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[Solved] mmcblk* partitions

Where can I get a complete list of what each partition is? There's a list for the HTC Amaze at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1545911 but that list isn't correct for the Desire S.
I've worked out the following, but would like a complete list:
mmcblk0p17 misc_version
mmcblk0p18 hboot
mmcblk0p22 boot
mmcblk0p25 system
mmcblk0p26 data
mmcblk0p27 cache
mmcblk0p28 devlog
The command “cat /proc/partitions" lists all partitions, but not their name/function.
Sent from my Desire S

you can try to use command “cat /proc/emmc”

Here are my findings if you stil need the info:
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mmcblk0p1 qcsbl_cfg part of radio.img
mmcblk0p2 qcsbl <empty>
mmcblk0p3 osbl part of radio.img
mmcblk0p4 extended part of radio.img elf-header of rex/amss
--------- --------- -------
mmcblk0p5 modem part of radio.img
mmcblk0p6 adsp part of radio.img
mmcblk0p7 htc rcdata.img Radio settings (IMEI,CID,S-OFF)
mmcblk0p8 rf_nv <empty>
mmcblk0p9 nv_mfg <empty>
mmcblk0p10 cdma_user_data <empty>
mmcblk0p11 rf_delta <empty>
mmcblk0p12 reserved <empty>
mmcblk0p13 modem_fs1
mmcblk0p14 modem_fs2
mmcblk0p15 htc_data <empty>
mmcblk0p16 htc_reserved <empty>
mmcblk0p17 misc device info
mmcblk0p18 appsbl hboot
mmcblk0p19 splash1
mmcblk0p20 wifi WiFi module
mmcblk0p21 recovery
mmcblk0p22 boot kernel & ramdisk
mmcblk0p23 mfg device config ?, contains WiFi MAC-address and Serial number
mmcblk0p24 splash2 <empty>
mmcblk0p25 system
mmcblk0p26 data userdata
mmcblk0p27 cache
mmcblk0p28 devlog
This is 0.98.x partition layout, on 2.00.x it has more partitions, but I believe that the first 27 are the same

Brilliant! Thanks.
Would you mind sharing how you found out all of this?
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How can you get this info? I need it ,Thanks.

BillGoss said:
Brilliant! Thanks.
Would you mind sharing how you found out all of this?
Sent from my HTC Desire S
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A lot of searching through the Net, dumping partitions, hex analyzing, comparing to rom.zip images...
EDIT: some of the names are pure guess, such as mfg, but the content is 100 % verified. The names can be verified checking the hboot string if somebody is interested...

Thanks!
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Need this for gt-i8150
amidabuddha said:
A lot of searching through the Net, dumping partitions, hex analyzing, comparing to rom.zip images...
EDIT: some of the names are pure guess, such as mfg, but the content is 100 % verified. The names can be verified checking the hboot string if somebody is interested...
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Hey, I really need this for my model of phone (try to get a network unlock code from phone), but I'm really noob at hacking at using linux. What command would allow me to check the 'hboot' string of a given mmcblkXpXX file?
Thanks heaps,
Foxy

GrayedFox said:
Hey, I really need this for my model of phone (try to get a network unlock code from phone), but I'm really noob at hacking at using linux. What command would allow me to check the 'hboot' string of a given mmcblkXpXX file?
Thanks heaps,
Foxy
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You have to dump the partition to the SD card via the dd command (you can use terminal emulator on your device) then copy the image to PC, open it with some HEX editor and look through the file
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DD onto Mac
amidabuddha said:
You have to dump the partition to the SD card via the dd command (you can use terminal emulator on your device) then copy the image to PC, open it with some HEX editor and look through the file
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Thanks. I've been using the strings command and piping to egrep for binary files, pulling only lines that have at least one 8 digit number present.I don't have very large SD cards on my phone - is there any way I could data dump directly to my mac, or alternatively (this would be much faster too) get my mac to do the work? Like... somehow open a terminal on the mac that had super user and root access to the phone?
Again, sorry for being a noob. I've been googling the above problem :S
EDIT: never mind. Downloading ADK now and will use ADB... pretty sure that will do it.

32 Gb PIT file

I am in need of the PIT file for a SCH-I535 32Gb version.
Anyone willing/able to rip one for me? My 32Gb phone got JTAG'd back to life but using files from a 16Gb version, so it's kinda confused as to how much internal storage it has. I'm hoping I can flash the PIT from a 32Gb phone, then do a reinstall of the ROM and it'll recognize all of my available storage....
Thanks for your help!
-Andy
EDIT:
Problem solved: See post#57

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letinsh said:
I am in need of the PIT file for a SCH-I535 32Gb version.
Anyone willing/able to rip one for me? My 32Gb phone got JTAG'd back to life but using files from a 16Gb version, so it's kinda confused as to how much internal storage it has. I'm hoping I can flash the PIT from a 32Gb phone, then do a reinstall of the ROM and it'll recognize all of my available storage....
Thanks for your help!
-Andy
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do you have a pit from the 16 gb version

man that would be great if somebody would post a pitfile for both versions...I know that would help a few folks that corrupted thier emmc internal memory and get the "e cant mount" errors in recovery.

I am game ... how would I extract the PIT file?
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Standby. Getting confirmation, then I'll post instructions.
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il gladly dump my 32gb blue if there's instructions.

here is some info from the i9300 forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742668

What I'm trying to get confirmation on is using darkyy's dd command from the first post in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960946
Just trying to verify that's the correct place to get it for the SGS3 and that that would produce a flashable .pit file.
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please post as soon as you get the ok because i think then we would also be able to use heimdall but i might be wrong.

