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Unable to flash custom bootscreen

Hi I downloaded this android peeing on Apple logo bootscreen, it installed well so I got too excited and wanted to put tux hammering the Windows logo before android pee on the Apple, I made all 70 png's but did not touch anything either than creating the images. I then zipped them according to the original names but when I flash it I get ..... E: wrong digest, system/media/bootanimation.zip
I have tried several times but no luck, yet the original one would easy install. Help guys
Sent from my HTC Hero VillainRom 12, flykernel11 using XDA App

any idea someone

You probably need to sign the update zip, possibly change the install/flash location. Upload what you have in a zip and I'll make one for ya
Edit: and explain what I did

kyouko said:
You probably need to sign the update zip, possibly change the install/flash location. Upload what you have in a zip and I'll make one for ya
Edit: and explain what I did
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Too bad everyone doesn't do that.

I have decided to change the part1 folder images with custom ones, I will upload the whole zip later so when you help me I won't have to re edit it again, thanx for your replies

Apologies as this is long overdue. Finally had some free time this weekend
Attached are both the working bootscreen AND the original for those who want to see what was changed between the two.
Edit: added the non-signed bootscreen.zip for reference as well. Never know who may want to look at it.
Setup
Extracted the zip (original_doesntflash.zip) into its own directory
Created the META-INF folder
Deleted the CERT.RSA, CERT.SF, and MANIFEST.MF files
Created the "com" folder inside META-INF
Inside the "com" folder I created another folder named "google"
Inside "google" create a folder named "android" <- forgot about this step
Inside there I placed the "update-script" (if you want to know how to make one of these by hand refer to my post HERE)
Added both folders (META-INF and system) to a zip - in this case named it "bootscreen.zip"
Signing The Zip
I'm running linux currently so I do it slightly different, but I'm assuming the majority of you guys and gals are windows users. If that's the case follow these directions:
Go HERE and download AvaboxV2
Extract the AvaboxV2.zip where you want it. Personally I'd made a separate AvaboxV2 folder in my AndroidSDK dir. But the desktop still will work
Copy the newly created zip (bootscreen.zip) into the "Auto-Sign" folder found in AvaboxV2
As per the README.txt:
Start a cmd prompt AS ADMINISTRATOR (not really needed if running Win7)
cd <to the directory of the Auto-Sign folder> [Example: cd C:\AndroidSDK\AvaboxV2\Auto-sign]
java -jar signapk.jar testkey.x509.pem testkey.pk8 bootscreen.zip bootscreen_signed.zip <- same command as used in linux, at least for me
Press enter...wait...wait...done
Congratulations you now have a working/flashable bootscreen zip

thanks mate I will download it today, thanks for the tutorial man its highly appreciative, thanks a lot

kyouko said:
Apologies as this is long overdue. Finally had some free time this weekend
Attached are both the working bootscreen AND the original for those who want to see what was changed between the two.
Edit: added the non-signed bootscreen.zip for reference as well. Never know who may want to look at it.
Setup
Extracted the zip (original_doesntflash.zip) into its own directory
Created the META-INF folder
Deleted the CERT.RSA, CERT.SF, and MANIFEST.MF files
Created the "com" folder inside META-INF
Inside the "com" folder I created another folder named "google"
Inside there I placed the "update-script" (if you want to know how to make one of these by hand refer to my post HERE)
Added both folders (META-INF and system) to a zip - in this case named it "bootscreen.zip"
Signing The Zip
I'm running linux currently so I do it slightly different, but I'm assuming the majority of you guys and gals are windows users. If that's the case follow these directions:
Go HERE and download AvaboxV2
Extract the AvaboxV2.zip where you want it. Personally I'd made a separate AvaboxV2 folder in my AndroidSDK dir. But the desktop still will work
Copy the newly created zip (bootscreen.zip) into the "Auto-Sign" folder found in AvaboxV2
As per the README.txt:
Start a cmd prompt AS ADMINISTRATOR (not really needed if running Win7)
cd <to the directory of the Auto-Sign folder> [Example: cd C:\AndroidSDK\AvaboxV2\Auto-sign]
java -jar signapk.jar testkey.x509.pem testkey.pk8 bootscreen.zip bootscreen_signed.zip <- same command as used in linux, at least for me
Press enter...wait...wait...done
Congratulations you now have a working/flashable bootscreen zip
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I got an error when flashing the signed zip I got no update file found

elliotn said:
I got an error when flashing the signed zip I got no update file found
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LOL uhh, I'll take a look at it and test it out... and edit my previous post with w/e I did wrong
Forgot to add the ''android'' folder in the zip. Fixed and should work now

Help !!! Problem with mkfs.yaffs2 and large image size?

