Flashing stock ROM, "ABOOT" missing in Heimdall and other stuff - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello everybody,
I'm gonna jump right into the topic and so, as the tittle says, I'm trying to flash my galaxy s3 i9300 from Norway back to the stock rom, after an upgrade of the rom I'm apparently not allowed to talk about went wrong and stuck my phone on the boot screen.
Basically, I've posted a thread asking for help and nice people suggested I should flash to the stock rom and so I followed this tutorial here : androidrootz.com/2013/06/how-to-unroot-galaxy-s3-on-mac-osx.html
My problem is now that I'm stuck the step 10 : Click on "Add" and select "ABOOT". Then click on "Browse" and locate "aboot.mbn". It is the folder that was renamed and untarred. Then click "Add" and do the process again for the all files in the folder (watch the video above for detailed instructions).
aboot.mbn --- ABOOT
boot.img --- BOOT
cache.img.ext4 --- CACHE
NON-HLOS.bin --- MODEM
recovery.img --- RECOVERY
rpm.mbn --- RPM
sbl2.mbn --- SLB2
sbl3.mbn --- SLB3
system.img.ext4 --- SYSTEM
tz.mbn --- TZ
Exactly, the problem is that I can't see any ABOOT feature in the list it's supposed to appear and to be more precise, I'm gonna tell you what I've got.
In Heimdall, I can find these features in the scroller :
TZSW
BOTA0
BOTA1
EFS
PARAM
BOOT
RECOVERY
RADIO
CACHE
SYSTEM
HIDDEN
OTA
USERDATA
BOOTLOADER
In the stock ROM .tar file, I can find these files after untarring :
boot.img
cache.img
hidden.img
modem.bin
recovery.img
sboot.bin
system.img
tz.img
As you can see, nothing really fits there.
I've downloaded the stock ROM from the site suggested in the tutorial and it seems to be the one corresponding to my country since it's only one for Norway for the operator Telenor, which actually not my operator... but I'm guessing they all use the same.
Anyway, if anybody could help step up to 11, that would be awesome. Just tell me if you need more infos, I don't know what you guys need to know to be able to answer my problem.
I wish you all a great summer
Peace
Morgan

No one knows what I'm talking about ?
Hey guys, a little up for my post, I really need help. Been without a phone for almost a week now, it's getting problematic
Please someone help!
peace
Morgan

morganflame said:
Hey guys, a little up for my post, I really need help. Been without a phone for almost a week now, it's getting problematic
Please someone help!
peace
Morgan
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BUMPING!
I'm having this exact same issue.

kchloee said:
BUMPING!
I'm having this exact same issue.
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Same problem here

sorry to bump this but im having the same problem. OP how did you solved this?

here is the answer.
hidden.img -> HIDDEN partition
system.img -> SYSTEM partition
cache.img -> CACHE partition
modem.bin -> RADIO partition !!!
recovery.img -> RECOVERY partition
boot.img -> BOOT partition
tz.img -> TZSW paritition !!!
sboot.bin -> BOOTLOADER partition !!!

Thank you so much
Dryfit.linux said:
here is the answer.
hidden.img -> HIDDEN partition
system.img -> SYSTEM partition
cache.img -> CACHE partition
modem.bin -> RADIO partition !!!
recovery.img -> RECOVERY partition
boot.img -> BOOT partition
tz.img -> TZSW paritition !!!
sboot.bin -> BOOTLOADER partition !!!
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Hey There, thank you so much for your answer, it took me a while to see it finally but it worked and my phone is unrooted now. Only problem is I can't seem to be able to connect to wifi. If you have any tip about that.
All the best
Morgan

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flashing stock rom on i9300 using heimdall and linux

