Hi,
I did a quick search of these forums for some answers to my questions, but I didn't find anything initially so apologies if I missed something...
I currently use a Samsung Galaxy S running on stock firmware, recently updated via Samsung Kies to 2.2.1 and subsequently rooted using v1.7 of the SuperOneClick tool downloaded from this forum. I've come across a website called samfirmware.com which has the Gingerbread incarnation of the Android firmware available for download for my handset (not sure how stable this is though , any thoughts?). I'm OK with flashing new firmware since I've already done this recently on a Samsung Galaxy Europa, so I have some knowledge on this topic.
I would like to test this on my Galaxy S with the aforementioned Gingerbread firmware, but I would like to be able to save some of my apps and their data beforehand. I know that the Froyo incarnation of Android has the so-called app2sd function, but I have a couple of questions about this implementation I would like to ask before I go ahead:
- When you save an app onto the SD card using the built-in function of Froyo does this also save any data that the app has stored since installation (e.g. bookmarks created with the Dolphin HD web browser, levels of Angry Birds completed)? If not how could I go about doing this?
- Hypothetically if I were to save Angry Birds (or any app for that matter) onto my SD card and re-flash the firmware on my Galaxy S, can I then pull Angry Birds (or whichever app I saved) from the SD card back onto the Galaxy S along with all the saved progress/data?
- Are there any other potential issues with this process I should know about, or anything else that I should use or read that might help?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Regards,
Jon.
as far as i know, what you want to do is not possible with froyo apps2sd.
but since your device is rooted, you can use TitaniumBackup (can be found in market)
Hi to all.
I've searched all the web. Readed the info from this forum (Especially how to cook with Android Kitchen, but no luck.
I have a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 on hands with a goal to make a custom rom with some preinstalled apps and a custom default background in it.
It should rely on original samsung ROM with no ROOT, and best if it had original recovery installed.
There is a local company, that has several devices on hand, wanting this rom, and an ability to reinstall it on their tablets with as few clicks as it is possible without needing to reinstall those crucial apps again.
I tried to cook with original rom with no luck at all (also tried CWM recovery with error Status 0)
Tried to make custom rom based on CM 10.1, added Skype.apk in system/app (Don't know how to delete ROOT from there:crying And after start, Skype was in autoload ang crashing constantly. So no Luck.
If someone has some skills, could help me. It would be much appreciated.
Hey Guys!
I tried to put the whole Question in the Title, but now the long form:
As you may imagine, i got a MTK-Based Phone. An Octacore to be precise (Elephone P8). Now there isnt much development going on, so i thought of jumping on the Developement-Train, and begin with something easier.
I thought of bringing a few fixed apk's and workarounds for known Problems into the standard rom.
My Question is:
So i have now a rar, which i have to extract, Open in Flashtool, load the Scatterfile and im ready to flash my Phone. Fine with that, but in the rar are only img-files i cant edit.
(i found a ext4-edit-tool for img-files here on xda, but its not functioning at all.)
But there is a P8update.zip on needrom, someone was keen enough to convert the rar-image into a zip-image, which is flashable through recovery, and the best is: i can just open the zip, and i can edit everything i want!
But how did he do it?
The Rom is JB, and i have KitKat installed and i want to edit a KitKat-Rom.
So how can i convert the rar-kind of rom to the easy editable zip-kind of rom?
Or am i understanding this completely wrong?
Thanks in Advance for any kind Tip youre sure going to give
Greetings from Berlin,
a clueless guy.
Hello there are rom custom for my sm-g350 pls ?
Izuna30 said:
Hello there are rom custom for my sm-g350 pls ?
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1st this is i8260/i8262 section not sm g350
2nd this is dev section not Q&A
ngoralph said:
1st this is i8260/i8262 section not sm g350
2nd this is dev section not Q&A
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Pretty sure this is q&a
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frost245 said:
Pretty sure this is q&a
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afaik it was moved as i have reported it
Gotta get this working!
Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum, although I have spend a big amount of time here (before registering), reading through posts about customizing ROMs, etc.
First things first:
- I have a Samsung Galaxy Core Plus G350 (or G3500 whatever suites you), and I would like to customize it's stock ROM, no rooting involved. I did manage to customize, or I should say minimize, my stock ROM for my Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (S7710), rooted it, changed lot's of things, just to get rid off unwanted apps, services and maximize performance. And that worked out pretty well .
