UPDATE: My hosting I had for XDA related work expired, so I re-uploaded everything here: http://www.mods4cars.com/pub/xda
Hi everyone. As pretty much everyone of us who got suckered into buying this excellent (hardware) tab from Verizon knows, their update strategy has been very slow and on top of that, glitchy. Finally, 4 months after the other editions of this tab, we're getting ICS... BUT the update is an incremental OTA update that fails on 99% of the tabs, because it expects a version FD01b instead of the FD01 most of us have. The update seems to have gone through for only 2 or 3 lucky users who must somehow have had FD01b on their tab when they got it.
So after one of the best collaboration efforts on the "Tab 7.7 General" forums, I am happy to present to you
The CWM flashable "full stock" ROM for the SCH-i815 - ICS IMM76D.LP10
First up, let me stress again that this is a HACK and that this is RISKY and that if something goes wrong you MAY end up with a BRICK that will require complicated revival ceremonies! Unfortunately I *have* to say here, that whatever you do here, you do AT YOUR OWN risk, I can not be held liable for anything!
Prerequisites:
Verizon SCH-i815 LTE Tablet (ONLY this version!) with Honeycomb (everyone should have FD01 at this point)
Windows PC with Samsung USB drivers installed, meaning when you connect the tab, you should be able to copy files to it.
A micro-SD Card 2GB or bigger, preferable BLANK, FAT32 formatted.
Step 1: Prepare the SD card
Connect the SD card to your PC and copy the ROM files to it.
ROM Choices:
Original Cloned ROM (First version with direct partition image copy, requires >1GB space on SD card which has caused issues for some)
http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815.zip
Update 10/12:
NEW ROM with full ext4 optimizations. System, Cache and Data (only in wipe version) will be cleared, formatted and "fsck -Dfy" checked!
DO NOT WIPE ANYTHING IN CWM!!! Just choose the ROM file appropriately.
Non-Wipe Version (This one leaves existing data partition alone, only checks it for errors)
http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_nowipe.zip
Wipe Version (THIS ONE WILL FORMAT DATA PARTITION, ALL USER DATA WILL BE LOST!)
http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_wipe.zip
Step 2: Download the Odin CWM Recovery pack and get ready to flash
Odin Pack: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_i815_odin_pack.zip
This ZIP contains everything you need now and later during this process. Extract it in any folder you like (Desktop/Odin or C:\Odin).
Run Odin3 v1.85.exe
Step 3: Bring the tab into Odin mode
Hold down the power and volume down buttons on your tab continuously until you see the big warning. Press volume UP to enter flash (odin) mode. Connect USB. In Odin the leftmost ID:COM field should now be yellow. Click the PDA button and select the cwm-6.0.1.1-i815.tar file. Leave everything else as-is. Click start to flash and when it says rebooting immediately grab the tab and hold down power and volume UP until you see the blue CWM screen! If you don't do this and let the tab boot, then it will automatically kill CWM (yes, bastards!), so don't let it boot the regular ROM!
Step 4: Flash the ICS ROM
Insert the card into the tablet, then in CWM go to install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from external sdcard. Select the electron_ICS-LP10_i815_v2.zip.
It will flash the kernel, the radio (LTE modem), the factory fs (/system) and preload partitions. The whole flash will take about 5 min. Especially on the last two steps be patient, it takes a while to extract 800mb and then flash the full filesystem image. Turning off power here (or running out of battery juice!) will make the rom unbootable and will require a full re-do. IMPORTANT: This requires the use of an external SD card! Using internal storage will not work!
WARNING: DO NOT wipe or factory reset in CWM! You can simply install ICS over an existing Honeycomb setup! Choose the correct ROM version: One erases everything and the other one preserves user data. Since this was originally an OTA, it knows how to convert your saved data. So all your emails, save games etc. will still be there! We had too many reports of problems when wiping/factory resetting with CWM. So for now the best advice for anyone looking into installing the ROM is DO NOT WIPE!
UPDATED PROCEDURE as of 10/16 - NO NEED to flash the old 3e recovery any more! Much easier and quicker baseband update below...
Step 5: Download and flash the baseband modem.bin with ODIN
Download the baseband update: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_modem.zip
Bring the tab back into ODIN mode the same as before. Extract the modem.bin file from the modem.zip and drop it in the PHONE section (not PDA!) in ODIN this time. Click start and let it flash and reboot. Done. Under settings/about device you should now have Baseband Version i815.04 V.LP10 / I815LP10
B]Step 6: Optional: Keep CWM or go all stock[/B]
If you would rather like to be full stock than keeping CWM as the recovery program, then bring the tab back into ODIN mode one last time (pwr + vol down) and Connect USB, then flash LP10_recovery.
