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need help...total noob

I am trying to back up all of my apps using titanium back up, but after running into multiple problems on TBU people have said that i need to enable side loading, i am trying to do that and everything goes well till i need to find settings.db and then i get lost, cuz i can't find that anywhere on my captivate or my laptop. please help me!! if you know of a much easier way to do the whole thing...then please let me know...thank you!!

Th3Nigh7Stalk3r said:
I am trying to back up all of my apps using titanium back up, but after running into multiple problems on TBU people have said that i need to enable side loading, i am trying to do that and everything goes well till i need to find settings.db and then i get lost, cuz i can't find that anywhere on my captivate or my laptop. please help me!! if you know of a much easier way to do the whole thing...then please let me know...thank you!!
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What program are you using to find it? You need something like root explorer which is a file system available on the market which gives you access to files you can not see with my files. It us not free but is very useful.
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i am not using any program. i am just connecting my phone to the computer and going into the command prompt...and then it tells me to pull settings.db i can't find it anywhere.

Do you have your phone rooted?

yes i do justmde

To use that command you need adb google it and will tell you how to install. Or you can use super manger from the market its free to get to the file. Be careful if you don't know what your doing you. I would read up om odin. One click and make sure you have the bottom combos just in case.

I am not too familiar with the command approach, but if you have root explorer you can navigate to your dbdata, darabases, com.android.providers.settings. Inside there us the file you are looking for. You can copy and paste it to you're internal sd. Then hook up to your computer and transfer the file to your pc. I believe you have to open some table and change a zero to a one. Save then drag back into your phone. Copy, paste back into the original directory where you found it. Over write, reboot.
Or you may consider a custom rom, all have this enabled, and have additional perks. Just saying, it is only a matter of time.
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the main point that i wanna do..is i wanna go back to 2.1 and just save all of my apps and the progress in my apps. can somebody please message me or AIM me and walk me through???

I am completely new to this too man. I just rooted and enabled sideloading in about 10 minutes without even connecting my phone to a comp.
I'm not sure if it will work without installing the unleashthebeast thing, but to enable sideloading i just downloaded android terminal emulator from the market, opened it, typed in su, hit enter, then typed "sideloading". phone rebooted and now i can sideload.

[Q] "Installation error - insufficient storage available" when installing skype

[Q] "Installation error - insufficient storage available" when installing skype
Hello Everybody,
this is my first post on this forum, i decided to start this thread cause i've been struggling with this problem for something like one month now, i really want to fix it, and this looks like the best place where to ask for help.
I'm having problems installing the Skype application on a Samsung Galaxy S, in Italy.
Initially i installed it from the market, the installation went fine, but i couldn't log in cause i was still running Android 2.1
After the upgrade to 2.2, Skype worked only the first time i tried to use it, then it started giving me a weird bug; basically each time i tried to make a call, it would say "already 2 ongoing calls".
I uninstalled it, and now each time i try to install it again i get the same error message "Installation error - insufficient storage available".
I have 5.22GB available on the internal SD card, and 573MB on the internal phone storage, and i have no external SD card.
I tried to contact the Skype support, sent them something like 10 different emails, but each time they came up with stupid answers and in the end they couldn't find a solution, so they said
"Please note that the message you are receiving is an operating system message and is not a Skype message.
We suggest that you contact Samsung to find out under which circumstances the operating system returns this message and what can be done to make an installation possible."
I tried to contact Samsung, but they didn't even reply.
I started a thread in the Android Market Help Forum and one guy suggested to use adb to delete the skype folder
So i rooted my device with z4root and also did the OneClickLagFix V2.2+
I managed to install the Android SDK and get the adb up and running, but when i try to delete the skype folder, this is what i get
# rm -R /data/com.skype.raider
rm -R /data/com.skype.raider
rm failed for /data/com.skype.raider, No such file or directory
#
basically there is no such folder..
at this point i really don't know what to do, and i hope that someone here is able and willing to help me.
I think i gave all the possibly needed information to help you fixing my problem, but if you need more please just ask.
Thanks a lot and by the way big up to this forum, so many useful informations in here!
Cheers
Pedro

