Help on my rom - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I built a very basic rom and when I install it on cwm it installs then I reboot and It installs the kernal but not the rom
Any idea why?
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Two posts, just joined in January and you're already building ROMs? Did you read the ROM Building How-To sticky in the General forum?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928955

Yea
Dude I'm into building stuff and o don't post becuz I find no reason too I can normally find things
And before Jan I used my friends account then I made this
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well i found the error in my update script
its fixed now

Well if you ever want to post your Phonebrick.zip to the devs forum you need at least 10 posts lol Just teasing. Always good to have more developers around. We will see if you stick around though.

Groundhack said:
Well if you ever want to post your Phonebrick.zip to the devs forum you need at least 10 posts lol Just teasing. Always good to have more developers around. We will see if you stick around though.
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lol thanks ill try to stick around for a while
btw idk if u could help me but for the installation it stops at
E:Cant chown/mod/system/etc/init.d
(no such file or directory)
E: faliure at line 80
set_perm_recursive 0 0 0777 0777 system: etc/init.d
installation aborted

that means you dont have a /system/etc/init.d folder in your rom zip

Pirateghost said:
that means you dont have a /system/etc/init.d folder in your rom zip
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do u know were i could get this?
i tried looking around and i couldnt find it...
Edit nvm i found my error
i feel so dumb right now.....

hey would u happen to know how to make my rom so its rooted
cuz i got it to install and so far im happy with it but its not rooted and i want to know how to make it so that it is rooted

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[APP] One Click Root for NS4G!