The ROM is pre-rooted. SuperSU is pre-installed as part of the ROM.
Trouble?
If the tab for some reason gets stuck in a boot loop with the Verizon animation playing over and over, don't fret! Give it AT LEAST 10 full minutes to start with and if it still doesn't show the home screen after that, hold down power and vol up until you're in CWM and wipe data/factory reset (yes, that will completely kill all user data and the tab will be "like new").
Trickier: If you see any warnings in CWM or 3e stock recovery, that there was an error mounting /data, then you lost the data partition and need to do extensive hacking before the tab will ever boot again. We fixed exactly this problem beginning on the very bottom of the page here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927392&page=16 so don't panic! This repair surgery thanks to the excellent guide by Androguide.fr here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
Thanks
Thanks to everyone involved in making this happen! Especially asenduk for dumping the image backups from his tab, rayjr13 for bringing this whole thing to my attention and sending me the first OTA bin file.
Every use of the thanks button is greatly appreciated
Hi, thank you so much for these instructions and all the help. I was wondering does that 6.0.1.1 protect you from the brick bug and I saw that you hosted the V2 file in the original thread but here you have the regular file hosted. Is the V2 better?
johnny13oi said:
Hi, thank you so much for these instructions and all the help. I was wondering does that 6.0.1.1 protect you from the brick bug and I saw that you hosted the V2 file in the original thread but here you have the regular file hosted. Is the V2 better?
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What is this brick bug people speak of? Bricking during a flash or bricking when you're sleeping at night and doing nothing to the tab?
Thanks again for this Rom electronic73! Hopefully some devs will take this as a base and run with it!
Sent from my SCH-I815 using xda premium
johnny13oi said:
Hi, thank you so much for these instructions and all the help. I was wondering does that 6.0.1.1 protect you from the brick bug and I saw that you hosted the V2 file in the original thread but here you have the regular file hosted. Is the V2 better?
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Yes the 6.0.1.1 (as far as I know!) is safe. No need to wipe anyway. The v2 included more files that turned out to be not necessary. The files posted here along with the updated, safer method of flashing, should be the best and quickest way to get to full stock ICS.
The v2 was mainly an attempt to bring user ice's tab back to life after his data partition got killed.
Newbie question of the day - where is the IMEI stored on the 7.7? If it's in /system, won't this result in *everyone* flashing this image ending up with the same IMEI (which causes a whole set of problems of its own)?
Rodney
Thank you so much, and I do plan on doing a wipe to clear out my Tab to bring it to a clean slate. Just didn't want it to be a broken state lol.
rhester72 said:
Newbie question of the day - where is the IMEI stored on the 7.7? If it's in /system, won't this result in *everyone* flashing this image ending up with the same IMEI (which causes a whole set of problems of its own)?
Rodney
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IMEI and such is stored in the mmcblk0p1 partition which (along with 2 and 3 which are the bootloader) we don't touch. So no, we only flash the factory fs, lte modem and kernel. CDMA modem.bin via the new method.
electron73 said:
Hi everyone. As pretty much everyone of us who got suckered into buying this excellent (hardware) tab from Verizon knows, their update strategy has been very slow and on top of that, glitchy. Finally, 4 months after the other editions of this tab, we're getting ICS... BUT the update is an incremental OTA update that fails on 99% of the tabs, because it expects a version FD01b instead of the FD01 most of us have. The update seems to have gone through for only 2 or 3 lucky users who must somehow have had FD01b on their tab when they got it.
So after one of the best collaboration efforts on the "Tab 7.7 General" forums, I am happy to present to you
The CWM flashable "full stock" ROM for the SCH-i815 - ICS IMM76D.LP10
First up, let me stress again that this is a HACK and that this is RISKY and that if something goes wrong you MAY end up with a BRICK that will require complicated revival ceremonies! Unfortunately I *have* to say here, that whatever you do here, you do AT YOUR OWN risk, I can not be held liable for anything!
Prerequisites:
Verizon SCH-i815 LTE Tablet (ONLY this version!) with Honeycomb (everyone should have FD01 at this point)
Windows PC with Samsung USB drivers installed, meaning when you connect the tab, you should be able to copy files to it.
A micro-SD Card 2GB or bigger, preferable BLANK, FAT32 formatted.
