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[HowTo] Easily deodex (System-)Apps and extract StockFirmwares

Hey guys,
for all Dev´s and maybe for user that want to deodex new Firmwares. Here´s my guide how to easily deodex (system-)apps on windows. You don´t need your phone!
Our Situation: A new firmware is released, nobody uploaded the deodexed apps but you want them. So you need:
Step one, Download:
xUltimate
Magic ISO Maker
The Firmware you want to deodex from here
You can find more Information about xUltimate and his author at
http://www.xeudoxus.com/android/xUltimate-v2.3.3.zip
I´m using latest Gingerbread 2.3.5 Stock Firmware KNP in this tutorial, but you can use any other one you want.
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Step two, extract all files you need
Extract the xxxKP*.zip or .rar (PW: samfirmware.com)
If this file is a one-package you will only finde one file there (like I9003SERKPN_HOME.tar.md5). In this case, extract this one with 7zip or Winrar - else skip this step
You should now have files like "boot.bin", "chache.rfs", "normalboot.img"... in your folder
Now Extrace xUltimate.zip
Open Magic ISO Maker
(When you run it, you will be asked if you want to buy full program-version, press "Try it"
It should now look like this:
Now klick on "File"->"Open"-> Select all files -> Double click on the system.rfs in your Firmware Folder
All this files and folders you now see are later on your device under /system
Remember your xUltimate folder. Drag and drop all files in the opened Magic ISO Maker from /system/app to xUltimate folder origi_app
Drag and drop all files in the opened Magic ISO Maker from /system/framework to xUltimate filder origi_frame
Close Magic ISO Maker
Go on with the second post...

Run Main Skip.bat
Type "4" and press enter
All your Framework apps will be now deodexed
Run Script again and type "3" and press enter
All System apps will now be deodexed
All the deodexed Apps are now located in the folders done_app and done_frame. Finished! If you don´t now how to push the files to your system i can create a tutorial for this in third post. If something goes wrong post in this thread and i will help you

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I know deodexing but really thanx for telling to us how to extract system.rfs file. It will help me alot.

OK!
i deodex all apps... but how create a file.zip and install with CWM???

jZanetti said:
OK!
i deodex all apps... but how create a file.zip and install with CWM???
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u can copy all the files on ur sdcard and move them to ur system folder with rootexplorer..
or else u can use adb
-SiMmER

i create a backup nandroid and install with cwm from restore???

jZanetti said:
i create a backup nandroid and install with cwm from restore???
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If you want to restore your nandroid backup in CWM you select in CWM restore, yes ^^

simmer14 said:
u can copy all the files on ur sdcard and move them to ur system folder with rootexplorer..
or else u can use adb
-SiMmER
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no memory full...

No one is mentioning the fact that u need to delete the *.odex from /system/app and /system/framework too.
and why do we need another thread when we have one from kkrraazzyy.
Link

need your third post
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vishal24387 said:
I know deodexing but really thanx for telling to us how to extract system.rfs file. It will help me alot.
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Use MagicISO to open system.rfs and then you can extract the files within it.

I have create a file To restore with nandrod, but in cwm dont see... i can't install this... why??

your third post is wanted

This method didn't work for me magic iso fail to open system.rfs file saying it's not a image file
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Start MagicISO
File
Open
In the File select window,
select all files and then find system.rfs
it will load the data.

Thank you the guide is very neatly explained just add what Ganesh said in first post (deleting odex files)

Starting AccountAndSyncSettings.odex
*****************************************
* Deodexing... *
UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:
org.jf.dexlib.Util.ExceptionWithContext: regCount does not match the number of a
rguments of the method
at org.jf.dexlib.Util.ExceptionWithContext.withContext(ExceptionWithCont
ext.java:54)
at org.jf.dexlib.Code.InstructionIterator.IterateInstructions(Instructio
nIterator.java:92)
at org.jf.dexlib.CodeItem.readItem(CodeItem.java:154)
at org.jf.dexlib.Item.readFrom(Item.java:76)
at org.jf.dexlib.OffsettedSection.readItems(OffsettedSection.java:48)
at org.jf.dexlib.Section.readFrom(Section.java:143)
at org.jf.dexlib.DexFile.<init>(DexFile.java:431)
at org.jf.baksmali.main.main(main.java:265)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: regCount does not match the number of arg
uments of the method
at org.jf.dexlib.Code.Format.Instruction3rc.checkItem(Instruction3rc.jav
a:129)
at org.jf.dexlib.Code.Format.Instruction3rc.<init>(Instruction3rc.java:7
9)
at org.jf.dexlib.Code.Format.Instruction3rc.<init>(Instruction3rc.java:4
4)
at org.jf.dexlib.Code.Format.Instruction3rc$Factory.makeInstruction(Inst
ruction3rc.java:145)
at org.jf.dexlib.Code.InstructionIterator.IterateInstructions(Instructio
nIterator.java:84)
... 6 more
Error occured at code address 8
code_item @0x256c
Press any key to continue . . .
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Got this error while deodexing I have downloaded I9000 2.3.6 firmware from sammobile

dsixda's Android Kitchen http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246