hello guys!
Could you please help me to flash stock rom on my i9300 with heimdall?
i downloaded stock firmware for croatia(tmobile) from sammobile and tried to flash rom with mobile odin lite. it worked. kinda. csc was broken and i was not sure shich csc to choose so i rooted my phone back to cm10.
now i'd like to try with heimdall. after unzipping and untaring downloaded file i got following files:
boot.img
cache.img
hidden.img
modem.bin
recovery.img
system.img
How should i flash it?
i'd try by myself but i'm not so sure.
i guess using something like heimdall --primary-boot boot.img --system system.img --modem modem.bin --recovery recovery.img --hidden hidden.img --cache cache.img
is order ok? should i try with different order? and I'm not so sure about boot.img switch because there is --primary-boot and --secondary-boot
Thanks in advance!
devil_kc said:
hello guys!
Could you please help me to flash stock rom on my i9300 with heimdall?
i downloaded stock firmware for croatia(tmobile) from sammobile and tried to flash rom with mobile odin lite. it worked. kinda. csc was broken and i was not sure shich csc to choose so i rooted my phone back to cm10.
now i'd like to try with heimdall. after unzipping and untaring downloaded file i got following files:
boot.img
cache.img
hidden.img
modem.bin
recovery.img
system.img
How should i flash it?
i'd try by myself but i'm not so sure.
i guess using something like heimdall --primary-boot boot.img --system system.img --modem modem.bin --recovery recovery.img --hidden hidden.img --cache cache.img
is order ok? should i try with different order? and I'm not so sure about boot.img switch because there is --primary-boot and --secondary-boot
Thanks in advance!
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Hi, did you try it? I had the same problem with my italian firmware some days ago. I tried and unfortunately I failed! My phone freezed in "Samsung".
I flashed via CWM that firmware and so now it's working.
But it seems that Heimdall isn't so popular...
devil_kc said:
hello guys!
Could you please help me to flash stock rom on my i9300 with heimdall?
i downloaded stock firmware for croatia(tmobile) from sammobile and tried to flash rom with mobile odin lite. it worked. kinda. csc was broken and i was not sure shich csc to choose so i rooted my phone back to cm10.
now i'd like to try with heimdall. after unzipping and untaring downloaded file i got following files:
boot.img
cache.img
hidden.img
modem.bin
recovery.img
system.img
How should i flash it?
i'd try by myself but i'm not so sure.
i guess using something like heimdall --primary-boot boot.img --system system.img --modem modem.bin --recovery recovery.img --hidden hidden.img --cache cache.img
is order ok? should i try with different order? and I'm not so sure about boot.img switch because there is --primary-boot and --secondary-boot
Thanks in advance!
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Start with Hiemdall --print-pit>tmp.txt.
Then open tmp.txt in a text editor, You will see the proper names of the partitions. Then you have to match the partition names from the phone to the file names in your rom image. The command you typed seems mostly correct, but you need to check these partition names to make sure your current rom matches up, for instance,"--primary-boot" might be "--boot", and "--modem" might be "--radio" but don't quote me on that.
skeptonomicon said:
Start with Hiemdall --print-pit>tmp.txt.
Then open tmp.txt in a text editor, You will see the proper names of the partitions. Then you have to match the partition names from the phone to the file names in your rom image. The command you typed seems mostly correct, but you need to check these partition names to make sure your current rom matches up, for instance,"--primary-boot" might be "--boot", and "--modem" might be "--radio" but don't quote me on that.
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Thanks man! but unfortunately my i9300 died of sds and i'm trying to get it fixed by samsung. with no luck so far.
sending it back to service tomorrow and we'll see. but this is good to know, thanks!

[Q] Does anyone have the param.lfs file for the YP-GS1 North American Version?

At the moment, I have messed something up by using Heimdall 1.3.2 and caused param.lfs and the kernel to go out of wack, causing the Android recovery menu to show up. I reflashed the PARAM, KERNEL, FACTORYFS and CACHE to the ones listed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1864741 (it was only for the European version). I am wondering if anyone here has the param.lfs for the North American version lying around? I kinda need that to fix the problem. xD
htfkid2000 said:
At the moment, I have messed something up by using Heimdall 1.3.2 and caused param.lfs and the kernel to go out of wack, causing the Android recovery menu to show up. I reflashed the PARAM, KERNEL, FACTORYFS and CACHE to the ones listed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1864741 (it was only for the European version). I am wondering if anyone here has the param.lfs for the North American version lying around? I kinda need that to fix the problem. xD
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I have caused mine to go to android recovery EVERY time i tried to use heimdall on it. I am able to get my device working again by using odin to flash the north american kernel/system. With that said, I very much want to get heimdall working, so if you think param.lfs is what you need, please help me get it for you.
# busybox find . -name param.lfs
#
I have 13 of these devices with me right now. Let me know how to help you get heimdall working!
if you use IRC, i can be found in ##yp-gs1 on freenode.
-krzee
*note to readers, you can simply use odin and avoid this headache
after working on this for awhile here are my results:
i got the pit file using heimdall-frontend (which evidently is not the same as the eu device, when i used the eu pit i got complaints from heimdall)
on an already rooted device:
i grabbed my cache.img with
Code:
# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=cache.img
i grabbed param.lfs with
Code:
# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=param.lfs
but when i try to load these (without the cache.img) using heimdall-frontend i get a boot loop.
if i also include cache.img i get:
100%
ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!
CACHE upload failed!
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I got the same results in command line:
Code:
heimdall flash --factoryfs factoryfs.img --kernel normalboot.img --param param.lfs --cache cache.img
gives the same CACHE upload error, and without --cache i get a boot loop.
all we really need to load here is the factoryfs to root the device, and also the normalboot for anyone who loaded the EU rom prior (to get their home key back) so i would be plenty happy with only loading factoryfs, but even with only that I get boot loops.
when we were on IRC last night you ended by asking if i have a skype, but not leaving yours for me. The answer is yes, so hop on IRC and I can give it to you, or leave me yours where ever and i will add you. for now, here is the cache.img and param.lfs which i mentioned above. I expect you will get the same results, but I hope I am wrong.
Let me know how they work for you.
Also, yesterday you asked about releasing a heimdall package. While reading up on heimdall-frontend I found that it is easy to package for heimdall once we get this working, so I would be happy to release a heimdall package for this after we get it working.
http://hemp.ircpimps.org/cache_param.tgz is the cache and param, please let me know after you have downloaded them so i can remove them from my site, since we are only testing and these are not for release.

