I'd like to say I know what I'm doing but now im second guessing myself. When I unzip the EC01 radio file to use in odin, it unzips as modem.bin. Is that correct? I thought all files had to unzip to .tar.md5 in order to flash via odin. Any help or clarification would be appreciated.
If its odin its going to be a .tar file or MD5 file.
You don't extract the files. Just push the file in odin.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA Premium App
ezas said:
If its odin its going to be a .tar file or MD5 file.
You don't extract the files. Just push the file in odin.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1. Just load it in Odin, do not unzip. The way it comes, it is ready for Odin.
You only unzip if the file has .zip at the end... i noticed myself that the icon for the file is the same sometimes (stack of books) whether its .tar or .zip
Sent from my Superclean Voodoo Fascinate
Thanks!
ziggy484 said:
You only unzip if the file has .zip at the end... i noticed myself that the icon for the file is the same sometimes (stack of books) whether its .tar or .zip
Sent from my Superclean Voodoo Fascinate
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you all:
I'm new to rooting,
Android Version= 2.3.3
Baseband Version= I9100NEKF2
Kernel version= 2.6.35.7-I9100XWKF4-CL280512
Build Number= GINGERBREAD.XWKF4
Firstly am i looking for KF2 or KF4?
I downloaded the zip file for KF2 from chainfire afew posts down where he writes "yet more downloads" but i get a zImage file being extracted instead of the .tar file i expected.
what am I doing wrong? where is the right root kernel for me? I want to use Chainfire's as he provides everything in one.
Thanks.
You need to know your PDA version, not baseband. *#1234# in keypad and see it. Then download the same XXX.zip from CF thread. If you download that .zip file then you will get .tar after extraction, then to get the zImage you have to extract that .tar file again.
Regards.
ithehappy said:
You need to know your PDA version, not baseband. *#1234# in keypad and see it. Then download the same XXX.zip from CF thread. If you download that .zip file then you will get .tar after extraction, then to get the zImage you have to extract that .tar file again.
Regards.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thnks, my PDA is XWKF4 so I just downloaded CF-Root-SGS2_ZS_OZS_KF4-v4.0-CWM4. The same thing happens when I extract though. the zImage is for when you already have root to flash from SDcard isnt it? I havent got root.
Smousers said:
Thnks, my PDA is XWKF4 so I just downloaded CF-Root-SGS2_ZS_OZS_KF4-v4.0-CWM4. The same thing happens when I extract though. the zImage is for when you already have root to flash from SDcard isnt it? I havent got root.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's the right file you downloaded. I just checked for you again, and I do get .tar file if I extract that downloaded zip with 7Zip/WinRar. Don't know why aren't you getting it!!!
ithehappy said:
That's the right file you downloaded. I just checked for you again, and I do get .tar file if I extract that downloaded zip with 7Zip/WinRar. Don;t know why aren't you getting it!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just tried it with 7zip aswell. I dont understand this
Is there anything else you can recommend?
Cheers
Are you downloading a kernel instead of the cwm and root file .
As said 6mb file zipped unzip that file open the folder and inside is a tar file . Flash the tar file do not open it .
You are opening the tar file is your problem .
jje
What's the size of the zip you downloaded, is it ~6 MB?
Make sure you are downloading this one,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=630778&d=1308560606
Thanks guys. Got Root now, what do i do with the superuser/CWM apps, also installed ROm manager and titanium backup but dont want to mess about before i know exactly what im doing.
I know i want to freeze/remove all the bull**** i dont need, what else can i do with root now and how?
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.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA
I have downloaded the update from the link below, and am confused.
it is a zip, with a 7zip in it, with a TAR in it. shouldn't the update just be the update.zip with the .img and .bin in the zip? Or is it really 3 layers of packages?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444714&highlight=el01
here is the link to the update.zip http://goo.gl/6XtFD
Thanks
Rob
It should be named "update.zip" so you can flash it properly.
Use 7zip to rename it to update.zip
If you do decide to rename it from windows, most of the time it will have .zip at the end already, but won't show it. So if you add .zip manually, it will turn out update.zip.zip
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
Questions go in the Q&A section
Hello. Is it possible to flash a zip Rom using Odin? I need to flash a zip.
Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e using XDA
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Meta inf, system, boot.img and installbusybox
Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e using xda app-developers app
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
---------- Post added at 06:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:37 PM ----------
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Avilove.Cullen said:
Lol when your a making .zip then why are you not flashing it directly on your device through cwm??
Edward Cullen
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
This Is Not Working At All
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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