i want to use the MODEM.BIN of my provider's ROM in the cognition 1.31 ROM.
how can i extract it from the provider ROM and then flash it to the cognition?
is there a way to get to it from root explorer and just replace it or i need to extract from the provider ROM and flash to cognition?
what is actually the path of the MODEM.BIN in the sgs 2?
i tried looking for it manually but i couldn't find it.
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Unzip extract modem.bin.
Flash modem via Odin as phone.
JJEgan said:
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Unzip extract modem.bin.
Flash modem via Odin as phone.
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im not sure you quite got it.
i need to extract the modem file out of a ROM that i will install on my sgs 2 that's is the official ROM of my service provider.
and i dont know how to find it inside the phone
I've got it right? You do have an official ROM, you wonna take modem.bin out, save it, then install another custom rom and flash it back then? Right?
Ivan_Belarus said:
I've got it right? You do have an official ROM, you wonna take modem.bin out, save it, then install another custom rom and flash it back then? Right?
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exactly!
got any idea how can i do that?
Nope, as I know it's impossible - modem.bin is an image to flash hardware part and you cannot take it out. Even CWM doesnt backup and restore modem.bin.
It's like a new firmware for modem - you can flash it, but you cannot restore it back.
And what is your reason to do that?
im know that if ill ba able to change this modem my battery will improve dramatically.
how do i know that?
the service provider ROM is 2.3.3 and full of things that make your battery drain.
mine is cognition 1.3.1 and very slim with almost no battery drain apps and juice defender and setcpu on(which saves a lot of battery).
now i compared mine with a regular one that has their official ROM and i get maybe 2 hours more on regular use. also there's a big problem with all radio waves and reception.
now if you look at this:http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/s...II-Shipped-Radio-Collection?p=42051#post42051
pulser somehow extracted modems so people would be able to flash it. i wonder how he did it
As I C, he extracted modems from flash packages and reuse them in other reassembled packages then. It's pretty easy.
Ok, it is NOT IMPOSSIBLE. You just need to be rooted.
With root, run adb and use:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/modem.bin bs=4096
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Electroz said:
Ok, it is NOT IMPOSSIBLE. You just need to be rooted.
With root, run adb and use:
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Yep, it works well! I don't need it, but tried successfully. Good job,man. I didn't know.
Electroz said:
Ok, it is NOT IMPOSSIBLE. You just need to be rooted.
With root, run adb and use:
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now i just need to learn how to use adb
well its worth it, ill get going to it.
btw, if i did that command from (CMD)adb shell, what happens then?
or its much more complicated than this to extract it.
thanks anyway
You would need to do:
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/modem.bin bs=4096
exit
exit
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your modem.bin file will then be on your internal phone storage.
Electroz said:
You would need to do:
your modem.bin file will then be on your internal phone storage.
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my friend. thank you so much... i really appreciate it but if you can 2 more question.
using this way in adb is the basic?its just like any other command over there?
technically if i know all the commands-does it means using adb is this?
and you got any idea how to push the modem file into cmw zip?
eeebbr said:
my friend. thank you so much... i really appreciate it but if you can 2 more question.
using this way in adb is the basic?its just like any other command over there?
technically if i know all the commands-does it means using adb is this?
and you got any idea how to push the modem file into cmw zip?
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It would be easier to just use 7zip (or similar) tar compress the modem.bin (-> moden.tar) file so you can use ODIN to update your radio on the ROM of your choice. Once you have modem.tar - add that to the PDA field on ODIN and START. Of course all of the prequisites are required. Reboot your phone to download mode, ensure you have working USB drivers, etc.
Google search will reveal all you need to know about creating the file you can flash from recovery. Honestly I think it is way easier to just do this through ODIN. Good luck.
eeebbr said:
my friend. thank you so much... i really appreciate it but if you can 2 more question.
using this way in adb is the basic?its just like any other command over there?
technically if i know all the commands-does it means using adb is this?
and you got any idea how to push the modem file into cmw zip?
