Hi all,
Is there any way to pull out the system completely into a .img format? Since I did some modification on my system, I was wondering if there is an easy way to create a .img out of the unit itself. Thanks!
kazuni said:
Hi all,
Is there any way to pull out the system completely into a .img format? Since I did some modification on my system, I was wondering if there is an easy way to create a .img out of the unit itself. Thanks!
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You need recovery and that's not available yet.
Ah I see.
Another question regarding this, I notice that there is no parameters under fastboot that allows pulling the system image, but it can flash one. There aren't any options?
Blagus said:
You need recovery and that's not available yet.
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@Blagus
is is possible to use dump_image binary from preshoot's kernel maker update.zip to dump system.img???
DooMLoRD said:
@Blagus
is is possible to use dump_image binary from preshoot's kernel maker update.zip to dump system.img???
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If dump_image can get NAND read access from within Android system, then yes. It'll probably have to be run as root.
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Anyone please help my question.
I try to write application to change boot animation in Android.
Is it possible or not?
Bootanimations (which override stock) are kept at /data/local/bootanimation.zip
ffff00 said:
Bootanimations (which override stock) are kept at /data/local/bootanimation.zip
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Thank you,
Can i extract bootanimation.zip and add my image and zip it again in my android application?
ffff00 said:
Bootanimations (which override stock) are kept at /data/local/bootanimation.zip
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This is device dependent.
toobaya said:
Thank you,
Can i extract bootanimation.zip and add my image and zip it again in my android application?
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Not likely. This is typically on the system partition which is read-only in normal operating mode. Some (most?) devices can only get read/write access to the system partition when in recovery mode.
Gene Poole said:
Not likely. This is typically on the system partition which is read-only in normal operating mode. Some (most?) devices can only get read/write access to the system partition when in recovery mode.
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Thank you.
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Working on trying to get some deodex love going...
Just got Xoom WiFi tonight, let me know what I can do to help out the xoom wifi community.
I am curious. How were you able to extract the stock system dump image for the wifi version? Could you put down instructions since I am trying to learn these things.
Just a quick heads up. Moto was handing out DMCA notices on sysdumps. You may wanna save it for those who make it to #xoom on freenode.
bigrushdog said:
Just a quick heads up. Moto was handing out DMCA notices on sysdumps. You may wanna save it for those who make it to #xoom on freenode.
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Moto can suck an egg...will post link on my site :-D
Feel free to post the link on irc...
teamdefuse.com
Angdroid said:
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Working on trying to get some deodex love going...
Just got Xoom WiFi tonight, let me know what I can do to help out the xoom wifi community.
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1. one click root and unroot
2. safe way to over clock
3. a way to relock the xoom and bring to factory default
4. overclocikng
5. voodoo color fix
6. voodoo sound fix
lets start with that
thanks
ericdabbs said:
I am curious. How were you able to extract the stock system dump image for the wifi version? Could you put down instructions since I am trying to learn these things.
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Install latest moto drivers
Install Android SDK
Enable USB Debug in Xoom settings
Open command prompt
Create new directory
CD to new directory
At command prompt type: adb pull /
files will be dumped to current path of command prompt
I Got the one (well, couple a clicks) root and unroot covered. You can check that one off the list. Thread open over yonder if you want to give it a spin... I am just uploading the newest version that one click updates to HRI66.
jwtyler said:
I Got the one (well, couple a clicks) root and unroot covered. You can check that one off the list. Thread open over yonder if you want to give it a spin... I am just uploading the newest version that one click updates to HRI66.
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good, will be looking for it. NOW, an easy way to overclock to 1.5 would be wonderfull...
ericizzy1 said:
1. one click root and unroot
2. safe way to over clock
3. a way to relock the xoom and bring to factory default
4. overclocikng
5. voodoo color fix
6. voodoo sound fix
lets start with that
thanks
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1 is being worked on...NVM...Check out jwtyler one click root thread.
2 & 4 Going to try the same method that was used for Droid2 and DroidX. Create module for OC. I have not had time yet to look at kernel but I see someone is already creating kernels so should be able to do it from kernel with multiple settings; not sure if kernel behaves same way as it does in Droid.
3 Not sure if bootstrap (clockwork recovery) is available yet for Xoom WiFi but if it is just make a backup before you mod anything.
Not sure what you are talking about with 5 and 6 ... I am a Xoom noob, only been out of box for a couple of hours
ericizzy1 said:
good, will be looking for it. NOW, an easy way to overclock to 1.5 would be wonderfull...
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Sweet
Drop me a line if you want to try to bang out some stuff together...
Thanks Angdroid for the system dump. I downloaded a copy of the system dump for kicks. I will keep it on my hard drive in case anyone loses it and needs a backup copy.
Hopefully we can create a stock boot.img soon for us wifi owners in case something goes wrong or need to return it to factory state. It looks like from the system dump we have access to the stock bcm4329.ko wifi driver.
ericdabbs said:
Thanks Angdroid for the system dump. I downloaded a copy of the system dump for kicks. I will keep it on my hard drive in case anyone loses it and needs a backup copy.