Step 1: Prepare the SD card
Connect the SD card to your PC and copy the ROM files to it.
ICS ROM: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815.zip
Modem Upgrade: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_modem.zip
Make sure you have MORE than 1GB of free space left on the SD card when done.
Step 2: Download the Odin CWM Recovery pack and get ready to flash
Odin Pack: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_i815_odin_pack.zip
This ZIP contains everything you need now and later during this process. Extract it in any folder you like (Desktop/Odin or C:\Odin).
Run Odin3 v1.85.exe
Step 3: Bring the tab into Odin mode
Hold down the power and volume down buttons on your tab continuously until you see the big warning. Press volume UP to enter flash (odin) mode. Connect USB. In Odin the leftmost ID:COM field should now be yellow. Click the PDA button and select the cwm-6.0.1.1-i815.tar file. Leave everything else as-is. Click start to flash and when it says rebooting immediately grab the tab and hold down power and volume UP until you see the blue CWM screen! If you don't do this and let the tab boot, then it will automatically kill CWM (yes, bastards!), so don't let it boot the regular ROM!
Step 4: Flash the ICS ROM
Insert the card into the tablet, then in CWM go to install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from external sdcard. Select the electron_ICS-LP10_i815_v2.zip.
It will flash the kernel, the radio (LTE modem), the factory fs (/system) and preload partitions. The whole flash will take about 5 min. Especially on the last two steps be patient, it takes a while to extract 800mb and then flash the full filesystem image. Turning off power here (or running out of battery juice!) will make the rom unbootable and will require a full re-do. IMPORTANT: This requires the use of an external SD card! Using internal storage will not work!
BTW there is NO NEED to wipe! You can simply install ICS over an existing Honeycomb setup! Since this was originally an OTA, it knows how to convert your saved data. So all your emails, save games etc. will still be there!
Step 5: Flash the old Honeycomb recovery in order to do the modem upgrade
Since CWM does not understand the proprietary command used to flash the "firmware" which is the base modem file, we need to use STOCK recovery for this. The downside is that, of course, the new recovery is now locked down and won't accept unsigned files. So we need to flash the OLD Honeycomb FD01 recovery and feed it the modem update!
When the CWM flash above is finished and tells you to reboot, simple press and hold power and vol down again to get back into ODIN mode. Connect the USB again and this time use Odin the same way as above, but to flash the FD10_recovery.tar. This time uncheck the "reboot" tick mark.
Step 6: Flash the modem upgrade with the old stock 3e recovery
When Odin is done above, hold down pwr and vol up until you see the old school recovery pop up saying *manual mode*. Select flash update zip from sdcard and select the electron_ICS-LP10_i815_modem.zip this time. It will go on for a while in total bling flight. No output apart from rotating gears! This one is tricky. Just wait until it either ends saying that it is done or a yellow exclamation point shows up in the middle of the screen. The flash is done.
Step 7: Choose between Stock and CWM
Now bring the tab back into ODIN mode one last time (pwr + vol down) and Connect USB, then flash either CWM or LP10_recovery if you rather like to be full stock. If you chose CWM then be aware that the ROM will try to overwrite that immediately on first boot!! In order to avoid that, flash it with "reboot" box unticked and manually reset into CWM mode (pwr + vol up) and inside CWM select reboot system. It will then give you a big warning that the ROM has a CWM killer and offers you to disable that, so CWM will stay in place (good for Nandroids etd).
Step 8: Boot the ICS ROM and enjoy!
Once you see ICS, go to the play store and install SuperSU. The rom is pre-rooted and just needs the SuperSU app for full root access control.
Trouble?
If the tab for some reason gets stuck in a boot loop with the Verizon animation playing over and over, don't fret! Give it AT LEAST 10 full minutes to start with and if it still doesn't show the home screen after that, hold down power and vol up until you're in CWM and wipe data/factory reset (yes, that will completely kill all user data and the tab will be "like new").
Trickier: If you see any warnings in CWM or 3e stock recovery, that there was an error mounting /data, then you lost the data partition and need to do extensive hacking before the tab will ever boot again. We fixed exactly this problem beginning on the very bottom of the page here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927392&page=16 so don't panic! This repair surgery thanks to the excellent guide by Androguide.fr here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
Thanks
Thanks to everyone involved in making this happen! Especially asenduk for dumping the image backups from his tab, rayjr13 for bringing this whole thing to my attention and sending me the first OTA bin file.
