Development custom ROM problem - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys,
So I started trying to create the custom ROM for an old smartphone, the Wiko Cink Slim following a french tutorial (I'm french ) .
So I encounter a small problem , let me explain: In order to create a flashable zip for CWM recovery , I put in the zip file containing all the system files etc., then the boot.img ( from the stock ROM the wiko cink slim) and the META-INF folder containing the updater script and another file and everything ... provided by the tutorial I follow.
So after the change in the system folder , I decided to flash the custom ROM in the CWM .
When flashing , all goes well , no apparent error. So I restarts after the smartphone and the problem is that it remains blocked on the boot logo ... And it all the time, I even try to flash the zip healthy custom that I had previously copied and even problem ...
So, conclusion, the problem is not from the file system because it does not walk with the healthy zip ( so the system folder had absolutely no changes ) and I guess it does not come from boot.img because it comes directly from the stock rom the same smartphone. I think the problem of blockage at boot comes from the META-INF folder.
What do you think ? I think that the problem is folder META-INF. So, I attach the address of the download of the META-INF folder, and as I do not know code in the updater-script, check any errors.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0kPUePrYTtEZHVmWVFPSVQ2Nzg&usp=sharing
And I just think, the meta-inf folder is planned for version 4.2.2 android while I have version 4.1.1 on my Wiko cink slim. The problem is not there?
Thank you in advance,
Bests regards :laugh:

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ROMs dont have an update.zip

Hey Guys,
I'm in need of some really n00b friendly advice.
When you flash a new ROM (i.e. CM9) in CWM the tutorials tell you to flash the file named Update.zip. My problem is that I can't seem to find one in the zip file I downloaded for my xperia mini.
I downloaded FXP131, and found the zip file to contain a boot.img, which will be the kernel. And 2 other folders named META-INF and System.
I know how to flash the kernel and expect it was just left in there for easy transportation.
But where in the world is 'update.zip'?
Am I meant to unpackage the kernel then re-zip the META-INF and System folder and then call that 'Update.zip'?
I've flashed roms for some of my other devices before, but they've always used flashtool or samsungs flashtool.
Please help me guys, I don't like sounding this inexperienced
update.zip
I'm wondering if the ROM I am trying to flash needs to be renamed as update.zip in order to work. It is krook's v.6 of JB for the Lenovo K1 tablet. Since the download site has to distinguish between wifi and 3G versions, as well as nvflash versions there are a number of different filenames, however does it need to be renamed after putting it on my SD card?
Generally speaking "update.zip" is used as a generic name. For example the update.zip I just flashed is actually named "rascarlo_maguro_ota_2012-11-01.zip". When you flash a custom ROM in a custom recovery you should be able to browse & flash whichever file you need.
The FXP131.zip file that contains the boot.img and 2 other folders named META-INF and System is the "update.zip"
solved
My problem was an incomplete download. I compared file sizes, and checked md5sums and determined the correct ROM and it is now in the middle of finishing the upgrade/optimization process.
Thx

