Hey dudes,
I have startetd to unpack the System image of the Pixel to Port it for Nexus. But the rom of the Pixel is completely different from the normal Roms. (I have downloaded the latest from Googel Dev)
In normal system images are a lot of folders like App, bin, etc, fonts... But in the Pixel's System Image are only four folders and one image. The folders are App, lost+found, preloads and priv-app. The image is "system-other-odex-marker".
In the app folder are a lot of folders witch you have expercted. But if you open them are there only ".odex" and no apk's. Lost+found is empty, preloads has some cool images and a retail demo apk and in the priv-app the same as in the app folder. The image has 0KB and none ending.
My question: What is this for a system? How can I fix my Problem? It makes me simply impossible to port this rom! :crying:
Thanks
Chris
Shouldn't there be 2 partitions for everything given the new way it updates? Meaning there should be 2 system.img, 2 boot.img, etc.a maybe you overlooked the partition that is currently containing the files you are looking for.
Edit: nevermind. Only possible duplicate I see is system.img and system_other.img. Did you look inside both?
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Hello everybody... I was off for a few weeks and now when I'm back I suddenly felt like doing something new... and when i was looking into some folders that i had from my Android SDK i noticed something named system.img in my level 8 android platform... previously i was enthusiastic to install first google apps in virtual android in my windows then try to install a Custom ROM such az OxyGen or CM7.0.3.... so i guessed that system image must contain the files to do this... over a lot of search i found the tool to extract it.. I extracted it with UnYaffs... the i injected(!) the google apps APK from the latest zip (20110613) file... and something i wondered about is that you can extract from an Yaffs archive but you cannot create one in Windows.. SO I FIRED UP MY UBUNTU....(!!!) and created the image... then transferred it to windows made a backup of the original system.img and replaced mine... before that having all my virtual android machines deletd(I mean wiped from my system!!!)...As normal i created a AVD(Android Virtual Device) from my modified platform... everything went right and it created successfully but when I was starting my AVD everything suddenly changed into bad... It's stuck on the TEXT saying ANDROID... i mean the first text not the second graphic that is Android's name in iron like gray-blue color....
I don't know what has caused the problem.. anyone got his hand dirty on this system.img file?
I guess it might be from that it must be Yaffs1 but i created a Yaffs2 archive... didn't I??? but since I haven't got any Yaffs1 archive maker for ubuntu I can't test...
And I'm sure that the system.img is created fully and not partly... because I UnYaffs-ed it many times and the files do contain in it...
AnY HeLp??
I've changed bootanimations before on other devices, but the file was always called "bootanimation.zip." Looking at the files in the SGS5, I see 3 different "boot*.qmg" files, but no "bootanimation.zip."
Since we don't have a custom recovery yet, I'm hesitant to rename the *.qmg files and drop in a "bootanimation.zip" I created for my SGS4 into the same folder. Is there some new way to replace bootanimations on an SGS5 due to the *.qmg file extension, or it's safe to just rename/delete the *.qmg files and drop in the "bootanimation.zip" file into the appropriate folder?
I'd hate to get stuck in a bootloop and have to odin back to stock only to be unable to fully "restore" my phone's settings afterwards (yes, I have TiBu & other apps that'll allow me to restore, but it's certainly not as easy or as complete as restoring a nandroid backup).
Icculus760 said:
I've changed bootanimations before on other devices, but the file was always called "bootanimation.zip." Looking at the files in the SGS5, I see 3 different "boot*.qmg" files, but no "bootanimation.zip."
Since we don't have a custom recovery yet, I'm hesitant to rename the *.qmg files and drop in a "bootanimation.zip" I created for my SGS4 into the same folder. Is there some new way to replace bootanimations on an SGS5 due to the *.qmg file extension, or it's safe to just rename/delete the *.qmg files and drop in the "bootanimation.zip" file into the appropriate folder?
I'd hate to get stuck in a bootloop and have to odin back to stock only to be unable to fully "restore" my phone's settings afterwards (yes, I have TiBu & other apps that'll allow me to restore, but it's certainly not as easy or as complete as restoring a nandroid backup).
