i wanna ask here in order to complete some perfect app2sd darktremor in XXKPH. We know that this function are available only if we could edit boot.img file (someone has done this before but it looks like he was disappear before XXKPH are come out).
Yes i just need want to know how to unpack samsung boot.img file, i have been searching a while via Google and i still couldn't find better answer.
Hope we could stick together to make app2sd available in a XXKPH
Thanks for your attention
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack,_Edit,_and_Re-Pack_Boot_Images
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Hey all, Well i know we could not wait for a Honeycomb theme, i know i cannot, but heres my conundrum.
I have made a honeycomb keyboard, but cannot get it to install for the life of me, ive used the testkeys, shared, platform, etc (all using Signapktic from Stericson. Does anyone have any clue as to why it will not install?
A few questions that i know you might ask, answered ...
No, there is no other keyboard, other than swype, and samsung keypad..
I made it off of the GB keyboard...
Yes, I have made many of themes, many of changes to Frameworks, and have had sucess installing, and running my custom roms....
My question basically is this, IF POSSIBLE, CAN ANYONE SIGN THE FILES I HAVE TO MAKE THIS WORK? PM ME AND I SHALL SEND THE FILES. CREDIT WILL BE GIVIN, I AM ON THE OTHER HAND GOING TO NEED SOME SORT OF PROOF YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING, I WORKED REAL HARD ON THIS, SO FOR RIGHT NOW ITS PRIVATE, HENSE THE PM.
THANKS AGAIN IN ADVANCE. REMEMBER .. LETS GET THIS HONEYTCOMB GOING
I know that most of the keyboards dont work simply by installing but rather need to be pushed to the data\app or data\app_s folder depending on which rom you are running. You can accomplish this using adb or using a file explorer like RootExplorer.
Thanks
Thank you man, this helps a whole lot. Now do i need to re-sign each apk inside the rom folder? or can i just re-sign the .zip?
georgegreco86 said:
Thank you man, this helps a whole lot. Now do i need to re-sign each apk inside the rom folder? or can i just re-sign the .zip?
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I'm not sure what .zip you're refering to other than a CWM recovery flashable .zip for you keyboard. If this is what you mean, then use the same signiture (key) you'd find in any of the flashable .zips on the forums. In other words, just copy over the META-INF folder from some other .zip to yours. Of course, you'll want to make sure the update-script in this folder is pointing at the proper directories for installation.
For your apk, you should only need to sign it if you changed the AndroidManifest.xml. Otherwise, just keep the META-INF folder from them original apk.
I remember that the first realase of free x10 is dual start
i think it`s very useful
i know make this will make xrecovery unable to use
but i have to use camcoder sometimes
and i really like the android 2.3
can i have them both?
i have tried make a xrecovery backup of 2.3 and
flash tool to stock 2.1
then install the first freex10 edition
restart and anything goes fine(the first2.2 canbe used)
andthen i reboot to the stock 2.1 rom
put the .img files into freex10 floder(which is used to include the first realase of freex10,the dual start edition)
restart
but it doesn`t work ...
whocan helpme ...
forgive my bad english ...
i am looking forward to you help especially the help form the developers like j and z...
best regards
plz help...
please help me ...
i really want them both !
SORRY . dual boot won't happen now
Cheers!
AdY
Sent from my Xperia X10 using xda premium app
why？
Why. Can't ?I think it's possible .
It was in the alpha version. It has some thing to do with x recovery. Z did mention that out won't be possible
Cheers!
AdY
Sent from my Xperia X10 using xda premium app
THanks
but i still want a dual start edition...
i will try my best wo deal with it
can anyone tell me how to transfer the .img file from xrecovery backup to the .img file like the first freex10 realase ?
as for data.img
the backup file for data.img is about 200Mb or so
but the first freex10 realase`s data.img file is about 512Mb...That means it has some empty space for new files...
can anyone help me ?
as for xrecovery
i think we can easily make a swicher to swich from dual start 2.1 to xrecovery or swich back
what i mean is the 2.3 is in the phone and the stock 2.1 is in the sd card as for a second system to be used
i was trying to make a dual boot option viable by tr to run freex10-beta4 off the sdcard (spent a full day on it) but couldnt get it working... had mixed the files of freex10-alpha (which was sdcard/dual boot version) and freex10-beta4 but the system always keeps hanging at SE text logo... tried contacting Z but he has been inactive for a while now (1month)... also contacted J but he suggested that the ramdisk was the problem and i dont have the expertise to create my own ramdisk ...
so sorry mate cant help u out there...
ramdisk?
how to make it suitable with beta 4 ...or even better with stock 2.1?
i presume that u want to use 2.1 for its camera... so if u want to use it for video/hd recording then running (2.1) from sdcard wont be a good idea.... rather let it run from the NAND and try n put beta4 on sdcard...
there are a LOT of things involved to even get upto the stage of booting... like creating xrecovery images (yaffs FS)... converting them to fit in ext2fs img files of data (512mb)/system (256mb)/cache (128mb)... verifying file permissions within the images... once thts done modifying the boot-hijack script 'chargemon' to mount these files... then comes the part of ramdisk modification which i have no clue on how to do it... may be someone can help out???
