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I keep reading in threads to check md5sums before doing anything. Would someone care to explain why and how to go about doing so? Is this to be done prior to installing a ROM?
Just trying to get a better understanding of things.
Figured it out before someone gave me the old spoon fed line.
Anyway for those of you that might be a bit confused like myself here is a link to a md5 checker.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/MD5-Checker.shtml
Run exe. after unzipping.
search for file you want checked
Good to go
Guess i've been fairly lucky up till now considering i have never performed this step prior to installing anything.
you can also go to the market and download an app called ManD5....it is also a md5sum checker...
hogowner said:
you can also go to the market and download an app called ManD5....it is also a md5sum checker...
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This is what I use - works great.
hogowner said:
you can also go to the market and download an app called ManD5....it is also a md5sum checker...
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I thought the idea was to check the file prior to putting it on your phone?
EDIT: Just tried that app and it works great. Thanks
Dxun said:
I thought the idea was to check the file prior to putting it on your phone?
EDIT: Just tried that app and it works great. Thanks
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The idea is to check it prior to actually installing it on the phone, not just before it is copied to the storage card. Theoretically, it could get corrupted at any point it is copied/moved/etc, so the ideal time to check is just prior to the step where you flash/install/reboot/whatever.
I actually just use Astro file explorer on my phone. You can look at the details of a file, and it will compute the md5 for it.
My favorite free shell extension for MDS - HashTab
Win & Mac versions.
Thanks for all this info peeps. Many people, including myself, are afraid to ask a stupid question at times.
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Thanks for all this info peeps. Many people, including myself, are afraid to ask a stupid question at times.
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I have asked plenty of stupid questions in the past...and I EXPECT to ask some in the future LOL
You can also do it in a command line (Terminal) just type
Code:
md5sum <path-to-file>/<file-name>
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The idea is to check it prior to actually installing it on the phone, not just before it is copied to the storage card. Theoretically, it could get corrupted at any point it is copied/moved/etc, so the ideal time to check is just prior to the step where you flash/install/reboot/whatever.
I actually just use Astro file explorer on my phone. You can look at the details of a file, and it will compute the md5 for it.
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I find it's easier to check on my PC after I D/l so I use TeraCopy when copying files. Copies then goes back and checks them.
Having trouble booting into Cynogen. As far as I can tell, everything is flashedd correctly. I got the initramfs and zimage from here. They flashed fine and the system boots into the multi boot screen.
Then I copied the openaos-gingerbread-anoa-gen8_113301.img.gz from here to my device through the USB MSC renaming it to openaos-gingerbread.img.gz
I believe that the menu.lst file should update itself so there should be no need to edit the file. I had to edit the file anyway, not sure why. Tried editing it through np++ and got Ginger-Bread listed in the boot menu. Tried to boot into it but it just sat at the OpenAOS screen and did nothing. I left it on that screen for close to half an hour.
I then tried the menu.lst file that is linked to the post by gbohm but the same thing happened.
When I access recovery and start USB MSC again it shows a ~525MB file called openaos-gingerbread.img and it has a folder called openaos which has a subfolder called disabled. Nothing else.
I tried this off the back of a full wipe so there is nothing on the device at all. No archos FW or anything. Coming from UD 1.5
Any idea what might be going on?
Edit: one last note. This was all done on my Windows machine. Will try it on my ubuntu server tomorrow. That machine is just a little more awkwardly placed
Maybe be you edited the menu.let wrong
Lokk in my "OpenAOS Full Instructions Thread" for tips;-) here in general section
Lenn said:
Maybe be you edited the menu.let wrong
Lokk in my "OpenAOS Full Instructions Thread" for tips;-) here in general section
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No. Like I already said lenn update your guide or mention that it is outdated and point to the wiki.
This is what I was afraid off, giving people wrong instructions and make it worse for them.
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d31b0y you did it correct. Just copy openaos-gingerbread-anoa-gen8_113301.img.gz and rename it to openaos-gingerbread.img.gz
The menu.lst should update itself and create an extra Gingerbread entry in the bootmenu.
Some things that could go wrong is that you didn't safely umount or remove the drive. So the image got corrupted.
Another thing is that you maybe didn't rename it correctly using capital letters perhaps.
However my best guess is that the image got corrupted during download or during copy renaming and not safely remove the drive.
This http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/AndroidInstall_CM7_Gingerbread is the guide to follow and no other.
