Not sure how this happened, but missing two files in my system - long names but they include:
providers.talk
apps.gtalkservice
Just noticed the problem after installing Axura 204 yesterday, my first custom rom. Prior, I was OCLF and root, did the ext, etc stuff with oclf..
In TB, they show up as backed up and un-unstalled, if that makes any sense. There is no option to restore the files in TB. Is it possible that the rom itself delivered with the files botched? Any way to get them replaced?
As has been mentioned many before, I can't download from market and can't log into gtalk. I've already tried the oft mentioned tricks, n nothing works. In my case the 2 files are missing.
That is odd they are missing... everything running okay? You might want to flash again or check the md5 sum (probably not the case).
OR, you could just extract the zip on your pc and grab those .apk files and drop them in system/app and reboot.
Excellent thinking. I'll have a look tonite. Wonder if this happened during batch restore app's w TB? Otherwise, totally stoked with the flash!
I always choose to re-load via Odin then install the custom ROM. Axura's have never been a challenge for me.
Guys, I'm prob going to reflash the rom and then do a careful restore app's - one at a time. Anything I need to be be cautious about? I'm not into Odin yet, and haven't connected to computer yet. Would prefer not to.
Hehe, my first custom rom and now my first re-flash..
Continuing on, and hope someone is still with me on this. Couldn't figure out how to reflash Axura with Rom Manager, so then connected to comp and copied Axura 204 Zip to comp and extracted files. A full search of these files showed only one result for "talk" :
Talk.apk
A search of my phone's sys shows 3 files - the ones I mentioned initially above and:
Android.talk
Please note that these are tar.gz files within my original, pre 2.2 TB backup. Expanding these out shows mostly just empty folders, no .apk files..
Is it likely that a 2.2 build only requires the (talk.apk) to log into Gtalk and use the Market? After all, it's the only talk file present in my axura 204 zip which was acquired thru the official site. Can someone with working Axura 204 and Market search their phone for files including "talk". Mine only includes Talk.apk
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This is my first smartphone. Samsung Vibrant. I did a root process on it and it went perfectly fine. Then i deleted some bloatware including google talk, talk provider, places, and others i cannot remember. Now my market place will not download anything. It stuck saying "Start Downloading" . I did a factory reset and it seemed to clear a few more apps. I also tried the Filter All, and clear cache on google mail and google storage. Any ideas on how to get my phone running like the day i got it? Im scared im have to get a new one.
thats easy.... just restore the Nandroid backup you performed before changing anything.... you did do a backup right? Next time do a backup before changing anything...
If no backup follow this thread... the nandroid version should work for you... if not research ODIN
I dont see the thread.
I looked at this one: ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working)
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Is the a good thread? Do i just download the 3 files plus update.zip to my computer. Then i would put my phone into download mode. Then what would i do??
This is the right correct nandroid backup. Do you have ClockworkMod installed? If not you have to flash via Odin or find the .apk of clockwork to manually install it since the market is broken. If you manage to install ClockworkMod, unzip the the nandroid backup and put it in the /clockworkmod/backup folder. You can then go to the program and select 'Manage and Restore Backups' and select the '2010-07-24.18.53.50' file and restore. Let the program do it's thing and you are back to the stock rom.
Good luck and remember to nandroid before you do anything to the system folder, flash a kernal, etc. I'm a nandroid freak... I wind up having to delete backups because I have too many lol.
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I dont see the thread.
I looked at this one: ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working)
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Is the a good thread? Do i just download the 3 files plus update.zip to my computer. Then i would put my phone into download mode. Then what would i do??
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I dont see the thread.
I looked at this one: ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working)
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Is the a good thread? Do i just download the 3 files plus update.zip to my computer. Then i would put my phone into download mode. Then what would i do??
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That's the one!! Also, there is a thread that tells you what bloatware apps are safe to remove, after you do a back-up, search for that thread and read through it.
On a side note, if you're still learning or never used odin to flash a rom before; there is also a hidden code that is used for factory format. It'll remove all files and settings including the internal memory storage and reformats it. It'll also reinstall the phone firmware from when you took it out of the box. Just go to your dialer and put *2767*3855# and it will perform the factory format for you.
