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[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] dandroid7:
First, I'm not a developer... but I have compiled a few roms from scratch in the past following tutorials. I would consider myself an avid android user, not a developer.

I recently got root access for my device with a locked bootloader... thanks to [MENTION=6800840]K1979C20[/MENTION] pointing out that kingroot v4.1 finally works on our kitkat 4.4.2 device. I then removed kingroot and installed supersu using an app called "supersu me". I now have full root access, but no custom recovery due to the locked bootloader.

I was able to use [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] flashfire beta app to do a backup of all my device partitions (I did not do data or cache, but can if needed).

I'm wondering if the backup can be used to create an Odin flash able package for others to use to gain root access on their device, because the kingroot process apparently works for some, but not for others...

If not Odin flashable, what other options could my files be used for to create a rooted rom that can be installed on others sgh-i467 devices.

Would it be helpful to do a full dump of all partitions? If so, any help figuring out the partition structure and process of dumping it would be appreciated.

I'm willing to do the work on this as time permits... just looking for someone with experience to point me in the right direction.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] dandroid7:
These are the files I saved in my flashfire backup
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] RootSuperSU:
Ok now I'm not a developer at all but I'll try to help you out! Ok below is the partitions layout for our device. Now we don't need a copy of the bootloader because in the ota-update they gave us the sboot.bin and the tz.img which is the bootloader! But what we do need is the kernel (the boot.img), the recovery.img, the modem.bin, the param.bin and the system.img. But I'm not sure that even if you manage to pull these from the system that we will be able to flash them using odin cause with us having a locked bootloader if the images aren't signed by AT&T it won't allow the device to boot. But you can do it anyways and anyone willing to try can give it a shot! I would but my wife has taken over my Note 8 to use to play her games and she won't let me risk it cuz she will loose all her data! But to do the system pulls the way I know is to download Terminal Emulator for Android from the play store and make sure you have the latest Stericson Busybox installed and open the Terminal Emulator and type su the hit enter and grant it root access. Now use the following commands to pull the files but don't use the ( ) marks ok!

(busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/param.bin)

(busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/sdcard/boot.img)

(busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 of=/sdcard/recovery.img)

(busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/modem.bin

(busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 of=/sdcard/system.img)

If you wanna pull the cache.img, hidden.img, and tombstones.img you can but that's up to you. When you finish if you will put the into a zip file and upload them to like drive or dropbox or whatever you use and send me a link I'll try to talk my wife into letting me test it. I'll put the sboot.bin and tz.img from the ota-update with it.

mmcblk0p1: bota0

mmcblk0p2: bota1

mmcblk0p3: efs

mmcblk0p4: m9kefs1

mmcblk0p5: m9kefs2

mmcblk0p6: m9kefs3

mmcblk0p7: carrier

mmcblk0p8: param

mmcblk0p9: boot

mmcblk0p10: recovery

mmcblk0p11: ota

mmcblk0p12: cdma

mmcblk0p13: modem

mmcblk0p14: tombstones

mmcblk0p15: tdata

mmcblk0p16: hidden

mmcblk0p17: reserved1

mmcblk0p18: reserved2

mmcblk0p19: cache

mmcblk0p20: system

mmcblk0p21: userdata
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] dandroid7:
[MENTION=5418706]RootSuperSU[/MENTION] I am working on this now... THANKS will post a link in a while and pm you

EDIT: I have extracted all of the files, but it's gonna be a bit before it is all uploaded. I have 100mbps download speed, but the upload speed is a whole different issue...

EDIT #2: try this link for the files you requested https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=7FBDBF9B2D3ACDA5!4928&authkey=!AAiZqsqu3y_s5dk&ithint=file,zip

OR try this one if that doesn't work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3w-dFE5Q3FOUlp3bVhMS2lFYjA/view?usp=sharing
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] dandroid7:
[MENTION=5418706]RootSuperSU[/MENTION]

Just so I learn the process... how would I extract the sboot.bin and tz.img? Even if you don't need these from me, I'd like to do it so I can learn the process... it's the old "teach a man to fish" addage. Based on what I have read elsewhere, I taking a guess and wondering if:

Would bota0 be where to extract the sboot.bin?