Hopefully we can create a stock boot.img soon for us wifi owners in case something goes wrong or need to return it to factory state. It looks like from the system dump we have access to the stock bcm4329.ko wifi driver.
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Any word on the stock boot.img?
fabian29906 said:
Any word on the stock boot.img?
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I am not a developer. I just meant a community as a whole come up with the files for the stock boot.img.
Still no word from Motorola of providing the stock boot.img for the wifi Xoom.
Do you think it's possible to extract languages in Wifi firmware to flash 3g xoom?
Or flash with entire wifi firmware?
I don't think the adb pull way is the best way at it.
Creating an actual image using dd will retain symlinks and mod perms (not owners).. but it also won't dump a bunch of tiny >1kb files on your computer (whose cluster size may be over 4kb).. plus you can mount it as a loop device..
adb shell
# busybox dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/system of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
and then if you want
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/system.img
but I wouldn't.. just using the mtp interface is faster..
sausalito said:
Do you think it's possible to extract languages in Wifi firmware to flash 3g xoom?
Or flash with entire wifi firmware?
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What do you mean? are you talking about the ./system/vendor/firmware/fw_bcm4329.bin
I just compared the two system images for both devices
fw_bcm4329_mfg.bin is the only file with a matching checksum..
I gotta run.. otherwise i'd check the version with a hex editor..
I doubt you're talking about the wifi firmware anyways..
ericizzy1 said:
1. one click root and unroot
2. safe way to over clock
3. a way to relock the xoom and bring to factory default
4. overclocikng
5. voodoo color fix
6. voodoo sound fix
lets start with that
thanks
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Ya! A color calibration app would be awesome!
Azrael X 4.0
100mbit:
http://gititbit.ch/xRx3 - Xoom_Wifi_3.0.1.zip
That's what I did for this image. http://www.mediafire.com/file/2fknnmy6nw6i19n/StockWiFiSystem.zip
Note, you need to be able to mount a YAFS2 filesystem to read the contents.
Blades said:
I don't think the adb pull way is the best way at it.
Creating an actual image using dd will retain symlinks and mod perms (not owners).. but it also won't dump a bunch of tiny >1kb files on your computer (whose cluster size may be over 4kb).. plus you can mount it as a loop device..
adb shell
# busybox dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/system of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
and then if you want
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/system.img
but I wouldn't.. just using the mtp interface is faster..
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can someone post the 3.1 wifi-model USA system
(i need build.prop)
I want to dump my own radio for backup purposes. How can I do it ?
well, if you want a backup of your radio, just grab the flashable zip for it and keep it in your storage.
simms22 said:
well, if you want a backup of your radio, just grab the flashable zip for it and keep it in your storage.
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yeah but... there's no way to dump the .img from the device ?
sky0165 said:
yeah but... there's no way to dump the .img from the device ?
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there probably is, via adb, but i dont kniw the method. ive been keeping radio backups of my android devices since 2009, but its just the radio that im currently using zip. ill actually keep 2-3:variations in my storage, just in case.
adb pull /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem c:\modem.img
PS: use this on recovery or do adb remount first.
I believe the next step for the Droid Turbo are system images.
With MofoRoot, the next goal is to create a system image that is lollipop 5.1 and has root.
I've only flashed system images that were created up to this point but I'd be interested in learning how to take apart a system image and go as far as changing/manipulating it have wifi tether and root. Anyone have any good suggestions on where to start learning?
I plan to collect what I discover in this thread.
windraver said:
I believe the next step for the Droid Turbo are system images.
With MofoRoot, the next goal is to create a system image that is lollipop 5.1 and has root.
I've only flashed system images that were created up to this point but I'd be interested in learning how to take apart a system image and go as far as changing/manipulating it have wifi tether and root. Anyone have any good suggestions on where to start learning?
I plan to collect what I discover in this thread.
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You will need a different kernel to work with a 5.1 or 5.0 system image. We cannot flash a kernel with this method yet just system images.
Right, so the only thing we can do are modified "roms" based on stock. Can't flash recovery or kernel since those are on separate partitions.
This tool, yaffy, might be of some help. I'm downloading it now to see if it works...
timmyk465 said:
This tool, yaffy, might be of some help. I'm downloading it now to see if it works...
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Not going to work. You need to mount an ext4 image which is not what that tool is designed for. I'm currently doing so by using Linux and mounting the image as a loop device. I can create a guide for doing so if there's demand.
Ekkoria said:
Not going to work. You need to mount an ext4 image. I'm currently doing so by using Linux and mounting the image as a loop device. I can create a guide for doing so if there's demand.
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I'd definitely be interested in a guide. I just wish there was a tool for windows that would work.
You can do it on windows but it's way easier on Linux.
I'm gonna get Linux back up and running and see what I can cook up.
Ekkoria said:
Not going to work. You need to mount an ext4 image which is not what that tool is designed for. I'm currently doing so by using Linux and mounting the image as a loop device. I can create a guide for doing so if there's demand.
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All I want to do is build a flashable img with a modified hosts file. I've found a guide for mounting the image as a loop (which Ive done....) the issue Im running into is changing permissions to be able to actually edit the file once its mounted.