Every use of the thanks button is greatly appreciated
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Hey Electron, thanks again for your outstanding work as well as all involved to make this happen. Since I installed your V2 this morning, I can skip the ICS ROM installation and go straight to step 5 right? Or is it better to start over from scratch?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
bathanr said:
Hey Electron, thanks again for your outstanding work as well as all involved to make this happen. Since I installed your V2 this morning, I can skip the ICS ROM installation and go straight to step 5 right? Or is it better to start over from scratch?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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Same here, what steps do I take to flash the updated modem
Awesome!
ice0901 said:
Same here, what steps do I take to flash the updated modem
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from step 5 on forward. no need to reflash the whole rom if you already have ICS running.
Just odin the old recovery on, flash the modem update zip, then odin the new recovery or CWM back.
boot loop
Not sure whats up. Ive had your rom on all day. No problems. When i went to install the modem update, i entered odin and installed stock recovery, and boom, went into a verizon logo boot loop. i continued any way with the modem install, then put cwm back on, then wiped and data factory reset. waited 10 minutes during bootloop. Gave up, totally reflashed entire V2 Rom, again, stuck on a bootloop...so nwiped and data factory reset again,,,,still a bootloop....
bummer...does it just run until battery dies?
rspong said:
Not sure whats up. Ive had your rom on all day. No problems. When i went to install the modem update, i entered odin and installed stock recovery, and boom, went into a verizon logo boot loop. i continued any way with the modem install, then put cwm back on, then wiped and data factory reset. waited 10 minutes during bootloop. Gave up, totally reflashed entire V2 Rom, again, stuck on a bootloop...so nwiped and data factory reset again,,,,still a bootloop....
bummer...does it just run until battery dies?
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Weird. OK did the v2 flash go all the way through? Did it finish at some point and say "please reboot" ? Or did it get stuck half way though?
Can you in CWM mount your internal storage? Did you get any errors when you did the full wipe/factory reset? anything saying "error mounting /data" maybe ?
electron73, did you create the .pit file in the cwm zip? It does not seem to match my i815 (which may be my problem, that mine is wrong)
I noticed the latest stock rom is like 550mb opposed to the one you uploaded this morning which was 990mb.. Is there a difference?
almus said:
electron73, did you create the .pit file in the cwm zip? It does not seem to match my i815 (which may be my problem, that mine is wrong)
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No I didn't create it but it is guaranteed the right one for i815. I know because I messed up my partition table last night and had to use that pit to repartition Lucky I found that. What you would do in order to re-do your pit is open odin, put the CWM in the PDA section as usual and then click PIT and select that pit. That should activate a checkbox "repartition device". Leave that on for this one run and click start.
As a result it should partition, then flash the CWM and you should immediately be able to enter CWM. With CWM running connect USB
and use adb shell to get onto your tab.
IN the root prompt enter parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
and in the parted prompt enter print. If you see the result as in the attached pic (note: no file system in the DATAFS line) then you need to fix that the same way ice got it fixed last night. I think the link to the thread is in the OP
bathanr said:
I noticed the latest stock rom is like 550mb opposed to the one you uploaded this morning which was 990mb.. Is there a difference?
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Yes the difference is that the preload partition (550mb decompressed) is not included any longer. Not needed. It was never altered in the first place. It only contains a game and useless verizon demonstration videos. I found out later that it had been untouched since Honeycomb FA02c
Yes. V2 went through with no problems.in CWM I can mount efs,cache,system but not data. Then in cwm... OK..wiping data then I get a error mounting data. Skipping format
Sent from my DROID RAZR using xda premium
chefdave12118 said:
What is this brick bug people speak of? Bricking during a flash or bricking when you're sleeping at night and doing nothing to the tab?
Thanks again for this Rom electronic73! Hopefully some devs will take this as a base and run with it!
Sent from my SCH-I815 using xda premium
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The flash controller in our tablets is buggy. See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
electron73 said:
Yes the difference is that the preload partition (550mb decompressed) is not included any longer. Not needed. It was never altered in the first place. It only contains a game and useless verizon demonstration videos. I found out later that it had been untouched since Honeycomb FA02c
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Thanks again man.. You have put forth an awesome effort in this work.. Sent you a little something as an appreciation:good:
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bathanr said:
Thanks again man.. You have put forth an awesome effort in this work.. Sent you a little something as an appreciation:good:
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I ran into the splash screen just hanging and followed the data retore steps. I keep getting this error when trying to print the print command from the parted prompt.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Flatlinz>f:
F:\>cd 7.7
F:\7.7>cd adb
F:\7.7\adb>adb shell
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
~ # ls
ls
boot init sys
cache init.rc system
charger lpm.rc tmp
data preload ueventd.goldfish.rc
default.prop proc ueventd.rc
dev recovery ueventd.smdk4210.rc
efs res vendor
etc sbin
external_sd sdcard
~ # parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
GNU Parted 1.8.8.1.179-aef3
Using /dev/block/mmcblk0
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
print
print
Error: Can't have the end before the start!