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You may flash it with Odin
Generally, all files are to be added to tar must be zipped with following commands:
tar -H ustar -с modem.bin > modem.tar
Then, if you'd prefer to have md5 signed file do the following
md5sum -t modem.tar >>modem.tar
mv modem.tar modem.tar.md5
That's all, then you may flash it with Odin as phone part
Extract modem from file put modem in Phone flash via Odin .
Worked ten times today .
jje
This is interesting thanks so If I root my phone and then still with provider ROM installed I can extract the modem.bin file and use it another ROM as well?
What are the pre-requisites in ODIN you mention when flashing it?
eeebbr said:
im know that if ill ba able to change this modem my battery will improve dramatically.
how do i know that?
the service provider ROM is 2.3.3 and full of things that make your battery drain.
mine is cognition 1.3.1 and very slim with almost no battery drain apps and juice defender and setcpu on(which saves a lot of battery).
now i compared mine with a regular one that has their official ROM and i get maybe 2 hours more on regular use. also there's a big problem with all radio waves and reception.
now if you look at this:http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/s...II-Shipped-Radio-Collection?p=42051#post42051
pulser somehow extracted modems so people would be able to flash it. i wonder how he did it
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Dear,
modem.bin is the combine file,when we flash it, it is extract to the hardware of device. you can't fine modem.bin from the phone but if you want to get it, use mtk droidtool for backup. this software gives you modem.bin but you can't flash it via odin. you can flash via sp flashtool with scatter file.
Try mtk droidtools software but it was made for MTK android devices may be it work for you.
but it confirm you can get modem.bin only way of backup which create complete backup. but you can find modem.img from phone.
system/etc/firmware/modem.img
Why are you necroing a 2.5 yr old thread ?
What I did was even simpler. I just unpacked the modem.bin file from zipped samsung image.
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After seeing the report of the SG2 getting bricked while flashing a ROM by Odin, I would like to know if there is a way to convert packages from Odin format (the .tar file) to a package that CWM will do? (the .zip format)
And if it's just changing it from .tar to .zip... then super! But, I'm fairly certain that ain't the case!
Thanks to all the devs giving us some great products. Just want to avoid Odin whenever I can!
Ross
I dont *think* so, then again i could be wrong. You can find roms that developers made that are cwm, and you can just flash those. As far as going back to stock or anything, you are pretty much stuck dealing with odin, its honestly not that bad. If it scares you that much id recommend investing in a USB jig, its about 5$ and well worth it imo, for those scary times when download mode will not kick in or something.
I do have one at the ready! No problems with Odin so far, but, that report just made me fear for that one in a "million?" chance!
Currently trying to figure out whether I like Criskelo or Litening more. (and then VillianROM is calling to me!)
Their isn't bud....can you not get into download mode at all??
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I think you can just rename the .tar file to .zip and extract that what's inside and then flash that via cwm.
hrmmm
So that is the 64 dollar (or in the case of this phone 650 dollar) question. If that is actually how easy it is, great! But, if I were to try, and then it were to brick is so that even the jig didn't work... d'oh!
Anyone confirm, that is all that is required?
nfoboy said:
So that is the 64 dollar (or in the case of this phone 650 dollar) question. If that is actually how easy it is, great! But, if I were to try, and then it were to brick is so that even the jig didn't work... d'oh!
Anyone confirm, that is all that is required?
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No and as the poster has 9 posts and only thinks ,I for one would not try .
Plus a custom rom will usually have a script in it and will have different files to a standard firmware that has a boot file as a starter .
Odin failure rate about 1/4% total failure almost nil .But that as CWM rises considerably if user does not follow the instructions .
jje
A bit off topic, but im looking for something similar. I was wondering if there is any overclocking kernel in zip format so i can flash it through CWM.
Kernels can be flashed via CWM .
jje
CWM.. directions to the T. And Odin the same!
Thanks much.
Ross
JJEgan said:
Kernels can be flashed via CWM .
jje
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So even tho the kernel is in. Tar? I thought it had to be in. Zip or a zimage for CWM to work
macdaddyau said:
So even tho the kernel is in. Tar? I thought it had to be in. Zip or a zimage for CWM to work
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Kernels can be flashed via CWM .Yes kernel it is zimage not a tar .
