Sidekick 4G Reference Guide (Large images!)

Jax184 · 28th June 2012, 12:05 AM

Yay! Our new moderator approved my sticky request! Hopefully this thread can help newcomers to the forum.

bhundven · 31st August 2012, 06:08 PM

pit info

Could someone do this while their phone is in download mode and paste the results in this thread, preferably in a code block:

Code:

heimdall print-pit

I figure this is useful to keep in the reference guide.

This will print out the pit in a human readable format like this one for sgs4g:

Code:

bryan@umactu:~/Downloads/SK4G$ heimdall print-pit
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Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Attempt failed. Detaching driver...
Claiming interface again...
Setting up interface...

Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...

Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 0

Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download sucessful

Entry Count: 13
Unknown 1: 0
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Unknown 4: 0
Unknown 5: 0
Unknown 6: 0
Unknown 7: 0
Unknown 8: 0


--- Entry #0 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 0
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 1
Unknown 2: 6684783
Unknown 3: 2097268
Partition Name: IBL+PBL
Filename: boot.bin


--- Entry #1 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 1
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 1
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: PIT
Filename: 


--- Entry #2 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 20
Partition Flags: 2 (R/W)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 40
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: EFS
Filename: efs.rfs


--- Entry #3 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 3
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 5
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: SBL
Filename: sbl.bin


--- Entry #4 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 4
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 5
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: SBL2
Filename: sbl.bin


--- Entry #5 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 21
Partition Flags: 2 (R/W)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 20
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: PARAM
Filename: param.lfs


--- Entry #6 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 6
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 30
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: KERNEL
Filename: zImage


--- Entry #7 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 7
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 30
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: RECOVERY
Filename: zImage


--- Entry #8 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 22
Partition Flags: 2 (R/W)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 1540
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: FACTORYFS
Filename: factoryfs.rfs


--- Entry #9 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 23
Partition Flags: 2 (R/W)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 2120
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: DATAFS
Filename: data.rfs


--- Entry #10 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 24
Partition Flags: 2 (R/W)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 160
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: CACHE
Filename: cache.rfs


--- Entry #11 ---
Unused: No
Partition Type: 0 (RFS)
Partition Identifier: 11
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 256
Partition Block Count: 60
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: MODEM
Filename: modem.bin


--- Entry #12 ---
Unused: Yes
Partition Type: 1 (Unknown)
Partition Identifier: 11
Partition Flags: 0 (R)
Unknown 1: 0
Partition Block Size: 0
Partition Block Count: 0
Unknown 2: 0
Unknown 3: 0
Partition Name: 
Filename: 

Ending session...
Rebooting device...
Re-attaching kernel driver...

Jax184 · 1st September 2012, 05:06 PM

My phone's not particularly stock any more, so it would be a bit misleading.

bhundven · 1st September 2012, 11:21 PM

Should be the same. It's just reading the pit from the pit partition.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2

Jax184 · 2nd September 2012, 02:30 AM

Even though I've got voodoo lagfix and stuff which has converted several partitions to Ext4?

bhundven · 2nd September 2012, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jax184

Even though I've got voodoo lagfix and stuff which has converted several partitions to Ext4?

Yes, none of that write to the pit.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2

chaostic_2k1 · 04:06 AM

~~Anyone know what that round thing with the red and blue wires next to the camera is? Obviously not the speakerphone or mic. Is it the vibration motor?~~

Yes, it is the vibrator/pager motor, part of the memory card assembly. Would have been the perfect place to hack in a led flash chip.

Jax184 · 28th September 2012, 02:07 PM

I just tossed my pit dump in the first post, if anyone was looking for one.

bhundven · 04:16 AM

SK4G Partition Information from the bootloader:

Code:

==== PARTITION INFORMATION ====                                                                      
 ID         : IBL+PBL (0x0)                                                                          
 ATTR       : RO SLC (0x1002)                                                                        
 FIRST_UNIT : 0                                                                                      
 NO_UNITS   : 1                                                                                      
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : PIT (0x1)                                                                              
 ATTR       : RO SLC (0x1002)                                                                        
 FIRST_UNIT : 1                                                                                      
 NO_UNITS   : 1                                                                                      
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : EFS (0x14)                                                                             
 ATTR       : RW STL SLC (0x1101)                                                                    
 FIRST_UNIT : 2                                                                                      
 NO_UNITS   : 40                                                                                     
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : SBL (0x3)                                                                              
 ATTR       : RO SLC (0x1002)                                                                        
 FIRST_UNIT : 42                                                                                     
 NO_UNITS   : 5                                                                                      
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : SBL2 (0x4)                                                                             
 ATTR       : RO SLC (0x1002)                                                                        
 FIRST_UNIT : 47                                                                                     
 NO_UNITS   : 5                                                                                      
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : PARAM (0x15)                                                                           
 ATTR       : RW STL SLC (0x1101)                                                                    
 FIRST_UNIT : 52                                                                                     
 NO_UNITS   : 20                                                                                     
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : KERNEL (0x6)                                                                           
 ATTR       : RO SLC (0x1002)                                                                        
 FIRST_UNIT : 72                                                                                     
 NO_UNITS   : 30                                                                                     
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : RECOVERY (0x7)                                                                         
 ATTR       : RO SLC (0x1002)                                                                        
 FIRST_UNIT : 102                                                                                    
 NO_UNITS   : 30                                                                                     
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : FACTORYFS (0x16)                                                                       
 ATTR       : RW STL SLC (0x1101)                                                                    
 FIRST_UNIT : 132                                                                                    
 NO_UNITS   : 1540                                                                                   
===============================
 ID         : DATAFS (0x17)                                                                          
 ATTR       : RW STL SLC (0x1101)                                                                    
 FIRST_UNIT : 1672                                                                                   
 NO_UNITS   : 2120                                                                                   
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : CACHE (0x18)                                                                           
 ATTR       : RW STL SLC (0x1101)                                                                    
 FIRST_UNIT : 3792                                                                                   
 NO_UNITS   : 160                                                                                    
===============================                                                                      
 ID         : MODEM (0xb)                                                                            
 ATTR       : RO SLC (0x1002)                                                                        
 FIRST_UNIT : 3952                                                                                   
 NO_UNITS   : 60                                                                                     
===============================

This is exactly the same as what we got for SGS4G.
In other words, the partition table and layout between sk4g and sgs4g is the same:
https://github.com/teamacid/android_...ng_galaxys4g.h

This info was obtained with usb-uart.

ZachGretzinger · 12th November 2012, 01:53 AM

Thank you

Very in-depth. Thank you for the tear-down as well. I just purchased a refurbished SK4G from Ebay and am open to the possibility I, too may be tearing my phone apart to fix it

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