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WM5 cannot install, uninstall, delete

Hello,
I am ****ed. I did nothing in particular except installing some new programs especially in the last phm regedit (but i did not use the prog) and suddenly the following problem occured.
1. I cannot see any applications listed in the "Remove Programs" views
plus
2. I cannot delete any Files in the whole System, no matter built in, or storage card
It seem that I have lost all my permissions.
The only thing I can still do is editing the registry as it seems.
I cannot backup anything. I cannot install any new programs.
If I have to hard reset now I will loose all my contacts since I only have half of them on my simcard.
Please help me out somehow.
What do I need to change in the registry, in order te be able to do something again (at least install a backup programm in order to keep my contacts).
Or,how can I save all my contacts to sim - I could not find this option in the contacts view.
Please .. desperately help needed.
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I rekon you'll need to hard reset and lose all your contacts. That'll learn you for not having them all backed up, eh?
Also, Please don't swear in the thread title. Some people read this at work.

Sync your contacts with pc and you'll save all.

@No.1 ... yes, I removed that bad word from the title and already am happy again with my "new" hard-resetted Wizard... only needed approx. 3 hours for everything
I was very upset when I wrote the above, since Sprite Backup does not work at the moment and I rely normally 100% on it
@No.2 ... also yes ... an older company laptop with Active Synch installed saved many of my contacts

there is a file in the root directory called pim.vol. This contains all of your contacts, call history info, tasks and calendar data (maybe some other stuff I haven't figured out yet too). Copy this to a storage card, hard reset, drop it back into the root directory and overwrite the new one, soft reset and all of your info is back. Anytime I add a new contact or important calendar info I back up my pim.vol just incase something bad happens and I need to hard reset.

wow ... thanx very much for the heads up ... I am this will save me from a lot of future troubles

Media Player gone bad...

Suddenly my Media Player has gone bad on me. Probably deleted some part of it in my efforts to slim down the system. When I launch it from the "Programs" folder I get this error-message:
"The file 'player' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. You might nedd to reinstall or restore this file."
The icon is also missing. However when I try to open a WMP-file the app starts up just fine, and after that clicking on the icon in the "Programs" folder also works until next (soft)reset. Icon still missing though. Kinda annoying but no big deal. Can it be fixed somehow, or am I facing my first hard reset?
Grateful for help / [email protected] xlnt forum

OK, so I did the hard reset hoping my problem would go away but since I also restored my device with Sprite the WMP-error was also restored (I sort of suspected that...)
It did however work before the restoring part of all this.
Is there any other way of doing this? (Besides another hard reset and the pain of having to manually install/set registrys etc etc...)
Please advise... :?

If you can remember all the files you deleted, you can perform a hard reset so that the files you deleted in the first place are returned. Copy all those files to your SD Card then use your excisting Sprite Backup to restore back to whatever configuration you programmed and add one by one the files you deleted (now placed on your Sd card) and test Windows Media Player. This proceedure is very tidious as you have to try one file at a time and remembering which folder you copied them from, restoring and deleting them again if that was not the file needed.
So personally, I would just perform a hard reset and do it all over again. But this is just me.
Another suggestion to avoid this happening in the future, if you do opt for the hard reset and starting from scratch, make a backup BEFORE each time you add or delete a file. Just in case you want to go back to your last configuration. This is the procedure I use to do with my Palm OS device each time I want to try an application. I made sure I have a backup of my system with a clean install, meaning I did not change anything on the system, just a plain backup after I plugged-in all my codes and installed all my applications. I then perform another backup after each change I do and observe my system if nothing conflicts. So in anyway, using this procedure, I know I always have a backup of a clean install. Something I miss from Palm.

You´re probably right, makes sense to have a nice, clean backup to go back to. Guess that's what I'll do. Just need to work up the energy for it...
Thanks Christian!

[Q] How to retrieve notes from the Catch Notes app in a bootlooping image?

Hi everyone
I need to know if there is a way to retrieve notes made with the Catch Notes app (yea that one, that is no longer in service) from the image/sd-card files of an Android-Version that put my HD2 into a bootloop.
I'm running Android via sdcard-booting. The ROM is from AmericanAndroid running Android 2.3.7 (quite old actually).
In the past the phone randomly got into booting loops (rarely though, probably 2-3 times in the last 2 years). To 'solve' this issue I reverted back to a backup that I occassionaly made of the entire SD-card. The problem is, everything between the last backup and the day that those bootloops started to happen was pretty much lost. Atleast concerning the notes I made with the Catch Notes app.
I tried to fiddle through the files on the sdcard (I backed up the files aswell of the 'faulty' state of the image) but couldn't find anything that lead me towards the notes off Catch Notes. Does anyone know where that is stored locally? The thing is, I didn't use the app to sync it with their service, it was all stored locally and it must be somewhere in the app data, but I just can't find it. Could it be that it is in the data.img file? I'm not an expert in that field, so I have no clue where to search.
I would be extremely thankful if anyone leads me into the right direction. There's quite some important notes there that I need to have access to.
Thanks in advance for any help. If you need more info, just tell me and I would gladly give it to you.

