They have a new firmware update that I would like to perform and I watched their how-to video. The problem I have is they don't state what the update file format should be. The file I get is a zip with two IMG files. Do I leave it zipped? Or have just the two IMG files? Or do I have to convert the zip to a tar file?
If anyone can help me out here I would greatly appreciate it.
Never mind. I was able to find the answer in another post. FYI to anyone else you have to extract the files and put the IMG files on your micro SD card.
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Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to convert .zip files of ROMs/themes into system.img files so that they can be booted up via the android sdk emulator?
I've seen that it's possible to launch system.img files in the sdk emulator, but after searching for quite some time I wasn't able to pinpoint a method for creating system.img from update-cm-4.2.12.2-signed.zip (for example).
Thanks.
DT
i made a post about those system.img files earlier here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=609090
in theory it's possible using the mkfs.yaffs2 tool, but i'm not sure whether the emulator supports danger SPL roms, because the system image file size is limited in the emulator as well...
http://www.dotphone.org/attachment.php?aid=6
it's the mkfs.yaffs2 tool
see usage here:
http://www.dotphone.org/viewthread.php?tid=32
Hi,
Thanks for the link, but I'm quite a newbie in these things, so could someone please walk me through process? I've downloaded the archive in the link.
How many times do I unzip it (I can unzip it up to three times and then I get 5 files numbered 1 through 5)? Where do I paste it? How do I use it? The explanation in the other thread was slightly too complicated for me sorry
Thanks
DT
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Anyone willing to help out a newbie?
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I am looking to do the same thing
Get someone to Nandroid backup the ROM.
It creates a system.img, recovery.img, data.img, cache.img and boot.img.
Not the easiest method but it works
In the Sprint Official 2.2 RUU (PG06IMG.zip) one of the .img files is tp_SPY_SYN3KT0103.img. What is this file?
I have tried quite a few ways to extract it with no joy.
Also, there are two other .img files that begin tp, does this prefix have special meaning?
Ted
Wrong section just letting you know
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b432291 said:
In the Sprint Official 2.2 RUU (PG06IMG.zip) one of the .img files is tp_SPY_SYN3KT0103.img. What is this file?
I have tried quite a few ways to extract it with no joy.
Also, there are two other .img files that begin tp, does this prefix have special meaning?
Ted
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Yes this the wrong section to post in . That being said, what are you trying to accomplish?
I hope I have not offended the forum keepers, but I rarely post and the contents of a Factory RUU file certainly seem like dev stuff to me...
I'm not trying to accomplish anything, I am just curious as to what these tp img files contain - ecpecially when one of them has the word SPY in it.
I cannot seem to unpack or mount the img file, trying ext2, ext3, ext4, unyaffs, yaffsutils, yaffs2utils, & ext4utils - so I figured someone in this forum could just say what the img files are for, I assumed the knowledge was here.
Ted
Hi, I cannot upgrade the Firmware from V9.2.1.11 to V9.2.1.27. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I downloaded the zip file firmware into a SD as instructed and I had it extracted it before inserting to the Transformer but the files are not recognized as executable files by the Transformer.
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Hi, I cannot upgrade the Firmware from V9.2.1.11 to V9.2.1.27. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I downloaded the zip file firmware into a SD as instructed and I had it extracted it before inserting to the Transformer but the files are not recognized as executable files by the Transformer.
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The zip file you downloaded off the Asus website needs to be extracted. It is a zip file within a zip file.
I have done that as well.
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The zip file you downloaded off the Asus website needs to be extracted. It is a zip file within a zip file.
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Thanks but I have already it as well. But the files unzipped were not recognized by the Transformer.
I wanted to download the firmware and remove all the bloat stuff from my N9108v.
Downloaded the firmware and it is a zip file. NO worries - unzipped and I don't see any ".tar.md5" files. Just various other files that include "mbn img ext4 bin" files. MNone of these look like working in ODIN. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
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I wanted to download the firmware and remove all the bloat stuff from my N9108v.
Downloaded the firmware and it is a zip file. NO worries - unzipped and I don't see any ".tar.md5" files. Just various other files that include "mbn img ext4 bin" files. MNone of these look like working in ODIN. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
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HI OP - please remove thread - I just used a different extractor - less vigorous I guess. Did the trick and just extracted to the first layer. Ok - didn't remove the bloatware either...
Thanks.
I've been scouring the interweb looking for a way to take a stock tar file and convert it to a zip file that will flash with twrp. I know it can be done, but thus far I'm not happy with the processes I've found... how do you guys do it?
The stock TAR files contain partitions in IMG format - an all in one file system, and in this case using EXT4 formatting.
In order to create a ZIP, you need to access the files on the partition, which means finding a way to mount those IMG partitions to copy their contents, or find a piece of software to extract from them w/o mounting. Since they are EXT4, you can probably assume a Windows solution isn't available (EXT4 is Linux). Some utilities may exist to handle EXT4 on Windows, but finding one that knows EXT4 and can extract/mount an IMG file is pretty specific.
EDIT : found a utility for you - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285831
If you can somehow get the files out of the archive, you'll need to find a tutorial on the structure of a flashable ZIP. Generally, its just folders and files but there is also a META-INF folder, scripts to install and set permissions, etc. There are likely threads here on XDA that can detail these steps.
Spitzaf, thanks so much! I was hoping for just such a tool