How to install themes and kernels in G3. Can someone make a video Please.
Sorry if this might come off as rude, but why would somebody make a video for you? Why would somebody do that, if you (obviously) weren't willing to look for the info yourself? Go to the themes section, you are bound to find info on changing themes, go to the development section and open a custom kernel thread, you are bound to find info on flashing kernels.
vimalaug07 said:
How to install themes and kernels in G3. Can someone make a video Please.
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go to the theme sections for more details..!!
you need your phone to be rooted to install themes..!!
many themes have different requirement and procedure.!!
generally you are required to replace the framework_res and tw_framework files in system/framework folder using root explorer..
you can also try the one click theme changer and g3 theme changer apps!!
more info in the themes sections.!!
you can install kernals by flashing them via odin!!!
more info in development section!!!!
you can always refer this link too!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858583
this is there in stubborn_donkey's signature!!
and always try to search in the sections for your answer.. if you still dont get any then you post a new thread..!!!
Thanks guys for the reply. If there was a video it would be nice. I tried to install theme by using cmw and install zip from sd card, then my phone restarts and gets stuck in that and i have to flash the os again.
to install a theme just use this
to install a kernel download the kernel whta you want and flash it with odin, normaly it comes in a tar file including a zImage inside
vimalaug07 said:
Thanks guys for the reply. If there was a video it would be nice. I tried to install theme by using cmw and install zip from sd card, then my phone restarts and gets stuck in that and i have to flash the os again.
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That was not the right way. U need to download a theme and replace the respective files
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It's quite simple.
1. Kernels come in .tar packages, and you need only to flash them on your phone with ODIN as one package. They will overwrite your current kernel.
2. Themes come in .apk files. You should put them in /system/framework/
For that, I use adb (android shell).
But if you asked that question, you probably have an odexed rom, which makes it nearly impossible to use themes, so read around on the forums first!
jihaa said:
It's quite simple.
1. Kernels come in .tar packages, and you need only to flash them on your phone with ODIN as one package. They will overwrite your current kernel.
2. Themes come in .apk files. You should put them in /system/framework/
For that, I use adb (android shell).
But if you asked that question, you probably have an odexed rom, which makes it nearly impossible to use themes, so read around on the forums first!
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it would be really appreciated if you can make a tutorial on how to use adb!!
Thanks for the explanation dude
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Hello!
This is a thread where potential developers can get kernel and platform source code for Samsung Galaxy S I9070 Advance, and other info. I will try to update this until we will have first custom rom ready. I encourage everybody with some experience with android development, to share their knowledge with other users here. Please if any of you will make any progress in rooting, making recovery or developing custom rom, to write here in this thread or even start a new one if some major break trough will be made.
Ok so here are the links to sources (I don't know the diference between those to, but I guess it is region related):
GTI9070_GB_OpenSoruce
GTI9070_LA_GB_OpenSoruce
All sources, can be found HERE.
In the attachment you can also find some other info I've pulled from my phone, which used to be rooted, cause I had some test version. I hope all this stuff will help us get root access, custom recovery and last but not least a whole bunch of custom roms.
NOW LETS HACKING AND DEVELOPING BEGIN!!!
One more thing, PLEASE take a minute to VOTE for this phone to get its own forum section here on XDA. Just make a post in THIS THREAD. The device is not in the poll yet, so you must write a post in thread. THANK YOU!
We've made a step into a right direction with a lot of help from forum I've made a working root method!
I've hard bricked my phone, so I am off the developemnt from this phone, only if by some chance I get a replacement. Sorry guys, in spirit of developing I've killed my phone .
I wish I was better at kernel development... I would love some development for this phone!
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I've somehow managed to configure linux and pulled andorid sources from the repo, now I have to figured out how to compile a kernel. I have much to learn but if nobody else will give it a try, maybe I will succeed.
yeah...we as new wannabe devs are learning back the basics...i'm still trying to figure out what to do about the kernel source...afraid of bricking my phone in the process... hehe.. but all the kernel sources for all regions has been released...
kilsmap said:
yeah...we as new wannabe devs are learning back the basics...i'm still trying to figure out what to do about the kernel source...afraid of bricking my phone in the process... hehe.. but all the kernel sources for all regions has been released...
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Dear friend. I come from China, now I already have a good i9070, I can help you with your test, you can send to my mailbox [email protected]
hmmm...qzem, im getting stuck at initramfs...how do we get these for our phones? because the kernel can only be flashed safely when it is compiled with initramfs files from our phone... and for the phone to get custom recovery, i think they will also need initramfs files...
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hmmm...qzem, im getting stuck at initramfs...how do we get these for our phones? because the kernel can only be flashed safely when it is compiled with initramfs files from our phone... and for the phone to get custom recovery, i think they will also need initramfs files...