PG88IMG Splash screens

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jmcclue said:
Hi i made a few splash screens for HTC Desire S... S-OFF phones. Just download the PG88IMG.zip that you want, rename it to just "PG88IMG.zip" put it on your sdcard (NOT in a folder) and boot in to bootloader, bootloader will find the PG88IMG and ask to update splash? press volume up for yes then press power to reboot.
Dont forget to delete it off your sdcard once your done coz everytime you enter bootloader, it will ask to update.
I only made a few simple ones so if anyone has any ideas n wants a splash screen then post your pic here and il make it.
4ext1------------------------------------ 4ext2 -------------------------------- aokp- ---------------------------------monster -------------------------------------ics
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EYE------------------------------------cyanogenmod2-----------------------------cyanogenmod-------------------aokp
MD5 - PG88IMG-4ext1 - 491ee14fb0096126c5780fe8d5735cf1
MD5 - PG88IMG-4ext2 - dd92ac65d4c297c5b776a9830dbc5f0d
MD5 - PG88IMG-aokp - e39cf5c0e6a3528083fc946ba18e946c
MD5 - PG88IMG-ICS - a90dedf87971fe9917480981e2e538e0
MD5 - PG88IMG-monster - 43e53d2610d8d8c4901c482361230bb7
MD5 - PG88IMG-EYE - b2d7ba9159692ff7b7b1e61d2a30fe85
MD5 - PG88IMG-cyanogenmod - e401381227f7238c456c93d766c8a79f
MD5 - PG88IMG-cyanogenmod2 - 1cff7a0d3973d24e01c581166e1894b3
MD5 - PG88IMG-AOKP2 - 23ba1ec1190fce03ccdea8405c0e41c5
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After I flashed one of those I got a bootloop. Now my recovery can't mount anything. Any ideas?

VnnAmed said:
After I flashed one of those I got a bootloop. Now my recovery can't mount anything. Any ideas?
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Dunno bud. I tried all of them without issues and i just dowloaded one, renamed it and placed on my sdcard, booted into bootloader and it flashed fine, booted recovery, wiped cache then rebooted recovery and still no problem with mounting anything. Problem is at ur end...
Extract the file and put the .img file in ur fastboot folder and flash it from fastboot, its the best way anyway.
Command (i think) is
fastboot flash splash1 splash.img

jmcclue said:
Dunno bud. I tried all of them without issues and i just dowloaded one, renamed it and placed on my sdcard, booted into bootloader and it flashed fine, booted recovery, wiped cache then rebooted recovery and still no problem with mounting anything. Problem is at ur end...
Extract the file and put the .img file in ur fastboot folder and flash it from fastboot, its the best way anyway.
Command (i think) is
fastboot flash splash1 splash.img
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Weird, it rendered my phone useless propably screwing partition table, had to change HBOOT to 9.8 then install RUU. I will gain S-off again and try that later though. Yesterday I was desperate and angry but looking back, much experience gained. BTW do you know some way to repartition nand (am I asking about right thing?)?

I dunno. Sorry that they didnt work for you and u had to go through the whole ruu crap, il remove them and close the thread, 1 person having a problem is one too many. They work fine for me but, hey, every phone is different.

VnnAmed said:
Weird, it rendered my phone useless propably screwing partition table, had to change HBOOT to 9.8 then install RUU. I will gain S-off again and try that later though. Yesterday I was desperate and angry but looking back, much experience gained. BTW do you know some way to repartition nand (am I asking about right thing?)?
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What recovery do u use?

jmcclue said:
What recovery do u use?
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TWRP