[Q] Cant recover from soft brick this time?

well, ive soft bricked my mediapad many times, but this time nothing will get it booting again, ive wiped everything, used my backups to recover via twrp, ive wiped and tried starting with a fresh rom, and nothing, gets stuck into a the logo bootloop. anyone got any suggestions?
the bootloop occurred when i was using a bluetooth headset and they hung up, which cause the tablet to turn off (known bug its no problem) annnnnd i couldnt get any logs because i modded the rom not to log and not to report errors that cause fc, so no logs no hope. idk what to do someone help =(
Bleh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks for the help guys..not, tried flashing back to stock ics, nothing, i presume it dead just beacause ive fucl<ed with it long enough to piss me off
Try to flash all partitions manualy from stock fw via fastboot.
fastboot flash modem non-hlos.bin
fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn
fastboot flash sbl2 sbl2.mbn
fastboot flash ext oeminfo
fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn
fastboot flash sbl3 sbl3.mbn
fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn
fastboot flash tz tz.mbn
fastboot flash logo logo.img
fastboot flash modem_st1 modem_st1.mbn
fastboot flash modem_st2 modem_st2.mbn
fastboot flash cust cust.img.ext4
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash recovery2 recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img.ext4
fastboot flash persist persist.img.ext4
fastboot flash cache cache.img.ext4
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img.ext4
fastboot flash tombstones tombstones.img.ext4
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Corn Flake said:
Try to flash all partitions manualy from stock fw via fastboot.
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Thanks, I figured it out, there's a problem sometimes with twrp with formatting the data partition, it was the problem all along because I use and older version of twrp, for my own reasons, I sometimes run into permissions problems when I flash with the most recent twrp, so I just flashed the updated recovery, wiped the data, installed my ROM and everything booted fine, then I flashed my old recovery, everything's all good now =)
Can anyone help me!!
I am new to the forum, my Huawei MediaPad 7 Slim has been bricked and the company logo on shows and then a black screen occurs. Can anyone help me please I am pleading for help

[Q] after modify cache.img odin can't flash

i trying to flash stock rom on my sgs2. but without the sec_csc.zip which in cache.img.
i tried to del the image - failed.
i created empty cache.img with "./make_ext4fs -s -l 256M -a cache cache.img cache_new/".
i put the files (boot.bin, cache.img, factoryfs.img, hidden.img modem.bin param.lfs sbl.bin zimage) in a tar file.
and odin failed.
what should i do?
i dont want to root!
of course it will fail.. the md5 sum already chNged..
lawong said:
of course it will fail.. the md5 sum already chNged..
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no its not the reason.
the MD5 Check finished Sucessfully.
thanks guys. u figure it out.
the problem was the tar format file.
odin support just "ustar" tar format.
thanks again!

ND7 Boot loop

odin'd ND7 for the correct model i605 from a site other than sammobile (download was really slow), everything went through fine when it went to reboot it does a quick boot loop
cannot go to recovery mode, but can go to odin.
cannot flash full tar back to it, it fails on sboot
So I downloaded the file from sammobile and extracted it
thinking maybe I have to make a flash file without the bootloader if possible?
extracted the tar
boot.img
cache.img
hidden.img
modem.bin
recovery.img
sboot.bin
system.img
tz.img
edit. used pit file with odin (read in other threads after the fact) and all seems clear, very noob of me -.-
normally don't have to use it...
anyways still want to know if possible to make without bootloader and/or make something like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24278264&postcount=9

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