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First and foremost I take no credit for the majority of this thread. I am merely posting this here as a reference for you all. I had to dig around a lot for this information and piece it together from several different threads as well as pull examples from updater-scripts in several different roms/theme/etc. Everyone else put in the work, I am just trying to make it easier for the rest of us .
Mounting Partitions:
MTD:
Code:
mount("MTD", "system", "/system");
mount("MTD", "userdata", "/data");
mount("MTD", "cache", "/cache");
mount("MTD", "sdcard", "/sdcard");
EMMC with EXT3 and EXT4 file systems:
Code:
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint", "/system");
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint", "/data");
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint", "/cache");
Code:
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint", "/system");
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint", "/data");
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint", "/cache");
“mountpoint” will vary from device to device. Decide what partition you want to mount, find where it mounts (there will be resources in the second post, and paste it in place of “mountpoint” in your script.
Mounting system, data, and cache on the EVO 3D
Code:
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p23", "/system");
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p24", "/data");
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p25", "/cache");
Amend
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]none[/COLOR][/I]
Unmounting Partitions:
MTD and EMMC:
Code:
unmount("/system");
unmount("/data"); [COLOR="Red"]OR[/COLOR] unmount("/userdata");
unmount("/cache");
unmount("/sdcard");
Amend
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]none[/COLOR][/I]
Format Partitions:
MTD:
Code:
format("MTD", "system");
format("MTD", "cache");
format("MTD", "data");
format("MTD", "boot");
EMMC EXT3/4:
Code:
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint");
Code:
format("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mountpoint");
Formatting system, data, cache, and boot on EVO 3D.
Code:
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p23");
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p24");
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p25");
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p22");
Amend:
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]format SYSTEM:
format DATA:
format BOOT:
format CACHE:[/COLOR][/I]
Copy files from .zip file to phone partition or sd card:
Code:
package_extract_dir("Source", "Destination");
“Source” = folder in .zip file. "Destination" = partition to copy to,
Code:
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");
package_extract_dir("data", "/data");
package_extract_dir("sdcard", "/sdcard");
Amend:
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
copy_dir PACKAGE:data DATA:
copy_dir PACKAGE:sdcard SDCARD:
[/COLOR][/I]
Write an .img file:
MTD:
Code:
assert(package_extract_file("boot.img", "/tmp/boot.img"),
write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img", "boot"),
delete("/tmp/boot.img"));
EMMC:
Code:
package_extract_file("boot.img", "/dev/block/mountpoint");
Amend
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]write_raw_image PACKAGE:boot.img BOOT:[/COLOR][/I]
Output a line of text:
MTD/EMMC:
Code:
ui_print("Text Here");
Amend
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]none[/COLOR][/I]
Delete a file:
Use delete for a single file. Use delete recursive for an entire folder.
Code:
delete_recursive("file/path");
Code:
delete("/path/to/file");
Amend
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]delete_recursive PARTITION:path/to/file[/COLOR][/I]
Code:
[I][COLOR="Gray"]delete PARTITION:path/to/file[/COLOR][/I]
Set ownership and permissions for folder:
Code:
set_perm_recursive(uid, gid, dmode, fmode, “/path/to/folder”);
Amend
Code:
[COLOR="Gray"]set_perm_recursive uid gid dmode fmode PARTITION:path[/COLOR]
Set ownership and permissions for a file:
Code:
set_perm(uid, gid, mode, “/path/to/file”);
Amend
Code:
[COLOR="Gray"]set_perm uid gid mode PARTITION:file[/COLOR]
Run a program:
Code:
run_program("programtorun");
Amend
Code:
[I][COLOR="gray"]run_program PACKAGE:programtorun[/COLOR][/I]
Creating symlinks:
Code:
symlink("/path/to/file", "/path/tofile");
Amend
Code:
[COLOR="gray"][I]symlink /path/to/file PARTITION:path/to/file[/I][/COLOR]
Progress bar:
Code:
show_progress(fraction, duration);
Amend
Code:
[COLOR="gray"][I]show_progress fraction, duration[/I][/COLOR]
Mount points for selected devices:
Evo 3D
Code:
mmcblk0p21 /boot
mmcblk0p23 /system
mmcblk0p24 /data
mmcblk0p25 /cache
Evo Shift 4G
Code:
mmcblk0p22 /boot
mmcblk0p26 /system
mmcblk0p27 /data
mmcblk0p28 /cache
Nexus S
Code:
mtdblock4 /cache
platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name /system
platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name /userdata
reserved for more info at a later date
excellent tutorial. answered a lot of questions i had
w00t w00t! thanks for this, dude!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936175
A lot of information in there that I have bookmarked and used without problems.
raiden89 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936175
A lot of information in there that I have bookmarked and used without problems.
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Thanks. Will update. Just wanted to post something for the EVO users so we have our own thread to reference.
EDIT: Also, looks like he might be missing a few commands. Not a big deal. Any and all help is appreciated.
Oh yeah. Of course. I know some stuff is missing, but I also like the color coding of it and showing what the Amend syntax is compared to the Edify. So, I thought I would post it. It's been useful to me.
thank you so much for making this. now people will stop bothering me and tiffany about our fantastic zips not working in cwm 3.+
Some more resources for you all...