I have a problem when make img file.
unyaffs img file create all folder and files from system.img. This stuff work without any issue.
Size of this folders and files is 317.4 MB.
When start to create new img file with mkfs.yaffs2, size of new img file is 2GB.
How to resolve this problem and create image file with properly filesize?

FileFixer said:
I have a problem when make img file.
unyaffs img file create all folder and files from system.img. This stuff work without any issue.
Size of this folders and files is 317.4 MB.
When start to create new img file with mkfs.yaffs2, size of new img file is 2GB.
How to resolve this problem and create image file with properly filesize?
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You're doing something wrong. Make sure the image you are trying to unyaffs is in its own empty folder. After unyaffs remove the .img from that folder. Then create new image file by running the mkfs.yaffs2 as follows: mkfs.yaffs2 /home/killahurtz/Desktop/location of extracted system.img/ system.img

~/Desktop/newrom$ mkfs.yaffs2 /home/filefixer/Desktop/newrom/ system.img
mkfs.yaffs2: Android YAFFS2 Tool,Build by PowerGUI
at http://www.openhandsetalliance.org.cn
Building...
Build Ok.
Into newrom folder no system.img file when go to create image. Just unpacked files and folders without system.img.
After that, system.img is corectly created but have 2GB.

FileFixer said:
~/Desktop/newrom$ mkfs.yaffs2 /home/filefixer/Desktop/newrom/ system.img
mkfs.yaffs2: Android YAFFS2 Tool,Build by PowerGUI
at http://www.openhandsetalliance.org.cn
Building...
Build Ok.
Into newrom folder no system.img file when go to create image. Just unpacked files and folders without system.img.
After that, system.img is corectly created but have 2GB.
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Please attatch a screencap before and after you run the mkfs.yaffs2 command. Please be sure that the target directy is clearly visible.

There is the problem...
First picture is when unyaffs and second is when create image file after mkfs.yaffs2.

FileFixer said:
There is the problem...
First picture is when unyaffs and second is when create image file after mkfs.yaffs2.
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I don't think your output path should be in the same folder you're trying to make an image from. That's the problem
Fix that and i'm positive it will work. Hope that helps.

I tried this method and system.img is created in new folder but this sistem.img no contains folders and files from /newrom folder. It contain a files from my Ubuntu system folder?!
I am confused...

ok have system.img in newrom folder in Desktop.
1.open terminal
2.cd Desktop/newrom
3.unyaffs system.img
4.now go remove the system.img file from your newrom directory
5.if you didn't close terminal type "cd.." to change path back to Desktop
6.mkfsyaffs newrom/ system.img
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

Thanks... Now it works perfect.
Now i go to write Begginerr guide for yaffs and unyaffs. It is very simple...
Best regards.
FileFixer

[HELP] Retrieving TWRP data [SOLVED]

Hello, I would like to know how I could extract backed up TWRP data on my computer? maybe because the data was large TWRP split it into two files : data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win001 (sizes 1.5 and 1.2 GB)
How I got there:
I've been using XenonHD rom for quite a while, and this rom uses koush's superuser app.
I noticed there was a newer version on the market so I installed it; however it appears the one used by the rom developer was modified and therefore had a different package name: I ended up with two superuser apps, one of them asking to update the binaries, which I did.
After that the phone got stuck and rebooted two or three times before being stuck indefinitely at 'updating app' message right after the bootanimation. I tried:
- to wipe dalvik cache but it was still stuck;
- I reflashed the rom + gapps but it was still stuck;
- then I went to the /data/app/ folder (via TWRP) and deleted the superuser app i installed from market, as well as the corresponding data in /data/data, wiped cache and dalvik again: still the same...
-the I decided to make a backup via TWRP : one of the whole system, and one of Data partition only;
- then I realised I couldn't transfer it to my computer in TWRP, so I finally made a factory reset, re-flashed the rom+gapps, and then (it worked) copied my backup to the computer
now; how can I retrieve the data of my apps only, as I guess it is the system data that is messed up?
Of course I tried to restore the Data backup in twrp and it got stuck again the same way....
any help greatly appreciated!

