I would like to upgrade my stock firmware to KL4 using Odin and am unsure if I need a Pit file or will the tar file be all that I need. Also, do I need to select "Re-Partition" in Odin?
Thanks for any help
you dont need the pit file, you just need the tar file or the files containe within the tar file
Richy99 said:
you dont need the pit file, you just need the tar file or the files containe within the tar file
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Thanks for your reply. Do I need to select re-partition?
Gaugerer said:
I would like to upgrade my stock firmware to KL4 using Odin and am unsure if I need a Pit file or will the tar file be all that I need. Also, do I need to select "Re-Partition" in Odin?
Thanks for any help
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If you have 3 files after extracting (CODE,MODEM,CSC) then attach these three files as PDA=CODE , PHONE=MODEM, CSC=CSC, if you have one file the attach it in PDA,
Then UnCheck Re-partition,
no need to select Pit file,
Put your phone in download mode,
Attach phone to PC
Once your PC detects your Phone Click Start
After Flashing Device restarts twice. Done..
ranjan.alva said:
If you have 3 files after extracting (CODE,MODEM,CSC) then attach these three files as PDA=CODE , PHONE=MODEM, CSC=CSC, if you have one file the attach it in PDA,
Then UnCheck Re-partition,
no need to select Pit file,
Put your phone in download mode,
Attach phone to PC
Once your PC detects your Phone Click Start
After Flashing Device restarts twice. Done..
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Thanks very much for your very helpful reply.
Remember using PC Odin to update, you are closing way to Root your device, If you want to Root it, just Root before it. See installation guide on my signature for further detail
dr.ketan said:
Remember using PC Odin to update, you are closing way to Root your device, If you want to Root it, just Root before it. See installation guide on my signature for further detail
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Thanks for your advice and the guides which are very helpful. I've downloaded the German stock ROM (LA4) from your list but I've been unable to extract the tar file using Winzip, so I'm stuck at the moment. Any further help from anyone how to extract the files would be appreciated.
Gaugerer said:
Thanks for your advice and the guides which are very helpful. I've downloaded the German stock ROM (LA4) from your list but I've been unable to extract the tar file using Winzip, so I'm stuck at the moment. Any further help from anyone how to extract the files would be appreciated.
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Dont use winzip to extract . Use 7z Extractor. its free.
Link to 7z
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
ranjan.alva said:
Dont use winzip to extract . Use 7z Extractor. its free.
Link to 7z
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
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Thanks once again for your help. I didn't know that Winzip did not work and that I needed 7z which I have downloaded and extracted the tar file.
I had a problem with Odin. Could not get it to flash la4 no matter what I tried.
So I bought mobile odin , put the relevant file on my phone and I was upgraded in under ten min Awesome app, sometimes its worth payin some money to get the job done
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Hello everyone,
I have a ZIP file downloaded using Kies and saved with Kies Patcher.
How can I create a ODIN package?
Link: Hotfile - JP5_JP4_JPP_TIM.zip
99 views & no reply? LOL.
@OP, Extract the contents using a unzipper like winrar or 7zip. tell me the contents.
Also tell me where you downloaded it from.
Curious aswel!!!
ragin said:
@OP, Extract the contents using a unzipper like winrar or 7zip. tell me the contents.
Also tell me where you downloaded it from.
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Here's the content. I downloaded it from Kies. It's the official package of Froyo for italian branded TIM smartphones
Thank you!
Did you find a tar file in the zip? Use that
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Its the file allready ready for Odin?? just put the file in PDA section and flash. Ihave seen many files that is just .zip files and u dont exract the .zip file because its ready for ODIN for flash
if you take a look at this official thread and the roms all of them I downloaded are just .zip file and ready to flash....please correct if im wrong.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846913
The extracted files from zip u can use to flash in a iMac/macbook and heimdall app.
looking for some 1 clicks for kk4. need both with and without bootloaders. that or a guide to making them and a copy of the stock kk4 with bootloaders. thanks in advance.
^ In the i897ucKF1 leaked Firmware .rar download, there is an Odin DL Creator that u can use to make One Click Downloaders. There are Manuals included in there as well, but unfortunately they got corrupted somewhere along the way and I could never find a way to open and read them. But the process to build the One Click was still easy enough to figure out.
Run the DLCreator v1.8 then choose the Downloader tab and then navigate to where this Creator file is and select the Odin3Execution v1.81 and then simply proceed down the tabs loading the files, select the Options u want (re-partition, auto reboot) and then select the File Name, then Downloader Title. After that is done select the Make Downloader tab.
