Hi all,
Since it took me some time to figure out the correct values I guess this info can be useful to someone out there
1) the boot partition is mmcblk0p20 but it is signed. To get something meaningful out of it you need to drop the head of it
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 of=boot.img bs=256 skip=1
2) to repack you need to pass the options
Code:
--pagesize 2048 --base 40400000
to mkbootimg
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Disclaimer: Do only use this information if you know what you're doing!
PATH=$PATH:/home/markus/android/sdk/platform-tools
Get kernel from phone:
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/external_sd/stockboot.img
Exit adb shell
adb pull /sdcard/external_sd/stockboot.img
Separate the zImage from the ramdisk (see below for abootimg):
abootimg -x stockboot.img
unpacks the archive and copies contents to working directory:
gunzip -c initrd.img | cpio -i
Do your edits, e.g. default.prop, add:
debug.performance.tuning=1
video.accelerate.hw=1
windowsmgr.max_events_per_sec=150
--> move all files to new folder, cd into this folder:
repacks files from working directory into an archive (MAKE SURE NO OTHER FILES ARE IN THE WORKING DIRECTORY!!)
find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ../myinitrd.img
New boot.img:
./mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk myinitrd.img --cmdline "console=null androidboot.hardware=qcom androidboot.emmc=true hw=6" -o myBuiltBoot.img --base 0x00400000 --pagesize 4096
You can also use abootimg to create your new .img file, it has an easier syntax as it exports the commandline to a .cfg file and you can use that while creating the package.
Push your new kernel.img to the phone:
adb push myBuiltBoot.img /sdcard/external_sd/myBuiltBoot.img
Write kernel to kernel-partition in phone:
adb shell
su
dd if=/sdcard/external_sd/myBuiltBoot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8
adb reboot
< pray >
Sources:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...ense-back-up-your-phone-without-nandroid.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227269
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1292557
Also quite handy: http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/abootimg
wouldnt just editing build.prop in /system without touching kernel do the same job? ^_^
Yep. I just wanted to describe the whole process of extracting and packing the needed files. The edit was just an example. And in fact, i made a typo, it's called default.prop.
I want to mod my stock boot.img for init.d support, but I'm not sure what "base" and "pagesize" parameters to use with mkbootimg. Can anyone help me out?
See here lines 37 and 38
imnuts said:
See here lines 37 and 38
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Thanks! So, these settings are specific to the kernel. I see that for CM kernel, I would use:
BOARD_KERNEL_PAGESIZE := 4096
BOARD_KERNEL_BASE := 0x40000000
I was also trying to modify the stock boot.img for my device (p3110) and I came across a tool called "unmkbootimg" found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877807
When I use this new tool to extract the stock boot.img, I get this:
mkbootimg --kernel kernel.gz --ramdisk initramfs.cpio.gz --base 0x80000000 --cmdline 'console=ttyO2,115200n8 mem=1024M androidboot.console=ttyO2 vram=20M omapfb.vram=0:16M androidboot.carrier=wifi' -o new_boot.img
When I use the tool to extract the CM10 boot.img, I get this:
mkbootimg --kernel kernel.gz --ramdisk initramfs.cpio.gz --base 0x40000000 --pagesize 4096 -o new_boot.img
cool.
Could someone point me to some instructions on how to unpack, modify, and repack a boot.blob out of a kernel?
I'm trying to update bryce's kernel to use Data2SD mod, and I'm following the instructions from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29532041&postcount=15
However, I tried unpacking and repacking without even modifying anything and I just get bootlooped.
Read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36925180&postcount=4
Do you want to use the Data2SD mod with CM or with CROMI? For CROMI I posted a kernel with auto-detection of Data2SD in bryce's thread - only for CM you'd have to do it yourself.
Thanks for the help. I actually just figured out a different way right before seeing your reply. I use blobpack and blobunpack from BlobTools git, and abootimg installed from Ubuntu repository. This script has the extracted bryce kernel zip in a directory called result, so I overwrite his boot.blob with my new one.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Clean:
rm out boot.img new_boot.img boot2.blob linux_processed.zip -r
mkdir -p out
echo;echo "**** Unpacking boot.blob to boot.img";echo
cp result/boot.blob .