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aight, darkyy's method won't work as /dev/mount/bml2 (or any of the bml's) doesn't exist on the GS3. I think I posted without knowing enough info.
I don't know where the PIT file's located on the GS3, and whether it's a function of the phone or the OS (ie ICS vs Gingerbread). I didn't have time over the weekend to look into it, too much. Going to look on that i9300 thread posted and also try to learn a little about Heimdall, as I've only ever used Odin.
To sum up:
Goal is to have a .pit file for SCH-I535 for both the 16Gb and 32Gb versions.
Needed:
I don't know enough about Android/SGS3 to know where the .pit is located. Once that's determined, we'll figure out how to extract it and make a functional flash.
Sorry for the false start, still learning here.

letinsh said:
aight, darkyy's method won't work as /dev/mount/bml2 (or any of the bml's) doesn't exist on the GS3. I think I posted without knowing enough info.
I don't know where the PIT file's located on the GS3, and whether it's a function of the phone or the OS (ie ICS vs Gingerbread). I didn't have time over the weekend to look into it, too much. Going to look on that i9300 thread posted and also try to learn a little about Heimdall, as I've only ever used Odin.
To sum up:
Goal is to have a .pit file for SCH-I535 for both the 16Gb and 32Gb versions.
Needed:
I don't know enough about Android/SGS3 to know where the .pit is located. Once that's determined, we'll figure out how to extract it and make a functional flash.
Sorry for the false start, still learning here.[/QUOTE\]
Maybe try the code won't work is you have to use with yaffs2 in the middle or somewhere, i know that the phone runs off of that but that's pretty much all i say since i don't know much.
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joka10 said:
Maybe try the code won't work is you have to use with yaffs2 in the middle or somewhere, i know that the phone runs off of that but that's pretty much all i say since i don't know much.
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What I was saying is that /dev/block/bml2 doesn't exist in our file structure on this phone.
Code:
C:\Users\my_computer>adb shell
~ # cd /dev/block
cd /dev/block
/dev/block # ls
ls
loop0 mmcblk0boot0 mmcblk0p16 mmcblk0p3 platform ram2
loop1 mmcblk0boot1 mmcblk0p17 mmcblk0p4 ram0 ram3
loop2 mmcblk0p1 mmcblk0p18 mmcblk0p5 ram1 ram4
loop3 mmcblk0p10 mmcblk0p19 mmcblk0p6 ram10 ram5
loop4 mmcblk0p11 mmcblk0p2 mmcblk0p7 ram11 ram6
loop5 mmcblk0p12 mmcblk0p20 mmcblk0p8 ram12 ram7
loop6 mmcblk0p13 mmcblk0p21 mmcblk0p9 ram13 ram8
loop7 mmcblk0p14 mmcblk0p22 mmcblk1 ram14 ram9
mmcblk0 mmcblk0p15 mmcblk0p23 mmcblk1p1 ram15
/dev/block #
As you can see, no bml's of any kind.
I don't know if that's because darkyy was messing with a GB version of Android, or because the phone (Samsung) has put the PIT file in a different location. I've got a PM out to Odia from that I9300 thread and he should have some helpful info as to where it's stored and how to get it.
Stay tuned.

letinsh said:
What I was saying is that /dev/block/bml2 doesn't exist in our file structure on this phone.
Code:
C:\Users\my_computer>adb shell
~ # cd /dev/block
cd /dev/block
/dev/block # ls
ls
loop0 mmcblk0boot0 mmcblk0p16 mmcblk0p3 platform ram2
loop1 mmcblk0boot1 mmcblk0p17 mmcblk0p4 ram0 ram3
loop2 mmcblk0p1 mmcblk0p18 mmcblk0p5 ram1 ram4
loop3 mmcblk0p10 mmcblk0p19 mmcblk0p6 ram10 ram5
loop4 mmcblk0p11 mmcblk0p2 mmcblk0p7 ram11 ram6
loop5 mmcblk0p12 mmcblk0p20 mmcblk0p8 ram12 ram7
loop6 mmcblk0p13 mmcblk0p21 mmcblk0p9 ram13 ram8
loop7 mmcblk0p14 mmcblk0p22 mmcblk1 ram14 ram9
mmcblk0 mmcblk0p15 mmcblk0p23 mmcblk1p1 ram15
/dev/block #
As you can see, no bml's of any kind.
I don't know if that's because darkyy was messing with a GB version of Android, or because the phone (Samsung) has put the PIT file in a different location. I've got a PM out to Odia from that I9300 thread and he should have some helpful info as to where it's stored and how to get it.
Stay tuned.
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Yea your right it's because he's using a exynos processor instead of the one we have, have you tried replacing the command with those listed above. I know from the odin thread it can't be mmcblk0p1, mmcblk0p15, mmcblk0p18,mmcblk0p14, mmcblk0p12, mmcblk0p13, mmcblk0p17, nor mmcblk0p7.

joka10 said:
Yea your right it's because he's using a exynos processor instead of the one we have, have you tried replacing the command with those listed above. I know from the odin thread it can't be mmcblk0p1, mmcblk0p15, mmcblk0p18,mmcblk0p14, mmcblk0p12, mmcblk0p13, mmcblk0p17, nor mmcblk0p7.
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Here's the partition table as seen when using the "parted print" command on a properly formatted VZW SGS3 32Gb:
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Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 31268536320B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 4194304B 67108863B 62914560B modem
2 67108864B 67239935B 131072B sbl1
3 67239936B 67502079B 262144B sbl2
4 67502080B 68026367B 524288B sbl3
5 68026368B 70123519B 2097152B aboot
6 70123520B 70647807B 524288B rpm
7 70647808B 81133567B 10485760B boot
8 81133568B 81657855B 524288B tz
9 81657856B 82182143B 524288B pad
10 82182144B 92667903B 10485760B param
11 92667904B 106954751B 14286848B ext4 efs
12 106954752B 110100479B 3145728B modemst1
13 110100480B 113246207B 3145728B modemst2
14 113246208B 1686110207B 1572864000B ext4 system
15 1686110208B 30337400831B 28651290624B ext4 userdata
16 30337400832B 30345789439B 8388608B ext4 persist
17 30345789440B 31226593279B 880803840B ext4 cache
18 31226593280B 31237079039B 10485760B recovery
19 31237079040B 31247564799B 10485760B fota
20 31247564800B 31253856255B 6291456B backup
21 31253856256B 31257001983B 3145728B fsg
22 31257001984B 31257010175B 8192B ssd
23 31257010176B 31262253055B 5242880B grow
So, from this, we know it's not any of the mmcblk0p1 through mmcblk0p23 partitions.
If you notice, partition 1 starts 4Mb into storage. I think the PIT is located somewhere in the first 4Mb, but I don't know what memory addresses/file to look under to grab it.... is it in one of the other locations listed above under /dev/block ? Is it in /dev/block/mmcblk0/ ? I just don't know....
After looking at Heimdall, the tool has an option to rip the PIT, but I haven't been able to get it to recognize my SGS3. I've tried both 1.3.2 and 1.3.1
Once that's ripped, can we flash it using Odin in the PIT field? Or do we have to use Heimdall to to put it back?

