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[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Dash24x7:
Hi everyone,

a couple of weeks ago, I just got myself my first HTC (Topaz). After some reading I decided to update my ROMs. So I backed up my data (at least I thought so), dumped my original ROMs with "Dump my phone", flashed Hard-SPL for Topaz, updated the Radio ROM and flashed a cooked ROM. Everything went smoothly and I was happy. Until I discoverd, that all my pictures were not on my SD-Card and hence I did not back them up.

After looking around for some time, I believe that Part03.raw from my dump should contain my pictures, etc. My question now is, is it possible - and if it is, how - to extract my pictures from Part03.raw?

I tried mounting Part03.raw with Daemon Tools, it seemed to work, but the "My Documents" folder is empty (but I see a bunch of other files scattered around the other folders). When I open Part03.raw with a hex editor, at least I can find the file names of the pictures.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Best regards, Dash.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] deechte:
You dumped the ROM, Read Only Memory. That's not the file and folder structure of the phone that you can see in the file explorer. That structure is created from the ROM. Your files are really lost.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Dash24x7:
That is what I thought. Thanks for the answer anyway.

Best regards, Dash.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cdyat:
I just felt the need to declare my genuine satisfaction with the hero.

For the first time with a phone I haven't felt cheated. I did so much reading on here first and was expecting a few teething problems but it has been superb.

The build quality, the UI, the OS have delivered everything I hoped and surprised me with more than I expected. It's my full time phone, email, music player, satnav, browser and the app store is turning out nicely. Its such a contrast from the Windows mobile experience of the last 4 years.

Had to tell you folks because they think its sad here at home I can be this pleased with a Phone!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] The Jones:
Yay, another happy customer!!

I am also really happy with my Hero. Does everything I expect and need and then some. I do question some of the build quality though, the back cover can be slightly flimsy, but I am overall delighted.

My wife on the other hand is completely uninterested!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xdaman85:
yeh, I'm really happy with the Hero as well, my girl friend hates the chin, as do a lot of other girls that have seen the phone, But I think the chin is very sleek.

The chin makes it look unique.

The UI is great.

Capacitive screen is amazing.

I'm just hoping for some sort of update from Google that will enable system wide multitouch and proper bluetooth functionality without the need for rooting.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dperren:
Me too. I absolutely love the thing, and it's more than taken care of the iPhone cravings I had until recently. It's better looking, more powerful (in terms of multitasking and so on), and has a app store not gaurded by facists. And it integrates beautifully with the Google services, which I've been using for years.

I wouldn't change it for anything, and the thought of going back to a WM device actually makes me feel slightly sick :|
[Hero, G2 Touch General] elcom:
I bought the phone as a present for my wife, her first smartphone.

She seems more interested in it than me!

Actually the thing that amazed me most about the phone is how easily she learned how to use it and like it.

I'm used to windows mobile where you need extensive experience in order to get things to work the way you want.

With the Hero everything, or at least most, works as it should out of the box.

IMHO HTC has done a great job with this phone, I am truly impressed.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Switchbitch:
I like the ease of use, but also the potential to get really technical with it if you so desire. iPhone is too simple, WinMo is too technical but Hero-flavoured Android hits the mark perfectly.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Rubble_2000:
I couldn't agree more, first HTC phone was an MDA Compact II, followed by a Vario II, then a Vario III and then a Raphael. Didn't think it could get much better than the Raph, was totally in love with it, but Wow, the Hero has blown me away, had it nearly two weeks now and still can't leave it alone.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Tone-Fu:
I have to agree with the OP, this device is excellent so far. It feels solid and the display's brilliant.

