I found this on http://cliq-development.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13
hopefully this can help anyone who is trying to develop a way for root on the cliq.
To get where we are at in development you must learn about a few things
.SHX = A re-flashing file similar to a .nbh on the HTC brand. It is a full re-flash of everything on the phone, full stock. When extracted it creates three files the main one is the CG2
CG2 = A file extracted from the shx that hold the main partitions that will be flashed to the phone.
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How to extract a shx
(http://modmymoto.com/forums/showthread.php?t=525344)
A developer by the name of Meiner Einer created a program named SbfRecalc. With this program we can extract three files and as i stated above the most important one is the CG2
How to extract a CG2
(http://modmymoto.com/forums/showthread.php?t=525477)
A developer by the name of Skrilax_CZ created a program named CG2 Parser. With this program we can extract all of the files within the CG2.
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After you extract all of the files from the CG2 you will find that some of the names were similer to the partitions of the cliq. With a little file manipulation i recreated a boot.img and a recovery.img from some of the files. The guys over at modmymoto dumped a full system partition.
(http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?t ... oot_Images)
To recreate both the boot.img and the recovery.img just do these simple steps
1. Create a directory and put either bootsec.mbn or recoverysec.mbn from the CG2 dump inside it
2. Download the split_bootimg.pl from the link above and run it with the file in the directory to get both a kernel and a ramdisk file.
3. Using the mkbootimg from the android source code you can recombine the kernel and the ramdisk files to create your boot.img/recovery.img strait from the re-flash file
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With the system dump from modmymoto and my boot.img(+a little root) I created an update.zip file with root ready to be flashed when the keys are ready.
This is where we are at any help would be greatly appreciated.
Wow, nice work!
This could really so with a sticky...
Thanks for the update! The cliq goes hard. Once rooted its ova, best android phone on tmo!
Nice! It would be really great if you could repost this at android-devs.org over in the cliq development section of the forum
Since XDA is only for HTC phones and most people here most likely don't have the cliq and there really isn't a correct forum to have this posted in..
I'd reccomend using android-devs.org forums
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to convert .zip files of ROMs/themes into system.img files so that they can be booted up via the android sdk emulator?
I've seen that it's possible to launch system.img files in the sdk emulator, but after searching for quite some time I wasn't able to pinpoint a method for creating system.img from update-cm-4.2.12.2-signed.zip (for example).
Thanks.
DT
i made a post about those system.img files earlier here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=609090
in theory it's possible using the mkfs.yaffs2 tool, but i'm not sure whether the emulator supports danger SPL roms, because the system image file size is limited in the emulator as well...
http://www.dotphone.org/attachment.php?aid=6
it's the mkfs.yaffs2 tool
see usage here:
http://www.dotphone.org/viewthread.php?tid=32
Hi,
Thanks for the link, but I'm quite a newbie in these things, so could someone please walk me through process? I've downloaded the archive in the link.
How many times do I unzip it (I can unzip it up to three times and then I get 5 files numbered 1 through 5)? Where do I paste it? How do I use it? The explanation in the other thread was slightly too complicated for me sorry
Thanks
DT
/push
Anyone willing to help out a newbie?
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I am looking to do the same thing
Get someone to Nandroid backup the ROM.
It creates a system.img, recovery.img, data.img, cache.img and boot.img.
Not the easiest method but it works
I have seen this asked a few times recently so I figured I would try to put together a quick and easy guide to extracting files from Nandroid backups. This guide only covers Windows, I assume if you are running Linux you can download unyaffs and compile/run it without my assistance. If you are adventurous you can install cygwin and compile unyaffs on your own (or download it at any number of sites across the internet), however I have included all the files needed to extract the files from the img files.
1. Download unyaffs along with the cygwin1.dll
2. Extract the files to a new folder.
3. Copy the system.img file from the ROM or your Nandroid backup to the folder you extracted unyaffs.exe and cygwin1.dll to.
4. Open a command prompt and cd to the folder containing the three files. If you are on Windows 7 you can just navigate there with Windows Explorer and in the URL bar type cmd to open a comman prompt in that location.
5. Type unyaffs system.img
You have now extracted all the files from the system partition of your Nandroid backup. The APKs are in the /app folder and some apps require library files that can be found in the /lib folder. For example: Swype.apk requires that libSwypeCore.so be in the lib folder for it to work properly.
I get an "end of image" message and no folder is created with the extracted files.
I am trying to recover some photos from my Gallery, which I presume is in data.img - but no matter what I try to extract, I get "end of image"
any ideas?
