hi...just a quick question, when it come to put the insecure tar file with odin 1.85, on "pda" button...does i have to extract the file before or simply put the winzip file inside??
thanks for your anwser...
U flash the tar file not the zip file. If its a zip, extract the tar and then flash. Have a look at the guide in the dev forum, its got pretty pictures
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Ok thanks.....
I just flashed UHLB2 from Intratech's thread.
My phone downloaded the file fine, and Odin had a green 'PASS!' in the top left corner. I think it installed OK as well as I saw the word 'Sucessfully (something)' just before it rebooted.
But now trying to turn it on, the phone is in a perpetual state of starting up. It just replays the starting animation over and over again.
What is wrong?
Also, I noticed the file I downloaded was ~286MB, as opposed to ~333MB in the file from sammobile. Intratech's file was .7zip, and sammobile's was just .zip.
aaronsclee said:
I just flashed UHLB2 from Intratech's thread.
My phone downloaded the file fine, and Odin had a green 'PASS!' in the top left corner. I think it installed OK as well as I saw the word 'Sucessfully (something)' just before it rebooted.
But now trying to turn it on, the phone is in a perpetual state of starting up. It just replays the starting animation over and over again.
What is wrong?
Also, I noticed the file I downloaded was ~286MB, as opposed to ~333MB in the file from sammobile. Intratech's file was .7zip, and sammobile's was just .zip.
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I'm just speculating... I don't think 7zip files are compatible with Odin. That's probably your problem. The 7zip file from Intratech will contain compatible zip files. You can extract it using the program 7zip(freeware) which I'd highly recommend for general use anyway.
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I'm just speculating... I don't think 7zip files are compatible with Odin. That's probably your problem. The 7zip file from Intratech will contain compatible zip files. You can extract it using the program 7zip(freeware) which I'd highly recommend for general use anyway.
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Yeah I do unzip the files with 7zip, after which it is a .md5 file.
And I've flashed many times before using that method so I don't think it's that. Thanks anyway.
.7zip file is not supported by Odin.
You need to extract that .7zip file, you will get .zip file that supported by Odin.
I think the downloaded file you used is incomplete. Most of the file sizes downloaded are around 350MB or higher. Recommend you re-download the file again or even an older release and re-flash the phone.
aaronsclee said:
Yeah I do unzip the files with 7zip, after which it is a .md5 file.
And I've flashed many times before using that method so I don't think it's that. Thanks anyway.
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Just rename .md5 to .zip file.
JasMiL said:
Just rename .md5 to .zip file.
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No. Odin can flash .md5 so you should leave it. md5 files actually help because Odin can check the md5 hash and stop if the file is corrupt/incomplete.
But you have to extract it from 7z because it can't flash that.
Sounds like you've got an incomplete file if the file size is less than what you'd expect. Re-download and try flash again.
Also, to those saying extract the 7zip file; I'm pretty sure OP said he had done that before flashing and had used the .md5 file. Unless I'm reading his posts wrong, in which case, yes unzip the 7zip file and flash the .md5.
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Sounds like you've got an incomplete file if the file size is less than what you'd expect. Re-download and try flash again.
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Hm..
I've downloaded and flashed again, but I have the same problem. The new file was bigger than the original one, so the original was probably incomplete. But the file has been at about 274MB for about 6 hours now on Intratech's post. I guess I'll just have to stick to LA4 for now then.
Guys help, I want to flush my sgs into ics but when I click PDA to install TAR file it does not find tar file and when i open folder its just show on file called zImage only
please help.
Dont unzip, flash the file you downloaded.
Thanks i dd it.
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Hello. Is it possible to flash a zip Rom using Odin? I need to flash a zip.
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yes, just take whats inside the zip and make it into a tar.md5 file and that way you can flash it through odin.
PD: it's better to make it .tar.md5 in a linux machine, don't know why doesn't seem to work on windows.
cheers
sebarg said:
yes, just take whats inside the zip and make it into a tar.md5 file and that way you can flash it through odin.
PD: it's better to make it .tar.md5 in a linux machine, don't know why doesn't seem to work on windows.
cheers
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a .tar.md5 is just a .zip renamed?
sebarg said:
yes, just take whats inside the zip and make it into a tar.md5 file and that way you can flash it through odin.
PD: it's better to make it .tar.md5 in a linux machine, don't know why doesn't seem to work on windows.
cheers
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I don't understand. How do I create a .tar.md5 file with a flashable zip?
Lol when your a making .zip then why are you not flashing it directly on your device through cwm??
Edward Cullen
zapcow said:
a .tar.md5 is just a .zip renamed?