Would bota1 be where to extract the tz.img?

If these are the correct locations, presumably the same type of code is used to extract them as the other files I did above?
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] RootSuperSU:
I'm not sure about those 2 files! I don't know which files are what that is why I didn't say to pull those mainly! I wish I knew.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] dandroid7:
Ok developer gurus... i tried using romdump via terminal emulator... i'm getting the following message... I have edited permissions on the romdump file, but cant get it to dump the files... it looks like it is opening the script, but its giving me this error...

Any advice?

I'm trying to do a full romdump vs the partial stuff i have already harvested... wanting to make sure i get everything in the right format.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] TMartin:
[MENTION=5281610]dandroid7[/MENTION] I'm not sure if you noticed but boot.img and recovery.img are the exact same size. From what I can tell is that we can't get a real dump of either because of the locked bootloader.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] dandroid7:
[MENTION=1055909]TMartin[/MENTION]

hmmmm, I didn't notice that. but now I see what you are saying. Could be operator error on my part in how I extracted the stuff (see post #3) - or it could be as you say because of the locked bootloader. either way - I don't have the knowledge to say which it is (if either).

I'd really like to learn more about how to properly do this stuff... I have been googling and reading a lot - but not making much progress. It would be awesome to pick the brain of a developer or two who could give me some pointers. I don't mind doing the work - I just need some direction.

I guess we will see if anyone else posts more ideas... meanwhile - I'll keep reading and experimenting.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] RootSuperSU:
Hey I don't know what they are talking talking about we can't do rom dumps with locked bootloader because I have unpacked the modem.bin, param.bin, boot.img and recovery.img you sent me successfully with no problems using only my Note 8! I haven't been able to find away to unpack the system.img tho cause I don't have a computer but I am working on trying to find away!
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] dandroid7:
Just trying to learn here... what do you use to unpack the .bin and .img files on the tablet? Not that I know what I'm doing, but I'd like to see what's in the files for the sake of learning.

Additionally... I have a decent computer... so if given a bit of direction, I could unpack the system.img file, put it in a zip file, and post a link to whatever you need for it.

Let me know if you want me to do so.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] TMartin:
I've tried multiple ways and can't get anything to mount and extract. I'd love to know how you pulled them. Do you have them uploaded anywhere?
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] RootSuperSU:
dandroid7 managed to follow my directions in post #3 on this thread and he managed to do all the pulls. He has them on his ondrive uploaded. Check and read the posts man!
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] RootSuperSU:
I used the ZArchiver Pro app I bought on the PlayStore to unpack the modem.bin and the param.bin. It's a file manager and has features kinda like 7zip for Windows. Jus open the app and go to the .bin files long press on them and open as archive. Here is a link to the app on my Drive storage.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Zg_yh4ytvLYkNINVBpZThQQlE/view?usp=docslist_api

For the boot.img and recovery.img I used a app called Unpack Repack Img. You have to make a folder called unpack on the root of your sdcard and place your boot.img on the root of your sdcard also then use the app to unpack. For the recovery.img same app and same way but you will have to rename it to boot.img for the app to do it. But it doesnt work on repacking the images. Here is that app. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Zg_yh4ytvLQ3RLa2I1bWl2OFU/view?usp=docslist_api

Now if you wanna use Android Image Kitchen for Windows/Linux/Mobile to unpack and repack the boot.img and recovery.img then just go check out this thread below for the downloads and information on how to install and use.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2073775&page=1

Now for the system.img since you have a computer I would check out this thread for what seems to be an easy way to unpack it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2294909&page=1

or

You can look here at this thread for another way to unpack the system.img. Apparently this has Chainfire's Tools he uses to:

* Extract/repacking zip/.tar.md5 ROM files

* Unpacking/mounting/repacking ext4 sparse partition image files

* Unpacking/repacking boot image files

in LINUX OS

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2600364&page=1

For a better and more complete guide with step by step and pics on how to get the list of partitions and how to get the dumps using a computer with adb commands or using a Terminal Emulator app on your device go check out this thread!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2450045&page=1

Be sure to go to the OP of each thread. That's the short term for Original Post if you didn't know. I hope this all helps yall out on how to do this stuff! Really all you had to do was Google Search this and just look for the XDA links section. Normally they are some of the 1st links given. But I'm glad to help anybody cause I know how difficult it can be trying to figure out all this stuff. I've only been into this for the past 2 or 3 years. I wish I knew alot more. I hope to be able to get a good computer and maybe compile my own custom roms and kernels and recoveries for my devices!
[General Questions and Answers] vancouver_2010:
the concept seems easy enough, surely there is an app that can do that, but which one can actually do the job via wifi, bluetooth or 3g? Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Ciprum:
You haven't asked a question.
[General Questions and Answers] vancouver_2010:
What a strange response, what do you mean I didn't ask a question?
[General Questions and Answers] Ciprum:
Oh, l just realised that the question is in the title. Don't do that please.

And also, use Google. From a single search I found the solution

http://skreen.me
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eeeeeeeeek:
Can somone make a zip flashable through recovery for OG5? I would greatly appreciate it.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eeeeeeeeek:
Oops my bad, thanks for redirect
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KLPFL:
Have you checked out this thread yet..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3174350
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepesh.poojary:
I can't flash new or stock ROM .. In my moto g XT1033

Cwm recovery starts but can't mount USB

Twrp recovery don't start it just gets stuck a "teawwin"

Help me I have only one cell

Though it's now in boot loop condition I can't flash any ROM to restart it

If I try flashing from cwm it gets lagged n nothing happens

Same while factory reset ... HELP MEe pleaseeee.,.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] AstronusX:
I found out that radio rom 1.12.10 is better than 2.19 radio, no drop call, signal is better than 2.19. I have tested it more than a week, no drop call. My gf and I both has mda, she had 2.19 radio, I had 1.12.10 (IPL/SPL 3). In theather I had a bar of signal while she had no signal at all. Try it out. See if it works for you.

The radio is include with button 1.05 Rom for unlock at http://rapidshare.com/files/18212239/CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE.exe.html

Refrence: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=285435

I don't know how to exact the radio out of that rom. Need expert to extract this radio out
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] starkwong:
1.12.10 is too old...

There are 2.25, 2.47.11 and 2.69.11 should be better than that.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] AstronusX:
2.47 and 2.69 has dropped call issue. If it works great, it doesn't matter too old isn't it?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] killacam13:
2.40 is good with no dropped calls and is new
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] m3m3:
is 2.40 good for tmobile in US? does it provide better reception and does it recover from signal lost quickly??

where can i download?

thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mestrini:
I use 2.47 ever since i flashed it with molski's 2.26 ROM and never got a call that didn't ring.

I think this issue is probably a network coverage/country problem and it grew so big that it became a dogma (or an urban legend?)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mcbeat257:
Credit goes to surge1223 for this resource as I did not create this file that was made.

This resource allows you to emergency-full wipe your Android system in case you are in a boot loop or stuck.

Download 5.0.1 Full-Wipe

Get Odin 3.0.9 here

Full Wipe ( AKA Emeregency Repair)

1. Unzip the file and you should have a ALL_VZW_I545VRUGOC1_I545VZWGOC1_CL4584173_QB4517016_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar

2. Select the tar.md5 in Odin under PDA (or AP if using Odin 3.09) and keep Odin's default settings

3. Extract the PIT file from your phone or Odin tar if you need to.

4. Put the PIT file in PIT and load the the Odin tar.md5 in PDA (or AP if using Odin 3.09) then click start.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Nana Ayeh:
Hi mate!

How do I flash a custom recovery like TWRP on this OC1? I want to flash other Touchwiz ROMs. Thanks for your great work..

