How do i create a tar-file from an img-file? Apparently there is a easy way to do it on linux but im running a windows pc. I wanted to create an odin-flasable img of the recovery which has been released on clockworkmod.com for the i9505. thanks in advance
Perhaps use this instead?: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.bvgemert.flasher
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Hi just asking if anyone knows any links or archives or anything i can read through, im looking to build my own ROM. any help would be much appreciated and dont mind donating to someone that can help me start to learn.
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Well, first of all you need to be able to compile Android. This is pretty easy and it's explained directly in the developers google website. If you're not running a Nexus One or a Nexus S, you can't actually compile a working android copy for your own phone "as is" from AOSP. Because of this, you firstly need to change / create some dirs and files in order to add the support for your particular device. I'd start searching on CM repositories for this (I've got the Nexus One and thus I don't have such problems).
After you've compiled Android for your device and your changes (for example root), you'll have some disk images (you can find them all under out/target/product/PHONE_MODEL/, they are the .img files). You can directly flash them via fastboot ("fastboot flash boot boot.img" etc.). You can though create an update.zip file, and this can be made extracting the system.img file in a folder. Remember that you'll have to recreate the symlinks (to toolbox and/or busybox if you want to include it in your build) and set permissions, as zip doesn't save the permissions of the files once compressed.
Thus so far, if you succeed making every single step you should have your ROM on your phone
I have two questions: is there a flashable zip with ubuntu in it, i cant use the ubuntu installer/a script because at the moment, i dont have a laptop/pc, or can i create one? I mean, it is easy to backup ubuntu once its installed, so it should be possible to make a flashable zip?
And my second question is: is there a good beat making software on android or linux working?
hi everyone,
There is an guide for installing multirom to the nexus 7 here that will allow for dual boot of android and Ubuntu:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
My question is that I am unsure how to flash the multirom zip file through recovery.
model: Nexus 7
android version: 4.2.1
build number: JOP40D
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04.
Had issues to mount nexus (despite setting the USB to developer mode) but could mount it using a GUI tool called gMTP.
I copied the multirom zip file to the root of the android file system using gMTP
I unlocked the bootloader also using fastboot.
However, I dont get an option when I boot into recovery mode to install the multirom zip file.
Any tips are greatlt welcomed.
I'd like to keep android and install ubuntu separately rather than just installing Ubuntu according to:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation
regards,
Will.
You'll want to copy or move the file from the root directory to /sdcard
Then assuming you're using TWRP recovery, once you boot into recovery go to Install and choose the zip file.
It will default to looking in the sdcard directory.
Edit:
Re-read, and you may not have a custom recovery installed yet. To do that, go here.
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/103
Download the img file, place it in the same directory your running the fastboot commands from, and do a fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.2.1-grouper.img
To boot into the new recovery hold volume down and power while booting up. Use volume keys to select recovery and then hit power to select.
is this actually possible? what advantages could we have from booting ubuntu in nexus 7?
Thanks regalpimpin
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You'll want to copy or move the file from the root directory to /sdcard
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When I run gMTP from my laptop I only see the following directories on the Nexus 7:
Alarms
Android
DCIM
Download
Movies
Music
Notifications
Pictures
Podcasts
Ringtones
Perhaps this is the sdcard directory that contains these subdirectories. is this correct?
mariosanoguera said:
is this actually possible? what advantages could we have from booting ubuntu in nexus 7?
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Yes, one can boot Ubuntu from the Nexus
I have a use for it. Rather than carrying a laptop to international conferences, I have a use for Ubuntu to for example install a latex editor and tex in order to produce/edit/modify research paper presentations while travelling.
wfitzgerald said:
Yes, one can boot Ubuntu from the Nexus
I have a use for it. Rather than carrying a laptop to international conferences, I have a use for Ubuntu to for example install a latex editor and tex in order to produce/edit/modify research paper presentations while travelling.
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mmmhh but touchscreen works? Im assuming you use external keyboard right? bluetooth or keyboard?
