yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmarmstr:
Is it possible to backup the SMS app data (all texts/picture messages) on the stock rom (4.1.1 JellyBean) by just copying the data at /data/data/com.android.telephony/ ? And then to restore just copy these back after the reflash or data wipe through adb in CWM?

I'm trying to do this with as little app installs as possible, and also trying to learn where things are stored and in what format, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmarmstr:
Just in case anyone else was interested in this, you can do this. You need these files:

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db and mmssms.db-journal, and then if you have any pictures in the threads you need to also copy the /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts folder as well. Permissions for mmssms.db should be 660 with the owner and group = radio. mmssms.db-journal should have 600 permissions and same group and owner = radio.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] d23_vagabond:
I'm pretty sure I followed these directions to a 'T', when I open messenger it's not showing any conversations. I did everything through a script and copied it out to "sdcard", then just copied everything back in when i got done flashing a new rom....pretty straight forward concept, idk....just no dice. I can even view the .db file I restored in sqlite and it looks like everything's legit. what might I be missing?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmarmstr:
Did you set permissions and groups correctly? Can you do a screen shot of the adb output?

I have attached a screen shot of what the permissions and group/owner should look like.

Here are the steps that I needed to do to get this to work:

adb push mmssms.db /data/mytemp

adb push mmssms.db-journal /data/mytemp

adb shell

<inside shell now in CWM so you have root>

mv data/mytemp/* data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases

chmod 600 data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db-journal

chmod 660 data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

chgrp radio data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

chgrp radio data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db-journal

chown radio data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

chown radio data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db-journal

rm -rf data/mytemp

Also, if you do have app_parts to move, you need to do the same, but the chmod should do this:

chmod 666 data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts/*

chgrp radio data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts/*

chown radio data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts/*
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bobbyliight:
Help

When i do these steps the message app just tells me that it stopped working and needs to quit. Any thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] guerzie:
Hi, I have a quick question. I got this file or whatever as a group thing from a friend. Looks wierd to me since there are regular apps or regular group text msgs that can send pictures to a group of friends. I was told it was just to let me see the pics of him fishing with his buddies and all that other file stuff looks...well fishy to me lol. Is he trying to track me or something?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9027:
Hallo! I have just bought an international galaxy S3 today,and i downloaded antutu benchmarks and in the systems info sometimes it says my phone is dualcore and other time triple core? :confused: It also says my processor is ARMv7?:confused:Also other benchmark apps and system info apps it says the same ARMv7 :confused:Sorry if this has already been asked before but how do i know if my phone really is quadcore? Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Because it is quad core, that's how you know. Do you think Samsung made a special triple core just for you?

Also it is v7, its a cortex-A9 but that's v7 architecture.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nullkill:
I'll tell you the problem you are using the wrong benchmark use CF-Bench it will tell you the correct info. Now if it says you have 3 cores and ARMv7 be very scared :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
It only says triple core because one of the cores is switched off because of hotplugging, pegasusq switches them off when not needed.

And it IS v7, stop confusing the situation.

Worrying the guy over something you don't understand yourself.

Learn:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nullkill:
Wow buddy. It's nice to hear from someone else what I do and do not understand :rolleyes: I told him to use a different benchmark which will display everything properly as it is made by chainfire. CF will display the core count correctly as it is not a ARMv7 CPU it is a Equinox CPU 4 core with ARMv7 instruction set which is what CF-Bench says.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Cortex-A series processors are armv7.

Exynos is the product name, like snapdragon or tegra 3, they are all still armv7.

What the hell did you think armv7 actually meant?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9027:
Thanks i understand it now!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nullkill:
Dude I'm not getting into a argument with you over this. I never said the processor isn't a ARMv7. I am very aware of product names. Where are you drawing your conclusions about what I said go read my post. ARMv7 really tells you nothing about a processor but how it handles data it's instruction set. It's like saying I got a new Samsung Galaxy phone it is a general description which tells you nothing. Maybe try getting out of bed again on the not an ass side and see if your day is a little better.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
You told him if cf bench said armv7 to be scared, that was my problem.

Of course you don't want to argue, you don't have a leg to stand on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nullkill:
Wow so this is all due to your lack of even researching my statement and not having any SENSE OF HUMOR!

CF lists the processor as Exynos so if it said something else be scared because it wouldn't! Get it smart guy? Wow I remember why I don't answer questions and generally hang out in the Marketplace people are much less hair raising over there. Hey bro do me a favor next time you see one of my posts and have a thought about it you want to post JUST DON'T. We will both be so much happier :highfive:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
If cf bench said armv7 it wouldn't be wrong, flash cm and check in about phone, it will say processor version armv7, you were implying that this processor was in fact not armv7 and that of course is not correct.

