yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Warnahly:
hehe i followed them *be sure to extract JAR from ZIP*

but then i cant find the sgs2toext4.jar utility and didnt know how to run it

thanks for your work ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
K. So after extracting it where did you save the jar file?

I would recommend using 7zip to open the zip and then just drag and drop it on to your desktop. From there you should just be able to just double click to run it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Warnahly:
i did exactly like you said but it opened using winrar then i open it i get 2 folders

1-dk

2-META-INF
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rizal Lovins:
You should run file sgs2toext4.jar

type this in cmd

java -jar sgs2toext4.jar

and you will see like pop-up or new windows

drag the file to it and wait ;)

Hii [MENTION=4513677]rwilco12[/MENTION]

i can't extract the system.img to system.ext4.img from md5 Firmware Galaxy S4 I9500, it's not done :/

any idea sir? :)

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
If I remember right I think I saw something saying they had changed something in the ext4 img files for the S4. I think there was an update rolled out specifically for the S4 but I can't remember where I found it. Let me see what I can dig up and I'll post it here.

Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sassorock:
I followed the instructions and have successfully extracted files for S3 (i9300) Stock Rom.

But when I did the same to S4 (i9500) Stock Rom, it failed.

Tried few alternative methods (all under Windows) but all getting the same result.

Samsung must have changed the way they pack the S4 ROM? Can someone confirm this?

Any updates and hints to solve this?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
You are correct. Samsung changed something with the S4. Unfortunately I haven't been able to spend the time on it I need to to determine how to work around the changes.

Sorry!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ocaldini:
Hello...

It worked on my S4 I9505 perfectly , rom 4.2.2 MGA (NEE).

But when I tried the new rom MJ5 4.3, Linux reader doesn't work...what the heck??

Any ideas? thank you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] scott14719:
Yep, still a problem. I tried this method with the stock I9505 MJ9 firmware (4.3) tar and Linux reader won't work with it. It worked fine with the stock AMDL (4.2.2) SGH-I337 firmware. I made sure the file was not corrupted, but it just won't work with 4.3? Any solution(s) yet?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ocaldini:
Yeah!

I have a solution!

Use this program I've just uploaded for you:

http://goo.gl/UuFVTe

The only problem is that you can't select multiple files to save, you have to save one at a time, but at least it works!

Open the "img" inside it.

Report If you succeed.

hugs
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] scott14719:
Yep seems to work fine. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] prdic:
I used this tool to open latest galaxy note2 4.3 ROM tar.md5 file and worked fine.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] siddarthsmallya:
I have a file named S6012XXUBME2_S6012OXXBME2_S6012XXUBME2_HOME.tar.md5

when i try to open it , 7 zip says cant open it as an archive. Please help me
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
What's the exact error message you're receiving?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] siddarthsmallya:
Cannot open as an archive ..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
Without the actual file it's tricky to troubleshoot. Do you have a link you could send me?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] siddarthsmallya:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-S6012

S6012XXUBME2 SEB region 4.1.2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
So I finally had some time to play with this today. Unfortunately I can't figure it out. It appears that this particular build from Samsung used a different method than their standards for compiling their TAR ball. I've tried everything I could think of and keep coming up with the same results as you. Sorry!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] siddarthsmallya:
Okke buddy thank you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CoulFox:
Looks Great :D

I had tried running this in-order to extract the ROM for my Samsung galaxy Win Pro but i get 0B/s spped in the sgs2toext4 application
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mpoehling:
Thank You so much...

I would be very interested in the "Making Your Own Flashable Zips"..:good:

---------- Post added at 01:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:56 PM ----------

Thank You, and keep up the good work. Amazing!!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mloc33:
Is the any chance someone could help me out with a .tar file?

