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I've found some commands to use but I am not sure if I've done them correctly. I was able to get a file out of the commands (a .apk file) but it seemed to be created as a document rather than a unix executable file. The icon appears as a sheet of paper rather than that black box of other executable files. I am on a mac right now so anyone familiar with it on a mac would be a great help.
What about just adding the .apk extention? cp /filepath/ /sdcard/app.apk then mount the sdcard and pull it over if you can't work out adb.
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What about just adding the .apk extention? cp /filepath/ /sdcard/app.apk then mount the sdcard and pull it over if you can't work out adb.
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When I change a file name and save it as a .apk, it doesn't seem to truly save it as a .apk. Normally, on a mac, .apk's are seen as a unix executable file and the icon is a little black square. If I change a files extension to <filename.apk> it just sees it as a document with the name <filename.apk>, NOT <filename>.apk. It doesn't recognize the file as a true .apk. I'm not sure if that makes sense but its a much more difficult process on a mac than it is on a PC. If i save a file with .apk at the end then try to sign it, an error comes up saying that the file is not a file.
apk's are just zip files with a signing signature, they "unpack" like a zip/rar archive. There is no reason to open them with terminal. They are either damaged or you didn't copy them off your phone correctly, see the second sentence of my post.
I know what you mean and I know how they work, I'm just not explaining myself correctly...I think I have it figured out though.
I want to open up a system.img from an older bart backup to extract a couple apps. How can I do this? Seems like any archive program doesn't want me to open it.
Yeah you can't actually extract apps like that. You would have to flash the system.img, let it load up, and back up your .apks from there.
Another method that I have never tried for myself is to mount the system.img in the sdk emulator and see if that gets you anywhere.
If you are on linux, you can use the unyaffs to extract the contents of .img files.
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If you are on linux, you can use the unyaffs to extract the contents of .img files.
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a month and a half later, but thank you! This will be useful in the future.
Ooh yes that will be useful for me as well, thanks!
Hi guys, i searched lot, but did not find any proper solution for getting flashable files of smart flash from kdz..
Plz help guys..
Obviously you haven`t searched enough .
I think that you are looking for LGExtract 0.2.1
Tool is in it`s beginning, but from reading I think that it can extract smartflash files from kdz and it is tested on p990 (I haven`t tested it).
k, i tried that, now i got 13 files.
some are img, some fls etc.
but we need only 2 files for flashing with smartflash tool. bin and fls.
how to get them ?
As I said, I haven`t tried to do this, hence I can`t help you. You will must to read and ask for support in original thread, where the author of the tool is present.
If you are trying to flash kdz and since LG have changed their politics, try to read this thread too... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473781
Hi all,
first, thank you Memhis, the tool is excellent. It works under Linux too in Wine environment.
But I have some observations and some questions
- first decrypt/decompile KDZ file only extract a CAB file - this CAB file can be extracted by cabextract utility
- after CAB file extraction, there is WDB file and machine specific DLL - this DLL file must be used for extraction of WDB, I try the newer one without success
- after performing extraction of WDB using DLL there are number of files which can be useful
AENEAS_FW.fls, psi.fls, R375_SIC.fls, slb.fls - these files are the baseband and can be flashed using smart flash tool - it must be flashed all, not only some
#_Split_Data.img - after joining this file to one, it contains Linux filesystem (now EXT3) with all data of /system partition and you can get lge-ril.so from this
The remaining files I don't identify and only speculate what is it
ext3_flashboot.img - this filesystem is used to boot for flashing???
fastboot.bin - ???
recovery.img - recovery partition - this images is used to replace ClockWorkMod I think
Once again, many thanks. I was searching for this similar tool about six moths ago.
can you tel me,how do you extract the split_data.img??
at this point i have no idea what i must do and find nothing about it.
cojo11 said:
can you tel me,how do you extract the split_data.img??
at this point i have no idea what i must do and find nothing about it.
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There is nothing to "extract" from split_data.img. It is a true EXT3 Linux filesystem. You have to use a Linux box or something to allow mount an Linux image to Windows environment. I can only point you to http://www.ext2fsd.com/ site which is free good ext2/3/4 filesystem driver, but I don't know, if it is usable - it can mount a Linux partition under Windows but don't know it can mount a image file as disk. Hope so.
