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Signing the update.zip in Mac OS X?

I'm sure this has been asked before but after prolific searching of the forums and our friend Google I turn to you guys for help. As the title says I'm using OS X and I need a solution (that isn't dual booting to use XP) to signing the update.zip so that I can customise aspects of my ROM, I'm very eager to learn how to do this and this so far seems to be quite an annoying problem.
Thanks for your time in advance

tristyB said:
I'm sure this has been asked before but after prolific searching of the forums and our friend Google I turn to you guys for help. As the title says I'm using OS X and I need a solution (that isn't dual booting to use XP) to signing the update.zip so that I can customise aspects of my ROM, I'm very eager to learn how to do this and this so far seems to be quite an annoying problem.
Thanks for your time in advance
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pm me............

korndub said:
pm me............
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Hi korndub,
Cannot you post the answer here so everybody that uses OS X can also sign?
I'm also having problems signing full roms (update.zip files) with signapk.jar
Any help is appreciated

rommelin said:
Hi korndub,
Cannot you post the answer here so everybody that uses OS X can also sign?
I'm also having problems signing full roms (update.zip files) with signapk.jar
Any help is appreciated
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i have a folder on the desktop which contains the signapk.jar and both sets of keys...put the Archive.zip that you have created and want to sign in this folder, then open terminal
in terminal, you type
$cd FOLDER-containing-files
$java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 Inputfile.zip outputfile.zip
the outputfile.zip is your update which is signed....

OK, I do all that I think.
Heres my process.
Download ROM
Extract downloaded zip to folder eg update
Make changes to files
Compress folder back to zip eg update1.zip
java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 update1.zip update_signed.zip
rename and copy the signed file to sd
reboot recovery
wipe and apply update
It doesn't moan about the signing (so I assume its ok) but I get an update script not found error and it doesn't install.
I haven't changed the update scripts, only the boot.img and one or two scripts in system.
Does every file I change have to be resigned as well? I muct be missing something here
on OSX 10.5

Signing has nothing to do with that error. Make sure that the update-script is in the correct path.
META-INF/com/google/android/update-script

it is, is a normal update.zip (ie cyanogen rom), and the only file I've changed is boot.img and a2sd in system/bin

i have a folder on the desktop which contains the signapk.jar and both sets of keys...put the Archive.zip that you have created and want to sign in this folder, then open terminal
in terminal, you type
$cd FOLDER-containing-files
$java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 Inputfile.zip outputfile.zip
the outputfile.zip is your update which is signed....
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Thank you so much, this works for me, I might try and build it into an automator workflow
Edit: I spoke too soon, I get the update script error also
Edit Again: my update-script is in the same place as it should be also

Wonder if this is a specific OSX problem? We do have apples 'interpretation' of java don't we?

dazcox5181 said:
Wonder if this is a specific OSX problem? We do have apples 'interpretation' of java don't we?
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haha, yeah that's right, those crazy cats at Apple. but I assume that korndub also has Apples 'interptretation' so something else could be the problem also

perhaps the way we zip the archive?

dazcox5181 said:
perhaps the way we zip the archive?
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sadly not, I just used a application that zips in a PC format (without mac hidden files) and no joy. Good idea though.
Edit: Just tried archiving the zip but not compressing. Thought I was on to something. I wasn't.

Another update, I have tried the same in Fedora 11 and again, getting the update script error message when I flash.

I signed modified update for 3 different builds on my Mac, everything worked w/o problems every time. I did everything like described in readme and several times here. So, it's not a global OS X problem.
BTW, I used muCommander to directly modify all zips.

neuro159 said:
I signed modified update for 3 different builds on my Mac, everything worked w/o problems every time. I did everything like described in readme and several times here. So, it's not a global OS X problem.
BTW, I used muCommander to directly modify all zips.
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When I find the time later on I will give the muCommander a go. Fingers crossed.

dazcox5181 said:
OK, I do all that I think.
Heres my process.
Download ROM
Extract downloaded zip to folder eg update
Make changes to files
Compress folder back to zip eg update1.zip
java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 update1.zip update_signed.zip
rename and copy the signed file to sd
reboot recovery
wipe and apply update
It doesn't moan about the signing (so I assume its ok) but I get an update script not found error and it doesn't install.
I haven't changed the update scripts, only the boot.img and one or two scripts in system.
Does every file I change have to be resigned as well? I muct be missing something here
on OSX 10.5
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you dont archive (zip) the folder, this is where you are having the issue... say you extracted the rom to ROMFOLDER, what you need to do is go into that folder, select all, then right click or two finger click and choose Compress - you will end up with an archive that contains all sub folders, if you zip the folder then you have a folder within a folder and that is where all goes south..

korndub said:
you dont archive (zip) the folder, this is where you are having the issue... say you extracted the rom to ROMFOLDER, what you need to do is go into that folder, select all, then right click or two finger click and choose Compress - you will end up with an archive that contains all sub folders, if you zip the folder then you have a folder within a folder and that is where all goes south..
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Oh my god, you're right. And I think I actually read that somewhere before now you've reminded me. Damn. Thanks though! Thanks a lot!

