Hi there, we are going to use excellent dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen to cook our custom ROMs for LG P500. The list of the things we are going to need:
Original ROM (Check this thread)
LG Utils 0.4.2 (Check this URL)
DzDecryptor v1.0b(Check this thread)
Cygwin (Check this URL
Unyaffsmbn (Check this thread)
Dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen (Check this thread)
Note: I have a "romcooking" folder on my home (C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking), inside i have all the utils needed, and the .kdz file for the stock ROM. I recommend to use tab to complete filenames since they are too long.
First we need to get a dz from the kdz (original firmware), extract LG Utils 0.4.2 and open KP500-Utils-EN.exe (You need to run this as administrator, or else you are getting an empty .cab file), select the I option (Extract files from KDZ file), and type the route to your .kdz file (Mine is C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\V10A_00.kdz). Now, you must have a V10A_00.cab (Or another name, it depends on the stock rom you downloaded), open it with a extractor like 7zip or similar and extract the file "LGP500AT-00-V10a-EUR-XX-SEP-25-2010+0.dz" or similar to our romcooking folder.
Then we are going to uncompress the .dz with DZDecrypt (Press Win + R, type cmd and enter, then you cd to the folder where DzDecrypt is located (ex:
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cd C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\DZDecryptor_v1.0b
then we type:
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DZDecrypt.exe "C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\LGP500AT-00-V10a-EUR-XX-SEP-25-2010+0.dz" C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\stockrom
This is going to create a "stockrom" folder in our original romcooking folder, you are going to see a lot of files in the stockrom folder, the important ones are boot.img and system.mbn (DZDecrypt should have merged your system.mbn_0, system.mbn_1 and system.mbn_2)
We need to install cygwin, open the setup.exe, just keep hitting next until you are on the select packages screen, go to "Devel" menu and select to install gcc, gdb and make, in "Interpreters" check perl, in "Archive" check zip and unzip, in "Web" check wget, in "Editors" check nano and vim and in "Utils" select cpio, util-linux and ncurses. Make some tea and wait for the cygwin install to finish and we are ready to go to the next step.
We are going to compile unyaffsmbn, copy the extracted files from unyaffsmbn, system.mbn and boot.img to C:\cygwin\home\Patricio, now fire up cygwin and compile unyaffsmbn with:
Code:
gcc -o unyaffsmbn unyaffsmbn.c
Now uncompress system.mbn, delete symlinks of bin/ and zip everything with:
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mkdir system
cd system
../unyaffsmbn.exe ../system.mbn
find bin -type l -exec rm {} +
cd ..
zip -r stockrom.zip boot.img system/
We are ready to go to the kitchen (We have a stockrom.zip on C:\cygwin\home\Patricio, remember that)
Now we are going to use dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen, we need to have installed JDK. After we have downloaded and uncompressed the kitchen (Mine is in C:\cygwin\home\Patricio\kitchen), we need to put the ziped file we got in the previous step into the original_update folder of the kitchen. We are ready to go! fire up cygwin and cd to the kitchen location and exec ./menu , select option 1, you should see the zip file, put the number of it, and you are ready to go (It will create a WORKING_XXXXXX_XXXXXX folder, you can modify the files in WORKING_XXXX_XXXXX/system, add APKs, modify the apns file, etc).
This command also gives us a lot of options for our rom: enable root, add busybox, deodex our files, zipalign, etc. If you are going to edit text files, use an editor like Notepad++ or any other program that can open/edit/save files in linux compliant style. It's pretty easy to use the kitchen, just check the official thread for options or help
The common options i use are:
Add root permission (option 2), press f when asked and you are done
Add Busybox
Change name of the rom, easy cake
Advanced options, press 0
Add /data/app functionality
Add Apps2SD
Add custom boot animation functionality
Deodex files in your ROM
And Finally: Zipalign all *.apk files to optimize RAM usage
That should do the trick, when you are ready to cook your rom, just type 99, wait for it to build and it should be in the OUTPUT_ZIP folder in your kitchen folder.
Took info from this thread (About decompressing .dz and .mbn, and making it to work with the kitchen), and info from ruigui and tritant in this thread. The awesome android kitchen by dsixda. Sorry if i forgot to mention any work, just post it or pm me
If you have anything you want to add to the guide, just post it
You don't need to dual boot to linux. It can be done with cygwin.
