yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
I can't find it in Google Play. Can you please post the link please ? Obviously I searched for Goo Media Player and Goo Player and I couldn't find it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chillzone:
Poweramp is my personal favorite.

Crisp, clear sound. Sweet tweaks, and i love the File manager. :)

I sort my music by folders, and Poweramp truly has the best filemanager for this.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinky360:
My fault .. :D GoneMad Music Player... i was distracted when i wrote :D Sorry again
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Have you tried the stock and compared with the Poweramp? What do you think?

Don't worry. Thanks mate. I've downloaded the trial and I'm testing it. First impression: no difference in quality between Poweramp and GoneMad Music Player. The UI is also very similar, no difference, both are nice. The cons: there is no widget for 4.2+ lockscreen
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinky360:
Go deep in audio setings ... And you will see there
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chillzone:
Yeah, and poweramp beats the original Player on pretty much Every aspect. However, the original Player is more battery friendly. Anyone here that have knowledge about sound cards in Phones? My galaxy s2 sure has better audio than my s4...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
S2, S3 and S4 Octa have Wolfson chip, which is supposed to be better than S4 Qualcomm (Yamaha chip). I had S3 but I found no difference between S3 and S4. I think is just rumors and comparations made by fanboys. Between S2 and S4 no idea, what do you mean that is better S2, higher volume or what?

I honestly find no difference between media player and Poweramp
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
The S2 has better audio than the S4 ??!! I think you need to clean your ears out. The SQ on the I9100 was average at best (media players costing 1/10th of the price have better SQ than the S2). The I9505 blows it out of the water.

OP - I've used Poweramp on both phones (since I got my S2 two years ago), and it's easily the best music player in every possible way (Neutron is not too shabby as well, but uses more battery). Also, re: the Wolfson Vs Yamaha DAC's in the I9500/I9505, technically at least there isn't a massive amount of difference. And that's borne out by the experience of people who have listened to both side by side - there isn't a great deal of difference in the SQ.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nellyboy555:
JetAudio Plus.. Has everything like poweramp plus a better UI, can share now playing with Twitter or Facebook.. Great app
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Thanks for review mate. Btw what earphones you have? Average or high range? Have you tried with the official earpieces? Maybe we should compare with the same earbuds, but different ears may help finding the best player

[MENTION=3544389]Nellyboy555[/MENTION] thanks, I'll check it too.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
I've used the I9505/Poweramp with Sennheiser CX300's (****ty backups only for absolute emergencies), Brainwavz B2's & my current love, 1964Ears V3 customs which you'd probably describe as 'high range'.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chillzone:
Hi! Im kinda late, i know... I did forget all about this thread.

In my subjective opinion i do feel the S2 (i9100) har crisper and more detailed sound (not sure how to say it in other words )

It may be some type of placebo, or i have a bad 9505. But i prefeer mye old S2 over the S4 anyday!

Got any clues on what else i could be?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
for how want to use Odin to flash the ClockWorkMod Recovery img or any image files like "boot.img", this is a tool to create a tar.md5 file from the img file.

unzip the file tool, and put your img files into the same directory of the batch file.

if you have more than one file put each file in a separate folder.

launch the "ImgToTar.MD5.bat" to create files with the extension of tar.md5 for each img file.

Note: the script rename the each file starting by "recovery*.img" to "recovery.img" , and files named "boot*.img" or "kernel*.img" image to "boot.img". if your file has another name , don't forgot to rename a recovery image to recovery.img, and the boot image to boot.img.

hope that help some body how search a batch file to create tar.md5 file for using it in Odin.

******************** new version of the script:

in this new version you can combine multiple files ,img and bin files, all of them into one file tar.md5 bundle.

a "AllFiles" directory is created including this result pack file ready to use in new Odin version v3.10.7.
[Galaxy S 4 General] delucz:
Thank you this worked fine on my 9505.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SeaFargo:
It creates a recovery.tar.md5 with 0 bytes on my Windows XP.. :crying:

Any suggestion?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
i can't see what the problem on your system, the tool is very simple. send me a zip of your folder with all files, also the recovery image file, and the tar.md5 file 0b.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SeaFargo:
Solved!

I find out that Odin is perfectly able to flash a TAR file, even without md5 hash check.

So I've used the Official TAR for Windows and that's it. By the way, 7z tar are not compatible.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
Yes odin accept tar file. The md5 sum is a check for the integrity of data on the file. It's more safe to use a tar.md5 instead of tar file.