Extract kernel from the tar if its in a tar .
jje
This is odd? No option to flash kernel anymore in tom manager
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here is a guide to convert odin tar to CWM zip
[HOW TO][Windows]Extract Deodex Sign and Zipalign an official ROM
Multiupload links removed - MU seems to be gone forever. I will repost an unrooted UCKH7 package in the next week along with a modem package - Until then, use the rooted package and then remove:
/system/xbin/su
/system/bin/su
/system/app/Superuser.apk
And then reboot
I have uploaded Heimdall/Odin flashable kernel ,rooted system, and modem images to dev-host. This should be sufficient to unbrick most hosed-up phones, as long as you didn't flash a bad .pit. Note that after flashing this, you might need to wipe data depending on what ROM you were coming from. If you bootloop or things behave wacky, enter 3e recovery (stock kernel means stock recovery) and do a Wipe Data/Factory Reset. If you are reverting from UCKK6 back to UCKH7 you MUST perform this step or wifi will not work. If you're coming from a 100% stock ROM and only using this to gain root, you should be able to keep all your data and not need to wipe.
The kernel is 100% bone stock, the system image is stock except that it is pre-rooted (su binary and Superuser.apk)
I am including the modem in a separate package since that goes in a separate modem slot, and I don't want to reupload a 200+ MB file if I don't have to.
The kernel + rooted UCKH7 system package is here: http://dev-host.org/UWm
Kernel + cache + rooted UCKK6 system package: http://dev-host.org/8LA
Download, extract the package using 7-Zip, which can be downloaded from http://www.7-zip.org/download.html, then either:
1) (Tested on Linux, should work on MacOS) - Extract the tar and flash the components with heimdall from the commandline as follows:
Code:
heimdall flash --kernel zImage --factoryfs factoryfs.img
for the kernel + system package, and:
Code:
heimdall flash --modem modem.bin
for the modem package
I've never had good results with the Heimdall Frontend GUI.
2) (Tested by Jivy26 for kernel + system, untested for modem) - Flash the .tar in Odin. I'm a Linux user, so I have only tested this with Heimdall so far.
Kernel + system package goes in PDA slot I believe, modem package in Phone slot.
If you are wondering why I used 7-Zip to compress the archive:
7-Zip provides better compression ratios than Zip
7-Zip is open source unlike RAR
If it were a zip file, some doofus would probably think it was CWM-flashable and complain that it didn't flash.
Also - great thanks goes to Jivy26 for providing a stock /system dump. Without that it would not have been possible to make the system image or get a kernel dump.
Coming in the next few days - stock unrooted /system package.
Also just added - a param.lfs backup from my device. This is NOT contained in an Odin-flashable .tar file yet, I'll work on cleaning up my packages when I'm feeling better. I came down with a nasty cold a few days ago.
UPDATE:
creepyncrawly has written an EXCELLENT step-by-step guide for flashing this with Odin. The guide is at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
In addition, he posted an Odin-flashable tar package for just the stock kernel, for those who want to do a ! removal. I have mirrored the file (I don't trust Dropbox for long-term hosting) at http://www.multiupload.com/MD7SMMNG24 - his original post is at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18535109&postcount=174
Awesome, thanks. Downloading now.
*If it were a zip file, some doofus would probably think it was CWM-flashable and complain that it didn't flash.*
LOL! Enough said right there. Thanks Ent!
Worked great with odin, thanks.
If one was to add the correct pit file to your package would that fix a bad pit flash, as well as fix if one had messed up partitions?
They would be useful for flashing back from cm7 wouldn't it? Or am I completely off?
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dayv said:
If one was to add the correct pit file to your package would that fix a bad pit flash, as well as fix if one had messed up partitions?
They would be useful for flashing back from cm7 wouldn't it? Or am I completely off?
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Flashed from CM7 using just the PDA
jivy26 said:
Flashed from CM7 using just the PDA
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Was that without or with a .pit file?
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With a good .pit file, yes it could recover from a bad .pit flash.