Thanks to shabbypenguin we now have a very good form of a OneClickRoot. Pls donate where Donations are deserved. PM him for his Paypal. Enjoy!
I will Also Post a Mirror here Soon
http://www.holylivingfuck.com/Stuff/One-Click-Nexus-S-4G.zip URL Fixed!
Mirror
download the zip, extract it, read the readme
or if your lazy just run pdanet first, then run the run.bat
Update fully working
big shoutout to Austineasleyinfo for continued patience and testing
the moment yall have been waiting for, qbking made another one of his awesome videos for this app
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZMAkp89fao
chrisgrod from mycricketforum was nice enough to make a how to video using the one click check it out here and make sure to give him a nice thumbs up for teh like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VfPwUzHsM
Uploaded version 2.0
Changelog:
Added busybox install
Removed that pesky installrecovery.sh so now anyone running this will have cwm
upgraded to cwm 4.0.0.2 orange courtesy of j_r0dd
http://goo.gl/VaJmc
if you have any issues at all pm me as it get them as emails so i can know if someone is having problems.
lol this is for the ns4g as it uses crespo4g recovery, i know the nexus s could flash it but i am unaware of any ill side effects. i think worst case is you wont be able to flash a nexus s rom :O
its hosted on my server so dont worry about bandwidth or it going anywhere
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lol this is for the ns4g as it uses crespo4g recovery, i know the nexus s could flash it but i am unaware of any ill side effects. i think worst case is you wont be able to flash a nexus s rom :O
its hosted on my server so dont worry about bandwidth or it going anywhere
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Same here with the mirror its not going anywhere
Nice work! I don't see why people were trying to flame the idea. Its one less thing new users have to figure out. It'll keep a lit of newbie question threads from starting too.
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Too funny great job and that was fast
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Good work man
When you told me ,you were getting an ns4g i was sold.
Knowing the hard work you put into the epic. I knew it would be the same for the nexus 4g.
Thanks for the hard work
humdrum2009 said:
When you told me ,you were getting an ns4g i was sold.
Knowing the hard work you put into the epic. I knew it would be the same for the nexus 4g.
Thanks for the hard work
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hard work? name one thing i did for the epic >.>
ps there is a certain tweak headed for teh crespo/4g as soon as im done testing...
edit also the first link is broken, he musta just copy and pasted
www.holylivingfuck.com/Stuff/One-Click-Nexus-S-4G.zip
shabbypenguin said:
hard work? name one thing i did for the epic >.>
ps there is a certain tweak headed for teh crespo/4g as soon as im done testing...
edit also the first link is broken, he musta just copy and pasted
www.holylivingfuck.com/Stuff/One-Click-Nexus-S-4G.zip
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Yes i did copy and paste it lol but this link is also broken
just tried it, you need to right click and copy url or here better yet
http://goo.gl/Y5J7M
Shabby, awesome job! I have a question on this. Will people still have to install drivers and sdk to do this? Im rooted, so I dont need it
But, my brother just picked up his NS4G today, and I dont wanna team view for 3 hours to get him all set up...
mikeyinid said:
Shabby, awesome job! I have a question on this. Will people still have to install drivers and sdk to do this? Im rooted, so I dont need it
But, my brother just picked up his NS4G today, and I dont wanna team view for 3 hours to get him all set up...
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no way to avoid installing the drivers tho, i included a readme and pdanet as it not only is a good program, but uses a nice easy installer for the drivers
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no way to avoid installing the drivers tho, i included a readme and pdanet as it not only is a good program, but uses a nice easy installer for the drivers
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ok, I think he can figure the drivers, sdk is out of the question though lol
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Whatever
Dude, I posted a solution at post #23, which is the same thing that shabby posted at post #26 in the bounty thread.
I am not discounting shabby as I am sure he knew how to do exactly what he did, but next time you offer something, you should pony up to the first solution that does what you requested.
Compare my batch file to his if you don't have any faith. Just because I made sure you were serious, and you took offense, doesn't mean you shouldn't do what is right.
And by the way, I apologized for any hurt feelings over my, "Are you serious" comment.
EDIT - I was missing a library, fair enough. Statement Retracted.
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Dude, I posted a solution at post #23, which is the same thing that shabby posted at post #26 in the bounty thread.
I am not discounting shabby as I am sure he knew how to do exactly what he did, but next time you offer something, you should pony up to the first solution that does what you requested.
Compare my batch file to his if you don't have any faith. Just because I made sure you were serious, and you took offense, doesn't mean you shouldn't do what is right.
And by the way, I apologized for any hurt feelings over my, "Are you serious" comment.
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But it was about 15 posts after that the oneclickroot was finished..by shabby. Solutions and products are *****es. Look at zuckerberg.
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simon.ponder said:
Dude, I posted a solution at post #23, which is the same thing that shabby posted at post #26 in the bounty thread.
I am not discounting shabby as I am sure he knew how to do exactly what he did, but next time you offer something, you should pony up to the first solution that does what you requested.
Compare my batch file to his if you don't have any faith. Just because I made sure you were serious, and you took offense, doesn't mean you shouldn't do what is right.
And by the way, I apologized for any hurt feelings over my, "Are you serious" comment.
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i understand your concern about this issue, but i think it was more of a mine had everything included in it from the get go, whereas your option (at the time) still required drivers to be searched and used.
also
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etx/install-recovery.sh.bak
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
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wouldnt have done anything as system is mounted to
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/system /system
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and as a side note the su zip wouldnt have pushed as when you flashed cwm it unmounts the sdcard, have to go in and manually mount it.
again i am sorry but i was the first one to have a fully working version.. if you have any issue with this please either post in the other thread, or take this to a pm
shabbypenguin said:
i understand your concern about this issue, but i think it was more of a mine had everything included in it from the get go, whereas your option (at the time) still required drivers to be searched and used.
also
wouldnt have done anything as system is mounted to
and as a side note the su zip wouldnt have pushed as when you flashed cwm it unmounts the sdcard, have to go in and manually mount it.
again i am sorry but i was the first one to have a fully working version.. if you have any issue with this please either post in the other thread, or take this to a pm
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Shabby, I returned to stock to try this out and after the unlock when it boots into recovery, it's getting hung up at the android logo and an exclamation point. What would cause that?
sounds like there was an issue flashing cwm, whats mind pastebin'in me the output of the terminal?
just saying could not load, the easy fix was just putting your cwm file in sdk/tools
ah yes, this zip is assuming you dont have path set/sdk installed ill look into making a newer version thats a bit more advanced tomorrow. prolly whip up a linux friendly version as well. can try mac but no guarantees
on a side note might wanna update your sdk as the newer ones use "platform-tools" for adb/fastboot

[Q] Adding Libs to roms..

