yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] pc boy:
Any touch recoveries for i8730 yet?!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] caine0001:
If you want a custom recovery with all the options of CWM then get shabbypenguin's OUDHS-based version found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2240989 . But to get it to remain as your recovery instead of it reverting back to stock every time you reboot just follow my instructions found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2240989&page=4

If you do this you will have all the options of CWM at your disposal. I have read it is compatible with the i8730 but that you just couldn't get it to be permanent. Follow what I have written here and ENJOY!
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I tried Shabbypenguin's recovery back in early May, but I was stuck at the "RECOVERY BOOTING..." screen. I left it like that for like 15 minutes and nothing happened. Also there is no "install-recovery.sh" file.

Is that supposed to happen?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] caine0001:
You are rooted and did use a quality app for your filesystem explorer, right? If any of this isn't true you won't be able to find the file. If it isn't there, then it is like the newer i437s and isn't like mine which allows you to just rename a file to allow a custom recovery to be permanent and name it back to get back to the stock recovery. Also, when I installed shabbypenguin's custom recovery version 1.0.3.3 I couldn't do it with the .exe file. I had to do it thru ODIN.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
If X-plore, ES File Explorer, and Root Explorer count as quality apps, then yes. I am rooted, I can su from the terminal, I can remount partitions as rw or ro, so that's another yes.

You mean I need to use the .tar.md5 file and not the odin oneclick?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
No touch recoveries yet, but traditional CWM is now available.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] caine0001:
It was worth checking. I am sorry you don't have the files. They make working with custom recoveries and then reverting back to the stock one so much easier.

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All I can tell you is that the oneclick didn't work for my phone. It just locked up or went dead or something just like it. I had to use ODIN with this file "Express-OUDHS-CWM.tar". It is a .tar file not a .md5 file. You can get that file here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2240989

It is the first file shabbypenguin posts there. Use it with ODIN 3.04 which is posted right below it. But you must make sure that your drivers are properly installed first. You can check it by attaching the phone and after a few moments go to My Computer or File Explorer and see if it is listed as a drive.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
No worries. I much prefer using dd on the terminal anyways.

So umm. Do you think I should try again or wait for the mysterious CWM that was made by [MENTION=2562109]jt1134[/MENTION]?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] caine0001:
What would it hurt to try again? Just verify that you can see the phone on My Computer first when it is hooked up to the USB cable before you try going into Download mode. I don't see much reason to wait. Shabbypenguin's version does everything the regular CWM does. It just has a few tweaks to get it to work with the Express. But if you want to wait so that your phone says 6.0.3.3 then I guess you might want to wait for jt1134. I do not know what it would have that shabbypenguin's doesn't but its up to you.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Thanks so much. Anyways either version is fine. I just need to make a nandroid.

You know how it feels to have the latest version of something. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] caine0001:
I have spent thousands of dollars just because I always want the latest and greatest, even if it hasn't got any improvements over the old. So yes, I understand. Don't worry, the shabbypenguin version has all the bells and whistles and you can make your nandroid. That was the first thing I did.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Thank you, will try when I get my hands on a PC.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] pc boy:
Thanks for the reply!

Where can I find it?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Everhez:
Any Custom rom????

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] caine0001:
All evidence points to no....
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] thanks for trying with CWM. Good luck on CM, would love to see that.

[MENTION=4649127]barclac[/MENTION] - read somewhere Samsung will give us 4.2.2 but not beyond. That makes CM more important as once we have it we can go futher

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Thank you barclac, I will do my best to bring CM to the Express despite my limited time.

Yes I have also read that, but you guys won't be seeing 4.3 soon, syncing 4.2.2 is hard enough. [MENTION=4649127]barclac[/MENTION] There are a lot of tutorials out there on building CM. That was where I learned almost everything I know today. :)

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jackgar:
I have finally been able to root my 8730 by this method and gandalf exploit...but after being root, I have no longer lock screen and when I long press power, my phone shuts down directly and no power off/reboot/airplane options are shown.

