[Q]: Rooting/flashing i9500 from linux/ubuntu/ADB/hemidell - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I dont have access to windows PC. Can it be done using linux?
I would like to root my s4(i9500) first of all.
Flashable reccovery have .img files, can we flash those files using adb shell or something?

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Wildfire Bootanimators Help

i have a htc wildifire, which has been rooted and installed with openfire rom. But i would like to install a custom boot animator, after reading posts i have realised that you have to gain adb access to your phone if im right?
i dont understand what is meany by that, i know how to access recovery, but how can i gain access to my phones system so im eligible to change the boot animator?
any suggestions are much apreciated.
same problem , you need to use root explorer , or this one ,adb, i download root explorer but dont now how to run it and try adb but it was difficult to me (adb,java,eclipse) ??????
ive tried using root explorer, but it dosent allow me to replace the bootanimation.zip.
i have not yet tried, adb could anyone link me to how adb works?
thanks
Ninja10 said:
ive tried using root explorer, but it dosent allow me to replace the bootanimation.zip.
i have not yet tried, adb could anyone link me to how adb works?
thanks
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dl a bootanimation.zip file you want to use
place it into your android sdk tools folder (im assuming you have the android sdk installed)
e.g. mine is C:/android-sdk_r06-windows/android-sdk-windows/tools (yours would be different obviously if you installed it somewhere else)
reboot phone into recovery (well i do anyway)
run a command prompt
CD to your tools directory
type adb remount
type adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
type adb reboot

Help: Is there an Windows app that can backup the Streak ROM as an image file?

Hi,
Is there an app that you can run from a Windows XP laptop that can backup a Dell Streak ROM Image as a single file to a hard drive?
My apologies if this has been asked before, but I seem to only find backup apps that run on the device itself.
Thanks.
PS: Assuming if this is not possible, what is the best way to backup to a laptop hard drive?
me4tux said:
Hi,
Is there an app that you can run from a Windows XP laptop that can backup a Dell Streak ROM Image as a single file to a hard drive?
My apologies if this has been asked before, but I seem to only find backup apps that run on the device itself.
Thanks.
PS: Assuming if this is not possible, what is the best way to backup to a laptop hard drive?
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You have to flash either StreakMod or ClockworkMod recovery and from there you do a nandroid backup and then copy that to your PC
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cdzo72 said:
You have to flash either StreakMod or ClockworkMod recovery and from there you do a nandroid backup and then copy that to your PC
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk HD
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Thanks for you reply. That's the step I wanted to avoid by installing a custom recovery.
So I suppose there is no other easier way if I just have a stock Streak with the stock Dell recovery?
me4tux said:
Thanks for you reply. That's the step I wanted to avoid by installing a custom recovery.
So I suppose there is no other easier way if I just have a stock Streak with the stock Dell recovery?
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Nothing at all. There are non root apps that will allow you to backup your user apps and their settings but anything related to the system will have to be manually reconfigured because your not rooted more than likely either. And those don't work well either.
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He could do a system dump using ADB, but to do so he would...
...have to be rooted.
...have busybox installed.
...have to determine where the system partitions are (e.g. /dev/mnt/nanda for /system).
From there he could then execute the commands in a command prompt. For example, to do a system dump on my el cheapo Coby tablet, I use the following commands:
Code:
adb.exe wait-for-device
adb.exe shell mkdir /sdcard/dump
adb.exe shell su -c "cat /dev/block/nanda > /sdcard/dump/bootloader.img"
adb.exe shell su -c "cat /dev/block/nandc > /sdcard/dump/boot.img"
adb.exe shell su -c "cat /dev/block/nandg > /sdcard/dump/recovery.img"
adb.exe shell su -c "busybox tar -czvf /sdcard/dump/system.tgz /system"
mkdir dump
adb.exe pull /sdcard/dump dump
Putting it all together into a single file though is not going to happen. Besides, installing ClockworkMod or StreakMod and doing a nandroid backup through it is the best means of backing up the Streak.

[Q] Soft Bricked Nexus 7 with Chainfire 3D, help?

Hey everyone decided to install chainfire 3D only to find out that it doesnt work and has been addressed before (stuck on nexus logo). Anyways i read the only way to fix is to re-flash it. is there any other way because i have so much data on it that i really do not want to loose. could i connect it to the computer some how and remove chainfire 3d files? it has been rooted and i have the nexus 7 toolkit installed on my computer.
also if not possible i will use the nexus toolkit to re-flash stock rom.
Have you backed up your files prior to using chainfire? If so, just restore it.
Try with
Code:
adb uninstall name.apk
Replace name.apk with that apk's name (if you don't know, what it is, type
Code:
adb shell
and navigate to /data/
Code:
cd /data/
and type
Code:
ls
to show all apk's installed on your N7.)
Thanks guys, but i found out i could use the Toolkit to install the original stock firmware, without deleting any of my data since i was unlocked.
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Help installing ADB

My phone only has cwm with no zip rom files.
I know i need adb files to recognize my phone in order to put in the zip files to my internal storage. I am having a difficult time installing adb drivers.
What do i have to enable on my phone in order to install the adb files? I have nothing on my phone except cwm.....thanks.
You dont need to do anything on your phone. All you gotta do is have it in CWM while you use the adb commands.
What you need to do is get the drivers working on your PC. Try installing Koush's Universal ADB driver (google this).

Stuck on TWRP

Hi forum
I'm stock in TWRP after I flashed the SlimKat OS for the D802 on a too old recovery.
So I'm moving forward with ADB pushing a newer recovery.zip onto my phone but this is where I'm stuck. Although the command is very simple Windows 8 isnt recognizing the G2 even through I've installed root from this PC.
I guess my question is does anyone have a link for the very lg G2 driver when in TWRP mode? Apprently it's not the same as the one you use to root etc.
A million thanks for saving my day!
I found out I need to force Windows to recognize the driver as a LGE ADB device. Now I can push the file but I can't locate the file. What am I doing wrong?
adb push recovery.zip /sdcard/
The file is copied but I can't locate it on sdcard?
Haha I end up fixing my own issue. I just forgot to mount the DATA folder
Aaaannnd it worked. Thanks for looking either way

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