letinsh said:
Here's the partition table as seen when using the "parted print" command on a properly formatted VZW SGS3 32Gb:
Code:
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 31268536320B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 4194304B 67108863B 62914560B modem
2 67108864B 67239935B 131072B sbl1
3 67239936B 67502079B 262144B sbl2
4 67502080B 68026367B 524288B sbl3
5 68026368B 70123519B 2097152B aboot
6 70123520B 70647807B 524288B rpm
7 70647808B 81133567B 10485760B boot
8 81133568B 81657855B 524288B tz
9 81657856B 82182143B 524288B pad
10 82182144B 92667903B 10485760B param
11 92667904B 106954751B 14286848B ext4 efs
12 106954752B 110100479B 3145728B modemst1
13 110100480B 113246207B 3145728B modemst2
14 113246208B 1686110207B 1572864000B ext4 system
15 1686110208B 30337400831B 28651290624B ext4 userdata
16 30337400832B 30345789439B 8388608B ext4 persist
17 30345789440B 31226593279B 880803840B ext4 cache
18 31226593280B 31237079039B 10485760B recovery
19 31237079040B 31247564799B 10485760B fota
20 31247564800B 31253856255B 6291456B backup
21 31253856256B 31257001983B 3145728B fsg
22 31257001984B 31257010175B 8192B ssd
23 31257010176B 31262253055B 5242880B grow
So, from this, we know it's not any of the mmcblk0p1 through mmcblk0p23 partitions.
If you notice, partition 1 starts 4Mb into storage. I think the PIT is located somewhere in the first 4Mb, but I don't know what memory addresses/file to look under to grab it.... is it in one of the other locations listed above under /dev/block ? Is it in /dev/block/mmcblk0/ ? I just don't know....
After looking at Heimdall, the tool has an option to rip the PIT, but I haven't been able to get it to recognize my SGS3. I've tried both 1.3.2 and 1.3.1
Once that's ripped, can we flash it using Odin in the PIT field? Or do we have to use Heimdall to to put it back?
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Heimdall has never been able to recognize my phone...and I was looking somewhere and the developer said it wasn't working and to try 1.3.1 which was not successful either. I had to borrow a computer to use Odin...I know this isn't a solution for getting heimdall to work but I personally don't think it will...if you do get it to work the steps you took would be appreciated
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letinsh said:
Here's the partition table as seen when using the "parted print" command on a properly formatted VZW SGS3 32Gb:
Code:
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 31268536320B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 4194304B 67108863B 62914560B modem
2 67108864B 67239935B 131072B sbl1
3 67239936B 67502079B 262144B sbl2
4 67502080B 68026367B 524288B sbl3
5 68026368B 70123519B 2097152B aboot
6 70123520B 70647807B 524288B rpm
7 70647808B 81133567B 10485760B boot
8 81133568B 81657855B 524288B tz
9 81657856B 82182143B 524288B pad
10 82182144B 92667903B 10485760B param
11 92667904B 106954751B 14286848B ext4 efs
12 106954752B 110100479B 3145728B modemst1
13 110100480B 113246207B 3145728B modemst2
14 113246208B 1686110207B 1572864000B ext4 system
15 1686110208B 30337400831B 28651290624B ext4 userdata
16 30337400832B 30345789439B 8388608B ext4 persist
17 30345789440B 31226593279B 880803840B ext4 cache
18 31226593280B 31237079039B 10485760B recovery
19 31237079040B 31247564799B 10485760B fota
20 31247564800B 31253856255B 6291456B backup
21 31253856256B 31257001983B 3145728B fsg
22 31257001984B 31257010175B 8192B ssd
23 31257010176B 31262253055B 5242880B grow
So, from this, we know it's not any of the mmcblk0p1 through mmcblk0p23 partitions.
If you notice, partition 1 starts 4Mb into storage. I think the PIT is located somewhere in the first 4Mb, but I don't know what memory addresses/file to look under to grab it.... is it in one of the other locations listed above under /dev/block ? Is it in /dev/block/mmcblk0/ ? I just don't know....
After looking at Heimdall, the tool has an option to rip the PIT, but I haven't been able to get it to recognize my SGS3. I've tried both 1.3.2 and 1.3.1
Once that's ripped, can we flash it using Odin in the PIT field? Or do we have to use Heimdall to to put it back?
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We can use either or I thin for odin you flash using repartition checked and placing it in the pda field but it will allow us to flash with heimdall using that pit since it can't find the one on the phone. Lastly internal flash /dev/block/mmcblk0 becomes /dev/block/mmcblk1 is what i have found so it looks like either im wrong or it has to be one of the 24 blocks.

Can someone with a working 32 run this in a Terminal? It should pull the PIT from your phone and place it in the SD card. I'm sure those with a 16gb would love to have their PIT file as well.
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/pit.bin bs=4096 count=1 skip=4
Info from HERE (International device, but the blocks should be the same)

[Q] Phone not mounting and unable to flash roms

I downloaded Paranoid Android OTA update (from pa_hammerhead-4.43-20140715 to pa_hammerhead-4.44-20140722), planned on a clean flash but it automatically started to install the update. Once installed had a notification saying "UIDs on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable", incase it was an unstable version of PA i flashed the older version back but the UID notification kept coming up. So i attempted a clean flash (factory reset through twrp) but it failed. So i did as the phone originally said and wiped the data partition. It can no longer mount the External Memory, as soon as i boot the phone all apps crash. It will not connect to any computer so i cannot move a stock ROM on to the phone to restore it. The laptop does acknowledge when it is connected but fails to install drivers.