Being I'm a guy who likes things to be neat (I'll get to that in a sec ), and pretty much as close to factory build as it can be, I'm not trying to do anything flashy with my G350, just want to remove stupid apps and that's it.
When I said neat, I meant Odin flashing ROM neat. I prefer it to CWM Rom installing technique (although this is clean as well, one would have to have a memory card, memory card reader (or working USB drivers if one has to transfer files directly to the phone), CWM Recovery Firmware (no support for G350), and compatible Custom ROM...you get the picture, not much of a trouble, but a hassle if some of the components are missing....Odin flashing... clean and easy, anyone can use it.
My problem is:
After completing all modification, my system.img file appears with a lock, when I compile it. I'm not sure about the memory allocation, I did calculated it correctly ( i hope ) but that shouldn't be a problem, my main problem is the stupid lock on system.img file icon, before I compress everything to tar and checksum it. Ofc the flashing fails and my best guess its because of that lock in the icon, and Odin stops on system.img file. Does anyone know why is this happening, I didn't have any issues with Xcover's ROM packing, every time I finish with the modification in Xcover system.img file, unmount the file, and everything is fine. Even the flashing part.
I'm packing everything in Ubuntu 14.04 ...I am familiar with linux base systems but I ain't a wiz and flashing in Win 7.
Does anyone know the solution to this, I'm doing something wrong for sure, or I'm overlooking something, any help is very welcome.
Sorry for this extensive text and bad English (not my native language), I figured someone would appreciate some info.
Best regards.
AlexInHell said:
Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum, although I have spend a big amount of time here (before registering), reading through posts about customizing ROMs, etc.
First things first:
- I have a Samsung Galaxy Core Plus G350 (or G3500 whatever suites you), and I would like to customize it's stock ROM, no rooting involved. I did manage to customize, or I should say minimize, my stock ROM for my Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (S7710), rooted it, changed lot's of things, just to get rid off unwanted apps, services and maximize performance. And that worked out pretty well .
Being I'm a guy who likes things to be neat (I'll get to that in a sec ), and pretty much as close to factory build as it can be, I'm not trying to do anything flashy with my G350, just want to remove stupid apps and that's it.
When I said neat, I meant Odin flashing ROM neat. I prefer it to CWM Rom installing technique (although this is clean as well, one would have to have a memory card, memory card reader (or working USB drivers if one has to transfer files directly to the phone), CWM Recovery Firmware (no support for G350), and compatible Custom ROM...you get the picture, not much of a trouble, but a hassle if some of the components are missing....Odin flashing... clean and easy, anyone can use it.
My problem is:
After completing all modification, my system.img file appears with a lock, when I compile it. I'm not sure about the memory allocation, I did calculated it correctly ( i hope ) but that shouldn't be a problem, my main problem is the stupid lock on system.img file icon, before I compress everything to tar and checksum it. Ofc the flashing fails and my best guess its because of that lock in the icon, and Odin stops on system.img file. Does anyone know why is this happening, I didn't have any issues with Xcover's ROM packing, every time I finish with the modification in Xcover system.img file, unmount the file, and everything is fine. Even the flashing part.
I'm packing everything in Ubuntu 14.04 ...I am familiar with linux base systems but I ain't a wiz and flashing in Win 7.
Does anyone know the solution to this, I'm doing something wrong for sure, or I'm overlooking something, any help is very welcome.
Sorry for this extensive text and bad English (not my native language), I figured someone would appreciate some info.
Best regards.
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As far as I know, the lock shows, that you don't have the write permission on this file
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If this is the wrong place for this post notify me which thread to go to and I will move it my self no worries.
So is there anyone out there who knows how to reverse engineer closed source android files? Example; Bootloader? I want to remove knox from bootloader and open up the bootloader completely. I want to be able to play pokemon go no matter what kind of block they send out. Current update they block all root users. Not everyone is a cheater which is ridiculous to block us all.
I need to make a custom rom and would love to start by learning how to hack the bootloader and remove Knox completely. This is for lollipop 5.1.1 on the Grand Prime SM-G530T1 if I had my own pc at the time id try to look it up and learn it. Would really appreciate any given help. There is a handful of us who want a working rooted rom for this device and options arent supported so if I can get access to all the source files and make them all open then I can look into making a custom rom that wont be corrupted. Goal here is to use the stock files. Build from stock keep it simple. Remove some thing add others.
Make it strictly a rom for playing games with root access hidden. Once I learn how to hack all the files I will start doing it for other phones and help others as well.
So can anyone help or give me and answer as to how to do this.