../linux/blobunpack boot.blob
mv boot.blob.LNX boot.img
cd out
# now in out
echo;echo "**** Unpacking boot.img";echo
abootimg -x ../boot.img
#zcat initramfs|cpio -tiv
echo;echo "**** Extracting initrd.img";echo
mkdir -p initramfs
cp initrd.img initramfs/initramfs.gz
mv initrd.img old_initrd.img
cd initramfs
# now in old/initramfs
gzip -d initramfs.gz
cpio -i < initramfs
echo;echo "**** Modifying boot information";echo
perl -pi -e 's/mmcblk0p2/mmcblk1p3/g' *
perl -pi -e 's/mmcblk0p8/mmcblk1p2/g' *
echo;echo "**** Recompressing initrd.img";echo
find | cpio -H newc -o | lzma -9 > ../initrd.img
cd ..
# now in out
echo;echo "**** Creating new_boot.img";echo
abootimg --create ../new_boot.img -f bootimg.cfg -k zImage -r initrd.img
cd ..
#now out of out
echo;echo "**** Pack boot2.blob";echo
../linux/blobpack boot2.blob LNX new_boot.img
cp boot2.blob result/boot.blob
cd result
echo;echo "**** Zip it all up";echo
zip ../linux_processed.zip * -r
cd ..
I am trying to get bryce's CM10.1 kernel working with Data2SD. I thought all I needed to do was change the mount commands in fstab.cardhu so that data (and I'm trying to do cache too) moved to external partitions.
Those perl pie commands in the middle were supposed to change internal data partition and internal cache partition into the external SD card partition 2 and 3, respectively. As far as I can tell, the changes were made correctly and the blob and zip were re-created, but it didn't work when I booted with the new blob.
Any ideas why it doesn't seem to have worked? Are there other changes I'm missing?
Edit:
Looks like my boot.blob is not being applied. I've tried both flashing the zip and dd'ing it to mmcblk0p4, but in both cases, I do not get the bootloader update screen on reboot, it just boots straight into my old settings. What am I missing?
Edit again:
Oops, I had stopped adding the signature on the blobs for some reason, looks like I'm off a few steps, because now I get bootloops again.
AW: [Q] Need help modifying boot blob
oblib__ said:
Thanks for the help. I actually just figured out a different way right before seeing your reply. I use blobpack and blobunpack from BlobTools git, and abootimg installed from Ubuntu repository. This script has the extracted bryce kernel zip in a directory called result, so I overwrite his boot.blob with my new one.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Clean:
rm out boot.img new_boot.img boot2.blob linux_processed.zip -r
mkdir -p out
echo;echo "**** Unpacking boot.blob to boot.img";echo
cp result/boot.blob .
../linux/blobunpack boot.blob
mv boot.blob.LNX boot.img
cd out
# now in out
echo;echo "**** Unpacking boot.img";echo
abootimg -x ../boot.img
#zcat initramfs|cpio -tiv
echo;echo "**** Extracting initrd.img";echo
mkdir -p initramfs
cp initrd.img initramfs/initramfs.gz
mv initrd.img old_initrd.img
cd initramfs
# now in old/initramfs
gzip -d initramfs.gz
cpio -i < initramfs
echo;echo "**** Modifying boot information";echo
perl -pi -e 's/mmcblk0p2/mmcblk1p3/g' *
perl -pi -e 's/mmcblk0p8/mmcblk1p2/g' *
echo;echo "**** Recompressing initrd.img";echo
find | cpio -H newc -o | lzma -9 > ../initrd.img
cd ..
# now in out
echo;echo "**** Creating new_boot.img";echo
abootimg --create ../new_boot.img -f bootimg.cfg -k zImage -r initrd.img
cd ..
#now out of out
echo;echo "**** Pack boot2.blob";echo
../linux/blobpack boot2.blob LNX new_boot.img
cp boot2.blob result/boot.blob
cd result
echo;echo "**** Zip it all up";echo
zip ../linux_processed.zip * -r
cd ..
I am trying to get bryce's CM10.1 kernel working with Data2SD. I thought all I needed to do was change the mount commands in fstab.cardhu so that data (and I'm trying to do cache too) moved to external partitions.
Those perl pie commands in the middle were supposed to change internal data partition and internal cache partition into the external SD card partition 2 and 3, respectively. As far as I can tell, the changes were made correctly and the blob and zip were re-created, but it didn't work when I booted with the new blob.
