All the cooked roms end with .rar. After I downlod the cooked rom (bepe) the file ends with rar. According to the trinity giude it should have ended with zip so that I would be able to extract the files (see section 4, upgrade rom - Open the folder where you unzipped the files and click on ‘ROMUpdateUtility.exe’). However, there is no exe file but only rar. How do I upgrade then? I m a beginner in this and I need your help!!!!!
Download WinRAR and extract the Files.
RAR is like ZIP only other compression
thanks a lot!
Why do i get a .tar file instead of a .img file when unzipping tar.gz files
I've tried winraw and bitzipper run as admin or not
The files I'm trying to unzip are these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
I've been browsing these forums all day trying to find someone thats had the same problem, guess I'm out of my league here
Thanks in advance
*.tar.gz files are. Zipped (the .gz) and Tar'd so it's a 2 step process.
Basically TAR is a grouping of the files and GZ is the compression.
Check out 7-zip:
http://www.7-zip.org/
Un-Gzip the file you have a *.tar file. Un-Tar the file and you have all the files.
YES! Thanks
I had tried to winrar and bitzipper them twice but the file was useless
But with 7-zip Ive got a img. file, seems like all the instructions I've been following said uncompress but I guess the assume that you know to do both
Now I can get on with my next nightmare getting this NC back to stock
Thank you
I have the stock firmware for my device (a Galaxy J6). I've downloaded it from sammobile, and it's in a zip file. Supposedly, all I need to do is extract this file with an extraction program like winrar and presto, I should have the necessary boot.img. But all I get are these useless .md5 files. What is going on? Did I misinterpret something?
More than anything, I would just like it if someone finally just explained to me what the hell I'm supposed to do. The Magisk installation guide doesn't even go into detail about how to get a boot.img, it just assumes you have it. It's infuriating.
AndreM962 said:
I have the stock firmware for my device (a Galaxy J6). I've downloaded it from sammobile, and it's in a zip file. Supposedly, all I need to do is extract this file with an extraction program like winrar and presto, I should have the necessary boot.img. But all I get are these useless .md5 files. What is going on? Did I misinterpret something?
More than anything, I would just like it if someone finally just explained to me what the hell I'm supposed to do. The Magisk installation guide doesn't even go into detail about how to get a boot.img, it just assumes you have it. It's infuriating.
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If it's an OTA full upgrade there should be a file named payload.bin.
You need to unpack it to get the img files. Do it using this tool:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=818070582850510260
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Um, when I tried downloading your program, the page said there were no mirrors found.
Also, there doesn't appear to be any payload.bin file on the zip, just md5 files. And it's been that way for every j6 firmware I've downloaded in the past.
Maybe you should try downloading the firmware from sammobile and seeing whether you can extract boot.img from it?
AndreM962 said:
Um, when I tried downloading your program, the page said there were no mirrors found.
Also, there doesn't appear to be any payload.bin file on the zip, just md5 files. And it's been that way for every j6 firmware I've downloaded in the past.
Maybe you should try downloading the firmware from sammobile and seeing whether you can extract boot.img from it?
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Give me the link and i will see what can i do.
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https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-j6/SM-J600GT/ZTO/download/J600GTVJU3ASA1/257858/
You might need to make a sammobile account if you don't have one already. Good luck!
AndreM962 said:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-j6/SM-J600GT/ZTO/download/J600GTVJU3ASA1/257858/
You might need to make a sammobile account if you don't have one already. Good luck!
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I downloaded a random J6 firmware in another site.
You have to use 7zip software, it's free, much better than WinRar and supports tons of compression formats. Do these steps with 7zip:
-Unpack zip file.
-Rename the "*.tar.md5" to "*.tar".
-Open the ".tar" file and unpack "boot.img.lz4".
-Unpack "boot.img.lz4" file.
-It's done, you now have the "boot.img" file you were looking for
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Sorry for the late reply. I did it. I found the boot.img file! I'll be using it shortly.
Thank you so much. Your advice was absolutely invaluable!
How can I get boot.IMG from my firmware
My device is mafe air and I download Its firmware from a website but I am unable to get boot.img file from it because it have recovery.img and other system file where can I found my device supported boot.img in my device firmware. Please help me I need it to root my device using magisk. Please reply
My device is itel A14 max running on Mediatek chip and I downloaded it's firmware to root using magisk but when extract the zip file using 7zipper, I can't find the boot.img file. The file that I get is in .pac format and I am failing to extract it further to get boot.img file. Is there any way I can be helped please?
I have oppo f15 phone and i downloaded its stok rom after extract it ,8 can't find boot.img file how to do it plz help..
hank81 said:
I downloaded a random J6 firmware in another site.
You have to use 7zip software, it's free, much better than WinRar and supports tons of compression formats. Do these steps with 7zip:
-Unpack zip file.
-Rename the "*.tar.md5" to "*.tar".
-Open the ".tar" file and unpack "boot.img.lz4".
-Unpack "boot.img.lz4" file.
-It's done, you now have the "boot.img" file you were looking for
and the last step there is unpack or extract the boot.img from the boot.img.lz4 file cause i just did it
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Please tell me how to extract latest firmware of oppo f15 cph2001ex_11_C.47 which is in ozip format please help me
hank81 said:
I downloaded a random J6 firmware in another site.