It`s for an S4(I9595x) live demo unit, when I go to flash in Odin, it fails at the modem part, so I wonder if it would work if the modem part in the .tar file where removed, then it might flash all the way??
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Droidriven:
I don't think that would work because flashing formats the device which would wipe the existing modem file on the device and you'd be stuck with no modem even if the tar flashed all the way. I think you may have actually gotten a non complete download of your file, next time check the md5 sum for your file to verify you got the whole thing.

In addition I'll say that it would be possible to remove the modem in the file then replace it with the modem from a tar that does flash completely, but that would involve decompiling both tar files to make the switch and then correctly compiling and signing the tar you create so that it flashes without errors.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
Actually that could work. The TAR only formats the partitions for files that are included in it. Depending on where in the previous flash it crashed you've probably still got the modem intact and just need to flash the rest of the TAR.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Droidriven:
Hmm...that's good to know, I always thought it formatted the whole thing and wiped everything that was there before it, I guess I don't have to be as careful as i have been, I may end up making use of that, thanks. One question though, how do know if what I remove from a tar and what I leave on the device occupy the same space? I'd hate to remove then flash only to find out it didn't flash to the same place as what was there before. Another thing if I find that they flash to different places then how do I adjust the tar I flash so that it flashes to the same place without screwing up what is already there? I would assume that as far as the modem goes my question wouldn't apply to modem because it would obviously flash to the modem partition regardless, but what about the rest?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mloc33:
I found a firmware that flashed fine for it, don't ask me how our why it worked, but it does.

I don't know much about it but I thought that if it would be possible to take out the modem then the flash would succeed, since the phone doesn't have one...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Droidriven:
Your phone doesn't have a modem? What phone do you have and what phone is what you flashed meant for?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mloc33:
It's am s4 i9505x or G not sure which, it's a live demo unit, basically a phablet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aureliomilitao:
please

i extract my file of s3 i9300 system.img and open correct in program : ext4_unpacker

but the file system.img of Note 4 n910c no open in : ext4_unpacker ( invalid format ) why ? is identic no ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
There are are some issues with some of the newer TARs that Samsung is putting out that make it so this method doesn't always work. Another user found this method (I haven't tested it yet) that he reported worked http://www.rwilco12.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=74&pid=1250#pid1250 Give it a shot and let us know if it works?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aureliomilitao:
ok

thanks

but not work , a wait the Devs create xposed for Stock Rom Note 4
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Droidriven:
As far as I know you can't use Xposed with a touchwiz ROM, all of Samsung's stock ROMs are touchwiz so you may not ever get what you're looking for.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
Actually you may be able to. This was just posted a few days ago, it may work for the ROM you are on. http://xdaforums.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3113463
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Droidriven:
Well that's cool, its about time that came along.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Droidriven:
[MENTION=4513677]rwilco12[/MENTION], I've been trying to confirm whether or not the epic 4g touch can be flashed to straight talk without using a cloning method. I know straight talk has the BYOP for CDMA and their outdated website says its compatible but I'm looking for a confirmed, current and correct way to activate on straight talk.

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwilco12:
I believe it can be flashed to StraighTalk as I remember looking into it back in the day when I still had my E4GT. But I never actually went through with it and I couldn't tell you how to do it myself. The best place to ask would be http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1953783. Someone there should know the answer. :)

Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ViBE:
i have a different Samsung phone and I would like to update the bootloader. I have a stock tar.md5. How can I extract only the bootloader and update my phone with it via Odin?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coolbeans2016:
google sux

download link "google says it violates their terms of service"????
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel1989hh:
Hey guys i had an idea :) maybe you can help me ! I want to change the splashscreen from my sm-g900f i read all the Forums and stuff and everybody says its not possible :( but there was a guy told me that i have to modify the bootloader - OK i download the bootloader AS .md5 and want to open it now to look for the splashscreen image ...maybe its a dumb ass idea i have no clue ^^ but in theory : open the bootloader file with ur method - find the images - change it -Repack it - then flash :) sounds easy but i would be really lucky if some one would help me or tell me that im wrong
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cristobal.digital:
Thanks a lot rwilco12, It worked perfect !!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] m12lrpv:
I'm looking at the tutorial for unpacking and the one for creating your own flashable tar but i'm not sure about the image file formats.

