Does anyone know, is it possible to pull the file TB creates of an app and install the app without TB?
I checked on my OG Droid and the file TB creates ends in .apk.gz. Can I just remove the .gz and install the .apk?
Anyone try this?
My Prime doesn't have Wifi (because I broke it) and I'm trying to find a way to install my apps without a data connection (I don't have TB installed on the Prime since I also do not have root access).
Any help would be appreciated.
have you tried restoring your Wifi by reinstalling .21 update via the SD card....or installing the apps you want via SD card?
I have tried re-installing .21 from the SD card. It fails because my wpa_supplicant files are bad (the ones I changed accidentally).
I'm not sure how else to install the apps from the SD card except from what I have from TB. That's why I'm wondering if its possible to do. I'm not sure what TB does with the .gz ending of the file though.
The .gz file is gzip compressed...there are a number of applications that can uncompress and extract the .apk, then you can just load the .apk onto your prime
In windows I use 7-Zip to handle gzip files.
McLiarpants said:
Does anyone know, is it possible to pull the file TB creates of an app and install the app without TB?
I checked on my OG Droid and the file TB creates ends in .apk.gz. Can I just remove the .gz and install the .apk?
Anyone try this?
My Prime doesn't have Wifi (because I broke it) and I'm trying to find a way to install my apps without a data connection (I don't have TB installed on the Prime since I also do not have root access).
Any help would be appreciated.
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First of all...how did you break your WiFi??!!
Anywho. Just as someone else said, use 7-zip. It easily supports gzip. It's one of my favorite open source software releases available natively for Windows. No reason (imo) to use anything else.
I'm surprised TB is actually gzipping your apk files. apk format derived from jar. JAR files are compressed (and are actually derived from zip). gzip and zip both use the Deflate algorithm, so unless I'm mistaken on the apk incorporating data compression, using gzip seems like a stupid idea.
McLiarpants said:
I have tried re-installing .21 from the SD card. It fails because my wpa_supplicant files are bad (the ones I changed accidentally).
I'm not sure how else to install the apps from the SD card except from what I have from TB. That's why I'm wondering if its possible to do. I'm not sure what TB does with the .gz ending of the file though.
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iF YOU ARE JUST ROOTED, not unlocked, then load a clean.15 via sd card....that should clear the wpa files....THEN apply .21 via sd card.....there is a thread somewhere here that talks about that particular issue
Bob
Titanium Backup lets you select the format to use - no compression, LZO, gzip, or bzip2. It uses whichever you select. If you select no compression, then none of the files are compressed - not the .apk, not the data, or any of the rest of the backups. You may still get some compression of the .apk, and using gzip doesn't take enough extra time to notice. Gzip is a Linux compression format, commonly used for backups, as is bzip. That's why it's in Android - Android is just Linux modified for small touchscreens.
Thanks everyone! I'll be sure to unzip them and try it out.
Bob, unfortunately, I'm already on .21. You can't downgrade firmware versions without being unlocked. ICS wont even recognize the .15 file as being install-able.
hceuterpe said:
First of all...how did you break your WiFi??!!
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heh, well, i had used a method to restore ad-hoc connections that required a new wpa_supplicant2 file. The .21 firmware was supposed to allow ad-hoc, but I couldn't get it to work. So I attempted the method again. Unfortunately, I accidentally over-wrote the wpa_supplicant file. I didn't have a replacement file, so I thought that wiping and reflashing the .21 update would work. The update failed because those system files were modified.
So I have a prime with no wifi and no root, and thus no way to fix my wifi.
Someone here can grab you the files you need, transfer them to the sd card, put that in the prime, put them where they need to go and be done with it...
**** never mind, you do not have root now to put the files where the need to go. Crap, I'm stupid, sorry.
I fixed it!
I was able to pull a backup of OTA Voodoo Rootkeep from my TB .apk files. I installed, and it restored root for me! Not sure how that is possible...maybe I really was already rooted, but since I couldn't load any apps because of wifi being broke I couldn't check. Anyway, its all back to good!
Congrats!
Good idea on the method, perhaps it can be used in other situations. Sharing of a VodooOTA root Keeper backup allowing those on 2.1 to root themselves. Interesting idea.
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I think I'm getting a corrupted download from the FTP site, CWR won't install the .zip, says it's bad. Anyone have Northeast 1.2 and can post it or send it to me?
My GPS was great before but after I upgraded the radio I can't get a lock at all.
