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I dont have access to a linux box and I think in order to flash the latest JMA firmware from samfirmware i need to extract the rfs files in order to load them up via odin...if im completely off please disregard or point me to the correct path..
if any helpful souls out there that wouldnt mind extracting the files and uploading them here?
thanks
Im just a noob trying to flash the latest JMA firmware on my JM6 tab
thanks again..
EDIT - Thank you all for explaining it:
For anyone else presented with the same issue; use the zipped JMA file in odin in the PDA box and the pit file located at the bottom of the samfirm page when flashing the latest JMA firmware.
Eltahur said:
I dont have access to a linux box and I think in order to flash the latest JMA firmware from samfirmware i need to extract the rfs files in order to load them up via odin...if im completely off please disregard or point me to the correct path..
if any helpful souls out there that wouldnt mind extracting the files and uploading them here?
thanks
Im just a noob trying to flash the latest JMA firmware on my JM6 tab
thanks again..
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Extract them yourself by opening the file with 7Zip or WinZip. They're just archives.
Also - Should be in the General section.
knightnz said:
Extract them yourself by opening the file with 7Zip or WinZip. They're just archives.
Also - Should be in the General section.
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thanks for the tips. I just installed both winzip and 7zip and could not extract the factory.rfs file with either.....
im guessing I have to extract the factory.rfs file and zip as a tar file for odin right?
Eltahur said:
thanks for the tips. I just installed both winzip and 7zip and could not extract the factory.rfs file with either.....
im guessing I have to extract the factory.rfs file and zip as a tar file for odin right?
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The file you download is a zip file. Unzip it. There should be a tar file in there, tar is an archive format (similar to the way zip is, only it's uncompressed), so use 7zip or other unarchiving software to untar the file. There will be all of the JMA files including the RFS images contained in the tar file.
maniac3389 said:
The file you download is a zip file. Unzip it. There should be a tar file in there, tar is an archive format (similar to the way zip is, only it's uncompressed), so use 7zip or other unarchiving software to untar the file. There will be all of the JMA files including the RFS images contained in the tar file.
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I see, so i downloaded a ziped file from samfirmware with the JMA firmware, unziped it down and got the pit file but there were no tar files in there for me to use in odin under the PDA box.
when flashing JMA what file do i put in PDA box? i pressume thats the only file i will use besides the pit file given that i dont want to replace the modem (phone) file...
I'm sorry if this is not making any sense
Eltahur said:
I see, so i downloaded a ziped file from samfirmware with the JMA firmware, unziped it down and got the pit file but there were no tar files in there for me to use in odin under the PDA box.
when flashing JMA what file do i put in PDA box? i pressume thats the only file i will use besides the pit file given that i dont want to replace the modem (phone) file...
I'm sorry if this is not making any sense
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Go find the thread here that has the JMA firmware, that's where I got mine from
Eltahur said:
I see, so i downloaded a ziped file from samfirmware with the JMA firmware, unziped it down and got the pit file but there were no tar files in there for me to use in odin under the PDA box.
when flashing JMA what file do i put in PDA box? i pressume thats the only file i will use besides the pit file given that i dont want to replace the modem (phone) file...
I'm sorry if this is not making any sense
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Use the JMA file here on XDA. Extra JMA.tar. Select that file ALONE as PDA. No repartition, PIT, Phone or CSC. It'll update PDA, Phone and CSC automatically.
If it doesn't reboot on its own after flash is complete, reboot into recovery.
You should be upgrading to JMA from JM6.
If you still need to extract/unpackage RFS->
Reffer to my guide here
Cheers
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
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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...?
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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:
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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.
Pit file for i9505XXUHOJ2
I have a hand-me-down 16gb LTE GT-i9505 from my son in London. (I'm in Australia). After a system crash during an OTA update I was unable to flash with Kies or Odin; tried different computers and OS's so then tried with heimdall using a downloaded pit file (I stupidly didn't save the original pit file beforeflashing) and the stock rom (i9505XXUHOJ2) from Sammobile. I don't know whether the pit file was suitable for my 16gb S4 or not, but heimdall still wouldn't flash the unzipped rom until I created a heimdall package with it. Even then, heimdall reported a failure to flash after successfully flashing eg one partition, so I just kept stopping and reconnecting to heimdall (Linux Mint 64 bit) until all partitions one at a time until all seemed to flash. Very messy process! (On my part not really understanding what I was doing)
Now my phone is crashing and rebooting constantly after working ok for a couple of weeks. This was the same issue that led me to update in the first place. I replaced with new battery. No change. Reinstalled stock again today without error using heimdall,but I'm still getting the random crashes. So I thought trying to reinstall again with a correct pit file this time might help. I'm thinking hardware problems after that as it also crashes in recovery and reboots.
