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apps without apk file

ok how do you put a app on ur phone when you download it from the web n u only get a zip file..thz

some of them either have the .apk extension changed to .zip, for those just change .zip to .apk
others are in the .zip file and have to be extracted.
the OP will usually say which of these have to be done. or you can just open the .zip file and look. if it has the .apk inside of the .zip file then extract.
if it has a bunch of folders then rename .zip to .apk

david1171 said:
some of them either have the .apk extension changed to .zip, for those just change .zip to .apk
others are in the .zip file and have to be extracted.
the OP will usually say which of these have to be done. or you can just open the .zip file and look. if it has the .apk inside of the .zip file then extract.
if it has a bunch of folders then rename .zip to .apk
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ok i unzip the file there is a lot of file in it.do i just change the zip file to apk..i did that n it didnt work so what im doing wrong

did you select yes when you changed the extension?

jacsonmoore3 said:
ok i unzip the file there is a lot of file in it.do i just change the zip file to apk..i did that n it didnt work so what im doing wrong
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Can you post the download link to see what might be causing your problem?
Thanks

will i was trying to download it from the site the one on the market keep force closing http://www.lukluk.org/

david1171 said:
did you select yes when you changed the extension?
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ok the way im change the file is.... i right click then rename it to a apk file thats how im doing it

i don't know. i dl it and it gave it to me in .apk form. i uploaded it in the .zip for you though. extract it from the .zip file.

david1171 said:
i don't know. i dl it and it gave it to me in .apk form. i uploaded it in the .zip for you though. extract it from the .zip file.
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thz man..but i still need to know how to do it for later

jacsonmoore3 said:
thz man..but i still need to know how to do it for later
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on your g1
first go to the site lukluk.org, once on the site go to download and click free luk luk then a download pop up will come out and dowload it once download is complete just click on the download and it will dowload. make sure you go to setting, application setting and check unknown sources
if you still need help just gtalk me @ [email protected]

i'll do that thz for all the help you guys give

jacsonmoore3 said:
i'll do that thz for all the help you guys give
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forgot to say i am running drakes hero rom.

jgu71424 said:
forgot to say i am running drakes hero rom.
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im running jachero rom 2.1

[Q] Extension .dz?

I download the last brazilian firmware but the extension is .dz. The kdz updater just read extension .kdz here. I try to change the extension but i got a extract file error in kdz. What iswrong?

What?! In .dz? Mate please add the link to bootloader dump thread, maybe this will help us I remember that kdz extract was similiar, but not the same. Oh and please keep the dz file on PC, maybe LG deleted it already
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reas0n said:
What?! In .dz? Mate please add the link to bootloader dump thread, maybe this will help us I remember that kdz extract was similiar, but not the same. Oh and please keep the dz file on PC, maybe LG deleted it already
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How many .dz files do you need? I can send you from all versions of the.kdz files
.dz is one of the two files compressed in the .cab file (decrypted .kdz), the other is the "X3_2008_v0.0.6.9.dll" to be able to flash the O4X.

How to uncompress?

Isnt it better if he redownload the Original KDZ file from LG ? at least it will be easyer and error free.

Infectado said:
How to uncompress?
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Thats a mistery, at least for me...
I tried all recommended programs and nothing.
But to flash you just need the .kdz file.
But if you want to know how it works...
The flash program creats a temp .cab file in the same location where is the .kdz. If, before the process ends, you select the .cab file and
with winrar or winzip you select extract, you'll have the .dz file and the .dll.

RuedasLocas said:
Thats a mistery, at least for me...
I tried all recommended programs and nothing.
But to flash you just need the .kdz file.
But if you want to know how it works...
The flash program creats a temp .cab file in the same location where is the .kdz. If, before the process ends, you select the .cab file and
with winrar or winzip you select extract, you'll have the .dz file and the .dll.
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I had Access to a .dz already A momth Ago
I can try to decompress it Again, the kdz contains an .dll and .dz file

E ae Junior, blz!? Vc conseguiu este KDZ da V10C?...

ricardoclaudine said:
E ae Junior, blz!? Vc conseguiu este KDZ da V10C?...
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One of the main rules of XDA - English only please.

[Q] How to get a .dz file to a .wdb file

Hey,
After a lot searching i have extract my .kdz file to 2 different files. a .dll and a .dz file. I am searching how can i get those files working in the Smartflashtool. Sow i need a app bin and a CP bin, On this moment i need to know how can i get those files?
- Can i extract a .kdz to a .wdb and .dll sow after that i can extract those to app bin and cp bin?
- Can i extract a .dz file after that compile it to .wdb and do the first step again?
- Is it possible to get from the .dz file also the app bin and the cp bin?
Wrong section sorry