Any ideas why it doesn't seem to have worked? Are there other changes I'm missing?
Edit:
Looks like my boot.blob is not being applied. I've tried both flashing the zip and dd'ing it to mmcblk0p4, but in both cases, I do not get the bootloader update screen on reboot, it just boots straight into my old settings. What am I missing?
Edit again:
Oops, I had stopped adding the signature on the blobs for some reason, looks like I'm off a few steps, because now I get bootloops again.
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I had a hard time getting this done too. I couldn't find working blob tools at first. So I ended up using blob tools for windows. They also sign them directly. But I am also running Ubuntu in a vm
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Hello
I'm trying to make a custom rom (for a Pomp C6) and need to adapt the bootclasspath.
Plenty of tutorials etc, so thats not the problem.
The problem i have is that none of the tools are able to correctly extract the ramdisk from my boot.img
I get errors like:
Code:
./unpack-bootimg.pl boot.img
Could not find any embedded ramdisk images. Are you sure this is a full boot image?
splitboot.pl apparently can extract at least something, but the resulting ramdisk image is not a gz
Code:
./split_bootimg.pl boot.img
Page size: 2048 (0x00000800)
Kernel size: 4376464 (0x0042c790)
Ramdisk size: 636685 (0x0009b70d)
Second size: 0 (0x00000000)
Board name: Release.V2.03
Command line:
Writing boot.img-kernel ... complete.
Writing boot.img-ramdisk.gz ... complete.
gzip -dc ../boot.img-ramdisk.gz | cpio -i
gzip: ../boot.img-ramdisk.gz: not in gzip format
cpio: premature end of archive
I already searched for a solution but cannot find any (All tutorials seem to have no problem extracting the ramdisk)
Am i overlooking something?
I've been trying for like hours to unpack and repack a boot.img.
I never made this before, I was reading much (actually too much) on the internet on how getting this done.
So... I downloaded some tools for unpacking and repacking the boot.img and followed this tutorial:
http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Unmkbootimg
and I suceeded. But when I repack it (WITHOUT modifying ANYTHING), and try to flash the "new" boot.img to the phone, the phone turns on and then shows up on the upper left corner of the screen "KERNEL IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING" and stays there. It goes no further. I simply unpacked it and then repacked it (to see if I made the whole process right, before screwing anything up).
I saw something curious: The original boot.img is 14.3MB and the new boot.img only 14.0MB. Is there anything that got lost in the process? Remember that I set all the "adresses" to the files right.
Unpacking command:
Code:
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$ ./umkbootimg boot.img
unmkbootimg version 1.2 - Mikael Q Kuisma <[email protected]>
Kernel size 11073112
Kernel address 0x8000
Ramdisk size 2525114
Ramdisk address 0x1000000
Secondary size 0
Secondary address 0xf00000
Kernel tags address 0x100
Flash page size 2048
Board name is ""
Command line "console=ttyS1,115200n8"
This image is built using standard mkbootimg
Extracting kernel to file zImage ...
Extracting root filesystem to file initramfs.cpio.gz ...
All done.
---------------
To recompile this image, use:
mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk initramfs.cpio.gz --base 0x0 --cmdline 'console=ttyS1,115200n8' -o new_boot.img
---------------
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$
And repacking:
Code:
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$ ./mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk initramfs.cpio --base 0x0 --cmdline 'console=ttyS1,115200n8' -o new_boot.img --pagesize 2048 --ramdiskaddr 0x1000000
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$
I also tried without those adresses. Without luck.
The phone is a (Samsung J1) "J120H" with Android 5.1.1.
And the boot image I obtained by downloading the stock rom and unpacking ONLY the "boot.img". Remember: When I flash this file alone, IT WORKS. When I unpack and repack it, it stops working.
Here are the tools which came and my boot.img (unmodified from stock rom): https://volafile.io/get/overPkOTw66W/ToolsWithBootImg.zip
If anyone can direct me in the right way, I would be very happy.
Or maybe even modify the boot.img for me, set "secure=0" and repack it. Because my main goal is to root the device.
Thanks.
Anyone?
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Nobody knows how to unpack a boot.img?
