yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] HDxDaniel:
Sometimes the latest version of TWRP is in ".img", so some people use an older version instead, which is in .tar, so they can flash it with ODIN. The thing is that the ".tar" version is just the ".img" compressed XD, so I'm going to show you how to "convert" .img to .tar.

// TUTORIAL

1 - Download and install 7-zip

2 - Download the latest TWRP .img

3 - Open a file explorer, rename the downloaded file to: recovery.img

4 - Right click on the file > 7-zip > Add to archive...

5 - In this screen you can change the file name and, most important, in "Archive format" choose "tar"

6 - Open ODIN and flash the new file as always

:)

Note: maybe other .img files (I mean other than the TWRP recovery) works too.

// SCREENSHOT

This is how the final file should look:

// Other stuff

[MOD] Centered clock in status bar [6.0.1][.ZIP][SM-N910C]

You can try this too to convert the .img to a "tar.md5": http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2446269
[Galaxy Note 4 General] genova88:
is this method for MM build? (N910C)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] erikalara:
Edited.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] HDxDaniel:
It doesn't matter the version I guess.

The TWRP that I show in the screenshot is the one I'm using right now on MM (SM-N910C).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Zawnaiminn:
Thanks
[Galaxy Note 4 General] joe535:
Is there a way to do the opposite direction, convert odin flashable tar to twrp flashable zip? Like to flash Samsung stock rom with twrp..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] A S Ovin:
I have the same query. But seems that none exists! :(
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Clipless:
Sorry for the resurrection but I wasted time trying to use this and wanted to say something.

I tried to use 7zip to create a .tar file for Odin and it didn't work for me personally. SeaFargo also says that 7zip .tars are not compatible with Odin.

SeaFargo's response is over at "[Script][Tool] how to create a tar.md5 file from img For Odin" by mkh.mourad. First page. New user here so I cannot post external links.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] happy tree:
what about covert odin flashable files to twrp flashable files ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Deleted member 9635294:
1st Extract Images from twrp

2nd Add Image files to this zip:

https://mega.nz/file/R4AggZjK#mVwpFp9lFtctNA51NubD1hr-Wm-zMREdJVLI3LXY4Yc
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Deleted member 9635294:
No need flashable zip, just extract by 7zip and flash images in twrp.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] prkfsz:
Can someone confirm this? It almost sounds too easy.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Deleted member 9635294:
Sorry I mean:

1.Extract tar by 7zip or winrar

2. fastboot flash recovery C://recovery.img for recovery image and fastboot flash system C://system.img for system image which C:// recovery.img and C:// system.img should be replaced by the directory of the image

3.reboot and enjoy!

Remember delete meta inf folder
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yum13241:
just decompress it.
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] Matteo Casu:
Hello guys! I'm curious of how much your phone can resist.

I post my personal stats, wait to see your.

:D

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[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
Time to zero charge, 27% reloaded and power on. Cm11 sev3n kernel. Auto brightness. For me best combo and comparable to bigger batts in lenovo k3 note or moto g1. With less brightness up to 4:30 of screen
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] Matteo Casu:
I use CM 11 and sev3n kernel too.. i can't go beyond 3.30 hours. :crying:
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] ziad311:
You dunno my pain :'(

I can't reach 40%

Whenever my phone reaches this percentage

It starts jumping in % and goes directly to 2% _-_-

Anyone can help me? (I replaced the battety)
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&sour...DrHULvBGH1WwV0z3Q&sig2=FO0kuUBaDQiqlFC2o0m4-Q

Try this app
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
CM11+seven auto brigthness
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] Matteo Casu:
Is cm 12?
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
So.. .. Minimum brightness but watchable. 5h od screen
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
And this is best on lollipop RR+2.1kernel. But far from cm11
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] b0baz:
And i'm testing Stock Rom 4.4.2 again and everything works. :p

SOT i have over 4 hours.
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
Best on lollipop is RR. Thats what i meant. But best overall is cm11 +sevenalpha around 5h of screen. If somebody can beat my mark i would be pleased to know it but please upload pictures ;)
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] b0baz:
Do u use some special settings? I'm on Beta 4, installed Xposed and AppOPS.

