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Rom download question

This may be redundant and borderline stupid but here it goes.
When I use some of the download sites, I get a file with a .zip.jar extension. Is this something I need to extract to get the zip file, or do I simply rename it to a zip file? I've tried the rename thing and cant get the update.zip file to flash. I've tried a couple of browsers and both pc and mac, and still get the .jar on the end initially. Can anyone help?

Usually they should just end in zip. I don't know why they would end in jar. Where are you downloading from?

Well tried it again using firefox and it worked this time. Safari for mac always seems to have that issue. Thanks

SGS won't pass this screen with a picture. Phone/YellowTriangle/Computer

Ok so i was trying to root my SGS and got stuck in the first step.
It says after u download the zip u unzip and there is supposed to be a .tar file.
But after i unzipped mine was another zip so i unzipped that and there was some weird file called : zImage
Its not a tar file so says my computer. Is it supposed to be like that? Any help will be thanked.
So i tried rooting my phone and it didn't work, i am on gingerbread and have no experience about SGS but have some experience about android.
So after i failed my root i tried turning on the phone but this weird picture of a phone/yellow triangle/computer
And it won't let me turn on the phone fully, i can only go to download mode and nothing else. i have tried hard reset but not working.
Please help!
Simliar problem as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805923.

just unzip it first one and its tar file just put it in pda in odin and flash it. don't
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yahyoh said:
just unzip it first one and its tar file just put it in pda in odin and flash it. don't
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From properties it said that the zImage file is a tar file so should i flash using that?

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cuz u have to flash the kernel and the phone will boot. as i said before just unzip the downloaded file the put the unziped file in pda in odin
don't extract the zimage file from the tar file
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androidboss7 said:
From properties it said that the zImage file is a tar file so should i flash using that?
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the zimage is inside the tar file don't extract it just flash the tar file
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You have to flash a complete stock rom to get the phone to work
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Start with settings in Windows file manager = show file extensions (like .tar .zip .txt .exe)
Depending on what program used to unzip, .zip and .tar might have same icons. Show file extension to see difference.
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yahyoh said:
the zimage is inside the tar file don't extract it just flash the tar file
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thats what i did and this is what happened.
do i have to flash to stock rom again or can i just root again and it will
boot?

The zimage file is contained in the .tar, but still you need to flash the .tar file...
.Tar files seem like zip files and can be extracted, so to solve the windows showing the file as zipped do as O-T said:
O-T said:
Start with settings in Windows file manager = show file extensions (like .tar .zip .txt .exe)
Depending on what program used to unzip, .zip and .tar might have same icons. Show file extension to see difference.
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Then start ODIN with administrator privileges and use the .tar file (ONLY TAR FILES) as PHONE, do not choose any other file and certainly dont tick re-partition, after all are ready (and your phone is in download mode and recognized by ODIN) press start.
If you failed and see the screen with "Phone/YellowTriangle/Computer" do not worry, just pull out the phone battery, leave it with battery off for 30 secs, put the battery back in, get your phone to download mode (guess you are putting your phone to download mode before flashing, right?) and try again using the instructions that you have read in all those posts!

Coolgreek said:
The zimage file is contained in the .tar, but still you need to flash the .tar file...
.Tar files seem like zip files and can be extracted, so to solve the windows showing the file as zipped do as O-T said:
Then start ODIN with administrator privileges and use the .tar file (ONLY TAR FILES) as PHONE, do not choose any other file and certainly dont tick re-partition, after all are ready (and your phone is in download mode and recognized by ODIN) press start.
If you failed and see the screen with "Phone/YellowTriangle/Computer" do not worry, just pull out the phone battery, leave it with battery off for 30 secs, put the battery back in, get your phone to download mode (guess you are putting your phone to download mode before flashing, right?) and try again using the instructions that you have read in all those posts!
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Thanks mate!
After i read ur post i flashed again and it works again with root!
So final question. if i want to unroot do i just flash stock kernel and i am unrooted?

androidboss7 said:
Thanks mate!
After i read ur post i flashed again and it works again with root!
So final question. if i want to unroot do i just flash stock kernel and i am unrooted?
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Glad to be of help!
About your question: Exactly. Flashing original kernel will remove root!