Awesome, knew it was me being stupid.

sure thing guys! glad i could help...

Always something stupid...

[TOOL] Something to make BlobTools Easier to use

This tool is an interactive console application. It makes it easier to use blob tools. All you have to do is run it, choose to unpack or repack. If you choose repack it will ask you to enter the name for each of the required files. After that it will due the rest.
Notice: You either have to enter the full, have the blob file in the same directory/folder or have change changed directories to the location of the blob. For example: cd /path/to/blob's Dir/
Update: I have fixed the case sensitivity issue.
Note: The attachments below will always be the latest.

ostar2 said:
I created an application to make BlobTools easier to use. It is an interactive console application. I made this because I wanted to be of some help to the community. Well anyways, here it is...
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Files are corrupt. Try again please.
Regards,
Brad

bradslinux said:
Files are corrupt. Try again please.
Regards,
Brad
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Those were compressed with the LZMA algorithm. Here try these ones there compressed with the normal zip compression for windows.
Edit: To prevent confusion I have removed these attachments please download from The Original Post. Thanks.

ostar2 said:
Those were compressed with the LZMA algorithm. Here try these ones there compressed with the normal zip compression for windows.
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That did it, thanks.
Nice work.
Regards,
Brad

welcome..

Excellent! Thank you - these will aid me greatly!

I like to be of help to the community so I am happy that this helps others.

Sourcecode and Update
As I am unable to compile for Linux or mac at the moment here is the sourcecode for this tool.
This uses a Code::Blocks IDE for its project/workspace. It can be compiled with just a c++ compiler. The icon is only available on windows as I do not know to implement it on macosx and Linux does not support icons in executables. also, I have updated this application as well the updated binarie zip files and source zip are attached. Enjoy!
Edit: To prevent confusion I have removed these attachments please download from The Original Post. Thanks.

ostar2 said:
As I am unable to compile for Linux or mac at the moment here is the sourcecode for this tool.
This uses a Code::Blocks IDE for its project/workspace. It can be compiled with just a c++ compiler. The icon is only available on windows as I do not know to implement it on macosx and Linux does not support icons in executables. also, I have updated this application as well the updated binarie zip files and source zip are attached. Enjoy!
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I tried to unpack a blob and it kept failing with an Invalid Option! error. I hit u then typed blob which was in the same directory. I then manually dragged the blob onto the blobunpack.exe and it unpacked it fine.
Any ideas why?

sbdags said:
I tried to unpack a blob and it kept failing with an Invalid Option! error. I hit u then typed blob which was in the same directory. I then manually dragged the blob onto the blobunpack.exe and it unpacked it fine.
Any ideas why?
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I was unsure of what extenstion the blob file had when I created this. What extenstion do they have? is it .blob? If so I think i can fix it.

Update: Fixed Not unpacking
Hello again I fixed the tool it should work fine now.
Edit: To prevent confusion I have removed these attachments please download from The Original Post. Thanks.

ostar2 said:
I was unsure of what extenstion the blob file had when I created this. What extenstion do they have? is it .blob? If so I think i can fix it.
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The blobs usually have no extension at all, and the extracted parts have a dot and the partition name as their last part, but I would not call these "extensions" (even if Windows disagrees with me).

_that said:
The blobs usually have no extension at all, and the extracted parts have a dot and the partition name as their last part, but I would not call these "extensions" (even if Windows disagrees with me).
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Thanks, that makes more sense. Also, I am thinking about having BlobTools print the command usage in more detail or at least a "--help" command displaying detailed usage of BlobTools. Like, how to unpack and repack.

[WIP] New tool
I am going to make gui version of this using wxwidgets and also maby consolidate the two tools into one and then combine it with GUI. That would make it much better.

still getting the "invalid option" message :/

arminneman said:
still getting the "invalid option" message :/
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Please re-download from the original post. It should work fine. If not let me know.

