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Hello Everyone,
I just got my 8525 in the mail yesterday and upgraded the boot loader, radio, and WM6. I had a little trouble but in the end, all that I can't get working right is the internet for Cingular. I really appreciate all the hard work everyone puts into this. Here is my thank you, this is my first app so go easy on me.
nomb
nombCrypt
nombCrypt is an encryption program I originally made for the desktop but then decide to port it over. It uses a password you provide and encrypts either a block of text or files using 256bit Rijndael (AES). This level of encryption was given the ok to encrypt Top Secret documents. It can of course decrypt as well. This is for Windows Mobile 6. Please enjoy and every developer of course likes to get back feedback.
Planned/Requested Improvements
Truecrypt like encrypted containers
Implement Encrypted Backups (P)
Get File Encrypt Status Bar Working (P/R) <-- I'm dreading writing the working class :'(
Use Device ID As Salt Option (P)
Randomize Salt More (P)
Add More Encryption Algorithms (P)
Change File Open Dialog To Open Less (R) completed - now initially looks for *.nen (nombCrypt Enc. Files)
Encryption Password Confirmation (R) completed
Clipboard Paste Button (R) completed
Clipboard Clear Button (R) completed
Take Off Start Menu Icon (R) completed
Change Icon (R) completed
Add Exit To The Menu (R) completed
Add Time Out Feature (R) completed - (see page two for details)
Integrate nombCrypt Into WM6 More (P)
I. Encrypt MS Certificate Store (R)
Other Fixes
Improved Text Encryption So The End TextBox Is Opened Less
Added file error checking to the file decryption process
Two screenshots and the cab file are attached.
I hope you guys enjoy...
nomb
Hey! I wanted to do the same thing too! Just that I use my own XOR method (One Time Pad-like) instead. Of all the thing, it works alright, except that I can't get it to do a Copy-Paste. (see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321014)
Also, from what it seems, I would presume that (since you uses AES), the end result would be in 'relatively' binary format (right?), which may not be very program friendly.
I was going to do about the same thing, except that I'll have my end result Base64 encoded, such that I can have them pasted to Notes and have it sycned to outlook. And I have my PC based software to do the job there (if required).
Previously, I used a software called Ccrryyppttoo, which did quite alright, but it seems that my PC is doing some coding, when synced, that makes it goes funny (i.e. cannot be decrypted anymore).
I'll PM you a demo of what I did (in Java web), of which I intended to do it in PPC
With Rijnael the resulting encrypted string/file gets encoded into base64 as well because if it didn't, all the characters wouldn't be represented. You can paste this into notes just fine.
Mine is programmed in c# so there is a clipboard function which works relatively well. If you'd like to help with this your more than welcome to. Or if you want to join your project with mine that would be cool too. I plan to support all major and a lot of minor encryption algorithms that I can find. Plus people were complaining about how the encrypted backup on the ppc should use the device id to encrypt instead of the randomly generated key so I plan to implement that as well.
I'm looking forward to seeing your demo.
nomb
Hmm.. so it is b64 encoded.. niicceee. Hmmm. . I should try out C# soon.
Anyway, there is a suggestion, I'm not sure if you have the library for it. After my symmetric cipher program, I'm in thinking about a asymmetric-public-private key cipher, which people can exchange short messages in secret (e.g. via email, IM, SMS) without the need to exchange the key/password. It is relatively done now, I'll show you the web base version once it is done. It runs on the Java security class, which I'm not sure if C# has those library or not.
The idea is, Alice go to my page, generate a pair of keys. Alice then send Bob her pub key. Bob use pub key, go to my page, encrypt the message. Send it to Alice. Alice decrypt message at my page. No software to install, no secret key exchanged.
Yup c# has the ability to do that built into its cryptography namespace.
That is a cool idea, but instead of having Alice send the key to him. You should just make a db to keep track of the keys and then have him answer a question about Alice or something like that to use the pub key. that way thats even one less step they have to worry about. Or have Alice put in his email address and have your site auto email him the pub key. That would be good too.
