I read the full flash in .bin format with octopus box.
What tool would I use to write the full bin file back to phone?
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HI! Is there any way to flash a custom rom using PC?
SP FLash tool needs a scatter file
but my ROM doesnt have any.
I tried to make my own scatter file but I cant find the system.img
The system.img is a folder
how can i convert the system folder to system.img?
PLS HELP
Ive done this but it was year's ago while making an odin flashable firmware for sgh-t599. Sorry to say I can't remember the procedure but I used guides so the info is out there.
You'll need Linux, and you must know the size of system partition and if it need to be raw img format or sparse img format.
With the right commands these img's can also be extracted straight from a working device.
With MTK Tools long dead, I'm trying to read the ROM on a phone with a cracked mother board one which by some miracle, the USB interface still works. I need my userdata.img and to try to get my contacts off that.
Can I use a scatter file that comes with the factory restore images for my phone which is based on MT6582 (4Gb int. mem) to find my memory point entry values for each separate file I want to pull off the phone? I tried copying exactly the linear_start_address and the partition_size into SPFlash "ADD" fields to use with the Read Back option and I get the xxxxxx.img files but not sure if this is the right way because I can't seem to use a tool to extract the internal files like I have been able to do on other restore images in the past.
I have used Disk Internals Linux Reader on my Windows laptop in the past but it doesn't seem to work on the files I extracted but of course until someone tells me if simply copying and pasting the named fields out of the scatter file and into SPFlash ADD, Read Back, I don't know if the data has been read out of the phone properly.
Thanks!
Hi,
Long story:
This is not a question about a specific device, although it involves one (A95X MAX) which has made it extremely difficult to modify. I have a ROM that I want to install, but it is essentially only a system.img file in a RAR file which is only accompanied by a file SECURE_BOOT_SET. The stock recovery doesn't know how to use RAR files and, if I unpack the system.img & SECURE_BOOT_SET onto an SD card, stock recovery doesn't know how to handle that. Stock recovery just wants a zip file. (I can't use USB to send ADB commands to the box or use the Amlogic burning ROM tool. I can't get USB communications going, though the USB cable supplies power.)
Examining a TWRP.zip I find a relatively simple structure that I think should be able to get my system.img onto my TV box. It looks as though I just need an updater.script buried in a sub-directory off META-INF with the system.img in the zip's root directory, so, the updater.script...
Short version:
If I only put this command
package_extract_file("system.img", "/dev/block/system");
into the updater.script and reconstruct a system.zip with my desired system.img is this sufficient to flash the system.img?
And another (hopefully simple) issue, do I need to sign the zip? If so, how do I do it? (Google has magically pointed me to how to sign a zip file.)
Thanks!
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(If this is the wrong sub-forum, which is the right one?)
maybe a stupid question but is the "System.img" purely the system partition or is that the entire firmware just called system.img?
the "SECURE_BOOT_SET" file suggests its the entire firmware and not just the system.img in which case "USB Burning tool 2.1.6.8" will do the job
Tonian1878 said:
maybe a stupid question but is the "System.img" purely the system partition or is that the entire firmware just called system.img?
the "SECURE_BOOT_SET" file suggests its the entire firmware and not just the system.img in which case "USB Burning tool 2.1.6.8" will do the job
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Not a stupid question. I'm pretty much in the dark. You may be right that it is the entire firmware. I have no way of seeing inside the package, but a developer elsewhere suggested I take the line of restructuring the package with Simg2img and dd it into the system partition. I renamed it system.img to try to restructure it with a version of Simg2img. And SECURE_BOOT_SET contains nothing readable, if it contains data for the install at all. The package containing these two files looks like no full firmware installation I've seen.
I cannot establish USB communications with this box (it doesn't behave like other S905x2 boxes in circulation, though it seems to have the same central hardware; no-one seems to be doing work on the box and there's no technical support), which makes the USB Burning Tool useless, as I understand it.
your system.img isnt a true system.img, its the entire firmware, which is also a .img file that has several other .img files inside it, this includes the proper system.img , boot.img and recovery.img etc.
i have the A95X Max and i have used USB Burning tool to flash firmwares to it.
Install USB Burning tol 2.1.6.8.
Go to whichever folder you installed USB burning tool in and create a new folder called "license" and put the the "secure_boot_set" file in the "license" folder.
start usb burning tool, select your firmware (.img) then hook the A95X Max to the pc via the back USB connection while pressing the reset/recovery button (hidden in the 3.5mm socket) and then insert power cable.
should pop up on USB Burning tool. press start.
Note: make sure the is nothing else in the USB slots while flashing or the HDD slot.
Hi guys
I want to ask something
I just backup my stock ROM using GSM Aladdin (using the read flash feature.also i ticked save as scatter) and it completed successfully so i went to the folder where it was saved (something like MT6580xxx) and i saw .bin files like boot , system , preloader etc
So my point is they are all .bin files (excluding the scatter.txt)
And i want to flash that to my phone using sp flash tool so do i need to make the .bin files to .img files or can i use directly? ? Or is there any other step ? Please help
1336Xhoax said:
Hi guys
I want to ask something
I just backup my stock ROM using GSM Aladdin (using the read flash feature.also i ticked save as scatter) and it completed successfully so i went to the folder where it was saved (something like MT6580xxx) and i saw .bin files like boot , system , preloader etc
So my point is they are all .bin files (excluding the scatter.txt)
And i want to flash that to my phone using sp flash tool so do i need to make the .bin files to .img files or can i use directly? ? Or is there any other step ? Please help
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Hi,
Do you know where I can get GSM Aladdin? Do they have a trial version?
I can backup my firmware using twrp. But I'm concerned that I won't be able to boot to TWRP after I mess up. So, is there a way to backup current firmware in img format for USB Burn Tool?
I also want to know. I have read that you can use tools in the Amlogic Tools folder.
I have several Android boxes where the manufacturers only supply the SD card version of the firmware update and not the AML version of the img file that can be flashed with the Amlogic USB Burning Tool should the unit brick.
I want the same thing, as the stock firmware for these boxes can be hard to find. I tried dumping /dev/block/mmcblk0 to an .img file but UBT wouldn't accept it.
leon_733 said:
I want the same thing, as the stock firmware for these boxes can be hard to find. I tried dumping /dev/block/mmcblk0 to an .img file but UBT wouldn't accept it.
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I think MyGica's SD card type update firmwares have a code that checks the signature of the version it is replacing so if the signature does not match it will not install the firmware you're trying to update to.