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Is there a way to UPDATE Dexter's Rom

Hi, how can i install the .zip v2, v3, v4 updates of dexters ROM using Openrecovery? Thanks

okay, I got , for thoese who do not know how to update, download the updates and keep them as .zip, DO NOT EXTRACT, copy and paste them into your phones SD card: OpenRecovery folder (should be already there)/ Updates
After restart your phone in recovery and go to updates, and chose your updates!

[I9003][MOD] Modded Stock Recovery (allow test-signed update.zip)

WELCOME ROM & THEME DEV!!!
Hi all.... since the work on CWM is longer than i wish i have done this MOD that - for the moment - can help all.....
This is the custom recovery modded by me to allow the installation of update.zip signed with the test key.
Attached at this post you can find:
- The PDA that must be flashed with odin;
- The tool for signing your custom update.zip
Update.zip must be signed like so:
java -Xmx1024m -jar signapk.jar -w testkey.x509.pem testkey.pk8 your-update.zip signed-update.zip
Very important is the "-w" that mean ( if i remember well) whole file.
To enter in recovery mode the combo is VOL-UP + Home + POWER
Hope you enjoy it!
UPDATE: I attach also an update.zip that will install Microbes Live Wallpaper, maybe you don't like it but sure it can help you on building you own update.zip. PLEASE STUDY IT!
IMPORTANT: System folder maybe cannot have more space, in this case the update.zip will i attached not work until you haven't deleted some bloatware like aldiko and other ( in all case i suggest to remove all bloatware). The update.zip that overwrite system files don't have this issue i think.
UPDATE 2: i forgot to tell you that this is based on XXKB3 kernel, it might also with other FW without problem but if you find any issue please PM what firmware is and i'll build the recovery for you.
A guide for n00bs that want build their update.zip - written by trip007in -can be found HERE
Last Thing
Press the Thanks Button if you like my work!

could better explain the steps?
I do not know if I explained well ....
could make a tutorial on how to do?
thanks and sorry for the inconvenience

Flashed succefully
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Thanks alot man atleast we are on the right track........... excellent work

Great work mate, so you finally did it.
Immediately flashed PDA file uploaded by you and successfully flashed. Made an update.zip of livewallpapers to test the recovery, signed it using your tools. You dint mention any hardware key combinations to enter into recovery, so used root tools and entered recovery and tried update but it failed. in the last step.
I made update.zip by putting the livewallpapers.apk in system>app folder and zipped it. Signed it using your signing tool. placed it on sdcard for flashing.
Any suggestions?

nice dude
it's begin

nice work dude

please can anybody explain what is use of this...? I am new to android & its modifications...

trip007in said:
Great work mate, so you finally did it.
Immediately flashed PDA file uploaded by you and successfully flashed. Made an update.zip of livewallpapers to test the recovery, signed it using your tools. You dint mention any hardware key combinations to enter into recovery, so used root tools and entered recovery and tried update but it failed. in the last step.
I made update.zip by putting the livewallpapers.apk in system>app folder and zipped it. Signed it using your signing tool. placed it on sdcard for flashing.
Any suggestions?
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I think that the content of updater-script is the part where you have to work.
EDIT: Look at the first post, i have updated it.

thx man greet hard work,year after we can install custom rom,kernial,them,apk,etc.. via update.zip will try and tel rex4u release rom update.zip

Skin1980 said:
I think that the content of updater-script is the part where you have to work.
EDIT: Look at the first post, i have updated it.
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Thanks a million, it worked. I replaced the files in the zip using 7zip, and resigned it using the script. It worked but flashed a message during update regarding the microbesgl wallpaper that was packaged by you. I underastand thats because of the update-binary and update-script. It does not matter though, I would like to know how did you get/ create that android folder and its contents inside the zip. was it packaged separately or created automatically during signing zip?
The second question, the most important one is how to enter recovery using combo keys? does it work or we have to depend on ADB or softwares like root tools? to get into recovery from the on mode. Then there is no way to recover a bricked phone with wrong framework or essential files which are loaded during boot.

trip007in said:
Thanks a million, it worked. I replaced the files in the zip using 7zip, and resigned it using the script. It worked but flashed a message during update regarding the microbesgl wallpaper that was packaged by you. I underastand thats because of the update-binary and update-script. It does not matter though, I would like to know how did you get/ create that android folder and its contents inside the zip. was it packaged separately or created automatically during signing zip?
The second question, the most important one is how to enter recovery using combo keys? does it work or we have to depend on ADB or softwares like root tools? to get into recovery from the on mode. Then there is no way to recover a bricked phone with wrong framework or essential files which are loaded during boot.
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The sign create only the three files inside the folder META-INF, you must create the other folder or simply edit the zip i posted.
If you edit the updater-script and change the first line ui_print("Installing Microbes...") you wil not see Instaling Microbes.
To enter in recovery mode simply shut down your phone then Press VOL UP + HOME (the center keys) + POWER.
Bye!