Anyone knows why?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
I'm going to give a try again with cm10.2 as soon as possible. And i hope i can get cwm working this time

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Hi everyone, im trying to understand why some of the root apps work on different phons ,so i thought I'd show my build to see what the differences are.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Ps.i should had when i say root apps i mean like mottochopper ect.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Interesting, i just found a couple of items for download from g+,meddusa box,and octopus box,for our device, check them out and tell me if it's worth downloading, they come under search for Samsung gt-i8730.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
I took a couple of screen shots.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Second
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Hi again, I thought i would download mobile uncle just to see the complete workings for our phone, very interesting. Not that i understand have of it, but interesting.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Are you using blobs from expresslte, expressatt, serranoltexx, and d2-common? I think that will work.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
From expresslte, d2-common and msm8930-common

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Also use serranoltexx (s4 mini). That's the closest sibling phone we have to the Express, aside for the expressatt, which is a bit more different in my and jt1134's opinions.

Goodluck with building CWM once again!

Oh and if you don't mind me asking, what is unmkbootimg saying here:

WARNING! This image is compiled using non-standard mkbootimg!
OFF_RAMDISK_ADDR = 0x0200000

Please modify mkbootimg.c to compile your image.

Does this mean that any image compiled with any standard mkbootimg will not boot on the express?

Because so far all images that I compiled don't. Even a stock recovery image that I just decompiled and recompiled without

modifying anything.

Thanks for all your help, [MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION]

Oh, and everyone, I made a Windows script for extracting proprietary blobs used by expresslte, expressatt, d2common, and serranoltexx. I know most of us don't have Linux on their PC,

so I made the script. I will upload it later.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
Ummm that image error is very interesting. I will try to edit it

Edit: i edited mkbootimg.c with the ramdisk offset of the error. Hope it works
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
http://goo.im/devs/KINGbabasula/express/cwm/recovery.tar.md5 Here you go. Please try it and let me know
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION] thanks for having another go. Still not quite there. Goes to Booting Recovery....

Sits there for about 15 seconds, then buzz, line flash, buzz and then boots to Android.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jackgar:
Maybe it's some issue related to "qualcomm secure boot=enabled". That's what it says when I enter odin mode.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=4532984]jackgar[/MENTION] think you might be onto something. The HTC One has the same chipset and an unlocker

see

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2241777

Not game to give that a go as may brick the phone.

There is a thread about unlocking the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II Bootloader but different chipset there.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2043636

Not sure what they would do to us.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Me to,Don't want to brick this ,i don't think DSE will give me another phone, lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] adityapathak1733:
Hello guys I have a major problem, since the Express is supposed to have 8GB internal memory. My phone only shows 4.5 GB. I would live some help right now..
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Hello

Hello,

I have put together a Windows script for extracting blobs.

Download the attachment. Please read the README file before doing anything.

Also, I have recompiled the S4 Mini's CWM with a modified mkbootimg and the Express's kernel.

Test it out: Link
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
Can you share your mkbootimg.c?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] you are a genius!

We have CWM without the blue fog.

Boots to CWM Recovery and is currently doing a backup.

Obviously needs some more testing but think we have it.

Well done. Thank you so much for you hard work and perseverance.

Bazzan

Ps seems stable. Have a backup (not tried restore), can mount and unmount, reboot, poweroff, clear cache, etc. If i get time today will try and flash an app today.

Do get the message warning no file_contexts but understand this is common in cwm and of no concern.

Can boot from Rom Manager straight to recovery so that app recognises it.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jackgar:
I wanted to try, but odin shows this message when I load recovery:

<ID:0/010> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> recovery.tar.md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...

I downloaded it 3 times and get the same each time. Is this normal?