Coolgreek said:
Glad to be of help!
About your question: Exactly. Flashing original kernel will remove root!
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thanks for ur help dude

Trying to ODIN Install I337UCUAMDL_I337ATTAMDL_ATT.zip

Its only ZIP file with all the files; not an MD5 or TAR file; how do i convert it to MD5?

Slade8525 said:
Its only ZIP file with all the files; not an MD5 or TAR file; how do i convert it to MD5?
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extract it

polish_pat said:
extract it
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its all apk and odex files; gonna cwm flash it and see if that works. trying to go from stock UCUAMDB to UCUAMDL so i can then wipe/flash. getting 'unauthorized software detected on your phone' error. thanks ATT!

I think that's related to Knox. Got to rename or delete the Knox apk in System/app.
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No! You have the wrong file if unzipping it doesn't give you an md5
No! You have the wrong file if unzipping it doesn't give you an md5.
Go get the right file. When you unzip it it will have the md5. Flash it through odin as a PDA.
Then you'll be all good.
-Wobbly

im ODIN-ing back to UCUAMDB for now, DL'ing on this connection is painfully slow, like 4 hrs per ROM.
thanks; figured it wasnt right.

How to view & unpack system.img.ext4?

So I was trying to get the media folder from the Galaxy s4 black.
Downloaded the firmware, extracted it until system.img.ext4.
Now how do I open this?
Tried with ext2explore - it did nothing when I chose the file
Tried with diskinternals - raw disk image - File system not supported
Anybody?

bungadudu said:
So I was trying to get the media folder from the Galaxy s4 black.
Downloaded the firmware, extracted it until system.img.ext4.
Now how do I open this?
Tried with ext2explore - it did nothing when I chose the file
Tried with diskinternals - raw disk image - File system not supported
Anybody?
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Have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294909
I use it all the time

I also cannot open the system.img.ext4 file with ext4 unpacker. ( it crashes after working for 15 minutes), is there another solution?

Just rename system.img.ext4 to system.img
I was having the same problem and it worked once I did this.

Not working
OmarEinea said:
Have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294909
I use it all the time
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I've done this numerous times, tried renaming it and all, I swear I did this the exact same way a few weeks ago and it worked no problem. Ext2Explorer doesn't do anything and the ext4 Unpacker freezes and always makes me force close it now. I'm using Windows 8.1 but I also tried this by mounting in Linux and I get an error as well, "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0," etc... So I'm not sure what happened I've downloaded the firmware from 2 different sources and from one of the sources I downloaded it from 4 different mirrors totaling 5 different downloads so there is no way my files are corrupt it won't work with ANY of them. I'm honestly so confused I don't even know where to look anymore so here I am posting along with the last few people that seem to share my pain. Hopefully someone can help us.
This is the firmware I'm using download and try it out for me pretty please let me know if your system has any issues?
N900TUVUENK3
Solved below

Open Galaxy S4 system.img.ext4
This is my tested method on SHV-E330L, a korean variant of Galaxy S4.
1) Unpack with sgstoex4.
2) Open unpacked file with ext2explore.
No other method works like ext4_unpacker etc., if it helps please hit thanks

Thanks!
galliard said:
This is my tested method on SHV-E330L, a korean variant of Galaxy S4.
1) Unpack with sgstoex4.
2) Open unpacked file with ext2explore.
No other method works like ext4_unpacker etc., if it helps please hit thanks
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Wowzers I literally just ran across that method and was about to post then I saw you already said it, good to know if I didn't find it I wouldn't have been left in the dark as you are right that is THE ONLY method that works at the moment for a lot of different people.

