yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
Edit from what to what?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
In addition to renaming every .rfs.tar file to .ext4.tar

e.g.

data.rfs.tar to data.ext4.tar

You need to edit the contents of the MD5 file so the names match the file names.

md5sum *.tar > nandroid.md5 MIGHT sort-of work - but I think on our device, it's a combination of .tar and .img files - .tar for filesystems and .img for raw images (like the kernel) (don't have my device with me now)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
Thanks for the explanation.

I have not received the GP5 I bought from ebay yet. I just want to make sure I learned about all the possible mods / custom kernels / ROMs before I actually start messing around with the device.

I am not a tekkie and I know little about md5 files except what it is (from google). I have modified other system files with text editor in Android (eg. root explorer). I'll take a look at the content of the md5 files and improvise. If I have more questions I'll ask again, thanks for your time.

P.S. I also own the original Galaxy Tab 7 incher with the same Hummingbird chip / SGX540 GPU. I wonder if the Galaxy player will perform BETTER because the GPU drives a smaller screen (800 X 480 on the GP5 vs. 1024 x 600 on the GT)? I still love my original GT because it can play 720p youtube flash video in the browser (I use Overcome 2.3.3 Gingerbread ROM with minimal 1.2 GHz OC) - something most of the Tegra 2 tablets cannot do.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
Samsung's MFC (the hwaccel video decoder) freaking rocks. MFC in Hummingbird smokes Tegra2's ****ty video hwaccel. For a company that makes high-end graphics cards - NVidia really ****ed up the Tegra2.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Donskjr:
I would like to know how to do this also.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
Updated - added voltage control
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] akashsgpgi:
@entropy

i like yr kernel very much , do u plan to add more govs/io schds?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
Maybe. I'm not a big fan of alternative cpufreq governors - too often they just screw things up compared to small tweaks (like the reduced sample_rate for conservative).

The only reason I'm considering an alternative governor on the Galaxy S II is to tie in CPU hotplugging control with the governor - but that doesn't apply to a singlecore device like this one.

Alternate IOscheds - considering that.

Also - I have 1.2 GHz overclocking working, just didn't get around to releasing this weekend. Maybe tonight.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
1.2 GHz OC released - use SetCPU or a similar app to enable.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] heat361:
Is 1.3v good for the regular 1ghz clock?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] akashsgpgi:
@Entropy

oc working nicely:)

but no init.d folder for me:(
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
You have to create it... The kernel only runs stuff if it's there.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
Why would you want to overvolt stock clocks?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] heat361:
I just want to know in case I want go back to the stock clock and voltage
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dunca123:
Hmmm. Mine is not installing through CWM. It is aborted every time I try.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] akashsgpgi:
AVI (xvid) ,MKV,FLV videos not working with hardware decoding ,only MP4 is working properly:(

and also sometimes for about 3-4 the screen stops to respond

never happened on stock kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
Do you know if Steve's kernel supports init.d?

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[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
No problems here. Try redownloading. Download it to your PC then put it on the device - direct-to-device downloads seem to get corrupted frequently.

No problem here, just decoded Samsung's WMV sample, working just like stock did.

Same with the freezes - not experiencing anything like that myself. Get a logcat, or stop undervolting if you're UVing.

No clue. Easy enough for him to add support in the initramfs.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] ambrice:
When I use this kernel and plug the player in while powered off, it goes into a boot loop, where it shows the empty battery image briefly then resets. Does anyone else have that problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dunca123:
I have always had this problem, but only when it is plugged into a computer. If it plugged into a outlet it is fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
Hmm... Interesting. I'll need to test that myself.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] akashsgpgi:
@Entropy

here are the log cats

first one is for the video playback, the file i tried to play was all that remains - not alone.avi

and second logcat is for the touch issue, maybe the is issue is in the end of the log

and thanks for your effort
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] jayhammy:
fail

I'm using a 5.0 player purchased on Amazon in the USA. It's the g70 version. I installed the kernel using Odin and CWM never installed. It keeps going back to stock recovery. The device also never reads or formats the USB storage or SD card now. The device is essentially useless. Please help! Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] apapousek:
Flash stock:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520728

If that doesn't work, go a few pages back. Read.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
Yup. I have no idea what happened to jayhammy - it's impossible to be entering stock recovery if the kernel was properly flashed.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] jayhammy:
I tried reflashing a few more times via Odin. For whatever reason, it's working now. CWM is there; no more of the stock recovery. Very weird. I've never had that happen with any of my other half dozen Android devices before.

THANKS~!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
Thank you Entropy. I got my GP5.0, rooted it with superoneclick, installed your kernel (original tar then latest version in zip by CWM), and manually converted the system files to ext4 by rj's method. Everything went smoothly.