As the title says - Adding libs to roms, can someone point me in the right direction? I have been a member of this forum for a while, just not a posting member, I now feel it is my time to add something back to the community, is it as simple as adding it to the rom whilst flashed to an X8? Please help me, maybe I can bring something back to the community..
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As the title says - Adding libs to roms, can someone point me in the right direction? I have been a member of this forum for a while, just not a posting member, I now feel it is my time to add something back to the community, is it as simple as adding it to the rom whilst flashed to an X8? Please help me, maybe I can bring something back to the community..
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maybe developpers little bit bz rite now..
what i can advice you is..
just flash the room and then use 'root explorer' to play with lib
make sure your phone rooted
peace!
Thank you, I will try that, I am wishing to work on a ROM and get wifi, 3G and such working, however I have tried using ADB to push the libs but I don't know if it worked or not..
smyth12 said:
Thank you, I will try that, I am wishing to work on a ROM and get wifi, 3G and such working, however I have tried using ADB to push the libs but I don't know if it worked or not..
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You want to make wifi working on sense? If yes, cool
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proadi96 said:
You want to make wifi working on sense? If yes, cool
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I want to make the whole sense rom work, BUT I can't access the system files without having the rom installed which is pretty gay.. I need some way of accessing it in the .img format which then I can flash to my phone to test... mshhh... plus I'm not quite sure which libs will work (ofcourse when I find out I will seek permissions before uploading the rom...)
To open .img you could use Winimage or Poweriso or something similar.
sanderbouw said:
To open .img you could use Winimage or Poweriso or something similar.
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Already tried.. comes up with an error stating about unknown formats..
you could try opening it with winrar. maybe that 'll work
sanderbouw said:
you could try opening it with winrar. maybe that 'll work
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Already tried, same problem... I found an unyaffs2 program compiled for windows which allowed me to extract the image I just need to mkyaffs2 it back to img then maybe I can get it working BUT I need to be in Linux and I can't be bothered making a VM at the moment...
Maybe someone can help me with this? We could work together to make a fully working sense rom... come on people.. someone who wants this must have a bit of knowledge on the subject...

I897UCJE4.tar Or .rar File \ Link Request

If you can provide a link to this I897UCJE4 version for captivate, please do!, i've want'ed to tinker with this version for a while but can-not find the file any where on the internet with an active download link. Thank you for reading this! I hope some one can help me out. :highfive:
Meh wrong section to post this, Q&A is your section.
~ V
I'm sorry that I typ'ed in the wrong forum, It seem'ed correct at the time. I just really! wish I had the JE4 version, I have the JE5 version. I might ask in the Q & A section later on today, I just gotta find it two. Thank you!
I will look later this evening after work...
And don't worry about reposting...i will request that a mod move this to q & a.
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Thanks! I appriciate the help. Other's might like the JE4 version as well for tinkering, so this could be a win win situation, if the file can be found.
If you can find someone who has an account with them here is a site that has ithttp://files-for-all.com/download/G...are/Original files/Samsung/I897/I897UCJE4.zip
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^ Tried to get it from ur link after i registered...and it said i could download files, but no go. Kept getting the acct inactive error...
4-2ndtwin said:
^ Tried to get it from ur link after i registered...and it said i could download files, but no go. Kept getting the acct inactive error...
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Have to have paid membership .. so if no anyone who has it they can download it and upload on dropbox
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I've tried that site guy's, they really are there, the files, but I have no income to create an account to get the files. Thank's for looking!. I'm wondering if any one has it on a phone and could get an adb backup created for us here to try. This site http://www.downloads.bombaymobiles.in/index.php?dir=Samsung%20Flash%20files/I897/ has alot of files for diffirent phones, i'm directing you to the i897 files and JE5 is in there if you want an idea what its like, But again looking for JE4, i've read that it's less buggy and I just really want to use it and mess around with it.
http://www.tsar3000.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=55&Itemid=82 Seems Interesting, I'm looking....
What in the name of all thing good is this!> http://www.bandung-flasher.com/samsung-files/13067-all-samsung-flash-files.html
Wait, je4 is very old eclair, right?
Yep...very.
I believe most (if not all) early Caps came with the jf6...mine did.
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Eh.. It's ok if it can't be found. I get exited when I check here though hoping some one found it. :silly:
Here are two stock kernel's I managed to get, if you can find i897ucje4 in .tar format I will be tickled pink, thanks.