braddover said:
I downloaded Paranoid Android OTA update (from pa_hammerhead-4.43-20140715 to pa_hammerhead-4.44-20140722), planned on a clean flash but it automatically started to install the update. Once installed had a notification saying "UIDs on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable", incase it was an unstable version of PA i flashed the older version back but the UID notification kept coming up. So i attempted a clean flash (factory reset through twrp) but it failed. So i did as the phone originally said and wiped the data partition. It can no longer mount the External Memory, as soon as i boot the phone all apps crash. It will not connect to any computer so i cannot move a stock ROM on to the phone to restore it. The laptop does acknowledge when it is connected but fails to install drivers.
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I've never seen "uid's on the phone are inconsistent" before. Can you boot into fastboot and does your pc recognize the device when you so? I'd start by flashing the system.img in fastboot and see if that'll work. If it doesn't I'd flash the entire factory image. Back up first though.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app

ok, first of all make sure you've got adb tools on your pc. Then reboot in recovery mode (twrp or philz) and open a prompt in the platform-tools folder; now type the following:
adb shell
e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/system
e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/userdata
e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/cache
continue to press enter if requested, then exit prompt.
Now download the rom you want to install, place it under platform-tools; then (if on twrp) go to "advanced" then "adb sideload", check the two checkbox and swipe. Open again the prompt from the platform-tools folder and type:
adb sideload "rom-name".zip
then reboot
Let me know how it goes.
EDIT:
if you miss drivers you can google them from google's website, then extract them in a folder (e.g. c:/drivers). Connect phone in recovery mode, look for it as "nexus 5" in device manager, open the properties to update drivers and point the location to the folder where you put the drivers in (c:/drivers). Then reboot recovery and see how it goes.

After this update mine cycles back to recovery
I've got a similar problem. This same update (from pa_hammerhead-4.43-20140715 to pa_hammerhead-4.44-20140722) has me stuck in recovery. I have cwm v6.0.4.5 and after flashing this update the phone goes back to recovery when trying to reboot. Usb storage isn't working from recovery so I can't put a different rom into the storage.
Any ideas on the best way to solve this? I'd be super excited if I didn't have to delete the data on the phone.
braddover said:
I downloaded Paranoid Android OTA update (from pa_hammerhead-4.43-20140715 to pa_hammerhead-4.44-20140722), planned on a clean flash but it automatically started to install the update. Once installed had a notification saying "UIDs on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable", incase it was an unstable version of PA i flashed the older version back but the UID notification kept coming up. So i attempted a clean flash (factory reset through twrp) but it failed. So i did as the phone originally said and wiped the data partition. It can no longer mount the External Memory, as soon as i boot the phone all apps crash. It will not connect to any computer so i cannot move a stock ROM on to the phone to restore it. The laptop does acknowledge when it is connected but fails to install drivers.
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Akly said:
I've got a similar problem. This same update (from pa_hammerhead-4.43-20140715 to pa_hammerhead-4.44-20140722) has me stuck in recovery. I have cwm v6.0.4.5 and after flashing this update the phone goes back to recovery when trying to reboot. Usb storage isn't working from recovery so I can't put a different rom into the storage.
Any ideas on the best way to solve this? I'd be super excited if I didn't have to delete the data on the phone.
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USB storage doesn't exist on the nexus 5.
Use adb push.
Click the link to the sticky thread in my signature. Then from there, find the "adb and fastboot. What is it?" thread.
Everything you need is there
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Fastboot
jd1639 said:
I've never seen "uid's on the phone are inconsistent" before. Can you boot into fastboot and does your pc recognize the device when you so? I'd start by flashing the system.img in fastboot and see if that'll work. If it doesn't I'd flash the entire factory image. Back up first though.
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Thanks for your reply, but that is what I tried before creating this post I also tried adb sideload in twrp but every time I swipe to run it, it says failed

braddover said:
Thanks for your reply, but that is what I tried before creating this post I also tried adb sideload in twrp but every time I swipe to run it, it says failed
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Sounds like the flash memory may be corrupt.
I think your only choice is fastboot flash /LG flash tool.
We should try that and see what errors you get,

rootSU said:
Sounds like the flash memory may be corrupt.
I think your only choice is fastboot flash /LG flash tool.
We should try that and see what errors you get,
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Thanks very much, I shall give it a go and get back to you

_MirageX_ said:
ok, first of all make sure you've got adb tools on your pc. Then reboot in recovery mode (twrp or philz) and open a prompt in the platform-tools folder; now type the following:
adb shell
e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/system
e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/userdata
e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/cache
continue to press enter if requested, then exit prompt.
Now download the rom you want to install, place it under platform-tools; then (if on twrp) go to "advanced" then "adb sideload", check the two checkbox and swipe. Open again the prompt from the platform-tools folder and type:
adb sideload "rom-name".zip
then reboot
Let me know how it goes.
EDIT:
if you miss drivers you can google them from google's website, then extract them in a folder (e.g. c:/drivers). Connect phone in recovery mode, look for it as "nexus 5" in device manager, open the properties to update drivers and point the location to the folder where you put the drivers in (c:/drivers). Then reboot recovery and see how it goes.
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Thanks very much I shall give it a go and get back to you, I've actually got a mac book pro, is it worth sponging off a mate and using his windows machine for this to avoid driver/connection issues that may not be to do with my current issue?

braddover said:
Thanks very much I shall give it a go and get back to you, I've actually got a mac book pro, is it worth sponging off a mate and using his windows machine for this to avoid driver/connection issues that may not be to do with my current issue?
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You can do, but if you click the link in my signature to the sticky thread, then from there go to the "adb and fastboot what is it?" thread, there is link to a Mac Installer script which should be enough to resolve the issue. But failing that, yeah windows.

