, great job, only ther suggestion. I thought about making 1 big cab myself, but realized large cab's are difficult to uninstalled. If the user changes 1 small thing, it won't uninstall and will cause them to need to hard reset. Have that problem with NeoTitanium. People change a registry or something and BAM, can't uninstall it.
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Pretty spot on when it comes to .dll You can make the the cab itself to step by step rename->copy it. Other than that its a ok project, one idea I thought of is whit youre project to make it more customizeable is to take advatage of one if the autoinstallers. And then make a folder whit all the cabs, if you make the whole SJABANG finish to go out of the box you can lateron change its contents aswell as the users themself.
I have 2-3 of theese setups myself whit payed content as stuff from lakeridge, SPB and so on. Making a cab is good training but not wery customizable in the loong run on this project IMO.

raiisak said:
Pretty spot on when it comes to .dll You can make the the cab itself to step by step rename->copy it. Other than that its a ok project, one idea I thought of is whit youre project to make it more customizeable is to take advatage of one if the autoinstallers. And then make a folder whit all the cabs, if you make the whole SJABANG finish to go out of the box you can lateron change its contents aswell as the users themself.
I have 2-3 of theese setups myself whit payed content as stuff from lakeridge, SPB and so on. Making a cab is good training but not wery customizable in the loong run on this project IMO.
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Another work around for Uninstalling, is to reinstall it first. It's a bit time consuming, but even if WinMo can't uninstall the software when trying to reinstall, it'll still let you reinstall replacing all original files and "Should" let you uninstall finally. A few extra steps and time consuming true, but better than a HArd Reset if it works.

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
Another work around for Uninstalling, is to reinstall it first. It's a bit time consuming, but even if WinMo can't uninstall the software when trying to reinstall, it'll still let you reinstall replacing all original files and "Should" let you uninstall finally. A few extra steps and time consuming true, but better than a HArd Reset if it works.
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Tricks of the trade ".bak reminds me of something "
Would just be better as seperate installs .cabs.

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
Another work around for Uninstalling, is to reinstall it first. It's a bit time consuming, but even if WinMo can't uninstall the software when trying to reinstall, it'll still let you reinstall replacing all original files and "Should" let you uninstall finally. A few extra steps and time consuming true, but better than a HArd Reset if it works.
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Getting the perfect setup is wery time consuming, its no secret that the order its installed, register strings overlap eachoter and so on will count for the final result. Reinstalling the cab just to have it removed from installed list doesnt mean you have a good uninstallation. Going from one setup to another whit several cabs when it comes to interface, its almsout inevitable that you going to hard reset to have a fresh installation.
My thought was that its easyer to update the package itself, not update the software on the phone

Ok, I disabled m2d and without soft resetting (after 1st attempt) tried to install again. This time it seems to have installed.
Just restarting now, will let you know.
*Edit*
Yup, seems to have installed fine now.

I can't uninstall......hardreset now

Hi, is it possible you can make this into a .cab.

piplewis said:
Ok, I disabled m2d and without soft resetting (after 1st attempt) tried to install again. This time it seems to have installed.
Just restarting now, will let you know.
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Hmm, I think I am going to pass on this on for now. All brewed in like this is unlikly that im going to have a good installation IMO. Should be step by step whit whit atleast one reset as far as I could see (HTC HOME),. Good combination, no doubth. But to just gather everything in one big cab im not a fan of. Also I would take advatage of pre-xml in making of this
I dont mean to be critical in a bad way here, its good training and as I sad good combination. I didnt pop the setup.dll as I stopped looking after a minutt, clearly you havent used that much time on this mister Also this installation is expect upon that you have a SD card in phone upon installation (but who doesnt have that, but still a good thing to inform on).