PS: Odin version is 3.07
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=4532984]jackgar[/MENTION] I made the same mistake a few weeks ago so you are in good company :)

Rename it recovery.tar (remove .md5). It you run that through Odin it will work.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] jackgar:
:good: Perfect, CWM now working on my 8730 :) Made a nandroid and I think it has been extra slow to finish... but I could flash superuser and now I have root without the problems I already posted before :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=4532984]jackgar[/MENTION] excellent. I thought it a bit slow on the nandroid as well - not that I am complaining. We have CWM! yay! Thanks again [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION]

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
i don't suppose you would like to share with this old fellow exactly what you did please, i don't want to make the same mistake like i did last time. This is what i have downloaded so far. Were do i go from here. Please.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Happy to help. Your file is called recovery.tar.tar

Rename it recovery.tar

It may be possible to load it from the stock recovery on the phone but i did not do that . Any one else try that?

I had the file on a windows 7 pc and used Odin

On phone under settings ->Developer Options i have USB debugging ticked

switch off phone.

Press volume down Home and power at the same time and it takes you to a yellow screen

Press volume up to continue

Takes you to a screen titled ODIN MODE

Connect phone to pc with the usb cable

Launch Odin

There are a few different versions of the app with different labels. I think i used 3.9

When connected a box with a com label willbecome coloured

Untick F reset time

Click on button labelled pda or AP (depends on version) and navigate to recovery. Tar and load.

Press start. It will do it's stuff, say pass and reboot your phone

That worked for me. You may have a different setup so i am not responsible for your results. Will be surprised if it does not work.

Good luck

Bazzan

Welcome comments/suggested edits
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
OP updated with new CWM.

I guess we can develop CM now? :)

If anybody tries to flash the S4 Mini's CyanogenMod, please give me screenshots or anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
OK [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION]. Done the backup with the CWM but have despite having flashed heaps of Roms have never done a restore. New territory for me

If I do a s4 mini CM flash, I can then go then Boot to Recovery and restore my backup. Is that right? CM recovery is not overwritten. Is that right?

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] petraru1:
great work [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION]

don't flash s4 mini's CM you will brick your device, possibly hard brick
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
Please [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION] share your mkbootimg.c

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Update. Well i threw caution to the wind, put the the s4 mini CM on my sd card and used CWM to install.

Went smoothly but upon rebooting hung on the Express logo for a while then got double buzz flash and reboot. Similar if not the same symptoms we had before CWM was fixed. Don't know if that helps.

Happy to report that CWM worked perfectly restoring the backup. Md5 check took a while like when i created the backup but no big deal.

Cannot fault the CWM, everything i tried works beautifully.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
My mkbootimg and mkbootimg.c are attached to this post.

So we can't flash serranoltexx. Can anybody try flashing [MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION] 's general CM build? I am also adding blobs to my copy of his build so I can test it out later.

Just so we can start CM going. :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Garmus:
There are some screenshots vailable of this CM? I dont insist at all :)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
So far no one has tried to flash this, I can't test right now since I am using tethering.

Care to try? :laugh: You can always restore from a Nandroid backup. The CWM we have works great.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Garmus:
Not yet at home. In few days i`ll do it after comming back to home to my computer :cowboy:.

Greate work! :cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
Thank you aurel. Don't test cm. In a few hours i will build again and it should work

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Okay

I tried testing the CM you made waaay back and CWM gets stuck at "set_perm failed...".

Looking forward to your new build :D

By the way, I recompiled CWM with a different default.prop hopefully to eliminate all assert getprop problems. :D

Everything still works great. I also eliminated the md5 problem.

Here is the link to the download site.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
It's not safe to remove assert getprop. Btw did you use serrano device tree? And did you use a custom graphics.c file for recovery?