You could try appextractor on the play store
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

forvrknight said:
You could try appextractor on the play store
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
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It didn't work for me...
I finally got my data back by this tricky procedure (there might be an easier way but google+xda was not my friend on this one, I tried ext2explore and ext4explore, linux_reader, Andoird_ICS_JB_ext4_unpacker and maybe some more without success)
I renamed the two files:
data.ext4.win000 renamed as data.ext4.tar.001
data.ext4.win001 renamed as data.ext4.tar.002
Unzipping the first one with 7zip recreates a .tar archive named data.ext4.tar, which is not really a tar archive (extracting it will only give a very few files, for me it only included the image files of my custom bootanimation)
On this file I used AccessData FTK Imager, which would recognise the 'evidence' as a tar file and would allow you to export the data, however this is only the data contained originally in the first file (data.ext4.win000) (although the reconstructed archive was the right size, for me 2.7GB, the part extracted by this software was only 1.5GB)
To recover the second part, simply rename the second file (initially data.ext4.win001) into data.7z and then extract. (this does not work with the first file, all you would get is again a very few files, for me it looked like the content of a single apk file)
All you have to do now is to merge the two data folders and voilà
I could then retrieve my sms mms messages by retrieving the file smsmms.db (and eventually smsmms.db-journal) located in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases, and putting them on the phone in the same folder
I could also retrieve my phone call logs by retrieving the files contacts2.db (and eventually contacts2.db-journal) located in /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases, and putting them on the phone in the same folder
Hope it helps someone someday
For some reason replacing the data folder of a particular app does not always work, I have to investigate a bit or maybe start fresh with a new rom and try again

asim0 said:
It didn't work for me...
I finally got my data back by this tricky procedure (there might be an easier way but google+xda was not my friend on this one, I tried ext2explore and ext4explore, linux_reader, Andoird_ICS_JB_ext4_unpacker and maybe some more without success)
I renamed the two files:
data.ext4.win000 renamed as data.ext4.tar.001
data.ext4.win001 renamed as data.ext4.tar.002
Unzipping the first one with 7zip recreates a .tar archive named data.ext4.tar, which is not really a tar archive (extracting it will only give a very few files, for me it only included the image files of my custom bootanimation)
On this file I used AccessData FTK Imager, which would recognise the 'evidence' as a tar file and would allow you to export the data, however this is only the data contained originally in the first file (data.ext4.win000) (although the reconstructed archive was the right size, for me 2.7GB, the part extracted by this software was only 1.5GB)
To recover the second part, simply rename the second file (initially data.ext4.win001) into data.7z and then extract. (this does not work with the first file, all you would get is again a very few files, for me it looked like the content of a single apk file)
All you have to do now is to merge the two data folders and voilà
I could then retrieve my sms mms messages by retrieving the file smsmms.db (and eventually smsmms.db-journal) located in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases, and putting them on the phone in the same folder
I could also retrieve my phone call logs by retrieving the files contacts2.db (and eventually contacts2.db-journal) located in /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases, and putting them on the phone in the same folder
Hope it helps someone someday
For some reason replacing the data folder of a particular app does not always work, I have to investigate a bit or maybe start fresh with a new rom and try again
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It actually helped me, thanks a lot!

Two Questions
asim0 said:
On this file I used AccessData FTK Imager,
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This is a 4.6 Gigs professional software. If TWRP can read this type of file there must be a smaller tool available for this.
Can you please let me know of any other toll which would do the same?
asim0 said:
All you have to do now is to merge the two data folders and voilà
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For the 2nd file do we need to follow the same procedure like 'evidence' and stuff?
Thanks, I am desperate to read some information from TWRP backup and cannot wait 6 days while the 4.6 Gigs of ISO will download.

pi_yush said:
This is a 4.6 Gigs professional software. If TWRP can read this type of file there must be a smaller tool available for this.
Can you please let me know of any other toll which would do the same?
For the 2nd file do we need to follow the same procedure like 'evidence' and stuff?
Thanks, I am desperate to read some information from TWRP backup and cannot wait 6 days while the 4.6 Gigs of ISO will download.
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These files (at least the ones produced by TWRP2 on my phone) are just standard gzipped tar archives. The tar command has supported this format for at least 20 years. You can extract with a command like this:
Code:
tar xvfz data.ext4.win000
tar xvfz data.ext4.win001

number_thirty_two said:
These files (at least the ones produced by TWRP2 on my phone) are just standard gzipped tar archives. The tar command has supported this format for at least 20 years. You can extract with a command like this:
Code:
tar xvfz data.ext4.win000
tar xvfz data.ext4.win001
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Thanks number_thirty_two, I copyed thes to a folder I named untar in my home folder of CYGWIN, and extracted my system files perfectly
C:\cygwin\home\carl\untar\
system.ext4.win000
system.ext4.win001
tar xvfz system.ext4.win000
tar xvfz system.ext4.win001