Hi can you run the following commands in your terminal when the phone is connected in recovery or in android with enabled usb debugging:
adb shell
cat /proc/partitions
and post the outcome here?

rootSU said:
You can do, but if you click the link in my signature to the sticky thread, then from there go to the "adb and fastboot what is it?" thread, there is link to a Mac Installer script which should be enough to resolve the issue. But failing that, yeah windows.
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ok....so i gave that a crack, almost every process failed. This is what came up:
bradleys-mbp:hammerhead-krt16m Brad$ ./flash-all.sh
sending 'bootloader' (2506 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.287s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 0.487s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.094s]
finished. total time: 0.094s
sending 'radio' (42033 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.664s]
writing 'radio'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 2.885s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.092s]
finished. total time: 0.092s
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
archive does not contain 'system.sig'
ERROR: usb_write failed with status e00002c0
--------------------------------------------
ERROR: usb_write failed with status e00002c0
getvar:version-bootloader FAILED (command write failed (Invalid argument))
finished. total time: 0.000s
I also tried the longer method but same issues

Change USB cable and port also?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

rootSU said:
Change USB cable and port also?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just tried it, still nothing
came up with.....
bradleys-mbp:hammerhead-krt16m Brad$ ./flash-all.sh /Users/Brad/Desktop/hammerhead-krt16m
sending 'bootloader' (2506 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.307s]
writing 'bootloader'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 0.508s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.097s]
finished. total time: 0.097s
sending 'radio' (42033 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.694s]
writing 'radio'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 2.915s
rebooting into bootloader...

Its not looking good. Don't forget to do what @bitdomo asked
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

bitdomo said:
Hi can you run the following commands in your terminal when the phone is connected in recovery or in android with enabled usb debugging:
adb shell
cat /proc/partitions
and post the outcome here?
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Click to collapse
Thanks for your reply, I hope I have done this correctly....this is what it came up with in TWRP
bradleys-mbp:~ Brad$ adb shell
~ # cat/proc/partitions
/sbin/sh: cat/proc/partitions: not found
i can't run the ADB sideloader in twrp as it fails every time, also I cannot enable USB debugging as i cannot get that far in to my phone to enable it

E: unable to mount
More info: when trying to do anything in twrp the main issue seems to be that it always comes up with "E: unable to mount" followed by either /persist or /cache

braddover said:
More info: when trying to do anything in twrp the main issue seems to be that it always comes up with "E: unable to mount" followed by either /persist or /cache
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There's a thread to fix persist by @bitdomo. Its in the root guides section of Sticky roll-up in my signature
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

braddover said:
Thanks for your reply, I hope I have done this correctly....this is what it came up with in TWRP
bradleys-mbp:~ Brad$ adb shell
~ # cat/proc/partitions
/sbin/sh: cat/proc/partitions: not found
i can't run the ADB sideloader in twrp as it fails every time, also I cannot enable USB debugging as i cannot get that far in to my phone to enable it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is a space between cat and /proc/partitions.
The link to the guide to fix persist is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/guide-to-fix-persist-partition-t2821576

bitdomo said:
There is a space between cat and /proc/partitions.
The link to the guide to fix persist is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/guide-to-fix-persist-partition-t2821576
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Whoops silly me!
This is what it brought up when i added the space:
bradleys-mbp:~ Brad$ adb shell
~ # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
179 0 30535680 mmcblk0
179 1 65536 mmcblk0p1
179 2 1024 mmcblk0p2
179 3 512 mmcblk0p3
179 4 512 mmcblk0p4
179 5 512 mmcblk0p5
179 6 512 mmcblk0p6
179 7 2048 mmcblk0p7
179 8 1024 mmcblk0p8
179 9 512 mmcblk0p9
179 10 512 mmcblk0p10
179 11 512 mmcblk0p11
179 12 3072 mmcblk0p12
179 13 3072 mmcblk0p13
179 14 512 mmcblk0p14
179 15 16384 mmcblk0p15
179 16 16384 mmcblk0p16
179 17 3072 mmcblk0p17
179 18 22528 mmcblk0p18
179 19 22528 mmcblk0p19
179 20 22528 mmcblk0p20
179 21 3072 mmcblk0p21
179 22 512 mmcblk0p22
179 23 512 mmcblk0p23
179 24 512 mmcblk0p24
179 25 1048576 mmcblk0p25
179 26 30720 mmcblk0p26
179 27 716800 mmcblk0p27
179 28 28551146 mmcblk0p28
179 29 5 mmcblk0p29
179 32 4096 mmcblk0rpmb
I also tried to fix persist, it doesn't seem to have worked.
Running your first command gave me this and did not repair anything:
bradleys-mbp:~ Brad$ adb shell
~ # e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist: recovering journal
Superblock needs_recovery flag is clear, but journal has data.
Run journal anyway<y>? y
yes
e2fsck: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
So i tried the next step which produced this:
bradleys-mbp:~ Brad$ adb shell
~ # make_ext4fs /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist
Creating filesystem with parameters:
Size: 16777216
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 1024
Inode size: 256
Journal blocks: 1024
Label:
Blocks: 4096
Block groups: 1
Reserved block group size: 7
Created filesystem with 11/1024 inodes and 1102/4096 blocks
However i still do not have access to be able to copy the files over...