Ok, its updated let me know if any problems occur.

ostar2 said:
Ok, its updated let me know if any problems occur.
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I try it on win 7 64bit, run as administrator BlobToolUI select u and blob the name of file and give this error:
Unable to open "b"
Can You help me?
Thanks
Riccardo.

cipolippo said:
I try it on win 7 64bit, run as administrator BlobToolUI select u and blob the name of file and give this error:
Unable to open "b"
Can You help me?
Thanks
Riccardo.
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Is the blob you want to unpack in the same directory? If that does not work try adding a "." the end of the file name.

ostar2 said:
Is the blob you want to unpack in the same directory? If that does not work try adding a "." the end of the file name.
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Yes is in the same directory, adding a "." the end of the file does not work..
work if I rename file "blob" in also "b" ?
Thanks.

[Q] How to extract build.prop from system.img

I have the stock rom for the Galaxy S6 Cricket variant... I am having trouble in getting the build.prop from the system.img. I have tired many methods from other threads but none seem to work. Any suggestions or working ways to extract the build.prop from the system.img or any way to open up the .img file.
I am doing this to post the rom in the ROM WIP section for the root.

gmx1994 said:
I have the stock rom for the Galaxy S6 Cricket variant... I am having trouble in getting the build.prop from the system.img. I have tired many methods from other threads but none seem to work. Any suggestions or working ways to extract the build.prop from the system.img or any way to open up the .img file.
I am doing this to post the rom in the ROM WIP section for the root.
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Try the tools in this thread . I used them last week to extract a build prop.
Just load up the system.IMG and drag the file from the system folder to your desktop.

gmx1994 said:
I have the stock rom for the Galaxy S6 Cricket variant... I am having trouble in getting the build.prop from the system.img. I have tired many methods from other threads but none seem to work. Any suggestions or working ways to extract the build.prop from the system.img or any way to open up the .img file.
I am doing this to post the rom in the ROM WIP section for the root.
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The tar file for Cricket has already been posted in the general section of ATT
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920AZ

daniel4653 said:
The tar file for Cricket has already been posted in the general section of ATT
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920AZ
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I already downloaded that file.... I just need to extract the build.prop from the system.img which I already have. The thing is I am having trouble getting the build.prop
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920AZ

gmx1994 said:
I have the stock rom for the Galaxy S6 Cricket variant... I am having trouble in getting the build.prop from the system.img. I have tired many methods from other threads but none seem to work. Any suggestions or working ways to extract the build.prop from the system.img or any way to open up the .img file.
I am doing this to post the rom in the ROM WIP section for the root.
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I got your PM. Sorry for the late reply. I'm posting here in case someone else needs the info.
Download Ext2explore.
Extract to your PC.
Run as administrator.
In app: go to file - open image - (find your system image) and open
It will display your image in tree and folder view
Use either one (depending on your preference) (but your build.prop will be in the first view as its in the root of the system).
Right click the file/s you want to extract
Select save
Save your file.......profit
Hope this helps

tiboric said:
I got your PM. Sorry for the late reply. I'm posting here in case someone else needs the info.
Download Ext2explore.
Extract to your PC.
Run as administrator.
In app: go to file - open image - (find your system image) and open
It will display your image in tree and folder view
Use either one (depending on your preference) (but your build.prop will be in the first view as its in the root of the system).
Right click the file/s you want to extract
Select save
Save your file.......profit
Hope this helps
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When I try to open the file the program just closes and i go to the log and this is what it says.
Error Opening \\.\PhysicalDrive1. Error Code 2
No of disks 1
Scanning \\.\PhysicalDrive0
index 0 ID 7 size 976769024
Partition Table Error on C:/Users/giovany/Desktop/New folder (2)/system.img
Invalid End of sector markerBad Super Block. The drive is not ext2 formatted.

Drive is not right formatted.

solution for img extraction/fix here

[REQUEST] OTA .182 update Zip

Hi!
I'd like to know where the OTAs are stored in our M2. Anyone that hasn't done yet the update download, and that has Root permissions, can use this app to find where they're stored, and if possible, upload it and post a link to it.
Thank you!

Do you still needed the file, sir ?

FunSucker said:
Do you still needed the file, sir ?
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Yep. It's for some research

I think, the app didn't work sir. After I wait 30 minutes, none of the files were copied to my storage. Then I try searching using manual method, I found one file, the file size is as large as my OTA update. The nama file is "update-package".
The file extension is not ".zip", in the folder recovery (internal storage). My estimate, the file extension .LZMA or .tar.LZMA or .zipx.
I've tried to extract and decompress in the PC (windows os) using some programs, but failed.
If you still need the file, I'll upload it now .