(parted)
Any ideas?
Install Rooted Lollipop on AT&T Galaxy S5 (if your handset is pre lollipop)
If you want to enjoy root privileges on your AT&T Galaxy S5 running Android 5.0 Lollipop firmware, the following instructions would help you do that.
Preparations
-You must have a rooted AT&T Galaxy S5.
-Make sure you have installed Safestrap recovery on your device.
-Enable USB Debugging on your Galaxy S5.
-Download Odin v3.09.
-Download the rooted Lollipop backup file: G900A_OC4_Stock_Rooted_Backup.rar.
-Download Lollipop stock partitions: G900A_OC4_Stock_Partitions_wOA1_BL.tar.md5.
Instructions
Rooting your device requires Towelroot which can be downloaded from google via your handset browser.
Install Busybox and SuperSU.
Open Safestrap recovery, Backup the data partition (if you want to keep everything that's setup on the handset). Restart the handset.
On your desktop or laptop extract G900A_OC4_Stock_Rooted_Backup.rar file.
Copy the extracted folder to ext-sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/xxxxxx folder on your handset (the folder name varies from device to device).
Open Safestrap recovery again (restarts the handset into Safestrap recovery), Wipe> Advanced Wipe and wipe everything except the ext-sdcard and the data partition.
Now go back to the main menu in Safestrap recovery, tap the Restore option and restore G900A_OC4_Stock_Rooted_Backup.
This will get your handset to 5.0. If you want your data (ie how you configured your device before starting the upgrade process, restore the data partition in Safestrap before moving onto the next step. If you don't want your data restoring miss this step out).
Select Reboot> Download mode option (this is an option within Safestrap).
Connect your S5 to PC using the original USB cable and launch Odin.
Make sure you see “Added!!” text in the message box on Odin. It indicates that your device has been detected by Odin.
Now click the AP button on Odin and select G900A_OC4_Stock_Partitions_wOA1_BL.tar.md5.
Finally, click the Start button to initiate installation.
When the stock Lollipop partitions file is flashed, your S5 will reboot automatically.
Just wait until your phone boots up. It might take a while so wait patiently. You can now enjoy rooted Lollipop on your AT&T Galaxy S5
***
Search the forum or google for the two files mentioned above, this is what I did to find them (at least do something yourself - it's how you learn
***
This works. I can confirm I have corrupted my handset over 5 times in one evening trying to get from stock 4.4.2 up to 5.0 and I was able to do it. Once more I was able to restore all my data from 4.4.2 into 5.0 which kept all my settings, installed apps, phone contacts, calendar - everything basically. It's very interesting how the android structure works, forget how Windows works.. The data partition holds all your customised settings for the handset and I mean everything.. apps, contacts, calendar entries, installed apps, lock screen, call logs, messages.. etc. The best way to save your data is to use Safestrap on 4.4.2 and backup the data partition which will store it in the TWRP folder on your SD card. When you come to restore 5.0 file, before rebooting the handset, restore the data partition and you will have Lollipop installed as well as all your data that was on the handset before you started the upgrade. It's amazing, no having to setting up the handset again, configuring things, downloading from the store.
As one final test I crashed the OS on the handset (what some people like to call soft brick - which isn't the actually meaning of bricking - more later on that). I then used safestrap to restore the lollipop files, restored the data partition from my TWRP backup (on the SD card) and then moved on to the odin partition restore stage and listed above - bingo everything thing was back to lollipop 5 with all my data.
FYI - the true meaning of a bricked device is a device that cannot be put into download mode. If you can get into the download mode (pull battery, insert battery, press the vol down and home button whilst powering on) you can recover the handset.. that 100%
I even managed to get the handset into a state that said contact your nearest AT&T store for help - this is enough to make anybody think your handset is truely screwed.. WRONG, again, if you are able to get into download mode then you can recover the handset without taking it back to AT&T.
I'm willing to help anybody with a phone that is able to get into download mode, simply because I know it can be recovered.