Apologies for resurrecting this, but does anyone know how to extract them if they were compressed as .comp files?

asim0 said:
It didn't work for me...
I finally got my data back by this tricky procedure (there might be an easier way but google+xda was not my friend on this one, I tried ext2explore and ext4explore, linux_reader, Andoird_ICS_JB_ext4_unpacker and maybe some more without success)
I renamed the two files:
data.ext4.win000 renamed as data.ext4.tar.001
data.ext4.win001 renamed as data.ext4.tar.002
Unzipping the first one with 7zip recreates a .tar archive named data.ext4.tar, which is not really a tar archive (extracting it will only give a very few files, for me it only included the image files of my custom bootanimation)
On this file I used AccessData FTK Imager, which would recognise the 'evidence' as a tar file and would allow you to export the data, however this is only the data contained originally in the first file (data.ext4.win000) (although the reconstructed archive was the right size, for me 2.7GB, the part extracted by this software was only 1.5GB)
To recover the second part, simply rename the second file (initially data.ext4.win001) into data.7z and then extract. (this does not work with the first file, all you would get is again a very few files, for me it looked like the content of a single apk file)
All you have to do now is to merge the two data folders and voil
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Exploring TWRP backups on Windows

This question is not specific to the G2 however since it's the device I currently own I figured I might as well ask it here since it seems as good as place as any to ask. That being said I would like to know how I can explore the contents of a TWRP created nandroid backup from my PC running Windows 7 professional. I have already transferred the files to my computer without issue, but when I try to extract the "data.ext4.win000" or "data.ext4.win001" files using 7Zip it just says the files are not supported so I am not sure what piece of software I need to get to open these files and explore their contents from within Windows and any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
MTCellph

You need a specific program to view the files inside, as soon as I check the one I use on my laptop I'll let you know
Sent from my LG-D800 running stock kk, rooted with philz using XDA app
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Ok so here's what you want to do rename the file to data.est4.tar.gz and you will be able to explore the archive using 7zip
Sent from my LG-D800 running stock kk, rooted with philz using XDA app

I did that and there was a Tar file inside of the tar.gz file which I tried extracted to my desktop and tried to open in 7zip, but it would not open so I am at the same spot I was in to begin with

mtcellph said:
I did that and there was a Tar file inside of the tar.gz file which I tried extracted to my desktop and tried to open in 7zip, but it would not open so I am at the same spot I was in to begin with
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for some reason that keeps happening with the data folder but you can easily view the system

XxZombiePikachu said:
for some reason that keeps happening with the data folder but you can easily view the system
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Thanks again for the reply. I was trying to view the DATA folder as you may have guessed which as you found out does not work (or atleast I could not get it to work for me) on Windows so I had to boot up into my Ubuntu partition on my machine and concatenate the 2 .WIN files into one file using the following command from the Ubuntu terminal.
cat data.ext4.win000 data.ext4.win001 > data.tar (or tar.gz if compression was enabled when you created the backups in TWRP)
I then used the built in archive manager in Ubuntu and was able to browse the DATA partition and extract the information that I needed. This should not be necessary, but as we both discovered, windows (for whatever reason) does not seem to be able to handle the DATA partition while Ubuntu can so if anyone stumbles upon this post wanting to know the same information then you should try downloading a live cd / live usb version of Ubuntu (if you don't already have it installed on your machine that is) and running it and follow the steps above to access the files in your DATA partition.
Note: In the above example I had to combine the 2 data.ext4.win* files into one file before I could access the archive. If you do not have multiple data.ext4.win* files then you can skip that step and go straight to the next step which is opening the data partition in the built in archive manager that comes with Ubuntu.
HTH,
MTCellph

