I just purchased Titanium Backup Pro and I cant find it in my app drawer.
I have a (T-Mobile) Nexus One running Cyanogen CM7 nighties:
Android version: 2.3.2
Baseband version: 32.50.0032U_5.12.00.08
Kernel Version: 2.6.37-cyanogenmod-01117-g3687213 shade(at)toxygene#1
Mod version:CyanogenMod-7-02042011-NIGHTLY-N1
Build number: GRH78C
I know my phone is unlocked and that I have SuperUser but now I am wondering if I am rooted. (I am a techie but a newb with Android hackery).
I Googled "how to tell if your Android phone is rooted" and found a link telling me to go open a terminal session (Terminal Emulator on my N1) and type the following:
At the $ prompt type su <enter>
should return a prompt now of
#
now enter cd /data/app-private
if you can do all that then you are rooted
I did this and my result was:
#
Does this mean I am rooted?
When I check MyApps in the Market, TBP shows as installed. When I click on the TBP icon, The Open button is grayed out but the Uninstall button is available. Also, when I go into Settings>Applications>Manage Applications, I see TBP as an entry with a size of 76.00KB. When I click on TBP, The only buttons I can use are Uninstall and Move to SD card
I have rebooted the phone and I still can't find a way to open it.
Is there some secret nerdy step that I am missing or are all of you just going to rant about how unexperienced users should not be messing with their phones.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Titanium backup pro is just the key for titanium backup, you need to install the regular titanium backup.
dowmace said:
Titanium backup pro is just the key for titanium backup, you need to install the regular titanium backup.
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Thanks! I guess I should have read the Description from the Market.
Related
When i first open titanium backup a popup that says "Busybox is working but the su command does not elevate to root: whoami reports whoami applet not found instead of root/uid0". If i try to do anything with the app it tells me that system requirements are not met. Does anybody know what i need to do to get whoami working right?
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have you tried
1. look at bottom and click problem? and reinstall busybox
2. reinstall app
nookroot said:
1. look at bottom and click problem? and reinstall busybox
2. reinstall app
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Thanks but that didn't change anything. I rebooted in between.
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Hey guys and gals,
My Galaxy S had an incident which resulted in a broken, non-responsive touchscreen. The phone itself is working and appears to have lost no data. I'd like to backup the phone in whole. Got it attached via USB and Dev mode, ADB, Droid Explorer and Android Screencast are working. Z4Root installed. Thought of two ways of backing-up the phone:
1. Use Android Screencast to backup through some GUI app. Problem: AS can't control the phone, give it control (by modifying /data/local) since the ADB shell has no root permissions and the app that gives those (Superuser, with Z4Root) is a GUI app. Double-rooting?...
2. Use the ADB shell to boot the phone in recovery mode and backup to the SD card using that. Problem: Need a suitable recovery image that I can control using just the volume and "home" buttons. Some reassurance that it won't screw my data up would also be welcome.
Would appreciate any help!
Edit: Downloaded recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-galaxys.zip (from a 2010 blog post by Koushik Dutta. Can't post a link due to technical reasons). Can I rename it update.zip and flash it from the default recovery? If so, than I would be able to do a Nandroid backup, wouldn't I?
Edit: Current build is xxJP7 with recovery version 3e, which means installing a new recovery image is going to be problematic. Also, no CF-Root version intended for this build. Unverified reports that other versions work for this build as well, but not in a hurry to risk it.
Edit: Managed to install the SpeedMod kernel using Odin 3 1.52 (and ADB and Android Screencast), following a guide written by Rodney Chua ("Tourist in Paradise" blog). Managed to backup in whole using the new recovery. Haven't been successful in testing the backup through the SDK emulator. Also wasn't able to repair the Android Screencast problem despite having root control through the new recovery.
Any way of testing a recovery image for integrity?
Edit: The strangest thing happened on the way to the forum: I Started Android Screencast and had GUI control over my phone, while my shell suddenly had root permissions. I used that chance to install the latest ClockworkMod recovery, and after getting the okay I tried to backup from within the program. After a couple of seconds my phone suddenly showed the old 3e recovery (which shouldn't really be there) with an error message. A reboot from ADB was normal, and a reboot to recovery brought me back to the SpeedMod recovery I've recently installed. No trace of a new Nandroid backup, and I've no Android Screencast control anymore.
I did find out, though, that the shell root permissions are due to Droid Explorer presumably running the adb root command on startup.
Edit: Somehow lost the IMEI and all related data. A Reboot sorted this somehow, though. Some icon and widget placement was lost, presumably do to the device clearing the dalvik cache after I've tried fixing the Android Screencast issue. Have the nandroid backup (and nothing significant has changed since doing that), so I don't care much. Android Screencast positively related to having ADB running with root permissions, though it occasionally stops working and requires an ADB and/or Android Screencast restart.