Thanks for the information, but I can't extract Split_Data.img (it's the joined file of 4 .img files).
How can I extract this .img in Linux (virtual machine)?
Flix123 said:
Thanks for the information, but I can't extract Split_Data.img (it's the joined file of 4 .img files).
How can I extract this .img in Linux (virtual machine)?
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You have to mount it, like it is a whole filesystem. Google it to find out how to mount img file. Once done, you'll open it like a hard drive.
Edit: Forget my question, it works now!
My last question: Is the file "ext3_flashboot" the same as the boot.img files in CWM roms?
OK, I managed to extract the kdz file and I made a rebuild of V20c without flashing the kdz, just with extracting!
I'll upload it in a few minutes!
For those who wants to extract KDZ I prepare a little manual...
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For those who wants to extract KDZ I prepare a little manual...
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Hi Keltek, thanks for the manual. but i am getting some error, any ideas? I'm using Win 7 32-Bit. This is the error:
C:\>LGExtract -kdz V20F_00.kdz
Extracting:
KDZ: V20F_00.kdz
Failed to create cab file.
Error code: 00000005
Message: Access is denied.
Failed to extract file.
Please report this error with this file.
thanks
NEVER MIND: cmd.exe should "Run as Administrator", it works now.
The last question I have is how to join the 4 extracted baseband files to one file?
Does that work with copy /b command?
What i got from flashing basebands is that youre supposed to flash them one by one from largest to smallest file. so basically what you should be doing to "compress" the procedure is you unpack those 4 files, put the largest one in place and copy the others onto it, replacing duplicates. Then repackage what you merged, and try that, cant think of anything more logical than that.
That sounds logical, but I don't know how to extract the files.
But it's not very important, because it isn't a problem to flash 4 files instead of one.
Please extract Bb from v20h rohan
Sent from my LG-P990 using Tapatalk
If you give me the link to the kdz, I will extract the baseband for you.
spica1234 said:
Please extract Bb from v20h rohan
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You should specify from which ROM file, coz there are many version with same identification but different content - I don't understand why LG do this - the V20q for Czech Republic is not the same as V20q for Italy...
I take a look at V20h and it contain 1035.21_20110725 BaseBand.
Here is what I have done for my personal webtop so far.
Download
To install:
Make a partition on a SDCard, formatted ext3, so that the first partition is FAT, second partition is EXT3.(2GB should be fine, YEMV)
Extract contents of osh2.tar.bz2 to this ext3 partition.
Make a backup of /osh/ubuntu.sh
Overwrite /osh/ubuntu.sh with the one on the root of the SDCard's EXT3 partition.
Backup your /data/home/adas folder.
Remove /data/home/adas, leaving just /data/home.
Reboot the phone.
You will need Linux to extract the tar properly and create the SDCard partitions.
You do not need to be unlocked or have a different kernel, you just need to replace ubuntu.sh, so rooted, temp root, whatever. I created everything from a stock Bell phone. Android 2.3.6. If anything doesn't work, just replace ubuntu.sh with the original file or just remove your sdcard.
Cheers!
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what has been modified:
fuse based smbnetfs installed, stock kernel can access windows shares and play video using motorola hd media center.
open office installed, gimp, some games
lxde set up, theme preconfigured.
No need for dependencies to be fixed or webtop to sd apps run, has zero errors and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade has completed without errors several times so adding extra sources and doing dist-upgrade won't cause errors.
Replaced firefox 7 with 8, rest is Bell webtop.
Been installing and playing with it for a while now, can't recall all the mods.
Yes, you can put the tarball on the phone and extract it to the sdcard that way, you just need to mount the partition. I keep a copy in internal memory to be able to restore when I install/uninstall something I shouldn't.
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If you use xarchiver from another webtop to untar the archive, you may need more than 2GB.
Can you put the .tar file on the phone and extract there? I ask because I only have access to Windows machines. Creating the partitions on the sdcard is easy with MiniTool Partition on Windows.
I am can't downloading this file, webserver says: "This file is no longer available."
How has this webtop been modified?
Ramble via webtop:
My approach is to avoid established scripts for fixing dependencies and apps for moving webtop to sd card. Not that I have anything against those, but they were developed using ATT phones and might miss some compatibility with Bell.