Now I did encounter freezes/force closes (if u will) with the Creator, but I would just simply have to start over and then it would work. The i897ucKF1 firmware, u can get from here... http://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=306 (u will probably have to register and log in)
And as an alternative there is the Heimdall One-Click - ROM Packaging and Distribution System. See the link here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19386742&postcount=1
4-2ndtwin said:
^ In the i897ucKF1 leaked Firmware .rar download, there is an Odin DL Creator that u can use to make One Click Downloaders. There are Manuals included in there as well, but unfortunately they got corrupted somewhere along the way and I could never find a way to open and read them. But the process to build the One Click was still easy enough to figure out.
Run the DLCreator v1.8 then choose the Downloader tab and then navigate to where this Creator file is and select the Odin3Execution v1.81 and then simply proceed down the tabs loading the files, select the Options u want (re-partition, auto reboot) and then select the File Name, then Downloader Title. After that is done select the Make Downloader tab.
Now I did encounter freezes/force closes (if u will) with the Creator, but I would just simply have to start over and then it would work. The i897ucKF1 firmware, u can get from here... http://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=306 (u will probably have to register and log in)
And as an alternative there is the Heimdall One-Click - ROM Packaging and Distribution System. See the link here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19386742&postcount=1
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thanks a ton. i remember seeing a guide somewhere on converting cwm zips to odin tars. i knew i kept my noobuntu install for something lol.
found the odin creator and a stock kk4 md5 ball. time to do some research on the proper way to remove the bootloaders.
EDIT: sorry for double post. please merge if possible.
Use an Archiver (IZArc, 7zip, etc.) and extract the .tar out of the .rar that u downloaded. Then click on the name of the .tar.md5 to rename it and simply delete the .md5 from the name. Select yes to make the change. Open the .tar and then u will see the files. Bootloaders are of course the boot.bin and sbl.bin files (they r in the main.tar file. Think it was named Code something blah blah). Drag them to desktop to keep in a seperate file and then just delete them out of the .tar file. The param.lfs of course contains the initial bootslash jpeg image. And etc., etc.
Also, just fyi, this was a full wipe leaked firmware. --> (Edit: the KF1 was a full wipe, all others since have only wiped /cache after the install. And the other leaks since KF1 have only been in single .tar file, where as the kf1 was in 3 different .tar files)
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4-2ndtwin said:
Use an Archiver (IZArc, 7zip, etc.) and extract the .tar out of the .rar that u downloaded. Then click on the name of the .tar.md5 to rename it and simply delete the .md5 from the name. Select yes to make the change. Open the .tar and then u will see the files. Bootloaders are of course the boot.bin and sbl.bin files (they r in the main.tar file. Think it was named Code something blah blah). Drag them to desktop to keep in a seperate file and then just delete them out of the .tar file. The param.lfs of course contains the initial bootslash jpeg image. And etc., etc.
Also, just fyi, this was a full wipe leaked firmware.
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KK4 isn't full wipe...
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^ Yep, u r correct. My bad. I was thinking about the KF1 leak. Thanks for the correction.
4-2ndtwin said:
^ Yep, u r correct. My bad. I was thinking about the KF1 leak. Thanks for the correction.
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Its fine, you know just don't want people going around with false info!
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Appreciate any help on the 2 questions below:
Rooted using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1462309. Followed the steps to the letter. As a total noob, I found this easiest to follow.
1. I now have no CMW (only Samsung Recovery when I reflash), I did not have flash CMW as an option in Mobile Odin Pro when I upgraded to LA4, but though it was OK.
2. The samsung keyboard letters come up as "null" when I type. I have tried to reflash the Cache as Dr. Ketan suggested, but have no CSC file. Reflashing all of the md5 does not repair the keyboard.
Many thanks for any input.
Download This
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=867766&d=1327254155
Extract it
Now execute, i m already rooted
connect your device to PC (usb debugging shud be on, unknown source shud ON, close kies/firewall/antivirus if running)
click any key after connecting device
in few second it shud be done
Now you shud have CWM.
flash cache with CWM
Hope everything shud be fine after that.
I have a sample problem. I followed instruction using Mobie Odin Pro to flash LA4. I got null null error. Your instruction said that go to Cache and select CSC and reflash. LA4 file was only single file. I am not sure what to pick.
