Most Vendor image files for S9 plus, are impossible to find. I've been searching some of them for more than half a year. How I wish they where uploaded somewere visibly. The whole vendor image addition turns out to be an other nightmare deviced by Google to make our lives harder, not safer.
Devs please help us!
Devs, you are our only possible saviors when facing this incredibly annoying matter.
You can easily extract the vendor img from stock firmware downloaded on sites like sammobile or samfirm. Just open the AP_ file with something like 7zip or winrar and the vendor image is right there you don't need any developer to do it for you
ShaDisNX255 said:
You can easily extract the vendor img from stock firmware downloaded on sites like sammobile or samfirm. Just open the AP_ file with something like 7zip or winrar and the vendor image is right there you don't need any developer to do it for you
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Thank you Very much my friend!!
I will try this today.
You can find easily vendor on s9+ android 10, by using other oneui custom rom like alexis rom, Basic.
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Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this? I've done a search and all I can find is one from the international version and that's based on the 2.3.1 build.
TIA
check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
daraj said:
check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
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Nothing there about stock system dump.
BigBolo said:
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this? I've done a search and all I can find is one from the international version and that's based on the 2.3.1 build.
TIA
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Entropy512 started with a stock system dump that someone, (maybe Jivy26), made after installing a custom kernel. But I don't remember he ever posted a link to it. He may still have it hanging around, though. That's what he used to make his stock plus root package.
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Um, what do you think a flashable stock system image is? (Other than being a sparse ext4 image, if you want something loop-mountable use simg2img...)
Seriously - spend just a LITTLE more time reading before you post in a Development thread. This device has been out for only 2 weeks so it's not like the Dev forum has tons of threads.
There's also a dd-derived system dump in page 5 of codeworkx's CWM kernel thread. I used jivy26's tar dump, although I should probably do a consistency check against seattleboi1982's dump.
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Um, what do you think a flashable stock system image is? (Other than being a sparse ext4 image, if you want something loop-mountable use simg2img...)
Seriously - spend just a LITTLE more time reading before you post in a Development thread. This device has been out for only 2 weeks so it's not like the Dev forum has tons of threads.
There's also a dd-derived system dump in page 5 of codeworkx's CWM kernel thread. I used jivy26's tar dump, although I should probably do a consistency check against seattleboi1982's dump.
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I'm actually looking for the system dump in a zip where I can extract it into folders. Not as a image. I want to basically get the media files. I did do a search in several forums trying to find it but came up with nothing.
Maybe I should of been more detailed and specific in my OP.
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I'm actually looking for the system dump in a zip where I can extract it into folders. Not as a image. I want to basically get the media files. I did do a search in several forums trying to find it but came up with nothing.
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Can't you just extract the stock system image?
eep2378 said:
Can't you just extract the stock system image?
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I don't know how to do that...
Then you probably don't belong in android development (yet).
Use 7zip to extract the zip/tar/whatever.
In general, you're not supposed to put requests in Development. This should have been posted in General.
And a stock system dump IS an image dump. Zip files don't preserve permissions, and tar files only do if you prepared them carefully (good thing jivy26 did). The only way to be sure is to dd the partition.
If you want a nice easy to use zip, use paylyhoffman's stock deodexed CWM zip.
Entropy512 said:
In general, you're not supposed to put requests in Development. This should have been posted in General.
And a stock system dump IS an image dump. Zip files don't preserve permissions, and tar files only do if you prepared them carefully (good thing jivy26 did). The only way to be sure is to dd the partition.
If you want a nice easy to use zip, use paylyhoffman's stock deodexed CWM zip.
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Thanks for clearing it up. My bad I thought this was the section to post requests like that.
Also folks before jumping on the guy, what he is asking for (at least with the .7z file posted) isn't as straightforward as everyone thinks.
If you first extract the 7z file, you'll get a PDA.tar file. Extract that and you'll get the kernel (zImage) and the lovely factoryfs.img.
Try extracting factoryfs.img with your favorite tools and see what happens.
