Hello.
There was a big trouble, because there are ugly men, perverted a good file manager (in the past, unfortunately...) ES File Explorer.
After i flashing my Fly Magic, as usual, I decided to restore the backups Titanium.
I do not remember why, but I opened file manager and this bastard invited me to clean the "rubbish".
I have not looked, clicked on something and he removed all backups...
Using of the best file recovery program "dmde" - did not help...
But it turned out that before I pulled from the SD-card, along with the garbage, .android_secure folder.
Search the Web showed it just will not work to recover the information from there, because it is encrypted.
A AppsOnSD.sks key, of course, already been overwritten after flashing ...
.asec files are opened by AndroidStudio, but in the form of gibberish.
Question: I'm a complete zero (nuub and dummie) in the programming, though "on you" with IT-sphere.
Strongly request help on the issue of the content of the .asec files WITHOUT "AppsOnSD.sks" key
In fact, I need to get from one app - it is the Old notepad (Ultra Notes app), and that is the russian text. All the rest does not matter.
Thank you in advance.
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Is there a way to edit the name of the backup files in amons recovery. and is there a way to delete the backups. any help appreciated thanks
The backups are all located in the nandroid folder on your sdcard. the first folder inside nandroid is your device's serial number or something, the ones inside that are the backups, named by date and time. im pretty sure you can renaame these folders with no harm done to nandroids restore abilities and deleting them does absolutely no harm
if you want to edit the internals, you need to unyaffs it
When i rename the back up it will never let me back up so i wouldnt do that.... i lost my backup because of this :/
that sucks
He is right.. i went into the sd card went to nandroid and tried changing the names of the backups to keep them organized and it wouldnt restore.. then i renamed them to what they were before i changed them and they restored succesfully.. so can anyone shed some light if it is even possible to rename these nandroid backups?
Im sure it is an issue with Amon-ra's program.
Go find the guy and ask him.
There is a way to edit the name and still have the backups work.
The original name is BSD-20100330-0745. You apparently need the last part for the date and such. I changed the name to EvilEris1.1 and it failed, but if it is changed to EvilEris1.1-20100330-0745 it works. You just need the "-20100330-0745". So "(name)-20100330-0745" will work.
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Renaming works fine, just don't use spaces or special characters.
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i didnt link the thread he posted that in because i told him about this thread and dont want posts in two places. though you could find it easily im sure....
Excellent, that is better than what I had to do.
Problem solved!!!!!!!
I was just messing around with it for an hour or so and I resolved my own question.... You can name the backups what ever you want.. you dont have to have the dates or anything just no spaces in the name... so if you wanted to name it "Evil Eris 1.1" it would have to be something like this... "Evil-Eris-1.1" No Spaces...
You could also (from a computer with your phone in recovery) do:
adb shell
nandroid-mobile.sh -b
It will ask you what to name it, and then it will automatically add the suffix.
you get the "run mobile.sh" error if you rename the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder on your sd card directory. you will also get this error if your battery is low or you have no storage left. the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder it is your serial number. if you're having issues, just go to the "other" menu and select "send recovery.log to SD card." then go in and search the recovery.log file on your sdcard for "serialno=" right after that there will be a 12 character string of capital letters and numbers directly followed by lower case letters that are useless for this purpose. Create a folder with the same name as that string (capital letters and numbers only, no lower case) and place your previously renamed backups into that folder and voila! you'll be able to restore them.
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The backups are all located in the nandroid folder on your sdcard. the first folder inside nandroid is your device's serial number or something, the ones inside that are the backups, named by date and time. im pretty sure you can renaame these folders with no harm done to nandroids restore abilities and deleting them does absolutely no harm
if you want to edit the internals, you need to unyaffs it
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thank you, it worked for me
I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this info or my question, but I believe it is at least relevant to the topic at hand. If not, I apologize profusely.
I have numerous backups created with CWM (v6.0.1.0) that are eating up an enormous amount of space on my Galaxy Nexus SD card. I've been flashing numerous ROMs and Kernels and I want to get rid of most, if not all of those backups and then create a fresh one from my current working/bootable ROM (JB 4.1.1), just so I have a good backup to roll back to if/when I hose up my phone.
For poking around on the the SD card, I'm using a Windows-based program called 'Android Commander' (Google it), which I find to be exceptionally handy. It is very much like Total Commander, which I've been using for MANY years (since version 1.0 of the original Windows Commander) on Windows boxes, as well as a variant under numerous Linux distros.
At any rate, what I've discovered is as follows;
1. the contents of the /clockworkmod/ directory on the SD card contains three directories and a couple of files (in its root). The directories are;
/clockworkmod/backup/
/clockworkmod/blobs/
/clockworkmod/download/
2. the /clockworkmod/backup/ folder contains folders that are dated and time stamped (date and time the backups were created).