Change to system.tar.gz
OmarEinea said:
Have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294909
I use it all the time
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Change to system.tar.gz then extract

Open system.img.ext4 in windows easily with 2 tools!
First download this 2 tools
1. linux reader
2.jar file
http://www.diskinternals.com/download/ (linux reader)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=645192&d=1309768531
DOne 50 %:good:
Step 1)
Download Diskinternals Linux reader and open it up.
Step 2)
Download sgs2ext4.jar and open it up.
Step 3)
Take you system.img and move it into the sgs2ext4.jar application and wait until it is done.
Step 4)
Now you should get a system.img.ext4 file or something like that just make sure ext4/ext is in the name
Step 5)
Now in Diskinternals click on Drives –> mount image, now a window will pop-up, leave the box on RAW disk image and click next, now search for the system.img ext4 file and choose it.
Step 6)
Now you see a new drive which looks like this: Linux EXT Volume 1 (Number can be different) Open the drive and click on commands and then select all.
Step 7)
Now do Ctrl+S to save the files where you want them, i suggest you to make a folder on you desktop called system and save it there.
Good Luck !:laugh:
hit thanks if helped

can please provide the link to download sgstoex4. file
galliard said:
This is my tested method on SHV-E330L, a korean variant of Galaxy S4.
1) Unpack with sgstoex4.
2) Open unpacked file with ext2explore.
No other method works like ext4_unpacker etc., if it helps please hit thanks
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can please provide the link to download sgstoex4. file .. i could not find it..

sparky vicky said:
First download this 2 tools
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First, read the topic "Extract Deodex Sign and Zipalign an official ROM" and there credits.

Wow, I could not realize that you posted it more than a year ago. I really appreciate and thank you for your help. Finally, I can achieve single file I'm looking for inside ???

[Q] Needed secsettings.apk and secsettings.odex for NH1, quickly!

Hey guys!
So I was just installing S5 Settings from balliboxer
and now I am an idiot to backup the secsettings apk and odex.
After I installed it, it gone FC.
Please somebody have an stock 4.4.2 SecSettings.apk and odex file please?
I'm running on 4.4.2 G7102 NH1.

sorry i don't have nh1 so i can't help you but what about four threads for the same thing , it's not realy serious man if you need help just post one time
if you have a pc :
domload your rom from Sam
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/36186/G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.zip/
--extract it yoy will have G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.tar.md5 use 7zip and extract it
--When you have completed extracting all of them, you'll find many files including many .img files. For Apps you need to extract system.img. Unlike normal nandroid backup's system.img file which in yaffs, this stock one in different. So, unyaffs tool can't unpack the system.img
--To extract the system.img, download this tool: sgs2toext4 (created by drphrozen). On extracting it you'll have sgs2toext4.jar file.
--Open a command window and set the directory where you have .jar file.
--Now type sgs2toext4.jar and press enter.
--The .jar will run in a new window & will ask you to drag & drop the system.img file there. Do the same and wait till the process completes.
--When the process completes, you'll find a file named system.ext4.img in the same folder where you had the system.img file.
--Now download ext2reader and install it. Then open the program open your system.img.ext4
--Now navigate in to find the apk you need and extract it copy to your phone

maxx35000 said:
sorry i don't have nh1 so i can't help you but what about four threads for the same thing , it's not realy serious man if you need help just post one time
if you have a pc :
domload your rom from Sam
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/36186/G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.zip/
--extract it yoy will have G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.tar.md5 use 7zip and extract it
--When you have completed extracting all of them, you'll find many files including many .img files. For Apps you need to extract system.img. Unlike normal nandroid backup's system.img file which in yaffs, this stock one in different. So, unyaffs tool can't unpack the system.img
--To extract the system.img, download this tool: sgs2toext4 (created by drphrozen). On extracting it you'll have sgs2toext4.jar file.
--Open a command window and set the directory where you have .jar file.
--Now type sgs2toext4.jar and press enter.
--The .jar will run in a new window & will ask you to drag & drop the system.img file there. Do the same and wait till the process completes.
--When the process completes, you'll find a file named system.ext4.img in the same folder where you had the system.img file.
--Now download ext2reader and install it. Then open the program open your system.img.ext4
--Now navigate in to find the apk you need and extract it copy to your phone
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Thanks dude! And sorry for those 4 threads. Gonna download it!
This will take soooooo long! My Internet connection is slow and can complete in 9-10 hours!