Johrans said:
Hey,
After a lot searching i have extract my .kdz file to 2 different files. a .dll and a .dz file. I am searching how can i get those files working in the Smartflashtool. Sow i need a app bin and a CP bin, On this moment i need to know how can i get those files?
- Can i extract a .kdz to a .wdb and .dll sow after that i can extract those to app bin and cp bin?
- Can i extract a .dz file after that compile it to .wdb and do the first step again?
- Is it possible to get from the .dz file also the app bin and the cp bin?
Wrong section sorry
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kdz is a archive format, you can't choose what you get out of it. (It's like saying I want a image out of that random zip file)
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Ask novassoc He said some time ago he's working on dz files.
It should already be possible to extract dz file though, Check on the Optimus G forum.
I don't know to what it extracts possible bin/fls.
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Again I don't know to what it extracts and if or if not it's possible to revert to dz format. Should be possible.
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I can give you lot more info about bin files if your interested, but you'd have to ask novassoc about kdz and wdb.
If dz decompiles to bin/fls then you should be able to create the dz file again, but after extracting the bin/fls file you should not create a bin/fls file again. It's possible, but it could kill your phone since emergency recovery usually relies on first or second stage bootloader and the bin/fls files overwrites it when flashing it on your phone and if something goes wrong.

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I can give you lot more info about bin files if your interested, but you'd have to ask novassoc about kdz and wdb.
If dz decompiles to bin/fls then you should be able to create the dz file again, but after extracting the bin/fls file you should not create a bin/fls file again. It's possible, but it could kill your phone since emergency recovery usually relies on first or second stage bootloader and the bin/fls files overwrites it when flashing it on your phone and if something goes wrong.
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Thanks, Let we say we have the next files from different phones like the lg L5 e610 it has as firmware files a .dz and a .dll i know the .kdz files haves those files from those firmware. and also when it isnt a .kdz file its possible to encrypt it to .kdz
You know a lot about bin files. What contains a App.bin and a CP.bin when you use it for the SmartFlashTool. Because i wanne try to get from the Firmware files like ( .kdz or .dll or .dz) a app.bin and cp.bin,

Johrans said:
Thanks, Let we say we have the next files from different phones like the lg L5 e610 it has as firmware files a .dz and a .dll i know the .kdz files haves those files from those firmware. and also when it isnt a .kdz file its possible to encrypt it to .kdz
You know a lot about bin files. What contains a App.bin and a CP.bin when you use it for the SmartFlashTool. Because i wanne try to get from the Firmware files like ( .kdz or .dll or .dz) a app.bin and cp.bin,
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Yes. There is already a tool somewhere to create kdz archive (One of LG's ones, you just have to use WindowsEnabler to get the option)
The bin file (AP) is basically a collection of data blocks and each data blocks usually correspond to partitions on the device.
The first meg is the header which contains the info about all the data blocks
like size on file,offset on file,size on device,offset on disk etc.
The layout of the header seems to be different for each phone. You can identify what type of bin file it is from it's magic number.
Then after the header the data blocks are just appended to the file. Doesn't have to be since the header allows there to be gaps and overlapping data blocks, but thats not practical so it will probably never be any other way.
You can check my tool for extracting bin files here. You can get alot more info on exactly how it's set out in my git by reading the sources.
I don't know to much about the fls file (CP) besides that it does a raw write of everything after what appears to be the header to somewhere in my phones nv partition and contains baseband information.

xonar_ said:
Yes. There is already a tool somewhere to create kdz archive (One of LG's ones, you just have to use WindowsEnabler to get the option)
The bin file (AP) is basically a collection of data blocks and each data blocks usually correspond to partitions on the device.
The first meg is the header which contains the info about all the data blocks
like size on file,offset on file,size on device,offset on disk etc.
The layout of the header seems to be different for each phone. You can identify what type of bin file it is from it's magic number.
Then after the header the data blocks are just appended to the file. Doesn't have to be since the header allows there to be gaps and overlapping data blocks, but thats not practical so it will probably never be any other way.
You can check my tool for extracting bin files here. You can get alot more info on exactly how it's set out in my git by reading the sources.
I don't know to much about the fls file (CP) besides that it does a raw write of everything after what appears to be the header to somewhere in my phones nv partition and contains baseband information.
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Thanks, but still i am thinking why are there extractors for the kdz-> to cab -> to.wdb and .dll -> to App bin and CP bin but not from the kdz-> to cab -> .dz and .dll -> to App bin and CP bin.
is there sow big difference between the .dz and .wdb