The one thing I don't like is the inability to close down apps that you've finished with properly but that's an Android thing, so I'm told.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] The Jones:
Taskiller in the market can help you, but Android shuts things down as and when you run out of resources, so generally not a problem.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Tone-Fu:
I've been using that 'Taskilller' app but it seems to shut down my UI, even if I only shut down certain processes.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] christonge:
I am extremely satisfied... I come from years of WM and so far so good. OK the Sense UI goes a little slow at times but as I previously wrote, nowhere near as slow as TouchFlow when it was first released.... and have seen the improvements HTC made with TFl3D on the Diamond 2, this UI has

LOADS

of potential!! I am personally enjoying the new challenge of learning and cooking Android :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xdaman85:
Add TouchFlow to your ignore list to avoid that.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Tone-Fu:
Thanks mate.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] spacecat:
Its a great phone , i just have reservations about the build quality.

The LEDS on mine packed up after 10 days use others have gone after 3-4 days.

i think the form factor and the OS are great, but i am concerned about reliabilty
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cdyat:
I have taken Taskiller off for the last couple of days to see how the system copes on its own shutting things down when it needs to. To be honest there have been less slow downs and pauses than before. Mind you I have updated the Copilot software and that might have something to do with it as the difference in the way the app runs is massive.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Tone-Fu:
The LED's are a firmware issue aren't they? Hopefully HTC will release an update and square things away, then this phone will be pretty close to perfect (a camera flash would be sweet and a faster processor but we can't have everything :) ).
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Less aggressive compression on the photos and a larger frame size for video would be perfect... and possible with software.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] spacecat:
The tech guy at the store i returned mine back to thought not, if so why do some fail and others not on the same firmware?

maybe most are fine and a few of us were just unlucky , however only time will tell whether this is a rare occurance or a bigger issue
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dperren:
Just forget about it, and let the OS deal with it. It is designed to do so, and does it well. You're wasting your time with a task manager.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cdyat:
Ok- just gone up in my estimation! Just accidentally fired it across the the room with wet hands rescuing it from the dog.

Not a mark and everything still works. Know I am lucky but still impressed

I hate that tight feeling in my throat when something goes wrong and its entirely my fault!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nicelad_uk:
I don't think they are no. People have had them working fine, then later the didnt work. They then do a full hard reset taking it back to default, still not working.

Seems like hardware to me, but could be wrong
[Hero, G2 Touch General] The Jones:
Good to see you on board with the Hero mate! Used your Diamond ROMs a while back and was always happy.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Ovek:
This phone has grown on me, actually I really quite like it now. It does have it's issues that I hope will be fixed in the future, but for now it hums along quite nicely.

I just hope and pray that when Google release major updates to Android HTC actually release them in a timely fashion if at all. To me this is a concern as they have never publicly said they would do this and everyone assumes that they are. :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] liamhere:
hello chris

nice to see you have moved over to the dark side (android) :)

i have to say the hero is my best htc yet.....they get a 10/10 from me

hope to see you cooking soon....as we have not cooks cooking.....yet
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cdyat:
the mods have a hard enough job. Let's just keep it positive please.

Good to see a 3 page thread of positives. Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RaptorRaptor:
So, I assume nobody else is having incredibly frustrating problems with the speed. When texting it becomes unresponsive, the unlock code fails all the time because it doesn;t notice when I touch a point in the pattern, going into landscape freezes up my phone and deleting any decently sized text threads brings it to a halt. There's even more issues than that. However taking the battery out and booting back up fixes these issues until you decide to say, play a game. Is there any potential fix for this, like flushing the cache, or something else? I'm really lost and it's driving me crazy.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nicelad_uk:
To be honest, I've not experienced any of the above, mine is perfect and working fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RussST24:
I have had similar issues with mine after a few weeks and installing loads of apps and rooting it :)

Decided a clean start so I flashed the stock ROM back (as I wanted to be sure of undoing the root etc) and now it flies again and I am being selective on what I install.

If you have not rooted then just reset it to factory and start again.

Worked a treat for me so far....

Russ
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RaptorRaptor:
It is rooted. I don't know what I did but it seems to be running fine now. I had been texting without predictive on, and after taking the battery out and restarting it worked okay with that. Then I uninstalled a lot of apps, and turned predictive back on because it's a ballache to be texting without predicitive regardless of what keyboard you use. I'll see how it goes.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] thefunkygibbon:
didnt know where to post this but this seems as good a place as any.