You can control your privacy in every app like in 5.1.1.

Good thing, try it.
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
W/o grenify and nothing. Just playstore update not checked and gps off and yes you can control privacy of every app. In my case chrome acces to gps.
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
Fitosanitarium stock mod with seven kernel 1.1. Most bat friendly combo by far
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] wetito:
stock+seven kernel
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] MrMagicPotato:
I had the same problem 6 months ago! I decided to buy an original S3 battery (the difference is that it's made in Korea, NOT in China) and now I always have 4h+ screen on time with the stock rom and s3ven kernel!
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] triplex92:
What number and date CM12.1? Rox or Nikola??? Please answer, Thank you
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] wetito:
+1
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
Best overall. Nobody can beat it
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
Best overall. Nobody can beat it. Brightness auto. Fito + sev 1.1+greenify+xposed donation pack.

---------- Post added at 07:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:04 PM ----------

Was cm11+seven kernel. But has lags
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] wetito:
my stats are better
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
Pics
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] wetito:
open your eyes...
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] beatbik:
So...wtf. Its so poor...3h of screen and 20% remaining is ****.. I have it with 50% remaining. When you came here with 5 h of screen we will talk.
[Galaxy S3 Neo General] wetito:
i don't see any pics of you battery total charge and battery % remaining. i'm not a wizard, i can't imagine it

when i see the pic with 5h of screen + the pic with total charge we will talk

3h of screeen+26h of total charge is a very good battery performance
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tetsuo1981:
Hi all. Noob when it comes to adb and fastboot. installed 15 min adb-setup-1.4.3 and can see the device when using 'adb devices' command. Other adb commands work fine too. NOTHING happens when trying to use fastboot commands, no devices show up and if I use 'fastboot devices' command nothing comes up. Looked at loads of different webpage troubleshooting stuff (and yes, I have put phone into download / odin mode). What am I missing? Running cyanogenmod 12.1 with twrp 3.0.0. if that helps.

Only frustrated as I wanted to practice fastboot before I receive my new Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro in a few weeks. At the moment i'll be flying blind whenI come to flash twrp and root the Note 3.

Again, ANY help or advice would be good. Talk to me like you would a child as i'm lost and confused.

Cheers guys
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rakuu:
I'm pretty sure fastboot does not work for our devices, Odin is the 'fastboot' for us.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justinxfan:
Fastboot does not work with samsung devices lol
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tetsuo1981:
Bah! Had a feeling that was the case but couldn't find any definite yes / no answers. Cheers guys, i'll stol swearing at my computer now
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
I would say this is my best attempt at a Black mod of the stock default BootLogo.

I tried a huge amount of logo's and colors and effects but i was going for a simple style.

I re-created every single image in intense detail.

I also will start calling these a Boot "Theme"

This is a package made up of not just the Boot-Logo but ALL the Bootloader's 27 images.

So in reality it's far more of a theme than just a Logo.

I started doing this because i noticed a sloppy lame effort by Motorola on the default Logo.bin

I think my "themed" BootLogo came out looking a LOT better.

FEATURES:

- 5 separate flashable Boot Logo Sets (all using the same Menu Buttons)

- High Resolution.. Images @ 245 DPI (DPI of the Moto-E ?) Logo sourced from High Res 1600x1600.

- Smallest File Size.. I was aiming for performance + quality (This is far smaller than the default Logo.bin)

- Tested.. Charging etc + Flashing via TWRP & ADB/PC on Marshmallow & Lollipop.

- Simple Style.. Boot Logo Text "Android" dropped / removed. (just because)

- Unlocked Boot Logo.. Same Logo for Locked or Unlocked Bootloaders (Unlock Warning Removed)

- New Bootloader Buttons.. Colors were chosen carefully to make navigation more intuitive.

- Bootloader Button Text.. Changed the Menu Options Text to be shorter and more descriptive.

- Optimized Graphics.. Flat PNG's made with Adobe Fireworks (32bit, 245DPI) + cut away unneeded space.

