Hello I am kinda of new to rooting and I am following this tutorial, from my understanding I need the Factory image of SM-A526B/DS, I am having issues finding that file can someone point me in the right direction?
Correct me if I am wrong but, if I cant find this file does it mean It would be convinient to change my OS and then download the img file? I don't know If I am making sense, I apologize im kind of new to this.
ARCHANGELGABRIEL said:
Hello I am kinda of new to rooting and I am following this tutorial, from my understanding I need the Factory image of SM-A526B/DS, I am having issues finding that file can someone point me in the right direction?
Correct me if I am wrong but, if I cant find this file does it mean It would be convinient to change my OS and then download the img file? I don't know If I am making sense, I apologize im kind of new to this.
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In the same Forum where you opened this thread there is someone saying that could be unlock and root the same device as yours https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/unlock-bootloader-magisk.4272797/post-85041029 a little research could bring you there.
For the firmware just adding to SM-A526B/DS, the word "firmware" you will find a lot of entries, also you can use some tool like Frija https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tool-frija-samsung-firmware-downloader-checker.3910594/
which rom ur phone running can u take a screenshot about phone section ?
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Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this? I've done a search and all I can find is one from the international version and that's based on the 2.3.1 build.
TIA
check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
daraj said:
check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
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Nothing there about stock system dump.
BigBolo said:
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this? I've done a search and all I can find is one from the international version and that's based on the 2.3.1 build.
TIA
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Entropy512 started with a stock system dump that someone, (maybe Jivy26), made after installing a custom kernel. But I don't remember he ever posted a link to it. He may still have it hanging around, though. That's what he used to make his stock plus root package.
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Nothing there about stock system dump.
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Um, what do you think a flashable stock system image is? (Other than being a sparse ext4 image, if you want something loop-mountable use simg2img...)
Seriously - spend just a LITTLE more time reading before you post in a Development thread. This device has been out for only 2 weeks so it's not like the Dev forum has tons of threads.
There's also a dd-derived system dump in page 5 of codeworkx's CWM kernel thread. I used jivy26's tar dump, although I should probably do a consistency check against seattleboi1982's dump.
Entropy512 said:
Um, what do you think a flashable stock system image is? (Other than being a sparse ext4 image, if you want something loop-mountable use simg2img...)
Seriously - spend just a LITTLE more time reading before you post in a Development thread. This device has been out for only 2 weeks so it's not like the Dev forum has tons of threads.
There's also a dd-derived system dump in page 5 of codeworkx's CWM kernel thread. I used jivy26's tar dump, although I should probably do a consistency check against seattleboi1982's dump.
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I'm actually looking for the system dump in a zip where I can extract it into folders. Not as a image. I want to basically get the media files. I did do a search in several forums trying to find it but came up with nothing.
Maybe I should of been more detailed and specific in my OP.
BigBolo said:
I'm actually looking for the system dump in a zip where I can extract it into folders. Not as a image. I want to basically get the media files. I did do a search in several forums trying to find it but came up with nothing.
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Can't you just extract the stock system image?
eep2378 said:
Can't you just extract the stock system image?
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I don't know how to do that...
Then you probably don't belong in android development (yet).
Use 7zip to extract the zip/tar/whatever.
In general, you're not supposed to put requests in Development. This should have been posted in General.
And a stock system dump IS an image dump. Zip files don't preserve permissions, and tar files only do if you prepared them carefully (good thing jivy26 did). The only way to be sure is to dd the partition.
If you want a nice easy to use zip, use paylyhoffman's stock deodexed CWM zip.
Entropy512 said:
In general, you're not supposed to put requests in Development. This should have been posted in General.
And a stock system dump IS an image dump. Zip files don't preserve permissions, and tar files only do if you prepared them carefully (good thing jivy26 did). The only way to be sure is to dd the partition.
If you want a nice easy to use zip, use paylyhoffman's stock deodexed CWM zip.
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Thanks for clearing it up. My bad I thought this was the section to post requests like that.
Also folks before jumping on the guy, what he is asking for (at least with the .7z file posted) isn't as straightforward as everyone thinks.
If you first extract the 7z file, you'll get a PDA.tar file. Extract that and you'll get the kernel (zImage) and the lovely factoryfs.img.
Try extracting factoryfs.img with your favorite tools and see what happens.