Currently have a Dream (tmob g1) and potentially have the option to upgrade to the G2 (hero).

My question is.. is it worth it?

As far as I can make out the only plus side differences are

Camera.... but seeings as its still a HTC device I am not holding out any hope on it being any good.

Rosie interface.... played with it on Dream and it does seem nice. as long as it is smooth and lag free unlike the Dream port.

slightly thinner

downsides are (again, from what I can make out)

a lacking of keyboard.

CPU seems to be an older version but runs at the same speed etc so no benefit.

so please correct me if i'm wrong.. is the battery life any better or is that all negated by the fact its using a more intensive home screen system?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nicelad_uk:
3.5mm stereo jack? Multitouch? More Ram?

I don't know much about the G1, but I can imagine that HTC will pour resources into Hero rather than G1 in terms of support to make this version work better.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] foxmeister:
I had a G1 before I had the G2, and I would definitely say the my experience with the Hero is better.

I was a bit concerned with the lack of a physical keyboard, and I will admit there are still some times that I hanker after one. However, I would say that when the Cupcake updates hit the G1, I found myself using the soft keyboard more often than I expected to, and the one on the G2 is superior to the stock "Google" IME you have on the G1. It takes some getting used to, and obviously you are more likely to mistype on the soft keyboard than a hardware one, but the predictive typing on the HTC keyboard makes it about as fast as a full hardware keyboard.

Battery life on my G2 is definitely superior than on my G1, but in my experience it is mostly because it seems to consume less juice when it is "asleep" than a G1 does. If you hit both hard, you'd be lucky to get a day out of either, but with moderate usage a G2 can hit two days for me and I never got that from the G1.

The screen on the G2 definitely seems to be more vibrant than the G1, and I don't really see lag as being much of an issue with TouchFlo - possibly because my expectations are lower than other users for a device of this nature. To me, it doesn't seem slower than a G1 running the regular launcher.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch General] David Horn:
The keyboard is interesting. If you go slowly, and correct every mistake, it's possible to be accurate.

However, if you go hell for leather and trust the auto-correct, it works surprisingly well with perhaps a couple of corrections afterwards.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pritsey:
Well, I was happy. Loved it. Great form factor, nice screen, integration done well. Camera is the usual HTC affair - ie rubbish, but sort of knew that before biting the bullet.

However.....the lag is appaling. Even after a factory reset I found that there was slight lag in going between screens, or scrolling the apps, or using the phone, or messaging.... I really wanted to like it.

This is me replying to post on Hexus Forums over wifi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f54S94bP4Po

I've tried living with it, I really have!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] The Jones:
That is pretty poor! Not that this helps you, but I dont see any lag like that, nothing close. Why are some devices ok and some not?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Leviathon:
Recieved mine around mid day today. What a nice phone. This is by far the best HTC imo, actually the best phone I've had so far, I don't know what it is - it just feels "right". (I'm not bothered about physical keyboard).

The unit runs like butter, no lag here, no problems with screen gap or any dead pixels. I've had a G1, (still got a Touch Diamond 2) Magic and now the Hero and I prefer this over all of them.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] lamabodo:
I was slightly apprehensive about this phone, but coming from an xperia I knew I could take some lag. Must say though, that after struggling a bit with battery performance the first couple of days, (caused by acast2 which made it get really hot and the battery run out in just four-five hours) I am really impressed. I get through a whole day with a LOT of use, and still have power left when I go to bed. There's virtually no lag at all, just for a few seconds when I start the phone up, and when there are several programs updating in the background. I haven't seen any lag when using the keyboard.

However, there are some niggles. Most importantly the portrait keyboard doesn't recognize words the same way the landscape one does. This is slightly annoying when using an app that won't rotate (like peep), and particularily so if you, like me, use a lot of local characters (like æ, ø and å) in words. In landscape, if I type "a" the phone guesses that I want to write "å", while this does not happen in portrait.