When you follow dsixda's guide to install kitchen, do as said but don't install cygwin from that guide.
Instead, download from official site, choose default options, but add these packages (it will be compliant with kitchen and give a little extra funcionality):
Devel: gcc, gdb, make
Interpreters: perl
Utils: cpio, util-linux, ncurses
Archive: zip, unzip
Web: wget
Editors: vi, nano
Good guide, nicely done
EDIT:
In my wife's machine (using windows 7 64bit. i'm without computer, for now....), i've installed cygwin as said above.
Then added two folders to my home dir:
kitchen and unyaffsmbn
In kitchen, use the kitchen
In unyaffsmbn, copy the files from unyaffsmbn.zip to that dir, then compile it there
EDIT2:
If you edit text files under windows, USE NOTEPAD++, or any other program that can open/edit/save files in linux compliant style.
There are differences in Windows and Linux when ENTER is pressed, and you'll have issues when trying to flash or run your custom ROM
hi there... thanks a lot for your guide.
I'm trying to do the things you wrote step by step... I have extracted the dz file successfully, then I extracted the content using DZDecrypter... I found three files called system.mbn0, system.mbn1 and system.mbn2. The first and second are 80 Mbytes, the third just 17... Which one is the correct? When I try to use the command "unyaffsmbn system.mbn" (obviously I renamed the first and then the second) I get an error message ("impossible to execute binary file", or somenthing like that... I don't know how's in english because I'm italian).. Is that concerning to the presence of those three different files? Did somethind go wrong with the extracting process? Or maybe I didn't do somenthing important? Before doing this, I installed "build-essential" and did "gcc -o unyaffsmbn unyaffs.h" but apparently nothing happend... I got neither errors nor processes...
can you help me?
Awesome bro, I can try to make custom rom with indian version, ty.
vinnux said:
hi there... thanks a lot for your guide.
I'm trying to do the things you wrote step by step... I have extracted the dz file successfully, then I extracted the content using DZDecrypter... I found three files called system.mbn0, system.mbn1 and system.mbn2. The first and second are 80 Mbytes, the third just 17... Which one is the correct? When I try to use the command "unyaffsmbn system.mbn" (obviously I renamed the first and then the second) I get an error message ("impossible to execute binary file", or somenthing like that... I don't know how's in english because I'm italian).. Is that concerning to the presence of those three different files? Did somethind go wrong with the extracting process? Or maybe I didn't do somenthing important? Before doing this, I installed "build-essential" and did "gcc -o unyaffsmbn unyaffs.h" but apparently nothing happend... I got neither errors nor processes...
can you help me?
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you shouldn't get three system.mbn files, did you used the 1.0b of DzDecryptor? when i used it, it said something about merging, i think that it gets the three files and then combines them to get a proper system.mbn
I used the downloaded version from the link you posted. At least I guess... :/ Well I'm going to try again soon! Thanks a lot again for your guide!
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA App
Other methode for exctract mbn file, not need to connect the phone.
Windows only....
(1) Download LG-Utils 0.4.2: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/ks360...tils-0.4.2.zip
(2) Run KP500-Utils-EN.exe (or whatever language you prefer out of the available choices) and select I to extract the KDZ.
(3) Open the resulting CAB file and extract the DZ file.
(4) Download DZExtract: http://www.frenchcoder.com/upload/DZExtract-V0.2.zip
(5) Use DZExtract to extract the MBN files:
DZExtract -x GW620RAT-V10c-OCT-21-2009-RGS-CA_DZ+0.dz C:\extractedTo\
after compiling and chmod I do:
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[email protected]:~/work/unyaffsmbn$ unyaffsmbn system.mbn
unyaffsmbn: command not found
both files are in that folder. Am I doing anything wrong?
Cheers.
@tritant - LG-Utils link not working
So.... You MUST compile unyaffsmbn first. Only then you'll have an "executable".
Code:
gcc unyaffsmbn.c -o unyaffsmbn
Then copy system.mbn to unyaffsmbn folder.