I am now on OC1. How do I root it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] G.moe:
There's no custom recovery options if you're on OC1 bootloader, but you do have options for root/flashing. OC1 is rootable with KingRoot on the desktop. If you want to flash roms from there (or xposed), you need to use FlashFire.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Eddie Hicks:
Thanks for providing this. I was rooted but I wanted to flash the latest stock firmware that would allow me to root again if I change my mind. I attempted to download OC1 from Sammobile but it was taking way too long. In the meantime while waiting for the download I found this post. I downloaded it here, flashed it and went through the initial setup of my phone. At this time the file is still downloading from Sammobile. I'm letting it to continue just to see how long it takes. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] seadooman:
Can you post the pit file?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Scottchy014:
This is what it should look like: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319199111 You should be able to take the .tar.md5 file and unzip it using 7-zip and pull out the .pit file. You'll need to unzip the tar.md5 anyway so you can get to the PDA(or AP) file.
[Nook Touch General] damianiw:
Hi

I have a nook simple touch - 1.2.1 firmware not rooted yet, I only want to use it as an e-reader but the ghosting is awful compared to my wifes kindle of the same generation (non touch).

I've been trying to look around and find out what I can do, is there a way to force it to refresh every page, some searching seems to suggest the issue was better on older firmwares, why B&N didnt include an option like amazon to force refesh every page who knows (that's not enabled on my wifes kindle) - the Kindle is just much easier to read in direct bright sunlight :( but I'm sure theres some tweaking that can be done to improve it :)
[Nook Touch General] nmyshkin:
I have to say I am surprised by your description of your NST. I've been paying close attention to mine today while reading and I may be losing my vision but I can't see the ghosting you are describing. I've always felt the native Reader and its default settings worked really well. In some other apps there may be issues with ghosting, but not in the reader.

I'm running FW 1.21 also and while I have rooted and altered my device a lot, to my knowledge I haven't done anything to the functioning of the Reader app. Are you sure you don't have some kind of hardware issue?
[Nook Touch General] damianiw:
It could be a hardware issue but it's well out of warranty, I do notice the ghosting on the kindle too so maybe im just susceptable to spotting it and having it irritate me, just wondered if there are any tweaks to control thow often it refreshes as its ok once it refreshes the screen
[Nook Touch General] nmyshkin:
OK, so look here at what Renate suggests.
[Nook Touch General] damianiw:
Seemed to be very complex, so I went for root and under there is the option for how many pages before full refresh :)

also installed cool reader for good measure and very happy - problem solved
[Nook Touch General] nmyshkin:
Excellent! Your rooting method must be different from mine but now we're both happy :)
[Nook Touch General] NOOK!E:
Good job, [MENTION=5562185]nmyshkin[/MENTION]! :)
[Nook Touch General] damianiw:
Thanks everyone, my main concern was rooting would stop it behaving like an e reader but relaunch I a great launcher and the default options for home and library mean I have best of both and importantly control over the refresh as my nook does appear to ghost far more than a friends on comparison, for the £29 paid over a year ago the nook is awesome
[Nook Touch General] damianiw:
Comparing my nook to a friends the contrast looks really different so maybe this unit wasnt calibrated right - i'm now looking for a contrast adjuster to see if that solves me needing to fully refresh the screen so much as that will be using more battery
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OBwan:
I posted a while ago about the GPS failing to find even a single satellite. I got no responses, just a redirect to this forum. Since then I have searched and searched but no one has a solution to this common problem. I watched a video about cleaning the antenna contacts and performed this cleaning - no help. I have tried numerous apps that are supposed to help - no help. I took the tablet out of its case - no help. I even set the tablet out in the backyard for 45 minutes with a GPS app running as was suggested by someone - no help. I can't find anything at all about updating or re-installing GPS drivers or firmware so i don't know if that is even an option, but if there is a way to do this I would sure like help trying that. I have Titanium backups from before the GPS outage but I don't know which ones control the GPS.

