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How to open Img Files

Hi guys please some one can tell me how to open IMG files coz im trying but cant.
Thanx to everyone

what are you trying to do with it? if you are trying to flash a RECOVERY.IMG then you dont open it, you put it on your sd card and flash it through terminal...
(yes i know how to do it via adb but terminal is much easier for noobs)

google unyaff.exe

Can't select options in Clockwork Recovery 1.7.3

Oops.
So I got 'Rom Manager' from the app store thinking it would simplify my rom flashing tendencies. I loaded the Clockwork Recovery on last night, did a backup and tried to flash Damage1.0 over 0.99.
Now DC1 is freezing on the nexus startup screen and when I boot into Clockwork, I can't select any of the options; I have to remove the battery.
Can anyone help?

There is alwaready a thread about this

Um... where? Sorry if this is a repost.

JMadr said:
Um... where? Sorry if this is a repost.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648762

Got it.
But can anyone suggest anything for my specific case? I'm entirely dead in the water here.

JMadr said:
Got it.
But can anyone suggest anything for my specific case? I'm entirely dead in the water here.
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when you're in recovery you still have access to the flash_image functionality. So all you really have to do is get the old recovery img and put it on the root of your sd card. then just do
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-whatever-heroc.img
and that should put an old recovery on for you, then you will be able to flash other roms as much as you want. have fun

I appreciate the reply. I'm not quite sure what you mean though. I can't mount my phone because I can't boot - so I can't put any files I don't have onto the memory card. Also, how would I input that code if my computer can't see that I have my device connected?
Sorry, if my questions are annoying. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with any of this stuff. Help would be greatly appreciated... I really cant afford a new phone right now.

JMadr said:
I appreciate the reply. I'm not quite sure what you mean though. I can't mount my phone because I can't boot - so I can't put any files I don't have onto the memory card. Also, how would I input that code if my computer can't see that I have my device connected?
Sorry, if my questions are annoying. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with any of this stuff. Help would be greatly appreciated... I really cant afford a new phone right now.
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adb wont even read it? if you do "adb devices"? ( in recovery mode )

you need to download the android sdk
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
then you can run the command
adb shell
which will give you a command line on the phone.
If you don't have the old recovery on there then you can run something like
adb push fileOnYourComputer /sdcard/whateverName.img

if he flashed the clockwork recovery he has to have the android sdk for adb

venumx said:
if he flashed the clockwork recovery he has to have the android sdk for adb
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It looks like you can flash it from the app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=639153
This is the problem with apps like that and automated processes for rooting. When the phone goes BOOM we need to go back to basics to explain things.

I downloaded the SKD, but I really have no idea what to do at this point. I'm trying to use terminal to execute commands, but nothing is coming back. What am I doing wrong?
Would anyone mind PMing me a walkthrough for pushing files/flashing updates via OSX? I would really appreciate anyone's help.

unzip it
open up a terminal
cd into wherever you unzipped it into
Code:
cd tools/
./adb devices
if you see your phone then you can do all the command we have been telling you
push the old recovery onto the phone
Code:
./adb push fileONComputer /sdcard/NAME.img
go into the phone
Code:
./adb shell
and run the flash
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/NAME.img

centran said:
It looks like you can flash it from the app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=639153
This is the problem with apps like that and automated processes for rooting. When the phone goes BOOM we need to go back to basics to explain things.
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yeah i agree automatic programs that do this for people hurt them more than they help them haha, the automatic ones should just be a convenience to those who know what they're doing !!

Problem solved! Another victory for y'all at XDA. Thanks a bunch to all that helped.

Any idea on how to change first boot splash ?

On the HTC Dream (G1...) it was possible to get rid of the very first boot image, that white screen with a steady HTC logo, with a flashboot command like the following (changing source img name $3 ):
fastboot flash splash1 splash.raw565
.....now...the obvious question....do we need a special SPL to do something like that on Desire?
I saw something in boot.img that could probably help in the process but my Droid skills are too basic to get an answer by myself.
Any idea on this?
Thanks!