I took the time to read through this excellent forum and all the answers are here if you take the time to search and then read the guides.
*** the process described above was extracted from a post by Muniz_ri - I've posted the extracted process to show the process I used. I cannot take thanks for the work provided by another member ***
wwit said:
Install Rooted Lollipop on AT&T Galaxy S5
If you want to enjoy root privilege on your AT&T Galaxy S5 running Android 5.0 Lollipop firmware, the following instructions would help you do that.
Preparations
-You must have a rooted AT&T Galaxy S5.
-Make sure you have installed Safestrap recovery on your device: Safestrap-I337-3.75-KitKat-A03.apk
-Enable USB Debugging on your Galaxy S5.
-Download Odin v3.09.
-Download the rooted Lollipop backup file: G900A_OC4_Stock_Rooted_Backup.rar
-Download Lollipop stock partitions: G900A_OC4_Stock_Partitions_wOA1_BL.tar.md5
Instructions
Extract G900A_OC4_Stock_Rooted_Backup.rar file.
Copy the extracted folder to ext-sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/xxxxxx folder (the folder name varies from device to device). In case the BACKUPS folder does not exist on the location described above, launch Safestrap and create a backup using Backup option. Doing so will create that folder.
Open Safestrap recovery,
Backup the data partition (if you want to keep everything that's setup on the handset)
Once the data is backed up select Wipe> Advanced Wipe and wipe everything except the ext-sdcard.
Now go back to the main menu in Safestrap recovery, tap the Restore option and restore G900A_OC4_Stock_Rooted_Backup.
When the OC4 stock rooted backup is restored, select Reboot> Download mode option (this is an option within Safestrap)..
Connect your S5 to PC using the original USB cable and launch Odin.
Make sure you see “Added!!” text in the message box on Odin. It indicates that your device has been detected by Odin.
Now click the AP button on Odin and select G900A_OC4_Stock_Partitions_wOA1_BL.tar.md5.
Finally, click the Start button to initiate installation.
When the stock Lollipop partitions file is flashed, your S5 will reboot automatically.
Just wait until your phone boots up. It might take a while so wait patiently. You can now enjoy rooted Lollipop on your AT&T Galaxy S5
***
Search the forum or google for the two files mentioned above, this is what I did to find them (at least do something yourself - it's how you learn
***
This works. I can confirm I have corrupted my handset over 5 times in one evening trying to get from stock 4.4.2 up to 5.0 and I was able to do it. Once more I was able to restore all my data from 4.4.2 into 5.0 which kept all my settings, installed apps, phone contacts, calendar - everything basically. It's very interesting how the android structure works, forget how Windows works.. The data partition holds all your customised settings for the handset and I mean everything.. apps, contacts, calendar entries, installed apps, lock screen, call logs, messages.. etc. The best way to save your data is to use Safestrap on 4.4.2 and backup the data partition which will store it in the TWRP folder on your SD card. When you come to restore 5.0 file, before rebooting the handset, restore the data partition and you will have Lollipop installed as well as all your data that was on the handset before you started the upgrade. It's amazing, no having to setting up the handset again, configuring things, downloading from the store.
As one final test I crashed the OS on the handset (what some people like to call soft brick - which isn't the actually meaning of bricking - more later on that). I then used safestrap to restore the lollipop files, restored the data partition from my TWRP backup (on the SD card) and then moved on to the odin partition restore stage and listed above - bingo everything thing was back to lollipop 5 with all my data.
FYI - the true meaning of a bricked device is a device that cannot be put into download mode. If you can get into the download mode (pull battery, insert battery, press the vol down and home button whilst powering on) you can recover the handset.. that 100%
I even managed to get the handset into a state that said contact your nearest AT&T store for help - this is enough to make anybody think your handset is truely screwed.. WRONG, again, if you are able to get into download mode then you can recover the handset without taking it back to AT&T.
I'm willing to help anybody with a phone that is able to get into download mode, simply because I know it can be recovered.
I took the time to read through this excellent forum and all the answers are here if you take the time to search and then read the guides.
Wayne
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All this has already been discussed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3076803
Why start a new thread?
Need help finding a file
Hello forum Guru’s,
Can somebody please. help I have been searching for G900A_OC4_Stock_Partitions_wOA1_BL.tar.md5 for a couple of days now but ether the link is broking or the file no longer exists. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction where there is a working link or an alternative.