mtcellph said:
Thanks again for the reply. I was trying to view the DATA folder as you may have guessed which as you found out does not work (or atleast I could not get it to work for me) on Windows so I had to boot up into my Ubuntu partition on my machine and concatenate the 2 .WIN files into one file using the following command from the Ubuntu terminal.
cat data.ext4.win000 data.ext4.win001 > data.tar (or tar.gz if compression was enabled when you created the backups in TWRP)
I then used the built in archive manager in Ubuntu and was able to browse the DATA partition and extract the information that I needed. This should not be necessary, but as we both discovered, windows (for whatever reason) does not seem to be able to handle the DATA partition while Ubuntu can so if anyone stumbles upon this post wanting to know the same information then you should try downloading a live cd / live usb version of Ubuntu (if you don't already have it installed on your machine that is) and running it and follow the steps above to access the files in your DATA partition.
HTH,
MTCellph
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great I already run Ubuntu on a virtual machine so this is very useful information

explore/extract system.ext4 with IZArc
Sorry - please ignore this post - I don't know what I'm talking about sometimes...

I know the thread is over 6mon old, sorry...
I have a recent backup from TWRP 2.7.x and really need to figure out how to get into /data/media or whatever the equivalent is in the archive. I did a 'cat' of my 4 data.ext4.win00* files and opened that in Ubuntu. All it contained was a big stack of APKs and a subfolder with a bunch of 0 byte objects. What bugs me the most is that the file browser reports the data.ext4.tar.gz I created at 3.3GB, but the ubuntu handler only reports the /data folder inside at 1.6GB.
I lost a buttload of data and files to an Odin restore necessitated to wipe 2 stubborn cache files. Nothing I tried could change their properties (thanks G00gle). Anyway, I ended up doing a full wipe of the phone thinking I had a good TWeRP backup on the extSDcard. Wrong.
I just checked system.etx4.win* and found the same/similar files under it's /app folder.
Have I lost all those files or is there something else I can try? TIA.

Talos4 said:
explore/extract system.ext4 with IZArc
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Thanks a lot for this hint! I hadn't heard about IZArc before. It's really great and saved my day. :highfive:

Windows users
For windows (if you have multiple files) :
Code:
copy /B data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 output.tar

Mehdiway said:
For windows (if you have multiple files) :
Code:
copy /B data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 output.tar
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Thanks to this, I was having a bad time viewing each of the data.ext4.win000 etc. etc. can't handle by windows I think. Looking for solution from google and I end up here. Thank you my friend. :good:

zidane02 said:
Thanks to this, I was having a bad time viewing each of the data.ext4.win000 etc. etc. can't handle by windows I think. Looking for solution from google and I end up here. Thank you my friend. :good:
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if you want to explore twrp backup files on windows:
- rename i.e. data.ext4.win000 to data.ext4.tar and open that .tar file with winzip or winrar (whichever reads .tar compressed files) - same goes for .win001 etc...
btw just a sidenote - twrp doesn't backup your personal media files (photos, videos, etc)

I know I'm bumping a super old thread in a sorta old forum area, but Google brought me here. I am trying to browse a TWRP backup but I have a feeling I need to do a bit more fussing around. The backup is split into data.ext4.win000 through data.ext4.win007 and each of the parts has an accompanying .md5 with the same naming structure (ie. data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win000.md5.) There's also a data.info file as well.
The system backup is the exact same as described above for the data, except it's only 2 parts (system.ext4.win000 and system.ext4.win001, with the accompanying md5 files and the info file.)
Can someone provide a bit of guidance? I'm using a Windows 7 Home Premium machine.

I'm in the same situation cognitivedissonance is. Any help to put us on the right direction?
The answer for one question would be beneficial and highly appreciated: in which format the data.ext4.win00x files are ?

cognitivedissonance said:
I know I'm bumping a super old thread in a sorta old forum area, but Google brought me here. I am trying to browse a TWRP backup but I have a feeling I need to do a bit more fussing around. The backup is split into data.ext4.win000 through data.ext4.win007 and each of the parts has an accompanying .md5 with the same naming structure (ie. data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win000.md5.) There's also a data.info file as well.
The system backup is the exact same as described above for the data, except it's only 2 parts (system.ext4.win000 and system.ext4.win001, with the accompanying md5 files and the info file.)
Can someone provide a bit of guidance? I'm using a Windows 7 Home Premium machine.
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To browse the "system.ext4.winxxx" files, simply add at the end of the file ".tar" and decompress them in the same folder created by the first file.
The MD5 is a type of Checksum file wich is created just to check the integrity of the backup file is linked to.
the gladiator said:
I'm in the same situation cognitivedissonance is. Any help to put us on the right direction?
The answer for one question would be beneficial and highly appreciated: in which format the data.ext4.win00x files are ?
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They are compressed in TAR format.

