Free-Droid - One-Click Rom Installation Assistant

imska · Oct 25, 2019

Anikscha said:
@imska
Stuck forever at "Welcome Screen" on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial fork)

This is odd... did you enter your sudo password in the terminal? Free-Droid needs to run adb and fastboot commands with sudo and will only proceed from the welcome screen to the main screen after the user enters his password in the terminal which opened Free-Droid.
If you did that, please send me the log file from the log folder. Thanks for reporting.

Anikscha · Oct 25, 2019

imska said:
This is odd...

Maybe my mistake, cause I placed it in /usr/lib and executed "Free-Droid.run by an created icon in the cinnamon menue", which caused the hang at start screen, but also as terminal command (/usr/lib/Free-Droid/Free-Droid.run) it would not start!, but
it starts fine when placed in /home/software/Free-Droid/ and Free-Droid.run executed in terminal.
Cheers, an icon fan.

imska · Nov 1, 2019

Update 0.7.6

fix installation procedure failing at NanoDroid
better device codename recognition
lookups tables (for codename, etc.) are now taken from gitlab instead of my server
new alias lookup system (some devices have different codenames for twrp than for roms)
ability to automatically flash device-specific zips (like a kernel) before or after the rom
faster and more efficient scanning for roms
do not let an unexpected device name in twrp disturb the installation process (if your device is misidentified when you start the installation, you will install a rom made for the wrong device)
fix smaller bugs and typos

Next update will let the user help identify the device if it is unclear to free-droid and will improve compatibility with sony devices

imska · Nov 6, 2019

fxo said:
Looks amazing don't have a chance to test it but here are some mirrors:
Windows https://www.mediafire.com/file/1603rruccyef7gv/Free-Droid-WIN-latest.zip/file
Mac https://www.mediafire.com/file/qi64ju4y7108nqc/Free-Droid-MAC-latest.tar.gz/file
Linux https://www.mediafire.com/file/m5hzx7b4xie503o/Free-Droid-LINUX-latest.tar.gz/file

Thanks for the mirrors.
In the meantime, I moved the packages to the gitlab repo and pointed the download buttons on free-droid.com to gitlab. The downloads of the latest releases should now be as fast as gitlab.com is. After the next release/update, the following auto-updates from within Free-Droid should be automatically downloaded from gitlab, which should also be significantly faster.

imska · Nov 11, 2019

It took me a while, but the official website just got a nice update:
You can now check on the website before downloading if Free-Droid will work with your device! This should prevent a lot of disappointment after downloading 120mb, waiting for Free-Droid so prepare and struggling with drivers (windows only

) just to find out that the device is unknown or whatever.
After entering your device model on the Website, behind the curtain a check is done to find

the codename of your device
the brand of your device
available roms known to Free-Droid
available TWRP image known to Free-Droid

If the codename can be identified, the brand is supported by Free-Droid, a TWRP image and a rom are available, then you will be notified that your device is compatible. If one criterion is not met, you will be notified with a suggestion to help.
For now the website only shows compatible/not-(yet-)compatible, but I plan on having the website provide more precise feedback to the user and tell which criterion(s) are not met. This would make it easier for the user to know how to help .

imska · Nov 20, 2019

Update 0.7.7

A lot of bug fixes
The user is now prompted to identify his connected device if it is unclear to Free-Droid.

itstanner740 · Nov 22, 2019

It's not compatible with SM-G930A which is a Galaxy S7 (AT&T) ?

imska · Nov 22, 2019

itstanner740 said:
It's not compatible with SM-G930A which is a Galaxy S7 (AT&T) ?

If you can point to a working TWRP and ROM for your device, I will just add them to the archive and hopefully this could make free-droid work with SM-G930A.

mrbonine · Dec 1, 2019

This sounds great! I verified my tablet on the site (SM-T713) and downloaded, unzipped, launched with admin priv and have hit a bump. I get the welcome screen and Server Reachable: YES. Application Updating: Please Wait. After some minutes pops ”Please wait a few minutes...restart app.” Doesn’t complete and restart has no effect. I thought maybe the first l firewall, so white listed but no change. Win 7 Pro (up to date) Suggestions ?

imska · Dec 1, 2019

mrbonine said:
This sounds great! I verified my tablet on the site (SM-T713) and downloaded, unzipped, launched with admin priv and have hit a bump. I get the welcome screen and Server Reachable: YES. Application Updating: Please Wait. After some minutes pops ”Please wait a few minutes...restart app.” Doesn’t complete and restart has no effect. I thought maybe the first l firewall, so white listed but no change. Win 7 Pro (up to date) Suggestions ?

Thanks for reporting here.
I just redownloaded and checked on my side, but everything works fine for me. To my knowledge, it is not necessary to launch the exe with admin privileges. Does it work if you launch it with a normal double-click?