Thanks in advance
Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to the realm of modding the the kindle. I have a 2012 7" hd. I rooted it and loaded a 2nd bootloader and recovery via various tutorials. I attempted to to load a rom (lolipop 5.1 and corresponding gapps). The process seemed to go fine and when it booted into android the initial setup screens appeared (connect to wifi etc); but then I got a message that the setup wizard had failed. I tried "skipping" screens etc and regardless of what I did I couldn't get past that screen. I clearly either did something wrong or didn't have a good rom file. I was an idiot and didn't create a backup before flashing the new rom. So I mounted it in recovery and loaded a factory image that way and flashed back to norm. My intention was to start things over. I rooted again, went through the whole process; however, I'm seeing a weird phenomenon. When I am in windows (or ES explorer for that matter) and access the files on the sd card partition...I can load files onto there (for flashing in recovery etc); however, once I am actually in recovery and go to "install" the partition that I view in recovery is the files I had from the very first flash. I can create new files in windows or ES explorer and everything works as expected....but once in recovery, none of those folders are present...and the only zip files that are available to "install" are the ones I used the first time that didn't work. I'm clearly looking at some other partition or image in recovery than I am in windows. I have cleared cache and everything I can think of (again I'm a complete amateur). Does anyone have a suggestion of what I am doing wrong or how to resolve? Thanks in advance.
Cranky
The issue with your first problem was that it could have been a bad gapps, in the future try different gapps if you see weird problems like that, to your second problem, when flashing lollipop on a device that had ICS it'll change the directory of the SDcard, no biggie though, just search in recovery data/media/legacy or data/media/0 it should be in one of those that your files are in.
Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk
Try this.
Try to send files over using adb whilst in recovery. If you do not know how then watch this youtube(dot)com/watch?v=NaK5OxUeDKM
sorry im not allowed to post links because im a new user.
Hello,
I followed a tutorial yesterday to get root access to get rid of some of the pre-installed apps on my newly bought P8 Lite 2017.
I made sure the operation would work on my phone before starting : PRA-LX1 (C432B170), EMUI 5.0, Android 7.0
I supposedly managed to get root access, but somehow without me doing anything for it, all of the Google Apps (including Play Store) have totally disappeared within the phone.
I'll describe below my yesterday's doings. To precise, I'm a novice in this and never rooted any phone before.
- Downloaded ADB, Fastboot & Drivers (adb-setup-1.4.3.exe) and installed it.
Got an adb directory created in my C:\ afterwards containing adb.exe, fastboot.exe and two AdbWin .dll .
- Unlocked bootloader doing so : plugged my phone with USB, opened cmd (win+r), went to my C:\adb folder (cd command) and typed adb reboot bootloader; the phone rebooted in bootloader mode. Typed then fastboot oem unlock [code_ive_been_given_on_huawei_website]. Operation was successful.
- Downloaded TWRP (twrp-3.1.1-2-v1-prague.img), renamed it recovery.img and put it in my C:\adb directory.
Opened the cmd (win+r) and rebooted into bootloader mode (adb reboot bootloader). (NB : I tried using the PowerShell cmd but it said "adb isn't recognized as command [...]" "The command adb is nowhere to be found but exists in current spot, PowerShell doesn't load commands from current spot [...]")
Once my phone rebooted in bootloader, I typed in the cmd prompt : fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and operation was successful (two lines of "OKAY" or something similar iirc).
- Downloaded SuperSU (v2.79-201612051815-EMUI5.0.zip), rebooted my phone to put it in.
To mention it, since bootloader unlock the first screen I see is "your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted" with three operations "1. Power up to boot, 2. Vol up to enter erecovery, 3. After 5sec it'll boot automatically". Getting this screen is normal to my understanding.
I moved SuperSU.zip into an external SD once rebooted and plugged via USB.
Then I entered TWRP Recovery Menu, Install-ed the SuperSU.zip, and then Wipe-d Dalvik/Cache and rebooted afterwards.
Phone rebooted once, twice, and ended up booting normally.
Google Apps disappeared since then (no appearance in Settings>Apps), this including Chrome (which was seemingly the sole browser) and PlayStore (rest of Google Apps being what I wanted to erase).
I'm fairly sure that those disappeared after I unlocked the bootloader, but can't be certain of it (operations to get root access took me some time and reboots and the Chrome widget on the main screen has been gone since then iirc).
NB : I see the SuperSU app and when I go to Settings>Google Play "All my applications - See all my applications on the shop" and click on that, nothing happens (I assume it should redirect me to something like the SuperSU dev PlayStore page with his/her developed apps).