I perform a remove it, run it and after about 5 minutes of it can not remove so I hardreset
after hardreset (keep in storage Kaiser) the entire all data on my storage end are lost, empty storage .... please help me,
So....anyone try it and check

sported said:
I perform a remove it, run it and after about 5 minutes of it can not remove so I hardreset
after hardreset (keep in storage Kaiser) the entire all data on my storage end are lost, empty storage .... please help me,
So....anyone try it and check
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That is what happens when you hard reset the phone. All the data:contacts, messages, pictures, songs, etc. are lost. You should had used ppm backup (I think that is what its called) to save your contacts and messages on a sd card on computer.

dooyoo222 said:
That is what happens when you hard reset the phone. All the data:contacts, messages, pictures, songs, etc. are lost. You should had used ppm backup (I think that is what its called) to save your contacts and messages on a sd card on computer.
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You probobly mean PIM backup and he can find it here: http://frifor.com/download/IBI/PIM_BACKUP_V2.8_MONX.CAB

[Q] Changing the Theme accent color?

I just got promoted and was given an LG C900 to use as my cell phone. The previous owner wiped it and when I received it 7.0 was on it.
I did some googling and updated it to 7.5 so it's running Mango now. I'm trying to change the theme accent color. None of them are dark enough. How would I go about making the colors darker or setting some type of custom theme up?

Derple said:
I just got promoted and was given an LG C900 to use as my cell phone. The previous owner wiped it and when I received it 7.0 was on it.
I did some googling and updated it to 7.5 so it's running Mango now. I'm trying to change the theme accent color. None of them are dark enough. How would I go about making the colors darker or setting some type of custom theme up?
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only if you have your device interop unlocked. then you can install Advanced Configuration Tool by Schaps and change accent colors.
Since you have an LG it's easy to unlock your phone following the instructions here. You install MFG tool and modify the registry. After that you can sideload the advanced config tool with for example this.

Thank you for the information. I checked that thread and it says this: This only works on devices that already have a developer-unlock!
My device does not have a developer-unlock so I cannot apply his methods

Derple said:
Thank you for the information. I checked that thread and it says this: This only works on devices that already have a developer-unlock!
My device does not have a developer-unlock so I cannot apply his methods
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that is incorrect, which is good for you . Read the article carefully. if you have an LG device, and ONLY an LG device, you were able to follow the steps to completely unlock your phone at any time, even on Mango. Trust me. It's a known fact that LG devices have the LG MFG tool with built-in registry editor.
dial ##634# on your phone and press call. that will install the LG MFG tool (listed under you apps).
then follow these steps (a lot of steps, but trust me, well worth it, you can sideload homebrew applications and a lot more)
1. Prepare a cup of coffee
2. Open the MFG app. The password is: appmfg#*#
3. Go to Engineer Menu -> Other Settings -> Edit Registry
4. Set your ROOT PATH to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
5. Set your input path to "\Comm\Security\LVMod"
6. Set your input key to "DeveloperUnlockState" and set to DWORD.
7. Leave input data box empty and tap "SET".
8. The output should be 0.
9. Now enter "1" in the inputbox and tap "SET".
10. The output should be 1.
11. Set your input path to "\Software\Microsoft\DeviceReg"
12. Set your input key to "PortalUrlProd" and set to DWORD.
13. Clear the input data box and hit "SET".
14. Output result should be "0".
15. Set your input key to "PortalUrlInt" and set to DWORD.
13. Clear the input data box and hit "SET".
14. Output result should be "0".
15. Set your input path to "\Software\Microsoft\DeviceReg\Install"
16. Set your input key to "MaxUnsignedApp" and set to DWORD.
17. Clear the input data box and hit "SET".
18. The output should be 0.
19. Now enter "2147483647" in the inputbox and tap "SET".
20. Output result should be "2147483647".

Thank you. I went ahead and followed those instructions and rebooted. Still installing Windows Phone SDK 7.1 so I can run Tom XAP Installer to see about installing the tools you linked before (hope I'm doing this right).