From the first tutorial I unpacked the odin .tar.md5 file and it contained (in order)

boot.img

recovery.img

system.img.ext4

persist.img.ext4

userdata.img.ext4

Then I converted system.img.ext4 to system.img.ext4.img using sgs2toext4.jar and mounted it.

Now I want to convert system.img.ext4.img back to system.img.ext4 so I can rebuild the tarball.

That raises some seemingly obvious questions that I cannot find answers to...

How do I convert it?

Do I even need to convert it?

Hoping someone can answer those for me.

Thanks,

David
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xdausernl:
File extraction also possible by renaming stock ROM file

I found that renaming the stock ROM file name from '*.tar.md5' to '*.tar' does also do the trick.

There have been no issues with the md5 hash, but I was using Linux at the time.

After renaming you can see the actual content of the renamed stock ROM file, in my case about 10 files.

Unzip the file and you'll find a folder with unzipped content, that's all.

Using Heimdall-Frontend I could upload the extracted files seperately to a connected device.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] robrazil:
Finally !!

I found how do that after to waste a day to search one real solution.

Is only to use the ClassyKitchen free version for windows.

I found it here:

https://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/tool-classykitchen-android-roms-t3862584

Basically, after to open the program, you will choose "create new project" on the tab "Projects utils", and choose the firmware from PC or from mobile root. So, the program will extract the folders and files to PROJECT/system folder, and you will can access them by windows explorer, including the app folder with all original apks.

I was looking for a way to restore the calculator apk after delete it before to find another to replace it.

[ ].
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BadrXthn01:
how do it
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tainka:
I'm losing 10% at night. Data is the only thing which is on.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retrorom:
Try disabling fast dormancy, it can cause battery drain. You can see it being marked as "secril_fd-interface".

Fast dormancy itself is a good thing, but your provider has to support it. Even if your provider supports fast dormancy you will still see secril_fd-interface wakelocks, however they should not be causing your phone to wakelock for hours.

There is an app to toggle fast dormancy by gokhanmoral, you can get it here.

Oh, and disabling data overnight does miracles, you'll lose 2-3% in total, then when you wake up, just re-enable data connection. ;)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seifer1975:
Sorry am I missing something? You had 43% left after almost 23 hours of usage. I'd say that's excellent battery!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tainka:
yes, but something waking up my phone during the night, I would like to know what. I don't understand betterbatterystats so well
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richard_10:
It's the media scan and the baseband
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tainka:
ok, so how can I make it stop waking up my phone?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UtkarshGupta:
Try rescan media root. And flash latest rom. It should be dll7 +

Also try changing network mode to get the best signals.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seifer1975:
I dun see evidence that media is keeping the phone awake. It doesn't even appear anywhere. I see Google maps. If you are are signed on to latitude, then logout of it. It is well known for sucking your juice. Also see some wakelock related to audio_out. According to some it happens when you reboot your phone in silent or vibrate mode.*

IThe multipdp / svnet-dormancy wakelock

This wakelock indicates a high network usage. If this wakelock is #1 go to theNetwork Stats*to find out more.

Hope that helps.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tainka:
I'm on dll7 rom and I'm not singed to anything. If I use IGO program, is it safe to delete maps, navigation and local from system app using root explorer?

edit: removed those app, phone seems to be ok.

also installed app named "auto 3g" it shuts down data every time screen is off.

any other ideas how to save battery?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knalto:
Tried BetterBatteryStats

Have you tried installing BetterBatteryStats and checking out the Partial Wakelocks section to see which process is waking your device most often?