I've tried to find out what to do reading some forum posts and the sole post I found that's alike is the following : https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/help/missing-playstore-unlocking-bootloader-t3551269/page2, which end up with a user telling to factory reset, but I read on other posts (not necessarily on xda) that may/might brick and as a novice I would like to get clues on what to do next before going all in on it and bricking it.
Note, I stupidly didn't Backup before doing the operations to get root ... I didn't think of it and the tutorial I followed forgot to mention it.
Thanks in advance for the time spent reading and the help given.
Use the unbrick part of the rooting tutorial. You will get latest stock firmware
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Aftereards root with magisk v14 or supersu
After unlocking the bootloader you must do a factory reset before installing twrp and super su..
Unroot then try to factory reset then re-root you device..
hope it works
Help revive my device.
After updating the tablet from the playmarket of the Youtube application, the tablet freezes, after a reboot, it hangs on the Asus logo and a spinning circle. I couldn’t enter the droidboot from the buttons and, following the instructions from the 4pda forum, after downloading the service firmware, unpacked it to drive C into the folder, then went to the firmware folder by pressing shift + the right mouse button opened the command window and launched the
droidboot with the fastboot boot droidboot.img
fastboot continue
commands booted into the droidboot and in the folder with the firmware clicked on the update_image file, the firmware process started which took a very long time about 7 hours, at the end the tablet rebooted but only until the first screen saver. I waited a long time, but it did not boot. I turned it off. After that, by pressing a combination of buttons, I was able to enter the droidboot, the serial number of the tablet was missing, through a dead robot I was able to enter the recovery.
Then, according to another instruction from 4pda, through a temporary twrp, I tried to install the Ul-KO13-WW-3.2.23.182-user firmware, the installation process started, but it did not install, but the serial number returned and the tablet again hung on the Asus logo and a spinning circle.
I checked the
fastboot oem start_partitioning
fastboot flash /tmp/patrition.tbl partition.tbl
fastboot oem partition /tmp/partition.tbl
commands after each command was OK. So the flash memory of the tablet is working.
After I checked the root, the rights remained. USB debugging in the developer menu was turned on even when the tablet was working. Then I decided to try installing the service firmware 201 again, as I wrote above, and again unsuccessfully, the serial number flashed again. . And again, through a temporary twrp, I began to install 182 firmware.
And the serial number failed, it was not restored, but the recovery now showed that it costs 182 firmware. After that, when checking, I found out that no root su. I got a complete crash. I tried again to install 201 firmware and now it costs WW 3.2.23.201 in recovery.
On the advice of a person from the 4pda forum, I tried to restore images of 201 firmware boot.img fastboot.img recovery.img via twrp v2.8.7.0 from the 4pda forum, but again unsuccessfully. I showed the person who helped me install the firmware images 201 that twrp gave me an installation error, it read:
Updating partition details ...
E: Unable to mount '/ factory'
E: Unable to mount '/ config'
E: Unable to mount '/ data'.
The person who helped me said that there was no markup table, or rather, the system section was written, but could not find the other sections, since he wrote this script for Android 5. And on KitKat version 4.4, he did not test this script. Now I'm desperate, I really need a tablet in working condition. Because I am very poor, and I do not have money to buy another tablet, I have been sick for 5 years. I live on disability benefits, they pay me $ 50 a month and I can’t buy another one. I beg everyone to help with tips and instructions on how to restore tablet firmware. I need a worker. I need your help.
Even when connecting to a laptop on a Windows 7 tablet in twrp 2.8.7.0 mode, the tablet is detected as K013, but it does not see the internal drive and only shows a microSD card, I suggest that this is because the firmware is installed incorrectly and there are no firmware sections? ? If Who knows, you can install any custom firmware that fits on my tablet.
If someone can write me instructions for restoring the firmware. If anyone has encountered a similar problem, give information and instructions for restoring partitions with links from where to download what and step-by-step instructions for restoring.
Sorry text wrote through translator. I hope the problem is described clearly and someone can help me with the firmware.
I thank everyone in advance who will respond and help restore the firmware.
P.S. I decided to try to flash through Intel Flash Tool Lite, I launched service 201 firmware, reached the 57% band and issued FAILED. I turned off the tablet, I decided to try running TWRP, running the script, and now there are only two errors:
E: Unabled to mount / and
E: Unabled to mount / config, and the amount of internal memory Internal Storage (3916MB) !!! And before that, it was zero and in the device k013 on the laptop it shows the storage along with the memory card. Here's an interesting process