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Same thing here. I have no idea how to get those, been asking around the forum an searching, but for now all the directions indicates that you need to have root access to get iniramfs. That really sucks...
hahaha...from this point of view, all Samsung phones after Galaxy S Advance will be quite hard to root... I'm waiting for the Galaxy SIII to launch, and for someone to root it... Maybe then we will be able to use the same way to root our phone... If only we can see what's inside our kernel.bin.md5... I'm sure the files we needed are in there...
the initrams? u mean ramdisk?
grab stock boot.img and extract from it.
the stock boot.img can be grabbed from odin flashable stock rom.
an0nym0us_ said:
the initrams? u mean ramdisk?
grab stock boot.img and extract from it.
the stock boot.img can be grabbed from odin flashable stock rom.
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Yeah.. We have the stock rom, but can't figure out which one should we extract the boot.img from.. There was system.img.md5, cache.img.md5, hidden.img.md5, modem.bin.md5, and kernel.bin.md5... So which one? My suspicion lies to the kernel.bin, but I have no idea how to extract it..
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I have compiled a stock kernel from source code, so I got zImage file, now I have to find out how to build boot.img from this. I will contiue tommorow I hope I am close to the solution! Mabe few days to crack this baby .
qzem said:
I have compiled a stock kernel from source code, so I got zImage file, now I have to find out how to build boot.img from this. I will contiue tommorow I hope I am close to the solution! Mabe few days to crack this baby .
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Good luck!
Hope you get to a solution soon
I can't work on it as I currently don't have a phone to test on, sent it in for repairs.
qzem said:
I have compiled a stock kernel from source code, so I got zImage file, now I have to find out how to build boot.img from this. I will contiue tommorow I hope I am close to the solution! Mabe few days to crack this baby .
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Have u tried flashing it directly to the phone? You don't have to make it into a boot.img to flash it.. Because I'm afraid that the zImage will be useless if not paired with working initramfs.. Compiling the kernel is quite straightforward, the thing is to get the initramfs to turn the kernel insecure.. There are also scripts to extract initramfs from zImage, but I haven't had time to test it..
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Ok what exactly is in initramfs, that is what I am trying to figured out? I've recompiled some other samsung boot.img with dsixda kitchen, and I got zImage and a folder caled boot.img-ramdisk, which included different files like init, init.goldfish.rc init.rc, default.prop, etc. In a file default prop is the setting ro.secure=0, and this is the settign I belive, that makes kernel insecure. I've also tried to unpack the zImage that I got from thsi boot.img, with the kitchen to see if includes those so called initramfs, but it doesn't. So I think that if I figured out which files should be in ramdisk, and if those files can be pulled of the phone, that than maybe I can repack a working boot.img. What do you think?
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Ok what exactly is in initramfs, that is what I am trying to figured out? I've recompiled some other samsung boot.img with dsixda kitchen, and I got zImage and a folder caled boot.img-ramdisk, which included different files like init, init.goldfish.rc init.rc, default.prop, etc. In a file default prop is the setting ro.secure=0, and this is the settign I belive, that makes kernel insecure. I've also tried to unpack the zImage that I got from thsi boot.img, with the kitchen to see if includes those so called initramfs, but it doesn't. So I think that if I figured out which files should be in ramdisk, and if those files can be pulled of the phone, that than maybe I can repack a working boot.img. What do you think?
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Yep, you got everything right there, I think.. Initramfs, ramdisk are the same thing.. They should include the cpio.gz, init.rc, default.prop etc... Have you extracted these files from the source kernel? Cos I don't think we can copy directly from phone, cos we need to preserve the permissions set on the files... Can you do that with kitchen?
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I am following the topic and hoping it works out the development of kernels and roms to the device.
Come on it has to be a way to compile an insecure kernel without having the access to rooted phone. Cause all the options I found till now, required some files, that can only bee pull from rooted phone. But the whole point of an insecure kernel is the possibility to root the phone. Anybody can help us? Maybe I should start another thread, damn it!
Haha... Yeah, somehow I feel that Samsung is screwing with us, what with the new firmware format (never had kernel.bin before) and secured kernel, this is becoming impossible.. If we just have some devs good-hearted enough to port CWM recovery for us.. But without initramfs, I don't know if it's possible..
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The initramfs is inside kernel.bin.md5 (as for the Galaxy S firmware).
kernel.bin.md5 is a normal zImage Linux kernel (+md5).
the initramfs is included in the kernel image (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Extract_initramfs_from_zImage)
the initramfs is in our case a uncompressed cpio archive, therefore the script in the wiki does not work, but https://github.com/mistadman/Extract-Kernel-Initramfs/blob/master/unpack-initramfs can extract it without problem.