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9505 en utilisant Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kriomag:
how to make odin flash tar without md5 hash?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
The same ,you chose the tar file instead of the tar.md5. Odin accepte both extentions in the PDA editbox.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kriomag:
but without md5 hash odin refuses to flash for safety reasons. its obvious that tar and md5 are just extensions... i meant how to force odin to flash ordinary tar without md5 hash in it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
odin accept all this extention PDA files:

*.tar, *.md5, *.smd, *.gz and *.tgz

but only *.md5 file has a hash to check data integrity.

a formatted MD5 checksum line is add at the end of the tar file to produce a file tar.md5

for exemple at the end of a tar file named "recovery.tar" we will find a line like this:

"53a1ee899d6f7b4b39c189739eee6294 recovery.tar"
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kriomag:
when md5 checksum is does not match tar odin refuses to flash, but if there is no md5 at all it should work? i havent tried that ;) lol

i will test it shortly... brb

i think it works, odin accepted kernel tar :) i used: "tar -H ustar -c boot.img > kernel.tar"
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
This tool doesn't work for you?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
in the first post a have put a new version, it can create from any file with the extention *.img a *.tar.md5.

if any problem happend you can send me the log.txt file.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
the latest recoveryclockmod image for odin:

:cowboy:
[Galaxy S 4 General] TOPeX85:
Tried the tool .. didn't work the first time, saw a 'PATH NOT FOUND' in the command window. So I tried again using folder path without any space (i.e..: "D:\tar-tools\" instead of "C:\users\my name\desktop\tar tools unzipped\") and the tool works.

My conclusion, tool did not work if folder path contains space(s).

Thanks for the batch files. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
thanks

I'll fix this problem in the future

update: the script accepts path and filename with spaces
[Galaxy S 4 General] pimentel07:
Didnt work

I have downloaded twice the toll but when I try to decompress winrar send me errors, could you check this please?

Or do I have to use another program to decompress it?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 General] bluflight:
If i want to create a .tar.md5 from modem.bin there's some trick to do to create that?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
I used 7zip rather than Winzip or winrar.

I updated the file by compressing it with WinRAR in zip extension.

sorry man.

I can not confirm, but I think it'll work.

the only thing is that it must have exactly as the filename: "modem.bin".
[Galaxy S 4 General] cetrero23:
After 2 hours of searching,this tar file gave me back my recovery, thanks a lot man! :good:

now i can go sleep :victory:
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
Goodnight :)

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9505 en utilisant Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] jdsingle76:
Does this only work in Windows? I can't seem to get ./ImgToTar.MD5.bat to run in the Linux terminal(using Linux Mint 16). I keep getting this.

./ImgToTar.MD5.bat: line 1: [MENTION=279333]ECHO[/MENTION]: command not found
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
This script is for windows platforms only. The result file is for use with Odin on windows not linux.

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9505 en utilisant Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] whitesides:
Check it out guys :

http://www.md5hashgenerator.com/index.php

Is it ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] jdsingle76:
Thanks...sorry, I had a brain lapse there. Duh that .bat are for Windows only. I was able to figure it out. It's really simple in Linux, just open cmd terminal and type

tar -cvf boot.tar boot.img(this creates a Odin-flashable kernel from a boot.img kernel)

But thanks for getting back with me.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
no, your link is just a online tool to generate a MD5 sum for a string and not for a file.

:)

LUNIX have tar binary command by default in /bin, md5sum is also available. you can easily create a tar file, and genarte a md5 file for it in the terminal.
[Galaxy S 4 General] HrBingR:
Yes

This is really fantastic, wanted this for ages, thank you. Is there a way to go from an odin file to a CWM flashable zip though?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
to create a flashable ZIP file, it is something else. this is a totally different operation. you go from a img file directly and not a odin file.

but if you have a file for Odin, then you can change its extension *.tar.md5 to *.tar and decompress after with a tool like winrar or 7zip (recomanded) to extract your image file.

after that, you can use the attached file in this post whitin winrar or 7zip (the best :) ) , open it and not decompress.

you drag and drop your image file into the root of the zip. that's all for creating a recovery flashable zip file.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dzeig:
so helpful.

is there any way to generate md5 hash?
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
+1
[Galaxy S 4 General] Chris Kurisu:
How to create a complete backup tar.md5

I am glad I ran accross this thread. It appears to be just what I've been looking for. I am still new to installing custom ROMs.