[ROM][STOCK][Silent OS 2.0.8 RC4] Blackphone 2

I am sharing a full stock ROM for SGP BP2 (Blackphone 2) which I got directly from Silent Circle support.
This ROM is not rooted because it's original, would be awesome if someone will be able to root it before i do that
Kernel: 3.10.49-gc6cf2ab
OS: Silent OS 2.0.8 RC4
Based on: Android Lollipop 5.1.1 (r1) and contains some Cyanogenmod files.
AOSP build: LMY47V
AOSP branch: android-5.1.1_r1
Here is a Google Drive folder with ROM files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BybUUdJE1dSZeUkxbE8wZUEtcHc
Folder contents:
BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-ROW-1460729363.zip
This is a full stock ROM for models that contain letters 'RW' in their model name.
Example: BP2H001RW1 - letters "RW" indicate you should use that .zip
RW (ROW) means 'Rest of World'.
build.prop contents: http://paste.debian.net/901606/
BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-NA-1460729363.zip
This is a full stock ROM for models that contain letters 'NA' and 'AM' in their model name.
Example: BP2H001AM1 - letters "AM" indicate you should use that .zip
NA means 'North America', AM means 'America'; probably the models being sold in that region are slightly different.
build.prop contents: http://paste.debian.net/901680/
boot.img
I've extracted 'boot.img' from the .zip and uploaded aside, in case someone is looking only for kernel and initrd.
boot.img is same in both NA and ROW roms.
recovery.img
It's a stock android recovery image, I've got it with dd after flashing the BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-ROW-1460729363.zip
md5sum:
Code:
afb4c7a26608d113b1b54da167fc0255 BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-NA-1460729363.zip
180021957910afc484c76f4a2246c491 BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-ROW-1460729363.zip
9e42e33b39244e8bfa6f250424c15270 boot.img
9c872f08f69a2b6cad93214c1089b03d recovery.img
sha1sum:
Code:
8164772318414d49389168495f732afb46467c1c BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-NA-1460729363.zip
14010e518725146a8ebe52caf4723be4c69c3c9a BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-ROW-1460729363.zip
a9bf9ce0a6f5b31860e228464fd3abbd9f232a57 boot.img
c76ea5c0ca330bf6dc2191d9db0bead1cac6d4c7 recovery.img
Known issues
Device name case mismatch ('bp2' vs 'BP2')
I wasn't able to reflash my device without modifying one file in a .zip
It may give you this error when you start updating:
Code:
This package is for "BP2" devices; this is a "bp2".
In that case you need to:
1) unpack a .zip file
2) find the file updater-script in the META-INF/com/google/android/ folder, which looks like:
PHP:
get_device_compatible("BP2") == "OK" || abort("This package is for \"BP2\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device") + "\".");
show_progress(0.750000, 0);
ui_print("Patching system image unconditionally...");
block_image_update("/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system", package_extract_file("system.transfer.list"), "system.new.dat", "system.patch.dat");
show_progress(0.050000, 5);
package_extract_file("boot.img", "/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot");
show_progress(0.200000, 10);
3) change the letters 'BP2' to 'bp2', so the first line will look like this:
PHP:
get_device_compatible("bp2") == "OK" || abort("This package is for \"BP2\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device") + "\".");
4) Pack everything back into a .zip file
5) Apply the update using a new .zip file using stock recovery.
System image format
If you have a TWRP recovery instead of stock, you won't be able to flash the ROM from .zip (for some unknown reason it just doesn't flash a system partition)
You will need to extract the ROM .zip and use sdat2img tool to convert lollipop's system.new.dat format to system.img (raw format), after that you can flash system.img directly using TWRP or dd.
Follow this manual for Linux: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57635842&postcount=2
For Windows: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/extract-dat-marshmallow-lollipop-easily-t3334117
Alternatively, you can flash stock recovery.img that I listed above, boot it and flash .zip from it directly.
Mounting /system with read-write using TWRP causes a bootloop
Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/blackphone-2-bootloop-rw-mount-using-t3516862
Security vulnerabilities
This ROM is vulnerable for these attacks according to QuadRooter Scanner:
CVE-2016-2059 - "QuadRooter"
CVE-2016-2504 - Elevation of privilege vulnerability in Qualcomm GPU driver
You may need to upgrade to the latest Silent OS version using OTA updater in order to mitigate these.
On the other hand, you may root your device using one of these vulns before upgrading, whether there is a root method that using QuadRooter exploit (I believe there will be one soon).
Oh c'mon Silent Circle, you made it annoying, just let us use root privileges peacefully, we are aware of damn risks!
Useful information
/proc/mounts
Code:
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,size=1481408k,nr_inodes=182626,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /var tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=1481408k,nr_inodes=182626,mode=770,gid=1000 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=1481408k,nr_inodes=182626,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=1481408k,nr_inodes=182626,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=1481408k,nr_inodes=182626,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
adb /dev/usb-ffs/adb functionfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-0 /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,context=u:object_r:firmware_file:s0,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/dm-1 /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,discard,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated/0 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/proc/partitions
Code:
major minor #blocks name
179 0 30539776 mmcblk0
179 1 512 mmcblk0p1
179 2 512 mmcblk0p2
179 3 1024 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1024 mmcblk0p4
179 5 512 mmcblk0p5
179 6 512 mmcblk0p6
179 7 512 mmcblk0p7
179 8 512 mmcblk0p8
179 9 512 mmcblk0p9
179 10 512 mmcblk0p10
179 11 1024 mmcblk0p11
179 12 1024 mmcblk0p12
179 13 1536 mmcblk0p13
179 14 1536 mmcblk0p14
179 15 1 mmcblk0p15
179 16 8 mmcblk0p16
179 17 10240 mmcblk0p17
179 18 10240 mmcblk0p18
179 19 65536 mmcblk0p19
179 20 32 mmcblk0p20
179 21 65536 mmcblk0p21
179 22 1536 mmcblk0p22
179 23 16 mmcblk0p23
179 24 32768 mmcblk0p24
179 25 1966080 mmcblk0p25
179 26 32768 mmcblk0p26
179 27 917504 mmcblk0p27
179 28 32768 mmcblk0p28
179 29 1024 mmcblk0p29
179 30 512 mmcblk0p30
179 31 512 mmcblk0p31
259 0 32 mmcblk0p32
259 1 27162575 mmcblk0p33
179 32 4096 mmcblk0rpmb
179 64 3855360 mmcblk1
179 65 3851264 mmcblk1p1
254 0 1950564 dm-0
254 1 27162575 dm-1

This is great

drivers for blackphone 2
I recently purchased a blackphone2. IT had TWRP recovery installed and some version of lollypop and the phone was not rooted. I tried to install the stock rom which the silent circle supplied. But while flashing through TWRP it always generated error 6 or 7. I even tried OS 1 and 2 all gave the same error. Then I saw the info from your thread. I flashed the stock recovery and was successful in flashing it however the stock rom installation always get stuck at "patching system image unconditionally". One more thing my blackphone is not recognized by any PC. May be I do not have the drivers. I think I had to flash the boot.image file also which I missed . Now stuck in the stock recovery how can I flash the boot image file, whereas I dont have the usb drivers also. Please help.
mansoor

cmegmhi said:
[...]
I flashed the stock recovery and was successful in flashing it however the stock rom installation always get stuck at "patching system image unconditionally".
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A "patching system image unconditionally" step may take some time because it's extracting a big image.
Can you try flashing one of .zip's from the google folder I published in this thread using a stock recovery?
Also, make sure you do "wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" before flashing the .zip
Also, you can use a 'reboot to bootloader' option and boot or flash any image using fastboot
In order to get your phone recognized via USB, you need adb and fastboot installed on your computer and the appropriate drivers, search this forum to get HOW-TO's on that, there are many.