update
i installed Titanium Backup
if i go to the Backup/Restore tab and scroll to the very botton, the last one is com.skype.raider, but it has a line on it and i'm not sure what that means (see attached image)
if i click it, all the options are grayed out, so i can't uninstall it..
if i click and hold, a different menu comes up, where most of the options are grayed out as well, i can only do Assign Labels, Explore and View in Market.
If i click Explore, it says:
com.skype.raider
files/
shared.lck 0B
defetto/
main.db-journal 8.0KB
any idea what's going on? thanks in advance

Never mind, i made it!
I bought an application from the market called Root Explorer, i couldnt find a free one doing the same, basically giving full access to my folder structure.
Anyway, i was able to find the com.skype.raider folder and delete it..
after that, next install went fine!
the correct path was /data/data/com.skype.raider
so if you have the same problem, you can use abd and delete the folder and you don't need to buy the above mentioned app..
p.s. how do i set this thread as answered?

Had a similar problem! I couldn't downlaod anything from the market. Unmounting the sdcard has fixed the issue. Thx http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

defetto said:
Never mind, i made it!
I bought an application from the market called Root Explorer, i couldnt find a free one doing the same, basically giving full access to my folder structure.
Anyway, i was able to find the com.skype.raider folder and delete it..
after that, next install went fine!
the correct path was /data/data/com.skype.raider
so if you have the same problem, you can use abd and delete the folder and you don't need to buy the above mentioned app..
p.s. how do i set this thread as answered?
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Thank you for sharing your solution. It helped me solve the "insufficient" problem

[Q] some issues i cant solve with new rooted nook

1.) I dont know how to move ThumbKeyboard.apk to system/app
- astro wont let me copy the file there
- i cant see the directory on my pc
- i havent understood how adb works, i know how the device emulator works, but i dont know how to get it to work with the nook
2.) Everybody talks about clockwork recovery, and i've understood that one needs it to flash kernels and zips (something like that)
- but i cant find it anywhere?
EDIT: i have found clockwork recovery, was something in the rom manager
3.) I somehow cant get my alternate pdf viewers to read files on the internal memory, they just somehow want to access the sd card.
- cant they access the internal memory or
- am i too ....
i've tried repligo reader and some few others
i've been siting for quite awhile with my NC already today, but those questions I couldnt figure out, please help.

Weird bro, good luck fixing those.

{Diemex} said:
1.) I dont know how to move ThumbKeyboard.apk to system/app
- astro wont let me copy the file there
- i cant see the directory on my pc
- i havent understood how adb works, i know how the device emulator works, but i dont know how to get it to work with the nook
2.) Everybody talks about clockwork recovery, and i've understood that one needs it to flash kernels and zips (something like that)
- but i cant find it anywhere?
EDIT: i have found clockwork recovery, was something in the rom manager
3.) I somehow cant get my alternate pdf viewers to read files on the internal memory, they just somehow want to access the sd card.
- cant they access the internal memory or
- am i too ....
i've tried repligo reader and some few others
i've been siting for quite awhile with my NC already today, but those questions I couldnt figure out, please help.
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1. Download root explorer. Astro wont do it as it won't mount /system/app in r/w.
2. Easiest thing to do is get the bootable clockwork recovery from monster I believe. The thread is in the dev forum.

My NC has become very slugish. Most times it works fine and I have to press some buttons a few times, till they actually get pressed, I've also noticed that I often have to wait 1/2 to 1 second till I can actually scroll a listing, like the widgets.
If I dont wait I sometimes end up opening something instead of scrolling.
That is not the big deal, but sometimes the NC becomes completely unresponsive, in GoogleMaps I try to pinch to zoom in, first it does nothing, then it zooms out a bit and afterwards zooms in a lot more.
Also sometimes I dont even touch the screen and it zooms around and does freaky stuff, this can happen everywhere.