Here and here (source code is included if you would like to see the conversions being done).
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Is there any way to change the color of text output in ui_print?
droidzone said:
Is there any way to change the color of text output in ui_print?
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I believe that is dependent on how your recovery is built.
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droidzone said:
Is there any way to change the color of text output in ui_print?
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Karadorde said:
I believe that is dependent on how your recovery is built.
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If you rebuild the recovery it can be changed, but there are no options built in that will allow you to change the colors.
I'm of course referring to ClockworkMod recovery, since Amon_RA's github is outdated, I haven't really looked through his code.
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Anyone know the arguments/parameters to format boot to ext4?
The Desire S is Ext4 by default but i keep getting a status 1 error code when using Ext4, however Ext3 works fine.
Ive tried mounting and unmounting prior to format but no luck what so ever
You can find the partition information for the DS here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057342
Thanks for the guide. This will help a lot in the future
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ooh i see you've updated for the evo 3d
One trick I used in creating the superuser and gapps ZIPs:
Code:
run_program("/sbin/busybox", "mount", "/system");
It runs just fine on both eMMC and MTD devices, and the only prerequisites are that the recovery has busybox, and already knows the mount points (which any good recovery should). Been working on Amon_RA, ClockworkMod 2-4, and TWRP.
Great tutorial!
Just one question, the # symbol preceeding a line is used for comments, right?
Thanks!!
splattx_x said:
Just one question, the # symbol preceeding a line is used for comments, right?
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Yes, if the 1st char in the line is '#' that line is a comment.
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nubecoder said:
Yes, if the 1st char in the line is '#' that line is a comment.
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Awesome! Thanks. Now I have to figure out why I can't flash any zip in my phone with CWM.
This guide is very helpful. Any chance anyone knows where to get the update-binary? I know I can get it from a ROM but I'd like to learn so I can cook my own ROM from scratch.
I would like to create an update.zip to install my apps. I am having the hardest time. Anyone have any ideas? I want to be able to flash this after installing a new rom for a few apps, root explorer, titanium backup, etc. I know its possible, but this doesn't work. Am I mounting correctly?
Updater-script:
ui_print("Performing Update...");
ui_print("Mounting mount points...");
mount("MTD", "system", "/system");
mount("MTD", "data", "/data");
mount("MTD", "cache", "/cache");
package_extract_dir("data", "/data/app");
ui_print("Unmounting mount points...");
unmount("/system");
unmount("/data");
unmount("/cache");
ui_print("Update Complete.");
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Download Gallery3D mod in my sig, it has updater-script version (0.3), use it as reference.
Also, you don't need to mount /system and /cache, if the only thing you want to copy is the apps on /data.
Yeah, thanks. I was messing around with some other things and left that in there.
Thanks for the reference, I will look into it.
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Hi,
I would like to add a form update.zip system / app folder in a couple of new apk.
Trying:
Code:
ui_print(" ");
ui_print("start");
show_progress(.200000, 5);
mount("MTD", "userdata", "/userdata");
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");
unmount("/userdata");
show_progress(.000000, 5);
ui_print("end");
structure:
-META-INF
-com
-google
-android
-update-binary
-update-script
-system
-app
-first.apk
-second.apk
clockworkmod go-> update.zip, run, no errors, end.
Go start the phone, browse rootexplorer, and nothing the apk app folder.
please help me.
heimdallr75 said:
Hi,
I would like to add a form update.zip system / app folder in a couple of new apk.
Trying:
Code:
ui_print(" ");
ui_print("start");
show_progress(.200000, 5);
mount("MTD", "userdata", "/userdata");
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");
unmount("/userdata");
show_progress(.000000, 5);
ui_print("end");
structure:
-META-INF
-com
-google
-android
-update-binary
-update-script
-system
-app
-first.apk
-second.apk
clockworkmod go-> update.zip, run, no errors, end.
Go start the phone, browse rootexplorer, and nothing the apk app folder.
please help me.
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You need to replace 'system' with 'data',
So rename the 'system' folder to 'data' and then code your updater-script like this:
Code:
ui_print(" ");
ui_print("start");
show_progress(.200000, 5);
mount("MTD", "userdata", "/data");
package_extract_dir("data", "/data");
unmount("/data");
show_progress(.000000, 5);
ui_print("end");
Hope it helps,
Jack
JackG256 said:
You need to replace 'system' with 'data',
So rename the 'system' folder to 'data' and then code your updater-script like this:
Code:
ui_print(" ");
ui_print("start");
show_progress(.200000, 5);
mount("MTD", "userdata", "/data");
package_extract_dir("data", "/data");
unmount("/data");
show_progress(.000000, 5);
ui_print("end");
Hope it helps,
Jack
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Thx Jack!
but correct working script:
Code:
mount("MTD", "userdata", "/system");
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");
unmount("/system");
its work
heimdallr75 said:
Thx Jack!
but correct working script:
Code:
mount("MTD", "userdata", "/system");
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");
unmount("/system");
its work
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Oh I see now what are u trying to. Yes that is the correct way. Good idea.