We from openaos recommend using linux to do the procedure, it is also much easier for us to support when coming for questions on irc http://www.openaos.org/chat
Maurice
Sorry, but stil >> 90% of users have a windows maschine.
Maybee you should also think about your target audience.
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Sorry, but stil >> 90% of users have a windows maschine.
Maybee you should also think about your target audience.
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Yes, I know. Windows shouldn't be a problem for the procedure. It is only easier for us when answering questions, because we are almost all on linux machines. That is why I said we recommend it, not that we say you must use it.
Some issues for windows users. It hides known file extensions by default which could be a problem when renaming files. Windows doesn't care about cap letters, Linux does. A file named foo.img.gz is different from Foo.img.gz .
Maurice
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No. Like I already said lenn update your guide or mention that it is outdated and point to the wiki.
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Sorry divx i really respct your works, but i know it.
I work at the momet on a honeycomb theme, and i said he should look there because of the menu.lst (the most makd faults, ...) and this part isnt outdated.
I will update the tutorial when i have enough time
Greets
Lenn
I know all that, as my first Unix was Minix followed by SCO and Eurix and then Linux 0.14 yggdrasil.
But if i see the questions postet here and elsewhere in android forums,
most of the people barely get their TV switched on, and to tell them that Linux is prefered might set back a few so much that they don't do anything.
On the other side, might be a good idea ;-)
Thanks for getting back to me. For some reason when I copy the file to the archos and reboot, it doesn't show up in the menu.lst
I decided to gunzip first and moved the file openaos-gingerbread.img to the archos. This showed in the list but when I tried to boot from it, the same thing as before happened. Hopefully I am just doing something silly. I'll try jump on the irc channel tomorrow. My main "comfy" computer was taken up by the oh this evening.
A couple more points.
My external SD slot is broken so I have no external SD. Although it installs onto the internal right? So that shouldn't make a difference.
I don't have stock fw installed at all. Just the SDE.
Edit: oh by the way, when I tried to move the .img file I got the following error:
mv : failed to preserve ownership for '/media/A101IT/openaos-gingerbread.img': Operation not permitted
It was moved with root privelages in terminal.
Edit2: I even did a sync before my umount to make sure everything was hunky dorey.
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You need the stock to be installed, as during boot they extract some things.
I could be wrong but none of the above post seem to have noticed you haven't extracted the .gz img file. If you put that on you device it will do nothing as its the wrong file format and still compressed. You need to extract it using winrar or similar then rename that file to openaos-gingerbread.img and that should do it. nothing to do with capital letter you just missed a small but crucial step in the instructions.
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I could be wrong but none of the above post seem to have noticed you haven't extracted the .gz img file. If you put that on you device it will do nothing as its the wrong file format and still compressed. You need to extract it using winrar or similar then rename that file to openaos-gingerbread.img and that should do it. nothing to do with capital letter you just missed a small but crucial step in the instructions.
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I'm pretty sure you don't and I have tried that anyway as per my second post...
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You need the stock to be installed, as during boot they extract some things.
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That'll do it I'm sure. Will try to tonight.
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Like fzelle said you need stock firmware, that is why it hangs. It needs to copy some libs and drivers over from stock. We can't include them in the release, because of license issues.
I don't think we check in the script if the original firmware isn't there. Another todo ...
I will update the wiki about having original firmware installed is essential.
@ben.cordy: The initramfs will gunzip the image when it is not done already, so no need to gunzip or unrar it yourself.
Still strange why it wouldn't show up in menu.lst while gzipped... I will check the script in initramfs.
Maurice
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fzelle said:
I know all that, as my first Unix was Minix followed by SCO and Eurix and then Linux 0.14 yggdrasil.
But if i see the questions postet here and elsewhere in android forums,
most of the people barely get their TV switched on, and to tell them that Linux is prefered might set back a few so much that they don't do anything.
On the other side, might be a good idea ;-)
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At the moment, our target is the more advanced user, so we can get some good bug reports. That is why we have that big red warning on the wiki. So might be a good idea --> It is one .
Maurice
Alright guys, I'm making a collection of flashable zips that I make for everyone as of now so then we don't have any issues. Instead of mirroring my files, please just link whoever needs them here. Anyway, lets begin listing files.
Files:
http://goo-inside.me/apps/Indirect/Nook_tablet/Flashable_Zips
(A specific zip of Gapps is listed there for now but there will be more as development continues.) I'll probably add apps to another directory as of now. But it's just gapps.