polartux said:
A "patching system image unconditionally" step may take some time because it's extracting a big image.
Can you try flashing one of .zip's from the google folder I published in this thread using a stock recovery?
Also, make sure you do "wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" before flashing the .zip
Also, you can use a 'reboot to bootloader' option and boot or flash any image using fastboot
In order to get your phone recognized via USB, you need adb and fastboot installed on your computer and the appropriate drivers, search this forum to get HOW-TO's on that, there are many.
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Click to collapse
I have flashed the boot image as well as the recovery image from the above mentioned links. However from the recovery as I said earlier system flashing using the zip file does not complete and stuck for ever. I can boot to bootloader through recovery but how to flash the image file of rom as I have the zip file. How can I convert the zip file to image file. Any idea
A bundle of thanks for the help

cmegmhi said:
I have flashed the boot image as well as the recovery image from the above mentioned links. However from the recovery as I said earlier system flashing using the zip file does not complete and stuck for ever. I can boot to bootloader through recovery but how to flash the image file of rom as I have the zip file. How can I convert the zip file to image file. Any idea
A bundle of thanks for the help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The ROM posted above occupies more than 1.7 GB in the system partition, whereas the system partition I got on my phone is around 1.48 GB. Could this be the reason for the phone to get stuck during the rom installation "patching the system image unconditionally". If so the way out could be the resizing of the system partition. Based on this idea I have been looking around on the internet for a system resizing app for blackphone 2 without any success. Please guide me in this matter
Thanks in advance

How to Verifty Which One is letters "RW" Or 'NA' and 'AM'

I have unlocked bootloader and phone in bootloop no way to rescue it? bootloader and recovery works)
I have twrp and unlocked bootloader
how I do this? "sdat2img tool to convert lollipop's system.new.dat format to system.img"

How to root this phone and remove google apps? Many thanks

You probably should just flash a new rom and start over?

Silent OS 3.0.8 update disables cellular network in Blackphone 2 (unlicensed device)
Blackphone 2 not bought from Silent Circle or an approved vendor of Silent Circle will become an unlicensed device
after installation of Silent OS 3.0.8.
I bought my phone from coolicool.com. Cellular network connections didn't work after the update.
I contacted Silent Circle's support but they didn't want to help me because the phone was bought from
a non-approved vendor.
This Android 5.1.1 ROM re-enabled the cellular connectivity in my phone. Thank you!

Silent Circle will become an unlicensed device
I'm in the same case as you. At least I have a phone again, although the version of android is older.
Thanks!!!
akikoo said:
Blackphone 2 not bought from Silent Circle or an approved vendor of Silent Circle will become an unlicensed device
after installation of Silent OS 3.0.8.
I bought my phone from coolicool.com. Cellular network connections didn't work after the update.
I contacted Silent Circle's support but they didn't want to help me because the phone was bought from
a non-approved vendor.
This Android 5.1.1 ROM re-enabled the cellular connectivity in my phone. Thank you!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

akikoo said:
Blackphone 2 not bought from Silent Circle or an approved vendor of Silent Circle will become an unlicensed device
after installation of Silent OS 3.0.8.
I bought my phone from coolicool.com. Cellular network connections didn't work after the update.
I contacted Silent Circle's support but they didn't want to help me because the phone was bought from
a non-approved vendor.
This Android 5.1.1 ROM re-enabled the cellular connectivity in my phone. Thank you!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah me too, bought from an online store in Malaysia. Not only they disabled the SIM module, also ALL GOOGLE SERVICES as well..
This sucks so bad....

Silent Circle support's reply
Here's the reply I got from Silent Circle's support. I sent them the serial number and IMEI of the phone.
Like the online shop would be able to do anything for the f*cking OTA update...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello,
Upon review of the IMEI number (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) you provided, it has been determined this device
is not a genuine Silent Circle Blackphone2. This device was not sold by Silent Circle or
an approved vendor of Silent Circle and therefore we are unable to provide any further assistance.
We recommend you contact the original vendor directly for further assistance.
To purchase a Silent Circle genuine device please visit the following URL:
Sincerely,
Silent Circle Technical Support
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello, I bought this phone from myefox and I'm waiting. So if I followed the upgrade I lose all network functionality ?. Or the phone can still work?

bastard81 said:
Hello, I bought this phone from myefox and I'm waiting. So if I followed the upgrade I lose all network functionality ?. Or the phone can still work?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When I first received the phone, OTA upgraded the phone to Silent OS 3.0.7, everything works fine.
Just don't go to 3.0.8
---------- Post added at 01:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:27 PM ----------
akikoo said:
Here's the reply I got from Silent Circle's support. I sent them the serial number and IMEI of the phone.
Like the online shop would be able to do anything for the f*cking OTA update...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello,
Upon review of the IMEI number (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) you provided, it has been determined this device
is not a genuine Silent Circle Blackphone2. This device was not sold by Silent Circle or
an approved vendor of Silent Circle and therefore we are unable to provide any further assistance.
We recommend you contact the original vendor directly for further assistance.
To purchase a Silent Circle genuine device please visit the following URL:
Sincerely,
Silent Circle Technical Support
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Click to collapse
It's kinda sad and frustrating that this kind of attitude exist, I mean, c'mon.. How can you say it's not genuine???
It's obviously GENUINE SILENT CIRCLE BLACK PHONE 2! It's just that it someone else got their hands on the stock and sell it!
PLUS, I bet Silent Circle themself leaked out the so-called "unlicensed" devices to test the market.
That explains why there weren't any "license checking" prior to version 3.0.8!!
Good thing there's the stock ROM, and I bought the phone cheap around USD 130.

Any idiot would know! how can an original blackphone listed on their SC's website at $600 still, be sold at $130? furthermore, this is through chinese website, sending you from china.
---------- Post added at 04:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 PM ----------
Btw, coolicool and efox. they are the same owner from china!

...
...

akikoo said:
Blackphone 2 not bought from Silent Circle or an approved vendor of Silent Circle will become an unlicensed device
after installation of Silent OS 3.0.8.
I bought my phone from coolicool.com. Cellular network connections didn't work after the update.
I contacted Silent Circle's support but they didn't want to help me because the phone was bought from
a non-approved vendor.
This Android 5.1.1 ROM re-enabled the cellular connectivity in my phone. Thank you!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's what i went so... I bought my phone from antelife.com.
How to install this ROM? Someone please describe step by step! Thanks!