Guess I'll read more and keep tinkering..
ntxct said:
All I want to do is build a flashable img with a modified hosts file. I've found a guide for mounting the image as a loop (which Ive done....) the issue Im running into is changing permissions to be able to actually edit the file once its mounted.
Guess I'll read more and keep tinkering..
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Open your file manager as root, then open the file.
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I wrote up and posted a quick guide (which probably sucks) for this purpose.
I just had an idea. What if someone roots a system.img by extracting it from a kdz and then mounting it in linux copying the root files setting the permissions and then flashing that with download mode? A simple
Code:
dd if=/data/local/tmp/system.img of=/dev/block/platform/??????/by-name/system
should do the trick to flash the system.img file replacing the ?????? with the correct directory.
Just a thought.
Wouldn't you have to have read/write access in order to push the system.img?
Impossible,without root.
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l33tlinuxh4x0r said:
I just had an idea. What if someone roots a system.img by extracting it from a kdz and then mounting it in linux copying the root files setting the permissions and then flashing that with download mode? A simple
Code:
dd if=/data/tmp/system.img of=/dev/block/platform/??????/by-name/system
should do the trick to flash the system.img file replacing the ?????? with the correct directory.
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Dennisg34 said:
There's already a thread to discuss root. Please search before posting, thanks.
Sent from my G4 using your mom
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I think both of the previous threads discussing root have been closed. I haven't seen another - did I miss it?
Already tried something similar. Requires root unless you're one of the lucky few who have such advanced knowledge of hacking bootloaders/exploits....which I unfortunately am not. LOL
rfarrah said:
I think both of the previous threads discussing root have been closed. I haven't seen another - did I miss it?
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Apologies, I forgot they were.
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Yes, look in the developer section.
It is possible to dd to partitions using download mode. The only real problem is that the root method would be huge having to include a system.img.
l33tlinuxh4x0r said:
It is possible to dd to partitions using download mode. The only real problem is that the root method would be huge having to include a system.img.
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Additionally, you'd need a separate one for every carrier/variant.
I guess if it worked though, who cares how many we need or how big they are. Except with dd, one typo and you've got yourself a brick.
tabp0le said:
Additionally, you'd need a separate one for every carrier/variant.
I guess if it worked though, who cares how many we need or how big they are. Except with dd, one typo and you've got yourself a brick.
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very true.
tabp0le said:
Additionally, you'd need a separate one for every carrier/variant.
I guess if it worked though, who cares how many we need or how big they are. Except with dd, one typo and you've got yourself a brick.
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l33tlinuxh4x0r said:
very true.
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Though...wouldn't it still be able to get into download mode? I could be wrong, but that's not on the system partition from my understanding.
I'm on linux and am familiar with dd (I'm a distro-hopper and have no optical drive, so everything gets dd'ed onto usb drive).
Wouldn't we have to specify a block size on that? I know at least on linux distro, if block size isn't specified, I end up in non-boot.
geoff5093 said:
Yes, look in the developer section.
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Good
Thank's
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Th3Bill said:
Though...wouldn't it still be able to get into download mode? I could be wrong, but that's not on the system partition from my understanding.
I'm on linux and am familiar with dd (I'm a distro-hopper and have no optical drive, so everything gets dd'ed onto usb drive).
Wouldn't we have to specify a block size on that? I know at least on linux distro, if block size isn't specified, I end up in non-boot.
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Actually you are correct. The laf partition is the download mode. Flashing recovery is where we have to worry about losing download mode. (I never understood why, but at least with the G2 download mode broke when flashing custom recovery without a certain patch)
The previous root threads were locked because peopel wouldn't stay on topic after multiple warnings...
Eagle1337 said:
The previous root threads were locked because peopel wouldn't stay on topic after multiple warnings...
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Correction, they were closed per OP request
This one is now clean, lets try to stay on topic,
If anyone feels the urge to regurgitate further horse crap... we'll see what happens
l33tlinuxh4x0r said:
It is possible to dd to partitions using download mode. The only real problem is that the root method would be huge having to include a system.img.
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How can you confirm being able to dd to partitions using download mode? In download mode isn't the dd running from /system/bin that is mounted as ro. How could you replace /system while it is mounted and running dd from it?
gbgadgets said:
How can you confirm being able to dd to partitions using download mode? In download mode isn't the dd running from /system/bin that is mounted as ro. How could you replace /system while it is mounted and running dd from it?
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linux loads commands that you are in the process of running into ram. You can even delete a file that you are running and still be able to use it until you close it. Once you close it is when the problem would occur but by that time you would already have the new file in place. Also do NOT run a
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/??????/by-name/system
just skip that step otherwise you would lose the ability to dd.
Go directly for a
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dd if=/data/local/tmp/system.img of=/dev/block/platform/??????/by-name/system
also to get a system.img instead of extracting from a kdz you could run
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/platform/??????/by-name/system of=/data/local/tmp/system.img
docfreed said:
Wouldn't you have to have read/write access in order to push the system.img?
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you can push to /data/local/tmp using adb without root.