Is there a definitive partition layout for the I777?
Here is what I have found/guessed based on the threads I've found in the forum:
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Close, somewhere off in the weeds? Anyone have anything better?
There's a PIT dump somewhere in Development - or you can use Heimdall's dump-pit. You're pretty close, and you're correct about p5 and p6 - p5 is kernel, p6 is recovery (which doesn't actually do anything on nearly all Samsungs, including ours - recovery is in the kernel initramfs.)
p2 and p3 are bootloader stuff - touch them and your phone dies.
Thanks, I'll look at the PIT file, maybe I should look at the Heimdall source to see what it does with the PIT.
Not messing with the boot loaders is why I'm interested, I'm not a One-Click'er because I want to know what is going on when I change my phone.
I believe everything else you have is correct, other than that unidentified 512M partition is listed as "hidden" - I think it somehow allows the uninstallable AT&T bloatware to be reinstalled after a wipe, as it contains the uninstallable AT&T bloat apps.
Yep, kind of had to be by default. I was thinking that it probably contained the stock /data partition contents and possibly /sdcard as well but hadn't looked onto it yet.
on the ATT bloatware, I still have a gray icon for that POS featured apps
Thanks for taking the time to help!
Edit: mounted p12 on the phone, it's a ext4 fs with a single directory (app) that contains the AT&T bloatware. Guessing the e3 recovery copies from here after a format.
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Here some questions:
Does anybody know the exact eMMc Layout of the phone? (not only partitions, but whole nand)
I found a partition overview:
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However, nowhere is stated where i.e. PBL and SBL are. Or other low level firmware. In SGSII and Note, PBL and SBL are not mapped to any mmcblk device.
So how's it on Galaxy S3? Also, where is the download mode saved?
Just asking if wiping all mmcblk partitions would "brick" the device, or if the low level components are hidden (or even write-protected)
theq86 said:
Here some questions:
Does anybody know the exact eMMc Layout of the phone? (not only partitions, but whole nand)
I found a partition overview:
However, nowhere is stated where i.e. PBL and SBL are. Or other low level firmware. In SGSII and Note, PBL and SBL are not mapped to any mmcblk device.
So how's it on Galaxy S3? Also, where is the download mode saved?
Just asking if wiping all mmcblk partitions would "brick" the device, or if the low level components are hidden (or even write-protected)
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Well, best bet is to ask chainfire, for help.
I have no idea, why anyone should want to delete whole parttions, without actually knowing where they are and what they're for.
I use chainfire's triangle away app, and that's that
Just ask chainfire for help, who knows, maybe he'll actually answer you!
[REF] GT-I9300 PIT and Flash Analysis [WIP]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742668
I'm posting this here because i'm a complete noob on this forum and apparently can't post it to the actual thread without 10 points.
This is the thread i'm talking about http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500078
Anyway, after reading the whole thing i got my T100 to boot android-x86... YAY!
But i'm having problems with the graphics. The only difference i see between what i'm doing and the thread is that i have loaded the newer BIOS rev 220. I have two modes. If i boot into the bios by holding F2 on boot, this seems to lower the display resolution to 800x600. If i then boot to android i get something that looks like this.
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On another note, if anyone from that thread finds this, i figured out how to boot to android with just one drive instead of two.
Short version is, make a second partition on your thumb drive about 300mb ext4. i used a gparted live image to shrink the existing partition and add this new ext4 partition. For me it was /dev/sde2
Next do the step you used to do on the second drive
dd if=android-x86.iso of=/dev/sde2 (be sure to use the correct partition in your case. parted -l should get you a list to guess from)
Thats it.
Thanks,
Eric
How are you going with this, any progress? I'm working on getting an all-working Ubuntu up and running.
Is the display being duplicated horizontally, but only if you boot via the BIOS boot menu?
Hello! I'd like to ask the community about something I've been interested doing as a project for a phone I plan on buying, I've looked around and I see lots of tutorials, but they don't quite meet the very specific criteria.
My problem is that I want to buy the "Umi C1" (click click for more info o: ) and the UI on the Stock ROM is awful.
I've looked around and there's apparently a way to modify ROMs using another phone's ROM files.
I was thinking of using the "HDC ONE M8's"(fake HTC one m8) ROM files and transferring them over to the C1's ROM file. (Both phones run the MTK6582 SOC, both have 1GB of RAM, Both have 16GB of storage, both run 1280x720P panels...)
Is this in anyway possible? Both roms are Odexed. (new to this, looked around on how to deodex roms and found a tutorial but I'm not sure how things will go first.)
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-Mike
Hello!
You can't move the whole content of a ROM made for a specific model, to another ROM made specific for a different model.
The reason for this is because the ROM also contains native libraries (drivers) that are specific to the hardware of the phone, and are not specific to the Android base code.
In other words, you would need to port the UI and framework only, not simply move all the files and even this is not very straightforward unfortunately. If you only want some minor (or major) changes of the home screen and application menu, then there are plenty of third party launchers on the market that should do the trick for you.
I hope this helped you.
Regards, Christopher
Hi everyone, I just got a new XZ1 today (purchased from recommended Sony retailer as new), but I noticed some unknown files in the downloads folder I'm worried about, has anybody else noticed these or know what they are?
File list:
rce_plugin_string_resource_pt_BR.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_fr_FR.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_de_DE.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_en_US.test.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_it_IT.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_es_ES.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_cz_CZ.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_ja_JP.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_v2_TYPO_TEST.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_zh_CN.json.min
rce_plugin_string_resource_nl_NL.json.min
CS_JIT_Animation.mp4
jit_cs_positive_preview.png
Opening one of the files in VSCode, this is what the file looks like:
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I'm worried about "rce" since that seems eerily close to remote code execution.
Any advice very much appreciated.
I just found the exact same files in the download directory of an old Verizon Ellipsis tablet I just reset and renewed a few days ago. It is running 5.1.1 Lollipop
Did you find any info on this? Thx!
Bump! Found this on a phone that was purchased/reset a few days ago. BB Key2 on android 8.1.0
Files only show up when i insert a USB drive and open the file copy android native UI. Does not show up on ghostcommander unless i move the files to a new directory (but then stupid android UI deletes and recreates the file, losing all original metadata such as permission, owner etc... and the useless android UI where i can see/copy the files, do not show permission/owner)
Hello, I bought a new laptop, installed windows 11 and all the programs I need, the computer doesn't need anything else and from now on I would like to save the system and all the programs installed in case of unexpected events.
I downloaded Macrium Reflect free (it's in Italian but I couldn't choose at the time of installation).
Now I'll explain my doubts; I have a 1tb external hard drive, with Mini Partition Tools I created two partitions, one of 100 gb in which I thought of saving the data and the other of about 800 gb that I would like to use to keep the games and programs that I rarely use, in your opinion is it ok to create a backup in a partition of an external hdd? Can it work? Can I format a pc by making it choose the iso from a hdd partition?
I created a backup and had Macrium verify the iso, it says everything is fine.
Another question, in the Macrium screenshot you can see the ssd on which the operating system is installed, the first one in the list (the one with the ticks), when you do a backup, you have to include all those partitions or you only need the one where the operating system is installed?
Third and last question, I'm doing all this in case I have problems with the PC and I want to format and re-install everything, to do this, what should I do? A backup? Create a system image ? Or other options?
Thanks to anyone willing to read and help me out.
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