There is just one minor niggling problem - I hate vibration and always disable it completely, using vibrafix Android app (previously I use Script Manager to enable the chmod 0444 script on boot). However, these methods no longer work. I also tried "chmod 0444 /sys/class/timed_output/vibrator/enable" in terminal emulator, but this does not disable vibration immediately.

Could this have something to do with converting system files to ext4? Thanks.

P.S. This has nothing to do with ext4 file system because when I switched back to rfs, I still cannot disable vibration completely.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] akashsgpgi:
found the culprit it was due to beats audio that my videos were not working
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] BNAS:
Trying to avoid getting Flamed!

I have tried the instructions on page one following procedures to get CWM installed via the .tar:

From a shell with root access (ADB or Terminal Emulator), do the following:

Code:

dd if=zImage of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11

How to flash .zip releases:

•Put it on your sdcard, enter CWM, flash the .zip using CWM

•If you do not have CWM, install an older .tar release then flash, or follow the "Any rooted device" instructions above, but extract the zImage from the .zip instead of a .tar

I am rooted and tried the terminal emulator with said code, but I keep getting "cannot open for read: No such file or Directory.

Where do I put the extracted zImage file on the device to run that Code?

Thanks...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] apapousek:
You could always use heimdall and flash the zImage as a kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] BNAS:
I could use Odin... But which option do I select from?

BOOTLOADER

PDA

PHONE

CSC

Thanks for responding to the semingly noob questions. I have actually been around here a while and have used it on my Cappy and SGSII. Just never dealt with a player only phones till now.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] apapousek:
Use Ambrice's heimdall. Under Linux, you can just:

and you'll be good. You could probably just run Linux from a CD / USB if you don't want to permanently install.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
You put the zImage extracted from the tar file on the root "/" folder. That worked for me when I ran the code using terminal in the Galaxy player.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] DeLaVicci:
Either that or put it on your external sd card. Then the code would be

dd if=/sdcard/external_sd/zImage of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] BNAS:
Tried that.. I get "cannot open for write: permission denied"

I have the root "/" mounted as R/W in root explorer, but I don't think that setting is carried over to terminal Emulator.

My ultimate goal is to just get CWM installed...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] exodus454:
The two programs are separate, if you mount root explorer in R/W it's only for root explorer.

Go into terminal emulator, type "su" and hit enter. The command prompt should now change to "#", meaning you have super-user access. If you're trying to do a "dd" it should get rid of the permissions issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] BNAS:
genius. Thanks. I got records In, records Out and bytes transferred.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] heat361:
You could use PDA for flashing it
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] tcb4:
Reboot

I love the kernel, but the other day i was browsing the web and charging the device at the same time. It was running fine but it seemed pretty warm(temp meter read 86.3) then out of no where it freezes and does a reboot. No problems since then.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
free RAM

Android System Info tells me the GP5.0 has 377MB of RAM available, and about 140MB is free (depending on what apps you have running and what you minfree settings are). I find that when I use the browser, it often freezes for short periods of time - I presume it is the minfree manager freeing RAM because it is running low.

My Galaxy Tab (original 7 incher) has the same chip and same amount of RAM. It has 443MB RAM available and 245MB is free. I more or less have the same apps on both tablets. The GT runs Overcome ROM with its own customized kernel.

I know there are HW and OS differences between both tabs, but I wonder if the GP5.0 kernel may be improved to free up more RAM?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] SilentStormer:
Helllllooo people!

Ok im coming over from the Nook Tablet section of the forums because my friend is interested in running the recently released ICS port. I was sent to this kernel from that thread. My friend is pretty much a noob, but he still wants ICS and seeing that I got cm9 to run on my Nook then "obviously" I could do it to his (US) player 5.0. don't worry I already flamed him intensely for thinking that the processes were the same but i also agreed to help him. So long story short, I need help to install this kernel so I can get the ICS port running. Maybe then he will stop bugging me about it. I've already rooted his player for him and I was wondering if that means I could just boot (from rommanager) into CWM and flash your kernels zip? He can boot into CWM from rommanager but can't back up his stock rom. The only options available are to flash a rom or to reboot (maybe a few of the advanced options, not sure.) Hope you guys can help me out!

Thanks galaxy player users!

-Silente

Sent from my Cyanogenmod 9 Alpha 0 Nook Tablet
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jayydude_SGP:
DONT use ROM Manager. Flash the .tar file with ODIN then you'll have CWM on your device afterwards put the .zip files on the root of your SD card flash them and then you can download the CM9 ROM flash it and GAPPS before and after flashing the ROM and your set :D

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Nexus PLAYER ^_^
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] SilentStormer:
I'm gonna need some help with Odin tomorrow (can't do any more tonight) because Ive never flashed anything except through CWM. And did you really mean to say to flash gapps before and after the rom flash? I've only ever heard of it done after flashing rom.