But sweet idea, maybe I'll make my program talk to your site.
Have you tried mine yet?
nomb
I dont like the "answer a question" method, as in that case, you might as well use the answer as the password?
Anyway, the emailing the pub key is an idea
I'm not in my own PC yet, can't send it to my phone from this PC. Will try it out later tonight.
hanmin said:
I dont like the "answer a question" method, as in that case, you might as well use the answer as the password?
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Ya I'm at work and was hungry so I wasn't thinking strait. I don't like that idea either. ^^
I think my next step in mine is to build the background worker class to update the progress bar when you encrypt/decrypt a file.
If you just point your phone to the cab above it will install it for you. You don't need a comp unless u don't have a dataplan.
nomb
I dont have data in my plan.. although O2 gives me 1MB+ a month free.. I'm not using it.
Anyway, I've tested your software, a few comments.
Slightly major problems:
[1] It is not wise to do a 'All folders' and 'All Files' upon browsing (for file to be de/encrypt). People (e.g. me) has gazillion files around and it may take ages to load the list.
[2] You may want to pop up a Window, asking the user to confirm his/her password upon encryption (one of the thing I intended to add on mine )
[3] I'm not able to paste any data onto the 'start text' area. E.g., I have encrypted my stuff, saved it into Notes. Later, I wanted to get it back, I copy the encrypted code from my Notes, and no way of pasting it into the 'Start text'
[4] You already knew this, but, good to have some kind of progress bar to indicate the progress
[5] Hmmm.. on the browsing, there doesn't seems to have a way to find files on my Storage Card's root directory
[6] For security reason, probably it is good for you to add a 'Clear Clipboard' button?
Minor:
[1] I find it annoying that once I had the software installed, it is on my Start menu
[2] You could use a better icon, I just see a black square on my not so bright screen. I can help you on this.
[3] Add an "Exit" on the menus below?
Other possible suggestions:
[1] Have a time out on your software, such that, e.g. if there is no activity on software after a certain amount of time, it will do one/some/all of these (a) close itself (b) clear the password, input, output (c) clear the clipboard
Good suggestions, I'll have those done by tomorrow. I can't play with the storage card aspect yet because I don't have one. :'( Soon though I'm hoping to get a 4gb. And ya, i can't make icons worth any.
Oh, to past it back I always did ctrl+v from the keyboard. But I'll throw a button up there to do that. And I'll make sure to take it off of the start menu.
1 good comment would have been nice. Altho criticism is good.
nomb
Haha.. sorry for the lack of good comments, I was trying to think of something to suggest. But come to think of it my post on top are good comments (e.g. niiiiccceee Base 64 encoded), and the fact that it has the simple string->string encryption.
I did googling a bit, and found these
http://www.entity.cc/ICONS/security-icons.php
http://www.hscripts.com/freeimages/icons/computer/lock-icon.php
http://icons.qarchive.org/
which you may want to use as your icons?
Ya I was just teasing you. The icon I have now I got off of your last link at somepoint I just don't remember when. But I think I will probably use one of the others. But ya, I'll work on those fixes and then attach the updated program. Then once I get those fixes done, I'll work on adding the differnt encryption algorithms and the encrypted backups.
nomb
Did you wrote any backup software before for the PPC? I'm not really sure, but it seems that backup-ing can have a lot of issues. You have the "Copy everything" backup, the PIM only backup, etc. Some backups are ROM-flashing/upgrading friendly, some are not. You can have a backup software all standalone by itself. I would recommend you to have the backup software seperated and have encryption onto it as a plugin. Take a look at PIM-backup, it is very popular here.
Hi,
This is a very interesting thread. Thanks for your efforts so far (is there a donation link anywhere?)
A basic question...I understood that to carry out really secure encryption it would be necessary to write a filter driver that worked within the core ROM Image. Is this not the case?