On occasion I need to restore my VZW SGS3 to "out of the box" condition. I found this wonderful tar.md5 (COMBINATION_I535VRBLK3_I535VZWBLK3_381038_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5) and in one step I am able to completely restore my device in ODIN using just this one file.

I'd like to create a file just like from my custom ROM. I'd really like to know the steps involved. Can anyone help with this?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tdunham:
[MENTION=5440075]mkh.mourad[/MENTION]

Would you mind adding support for NON-HLOS.bin (modem) file please?

I can edit your script to create NON-HLOS.tar.md5 file but some phones have both NON-HLOS.bin and modem.bin files for the modem. And it would be nice to have the script look for both NON-HLOS.bin and modem.bin so both are included in the same tar file. I'd try this myself but I don't fully understand your batch file to include multiple files like that. ;)

Regards - TD

---------- Post added at 02:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:08 PM ----------

For anyone that wishes to add NON-HLOS.bin support to this, here are the changes to the batch.bat file, just copy modem.bin and NON-HLOS.bin files to the folder containing the batch files and when you launch the script with ImgToTar.MD5.bat, it will create two separate .tar.md5 files.

batch.bat

Add new line in Blue in the area indicated:

rem first create a backup files from *.img in the same directory
FOR /f "delims=" %%G in ('DIR /S /A:D /B *.img *.bin') do XCOPY /Y "%%G" "%%G.back" < Yes_File
rem rename img files started by recovery to recovery.img and
rem img files started by boot or kernel to boot.img
FOR /f "delims=" %%G in ('DIR /S /A:D /B recovery*.img') do REN "%%G" recovery.img
FOR /f "delims=" %%G in ('DIR /S /A:D /B boot*.img') do REN "%%G" boot.img
FOR /f "delims=" %%G in ('DIR /S /A:D /B kernel*.img') do REN "%%G" boot.img
FOR /f "delims=" %%G in ('DIR /S /A:D /B modem*.bin') do REN "%%G" modem.bin
[COLOR="Blue"]FOR /f "delims=" %%G in ('DIR /S /A:D /B NON-HLOS*.bin') do REN "%%G" NON-HLOS.bin[/COLOR]
[Galaxy S 4 General] BrunoWestone:
You can do it in terminal (Cygwin for example) like this:

tar -cvf output.tar file1.bin file2.bin file3.img file4.img.ext3 ...
[Galaxy S 4 General] IWantMe:
Didn't work, I have a .tar file.

Doesn't seem to work with a .tar file. It also didn't say it would, so I don't blame. But I still need to make a .tar file into a .tar.md5 file. Any suggestions?
[Galaxy S 4 General] 2727alex2727:
Thank u, this is a great help, one question is there a way to create a .tar with both modem and non-hlos files in it? my n9005 (note 3) requires both files in a single tar to correctly flash modem.

thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] tdunham:
Sorry, that was as far as I got. I don't fully understand the syntax of the batch file to begin with but it would be great to have them combined.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pjkiener:
Hey guys,

I tried unzipping galaxy s4 firmware with 7Zip so i can get the hidden.img and cache.img. However, instead of getting a .img, i get a .img.ext4 instead. How do I get just a plain .img? Sorrry, I've been searching google and XDA for the answer for a couple hours now and can't find it. I'm trying to get the two so I can combine them into a .tar file and will flash via Odin to change my CSC. Your advice is appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 General] knowlogy:
good thing come from good person

it work for me
[Galaxy S 4 General] GamehouseVN:
Good job.... i'll try test on my Lap :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] ysr84:
This software is a life saver...
[Galaxy S 4 General] zepoind:
Worked just fine. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 General] bartleby999:
Thanks

Used this to get the Kernel so I could Root my S5. So thank you. :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Ahmed_Khalifa:
Thanks.

a very handy tool, and helped me a lot.

thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Interface23:
Awesome tool. Easy to use. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] masterross:
Hi mate,

Thx for the script.

I use it to make tar with 2 modems inside (modem+NON-HLOS).

If anyone need it here is the bat.

you need to put it in tar-Tool_Odin3-v3.07_by_mkh.mourad folder along with modem.bin and NON-HLOS.bin

The script will create CP_modem.tar.md5 file and you can flash it with odin.

Warning: Do not include any other bin in the folder except modem.bin and NON-HLOS.bin

I'm not responsible if you kill your phone!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Megado:
Good job! Works great! Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 General] RazerMamba:
Great work

Works like a charm :cool: :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Bingley:
Wouls this work in stock recovery or does it require twrp or cwm etc?
[Galaxy S 4 General] PIRATA!:
I have tried it and it looks like it's working.