Sent from my Cyanogenmod 9 Alpha 0.1 Nook Tablet
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jayydude_SGP:
Yes. Before you BOOT then you have to reboot BACK into recovery and do re - flash the gapps. And with Odin you power down the device. Press and HOLD the Volume (DOWN) key and plug in the USB cable (while still holding the volume down key) until you see a yellow triangle with an android in it and 'downloading.......' at the bottom. Click PDA>.tar file (that you downloaded) then start. Do NOT unplug your cable UNTIL it has COMPLETELY FINISHED rebooting unless you want to brick your device. Then you can boot into CWM by powering off your device hold the volume up key and power button until you see the Samsung logo then release the power key an continue to hold the volume up key until you see the recovery :D

Good luck my friend ^_^

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Nexus PLAYER ^_^
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] SilentStormer:
Ok So im using odin and ive clicked the pda checkbox and browsed for the DD.tar file that i DLed. Then when i hit start all i get is "<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)" and thatll do that every time. what should i do next? and what zip release from the front page do i want to flash through CWM once ive flashed the .tar file?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jayydude_SGP:
I flashed all 3 :D and make sure you have the drivers installed and that your device has been recognized. It should start then.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] SilentStormer:
wait what, what drivers, and how do I flash all 3 when there are like 5? I'm confused.....

Also I don't think my device was recognized

Sent from my Cyanogenmod 9 Alpha 0.1 Nook Tablet
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] RValentinF:
Install Samsung kies or at least the Samsung drivers, the reboot and install the tar file through odin. It should succeed and then you can boot onto CWM by turning it off, holding the power and vol up button, and releasing power when the Samsung logo appears. Here you can flash whatever you want :D

Sent from my Android
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Bray90820:
i think i bricked my device i installed this on a 4.0 can someone help me get back to stock
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
You should know to NEVER install anything that's not meant for your device...

99.999% of the time it will result in a brick.

Anyway, what exactly is happening? Give more information if you want help. Does it turn on at all, or is it just soft bricked?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Bray90820:
it reads in Windows and odin
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Bray90820:
it reads in Windows and odin

View attachment 965543
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
OK. You are just soft bricked. Flash this rom: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8096

You should be fine after that.

Edit sorry wrong link its this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1512331
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Bray90820:
i had already found that and was planing on flashing it but thank you for what you did
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
freezing

I start to have problem of freezes eg during browsing, for about 5 to 10 seconds when the screen does not respond and the capacitative buttons go dark.

I adjusted the minfree but the problem is still there. I have ghetto lagfix (ext4 file system) therefore I presume this is not rfs lag. I have your kernel but the firmware is OEM 2.3.5.

Does anyone else have the same problem? Do you think this is related to lack of free ram (mindree running causes system freeze)?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] exodus454:
Mine's been doing this for a long time. I've tried everything from memory management to overclocking to try and remedy this.

It's not a reproducible problem either, just happens when it feels like it.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] xxmessxx:
What version of odin do I download? I have my device rooted so im not sure if that's what is stopping me from being able to install the tar. but when I start it , it fails the install after 2 minutes. I have the windows 8 beta and yp-g70 5"
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
Thanks for your reply. I guess this is not a problem of the custom kernel?

I am puzzled. My original 7 inch Galaxy Tab has the same chip and ram. Never had this problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] exodus454:
I think it might be the kernel actually, mine never did it stock until I installed the kernel. I've just lived with it since then.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
Me too I installed the custom kernel soon after I bought the GP5.0. I can't find any firmware download on the Samsung support site, and I can't find anyone who posted stock kernel of the GP5.0 USA version here and in other Android forums. Does anyone have the stock kernel for the USA GP5.0?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] SirRhor:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520728

Sent from my YP-G70
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
Thanks, I got it.

I have been running ghetto lagfix (ext4 system files) ever since I installed this kernel. I decided to revert to rfs for testing first before reinstalling the stock firmware. I notice the GP5.0 has not frozen since. I'll see how this goes.

P.S. Actually the player starts to freeze again. I am going to go back to stock and see what happens.

