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[Q] Any Way to Recover from a Nandroid Backup that is Partly Corrupted?

Hi guys!
I'm running Doc_Kalpik's V7.5 and I had a bad run in while trying to manually install MiniSquadron which I paid for yet have been getting download unsuccessful errors no matter what I do! But that's another story...
After I installed it, I got a force close...then I got force closes everywhere else so I decided to reboot. And I discover that once I get to the boot animation portion, I get several vibrations (the same as the force close vibration pattern) at this point and eventually the screen turns black while still doing the vibration thing..I press the home button and the backlight keys just light up nothing else. So I go into recovery to attempt to fix.
I decided to reflash the ROM via CWM so I disabled my lagfix first, then did a reboot into recovery. From there I chose to backup and restore and after all that I still run into the same problem at the boot animation.
I try to manually backup via CWM and then factory reset then restore via CWM and there I run into an error saying that no .android_secure blah was not found so it skips the restore of that. I again run into the same probem at boot.
I try to do an advance restore to just restore my data. Still the same error, and the same problem at boot.
I am only able to boot with no issues after a factory reset with no restore meaning all data is lost...So I was wondering is there any way to just restore some parts from the nandroid backup like messages and such...I would assume that the problem is with my apps that had been on sd...which were actually none at all except the manual installation of MiniSquadron I guess. I don't care for the data of the other apps, I just need my messages. I did have a titanium backup but it isn't very recent since I did not expect this problem to occur.
Any help is much appreciated!

I dont have specific information on restoration of messages because I have not yet looked into it - but I was able to recover a few files from a nandroid backup using unyaffs which extracts the content of the nandroid img files. Maybe you can extract the sms file ( /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db) from data.img and push it using adb shell.
In future, I'd suggest SMS backup app from the market - it backs up and restores into your gmail account.

Ohhh! I'll check out the img files later when I get home. I was afraid of looking into them expecting hard to discern, indescript file names I don't know how to make use of. But that file you pointed out seems obvious enough. I hope it's somehow usable without the full backup. Perhaps a simple move with Root Explorer app would work too? I'm not all too familiar with using adb commands...
Yes I have that app but I don't use it often for backup and restore jobs since I tried several times in the past to restore from backup and always seem to be missing more recent messages.
Thanks for the advice though! I'll report success/failure soon.

I don't seem to have anything inside my com.providers.telephony folder when I extracted data.img...Any ideas?
nvm! Found it in dbdata.img... will update this if this works.

Yes - a simple move with Root Explorer should work too.

It doesn't seem to work... No messages show up even after several retries with reboots I tried opening up the file within root explorer since it has sqlite viewer and it gives me an error..I forgot exactly what but it doesn't let me look within the database unlike if I try doing the same with the original mmssms.db file currently on my phone. I tried sqlite viewer on pc and when I attempt to open the file nothing shows up. Any work around to this? Is it possible for even this file to be corrupt in the backup...that's kinda devastating news..any way to repair this?

[Q] nandroid restore incomplete?

i decided to try upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2 on my Hero...of course, I did a nandroid backup first. The 2.2 worked great - the only problem was I hadn't updated my contacts in Google for a while so I was missing some people. So I figured I'd restore my nandroid of 2.1 and get what I needed. I did a backup of 2.2 first and tried to restore 2.1. It said it worked, but it freezes on the boot screen and I can't get anywhere. I've tried clearing factory settings and dalvik (which tells me to run it in adb for some reason) and tried about 15 times to restore and everytime it freezes at the boot screen. Sooooo...I figured I'd just restore 2.2 again and deal with a loss of some people. But, the nandroid restore did not save any of my settings, texts, phone log, etc. When it boots up it gives me a welcome screen and has me set up from scratch. Did I get a bad backup? Is there something I can do to fix this? Thanks for any help you can provide

how big are the nandroid folders on your sdcard?
Size wise, and the contents in them

the 2.1 backup is 298 MB - 7 files (boot, cache, data, misc, nandroid.md5, recovery, and system). the 2.2 backup is 152 MB - same 7 files (it's half the size, but I did have around 100 MB more free space than before)

What recovery are you using? If you're using amon_ra, I've had froyo nandroid issues with 1.6.2 and lower. Problems disappeared after I started using 1.7.0.

i'm using the old 1.5.2 version. i never had a problem before tho. i did read in the forums that the old versions have some problems, so i did try updating to 1.7 but whether i do it in the adb command or terminal emulator, it says the file is not found. but it is there on my SD card and i AM typing the file name right.

The file path is case sensitive, did you make sure of that?
If you can't do it through terminal, you can use this very nice program... Android Commander
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628138
and there is a gui for flashing a new recovery, in addition to many other things, so you will never have that "file not found" error!

[Q] bricked from editing build.prop. How to replace with backup build.prop?

