For those looking for files that may have been deleted, here are some that I've found.
https://archive.org/details/t-mobile-my-touch-3-g-slide-software-update-2.15.531.3
https://archive.org/details/htc_sync_setup_3.2.20
https://archive.org/details/recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-espresso
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I have a couple questions about CWM and backups:
Is there a difference between flashing update.zip and installing a zip from the sdcard in CWM?
Also, let's say I make a change to boot.img and system.img and something goes wrong. Instead of flashing the backups of those two images from my computer to my phone using fastboot, can I just place them both in a zip file and install it from CWM? Would I need to include any other files?
How come a nandroid backup makes a system.ext4.tar and not a system.img? How do I turn that into a system.img?
How come I need unyaffs to read cache, data, and system.img files? I thought the filesystem was ext4 and not YAFFS?
Flashing an update.zip looks for a file on the root of your sd called that and flashes it. Installing a zip let's you choose.
You need to put a few more files into the zip. An update script and binary
Update to romracers recovery and you can do an advanced restore just using certain parts of a nandroid.
That recovery also makes.. Img files rather than tars
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marko! said:
Flashing an update.zip looks for a file on the root of your sd called that and flashes it. Installing a zip let's you choose.
You need to put a few more files into the zip. An update script and binary
Update to romracers recovery and you can do an advanced restore just using certain parts of a nandroid.
That recovery also makes.. Img files rather than tars
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So I found some links about the update-script and I'll be reading those shortly, but after skimming them I didn't see any mention of the binary. Is the binary an executable version of the same script or something else? Any links?
So what your saying is I could just skip the update.zip stuff, extract the images from the zip, and use advanced restore to flash each image? Obviously more work but it's good to know if these two processes are equivalent.
Actually, I just made a recovery using romracer's CWM and boot and recovery are .img files while cache, data, and system are ext4.tar files. pds is .ext3.tar and .android_secure is .vfat.tar. So do you really get system files as .img files? And if so, what's wrong with my CWM? If not, the original question holds: why doesn't CWM make an image of each partition, and instead use a tar? For compression? How would I make this a flashable .img file?
And also the last question about ext4 and YAFFS is still there. Thanks.
Most of those I'm really not sure. The update binary is the same for every zip. Just grab it from a rom or theme
I would go with the cwm zips. Way easier once you get them working.
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Actually, I just made a recovery using romracer's CWM and boot and recovery are .img files while cache, data, and system are ext4.tar files. pds is .ext3.tar and .android_secure is .vfat.tar. So do you really get system files as .img files? And if so, what's wrong with my CWM? If not, the original question holds: why doesn't CWM make an image of each partition, and instead use a tar? For compression? How would I make this a flashable .img file?
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I was just looking at this too. My old recoveries from before atrix4.1 was released were all .img files and the post atrix4.1 backups are .ext3.tar (except for boot.img and recovery.img). I'm on a stock deodexed GB ROM, so I don't have any ext4 partitions. I think he changed this with the newest update so CWM can recognize the ext type and mount them appropriately.
This post should hopefully clarify a bit more than I can. I'm relatively new to all this so I'm still learning different aspects of modding. I'm guessing you have some ext4's because you're running one of the newer custom ROM's?
Hey me again.
So I just got an OTA update notification, but since I'm on a custom recovery, I can't install it. Don't suppose anyone would go to the trouble to re-package it as a flashable zip file for TWRP/clockworkmod?
Thanks.
flash recovery on OTA pack
There isn't any recovery and the firmware.zip can't be extracted
I'll have access to a full stock Asia phone that's had the update applied tomorrow. As long as the recovery.log is still in cache I should be able to work out which files where updated and create a TWRP update zip file from it.(If its just stagefright libs being replaced it should be compatible across regional roms)
I can provide the ota from Poland play version
porozex said:
I can provide the ota from Poland play version
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Have you installed the update? Last time i tried i couldn't do anyrhing with a ota_update zip. But with a twrp /system backup and hopefully a recovery.log file from an updated rom, i think I can work out which files were updated and create twrp compatible update.zip based on that. The asia ota_update was only 87Mb in size and trying to address the stagefright bug from what I've seen. Is that the same for you?
No, I can't install it. Mine was around 38mb
edit: ok i found a solution, if you have a backup of your rom (i got it after got installed twp for first time) open it with winzip or 7zip then navigate to sytem>bin>bebuggerd and copy it to the phone. then with a filemanager with root privileges replace the current one and give proper permissions. thats it
Hi,
I´m getting software install failed! on my Huawei wile doing an OTA ROM update.
It is an intermediate update so update.app does not have system.img, but rather the update.zip has folders with a patch for the /System.
As of that, I wanted to know what's wrong, so, is there any log file created from the update procedure?
G Play Mini - CHC-U01 Update to V100R001C434B120
OTA URL:
http://update.hicloud.com/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G854/g104/v29161/f1/full/update.zip
Inside update.zip is update.app (and the folders to patch the /system) which in turn compacts another update.app inside.
So, either "open inside" update.app or extract update.app from update.zip, rename that update.app to update.zip and open the last update.zip to get the update.app that can be opened with HuaweiUpdateExtractor to get the *.img files (exept system.img).
Since I can´t adb in recovery I can´t do a logcat.
Can anyone help me debug the OTA update?
Build Number
This is getting more like a diary...
I found the log file in ./splash2/recovery.log
Now, where is the system getting the information of the build number other than from build.prop, because the info on the "about" menu is different form what is in ro.build.display.id or any other variable on the file.
I'll appreciate any help!
I found that the variable is stored in ./cust/hw/eu/prop/local.prop (on my case the path "eu" is because my CustCVersion is European, on Russian should be .../ru/prop/local.prop").
Unfortunately I didn´t know that CWM doesn´t include cust.img on nandroid backups, so i don´t have the original ./cust structure to replace the original settings.
i have update fail with chc-u01 firmware 6.0.
how cani do?
Hi, I have a device with custom recovery that can update ROM using update files, I got a working update file (zip contains system/ and META-INT/), When I'm unzipping it, add files to it and zip it again then flashing it, I get update failed, I even get update failed when I'm just unzipping and zipping without adding files or touching the content in the zip. Does anyone know why it might happen?
Thanks.
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Hi to all. Where can I search for OTA update files before the installation? I did'nt found it on internal storage.
Yes, there are changes now and we dont see that file anymore or may be someone with root access can find (may be stored under system folder)
I founded it. Ota files are stored in / data/update/HwOUC.