Dead links
Hey indirect, thanks for the post/links.
I'm sure These will come up as available eventually but in the mean time what are they for? Is this simply gapps of various version numbers?
Wow
nice, what is inside the zip
specifically?
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did not read you post
as rjin9673 pointed out.
(A specific zip of Gapps is listed there for now but there will be more as development continues.) I'll probably add apps to another directory as of now. But it's just gapps.
It's just gapps for now.
I'm working on making a B&N-less 1.4.1 update.
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nice, what is inside the zip
specifically?
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He said what was in them....
(A specific zip of Gapps is listed there for now but there will be more as development continues.) I'll probably add apps to another directory as of now. But it's just gapps.
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Does anyone have a working (internal) boot.img? I've been trying to assemble one for CM7 but not having any luck, just looking for something to compare hex with.
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Does anyone have a working (internal) boot.img? I've been trying to assemble one for CM7 but not having any luck, just looking for something to compare hex with.
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Doesn't the one extracted using CWM backup work?
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Doesn't the one extracted using CWM backup work?
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No because that's the signed bootloader from B&N
Indirect said:
Alright guys, I'm making a collection of flashable zips that I make for everyone as of now so then we don't have any issues. Instead of mirroring my files, please just link whoever needs them here. Anyway, lets begin listing files.
Files:
http://goo-inside.me/apps/Indirect/Nook_tablet/Flashable_Zips
(A specific zip of Gapps is listed there for now but there will be more as development continues.) I'll probably add apps to another directory as of now. But it's just gapps.
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Goo-Inside.me is a crappy file host. They make you wait and profit off your download, which is great for a mirror. I'm sending you a PM.
AdamOutler said:
Goo-Inside.me is a crappy file host. They make you wait and profit off your download, which is great for a mirror. I'm sending you a PM.
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Make you wait? I've not had to wait once when downloading stuff from him. IF you need somewhere to stick a few bits and pieces just let me know, I'll happily give you a little bit of web space.
I created this flashable zip today. Link Gone
it includes apps I describe in the video I am about to upload, to name a few, facebook, twitter, two angry birds you cant get on market, Es File Explorer, NT Highjack, NT Urooter. It was my first attempt at making a flashable zip, let me know what can be done to make it better. oh well. bring the criticism ;P
now everyone dont go crashing my public drop box links again. They already put me on a 3 day suspension before, next time could be a month, and that would mean more downloading from filfactory and sites like that!
update: testing Done.
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Make you wait? I've not had to wait once when downloading stuff from him. IF you need somewhere to stick a few bits and pieces just let me know, I'll happily give you a little bit of web space.
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that's because he just started using Goo-Inside.me. Look what happens when you link an individual file from that site and not a full folder.
http://goo-inside.me/apps/Indirect/Nook_tablet/Flashable_Zips/gapps-Nook_tab.zip
Mr. Wertz and Mr. Outler, Thank U for all the files I need in one place. Also Mr. Wertz your videos make me believe I just might be able to root following Indirect's amazing method. Thank U. You all are buzz names at my school.
AlbertCWMTest.zip
I tested it and it looks good. I can't find NT Urooter on my apps screen, but do see all the others. Hopefully soon we'll be able to mount the SD card as I had to copy your file to the internal storage to load it.
Thanks,
SK
edit: I found it, guess I need new glasses. Everything looks and worked great.
which school? will you rename your library after me?
AlbertCWMTest.zip
Angry Bird FC , but all the others are working fine. Since I don't play it, not a biggie to me. If you can tell me where and what logs you want, I can send them.
SK
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I tested it and it looks good. I can't find NT Urooter on my apps screen, but do see all the others. Hopefully soon we'll be able to mount the SD card as I had to copy your file to the internal storage to load it.
Thanks,
SK
edit: I found it, guess I need new glasses. Everything looks and worked great.
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I am able to mount sdcard ???
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Hi Mr. Wertz, Unfortunately it's a Catholic school, so unless you're a saint, which in my opinion you all are for helping others, (This goes out to lavero as well, super patient with newbies), anywho, I doubt if I can get them to rename our library.
lavero.burgos said:
I am able to mount sdcard ???
Sent from XDA premium using my Nook Tablet
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Interesting, on the OP it says to internal only. Everytime I try I get a error.
albertwertz said:
which school? will you rename your library after me?
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Aiming high eh?
