Before anyone say "do a search" which I did and not able to find a guide or answer.
What I want to do is modify a nand rom into cwm zip in order to be use with cwm. Spent the last few days working on nand rom. I got the rom working but what i want to do is turn it into cwm zip. With the zip that I put together, it was able to install and boot to the HTC logo but not able to get pass. What file needs to be modify in order to to get it working? Any help is welcome.
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Hello World,
I am a little confused, I have tried to understand how to install update.zip files onto the i9000t but I seem to not understand.
What I do know, is how to use Odin and install files, either a single file or individually. Can someone please give me a step by step or point me to a thread on installing update.zip? Im a beginner that whats to make the most of my phone.
Also can I backup as everytime I update my PDA file?? I wipe everything Yes Im a battler.
Cheers
Update zip but the first question is what update zip .
Usual zip files install via CWM clockwork mod recovery .
Boot to recovery install sdcard/update/zip.
MUST READ
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723596
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melbournehiphop said:
Hello World,
I am a little confused, I have tried to understand how to install update.zip files onto the i9000t but I seem to not understand.
What I do know, is how to use Odin and install files, either a single file or individually. Can someone please give me a step by step or point me to a thread on installing update.zip? Im a beginner that whats to make the most of my phone.
Also can I backup as everytime I update my PDA file?? I wipe everything Yes Im a battler.
Cheers
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You need to have 2E recovery working on your phone in order to install unsigned update.zip files, either check your phone for the 2E recovery by going into 3 button recovery mode (switch phone off, hold volume up, home key and power button until logo appears on screen and let go of all 3) and the screen will say whether you have 2E or 3E recovery mode or here is a link to Chanfires excellent kernels which include 2E recovery but you must flash them with onto the phone with Odin. I'm not too familiar with the i9000t so you had best do some reading up first to make sure it can be done with your phone as you could brick it if the kernel is not for your unit.
Once you have the kernel flashed onto the phone or you have checked and already have 2E recovery, simply make sure the update.zip file is on the root folder of your internal SD and select the install update.zip option in recovery mode (you get into this as described above)
I can't post in the development forums so I figured I would ask here:
I understand how to use adb and fastboot, etc.. What I am missing is with the new ICS ROM it states that I must "fastboot flash system system.img"; however none of the ICS zip file I have seen come with a system.img file (just the boot.img).
Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated..
I used the version available on Rootzwiki... not sure if thats the answer you wanted. I'm running 4.0.3 ICS on my wifi XOOM OC to 1.54. No FC's, reboots or anything of the sort. You'll need to be sure that you have su-install.zip, and other img files needed. As I said, you'll find them all on the rootzwiki website under xoom hope this helps, if not good luck.
You are talking about two different things here. I don't know where to start here you're all mixed up. There are several ways to flash a ROM, you can fastboot flash the .img files such as what you are referencing to. Or you can flash an update .zip file from recovery. The way you flash the ROM depends on the source, if its a bunch of *.img files you use fastboot, if it's a *.zip file you use recovery. Just follow the directions given for installation that are provided with the ROM you are downloading.
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I can't post in the development forums so I figured I would ask here:
I understand how to use adb and fastboot, etc.. What I am missing is with the new ICS ROM it states that I must "fastboot flash system system.img"; however none of the ICS zip file I have seen come with a system.img file (just the boot.img).
Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated..
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Hello, and welcome to XDA! =] Anyways on with your question. There are two ways to flash a ROM to your xoom. One being fastboot/adb, where you use the command line on your computer to send commands to your device and make it do stuff. This is where you use system.img, boot.img, recovery.img.
The second, is CWM (ClockWorkMod recovery) This, as far as im aware, is the most common way. This is where the .zip's come in. Because you take the .zip you put it on your external SD card. boot into recovery (after flashing CWM of course) and flash the rom. CWM is nice because you can also make a 100% snapshot of your internal memory state via making a nanodroid back up. That way if anything messes up you have a 100% backup you can restore at anytime if you need it.
In a nutshell, You use *.img files with fastboot and .zip files with CWM.
