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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] Reset Battery Stats

This is really 2 questions. Is there a way to install clockwork on the Captivate if you are running Gingerbread 2.3.3 "stock". The reason I ask, is I want to wipe my battery stats and it seems that clockwork is the only thing that can do it.
Thanks.

Sgs tools has a script for that but i never tried.

Without having to install anything more than an app you can manually delete the batterystats.bin from /data/system using a proper file explorer app (as with SGS Tools mentioned above, you'll need root access).

[RANT]I don't trust recovery anymore, can anyone assist?

I don't know how many times this has happened, but it seems countless times on ICS. It used to be fact that you could always trust a nandroid backup, but it seems when I have moved to ICS this is certainly not the case. I have done a backup of a completely functioning and working system of ICS, and when I have done a restore now System UI and contacts do not work? "App not installed" is the pop up that displays when trying to go to phone or contacts and status bar is completely obsolete? I later investigate (root browser) that those apks ARE actually there, but their permissions are incorrect?
I manaually change them and then reboot into recovery and wipe dalvik and reset permissions and reboot back again and sure enough they still won't display? I have also changed them and then not reset permissions in recovery but wiped dalvik and STILL they won't display. I check their permissions and they revert back to the old way which is totally different to all other apks in system and/or they change and are permanent but the apks refuse to display?
Fixing permissions doesn't seem to do ****! (excuse my obscenities but I am getting really frustrated and really jacked off about this). I seem to have better luck flashing back over the top of a functioning/existing ROM than to flash and attempt to do an advanced system restore. I also did a full system restore with no luck. I actually fear recovery more than doing anything now...I get nervous if I have to rely on it because it is plain fact now that it is bull**** unreliable.
Can anyone share on how to fix these problematic issues? Will flashing a newer or different version of recovery aleiviate these problems? My phone is now redered completely useless until some random act of god or flashing of completely stock ROM is enacted….I really don't want to keep having to do this.
End rant/

I found my issues. 1) there was an additional file in my clockworkbackup folder called .settings2 I have no idea what this is? But anyway I put it in a separate folder within backup and locked it away from everything else. I noticed the last backup I did actually backed up EVERYTHING this time.
2) I have a feeling and I suspect that if apks are not all the same signature that the GooglePackageVerifier.apk and GooglePackageVerifierUpdater.apk packages remove or inhibit apks that do not "match" what they consider a standard? I noticed that a lot of ROMs now have these two things removed and I wondered why? Maybe this is why? themed apks NOT allowed cause they cannot be updated?
Feel free to share your thoughts?

[Q] Default Xoom apps?

I flashed my Xoom with a custom ROM but haven't been able to restore my app backups of the apps that came with it (Quickoffice, Citrix, Motoprint). Is anyone able to provide APKs of these apps?

i asked the same question like everywhere but no answer gd luck finding them bro and i you found something tell me meanwhile citrix can be downloaded from market

Man i have managed to find all of the apps but i couldnt isntall them

Same. I am thinking about restoring my Nandroid backup and then making new backups of the apps but I don't know what would be the best way to do that and if the files would work on the CNA ROM.

Place the .apk(s) in your mnt/system/app folder then reboot. Make sure your system is in R/W status.

I've already tried this, but it hasn't worked. I don't know if the fact that the files have accompanying odex files is causing the issue or what, but it's getting quite annoying.

Hmm ... i take it you tried the data folder as well. This is odd.
Post the APK(s) and I will see if I can install them on my xoom
later on .

Use titanium backup and restore the apps directly from your backup.
The backup i am referring to is your nandroid.
TB will allow you to restore apps and data from it.

How do I reinstall Google as system app? Hotword detection from any screen gone.

I know, I should have a backup, I'm an idiot. I manually deleted the Google App planning to just reinstall it with the store version so I could hibernate it with Greenify.
I reinstalled it and everything except Hotword detection from any screen works.
I still have a backup of the system files, but I don't know how to properly reinstall them.
Here's the files I backed up:
com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.apk
com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.odex
com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.zip
extra_secondary_data.zip
info.txt

I've just done a factory reset, and the Google App was gone after resetting. This leads me to believe that the necessary files Android uses to restore Apps have been deleted.
General question: Where are these files stored and what do they look like? Would it be possible to manually move the necessary files back there (I still have the backups) and do another factory reset so they properly reinstall?
Could anyone with a Tab S2 maybe look for the necessary files and where they are located in the /system folder and maybe reupload them for me so I can place them back where they belong?
Help would be much appreciated.

Try copy them to a self named map in /system/app
Give proper permission and reboot

Thanks a lot for your help. Apparently I have lost my backup files. Do you or does anybody else have the correct files so I can put them back into the system folder? I'm so close to getting this thing to work.

In case anyone ever encounters a similar problem, I fixed it by downloading the stock-ROM from sammobile.com (you have to register to download but it's worth it) and flashing the md5 with ODIN (tried Flashify before, but somehow that didn't work).
Just follow this tutorial but use your stock ROM from Sammobile instead. http://www.theandroidsoul.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-s2-root-sm-t810-sm-t710-sm-t715-84217/
You'll lose root access but I guess you could just redo the tutorial with the autoroot file and you should be back to normal.
Thanks for your help everybody!