Can someone direct me to a correct pit file ? - I have no idea which ones are compatible with my device and the stock rom I'm trying to get working again. This is my primary phone.
My hardware details are:
Device type: jflte
Name: jfltexx
Qcom/MSM8960 (32BIT)
msm8960/apq8064
GPU adreno 320
Modem: mdm9215m
Hardware revision MP 0.900
Bootloader i9505XXUHOJ2
PDA i9505XXUHOJ2
Baseband: i9505XXUHOJ2
CSC: BTU
Hi,
You could utilize search function around Galaxy S4 forum to get the proper pit for your phone.
Sent from my GT-I9500
krasCGQ said:
Hi,
You could utilize search function around Galaxy S4 forum to get the proper pit for your phone.
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I have been searching all day through xda and found nothing that seems to help. Googled for days without result either. There are pit files out there. But none seem to match my device/stock rom combination. And I've read (newbie on these matters) that it does matter which pit file is used, and could be the cause of my constant crashing problems if partitioning is not quite right.
If you could narrow my search options I'd be happy to keep searching but not for lack of trying on my part so far.
gc2712 said:
I have been searching all day through xda and found nothing that seems to help. Googled for days without result either. There are pit files out there. But none seem to match my device/stock rom combination.
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I think there are no specialized type for your phone (unlike my GT-I9500). Any pit files for regular GT-I9505 should be okay.
If you still 100% unsure, download BTU stock firmware via SamFirm with "Nature..." checked. It has pit file bundled with it and has 4 files when extracted (Pit is inside CSC's tar.md5).
Sent from my GT-I9500
krasCGQ said:
I think there are no specialized type for your phone (unlike my GT-I9500). Any pit files for regular GT-I9505 should be okay.
If you still 100% unsure, download BTU stock firmware via SamFirm with "Nature..." checked. It has pit file bundled with it and has 4 files when extracted (Pit is inside CSC's tar.md5).
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Thanks for the follow up. Much appreciated. I hadn't heard of Samfirm before but have downloaded it and will get the stock ROM today using it. I was under the impression that the pit file did matter depending on the capacity of the phone. (16gb,32gb,64gb). Unfortunately, my son can't remember which he purchased - he bought it online unlocked and the original invoice gives no indication, and I'm not sure whether PhoneInfo just looks at partition sizes or whether it actually interrogates the hardware to assess internal flash memory size (It says I have 16Gb).
If the pit file version really doesn't matter then I'll just use the one in the downloaded stock ROM, but I was hoping to verify this first.
Edit: It seems there is no CSC tar.md5 in the extracted download. Only the flashable partitions etc. I have attached an image of 7zip extraction. Any other thoughts/ideas?
google this; all-pit-files-for-samsung-softbrick_28
you´ll see a site with all sam pit files; you could also check for a software named magic pit, here in the forum, it allows you to check and alter the pit files easily.
Ghangrel said:
google this; all-pit-files-for-samsung-softbrick_28
you´ll see a site with all sam pit files; you could also check for a software named magic pit, here in the forum, it allows you to check and alter the pit files easily.
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Many thanks for the search tip. I'll have a look at magic pit too, but with a little more observant attention I also noticed the CSC*.tar.md5 file and it did indeed contain a single file called JFLTE_EUR_OPEN.pit. So I am beginning to assume there is only one pit file for different i9505 international (and unlocked) variants? I have found several pit files now and had a look at them with pit magic (EMS Professional now) and they all seem the same as the one I installed on my phone and the one I downloaded with SamFirm.
What I would like to be able to calculate is the size of the partitions, but not sure how block size and block number fit together to calculate that number. Any advice?
gc2712 said:
Thanks for the follow up. Much appreciated. I hadn't heard of Samfirm before but have downloaded it and will get the stock ROM today using it. I was under the impression that the pit file did matter depending on the capacity of the phone. (16gb,32gb,64gb). Unfortunately, my son can't remember which he purchased - he bought it online unlocked and the original invoice gives no indication, and I'm not sure whether PhoneInfo just looks at partition sizes or whether it actually interrogates the hardware to assess internal flash memory size (It says I have 16Gb).