Derple said:
Thank you. I went ahead and followed those instructions and rebooted. Still installing Windows Phone SDK 7.1 so I can run Tom XAP Installer to see about installing the tools you linked before (hope I'm doing this right).
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cool, this one (XapDeployX) doesn't require VS I believe. Either way, it's a good program to deploy programs because you can use this to update a program without deleting it's settings.
BTW. Advanced Config Tool will install itself in the Settings menu in case you are looking for it. It will throw and error message when you start it, but it will run. I highly recommend not to play with any of the other settings in the program because you can mess up your device. Only use the accent color part.
The program is sometimes picky and doesn't want to start. My experience was to use the deployer above and it worked (compared to another one I tried).
cheers

Ok so I followed the instructions, rebooted, connected to my computer, launched zune, and ran the xap file.
Tom XAP Installer tells me the following:
-Please make sure your phone was unlocked!
-Please make sure you connected device to PC and Zune launched
EDIT: I tried the link you gave me above and that worked great Any other XAP's I should look into? So far this thing is much cooler than the iPhone 3G I had. I just wish it had Citrix, VPN, and could see wifi networks with a hidden SSID

Derple said:
Ok so I followed the instructions, rebooted, connected to my computer, launched zune, and ran the xap file.
Tom XAP Installer tells me the following:
-Please make sure your phone was unlocked!
-Please make sure you connected device to PC and Zune launched
EDIT: I tried the link you gave me above and that worked great Any other XAP's I should look into? So far this thing is much cooler than the iPhone 3G I had. I just wish it had Citrix, VPN, and could see wifi networks with a hidden SSID
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developers are currently rewriting their homebrew tools for Mango. Needs some time. There are a few useful homebew apps in this forum, e.g. r1ng3d to get your custom ringtones. For sideloading apps I highly recommend Phone7Market. You can search the marketplace, review screenshots and deploy with the same program. You can sideload some HTC OEM apps if you like as well. You can find more 3rdMarketPlace applications via this program. If you use the same deployer above you will be able to run them fine on the LG even though they are Samsung or HTC.

derausgewanderte said:
only if you have your device interop unlocked. then you can install Advanced Configuration Tool by Schaps and change accent colors.
Since you have an LG it's easy to unlock your phone following the instructions here. You install MFG tool and modify the registry. After that you can sideload the advanced config tool with for example this.
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you're a very helpful guy, I have my phone unlocked and tweaked thanks to you

scoobysnacks said:
you're a very helpful guy, I have my phone unlocked and tweaked thanks to you
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woah, you seem to be extremely helpful as well looking at your statistics . 2,523 posts and 484 Thanks since July 2011. how do you do that?
that's 21 posts per day

derausgewanderte said:
woah, you seem to be extremely helpful as well looking at your statistics . 2,523 posts and 484 Thanks since July 2011. how do you do that?
that's 21 posts per day
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hahaha boredom really...
I've been on sick leave from work so I haven't had much else to do lol

[Q] Edit Registry without touchscreen

Hi,
I need some help. I scrued my Omnia 7 touchscreen with the LEO ADVANCED app.
I juste need to set one value to get it working again :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Touch]
"PDD"="CotullaTouch.dll"
My question is : how can i edit registry without using my phone screen.
I can : unlock screen, use voice recognisation to launch any installed app, remotely install app (i'm prelly sure)
3 solutions are coming up to my mind:
1 Find a desktop app that allows to edit plugged phone's registry
2 Remotely control my phone ( with a computer, use mouse to change the values with WP7 root tool)
3 (less imaginable) créate an Xap that changes this specific value. I will still be able to install it remotely and to launch it with the voice recognisation.
Can only think of thoses two solution. Its the only solutions i found