A little guide for using custom recovery (3e)
Hi Skin, this is a small guide to your recovery for noobs, who need some help for creating or flashing the update.zip files. You are free to link this post to the first post for easy reference.
Download the three attachments on the first post of this thread and save them on your PC.
Flashing Recovery to phone:
1. power down the phone and simultaneously press Vol. down + HOME (Center key) and power on buttons till you see download mode connect the phone to PC through USB.
2. open ODIN on PC and check Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time.
3. Click on PDA and browse to the location where you placed the PDA.tar file from this post. and click start.
Wait for the phone too reboot, the recovery is flashed now.
Preparing the update.zip for flashing.
You do this if you are an experienced user and know the location of the files to be paced on the system partition of phone or avoid this and may use the already uploaded update.zip provided here.
1.First create a folder called ‘updzip’ in c:\ drive, the path would be C:\updzip
2.Place here the contents of the sign-tools in this folder i.e signapk.jar, testkey.pk8 and testkey.x509.pem.
3.Now edit the update.zip file downloaded from this post with the files you want to flash in recovery. This can be done by dragging the files into the zip archive, which can be opened with applications like 7Zip. Alternatively you can extract the contents of the file and place the files to be updated in appropriate folder and rebuild the zip file. The location of this zip file will be the same C:\updzip.
Eg: for flashing system applications you have to place the apk files in system/app inside the zip. Whereas framework files goes into system/framework.
4.The update.zip contains META-INF folder which is essential for update.zip to work. After placing the files inside zip in appropriate folder(s) you need to sign it using the sign-tools. Before this you have to delete the three files inside the META-INF folder i.e CERT.RSA , CERT.SF and MANIFEST.MF, as these files will be created after signing the whole zip.
5.Now go to command prompt ‘cmd’ and browse to the C:\updzip and sign the zip as follows, assuming you have named the zip as ‘sysap-update.zip’.
Code:
C:\Users>cd c:\updzip
c:\updzip>java -Xmx1024m -jar signapk.jar -w testkey.x509.pem testkey.pk8 sysap-update.zip signed-update.zip
c:\updzip>exit
6.Now you will have signed-update.zip in C:\>updzip folder this file should be placed on the SDCARD and name it as update.zip for it to work in recovery.
Flashing update.zip files from recovery:
1.Power down the phone and simultaneously press Vol. up + Home and power on for few seconds till you see the samsung logo and release the keys wait for the phone to enter recovery (3e).
2.Select the option apply sdcard: update.zip, using vol down key to navigate to the option and press home button.
3.After update reboot the phone.
Your files are flashed and system is updated.
Enjoy and Happy Flashing. Now its not easy to screw up/ brick your phone.

@ tripin
dude thanks for this useful post

Later i will update the first post... thanks
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really thanx for such wonderful mod...because of this we can now install themes, roms very easily...i have small question. Is this mod different than CWM...???? Because CWM very helpful for backup entire rom...& later we can flash that rom very easily...!!!

Grazie, sei un grande

@ vishal
dude it is a modded stock recovery it is not cwm

thanx krrazy for ur reply...
but can u tell me what is difference between modded stock recovery & CWM...? I m new to android & i m trying to learn all these basics about android modding, backup, rom etc...!!!!

vishal24387 said:
really thanx for such wonderful mod...because of this we can now install themes, roms very easily...i have small question. Is this mod different than CWM...???? Because CWM very helpful for backup entire rom...& later we can flash that rom very easily...!!!
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CWM is different and i'm sure it will be ported.... i got it works succesfully but i have problem with the keys so i must review something.
Since tomorrow i leave for two week ( HOLYDAYS!!!) i decided to build this so you can enjoy with it.
When i'll came back i will work hard to port the CWM so please be patient.
Best Reguards.
Skin1980