Here you go, I've enclosed the zip. If it still won't work for you what I do is just update the file in the rom and flash that. Which in this case would be system/etc/gps.conf. I've always kept a copy of the rom on my memory card and update it as needed. What I do is move the rom and whatever the other zip is to my desktop and use 7-zip to "open archive" on both zip files. I do this on my desktop because I get more consistent results versus trying to do it on the sd card. You can either delete the file in the rom and drag/drop the new gps.conf into it or you can right-click the file "edit" copy/paste the text into gps.conf. You could use adb to do this I'm sure but I for one am too lazy/stupid to download, figure out and use it. Using the above method I've updated/replaced "all" the google apps, updated the hosts file, modified the build.prop, tried a couple different gps scripts and I have a completely updated rom (Liberated 2.2.2). And the updates for the google apps aren't stealing internal storage.
If you use GPS Status (free download) reset and download new assistance data.
Awesome thanks!
Hey all, I'm a noob. But I got my NT pretty much where I want it to be. I realize now that the extra space is in the data file system (yeah, I can use the extra gigs). Now, my biggest problem is that my .cbz .cbr files do not have a default program or association. This is a problem because my root accessible comic readers will read to the data folder but when you open up the data folder it says nothing is there. At this point, I just need a comic app that links up .cbz .cbr s as the default program for those file types so that I can open the file from on of my file expolorer programs. Or I need to figure out a way that allows my rooted comic apps to actually go into the data folder. Why won't these programs look into the file system past data?
Now,
I did try the permanence method to link a usrdata file to the mnt/internal file, but while it creates the mnt/internal file it does not fill it in with my files...which sucks (I just folled the instructions and I think it may require the snowball mod). I do like the B&N reader for my epubs, so I don't want to use the snowball mod
And even in snowball could not work, in OP is posted that many apps can still be incompatible
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Greetings,
Not sure if this something Ive done when rooting and putting busybox on, but im trying to backup the entire contents of my sdcard to my desktop.
The files start copying, but at some point it fails and most of the folders of high interest are empty on the desktop. I need my titanium backup and mybackuppro, rom backups, etc. What it looks like I have to go into each of these folders and copy manually.
I just want to select all, copy, paste and be done with it.
Has anyone had an experience like this?
same here.
and can see not all folders/files' and even worse: i see dfferent folders with windws explorer, total commander mtp and total commander adb... only on the device itself i can see everything correct...
dn't know what it is, never seen before...
I made some progress here. Im preparing for a firmware upgrade which wipes, so I need this backup.
I noticed that from the root, if I drag one folder alone, it will copy that with all sub-folders properly.
It's only when you copy multiple folders that it fails.
Maybe this is solved in the firmware upgrade to HBOOT 1.35. I will report back here when complete.
Paz75 said:
I made some progress here. Im preparing for a firmware upgrade which wipes, so I need this backup.
I noticed that from the root, if I drag one folder alone, it will copy that with all sub-folders properly.
It's only when you copy multiple folders that it fails.
Maybe this is solved in the firmware upgrade to HBOOT 1.35. I will report back here when complete.
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This appears to be fixed now after the firmware upgrade. Copying all files without any recursion problems
Paz75 said:
This appears to be fixed now after the firmware upgrade. Copying all files without any recursion problems
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same here, update to HBOOT 1.35 and all folders appear in every way and can be copied without problems :good:
Okay, here's the back story, it's short. My SD card fried on me yesterday. I had a nand backup of my stock setup on that card. That backup contained a couple of voicemails from my 2 year old daughter (not saved/forwarded, just downloaded into the voicemail app) which i hadn't gotten around to saving in the forever style yet. (was going to restore the backup and save them, then jump back to current ROM)
Anyway, i got a utility that will scan the card and found a whole ton of files on there. What's more it looks like it actually pulled a lot of it from within the backup files (no kidding, i'm seeing icons and temporary internet files and that sort of stuff) in addition to stuff stored on the root.
Was hoping someone could tell me what format these files would be in (3gp, mp4, etc.) so i know what to tell it to pull out. it's a trial software and will only let me restore 10 files before it chokes (could probably just run again on another pc though) but can anyone help me? it's doesn't give me a folder structure at all, just files, and they're even named genericly. So if i know what file type i'm looking for i can just grab those and maybe one of them will be it.
thanks!!
I looked before, and believe its something proprietary. Try using ES file explorer or something similar, store a vm and check which folders updated the time and date..start there..only thing I can think of currently.
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dangle79 said:
Okay, here's the back story, it's short. My SD card fried on me yesterday. I had a nand backup of my stock setup on that card. That backup contained a couple of voicemails from my 2 year old daughter (not saved/forwarded, just downloaded into the voicemail app) which i hadn't gotten around to saving in the forever style yet. (was going to restore the backup and save them, then jump back to current ROM)
Anyway, i got a utility that will scan the card and found a whole ton of files on there. What's more it looks like it actually pulled a lot of it from within the backup files (no kidding, i'm seeing icons and temporary internet files and that sort of stuff) in addition to stuff stored on the root.
