Lollipop and system.img - Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
I'm trying to make a rom based on last lollipop firmware.My problem is that I'm not able to extract system.img to ext4 format under windows .I used several software with no luck.
Could someone tell me how extract system.img from note4 lollipop firmware?

intxeon said:
Hi
I'm trying to make a rom based on last lollipop firmware.My problem is that I'm not able to extract system.img to ext4 format under windows .I used several software with no luck.
Could someone tell me how extract system.img from note4 lollipop firmware?
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I have used 7zip. Just delete md5 extension first. It will be tar. Extract that

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[Q] Corrupted tar files from sammobile and samsung updates

I looking for updated roms (with no operator customisations) for s5360b but all the latest versions comes with corrupted tar files and I'm unable to extract the files.
Tried to repair the tar file with no success either.
7zip/winrar latest versions unable to decompress it...
There is another way or my sources are bad?
Maybe download didn't get complete.. Try again..
** rooting is new for me,
nd i am a noob to root....**
Only option: Redownload the whole thing again
This post is in compliance with the national potato safety regulation.
[Galaxy S 4 LTE]
gusnd said:
I looking for updated roms (with no operator customisations) for s5360b but all the latest versions comes with corrupted tar files and I'm unable to extract the files.
Tried to repair the tar file with no success either.
7zip/winrar latest versions unable to decompress it...
There is another way or my sources are bad?
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they are not corrupt. their headers are such that you cant see or extract the files inside. only flash them in odin in pda section or if you want files then use splitfus2 by doky73
amit34521 said:
they are not corrupt. their headers are such that you cant see or extract the files inside. only flash them in odin in pda section or if you want files then use splitfus2 by doky73
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I tried to flash them directly but got an error, that's why I'm trying to decompress it. I just downloaded it many times always getting the same results.
I'll try to use a 2.3.5 release and then update it with Kies. I didn't tried using another country's rom afraid of modem file incompatibility issues, I'll do some more tests
gusnd said:
I tried to flash them directly but got an error, that's why I'm trying to decompress it. I just downloaded it many times always getting the same results.
I'll try to use a 2.3.5 release and then update it with Kies. I didn't tried using another country's rom afraid of modem file incompatibility issues, I'll do some more tests
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flashd it in which section?????????
amit34521 said:
flashd it in which section?????????
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Pda
Corrupted .tar files
gusnd said:
I looking for updated roms (with no operator customisations) for s5360b but all the latest versions comes with corrupted tar files and I'm unable to extract the files.
Tried to repair the tar file with no success either.
7zip/winrar latest versions unable to decompress it...
There is another way or my sources are bad?
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Well first of all sorry for being late, seems you haven't resolved your problem or have you? If not, then I wanna suggest you something here. I've also faced a situation like .tar file corruption in my past and resolved it successfully, believe me. How did you try to repair the .tar file? Did you use any third-party application like a repair or recovery software? I also used a third-party recovery application named as SysInfoTools Archive Recovery, to repair my corrupt .tar files. I had two very important .tar files which were corrupted, don't know why. Then I came to know about this application and used it. Though it didn't execute a hundred percent recovery, but I was quite satisfied to recover my maximum data from those corrupt .tar files. I will recommend you check its free demo version first. If it shows your preview of your recovered data, this means the data has been successfully recovered from the corrupt file. You can download the demo of this software from sysinfotools' website.
If this application helps you, please let me know.
Regards.
gusnd said:
I looking for updated roms (with no operator customisations) for s5360b but all the latest versions comes with corrupted tar files and I'm unable to extract the files.
Tried to repair the tar file with no success either.
7zip/winrar latest versions unable to decompress it...
There is another way or my sources are bad?
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flash the .tar file in pda section
they are not corrupt
they are just un-decompressable

how to flash my original 5.1.1 kernel ?