Can I encrypt the MS certificate store too? The crypto protection on this store could be beefed up...
Once again I am very pleased that this thread has appeared and will be testing your software with interest,
Well done for your work so far,
Sam.
Hey there PianoSam,
First I just want to make it clear I'm not doing this to make money. If anyone donates I want it to be because they like the software. I am at work so PayPal is blocked but I'll put my donation link on the front page later today.
Also, I am going to try and incorporate the encryption as much as possible. If that is a feature you'd like, then after I get all of the previously requested changes done, I'll start on that for you.
And thank you for your kind words.
nomb
***EDITED***
Sorry I didn't answer you question at first.
Question: A basic question...I understood that to carry out really secure encryption it would be necessary to write a filter driver that worked within the core ROM Image. Is this not the case?
Answer: I pondered over this for a little while and I can't think of a reason this would be necessary. However, I've only had my phone for two days. Can you find where you saw that so I can read it as well and maybe gather a little bit on information so I can do some research on the topic? If thats what needs to be done then thats what I'll do but I can't see why. Let me know!
Added another cab with all the fixes I've completed.
nombCrypt-beta.cab <-- On the front page.
I added the donate link.
I added the timeout feature and thought I would make a comment on it.
It is a two minute timeout. Whenever you fucos on a textbox the timer is stopped and when the textbox looses focus, the timer is on. The downside to this is if you were in the middle of typing and set your device down, it wont timeout. I could make it so when you start typing into the textbox it restarts the two minutes and you have two minutes to complete your message but I didn't know if that was a good idea or not.
Also, when you copy, and go to another program to paste it in, you have two minutes before the clipboard is cleared and the program shutdown.
When the encryption program is encrypting something, the timeout is not running. It starts afterwards.
I can tweak this as much as you guys would like, just let me know.
nomb
I've tested your Beta.. niiiiiccceeeeee.. it is gooood. Almost prefect. Few things (OH NO! )
- The "Clear" button doesn't seems to be working. It is suppose to clear the clipboard only? Should you clear off everything as well?
Other requests/suggestion
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- I'm not sure why I thought I need it.. but it would be good to have a copy function for the "End Text" as well. I thought I may need it one day. Not sure why. It ought to make the screen a bit crowded, I thought.
Anyway, slightly related to the suggestion above, I've just revisited the design I made on my copy-paste-failed PPC attempt, I have this idea which I thought you might want to use it. For my design, I do not have "Start Text" and "End Text", I only have ONE TextField "Message" (and another for the password). The user enter the encrypted/plain text on this "Message". Click on the button "Encrypt" or "Decrypt", the result will then overwrite whatever that is in "Message" TextField.
Example:
(1) "Message"=<plain text>. User key in password, click "Encrypt", "Message"=<encrypted text>.
(2) "Message"=<encrypted text>. User key in password, click "Dencrypt", "Message"=<plain text>.
In such cases, you only need a pair of copy-paste to perform copy-paste on both (in a way) encrypted and plain text.
</rant>
As for the time out issue, I thought the typing-sensitive time out would be a better choice. The moment that you are worried about your data being seen is when you are away from your phone. You can have focus on your TextField but you can be million miles away from your phone. But, you ought to be around to be typing stuff, right?
BTW, I'm also wondering on the working of this time out feature. I thought there ought to be a 'clock' running and when time's up, it will clear the stuff needed to be cleared, right? So, if I were to forget to switch off the application, the timer will not be another running software that drain my battery, right?
Good work.
hanmin said:
- The "Clear" button doesn't seems to be working. It is suppose to clear the clipboard only? Should you clear off everything as well?
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The "clear" button is in the clipboard row, i think i tagged it on the left, and only clears the clipboard. If you go to menu->reset it will clear everything like your looking for.
hanmin said:
- I'm not sure why I thought I need it.. but it would be good to have a copy function for the "End Text" as well. I thought I may need it one day. Not sure why. It ought to make the screen a bit crowded, I thought.