3. within each of the /clockworkmod/backup/date-time folders, there are six (6) files, the largest being the 'recovery.img' file. There is also a 'boot.img' file and four (4) other files that are quite small. Each 'recovery.img' file sizes are in gigabytes (yeah, I have a lot of crap on my phone), so it's pretty obvious that deleting these directories will give me a great deal more storage space, which is my main goal in life right now (recoup all that space).
4. my main point here, however, revolves around the /clockworkmod/blobs/ director. There are over 3000 sub directories within that directory, and I have no idea how many files are within those sub directories or how much space on the SD card they occupy, although my guess is around 8-10 gigabytes. Being an astute user of Google, here's what I found out about all this;
"Starting with version 6, duplication support has been built into clockworkmod recovery. The blobs directory folder contains a hashed directory structure that holds the duplicated files across all backups."
// This info was derived from a post on Android Enthusiasts (author unknown).
"Don't delete anything in your blobs folder. Those are your nandroid backups. Starting with CWM6, it makes incremental backups and your backup files point to the files in the blobs folder. To free up space, delete unwanted backups and the next time you run nandroid, it will delete the unneeded files in the blobs folder."
// This info was derived from a post by 'NotJustAPhone', a very senior member of the Android Central forum.
And for my next trick ... what I'm wondering is if it REALLY matters whether or not I blow away the contents of the 'blobs' directory, and I guess that's my question. What if I do delete everything in 'blobs'? Since I'm going to flash another ROM and Kernel anyway, does it matter? That directory obviously started out life as being empty, right? What will CWM do, or more importantly, NOT do, should I blow away the contents of the 'blobs' directory (assuming the file system will let me)? Won't CWM just create a new/fresh/relevant set of directories/files within 'blobs' the next time I do a backup? Has anyone actually tried doing that?
And just in case anyone is wondering, the only thing in the /clockworkmod/download/ directory is the clockwordmod img file.
Thanks in advance for any response this might elicit.
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I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this info or my question, but I believe it is at least relevant to the topic at hand. If not, I apologize profusely.
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Hi! You're in the HTC Droid Eris section of the forum, and the latest version of CWM for the Eris is much older (v2.x).
Without direct experience with the newer versions, all I can wonder is that doesn't CWM have any way built-in to delete old backups?
On the Eris, the easiest and most reliable way of using CWM is through installing the "ROM Manager" app, in which you can then manage your backups from the Android interface. In the future, you might want to consider trying that for your device as well as it may make it easier for you to manage your own backups.
I have no idea if under your configuration if installing ROM Manager now would help you delete your old backups, and I realize that even then you would probably only be able to delete them one by one, which is how it works for me in ROM Manager, and that being able to delete them en mass via Windows might be tempting. I keep four backups of my currently running ROM, and number them. I keep the very first one which is usually after I configure the ROM to my liking without really installing or restoring any apps.
Maybe you should ask wherever CWM-specific support is, but definitely at least in the section for your phone might attract better answers.
Good luck.
Hi!
I accidentally renamed the 'Microsoft' registry folder to 'zz'. A new 'Microsoft' folder was generated by the device, but I cannot make calls anymore. I tried renaming the old folder, but it wouldn't work.
When soft-resetting, I get a message that MSPOutlook cannot be found; pressing on TaskManager brings up a message that MSTASKMGR cannot be found; I also got the message that MSCProg cannot be found (all this while being on mission for work )
Now HKLM/Software contains the following folders (see below). Any suggestions, hopefully apart from hard-resetting the phone?!?
-aDEO
-Adobe
-Apps
-ArcSoft
-BsB
-Classes
-Daniel Herrero
-Discretix
-Drivers
-Google
-HTC
-IA Style
-Jataayu
-Microsoft (new folder3 generated by device)
-Microsoft2 (new folder2 generated by device and renamed by me in an attempt to see what would happen)
-MIDI Engine
-MSCProg1 (old Microsoft folder, but first renamed zz by me, then renamed to what it is now)
-OEM
-Opera
-Opera10
-Qualcomm
-SIE
-Snapin
-Spb Software House
-Tegic
-TorchButton
-WIDCOMM
Thanks!
Sorry but I think you know what you are going to have to do, a HR. You might as well go ahead and bite the bullet, sorry I know it sucks. But be more carful while browsing through your files especially system crucial files.
I don't see spb backup in your list. Too bad, that would rescue you. HR is your only option.
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Many thanks for the replies, although it hurts to hear that there is no other option but HR. (By the way - would you know any thread on data back-up before performing HR?)
tomesmi said:
Many thanks for the replies, although it hurts to hear that there is no other option but HR. (By the way - would you know any thread on data back-up before performing HR?)
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Personally I always just used Microsoft My Phone and made sure to move all pertinent personal info to my SD card that could be moved.
tomesmi said:
By the way - would you know any thread on data back-up before performing HR?