[Q] Huawei G700 EMUI 1.8 B124

Hello
here i am posting here because i cant post on Miscellaneous Android Development , how ever i think i post there before while working on B5512
I Just got new G700 it came with B115 middle east channel , phone is good but as a start is there is a update i must ask my self is root ready , and CWM for sure so i start the digging
@chamaruco thank you for your great thread which saved and helped many people
now i got a file and i think you were looking for it ""G700-U10_V100R001C00B124CUSTC432D001_Firmware_Portugal_Channel-Others_4.2.1_EMUI 1.8_05021LMW.zip"" it contain usb upgrade and sd upgrade with drv and flash tool
i notice EMUI 1.8 not 1.6 which i saw for example a permission manager with it on P6 is that here in that rom too ?
is that rom improved than mine b115 phone is good for first look but
(in B115)
1-camera quality is strange i dont mean bad but it look very strange it is like very poor on quality
2-in call volume is too low in my opinion all " in test mode"
Question now did any one get that update "EMUI 1.8 B124" can tell is there is any improvements ?!
Question am i able to flash CWM image directly with flash tool to save some annoying procedures ?!
a member here provide flasher and cwm.img and orginal recovery.img
i did not work with the phone yet need to shift data from old phone remove ext2 part and prepare for change , and feeling lost here
want to strike it all once
i will upload "EMUI 1.8 B124" soon as it came from a private server
any suggestions are welcome
When you install 1.8 you will notice there is only a tap error from uploader..it is a 1.6 emui. That's all.
Hello
some info to add
incase of softbrick the phone and unable to flash using spflash tool and receive " not allowed , forbidden "
solution
inside the usb upgrade >> flash "Rework-Secro" using scatter in same folder then you will be able to use download mode again
how to install this firmware i.e. B124 on G700-10
chamaruco said:
When you install 1.8 you will notice there is only a tap error from uploader..it is a 1.6 emui. That's all.
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chamaruco; Thanks for the best of the best user guides you have been making for all of us, but what i want to know is to be able to install the B124 into my phone i.e. G700-10, i have rooted my phone using farmaroot, made a back up of my factory shipped OS and make all my data backup safe through Hisuit, have downloaded the firmware B124 Purtogal version, extracted the zip, (it is now carrying META-INF, boot.img, cust.img, logo.bin, sdload.log, system.img) i have made a folder in my SD card named dload and copied the files in it, uninstalled mobileuncle, reinstalled new mobileuncletool, copied my backuped recovery.img into my SDcard and somehow installed the recovery in to my mobile,
now please show me the way forward, what i need to do and how, please step by step if you kindly can. please.
YOU ARE THE BEST CHAMARUCO
talvigi said:
chamaruco; Thanks for the best of the best user guides you have been making for all of us, but what i want to know is to be able to install the B124 into my phone i.e. G700-10, i have rooted my phone using farmaroot, made a back up of my factory shipped OS and make all my data backup safe through Hisuit, have downloaded the firmware B124 Purtogal version, extracted the zip, (it is now carrying META-INF, boot.img, cust.img, logo.bin, sdload.log, system.img) i have made a folder in my SD card named dload and copied the files in it, uninstalled mobileuncle, reinstalled new mobileuncletool, copied my backuped recovery.img into my SDcard and somehow installed the recovery in to my mobile,
now please show me the way forward, what i need to do and how, please step by step if you kindly can. please.
YOU ARE THE BEST CHAMARUCO
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Dload inside put update.app file, restart in updatemode
chamaruco said:
Dload inside put update.app file, restart in updatemode
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But my mobile does not boot into CWM recovery mode as i have seen in my previous Qmobile A8 it always restarts in the defualt recovery mode which only give options to "1. reboot, 2. update from SDcard, 3. update from cashe, 4. wipe/delete user data and wipe/delete cache and in the last there is a calibarate TP, AND OFF COURSE THESE ALL ARE THE ANDROID BUILTIN RECOVERY STEPS NOT OF THE CWM
And off course there is not any file or folder named update.app in the downloaded .zip/extracted file. "as i have mentioned above the folder contains a folder named META-INF and three img files named as boot cust and system while a .bin file named logo too.
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND HELP.
foffa said:
Hello
some info to add
incase of softbrick the phone and unable to flash using spflash tool and receive " not allowed , forbidden "
solution
inside the usb upgrade >> flash "Rework-Secro" using scatter in same folder then you will be able to use download mode again
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So after I select the Reworked scatter file there is only the sec_ro partition checked to flash. So after flashing it do I now select the previous scatter file and then flash everything (including preloader)?

[Q] pulling boot.img for TWRP 2.7.0.0 touch recovery

Hello Friends,
I just registered to this forum.
It's awesome to read all of the thread inside this forum...
but my brain is limited to learn everything in no time.
Well, I found this thread.
The title is: [RECOVERY][XSOLA] TWRP 2.7.0.0 touch recovery [2014-04-27]
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"Installation:
since our device developers are constantly trying to fix bugs, they are always changing something in init.*.rc files for testing. For this reason I can't post a regular boot.img file because it won't work. For now, I've created a script that will take all init.*.rc files from current rom's boot.img and then compile new boot.img with TWRP inside it.
Note : For Rooted & Unlocked Bootloader Only
Note : For 4.4 ROM (should work on older version of android upto 4.1). I don't own Xperia Sola so didn't test it. So please provide feedback
1) Download the latest zip file.
2) Extract it in a folder and place your current rom's boot.img inside that folder. (it must be named boot.img)
3) Connect your phone with PC. (adb must be working)
4) Open your command line and cd to that folder
5) For linux users, type ..........................."
Do you all know what must I do on "placing my current rom's boot.img"? I just can't find the file on my Xperia Sola device.
Please Help.
Thank You.
Boot.img is not a file on the XP. It is the image of the boot partition.
You can extract it from the zip of your ROM or from the ftf from Sony or from the CWM backup.
Sheers
adi10pn said:
place your current rom's boot.img
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have u kept the .zip file of the ROM you are currently using? if so extract the files from it and you will find a file named "boot.img"
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[Q] Problem with using android kitchen. Help needed.

I had been trying to make a custom ROM or porting a ROM for Micromax Canvas A 96. It has only one custom ROM found in 'needrom' site. As the stock ROM is in a format suitable for SP Flashtool , I wanted to make a CWM flashable ROM in zip format, so that porting will be easier. For this purpose I need 'METAINF' Folder with updater script. So, after searching I came across a guide on 'Converting boot.img +system.img' to CWM flashable zip ROM. I followed it and used android kitchen and got a ROM in zip in the output folder which I re-named (during working on 'cygwin' window). Now I checked it by extracting with 'Express zip' windows software, and it says " The zip is corrupted or encrypted or empty or in an incompatible format'. Now, I do not know how to go about it. Please help me.

