[HOW-TO] change your french orange dream firmware by a custom one...

koxx · Apr 13, 2009

geek78 said:
hi

have you tried it ? I don't know how this can work... the spl is patched for update with fastboot not for update with the recovery tools. Even if it works the update will update also the boot and i think that this new boot won't be able to deal with our spl...

non, justement, je souhaiterai l'ecrire avant de la tester... parce que j'ai justement du mal a m'y retrouver.

no, i haven't test it. ok, so, I can't use recoveryBoot.img to set the new system.
How should I do ?
how do you flash new OS ?
what line is wrong ?

that's the point of my post, write a tutorial BEFORE flashing

geek78 · Apr 13, 2009

the easy way is described on the 1st post

So you need the nandroid backup of the device already flashed with the new firmware (i have it with my ADP) and after the flash you will have to analyse what is wrong with adb logcat (ril ? wlan ? keyboard , ...) and to patch all that... With this method we are not sure to be able to use this firmware but this is the only way for guys like us without the necessary knowledge to patch de boot from this update.

Maybe Arisme can patch the boot from this update to deal with the orange spl ...

tonight i'll have more time to try all this with my orange dream...

emms007 · Apr 13, 2009

Seems to work

Hi

I am using 5.0.2H-appstosd-signed.zip with the Orange G1.

I simply copied the zip's system/ folder to the phone and flashed the boot.img.

It starts in Chinese and as we need to add the Orange APN by guessing the appropriates fields, this page is useful : http://new.surfle.net/index.php?post/2008/11/18/Paramétrage-MMS-data-pour-OrangeFrane-sur-Android

It's a rather nice update... after 5 minutes of use it seems to be more or less OK.

geek78 · Apr 13, 2009

What is your spl ? The orange one (patched or not)? and what do you mean by the zip system folder ?

emms007 · Apr 13, 2009

No SPL change , nor radio nor firmware etc.
Nothing but boot.img and system.img have been updated.

I wonder why everyone want to update the SPL?

geek78 · Apr 13, 2009

emms007 said:
No SPL change , nor radio nor firmware etc.
Nothing but boot.img and system.img have been updated.

I wonder why everyone want to update the SPL?

no, my goal is to not change the spl except if it is the orange one patched

so you have used a nandroid backup of system.img and boot.img + fastboot flash of those 2 img ?

so happy to see that this boot.img can run on our dream ...

emms007 · Apr 13, 2009

geek78 said:
no, my goal is to not change the spl except if it is the orange one patched

so you have used a nandroid backup of system.img and boot.img + fastboot flash of those 2 img ?

so happy to see that this boot.img can run on our dream ...

Not exactly. As I mentioned the boot.img is provided in the ZIP file. They don't provide a system.img (I refered to it to make clear what I changed).
So all that is required to do is
- flash boot.img using the unyaffs method (as with the previous method)
- do "rm -fr /system/*" on the mounted G1 system. Then copy there the content of the "system/" included in the ZIP.
- add the orange APN
- switch the phone to English instead of Chinese

And I didn't have to insert libhtc_ril.so to make the system able to use the orange Radio...

- I dunno if Wifi/Bluetooth work as I can't test it.
- Of course the keyboard is not a French one (yet);
- Adb shell won't work properly;

koxx · Apr 13, 2009

I flashed my Dream (without SPL change) few minutes ago... and it works fine (except french keyboard).
I've just updated my tutorial to show my process.

A2DP works fine ! cooooollllll.

Murphy2712 · Apr 13, 2009

emms007 said:
Not exactly. As I mentioned the boot.img is provided in the ZIP file. They don't provide a system.img (I refered to it to make clear what I changed).
So all that is required to do is
- flash boot.img using the unyaffs method (as with the previous method)
- do "rm -fr /system/*" on the mounted G1 system. Then copy there the content of the "system/" included in the ZIP.
- add the orange APN
- switch the phone to English instead of Chinese

And I didn't have to insert libhtc_ril.so to make the system able to use the orange Radio...