My culprit was Location services after the update to 4.1.2...

edit:

O I'm sorry I guess you did... Couldn't see the screenshots first time...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tainka:
The pictures I attached are from BetterBatteryStats. On partial wakelocks I do not see anything interesting.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knalto:
Yes, sorry, I didn't see them all the first time...

Seems to me as though AudioOut_2 is maybe a cause. There is already a thread about that with some tips that might help you:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2014970
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myaslioglu:
What kernel are you on? Stock?

If rooted try installing neak 1.6

if no root, i would suggest disabling some os applications. for me there is nothing wrong with your batterystats except 26 percent of os (or system i cannot recall now :)) usage..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tainka:
I have root. I'm on omega 10 and red pill kernel.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] alison pezzott:
Hi Devs,

Yesterday, I flashed my razr to CM 10.1 - JB 4.2.1 by hashcode, see at: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2028020

Everything is working perfectly, but the video record camera just records at 720 x 460.

Did somoene already have this same problem?

Alison

Brazil - Jundiaí - SP
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
max

I think that´s the maximum in this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2028020&page=39
[Motorola Droid RAZR] marcomir:
is "Voice" working on your phone??
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dumindu:
me too have got this problem in cm10.1 rom. mine is sony wt19i.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imranaryan:
Hey now am using rasbeanjelly how can i downgrade to gb rom and of u go back to stock rom gb will it cause ny prob with my nexus s

Help me

I want to downgrade for gaming coz at jb/ics gaming sucks

Or u can help me in finding ny other custom gb rom for gaming

Sent From Somewhere In The Streets Of INDIA.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wmdunn:
No problem changing back to GB ... just do a complete wipe, and then install the new rom from recovery. The Oxygen GB roms were generally regarded as some of the very best for the Nexus S. Here is a link to the latest release ... make sure to select the correct version.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37380882&postcount=13
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
I suggest flashing this fix afterwards to remove the annoying Welcome to Oxygen message that pops up everytime the launcher redraws too.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37404157&postcount=24
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xluthfi:
you can try http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2121632
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newdevo:
or you could download and flash the official google images

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imranaryan:
i download this 2.3.6 (GRK39F) from google images which kernel is the best
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odrade:
Hello guys!

I have a small problem... well in fact it's huge!

I wanted to try [ROM][JB][4.2.1][07/02/13] CyanAOSP v0.9.2, did everything should do: wipe, dalvik, format system, format datadata etc.

The phone is booting but it won't pass the Google logo.

I tried to enter recovery with vol up + home + power. It doesn't work. i cannot even get to enter download mode. What else can i do?

It buggs me a lot because i really love my Samsung I9000.

Can anyone give me a hand?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drakester20:
If you can't get into download mode then you have to buy a jig.

If my post helped, don't mind hitting THANKS ;):cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odrade:
well i thought of that. i was hoping there's another way :) maybe someone will give me another option. otherwise i will have to wait at leat 3 days for a jig...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drakester20:
OK.

Try the jig and post the results here.

Good luck.

If my post helped, don't mind hitting THANKS ;):cool:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pmsdhawale:
Hello friends,

I am new (and dumb too) to XDA and all the root and all these things.

I just rooted and unlocked bootloader of my Xperia S.

and flashed the Jelly bean AOSP ROM as in following thread.

[ROM]JB AOSP 4.2.1 alpha 2

I was playing in recovery mode and I don't which option I choose but I think something like "Wipe Partitions" or "Format partitions":confused:

After that I rebooted phone but it just went dead.

I think the battery was low (~15%) when I messed up.

Now it's not responding to anything, no boot, no recovery mode, no fastboot, no flash mode,(vol + or vol - with power) :crying:

Only thing was that I put it on wall charger at 2:00 am (no LED), at morning 10::am RED LED was strong on, but still no fastboot and flash mod e while connecting to pc :crying:

Still I kept on charging whole day ( I saw some threads regarding XPERIA S UNBRICK )

now after ~8hours, connected to pc but still detection.