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The "Copy" button copies the end text to the clipboard. Not the start text.
hanmin said:
Anyway, slightly related to the suggestion above, I've just revisited the design I made on my copy-paste-failed PPC attempt, I have this idea which I thought you might want to use it. For my design, I do not have "Start Text" and "End Text", I only have ONE TextField "Message" (and another for the password). The user enter the encrypted/plain text on this "Message". Click on the button "Encrypt" or "Decrypt", the result will then overwrite whatever that is in "Message" TextField.
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I originally had it setup this way, however there was a time when I had wrote a huge paragraph in it and encrypted it, and then found out I had forgot a line. I switched it so this wont happen.
hanmin said:
As for the time out issue, I thought the typing-sensitive time out would be a better choice. The moment that you are worried about your data being seen is when you are away from your phone. You can have focus on your TextField but you can be million miles away from your phone. But, you ought to be around to be typing stuff, right?
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The timeout I have running in it now, (new version that isn't up yet), is completely off of the user's actions. Whenever you do anything in the program the timer resets. Except for encrypting/decrypting. The timer is off for those functions incase you encrypt a file that takes longer.
hanmin said:
BTW, I'm also wondering on the working of this time out feature. I thought there ought to be a 'clock' running and when time's up, it will clear the stuff needed to be cleared, right? So, if I were to forget to switch off the application, the timer will not be another running software that drain my battery, right?
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The timeout feature does not clear everything in the program. I have it so it actually completely closes the program. So if you forget to close it and walk away, the program will end so it doesn't drain your battery.
hanmin said:
Good work.
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Thanks, wait till you see the next version...
nomb
I got the progressbar working for encryption, now for decryption.
I just got the Viewsonic G tablet today and I was pretty bummed that there were hardly any market apps. I decided to take matters in my own hands to get full market on the device without having to edit a bunch of stuff.
Requirements...
A rooted android phone preferably 2.1 or higher.
a Viewsonic tab... duh.
Step 1.
Download Android ID Changer on your rooted phone.
Download Atstro Filemanager.
Keep the Viewsonic close by, your going to need it soon.
After both files are downloaded on your rooted device open Astro File Manager and press menu > tools> application manager/backup.
Backup Android ID changer.
Now plug the phone into your computer and browse to Sdcard/backups/apps and transfer the Android ID Changer.apk to your desktop or use your favorite file manager that can send files via email/bluetooth and send to yourself which ever is easier for you.
Plug your Gtab into your desktop via USB and enable usb transfer.
Copy the Android ID Changer.apk to your Gtab's Sdcard root.
[Magic Time!]
Now Go back to your Rooted Android Phone and run the Android Id Changer
When you run the id changer its going to ask for ROOT access, this is fine, allow it.
On the top under current Android ID please write down the 16 digit Android ID number.
that is all you need from your phone. Uninstall or do what you wish with it.
Use the Ifilemanager that is bundled with the Tnt 3.1.4 rom and navigate to your SDCARD Root, look for android id changer.apk and install it.
Once installed, launch the android id changer and grant it root/superuser permissions.
You will see a white box that says Enter New Android ID
Enter the 16 digit android id number and double check your work even triple check.
click save android id and then Change Id, This will reboot your machine instantly.
When you get back to the home screen reopen android id changer and check to make sure it matches your phone's id.
Now go to your home screen and press the menu button, then go to settings, then go to applications, then system applications, go to market application and clear cache and force stop. go to Market updater and force stop, Go to Google Services Framework and clear *DATA*, force stop. go to your home screen and launch Market. If you get an error than it worked, Reboot your machine and you will be welcomed with a full market.
Things i noticed...
1. Sometimes the market will give me a connection error but i think its my wifi im not sure, i do have full market and i have installed countless apps.
2. The Android id is basically cloning my phone making market think my gtab is a HTC EVO.
3. The Market is stable aside from every now and then a connection error will show but hitting retry and it goes on through but like i said i think its my network more than anything.