Mehdiway said:
For windows (if you have multiple files) :
Code:
copy /B data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win001 output.tar
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Actually the file numbers should increment, using the above example:
Code:
copy /B data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win002 + data.ext4.win003 + data.ext4.win004 output.tar
In the example you're appending a file to itself over and over.

forkup said:
Actually the file numbers should increment, using the above example:
Code:
copy /B data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win002 + data.ext4.win003 + data.ext4.win004 output.tar
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In most cases that should be;
Code:
copy /B data.ext4.win000 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win002 + data.ext4.win003 + data.ext4.win004 output.tar
And the other (uncompressed) .win image-files (like system_image.emmc.win) can be read with a tool like Ext2Read.

Mehdiway said:
For windows (if you have multiple files) :
Code:
copy /B data.ext4.win000 + data.ext4.win001 + data.ext4.win002 + data.ext4.win003 output.tar
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Unfortunately, thats wrong. It might work with tar --ignore-zeros (-i) option but only for uncompressed archives.
Do not combine the data.ext4.win* files into one file before accessing. These are single standalone tarball archives (gzip compressed sometimes) you should rename and unpack for each own

I am also seeking a correct and up-to-date answer for this. I have TWRP 2.8.7.0 and multiple .win files, .md5 files and data.ext4 files in my SD Card. Is renaming archives enough to browse in 7zip? Is there any special tool for this, or do we also combine/merge multiple files into one?
Thanks a lot!

Can anyone here shed any light on my TWRP backup browsing issue described here? Thanks

[Q] Needed secsettings.apk and secsettings.odex for NH1, quickly!

Hey guys!
So I was just installing S5 Settings from balliboxer
and now I am an idiot to backup the secsettings apk and odex.
After I installed it, it gone FC.
Please somebody have an stock 4.4.2 SecSettings.apk and odex file please?
I'm running on 4.4.2 G7102 NH1.

sorry i don't have nh1 so i can't help you but what about four threads for the same thing , it's not realy serious man if you need help just post one time
if you have a pc :
domload your rom from Sam
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/36186/G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.zip/
--extract it yoy will have G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.tar.md5 use 7zip and extract it
--When you have completed extracting all of them, you'll find many files including many .img files. For Apps you need to extract system.img. Unlike normal nandroid backup's system.img file which in yaffs, this stock one in different. So, unyaffs tool can't unpack the system.img
--To extract the system.img, download this tool: sgs2toext4 (created by drphrozen). On extracting it you'll have sgs2toext4.jar file.
--Open a command window and set the directory where you have .jar file.
--Now type sgs2toext4.jar and press enter.
--The .jar will run in a new window & will ask you to drag & drop the system.img file there. Do the same and wait till the process completes.
--When the process completes, you'll find a file named system.ext4.img in the same folder where you had the system.img file.
--Now download ext2reader and install it. Then open the program open your system.img.ext4
--Now navigate in to find the apk you need and extract it copy to your phone

maxx35000 said:
sorry i don't have nh1 so i can't help you but what about four threads for the same thing , it's not realy serious man if you need help just post one time
if you have a pc :
domload your rom from Sam
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/36186/G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.zip/
--extract it yoy will have G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.tar.md5 use 7zip and extract it
--When you have completed extracting all of them, you'll find many files including many .img files. For Apps you need to extract system.img. Unlike normal nandroid backup's system.img file which in yaffs, this stock one in different. So, unyaffs tool can't unpack the system.img
--To extract the system.img, download this tool: sgs2toext4 (created by drphrozen). On extracting it you'll have sgs2toext4.jar file.
--Open a command window and set the directory where you have .jar file.
--Now type sgs2toext4.jar and press enter.
--The .jar will run in a new window & will ask you to drag & drop the system.img file there. Do the same and wait till the process completes.
--When the process completes, you'll find a file named system.ext4.img in the same folder where you had the system.img file.
--Now download ext2reader and install it. Then open the program open your system.img.ext4
--Now navigate in to find the apk you need and extract it copy to your phone
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Thanks dude! And sorry for those 4 threads. Gonna download it!
This will take soooooo long! My Internet connection is slow and can complete in 9-10 hours!