Hope this helps.
thank you, thank you, im bout to be becoming a freak here soon. im just learning. Im try all this once when i get off work and will reply. AWESOME !!
I installed all three Odin, the PIT and PDA from that thread. I put my phone into download and opened up Odin and placed the files into the correct places. It automatically said thread completed (Succesful:0/Failed:0). Nothing happened. What am i doing wrong??? Who knew phones could be like this hahahaha. Gotta be patient though
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I installed all three Odin, the PIT and PDA from that thread. I put my phone into download and opened up Odin and placed the files into the correct places. It automatically said thread completed (Succesful:0/Failed:0). Nothing happened. What am i doing wrong??? Who knew phones could be like this hahahaha. Gotta be patient though
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Ummmm, not to be a smartass or anything; but did you connect your usb cable from the computer to your phone?
I found that I had better results opening Odin first, loading the PIT and PDA files, then connecting the phone with the battery pulled. Hold the up/down buttons while putting the battery in will get you into download mode. Every time I've gotten into download mode first was a bad flash for me. Odin is really finicky.
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Yes, don't delete Google Talk... it's not bloatware. It manages your login tokens for the Market and other google apps.
Have you tried getting the APKs from the Vibrant rom dump and using ADB to push them back to the /system/app folder? Might be quicker and easier than dealing with trying to re-flash.
Is ODIN suppose to automatically suppose to connect to my phone. Is there anything on the ODIN i can look for on the screen that makes sure its connected? And yes everything was connected right. It installed driver software from my phone onto my computer in download. I thought that was kinda weird.
so ive had my vibrant for a couple months now coming from an hd2. ive been flashing roms and trying different stuff out, im good with odin and cwm, clueless with adb. with windows mobile the custom build just came how they were and theres no way to remove/add programs and stuff previous to flashing it(with my knowledge). well i just now realized i can access all the files in an android build because its a simple zip file. My question is, how safe is it to remove the apk's from the /system/app folder and then flashing it. Same thing with fonts and notifications. i want to strip all the stuff out that i dont use before flashing so i dont have to do it afterwards. Is there more to this than im making of it?
tl;dr - can i delete files out of a build (apks, notifiations, wallpapers) before flashing it through cwm??
You sure can. I do it all the time. Just make a copy of the untouched version (in case you pull something important or goof up).
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
wow thats gonna save alot of time.
follow up questions: is there any way to have settings preset before i install a rom?
ive tried the built in google back/restore settings but it seems the only thing it does is the browser settings. all system settings i have to reset.
Ive been spending way to much time researching my problem and my wife is really mad at me. Basically at this point i would be happy to just manually extract data for about 10 apps from a nandroid that wont restore. Can someone point me in the right direction please?
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Ok, now that I am at computer, heres my story. Prior to flashing the gingerbread leak, I backed up using Titanium Backup and made a Nandroid backup. Somehow, all the files backed up in my PREVIOUS 2 backups on titanium backup where all 0kb-10kb, so they were completely borked for some reason. Some old backups of apps that I have since uninstalled still remained and those seem ok.
Prior to reading about the SD card failures with the gingerbread leak, I backed up my SD card to my computer. Only 1 error came up during the backup about a file with a name that was too long. I clicked on ignore and finished the backup. About 1 hour later my SD card fried.
I used a spare sd card, and transfered my clockwork mod folder and a few other folders to it. I then ODIN a DL09 stock image, flashed the newest Clockword mod 3.xx via odin, flashed UKB 2.0, then flashed PBJ -50 recovery/kernel (which was what I had when I made the backup) and tried to restore it. When I try to restore it hangs somewhere in the data restore portion saying CACHE. I saw it flash cache a few times during the restore, so I am not sure why it hangs on that one in particular. I know that the cache image file is only 16.5kb so I dont know if that has something to do with it.
I then installed the newest IMNUTS recovery since I heard there were problems restoring the the PBJ recovery, and it seems to hang in the same spot.
At this point, I have a few of my old programs back, but most force close.
