[INDEX] Samsung Galaxy Express GT-I8730

[aureljared]

@tanrsquare You need to use Linux to extract the files inside boot.img or recovery.img. Google for tutorials on that. You will have to use binaries named mkbootimg and unmkbootimg.

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[tanrsquare]

@tanrsquare You need to use Linux to extract the files inside boot.img or recovery.img. Google for tutorials on that. You will have to use binaries named mkbootimg and unmkbootimg.

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Thanks aureljared for tht info... Now I understand better abt boot.img n recovery.img. I researched on Google b4... But most info I got is abt Linux cmds n abt the starting bits which after tht need gunzip etc etc. I read abt too boot.img is the same as recovery.img too. And lots of Linux environment n operations seems only Linux OS can work. Hmmm... think I can giv it up as I doesn't hav Linux running n I'm nt really gd at it. Me too serving my nation n doesn't have too much time. Haha. Anyway ok lets wait Petratu for the work...

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[aureljared]

You can run Linux in a VM, you know. Anyways I won't be forcing you to do that, lol. Tried a lot of CWM images I compiled but my phone won't boot into any of them. It just boots back into android.

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[KINGbabasula]

Thanks aureljared for tht info... Now I understand better abt boot.img n recovery.img. I researched on Google b4... But most info I got is abt Linux cmds n abt the starting bits which after tht need gunzip etc etc. I read abt too boot.img is the same as recovery.img too. And lots of Linux environment n operations seems only Linux OS can work. Hmmm... think I can giv it up as I doesn't hav Linux running n I'm nt really gd at it. Me too serving my nation n doesn't have too much time. Haha. Anyway ok lets wait Petratu for the work...

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There are boot.img tools for Cygwin so you can use them on windows.

Ps: i follow this thread from long time and i think i will give a try for cm

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[petraru1]

There are boot.img tools for Cygwin so you can use them on windows.

Ps: i follow this thread from long time and i think i will give a try for cm

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very happy to see you here!

 

[KINGbabasula]

very happy to see you here!

Thank you! Do you have a device tree or kernel on github? Or is the development at the very start?

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[petraru1]

Thank you! Do you have a device tree or kernel on github? Or is the development at the very start?

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sadly there is no development... i don't have the knowledge, i am more of a modder.
the community is small here on xda, for now the phone works flawless, but i don't know what will happen in a year or two...
the first step is building a cwm or twrp recovery and second a ROM or a kernel with OC, the guys on htc one SV (same specs) have a kernel with OC
and on top of that my time is very limited

 

[KINGbabasula]

sadly there is no development... i don't have the knowledge, i am more of a modder.
the community is small here on xda, for now the phone works flawless, but i don't know what will happen in a year or two...
the first step is building a cwm or twrp recovery and second a ROM or a kernel with OC, the guys on htc one SV (same specs) have a kernel with OC
and on top of that my time is very limited

Ok Friday i will try to make a device tree and a kernel and see if cm works

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[petraru1]

Ok Friday i will try to make a device tree and a kernel and see if cm works

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if you can make cwm it will be easyer for me to make a ROM, based on stock, tweaked and themed with a adb pull and deodexed apps

 

[KINGbabasula]

if you can make cwm it will be easyer for me to make a ROM, based on stock, tweaked and themed with a adb pull and deodexed apps

I can but the op said you have it.
Anyway i need boot.img and the one in the op (10mb) seems too small. I think it is corrupted

 

[petraru1]

I can but the op said you have it.
Anyway i need boot.img and the one in the op (10mb) seems too small. I think it is corrupted

it is partially working, it is from s4 mini, but has glitches, and the resolution is 540 x 960...

 

[KINGbabasula]

it is partially working, it is from s4 mini, but has glitches, and the resolution is 540 x 960...

Ok and is the boot.img really 10mb? Could you check?

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[petraru1]

Ok and is the boot.img really 10mb? Could you check?

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this is the boot.img from CNX (Romania Vodafone) firmware

6.23 mb ...

 

[KINGbabasula]

this is the boot.img from CNX (Romania Vodafone) firmware

6.23 mb ...

Umm did you take it with a backup of the s4 mini cwm?

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[petraru1]

Umm did you take it with a backup of the s4 mini cwm?

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nope, this is the stock img, extracted with 7zip from the md5 firm file

 

[KINGbabasula]

nope, this is the stock img, extracted with 7zip from the md5 firm file

Ok it is weird because usually it is 16mb approx but i will try to make cwm. Friday as i'm not at home until then

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[KINGbabasula]

To build cwm i need the mount points
Please somebody open terminal or adb shell and do this

su
mount

and tell me the output

 

[KINGbabasula]

It seems that nobody is interested here but here is the device tree https://github.com/KINGbabasula/android_device_samsung_express
I'm waiting the mount points to build recovery

 

[petraru1]

To build cwm i need the mount points
Please somebody open terminal or adb shell and do this

su
mount

and tell me the output

[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,gid=1000,fmask=0006,dmask=0006,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/efs /efs ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,errors=panic,data=ordered 0 0
/sys/kernel/debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard0 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/extSdCard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/sdcard0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftKRHM vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/sdcard0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftM4HM vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/sdcard0/Android/obb/com.vividgames.realboxing vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
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sorry, and yes... i am the most active around here but i am at work so i reply with delay...

 

[KINGbabasula]

[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,gid=1000,fmask=0006,dmask=0006,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/efs /efs ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,errors=panic,data=ordered 0 0
/sys/kernel/debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard0 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/extSdCard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/sdcard0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftKRHM vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/sdcard0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftM4HM vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/sdcard0/Android/obb/com.vividgames.realboxing vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
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sorry, and yes... i am the most active around here but i am at work so i reply with delay...

These seem weird mountpoints... Could you check with root explorer in /dev/block if there are some mmcblk files?