Secondly, and far less of a problem, the built in mail app sort of sucks. However K9-mail is not only free, but also really brilliant.

All in all, I am really happy with it.

-lb
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dipje:
Just another +1 for my experiences on my Hero. I love the device.

I use a task killer only to kill the browser sometimes. When I had a site open that requires quite some power from the Hero (animations / Flash embedded) the whole OS seems to be as slow as the browser after I press the home button. Only killing the browser (and ONLY that process) and the whole phone is smooth again.

The thing I miss though, is the tweaking :P. After years of cooking and tweaking on a HTC Tytn and a Diamond, I kinda miss it that this phone is setup just fine out of the box :P.

I already used EZInput on my Diamond, so I had (kinda) the same on-screen keyboard on the little Diamond screen. I learned to trust the auto-correct and just use my fat thumbs with fast-as-hell speed on that lil' screen.

Now on the Hero that pays off :). I can go fast-as-hell and still hit 90% accurate. The last 10% is fixed by the auto-correct :).

I can't wait till Android 2.0 or Donut and/or Flan builds start showing up, cause then I have something to tweak and customize again... but for now this build seems pretty perfect... oh no, the jerky video playback, I hope they fix that :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] lordyosch:
Happy customer

The Hero is my first smartphone and I love it.

I've had minor lag but nothing that puts me off it at all. I've been amazed several times with what it can do and rarely disappointed with what it can't.

Jay
[Hero, G2 Touch General] gavinfabl:
The Hero is my first Android handset. I have had so many other handsets from all operating systems, but I can honestly say I am very happy with the Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
I've come to the Hero from the Diamond. All I can say is the Hero is a hundred times better. :D
[Touch GSM General] rncd999:
the text under in flight, phone, wi-fi, data transfer, sound icons is just blocks, any idea how to fix it? i restored factory setting once before then reinstalled the apps that i thought were ok. i think it's because of the black diamond skin for pocketcm contact.

p.s. i'm not sure about the translations of the icons (i have the phone in russian)
[Touch GSM General] rncd999:
forget it already solved the prob. it was in the fonts that came with the skin, they probably just didnt support russian. i erased them and the phone is working perfectly now.
[G1 General] gsgleason:
I've wiped and installed a lot of roms lately, and generally when I go to 'my downloads' in the market, only my paid apps are there. So, I have to go though the process of searching the installing each app again. It's just easier when they are all in a list.

I figured it would be a good idea to backup all my apps and then reinstall them afterward with adb in linux as such:

for a in `ls *.apk`; do adb install $a; done

this works, but of course they don't show up under 'my downloads' and I don't get update notifications.

Is there a way around this?
[G1 General] DirectMatrix:
You need to backup and restore the database file located in the market folder....it should be here...

/data/data/com.android.vending/databases

I'm assuming since you can backup and restore your apps thru adb then you can figure out how to pull and push this to your phone :D
[G1 General] :
I assume you would want to do this to get update notifications. If so you can grab "aTrackDog" from the market. It will list all you apps and when you refresh it will tell you when updates are available and give you a link to get the update from the market.
[G1 General] gsgleason:
will it only work for software installed through the market or will manually installed software show up as well?
[G1 General] gsgleason:
Awesome. I'll do this next time I wipe and reflash with the latest coolest rom. =)
[G1 General] :
nope, works for the apps on my ext3 even after switching builds several times, works great.
[G1 General] Gilliland12:
For those of us who are not that familiar with adb, can you give a short tutorial on how to pull and then push that database folder?
[G1 General] J.a.M:
well i just wiped and installed the latest cyanogen mod and when i went to the "my downloads" section of the store all the apps i had downloaded before were all there (paid and free)

I also thought it didnt do that, apperently it does
[G1 General] :
You don't need ADB, you can use the terminal emulator from the market or the recovery console.

To pull the database, open terminal or recovery and type:

su
cd /data/data/com.android.vending/
cp databases /sdcard

that will copy that database file to the root of your sdcard.