If the pit file version really doesn't matter then I'll just use the one in the downloaded stock ROM, but I was hoping to verify this first.
Edit: It seems there is no CSC tar.md5 in the extracted download. Only the flashable partitions etc. I have attached an image of 7zip extraction. Any other thoughts/ideas?
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gc2712 said:
Many thanks for the search tip. I'll have a look at magic pit too, but with a little more observant attention I also noticed the CSC*.tar.md5 file and it did indeed contain a single file called JFLTE_EUR_OPEN.pit. So I am beginning to assume there is only one pit file for different i9505 international (and unlocked) variants? I have found several pit files now and had a look at them with pit magic (EMS Professional now) and they all seem the same as the one I installed on my phone and the one I downloaded with SamFirm.
What I would like to be able to calculate is the size of the partitions, but not sure how block size and block number fit together to calculate that number. Any advice?
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Yes, that's it. Flash all files (AP, BL, CP, and CSC) on the corresponding section in ODIN. You don't need to provide additional pit because your phone will be partitioned using pit file inside CSC tar.md5 (re-partition should be checked). It'll do the magic.
Sent from my GT-I9500
krasCGQ said:
Yes, that's it. Flash all files (AP, BL, CP, and CSC) on the corresponding section in ODIN. You don't need to provide additional pit because your phone will be partitioned using pit file inside CSC tar.md5 (re-partition should be checked). It'll do the magic.
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I'm caught up with things for a few days now, but will give it a go. Many thanks.
gc2712 said:
What I would like to be able to calculate is the size of the partitions, but not sure how block size and block number fit together to calculate that number. Any advice?
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you can use the pitmagic to do this, it shows the starting block [block count] and the block size of each partition... one of the pits I´ve got was wrong, I could check it at sva partition table.
about what you want to know, I do believe the userdata is left alone only marking the starting block but the size is just identified by the program and not limited by the pit for start.
I'm still trying to figure out if my phone is 16gb or 32gb storage. If I use phoneinfo-Samsung it reports 16gb. If I input the device imei into imei.info.com I get 32gb listed for my device. All the other info for my s4 on that site is correct. Which source is likely to be correct? I am a little bit suspicious that phoneinfo-samsung might only look at formatted partitions to calculate storage rather than reporting on the hardware flash memory chip. I am wondering whether my constant system crashes may be because of incorrectly formatted partitions. Any advice?
gc2712 said:
I'm still trying to figure out if my phone is 16gb or 32gb storage. If I use phoneinfo-Samsung it reports 16gb. If I input the device imei into imei.info.com I get 32gb listed for my device. All the other info for my s4 on that site is correct. Which source is likely to be correct? I am a little bit suspicious that phoneinfo-samsung might only look at formatted partitions to calculate storage rather than reporting on the hardware flash memory chip. I am wondering whether my constant system crashes may be because of incorrectly formatted partitions. Any advice?
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use twrp recovery to wipe>advanced wipe : then u can check the size of the data / internal storage ; don´t forget to check if it´s checked in mount option
Ghangrel said:
use twrp recovery to wipe>advanced wipe : then u can check the size of the data / internal storage ; don´t forget to check if it´s checked in mount option
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Haven't had the courage to install TWRP yet. ?
gc2712 said:
Haven't had the courage to install TWRP yet.
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it´s a simple task. to be sure, extract the recovery file from your stock rom or from sammobile´s, then you can flash it again.
Can anyone point me to a link for the PIT file for the SM-T580?
I downloaded the EU open PIT file but my device doesn't seem to like it.
Thanks!
i am trying to find the PIT file for a T377V tablet. anyone know where i can find one .. Thank You in advanced
UPDATE:
i able to find it in the .tar file
I still haven't found the PIT file for a SM-T377V. Please share a link or more info on how to get this file. My tablet has no PIT and errors when trying to reset to default firmware.
BaktorSilvanti said:
I still haven't found the PIT file for a SM-T377V. Please share a link or more info on how to get this file. My tablet has no PIT and errors when trying to reset to default firmware.
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As stated above you can find it in the CSC part of the firmware.