As far as going back/forth to CM7 - I believe that differences in architecture between the original GS and the GSII (mainly no FSR/RFS proprietary modules) make going to/from CM7 much less painful.
dayv said:
Was that without or with a .pit file?
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Yes without a .pit file
thank you for all your work and for educating me. I will make sure and hit the thanks button next time I'm on a PC.
Wish we could hit thanks button from xda app.
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Flashed w/ Odin...stuck in a boot loop. Any other suggestion? I had CM7 on there but had no sound when making calls. Tried to go back to stock...SOL.
Had the phone 9 hours and haven't been able to make a single call yet.
Drew489 said:
Flashed w/ Odin...stuck in a boot loop. Any other suggestion? I had CM7 on there but had no sound when making calls. Tried to go back to stock...SOL.
Had the phone 9 hours and haven't been able to make a single call yet.
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Enter recovery (this kernel has stock 3e recovery) and wipe data/factory reset.
Power off (may need to battery pull), then:
Hold VolUp+VolDn
Push Power until the screen turns on
Let go of Power, keep holding VolUp+VolDn until you're in recovery
Entropy512 said:
Enter recovery (this kernel has stock 3e recovery) and wipe data/factory reset.
Power off (may need to battery pull), then:
Hold VolUp+VolDn
Push Power until the screen turns on
Let go of Power, keep holding VolUp+VolDn until you're in recovery
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thank you!!! worked
Thanks for the Kernel work!
Will it hurt anything if I'm already rooted and SU'd with other kernel method or should I factory reset? Also out of curiousity will sgs kernel flasher work?
not rooted
do u have a version for odin without the root ? im looking for 100% stock out the box rom ? (future warranty purposes ) thanks
drawde40599 said:
do u have a version for odin without the root ? im looking for 100% stock out the box rom ? (future warranty purposes ) thanks
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+1 thanks
10char
Not able to access the download site, could you please attache here?
mjgspr95 said:
Thanks for the Kernel work!
Will it hurt anything if I'm already rooted and SU'd with other kernel method or should I factory reset? Also out of curiousity will sgs kernel flasher work?
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No, shouldn't hurt anything. Should only need to wipe if coming from a significantly different ROM such as CM7 or an I9100 ROM.
drawde40599 said:
do u have a version for odin without the root ? im looking for 100% stock out the box rom ? (future warranty purposes ) thanks
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Yes, but I figured this would be more popular and uploading one of these takes an hour. I'll put up the unrooted stock in a day or two as I'm doing kernel work. However it's easy enough to unroot, just remove the two following files:
Code:
/system/app/Superuser.apk
/system/xbin/su
keeploading said:
Not able to access the download site, could you please attache here?
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It's WAY larger than XDA's attachment limit, sorry, no can do.
You end up getting the phone Entropy? Thanks for this btw.
Hey kids! Don't know if anyone here knows me, but I am an ex avid Captivate user. But I've been out of the game for so long (exploring webOS and BBOS7) that I am very behind. Anyone kidn enough to post a link to the newest Odin? Also, what slot do .tar files go into? The first one, PDA?
EDIT: Opened the file, definitely PDA Still, anyone have a good link to a working Odin? I remember at one time some Odin versions worked really badly, and I used the original 1.00 but I heard there is a 2 and I'd prefer to use that with this new phone.
Friends,
I have been having problems since I flashed XILA2 ROM. I was on XWKL1 earlier. In the first try of flashing XILA2, everything went smoothly and I was getting a good network signal of H+. But after rooting with CF root, I tried to do some mods with UOT Kitchen. The phone refused to boot after applying the UOT zip file in the Recovery mode. So I had to reflash the XILA2 Rom again via Odin.
Now the problem is that I am not getting any Network Signal after flashing the XILA2 ROM and the phone is asking me to "Insert a SIM card", even when the SIM card is already inserted in the phone.
So what should I do now to get my Network Signal back?
Did you flash a modem? Reflash the modem via Odin.
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nikzDHD said:
Did you flash a modem? Reflash the modem via Odin.
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I flashed the Intratech file of XILA2 which includes modem, Multi CSC. You just need to flash that single Tar file of Intratech by putting it in the PDA. Have flashed dozens of Intratech ROMs before without this problem.