Also you never said anything about exynos, you said "if it says 3 cores and armv7 be scared." you should research your own posts before spouting crap.

You should go back to marketplace, I agree completely with you, and if I see you post misinformation again, I WILL post to correct it.

Edit: Oh and his name is spelled Fes, not Fez. ;)

You can reply if you want to, but I am done arguing with you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nullkill:
Hey there smart one not arguing with you just correcting all that you say as it's dead wrong. And one more for you smart guy I never and still am not saying it isn't a ARMv7 it is I never said it wasn't. I said if a very specific program said the same thing his program said then be scared. Even started it off as a joke and I quote "the first problem is the program you are using" and then continued to see the same result from his program be scared. His question was how do I tell I have 4 core I answered it you are just being a pain in my side. A very obvious joke I am very sorry you are so very smart but not smart enough to detect humor.

You should even be aware of this based on your stupid post about flashing CM and then looking and seeing that it list it as a AMRv7. REALLY wow I KNEW THAT. But I digress now have a good day and make sure to correct all the humor in the world as rudely as you can buddy :eek:

And Final Rude Edit

Idiot It's Fes Look it UP
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nullkill:
Really back to the pictures buddy? A cat at that? I mean I could handle a nice F*$K you or some other string of curse words but your stupid pictures are truly toture! PLEASE STOP! For the love of my eyes not another picture ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E_Goldstein:
And this is the problem with xda nowadays.... a simple question was asked and turns into a 2 page row about **** all
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
To swear at you would mean that I am annoyed at you, I'm not. I think your responses are funny.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nullkill:
I know! I should have left it alone but I don't like being insulted. I answered the OP question and in a nicer way then my friend I've been fighting with. How do I tell it has 4 core well download a program that will tell you it has four cores of course! :cool:

And what's this now a days comment about you've only been here since 2011 that's when XDA started getting nice. It used to be a lot more brutal :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo6776:
Yep, i think its safe to say that went right over your head! :laugh:

He said:-

He was winding the guy up. You know, a joke? Plain to see really....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
.. so why come in here and troll? Its been done and settled for a few hours. No need for sarcasm and rekindling the fire. :rolleyes:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacob66:
Hey, I'm currently on MIUI ics. I know I have to wipe/factory reset everything. But is it safe to flash on the current CWM? Or do I need to update it or something? Do I just flash the new JB rom like I would switching from MIUI to a stock ics rom? I'm a noob, sorry if this doesn't make sense.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvorak67:
What version of CWM are you running?

You should be fine, but it never hurts to check. You flash a JB rom just like any other. Wipe wipe wipe and flash.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 063_XOBX:
The whole wipe wipe wipe is completely unnecessary. One wipe is sufficient and any additional won't do anything.

It's like saying that unless you wipe exactly 3 times the Android Gods are going to demand a human sacrifice for your phone to boot.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niteh@wk:
lol i think dvorak meant wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, wipe data (wipe wipe wipe) but that's my take..

anyway, if you can flash MIUI ICS with whatever CWM version you currently have, you should be able to flash other JB ROM. Nandroid as always.. Goodluck!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hinata75:
This is what I did :

1. Boot into recovery and perform a nandroid backup of my MIUI installation.

2. Wipe.

3. Flash XenonHD 9 JB ROM + marmite 4.2 kernel.

My phone is running really smooth now. Good luck.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayjay3333:
if you get a cluster f*#@ of problems then clean install. It isn't that hard. Use Titanium Backup and good to go.

In Recovery:

1. wipe data/factory reset (this formats /data, /cache and .android_secure on sd)

2. format /system, /boot

this leaves you with only bootloader, recovery and radio...dalvik-cache resides on /data, so it's gone already.

3. flash rom

4. gapps & custom-kernel (if needed). No need to let the phone boot & settle before flashing them (most custom-kernels have a script that automatically wipes /cache & dalvik during kernel-install)

5. reboot

6. Run TB -- restore missing apps with data --1st option under restore

just updating rom:

1. flash rom-zip

2. wipe /cache and dalvik-cache

3. reboot

Do this before reporting any issues on the thread since the problems are often related to this and not the ROM or kernel.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ixtlan007:
Hi,

Recently I installed system tuner and I was browsing through startups section of this app when I noticed this process called "Preset" is disabled.

Process detail says that the name of this process is "com.motorola.contact.preloaded". Does anyone know what is this process and if it must be disabled by default or shall I enable it?

I attach a screen shot of the process details here:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pedrotorresfilho:
Its maybe your information loaded from your microsin

Cheers
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ixtlan007:
Thanks for the reply Pedro, but you didn't say if it should be enabled or disabled as a startup process?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pedrotorresfilho:
Enable
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ixtlan007:
Thank you

© Sent from my Razr Maxx ® using Tapatalk
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] maxxxz:
Hy there good people, i install successfully ussr v5 rom, but i got 2 questions, first is how i use a2sd, i install the zip, and now how i move the apps?

