I extracted the contents of the system/apps folder from a nandroid tar backup of a kk4 gingerbread room that I used to run and then zipped them into an archive. The zip file is NOT CWM FLASHABLE, for good reason - many of these apps won't run on later ROMs, especially those that have an odex file with the apk file.
If you extract the files, you can find some stock apps that may run on later ROMs, just like the quick office apk that I posted in another thread.
Use at your own risk. If you trash your captivate by messing around with these apps, and don't have a complete nandroid backup, or brick your phone - I cannot help you.
This is a link to the 70+ MB zip file
http://db.tt/FWzsjAf4
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Here's a tip I've been doing since my early days of rooting and rom'ing. I didn't want to do all the dumb adb steps (they're needed sometimes I know) for getting gapps and oc and build.prop edits..
I did this for internal install, but I suspect you can work it for the SD card as well if you know how.. also please make sure you copy the Froyo uImage file for the OC.
1: Download nokie froyo. Leave it zipped or unzip, its your choice
2: unzip the oc file and drag the uImage file into the correct folder (sorry I can't remember, if someone could post the correct location, ill update)
3: drag and drop the system folder from the gapps download into your nookie. You want to drag it to the area where you see the /system folder but not actually in it. It will automaticly place the sub folders.
3A: (optional) if you have a edited build.prop, you can copy and replace now.
4: (optional if you unzipped) zip the folder using the 'store' option for compression
5: flash using the same method you usually would through CWR
I used winRAR and just dragged and dropped, and it worked great. It automaticly compressed the files to match the destination folder. I recommend drag and drop because winRAR doesn't have a paste option.
You can also place and remove any apps in the system folder at this time. You can make the folder as large as you want with whatever apps you feel should be in the folder.
I personally think its a great way to skip a number of steps. By putting in the files and stuff you want and then flash it saves time.
***** WARNING****** using a high overclock your nook can't support will result in the end of the world... misplacing files can and will result in a non-booting nook... USE AT OWN RISK IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING.... DON'T DO IT
I won't post my file because of two reasons:
1: nookie froyo is not mine and I will not take credit for anything that those people spent hours finely crafting
2: I think distributing files with gapps installed is wrong or something, I'm not too sure
CREDIT: to all the fine developers who slave hours to create awesome roms... THANKS!!!
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If you have an internal eMMC installation of Froyo and want an overclocked kernel then I'd recommend using my Clockwork Mod zip to install.
That's good to use if you have out already installed, but if you are putting the new version on, this is a lot easier. Just put what you want, then flash once
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I was able to install all the gapps correctly. Unfortunately I can't seem to connect to the google servers. I cleared the data and cache from the google framework app but had no success any ideas?
Does anyone know how to create a .zip file that can be flashed through cwm? say for instance a .zip file that contains the cwm recovery? Any help would be great, and thanks to all in advance who reply
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I want to know this too. When I take a zip file that flashes correctly and put a different file in the zip folder, like a modem for example, the new zip file won't flash.
modems are tricky in the Galaxy S line, there's been some work i've seen about flashable modems, but almost everything i've read says they always fail to flash. There are tons of tuts about creating CWM flashable .zip on XDA, just do a quick search.
Same here. I would like to create a cwm zip files that contains all my user apps. TB is good in batch mode but would be so much quicker if I could create a zip and do it after flashing rom.
Have to know how to create scripts to do this. The script takes care of where the file you want to install goes in the system. Then there is the META-INF folder.
Too complicated for me. Let us ask Noxxious.
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hi guys i am running cm7.2 nightly on my captivate and i want to create an odin flashable firmware of cm7.2 rom on windows xp for backup purpose please give me a full tutorial on doing this
I believe it isn't possible. I was asking around for ICS and from what i gathered it isn't.
Two things you could do.
1.download the newest nightly that you want to base it on.
2. Use Root Explorer and EXTRACT ALL.
3. Then go to the extracted folder for the nightly, and delete out the SYSTEM folder.
4.Now MAKE SURE you have your phone set up EXACTLY how you want it to look like. Reboot the phone once that is done.
5. Now with root explorer navigate to /system and long press on the system folder. Choose COPY
6. Navigate to the extracted folder (which should be like sdcard/speedsoftware/extracted OR something like that) and go into the folder where you deleted out SYSTEM folder earlier. Now long press and choose PASTE.
7. Back out until your back at the extracted folder name, long press on it and choose RENAME. Pick the name you want it to be. (I usually use something like: CM7.2RockRattRedRemixThemed02-10-2012).
8.Long press on the name again and choose ZIP THIS FOLDER.
9. GO TO ZIPPED FOLDER.
10. Move the zipped folder to your sdcard, reboot to recovery and flash it to make sure it works.
11. If it worked just copy or or move that .zip file to your computer for backup.
Or I can upload the one I have created so you can see it and test it out. I have made some other changes so it is partially already themed, has the theme chooser. apk File I use instead of the stock theme chooser .apks that come with the original cm7. I use zip themer to set up certain things so they are automatically themed when just flashing the build i created. Hope this helps you get an idea of a pretty bazsic way of making your own cwm flashable cm7 rom already personalized. Oh I also delete of some of the apps that come in cm7 and just put my own personal apps into the system folder so I already have them built in.
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RockRatt said:
Two things you could do.
1.download the newest nightly that you want to base it on.
2. Use Root Explorer and EXTRACT ALL.
3. Then go to the extracted folder for the nightly, and delete out the SYSTEM folder.
4.Now MAKE SURE you have your phone set up EXACTLY how you want it to look like. Reboot the phone once that is done.
