Hiya I am interested in compiling my own version of the android project from the latest sources for Hero but I am having a little bit of trouble, I have been attempting to follow this guide android.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=301857&view=findpost&p=1179830 but it does not seem to make a lot of sense to me. For instance there is no .repo/local_manifest.xml file only a .repo/manifest.xml file and editing this as outlined gives me an error. Could somebody point me in the direction of a fairly noob friendly guide for this kind of stuff, thanks a lot.
Conb123
P.S Sorry about the dodgy link, newbie restrictions prevented me from formatting it properly
this should be in Q&A Section not development really. But im looking for this too! installed ubuntu using Wubi set up JDK,SDK testsign etc and repo but god knows how to do it all! I only want to port cyanogenROM
follow this: http://source.android.com/download
when you got everything synced you can basically type "make" and watch it compile for a while. i managed to do it with just above zero knowledge about compiling.
if you want the cyanogen sources try it with the according repo. i have zero idea about vendor overlays, as i needed to compile only the recovery (watched two hours of eclair compiling, then was told i need cupcake sources and can compile the recovery only...)
Yes I am aware of how to get sources and how to compile them, I am fairly well versed in linux. But I do not know how I can compile it into a usable rom for hero.
the result of the compiling are image files that can be flashed to the phone: system.img etc. you can extract them using unyaffs.
I ran the make command, but i really have no idea what to do from there. What is the end result of doing the first make command? Im fairly sure that it is not a single .img file you can flash onto your phone. You need to make a kernal if i am correct(anyone know how to do this?)
the result of the compiling is at least a system.img. if you compiled it correctly you can flash that to /system partition. further you need a boot.img, which also contains the kernel. the the rom-cooking howto in dev section how to create one, or just get one from a working rom.
fwiw, the .img files are in out/target/product/generic/ (although there probably is a device specific directory in there if you handled the vendor overlay correctly. <- this is just a guess, i have actually no idea).
Wanna link us to that how to thread? I cant seem to find a complete one with working links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551711
For now simply follow the instructions and use the provided file download from the link posted below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48392009&postcount=1
I have personaly tested this method in full on My AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 ZOOM SM-C105AUCUAMJ2 (4.2.2 Jelly Bean)
although it should be safe to use on any AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 ZOOM running an android version prior to Kit-Kat
All Credit for this, "exellent completely safe", Root method goes to its creator k1mu
And please Know that it is only being shared with you via his explicit permission.
EDIT:
Q&A for [ROOT] Saferoot: Root for AT&T Galaxy S4 ZOOM SM-C105AUCUAMJ2_On 4.2.2 JB
Please if you are not on an AT&T Galaxy S4 ZOOM C-150a, Feel Free to Read
but Do not seek help,instruction, or any other type of advice by posting in this thread as it is hard enough to find information about a specific device when the said device does not have a dedicated forum. Thank You for your Understanding in this.
Instructions & Advice
If ?'s arise
and time allows I will add device specific instruction as well as any advice, Please bear with me. Same as above Q&A Link
Will this same method also work on the SM-C105AUCUAMJ2?
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Will this same method also work on the SM-C105AUCUAMJ2?
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Most Definitely as this was the reason for my post
Hey @Phatboyj420, as far as converting a raw OTA file to Odin files, here's what I can tell you. The OTA file should be filename.cfg, i.e. a cfg file. Believe it or not, this can be manipulated like an archive (like zip or rar or tar) so open that cfg file in 7zip, WinRar, or whatever. You're going to want to extract the files like (I can't guarantee this a full list, just the ones I can remember) modem.bin, NON-HLOS.bin, boot.img, recovery.img, aboot.mbn, rpm.mbn, sbl1.mbn, sbl2.mbn, sbl3.mbn (you might not have all 3, idk), and tz.mbn. Again, there may be others you need, and/or not all the ones I just listed might be necessary, they're just the ones I remember dealing with before. Oh, you're going to need to make sure the system, cache, and persdata partitions are all packed into .img.ext4 files, idk if they're like that in the OTA cfg archive.
Here's where it gets even hazier for me. So, I know from personal experience that you can take any of these files (I'll just use recovery.img for this example). In a linux terminal (I use Ubuntu for convenience's sake, my laptop has windows and ubuntu partitions) run this command:
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tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar
So that's how you can take any one of those files I mentioned last paragraph and pack it into an Odin-flashable tar. I'm still a n00b when it comes to the linux terminal, so I can't really say the syntax for packing more than one at once.
So I guess I haven't really given you the complete process, but hopefully this is at least a decent starting point. Honestly I consider myself a hobbyist at best, not an expert. muniz_ri, who Devo7v mentioned earlier, did all the heavy work in this regard so he can probably help you much more, I just didn't want to volunteer him for the job
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Hey @Phatboyj420, as far as converting a raw OTA file to Odin files, here's what I can tell you. The OTA file should be filename.cfg, i.e. a cfg file. Believe it or not, this can be manipulated like an archive (like zip or rar or tar) so open that cfg file in 7zip, WinRar, or whatever. You're going to want to extract the files like (I can't guarantee this a full list, just the ones I can remember) modem.bin, NON-HLOS.bin, boot.img, recovery.img, aboot.mbn, rpm.mbn, sbl1.mbn, sbl2.mbn, sbl3.mbn (you might not have all 3, idk), and tz.mbn. Again, there may be others you need, and/or not all the ones I just listed might be necessary, they're just the ones I remember dealing with before. Oh, you're going to need to make sure the system, cache, and persdata partitions are all packed into .img.ext4 files, idk if they're like that in the OTA cfg archive.
