Stein1071

Rooted D3. Stock ROM (2.3.4). I haven't found a ROM that agrees with me so at this point, that as a fix, isn't an option. I had been trying to figure out how to tether my Toshiba tablet and I wasn't having any luck, so I rooted. I tried just about everything I could before going to the extreme of the TBH's radio hack and I couldn't get anything to work. Somewhere along the way, I have somehow deleted some part of the factory "Data Saver" app that controls the data and battery functions from the "Settings" menu on the Droid 3. The problem is for some dumbass reason that I can't remember, I enabled "Data Saver" right before I deleted it.....bummer....now I can't download any apps unless I'm at home on WI-FI. I have a 2nd D3 in the house that I rooted and tried moving files over from but that didn't help. These are the files that I know about, "data/data/com.motorola.android.datamanager/databases"... & ..."data/data/com.motorola.android.datamanager/lib", & "system/app/datamanagerapp.apk"... & ..."system/app/datamanagerservice.apk." I have tried copying all these files over and still I don't get the "Battery and Data Manager" line in my settings menu. I'm using the "Root Browser" section of "Rom ToolBox" to try to move these and I don't see any files in the "lib" folder. I would think there would be something there but I don't have anyway to know for sure or to know if I am moving them. Does anyone know if I am missing something? I did get the WI-FI taken care of by the way. Thanks TBH. Nice work there guys.

Thanks everyone.

chrstdvd

I do not know if this will help you, but it would be what I would try. You can take the good phone and pull the /data and /system folders from it and then push them to the broken phone. All the files you need are contained in the folder I will give you a link to. You will have to unZip it and place the un zipped folder on your desktop, open the folder and right click and choose New the Folder and name it Data. There is already a folder in there named System.

Connect the good phone via USB to the computer in P/C mode. Type in:
adb devices (verify you phone is seen)

adb pull /system/. system

after that is done you will see all the files and folders from the phone are now in the folder called System. Then do the same for the /data folder

adb pull /data/. data

Connect the broken phone in USB mode

adb devices

adb remount (should say success)

adb push system /system/.

then

adb push data /data/.

disconnect when completed and reboot the phone and see if it works.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35546129/Pull%20system.zip

Last edited by chrstdvd; February 19th, 2012 at 07:38 AM. Reason: typo

Stein1071

Won't touch the /data folder unless I'm doing something wrong but I've tried varying things quite a bit and it just says "no files moved"... I suppose I'm going to have to break down and put a ROM in it.
Thanks for the info though.

chrstdvd

Phones have to be rooted to get into /data. thought U were rooted on both phones.

Stein1071

Both phones are rooted but I couldn't pull the /data file out of either phone with the bridge. Didn't get any errors just said "no files moved" every time I tried it.

redsox985

Maybe try to FXZ (SBF) the phone back to stock? Flashing a ROM should work as well because they will flash the /system partition.

chrstdvd

I never pulled data before and am surprised at how it works. I typed adb pull /data data and it just pulled the /data/system and /data/app folders only. I then typed adb pull /data/data data/data and it pulled most of the folders in there but no all.

I wonder if you would have to type a pull instruction for each file/folder in /data?

I had to root my D2 using the MotorolaOneClickRoot_psouza4.exe and you should use the same file to root your droid 3.

Stein1071

Not exactly sure what I did, I change permissions and took the .bak extension off of a couple of other apps that I had messed with, and it came back. I do know there are a couple of other associations that go along with the data/battery saver now. Trouble now is that my factory sms doesn't work (yeah, I know i's junk but when my wife texts me through e-mail I can't respond with gosms for some reason). My contacts force close. And the market is doing weird crap like I can't find "Pandora" on there at all. I restored it from a back-up and it works fine and all my settings and favorites are there but it doesn't exist in the market. Oh well, I'll stumble on it. That's how I really learn this stuff.

I just wish I could find a thread I stumbled on the other day about the difference between a "hard root" and a "soft root". (No dirty jokes here...) Because I used the "one click root" and I'm having some issues that I think are related to that.

Thanks for the suggestions and help along the way.

Edit: Got tired of messing with it. Did a safestrap recovery. Had one to right before I started really plowing out the bloat so my sms, contacts, market, etc.... were all still working but the data/battery manager was gone from settings. Got the manager back no problem. Did another safestrap backup. Gonna start on the bloat again only go SLOWER this time and keep checking stuff. Again, thanks for the help and ideas everyone.

Last edited by Stein1071; February 22nd, 2012 at 09:35 PM. Reason: Update