It is as though this is a taboo subject and no one wants to even talk about it, but I did see that LOTS of people are having the same problem. Doesn't anyone have a solid solution short of just buying a new tablet? The GPS worked on a flight from TX to TN last March but never worked again after that. Could something on that flight have jammed or disabled my GPS?

If anyone has a solid solution based on actual resolution of this same problem, a lot of people would appreciate knowing about it.

Thank you.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moonbutt74:
Oooh i luv a good conspiracy! xD

Although i don't think taboo has any thing to do with it, now, if we were talking about dwarf elephants,sodomy and juggling then that would be troubling! But i think the empire is too busy tripping over the trump disaster to jam your gps. xD

okay, start by cycling through your back ups and find the one that worked, though i don't know much about titanium backup. It would have been smarter to use an actual recovery to make you backups.

The reason most common for not finding an answer or even a lead to one is insufficient data.

I have a tab4 and gps doesn't work, is literally nothing to go on.

What OS and/or firmware were/are you running? Did you install a custom kernel? Did you modify your OS with questionable applications or modifications that came at a cost or broke something?

What tab 4 is your tab 4? there are about 11-16 of them. Specifying the 8.0 is still not good enough.

It is interesting that you got some function on a flight. That's definitely worth a ? . I don't think a "jamming device" would fry your gps though.

I would say that you should first restore your tab back to cherry, meaning the original state you purchased/recieved it in and walk your mod process forward. Take notes and get logs.

m
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OBwan:
Moonbutt74, thanks for responding.

My Tab 4 8.0 is model SM-T330NU

It's rooted & has several of the nice apps that can be used on rooted devices. Nothing was added between the time the GPS worked and when I noticed it not working. I am ALMOST certain of that. If there were a way to check logs for changes maybe I could get a clue - hadn't thought of that 'till now. Do you know how to do that? I suppose restoration to original state may end up being necessary, but I would sure like to avoid that. Everything else works just as I like it except for the fact that Google is still spying on me. There's no stable custom ROM yet as far as I can tell.

Yes, GPS worked fine on several commercial flights. It's fun seeing things on the ground and seeing what they are on the map + knowing speed and ETA.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moonbutt74:
O,

okay that's the main question, in -flight i guess your "line of sight" to gps satellites is unhindered, if it's anything like satellite tv service, then what's you situation on ground? Meaning canopy, and cloud cover. Back up your full current rom through recovery to external sd card. And then revert your tab to it's factory state. If you haven't modified the contents of your system directory after rooting then after doing factory reset while in recovery should put you back to your initial state.

Logging,

if you don't know how to set up adb there are plenty of threads dedicated to the subject, get that set up.

once your tab is cherry, get it connected to your pc abd run adb shell

once in adb shell run logcat -c to clear your log

start a gps related function or app

run logcat without any arguments for a "live" logcat

You have a huge log to go through , but go through every line.

You'll get the idea of how to read the log as you go.

We know that as of the LP 5.1.1 update to the sm-t330nu that samsung tried to disable ir blaster, so who knows?

I didn't know the wifi variants had gps.

m
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OBwan:
I have posted this in a new thread, but I'll tell you the short version: My Allow Mock Locations was disabled in Settings/General/Developer options/Allow mock locations...). When I enabled this my GPS started working. Such a simple thing but a total odyssey to find out about it. OB
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] ej8989:
I've been using PowerAmp for 4 years. I haven't found a replacement until today.

This is the best feature-rich music player for audiophiles right now!

It even has proper queuing features missing on all material-design music players.

Key features:

Supports the standard local music file formats such as MP3, WAV, OGG.

Built-in Equalizer, bassboost & 3D surround virtualizer

Option to use external Equalizer

Flac support (4.1+)

Gapless playback.

View & Edit embedded lyrics

HD Album cover management, auto and manual.

ID3 Tag editor, edit Track, Albums & Artists

Changeable Themes, fonts and colors.

Very customizable.

Music scrobbling.

3 widgets.

Sleep timer

Flat minimalistic design.

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