Here's where it gets even hazier for me. So, I know from personal experience that you can take any of these files (I'll just use recovery.img for this example). In a linux terminal (I use Ubuntu for convenience's sake, my laptop has windows and ubuntu partitions) run this command:
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tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar
So that's how you can take any one of those files I mentioned last paragraph and pack it into an Odin-flashable tar. I'm still a n00b when it comes to the linux terminal, so I can't really say the syntax for packing more than one at once.
So I guess I haven't really given you the complete process, but hopefully this is at least a decent starting point. Honestly I consider myself a hobbyist at best, not an expert. muniz_ri, who Devo7v mentioned earlier, did all the heavy work in this regard so he can probably help you much more, I just didn't want to volunteer him for the job
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Thanks My guy,
This definately gives me a good jumping off point.
The phone shipped with JB-4.2.2 and I think there has been an AT&T OTA for KK so it would have to be a complete Firmware so thats good news.
I'm working on several projects at once so I don't know exactly when I'll get to this but when I do the first thing will be to verify whether the .img's for data/system/cache are img.ext4 or not and if not how to produce correctly.
Also I don't have a Linux Dev setup yet I'm running Windows On a 2011 Dell XPS-17_L702x with an intel 2720 quad core. So from your post I take it Ubuntu would be your suggestion for Linux Distro. and should I make a separate Linux Partition and run from it, or run from a VM-Box inside of windows? Which do you think would be most efficient?
Now that I think of it I'm going to start a dedicated thread for development discussion for this specific device. If I start the thread in the Development section for the general S$-ZOOM but title it specifically for the " AT&T-C105a_ZOOM " do you think the mods would want to move it to the general Q&A section?
" I would hope that, as it would pertain directly to the development of the specific device they would see fit to leave it in the development section.
Sorry for the randomness of my thoughts but I will link you to the thread when I get around to starting on it.
For now I'm going to get back to work on the S4_Active for My daughters B-day I intend to have it Rooted and rommed out for her. When I get that done I'll make my way back to this Project, and start the dedicated thread.
Thanks again,
" I look forward to future collaboration as it seem we share a similar Hobie at the least ",
Phatboyj
Unfortunately for the few lonely SM-C105a users still hanging on out there this does not appear to be a completely effective root. I get this in dmesg: <3>[ 2130.920856] c0 Restricted changing UID. PID = 11580(su) PPID = 11575(sh)
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Unfortunately for the few lonely SM-C105a users still hanging on out there this does not appear to be a completely effective root. I get this in dmesg: <3>[ 2130.920856] c0 Restricted changing UID. PID = 11580(su) PPID = 11575(sh)
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What is your build # because this is a fully effective root method for the ATT SM-C105a running build# SM-C105AUCUAMJ2
Please elaborate on where your dmesg is coming from.
Is it from running Saferoot to obtain Root?
Or is it from some other function you are attempting after obtaining root?
@Phatboyj420 Great to see you here--when I'm sure your S4 Zoom is long gone. Yeah, that's my build and I should point out that I get that in dmesg only for certain operations in the system folder (trying to copy modules I think). No biggie, for day to day this method works fine. I'm more interested in whatever happened with that unbrick image you were trying to make from dd. Did you ever test it? Was it effective? My current efforts are focused on developing a reliable unbrick method for our phones. Rather than the complete image I think we may need to extract and flash the original bootloader in many cases. Can you provide any feedback on this?
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@Phatboyj420 Great to see you here--when I'm sure your S4 Zoom is long gone. Yeah, that's my build and I should point out that I get that in dmesg only for certain operations in the system folder (trying to copy modules I think). No biggie, for day to day this method works fine. I'm more interested in whatever happened with that unbrick image you were trying to make from dd. Did you ever test it? Was it effective? My current efforts are focused on developing a reliable unbrick method for our phones. Rather than the complete image I think we may need to extract and flash the original bootloader in many cases. Can you provide any feedback on this?
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@ capt_planit
while I have moved on from using my [email protected] S4-Zoom, I do still have it and the dd dumps of it the problem with providing said dumps publicly is that some "idiot would inevitably flash the complete dd.image to there phone giving them an exact clone of my phone explicitly the IMEI via EFS parition are my concerns.
That being said if I know that the dd.images were to be used in a proper manner, by say a knowledgeable Dev. I would gladly supply them to further /Kickoff Development,
It sounds as if we are of like mind but I found myself at a stand still and did not recieve any response from the plea in my Sig.
