[DUMP][DEVS ONLY] Sony Z Ultra Google Play Edition

LordManhattan · Dec 15, 2013

Android 4.4

Here's the system dump from the Sony Z Ultra GPE. All credits goes to @sfagundes (speak up if you or someone else are missing)

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLASH. THIS IS FOR DEVS ONLY.

- Download (Mega)
- Download (Dev-Host)

Android 4.4.2

Many thanks to @graffixnyc for the pre-rooted 4.4.2 dump! Use at your own risk.

- Download (Dev-Host)

Reb0rn · Dec 15, 2013

Oooo I think I made a flashable zip of /system ... This night I will play.

Sent from my Xperia Z Ultra using Tapatalk 4

LordManhattan · Dec 15, 2013

Reb0rn said:
Oooo I think I made a flashable zip of /system ... This night I will play.

Sent from my Xperia Z Ultra using Tapatalk 4

Aww man, it's on! :laugh: Just be careful and don't brick it though (not that it'll happen). Keep us posted!

Mr. Droid · Dec 15, 2013

Reb0rn said:
Oooo I think I made a flashable zip of /system ... This night I will play.

Sent from my Xperia Z Ultra using Tapatalk 4

Post a link or pm lol

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PaceyPimps · Dec 15, 2013

LordManhattan said:
Here's the system dump from the Sony Z Ultra GPE. All credits goes to @sfagundes and @Bin4ry (speak up if you or someone else are missing)

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLASH. THIS IS FOR DEVS ONLY.

- Download (Mega)
- Download (Dev-Host)

To the mods: Please move if this is posted in the wrong section, or remove it entirely if it breaks any rules.

Will it not work out of the box since it is the same hardware of the c6802?

LordManhattan · Dec 15, 2013

PaceyPimps said:
Will it not work out of the box since it is the same hardware of the c6802?

No, this is only for devs so they can use it in their own ROMs, or if they want to use this on its own. It is not possible to flash this as it is right now, so you'll have to wait

hamdogg · Dec 15, 2013

PaceyPimps said:
Will it not work out of the box since it is the same hardware of the c6802?

It's the system folder. So you'd need to create a series of instructions on where everything goes, permissions, root, and recovery reflashed... (i.e. flashable zip)

48 hours and I bet someone will have it working. I'm not able to at the moment. I think most of you know why..

YrrchSebor · Dec 15, 2013

Would it work to flash the system.img thru fastboot? (And boot.img if necessary)

On the Galaxy S4, we flashed the GE rom, but had to use a touchwiz kernel. Not sure how it would work on the Ultra..

hamdogg · Dec 15, 2013

lmemma16 said:
Would it work to flash the system.img thru fastboot? (And boot.img if necessary)

On the Galaxy S4, we flashed the GE rom, but had to use a touchwiz kernel. Not sure how it would work on the Ultra..

Inside a system.img will usually be 3 different compressed files. (depending on the phone)
Only one of these files will contain all the folders that we are usually familiar with:

app
bin
etc
fonts
lib
media
...

Its best to wait and see what Sony have done with the GPe devices. Probably nothing has changed, and partition info will be the same... but there could be a couple of changes that may brick your device. It's very unlikely, however I'd recommend not flashing the system.img without know exactly whats in there.

Reb0rn · Dec 15, 2013

hamdogg said:
Inside a system.img will usually be 3 different compressed files. (depending on the phone)
Only one of these files will contain all the folders that we are usually familiar with:

app
bin
etc
fonts
lib
media
...

Its best to wait and see what Sony have done with the GPe devices. Probably nothing has changed, and partition info will be the same... but there could be a couple of changes that may brick your device. It's very unlikely, however I'd recommend not flashing the system.img without know exactly whats in there.

If no one tries anything nothing will be gained

Now then. I got the GPe to boot on my Xperia. Too see what works and what not

edit: Well its buggy... and i think it has to do with me using krabappel's 4.4 kernel. Not sure how much i dare goof around with this

Playing away...

hamdogg · Dec 15, 2013

Reb0rn said:
If no one tries anything nothing will be gained

Now then. I got the GPe to boot on my Xperia. Too see what works and what not

edit: Well its buggy... and i think it has to do with me using krabappel's 4.4 kernel. Not sure how much i dare goof around with this Playing away...

LOL...

