Thread: New App: BBSAK (Swiss Army Knife) Beta!

Originally Posted by Bryan

Wow keep up the great work :fing02: I have no idea what goes into coding an app like this but I have an clue it is a lot :lmao: Thank you for you constant support as well

Like Bryan said above about the coding this app, I have no idea what goes into it either. If getting rid of the Restore App button gives you the ability to expand this program into doing more things then by all means do it. I didn't know you had to give up that to get something else. You guys do awesome work. Thanks,

Originally Posted by wowthatisrandom

and thanks sunkast for the tutorial

Running my test backup/restores now just so I know exactly how to describe everything. One thing I think I am noticing is that the ALX doesn't create filesets for applications that has multiple cods. Not really a big issue. You just end up getting all the modules for a particular app listed as a separate app as well. The biggest downside to this is you have to remove each module/COD, whereas if it was a fileset, simply remove the one application would remove subsequent modules for that app. But for all I know, this could be done by you purposely.

For example. BBWeather. It has the main app COD, plus BBUtil, and BBWeatherIcons. Both of these show up in applications installed and have to be removed separately from BBWeather.

Originally Posted by sunkast

Running my test backup/restores now just so I know exactly how to describe everything. One thing I think I am noticing is that the ALX doesn't create filesets for applications that has multiple cods. Not really a big issue. You just end up getting all the modules for a particular app listed as a separate app as well. The biggest downside to this is you have to remove each module/COD, whereas if it was a fileset, simply remove the one application would remove subsequent modules for that app. But for all I know, this could be done by you purposely.

For example. BBWeather. It has the main app COD, plus BBUtil, and BBWeatherIcons. Both of these show up in applications installed and have to be removed separately from BBWeather.

hmm we will have to look further into this... the reason it is happening now like this is bc that the way they were saved when the backup happened...

i appreciate the find!

Originally Posted by striker591

Like Bryan said above about the coding this app, I have no idea what goes into it either. If getting rid of the Restore App button gives you the ability to expand this program into doing more things then by all means do it. I didn't know you had to give up that to get something else. You guys do awesome work.

the reason we gave this way up is bc it doesnt allow you to remove or even see that apps are install when looking on your phone... while the install may seem easier or more obvious (bc its actually same difficulty) it doesnt seem prcatical (say your out and some app is acting up and u need to remove it, with the old method you cant with the new method u can)

and olta

v1.4 is coming soon got some little features added in but seems to me like theres some other things to look into

Originally Posted by wowthatisrandom

hmm we will have to look further into this... the reason it is happening now like this is bc that the way they were saved when the backup happened...

i appreciate the find!




the reason we gave this way up is bc it doesnt allow you to remove or even see that apps are install when looking on your phone... while the install may seem easier or more obvious (bc its actually same difficulty) it doesnt seem prcatical (say your out and some app is acting up and u need to remove it, with the old method you cant with the new method u can)

and olta

v1.4 is coming soon got some little features added in but seems to me like theres some other things to look into

Any news for V1.4? Thanks.

Originally Posted by ancinca

Any news for V1.4? Thanks.

tonights the night off lol... got drunk haha tomorrow we shall see where it takes us... a few things finished.. working on a few more

maybe i should say no more releases until i get my social scope invite....

Originally Posted by wowthatisrandom

tonights the night off lol... got drunk haha tomorrow we shall see where it takes us... a few things finished.. working on a few more

maybe i should say no more releases until i get my social scope invite....

OK. no hurry. Enjoy yourself. have a nice sleep.

Originally Posted by wowthatisrandom

and thanks sunkast for the tutorial

Here you go. How to restore 3rd party apps.

Very nice video John, well done.

Yes, very nice...thanks Sunkast

Very helpful video Sunkast, it makes it seem easy now, Thanks!

Does this automatically restore all data as well?

Silly question: How do you view/clear the event log? I can do it using JL Commander (CrakUtil never works - it can view but never deletes). Can BBSAK do it? Thanks.

I just did a backup and it worked great - very fast too. I noticed however it did not backup the Facebook app. Although FB is an OS-installed app, I installed the most recent version manually after-the-fact. DM typically will backup those apps too when you do that. I've had DM b/u FB and AIM when "upgrading" but BBSAK did not pick them up. Perhaps this can be a future feature release... Food for thought - great app though - thanks.

Originally Posted by sunkast

Here you go. How to restore 3rd party apps.

Nice job Sun :35:

Originally Posted by HarlyFan

Does this automatically restore all data as well?

not yet...hopefully one day...

Originally Posted by ktklein

Silly question: How do you view/clear the event log? I can do it using JL Commander (CrakUtil never works - it can view but never deletes). Can BBSAK do it? Thanks.

I just did a backup and it worked great - very fast too. I noticed however it did not backup the Facebook app. Although FB is an OS-installed app, I installed the most recent version manually after-the-fact. DM typically will backup those apps too when you do that. I've had DM b/u FB and AIM when "upgrading" but BBSAK did not pick them up. Perhaps this can be a future feature release... Food for thought - great app though - thanks.

will look into the even log and to the fb and aim backup issue


Sunkast awesome video! gonna add it to post 1

I am all for streamlined apps, and one thing I do is keep previous versions in case the time comes that the developer(s) has to make room and remove older unused features to make room fo the new ones.

BBSAK has really made the process of tweaking your BB so much easier. It can be very intimidating if you don't know what you are doing, luckily I just roll with it.

post 1 updated with version 1.4!!!

Originally Posted by wowthatisrandom

post 1 updated with version 1.4!!!

Very nice sir, looking forward to giving it a whirl.

Like how the device model changes based on what device you have plugged in.

Originally Posted by sunkast

Like how the device model changes based on what device you have plugged in.

I just like how you don't have to use DM :hail:

1.4 seems to be locking up on my Vista machine. Phone is 9530 running the 5.0 os. When you back up, bbsak seems to just never finish the back up. Phone screen has the phone and computer icon frozen on there. Looking in explorer it seems as the back up file is made as I have the folder with everything in it listed. But bbsak never says hey I'm done!!