rsepierre said:
Hi,
I need some help. I scrued my Omnia 7 touchscreen with the LEO ADVANCED app.
I juste need to set one value to get it working again :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Touch]
"PDD"="CotullaTouch.dll"
My question is : how can i edit registry without using my phone screen.
I can : unlock screen, use voice recognisation to launch any installed app, remotely install app (i'm prelly sure)
3 solutions are coming up to my mind:
1 Find a desktop app that allows to edit plugged phone's registry
2 Remotely control my phone ( with a computer, use mouse to change the values with WP7 root tool)
3 (less imaginable) créate an Xap that changes this specific value. I will still be able to install it remotely and to launch it with the voice recognisation.
Can only think of thoses two solution. Its the only solutions i found
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You have the ability to edit the registry from your PC, you will need to follow these steps:
1 - Download and install the registry editor for the PC:
http://www.torchsoft.com/en/download.html
2 - Connect your Windows Phone to the PC.
3 - Start the Zune software and synchronized with the device.
4 - boot registry editor
5 - Then we click on "File / Connect to a portable device Cams"
6 - Usually the device is already connected to the registry editor
7 - Once you have synced the device with the editor, please edit the required record
PS: Sorry for my bad English

The third option is also actually really easy, though you'll need to deploy the app as an update to an already-trusted app (unless you're using a custom ROM that trusts all app by default).

elpinta25 said:
You have the ability to edit the registry from your PC, you will need to follow these steps:
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Thank you, it works (didn't work with the last 4.6.2 version of Registry Workshop, i use the 2.x available here http://www.torchsoft.com/node/5)
Ok i was able to change the registry values from PC, greaaaat step. But i got it wrong, it's not the right value or not all the values i had to set back. I need someone with an Omnia 7 to tell me all the values he has in :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Touch
I'm already trying to reach LEO ADVANCED's author so see wich ones are modified when we use his app.
Thanks a lot elpinta25

GoodDayToDie said:
The third option is also actually really easy, though you'll need to deploy the app as an update to an already-trusted app (unless you're using a custom ROM that trusts all app by default).
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the problem is that i can't create apps. i'm not a developper
If someone knows any Omnia7 owner, i just need to know what is the value of
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Touch] "PDD"
and
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Touch] "DLL"

It is
"DLL"="TouchMDD.dll"
"PDD"="atmel_pdd.dll"

worked perfectly except i had to try multiple times to edit the registry. It didn't work the first time, did several reboot to find the old value still there (PC/mobile sync problem, don't really know)
but it was the right value to change : "atmel_pdd.dll" and the right way to do it. Thank you titi, gooddaytodie and elpinta

[Beginner Guides]How to Backup Almost Every Android Device

Introduction:
After I saw that that there is an Adb command to backup Android devices, I said to myself why I don't make batch file to make it easier for people to use it ? Luckily, it didn't take me long before I made a batch file that is able to backup your device ,any Android device, which is extremely easy to use.It consists of only 5 questions that will help decide what you wish to backup. This batch file uses a unadvertised feature in Android 4.0+ to Backup everything on your Android device. A Galaxy S4,a Chinese branded mobile phone, or even a tablet. This batch file can backup all of them.
Disclaimer:
I’m not responsible if something goes wrong on your phone(Usually nothing goes wrong), you’re doing this on your own responsibility. Rooting your phone will void your warranty so don’t root your device unless you know what you are doing.
Method:
Advantages:
Easy to use.
Backs up all your apps with all their data.No need to worry about reinstalling them again.
Uses Android stock feature so it less likely –if not at all- to find an incompatible Android device.
Extremely useful for cheap unbranded chinese Android Devices
Doesn't require a rooted device.
Disadvantages:
If you have a mobile device you need to backup your messages and call logs separately.
Needs a Windows PC .
Download:
To download the toolkit and for more instructions on how you can use it, consider visiting How to Back up Almost Every Android Device

Has anyone had issues with this backup tool? I have a 6.9 GB .ab file in my backup folder, so I'm 90% sure I did the backup correctly... But I can't get it to restore. I point the tool to the backup, it reads back the complete file extension correctly, I select "backup now" on the phone and let it run till it gets to the "thank you for using this tool, press any key to continue" and it closes itself out. There's nothing on the phone though. I've performed the restore twice, the second time I made sure the file extension was exactly how windows shows it in the event that the tool is case sensitive. Still nothing on the phone.