help me plsss

hello guys
ive got problems with getting scripts to work
i use Smanager (script manager)
im brwosing to init.d and click on the tweak/script but than i get error (OFC i use SU mode)
mount: Device or rosource is busy
...... : permission denied
unomount: not found
can someone help me pls i tried everything but im very noob and cant get it to work.
btw im using the DreamW rom
saprer said:
hello guys
ive got problems with getting scripts to work
i use Smanager (script manager)
im brwosing to init.d and click on the tweak/script but than i get error (OFC i use SU mode)
mount: Device or rosource is busy
...... : permission denied
unomount: not found
can someone help me pls i tried everything but im very noob and cant get it to work.
btw im using the DreamW rom
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.... permission denied. what is the ..... ? it's probably a file in /system/xbin or /system/bin
and what is the script, please show
saprer said:
hello guys
ive got problems with getting scripts to work
i use Smanager (script manager)
im brwosing to init.d and click on the tweak/script but than i get error (OFC i use SU mode)
mount: Device or rosource is busy
...... : permission denied
unomount: not found
can someone help me pls i tried everything but im very noob and cant get it to work.
btw im using the DreamW rom
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Dreamw rom has, just as most custpm roms, a kernel that automaticaly executes all scripts placed in /system/etc/init.d. No need to manually run them...
Btw, next time just ask this in the q&a section.
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wietwiet said:
Dreamw rom has, just as most custpm roms, a kernel that automaticaly executes all scripts placed in /system/etc/init.d. No need to manually run them...
Btw, next time just ask this in the q&a section.
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that's true, but if the script gives an error while running it, it also won't work on boot
Need more info what the script is supposed to do, especially if it's a custom script...
Also, a topic titled "help me plsss", really, really doesn't help. And it's in the wrong section, this is no development, it's Q&A.
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Im sorry guys for wrong posting
Its called kerneltweaks and sysctlt that dont work
pls help meee

