Make sure you had the backup archive downloaded to somewhere safe before doing anything with the phone’s
firmware.
There is one app inside the market that allow the full backup.
search for “Titanium Backup”.
But that may need “root” (can be either “SoftRoot” first).
Transfer the archive files from sdcards into your pc/laptop.
It would be something like “data.img”.
Then download the “extractor” from below :
http://code.google.com/p/unyaffs/downloads/list
It may need to recompile first.
would be something like ..
gcc -o unyaffs unyaffs.c |
or if you had svn client ..
svn checkout http://unyaffs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ unyaffs cd unyaffs gcc -o unyaffs unyaffs.c |
then to extract the data.img is just
./unyaffs /home/namran/data/data.img |
(path to file should reflect the path to file ..)
it shall then created the folder and extracting all the content inside that archive.
something like below :
namran@nb-namran:~/nexus-one-data$ ls -l total 175368 drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 anr drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 app drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 app-private drwxr-xr-x 5 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 backup drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 16384 2010-09-19 03:43 dalvik-cache drwxr-xr-x 179 namran namran 12288 2010-09-19 03:43 data -rw-r--r-- 1 namran namran 179055360 2010-09-19 03:42 data.img drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 dontpanic drwxr-xr-x 3 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 local drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 9 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 misc drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 property drwxr-xr-x 8 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 system drwxr-xr-x 2 namran namran 4096 2010-09-19 03:43 tombstones |
the SMS/MMS database reside somewhere under the following folders.
“/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db”
and all the attachment from MMS is stored under
“/data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts/”
namran@nb-namran:~/nexus-one-data/data/com.android.providers.telephony$ find . . ./databases ./databases/telephony.db ./databases/mmssms.db ./shared_prefs ./shared_prefs/preferred-apn.xml ./lib ./app_parts ./app_parts/PART_1284111258517 ./app_parts/PART_1284683678596 ./app_parts/PART_1284683731880 ./app_parts/PART_1284685457572 ./app_parts/PART_1284685355626 ./app_parts/PART_1281176217164 ./app_parts/PART_1284689627986 ./app_parts/PART_1284720974895 ./app_parts/PART_1280655729505 ./app_parts/PART_1284685390163 ./app_parts/PART_1284111252801 ./app_parts/PART_1280652806795 ./app_parts/PART_1284685387300 |
and yes. it is a SQLLite DB i think.
to restore this SMS/MMS database to your phone.
Just re-transfer them to your phone
adb push ./data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db /data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db adb shell 'chown radio.radio /data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db' adb shell 'chmod 775 /data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db' adb shell 'mkdir -p /data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts/' adb push ./data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts/ /data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts/ adb shell 'chown radio.radio -R /data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts' adb shell 'chmod 775 -R /data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts' |
for WIFI setting and password :
adb push ./misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf /data/misc/wifi/ |
if the “Messages” is having “force close ” problem.. after restoring backup database.
you may need to run “Fix Permission” once. and reboot the phone.
or possibly can be fixed with just the following
adb shell 'chmod 775 /data/com.providers.telephony/mmssms.db' adb shell 'chmod 775 /data/com.providers.telephony/app_parts/*' |
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