I've managed to get my device stuck at a continuous loading screen. I have clockwork installed and noticed I can mount my /system folder, however doing this didn't actually seem to mount it. I'm trying to find a way to replace my build.prop with a backup I've created, but can't get into my phone to do so.
help??? lol, thanks.

Take my replacement Google/flashplayer zip from any if my 10e or 10k rom and open it... delete files in app folder... go back out of app folder into the system folder and put your build prop into it. Put on sdcard from computer ( take sdcard out of phone). Put back in phone and flash it with cwm
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Thanks!
So I've added build.prop into /system and deleted the 2 files from /system/app.
I've clicked install zip from SD card and it says something along the lines of:
installing
finding update
opening update
installing update
installation aborted
Is it supposed to say installation aborted after it's installed?
There's a possibility that build.prop actually did copy properly and it's something else I did earlier in the day that bricked it.

im also soft bricked... stuck on LG screen... anyone have any ideas??

If you know how to sign it then sign zip and reinstall.
Otherwise just flash rom again and restore data later
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I ended up using an old cwm backup and doing an advanced restore of only the /system. This made the device accessible, however almost no text would show up. I was atleast able to install titanium backup, make a backup, then flash a brand new rom and restore my data on that rom.
I've learned from this to make cwm backups more frequently, and especially have one ready if you're going to edit build.prop.

[Q] when I make a backup cwm recovery says "cant mount backup path"

when I make a backup cwm recovery says "cant mount backup path"
I tried to go down and mount all the drives but still not working
is that nandroid backup so important ? or I can flash my rom from cm9 build 15 to the nightly without backup ??

You dont have to do a backup. It is recommended because it saves your whole system at a time where it was working or where it could boot up to your home screen.
If something goes wrong when you try flash then this backup would obviously restore everything back to how it was, provided you can go back to recovery. If you cant then flash any rom with and go to recovery and restore after...

Thanks that helped but is there a way to fix that issue I discused or I have to use another backup tool like titanium I think or any other ??

Wanas said:
when I make a backup cwm recovery says "cant mount backup path"
I tried to go down and mount all the drives but still not working
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This is probably a problem with the recovery, it was probably a bug on the rom itself. If I'm right you won't be able to fix this yourself without flashing the next update or another rom.
Wanas said:
I can flash my rom from cm9 build 15 to the nightly without backup ??
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Without backup yes, without wipe i don't know, you will need to read the thread on the nightly and possibly ask in the thread.
Wanas said:
Thanks that helped but is there a way to fix that issue I discused or I have to use another backup tool like titanium I think or any other ??
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If you are talking about apps and app data. It's best not to do this especially with system apps as this can cause conflicts. However if you want to and wish to try it then i use the following apps.
Sms backup and restore - From saving all my sms messages (Obviously )
App list backup - To get a list of all the apps installed. It will save the market links to the apps that you downloaded from the market. (This is not necessary if you trust the rom/google to download all your apps automatically)
Titanium backup - For saving back ups of both app and data. Allows you to restore the app + data or each individually. You will be able to use this to restore game data which doesn't usually cause any problems.

Wow that.was a perfect answer
Thanks man that really helped and it was all good news
I flashed the nightly cm9 over the build 15 and every thing worked fine no wipe accured
I haven't tried the backup on this rom yet but when I try I.will post the result
Thanks again

[Q] Uninstalled System APPS Problem!

Hi there guys!
I have the following stupid problem that is described below.
The problem is about mistakenly uninstalled system app trying to clean up the device from useless apps. This happened on an rooted SGS I9000, Gingerbread 2.3.6 XJW4 (or XJW6 do not remember exactly the build).
So the uninstalled app were maybe the google framework gsm or google services framework application or something else. And after uninstallation my profile for gmail dissapeared, in general from the phone also. But I could still restart the device and it was running without any issues, just no profiles.
After all, I tried to reinstall the missing app using several versions for com.google.android.gms, downloaded from the internet, but after installing it, the device started throwing errors and stop working crashes. I also tried to add the profile to the gmail and it was successful, but no messages were loading at all... Then I restarted the phone... and everything ended here.
The phone started looping the boot screen with the logo, reboot after reboot and nothing happened. I do not have any backups. The device is rooted and I have installed clockworkmod 3.0.0.5. I also tried to make a backup using clockworkmod, but the internal sd card was almost full. The backup finished successfully according to the clockworkmod app, but I don't trust it at all, because the internalSD almost full with only a few MBs free.
I have an external SDcard but it is not visible from the clockworkmod console and I can not create the backup on it...
How to fix the device without wipe/data loss? Can I repair only the system somehow?
If I use Odin to flash without repartition, will the flash wipe the memos, calendar, phone records?
Can I browse/move/delete/extract data from the internalSD and run another backup?
Please help!
Many thanks!

Sorry bRo the only solution for your phone is flashing new rom with Odin and you will lose some data
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