After that, do:
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cd PATH_TO_UNYAFFSMBN
./unyaffsmbn system.mbn
You missed the ./
You can download lg utils from here
tuxcomputing said:
after compiling and chmod I do:
Code:
[email protected]:~/work/unyaffsmbn$ unyaffsmbn system.mbn
unyaffsmbn: command not found
both files are in that folder. Am I doing anything wrong?
Cheers.
@tritant - LG-Utils link not working
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'course I compiled
of course your method worked and the one in the first post didn't...
exist only a windows version of dzextract?
ioshi said:
exist only a windows version of dzextract?
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couldn't find a linux version, sorry.
btw, i'm rewriting the guide, hope to update it soon
please add the compiling method from ruigui (in the previous page). For some reason that's the only way I was able to compile on Ubuntu 10.
Cheers
It was a typo in first post (he switched file to be used in gcc).
Give the man some time to reorganize his thread
I did not mean to be rude by any means!
I appreciate the effort to create the how-to! Hopefully people will read the thread if they get stuck and use the right commands so that they don't abandon the idea of creating their own ROM
I also didnt want to call you rude... Sorry...
But we were exhanging some pms and he is redoing this tutorial.
Sometimes we make mistakes while typing long posts
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thanks for this great tutorial
everything works like a charm , but when i flash my new rom i have an error says no enough space while writing boot image
any idea?
Update: okay i solved the problem, it seems that i missed up with the boot settings!
I finally made the zip file, but when I start the kitchen and select it, i find this:
"Warning: No META-INF folder found under working folder!
Warning: No META-INF/com/google/android folder found, creating it.
Did not find an update-script. Shall I create one (y/n)? (default: y): "
is that normal? and what should I do? :/
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I finally made the zip file, but when I start the kitchen and select it, i find this:
"Warning: No META-INF folder found under working folder!
Warning: No META-INF/com/google/android folder found, creating it.
Did not find an update-script. Shall I create one (y/n)? (default: y): "
is that normal? and what should I do? :/
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yes this is normal, i got that warning, and i entered "yes" to create one, and everything went just fine!
good luck
For me, work with wine on linux mandriva 2010.2
[[email protected] rootlg]$ wine DZDecrypt.exe "LGP500AT-00-V10b-EUR-XX-OCT-01-2010+0-DZ.dz" rom
DZ-Decryptor v1.0b *ALPHA RELEASE* by BIGB0SS from COPS.
[■] Opening file "LGP500AT-00-V10b-EUR-XX-OCT-01-2010+0-DZ.dz".
[■] Allocated memory: 280 Mo.
[■] Unpacking informations:
- Unpacking "amss.mbn" (Packed:008D2935 - Unpacked:010F6000).
- Unpacking "partition.mbn" (Packed:000000E9 - Unpacked:00000390).
- Unpacking "qcsblhd_cfgdata.mbn" (Packed:00000240 - Unpacked:00002534).
- Unpacking "qcsbl.mbn" (Packed:00007D88 - Unpacked:0000DFF0).
- Unpacking "oemsblhd.mbn" (Packed:00000026 - Unpacked:00000028).
- Unpacking "oemsbl.mbn" (Packed:0002C637 - Unpacked:0005EFB4).
- Unpacking "amsshd.mbn" (Packed:00000028 - Unpacked:00000028).
- Unpacking "appsboothd.mbn" (Packed:00000022 - Unpacked:00000028).
- Unpacking "appsboot.mbn" (Packed:00008A6F - Unpacked:0000D484).
- Unpacking "boot.img" (Packed:00385B3F - Unpacked:0038A800).
- Unpacking "system.mbn_0" (Packed:0307280E - Unpacked:05000000).
- Merging "system.mbn_1" (Packed:028EAA5A - Unpacked:05000000).
- Merging "system.mbn_2" (Packed:00738F81 - Unpacked:01003F40).
- Unpacking "recovery.img" (Packed:003BE683 - Unpacked:003C3800).
- Unpacking "splash.img" (Packed:00001C3A - Unpacked:0004B000).
[■] SubFiles: 0x780C3E84. (DzCreator)
[■] Closing file "LGP500AT-00-V10b-EUR-XX-OCT-01-2010+0-DZ.dz".
how do you install apktool on windows for noobs? i dont understand the instructions on apktools website so i was wondering if you guys could help.
Any help is appreciated.