Extracting the factoryfs.img is a real pain unless you are pretty hardcore -- in fact, there was another thread going on the in international SGS II forum with some pretty well known devs (who know their stuff) trying to figure out how to extract that bad boy.
So before everyone starts throwing rocks...you know the story.
Does this look easy to you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054836 (relevant discussion starts around post #7)
and another solution (which also is not as simple as "right-click and extract")
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
Now -- with that said, if one was really looking for an easy way to pull some media files from a ROM, you best bet would be to try and find a CWM flashable ROM (in a zip format) and do a regular extract on those, and you may find it much easier. They may not be stock, but if it's close, you may get lucky and find some of the stock media in them.
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Also folks before jumping on the guy, what he is asking for (at least with the .7z file posted) isn't as straightforward as everyone thinks.
If you first extract the 7z file, you'll get a PDA.tar file. Extract that and you'll get the kernel (zImage) and the lovely factoryfs.img.
Try extracting factoryfs.img with your favorite tools and see what happens.
Extracting the factoryfs.img is a real pain unless you are pretty hardcore -- in fact, there was another thread going on the in international SGS II forum with some pretty well known devs (who know their stuff) trying to figure out how to extract that bad boy.
So before everyone starts throwing rocks...you know the story.
Does this look easy to you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054836 (relevant discussion starts around post #7)
and another solution (which also is not as simple as "right-click and extract")
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
Now -- with that said, if one was really looking for an easy way to pull some media files from a ROM, you best bet would be to try and find a CWM flashable ROM (in a zip format) and do a regular extract on those, and you may find it much easier. They may not be stock, but if it's close, you may get lucky and find some of the stock media in them.
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Thanks for clarifying that pinoymutt. Yea basically I know a lot of people don't like the finished charging notification but I don't mind it and I figured it's as simple as just placing the ogg file back in the ui folder. I'm on DG's Cog X2 and he had removed that.
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Thanks for clarifying that pinoymutt. Yea basically I know a lot of people don't like the finished charging notification but I don't mind it and I figured it's as simple as just placing the ogg file back in the ui folder. I'm on DG's Cog X2 and he had removed that.
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Doubt it's that simple. I removed the notification by modifying code. I would bet dg did the same.
Hi guys, was looking at tablets at the store, and came across the sony s, saw it music app and fell in love.
problem is, i have no idea what's the name, or how to get it.
you can see what i'm talking about here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I8UWiM-fGU8#t=337s (link is 5:37 secs into the vid, where he shows the app )
any chance someone can link me or give me more info? (i have an sgs2 & motorola xoom, and would love to have that app on both or at least the tablet)
cheers & thanks in advance
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Hi guys, was looking at tablets at the store, and came across the sony s, saw it music app and fell in love.
problem is, i have no idea what's the name, or how to get it.
you can see what i'm talking about here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I8UWiM-fGU8#t=337s (link is 5:37 secs into the vid, where he shows the app )
any chance someone can link me or give me more info? (i have an sgs2 & motorola xoom, and would love to have that app on both or at least the tablet)
cheers & thanks in advance
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The video is demonstrating the Sony tablet's pre-installed, stock Music Player app.
Cat McGowan said:
The video is demonstrating the Sony tablet's pre-installed, stock Music Player app.
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cheers, will have a look to see if someone posted it or something ... (i know you can find most samsung stock apps on rom pages as addons) ... hope there's something similar for sony
_Noctis_ said:
cheers, will have a look to see if someone posted it or something ... (i know you can find most samsung stock apps on rom pages as addons) ... hope there's something similar for sony
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I will not upload the files for you to download (it's a copyright thing, eh?). However, the names of the two files I think you need are MediaPlayers.apk and MusicVisualizer.apk and with a little work, you can get the files by downloading and extracting them from one of Sony's ICS (Android 4.0.3) system update files (for example, signed-nbx03_001-ota-120410004.zip). You can find the URL for downloading the update file for your region using stifilz's lists posted HERE. Then use condi's AiO tool (URL for download posted HERE) to create a decrypted_update.zip file from the system update file (from the tool's Main Menu, select "3 * Custom ROM and Flashing [SUBMENU]", then select "1 Create decrypted update.zip [+optional make custom]", choosing not to make custom). Once you have created the decrypted_update.zip file, use WinRAR (or something similar) to extract MediaPlayers.apk and MusicVisualizer.apk. The files are located in the \vendor\app folder of the decrypted_update.zip file. Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility for the outcome of your actions regarding this matter.