One key difference for getting going from scratch is that I installed a standard armel busybox from the busybox site, that avoided a lot of errors when installing debs. Not sure where the busybox comes from in apps2sd but it is not as up to date and results in more errors with missing command line options.
I also didn't want to change/replace the contents of the phone too much so I could easily revert to stock, there is this ICS rumour..
This is what I did:
Starting off I updated the sources.list to be jaunty and just worked through the errors by installing debs manually. lxterminal was installed via deb and tomoyo was disabled by renaming the init and start files. Basically, I did a force install via deb file of some rootfs package contents, coreutils, cpio, dbus, dhcp, gpgv, grep, udev. All references to -mot versions were stripped of the -mot suffix so they could be more easily upgraded. I left the references to ~mot and -motorola in the versions of packages, not sure why, just did. Eventually I got to a place where synaptic was installed and I had no errors. Saved the state in a tarball and kept experimenting with installing things.
I really wanted a home folder elsewhere than /data/home but there are too many hard references to it in webtop for stability, I found a lot in scripts but I suspect they are in binaries as well. You can rbind once in webtop but you need it to have stuff in there during boot, not mix and match configs.
I tried an external hard drive, but there is a fundamental flaw in that logic, they only turn on once you open the lid of the lapdock, so you can't have boot files on it.
I copied the firefox-8.0 from ATT, deleted firefox-7, updated the soft links to point to the 8 version, redid profile.zip to have xda be the home page and adblock installed already, tossed in .xdg-bookmarks to add Network to pcmanfm. I originally had all the home folder stuff in profile.zip but some part of the scripts mess with settings and not everything was carrying over.
So, I did a tarball of my home dir's dot files and put it in /osh2/home/adas so when I do a factory reset and adas is wiped it restores my config. Tip: removing the entire adas folder gives you the same effect for webtop as a factory reset. Reboot and you are back to where you were.
I tried all the window managers, avant/awn anything is annoying when it shifts items left and right when an app opened or closed. I was able to have the stock awn working with a cairo menu, but it still shifted things left and right and was slow. I tried recompiling awn on the phone to get the option to just have launchers but there is this tendency for anything new you compile to require a new libc6. Xfce is cool, menu looked odd though, went with lxde, easy enough to switch if you want. Note: Compiz anything is a waste of time.
I have removed the stock webtop theme and replaced it with clearlooks and murrine window decoration. lxpanel is transparent via manual hack of the config file, the gui for changing things always sets alpha to 0, bug into the prefs app.
I could go on and on, but I like what I have done so far, thought I would pass it along. The main bit for me is not having to install a new kernel or wipe existing partitions, make a lot of phone mods, a pure stock phone can have a custom webtop, just needs to be rooted to copy one file over. Also, I like being able to watch tv shows on my lapdock, worth the price of admission right there for me.
Oh, size is around 1.4GB untarred, so it's a least a 2GB ext3 partition. I have an option in there for using mmcblk1p3 for var if you want to copy var over there formatted with smaller clusters. There are a few flags to control things, if you didn't want to remove your sdcard, touch /osh/no_osh2 and reboot the phone to disable. /osh/var_ownp enables the mounting and use of a third partition on the sdcard dedicated to /var. Use that one carefully, commit to it before installing a lot of things, having a mix and match could break the custom webtop.
Cheers!
Thanks for putting this up, I'd like to give it a try but am having difficulties, possibly cause i'm running Nochatrix (ATT 2.3.6).
When you say 'extract properly' to the EXT3 partition, what command would you use? Should extracting first then copying over work? Because I tried that, and it didn't!
Cheers
It has to be linux, either on the phone or on a pc so that tar -xvf will keep the ownership and file permissions.
VMware Player
CaelanT said:
Can you put the .tar file on the phone and extract there? I ask because I only have access to Windows machines. Creating the partitions on the sdcard is easy with MiniTool Partition on Windows.
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Download VMware Player and the free copy of linux.. now you can run Linux.. :highfive:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=player
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... so that tar -xvf will keep the ownership and file permissions.
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That's it, thanks. I was over-complicating things, putting in unnecessary arguments and trying to copy it over using -C. In the end I just copied the tar to the EXT3 and just unpacked it there.
Anyways, it works great! Everything ive quickly tried works nicely, openoffice, synaptic, Gnometris , etc, it's clean and quick, just what I was after.
can make a .zip CWM flashable file???