Just be patient and people will see your thread and help you! But making FOUR posts...?

maxx35000 said:
sorry i don't have nh1 so i can't help you but what about four threads for the same thing , it's not realy serious man if you need help just post one time
if you have a pc :
domload your rom from Sam
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/36186/G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.zip/
--extract it yoy will have G7102XWUBNI2_G7102OLBBNI2_XSE.tar.md5 use 7zip and extract it
--When you have completed extracting all of them, you'll find many files including many .img files. For Apps you need to extract system.img. Unlike normal nandroid backup's system.img file which in yaffs, this stock one in different. So, unyaffs tool can't unpack the system.img
--To extract the system.img, download this tool: sgs2toext4 (created by drphrozen). On extracting it you'll have sgs2toext4.jar file.
--Open a command window and set the directory where you have .jar file.
--Now type sgs2toext4.jar and press enter.
--The .jar will run in a new window & will ask you to drag & drop the system.img file there. Do the same and wait till the process completes.
--When the process completes, you'll find a file named system.ext4.img in the same folder where you had the system.img file.
--Now download ext2reader and install it. Then open the program open your system.img.ext4
--Now navigate in to find the apk you need and extract it copy to your phone
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Unfortunately this doesn't work. When you drop the system.img.ext4 file onto the sgs2ext4 tool, no file is produced. The tool just keeps endlessly repeating:
"system.img.ext4 32 B 0 B/s"
I think that tool is too old (2.5 years old) and doesn't support the newest Samsung firmwares.

siraltus said:
Unfortunately this doesn't work. When you drop the system.img.ext4 file onto the sgs2ext4 tool, no file is produced. The tool just keeps endlessly repeating:
"system.img.ext4 32 B 0 B/s"
I think that tool is too old (2.5 years old) and doesn't support the newest Samsung firmwares.
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witch firmware do you want to extract ?and whitch file you want ?
i 've extract my latest firmware 09/2014 so it work fine for me

maxx35000 said:
witch firmware do you want to extract ?and whitch file you want ?
i 've extract my latest firmware 09/2014 so it work fine for me
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The T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910T) NK4 firmware. I can't find any instructions online on extracting Samsung firmwares other than these, which were originally written up by rwilco12 a long time ago and reposted endlessly.

siraltus said:
The T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910T) NK4 firmware. I can't find any instructions online on extracting Samsung firmwares other than these, which were originally written up by rwilco12 a long time ago and reposted endlessly.
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you have one solution try to extract md5 file
and direct mount system.img in ubunt it work for me then copy the file you want

maxx35000 said:
you have one solution try to extract md5 file
and direct mount system.img in ubunt it work for me then copy the file you want
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I'll try doing that in a Linux VM. I'm on Windows and the Diskinternals Linux Reader keeps saying the filesystem is invalid.

siraltus said:
I'll try doing that in a Linux VM. I'm on Windows and the Diskinternals Linux Reader keeps saying the filesystem is invalid.
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give me a link to download the system.img i try to extract it

maxx35000 said:
give me a link to download the system.img i try to extract it
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Thank you for your help. It's this firmware: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/39224/N910TUVU1ANK4_N910TTMB1ANK4_TMB.zip/

Anything? Is this a no-go?

siraltus said:
Thank you for your help. It's this firmware: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/39224/N910TUVU1ANK4_N910TTMB1ANK4_TMB.zip/
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sorry i have forget to do it i download the file now
but what the files needed in ?

maxx35000 said:
sorry i have forget to do it i download the file now
but what the files needed in ?
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I just want to find a method that works for extracting the Note 4 firmware because none I found online work.

siraltus said:
I just want to find a method that works for extracting the Note 4 firmware because none I found online work.
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I found that the Linux method works on my Mac. Took a ton of tinkering and restarting the emulator on my machine.
sgs2ext4.jar did not work for me in Windows. It just hangs.

sbrownla said:
I found that the Linux method works on my Mac. Took a ton of tinkering and restarting the emulator on my machine.
sgs2ext4.jar did not work for me in Windows. It just hangs.
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yes sgs2ext4.jar work with some of system.img but not all but you can mount in linux i have extracted note 4 img :good:

maxx35000 said:
give me a link to download the system.img i try to extract it
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The SAMMOBILE firmware or the system.img? I'm not yet downloading it. Let's see if I can resume the download.