DEV PLZ HELP M OUT OF OPTIONS MODEM/BASEBAND/IMEI FIX AOSP togari

hi all
Near perfect build from marshmellow Aosp ended up in IMEI , BASEband unkown and NO SIM issue , xperia z ultra 6833
every thing is prefectly working CAM , wifi , gapss , rooting etc. battery is amazing and its very very fast as minimal install
i am out of options now so put to you guys to help me out i have tried almost every zip file posted ( around 10+ ) for modem fix but nothing fixes it .....!!
can any one please post a working modem fix / base band fix
CLUE
while being totally frustrated i dirty flashed few of those modem fix files and suddenly it fixes the issues and every thing started to work perfectly , thanksfully i backed up the system and boot image via twrp .. and now able to use it but cannot make a flashable zip out of it.
IDEA
can i some how convert the ext4.win partitions ( backupfiles ) into IMG files and then pack then via script into flashable zip for recovery ?? OR is there any thing from TWRP or any other recovery via i can extract IMG files of system and boot so that i can be used as base rom ?
OPTIONS I TRIED STEPS OF FAILURE
1, tried all modem .zip files ( FAILED )
2, extracted the backedup ext4.win system file via cygwin and extracted the /etc/firmware/ files and recomplied via updator script in my source folder of /system/etc/firmware files ( FAILED )
3, tried pulling the system.img via DD command successfully done , but while trying to flash it via fastboot got an error cannot load system.img i suspect due to very large size of it i.e .2 GB + i dont knwo why ? ( FAILED )
4, i tried /etc/firmware folder form a working rom and swaped with my source and recompiled via updator script ( FAILED )
try flashing stock rom with flashtool http://www.flashtool.net/downloads.php
edit: not sure what your problem is?
You dirty flashed some file that made the imei go bad? But it solved the problem?
I'm not getting it?
SUPERUSER said:
try flashing stock rom with flashtool http://www.flashtool.net/downloads.php
edit: not sure what your problem is?
You dirty flashed some file that made the imei go bad? But it solved the problem?
I'm not getting it?
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@SUPERUSER
Follows are the steps i performed to give better idea about situation .
1, STEP 1 , i did : flashed the system and boot img files from aosp source build after which the IMEI wiped off.
2,Step 2, i search and flashed many modem.zip from xda posts but non of them worked. and IMEI issue still persists ( i tried one by one each file ) with clean flash .
3, Step 3, i tried two modem.zip dirty flash , and suddenly it worked after restart but i forgot which files i used
4, luckily before i wiped current combination i took the backups of system and boot img files
5, Problem , i need a proper modem file which can remove this issue happened in step 1 and 2 .
6 , Current solution or work around i did is , i Pulled the system and boot images from working rom and made them flashable zip .via script .. its working fine but its not a proper solution because in future if i want to edit the source then same issue will occur as i understand the issue lies with source i believe ..
I hope i made it clear as much as possible and hopefully get some help ...
pintspin said:
hi all
Near perfect build from marshmellow Aosp ended up in IMEI , BASEband unkown and NO SIM issue , xperia z ultra 6833
every thing is prefectly working CAM , wifi , gapss , rooting etc. battery is amazing and its very very fast as minimal install
i am out of options now so put to you guys to help me out i have tried almost every zip file posted ( around 10+ ) for modem fix but nothing fixes it .....!!
can any one please post a working modem fix / base band fix
CLUE
while being totally frustrated i dirty flashed few of those modem fix files and suddenly it fixes the issues and every thing started to work perfectly , thanksfully i backed up the system and boot image via twrp .. and now able to use it but cannot make a flashable zip out of it.
IDEA
can i some how convert the ext4.win partitions ( backupfiles ) into IMG files and then pack then via script into flashable zip for recovery ?? OR is there any thing from TWRP or any other recovery via i can extract IMG files of system and boot so that i can be used as base rom ?
OPTIONS I TRIED STEPS OF FAILURE
1, tried all modem .zip files ( FAILED )
2, extracted the backedup ext4.win system file via cygwin and extracted the /etc/firmware/ files and recomplied via updator script in my source folder of /system/etc/firmware files ( FAILED )
3, tried pulling the system.img via DD command successfully done , but while trying to flash it via fastboot got an error cannot load system.img i suspect due to very large size of it i.e .2 GB + i dont knwo why ? ( FAILED )
4, i tried /etc/firmware folder form a working rom and swaped with my source and recompiled via updator script ( FAILED )
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Can you share the modem files you used to get it working?
You write you got it working and made a backup in twrp.
Can you mount the partition and pull the files?
I need:
mba.b00
modem.b01
modem.mdt
They are located in system/etc/firmware.
SUPERUSER said:
Can you share the modem files you used to get it working?
You write you got it working and made a backup in twrp.
Can you mount the partition and pull the files?
I need:
mba.b00
modem.b01
modem.mdt
They are located in system/etc/firmware.
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thanks SU for your response , actually i just fixed it last night , i will upload the zip that worked actually for reference of others
the Rom is ready and i will upload it hopfully tonight IA.
thanks for your help
pintspin said:
thanks SU for your response , actually i just fixed it last night , i will upload the zip that worked actually for reference of others
the Rom is ready and i will upload it hopfully tonight IA.
thanks for your help
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Hi, i have the same problem, installed NANZ Stock AOSP MarshMallow (Pure minimal ) (https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z-ultra/development/marshmallow-stock-aosp-rom-t3625443) but i don't get the radio working. Hopefully you can help me?
Hi there I have responded to your question in original nanz aosp thread plz check
Thanks :good: will do

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