About the real usage, I'd like to make a kernel tar.md5 file for trying to root my S5 Prime.

Do I have only to extract the boot.img file from inside the tar.md5, place it in the folder and run the batch file?
[Galaxy S 4 General] azoga:
I need csc from i9192

I have tow files

cache.img & hidden.img

how do that ??
[Galaxy S 4 General] auzang:
Now I use my SM-g900fd but Odin mode Product name changed from SM-g900fd to SM-g900md I want to change back to the SM-g900fd how do you fix it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ALAN89:
Hi Im struggling doing TAR file:confused:, I'm noob ... lol so is there any instruction to do step by step from ur giving method? really appreciated if u can help me, thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 General] James L:
Worked great, super easy to use!
[Galaxy S 4 General] blackzshaik:
thanx

Thanx Buddy For this great work...!!!! Working Perfectly!!!! :D:D:D
[Galaxy S 4 General] biobio76:
Hi Chris,

did you find an answer to your question?

anybody knows how to completely create a backup tar file to be flashed in case of need via ODIN?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Chris Kurisu:
[MENTION=962669]biobio[/MENTION]... Nope, and I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
[Galaxy S 4 General] biobio76:
ok, got you man.

thanks anyway.

cheers
[Galaxy S 4 General] skoey:
Thanks for this, saved some hassle working it out. :) Cheers!
[Galaxy S 4 General] suanggi:
thx mate, test for modem.bin N9208....working perfect....
[Galaxy S 4 General] jpdediego:
What if I have the stock firmware from my carrier and I want to flash everything but bootloader and modem?

How can I do it?

I'm asking because I flashed the latest unbranded firmware to my S6 (OJ6) but my carrier firmware is older (OGA) (Both are Android 5.1.1).

As far as I know you can not downgrade the S6, but I think it is possible to flash stock firmware that way.

Any light on this one?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mob2:
2 imgs to one tar file

The tool is great is there anyway to modify the script to make 2 .img files into 1 flashable tar signed odin file .

please advise I'm sorry I'm a noob at this but I'm trying
[Galaxy S 4 General] Japiooo_0:
Confused

Hi, I'm sorry but I cant exactly undertsand how the tool works:o

I've downloaded it, but am not sure wich files or folders must be put in de the batch folder.

I have downloaded "SMT520_GraveD_V3.0" and using the zip file f***d up my T520 bad. Costed me 2 days to get it stock again, but glad thats sorted out :)

In the download I have several folders: Data, META-INF, System and a file: boot.img.

How can I get that to a tar file s that Odin can work with it?
[Galaxy S 4 General] xSpartacusx:
i cant figure it out... i put my recovery image in thefoldr with all the bat files in it, and i open thr bat file called imgtotar and it makes a recovery.img.back file
[Galaxy S 4 General] teslax:
Three .BIN files

Hi guys,

I have to flash three .BIN files with Odin: modem.bin, sboot.bin and cs.bin.

Can I make with this tool one .TARMD5 file that include these three .BIN files?

Thanks :cowboy:
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
a new version of the script is realised:

in this new version you can combine multiple files ,img and bin files, all of them into one file tar.md5 bundle.

a "AllFiles" directory is created including this result pack file ready to use in new Odin version v3.10.7.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
now you can ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] 1619415:
Will this work on Samsung lollipop?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
Yes i have try it for my Note 4 version 5.1.1

Envoyé de mon SM-N910F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] 1619415:
OK, cool does it also take care of the md5 sum?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
Yes off course. The script generate a md5 tar file ready to send to the device by Odin.

Envoyé de mon SM-N910F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] 1619415:
Awesome, thank you so much
[Galaxy S 4 General] en11gma:
i have a galaxy s5 (C-Spire SM-G900R7 on Android 5.0 Lollipop)

if i extract an original stock tar.md5 and i want the script to reflash everything in tar.md5 EXCEPT system.ext4 how would i make that happen or could someone modify it to happen?

thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] bomba6:
I had a bootloop with TWRP, even tried to flash a new version with no luck (i9300).

Then I used your method to flash CWM and it worked perfectly! My device is now alive again.