This is only confirmed on Tnt 3.1.4 nothing else, I'm sharing this information with you because i didn't want to install a dirty market, i want something i knew would work.
If this information already exists, please remove this post I honestly didn't go that deep in the forums looking for an answer when I just made it work myself.
Do you see NFS Shift?
No, but I do see dungeon defenders. I don't know if NFS shift supports the hardware inside these devices personally. I have the whole market, i mean i can search for appbrain, i got it, i can search for autokiller, i got it. I would almost have to be the hardware conflict between the devices. or not even that, it could be as simple as "Does this game support tegra 2? no? ok then dont show it on the list" Dungeon Defenders openly states that it supports Tegra processors and would explain why its showing up on market and not NFS shift.
*update*EA stated that they are making a NFS shift for Tablets meaning Tegra 2 support. that explains it not showing on market.
So Could i pull the data from my droid X and use that?
not to burst your bubble or anything but all of your steps about getting the 16 digit code from your phone can be skipped. just do a search for market fix and you will find the way to do it.
it is very similar to what you had after the 16 digit copy thing. it will save you a bunch of time.
i have just about a full market just as you explain but without copying the 16 digit thing.
None of the EA Games will run on The G Tab.
I know it doesnt run on the Gtab, but its an app i KNOW for a fact its missing in my market. Since he said he had a cloned market from his evo, i asked. Its just the same as the usual market fix.
Thanks
Firefox will not show up for me and I know it runs on the g-tab
Can you share how you were able to get that 16 digit Android ID number?
I would like to use the number from my Droid X...
Powers16 said:
I just got the Viewsonic G tablet today and I was pretty bummed that there were hardly any market apps. I decided to take matters in my own hands to get full market on the device without having to edit a bunch of stuff.
Requirements...
A rooted android phone preferably 2.1 or higher.
a Viewsonic tab... duh.
Step 1.
Download Android ID Changer on your rooted phone.
Download Atstro Filemanager.
Keep the Viewsonic close by, your going to need it soon.
After both files are downloaded on your rooted device open Astro File Manager and press menu > tools> application manager/backup.
Backup Android ID changer.
Now plug the phone into your computer and browse to Sdcard/backups/apps and transfer the Android ID Changer.apk to your desktop or use your favorite file manager that can send files via email/bluetooth and send to yourself which ever is easier for you.
Plug your Gtab into your desktop via USB and enable usb transfer.
Copy the Android ID Changer.apk to your Gtab's Sdcard root.
[Magic Time!]
Now Go back to your Rooted Android Phone and run the Android Id Changer
When you run the id changer its going to ask for ROOT access, this is fine, allow it.
On the top under current Android ID please write down the 16 digit Android ID number.
that is all you need from your phone. Uninstall or do what you wish with it.
Use the Ifilemanager that is bundled with the Tnt 3.1.4 rom and navigate to your SDCARD Root, look for android id changer.apk and install it.
Once installed, launch the android id changer and grant it root/superuser permissions.
You will see a white box that says Enter New Android ID
Enter the 16 digit android id number and double check your work even triple check.
click save android id and then Change Id, This will reboot your machine instantly.
When you get back to the home screen reopen android id changer and check to make sure it matches your phone's id.
Now go to your home screen and press the menu button, then go to settings, then go to applications, then system applications, go to market application and clear cache and force stop. go to Market updater and force stop, Go to Google Services Framework and clear *DATA*, force stop. go to your home screen and launch Market. If you get an error than it worked, Reboot your machine and you will be welcomed with a full market.
Things i noticed...
1. Sometimes the market will give me a connection error but i think its my wifi im not sure, i do have full market and i have installed countless apps.
2. The Android id is basically cloning my phone making market think my gtab is a HTC EVO.
3. The Market is stable aside from every now and then a connection error will show but hitting retry and it goes on through but like i said i think its my network more than anything.