So, there should be no difficulty to root the i9070...
The easiest way would be to change the initramfs and repack everything.
hi
after alot of search i found a way to extract the kernel
some details for how i extract it
i use http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack,_Edit,_and_Re-Pack_Boot_Images
to get boot.img
and i use moto depacker to extract sbf to get system.smg
after that i use unyaffs-x86-win to extarct system,smg
i use dsixda-Android-Kitchen to make work folder
and i use the system and boot
and i use the method that unpack the kernel and i upload the kernel below
..... is there a way to make a rom using the same kernal (stock but extracted) ????
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Looks interesting...
I don´t think that we will get any Rom for the Flipout, i have one, too!
The Community is way toooo small for that Phone, and everything is locked by Motorola.
But i changed to Sony Xperia Arc S.
System.img
you could flash the new system.img only directly, or you could repack the new system.img into a new cg39.smg and then repack the sbf and flash.
But repacking cg39.smg has failed for me, that is after flashing the new sbf the bootloader wouldn't accept the new system partition, either because the cg39.smg I repacked is corrupted or signature verification failed.
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you could flash the new system.img only directly, or you could repack the new system.img into a new cg39.smg and then repack the sbf and flash.
But repacking cg39.smg has failed for me, that is after flashing the new sbf the bootloader wouldn't accept the new system partition, either because the cg39.smg I repacked is corrupted or signature verification failed.
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Cause you need the to sign it with Motorola key that we didn't know it so I will wait until found way to flash rom or to unlock bootloader
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ososmam said:
Cause you need the to sign it with Motorola key that we didn't know it so I will wait until found way to flash rom or to unlock bootloader
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try the bootstrappped CWM recovery from the flipout and charm android development forum, you should be able to flash a custom ROM without signing it
hsr0 said:
try the bootstrappped CWM recovery from the flipout and charm android development forum, you should be able to flash a custom ROM without signing it
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it stop at installing packeage not moving and not work good must be able to mount to install rom from it
ososmam said:
it stop at installing packeage not moving and not work good must be able to mount to install rom from it
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package shouldn't have any problem Installing, try downloading from reference link provided in the thread in posted in development forum.
hsr0 said:
package shouldn't have any problem Installing, try downloading from reference link provided in the thread in posted in development forum.
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We can only try to port rom with stock kernel but we can only use android 2.1 custom rom
Sent from my flipout with stock rom
we can use froyo or gingerbread, provided we can change the features of the ROM such that the kernel supports it.
makefile mods
Im editing some makefiles but is there any apk i can install to show advance board details and hardware chipsets and manufacturers?
plageran said:
Im editing some makefiles but is there any apk i can install to show advance board details and hardware chipsets and manufacturers?
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you can copy build.prop from system to your computer and open it with nootpad++ and you will found some information
I found yaffs explorer, it give most of the hardware info
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hi ive got a stock rom with tweaks i want to share with the people here on xda but i dont no how to make a cwm flashable zip and how do i keep the kernal with the rom well kuro kernal to be exact so people dont have to flash seprate?i have a nandroid backup off the rom
well heres a little info about the rom:
its been tweaked with pimp my rom v2
i have borrowed the init.d from hyperion golden master
i have removed bloatware and somemore like email,youtube;and stock music replaced with walkman but you can install these apps from google play
ive added some apps to system like adfree,walman music app,quick reboot,system app installer
the rom is odexed so the internal memory is at its biggiest about 170mb free internal
the rom is complete stock apart from the tweaks i have added.
everthing works NOTHING broken and it doesnt reboot when set to 156mhz min :good:
i will giv credits to the people when this is up and going but cant do nowt because i dont no how to make cwm flasable zips
if anyone has any issues with this post or what im about to do please comment nicely i can withstand creative critissium :fingers-crossed:
thanx in advance :laugh:
Download any flushable zip from xda then delete all without meta-inf folder and place your files in the system folder... Make sub dir if necessary..
Btw I have system,Meta and boot.img from stock ddlf1....if I zip them using winrar without cygwin will it work if I flash via cwm
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I have managed to build the AOSP from src, but i have not tried to flash the rom because i have no clue what blob files i need to extract from the phone and where ti out em before i do a real build.
I guess that i can use the same extract script CM uses, but i still dont know where to put the files, pls help
entropin said:
I have managed to build the AOSP from src, but i have not tried to flash the rom because i have no clue what blob files i need to extract from the phone and where ti out em before i do a real build.
I guess that i can use the same extract script CM uses, but i still dont know where to put the files, pls help
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You put it in vendor/lge/mako
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