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Do I use a program to convert zip to tar.md5 ????
Avilove.Cullen said:
Lol when your a making .zip then why are you not flashing it directly on your device through cwm??
Edward Cullen
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Recovery or my Rom just isn't reading my zip file!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1750960
This link gives some background to what I've already done...
What do I do after I make the zip into a tar file?
extract the zip via winrar or 7 zip and reveal its contents please sir
ajay8055 said:
extract the zip via winrar or 7 zip and reveal its contents please sir
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Meta inf, system, boot.img and installbusybox
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go to jaggys. rom thread following the tutorial unlock your bootloader and install the recovery after that install this zip via recovery. you can't install this zip via odin and you can't convert it to .tar. ....have a nice day sir any questions fell free to post here or ask Google
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sebarg said:
yes, just take whats inside the zip and make it into a tar.md5 file and that way you can flash it through odin.
PD: it's better to make it .tar.md5 in a linux machine, don't know why doesn't seem to work on windows.
cheers
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you can't blindly do a .tar file of extracted files coz Odin wouldn't recognize it like Meta inf is a script for cwm not Odin the rom is packed in such a way that cwm installs it not Odin
Could I use fastboot? I am not having a nice day, my phone is not reading the zip file because it thinks it is corrupted.
ri123 said:
Could I use fastboot? I am not having a nice day, my phone is not reading the zip file because it thinks it is corrupted.
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you need to flash it via recovery...fastboot wont work redownload the file...........
just extract the zip file ,click with right mice button and choos extract,you get a SS_DL.dll document and a tar.MD5 package.
I got this file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357471
that references odin in the subject of the thread. I tried flashing it via cwm, but kept getting a black screen on boot after the s4 screen.
so I wanted to try odin. but it's a zip. Is there a process to convert to tar.gz? Do I just extract, then recompress to a tar.gz?
sebarg said:
yes, just take whats inside the zip and make it into a tar.md5 file and that way you can flash it through odin.
PD: it's better to make it .tar.md5 in a linux machine, don't know why doesn't seem to work on windows.
cheers
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Ahh, that's because in the \system\etc\terminfo\e\ directory there are two files with the respective names: Eterm and eterm. Linux file names are case-sensitive, Windows file names aren't,so Windows will overwrite one. If you then create a gz file, one of the files is missing.
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Lol when your a making .zip then why are you not flashing it directly on your device through cwm??
Edward Cullen
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what is cwm? i want ot flash my s4, i search and i found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Flashing_Guide_-_Android
but it won't help me, please send me some links
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sebarg said:
yes, just take whats inside the zip and make it into a tar.md5 file and that way you can flash it through odin.
PD: it's better to make it .tar.md5 in a linux machine, don't know why doesn't seem to work on windows.
cheers
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I have tried this already....
but Odin Pops up a window saying: ".md5 binary is invalid"
tar/tar.gz from zip file
have seen this question a lot.
to create the tar file, you normally have to be in a Unix environment and an app like File-Roller can do the job of compressinf the files you extracted from the original zip file.
Allright, the solution is simple. You don't even need a Linux machine!
First, check your ZIP file. Does it contain a folder only? And are there some files in that folder? Then you have to make a ZIP file, which only contains those files, otherwise Odin cannot flash it. If there are just some files (and folders?) in your ZIP file, you can just leave it as it is.
Then, you have to download this little tool (direct link) and the thread here . Extract it somewhere you like to have it.
Place your ZIP file in the main directory (the folder where Runme.bat is located) and rename it to yourfile.img, then run Runme.bat (as Admin, probably?)
Now you have a TAR file!
Have a nice day,
VengaXDA
I'm wondering if anyone has a different upload site for the no wipe ME7 factory image. I'm trying to return my phone to stock from root and every zip I have downloaded from android host has an error when unzipping the md5. I would really appreciate this if anyone has one available. I tried it from the OP of the original thread, but like I said the host site or file is being difficult for me.
Edit: Found some mirrors, and everything downloads fine, problem is everytime I extract the file it says its broken and it won't unzip.
You dont need to unzip the md5, just use the md5 in odin.
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I know, but the md5 comes in a zip file and I can't get the zip open to get the md5 out lol unless I'm able to flash the whole zip, but last I looked I couldn't, it wouldn't even show the zip to select.
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Are you using 7zip?
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I tried it with both 7zip and windows explorer
Edit: I ended up getting a new s4 today which had MDK on it which led me to downloading the md5 for the MDK version and I realized what had been missing was the .md5 on the initial zip of the folder which was why it wouldn't flash in odin nor would it unzip. Thanks for the help, I was having a blond moment lol
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