I don't mean not to try and make a ROM based on this system image, but the files need to be extracted and then a ROM created...

EDIT: Try a normal kernel. (sony) Its not CM based.

Reb0rn · Dec 15, 2013

hamdogg said:
LOL...

I don't mean not to try and make a ROM based on this system image, but the files need to be extracted and then a ROM created...

EDIT: Try a normal kernel. (sony) Its not CM based.

well i got inside the system.img and there is the /system and i pushed it on to my device.

Trying a stock kernel but i highly doubt that will boot it at all

Edit: Stock Sony never gets past bootloader. no boot animation.

DesertHawk · Dec 15, 2013

Getting a ZU. Will look into it

jutley · Dec 15, 2013

24hrs someone will get it running smoothe and make a full guide for all how to flash well done devs.

Bin4ry · Dec 15, 2013

Reb0rn said:
well i got inside the system.img and there is the /system and i pushed it on to my device.

Trying a stock kernel but i highly doubt that will boot it at all

Edit: Stock Sony never gets past bootloader. no boot animation.

flash the boot.img from GPE files, dd it on the device from recoverymode

Regards

Reb0rn · Dec 15, 2013

Bin4ry said:
flash the boot.img from GPE files, dd it on the device from recoverymode

Regards

Didn't work thru fastboot.

writing 'boot'...
FAILED (remote: image is not a boot image)
finished. total time: 0.937s

Did it thru DD and it worked. Hello Google logo

Will play a bit more.

Bin4ry · Dec 15, 2013

dd if=/path/to/inputfil/boot.img of=/dev/block/blablablabla

fill in the placeholders yourself. Although i did not test yet if the dumped bootimage does work good. I just have no time since i have to finish my thesis now. But if you could do the dirty work would be cool

If something goes wrong just restore the boot with Flashtool in flashmode.

Regards

Reb0rn · Dec 15, 2013

Bin4ry said:
dd if=/path/to/inputfil/boot.img of=/dev/block/blablablabla

fill in the placeholders yourself. Although i did not test yet if the dumped bootimage does work good. I just have no time since i have to finish my thesis now. But if you could do the dirty work would be cool

If something goes wrong just restore the boot with Flashtool in flashmode.

Regards

Incredibly frustrating this is.

I get the bootloader to start. I get the system to boot but it crashes. but its because i cant enter a reovery to delete user data. its always there.

How the hell can i delete data partition from fastboot or flashmode? as the stock gpe bootloader doesnt have a recovery.

EDIT: Ok i figured it out. Had to play with different kernels and thank god twrp has a terminal

it doesnt boot im afraid.

I tried with

GPE kernel + gpe System = Bootloader load . Starts boot animation for 1 sec then crash.

revolution kernel + gpe system = bootloader load. Starts Boot animation 1 sec then crash.

Omnirom + gpe system + revolution kernel (dirty flash no wipes) = Bootloader loads. starts bootanimation. Boots. No mobile connection or wifi or anything. and buggy as hell

Now i need to play with the kids so l8ers.

pedal2themedal · Dec 15, 2013

Reb0rn said:
Incredibly frustrating this is.

I get the bootloader to start. I get the system to boot but it crashes. but its because i cant enter a reovery to delete user data. its always there.

How the hell can i delete data partition from fastboot or flashmode? as the stock gpe bootloader doesnt have a recovery.

Might just be a shot in the dark, but maybe you could install cwm or twrp by itself? Maybe from a different gpe device? If it is separated I.E. Not like sony's version it stands to reason you may be able to flash a recovery.

Or maybe flash a boot.img that has a recovery and boot it straight to recovery, factory reset, wipe caches, power off, and flash the correct boot.img after that?

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Reb0rn · Dec 15, 2013

pedal2themedal said:
Might just be a shot in the dark, but maybe you could install cwm or twrp by itself? Maybe from a different gpe device? If it is separated I.E. Not like sony's version it stands to reason you may be able to flash a recovery.

Or maybe flash a boot.img that has a recovery and boot it straight to recovery, factory reset, wipe caches, power off, and flash the correct boot.img after that?

Sent from my Xperia Z Ultra using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

well ive done that. the problem is that the gpe boot.img doesnt flash normal but must be pushed with a dd command.

Anyways. Just got a tip that it might need the userdata.img. so thats my next step. *sigh* thats the last thing i do now. Getting tired of this ;D

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