I easily flash any roms via twrp, but recently some rom come with payload.bin inside the zip. I cant manage to flash it via twrp, it ends up with error with zip format?
I saw a thread that mentions to unpack the payload.bin and put all unpacked files into fastboot folder, then fastboot these files separately.
Is there any way to make it as easy as it used to.
stevedat said:
I easily flash any roms via twrp, but recently some rom come with payload.bin inside the zip. I cant manage to flash it via twrp, it ends up with error with zip format?
I saw a thread that mentions to unpack the payload.bin and put all unpacked files into fastboot folder, then fastboot these files separately.
Is there any way to make it as easy as it used to.
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Actually. Its not that hard the using the fastboot version. You will just extract the file then run the batch file. Then wait to finish. Better than ota. Retain my data.
Identity77 said:
Actually. Its not that hard the using the fastboot version. You will just extract the file then run the batch file. Then wait to finish. Better than ota. Retain my data.
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You mean that if I come from other Rom, just wipe all in twro, then flash it by using batch file and just connected the phone to pc as fastboot mode.
stevedat said:
You mean that if I come from other Rom, just wipe all in twro, then flash it by using batch file and just connected the phone to pc as fastboot mode.
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I Didnt try with other rom. It has the a and b thing. I got problem with ota because im rooted with magisk. Got into bootlloop. This fastboot thing saves me. And i was able to upgrade to latest.
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Through fastboot do you extract the .img file and then place that in your SD card?
Or can you simply flash the .zip file through fastboot?
Extract the .img to your pc.
fastboot flash radio c:\locationof.img
Sorry I don;t understand what you said or maybe I did.
Extract the .img to your pc
Place the .img in your sd card
start up fastboot and flash?
AustinAce said:
Sorry I don;t understand what you said or maybe I did.
Extract the .img to your pc
Place the .img in your sd card
start up fastboot and flash?
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after you placed .img to your pc, you dont need to place it again on your sdcard!!
fastboot your mobile and connect it via USB
do you remember what you did when you installed recovery??
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA.img
you should do the same, but with radio!!
fastboot flash radio c:\location_of_radio.img
Extract it to a folder on your pc, such as your desktop, then use the command to flash the radio
fastboot flash radio C:\Users\NAME\Desktop\radio.img
Obviously, you replace NAME with your username for your computer, and you do a similar code to flash the spl.
assuming your not on vista you can simply type fastboot flash radio, then physically drag the radio file onto the cmd line and it will input the file location....
Apparently I have to download some SDK files in order to fastboot over USB. So this was entirely no help unless someone wants to take me step by step on THEE ENTIRE PROCESS then be my guest.
or your could do your own work and read the FASTBOOT for dummies thread....
literally 3 lines up from this thread
I know how to fastboot flash .img files and understand it includes the radio and kernel components. I'm rooted and have TWRP recovery. But which .img file contains the radio and which the kernel? I ask because I'll be going from the latest T-Mo rom (LYZ28J) to Project Fi having just received my sim. If I flash just the system.img from LYV48E (Fi rom) will I have the correct kernel and radio or will I have to flash boot.img also or something else? Since kernels and radios can be flashed separately I'm just not sure where everything comes from. I would appreciate some clarity.
Groid said:
I know how to fastboot flash .img files and understand it includes the radio and kernel components. I'm rooted and have TWRP recovery. But which .img file contains the radio and which the kernel? I ask because I'll be going from the latest T-Mo rom (LYZ28J) to Project Fi having just received my sim. If I flash just the system.img from LYV48E (Fi rom) will I have the correct kernel and radio or will I have to flash boot.img also or something else? Since kernels and radios can be flashed separately I'm just not sure where everything comes from. I would appreciate some clarity.
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have you ever unzipped a factory.img .tar file to see what files it contains?