This is only confirmed on Tnt 3.1.4 nothing else, I'm sharing this information with you because i didn't want to install a dirty market, i want something i knew would work.
If this information already exists, please remove this post I honestly didn't go that deep in the forums looking for an answer when I just made it work myself.
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You get the number by installing Android ID changer from the market using your Rooted Droid X. Once the Android ID Changer is installed on your phone then you can open it and grant the software Super users privlidges and then it will show you the 16 digit id number.
This fix is for those who dont want to download modified markets or "dirty markets"
they can just download any market at that point and use it normally. But like i stated earlier if there is a easier fix then by all means use it, this is my personal fix im sharing with you all.
MikeTheSith200 said:
None of the EA Games will run on The G Tab.
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Not completely true. Tetris works on the tablet
lol
So, fyi, this is a standard market hack. Furthermore, Most of the ea apps run, including madden, on the GTab. They have substantial texture issues though. Fifa may be broken now as of the last update. I can see many ea titles in my market, including NFS Shift, most likely due to modifying my Build Prop to match my droidx's signature.
Thats funny, no matter how many times I do a market hack/fix on TNT 4.0 it doesn't see any of the EA games.
Where exactly do you download the ID changer apk from? It's missing from the market, and google is providing no results just a dead link to the market.
Can you download flick kick football?
Could you attach the andriod Changer apk to the posting. It's blocked in the Market and you can't even search it.
Nice job works great using my droid ID. Are there any potential negative repercussions from having two devices with the same ID?
I did change id as per instructions as on my phone, but still same apps. The apps I can see on my phone are shown on my tab even after doing all this exercise.
bmwron said:
Could you attach the andriod Changer apk to the posting. It's blocked in the Market and you can't even search it.
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Code:
https://market.android.com/details?id=adaptive.cogid
bump...
khj
I have a user of my app who is having a problem running it. My code launches another activity in the same app, and he is saying it is stopping before it should & returning to the previous activity, and he doesn't see any Force Close warnings.
I have run my code in the emulator & on my phone, I can't reproduce the error. We both run Android 2.2 on our phones, his is an HTC EVO & mine is a HTC Wildfire, as far as I can tell his specs are better than mine so shouldn't cause an issue - I deliberately chose a low spec for for my dev work so the code ought to run on anything.
As a bit of an Andoid dev noob (but been coding for years), is there any easy way I can make a special build of the app to send to him that would log any errors that happen ? I'd like to get a stack dump as well if possible, as I'm not sure exactly what routine in the activity its crashing out in. The activity that crashes is Gallery with 9 images in it, he can't flick through them or select one. I'm stumped as to whats causing it, any assistance would be gratefully received.
Thanks.
Why not point to your app and let others here try it on their phones? It could simply be other apps installed on his phone interfering with your app.
Long time programmer here too and when I get to where you're at (and I"m sure you've put some hours into this LOL), I go back to STEP 1.
I comment-out any and all code but the bare minimum; break it down to the Intent, startActivity and maybe a Toast message in the second activity. Even parse down your XML files to bare minimum.
See if that works. Then, ADD BACK ONE LINE OF CODE AT A TIME Run program and make sure it works. Yeah, it's painful, but in my 20 years of coding, I've learned to put my pride aside and to not "pretend" all the code I've written is correct.
Sometimes on bigger projects, I"ll change or add a couple of lines of code, run a back up and test. Rinse and repeat LOL. That way, I know I"m only a couple of lines of code from what "used" to work.
Good Luck!
Thanks both of you.
old_dude - Its a paid app. Only £0.99 but I don't think people would pay to help me. There is a free version of the same app (with less functionality) that this guy can get to work. If your really interested the 2 versions are -
Plink Log - Free Version
Plink Log Pro - Paid version
Rootstonian - agreed thats the approach I'd normally take if I was having problems on my dev phone or the emulator. The problem is that its OK on my HTC Wildfire/Android2.2 but on this guys HTC EVO/Android2.2 its having problems. I dont really want to keep sending him .apks with 1 or 2 lines extra enabled just to see if that fixes his specific issue. I was hoping there was something I could code to catch whatever crashes the activity & log it somewhere for me to analyse. When I do PC dev work, I have a global exception handler that catches anything I dont explicitly handle, and dumps the full call stack into a Log File I can read later.
