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How to create an update.zip

Things you'll need :- 1. Auto sign tool2. update-binary for FIT3. update-script(If you don't know how to make, then use the one provided in the zip file. It can be used to copy files in the system folder to the /system/ of the phone)
DOWNLOAD LINK :- w w w . multiupload .c o m / K2QQNT3W2N
NOTE :- Make sure you make a backup of the files you are flashing. For backup you can refer to the docs and download "deodexed update.zip" for your respective ROM !!
Lets get started :-1. Make a new folder on the desktop and rename it as "TEST"2. Make this structure of folders in the TEST folder
------META-INF>>>>COM>>>>GOOGLE>>>>ANDROID
TEST-----
------SYSTEM3. Now add whatever you want to flash Eg. You want to flash /app/systemUI.apk and /framework/framework-res.apk
Sol. 1. Create two folders named "app" and "framework" within "TEST>>>SYSTEM" 2. Put your files in the respective folders.
4. Now put "update-script" and "update-binary" in "meta-inf>com>google>android". (Provided in REPLICA in zip file !! ENJOY )
5. Now select the "META-INF" and "SYSTEM" folder together and compress it and make a file named "update.zip".
6. Put the update.zip in the "Auto-Sign" folder and run the" Sign.bat". Press any key to continue..
7. Now you'll get a "signed_update.zip" in the same folder !!
8. Flash it via RECOVERY....

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[Universal] How to flash recovery or boot.img without PC using CWM

Hello Droiders!! I am presenting Universal boot.img or recovery.img flasher zip.
Disclaimer:I or XDA Developers will not be responsible for any damage of your Device.A Backup is highly recomanded.
Things You Will Needed:
1) CWM must be installed in your Device.
2) boot.img or recovery.img that you want to flash.
3) Any application for zip/uzip.
Instruction for boot.img:
1) Download Universal_Boot_Img_flasher.zip from the attachment.
2) unzip the zip and there will be a folder named boot.Put your boot.img(must named as 'boot.img') in boot folder.
3) zip the folder again and flash the zip through CWM
Instruction for recovery.img:
1) Download Universal_Recovery_Img_flasher.zip from the attachment.
2) unzip the zip and there will be a folder named recovery.Put your recovery.img(must named as 'recovery.img') in that folder.
3) zip the folder again and flash the zip through CWM
Hello Droiders!! I am presenting Universal boot.img or recovery.img flasher zip.
Disclaimer:I or XDA Developers will not be responsible for any damage of your Device.A Backup is highly recomanded.
Things You Will Needed:
1) CWM must be installed in your Device.
2) boot.img or recovery.img that you want to flash.
3) Any application for zip/uzip.
Instruction for boot.img:
1) Download Universal_Boot_Img_flasher.zip from the attachment.
2) unzip the zip and there will be a folder named boot.Put your boot.img(must named as 'boot.img') in boot folder.
3) zip the folder again and flash the zip through CWM
Instruction for recovery.img:
1) Download Universal_Recovery_Img_flasher.zip from the attachment.
2) unzip the zip and there will be a folder named recovery.Put your recovery.img(must named as 'recovery.img') in that folder.
3) zip the folder again and flash the zip through CWM
Tested Devices:
1) Samsung galaxy s2
2) HTC one
3) Andromax C2
4) Micromax A110
6) Samsung galaxy star pro
6) Samsung galaxy S dous 2
Q/A:
1) What is this?
-> There is lots of method in XDA for flashing boot.img or recovery.img without PC.But in those methods you may have to know the boot or recovery mount point for newbies it is difficult.To solve this i have made this flasher.This is a universal flashable zip for flashing boot.img or recovery.img.This will work on any Device.
2) How it works?
-> When you flash this script using recovery,then the script get boot or recovery partition mount point from /etc/recovery.fstab and flash you boot.img or recovery.img in that partition.
If You Like it then Hit My Thanks Button. :good:

Yes this works...my device is Alcatel One Touch Pop C2. I didn't have an sdcard to flash from recovery so i used flashify and it worked. Thanks for this.