Extracting the factoryfs.img is a real pain unless you are pretty hardcore -- in fact, there was another thread going on the in international SGS II forum with some pretty well known devs (who know their stuff) trying to figure out how to extract that bad boy.
So before everyone starts throwing rocks...you know the story.
Does this look easy to you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054836 (relevant discussion starts around post #7)
and another solution (which also is not as simple as "right-click and extract")
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
Now -- with that said, if one was really looking for an easy way to pull some media files from a ROM, you best bet would be to try and find a CWM flashable ROM (in a zip format) and do a regular extract on those, and you may find it much easier. They may not be stock, but if it's close, you may get lucky and find some of the stock media in them.
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Also folks before jumping on the guy, what he is asking for (at least with the .7z file posted) isn't as straightforward as everyone thinks.
If you first extract the 7z file, you'll get a PDA.tar file. Extract that and you'll get the kernel (zImage) and the lovely factoryfs.img.
Try extracting factoryfs.img with your favorite tools and see what happens.
Extracting the factoryfs.img is a real pain unless you are pretty hardcore -- in fact, there was another thread going on the in international SGS II forum with some pretty well known devs (who know their stuff) trying to figure out how to extract that bad boy.
So before everyone starts throwing rocks...you know the story.
Does this look easy to you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054836 (relevant discussion starts around post #7)
and another solution (which also is not as simple as "right-click and extract")
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
Now -- with that said, if one was really looking for an easy way to pull some media files from a ROM, you best bet would be to try and find a CWM flashable ROM (in a zip format) and do a regular extract on those, and you may find it much easier. They may not be stock, but if it's close, you may get lucky and find some of the stock media in them.
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Thanks for clarifying that pinoymutt. Yea basically I know a lot of people don't like the finished charging notification but I don't mind it and I figured it's as simple as just placing the ogg file back in the ui folder. I'm on DG's Cog X2 and he had removed that.
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Thanks for clarifying that pinoymutt. Yea basically I know a lot of people don't like the finished charging notification but I don't mind it and I figured it's as simple as just placing the ogg file back in the ui folder. I'm on DG's Cog X2 and he had removed that.
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Doubt it's that simple. I removed the notification by modifying code. I would bet dg did the same.
I unzipped the 2nd_Albert_APP_update.zip and found the structure
\system\app and list of *.apk files.
question 1:
can I remove an apk file from 2nd_Albert_APP_update.zip in \system\app like twitter.apk without breaking the install process?
question 2:
Can I just add my own demo.apk files by simply copying them and saving the same archive and location mentioned above?
rp201 said:
I unzipped the 2nd_Albert_APP_update.zip and found the structure
\system\app and list of *.apk files.
question 1:
can I remove an apk file from 2nd_Albert_APP_update.zip in \system\app like twitter.apk without breaking the install process?
question 2:
Can I just add my own demo.apk files by simply copying them and saving the same archive and location mentioned above?
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First of all wrong section. Second off if verification signatures are off, then you might* be able to assuming he used the package command, you might be able too.
Loglud said:
First of all wrong section. Second off if verification signatures are off, then you might* be able to assuming he used the package command, you might be able too.
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sorry for wrong section, I was stuck between sections where to post.
I figured a metafile edit or package signing tool might be needed I did not want a simple yes response. I guess I will hijack my own post and change it a more dev type question.
Any rough steps you can give me to do this myself that I can then do searches on?
figure I'll have to
download android sdk.
examine metafile xy.z
look for section [] and edit
place apks in structure
buildpacktool.exe to look for.
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
rp201 said:
sorry for wrong section, I was stuck between sections where to post.
I figured a metafile edit or package signing tool might be needed I did not want a simple yes response. I guess I will hijack my own post and change it a more dev type question.
Any rough steps you can give me to do this myself that I can then do searches on?
figure I'll have to
download android sdk.
examine metafile xy.z
look for section [] and edit
place apks in structure
buildpacktool.exe to look for.
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
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um sure. So first of the great thing is you really shouldn't have to do much. The basic premiss of this is that it uses a update.zip to flash via CWM, which means you shouldnt have to sign the package. Basic premiss, is I would first try unziping deleting and putting packages into ./system/app/ rezipping and then trying to flash that. That should be good enough to make your own. Second off if you really want to, you can look at the meta-data/.../update-script. There are some good guides on how to script this file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=994940
Hello.
