{"id":51383,"date":"2023-12-01T16:58:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=51383"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:58:28","slug":"phone-says-screw-you-hard-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/01\/phone-says-screw-you-hard-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone says screw you, hard reset!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My phone has been iffy for the last few weeks, with random freezes or reboots. Yesterday, I got a notification for an official OTA software update. I hoped that it might fix the situation. I did, but in the most f’you way possible. The update caused the phone to get stuck in a perpetual reboot cycle. The only way out of it was a full, hard, reset.<\/p>\n

Now this was something that I’d been thinking of for a while, but still, really bad timing. Although I had a full backup of my phone and most of it was already synced to Google, it’s still annoying as fuck to have to re-download and restore everything. The devil is in the details – how your app screens were setup to the point where muscle memory could open a particular app – which isn’t 100% back to normal.<\/p>\n

I have all my music, but all my playlists got borked.
\nI have all my photos, but the timestamps didn’t restore properly so now they’re all mishmashed.
\nI have to get a new activation code for my online banking, because Switzerland. <\/p>\n

The most annoying thing – one of my go-to stress-reliever\/time-waster games got removed from the Google play store!! Happily, Katy still had it on her phone, so with a bit of ingenuity and USB debugging, I was able to extract it from her phone and sideload it on mine. Note to self in case of future need, the magic mantra is this:<\/p>\n

Determine the package name of the app, e.g. “com.example.someapp”.
\nadb shell pm list packages<\/code><\/p>\n

Get the full path name of the APK file for the desired package.
\nadb shell pm path com.example.someapp<\/code><\/p>\n

The output will look something like
\npackage:\/data\/app\/com.example.someapp-2.apk<\/code>
\nor
\npackage:\/data\/app\/com.example.someapp-nfFSVxn_CTafgra3Fr_rXQ==\/base.apk<\/code><\/p>\n

Using the full path name from the previous step, pull the APK file from the Android device to the development box.
\nadb pull \/data\/app\/com.example.someapp-2.apk path\/to\/desired\/destination<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My phone has been iffy for the last few weeks, with random freezes or reboots. Yesterday, I got a notification for an official OTA software update. I hoped that it might fix the situation. I did, but in the most f’you way possible. The update caused the phone to get stuck in a perpetual reboot…<\/p>\n

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