Hi there,
Got multirom installed.
Thanks
mariosanoguera said:
mmmhh but touchscreen works? Im assuming you use external keyboard right? bluetooth or keyboard?
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wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7
I got Ubuntu installed using multirom.
However, I can' seem to boot the androind (Internal) option.
When it tries to boot into android to prints output to the screen and then hangs with the following last 3 lines:
BusyBox v1.19.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.19.3-7ubuntu) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
Any ideas? Shoud I have also installed a new android rom from:
developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#nakasi
Hi All,
I wanted to update my ideos s7-104 (best buy US) to the Joenilan froyo fusion rom and made one mistake along the way. I copied the .zip file to the external sd card not the internal sd card. So zip file is not available to CWM (2.5.1.8). I tried manually pushing the file to the tablet with ADB (from computer) but the tablet is not visible to the system (windows 7 64bit with drivers installed, I could not get HiSuite to install with upgrade.cmd). This is strange becasue the Upgrade utility which uses adb flashes the rom just fine. Of course I wiped the system and reformatted the device per the instructions. Now when the unit boots it goes the fastboot and then stops with option to reboot with back/home which works. I don't think the unit is bricked just yet since I can still get into the CWM recovery.
Does anyone have any bright ideas to move the Ideos S7 Froyo v1.3-EXT4 Stable.zip to the internal sdcard?
Thanks for all the useful information previously posted!
Bruce
St. Louis MO
Hi, let see if i can help you, if you have a backup restore, if you dont that implies some work, i dont use windows i prefer linux, you can try to create a virtual machine, with windows xp or linux ubuntu and then with fastboot commands push the file to sd card.
Another way, get the oficial rom for your tablet copy the file to ext-sdcard and follow the install instrutions of the rom, you must create the dload directory in ext-sdcard.
it look like you lost the system files and the kernel of the device, so it boot in to fastboot, fastboot does not acept adb, but fastboot has some commands to copy kernel and system file to the device, it cant copy a zip file, must be a img file.
Version 6.0.1 of cwm reads update files from ext-sdcard so you can also try to install that recovery version with fastboot.
Remember: it always a good idea to have a backup before doing anything.
Hope that helps.
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hal_2000 said:
Hi, let see if i can help you, if you have a backup restore, if you dont that implies some work, i dont use windows i prefer linux, you can try to create a virtual machine, with windows xp or linux ubuntu and then with fastboot commands push the file to sd card.
Another way, get the oficial rom for your tablet copy the file to ext-sdcard and follow the install instrutions of the rom, you must create the dload directory in ext-sdcard.
it look like you lost the system files and the kernel of the device, so it boot in to fastboot, fastboot does not acept adb, but fastboot has some commands to copy kernel and system file to the device, it cant copy a zip file, must be a img file.
Version 6.0.1 of cwm reads update files from ext-sdcard so you can also try to install that recovery version with fastboot.
Remember: it always a good idea to have a backup before doing anything.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks so much for the tips. I was able to flash the trzmod-v3 image and now I have a working tablet again. Pretty slick I must say.
Hi, well done, i'm working with cm9 for s7 maybe in some few days you can try cm9
hal_2000
does anyone know the combination to get into recovery and cwm.
thank's
sorry my bad english
BANOUNDROID said:
does anyone know the combination to get into recovery and cwm.
thank's
sorry my bad english
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Hi, with s7 power off press, menu + call(green key) + power, wait a few seconds and you get cwm screen if it is install
Hal_2000
Hi
I have debian squeeze on my GT-I9505 installed (via debian kit) and I want to use sshfs. I have mounted my server to a folder (/mnt/ssh).
I can access to this folder from terminal but when I want to access it via file manager I get an empty folder.
I searched and I found this. But I don't know how should I apply the patch. Does anyone know any custom kernel support this fix. I searched a lot but I found nothing for GT-I9505.
now I'm using Omega V.3.0 rom and Adam kernel.
Thanks
(sorry for my bad english)