Now IMEI is showing as "Unknown", IMEI SV is Unknown, Service State is showing as Out of Service.
What is the problem?
Efs corruption.
Hope that you have a backup of your efs folder.
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Efs corruption.
Hope that you have a backup of your efs folder.
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what is EFS corruption? I have Titanium Pro installed, but I don't think I backed up anything in my phone.
What exactly happened and what to do now?
Hey Seniors, Experts.....any solution?
Calling the Seniors & Experts on this forum.....My IMEI showing as Unknown. No Network. I'm told my EFS has been corrupted. So what's the solution now???
Do you have EFS backup?? as far as i read, there is no backup which you have mentioned........
one solution is to get your phone back to samsung service ...hopw its under warrenty...
not sure whether it works or not....but try flashing a orignal samsung firmware...
TheMegastar said:
what is EFS corruption? I have Titanium Pro installed, but I don't think I backed up anything in my phone.
What exactly happened and what to do now?
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If you have no backup, you could try this tool, seems to have helped some people get there EFS's back without having a backup.
Try this man:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
veyka said:
If you have no backup, you could try this tool, seems to have helped some people get there EFS's back without having a backup.
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Thanks Veyka, but I am scared to use this tool as it gives warning that it might brick my phone. Wouldn't it be wiser to just take my phone to the Service Centre while it is still working and is on STOCK ROM XWKL1 as it is still under warranty?
Also will it help if I reflashed just the MODEM again? I have read on some forums that flashing Modem again worked for some people. Can somebody give me the link to download the Modem file for XWKL1
nikzDHD said:
Did you flash a modem? Reflash the modem via Odin.
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I would like to try reflashing a modem. Can somebody give me the link to download the MODEM FILE for XWKL1?? Help will be appreciated.
TheMegastar said:
I would like to try reflashing a modem. Can somebody give me the link to download the MODEM FILE for XWKL1?? Help will be appreciated.
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if you have corrupted your efs folder and you dont have a back up of it and if the gs2 repair dont work then flashing even the modem wouldnt help...you now have a very expensive paper weight my friend...ouch
TheMegastar said:
I would like to try reflashing a modem. Can somebody give me the link to download the MODEM FILE for XWKL1?? Help will be appreciated.
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Flash any modem, go to the modem sticky in android development, extract and flash modem.bin, try that before you do anything with efs.
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nikzDHD said:
Flash any modem, go to the modem sticky in android development, extract and flash modem.bin, try that before you do anything with efs.
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I have a modem_xwk1.rar file from which I have extracted modem_xwkl1.bin. So I can flash the modem_xwkl1.bin fil as it is via Odin or do I have to rename it to anything? If yes, then what should I rename the .bin file to?
umarian said:
Try this man:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
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That is what the tool i posted a link to does.
TheMegastar said:
I have a modem_xwk1.rar file from which I have extracted modem_xwkl1.bin. So I can flash the modem_xwkl1.bin fil as it is via Odin or do I have to rename it to anything? If yes, then what should I rename the .bin file to?
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Flashing a modem wont help, if you have never rooted or flash any custom roms, then just take it to samsung or call your provider or whoever you got it from and tell them you lost service.
As you have flashed roms and mods and i imagine you have root, you might as well try the tool, It cant break the phone anymore than its allrdy broken.
And if the tool doesn't work, just flash back to stock, reset the flash counter with a USB jig and get it repaired under warranty, don't tell them about flashing custom roms, tell them it just happened.
veyka said:
That is what the tool i posted a link to does.
Flashing a modem wont help, if you have never rooted or flash any custom roms, then just take it to samsung or call your provider or whoever you got it from and tell them you lost service.
As you have flashed roms and mods and i imagine you have root, you might as well try the tool, It cant break the phone anymore than its allrdy broken.
And if the tool doesn't work, just flash back to stock, reset the flash counter with a USB jig and get it repaired under warranty, don't tell them about flashing custom roms, tell them it just happened.