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How to post new thread here in XDA bro???
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Please don't post whore. Continue to the discussion.
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Will post soon reserved:screwy:
don't be scared it's only a phone
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Chirtagh said:
How to post new thread here in XDA bro???
Admin has reset my aacount for doing nothin
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sounds like you need to ask admin why you where reset
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Please don't post whore. Continue to the discussion.
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I didn't post whore. I deleted my post.
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Why? And, if you wanted to edit it, you could've replaced with a useful message.
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How hard is it?
I would really like to become an Android Developer. Have a some noob questions...
I cut my android teeth on a Samsung Infuse <-Learned to root & flash get hooked on seeing what amazing things my little smartphone could do.
I most recently upgraded my phone to the LG Optimus G.
1st Question maybe a no brainer ... Should I learn to develop for my now unused Infuse or jump straight to the LGOG? I think I know the answer duh... why mess up my good working phone.
I have some knowledge of Linux witch I think will help. Should I learn to develop on a Windows computer or Linux? I am leaning toward the Linux.
Another reason to start with the Samsung is I think source is available and many other ROMs already exist so getting help from these devs may be easier and the only source available from the LG is ICS and everyone seems to want JB.
Looking forward to learning more and getting started.
swub1
1.I'd start with the infuse if you mess something up you still have your new phone
2.If your just theming and messing with already built ROMs and stuff windows is perfered if you want to build from source you will need a 64bit Linux system Ubuntu is nice and can be installed along side windows so that's nice
There is a lot of info in the xda community and learning to build can be fun and agrovating at the same time good luck with it
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I also have a question:
How do I include a kernel into the zip of a rom so that when I flash the rom the kernel also gets flashed at the same time.
I am using a Samsung Galaxy S2 with XXLSJ.
Thanks in advanced....
Ahhh. Damn. I believe it's pretty easy. With HTC devices though.. it's gotta be somewhere on the section though. Check XDA Uni. They probably have an answer. Please hit the thanks button. Trying to get more. People can't be bothered to click it these days.
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mani1999 said:
I also have a question:
How do I include a kernel into the zip of a rom so that when I flash the rom the kernel also gets flashed at the same time.
I am using a Samsung Galaxy S2 with XXLSJ.
Thanks in advanced....
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if you open the .zip file for your rom it should have a zimage file that is the kernel so if you want to swap just download a flashable zip of the kernel you want open it and there should be zimage, now put that zimage with the rom you want. you can do this with 7zip just double click to open dont extract the rom zip you can extract the kernel from the the kernel .zip and drag the zimage for th ekernel you want to the opened rom.zip then close and flash
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ttibbetts83 said:
if you open the .zip file for your rom it should have a zimage file that is the kernel so if you want to swap just download a flashable zip of the kernel you want open it and there should be zimage, now put that zimage with the rom you want. you can do this with 7zip just double click to open dont extract the rom zip you can extract the kernel from the the kernel .zip and drag the zimage for th ekernel you want to the opened rom.zip then close and flash
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May I extract the kernel.zip for doing this?
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ttibbetts83 said:
if you open the .zip file for your rom it should have a zimage file that is the kernel so if you want to swap just download a flashable zip of the kernel you want open it and there should be zimage, now put that zimage with the rom you want. you can do this with 7zip just double click to open dont extract the rom zip you can extract the kernel from the the kernel .zip and drag the zimage for th ekernel you want to the opened rom.zip then close and flash
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This is why people brick their devices when people that has no idea what their talking about give advice! First of all the kernel in a ROM comes as a boot.img and second you can't just switch out the zimage when their is more than the zimage for it to probably work. You need the modules as well... I would recommend you not give advice unless u either know 100% of what your talking about or don't give advice in these specific forums where noobs lurk and don't know good advice from bad....
Now to answer your question...
You have 2 options if your kernel comes as a boot.img just replace it with the one from the ROM and replace lib/modules from the kernel to the rom, and flash away...
The second option is if your kernel comes in a zimage and the ROM comes as a boot.img then you will have to unpack the boot.img from the rom and then replace the zimage and pack the boot.img but to do that you will need to be in Linux or VirtualBox... This can't be done thru windows, but recently there have been programs that can unpack the boot.img thru windows but I always use Linux.
So post how your kernel comes in either a boot.img or zimage and how the room has its kernel we can help u more after that.
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This is why people brick their devices when people that has no idea what their talking about give advice! First of all the kernel in a ROM comes as a boot.img and second you can't just switch out the zimage when their is more than the zimage for it to probably work. You need the modules as well... I would recommend you not give advice unless u either know 100% of what your talking about or don't give advice in these specific forums where noobs lurk and don't know good advice from bad....
Now to answer your question...
You have 2 options if your kernel comes as a boot.img just replace it with the one from the ROM and replace lib/modules from the kernel to the rom, and flash away...
The second option is if your kernel comes in a zimage and the ROM comes as a boot.img then you will have to unpack the boot.img from the rom and then replace the zimage and pack the boot.img but to do that you will need to be in Linux or VirtualBox... This can't be done thru windows, but recently there have been programs that can unpack the boot.img thru windows but I always use Linux.
So post how your kernel comes in either a boot.img or zimage and how the room has its kernel we can help u more after that.
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Both kernels, the one in the rom and the one I want to replace it with, come in zimage....
Edit: I anyway mostly use Ubuntu, it's the best for doing that kind of stuff
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mani1999 said:
Both kernels, the one in the rom and the one I want to replace it with, come in zimage....
Edit: I anyway mostly use Ubuntu, it's the best for doing that kind of stuff
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Ah okay then just replace the zimage in the rom with the one from the kernel as well as the libs/modules or u will lose WiFi etc & Flash...
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I do apologize I've personally never seen a rom come with a zimage before I've always seen it come already as a boot.img. so I apologize to the previous member I ranted about.
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