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Follow these instructions. Enjoy.
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Follow these instructions. Enjoy.
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Thank you very much for the direction. While I'll give it a shot a later, that still won't allow me to replace the default bootanimation w/ the ones I've previously created. The bootanimation.zip files I want to use only contain *.png files (the *png's are in "part0" folder and there is a desc.txt file in the parent directory). There are no *.qmg files in those zip's to extract, so that process won't work for me & the bootanimations I'm trying to use.
Any other ideas, or is my only option to use something like the Samsung Theme Designer process? (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696914)
Icculus760 said:
Thank you very much for the direction. While I'll give it a shot a later, that still won't allow me to replace the default bootanimation w/ the ones I've previously created. The bootanimation.zip files I want to use only contain *.png files (the *png's are in "part0" folder and there is a desc.txt file in the parent directory). There are no *.qmg files in those zip's to extract, so that process won't work for me & the bootanimations I'm trying to use.
Any other ideas, or is my only option to use something like the Samsung Theme Designer process? (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696914)
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Contact the maker of the OP of the thread with the boot animations, I'm pretty sure he/she can help you out converting the files. It's been done before in that thread.
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Contact the maker of the OP of the thread with the boot animations, I'm pretty sure he/she can help you out converting the files. It's been done before in that thread.
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What the heck, man. Stop helping me so quickly! :laugh:
Thanks again!!
Hello everybody
I've recently upgraded my L03 to L01 and all the way up to B598 following your guides, thank you for your job.
I installed Link2SD and tried to convert some user apps to system apps, and Link2SD messed up system partition. It deleted system/app folder, so some important apps (such as the native explorer, clock, calc, even the hidden menu to force upgrade!) don't work.
Please!, if someone could zip system/app folder and send it to me i would be so thankful. :good::good::good::good:
I've tried several things, like extracting them from the update.app, but ex4extractor got stuck when trying to read system.img contents.
Thanx again!
EDIT:
I managed to extract system\app contents from system.img thanxs to Beta_P8_Lite_Alice_tool_pack-
Beware of link2sd. Don't try to convert user apps to system apps with this app, or chances are that it will mess up your system partition
I somehow deleted the preview files of themes in the Hwthemes folder. I am looking for the stock preview files in the Hwthemes folder. I would appreciate it if someone could upload a stock zip of the Hwthemes folder
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I somehow deleted the preview files of themes in the Hwthemes folder. I am looking for the stock preview files in the Hwthemes folder. I would appreciate it if someone could upload a stock zip of the Hwthemes folder
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What do you mean by the stock preview?
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@hamzio7 If you were to navigate to Internal Storage>Hwthemes>.cache, you would see all your installed themes' folders, for example, Default.hwt. Inside Default.hwt, there is an XML file and 2 folders, Preview and wallpaper. Both these folder supposed to contain files related to the theme but mine are empty due to cleaning up some files with an app. I cannot customise a theme within the themes app as a result. So I'm looking for atleast the stock files in these folders that originally come with the os
You don't need the files from .cache from anyone here.
As the name of this folder already tells you is this just a space for the files to sit in after the theme manager looked through the HWT files searching for the preview images.
So it's actually common that as soon as you open the theme manager the .cache should be filled again.
If that shouldn't be the case then simply head to Me, then Customize and start looking through the given options as you would customize your theme right now.
In theory, the theme manager should have generated the preview images again and should have moved them into the .cache folder.
You would think that but it's not the case. Those files are never repopulated, in my case atleast.
Have a look:
drive.google.com/file/d/1igwRxNlEEyS6daGbt1UR_mLEYegi2PIY/view?usp=drivesdk
I want to create my own custom rom, so I searched for noob friendly tutorials. But in every video and tutorial, they edit something in the system folder inside the flashable zip. I have downloded the Lineage OS, build from here , but there is no system folder inside? Show hiddenfiles is active. Can someone help me?
This phone uses a payload.bin package so it's completely different because of the A/B partitions