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[Q] Extracting .apk from nandroid backup?

Ok so I've cooked my own ROM using dsixda's kitchen based on the stock euro 2.13.401.3 RUU.
I added apps2sd functionality and got it all working lovely, but have added a few apps after first boot - so there is data and SD cards ext2 partition.
I want to update the ROM to include as standard these .apk's so I followed the guide in the kitchen thread to unpack system.img and boot.img using the kitchen from a nandroid backup (CWM latest version)
My question is to pull the additional apps into my working ROM do I just copy and paste from the sd-ext.ext2.tar and place in /system/app or are there other files I need to copy over from the unpacked system.img?
Or is this just a complicated/convoluted way of doing things and is it better to rebuild my ROM from scratch before I flash to the phone and instigate apps2sd?
Many thanks
BT

Anyone shed any light please???
BT

Flashable Zip Files? O.o

Wondering if all zip files (apps, obviously) are flashable. Suppose I download an app in a Zip file and I flash it using CWM, does it get flashed and turn into a system file? I have also noticed that there a images in a few zips I've downloaded and extracted (using androzip). What happens to these images when i flash the zip?
Seriously confused.

Apps and .zips are two different things.
You cant install apps through flashing(Except if someone has made a flashable .zip)
Also apps are not in .zip/.rar format they are in .apk and can be installed through your file manager

Thats why we have a FAQ thread stuck in the section... pls ask questions there..

[Q] Convert Stock Rom to zip

Hi All :good:
I have my Nandroid backup of Stock Rom (done in TWRP)
the backup file is in .win format.
So, Is it possible to convert the Nandroid backup in a flashable zip file?
any tutorial available?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
[KITCHEN] Android Kitchen, v0.224 [Linux / Mac / Windows]
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[Q] embarased for asking this.

In TWRP, when you flash a rom you are pointing it to a .zip file, or bootloader or modem or whatever. Great, but when I create a backup of my rom in TWRP it doesnt make a flashable .zip it just makes 4 .win files. If I then go into TWRP and select restore it asks for the location of the .zip and if I go to that location obviously there is none to be found. Do I just use like winrar or 7zip and make it a .zip or what? I dont understand this and I better because If I ever need it Im screwed.

TWRP backups are not zip files. You point it to where TWRP created the backup folder.

[Q] How to make backup file into zip

Hi everyone, im a newbie and i wonder how to make a zip from twrp backup. The backup not the single zip file. But its look like this

use winrar