When pushing it back it is probably best to do it while the phone isn't running, so only use the recovery console:

cd sdcard
cp databases /data/data/com.android.vending/
reboot

I haven't tested this, but it will have the same results as the ADB method.
[G1 General] Gilliland12:
Many thanks.
[G1 General] ThR1LL:
Backup for Root works perfectly for me
[G1 General] opasha:
if you got a paid app through adb and got a refund, can you still get updates for that app if you have it installed?
[G1 General] DirectMatrix:
No, you will not get updates without re-purchasing the app. And talking about ripping off app developers on this forum is frowned up so please stop discussing it.
[G1 General] Gilliland12:
If you got a refund, then you shouldn't have the app. That's stealing and it's not nice. Most apps are cheap (a couple of bucks at most), stop being a cheapskate.
[G1 General] addiosamigo:
Originally Posted by AdrianK View Post

You don't need ADB, you can use the terminal emulator from the market or the recovery console.

To pull the database, open terminal or recovery and type:

Code:

su

cd /data/data/com.android.vending/

cp databases /sdcard

that will copy that database file to the root of your sdcard.

When pushing it back it is probably best to do it while the phone isn't running, so only use the recovery console:

Code:

cd sdcard

cp databases /data/data/com.android.vending/

reboot

I haven't tested this, but it will have the same results as the ADB method.

i tried this but it dodnt work.

when I did the first command it said ommiting databases. so I thought it worked.

flashed to the new cyanogen 4.0 rom (which is amazing btw!) did the second command and it said cannot stat file "databases" no such file or folder.

what gives??
[G1 General] nmesisca:
Id say the databases were open and couldnt be backed up.

You should try to copy them from the recovery.

Also, after copying why didnt you check if the database files were in your sdcard (or the path you specified for the copy) before wiping? If the file is not there its obvious that it cant be restored after the wipe..
[G1 General] addiosamigo:
thought it might have been hidden or on my ext2 partition! never mind i got atrackdog!
[G1 General] uansari1:
Seems you can only copy each of the four db files individually... but copying the entire folder doesn't work.
[G1 General] cloverdale:
All that is needed is assets.db

Open the terminal and enter

$ su

# cp /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db /sdcard

Wipe, flash, reboot.

YOU MUST OPEN THE MARKET AND AGREE TO THE TOS BEFORE RESTORING!!!!

Open the market, agree to the TOS, and close the market. Open the terminal and enter

$ su

# cp /sdcard/assets.db /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db

# reboot
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] theoneeye:
Hello all

I am new to this section of the forum having strayed over to the blackberry 9500 last year when I upgraded from my poor battered wizard. tomorrow I will take possession of a nearly new touch pro so wanted to pop in and say hi to you all. I confess I am only really a beginner and have only flashed a few roms to my old wizard but would like to help you out any way I can ( I do make a wicked cup of tea for starters).

Take care

TheOneEye:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Wezternator:
Hi,

Is there a reg-entry to turn off the need for 'Signed Trusted Certificate' Or does it have to be turned off before cooking? Getting annoying because Audio Manager won't open.

Thanks Wez.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] vcdwelt:
Try this ;-)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Wezternator:
Thanks! I'll give it a whirl.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Wezternator:
Hmm..they didn't seem to do anything, I'll try cooking it again I think
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] heyi'm here:
hi guys! i've just bought a used TP Sprint and i've been trying to enter Bootloader mode for hours, but there's no result, the phone just reset when i press and hold Volume Down button and press reset button, it doesn't go to Bootloader mode, anyone have any idea about this, has anyone had this problem before, please help me, thanks you guys a lot!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Jdilla:
You are in the wrong forum my friend. Try the Raphael CDMA threads.

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=465
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] heyi'm here:
mod can you delete my post, i did it, thanks you :D
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coopaman:
i know i've asked this once but it slipped my mind.

where do u look to see if you have the latest spl