Groid said:
I know how to fastboot flash .img files and understand it includes the radio and kernel components. I'm rooted and have TWRP recovery. But which .img file contains the radio and which the kernel? I ask because I'll be going from the latest T-Mo rom (LYZ28J) to Project Fi having just received my sim. If I flash just the system.img from LYV48E (Fi rom) will I have the correct kernel and radio or will I have to flash boot.img also or something else? Since kernels and radios can be flashed separately I'm just not sure where everything comes from. I would appreciate some clarity.
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simms22 said:
have you ever unzipped a factory.img .tar file to see what files it contains?
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If I were a betting man, I'd be backing the horse called "Wish I'd done that before posting"
Tiptonian said:
If I were a betting man, I'd be backing the horse called "Wish I'd done that before posting"
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Hahaa. Unzip and you shall receive. LMAO
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have you ever unzipped a factory.img .tar file to see what files it contains?
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Not sure what you mean by this. I have the system, boot, recovery, and userdata .img files. I don't know which one has the kernel or which one has the radio. You imply I can unzip, for example, system.img to see what files are there, but I cannot unzip it or any of the .img files. My main question still is unanswered which is which .img files do I need to (m)fastboot flash to insure I have the correct (stock) kernel and radio for the Project Fi rom? I may just flash them all, flash TWRP, re-root and start clean, but I wanted to consider the option of keeping data. Any helpful answers?
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If I were a betting man, I'd be backing the horse called "Wish I'd done that before posting"
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prdog1 said:
Hahaa. Unzip and you shall receive. LMAO
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So glad my post was such a source of amusement for you. Sorry I didn't make it clear I know how download factory images, unzip the .tgz file to get the .tar file. Unzip the .tar file to get to the .zip file. Unzip the .zip file to get the boot, recovery, system, and userdata .img files. But no one actually tried to answer my question.
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So glad my post was such a source of amusement for you. Sorry I didn't make it clear I know how download factory images, unzip the .tgz file to get the .tar file. Unzip the .tar file to get to the .zip file. Unzip the .zip file to get the boot, recovery, system, and userdata .img files. But no one actually tried to answer my question.
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kernel is boot.img, radio is radio.img
Thank you for your reply. I suspected boot.img is the kernel but wanted to make sure. I notice that the radio-shamu-. . .02.78.02.img and boot-shamu. . .71.10.img are in the shamu-lvy48e folder in the .tar file with the flash batch files. The enclosed .zip file has the system, boot, userdata, recovery, and cache .img files along with the text file specifying the bootloader (kernel) and baseband (radio). I now understand that the boot.img is the kernel which is the same version my current one in LYZ28J, so I need not flash it. The radio is different based on the android-info.txt file. So, the last piece of the puzzle for me is will I get the updated radio by flashing the system.img or must I separately flash the radio-shamu -. . .-02.78.02.img?
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Thank you for your reply. I suspected boot.img is the kernel but wanted to make sure. I notice that the radio-shamu-. . .02.78.02.img and boot-shamu. . .71.10.img are in the shamu-lvy42e folder in the .tar file with the flash batch files. The enclosed .zip file has the system, boot, userdata, recovery, and cache .img files along with the text file specifying the bootloader (kernel) and baseband (radio). I now understand that the boot.img is the kernel which is the same version my current one in LYZ28J, so I need not flash it. The radio is different based on the android-info.txt file. So, the last piece of the puzzle for me is will I get the updated radio by flashing the system.img or must I separately flash the radio-shamu -. . .-02.78.02.img?
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youll get the updated radio in the factory.img, but you can always flash the radio itsrlf via fastboot(fastboot flash radio radioname.img).
Groid said:
Thank you for your reply. I suspected boot.img is the kernel but wanted to make sure. I notice that the radio-shamu-. . .02.78.02.img and boot-shamu. . .71.10.img are in the shamu-lvy48e folder in the .tar file with the flash batch files. The enclosed .zip file has the system, boot, userdata, recovery, and cache .img files along with the text file specifying the bootloader (kernel) and baseband (radio). I now understand that the boot.img is the kernel which is the same version my current one in LYZ28J, so I need not flash it. The radio is different based on the android-info.txt file. So, the last piece of the puzzle for me is will I get the updated radio by flashing the system.img or must I separately flash the radio-shamu -. . .-02.78.02.img?