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Not exactly answer to your problem. I tried same thing - just unpacking and repacking It stuck at boot saying 'fastboot reason fall through normal boot mode'
This SO: has similar post : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27889621/error-with-repacking-boot-img-android
I suspect the base address is wrong in all three cases.
May be if you are searching for solution we can search together
[[email protected] kitkat]$ ./unmkbootimg boot.img
Kernel size 6022016
Kernel address 0x8000
Ramdisk size 716888
Ramdisk address 0x1000000
Secondary size 0
Secondary address 0xf00000
Kernel tags address 0x100
Flash page size 2048
Board name is ""
Command line "console=ttyHSL0,115200,n8 androidboot.console=ttyHSL0 androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31 msm_rtb.filter=0x37 utags.blkdev=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/utags vmalloc=400M"
Extracting kernel.gz ...
Extracting initramfs.cpio.gz ...
All done.
---------------
To recompile this image, use:
mkbooting --kernel kernel.gz --ramdisk initramfs.cpio.gz --base 0x0 --cmdline 'console=ttyHSL0,115200,n8 androidboot.console=ttyHSL0 androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31 msm_rtb.filter=0x37 utags.blkdev=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/utags vmalloc=400M' -o new_boot.img
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glaks said:
Not exactly answer to your problem. I tried same thing - just unpacking and repacking It stuck at boot saying 'fastboot reason fall through normal boot mode'
This SO: has similar post : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27889621/error-with-repacking-boot-img-android
I suspect the base address is wrong in all three cases.
May be if you are searching for solution we can search together
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If you discover why, please let me know
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Fusseldieb said:
If you discover why, please let me know
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Changing --base 0x0 to --base 0x10008000 does the trick. You may need to play around with your device PHYS_OFFSET. For more read this https://lyncd.com/2011/03/android-kernel-mkbootimg-base/
http://k.japko.eu/boot-img-manipulation.html
Fusseldieb said:
I've been trying for like hours to unpack and repack a boot.img.
I never made this before, I was reading much (actually too much) on the internet on how getting this done.
So... I downloaded some tools for unpacking and repacking the boot.img and followed this tutorial:
http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Unmkbootimg
and I suceeded. But when I repack it (WITHOUT modifying ANYTHING), and try to flash the "new" boot.img to the phone, the phone turns on and then shows up on the upper left corner of the screen "KERNEL IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING" and stays there. It goes no further. I simply unpacked it and then repacked it (to see if I made the whole process right, before screwing anything up).
I saw something curious: The original boot.img is 14.3MB and the new boot.img only 14.0MB. Is there anything that got lost in the process? Remember that I set all the "adresses" to the files right.
Unpacking command:
Code:
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$ ./umkbootimg boot.img
unmkbootimg version 1.2 - Mikael Q Kuisma <[email protected]>
Kernel size 11073112
Kernel address 0x8000
Ramdisk size 2525114
Ramdisk address 0x1000000
Secondary size 0
Secondary address 0xf00000
Kernel tags address 0x100
Flash page size 2048
Board name is ""
Command line "console=ttyS1,115200n8"
This image is built using standard mkbootimg
Extracting kernel to file zImage ...
Extracting root filesystem to file initramfs.cpio.gz ...
All done.
---------------
To recompile this image, use:
mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk initramfs.cpio.gz --base 0x0 --cmdline 'console=ttyS1,115200n8' -o new_boot.img
---------------
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$
And repacking:
Code:
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$ ./mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk initramfs.cpio --base 0x0 --cmdline 'console=ttyS1,115200n8' -o new_boot.img --pagesize 2048 --ramdiskaddr 0x1000000
[email protected]:~/Área de Trabalho/UNPACKTOOLS$
I also tried without those adresses. Without luck.
The phone is a (Samsung J1) "J120H" with Android 5.1.1.
And the boot image I obtained by downloading the stock rom and unpacking ONLY the "boot.img". Remember: When I flash this file alone, IT WORKS. When I unpack and repack it, it stops working.
Here are the tools which came and my boot.img (unmodified from stock rom): https://volafile.io/get/overPkOTw66W/ToolsWithBootImg.zip
If anyone can direct me in the right way, I would be very happy.
Or maybe even modify the boot.img for me, set "secure=0" and repack it. Because my main goal is to root the device.
Thanks.
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Try using Carliv Kitchen Image