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sorry i wasn't more descriptive. so i think i am supposed to download apktool install windows and the apktool file itself. on the apktool download page it says to unpack into windows directory. so im asking, do i download both files and move them to c: windows\ apktool (new folder created). how do i unpack them in the first place. i tried winrar and it gave back errors. Please help.
please? 46 view anyone? im sure some of you have apktool on windows 7
Took me 2 sec to find it.
[UTIL][15.05.11] Apktool v1.4.1 - a tool for reengineering apk files
Don't know if that is what you are looking for or not.
Also here, took the same amount of time to find it.
Apk Manager 4.9 - Makes Modifying Ur Apk A Breeze (Windows/Linux)
BeenAndroidized said:
Took me 2 sec to find it.
[UTIL][15.05.11] Apktool v1.4.1 - a tool for reengineering apk files
Don't know if that is what you are looking for or not.
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Thanks, but thats not what im looking for. know about that. it doesn't have instructions on the thread of how to install it on the thread. i have it downloaded. both the install windows file and the apktool file. now how do i install them? They are tar.bz2 files which windows can't do anything with so i dont know how to install it. please help
Download the tar extractor.
Here is one http://www.7-zip.org/
http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
Requirements
•JRE 1.6 (Java Runtime Environment)
•aapt command in a PATH
•basic knowledge of what is SDK, aapt, PATH, smali and Google search engine may be useful
Installation for noobs
•Windows:
1.Download apktool-install-windows-* file
2.Download apktool-* file
3.Unpack both to your Windows directory
•Linux:
1.Download apktool-install-linux-* file
2.Download apktool-* file
3.Unpack both to /usr/local/bin directory (you must have root permissions)
•Mac OS X:
1.Download apktool-install-macos-* file
2.Download apktool-* file
3.Unpack both to /usr/local/bin directory (you must have root permissions)
Installation of framework files
•See FrameworkFiles
Usage
•Open terminal/command line and type "apktool <enter>". Then you should see usage help.
Discuss it: Google Groups or XDA
ldrifta said:
http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
Requirements
•JRE 1.6 (Java Runtime Environment)
•aapt command in a PATH
•basic knowledge of what is SDK, aapt, PATH, smali and Google search engine may be useful
Installation for noobs
•Windows:
1.Download apktool-install-windows-* file
2.Download apktool-* file
3.Unpack both to your Windows directory
•Linux:
1.Download apktool-install-linux-* file
2.Download apktool-* file
3.Unpack both to /usr/local/bin directory (you must have root permissions)
•Mac OS X:
1.Download apktool-install-macos-* file
2.Download apktool-* file
3.Unpack both to /usr/local/bin directory (you must have root permissions)
Installation of framework files
•See FrameworkFiles
Usage
•Open terminal/command line and type "apktool <enter>". Then you should see usage help.
Discuss it: Google Groups or XDA
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so do i download the files and extract them with 7zip to c:\windows\apktool\?
not sure if you need 7zip. think you can just extract it to rood of C: drive.. the link i put on last post is where i got those directions from... just try it, if it dont work than i will look more into it for you
windows cant do anything with the tar.bz2 files so you need a third party program. i tried extracting with 7zip and winrar but it gives back an error so it doesnt extract.
I think your answer lies here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466100
I download the rom of i9001 and I want o modify the rom(make a zip file and install it from recovery). Iside the tar.md5 file, there is a system.img.ext4 file. Based on my expeience, this is the file where the system file located.
So anyone know how to open/extract the system.img.ext4 file and get its content?
ext2explore
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/files/Ext2Read%20version%202.1/ext2explore-2.1.65.zip/download
Thanks, I will try it.
ok, I will answer this question myself. With ext2explorer, you can open the .img.ext4 file, but it's not convenient to extract those files.
Later I mount the .img.ext4 file in Linux and then get all the files easily.
quest221 said:
ok, I will answer this question myself. With ext2explorer, you can open the .img.ext4 file, but it's not convenient to extract those files.
Later I mount the .img.ext4 file in Linux and then get all the files easily.
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please show me how to unpack system.img.ext4 with ubuntu linux
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tks u verry much:good:
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Download DiskInternals Linux Reader, I always use it
its kinda too late but here's what they need for future references;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268538
Not able to download. Any alternate location
Hello everyone,
I've been playing around with adding root to my stock ROM these past few days, and have found it very slow and tedious trying to remember all the commands to unpack and repack the images.