I think I'll just have to take the existing app & put loads of debug code into it to save messages into a log file & see what bits of code are being called & what isn't & then get him to email me the results.
Thanks for the ideas guys, its always useful to get input from another perspective.
Dave
Hmmmm, just discovered setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler - might be able to use that with printStackTrace. Sounds interesting.
I have a broken G1, the screen is shot, and something else is screwed up, because it won't process anything. Once it boots it shows the background for a moment, then the lock screen comes on, but without a background. Then it looses all functionality. I can't get it to do anything. However, what's interesting, is that if I get an incoming call, I can answer using the button (not screen), and talk normally. Anyway, I want to know if there is a way, probably using ADB to get all my contacts minimally (since they're not all sync'd w/ Google), but ideally I would like to make a system image from it and run it in one of the emulators (Eclipse, Spring Source or Android SDK is what I have installed now). Any help would be awesome. There are also a few nandroid backups that I could use somehow, but they are a little old.
As far as I know, contacts data is stored in a sqlite-database which is located on /data. As long as you can connect with adb to your phone, you can copy that database to your pc and analyze it using sqlite3.
In this article you can find some additional information. It's a bit old, but still valid and at least it can give you a hint.
If you cannot access to your phone using adb, you can also extract the contacts.db from your latest nandroid backup. You can use unyaffs or mount your image on a linux system as yaffs file system and extract the file(s) you want. Then you can use again sqlite3 to extract the contacts data.
The same way, you can extract other data. It's enough to concentrate on the /data partition of the G1. As long as adb is running, you can copy them to your local PC, if not, you need to extract them from your latest nandroid backup in the same way I described above.
there is an awesome application called droid explorer (i forget the developers name) that you can download free to your pc (probably mac too) if you have usb debugging turned on then all you have to do is plug your phone into pc via usb.
when your phone comes up you have all the options you need here plus more!
seriously i recommend it to everyone. i use it at work sometimes to access my phone without getting caught, it has a great screen-cast function (a bit laggy)
if you dont have usb debugging turned on then look in the forum how to do it via adb. if you cant find droid explorer let me know and i can put it in my dropbox.
another option is get a used g1 from ebay and swap motherboards. or just fix your screen or whatever the problem is
Ok... So I did a little snooping via adb, and fortunately I did leave usb debugging on, so that's a plus. Now there were 2 things that I've tried pulling:
/data/data/com.android.contacts
and
/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts
Unfortunately, these both just gave me .xml files that only had a few lines of code, none of which included contacts or any kind of useful info.
@AndDiSa: I'm going to read the linked article now, but currently I don't have anything useful from /data. Any tips on how I would go about extracting the contacts.db? Articles or links are always great!
@demkantor: I will check that out. Since I don't really know how messed up the phone is, I don't know how useful droid explorer will be, but it sounds like a good utility anyway.
I don't really feel like getting parts for my phone. It's already waaaay behind the curve, and while it's a super fun phone to mess around with, I think it's time to move to something new (like the Droid 1 that I got as a toy phone/media player since I don't have verizon).
Anyway, further help appreciated!
(Oh, and I have to replace the digitizer for my Droid. LOL)
I am not on my PC at the moment, but try to look for
/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db
at least in GB this should be the right file or do a
find /data -name "cont*db" -print
in adb shell to look for it.
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I'll check it out tomorrow and let you know how it goes. Thanks!