[I9003] [How-To] Easily adding Arabic Patch to a Custom Rom

Hey to all,
this is a short tutorial how Devs but also "normal user" can add Arabic Support to a Custom Rom. (This process is usable for other Samsung smartphones, too).
1) Requirements
2) Downloads
3) How to apply Patch...
3.1) ...with Root Explorer
3.2) ...with a .zip Rom
1) Requirements
1. Your device needs to be rooted. (If you use the Root Explorer method)
2. Your Android version is 2.1 or newer
3. Your ROM needs to be deodexed. To find out if your installed ROM is deodexed, navigate to /system/framework on your phone. If you see a file called framework.odex then this patch will NOT work for you.
4. Your rom is NOT based on MIUI.
2) Downloads
1. Arabic Patcher (requires Windows)
2. If you use the Root Explorer method you will need Root Explorer (available in Market) or something comparable
If something goes wrong using this method reply and i´ll help you
Author of this tool is madmack! Link to his homepage

3) HowTo apply the patch
3.1) ...with Root Explorer
1. Download Arabic Patcher and extract it
2. Pull /system/framework/framework.jar from your phone and place it in the subfolder called "input" that you extracted in step 1. If you’re not using a CyanogenMod ROM (like Stock I9003 Roms), then you’ll also need to pull /system/lib/libandroid_runtime.so from your phone and place it in subfolder input that you extracted in step 1
! If you’re interested in getting arabic shaping in the Browser, pull file /system/lib/libwebcore.so from your phone and place it in subfolder input as well !
3. Double click on commands.exe. Do not close the black cmd screens that will pop up. Once the patch is done, you should get a patched framework.jar in the subfolder output.
4. Put file output/framework.jar in your phone at /system/framework/
5. Put file output/libandroid_runtime.so in your phone at /system/lib/
6. Put file output/libicuuc-arabic.so in your phone at /system/lib/ This is extremely important, failing to place this file will result in a boot loop of your deivce
7. If file exists: Place file output/libwebcore.so in your phone at /system/lib/
8. If file exists: Place file output/lib__bcore.so in your phone at /system/lib/
Also included, the Aljazeera fonts in fonts. You can place these in /system/fonts and reboot Sometimes permissions and xml data doesn’t get updated correctly resulting in corrupted data entries. If you receive a bunch of Force Closes after a reboot, you’ll need to Factory Reset.

3) HowTo apply the patch
3.2) ...with a .zip Rom
1. Download Arabic Patcher and extract it
1.1 Download the Rom you want to patch
2. Extract the .zip of your Rom and search for /system/framework/framework.jar. Pull it and place it in the subfolder called "input" that you extracted in step 1. If you’re not using a CyanogenMod ROM (like Stock I9003 Roms), then you’ll also need to pull /system/lib/libandroid_runtime.so from your phone and place it in subfolder input that you extracted in step 1
! If you’re interested in getting arabic shaping in the Browser, pull file /system/lib/libwebcore.so and place it in subfolder input as well !
3. Double click on commands.exe. Do not close the black cmd screens that will pop up. Once the patch is done, you should get a patched framework.jar in the subfolder output.
4. Put file output/framework.jar in .zip at /system/framework/
5. Put file output/libandroid_runtime.so in .zip at /system/lib/
6. Put file output/libicuuc-arabic.so in .zip at /system/lib/ This is extremely important, failing to place this file will result in a boot loop of your deivce
7. If file exists: Place file output/libwebcore.so in .zip at /system/lib/
8. If file exists: Place file output/lib__bcore.so in .zip at /system/lib/
Also included, the Aljazeera fonts in fonts. You can place these in /system/fonts and reboot Sometimes permissions and xml data doesn’t get updated correctly resulting in corrupted data entries. If you receive a bunch of Force Closes after a reboot, you’ll need to Factory Reset.

nice info dude

How about Asian language? Eg. Chinese? Any method to make a patch?
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Nice One dude as many are requesting for that...

I'll try it man... but if this works then you are officially my new Hero !!!

Ok it works Fine man you r a genius !!! i used it on Cranium.zip & then i flashed it & it now can read Arabic fonts Properly, but Arabic is not included in the Local settings therefore no Arabic Keyboard...
but i have one more Question though... if i used a theme & replaced Framework.jar file do i have to patch it again ?!

iceman-x9 said:
Ok it works Fine man you r a genius !!! i used it on Cranium.zip & then i flashed it & it now can read Arabic fonts Properly, but Arabic is not included in the Local settings therefore no Arabic Keyboard...
but i have one more Question though... if i used a theme & replaced Framework.jar file do i have to patch it again ?!
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Yes, you have to apply the path again.
See attachement for an arabic keyboard, install it and then under "language in and output" (or sth like that) aktivate it. (I idon´t tested it, but it should work)
PS: Press thanks button

Thanks fuss132 Nice tutorial it will help a lot

thanx man realy>>ur my hero

thanks fuss.....i had already found this,but the whole page was in arabic and translate sucks

Thanks for the Info

you are my hero
it works like charm

Only works on custom ROM's, meaning I can only use it if i have Cranium or CM7 when they make it right?

