Recover Files from Nandroid Backup | 1 Comment
Posted in Code, Mobile on 27th October 2011, 10:42 pm by Stuart
I recently flashed my Htc Desire with CyanogenMod 7.1 and I have to say it’s great to be free of htc sense. Given the rigmarole around the official Gingerbread update for the Desire I don’t think my next phone will be an htc one.
Anyhow, prior to installing CM 7.1 I’d carefully made a nandroid backup with ClockWorkMod recovery. Having set everything up I chose a ringtone + notification sound. Having lived with it for a bit I realised I miss the old sounds from the stock desire rom. To recover them I needed to mount extract the system.img file and then push the old audio files to the correct place.
Warning: Please follow these steps at your own risk!
Compiling unyaffs
To extract .img files you’ll need unyaffs which can extract the files from a yaffs file system image. First copy the .img file into a directory. (For me the Nandroid img files were found in clockworkmod/backup/<date>/<foo>.img on the sdcard)
To compile unyaffs grab the unyaff.c and unyaffs.h from http://code.google.com/p/unyaffs/downloads/list and compile it with:
gcc -o unyaffs unyaffs.cOnce you’ve done that and added it to your path (alternatively copy it to /usr/local/bin).
Navigate to the directory containing the yaff img and run:
./unyaffs system.imgThis will un-pack the files into that directory.
Getting Files onto a Rooted Phone
Once you have the files the next step is to get them onto your phone. To do that you’ll need the Android SDK to be installed and set-up.
When the SDK is there, connect your phone with the USB cable (with USB debugging enabled – Settings->Application->Development) run the following from the sdk’s platform-tools directory.
./adb reboot recoveryWhen the phone reboots to recovery mount the system partition.
Next as an example here’s the command I ran to copy the ringtones from the desire rom onto the phone:
./adb remount
./adb push /home/bungle/desire-system/media/audio/ringtones /system/media/audio/ringtonesThis will copy all the files in the ringtones dir onto the phone.