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tibursio said:
Hi everyone
I need to know if there is a way to retrieve notes made with the Catch Notes app (yea that one, that is no longer in service) from the image/sd-card files of an Android-Version that put my HD2 into a bootloop.
I'm running Android via sdcard-booting. The ROM is from AmericanAndroid running Android 2.3.7 (quite old actually).
In the past the phone randomly got into booting loops (rarely though, probably 2-3 times in the last 2 years). To 'solve' this issue I reverted back to a backup that I occassionaly made of the entire SD-card. The problem is, everything between the last backup and the day that those bootloops started to happen was pretty much lost. Atleast concerning the notes I made with the Catch Notes app.
I tried to fiddle through the files on the sdcard (I backed up the files aswell of the 'faulty' state of the image) but couldn't find anything that lead me towards the notes off Catch Notes. Does anyone know where that is stored locally? The thing is, I didn't use the app to sync it with their service, it was all stored locally and it must be somewhere in the app data, but I just can't find it. Could it be that it is in the data.img file? I'm not an expert in that field, so I have no clue where to search.
I would be extremely thankful if anyone leads me into the right direction. There's quite some important notes there that I need to have access to.
Thanks in advance for any help. If you need more info, just tell me and I would gladly give it to you.
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My Friend As I Know Apps Save Their Outpots ( TXT - Doc - etc ) In The SD Card So Maybe You Should Take a Look At Your SD Folders ( If You Have Lost Them Then Use a Recovery app To recover files through a PC ... But If You Have a Complete Backup Then You Can Try An Other SD ROM Or a NativeSD ROM TO get It Boot and Recover What You Wanted ...
With Best Wishes
Hitman1376​

hitman1376 said:
My Friend As I Know Apps Save Their Outpots ( TXT - Doc - etc ) In The SD Card So Maybe You Should Take a Look At Your SD Folders ( If You Have Lost Them Then Use a Recovery app To recover files through a PC ... But If You Have a Complete Backup Then You Can Try An Other SD ROM Or a NativeSD ROM TO get It Boot and Recover What You Wanted ...
With Best Wishes
Hitman1376​
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I know you are Hitman but why the hell you writing like that with all capitals. I so heavy to understand english and if you write like that you just complicate the situation! Maannn.....
you Hit my eyes!

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eclyptos said:
I know you are Hitman but why the hell you writing like that with all capitals. I so heavy to understand english and if you write like that you just complicate the situation! Maannn.....
you Hit my eyes!
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Sorry my friend ... My mistake ... Yes your right I'm a shooter but no friendly fire is accepted for me :laugh: ... I would try to write this way ... How is it ? .... Sorry for bad writing ...
With best wishes
Hitman1376​

Help recovering SMS messages from copy of 'Phone' folder on PC

Hi,I wonder if anyone can help me out - I factory reset my GT-I9505 (stock rom -Android 5.01 Lollipop - never rooted).
The problem is that I would like to recover my sms messages - and I didn't use an app from the Play Store to backup first.
I did though make a copy of my 'Phone' folder onto my Linux desktop. I thought this would give me a complete copy of the phone's internal memory including hopefully the sms messages that I need - and that I could copy the files back to the phone.
I can't see any sms / mms database in this copy - I can't even see any sms database in the phone currently when connected to the computer - probably because phone is not rooted.
I was able to recover a lot of other files and photos from this 'backup' - perhaps the sms database was not permitted to be copied to the PC.
Is there any way that I could restore the messages do you think?
I would be happy to root the phone or use adb or other software - I suppose it all depends on whether I actually have a copy on the computer ( not sure if I have or if it is hidden in some way - I thought Linux would see all the files.
Grateful for any advice you can offer.
Power Ranger

Your "backup" consisted of copying files from the internal storage and/or microSD card to your computer. However, text messages are not saved on any of those. They are saved on the /data partition of your device, in an XML file, which you have wiped during your factory reset.
Long story short, your SMS are forever lost. Next time use an app for this.

Thank you
Pwnycorn,
thanks for replying to my query.
I know I messed up but just wondered if there was still a way to recover the sms.
No-one would want a phone that left personal data still on the phone after a factory reset, so I think I knew the answer all along - but sometimes it's worth asking someone with expert knowledge of these things, just in case there is something that can be done.
Anyhow I appreciate you taking the time to reply and advise.
Thanks
Power Ranger

Recover deleted files in Windows 10

Hello everyone. I am looking for help and advice on recover deleted files in Windows 10. I would be grateful for your experience and advice. I am looking for help on the internet and have found a manual on restore lost Windows 10 data diskinternals.com/uneraser/manual-how-to-recover-files-in-windows-10 I wonder if I am able to restore data by myself? Thanks for your answers.

Joness333 said:
Hello everyone. I am looking for help and advice on recover deleted files in Windows 10. I would be grateful for your experience and advice. I am looking for help on the internet and have found a manual on restore lost Windows 10 data diskinternals.com/uneraser/manual-how-to-recover-files-in-windows-10 I wonder if I am able to restore data by myself? Thanks for your answers.
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Hi,
Try using open source data recovery tools like testdisk.
It wont cost you. And they are reliable coz you have access to its sourcecode.

If you turn on your Windows Backup option in Windows 10, just follow these steps:
Open ‘Control Panel’
Go to ‘System and Maintenance>Backup and Restore (Windows 10)’
Click ‘Restore my files’ and follow the wizard to restore lost files.
If ‘Restore my files’ isn’t visible, click ‘Select another backup to restore files from’ and follow the restore wizard.
If you use File History, you can restore their previous versions
Right-click on the folder that contained the permanently deleted file(s) or folder(s)
Choose ‘Restore previous versions.’
From the available versions, choose the one dated when files were there
Click ‘Restore’ or drag & drop the desired version at any location on the system.
Otherwise, you can use third party software like other users recommended above.

Try not to do any service operations with disk which contains deleted files (multiple files copy, defragmentation, check disk etc). It can destroy information about deleted files.

yeah, there are lot of free software's are available and can use paid software that provides trial versions list is here