Is there otherwise anything insightful in the log file?

imska · Dec 1, 2019

Update to the free-droid.com website: You can now see if Free-Droid is missing a rom or a twrp image for your device. You can also see the codename of your device (or if the model name you entered is not recognized).
A few recognized devices will have available twrp and rom but will still figure as not compatible. In that case it is because Free-Droid does not know (yet) how to unlock and install twrp onto your device brand.

mrbonine · Dec 3, 2019

Tried Both - Same Result

Yes I tried with admin and without, same result. The second step is where it fails, checking for version update. Not sure what is happening here, since the software doesn't install (it runs without installing in Windows) it's verifying that I have the latest release version. So if the check determines I need an updated version might that be a difference in what you see and what I'm getting? In other words, am I having an issue because I need an updated version but something is interfering? I'll check the log and message back. Thank You!

imska said:
Thanks for reporting here.
I just redownloaded and checked on my side, but everything works fine for me. To my knowledge, it is not necessary to launch the exe with admin privileges. Does it work if you launch it with a normal double-click?

Is there otherwise anything insightful in the log file?

imska · Dec 3, 2019

mrbonine said:
Yes I tried with admin and without, same result. The second step is where it fails, checking for version update. Not sure what is happening here, since the software doesn't install (it runs without installing in Windows) it's verifying that I have the latest release version. So if the check determines I need an updated version might that be a difference in what you see and what I'm getting? In other words, am I having an issue because I need an updated version but something is interfering? I'll check the log and message back. Thank You!

Yes it's a portable application, no installation/setup needed.
I did push an update 2 days ago, current version is now 0.7.8. You could download the latest version again just to make sure you don't need any update and try again. If it still doesn't launch correctly, I would suspect some firewall setting or similar to be the culprit.

Edit: Another problem I can think of is that Free-Droid calls a powershell command in windows to replace the jar files in the bin folder. Applying an update is nothing more than downloading the latest Free-Droid.jar file and replacing the running one inside the bin folder. You could try to 'manually' update by doing that yourself. But only if you aren't running the latest version already...

shicomm · Dec 6, 2019

Very nice app !
The only thing missing ( for me at least ) is gapps options

imska · Dec 6, 2019

shicomm said:
Very nice app !
The only thing missing ( for me at least ) is gapps options

Thank you!
GApps is planned, but fixing a few bugs is higher priority for now

But just out of curiosity, what is there that gapps can do and the that the open alternatives can't?

wibbleypants · Dec 9, 2019

If it says "rom available no", is that a non-starter? It's a galaxy s8.

imska · Dec 9, 2019

wibbleypants said:
If it says "rom available no", is that a non-starter? It's a galaxy s8.

Yes, it's a non-starter.
Still, you can try it out by finding a Rom for that device (look for it on XDA with the codename of your device) and in free-droid select your rom zip file. I can't guarantee that it's going to work, but if you find a rom and you try it out, I'd be happy to read the feedback. If all is fine and the rom proves stable, I can save it so other users with the same device can use it right away.

wibbleypants · Dec 9, 2019

imska said:
Yes, it's a non-starter.
Still, you can try it out by finding a Rom for that device (look for it on XDA with the codename of your device) and in free-droid select your rom zip file. I can't guarantee that it's going to work, but if you find a rom and you try it out, I'd be happy to read the feedback. If all is fine and the rom proves stable, I can save it so other users with the same device can use it right away.

Thanks. The project pixel rom looks interesting. So I just download your app, launch it and select the downloaded rom and great things will happen?

wibbleypants · Dec 9, 2019

wibbleypants said:
Thanks. The project pixel rom looks interesting. So I just download your app, launch it and select the downloaded rom and great things will happen?

That didn't work. Just keeps saying reboot your device. Done that half a dozen times. Perhaps I'll try the Windows version.

Tried the win version. Same result. Looking in the log, it says it's tried to run heimdall.exe in a directory that doesn't exist. It thinks I have the files in /users/user/Downloads/ whereas they are actually in /usuarios/user/descargas/.

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wibbleypants said:
That didn't work. Just keeps saying reboot your device. Done that half a dozen times. Perhaps I'll try the Windows version.

Tried the win version. Same result. Looking in the log, it says it's tried to run heimdall.exe in a directory that doesn't exist. It thinks I have the files in /users/user/Downloads/ whereas they are actually in /usuarios/user/descargas/.

Moved it to the root of another drive:

"IOError: Cannot run program "bin/heimdall.exe" (in directory "F:\Free-Droid-WIN"): CreateProcess error=2, file not found"

imska · Dec 10, 2019

The issue with running bin/heimdall.exe is already known, I'll try to tackle that in the following days.

But I assumed it was only a windows issue. Did you get this same issue on Linux/Mac?

Otherwise: at what point exactly are you prompted to reboot your device? Did you start the flashing procedure beforehand, is your device detected correctly? Can I see a log of the situation when that problem occurs?

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