[HOWTO] NEWB GUIDE w/pics TO CHECK MD5

For Newbs On Howto Check If They Have A Good Download By Checking The Md5 Checksum For A File.
Before Installing/flashing Files To Your Phone Its Good Practice To Check A Files Intergity After A Download Or Better Yet On Your Sdcard After Copying It From Your Computer.
For Now This Guide Is Using Your Computer To Check The Files Integrity But Later I'll Add A Howto By Using The Phone, But No Eta On That As This Method Will Check The Files Intergity While On Your Sdcard.
The Example Im Using Is twrp 2.6.0.0 Tar file From Devhost.
Devhost Posts The Md5 Checksum For All Downloads.
If Theres Is A Sha-1 Checksum(usually Used For Very Large Files) Use That Also If Site Provides It, Devhost Does Not.
On Your Computer Download And Open The md5/sha-1 Utility, It Will Look Like Pic Below.
Click On Browse And Locate The File You Want To Check.
I Highly Recommend That You Copy The File(file Being The One You Want To Check With The Md5 Utility) To Your Phones Sdcard(s) And Browse To That Scdard With The Md5 Utilty, Although On Bigger Files It Might Take Longer To Hash Out The Checksums Because Its On The Sdcard.
The Utility Will Then Spit Out A Md5 And Sha-1 Checksum Number.
You Cannot Repair A File W/a Bad Md5 And/or Sha-1 Checksum.
If It Fails The Md5 Checksum Redownload The File And Test The Md5 Again.
Still Failed, Try Another Browser And/or Theres A Problem With The Server, Try Again Later.
Still Failed, Check The Md5 On The Computer First If Its Good Then Copy It To Your Internal And External Sdcard And Test The Md5 On The Cards And If It Fails On Either Sdcard Then Maybe One Of Your Card Is Going Bad, Copy Its Contents To Your Computer And Format(Fat32) The Card And Try The Procedure Again.
Use The Card That Had A Md5 Match.
If The Md5 Fails On Both Sdards Then It Could Be A Bad Cable And/or Port, Very Unlikely That Both Cards Are Bad But Copy Their Contents To Your Computer And Format(Fat32) Them And Try The Procedure Again.
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TWRP 2.6.0.0 TAR FILE FROM DEVHOST.
UPPER/LOWER CASE DOES NOT MATTER
AS YOU CAN SEE THE MD5 CHECKSUM WAS A MATCH.
NOW YOU CAN PROCEED TO FLASH THE FILE

and what to do if they dont match ? also if i cant get the md5 when down loadin ? when i load a rom it show its md5 can i copy then hit paste on the right ? will this fix the (rom) md5 cksum to be used ?

mrdead72 said:
and what to do if they dont match ? also if i cant get the md5 when down loadin ? when i load a rom it show its md5 can i copy then hit paste on the right ? will this fix the (rom) md5 cksum to be used ?
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If the md5 didn't match re-download it. And no you can't fix it

i never thought of explaining about a failed md5 checksum test as i thought it would be obvious as what todo about it, i edited the op w/more info if the md5 did fail

thanks guys just find it weird i cant flash a couple of roms one even has the correct md5 but im still working on it. thanks i never really understood the md5 thing. on another note if the rom comes with a md5 file do i add it to the sdcard ? could this be the reason it wont flash this is on one rom not the case on another one im trying.

mrdead72 said:
thanks guys just find it weird i cant flash a couple of roms one even has the correct md5 but im still working on it. thanks i never really understood the md5 thing. on another note if the rom comes with a md5 file do i add it to the sdcard ? could this be the reason it wont flash this is on one rom not the case on another one im trying.
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No
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Applications that are really useful for noobs. Thanks dev. :good:
Sorry I've run out of quota thanks button, currently. Once again I apologize. :angel:

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Thank you very much for sharing

Thanks for sharing. But I can not see any system img files via 7zip without previously repaired. May I use repaired system img files?

You must be doing something wrong. I've tried WWE and Orange PL and both extract without repairing.
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Thanks for sharing.

thank u!

Thanx mate later that day ill extraxt System dump an share it with you guys.

Thanks for the DiskInternals thingy
Since i never needed to extract a System.img I never looked for a method but I will remember this. Seems fairly straightforward.
And thanks for the creds.

I will try this one.
Btw, i made a backup with twrp. Ia there any way to get the backed up system.emmc.win file extracted? Renaming it to .tar doesn't work.
What I try to achive is an extracted ROM so I can deodex the apks

DroidShift79 said:
I will try this one.
Btw, i made a backup with twrp. Ia there any way to get the backed up system.emmc.win file extracted? Renaming it to .tar doesn't work.
What I try to achive is an extracted ROM so I can deodex the apks
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add .tar to the end of each image and under Linux or cygwin use tar -xvf xxxx.tar

Hmm... Hoped there's anything for win 8.1
...setting up cygwin
Edit: @LeeDroid
Nothing happens when doing the command in the cygwin window...