Just be patient and people will see your thread and help you! But making FOUR posts...?

maxx35000 said:
sorry i don't have nh1 so i can't help you but what about four threads for the same thing , it's not realy serious man if you need help just post one time
if you have a pc :
domload your rom from Sam
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/36186/G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.zip/
--extract it yoy will have G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.tar.md5 use 7zip and extract it
--When you have completed extracting all of them, you'll find many files including many .img files. For Apps you need to extract system.img. Unlike normal nandroid backup's system.img file which in yaffs, this stock one in different. So, unyaffs tool can't unpack the system.img
--To extract the system.img, download this tool: sgs2toext4 (created by drphrozen). On extracting it you'll have sgs2toext4.jar file.
--Open a command window and set the directory where you have .jar file.
--Now type sgs2toext4.jar and press enter.
--The .jar will run in a new window & will ask you to drag & drop the system.img file there. Do the same and wait till the process completes.
--When the process completes, you'll find a file named system.ext4.img in the same folder where you had the system.img file.
--Now download ext2reader and install it. Then open the program open your system.img.ext4
--Now navigate in to find the apk you need and extract it copy to your phone
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Unfortunately this doesn't work. When you drop the system.img.ext4 file onto the sgs2ext4 tool, no file is produced. The tool just keeps endlessly repeating:
"system.img.ext4 32 B 0 B/s"
I think that tool is too old (2.5 years old) and doesn't support the newest Samsung firmwares.

siraltus said:
Unfortunately this doesn't work. When you drop the system.img.ext4 file onto the sgs2ext4 tool, no file is produced. The tool just keeps endlessly repeating:
"system.img.ext4 32 B 0 B/s"
I think that tool is too old (2.5 years old) and doesn't support the newest Samsung firmwares.
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witch firmware do you want to extract ?and whitch file you want ?
i 've extract my latest firmware 09/2014 so it work fine for me

maxx35000 said:
witch firmware do you want to extract ?and whitch file you want ?
i 've extract my latest firmware 09/2014 so it work fine for me
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The T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910T) NK4 firmware. I can't find any instructions online on extracting Samsung firmwares other than these, which were originally written up by rwilco12 a long time ago and reposted endlessly.

siraltus said:
The T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910T) NK4 firmware. I can't find any instructions online on extracting Samsung firmwares other than these, which were originally written up by rwilco12 a long time ago and reposted endlessly.
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you have one solution try to extract md5 file
and direct mount system.img in ubunt it work for me then copy the file you want

maxx35000 said:
you have one solution try to extract md5 file
and direct mount system.img in ubunt it work for me then copy the file you want
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I'll try doing that in a Linux VM. I'm on Windows and the Diskinternals Linux Reader keeps saying the filesystem is invalid.

siraltus said:
I'll try doing that in a Linux VM. I'm on Windows and the Diskinternals Linux Reader keeps saying the filesystem is invalid.
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give me a link to download the system.img i try to extract it

maxx35000 said:
give me a link to download the system.img i try to extract it
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Thank you for your help. It's this firmware: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/39224/N910TUVU1ANK4_N910TTMB1ANK4_TMB.zip/

Anything? Is this a no-go?

siraltus said:
Thank you for your help. It's this firmware: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/39224/N910TUVU1ANK4_N910TTMB1ANK4_TMB.zip/
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sorry i have forget to do it i download the file now
but what the files needed in ?

maxx35000 said:
sorry i have forget to do it i download the file now
but what the files needed in ?
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I just want to find a method that works for extracting the Note 4 firmware because none I found online work.

siraltus said:
I just want to find a method that works for extracting the Note 4 firmware because none I found online work.
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I found that the Linux method works on my Mac. Took a ton of tinkering and restarting the emulator on my machine.
sgs2ext4.jar did not work for me in Windows. It just hangs.

sbrownla said:
I found that the Linux method works on my Mac. Took a ton of tinkering and restarting the emulator on my machine.
sgs2ext4.jar did not work for me in Windows. It just hangs.
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yes sgs2ext4.jar work with some of system.img but not all but you can mount in linux i have extracted note 4 img :good:

maxx35000 said:
give me a link to download the system.img i try to extract it
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The SAMMOBILE firmware or the system.img? I'm not yet downloading it. Let's see if I can resume the download.