Cat McGowan said:
I will not upload the files for you to download (it's a copyright thing, eh?). However, the names of the two files I think you need are MediaPlayers.apk and MusicVisualizer.apk and with a little work, you can get the files by downloading and extracting them from one of Sony's ICS (Android 4.0.3) system update files (for example, signed-nbx03_001-ota-120410004.zip). You can find the URL for downloading the update file for your region using stifilz's lists posted HERE. Then use condi's AiO tool (URL for download posted HERE) to create a decrypted_update.zip file from the system update file (from the tool's Main Menu, select "3 * Custom ROM and Flashing [SUBMENU]", then select "1 Create decrypted update.zip [+optional make custom]", choosing not to make custom). Once you have created the decrypted_update.zip file, use WinRAR (or something similar) to extract MediaPlayers.apk and MusicVisualizer.apk. The files are located in the \vendor\app folder of the decrypted_update.zip file. Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility for the outcome of your actions regarding this matter.
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well,well, my dear sire ...
you have shed light on the dark path i thought i'll have to explore by myself at the wee hours of the night.
i'm very grateful for that.
may you and you android devices live out to see a proper working offline contestor to siri .
Hi all,
This morning I tried to update my Camera firmware using the *#34971539# (Camera Firmware Update) code. During this upgrade I got the message 'FactoryTest stopped'. After that message my camera app stopped working, it starts, shows the buttons, but the image is black. Also I am unable to access the camera firmware update screen... I get the same message as before (FactoryTest stopped).
I tried a few custom roms, but this didn't solve the issue. I also restored a backup I created with CMW, but no luck.
Does any of you have an idea how to get my camera to start working again ????
Thanks.
Best regards,
Vinzie
Try to flash a 3-part firmware with PIT and repartition checked!
Remove the camera update and go back to your previous camera
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Try to flash a 3-part firmware with PIT and repartition checked!
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Can you tell me which firmware is 3part ??? Up until now I only used/found single file firmwares...
I red an old galaxy S thread on XDA, apparently you can copy the correct file onto the device (you need root access though) and then you should be able to run *#34971539# again, without it crashing. At least that is how it worked on the galaxy S. I've look on the filesystem of the galaxy S3 and I don't have a 'firmware' folder in the /system/ folder, so I guess the camera files are located elsewhere on the galaxy S3/ICS... does anyone have an idea where these files are located ? And is anyone willing on posting their camera firmware files here....?
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I red an old galaxy S thread on XDA, apparently you can copy the correct file onto the device (you need root access though) and then you should be able to run *#34971539# again, without it crashing. At least that is how it worked on the galaxy S. I've look on the filesystem of the galaxy S3 and I don't have a 'firmware' folder in the /system/ folder, so I guess the camera files are located elsewhere on the galaxy S3/ICS... does anyone have an idea where these files are located ? And is anyone willing on posting their camera firmware files here....?
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Apparently people using CM9 also had camera issues and where able to fix them by putting the following files back onto their phone:
/data/cfw/SlimISP_GD.bin
/data/cfw/SLIMISP_ZD.bin
Would someone please send me those 2 files, so I can try if this will fix the camera issues ?
Also also saw that there are firmware files in the folder '/system/cameradata/', I would also love to have those...
Vinzie said:
does anyone have an idea where these files are located ? And is anyone willing on posting their camera firmware files here....?
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The camera firmware is in two locations. The camera itself contains one (the one you can "flash") and one in the kernel. When the camera loads up (first time after a clean boot) it does a comparison of the two firmwares, decides which one is the latest and loads that one into memory. Hence, there's no need to flash the camera FW itself. It will load the latest of the two.
There is a option in kernel somewhere to store the camera firmware externally. I'm fairly sure this is how CM9 does it, hence the firmware in /data/cfw.