Sorry if i might be a bit rude in this post but i'm writing this after 2 hours of messing with various tools and commands so i might one day successfully unpack the ROM and see what's inside of it.
Steps i made are:
Installed cygwin
Unpacked the stock sony ics live with walkman rom with universal extractor, and another attempt with 7zip
converted system.sin to system.img with SIN2IMG
and that's where it all stops.
i have xperia rom manager, and when i try to unpack the system.img to a folder, i get nothing but errors.
tried with flashtool to create yfft2 or whatever it's called, and open it with yaffey - didn't work.
As i'm pulling my hair out right now, i seek for additional information and guidance to finally unpack the stupid ROM.
Thank you.
Btw please, dont tell me to search for answers, because i did my research and i couldn't find a thing. If i somehow missed a thread where it is all explained, please, forgive me, and link it if it's not too hard.
[edit] almost forgot, i tried to extract with yaffsexpert with my phone, didnt work. and also sry for my lack of knowledge about this stuff, i'm trying to learn, but there's a bunch of stuff.....
hi
i was searching around and couldnt find or edit myselft , so im asking for help
we all flesh many different samsung phones and many different roms in our work.
sometimes im not in , and my workers ask how to flesh this and that.
i was wondering if there is any way i can edit the ODIN.INI file to auto chose the correct files for fleshing.
meaning i'll make a new dir with the rom i need to flesh , add odin and odin.ini in it , edit the ini to add the files in that dir , and if i open this oding from this folder it will auto chose the files in the dir , this way they cant make any mistake with the correct files , as odin only remember the last dir it used so sometimes it goes to different phones folders and they can make a mess
thx for any help
and im hope im in the right forum for this Q
trabel said:
hi
i was searching around and couldnt find or edit myselft , so im asking for help
we all flesh many different samsung phones and many different roms in our work.
sometimes im not in , and my workers ask how to flesh this and that.
i was wondering if there is any way i can edit the ODIN.INI file to auto chose the correct files for fleshing.
meaning i'll make a new dir with the rom i need to flesh , add odin and odin.ini in it , edit the ini to add the files in that dir , and if i open this oding from this folder it will auto chose the files in the dir , this way they cant make any mistake with the correct files , as odin only remember the last dir it used so sometimes it goes to different phones folders and they can make a mess
thx for any help
and im hope im in the right forum for this Q
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so anyone can guide me how to set it up ?
trabel said:
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so anyone can guide me how to set it up ?
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Did you ever figure this out ?
halfcab123 said:
Did you ever figure this out ?
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Hi
Very old post, but no I didn't find the answer and I left it as is
But it can still help
Thanks
ok so im loving the svn and superlte and all that, can someone please give me some direction as an order to flash all the different mods and such? i understand different orders for different purposes im just looking to get mine as fast as possible and able to tweak the hell out of everything and . Also a follow up question when checking out and after exporting i add my apps and such what do i gotta do besides zipping up the file to make it flash right? has always i appreciate any feed back anyone can give me
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ok so im loving the svn and superlte and all that, can someone please give me some direction as an order to flash all the different mods and such? i understand different orders for different purposes im just looking to get mine as fast as possible and able to tweak the hell out of everything and . Also a follow up question when checking out and after exporting i add my apps and such what do i gotta do besides zipping up the file to make it flash right? has always i appreciate any feed back anyone can give me
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Not sure I'm quite up to date on the latest ROM slang lingo, but I'll do my best to provide some insight from a developers point of view.
In regards to creating a ROM .zip, which I think is what is referred to as, "checking out and after exporting I add my apps and such what do i gotta do besides zipping up the file to make it flash right?", the process is fairly generic. The ROM .zip (update.zip) file will be processed and loaded in the custom recovery.
The directions are generally all located in the updater-script file under META-INF/*. If the only action being done is adding apps to /system/app on a ROM .zip which already contains apps in /system/app, nothing should need to be changed in the updater-script file.
If apps are being added to /data/app, but nothing in the ROM currently installs to /data, might need to a copy_recursive to updater-script to make sure the /data directory from the ROM .zip is installed properly.
If there are other questions, the more detailed the links and question, the better we can answer! Hope some of the technical details help resolve the question!