Anyways. If you're new to rooting. Please check out these two threads, They'll help you get started. =]
Xoom Heaven: Root+Non Root Users Are Welcome!
[Guide] Setting up and using adb/fastboot-unlock, flash custom recovery & root
The second guide I did use to flash my own zoom so I can assure you it does work.
I'm having trouble flashing the stock rom vache has provided on the dev forum. (SD_Acer_A500_7.006.03_COM_GEN1.zip).
Downloaded fine, used the decrypt tool with key $12, Clear/wipe/format everything, and try to install with CWM.
Problem install aborts.
Can anyone help? I am assuming either the download is incorrect/incomplete, or the decrypt hasn't worked? Has anyone been successful with this rom?
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I'm having trouble flashing the stock rom vache has provided on the dev forum. (SD_Acer_A500_7.006.03_COM_GEN1.zip).
Downloaded fine, used the decrypt tool with key $12, Clear/wipe/format everything, and try to install with CWM.
Problem install aborts.
Can anyone help? I am assuming either the download is incorrect/incomplete, or the decrypt hasn't worked? Has anyone been successful with this rom?
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Did you download an official acer rom from vaches thread
is it a full rom or just an incremental update - better check!
yes it could be a bad d/l - where did u get it
If it didnt decrypt you can check by trying to open it in windows. You wont be able to 'open' (not extract....) the zip if it is still decrypted
did u extract the actual "update.zip" and flash that?
make sure the you havent named it "update.zip.zip"
how did u try and install with cwm
if u use flash zip choice u dont have to rename it to update.zip
u do if u pick flash update.zip
What rom are u currently running??
Many thanks for the help, it was me being a noob and not extracting the update.zip file.
thanks again
Hi,
I don't know if this is the correct section to get this question answered, but I'll try:
I have a new tablet, which is not really known at the moment. I managed to root it and next step would be to port Clockworkmod Recovery to it. Since I only found guides where I always have to repo sync the entire CyanogenMod github (which is 19GB+ as I heard), I searched for an alternative where I could save some traffic
I found a clockworkmod recovery from another tablet and wondered if it was just possible to unpack it, modify the recovery.fstab and repack it again.
Is this possible or do I have to modify more than the recovery.fstab? If yes, could you point me to the right direction?
Regards
dump your stock recovery
unpack the stock recovery and save the vold.fstab somewhere.
upload the stock recovery here
http://builder.clockworkmod.com/
get the output and flash`it
if the key`s are not working, unpack the new cwm, and the old recovery, and put the keys from the old recovery.
if you get some mount points erros, you will have to upload also the saved vold.fstab on the clockwork site when you cook the image.
if this does not offer you a good result, you will need to find a similar device (processor, resolution) that has allready a cwm, and try it
the recovery file is ramdisk/sbin/recovery
Hi,
thanks for showing me a way. Unfortunately builder.clockworkmod.com says it didn't find Android magic. This makes sense, as the image is a uImage with lzma compressed data inside. It seems koush's builder handles only "plain" recoveries...
Bad luck
I guess I'll try your second advice and search for a CWM for a similar device, unpack it, replace the fstab file and repack it again.
Thanks again!
hello I have made the porting on http://jenkins.cyanogenmod.com/job/recovery/lastBuild/console
I end up having a zip archive, how can I make my tablet to read that. I have installed cwm recovery and it is rooted. Let me know how can install it and replace my recovery with this.
BTW I have the original stock firmware of my tablet.
let me know thanks
Im done searching, i cant make any sense of it. im a new android user and i just want to update my device from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2..
Ive tryed downloading it manually from http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...jdq39-for-the-nexus-7-and-nexus-10-right-now/ and install it when from (when the tablet is shutdown and i hold both 3 buttoms and come into a boot screen??) i dont know the name of it but anyways. i select install zip from sd card and i then select the file ive downloaded but the installation aborts. i read in some thread that if i have a custom kernel ( i have francos) it cannot install updates that way?
Could someone please describe to me how to install the update in NEWBISH l​​languages?
If i have to remove franco kernel to install the zip file how do i remove it?
Please answer in simpel steps
Thanks