Edit: To sum things up, managed to do what I wanted to do - Got a complete nandroid backup.
Heard from adb based backup but would be interested too. Any similar to odin but in "pull" mode?
Hi,
I am going to change the ROM that is on my phone, I have done so previously and had no problems but thought it was time to change things up again
I was reading some instructions on how to install the ROM and it mentioned that I should backup my IMEI number. I have been trying to find a way to do this now for several days with no success.
The closest I have come to by using an app called "GalaxSim Unlock". It said it worked, although it only saved 1 file instead of the 3 that are meant to be there. All other apps just refuse to back it up.
Can someone point me in the direction of an app that will backup my IMEI or instructions on how to do it?
Thanks for any help.
Jay
Do this
You just have to make backup of Your stl5 partition to sd card.
How?
Download from Android Market app called Terminal Emulator
Turn ON flight mode
Run Terminal Emulator
In terminal emulator write:
su (push enter)
dd if=/dev/block/stl5 of=/sdcard/stl5.rfs (push enter)
reboot (push enter)
Thats all!
stl5.rfs file is now on Your sd card!
Im not sure at all, ive read touching the stl5 partition will brick our device, somebody can confirm that?
Working my way to understanding how to root without tools (on Mac anyway). In order to stay on the right track, I'd like to ask questions as I go:
Fastboot: When running this on the Mac, does it act like a shortcut to Terminal, protecting me from making a mistake in Terminal itself that could mess with the Mac system?
TWRP vs Titanium Back-up: I had rooted my N7. When I went to recover my backup, TWRP seemed to restore everything. What does Titanium offer beyond what TWRP does? I saved both the TWRP and Titanium folders to the cloud, and they both took up several GB of space. Do I "need" both?
gmermel said:
Working my way to understanding how to root without tools (on Mac anyway). In order to stay on the right track, I'd like to ask questions as I go:
Fastboot: When running this on the Mac, does it act like a shortcut to Terminal, protecting me from making a mistake in Terminal itself that could mess with the Mac system?
TWRP vs Titanium Back-up: I had rooted my N7. When I went to recover my backup, TWRP seemed to restore everything. What does Titanium offer beyond what TWRP does? I saved both the TWRP and Titanium folders to the cloud, and they both took up several GB of space. Do I "need" both?
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1) no fastboot is a tool that you use in the terminal. You open the terminal and type "fastboot blah blah" and press enter. You won't messing with your Mac if you type fastboot first
2) you need both. Twrp takes full snapshots of your device. Titanium backs up apps and data.
Hello All,
Given the fact that Z4 cannot be rooted without sacrificing the DRM keys, I was wondering if anyone knows any programs out there that can lock/disable apps without root. Previously I used Titanium Backup to disable apps on my rooted phone, but now I have switched to Z4 so that won't work anymore. Any suggestions/advices are greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the help!
projectseahorse said:
Hello All,
Given the fact that Z4 cannot be rooted without sacrificing the DRM keys, I was wondering if anyone knows any programs out there that can lock/disable apps without root. Previously I used Titanium Backup to disable apps on my rooted phone, but now I have switched to Z4 so that won't work anymore. Any suggestions/advices are greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the help!
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1) You should be able to disable apps in the application manager in settings, long press on selected apps then you should have a disable option
2) Else Try this with ADB pm cmd (package manager)
usage: pm [list|path|install|uninstall]
exemple :
Unable USB debugging
launch a dos cmd on your comp and navigate to the folder where you installed adb
type :
adb shell pm list packages -s ---> list only system packages
adb shell pm disable "PACKAGE NAME"'
also :
pm enable to enable a disabled package
pm uninstall to delete package
etc .....
@ibis69 Thank you for the reply. I'm not very tech savvy, is ADB pm cmd a program that will give me the command prompt on the phone?
projectseahorse said:
@ibis69 Thank you for the reply. I'm not very tech savvy, is ADB pm cmd a program that will give me the command prompt on the phone?
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ok then try solution 1)
@ibis69 Hello. So I'm at Settings/Apps (under device section) and when I'm in Apps, I see downloaded, running, and etc. When I long press an app in there, it takes me to the same place as a short press, which gives me the option to force stop, uninstall, clear data, and clear cache. I did not see a disable option. Am I in the right location?
Thank you for your continued help! I really appreciate it!
only ROM apps can be disabled
@projectseahorse
Am I in the right location?
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Yes, one click is enough.
You are looking for the option "deactivate/disable"
This shows up only for apps that came with(in) the ROM.
These might be the pesky ones you had to get rid of with Titanium Backup.
The other ones (no button) can be just deinstalled.
Reason:
Playstore app installs apps into user space and can later deinstall them at your will.
ROM apps are on the system partition and this is read only. root can remount it rw.
But at least you can try to deactivate the apps there. Be careful - some apps are necessary to run the system!