But. How. To .. converting them to fit in ext2fs img files of data (512mb)/system (256mb)/cache (128mb)... verifying file permissions within the images.
The. Biggest problem is the ram disk isn't it ?
zjhjack123 said:
But. How. To .. converting them to fit in ext2fs img files of data (512mb)/system (256mb)/cache (128mb)... verifying file permissions within the images.
The. Biggest problem is the ram disk isn't it ?
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converting the yaffs images (xrecovery/nandroid backups) to fit in ext2fs images is the simple part... for windows: there is a tool called unyaffs which will help u extract content from these images and then use info from here to create the data/system/cache images... and then mount them using a disk mounting tool (i have used Gizmo central).... for linux it even simpler as one can just perform loop mounting... and then paste the contents from xtracted xrecovery images into them...
and yes ramdisk is the biggest problem as of now...
I am wondering what is included in the ram disk,and how it influence the boot process of the rom.I think if you know some. about this ,we may make it .
ramdisk.tar
it has the following files:
default.prop
init
init.rc
init.es209ra.rc
init.goldfish.rc
i think the init*.rc files are the ones which need to be modified for this to work... but as i said before i dont have the expertise in modifying these files...
i dont have the expertise either ...I think we can make it ...
What is used to modify these things ?I even have on idea about how to pack up them into ramdisk.tar...forgive me ...
I am using windows and if is needed I can install ubuntu or any system except mac os...
And do you have google talk account ?my google account is. [email protected]
Do you have any other talk tools ... like MSN or even better a QQ number?
Gtalk is limited in china... ****!
哈哈，老外看见我输入中文一定很郁闷，不过你看的懂。。
zjhjack123 is a chinese aged 16...lol~~
I think the foreign friends see my reply will be puzzled,but it doesn't matter..
@zjhjack123
hey some progress... i could get past the SE text logo and was able to see FreeX10 bootscreen... but it doesnt proceed beyond that and just reboots...
have contacted J & Z regarding this... lets hope they can help us out...
DooMLoRD said:
hey some progress... i could get past the SE text logo and was able to see FreeX10 bootscreen... but it doesnt proceed beyond that and just reboots...
have contacted J & Z regarding this... lets hope they can help us out...
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Its really good isn't it?
There must be some lib or something ,I'll check it out as soon as my hard disk is returned by my brother ...
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this? I've done a search and all I can find is one from the international version and that's based on the 2.3.1 build.
TIA
check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
daraj said:
check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
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Nothing there about stock system dump.
BigBolo said:
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this? I've done a search and all I can find is one from the international version and that's based on the 2.3.1 build.
TIA
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Entropy512 started with a stock system dump that someone, (maybe Jivy26), made after installing a custom kernel. But I don't remember he ever posted a link to it. He may still have it hanging around, though. That's what he used to make his stock plus root package.
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Nothing there about stock system dump.
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Um, what do you think a flashable stock system image is? (Other than being a sparse ext4 image, if you want something loop-mountable use simg2img...)
Seriously - spend just a LITTLE more time reading before you post in a Development thread. This device has been out for only 2 weeks so it's not like the Dev forum has tons of threads.
There's also a dd-derived system dump in page 5 of codeworkx's CWM kernel thread. I used jivy26's tar dump, although I should probably do a consistency check against seattleboi1982's dump.
Entropy512 said:
Um, what do you think a flashable stock system image is? (Other than being a sparse ext4 image, if you want something loop-mountable use simg2img...)
Seriously - spend just a LITTLE more time reading before you post in a Development thread. This device has been out for only 2 weeks so it's not like the Dev forum has tons of threads.
There's also a dd-derived system dump in page 5 of codeworkx's CWM kernel thread. I used jivy26's tar dump, although I should probably do a consistency check against seattleboi1982's dump.
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I'm actually looking for the system dump in a zip where I can extract it into folders. Not as a image. I want to basically get the media files. I did do a search in several forums trying to find it but came up with nothing.
Maybe I should of been more detailed and specific in my OP.
BigBolo said:
I'm actually looking for the system dump in a zip where I can extract it into folders. Not as a image. I want to basically get the media files. I did do a search in several forums trying to find it but came up with nothing.
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Can't you just extract the stock system image?
eep2378 said:
Can't you just extract the stock system image?
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I don't know how to do that...
Then you probably don't belong in android development (yet).
Use 7zip to extract the zip/tar/whatever.
In general, you're not supposed to put requests in Development. This should have been posted in General.
And a stock system dump IS an image dump. Zip files don't preserve permissions, and tar files only do if you prepared them carefully (good thing jivy26 did). The only way to be sure is to dd the partition.
If you want a nice easy to use zip, use paylyhoffman's stock deodexed CWM zip.
Entropy512 said:
In general, you're not supposed to put requests in Development. This should have been posted in General.
And a stock system dump IS an image dump. Zip files don't preserve permissions, and tar files only do if you prepared them carefully (good thing jivy26 did). The only way to be sure is to dd the partition.