Baladya said:
Only works on custom ROM's, meaning I can only use it if i have Cranium or CM7 when they make it right?
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thats not true i'm using it in XXKPM without any problems

thx... work fine in my xxkpm...

does any one test it on XXKB3 ?

nimafire said:
does any one test it on XXKB3 ?
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It´s working on Froyo, too.
Only requires Android 2.1+

problem in messages
thanks for the big efforts , but i have problem when sending messages from my i9003 2.3.6 custom rom ,the recipient have squares instead from arabic letters.
could you help please....

Framework files created by kitchen

If you upload the framework and twframework files to the kitchen to create a new battery icon, for example, are those newly created apk files going to work with that same ROM if you reinstall that same ROM after using another ROM?
Just wondering if you have to get a new zip file from the kitchen each time you go back and install a ROM you may have had before the current ROM you may be running.
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MaverickCoast said:
If you upload the framework and twframework files to the kitchen to create a new battery icon, for example, are those newly created apk files going to work with that same ROM if you reinstall that same ROM after using another ROM?
Just wondering if you have to get a new zip file from the kitchen each time you go back and install a ROM you may have had before the current ROM you may be running.
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Ahh, the anwser to the first question would be Yes.
The answer to the second non-question would be No.
Simpler: Install "ABC Rom" flash changes made from "ABC Rom" framework files.

Thanks, TG.
Tired of trying out a new ROM, going back to the other ROM and re-creating the ZIP file all over again.

MaverickCoast said:
Thanks, TG.
Tired of trying out a new ROM, going back to the other ROM and re-creating the ZIP file all over again.
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Here's an easier way to go back: Before flashing a different Rom, while in Red Recovery, make a backup.
That way all you have to do is run Restore from recovery. It will automatically name the backup by the date.
I then use root explorer and rename it to the rom that you were using.
Then when I have the time, I'll copy the backups to my external SD card and to my computer.
There you go. No more reinstalls. Just remember to back up your contacts or you'll wind up with the list from when you backed up last.

THEME - XT615 MIUI Themed ROM (based on Relentless ROM)

I found some interesting things on chinese forums so i decide to put them into rom and share with other. I use Relentless rom as a base and put all things into one.
So i dont know if its compatible with other .sbf versions, but im using german .sbf posted by Enox and it works fine. If you think, these theme is based on chinese .sbf version... so it should work well with other .sbf without problem.
- Relentless rom (base)
- Updated updater-script (remove all unnecesary apps)
- Smart Launcher (you can use whatever you want)
- New systemUI.apk & framework-res.apk (miui theme)
- theres only one bug you can see on screenshots
- Note: this updated version dont include new apps which replace stock. You can use whatever you want.
Install:
1. flash german .sbf file with RSD Lite (you can try with other)
2. copy Miui Themed rom on SD card
3. run CWM posted by Enox http://d-h.st/7Q0
4. install zip file from SD card and reboot
Download XT615 MIUI Themed ROM:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1QhoBpCoCSSMUJyUHJCc0VZN1k/edit

cannot flash the canadian xt615 with other sbf files. process gets to 80 percent then just gives an error and goes into a bootloop.

I know about your problem.. and i dont know how to solve this.
Which RSD you use?
Try this: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1QhoBpCoCSSWVJGV2Ryc0xPVFE/edit

Not able to download the file.
Think you have to make the file public.
Wheres the bug? I can help you if you want

calvooo said:
I know about your problem.. and i dont know how to solve this.
Which RSD you use?
Try this: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1QhoBpCoCSSWVJGV2Ryc0xPVFE/edit
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i tryed different version of rds and rsd lite, gets the same problem all the time.

Upps.. sorry, i didnt notice that Now its ok.
On the last screenshot you will see a little menu bug.
Edit: 5.5.13
Tommorow i will upload new zip file. I found some zip error.. now i fix that. But i decide to change some things in update-script.

Now i uploaded rom into rar arhive, because of problems with zip error.
Extract file and copy zip file to SD card/flash with CWM.

I have no StatusBar on this ROM. I cant find a way to reenable it...