How to dump CommDb on the real device. Symbian s60 3rd

[Hexxx]

Is there any way to dump CommDb on the real device. Is there any tool like ceddump available?

[symbianyucca]

Haven't seen any, anyway, you could try utilizing normal function on reading the data, and then logging it into a file from your own code.

[nigel.brown]

If you have an AllFiles devcert, then you can get the commdb file off the handset, put it on the emulator c drive and use ceddump to have a look at it.

Which file?

Fire up the emulator, change something in the commdb, then look for the most recently changed files in the emulator filesystem (probably using a windoze explorer search). A quick glance with a hex editor will confirm which one it is.

You probably aren't allowed to do this, so forget you read anything.

[Hexxx]

Using the TRK hacks I was able to get AllFiles capability and the necessary files. But if I put them to emulator folders - emulators' OS owerwrites them with default ones. It happens both when the when I try to launch the emulator and when I try to use ceddump.

[wizard_hu_]

If you are already that big hacker, you could simply open the database file with the two possible approaches (RDbNamedDatabase and RDbStoreDatabase+CPermanentFileStore), one of them will probably work (in fact CommDb.h contains which one), and use the RDbDatabase+RDbView methods to get info about tables, column names, column types, and the data itself after all.