- Cleaned up.. Removed the 3 Charging Images because they are never used (replaced with 1 pixel images)

- Improved Arrow Buttons.. Fixed alignment and created new images with a gradient effect (Wingdings3 font)

- Improved Menu Text.. Used much larger font size to make it easier to read (Droid Sans)

- Droid_Operation.. Android Robot on Bootloader was made larger and centered and a bit darker.

- Flashable Zip Format.. Or if you want to use ADB/PC to flash it just extract the Logo.bin from the zip file.

- Supported Systems.. Android 5.0, 5.1, 5.1.1 & 6.0

Note: I used the update-binary from inside the MotoBootLogoMaker Program + my own Update Script.

So comments / suggestions are welcome..

I did already make a few variations such as a Blue Sky with some clouds glass effect Logo.

I may share that one too later but i wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions or requests.

Note: I originally did this Logo Dark-Grey but felt the Blue color was a bit better.

I also did a Logo that matched the original shade of blue (all with black backgrounds)

And yeah i have seen others do it already.. but they usually do a sloppy job of it.

I also wanted to share this thinking some people may want it simply to use the Buttons etc.

So people feel free to take my Logo.bin and put your own Logo-Picture in and share it etc.

[animated (x5) Downloadable Logo's preview - right click view]

EXPECT MORE !​
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
I am reserving this spot for a couple of the variations i made.

(most of the work is already done)

PS:

Expect more = i mean, Expect more from us who make & share things.. don't settle for sloppy crap ;)

EDIT:

Here is a variation i was going to add.. Same logo as what i already uploaded but i put some effects on it.

So do you people think it's better with or with out the Text (new or old font?) sometimes i like all 3.

Anyway, does this one look interesting?

Other Logo suggestions etc ?

hxxp://i68.tinypic.com/2lt288m.jpg
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
Well since i edited my last comment i went and threw together + Tested another Logo quick..

It's the same as the first one but a different Main Logo. (download = post attachment)

MotoBlack v2.1 "DarkFeather"

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[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
Same as first one just a new main Logo..

MotoBlack v2.2 "VerticalLines"

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[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
Last one for a while ;)

This one is the same but a new Logo featuring India.

MotoBlack v2.3 "Earth"

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[E 2015 Themes and Apps] lenigma1too:
love it! see if u can silhouette a face or a canadian leaf(flag?) in the reflection!:laugh:
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
[MENTION=6814249]lenigma1too[/MENTION]

Not a bad suggestion.

I imported a bunch of different CAN flags into the PhotoShop Plugin i am using on Fireworks

(Custom Reflection Maps) combined with the Alien Skin Glass effect but sadly it just wasn't working too good :(

I may have a another go at it to see if i can get something though.

I just wanted to acknowledge your suggestion and let you know i did look into it.

It did give me some ideas and experimenting is good so it wasn't a loss.

Feedback is welcome guys and do whatever you want with these i shared.
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] DroidFreak32:
DarkFeather & Earth looks AMAZING! :D
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
Thanks i hope you guys like the Bootloader Menu buttons i took a long time on those.

If someone wanted them i can share the editable PNG's i used to make them.

I created one file with all options inside it..

I also have been using the DarkFeather one for myself ever since.

One thing i noticed is there is a difference in brightness between my phone and my PC.

So i sometimes i quickly go back and adjust the brightness to make the Logo way darker.

The Boot screen tends to make true black super bright :(
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] DroidFreak32:
I'm actually scared to try this because, the boot menu buttons are different in my phone.. I think it's because I've an older bootloader? So This theme " might" mess up my bootloader.. So can you just send the logo.bin file for those 2 themes? Thanks in advance
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] lenigma1too:
Quality workmanship... Lenotorola should b embarrassed!