I don't know much about what your talking here. I know that the complete firmware from LG comes in a v....kdz package. I know that ...cab containers are Microsoft's preferred format (something like ...zip or ...rar). I know ...bin stands for a lot BINary data files. I know that ...dll stands for Dynamic Data Library. That APPlications are often called app ...
... and I have the feeling that a lot different things are mixed together here. Sure xonar knows what he is talking about but the rest sounds like not much clue and the rest filled up with things you heard somewhere.
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SaschaKH said:
I don't know much about what your talking here. I know that the complete firmware from LG comes in a v....kdz package. I know that ...cab containers are Microsoft's preferred format (something like ...zip or ...rar). I know ...bin stands for a lot BINary data files. I know that ...dll stands for Dynamic Data Library. That APPlications are often called app ...
... and I have the feeling that a lot different things are mixed together here. Sure xonar knows what he is talking about but the rest sounds like not much clue and the rest filled up with things you heard somewhere.
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda app-developers app
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Let me try to explain a litle for y.
You know that a kdz file contains a cab file. Every cab file contains a .dll file.
But not every cab file contains a wdb.
Sow what i need is a wdb file from a cab what doesnt have a wdb file. Or i need a extractor what makes from a .dz file and a .dll file a cp Bin and Ap bin. ( .dz file is the other file what could be in the cab without a .wdb,)
For some more information: When you use the SmartFlashTool. You need 2 files the CP Bin and AP bin.
You can use a extractor to get from a KDZ file a wdb and .dll file. ( From those its possible to create the CP Bin and AP bin)
But when you dont have de WDB file but you have a .DZ file then i cant create a CP bin and AP bin.
thats the problem. Sow now how can i fix that

Johrans said:
Let me try to explain a litle for y.
You know that a kdz file contains a cab file. Every cab file contains a .dll file.
But not every cab file contains a wdb.
Sow what i need is a wdb file from a cab what doesnt have a wdb file. Or i need a extractor what makes from a .dz file and a .dll file a cp Bin and Ap bin. ( .dz file is the other file what could be in the cab without a .wdb,)
For some more information: When you use the SmartFlashTool. You need 2 files the CP Bin and AP bin.
You can use a extractor to get from a KDZ file a wdb and .dll file. ( From those its possible to create the CP Bin and AP bin)
But when you dont have de WDB file but you have a .DZ file then i cant create a CP bin and AP bin.
thats the problem. Sow now how can i fix that
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Have you tried
DZ-Creator / DZ-Decrypter
or
DZTools
If that fails then you have to reverse engineer your dz file yourself.
The DZ file can't be converted to bin/fls from the looks of it. That is if your dz file is similar to the dz file in the KS20.
That dz file is a collection of data blocks much like the bin file, but they aren't interchangable and I don't think SFT will work with them.

xonar_ said:
Have you tried
DZ-Creator / DZ-Decrypter
or
DZTools
If that fails then you have to reverse engineer your dz file yourself.
The DZ file can't be converted to bin/fls from the looks of it. That is if your dz file is similar to the dz file in the KS20.
That dz file is a collection of data blocks much like the bin file, but they aren't interchangable and I don't think SFT will work with them.
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OKey sow if i understand this correctly is the .dz a kind of like the bin file. If i read correctly on this forum the wdb is also a collection off files like a zip file.
I think your are right it isnt possible to replace the .dz for a .wdb sow i can flash it in the SFT

Johrans said:
OKey sow if i understand this correctly is the .dz a kind of like the bin file. If i read correctly on this forum the wdb is also a collection off files like a zip file.
I think your are right it isnt possible to replace the .dz for a .wdb sow i can flash it in the SFT
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Yes.
I don't think it's possible to flash dz file to your phone with SFT.

xonar_ said:
Yes.
I don't think it's possible to flash dz file to your phone with SFT.
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Thanks for the answers, i know its possible with the kdz flasher but that tool isnt real stable and doesnt do a factory reset after the flash. it must be manual then.

[Q] CWM back up

Hello guys
Is there any way to open a cwm back up to my pc in order to extract some files?

mitsosJL said:
Hello guys
Is there any way to open a cwm back up to my pc in order to extract some files?
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Yes, look for a yaffs explorer or ext2explore

gregbradley said:
Yes, look for a yaffs explorer or ext2explore
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I downloaded the second one but how can I use it?

Extract the .ext4 extension from the tar files and then mount it in ext2explore

gregbradley said:
Extract the .ext4 extension from the tar files and then mount it in ext2explore
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Which one? And how can I extract a tar file?

use 7 zip

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use 7 zip
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So I will take the data.ext4.tar.a, data.ext4.tar.b and I will extract them with 7zip and the files I will get I will paste them at the ext2explore?

Just open up the .tar.a (Or whichever) with 7 zip
You can extract the files directly from that
Try it.

gregbradley said:
Just open up the .tar.a (Or whichever) with 7 zip
You can extract the files directly from that
Try it.
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Thank you
I appreciate your help and patience

Question How to unpack .img.lz4 files?

I've been looking through a couple of xda thread about it, found a few solutions. I managed to unpack from the .tar file, got the img.lz4 file and from that the .img and from .img to .img.ext4, but the .ext4 file is too small compared to the original .img file, so I guess the older SVAImgUnpack doesnt do the job correctly and can't open it with ext2explore. Is there any other software to use for this?

Nevermind, I've found a program for it.

Dummen said:
Nevermind, I've found a program for it.
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which program you used to extract, kindly share it, i need to extract modem files

hahmad78 said:
which program you used to extract, kindly share it, i need to extract modem files
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I think it was this, Im not sure.