Veronica
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Hey Guys,
ive managed to build a working BusyBox which is dynamic linked to bionic (Android's version of libc).
Now working DNS (ftp, wget, nc, telnet, ping, traceroute...etc..)
It saves space (only about 600kbytes big)
Only catch is that you MUST install it after ROM install because of this:
.......this is a dynamic linked version of BB (which saves space and memory and have some working features that other BB's dont have)
since the recovery cannot start the busybox via the script (cause all in recovery is static linked!) and the script cannot start "busybox --install -s /system/xbin" there will be only one binary in /system/xbin named (who guessed it...) busybox after install.
so if you want to symlink/use the applets (commands/apps/progs from busybox) just run "/system/xbin/busybox --install -s /system/xbin" in a running version of your rom (not in recovery). that will fix it.
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features:
Currently defined functions:
[, [[, ar, arp, arping, awk, base64, basename, bash, bbconfig, blkid,
blockdev, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, catv, chattr, chgrp, chmod,
chown, chroot, chrt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, cryptpw, cut,
date, dc, dd, depmod, devmem, df, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsdomainname,
dos2unix, dpkg-deb, du, echo, ed, egrep, env, ether-wake, expand, expr,
false, fdisk, fgrep, find, findfs, flock, fold, free, freeramdisk,
fsck, fsck.minix, fsync, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, grep, gunzip,
gzip, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostname, hush, id, ifconfig,
inotifyd, insmod, install, ionice, iostat, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, iplink,
iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kill, killall, killall5, length, less, ln,
losetup, ls, lsattr, lsmod, lsusb, lzcat, lzma, lzop, lzopcat,
makedevs, md5sum, microcom, mkdir, mkdosfs, mke2fs, mkfifo, mkfs.ext2,
mkfs.minix, mkfs.reiser, mkfs.vfat, mknod, mkpasswd, mkswap, mktemp,
modinfo, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, mpstat, mv, nanddump,
nandwrite, nbd-client, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup, od,
patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, pipe_progress, pkill, pmap, printenv,
printf, ps, pscan, pwd, raidautorun, readahead, readlink, readprofile,
realpath, renice, reset, resize, rev, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm,
rpm2cpio, run-parts, script, scriptreplay, sed, seq, setconsole,
setsid, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha512sum, sleep, smemcap, sort, split,
start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, sum, swapoff, swapon, sync,
sysctl, tac, tail, tar, tee, telnet, test, tftp, time, timeout, top,
touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, ttysize, tunctl, tune2fs, umount,
uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unlzop, unxz,
unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vi, volname, watch, wc,
wget, which, whoami, xargs, xz, xzcat, yes, zcat, zcip
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Many patches by DanDrown (most credits goes to him!)
and modified by me to get them to work
source is here:
http://www.multiupload.com/WF5QOK0LV9
and here a working top with userid features, dual cpu support and so on (on the tf101:
Ok so how would I install this and what's the advantage of using this over my.current busybox? Sorry new to the more advanced stuff
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facadewithin said:
Ok so how would I install this and what's the advantage of using this over my.current busybox? Sorry new to the more advanced stuff
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install it via ssh/adb or whatever you like,
the new features are working dns, userid resolution, faster and smaller...
try it and u will see it.
I'd love to unfortunately I'm illiterate at installing through adb for something like this as I have never done it
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Why 1.18.5? Why not the newest version, 1.19.0 (i think)?
ugothakd said:
Why 1.18.5? Why not the newest version, 1.19.0 (i think)?
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1.19 is not ported yet...
I have lada vesta cross with this android radio, i need to factory reset it but it keeps asking me for a code. I tried 123 123456 7890 126 and so on, nothing works. Please i need help if someone knows. I called the company, they don’t know and they need me to go there XD
Please help!
@ludditefornow what would you you suggest here
1111
1234
123456
8888
888888
88888888
77777777
boneszbo said:
1111
1234
123456
8888
888888
88888888
77777777
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None
marchnz said:
@ludditefornow what would you you suggest here
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Any suggestions guys?
Does anyone have a clue about what could the code be? I really need it to format it
boneszbo said:
1111
1234
123456
8888
888888
88888888
77777777
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Any other suggestions?
Can anyone please help? Thanks
110
126
162
168
518
888
0000
1234
1314
1464
1617
1912
1983
3366
3368
3506
3711
5678
5768
5839
6688
7749
7788
7890
8086
8317
8861
8888
12345
12356
12580
56789
77049
000000
110126
111333
121212
123456
190627
667788
888666
888888
16176699
66668888
None!!! I really need a solution for this
Pavel-71 said:
110
126
162
168
518
888
0000
1234
1314
1464
1617
1912
1983
3366
3368
3506
3711
5678
5768
5839
6688
7749
7788
7890
8086
8317
8861
8888
12345
12356
12580
56789
77049
000000
110126
111333
121212
123456
190627
667788
888666
888888
16176699
66668888
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None, i really need a solution
I don't know your unit but if you can access the recovery mode you could do a full wipe instead. Therefore no password is needed.