Also I want to mention that When LED was on while charging and the I connected to pc , IF LED went ON , then phone not detected by computer.

and after sometime the LED went off , then Device says it connected as in screen shot below, but no fastboot or flashmode.

Please help me. Sorry for bad representation.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] koossmatrooz:
Hi, the i'm not a phone wizz but it happen't to me a few days ago as well. Tried everything almost bought a new phone because i thought it was bricked....

Now it's alive and kickin'.

For me worked:

Mine randomly started up till the battery was empty, 2-3min and that was enough.

Download the Emma flashtool, it's from Sony itself.

Install the flashtool and start it..let it settle.

With the red light on when it starts try to get it in plug in the usb in the phone (it's already connected in the pc) while holding the volume button down, and when you're lucky the flashtool will recognize the phone and will collect the correct software/ROM/kernel. Just hit the install/repair button and that worked for me, it installed the correct software and it was alive again...

Wish you all the luck.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pmsdhawale:
Thank you for your reply.

I did it but when connected phone with vol - , red LED was strong on , but device didn't detected by OS, nor Emma, nor with flashtool.

but after 1 minute the LED went off and at the same moment device detected in PC OS (as sound of new hardware detected sound of windows heard) and flashtool log was-

09/042/2013 22:42:12 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

09/042/2013 22:42:12 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

no response from Emma. Also no flashboot or fastboot :crying:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] o0 Matt 0o:
Have installed the fastboot drivers for your phone?

If you connect your phone with vol- or vol+ you shouldn't get a red light, it should be blue or green.

Try charge phone for a while then download a jellybean kernel (e.g. *.sin file), then adb push the kernel to the phone. Boot into recovery and refresh rom.

This will require adb and drivers both available in the flashpoint folder.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pmsdhawale:
Thank you for reply.

OK I will try. But the phone RED LED going on as a charging indicator only.

(Generally when phone shuts down at 0% battery and if we boot it up without charging, it turns on and turn off , after i fyou connect the charger, the instance the RED LED goes on but screen remains blank, After sometime the screen shows charging battery )

the same case is happening with me.

Should I remove battery, will it void its warranty?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] o0 Matt 0o:
So u can charge ur phone? It sounds like all u need to do is reinstall a kernel then a rom. No need to remove battery. If you connect urban phone to a usb,when off, and hold a volume key you should not get a red led. You get a red led when u don't have flashmode and/or fastboot.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dr Goodvibes:
Have you tried a 'hard' reset of the phone/power.

Phone may be in a loop with power still on or some other state.

Hold the power button -and- volume up button for a good 10 seconds.

You may feel the phone vibrate once then a few seconds later it vibrates three times in rapid succession.

This should indicate the phone is powered down.

If powered down, it may then be able to recharge itself and if you're lucky show a battery charging icon.

When recharged, I'd use SEUS to reload the stock firmware.

Good luck.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pmsdhawale:
Thank you for suggestion but its not responding.

Also I unlocked bootloader so no use of SUS .
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pmsdhawale:
Its getting red LED because battery is not charging I think.

And can You explain the process written or a link to tutorial .

One more question

Will my warranty be void if I remove my Battery?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] o0 Matt 0o:
Step 1 - Download a kernel.

Download a kernel like nova (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35055975). this will Download a zip file, open the file and extract the file kernel.elf. note nova is a jellybean kernel.

step 2 - Push the kernel file to the phone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23181182

[Xperia S][INFO][REF] All that u need to know before u begin

Step 3 - boot the phone into recovery and install a Rom zip file then reboot.

Step 4 - hit thanks.

Not sure about removing the battery. I have never need to do it.I guess it would be ok if you don't damage anything or break any security seals. Btw u know when u charge your phone when the battery is below 90% it displays a red light hey.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pmsdhawale:
Its not booting .

Nor in flashmod nor in fastboot mode. then how can I push the kernal.