[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] zBusterCB87:
Hi everyone

my device: Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 GINGERBREAD Android 2.3.1 or so...

I use super one click 2.3.3 with short fuse to root my device and unroot my device successfully.

When my device is rooted, I found "ROM Manager" by "ClockWork"

This device by default has a half recovery type setup if I hold the "volume up" button and then turn the device on.

It does a partial recovery.

My friend said that using rom manager I can make a full recovery.

Inside rom manager there is a selection to "Flash clockwork Mod Recovery"

When I click this, I see a list of devices, and my device is not in the list

Here is what the list shows:

-Galaxy Tab - ATT

-Samsung Charge

-Samsung Epic4G

-Samsung Galaxy Taab - T - Mobile

-Samsung Galaxy Tab - VZW

-Samsung GalaxyS 4G

-Samsung GalaxySCaptivate

-Samsung GalaxyS Fascinate

-Samsung GalaxyS Vibrant

-Samsung GalaxyS i9000

-Samsung Indulge 910

-Samsung Indulge 915

-Samsung Sidekick 4G

My friend says to select the one that is closes to my device to create an environment to hold the "Complete" backup of my device as it is right now.

Once the environment is created it will make a complete backup of my device, rom, apps, settings, etc...?

I do not understand this, can someone help me out on this part on selecting the correct one that best matches my device?

Or should I just wait and select my device when it shows up, if it ever happens?

**The problems I have are, this:

-My friend tried adb on my device to check it, he says that the boot manager seems to be locked out, and if I ever made a mistake, i can brick my device and should make this full backup first.

-I do not have a full download of the "Factory" ROM/kernal installed on this device from the box. So if I make a mistake or remove my original, I have no way of going back, and the original supposedly has "Proprietary drivers" specific to this device?

Thanks for the help,

this is really confusing to me, and I'd like to have a working Galaxy player 5.0, not an expensive brick...lol

PS: I just happen to come across this buried thread after continuing reading around for the past 4 hours:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1385061

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Sorry if this post I made is in the wrong spot, I posted in the "Android Software and Hacking General" because the title seems relevant to the topic at question.

I've been looking around and I found one small sentence saying: "Samsung galaxy player 5.0 = Samsung Galaxy S (WiFi)'

I have come across this kernel that is compatible with my galaxy player 5.0 (YP-G70) USA version:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1445840

And this rom for the same device:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1458325

But I can not continue until I make a complete backup of the entire device, which I seem to keep running into walls with the few methods I come across, each of which I can get to work part way, but the problem is that there seems to be a lack of documentation for some things.

I'm trying to attempt to dump the entire devices memory to a savable archive on my PC, and if this app I found can partly do this, but with the devices internam memory, its a good place for me to try and start. Some posts I read explain how this can't be done, and others say it can be done, but they do not know how, or somewhere tthey saw someone did it once...

I finally posted this in efforts that someone will have an idea, This is how I see the device:

-Its a wifi phone/wifi media player.

-it has internal memory, which can be seen as a USB type storage in a way. This means that USB storage hardware exists.

-if the internal device NAND memory (whether its the same chip, or multiple chips) it can be read, copied, edited, deleted, etc...

if I can insert an option within its recovery "system" that is accesses by vol up and pwr on, to connect ALL storage to the USB, I'm set.

but this seems to be a difficult task at the moment.

What I'm trying to get a copy of, from this device:

-Android ROM.

-Linux Kernel.

-Boot ROM.

I can seem to access the Android ROM files and copy them through forcing a kind of SSH, but it only seems to work then the device is powered on in a usable state.

The linux kernel, I honestly have no clue of where and what this is.

The boot ROM, seems locked out to me, I tried some software I came across to tray and control it throughh the computer, but it was not properly responsive, it just did its own thing, seems locked out. if I knew where the program sends the commands to after passing through the USB, I could attempt a read, then try to dump to a usable file later. but I havent the slightest idea on how to de-commpile this thing.

Someone please tell me I'm crazy... O_O

I'm overly paranoid about loosing the software that came on this device before I flash the custom kernel and android ROM I found (That if I go forwards, I might not be able to go back if something goes wrong or if I dislike what I just did)...