How to install the Android 5.1 update rom from this thread
kovikee said:
That's what i went so... I bought my phone from antelife.com.
How to install this ROM? Someone please describe step by step! Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Copy the zip file BP2-OTA-2.0.8-RC4-candidate-ROW-1460729363.zip from the first post to your sd card. I renamed it to update.zip.
Power off your phone.
Put the sd card into the sd card/sim card tray.
Press volume up and power button until your phone turns on. Keep the volume up button pressed down until you land in the recovery menu. From there you can select the menu entry that says something like apply update from sd card.

(Q) fastboot zimage zImage

Hello,
I'm trying flash zImage, but get some erros:
$ fastboot flash zimage zImage
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'zimage' (4370 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.427s]
writing 'zimage'...
FAILED (remote: partition table doesn't exist)
finished. total time: 0.482s
How to solve it?
Tks,
Demiank

demiank said:
Hello,
I'm trying flash zImage, but get some erros:
$ fastboot flash zimage zImage
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'zimage' (4370 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.427s]
writing 'zimage'...
FAILED (remote: partition table doesn't exist)
finished. total time: 0.482s
How to solve it?
Tks,
Demiank
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Which device is this? Also some theories.
- zimage isn't the name of the actual partition, cd to /dev/block/platform/xxxxx/by-name/ to see your list of partitions
- the image you're flashing doesn't have correct syntax. To fast via flashboot, the syntax is... fastboot flash (partition) (image) . So an example would be fastboot flash recovery twrp.img . You need to remember the file extension such as .img or whatever it is for your image. Also make sure you specify the directory such as fastboot flash recovery C:\Users\xxx\Downloads\twrp.img if you aren't in the current directory.

demiank said:
Hello,
I'm trying flash zImage, but get some erros:
$ fastboot flash zimage zImage
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'zimage' (4370 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.427s]
writing 'zimage'...
FAILED (remote: partition table doesn't exist)
finished. total time: 0.482s
How to solve it?
Tks,
Demiank
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zImage is a kernel file and it is in the boot.img. you have to unpack your boot.img and replace the existing zImage with new one and repack boot.img again.
Then flash through fastboot mode by "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
So, you want to flash it in boot partition.

The device is LG e615 (2012/2013 device). This don't have a boot partition. I just found a boot.img in cwm backup. The command " fastboot boot zImage" generate a boot.img file.

demiank said:
The device is LG e615 (2012/2013 device). This don't have a boot partition. I just found a boot.img in cwm backup. The command " fastboot boot zImage" generate a boot.img file.
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$ fastboot boot zImage
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 4478976 bytes
Downloading 'boot.img' OKAY [ 0.416s]
booting OKAY [ 0.159s]
Finished. Total time: 0.650s
Device don't boot and lost fastboot connection;
[email protected]:/ $ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
179 0 3817472 mmcblk0
179 1 20 mmcblk0p1
179 2 1003 mmcblk0p2
179 3 1024 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4
179 5 4096 mmcblk0p5
179 6 4096 mmcblk0p6
179 7 4096 mmcblk0p7
179 8 24576 mmcblk0p8
179 9 8192 mmcblk0p9
179 10 4096 mmcblk0p10
179 11 4096 mmcblk0p11
179 12 28672 mmcblk0p12
179 13 28672 mmcblk0p13
179 14 624640 mmcblk0p14
179 15 8192 mmcblk0p15
179 16 102400 mmcblk0p16
179 17 8192 mmcblk0p17
179 18 8192 mmcblk0p18
179 19 12288 mmcblk0p19
179 20 2823168 mmcblk0p20
179 21 4096 mmcblk0p21
179 22 1024 mmcblk0p22
179 23 16384 mmcblk0p23
179 32 7761920 mmcblk1
179 33 7760896 mmcblk1p1
[email protected]:/ $ ls /
acct
cache
config
d
data
default.prop
dev
etc
fstab.m4ds
init
init.goldfish.rc
init.lge.early.rc
init.lge.rc
init.lge.usb.sh
init.m4ds.rc
init.m4ds.usb.rc
init.qcom.class_core.sh
init.qcom.class_main.sh
init.qcom.rc
init.qcom.ril.path.sh
init.qcom.sh
init.qcom.usb.rc
init.qcom.usb.sh
init.rc
init.target.rc
lgdms.fota.rc
lgdms.fota_update.rc
mnt
mpt
persist
persist-lg
proc
res
root
sbin
sdcard
storage
sys
system
ueventd.goldfish.rc
ueventd.m4ds.rc
ueventd.qcom.rc
ueventd.rc
vendor
[email protected]:/ # cat fstab.m4ds
# Android fstab file.
# The filesystem that contains the filesystem checker binary (typically /system) cannot
# specify MF_CHECK, and must come before any filesystems that do specify MF_CHECK
#TODO: Add 'check' as fs_mgr_flags with data partition.
# Currently we dont have e2fsck compiled. So fs check would failed.
#<src> <mnt_point> <type> <mnt_flags and options> <fs_mgr_flags>
#LGE chage partition
#/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.3/by-num/p12 /system ext4 ro,barrier=1 wait
#/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.3/by-num/p13 /data ext4 nosuid,nodev,barrier=1,noauto_da_alloc wait
#LGE_CHANGE_S [[email protected]] 20120926:Adding /data partition
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.3/by-num/p14 /system ext4 ro,barrier=1,noatime wait
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.3/by-num/p20 /data ext4 nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,noauto_da_alloc,errors=continue check
Where is my stock zImage or boot.img? How to flash this zImage after compile it following the LG readme.txt:
"2. Kernel Build
- Untar opensource packages of kernel.tar.gz using following command at the android folder
a)$tar xvzf kernel.tar.gz
- When you compile the kernel source code, you have to add google original prebuilt source(toolchain)
into the android folder.
- cd kernel
- export ARCH=arm
- export CROSS_COMPILE=../prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-eabi-
- make m4-rev11_defconfig
- make zImage
3. After Build, You Can find the build image at arch/arm/boot"
Tks for all replies, but i don't understand how to flash my new kernel compiled by me.