If you can walk her through the process of getting HoB set up I can walk through the process of actually running it (which basically is just a matter of running a shell script).
I would like to be able to save my data (what I have left of it anyway), even if it doesn't get back on the phone. Just to have it, as a backup, just in case...
Ok, I'm on it. Now I need to find those files...
Ok, I gathered all of the files. I saved a step and created a subfolder called "246_FXZ" and put the "VRZ_XT875_6.7.246.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip" file in that folder. I read and reread the FAQ and I am pretty certain that this is a proper setup.
I re-zipped the files into a file called HOB.zip, which I uploaded to my domain here:
http://doogald.net/android/HOB.zip
The MD5, for anybody who needs it, is fea26c70faee1241bfb27722f898842e. The file is 449.3 MB (the Mac Finder for Lion and Mountain Lion will say that it is 471.1 MB). Again, it already includes the FXZ file in the proper folder.
Linda, if you download it using Safari, it should be downloaded to your Downloads folder in your home directory. Double-click on the "HOB.zip" file and it will create a folder in your Downloads folder called "HOB" with all of the required files.
To actually run the utility, in your Applications folder in the Finder, you will find a folder called "Utilities". (You can get there quickly by going the Finder's "Go" menu and choosing "Utilities", or even quicker by doing the keystroke Cmd-Shift-U.) In the Utilities folder is an application called "Terminal" - double-click that. This will open a text window with the last text line having a prompt ending in "$" that should look something like:
[HIGH]
computername:~
username $[/HIGH]
With your Mac's computername and your user account name, of course.
If you've downloaded the file and double-clicked the "HOB.zip" file in your downloads folder, you should be able to type the following command:
[HIGH]cd ~/Downloads/HOB[/HIGH]
(You can just highlight the text above, copy it to the clipboard, and paste it into the Terminal with Cmd-V. "cd" stands for "change directory". The "~" is a placeholder for your home folder. There is a space between "cd" and "~/Downloads/HOB".)
Unless there is an error message, the prompt should change to this:
[HIGH]
computername:HOB
username $[/HIGH]
You can verify that the proper files are there by typing the command to list all of the files in the folder, which is this command:
[HIGH]ls -l[/HIGH]
(That's letter L, letter S, space, dash, lower- case letter L)
This should list the following on the terminal window:
[HIGH]total 328
drwxr-xr-x 3 user staff 102 Jan 10 11:55 246_FXZ
-rwxr--r--@ 1 user staff 84763 Oct 27 11:54 House of Bionic FAQ.htm
-rwxr--r--@ 1 user staff 50816 Oct 27 11:57 House of Bionic.htm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user staff 23846 Oct 10 05:43 HouseOfBionic.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 624 Oct 10 05:46 README
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 user staff 170 Oct 3 09:51 root
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 user staff 374 Oct 10 03:30 utils[/HIGH]
(The "user" on each line will have your user name instead. Otherwise, it should be exactly the same.)
At this point let's wait for John L Galt to verify that everything I have done is right, and point out anything that you need to do on the Bionic. (I do know that the battery should be fully charged, and you will need to connect the phone to the computer using the Bionic's USB cable, and I believe that you'll have to enable USB debugging on the phone - I'll let John verify that.) You can leave the Terminal running so that it's ready to run the script.
However, when John verifies that you are ready, you will run the script from the terminal by entering the following command:
[HIGH]./HouseOfBionic.sh[/HIGH]
That "period-slash" at the beginning of the line is important.
Anyway, I hope that this works out!
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