Was hoping someone could tell me what format these files would be in (3gp, mp4, etc.) so i know what to tell it to pull out. it's a trial software and will only let me restore 10 files before it chokes (could probably just run again on another pc though) but can anyone help me? it's doesn't give me a folder structure at all, just files, and they're even named genericly. So if i know what file type i'm looking for i can just grab those and maybe one of them will be it.
thanks!!
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Mine are located on sdcard/smvvm
They are AMR files
I use ES Flie Explorer to find them
Hope this helps
stealthl said:
Mine are located on sdcard/smvvm
They are AMR files
I use ES Flie Explorer to find them
Hope this helps
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sorry, just circling back to see this. i ended up giving up on it. wasn't able to find any reliable way to recover the card, so i guess it's just lost
TitaniumBackup does not backup my APK anymore. I think this happen after i update to LP 5.0.2. Is it not working properly on LP?
I even did a factory reset and it's still the same. Everytime I backup my apps, after complete, the icon is a tick. Used to be a smiley face.
Anyone have a fix for this?
EDIT: OK I found out it does backup everything include APK on the first run, subsequent run it only detect the app data and the icon change from a smiley to a tick.
ljhsquall said:
TitaniumBackup does not backup my APK anymore. I think this happen after i update to LP 5.0.2. Is it not working properly on LP?
I even did a factory reset and it's still the same. Everytime I backup my apps, after complete, the icon is a tick. Used to be a smiley face.
Anyone have a fix for this?
EDIT: OK I found out it does backup everything include APK on the first run, subsequent run it only detect the app data and the icon change from a smiley to a tick.
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The reason is in LP TB how adds .txt to its .properties file and TB itself cannot recognize..
Nobody had the same as issue as me? How can this be?
I have the same issue.. How did you fix this???
ljhsquall said:
The reason is in LP TB how adds .txt to its .properties file and TB itself cannot recognize..
Nobody had the same as issue as me? How can this be?
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I think I may have a related issue.
This is my problem description:
- phone: Samsung S4 I9505 upgraded to Lollipop 5.0.1, rooted with CF-Auto_Root
- using Titanium Backup version 7.1.2
1. set backup location to SD card using the DocumentProvider interface
2. after "Calculating scenarios" for different batch actions, for "Redo backups for modified data" shows 402 backups to be redone
3. run the scheduled action "Redo backups for modified data"
4. immediately afterwards, there are still 402 backups to be done
and
- "Calculating scenarios" never seems to finish. It's as if TB is having trouble scanning the backups
- the "properties.txt" files are created in the backup folder but they are empty files
I sent a report of a possible bug to Titanium Backup support.
I'm amazed this bug isn't more widely reported.
At a guess, the DocumentProvider API allows some sort of file type hint when creating a file and TB is optimistically setting this to text rather than whatever binary format is used for the archives, and for god knows what reason android is appending a .txt file extension.
I've spent the best part of a day banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why my backup couldn't be restored. Thank **** I found this thread, I was close to admitting defeat and starting from scratch.
Just to assist people in finding this, here's some of the stuff I googled for: "has app no", "no restore button", "restore question mark", "unknown"
I was lucky that my google-fu led me to this thread, and another one about Titanium backup adding .zip after .gz because I took a backup of my S5 yesterday, upgraded and hard reset, and then it couldn't find any backups. I knew they were there, but it turned out that both those bugs had struck me at the same time! So I copied the directory to the SD card, took the card out of the phone, put it into my pc and did a bit of old school "ren *.zip *." and "ren *.txt *." which put it all right again. Thanks for the thread!
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I was lucky that my google-fu led me to this thread, and another one about Titanium backup adding .zip after .gz because I took a backup of my S5 yesterday, upgraded and hard reset, and then it couldn't find any backups. I knew they were there, but it turned out that both those bugs had struck me at the same time! So I copied the directory to the SD card, took the card out of the phone, put it into my pc and did a bit of old school "ren *.zip *." and "ren *.txt *." which put it all right again. Thanks for the thread!
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renaming files work
This issue is not fixed even in 7.4.0.2 version of TB on LP. But this issue depends on ROM, because on CM12.1 it didn't reproduce.
Here is the fastest fix for Windows:
1.Open cmd
2.Switch drive to sdcard
3.Go to titanium backup folder (or wherever your backups are)
4.Execute two commands:
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
Example sequence of commands:
g:
cd G:\backup sept 2016\TitaniumBackup
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
saneksem said:
This issue is not fixed even in 7.4.0.2 version of TB on LP. But this issue depends on ROM, because on CM12.1 it didn't reproduce.
Here is the fastest fix for Windows:
1.Open cmd
2.Switch drive to sdcard
3.Go to titanium backup folder (or wherever your backups are)
4.Execute two commands:
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
Example sequence of commands:
g:
cd G:\backup sept 2016\TitaniumBackup
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
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Unfortunately, this didn't made the trick for me... When restoring any update (app+data) it takes so many time that it doesn't end... I don't know what the hell happened...