im struck with a seroius bootloop while trying to create a rom. i took the system dump from my phone and boot.img from stock. and im unable to produce meta-inf folder. i tried to create update-script using autoupdatecreator tool from here and copied cm's updater-script, i know it is the mistake. and i would be happy if someone can help me creating a updater-script for this rom.....
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I recently rendered my phone unusable due to some changes I made to framework.res (some icons). I managed to recover by flashing the firmware back, and restore a nandroid backup, but I am trying to find out what I did wrong.
Here is what I did...
Modified TwLauncher.apk (did not sign)
Modified framework.res (signed it)
Created an update.zip with the structure and META-INF and signed it.
Put the file in the sdcard and applied it.
My question is, does the double signing of framework.res make it corrupt?
Just for reference...
I figured out that you should not sign framework-res with a test signature, alway maintain the system signature.
I managed to do that by not extracting the whole package and just replacing images within it.
Had to sign update.zip though.
Hi fellow members,
I have a question about creating zip files.
Can i take the zip file gtkansan, made for the keyboard, extract it and add the folder structure for my theme apk's, dump it back in the zip file and then install it?
or is there more to creating an install able theme zip?
Thanks
Hi All, I'm hoping someone is kind enough to lend me a hand with my zip file.
I have used several working zip files and replaced only my files left the structure the same, and always get error 6.
I read that it could be a unix encoding issue and to use notepad+++ ( i only use notepad+++)
So i then started doing all my zip modding in linux.
I still get the error 6.
can some please help?
ok so im trying to put together a modded stock ROM
so I've pulled and extracted the /system folder and the boot.img
I've added root to the system.
removed some bloat
anyway I need a updater script, I've read about how to write one but I think it may be easier to call on some help.
I want to put together a solid base to port off
meer_mortal said:
ok so im trying to put together a modded stock ROM
so I've pulled and extracted the /system folder and the boot.img
I've added root to the system.
removed some bloat
anyway I need a updater script, I've read about how to write one but I think it may be easier to call on some help.
I want to put together a solid base to port off
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Yank one from an existing ROM. That's about the easiest route. This way will also give you an idea of the layout of a zip ROM. The updater-script and updater-binary are located in /META-INF/com/google/android. If memory serves. LOL.
Pardon me..
I was wondering to have a fresh flashable zip from stock FTF by trying to put and or remove some app like supersu or theme ..
But during flash it ended up with various errors like >> symlink error / perm error <<
On display the android bot being really sick by holding an error on it's chest
I found a little discussion about the META-INF, but I believe it's a problem occurred by META-INF and or updater script.
I was using various meta folder extracting from various custom rom.
Failed & failed.
It would be great if some clarification would come from expert and or experienced people.
Advanced thanks.
zYuga said:
Pardon me..
I was wondering to have a fresh flashable zip from stock FTF by trying to put and or remove some app like supersu or theme ..
But during flash it ended up with various errors like >> symlink error / perm error <<
On display the android bot being really sick by holding an error on it's chest
I found a little discussion about the META-INF, but I believe it's a problem occurred by META-INF and or updater script.
I was using various meta folder extracting from various custom rom.
Failed & failed.
It would be great if some clarification would come from expert and or experienced people.
Advanced thanks.
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Editing update-script would require a minimal knowledge on Linux terminal and Linux file system. About update-binary, you can copy from any other Xperia SP's flashable zip. If you were trying to flash the ftf through cwm or, a zip through flashtool, it will not work! Please attempt this tutorial instead if you wish to create a stock ROM zip.
If you really want to get advanced like you have mentioned, use this guide as a reference. Unfortunately I don't use that one, so I might not be able to help you with that.
Hello community,
I'm currently trying to modify the stock rom for my GT-I8200n. I didn't find cwm for the S III mini VE, and the version of twrp I found was very buggy. So I need an odin-compatible flash file for my rom. I tried to modify the stock rom by downloading the .tar.md5 from sammobile, unpacked it with winrar and copied the system.img into an ubuntu-VM. After that I created a sys.img (or sys.raw, same problem) out of system.img using the simg2img-file I found somewhere here on xda, mounted sys.img (or sys.raw) and modified it. Then I unmounted it and used img2simg to create my system_new.img. Copied it to my windows system, into the unpacked stock rom folder, renamed it to system.img, overwriting the old system.img and packed everything into a .tar file using ZArc. Now while flashing my ROM, odin works on the system.img for some minutes and then shows a fail.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
P.S.: I tried simply using simg2img on my stock system.img and then - without mounting and modifying - used img2simg kn the sys.img file. Same problem with odin and I noticed that my new system.img is approximately 50 mb smaller than the stock img, although I didn't modify it.
I hope I described my problem well (I'm not an english native speaker, but did my best to make this text understandable )
Any ideas or hints that could maybe solve this problem are welcome.
Thank you,
Chris
I have the same problem
any solution ?