- I dunno if Wifi/Bluetooth work as I can't test it.
- Of course the keyboard is not a French one (yet);
- Adb shell won't work properly;

Quite complicated but interesting

So it's possible to copy the system/ files without permissions problems.
We should definitely make some howtos. Anyone knows a french wiki for this?

imfloflo · Apr 13, 2009

@koxx how you success to put zaerty keyboard. i tried all the commande but nothing :s did you make a hardreset after ?

koxx · Apr 13, 2009

imfloflo said:
@koxx how you success to put zaerty keyboard. i tried all the commande but nothing :s did you make a hardreset after ?

i modified my tutorial few minutes ago.
the older method was wrong.
can you try this one ?

geek78 · Apr 13, 2009

here is a nandroid backup of my system.img (and with the boot.img). This is the build 5.02H with azerty keyboard and without the chinese character in the dialer.

1) flash the patched orange spl (post 111)
then
2) fastboot flash boot boot.img
3) fastboot -w flash system system.img
4) fastboot reboot

if you don't want to update your spl you can use the old method with unyaffs (see post 1)

http://rapidshare.de/files/46709918/5.02H-AZERTY.zip.html

c4software · Apr 13, 2009

koxx on 5.0.1 to app2sd you just need to (if your sdcard have an second ext2 partition):

# Mount the phone into ADB.

adb remount

# Bring up the shell.

adb shell

# Check if /system/sd is visible.

df

# Skip this step if you already have your apps on SD.

cp -a /data/app /system/sd

# Remove the current apps folder on device.

rm -r /data/app

# Link the app folder on sd to the one on device.

ln -s /system/sd/app /data/app

# Finally Reboot.

reboot

@Geek78, why provide a firmware he need an patched spl, the lastest 5.0.1G firmware works without any spl patch.

geek78 · Apr 13, 2009

you can try without the spl

fastboot is for me the best tool to update my dream .... so i need the spl patched.... With fastboot you can go back quickly to the orginal situation with a nandroid backup.

c4software · Apr 13, 2009

thanks for the notification, hmmm. the H version or the G what is the question ?

geek78 · Apr 13, 2009

c4software said:
thanks for the notification, hmmm. the H version or the G what is the question ?

for me H for only one app : exchange sync. I was using touchdown till now but with this native sync and the widget calendar i am an happy user!

emms007 · Apr 13, 2009

geek78 said:
here is a nandroid backup of my system.img (and with the boot.img). This is the build 5.02H with azerty keyboard and without the chinese character in the dialer.

1) flash the patched orange spl (post 111)
then
2) fastboot flash boot boot.img
3) fastboot -w flash system system.img
4) fastboot reboot

if you don't want to update your spl you can use the old method with unyaffs (see post 1)

http://rapidshare.de/files/46704370/5.02H-AZERTY.zip.html

As funny as it can be, it seems to me that your file contains original Orange .img files..... indeed just flashed and instead of cupcake I just bumped into a french speaking orange rom.
Could you send the right nandroid ?

Thanks

spfrance · Apr 13, 2009

geek78 said:
here is a nandroid backup of my system.img (and with the boot.img). This is the build 5.02H with azerty keyboard and without the chinese character in the dialer.
http://rapidshare.de/files/46704370/5.02H-AZERTY.zip.html

This backup seems to be an Android 1.1 Orange France backup

geek78 · Apr 13, 2009

oops désolé... normalement c'est rectifié

imfloflo · Apr 14, 2009

geek78 said:
here is a nandroid backup of my system.img (and with the boot.img). This is the build 5.02H with azerty keyboard and without the chinese character in the dialer.

1) flash the patched orange spl (post 111)
then
2) fastboot flash boot boot.img
3) fastboot -w flash system system.img
4) fastboot reboot

if you don't want to update your spl you can use the old method with unyaffs (see post 1)

http://rapidshare.de/files/46709918/5.02H-AZERTY.zip.html

To be clear you have system in english but keyboard layout in azerty is that right ?

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