If you want a nice easy to use zip, use paylyhoffman's stock deodexed CWM zip.
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Thanks for clearing it up. My bad I thought this was the section to post requests like that.
Also folks before jumping on the guy, what he is asking for (at least with the .7z file posted) isn't as straightforward as everyone thinks.
If you first extract the 7z file, you'll get a PDA.tar file. Extract that and you'll get the kernel (zImage) and the lovely factoryfs.img.
Try extracting factoryfs.img with your favorite tools and see what happens.
Extracting the factoryfs.img is a real pain unless you are pretty hardcore -- in fact, there was another thread going on the in international SGS II forum with some pretty well known devs (who know their stuff) trying to figure out how to extract that bad boy.
So before everyone starts throwing rocks...you know the story.
Does this look easy to you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054836 (relevant discussion starts around post #7)
and another solution (which also is not as simple as "right-click and extract")
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
Now -- with that said, if one was really looking for an easy way to pull some media files from a ROM, you best bet would be to try and find a CWM flashable ROM (in a zip format) and do a regular extract on those, and you may find it much easier. They may not be stock, but if it's close, you may get lucky and find some of the stock media in them.
pinoymutt said:
Also folks before jumping on the guy, what he is asking for (at least with the .7z file posted) isn't as straightforward as everyone thinks.
If you first extract the 7z file, you'll get a PDA.tar file. Extract that and you'll get the kernel (zImage) and the lovely factoryfs.img.
Try extracting factoryfs.img with your favorite tools and see what happens.
Extracting the factoryfs.img is a real pain unless you are pretty hardcore -- in fact, there was another thread going on the in international SGS II forum with some pretty well known devs (who know their stuff) trying to figure out how to extract that bad boy.
So before everyone starts throwing rocks...you know the story.
Does this look easy to you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054836 (relevant discussion starts around post #7)
and another solution (which also is not as simple as "right-click and extract")
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
Now -- with that said, if one was really looking for an easy way to pull some media files from a ROM, you best bet would be to try and find a CWM flashable ROM (in a zip format) and do a regular extract on those, and you may find it much easier. They may not be stock, but if it's close, you may get lucky and find some of the stock media in them.
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Thanks for clarifying that pinoymutt. Yea basically I know a lot of people don't like the finished charging notification but I don't mind it and I figured it's as simple as just placing the ogg file back in the ui folder. I'm on DG's Cog X2 and he had removed that.
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Thanks for clarifying that pinoymutt. Yea basically I know a lot of people don't like the finished charging notification but I don't mind it and I figured it's as simple as just placing the ogg file back in the ui folder. I'm on DG's Cog X2 and he had removed that.
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Doubt it's that simple. I removed the notification by modifying code. I would bet dg did the same.
I keep flashing the roms a lot and have to install a couple of apps again and again,
which has been very annoying.
Is there a method to make a CWM flashable zip such as "gapps package"
Lets say these are the apps i want to turn into a single flashable zip
whatsapp,
Google Translate,
AirDroid,
Scan
I looked at threads but they were mostly for other phones, cant find anything specific for SGS 3 I9300
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721680
Can I use the above method and where should i place the apks in the system folder?
Hi mate,
Just give the apks ,I will make a flashable package for you.
Have a look at how others have made them, it's not that hard to work out.
But who has made it? How was it made?
could you point me to so called "others"
@mk256
I appreciate your help, but
would you let me know how its done because i have a long list of apps?
kuntu said:
But who has made it? How was it made?
could you point me to so called "others"
@mk256
I appreciate your help, but
would you let me know how its done because i have a long list of apps?
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Virtually any flashable zip will do, all you need to do is edit the updater-script and put all the apps in the right place. Then sign the zip and flash it.
I think you are looking for something like this:
[TUTORIAL] Create your own UPDATE.ZIP
Hi guys im a noob to the forums and to rom customisation in general so im hoping someone can help me.
I have a generic MX dual core, and have been supplied a flash firmware and image from the supplier. This image is basic and does not contain all of the repos that i want, nor the apps that I require.
The image supplied is a zipfile and contains:
factory_update_param.aml
hd18d_mx4.zip
recovery.img
I am able to successfully restore my box with this image (so I know that the image is working fine).
Within the hd18d_mx4.zip there is:
Directotories: data, META-INF, recovery, system
files: boot.img, bootloaded.img, logo.img
I can see the all the system APK files within the system/app folder. The problem is when i try to add another APK file into this directory within the archive (in this case videomix.apk), I am not able to restore the image to the MX device.
Can anyone help me with a noobies guide to do this. I have read that the apk file has to be signed, and the zip file has to be signed also?? But im not quite sure what this means, nor how I go about doing it.
Any help or tutorials will be much appreciate. I have downloaded the APK-multi-tool but dont have a clue what I need to do
Look forward to your replies.
P.S. Im using a windows 64 bit machine and not Linux (if that makes any difference).
I'm facing the same thing, did you end up having luck with this?
If not is there anyone that can assist?