What is the best way to restore param.lfs?

[creepyncrawly]

I wanted to make an odin flashable tar of the stock param.lfs posted in Entropy's Return/Unbrick to stock thread. I made the tar file using terminal on my phone, as I have done in the past, but I did it wrong, and when I tested it, the flash failed and now my phone boots to the phone-!-pc screen.

I looked in the tar, and I had built it with the param.lfs in a directory named sdcard. Doh. So I tried to create the tar using 7zip on my Windows pc, and the resulting file is built correctly, but when I tried to flash it, the flash froze on param.lfs. So I don't know if the tar I made with 7zip is bad, or what.

Shouldn't it be possible to just tar the param.lfs file and then flash it in the PDA slot? I should be able to get the phone back by flashing just the param.lfs, shouldn't I? But now I don't know if I can make a working Odin flashable tar on Windows.

So if someone can post an odin flashable tar of Entropy's stock param.lfs, that would be helpful. Thanks.

 

[Entropy512]

I wanted to make an odin flashable tar of the stock param.lfs posted in Entropy's Return/Unbrick to stock thread. I made the tar file using terminal on my phone, as I have done in the past, but I did it wrong, and when I tested it, the flash failed and now my phone boots to the phone-!-pc screen.

I looked in the tar, and I had built it with the param.lfs in a directory named sdcard. Doh. So I tried to create the tar using 7zip on my Windows pc, and the resulting file is built correctly, but when I tried to flash it, the flash froze on param.lfs. So I don't know if the tar I made with 7zip is bad, or what.

Shouldn't it be possible to just tar the param.lfs file and then flash it in the PDA slot? I should be able to get the phone back by flashing just the param.lfs, shouldn't I? But now I don't know if I can make a working Odin flashable tar on Windows.

So if someone can post an odin flashable tar of Entropy's stock param.lfs, that would be helpful. Thanks.

I believe 7zip creates bogus tars in Windows.

Try cygwin - or use Heimdall to flash

 

[creepyncrawly]

I was pretty sure that 7zip made bad tar files. I also downloaded peazip, and found that it also makes bad tar files.

I found a good flashable I777 stock param.lfs in Connexion2005's Custom Boot Screen thread. I had never looked inside his attachment and had assumed it was a modified param.lfs. I used it to flash my phone back successfully.