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jpinoy said:
Download VMware Player and the free copy of linux.. now you can run Linux.. :highfive:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=player
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where can i find Linux OS??
It work on stock 2.3.4?
It work on stock 2.3.4?
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I haven't tested it, the webtop is from Bell's 2.3.6, probably not a large difference, but can't say for sure.
Can you make a CWM zip?
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Yes, I can.
Cheers!
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28700385[/URL]]That's it, thanks. I was over-complicating things, putting in unnecessary arguments and trying to copy it over using -C. In the end I just copied the tar to the EXT3 and just unpacked it there.
Anyways, it works great! Everything ive quickly tried works nicely, openoffice, synaptic, Gnometris , etc, it's clean and quick, just what I was after.
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Glad you like it!
Cheers!
I'd love to give this one a try. I'm using Webtop2SD right now. Can someone give a more detailed step-by-step instruction please?
Chimpdaddy;[URL="tel:28700385" said:
28700385[/URL]]That's it, thanks. I was over-complicating things, putting in unnecessary arguments and trying to copy it over using -C. In the end I just copied the tar to the EXT3 and just unpacked it there.
Anyways, it works great! Everything ive quickly tried works nicely, openoffice, synaptic, Gnometris , etc, it's clean and quick, just what I was after.
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28824484[/URL]]I'd love to give this one a try. I'm using Webtop2SD right now. Can someone give a more detailed step-by-step instruction please?
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This does not use webtop2sd, so you would need to uninstall that first as it would likely cause problems.
Not sure how detailed you need instructions.
Cheers!
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I haven't tested it, the webtop is from Bell's 2.3.6, probably not a large difference, but can't say for sure.
Yes, I can.
Cheers!
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Thanks, but not seeing any zip on OP .....
I have limited experience with linux. What I got:
1. AT&T Atrix on 2.4.6.
2. Webtop2SD created ext3 partition on SD card.
What I plan to do:
1. Wipe ext3 partiion and copy the SimpleTop tar file to it
2. Log into Webtop ( boot from the Webtop partition from the internal sd card)
3. backup .sh and adas folder
4. untar simpletop in the ext3 partition
5. copy the new .sh file.
Will these steps work? I feel it's bit dangerous to do this on the phone. But how can I do this on a windows computer?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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I have limited experience with linux. What I got:
1. AT&T Atrix on 2.4.6.
2. Webtop2SD created ext3 partition on SD card.
What I plan to do:
1. Wipe ext3 partiion and copy the SimpleTop tar file to it
2. Log into Webtop ( boot from the Webtop partition from the internal sd card)
3. backup .sh and adas folder
4. untar simpletop in the ext3 partition
5. copy the new .sh file.
Will these steps work? I feel it's bit dangerous to do this on the phone. But how can I do this on a windows computer?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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That is pretty much it. Just remember to be super user and include -p if using tar for backup. Tar -cvpjf /sdcard/ADAS.tar.bz2 . for example. Also, you don't want to be in webtop2sd mode if you are doing this but from a rooted webtop on the the phone itself. Or you could do it all from an adb shell.
Cheers!
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
NFHimself said:
That is pretty much it. Just remember to be super user and include -p if using tar for backup. Tar -cvpjf /sdcard/ADAS.tar.bz2 . for example. Also, you don't want to be in webtop2sd mode if you are doing this but from a rooted webtop on the the phone itself. Or you could do it all from an adb shell.
Cheers!
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
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I haven't used adb before. Can you list the commands in adb to install this? Thanks.
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I haven't used adb before. Can you list the commands in adb to install this? Thanks.
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ADB is just a way to get a remote shell going over usb, so the commands are linux shell commands.
I would do something like this:
(Blank ext3 partition on sdcard, second partition)
adb shell
$ shsu
# mkdir /mnt/asec/osh2
# mount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /mnt/asec/osh2
# cd /mnt/asec/osh2
# tar -xvf /sdcard/osh2.tar.bz2
# cp /osh/ubuntu.sh /sdcard/
# cp ubuntu.sh /osh/
# cd /data/home
# tar -cvpjf /sdcard/adas.tar.bz2 .
# rm -r /adas
# sync
# umount /mnt/asec/osh2
# reboot
Cheers!
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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/