According to the Droid Dev Channel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
How to change boot animation
1. You need to have HTC Sync and Android SDK installed
2. Copy bootanimation.zip to SD Card
3. Turn off Desire and then turn it on while holding back button to enter bootloader(white screen)
4. Once in "white screen" press power button again to enter bootloader
5. Connect Desire with PC
6. Press Volume Down and than Power to enter Recovery
7. Open Command prompt/Terminal and type
Code:
adb shell mount /system
adb push C:\bootanimation.zip /data/local
adb reboot
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8. Unplug your HTC and enjoy your new boot animation
Alternative method to install a custom boot animation (without Recovery Mode - by MasDroid)
1. You need to have HTC Sync and Android SDK installed (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html).
2. To get adb running on the Windows OS platform, for example, download & extract the Android SDK to the following path: %SystemDrive%\android-sdk-windows (e.g. C:\android-sdk-windows)
3. Turn on your phone and connect it to your PC via a USB port.
4. Place the downloaded bootanimation.zip into the same folder as the adb app (in the tools folder of the SDK).
5. Open command prompt and type cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools, hit enter.
6. Type adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local, hit enter.
7. Reboot phone.
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That is how to change "second" boot animation, but he wont's to change "first" bootanimation, the one with white background and green htc logo
Have no idea how to remove it, but would like to know it too

Dang It!

Yep that's it.... but I imagine that the chance of sending some sort of RTFM was so sweet to fog out the actual question (some of... us share the same behavior)
... probably I should have been more clear on my request.
At the moment I'm still searching around for some clues and I will report here all my findings.
.... c'mon... the first ugly splash is displayed way longer than the second... and if that isn't enough.... it's ugly

You need the engineering SPL. Impossible to do otherwise.

So I need the piece of software everybody is waiting for...
HTC must be very proud of their logo if they make it so hard to get rid of it. Even boot messages would look better ;-)
Well, thanks a lot for the info !

S-OFF is now available! Just installed on my Telstra Desire and changed the splash1 screen successfully!

millab said:
S-OFF is now available! Just installed on my Telstra Desire and changed the splash1 screen successfully!
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Me too! There are guides and even a 1-click splash screen replacement application which is flippin' awesome. I've made my splash, but now to work on the boot animation so that the whole lot is seamless, right up until loaded.... watch this space.

A link would have been great..

alpharev.nl

Rastaman-FB said:
alpharev.nl
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hmm its a bit confusing how to use it...
Quick guide anyone?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805811

Andyokane said:
hmm its a bit confusing how to use it...
Quick guide anyone?
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read a forum a bit before posting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328
look for: S-OFF
Nespejau (a bit too late)

mendozinas said:
read a forum a bit before posting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328
look for: S-OFF
Nespejau (a bit too late)
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I actually meant changing the 1st boot screen img, and for your information I read these forums every single day.

I gave up following xda for barked answers like that one... go see a shrink and be polite, or don't bother answer.
For the s-off question, it's a quite straight forward operation, I don't have time right now but I' ll make a step by step how to that I hope will help with doubts.

Hi,
Your Desire needs to be S-OFF, Than you need to use fastboot to flash the new bootscreen:
fastboot flash splash1 yourbootscreen.img