But rest assured if there is something I can do to assist I will.
as far as an unbrick.img for the Zoom c105a
I did make one but have had no reason to use it to know if it works or if the SD unbrick method even works for the Zoom like it does on the Galaxy S3 that the method was originally discovered on.
Even if it does work the SD-Unbrick method only gets you to a state where Download
mode works SO unless I am mistaken and you can access adb through Download Mode witch I'm pretty sure you cant, we would still be at a stand still as there is no stock firmware publicly available for our device " Ludacris I know " but true none the less.
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1 thing we need is the OTA update from JB to KitKat available for our device we need some one to extract it before updating then and only then might we be able to create an install-able firmware for our device.
if I'm not mistaken after you download the OTA update you should be able to find it in /cache/fota just zip the entire fota folder move it to your sd-card and make it available to me and we'll make it happen from there.
If you don't want to except the update just delete it at this point and reboot.
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I think this user @awwar describes an inability to access download mode>here. In anycase, I think that thread would be a great place to post your unbrick. image. I think your dd image seems too small. But if you still have it, that is what @moomoo was asking for when he started that thread. I can't provide mine, except as separate img files. My understanding is that flashing an efs image won't provide a real IMEI. I think flashing some combination of boot, system, cache (I'm surprised this would be necessary) and recovery should get the operator some kind of system. But so far it doesn't seem to work that way. Your help getting some working phone flash would be greatly appreciated. I believe, BTW that the OTA is dead...
Hi,
I'm actually trying to port Firefox OS 2.1 on the Nexus 7 2013 (aka "flo"), and after managed to download and compile the sources, I am facing a problem at the last step. Instead of flashing Firefox OS on my Nexus via the conventional method (using flash.sh), I would like to create a recovery-flashable zip file (as is often seen with custom ROMs). However, I have no idea how to build one, and the analysis of some zip files does not really helped me to understand which files to include and which script to write.
Here are the files generated by the build: http :// i.imgur.com / MgobUsp.png
If anyone could help me and explain me how to create that famous zip file ^^.
In advance,
thank you
Nobody? :-/
@cmbaughman was working on this in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2479192&page=6
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@cmbaughman was working on this in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2479192&page=6
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Due to a large project that came my way at work, I've been unable to work on this however I hope to in a few weeks after we demo our new apps. If you want to check mine out it's here http://goo.gl/gioiDv however the only real issue with mine which is quite fixable was that I used the wrong version of the Gaia, and webapps. You can use mine as a template really, here is how:
1. Build FF OS
2. Now when building ( I am going from memory here so ask if you ha e questions), pass the argument otapackage and you'll get a "flashable" update.zip in your out dir.
3. Find either a fully built version of ff for any device but make sure its the same version, OR build Gaia yourself, see the official docs for how to do that as they explain it very well.
4. From that you go through the output and find the webapps dir.
5. Copy webapps to your built otapckage at /system/b2g/webapps.
6. Now I'd use either my update script from the link I gave you (after looking through and updating anything that needs updated because mine is a few months old.) Make sure there is nothing in there about formatting data or anything (cause you don't want to lose that!) And after repackaging (use a kitchen or whatever method you prefer), you'll have a flashable Firefox zip.
Its a process so use a little trial and error and you'll overcome any issues you find. Any questions let me know.
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@cmbaughman was working on this in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2479192&page=6
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Due to a large project that came my way at work, I've been unable to work on this however I hope to in a few weeks after we demo our new apps. If you want to check mine out it's here http://goo.gl/gioiDv however the only real issue with mine which is quite fixable was that I used the wrong version of the Gaia, and webapps. You can use mine as a template really, here is how:
1. Build FF OS
2. Now
any progress on this im intrested in doing this
Don't waste your time creating such a zip file, just use fastboot to flash the various IMG compiled files.
Hi all, feeling somewhat frustrated, as all the posts I can find for P9000 require Windows to flash updated ROMs, Im looking to install 0315 (Ive got 0304 but need the Native FP API installed) but I run Mac and Linux so trying to figure out how to install the zip file? Anyone got any help?
Have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/rooting-roms/tutorial-how-to-setup-spflashtoollinux-t3160802
I did have a go on my laptop running arch linux but got an error with the scatter file so ended up doing it on a windows machine. However I have since seen this post on the Elephone forums:
Open the scatter in a editor and check the first bytes.
Ift there is anything before the "###" just delete and try again.
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here is the thread:
http://bbs.elephone.hk/thread-9967-1-1.html#.VwaEa6QrKUk
Good luck
I'm looking for a tool, or set of tools that is capable of unpacking and repacking Android IMG files on Windows. Ideally I'd prefer a cmd tool (or set of tools), but at this point any way to properly do it works for me.
I know I will get some heat for "not searching" so I'll say I have searched both XDA and Google and found several tools and guides on how to do this. Most of them are Linux based, and any of the ones I found for Windows were either incomplete or only on how to unpack the images. A link to a post would be very helpful.
Thank you in advanced.
Look inside here.
Awesome. I'll check it out when I'm home from work today, but this looks like what I was searching for. Thank you.