Dear, this universal recovery can be apply on andriod tv box devices? specialy on x96 max 4gb/64gb

How To Convert .ftf files to Flashable .zip WITHOUT Extracting System.sin

This guide will help you to convert a stock ftf file to a flashable zip file for CWM or TWRP or any other Recovery. Be sure you know what your doing before proceeding!!
Steps.
1: Extract the ftf file using any unzip manager or winter etc. You will see a bunch of files, but we only need the system.sin, boot.img, and META-INF files and folders for this procedure.
2: Go to META-INF->com->google-android folder and edit updater-script with a Text editor. Go down to package_extract_dir("system", "/system."); and change that to:
package_extract_file("system.sin","/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system");
3: Save and exit.
4: Now create a zip of the boot.img, system.sin and META-INF files and folders and flash in Recovery. Enjoy!
If bootloop occurs then you may have done something wrong. Edit ROM again in PC and move to phone sdcard and try to flash again. If bootloops again, just flash stock ROM back.
Thanks!!!
Sent from my D6503 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Brandon Nel said:
This guide will help you to convert a stock ftf file to a flashable zip file for CWM or TWRP or any other Recovery. Be sure you know what your doing before proceeding!!
Steps.
1: Extract the ftf file using any unzip manager or winter etc. You will see a bunch of files, but we only need the system.sin, boot.img, and META-INF files and folders for this procedure.
2: Go to META-INF->com->google-android folder and edit updater-script with a Text editor. Go down to package_extract_dir("system", "/system."); and change that to:
package_extract_file("system.sin","/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system");
3: Save and exit.
4: Now create a zip of the boot.img, system.sin and META-INF files and folders and flash in Recovery. Enjoy!
If bootloop occurs then you may have done something wrong. Edit ROM again in PC and move to phone sdcard and try to flash again. If bootloops again, just flash stock ROM back.
Thanks!!!
Sent from my D6503 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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Hi, I only see boot.sin and not boot.img. What do I have to do? Thx.
Edit: In META-INF folder, I only have MANIFEST.MF.
Thx for any help.

Brandon Nel said:
This guide will help you to convert a stock ftf file to a flashable zip file for CWM or TWRP or any other Recovery. Be sure you know what your doing before proceeding!!
Steps.
1: Extract the ftf file using any unzip manager or winter etc. You will see a bunch of files, but we only need the system.sin, boot.img, and META-INF files and folders for this procedure.
2: Go to META-INF->com->google-android folder and edit updater-script with a Text editor. Go down to package_extract_dir("system", "/system."); and change that to:
package_extract_file("system.sin","/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system");
3: Save and exit.
4: Now create a zip of the boot.img, system.sin and META-INF files and folders and flash in Recovery. Enjoy!
If bootloop occurs then you may have done something wrong. Edit ROM again in PC and move to phone sdcard and try to flash again. If bootloops again, just flash stock ROM back.
Thanks!!!
Sent from my D6503 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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no boot.img or boot.sin is found. False tutorial.

[Guide] 4 ways to unpack/repack boot/recovery/logo without pc [IMG and BIN files]

In this guide I'm going to tell you about unpacking/repacking your boot(kernel),recovery.
I won't be responsible if u kill your phone and your mom beat the hell outta u.
Please do some research before trying this stuffs.
Method 1----
Put your boot or recovery.img in root/cache/here folder.
Get apktool mobile.
Open it and navigate to root folder.
Press hold on cache folder
Click on 'Get access permission(root)'
Now click on your img file
Select and click unpack all(mt6***) and bang...
U will see unpacked everything there.
And to repack click ramdisk folder and hit repack mt**** ...
Method 2---
Get unpack repack boot.img apk from google play
Put your boot.img in your SD card(default write disk)
Create a folder and name it unpack in SD CARD.
open that app and search for boot.img in SD CARD
Select it
Choose where to unpack(choose unpack folder)
Hit start and done
To repack,find out kernel base,page size in unpack folder.
Write them down in repack option
Select the zlimage(kernel) and select ramdisk
select the 'unpack' folder(where new img will b created)
click start and done
Method 3---(Advance Stuff)
Get Android Image Kitchen from play store
Open and click on ( ) sign
Select unpack and select boot.img or recovery.img
(U must should put the img in root of your default sd card and don't rename it)
U will see two folder like
ramdisk
and
kernel stuff
press hold on them and export them to modify
U can repack in same way by clicking repack option.
Method 4---
There is already a guide on xda about un/repack using terminal emulator.
U can check that out if u want to.
Facing problems?
comment below..