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If have updated SDK will get everything in flash-all.bat. If not and have to do all separate they are all separate. Bootloader, radio, boot, system, cache, userdata. There is no radio in system.img. It is the radio. img. On first unzip get bootloader, radio, flash-all and the folder for the rest of the images. If want radio fastboot flash radio (radio.img).
Thank you for answering my question about whether or not the radio gets updated by flashing system.img. Unfortunately, I cannot get ADB to work properly. I initially seem to have it working with the ADB devices statement from the command prompt, it returns the serial #, but when I try to execute the batch file ADB seems to be disconnected. At least I have experience with (m)fastboot and will just flash the radio and system .imgs since the bootloader is the same. I'll keep TWRP recovery, format cache, update supersu for root and I should be good to go.
Groid said:
Thank you for answering my question about whether or not the radio gets updated by flashing system.img. Unfortunately, I cannot get ADB to work properly. I initially seem to have it working with the ADB devices statement from the command prompt, it returns the serial #, but when I try to execute the batch file ADB seems to be disconnected. At least I have experience with (m)fastboot and will just flash the radio and system .imgs since the bootloader is the same. I'll keep TWRP recovery, format cache, update supersu for root and I should be good to go.
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well, adb doesnt work in the bootloader, and its only fastboot that can flash those files..
Thanks, I was responding to using adb to sideload with the flash(all).bat. Fastboot works fine for me so I don't really miss using adb commands.
Hello!
I looked for this, but can't seem to find a clear answer. The other thread on this is over 3,000 posts (can't look through all that).
I am currently on 6.0.1 with February 1 security update on rooted Nexus 6, stock, with TWRP recovery. I want to apply the latest security patches using NRT....How to?? What is my easiest method to doing this? Thanks in advance, cheers!
The easiest method is not to use NRT. Much as I'm a fan of it, having contributed to Wug several times, the manual method is simpler. Boot into bootloader, start a CMD session, flash system.img & boot.img, and radio.img if you want to be particularly careful, and reboot. Job done. No data loss, everything as normal apart from the new security patches.
If the above isn't familiar, you need to read these forums a lot more. Not trying to be funny - I had to before I had the balls to offer advice to others.
Would we have to flash SuperSU again to reroot?
iluvatrix said:
Would we have to flash SuperSU again to reroot?
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dahawthorne said:
. Boot into bootloader, start a CMD session, flash system.img & boot.img, and radio.img if you want to be particularly careful, and reboot. Job done. No data loss.......
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.....with the newest twrp-recovery (v3.0.0.1) it is possible to flash the boot.img and system.img, directly from the internal memory.
so what we do is dl the factory image , extract the boot.img and system.img , drag over to phone internal memory, boot twrp 3.0.0.1 then flash?
"flash the boot.img and system.img, directly from the internal memory"
"boot twrp 3.0.0.1 then flash?"
I don't believe you can install an img file in TWRP, and I've never tried. If you extract everything from the factory ROM image, including the zip within the zip, you'll find boot.img, system.img & radio.img. Copy them across to your PC folder where ADB.exe & fastboot.exe live, open a CMD window, boot your phone into bootloader mode, attach via USB, and separately fastboot flash the 3 img files. Then install TWRP, and from there you can install SuperSU v2.70 if you want to root.
dahawthorne said:
"flash the boot.img and system.img, directly from the internal memory"
"boot twrp 3.0.0.1 then flash?"
I don't believe you can install an img file in TWRP, and I've never tried. If you extract everything from the factory ROM image, including the zip within the zip, you'll find boot.img, system.img & radio.img. Copy them across to your PC folder where ADB.exe & fastboot.exe live, open a CMD window, boot your phone into bootloader mode, attach via USB, and separately fastboot flash the 3 img files. Then install TWRP, and from there you can install SuperSU v2.70 if you want to root.