The other, i install the Notifications bar mod by killed and i cant access to the Tweaks, i know, it says that in the post, how can i uninstall this zip to recover tweaks?

Thank you and sorry for my English.

max from Argentina.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] -CALIBAN666-:
look at ussrv5 for the updates for statusbars+other fixes there is all you need to know,its on the third post there.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Kousthubha Kumar:
1) For a2sd, flash the a2sd zip provided in the post.

1.	Install smartkeyboard + Better terminal emulator

2.	Open Better terminal emulator

3.	Go to Option > preference > method input > word base

4.	Write in terminal emulator :

$ su (enter)

# a2sd cachesd (enter)

Press y if mount warning ( do you really want to continue ) press y

Its automatic reboot please wait …

5.	After finish restart

6.	Write in terminal emulator :

$ su (enter)

# a2sd zipalign (enter)

Press y if mount warning ( do you really want to continue ) press y

7.	After finish restart

$ su (enter)

# a2sd lowmem-moderate (enter)

Press y if mount warning ( do you really want to continue ) press y

8. Done!

2) What tweaks do you mean? Mind explaining further on this?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] evanlocked:
He mean statusbar tweak just flash other update from thirds post there are soo many mod for ur taste just choose it
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] maxxxz:
thank you everybody, when you come to argentina i wait with good wine and bbq!(argentine bbq, not Simpsons bbq ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] myersn024:
I remember reading somewhere that you need to clear the Google Wallet app data before flashing roms and such. Is that still the case? If I root using QBKing's video, do I need to clear that data first?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Killa357:
Here is the Guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1764428
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] myersn024:
can't believe I missed that one. thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bso44:
I forgot to reset Google Wallet before wiping and flashing a ROM and my Wallet is still working fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Killa357:
Don't worry, I missed it as well.

I did the same thing. Still working for me as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dennistpm:
I didn't reset before I rooted and flashed roms and it still works. There is a rather nasty side effect though. I'm running out of money.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
^^ haha

On a sie note i think that reset stuff was debunked. Especially with wallet stuff being stored on a cloud now rather than there phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] danob:
any of u still use it with the device not suported at the top?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] solehjeff:
Yes it says that at the top if your rooted but it still works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bestdayever:
I think this message is just to alert you that if you have a problem google won't provide support due to you being root.
[About XDA developers] cg`:
Hi there,

I have my own domain name. When signing up to websites, such as xda-developers, I use that site name as the to address for my domain name ie, xdadevelopers@domain.x.x

This morning, I've received a spam email with subject "Subject	[EN]Diablo III Account Locked - Action Required" to my xdadevelopers address at my domain.

Has there been a database compromise perchance? I've had a search through the forums here and don't see anyone else that has mentioned it as yet. The spam arrived about 3 hours ago from now.

It'd be a shame to have to close my account and devnull this email address, as I really love these forums and the great users herein.

Regards.

Update 1: It's certainly not a dictionary attack that I can see, as I haven't received any others of this nature to my catchall mailbox.

If it's any help at all, the headers show this as the sender host;

Received: from WWW-9763E06E580.net (unknown [110.103.67.128])

(very likely unrelated to any alleged compromise attempts, if indeed a compromise even occured).
[About XDA developers] mikef:
I have seen this reported a couple times before but no resolution as I recall. I have passed this on to one of the admins, hopefully he can take a look and let us know if this is a problem to be concerned about.
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
I'm not aware of any compromise of the database. What I can say is that we treat our members data with the utmost respect and this would certainly be a concern of ours, but I don't see any evidence of any kind of intrusion like that.
[About XDA developers] mikef:
Thank you for checking that sir. I believe that in the other threads, it was suggested that someone might have posted their email and a screen-scraper harvested it, or perhaps their email was grabbed some other way, but nothing definitive ever came of it.
[About XDA developers] cg`:
Thanks for that, and I respect that data is treated with complete secrecy. I've not used this address or posted it anywhere else. It's used solely to login with, so i'm still a bit confused. I'll leave it for now, as it's only one example.

Regards.
[About XDA developers] Tolriq:
Hi,

I'm in the exact same case, I use per site email on my domain , no dictionary attacks too (I got catchall so I see them) and same mail received :(

Same mail same kind of sender:

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:22:23 +0200 (CEST)

Received: from WWW-9763E06E580.org (unknown [110.103.67.40])

I can assure that this email is not used in any screen-shot or anything else than logging here.

This is quite annoying and since I don't use the same header as the other one (me it's xda@....) it really seems that the mails data are compromised.