Is the system.img the only thing you can open with this or can you open the data.img or the wimax.img also?
Lock-N-Load said:
I get an "end of image" message and no folder is created with the extracted files.
I am trying to recover some photos from my Gallery, which I presume is in data.img - but no matter what I try to extract, I get "end of image"
any ideas?
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Your photos should be on your MicroSD card, not on one of the system partitions. Look in SDCARD:\DCIM\100ANDRO, your photos should be there.
cruise350 said:
Is the system.img the only thing you can open with this or can you open the data.img or the wimax.img also?
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I want to know this also
Seems to work ok for me for data.img and system.img, but not wimax.img or boot.img.
Yep, I tried that too...worked.
Is there a command to repack the system or data image after you have unpacked and played around with them???
I am pretty sure that my issue is within the data file...I removed what I think caused the problem but how do I repack it all to put it on the sd card and try it out?
thanks
Does anyone know a command to repack the files???
Worked for me.
Pretty much my whole family has Evo's. theyre all rooted too thanks to me but in my experimenting, i lost the 4G keys to mines. so i troubleshooted. i put Amen Ra's recovery on my brothers phone, and nandroid'ed only the wimax. put the entire folder for that backup on my sdcard on the spot where u would find ur backups, ran Amen Ra on my Evo. and bam. working 4G. u just cant use them at the sametime cuz it interfears.
Oh ok cool.
Is there anyway to pack the files on windows
I want to see if my phone will boot now that I got rid of some programs I believe to be causing it to bootloop
Stupid question. Don't mind me.
Awesome this works Thanks allot
how can I extract /data/system to then package back as either
* SBF
or
* update.zip
to write to another identical phone?
re
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17217163#post17217163
ubuntu fyi
I've extracted *.smg files from a SBF Rom File. I'm willing to extract Stock Apk's from it.
Now, my Unyaffs is in the same folder of the SMG files such as cygwin1.dll, however when i try to execute "unyaffs cg39.smg" I receive the following:
8 [main] unyaffs 5960 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATIO
N
2790 [main] unyaffs 5960 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to unyaffs.e
xe.stackdump
the log says:
Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=004010B0
eax=444E1A20 ebx=0000001A ecx=FFFFFFE4 edx=00801322 esi=0040130E edi=610E21A0
ebp=0022EE88 esp=0022EE50 program=C:\Motorola\unaffys\teste-extracted\unyaffs.exe, pid 4708, thread main
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs=0000 ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame Function Args
0022EE88 004010B0 (0022EEE9, 00000000, 00000000, 00401333)
0022EEB8 004013AF (00000002, 00800180, 00800090, 610A5E22)
0022EFA8 61004DD2 (0022EFC0, FFFFFFFF, 77A651CE, 00000000)
0022FF58 6100594F (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
End of stack trace
I've tried to regsrv32 the DLL and also receveid error as a invalid Dll. Does anyone have an idea?
I'm looking for stock Phone, Contacts and the keyboard apk, by the way, anyone knows the keyboard apk file?
thanks
Thanks
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hi guys,exist a new link for this tool or another tool for open .img files?
thanks in advance
I tried to update to 4.2 and I changed the android.policy.odex file and maybe this is not good one and the android does not goes up.
I can go into recovry and conect to adb. someone have the write file or way to solve this problem.
can I paste the file therout adb or flashable zip ??
Thanks
I found the right file
How can I use adb to delete the file on the device and push the new one?
edit
I understand that I cant go into this folders with the adb beacuse it says I dont have perrmision/ and I maybe need flashable zip file. how I do flashable zip for this file?
I've been scouring the interweb looking for a way to take a stock tar file and convert it to a zip file that will flash with twrp. I know it can be done, but thus far I'm not happy with the processes I've found... how do you guys do it?
The stock TAR files contain partitions in IMG format - an all in one file system, and in this case using EXT4 formatting.
In order to create a ZIP, you need to access the files on the partition, which means finding a way to mount those IMG partitions to copy their contents, or find a piece of software to extract from them w/o mounting. Since they are EXT4, you can probably assume a Windows solution isn't available (EXT4 is Linux). Some utilities may exist to handle EXT4 on Windows, but finding one that knows EXT4 and can extract/mount an IMG file is pretty specific.
EDIT : found a utility for you - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285831
If you can somehow get the files out of the archive, you'll need to find a tutorial on the structure of a flashable ZIP. Generally, its just folders and files but there is also a META-INF folder, scripts to install and set permissions, etc. There are likely threads here on XDA that can detail these steps.
Spitzaf, thanks so much! I was hoping for just such a tool