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Cool, will use that repair tool as a last resort. It will be pretty easy for me to invoke warranty so why go thru unnecessary trouble. Right now I just want to flash the Modem file as a last try. I have a file named MODEM_XWKL1.RAR which contains the file MODEM_XWKL1.BIN now all I want to know is which of these file is to be renamed and renamed to what for flashing via Odin???
TheMegastar said:
Cool, will use that repair tool as a last resort. It will be pretty easy for me to invoke warranty so why go thru unnecessary trouble. Right now I just want to flash the Modem file as a last try. I have a file named MODEM_XWKL1.RAR which contains the file MODEM_XWKL1.BIN now all I want to know is which of these file is to be renamed and renamed to what for flashing via Odin???
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Just send it off for warranty then, as flashing the modem will not fix a corrupt EFS.
And to flash via odin, rename it to modem.bin, shove it inside a .tar file and flash it in the modem slot.
veyka said:
Just send it off for warranty then, as flashing the modem will not fix a corrupt EFS.
And to flash via odin, rename it to modem.bin, shove it inside a .tar file and flash it in the modem slot.
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What do u mean by "shove it inside a .tar file"....do you mean I can just change the name of the file from modem.bin TO modem.tar OR I have to compress the modem.bin file using some compression tool?
"flash it in the modem slot" ....... I guess you mean flash it in the PHONE slot, coz there is no slot named Modem in Odin. Right?
Thank you for your patience.
Thanks all for trying to help, but I guess I'll have to invoke warranty
Thanks a lot for your help, everyone, I really appreciate.
I tried flashing the modem.bin file by renaming it to modem.tar and putting it in the Phone slot, but it failed in Odin. The top left box of ODIN turns RED and says Fail. So I guess I have no option now but to take the phone back to the company.
TheMegastar said:
I tried flashing the modem.bin file by renaming it to modem.tar and putting it in the Phone slot
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Wow, just wow
If I rename my photo.jpg to photo.avi, will it make it into a movie?
I made this because the existing rom (package_us2.3.5.tar.md5) being distributed around the fourms isn't working right for devices like mine.
Your phone should be rooted prior to doing this.
Make sure you have the same device info as mine before proceeding. I will not be responsible if you decide to flash this to a device that does not match my own. You have been warned.
DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1y2ogi
This is for the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 (USA) (YP-G1CWYXAA)
Model Number: YP-G1
Firmware Version: 2.3.5
Kernel version: 2.6.35.7-G1UEKI8-CL562400 [email protected] #2
Build number: GINGERBREAD.UEKI8
Steps for flashing.
1.) Attach USB Cable and Put your device in Downloading mode (Hold Power + Vol Down)
2.) Download and run Odin 1.85
3.) Click on the button marked PDA and select the file named "yp-g1cwyxaa.tar" that you downloaded from the link above.
4.) Make sure that ONLY "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time" are checked. (NO OTHER OPTION SHOULD BE CHECKED!!)
5.) Click on "Start" and wait for the process to finish. The process should take about a minute or two and finish with a green box saying "PASS!"
6.) When it has successfully finished, the device itself should reset. At this time you may unplug your USB cable.
7.) OPTIONAL: Press menu button > Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset (This will reboot your device, enter recovery mode, wipe all settings and reset everything to defaults, and then reboot your device once more automatically.)
8.) Enjoy your 100% working Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 (YP-G1CWYXAA)
This is my first time doing something like this. I hope this works for all of you. Let me know if you have problems. Feel free to click the "Thanks" button if it works for you. =)
BTW. What would be the proper term for what I have created? Is this a "Stock ROM", "Recovery ROM", "Stock Firmware" I have heard it called many things.
I downloaded and installed your stock rom and it worked perfectly. The clock works find and the widgets that weren't working before are now working.
The only step I skipped was step 7 because I wanted to keep my apps/data. And I'm certainly following step 8.
Thanks a lot for your effort Kwipper (and the thanks button was clicked).
I am happy to see that this is working. I am actually quite surprised with myself that I was able to do this. About 10 days ago, I didn't even have an android device, or know anything about the platform. =)
Don't be so modest. You've solved a problem that I've had for over a month now.