Regards,

Tolriq.
[About XDA developers] ZeeHimself:
As above, exactly the same spam email, although the email address I used to sign up here is more complex than just xda@...

I'll keep the email around, in case anyone wants to follow up on it.

Could this perhaps be the result of the new theme showing user email addresses on member pages (Eg. somewhere on http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3492510)? Even if it's corrected now, if it did at any point, spammers may have scraped the member list during that time.
[About XDA developers] psionn:
I've also just gotten an email directed at my one-time use address used for registering at XDA. Something's up, check your logs you've been compromised. I highly recommend a notice and forced password reset.

Return-path: <gbidw@WWW-9763E06E580.org>

Envelope-to: xda@MYDOMAIN.COM

Received: from [110.103.66.127] (port=57501 helo=WWW-9763E06E580.org)

by [REDACTED] with esmtp (Exim 4.63)

(envelope-from <gbidw@WWW-9763E06E580.org>)

id 1T6h7P-000354-NH

for xda@MYDOMAIN.COM; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:11:36 -0400

From: "Diablo III" <diablo@email.com>

To: <xda@MYDOMAIN.COM>

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

X-Priority: 3

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512

X-Spam-Level: *****

X-Spam-Report: score=5.0 tests=CMAE_1, SHORTCIRCUIT version=3.3.1 cmae=v=1.1

cv=02sxpKrcaeIklPG9ikjtw9+Ix2dV+yAR3ckHHBRjlIA= c=0 sm=0 p=eKWGPzfAF9w9RlBXnosA:9

a=rfP7uN3eH0UA:10 a=SpdMY5nFWogA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=L-ISu7bKYZgA:10

a=jWLQlvoj7db9vSsTWhEWiQ==:17 a=blzCNhbTAAAA:8 a=3J15CkO5AAAA:8

a=xrJga5KMAAAA:8 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117

X-Spam-Score: 5

Subject: [EN]Diablo III Account Locked - Action Required
[About XDA developers] jsharper:
I'll add a +1 to this (got phish with subject "[EN]Diablo III Account Locked - Action Required" trying to get me to visit a url on host us.diablo.net.zh-fot.in) . The unique address I used to register here in early 2008, while not super cryptic, is not as simple as xdadevelopers@domain and likely would not be the left-hand part of anyone else's email addr, so likely would not have been derived from the phisher mixing-and-matching from different lists. It appears that they've successfully harvested xda member email addresses.
[About XDA developers] Saxtus:
I can confirm that I've just got the phishing e-mail mentioned by other users here, on an e-mail account created and given exclusively to xda forum.

Received: from WWW-9763E06E580.org (unknown [110.103.67.201])
From: "Diablo III" <diablo@email.com>
To: <sax_[B][COLOR="Red"]xda-developers[/COLOR][/B]@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [EN]Diablo III Account Locked - Action Required

Now I am in the process of making the current e-mail invalid and I creating a new unique one.

We will see how it goes...
[About XDA developers] izomiac:
I can confirm this. I use xda-developers.com@... and haven't had any unusual mail to any other address on my domain.

SMTP From: iwbhnn@WWW-9763E06E580.com

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Message-ID: <973C9B27B0CF64CCEB262178817DA3D5@WWW-9763E06E580.com>

From: "Diablo III" <diablo@email.com>

To: <xda-developers.com@[Redacted]>

Subject: [EN]Diablo III Account Locked - Action Required

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:00:34 +0800

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/html;

charset="utf-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

X-Priority: 3

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512

[Base64 Message Body Redacted]
[About XDA developers] oleschri:
+1 for me

Mail address used here is site specific, never used for anything else, cannot be dictionary generated.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
We have received several reports from users receiving spam and/or phishing emails to email accounts which were unique to their profile on our community. We feel that there are enough of these to indicate that at some point in the past there was some sort of information disclosure which exposed these email accounts. We are not aware of any particular information disclosure or what exact information may have been exposed.

That being said, we take our community members' information security seriously and continuously review our code and configurations for security vulnerabilities. We do, however, run 3rd party forum software and plugins which occasionally have public security vulnerabilities. We apply all patches as soon as they are available to ensure the security of our data and therefore of our community. Even so, there is always the chance that someone is using an unpublished security vulnerability to try to attack our forum and gain personal information.

Our forum, as with many others running similar software, is a target for hackers attempting to harvest personal data (email addresses, passwords, etc). We highly recommend that you use a unique password for each website you are signed up with, and change that password on a regular basis. For services that support two-factor authentication, enable this option for even more security and peace of mind.

If anyone has information relating to any sort of information disclosure or compromise, we encourage them to report them to the technical contact at http://www.xda-developers.com/contact/#technical

Thank you and as always, questions and comments are welcome.