Thank you very much!
[Galaxy S 4 General] JT man:
how do I change .mbn file to a tar with this tool?
[Galaxy S 4 General] shutup_n_listen:
Sorry I don't know how to pm you. But I saw on another thread that you Knew how to (or had Info about) SIM unlocking a Sprint Galaxy Mega. If you could email me @ jenuhhhfur@gmail.com That would be GREAT :)

Thx & sorry so random!

-Jennifer
[Galaxy S 4 General] rachelrgr:
Will this work on samsung s5 verizon?

:)
[Galaxy S 4 General] truwrxtacy:
hi can you give a more in depth description on how to do this? Say i have sboot.bin and modem.bin and i want to make a .tar file, how do i do this?

I downloaded your file, i open tar-tool, where do i put all my file before i click img to tar.bat? Do i put it into tar-tool folder or do i put it into allfiles folder?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
you can put files where you want in the same directory that contains the batch file or in a new subdirectory.

Envoyé de mon R7plusf en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] Micheal86:
Excellent. Thanks for your hard work.

I can make modem.tar.md5 and sboot.tar.md5. It works fine.

I want to combine these files into a one file tar.md5 bundle. But I really don`t understand how to do this ? In the "AllFiles" folder there is only one allfiles.md5 file which is only 10kb. After making these above said 2 tar.md5 files , what should I do to combine these files into a one file ? I`ve seen some bootloader and moden combine files and found there are 6 - 7 files ( like : abbot.mbn, modem.bin, NON-HLOS.bin, rpm.mbn, sbl1.mbn, sdi.mbn, tz.mbn). I want to know that do I need all these files to make a combine bootloader and modem.tar.md5 ? If yes , then from where I will get those files ? Are these files autogeneratede by this tool ? Actually I just want to make a Bootloader And Modem.tar.md5 zip file for Odin 3.10.7.

Would anyone please help me to do the same ?

BTW, I want to make it for Samsung Galaxy A800I (Stock 5.1.1).

Sorry for the noob questions.
[Galaxy S 4 General] sashokmc:
In Windows 10 x64 not working. I disable antiviruses and UAC.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
I tested the code on two version of windows x64 ( seven and win10) , and it works well.
[Galaxy S 4 General] donky kong 017:
This is awesome. Thank you for your work and sharing.

It worked for a single file and for multiple too like a charm.

There seems to be just one thing. When I change the name afterwards it does not seem to work in Odin. I get a md5 error. Also I cant specify the name of the tar when it's multiple files. The tar is then called allfiles. No matter how I call the folder.
[Galaxy S 4 General] evanbigfan:
Thanks a lot, this is very useful
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaydee316:
Very helpful!!!

Thank you!!! Keep sharing. :o
[Galaxy S 4 General] n70shan:
Thanks man ! you are a life saver!1111
[Galaxy S 4 General] yash92duster:
[MENTION=5440075]mkh.mourad[/MENTION]

Thanks a lot

great tool:good::good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] dexter9:
nicely done
[Galaxy S 4 General] donky kong 017:
Hey. I did this a while ago so it's not that fresh anymore ?.

I just followed the steps and it worked.

I can not say for shure but you have some "file not found" and "no such directory" errors. So maybe you did not have the files in the right directory or did not clear it. Don't know exactly. Sry bro i dont have my laptop with me to have a look.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mkh.mourad:
You didn't have corrects files width a valid extension(each file must have a bin or img extension) or you haven't put them at the right directory.

Envoyé de mon R7plusf en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] Chlorophyll:
[emoji4]
[Galaxy S 4 General] FutureOS:
Thanks, im using this tool finally fix Samsung J110G that showing "Firmware Upgrade Encountered an Issue
[Galaxy S 4 General] mikofernandezz99:
Make a file please me into tar.md5
[Galaxy S 4 General] josoet:
boot.img to tar.md5

Hello

I put the boot.img into the folder where the batch file is.

When I run the batch file ImgToTat.MD5.Tar I see that something happens but I don't see the new file what must be Boot.MD5.Tar.

Do I something wrong?

---------- Post added at 08:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 AM ----------

The problem is solved.

I'm working with parallels and I must put the folder in de root of C and then it works fine.
[Galaxy S 4 General] bit032:
Can I convert one zip rom into a tar.md5 for flash into odin?.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ANDROIDXFOREVER:
great work tnx:D
[Galaxy S 4 General] Mr Hassan:
hello,

if i have extracted system folder, is this possible to convert it to odin, or must need 1st repack to img?:confused:

if yes so can you help me to again pack img,ext4