To make things simpler I've created a script that automates almost the whole process.
I've named it worker as it does all the work for you, and it is just simply a bash script. But it makes things a lot quicker and easier.
I have only been able to test with my S3 Mini, but should work with any ROM that has boot.img and system.img
Simply extract the .img files from the tar.md5 or .zip ROM file, and place them in the original folder.
Once you have those in the original folder just simply run the worker.txt file from the terminal, making sure you are in the worker folder directory.
When the script is run you will be given the options to unpack/repack system.img, mount system.img (This is after you extract it do not try and mount the original file it wont work), unpack/repack boot.img, unpack/repack ramdisk, create ROM (This will create an odin flashable tar.md5 from the repacked files) and finally clean up (This will clear all unpacked and repacked files only leaving the files in the original folder)
To select an option simply type y then enter to execute that command or just hit enter to skip.
When the system.img is mounted it will be mounted in the mount folder.
When repacking the system.img you will be prompted to enter the file size, if you have and S3 Mini I8190N simply type s3mini for the size (This may work for other S3 models but I have no way of testing so let me know). If you have a different device use the file size of the original UNMODIFIED system.img, enter the size in bytes or MB (If entering in MB use this format, xxx being a number. xxxM).
Please give me feedback for improvements or problems,
Thanks for reading.
P.S. Sorry if in wrong place please move if necessary
EDIT: If you can't run the script with the ./ command, chmod +x the file
Antonyb1995 said:
Hello everyone,
I've been playing around with adding root to my stock ROM these past few days, and have found it very slow and tedious trying to remember all the commands to unpack and repack the images.
To make things simpler I've created a script that automates almost the whole process.
I've named it worker as it does all the work for you, and it is just simply a bash script. But it makes things a lot quicker and easier.
I have only been able to test with my S3 Mini, but should work with any ROM that has boot.img and system.img
Simply extract the .img files from the tar.md5 or .zip ROM file, and place them in the original folder.
Once you have those in the original folder just simply run the worker.txt file from the terminal, making sure you are in the worker folder directory.
When the script is run you will be given the options to unpack/repack system.img, mount system.img (This is after you extract it do not try and mount the original file it wont work), unpack/repack boot.img, unpack/repack ramdisk, create ROM (This will create an odin flashable tar.md5 from the repacked files) and finally clean up (This will clear all unpacked and repacked files only leaving the files in the original folder)
To select an option simply type y then enter to execute that command or just hit enter to skip.
When the system.img is mounted it will be mounted in the mount folder.
When repacking the system.img you will be prompted to enter the file size, if you have and S3 Mini I8190N simply type s3mini for the size (This may work for other S3 models but I have no way of testing so let me know). If you have a different device use the file size of the original UNMODIFIED system.img, enter the size in bytes or MB (If entering in MB use this format, xxx being a number. xxxM).
Please give me feedback for improvements or problems,
Thanks for reading.
P.S. Sorry if in wrong place please move if necessary
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work on gt-i8200n to?
linklusitano said:
work on gt-i8200n to?
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No reason why not, I'm just not able to test others
Antonyb1995 said:
No reason why not, I'm just not able to test others
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testing
linklusitano said:
testing
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Great let me know if it works!
EDIT: Make sure you enter the right size for the system.img file, the pre entered size using s3mini may work fine as they are very similar devices.
Antonyb1995 said:
Great let me know if it works!
EDIT: Make sure you enter the right size for the system.img file, the pre entered size using s3mini may work fine as they are very similar devices.
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how do i run worker.txt?
linklusitano said:
how do i run worker.txt?
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Your using Linux right?
Open a terminal and change directory to the worker folder, once there type ./worker.txt and it should run. If it doesn't issue this command chmod +x worker.txt that should fix it.
Antonyb1995 said:
Your using Linux right?
Open a terminal and change directory to the worker folder, once there type ./worker.txt and it should run. If it doesn't issue this command chmod +x worker.txt that should fix it.
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windows 8.1
linklusitano said:
windows 8.1
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Ah okay, If you install Cygwin you can run bash scripts in Windows.
LINK: https://www.cygwin.com/