@tsiah: The script seems to be using the adb backup command. According to this thread (at the bottom) you need to set a desktop backup password:
copkay said:
NOTE 06/12: There seems to be a bug in which backup and restore operations will fail unless a desktop backup password is set under Developer Options. It will not work with a blank password.
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The post itself is a little bit older, so you might have to search around if this is still the case.

zAfi2014 said:
@tsiah: The script seems to be using the adb backup command. According to this thread (at the bottom) you need to set a desktop backup password:
The post itself is a little bit older, so you might have to search around if this is still the case.
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Great... That would have been nice to know before hand
So now I've wasted all this time trying to get it to work and it probably won't ever work at this point...

tsiah said:
Great... That would have been nice to know before hand
So now I've wasted all this time trying to get it to work and it probably won't ever work at this point...
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When you did the backup, didn't your phone ask you for a password to input?

polobunny said:
When you did the backup, didn't your phone ask you for a password to input?
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It says you can encrypt it with a password but that it's optional.

I've been messing around with this a little bit more. I set a password in developer options and attempted the restoration again. It runs for about 30 minutes, I get the toast "restore ended" (something to that effect) and nothing has changed.
Currently attempting to restore in safe mode. No idea if it'll take or not.
I lost a lot of photos that were attached to an app (you have to manually select the ones you want to save and save them to your library...wtf? good idea dev!) my wife is quite upset that the photos are gone and I'm about at my wits end trying to get this restoration to work.
What I can't understand is why the file is 6.9 GB, but there's no restoration taking place. Everyone that reported issues with the password not being set was getting a 0kb or maybe a few hundred mb as their file they pulled in the backup. I really don't think the backup failed...but why is the restore failing???

Attempting the restoration in safe mode made no difference.
Pretty bummed out.
I've been twisting the ear of someone over at VSCO cam. No idea if it will make a difference in future versions of the application but IMO they should inform you when you START using their app that you MUST manually save all the photos you want to keep...or, the logical thing that every other camera on the planet does, JUST SAVE THE DAMN PHOTOS!
VSCO stores pictures in some cache folder of their own. If you uninstall the app or have to factory reset a phone and you haven't selected and saved all your photos inside the app, you lose everything. They don't own MY pictures. I think that kind of blurs some...ethical? ...lines. Storing them in a folder that basically "belongs" to them? not cool VSCO. Not cool at all.
I'm pissed about this whole situation.
Sometimes I just want to tell all technology to bite my shiny metal ass...
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kalo0osh97 said:
Disadvantages:
If you have a mobile device you need to backup your messages and call logs separately.
Needs a Windows PC .
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add to this list that the restoration might not work, even if the backup seems to have worked properly...
I won't ever use this backup method again. It's way too time consuming and you can't depend on it.

I know this post is pretty ancient, but I just wanted to toss in that the beginnerguides domain appears to have expired and been picked up by a domain scalper, so the resources this thread mentions are no longer available Here's hoping they can be put up somewhere else, or that someone has a link to similar instructions!

microwiz said:
I know this post is pretty ancient, but I just wanted to toss in that the beginnerguides domain appears to have expired and been picked up by a domain scalper, so the resources this thread mentions are no longer available Here's hoping they can be put up somewhere else, or that someone has a link to similar instructions!
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very true ! will the author of the 1st post please respond !

kalo0osh97 said:
To download the toolkit and for more instructions on how you can use it, consider visiting How to Back up Almost Every Android Device
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the site seems to be empty....

I have tried to restore using beginner guide's toolkit but everytime i restore....a message pops up and says "restore started" after 3 seconds..."restore ended" ...but there is no changes to my actual phone files...nothing got restored. What is the problem with this toolkit ? I expected this to work several years ago and now it doesn't and I basically lost all my files and everything