Hello everyone! I am looking for the latest ROM of the chromecast. I don't mind if its just one big .img file with all of the partitions on it or if its separated .img files (recovery.img, system.img etc.). If anyone has it, can you please send it to me? Thanks!
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Hello:
I'm interested in creating and maintaining a custom rom for the Samsung Galaxy S. I've read a ton of tutorials and guides - on site and off - but I'm unable to get started due to one small problem.
After downloading the base firmware I'd like to use (specifically UGJK3 - firmware for Bell Canada) and opening it, I see a .tar file, and within that I see the following files:
param.lfs, zImage, modem.bin, cache.rfs, factoryfs.rfs.
I've mounted the .rfs files, but I'm still unable to cook the rom due to the absence of the system.img and boot.img files. I'm using the HTC Android kitchen to cook the rom, and it requires these files (or an update.zip file, etc) in order to start cooking.
I've searched far and wide, but I'm unable to find an answer on how to create these two .img files from the stock firmware provided by Samsung.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
So, I've done a bit more research and apparently the way Samsung handles their firmware is different than other manufacturers. This leads me to believe that I must convert their rom into a usuable format before attempting to import it in the HTC Kitchen.
However, I'm unsure how to exactly do this.
I'm going to try flashing the stock firmware then performing a nandroid backup, then using that to create my custom rom. It'd be much, much easier if I knew how to just create the .IMG files from the Samsung firmware.
Anyone have an idea on how to do this?
Last bump before I give up.
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?
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 ?
So, I unlocked the bootloader on my SM-G780G, downloaded the ROM that fits my model, region and all (triple checked it), however when I went to replace system.img, there is no system.img. I looked into all the files, AP and the others that I don't remember now, and the closest to system.img is super.img on AP, which is a huge file, as would system.img be I guess.
Any tips on what to do here?
You want to flash a custom ROM?
Also something about super.img:
Editing system.img inside super.img and flashing our modifications
I'm trying to modify my system.img (/system/build.prop) to include support for multi users. After struggling a lot, I've succeeded following your guide (that's an awesome work btw) to unpack, mount, modify, umount and repack super.img. Then...
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You need to run an Ubuntu Linux operating system virtual box (or use an online emulator of Ubuntu and transfer files via Google drive)
senpi0 said:
So, I unlocked the bootloader on my SM-G780G, downloaded the ROM that fits my model, region and all (triple checked it), however when I went to replace system.img, there is no system.img. I looked into all the files, AP and the others that I don't remember now, and the closest to system.img is super.img on AP, which is a huge file, as would system.img be I guess.
Any tips on what to do here?
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files ending in .tar are archives you've got to open up. look in super for smaller archives.
Hi guys, i hope you're doing well!
I accidentally wiped vendor while trying to install crDroid, so now i cant boot into system.
I would love if somebody helped me with this.
Thanks in advance!
I fixed it, you just need to flash original rom and it's done. I'll let my post be here in case somebody needs help with this
its a bit of a challenge when 'accidentally' derping with modern roms
if you take a look at the archive, youll see stuff.dat.br.
youd have to first unarchive the .br
expand the .dat
mount the .img
then it can be flashed by image instead of rom.zip
to those not wanting to play aroind, reflashing the rom is much easier