OK! Good news. I found the contacts2.db and was able to pull it. I got SQLite3.exe and started messing around with it. Now what I tried from the link didn't work, as I couldn't get the .db file imported, and don't really know how to declare that as the target of commands. Using the .tables or .databases commands didn't get any results either. .databases just said something like 0-Main and 9-local or something. Do you know how to pull this part off? Hope to hear back soon.
Thanks,
kyle_engineer
Didn't try to use sqlite3 on windows yet, on the phone, you need to do
sqlite3 contacts2.db
> .dump
and you will get all content of the database dumped as sql statements.
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Awesome man!!! the .dump worked and I was able to actually get a table output on the screen. Now I just need ot know how to make that something printable (ideally), and I need to try it with my actual G1, not my Droid1... I'll thank you tomorrow when it's done.
Ugh!
So I've been able to correctly import a .db from my droid 1 and get it properly printed on the screen using sqlite3. That worked fine. Now I've pulled the .db from my G1 (which has the needed contacts), and I can't get it to print correctly. Here is what I'm dealing with...
Code:
SQLite3 version 3.7.20
Enter ".help? for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> .tables
_sync_state settings
_sync_state_metadata status_updates
accounts v1_settings
activities view_contacts
agg_exceptions view_contacts_restricted
android_metadata view_data
calls view_data_restricted
contact_entities_view view_groups
contact_entities_view_restricted view_raw_contacts
contacts view_raw_contacts_restricted
data view_v1_contact_methods
groups view_v1_extensions
mimetypes view_v1_group_membership
name_lookup view_v1_groups
nickname_lookup view_v1_organizations
packages view_v1_people
phone_lookup view_v1_phones
properties view_v1_photos
raw_contacts
sqlite>
From here, no matter what I try to use the .schema and "select * from XXXX" on, I don't get any user friendly table like I did with the other .db file... could something be messed up with this .db?
Please let me know when you get a chance.
Thanks in advance!
-kyle_engineer
I'm not sure of the reason, but the touch screen of my Yotaphone 2's e-ink stopped working. The e-ink screen itself visualises what it is supposed to, but it doesn't react to touches. The LED screen is OK. I thought this may be a software problem, so I did a factory reset that would probably eliminate it. It didn't, and the problem that I have now is that I can't even use the LED screen, because at startup it runs the tutorial, and the tutorial requires you to interact with the e-ink screen, which, in my case, is impossible, because it is not responsive to touches. So I never get to the "desktop" and the app launcher - the tutorial has to be completed. If I slide from the top rim I can get into Settings. I've tried stopping the process from the list of active apps, but it doesn't work. Anyone has an idea what to do?
I have the same issue yesterday and couldn't find a way to bypass the tutorial. As you I tried to kill the process via adb and didn't work. I also thought that there might be a place in the phone where the app checks to see if it has been run as it only runs the first time.
Two things to try:
1. Do you have the folder /data/data/com.yotadevices.yotaphone2.tutorial ? I see this in my phone so maybe it is created as a check. The folder is empty, you can try to create it as root to see if this bypasses?
2. Send the events via adb sendevent to the /dev/input/event4 or via input tap. You will need to calculate the coordinates somehow.
Good luck!
jaboto said:
I have the same issue yesterday and couldn't find a way to bypass the tutorial. As you I tried to kill the process via adb and didn't work. I also thought that there might be a place in the phone where the app checks to see if it has been run as it only runs the first time.
Two things to try:
1. Do you have the folder /data/data/com.yotadevices.yotaphone2.tutorial ? I see this in my phone so maybe it is created as a check. The folder is empty, you can try to create it as root to see if this bypasses?
2. Send the events via adb sendevent to the /dev/input/event4 or via input tap. You will need to calculate the coordinates somehow.
Good luck!
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There was nothing I could do about it, but I found a workaround which would at least let me use the phone somehow. From the bottom side you can launch Google search and search for a popular android app, which will take you to the Play store. From then I installed Sidebar Lite by Mohammad Adib (probably other sidebar launchers would also work) and then the sidebar launcher works on top of the Tutorial and you can dock several apps in there.