Yeah dude, super impressed. As I stated before I have three of these phones, and I enjoyed your bootloader theme so much it's now on all three of them! Two of them are daily drivers, & third one is my ROM/App tester, as it has a small crack in the screen, thus ->> not a daily driver. Out of all the logo.bins' ive flashed, and mods installed, & Everything I've ever loaded, yours are by far the most detailed and beautifully constructed visuals I've ever had! And the details with the bootloader images & the buttons/keys & the front? Better than icing on the cake, it's like butter icing in a spoon (if that could be any better?!? Lolz!) Come to think of it, I think I've only ever encountered one other flash that change the font. Never mind changing all 27 images, centering them and graphic resizing them so it looks appropriate and proportional!

My hat goes off to you sir!

Its such a quality job, rest assured they will be on every Moto E 2nd edition I ever own, I ever fixed, or repair...

I somehow end up doing a lot of those last two things
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
@ lenigma1too

Thanks for the kind words :)

I did this for myself like i was saying when i seen how sloppy the default Moto buttons were.

It would be easy for me to make the txt in the menu items like the original bootloader (if you all want)

And yeah the TXT alignment was irritating the hell out of me on the original menu items.

They would jump around all over LOL

And to the other guy i have no reason to believe it would be a problem on your phone.

All these do is change the pictures.. that is it.

It does nothing else like modifying the Bootloader or changing fonts etc.

And i have been downloading and comparing Firmware packages since 5.0

And the stock Logo.bin from Motorola has never changed.

For example..

XT1527_SURNIA_RETCA_5.0.2_LXI22.50-53.8_cid14_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml

MD5: af89b4f5f32b6a16e6b8611e5b7051e0

XT1527_SURNIA_RETUS_5.1_LPI23.29-18.9_cid9_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml

MD5: af89b4f5f32b6a16e6b8611e5b7051e0

XT1527_SURNIA_RETCA_6.0_MPI24.65-39_cid14_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml

MD5: af89b4f5f32b6a16e6b8611e5b7051e0

And MANY more i tested.. ALL them exact same !

One thing i did notice i think though is on Lollipop Bootloaders

the entry for WIFI Flash would show up and can be seen..

But On Marshmallow Bootloaders it's now gone.

It's the Bootloader that controls that stuff.. it decides.

I do not think WIFI Flash was ever implemented for real.

It was a beta feature in the works i seen after googling it recently back on Lollipop.

Which seems to be removed from Marshmallow (at least the visible text / menu entry anyway)

So guy..

I said in the first post either flash it with TWRP etc

OR.. just extract the Logo.bin file from the zip file and use ADB to flash it.

And if anyone is curious what is inside them just download "MotorolaBootLogoMaker"

then open the Logo.bin i shared and browse to see all the images. (or add you own instead etc)

Flashable zip files are just normal zip files guys.

So there is no point in me uploading the theme logo 2 times.

Also i had debated on sharing a different version of the planet one.

I had originally made it all blue using a color filter effect but i opted to share the full color one even though both looked good.

The other major reason i did these was the Bootloader menu options were so hard to read.

I wanted to make the text on the menu options way bigger.
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] DroidFreak32:
I flashed it and man it looks so damn cool! Thanks [MENTION=7004228]xpmule[/MENTION] . Btw is there a way to freeze the phone at the bootlogo for a longer time so i can look it the cool logo :P ? Hehe

Edit:

This theme is so good it makes me want a special bootanimation.. Something like the Earth bootlogo, but the earth spins and u can see the cool lights as night approaches in different countries :silly::silly:
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
I do not think you can stop it..

Thanks for the feedback too :)

I also had thought of making an animated Bootlogo to go with these too.

To start a black background conversion of the original Animation

and then a couple variations too.

But i had issues with the tools and then keep forgetting.

One issue is most Logos's and animations are image based,

so if i took one of them and modded it i have to covert it to a video so i started looking into that

I know i can probably use ffmpeg via commandline but i wanted a program with a GUI (i found one)

SO there is more to come ;)

It would make more sense to be calling it a Boot theme if included an Animation also.

i really just wanted a mod of the original one with black-backgrounds to make it easier on my eyes.

That is the main point here for all this..

In case you guys didn't know you can use ANY video as a Bootloader-Animation.

So the options are limitless. (You can also convert animated images into videos too)

But be careful installing the old style Moto v1 BootAnimations some of them may brick your phone.