Also, I followed an instruction here.
As soon as I hit Enter, I had a message saying that "The system can not find specified path."
You said that Put zImage file into zImage FOLDER. Do I have to create this folder? Then where?
Sorry for silly questions.
Thank you.
If you getting null keyboard error, flash la4 with mobile odin. Restore only system and cache. First open mobile odin, select la4 file, select ok, select modem and select clear. Now flash the firmware.
Boy124 said:
If you getting null keyboard error, flash la4 with mobile odin. Restore only system and cache. First open mobile odin, select la4 file, select ok, select modem and select clear. Now flash the firmware.
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I tried as you suggested. Basically, only clearing Modem. I am still getting null error for the keyboard. I must be doing something wrong.
Dont clear hidden. Clear 'only' modem. It worked for me.
Extract single file one level deep, get cache.img n put to SD card
select 'cache' from mobile odin, point to above said file n Flash
Boy124 said:
Dont clear hidden. Clear 'only' modem. It worked for me.
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Correct. That's what I did but still no luck. I will start over again.
dr.ketan said:
Extract single file one level deep, get cache.img n put to SD card
select 'cache' from mobile odin, point to above said file n Flash
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Whenever I had null keyboard error some files in system folder were missing. There was only build.prop file. Not csc and other two.
dr.ketan said:
Extract single file one level deep, get cache.img n put to SD card
select 'cache' from mobile odin, point to above said file n Flash
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dr.ketan.
Where do I get cache.img file? or which file should I extract from? Thank you.
dr.ketan said:
Extract single file one level deep, get cache.img n put to SD card
select 'cache' from mobile odin, point to above said file n Flash
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I am having the same problem. Flashed to LA4 with root+CWM, but I have null keyboard. I have flashed cache.img but it did not help. What can we do?
skim175 said:
dr.ketan.
Where do I get cache.img file? or which file should I extract from? Thank you.
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Get it by extracting ROM file(1 level deep).
Alternatively use multi CSC file to flash, attached here.
Atrix_E said:
I am having the same problem. Flashed to LA4 with root+CWM, but I have null keyboard. I have flashed cache.img but it did not help. What can we do?
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read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486508, your problem sorted out
dr.ketan said:
Download This
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=867766&d=1327254155
Extract it
Now execute, i m already rooted
connect your device to PC (usb debugging shud be on, unknown source shud ON, close kies/firewall/antivirus if running)
click any key after connecting device
in few second it shud be done
Now you shud have CWM.
flash cache with CWM
Hope everything shud be fine after that.
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where do i find cache,same keyboard null issue after rooting by your guide.(Thanks).i am using swype now.
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where do i find cache,same keyboard null issue after rooting by your guide.(Thanks).i am using swype now.
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Use same rom file
Select phone in place of pda on pc odin
Dont select repartition
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Why doesn't the tar file sometimes appear in the pda list after extracting a zip?
Thanks
rockky said:
Why doesn't the tar file sometimes appear in the pda list after extracting a zip?
Thanks
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Did you actually select it after extracting?
Hi guys, I'm trying to root by following this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2147852&highlight=root
So I downloaded everything from the links given there (Odin 3.04 and the cmw file. However when I'm on step 9
9- press the PDA button and select the unziped file from step (1)
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I click on PDA and the cmw file doesn't show in the location I left it. I tried moving it to desktop but doesn't work either. Any ideas please?
Thanks a lot
The CWM file's extension is .img, isn't it?
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Did you do unzip
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No, I hadn't, see here I'm confused. Step 1 says unzip, but Step 9 says select unzipped file, so which should it be?
To decide, I did a little research and found out Odin should open .tar and .tar.md5 files directly, so I figured it wasn't necessary to unzip.
Anyway it doesn't find it either way, I just tried unzipping but I can't find the .img file with Odin either =/ What am I doing wrong?
.rsrc folder
One more thing, when I try to open the Downloads folder where I left the .tar file, all I can see through Odin is this .rsrc folder that apears to be empty.
Try to download it again
And unzip it
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Solved!
Thank you both, I figured it out! I know it's dumb...but I didn't realize you had to run everything in Administrator mode (apparently). I tried this and it worked, it seems I was running Odin as Admin but in a non-Admin account and the files were hidden or something...
Anyway, sorry to bother you with my dumb question, but I hope this can help another dumb noob like me!
I'm ridiculously happy with my brand new CM 11 now, time to play with it!