It could also be that CM9 dumps the camera firmware to that folder, for whatever reason I do not know.
You can download the latest firmware CM9 uses directly from their source. I can't make heads or tails when browsing their github, it's a horrible mess, but it's there somewhere. Files are called SlimISP_GD.bin.ihex and SlimISP_ZD.bin.ihex.
Daelyn said:
The camera firmware is in two locations. The camera itself contains one (the one you can "flash") and one in the kernel. When the camera loads up (first time after a clean boot) it does a comparison of the two firmwares, decides which one is the latest and loads that one into memory. Hence, there's no need to flash the camera FW itself. It will load the latest of the two.
There is a option in kernel somewhere to store the camera firmware externally. I'm fairly sure this is how CM9 does it, hence the firmware in /data/cfw.
It could also be that CM9 dumps the camera firmware to that folder, for whatever reason I do not know.
You can download the latest firmware CM9 uses directly from their source. I can't make heads or tails when browsing their github, it's a horrible mess, but it's there somewhere. Files are called SlimISP_GD.bin.ihex and SlimISP_ZD.bin.ihex.
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OK I found the 2 files, they were present in a dump posted on the XDA forum. I put both files in the /data/cfw/ folder, restarted the phone and tried the camera, but no luck. I tried it once with and once without the .ihex extention. I also tried the same by putting the files into the /system/vendor/firmware/ folder.... but no luck there either...
Any thoughs on what location I can try ? Or is restarting the phone not enough...? Should I do a hard reset ?
Hi guys im a noob to the forums and to rom customisation in general so im hoping someone can help me.
I have a generic MX dual core, and have been supplied a flash firmware and image from the supplier. This image is basic and does not contain all of the repos that i want, nor the apps that I require.
The image supplied is a zipfile and contains:
factory_update_param.aml
hd18d_mx4.zip
recovery.img
I am able to successfully restore my box with this image (so I know that the image is working fine).
Within the hd18d_mx4.zip there is:
Directotories: data, META-INF, recovery, system
files: boot.img, bootloaded.img, logo.img
I can see the all the system APK files within the system/app folder. The problem is when i try to add another APK file into this directory within the archive (in this case videomix.apk), I am not able to restore the image to the MX device.
Can anyone help me with a noobies guide to do this. I have read that the apk file has to be signed, and the zip file has to be signed also?? But im not quite sure what this means, nor how I go about doing it.
Any help or tutorials will be much appreciate. I have downloaded the APK-multi-tool but dont have a clue what I need to do
Look forward to your replies.
P.S. Im using a windows 64 bit machine and not Linux (if that makes any difference).
I'm facing the same thing, did you end up having luck with this?
If not is there anyone that can assist?
Ive been doing some reading on creating your own rom using samsung stock. What im wanting to do is use the system.img from marshmallow, and combine that with the rest from oreo (to get around the downgrade disable). Knox is already tripped i dont care about that...
both roms have the 5 tar.md5 files when extracted, AP, BL, CP, CSC and home CSC - however, to extract those once again, marshmallow contains regular disk image files, .img while oreo contains bin.lz4
Can I either, leave these different compression styles within the tar.md5 files, replacing the oreo system.bin.lz4 with the system.img from marshmallow, compress back into the tar.md5 and try flashing. Or, is there some clearcut way to convert either the bin.lz4 into .img , or the other way around? Has anyone done this before?
I was able to extract the bin.lz4 using diskinternals linux reader which produces a single file, simply labelled as "file" under the file type (windows 10). but what i cant figure out is if that is correct, and if so how to turn it into a regular .img file. the file sizes, between the bin.lz4 and the "file" ones are the same, which makes me suspect that this isnt correct. 7zip wont open the lz4 files at all.
Id love some advice from here. I know this is alot of work just to downgrade, but I am determined. Id love to figure this out! It would be my own personal way of saying "screw you" to samsung for locking things down so hard... also Im looking for that full touchwiz experience, for anyone whos about to suggest a custom rom. maybe its "chunky" but i love it.