Trouble extracting imgfs from Cingular 8525 dumped ROMs

[rsolomon]

I seem to have successfully dumped my Cingular 8525 ROM, and placed it on the FTP area ftp://xdaupload:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/Hermes/Dumped_ROMs/ (directly as ftp://xdaupload:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/Hermes/Dumped_ROMs/HTC_TyTn_Cingular8525_CWS_1_34_502_1_WWE.zip) but when I try to extract the imgfs I get lots of decomp errors and it seems that compressed files do NOT get uncompressed....

Is there something different in these newer ROMs or am I just being stupid or ????

TIA,
Richard

[pof]

Moved the dump to safe heaven.

I haven't download your files to see if I can extract them, but if you not succeed with itsme rdmsflsh.pl you can also use mamaich rom editing tools (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=249836), viewimgfs.exe with "part_02.raw". See if it makes any difference :)

[rsolomon]

Moved the dump to safe heaven.

I haven't download your files to see if I can extract them, but if you not succeed with itsme rdmsflsh.pl you can also use mamaich rom editing tools (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=249836), viewimgfs.exe with "part_02.raw". See if it makes any difference :)

It worked a little better, or at least differently.... I forgot to mention I tried that as well. Much harder to deal with the files being each in subdirectories :( The filesizes extracted still didn't match those reported on the device itself though, so I'm not convinced I'm getting a good extraction.

Results are on my work machine, I'll have to login there and see if I can post some specifics....

Richard

[rsolomon]

Results are on my work machine, I'll have to login there and see if I can post some specifics....

DOH! User error.... Remote Desktop to my work machine slowed things down enough that I could see errors about not being able to load dlls.... seems the ActiveState Perl 5.8 install insists on installing to "site" vs "perl" but doesn't add "site" to the path, so Windoze couldn't load the necessary dlls.

I just copied them into my working directory for now and am re-running the extraction....looks much better already!

Richard

[pof]

ok, can you add a warning to the wiki with this info ? thanks :)

[rsolomon]

Moved the dump to safe heaven.

Should I add it to the wiki or will you do that?

Richard

[rsolomon]

ok, can you add a warning to the wiki with this info ? thanks :)

Yep, I already noted one needs v5.8, I should really clean this up and find the right fix, but I'll note the path problem at least and maybe someone else will do it "right" later ;)

Richard

[pof]

do it yourself please, i have no time now... leaving to France in a few hours.

[rsolomon]

do it yourself please, i have no time now... leaving to France in a few hours.

Both wikis updated, thanks for the help!

Richard

[rsolomon]

The filesizes extracted still didn't match those reported on the device itself though, so I'm not convinced I'm getting a good extraction.

Ok, pretty confused here. One example:
bthasplugin.dll

Exploring the device via ActiveSync shows a filesize of 17560 but the size shown on my PC of the extracted version is 18944. Spot checking a few other files show similar size disparities.... is this normal? Why?

Richard

[pof]

Not sure, but probably the difference is because file size (byte count) is different than size on disk (amount of clusters the file takes).