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You can flash images in TWRP 3.0.0-1
Recovery, system and boot. My PC is down and that's how I flashed N preview. Works great
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app
iluvatrix said:
so what we do is dl the factory image , extract the boot.img and system.img , drag over to phone internal memory, boot twrp 3.0.0.1 then flash?
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Yes ?
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dahawthorne said:
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I don't believe you can install an img file in TWRP, and I've never tried...
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Try and you will believe. ?
That's why we're here - to learn...
Thanks, people.
31ken31 said:
You can flash images in TWRP 3.0.0-1
Recovery, system and boot. My PC is down and that's how I flashed N preview. Works great
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app
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Do we then have to re-root after going this method? Also, will everything be the way it was before flashing (no data loss, no settings loss, etc.)?
Shaundiesel said:
Do we then have to re-root after going this method? Also, will everything be the way it was before flashing (no data loss, no settings loss, etc.)?
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None and yes flash appropriate su to restore root
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65136208&postcount=13
Works like a charm Every time.
Hi all, I want to clean install stock rom via fastboot. I used to do this on my oneplus one a while back. I think that I need to install img files to five partitions (boot.img, recovery.img, system.img, userdata.img and cache.img). Are there any other files that need to installed (eg bin or mbn files)?
I think I should be able to get the img files by unzipping the stock rom files. Has anyone tried to get the img files from unzipped stock rom and install via fastboot?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Don't know exactly, but also interested to learn about this!
OnePlus does not provide fastboot flashable roms, the only way to get them would be to update uusing the recovery first and extracting the .img files afterwards, but then you don't need them anymore since you are already upgraded.
Jo_Jo_2000 said:
OnePlus does not provide fastboot flashable roms, the only way to get them would be to update uusing the recovery first and extracting the .img files afterwards, but then you don't need them anymore since you are already upgraded.
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The system.new.dat format is not unique to oneplus, but the standard for flashable android zips since version 6 (aka marshmellow). The system.new.dat, system.patch.dat and system.transfare.list are build from system.img while building a rom (aka compile rom from source). This process is NOT unidirectional; you can easily revert it. I'm on linux, so you have to google, how this is accomblished on win or darwin. For linux users:
https://github.com/xpirt/sdat2img
Can anyone help me here, my phone security patch showing June 5th, how to update it?
Download latest ww ota from Asus website. Download payload dumper and extract payload.bin from that downloaded ota.
After payload.bin extracted put phone in fastboot plug typec into side plug of phone and to your PC.
CMD prompt
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot xxx xxx.img (xxx change to all img names example above)
Flash all 21 files
DanXbix said:
Download latest ww ota from Asus website. Download payload dumper and extract payload.bin from that downloaded ota.
After payload.bin extracted put phone in fastboot plug typec into side plug of phone and to your PC.
CMD prompt
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot xxx xxx.img (xxx change to all img names example above)
Flash all 21 files
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thx for the step by step, and will this wipe all my data?
edit:i found some guide mention that i need unlock the bootloader, do i need do this first?
Yes you also need to unlock first and will wipe data
DanXbix said:
Download latest ww ota from Asus website. Download payload dumper and extract payload.bin from that downloaded ota.
After payload.bin extracted put phone in fastboot plug typec into side plug of phone and to your PC.
CMD prompt
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot xxx xxx.img (xxx change to all img names example above)
Flash all 21 files
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It worked but during the process, while flashing system and vendor file I got Invalid sparse file format at header magic
Is it normal? The phone is working fine but checking whether it's normal or anything else needs to be done?
It would be very helpful. Thanks
iamgulshan said:
It worked but during the process, while flashing system and vendor file I got Invalid sparse file format at header magic
Is it normal? The phone is working fine but checking whether it's normal or anything else needs to be done?
It would be very helpful. Thanks
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yes got same issue but there is a raw of this update now in other guide cn to ww thread flash raw you don't need to unlock
hashcheck said:
yes got same issue but there is a raw of this update now in other guide cn to ww thread flash raw you don't need to unlock
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That one I had with security patch of June 5th and after flashing now I have July 5th security patch.