I'm curious how you did this. Did you use adb from your PC to run the 'dd' command? I ran the 'dd' command using the Terminal Emulator app. Maybe this is why my factory.rfs didn't work.
I did a bit of searching around the fourms and came across this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15804185&postcount=15
Then I used a program called Cygwin. Used it to navigate over to where my files were stored and typed in these commands.
tar -H ustar -c factoryfs.rfs zImage > package_name.tar
md5sum -t package_name.tar >> package_name.tar
mv package_name.tar package_name.tar.md5
Then I flashed it using odin.
I also noticed that if you were using the previous "package_us2.3.5.tar.md5" file to restore from, the MD5 of my file would not match up, and Odin would give off an error. So I removed the .MD5 from the extension of my filename and it worked.
I was wondering. Do you think I should include the .pit file as well? Mabye as a separate download?
Kwipper said:
I was wondering. Do you think I should include the .pit file as well? Mabye as a separate download?
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They are all right here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20259805
Important: if you are going to flash this ROM, make sure you do NOT choose repartition in Odin with the PIT file. This only contains the /system and the kernel, so repartioning the whole device will make your device unable to boot past recovery. Still waiting for a full stock recovery ROM with all the partitions and can use the PIT file...
Kwipper said:
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BTW. What would be the proper term for what I have created? Is this a "Stock ROM", "Recovery ROM", "Stock Firmware" I have heard it called many things.
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If I understand correctly, your ROM is rooted. If that's correct, you don't want to call that "STOCK ROM". Stock ROM usually refers to something exactly as it is shipped by manufacturer. I may call it "STOCK+ROOT" to indicate that things like superuser are already injected into the ROM.
EDIT: Reading your post again. I don't know why I had an impression that your ROM is rooted I suppose you did a dump using dd via adb shell, then it should be a STOCK ROM.
Hmmm... Is there anyway to confirm if it's rooted or not? I suppose that if I remove the root and then reflash it using odin, it should remain unrooted right?
WT Ho said:
If I understand correctly, your ROM is rooted. If that's correct, you don't want to call that "STOCK ROM". Stock ROM usually refers to something exactly as it is shipped by manufacturer. I may call it "STOCK+ROOT" to indicate that things like superuser are already injected into the ROM.
EDIT: Reading your post again. I don't know why I had an impression that your ROM is rooted I suppose you did a dump using dd via adb shell, then it should be a STOCK ROM.
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You know, I managed to dump other files as well. I wonder if I should include them as well? Here are the files I managed to extract.
boot.bin
cache.rfs
dbdata.rfs
factoryfs.rfs
param.lfs
recovery.bin
Sbl.bin
zImage
yp-g1.pit
Kwipper said:
You know, I managed to dump other files as well. I wonder if I should include them as well? Here are the files I managed to extract.
boot.bin
cache.rfs
dbdata.rfs
factoryfs.rfs
param.lfs
recovery.bin
Sbl.bin
zImage
yp-g1.pit
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Those files are very useful as well, particularly for someone who badly damaged their device's file system. e.g. the Froyo ROM here has everything (except pit file), but the Gingerbread only has zImage and factory.rfs.
Although they are useful, many stock roms only include zImage and factoryfs.rfs. One reason that I can think of is RISK. The more partitions you flash, the more likely you screw up in the process.
Actually, you can post both versions for people to choose.
WT Ho said:
Those files are very useful as well, particularly for someone who badly damaged their device's file system. e.g. the Froyo ROM here has everything (except pit file), but the Gingerbread only has zImage and factory.rfs.
Although they are useful, many stock roms only include zImage and factoryfs.rfs. One reason that I can think of is RISK. The more partitions you flash, the more likely you screw up in the process.
Actually, you can post both versions for people to choose.
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Yeah, just imagine what it would be like to have your computer crash while you were flashing the bootloader!
Can you make a backup of that?
so i can test if it works, cause my device is bricked at the moment.
Woah there, careful what you post! unless you do a factory reset before dumping, the cache.rfs, dbdata.rfs, and data.rfs should NOT be included in a rom as they contain all your personal information!
I know... For that i need a clear one...
Sorry, but there is no other way i found out.