Root Done. Cyanogenmod?

I've rooted so much and learned so much in the past month that I'd like to take that extra step. Opinions?
I'd like to try Cyanogenmod, but I've been failing miserably trying to put it on my device.
I've tried flashing it through this way: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide but I couldn't get ClockworkMod to reboot. Once I did get it to reboot I had a hard time loading or flashing Cyanogenmod because it kept saying that it failed to load and installation was aborted. What am I doing wrong guys? I'm following those instructions in the link to a T. I put the gapps file and the update cm 7.0.1 in the folder called the external_sd even though I do not have an external SD card, but I was guessing that's where the root of the internal memory is. Am I missing something? Is it really this hard? And is Cyanogenmod really worth it?

put the update/zip file in internal SD,not inside any folder.remove external SD card.now try flashing.

senotrius said:
put the update/zip file in internal SD,not inside any folder.remove external SD card.now try flashing.
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Couple things. When I connect my phone to the computer there is no folder that says internal SD unless the stuff that shows up with all the folders is the internal SD. I do not have a removable SD card.
Do I have to flash or wipe anything before I put the update/zip file on my phone?

Ok, successfully did it! I installed the cyanogenmod so I'll take it for a spin. However, there is one thing that I can't figure out. I'm trying to download all the Google apps from the market, but anything that I try downloading from the market it just stays in the downloading progress bar and nothing happens.
I installed the separate apk file gapps-gb-20110828-signed the same way I installed Cyanogenmod, but nothing. Can anyone help please? Also, I used the Navigation app a lot, but I can't even seem to find that one on the market...

Now it's working. Ok. Few questions for you guys. Any way to turn off an "LED notification" whenever I get a text message the bottom soft keys light up and stay lit up until I check the message.
Still don't know how to get the turn by turn Navigation application.
EDIT: How do you get Swype as well on Cyanogenmod?

pk1025 said:
Now it's working. Ok. Few questions for you guys. Any way to turn off an "LED notification" whenever I get a text message the bottom soft keys light up and stay lit up until I check the message.
Still don't know how to get the turn by turn Navigation application.
EDIT: How do you get Swype as well on Cyanogenmod?
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turn off pulse notification in settings,think its under display.
turn by turn-there's a modded google maps app in the forum.under apps section.
I don't use swype but same ques was asked before and I read u hv to download the latest beta or something

senotrius said:
turn off pulse notification in settings,think its under display.
turn by turn-there's a modded google maps app in the forum.under apps section.
I don't use swype but same ques was asked before and I read u hv to download the latest beta or something
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I find that the stock keyboard is not the best. I've read that its predictive text and spell corrections is supposed to be good, but it looks like it's not picking up anything at all and it's not correcting any spelling. What gives?

[Q] HTC 8S BSOD crash

After checking my device site I noticed that my HTC was not in the list so I grabbed it and turned it on, I was greated with a BSOD,
Now it doesn't react anymore on charging attempts, plugging it into a pc reveals Complete file system access.
It's now being treated as a USB device and any button on the phone of course doesn't work now. Is there anything I can do to resurrect this thing?

Hi,
Since you have complete FS access, copy the device's contents to your harddrive for research if you didn't do so already, :good:
You have not mentioned using any recovery tools, I suggest you start there...

OmegaWare said:
Hi,
Since you have complete FS access, copy the device's contents to your harddrive for research if you didn't do so already, :good:
You have not mentioned using any recovery tools, I suggest you start there...
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I did not mentioned recovery attemtps but tried all which are possible for Windows Phones. The device is dead. I could copy all Contents exept "AppInstall, Programs, USERS, Windows and DUMP3584.tmp" which I couldn't even move with admin Access or Unlocker.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/xda-assist/wp8-1-files-access-t3134480 for reference and link to the files