HI everybody
I updated my n910H to 5.1.1 , worked well and decided to flash a custom kernel . also faced to problem with wifi and now i decided to flash my original kernel.
i extracted the boot.img from update package N910HXXU1COH4_N910HOLB1COH4_N910HXXU1COH3_HOME.tar
now, im not sure how to flash it !! via odin or anything else needed
thank u for your help
any help ?????
when I had my S3 if I needed the stock kernel I would simply reflash the stock rom since they usually have the stock kernels built-in
Sent from my SM-N910H using Tapatalk
i dont want to reset my phone , i just want to flash the original kernel
mehdi.moha said:
i dont want to reset my phone , i just want to flash the original kernel
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Never tried with samsung phones (and probably it is not possible) but with my other android devices I just extract the boot.img from the ROM and flash it with fastboot using the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img".
With a samsung device you should probably (or definitely) create a flashable .zip file with the boot.img of your stock ROM and flash it via recovery.
You need to download your original kernel from net, there are 2 types of file you’ll find, one is .zip and another one is .tar. If you download .zip file you have to flash it with recovery (CWM/TWRP) or if you download .tar file (don't try to make your own .tar file) then you can flash it with Odin tool.

Making custom SM-G903F (GS5 Neo) LL 5.1.1 Pre-rooted Odin Rom (HELP)

Hello the community,
i'd like to ask you for help because i don't manage to make it.
Here is the problem :
1/ i flashed last firmware for the phone
2/ then root it, install latest busybox....
3/ dump from my phone cache & system using this :
dd if=/dev/block/platform/13540000.dwmmc0/by-name/CACHE of=/sdcard/cache.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/13540000.dwmmc0/by-name/SYSTEM bs=4096 of=/sdcard/system.img
I check it using linux reader. No problem at all
4/ Then repack those 2 files with others files which are on stock tar file (boot, hidden...)
5/ Launch Odin, put my tar on AP then flash.
- All were ok until it came to cache.img then fail
On stock tar, there is a system.img (not .raw). Don't know if it is sparsed but....i suppose as it needs to be converted to bre used with linux reader.
So i dunno what to do to have a valid cache.img & system.img
If you can help me, i will be grateful.
Thanks for all.
Hi
I'm trying too making a pre rooted stock rom flashable through odin. But i get everytime a "failed" from Odin.
However why are using your cache instead of cache.img present in stock firmware?
Try unpack stock firmware and replace only custom "system.img" that contains root and finally repack stock firmware!
Well some info i need is in cache
why don't you make a flashable zip since you know the partions then add root
malbert16442 said:
why don't you make a flashable zip since you know the partions then add root
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A stock firmware pre-rooted flashable through odin is more comfortable whenever you wanna reset your phone isn't need to using FlashFire or Mobile Odin. IMHO

Updating Rooted TWRP installed phone question

I used the flashfire method of downloading firmware and extracting ap file and flashing system and boot.img. Does anyone know or has anyone tried taking the ap file and extracting system.img and boot.img and flashing those image files via twrp? Twrp I believe supports flashing image files and that should work in theory. Thanks
Also is it important to update csc or csc_home files? I am learning Samsung coming from always owning nexus devices which are quite a bit different.
flyinj54 said:
I used the flashfire method of downloading firmware and extracting ap file and flashing system and boot.img. Does anyone know or has anyone tried taking the ap file and extracting system.img and boot.img and flashing those image files via twrp? Twrp I believe supports flashing image files and that should work in theory. Thanks
Also is it important to update csc or csc_home files? I am learning Samsung coming from always owning nexus devices which are quite a bit different.
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There's a thread which explains updating rooted devices with flashfire without loosing data here

Flash non stock system.img

Hey, i looking for aome help.
Im trying to create a ROM for the Galaxy s8 g950f.
What i did was to take the stock system.img to supers kitchen and extract it, after that i build the img again (chainging nothing in it) and im getting a sparse img.
I take the new img to the AP and flash it to the phone, there i get system.img fail at the odin.
Stock ROM is flashed just fine with odin.
Any idea why is that? Or how should i open the system.img and change things in it?

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