P.P.S. Success with restoring original kernel:

(1) extract files from Stock_YP-G70_UEKI8_MIN.rar

(2) rename "ueki8_min.tar.md5" to "ueki8_min.tar"

(3) extract "ueki8_min.tar" file to get the "zImage" file

(4) install Heimdall (guide in "README" file in the extracted folder)

(5) move "zImage" into folder where Heimdall has been extracted to

(6) copy cmd.exe from /system into Heimdall folder (where the heimdall.exe is)

(7) run cmd.exe

(8) type

heimdall flash --kernel zImage --verbose

and <Return>

(9) heimdall flashes zImage (kernel) onto player, then reboot

(10) all done!

This way I don't have to flash the whole firmware, therefore no need to backup my apps and files.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dirty.redz:
OK I installed the newest kernel and see it is supposed to have init.d support but no init.d folder or anything. How do I implement this feature?

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[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] slim_thumb:
Don't mean to be rude but it seems this is yet another forgotten and abandoned project. The 1.2 GHz OC kernel is smoother and faster than stock, but in my GP 5.0 it suffered from random freezes, therefore I am back to stock.

It would be great to have something like the Overcome ROM and kernel of the original 7 inch Galaxy Tab - I am still running v 2.0.1 Gingerbread. It is running so well I never have the urge to upgrade to HC or ICS versions. The GT runs fast and stable at 1.3 GHz OC (I think the Overcome kernel also OC the GPU a little). It would be nice to have something similar with the Galaxy Player, since they share the same core hardware.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
It's semi-abandoned - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's been running rock solid stable on my 5.0 for nearly 3 months now, and there aren't any worthwhile features I can think of adding.

If I touch the Player again, I'm probably going to work on a proper CM9 port based on ambrice's CM7 work. (clavin hasn't posted his device tree so I won't be using that as a base.)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] heat361:
Maybe you could pm jackpotclavin and help him on the 3.0 kernel because you are good at kernel building right?

Here is jacpotclavins github if this helps https://github.com/JackpotClavin
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
Actually, JackpotClavin has his device tree right here: https://github.com/JackpotClavin/Samsung-Galaxy-Player-5.0-U.S.-CM9-ICS

Just in case you missed it.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
device and vendor in one repo??? :eek:

And changes to the camera/ directory tagged with "wifi fix"...

It may prove easier to just restart from CM7...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Mrktmind:
Any help you could give us in getting a CM9 ROM that has all features working (esp. the camera) would be hugely appreciated!!!!

If you have used Entropy512's kernel and/or want to see him work on a fully functional version of CM9 join me in clicking the Donate button (or at least pledge a donation once the job is finished) - let's give him a little "extra" motivation to do the job!! ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
BTW, I *REALLY* don't like pre-donations with an expectation of work to be done... I have a very strong preference for people to only donate based on past work, not on work to be done in the future.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Mrktmind:
Or....Maybe not..... Apparently I was out of line.

Just trying to figure a way, since I don't have the ability myself, to get us out of the "won't work due to 3.0 Kernel" hole we've been stuck in for several months.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
3.0 kernel and camera have nothing to do with each other.

Infuse CM9 builds are running fine off of a 2.6.35 based kernel with "ICS compatibility" patches. (Other than Bluetooth, and that's mostly userspace not kernel... Infuse has a massively derpy piece of **** Bluetooth chipset that has been the bane of AOSP bringup efforts since CM7.)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] heat361:
Maybe it would be easier for a dev to port hw acceleration and fix the problems on a 2.6 based kernel than building a totally new 3.0 kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
If I ever get the time to mess with the Player and try to bring up CM9, this would be my plan.

jt's work on the Infuse kernel (the initial commits against https://github.com/Entropy512/android_kernel_samsung_dempsey/commits/ics?page=4 ) are a good reference.

Booting a 3.0 kernel is impossible on Aries devices without switching over to MTD - which I have never done. YP-G70 is a REALLY weird device that seems to use stl/bml for some things (which is why it requires the FSR modules) but uses eMMC for most other stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I just saw what you wrote and you said that it is possible to port linux kernel 3.0 to people who have MTD. So it is possible to port it to the 4.0?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Entropy512:
No clue - as I've said, I have personally not done an MTD conversion myself. You'll note that the Infuse is still using FSR (stl/bml) and a 2.6.35 kernel.

jt1134 did most of the initial bringup there.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Yeah I saw that in your device tree.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Donskjr:
This kernel still freezes up bad. Seems like ever 30 seconds, I get a 1-2 sec freeze. Wish it didn't cause all the other features are great.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Mevordel:
What does it use stl/bml for? All I see in /Dec/block is mmcblkXpX. And from looking at Samsung's website, since the eMMC has a controller on-chip (and thus no direct interface), wouldn't it be impossible to convert to MTD? Or am I missing something?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] harts830:
ive flashed this kernel and love it i was reading the OP and it didnt say anything about init.d support? im sort of noobish to all this but does this kernel come with init.d support?