Worked like a charm
I did have to edit the ConvertHima.bat and remove the line set wf=%cd%\ for it to work
but everything else was spot on .. thanks!!
Anyone need the 0PJAIMG_HIMA_UL_L50_SENSE70_ATT_NA_Gen_Unlock_1.32.617.6_R2_Radio_01.01_U11440221_59.04.50303G_2_F_release_426167_signed.zip
System.img or Dump

Worked great I think. I did get an error, and I received this error 4 times for sparse.img, 2,4,6,8. Here is the error: - "1 [main] sparse2img 7912 find_fast_cwd:". It also says "WARNING Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list [email protected]". I wrote cygwin, and got a reply from a Marco stating, "Dear Hal, Same answer as given last month to another guy". Then gave me this link https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-05/msg00318.html. Followed by, "Please report the solution to whom provided the ConvertHima.bat". The answer in the link basically says a utility called rsync is being used, and the person who provided it is bundling it with an old version of the cygwin kernel. I did however get a new system_hima.img, and I started ConvertHima.bat. After completion I have what appears to be a complete system image. It's 3.53Gb in size, and has the folders - app, bin customize, etc, fonts, framework, lib, lib64, lost+found, media, priv-app, tts, usr, vendor, xbin, and has the file build.prop. It appears to have all the Deodexed APK's in app and priv-app. This is from the T-Mobile RUU. I'm using Window 8.1.

I'm trying to create a system dump (1.40.708.9)but was stuck at step 2. Where can I download my ROM.zip?

xunus said:
I'm trying to create a system dump (1.40.708.9)but was stuck at step 2. Where can I download my ROM.zip?
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i think you misunderstand what this is for

flex360 said:
i think you misunderstand what this is for
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That could be true. Seems like this is to extract M9's rom from an RUU and not from the phone itself.

Mr_Bartek said:
You must be doing something wrong. I've tried WWE and Orange PL and both extract without repairing.
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Can you send me the file system.img_01 ?

htsang08dqt said:
Can you send me the file system.img_01 ?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/one-a9/development/decrypt-ruu-ruu-decryption-script-htc-t3282562

Is there a Linux version of the sparse2img.exe? I am in need of this because I don't have the system.img but I have the system.img_xx chunks from the RUU ZIP.

TWRP extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255

Hello people
Today I flashed the Xiaomi EU android 11 to check it out and saw some bugs and wanted to downgrade to android 10.
I flashed the stock rom as I was downgrading and installed TWRP, Fully wiped the phone and wanted to restore my backup, but it says " extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255 " when restoring the data. Needless to say, I had to type my password when I booted to recovery and I had Fingerprint and Pincode enabled when I was backing up. now I checked the recovery log and the error is
Code:
==> extracting: //data/misc/recovery/ (mode 40770, directory)
tar_extract_file(): failed to extract //data/misc/recovery/ !!!
When I browse that Directory there is some files named Fingerprint so looks like this is making some issues.
Could someone please help me out how I am able to delete this directory and try restoring my Data ?
I have tried any way of wiping and installing stock rom but still I get this error.

Looks a recovery error. Is the back up made with different recovery? Looks like it cannot find or extract it from the back up. Can you get back to where you were when you made the back up and restore from there?
If not, looks like a format and start again.

Sathelp said:
Looks a recovery error. Is the back up made with different recovery? Looks like it cannot find or extract it from the back up. Can you get back to where you were when you made the back up and restore from there?
If not, looks like a format and start again.
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Yeah it is from the same recovery.
It is a common error when you google it. but the fix they have mentioned does not work for me. It is like I should somehow delete that folder or files causing the issue from the backup and restore it.
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You'll need to mount it on a pc, extract the folder and compress it again or delete it from the archive and save. I would make a copy first though.

Sathelp said:
You'll need to mount it on a pc, extract the folder and compress it again or delete it from the archive and save. I would make a copy first though.
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ok I am able to extract it with WinRar. but how should I compress so the TWRP will not face issues? on Winrar I have RAR,RAR4 and ZIP that I think will not work.

Use 7 zip.
To create a tar file, you can highlight the files you'd like to archive, right-click, and go to 7-Zip > Add to archive. In the 'Add to Archive' menu, just select 'tar' as your archive format and click OK.

Did you get it fixed?

Sathelp said:
Did you get it fixed?
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No, it didnt work. When i extracted the file using 7zip I got errors for everyfile. I think the issue is with the pincode and the data being encrypted. So next time I should remove the lockscreen and backup my data.
Goos thing I had backed up on Google Account.

Thanks for letting us know but good luck my friend

im having the same error in my realme xt... I have a twrp backup of system image vendor image data boot recovery persist but im unable to recover because it shows an error extract tar fork process ended up with error 255{i too have locked the phone with pincode during backup} ....i also have a backup of my internal storage in twrp but im not able to restore because of this error.... kindly help me

Some of the TWRP we use on Mi 10 ultra, dont able to decrypt data using Fingerprint or pin, you need to use pattern, this is a TWRP bug.

What a bull**** bug. There should be warnings about this at least when people go to create a backup.