29
Apr
nandroidman

If you're the ROM flashin' type, there's a good chance you have quite a few Nandroid backups floating around on your SD card. While those are undoubtedly handy to have around, they're really only good for one thing: restoring. But what if you only need one specific thing from said backup – like one app, a text message, or your call log? Then the process becomes much more complicated – you have to create a backup of the current setup, restore the old one, backup the needed info, and restore the backup you just made. Annoying.

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What if there were a way to pull specific info from a Nandroid, though?

14
Oct
hi-256-0-64819b4b7adcda354f812eb24f7d8de0c46ded56

How many times has this happened to you: you're getting ready to flash a new ROM, so you drop in on the SD Card, reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery, do a Nandroid backup, and proceed with the installation, only to realize that you forgot to backup your apps. That has happened to me more times than I care to count, and flashing a backup just to do a Titanium Backup is insanely tedious.

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I guess one dev felt the same way, because he created an app called AppExtactor that allows you to pull data directly from a Nandroid backup that was created with CWM (including 5).