I know that there is all Private Data on it...
But for me, my device is bricked with an completly empty /data folder.
All other folders include the normal content.
Thanks,
if someone can post it.
Mike Leitner
Tecardo said:
I know... For that i need a clear one...
Sorry, but there is no other way i found out.
I know that there is all Private Data on it...
But for me, my device is bricked with an completly empty /data folder.
All other folders include the normal content.
Thanks,
if someone can post it.
Mike Leitner
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I don't think you need data partition. In normal operation, you can format the /data partition clean and the system will recreate your new settings there.
For those of you that have used this, can you confirm that this removes root? I going to guess it does.
It's not really a problem since you can use super one click again, but I just wanted to be sure.
Thanks again for doing this, Kwipper.
hey i need to flash factoryrfs form odin. but im not sure how, any help?
minimeofctown said:
hey i need to flash factoryrfs form odin. but im not sure how, any help?
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Tar it and then flash it with Odin just like how you flash a ROM.
Use terminal (or cygwin for Windows) :
cd (directory of factoryfs.rfs)
tar -H ustar -c factory.rfs > something.tar
Can you make such a ROM? I really think, it will work for me…
I don't know the Problem so i feed to flash the hole ROM
In short, I got the very new S3alpha (Japan only) a couple of days ago, tried to root it, ****ed it up. I can still flash in Odin, though.
My friend just bought the same phone, on the same network. How do we go about extracting his stock ROM, so that I can flash it to my phone? If I wait for official firmware to show up online, it could be months. Seriously.
Anyone have any experience in this?
spaceindaver said:
In short, I got the very new S3alpha (Japan only) a couple of days ago, tried to root it, ****ed it up. I can still flash in Odin, though.
My friend just bought the same phone, on the same network. How do we go about extracting his stock ROM, so that I can flash it to my phone? If I wait for official firmware to show up online, it could be months. Seriously.
Anyone have any experience in this?
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That is not the GT-I9300 or 9305 if it was from here that could be why you bricked.
Now thats out of the way try checkfus downloader it allows you to download firmware from the Samsung servers, Faryaab at least knows how to dump firmware as well if you can't find one.
And finally don't Flash anything from here or you will brick the S3 alpha had different hardware the only place you will see roms and rooting is on Japanese sites.
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spaceindaver said:
In short, I got the very new S3alpha (Japan only) a couple of days ago, tried to root it, ****ed it up. I can still flash in Odin, though.
My friend just bought the same phone, on the same network. How do we go about extracting his stock ROM, so that I can flash it to my phone? If I wait for official firmware to show up online, it could be months. Seriously.
Anyone have any experience in this?
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You will have to adb your friend's mobile and pull all the files inside the system directory.. You can then extract the modem using adb or terminal emulator.. The commands are there in my guide.. I don't know about the boot.img though..
Search for it.. Once you have everything create a tar archive with it.. There are many guides for it..
Or you can get all the above files from the nandroid backup of your friend except the modem.. Extract modem separately.. Then pack it in to a tar archive.. Flash with Odin..
Most importantly your friend's device must be rooted before doing any of this
Do a proper research first..
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zoot1 said:
You will have to adb your friend's mobile and pull all the files inside the system directory.. You can then extract the modem using adb or terminal emulator.. The commands are there in my guide.. I don't know about the boot.img though..
Search for it.. Once you have everything create a tar archive with it.. There are many guides for it..
Or you can get all the above files from the nandroid backup of your friend except the modem.. Extract modem separately.. Then pack it in to a tar archive.. Flash with Odin..
Most importantly your friend's device must be rooted before doing any of this
Do a proper research first..
sent from here, there, somewhere!!
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It sounds like I'm screwed, then. I don't imagine there'll be a rooting solution for this phone for a good while yet (no one bothers to work on methods to root Japanese variants). That's why I'm in this situation in the first place; I was trying to root the same phone. Boo hoo.
The reason I tried using standard S3 methods was because those same methods work on the Japanese S2LTE. I was under the (false) impression that they must be fairly interchangeable.
Why asking questions in the general forums?. Thread moved.
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