Getting this error

system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c: In function 'write_padding':
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:93:34: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c: In function 'main':
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:229:12: error: 'boot_img_hdr' has no member named 'log_buf_addr'
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:230:12: error: 'boot_img_hdr' has no member named 'log_buf_magic'
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:230:29: error: 'RESERVE_LOG_MAGIC' undeclared (first use in this function)
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:230:29: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:301:48: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:304:50: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
system/core/mkbootimg/mkbootimg.c:308:52: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
realmake: *** [/home/kingbabasula/express/out/host/linux-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/mkbootimg_intermediates/mkbootimg.o] Error 1
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Could i please ask one more question what do i do with extractor zip. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
[MENTION=4649127]barclac[/MENTION] you have no use for extractor.zip at the moment. It is to extract files for creating custom roms. Something to aspire to in the future, myself included. :)

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Thanks for your help it's much appreciated, it works like a dream.

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Good job on cwm,works great, I for one appreciate the work that was done to get there, again well done. :thumbup:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Just a question, i tried doing a backup and it came up with a warning, no=File_contexts. Is that ok or something i can do.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
I had the same error. Googled it and seems to be a error message on a number of versions of CWM but does not cause an issue. I installed the S4 Mini Cyanogenmod rom which soft bricked the phone. I restored from backup and all is well.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Yes that's the same thing I've been reading on Google+ ,it seems that everyone I getting the same, thanks for the reply, just wanted to make sure:D
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] TedNet:
you guys are awesome... thank you to all the dev's created CWM for this phone...

i've been monitoring this thered for long time and since im not a dev so i cant post anything useful here...

again.. thanks guys:highfive::highfive::highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Ok you smarty bumbs,what's next, lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] adityapathak1733:
Guys I have a problem with the CWM, whenever I go and try to click on anything. It flickers and does nothing. Any help regarding this?
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Hi,mate i don't know if I can help, but i see you live in Melbourne, I'm in Gippsland, so when you say it flickers is that when you are in recovery, because i just went right through mine to make sure and everything works fine.try to explain a little more.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] Crizzl:
You have to use the Home Button to choose a command. Pressing the Screenlock Button will make it flicker

Got me confused the first time, too ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I will repeat once again: I simply ported this CWM from the S4 Mini. I did not personally compile this. All credit goes to Arne Coucheron, the maintainer of the S4 Mini.

And [MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION] I did not modify any file. I simply did these to port CWM:

1. Extract the ramdisks of both stock and CWM recovery images
2. Replace all files in root of CWM ramdisk with those in root of stock ramdisk.
3. Replace /etc/recovery.fstab with the one in stock.
4. Replace all "serrano*" terms in default.prop with "expressltedx" and "expresslte".
5. Recompile CWM with I8730 kernel using custom mkbootimg.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
I'm just querying, has anyone unistalled any of the apps that come with our phone, if so which ones and has there been any problems.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I don't think it's safe to uninstall system apps, but you can freeze them with TitaniumBackup.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Hello,

I am going to try 10.1 for S4 Mini with blobs from the Express. I have Odin and a nandroid backup on standby, so I will really just have to be careful.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
Good luck.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] bazzan:
Good luck [MENTION=5246389]aureljared[/MENTION]. Hopefully on a winner here. When I tried the regular 10.1 for S4 Mini it soft bricked my Express but recovered fine with the backup. Think you might be on the right track from your description of how you fixed CWM. Symptoms of my attempt with the S4 Mini are similar if not the same as CWM before your fix. Fingers crossed.

Bazzan
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] barclac:
One question please, I flashed recovery. Tar. Should i stay with this one, or flash cmw.tar.
[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
Both will work just fine, cwm.tar just has a different default.prop.

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I have the new serranoltexx zip file ready, will try flashing in a little while.

[MENTION=5093942]KINGbabasula[/MENTION] Any new update on CyanogenMod?

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] KINGbabasula:
No i'm trying to fix that custom mkbootimg.c. When it'll work i will build

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[Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730 Guides, News, & Di] aureljared:
I take it that you replaced your source mkbootimg.c with my custom one? Perhaps you should just modify the ramdisk offset value of the source mkbootimg and enter make from the terminal.

That was what I did after looking at unmkbootimg's output. Copy-paste the value.

And I tried CM, it simply resulted in a bootloop. But I am now back to stock and everything is working well ^-^

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