My main goal here is to just extract some gamesave progress and a few other pieces of data (I can redownload basically all the apps I need), run clean until a better gingerbread leak comes along, then use titanium backup to backup what I have (and verify the backups and make backups of the backups )and install a better gingerbread rom.
So anyway, If i can figure out how to go into the datadata.img files, I guess I can extract the data I need and push it through ADB or ROOT EXPLORER? Should that work?
- nevermind...
There are computer applications that can read and explore image files, or .img files, and the file systems within image files. Your best bet would be software like that, that could open, edit, and explore image files. I dont know the names of any software like that, even though I have come across some before, but im sure you could turn up some results with the query "image file editor," or ".img file editor." From there you're just have to feel your way through.. Try similar queries if those don't turn up what you need, etc. If you got an app that could explore image files, then you could get your .apk files from /data/app folder, and any other data you might need from /data/data, if its just user apps you're wanting to restore.
Sent by way of unspeakably black magic.
ssmaster said:
Ive been spending way to much time researching my problem and my wife is really mad at me. Basically at this point i would be happy to just manually extract data for about 10 apps from a nandroid that wont restore. Can someone point me in the right direction please?
Edit:
Ok, now that I am at computer, heres my story. Prior to flashing the gingerbread leak, I backed up using Titanium Backup and made a Nandroid backup. Somehow, all the files backed up in my PREVIOUS 2 backups on titanium backup where all 0kb-10kb, so they were completely borked for some reason. Some old backups of apps that I have since uninstalled still remained and those seem ok.
Prior to reading about the SD card failures with the gingerbread leak, I backed up my SD card to my computer. Only 1 error came up during the backup about a file with a name that was too long. I clicked on ignore and finished the backup. About 1 hour later my SD card fried.
I used a spare sd card, and transfered my clockwork mod folder and a few other folders to it. I then ODIN a DL09 stock image, flashed the newest Clockword mod 3.xx via odin, flashed UKB 2.0, then flashed PBJ -50 recovery/kernel (which was what I had when I made the backup) and tried to restore it. When I try to restore it hangs somewhere in the data restore portion saying CACHE. I saw it flash cache a few times during the restore, so I am not sure why it hangs on that one in particular. I know that the cache image file is only 16.5kb so I dont know if that has something to do with it.
I then installed the newest IMNUTS recovery since I heard there were problems restoring the the PBJ recovery, and it seems to hang in the same spot.
At this point, I have a few of my old programs back, but most force close.
My main goal here is to just extract some gamesave progress and a few other pieces of data (I can redownload basically all the apps I need), run clean until a better gingerbread leak comes along, then use titanium backup to backup what I have (and verify the backups and make backups of the backups )and install a better gingerbread rom.
So anyway, If i can figure out how to go into the datadata.img files, I guess I can extract the data I need and push it through ADB or ROOT EXPLORER? Should that work?
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unfortunately, you won't likely receive much sympathy posting a question in the development section. Please post your question in the Q & A section and you'll get some help. Just a friendly heads up.
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Well I'll go ahead and point you to the right direction, or what I'd imagine should work for your needs. You'll need unyaffs, I'm assuming you're on windows so this here would be the right one for you http://www.box.net/shared/1eighqsh4s. Now take the data.img from your clockwork backup on your sdcard, drag and drop it onto the unyaffs.exe, it should unpack right there into a crapload of files. Navigate to the /data folder and find the ones you want to keep (they should be listed by the package name for the apps, "com.blah.asfkje.etc" rather than the name of the app so keep that in mind when looking for what you want), then adb push (root explorer would be fine too) the folders into your phone where they should be.
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unfortunately, you won't likely receive much sympathy posting a question in the development section. Please post your question in the Q & A section and you'll get some help. Just a friendly heads up.
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Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum, I was waiting for the train when I posted and wasn't thinking too straight. How can I move it?
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Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum, I was waiting for the train when I posted and wasn't thinking too straight. How can I move it?
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The mods will move it once they notice.
Another Fascinating post by my XDA app...
Just curious because of my personal interest...
Did you happen to try the nandroid Advanced Restore option, and select Data only? If not, it might be worth a shot. If it gets far enough, you might try wiping after the restore, and before booting up.