*Some* of the older more common animated JPEG sets seem to work and other trap your phone into a bootloop

I know i did it myself LOL

What i did was get a BootAnimation zip that had inside it jpeg's (it was an official Moto one untouched with same 540x960)

But it got part way through then locked up.. my phone could not boot afterwards and i had to restore from a back-up.

You can tell them apart by opening any BootAnimation.zip file

then checking if you see a ton of jpeg's or 2 mp4 files (mp4 = new version on Moto E 2015)

The first mp4 is a short clip meant to play once then the 2nd super short one is meant to loop / repeat.

This make it last longer if the Booting takes longer than normal etc. (so the video animation can vary in length dynamically)

Lastly i did some digging and i got the Encoder settings for the official Motorola Boot Animations

And then i created a profile for the x264 encoder on Avidemux (to create video's exactly like the originals)

Blah blah blah ;)

Point is i will work up some more stuff to share soon i think LOL
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
Menu Buttons Source

So i zipped up the source to the buttons and added them here as an attachment.

This includes the Font i used and the editable PNG and a note text file.

The text file lists the original + changed colors and names.

The font.zip has all Droid fonts but i only used "Droid Sans regular" 40 point (and Wingdings 3 default on Win7)

Note: the PNG has the two little arrows "grouped" together. (right click them and select un-group in Fireworks)

Only 1 text entry and arrow set should be visible then save..

Then on next button hide those and make 2 other ones visible and save again.

Then put them in MotoBootLogoMaker.. save, flash & boot ;)

I have lots of weird fonts.. i could do the buttons in Klingon if needed but i was going for "normal" LOL

The point to this was i was just trying to make the menu buttons easier to read and maybe look a bit nicer.

But if anyone wants what i used to make their own mod feel free to do what ever you all want with this stuff.

Fonts included their respective license files (Apache)
[E 2015 Themes and Apps] xpmule:
Here is another another one just a different main logo.

This is the default Marshmallow BootLogo converted to a Black background.

It has a nice smooth result because i used a color filter to flip Black/White while keeping Color.

I also upped the DPI to 245 (from 72)

Couple quick notes..

First the original png can only be found inside the bootanimation.zip listed as SOL.png

If you go get the same picture from the stock Logo.bin it will be the old version

as seen on Lollipop Firmware's and on Current Marshmallow Firmware's.

Why care?

Because it's different.

It has subtle textures applied to it and a slightly different color of Blue.

It also matches the BootAnimation "Stitches" for Marshmallow by Motorola.

And yes i have started working on converting the animation to go with this too.

But it's a LOT of work !

I have made a test so far and the result is the video encoder i used is making the black a bit too bright.

And because of the background now being black the texture flickering is far more noticeable

then it is on the stock white one from Moto.

So i am not sure how the "Stitches" animation converted to Black is going to work out.

I guess i will finish making it soon and upload it and you all can decide..

In the meantime i uploaded here the Boot LOGO part as an attachment.. flashable.zip / tested

(hopefully you guys got what i meant by all this rambling)

EDIT:

Added the test MP4 video i was talking about earlier as a zipped attachment.

It's the 2nd part of the default MM animation with a Black background conversion.

You can all probably see how the Texture flickers and is noticeable in Black.

PS:

Let me know if these pictures are killing your browser.

I can re-size them smaller if they are too much..

EDIT2: "stitches update"

I changed tools and got a better more exact result using FFMPEG.exe

So far i completed the 2nd 4 second clip matching the encoder settings 99.99 exact as the original.

The next one is 14 seconds long so will be more work / time.

What i had to do was dump every single video frame out into a lossless image format

then apply a Photoshop Filter (using Fireworks) effect to each individual image frame one by one.

the 4 seconds clip required me editing 96 images totaling around 100mb's.

Thank god for keyboard shortcuts LOL

So i will for sure finish it up and test it then upload it soon guys.

To recap, this will be the Boot-Animation for Marshmallow called "Stitches" with a black background.

And it will match perfectly the Boot logo i uploaded on this comment v2.4

MotoBlack v2.4 "Stitches"​

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