You have to use 7zip software, it's free, much better than WinRar and supports tons of compression formats. Do these steps with 7zip:
-Unpack zip file.
-Rename the "*.tar.md5" to "*.tar".
-Open the ".tar" file and unpack "boot.img.lz4".
-Unpack "boot.img.lz4" file.
-It's done, you now have the "boot.img" file you were looking for
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For me, on my note 10 lite I have a problem with 7zip when i try to open the boot.img.lz4 it says that I dont have an app Installed to perform that action
hank81 said:
I downloaded a random J6 firmware in another site.
You have to use 7zip software, it's free, much better than WinRar and supports tons of compression formats. Do these steps with 7zip:
-Unpack zip file.
-Rename the "*.tar.md5" to "*.tar".
-Open the ".tar" file and unpack "boot.img.lz4".
-Unpack "boot.img.lz4" file.
-It's done, you now have the "boot.img" file you were looking for
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My Friend
I have same problem above: find boot.img of my device ( SM-G532MT).
I have a firmware downloaded from firmware.mobi. Works fine.
But, when decompressed, shows only the archives for instalation for Odin ( CSC, AP, etc... ). No boot.img under other format.
hank81 said:
I downloaded a random J6 firmware in another site.
You have to use 7zip software, it's free, much better than WinRar and supports tons of compression formats. Do these steps with 7zip:
-Unpack zip file.
-Rename the "*.tar.md5" to "*.tar".
-Open the ".tar" file and unpack "boot.img.lz4".
-Unpack "boot.img.lz4" file.
-It's done, you now have the "boot.img" file you were looking for
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Cloviscard said:
My Friend
I have same problem above: find boot.img of my device ( SM-G532MT).
I have a firmware downloaded from firmware.mobi. Works fine.
But, when decompressed, shows only the archives for instalation for Odin ( CSC, AP, etc... ). No boot.img under other format.
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read this https://android.stackexchange.com/a/179248
and this https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/extracting-boot-img-from-stock-firmware.3909612/#post-79106875
I read carefully and...
Forgive me, but the article DON'T answer my question: How to extract the boot.img from a stockrom in .img format...
Cloviscard said:
I read carefully and...
Forgive me, but the article DON'T answer my question: How to extract the boot.img from a stockrom in .img format...
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forgive me about that too
Samsung devices by default don't have .img ...
usually stockrom come as .zip then you need to extract it (use 7zip since winrar is not capable of extracting .lz4)
-Rename the "AP_xxx.tar.md5" to "AP_xxx.tar". <~ any similar file with AP from the start
-Open the "AP_xxx..tar" file and if you see boot.img extract "AP_xxx..tar" then grab boot.img it's done, you now have the "boot.img" file you were looking for
-some device have "boot.img.lz4" file. <~ use 7zip again to extract .lz4 file then grab boot.img it's done, you now have the "boot.img" file you were looking for
also it is stupid to grab your boot.img when you are Samsung since Odin only accept .md5 format (does Samsung have access to fastboot or they are stuck using Odin idk never has Samsung phone lmao)
also i forgot to say that you can actually patch "AP_xxx.tar" via Magisk itself so less work
For anyone else having trouble getting the boot.img, but on a custom recovery:
1. Go to recovery
2. Open recovery terminal
3. Enter:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot of=/sdcard/boot.img
4. Press enter to confirm the command
5. Reboot to system
The boot.img is now on your SD card.
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discovered id posted a duplicate link
Immortal68 said:
For anyone else having trouble getting the boot.img, but on a custom recovery:
1. Go to recovery
2. Open recovery terminal
3. Enter:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot of=/sdcard/boot.img
4. Press enter to confirm the command
5. Reboot to system
The boot.img is now on your SD card.
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Thank you very much for rally... very helpfull...
But still 1 question: if the referred boot.img was previously patched with another root aplication like suroot???
hi, i have a Tgz fastboot rom but can't locate in miflash tool and get error while extracting it with winrar and 7zip. Help please
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ishaqtkr said:
hi, i have a Tgz fastboot rom but can't locate in miflash tool and get error while extracting it with winrar and 7zip. Help please
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What error are you getting, maybe you need to download the ROM again as it's become corrupted when you downloaded it the first time.
If using 7zip you'll need to extract it twice. The first time uncompresses the file, after which you should have a single file. Sometimes this file won't have a file extension, so in this case rename it and add .tar on to the end. This is now an uncompressed archive file, so open it up in 7zip and extract the contents. After this you should have a folder containing some .bat files and another folder which contains a lot of image files. It is this top level folder you need to select in the Mi Flash Tool.
Robbo.5000 said:
What error are you getting, maybe you need to download the ROM again as it's become corrupted when you downloaded it the first time.
If using 7zip you'll need to extract it twice. The first time uncompresses the file, after which you should have a single file. Sometimes this file won't have a file extension, so in this case rename it and add .tar on to the end. This is now an uncompressed archive file, so open it up in 7zip and extract the contents. After this you should have a folder containing some .bat files and another folder which contains a lot of image files. It is this top level folder you need to select in the Mi Flash Tool.
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You're right, i had to download again.
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Sometimes you need to extract the file twice