FunSucker said:
I think, the app didn't work sir. After I wait 30 minutes, none of the files were copied to my storage. Then I try searching using manual method, I found one file, the file size is as large as my OTA update. The nama file is "update-package".
The file extension is not ".zip", in the folder recovery (internal storage). My estimate, the file extension .LZMA or .tar.LZMA or .zipx.
I've tried to extract and decompress in the PC (windows os) using some programs, but failed.
If you still need the file, I'll upload it now .
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Yes please! Thanks

oke, sir. when finished i will share the link.

Oke sir, check this out --> Google Drive

FunSucker said:
Oke sir, check this out --> Google Drive
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Great, thank you very much!

Okay, so this is what I got:
The update zip refuses to be flashed in UBL devices. FOTAkernel system is broken after you open the bootloader, which leads us with an unused partition (but that's other thing). The recovery logs just say: WARN: Status Rooted, ERR: Bootloader is unlocked.
I've tried to force it using AOSP Recovery commands
Code:
echo 'boot-recovery' > /cache/recovery/command
echo '--update_package=/sdcard/update.zip' >> /cache/recovery/command
reboot recovery
But just got a big nope.
So, now time to have a look at it. I tried to unpack it several times but no luck. The reason seems to be, very probably, because this is a LZMA compressed file (as 7-Zip reported) but with 2 additions at the end (which corrupts the entire read of it): An unencrypted/uncompressed XML which points out which is the software available right now in the phone (<source>), and which is the version that is going to be installed (<target>), plus, some a weird <generation> section. This is the XML
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<metadata version="3.3">
<product>
<manufacturer>Sony</manufacturer>
<model>D2302</model>
<hwplatform>msm8226</hwplatform>
</product>
<update>
<generation>
<version>1.1.2</version>
<date>2015-12-28T12:10:19Z</date>
<rb_version>7.0.15.117</rb_version>
<rb_ua_version>7.0.15.117</rb_ua_version>
</generation>
<source>
<software>
<revision>18.6.A.0.175</revision>
</software>
<customization>
<variant>1281-0464</variant>
<revision>R2C</revision>
</customization>
</source>
<target>
<software>
<revision>18.6.A.0.182</revision>
</software>
<customization>
<variant>1281-0464</variant>
<revision>R2C</revision>
</customization>
</target>
</update>
</metadata>
And, right after that, I can perfectly see a SIN header, so I isolated it and, looks quite similar to the FOTAkernel.sin included in FTFs (330613072905Z010U S1_FOTA0 ‚
"0), I personally guess it's a very, very small ELF binary, by the size of it.
So, the problem now comes to isolate the 3 parts, the LZMA file, the XML and the SIN, separetly. After that, I think we can probably have a look insde them.

How about linux os? Can we unpack or decompress that file on linux os, sir? Do you have tried?

FunSucker said:
How about linux os? Can we unpack or decompress that file on linux os, sir? Do you have tried?
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I've tried many tools and combinations (ext4, .img, etc) and none of them worked... I'll think more about it.

[GUIDE] [HOW TO] Generate bin.md5 file

As title says everything, i was trying to find out how to generate bin.md5 file for ported ROM's files but not found anything on google even on XDA too
So finally i decided to start from me,i researched and guess what? i have successfully generated bin.md5 file for
ported ROM and flashed costume qualcomm ROM to my mobile
so Lets start guid...
Today i will show you how to generate bin.md5 file of multiple files in directory
yes, can be used for ported ROM's too ....
ok
download the sfk application
Here is file...
Password-
ONNTECHSOFT
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now move/copy that file to any good location
here is, i am using D drive and so,moved that file in new folder called tools
again i have moved to multi_download (because my ROM Files is located in multi_download folder )
ok
Now create new text fine any other location (f.e. desktop ) and type
all file name(which you want to generate for) with there extension's
for example- system.img system_1.img (don't forget to add "space" between files)
ok
now open CMD to locating that folder
by pressing shift button + mouse R click
Now in CMD, Enter
sfk
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press Enter
ok now type following
sfk md5gento=outfile
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after outfile past all that file names written in new text file
for example-
sfk md5gento=outfile system.img system_1.img
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and press enter
it will genrate md5 file
(file with name output will generated )
now rename output file to bin.md5 file
Thats it......
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