5. Now with root explorer navigate to /system and long press on the system folder. Choose COPY
6. Navigate to the extracted folder (which should be like sdcard/speedsoftware/extracted OR something like that) and go into the folder where you deleted out SYSTEM folder earlier. Now long press and choose PASTE.
7. Back out until your back at the extracted folder name, long press on it and choose RENAME. Pick the name you want it to be. (I usually use something like: CM7.2RockRattRedRemixThemed02-10-2012).
8.Long press on the name again and choose ZIP THIS FOLDER.
9. GO TO ZIPPED FOLDER.
10. Move the zipped folder to your sdcard, reboot to recovery and flash it to make sure it works.
11. If it worked just copy or or move that .zip file to your computer for backup
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thanks for your effort and reply but i want to create odin flashable fw not cwm, i know how to create cwm flashable rom, but anyway thanks for your reply
You could DD'ing a back up of all partitions and then tar'ing it, then flashing it in ODIN
Aren't the partition blocks different on AOSP?
Yess, but you can look them up then dd them, and DL the pit with heimdall, and create an ODIN FW flasher
Boot.img vs zImage. Way around?
decompile the boot.img and grab the zImage from the decompiled boot.img
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You could DD'ing a back up of all partitions and then tar'ing it, then flashing it in ODIN
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can you please tell me step by step tutorial, i also dont know about dd'ing and do not use heimdal so cannot create pit file
Hy everyone i've searched for this on google and XDA but i didn't find anything i want, so the point is i wanna remove some of stock files of system and add someones new and i wanna make a zip file for recovery so then i can simply install the OS from my recovery mod... and when i wanna make some upgrades i cam simply edit with a normaly archiver program like 7-zip, winrar, or powerarchiver or another program.. i wanna specify that i'm new in development on android
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Hy everyone i've searched for this on google and XDA but i didn't find anything i want, so the point is i wanna remove some of stock files of system and add someones new and i wanna make a zip file for recovery so then i can simply install the OS from my recovery mod... and when i wanna make some upgrades i cam simply edit with a normaly archiver program like 7-zip, winrar, or powerarchiver or another program.. i wanna specify that i'm new in development on android
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Rom jelly bean building recovery.u can wait . But i think u need use titanium backup. Backup data them flash new rom jelly bean
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thanks i will try
EDIT: Not working the titanium backup cannot backup (in my case) the system files so i cannot have the final file
Some simple (I hope) questions. Let's say I do a full CWM backup and copy the complete backup directory to my desktop. If I now want to change something inside this backup can I simply change the relevant .tar.a file(s), write their new checksums into nandroid.md5, copy everything back to the sd card and expect the whole thing to work?
No 2: I have just let the HD+ update itself to cm-10.1.3-ovation (final) and all went swimmingly. However, I saw that the update is not done incrementally, instead the whole zip is downloaded and the /system tree simply overwritten with its contents. I had put some bits and pieces into /system/app and /system/bin and modified a few files inside of /system, all of which changes were of course gone. So a better update strategy might be to download any new version from the CM website to a desktop machine, patch the .zip file there and then have CWM install it. Can CWM install such an update file like any other .zip or is the update.zip route the correct way?
Or perhaps the best way to update in such a scenario is to download the .zip, sync it with an existing CWM backup (as in the first question) and restore the backup?!
If you get the md5 sum right editing the tar should work.
You can edit the downloaded zip before you flash it and it will still install. But editing after install is about the same amount of work.
What I used to do on the Nook Color was to modify the gapps zip to add the /system changes I wanted and then reflashed the gapps every time I flashed a new ROM. That way gapps were refreshed and the new changes were inserted in /system. Or, you could make your own zip to flash only your changes. The easiest way to make one is to edit the gapps zip to put your changes in and then delete the gapps files from the zip.
Do these zip changes with archive software without totally unzipping and rezipping.
Edit: Since some of my changes were modifications to build.prop, I developed a script to edit the new ROM's build.prop on the fly as part of the zip. That way build date, etc stayed right. If you want, I can use PM to send you a copy of my old edited gapps for you to study. However, since you are on CM10.1 stable, you will probably not be updating again.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
> If you get the md5 sum right editing the tar should work.
Okay, thanks for the confirmation.
> You can edit the downloaded zip before you flash it and it will still install.
But how do I trigger that install, once in CWM? That was my 2nd question.
> But editing after install is about the same amount of work.
Not in my case as I have a) no MTP and b) can easily auto-sync huge directory trees with a powerful command line tool.
I think the best way forward is to ignore the installing of new install .zips via CWM, however this is done. Instead I'll produce a nandroid-compatible backup directory and "restore" that.
Thanks again for your help.
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> If you get the md5 sum right editing the tar should work.
Okay, thanks for the confirmation.
> You can edit the downloaded zip before you flash it and it will still install.
But how do I trigger that install, once in CWM? That was my 2nd question.
> But editing after install is about the same amount of work.
Not in my case as I have a) no MTP and b) can easily auto-sync huge directory trees with a powerful command line tool.
I think the best way forward is to ignore the installing of new install .zips via CWM, however this is done. Instead I'll produce a nandroid-compatible backup directory and "restore" that.
Thanks again for your help.
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You don't trigger it, you manually boot to CWM and manually install it. Go to install zip from SD and choose where you put it.
And by editing after install, I meant editing /system once it is installed on the Nook.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.