andreadj said:
On the HTC Dream (G1...) it was possible to get rid of the very first boot image, that white screen with a steady HTC logo, with a flashboot command like the following (changing source img name $3 ):
fastboot flash splash1 splash.raw565
.....now...the obvious question....do we need a special SPL to do something like that on Desire?
I saw something in boot.img that could probably help in the process but my Droid skills are too basic to get an answer by myself.
Any idea on this?
Thanks!
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I was wondering about the very same thing a while ago. This is what I have learned:
TO BEGIN WITH, YOUR PHONE MUST BE S-OFF. FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS THREAD IF YOUR PHONE ISN'T S-OFF.
In order to flash your custom splash1 image, prepare a *.BMP image with size corresponding to your device's display size (which in case of the Desire is 480x800). Make sure the image is in 24-bit color space (true colors), 16 or 32-bit images wont work.
When you have the image prepared, download a tool called NBIMG (you'll find it here on XDA). Put your image and nbimg.exe into the same directory, open up command prompt and then navigate to the folder where you've placed the files. I'll use c:\nbimg as an expamle.
To convert the image to the smartphone format, issue the following commands:
Code:
chdir c:\nbimg
nbimg.exe -F mycustomimage.bmp -w 480 -h 800
This will create mycustomimage.bmp.nb file. If you want to be sure everything went alright, convert this file back to *.bmp format by using this command:
Code:
nbimg.exe -F mycustomimage.bmp.nb -w 480 -h 800
This will create mycustomimage.bmp.nb.bmp. Open this file and compare it to your original image. If the images match (no artifacts, inverted colors, etc.), you are good to go and you can proceed to flash the image to the phone using fastboot.
Take your converted image (mycustomimage.bmp.nb) and replace the .bmp.nb part with .img suffix so the resulting file is named mycustomimage.img. Now take this *.img file and put it to the tools subdirectory inside your Android SDK installation folder (fastboot.exe must be in said subdirectory, as I will use the path as an example).
Connect the phone to your computer and enable usb debugging.
Navigate to folder inside the Android SDK where adb.exe is located (older revisions of the SDK have it inside tools subdir, latest SDK has it inside platform-tools subdir). Reboot your device to bootloader mode through adb by issuing the following commands:
Code:
chdir c:\AndroidSDK\tools
adb.exe start-server
adb.exe reboot bootloader
When the phone reboots into bootloader, issue the following command to flash the image into the phone:
Code:
fastboot flash splash1 mycustomimage.img
Now reboot your phone using this command:
Code:
fastboot reboot
Enjoy your new custom splash1 image, you're all done
And if you let me, I'd like to share a few images I have created myself. They're nothing extra, just a quick and noobish work in GIMP, so if you don't like them, please, don't download them and don't troll. I won't react on comments saying "your images are fugly" or anything else alike
Download the *.img files by clicking on corresponding images.
MD5 sums:
splash1_htc_cm7_droid.img 90beed110b59b76c0a1aad55c2b616af
splash1_htc_cm7_fadedlights.img 008f8efe149f3361f4cdd8946e06f5df
splash1_htc_cm7_white.img 53ca8a089685b47188cdefb1dded9ba0
splash1_htcyan_cm7.img 2014e223835574b115daf68935c0db4b
...or you can download md5sums of all the files above in a single *.md5 file here.

8-D t'at's about it ....
Thanks Squrl many acorns to you .-)

[Q] Unlocking Bootloader.

Hey guys.
I've been searching this damn problems all day and cant find a straight forward solution i can use so i resort to asking you guys for help. Im sorry if the solution is easy but i just cant seem to get it.
I was trying to unlock the bootloader today. So i downloaded the SDK and got an unlock code. But then the problems begin. First i missed AdbWinApi.dll. I relocated the file so Fastboot.exe would work. But now it does something and closes up in an instant.
How the hell do i make the screen stay open to enter commands?
Thanks in advance guys.

fastboot has to be done via CMD sounds to me like your double clicking on it.
Cant give you more info than that really out of not wanting you to brick your device, if your struggling to use fastboot to unlock you should think twice about doing it.
also just to add there is NO advantage right now in unlocking the device.

Aightu said:
Hey guys.
I've been searching this damn problems all day and cant find a straight forward solution i can use so i resort to asking you guys for help. Im sorry if the solution is easy but i just cant seem to get it.
I was trying to unlock the bootloader today. So i downloaded the SDK and got an unlock code. But then the problems begin. First i missed AdbWinApi.dll. I relocated the file so Fastboot.exe would work. But now it does something and closes up in an instant.
How the hell do i make the screen stay open to enter commands?
Thanks in advance guys.
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Yep i've noticed the same thing, there seems to be a .dll missing in the sdk, now worries though, download this fastboot package, i used it to unlock my bootloader
http://www.multiupload.com/BMJ24IL6XY

waz000000 said:
fastboot has to be done via CMD sounds to me like your double clicking on it.
Cant give you more info than that really out of not wanting you to brick your device, if your struggling to use fastboot to unlock you should think twice about doing it.
also just to add there is NO advantage right now in unlocking the device.
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I am double clicking it because i cant figure out how to run it via CMD. I cant change directory in the CMD. I thought the only way to remove bloatware was to unlock bootloader?

Aightu said:
I am double clicking it because i cant figure out how to run it via CMD. I cant change directory in the CMD. I thought the only way to remove bloatware was to unlock bootloader?
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No not at all!
Simple download gingerbreak and root it with that go to market download root uninstaller and off you go.
You change DIR like this:
hold shift and right click on the folder containing the tools select open command prompt here. but please dont do it! not until youve read a lot more.
There is no need right now to unlock the bootloader. Wait for custom roms possibly the weekend i may have a go at a kernel overclock but that's if i get the time wolves are playing sunderland.