I always wipe my cache/Dalvik before I backup, to try to avoid conflicts with possible future ROMs. Something to think about, anyway.
Sorry about the trouble.
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Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum, I was waiting for the train when I posted and wasn't thinking too straight. How can I move it?
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Report your post stating that it should be moved, and the mods will notice right away.
Robtao said:
Just curious because of my personal interest...
Did you happen to try the nandroid Advanced Restore option, and select Data only? If not, it might be worth a shot. If it gets far enough, you might try wiping after the restore, and before booting up.
I always wipe my cache/Dalvik before I backup, to try to avoid conflicts with possible future ROMs. Something to think about, anyway.
Sorry about the trouble.
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i did try the nandroid advanced data only option and it hung at what seemed to be the exact same point.
Does anyone have an idea as to how I can add the apks to the roms I flash without using a computer. As source I used void forever without flashing the addons at first. I extracted the zip with root explorer, deleted what I didn't want. In this case, stock contacts/phone/dialer than repackaged the extracted file and attempted to flash the modified zip but I got a FC. maybe perhaps when I deleted I should of added go contacts.apk. here is what I deleted.
1.contacts.apk
2.contacts storage
What I wanted to replace:
1. Go contacts
A very insiteful person, daxelectro or ciaox told me I would need a computer and resign the modified zip but I'm **** storm up a creek without adb installed and a computer.
I've also attempted at freezing contacts and contacts storage but it misfired on me.
In a perfect world. I'd love to have void forever with poweramp,go contacts,go SMS pro,dolphin browser and go keyboard as stock. Someone think they can point me in the right direction
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You should not edit the signed zips.
well if you want only go stuff on your cell phone.
Just re-install the rom (The one provided by the dev himself) ,install titanium backup and give it root rights and now you can uninstall whatever you want.
Go contacts will work fine without stock contacts.[Tested]
But the keyboard wont work without stock you have to keep the stock android keyboard with you and choose go keyboard as default.[Tested]
You must also know This Procedure Is Irreversible
You cannot install the apps you deleted again.
Lets be on the safe side so
MAKE A NAND FIRST THEN PROCEED
Good luck bud.!!!
Hello,
I would like to try one of the FishmanMod ROM but would like to add my own apps into the FishmanMod ROM. Can I just copy them into /system/app and they will get installed when I flash the ROM?
The_Toggle
Vibrant - Droid Razr - FishmanMod (for example)
The_Toggle said:
Hello,
I would like to try one of the FishmanMod ROM but would like to add my own apps into the FishmanMod ROM. Can I just copy them into /system/app and they will get installed when I flash the ROM?
The_Toggle
Vibrant - Droid Razr - FishmanMod (for example)
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Get 7zip if you don't have it. Use 7zip to "open" the rom, not extract it.
Copy the .apk's to /system/app or data/app whatever's appropriate, then close the zip. Be aware some apps have dependent files or are dependent on the framework so they might not work.
Thanks, will give it a spin!
So technically, I can use all the .apks from my titanium backup save, and put them into system/app and have it all flash pretty quick >10 minutes and be good?
Just curious seems like a better idea than
Flashing ROM
Waiting for first boot
setup wifi
going to market to find and install titanium backup
waiting for everything to finish restoring after 20 minutes
etc.
Not sure about that bc of some variables with the services.jar and framework-res files but for generic apps like Angry Birds or something like that it seems like it should work. Batch restore suck with TB and usually cause more problems than worth it, so this could be a better option for that.
I am piece some theme parts for a Froyo build and was thinking of trying this out.
Tip for you buddy. Make a flashable zip of Titanium and you can flash it right after your ROM as either a /system or /data app. Then when your ROM boots up, launch it, search for your back up folder, restore your pro key and away you go without ever logging into the market. I do this all the time.
Love your new signature btw.
I've been doing this for a while now, but I do it with root explorer. I extract the ROM onto my SD, replace the mms.apk, and add a few others in system/app, then rezip, and flash. Haven't tried putting anything like TB in data/app, but probably will now.
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