I call dibs on the stall closest to the window nearest the main entrance.... That or the bench outside the principals office.
Does anyone have a valid download link for this RUU. I've tried all of the links from Android Police and they either give me a "folder invalid" message after the download, or they give me a broken link. I found a dropbox link from the thread in the General section and I got the same invalid message. I really need to flash this RUU. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856580
I tried all the Android Police mirrors and the links either don't work, or I get the invalid folder error after the download finishes (mirror 1). Also, that torrent link wasn't working.
EDIT: I just tried the first mirror on AP for the 4th time and still getting the error. Is there anywhere else this RUU is located?
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I tried all the Android Police mirrors and the links either don't work, or I get the invalid folder error after the download finishes (mirror 1). Also, that torrent link wasn't working.
EDIT: I just tried the first mirror on AP for the 4th time and still getting the error. Is there anywhere else this RUU is located?
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I just redownloaded the file, AGAIN, from Android Polices AP Mirror #1 (which is hosted on beta.androidfilehost.com, a solid reliable hosting site) by clicking the link then the green arrow circle... about 3 minutes and it was done, double checked MD5 and it's still a match. If all these sites don't work for you AND the torrent doesn't work either, maybe the problem isn't with the mirrors or the file...
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I just redownloaded the file, AGAIN, from Android Polices AP Mirror #1 (which is hosted on beta.androidfilehost.com, a solid reliable hosting site) by clicking the link then the green arrow circle... about 3 minutes and it was done, double checked MD5 and it's still a match. If all these sites don't work for you AND the torrent doesn't work either, maybe the problem isn't with the mirrors or the file...
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I tried this link after reading your post and I am downloading now. The green arrow may be misleading because it looks like those sponsored links. I first used the wrong blue download link at the bottom, not even considering the green arrow...
Mirror #1 worked great last night
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The torrent didn't work because it didn't have any seeds.
As far as the RUU, I was only able to get Mirror 1 to work from my wife's phone. I tried downloading it on 3 different PCs at work (since my own phone isn't working) and each of them gave me the invalid folder error. Just a heads up to anyone else trying who possibly gets this error.
Shipped-roms.com, ......vigor section. DLs fast.
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Check your winzip program. I kept getting a corrupt file error on every zip file I downloaded and ended up being the program not the file. I changed to 7zip and the error went away.
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Check your winzip program. I kept getting a corrupt file error on every zip file I downloaded and ended up being the program not the file. I changed to 7zip and the error went away.
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Thanks for the suggestion. The download I used from my wife's phone worked fine. I'll have to download 7zip on my work PC.
Oops
Moved: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...s-recovery-t2806031/post53924376#post53924376
Navani said:
This may or may not be my first post but I've been on this forum for years now - I hope this attests to my searching ability and tells you that I am not someone who is lazy and didn't look up answers (Skip the next paragraph if you don't want to read the steps leading up to my issue).
I have a Galaxy S3 from Sprint. I'm running the newest Cyanogenmod on it (running 4.4.3) and I hate how large everything looks. Couldn't find a solution, so I decided to try and restore my old backup. The MD5 check failed, and the only backup I have that works is from May, or three backups ago. I read that I can force it to load by accessing the hash file and deleting the contents but I can't find my backups.
I've searched online several times and the only backup I can find on any Explorer (ES File Explorer, Astro Manager, File Manager) is the one from May which is on my ExtSD. It doesn't show up on my computer either when connected by USB. Booting into Recovery shows me the backups. I'm searching with hidden and protected files viewable/editable. I would've sworn to you before typing this that the other folders which showed up alongside the clockworkmod one were 0\ and [something else] but when I went to check again before posting this I saw that CWM says they're in the sdcard\clockworkmod\backup folder. I've attached screenshots to show you what I see.
Any help is greatly appreciated and my apologies if this has been discussed, but I've looked in every folder suggested and did a phone-wide search - nothing!
Edit: My girlfriend thinks I have a nice phone!!!!
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Well my friend your searching ability is a bit off today Wrong forum post here >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint <<
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Well my friend your searching ability is a bit off today Wrong forum post here >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint <<
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well crap. thanks for not being rude about it! sorry!!
Navani said:
well crap. thanks for not being rude about it! sorry!!
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Ok lol Before you go take a look at this >>http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/info-flashed-4-2-sdcard-data-t2274218 << it might help you out I don't know if it applies to your sprint but worth a look
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