Aightu said:
I am double clicking it because i cant figure out how to run it via CMD. I cant change directory in the CMD. I thought the only way to remove bloatware was to unlock bootloader?
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to change directory in a command prompt, use the cd "directory location" command or cd .. to go back a folder

AndroHero said:
to change directory in a command prompt, use the cd "directory location" command or cd .. to go back a folder
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Ok i finally got the CMD thing running. It just keeps saying: Waiting for device. Ive re-installed the drivers but it still cant really connect. Phone does go into fastboot mode. Anyone got any idea? Because else im just gonne try another laptop.

Fixed, used wrong driver.

Note that the android_winusb.inf file provided by SE is a quick hack (do a diff of both versions to appreciate the workmanship..)
In particular, it will not work as it is on Vista or Windows 7 with AMD x64 CPUs.
To fix it, you'll have to open the .inf file in a text editor, and copy the "; SonyEricsson" line and the 3 lines that follow under the "[Google.NTamd64]" section.
Save it, replug your phone with the search key pressed, and windows should finally be able to accept the driver.

back to stock nougat

hello all you ph1 users [emoji2]. i just mine about a week ago (from ebay) and it is on android 9 despite the description saying it was on nougat.
so ; i would like to revert back to stock nougat. cant fond anything here on xda and have traversed www till my feet hurt and am more confused.
can anyone help out with directions , maybe even links if not too much trouble , and anything else that i need to know/be aware of?
it would be greatly appreciated [emoji8] ,
dave

mrrocketdog said:
hello all you ph1 users [emoji2]. i just mine about a week ago (from ebay) and it is on android 9 despite the description saying it was on nougat.
so ; i would like to revert back to stock nougat. cant fond anything here on xda and have traversed www till my feet hurt and am more confused.
can anyone help out with directions , maybe even links if not too much trouble , and anything else that i need to know/be aware of?
it would be greatly appreciated [emoji8] ,
dave
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You can get Nougat 7.1 from here....
https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681
In struction is simple, just boot phone to boot loader and from unzip folder, issue command flashall.

mrrocketdog said:
hello all you ph1 users [emoji2]. i just mine about a week ago (from ebay) and it is on android 9 despite the description saying it was on nougat.
so ; i would like to revert back to stock nougat. cant fond anything here on xda and have traversed www till my feet hurt and am more confused.
can anyone help out with directions , maybe even links if not too much trouble , and anything else that i need to know/be aware of?
it would be greatly appreciated [emoji8] ,
dave
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that would be good if i had a pc.
i do have a extra rooted phone that i use to run adb and fastboot commands. but the windows/linux command of "flash.all" or whatever wont work from my phone.
so i should of said , does any know of a .zip/file that i can adb sidwload , fastboot flash or flash with twrp that will revert me to android 7?
thanks for any ideas ,
dave

The flashall.sh script is just a shell script that executes the fastboot flash commands. You should be able to open the flashall.sh file in a text editor, and essentially copy and paste the commands to run them.

TDP95 said:
The flashall.sh script is just a shell script that executes the fastboot flash commands. You should be able to open the flashall.sh file in a text editor, and essentially copy and paste the commands to run them.
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like with fastboot ;
fastboot flash /sdcard/copy/pasted flashall.sh?

The flashall.sh file will contain a list of fastboot commands. You need to open that file in a text editor, then in a terminal change to the directory all the files are extracted into and copy and paste the commands in the terminal. This will flash the various images to the PH-1.

well all the files will be on /sdcard/ in a folder with the .zip's name. so i'll give it a shot and report back.
thank you for your time and knowledgr.
i'm kinda behind on "new" devices coming from a galaxy s4. lol [emoji4]

You're welcome! The newer devices are certainly a change. What you'll do with the fastboot type zip is you'll extract it. As within that zip are the images and flashall.sh file. You'll just open that flashall.sh in a text editor as it will have a list of the fastboot commands. For example commands such as "fastboot flash boot_a name-of-file", "fastboot flash boot_b name-of-file", etc. You'll just run those commands from a terminal while in the extracted directory. That should flash the images to the device.

mrrocketdog said:
well all the files will be on /sdcard/ in a folder with the .zip's name. so i'll give it a shot and report back.
thank you for your time and knowledgr.
i'm kinda behind on "new" devices coming from a galaxy s4. lol [emoji4]
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I remember you! ?
just make sure you understand how the A/B partions work using this method (I don't) so assuming it would be same as when using fastboot from PC

and i remember you also
thanks for chyming in. no , A/B is brand new to me but i will try everything i can think of in both slots.