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lots of those here, but I'd suggest commercial SPB Backup - you can select what to backup - apps, folders, databases, registry etc.
additionally you could use your registry editor to export HKCU/Software and HKLM/Software - so to preserve app settings
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lots of those here, but I'd suggest commercial SPB Backup - you can select what to backup - apps, folders, databases, registry etc.
additionally you could use your registry editor to export HKCU/Software and HKLM/Software - so to preserve app settings
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Of course, spb backup save the registry as well. However it is not useable when upgrading ROMs.
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Interface issues
Backup is advisable but I've always felt that the key problem here is the interface, which makes it oh-so easy for such things to happen.
That slow-click rename feature of desktop Explorer is probably the thing I curse most often about Windows.
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Of course, spb backup save the registry as well. However it is not useable when upgrading ROMs.
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one of the reasons I prefer SPB Backup over other solutions is its unpacking app for desktop PC, which unpacks directory structure as well as registry hives,
this way when upgrading ROM, I'm able to recover settings for some of the applications, so on my side operations is quite simple, if time-consumig - for most app I just copy the folders back to Program Files + import heavily edited reg files for HKLM/Software and HKCU/Software
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one of the reasons I prefer SPB Backup over other solutions is its unpacking app for desktop PC, which unpacks directory structure as well as registry hives,
this way when upgrading ROM, I'm able to recover settings for some of the applications, so on my side operations is quite simple, if time-consumig - for most app I just copy the folders back to Program Files + import heavily edited reg files for HKLM/Software and HKCU/Software
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NRG includes xda_uc, which automatically installs files. By configuring it correctly I can be complete back up and running in about 20 minutes after a new ROM burn. I sync with my PC via activesync and also use the MS MyPhone to keep everything in sync.
SPB Backup is NOT reliable when switching ROM versions; those registry settings are probably different between version, and it is almost guaranteed to mess up you system in strange ways. I strictly use it for restoring to the same ROM version used for backup.
It's bizarre that you're allowed to rename the registry in the first place. It's terminal as you now know. I'd have tried renaming your original 'zz' folder and exporting its contents using something like Resco Explorer, and used the same program to restore the folder after a reboot. I have no idea if it would work but I'd be desperate.
I use Sprite Backup. It does much the same as the SPB program. have used it since I bought my hx4700. SKTools has a backup feature too.
As already mentioned, be careful when changing ROMs. Backup programs that restore everything can cause trouble. I would avoid restoring software and settings. I haven't tried a custom ROM but I'd use Outlook or myPhone to backup my PIM data and save any files to my PC. I'd reinstall my applications. I do this when updating ny stock ROM.
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It's bizarre that you're allowed to rename the registry in the first place. It's terminal as you now know. I'd have tried renaming your original 'zz' folder and exporting its contents using something like Resco Explorer, and used the same program to restore the folder after a reboot. I have no idea if it would work but I'd be desperate.
I use Sprite Backup. It does much the same as the SPB program. have used it since I bought my hx4700. SKTools has a backup feature too.
As already mentioned, be careful when changing ROMs. Backup programs that restore everything can cause trouble. I would avoid restoring software and settings. I haven't tried a custom ROM but I'd use Outlook or myPhone to backup my PIM data and save any files to my PC. I'd reinstall my applications. I do this when updating ny stock ROM.
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The worst I've done is rename the "Storage Card", that took a while to recover from.
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The worst I've done is rename the "Storage Card", that took a while to recover from.
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My iPAQs are able to do that on their own. Quite an interesting feature.
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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So i am new to actually exporting apps and this is the first one i have developed even worth exporting.
I exported it and then opened in file explorer. It was in the 'app' folder i think. I thought that this is just what i had generated and nothing more. So i highlighted it all and clicked 'cut' i put it into a folder on my desktop. The transfer was taking ages and there was some other crap (conflicting file names) so i decided to cancel the transfer and empty the folder and start again. After hitting cancel my computer froze up. Now android studio won't open my app. I am shattered and would appreciate any help just recovering my source code.
Thanks in advance guys!!!
p.s. if it helps, i was debugging on my phone so have the latest copy there, also an apk that i exported earlier today, and my project folder which has stuff in it but clearly missing something crucial as it will not load. The first error said something about an app file
I had autoupdate to google drive turned off for Whatsapp. Got myself a new phone now, and I had coppied the "stickers.db.crypt14" from my old phone already before it got bricked. It was in the "backup folder" and because of this I thought it was the only file needed to recover a backup. I had a lot of stickers and so it's actually a big file. So for this it seemed verry obvious that this was the file I needed.
But now I try to restore and I come across toppics on google and here, talking about more files from other dirs too.
Is it possible to restore stickers from only this "stickers.db.crypt14" file?
I also backuped another, containing all (or at least most of all the individual stickers as a "image" file.