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A7 (2018) – Working TWRP

Hi!
I tried 4 TWRP versions that i found on youtube and this forum, but none seems to work. Each version makes my screen glitchy then restarts into bootloop.
Can someon help me with the right TWRP version for my device?
RP SWREV: B:5 K:5 S:5
Device is SM-A750FN
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itsmirel said:
Hi!
I tried 4 TWRP versions that i found on youtube and this forum, but none seems to work. Each version makes my screen glitchy then restarts into bootloop.
Can someon help me with the right TWRP version for my device?
RP SWREV: B:5 K:5 S:5
Device is SM-A750FN
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Download the stock recovery and any TWRP from the internet for your device. Downlaod carliv image kitchen and extract your stock recovery. Copy recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset”to any location in your pc. Now take the TWRP for your phone that you download but it's not WORKING. Extract it in the same way using carliv image kitchen. Form this extracted TWRP of your device delete recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset” and replace it with the file you copied from your stock recovery in the first step. Then repack this image and flash it. BTW is your bootloader unlocked?

Tab E said:
Download the stock recovery and any TWRP from the internet for your device. Downlaod carliv image kitchen and extract your stock recovery. Copy recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset”to any location in your pc. Now take the TWRP for your phone that you download but it's not WORKING. Extract it in the same way using carliv image kitchen. Form this extracted TWRP of your device delete recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset” and replace it with the file you copied from your stock recovery in the first step. Then repack this image and flash it. BTW is your bootloader unlocked?
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Yes, my bootloader is unlocked (if you mean to ask if i have checked OEM/USB debugging in developer mode), I unlocked it first time i tried to run TWRP.
By "repack this image and FLASH IT", flash it using Odin, right?
My current TWRP is unaccessible

Tab E said:
Download the stock recovery and any recovery from the internet for your device. Downlaod carliv image kitchen and extract your stock recovery. Copy recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset”to any location in your pc. Now take the TWRP for your phone that you download but it's not WORKING. Extract it in the same way using carliv image kitchen. Form this extracted TWRP of your device delete recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset” and replace it with the file you copied from your stock recovery in the first step. Then repack this image and flash it. BTW is your bootloader unlocked?
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itsmirel said:
Yes, my bootloader is unlocked (if you mean to ask if i have checked OEM/USB debugging in developer mode), I unlocked it first time i tried to run TWRP.
By "repack this image and FLASH IT", flash it using Odin, right?
My current TWRP is unaccessible
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Is fastboot available? If yes then use fastboot to flash. If no try odin

Tab E said:
Is fastboot available? If yes then use fastboot to flash. If no try odin
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I guess so

Ok great. Then go ahead with fastboot

Tab E said:
Ok great. Then go ahead with fastboot
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i will use odin, i dont know how to enter fastboot and couldnt find
Tab E said:
Download the stock recovery and any TWRP from the internet for your device. Downlaod carliv image kitchen and extract your stock recovery. Copy recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset”to any location in your pc. Now take the TWRP for your phone that you download but it's not WORKING. Extract it in the same way using carliv image kitchen. Form this extracted TWRP of your device delete recovery.img-kernel and “recovery.img-kernel_offset” and replace it with the file you copied from your stock recovery in the first step. Then repack this image and flash it. BTW is your bootloader unlocked?
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can you be more specific please? i dont know and understand how to use carliv image kitchen
this is what i downloaded

itsmirel said:
i will use odin, i dont know how to enter fastboot and couldnt find
can you be more specific please? i dont know and understand how to use carliv image kitchen
this is what i downloaded
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ALSO, the stock rom i downloaded has only .md5 files

itsmirel said:
i will use odin, i dont know how to enter fastboot and couldnt find
can you be more specific please? i dont know and understand how to use carliv image kitchen
this is what i downloaded
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itsmirel said:
i will use odin, i dont know how to enter fastboot and couldnt find
can you be more specific please? i dont know and understand how to use carliv image kitchen
this is what i downloaded
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Use md5 firmware extractor
[TUTORIAL] How To Extract Files From a TAR.MD5 Stock ROM (SPH-D710)
I've received a TON of PM's and emails asking how to do this and I've decided to do a write-up for everyone. Now to start off, this does not automatically make you a Super Duper Developer, this does not show you how to make your own TAR ROMs...
forum.xda-developers.com
Open carliv.bat batch file.
Copy your device’s stock ROM’s recovery.img and paste it in the “recovery-resources” named folder that is located inside the unzipped folder.
In the Carliv Image Kitchen window, type in R and press enter. Next, type 1 and hit enter again.
Type 1 to unpack the image file that you downloaded earlier.
If you get a message, “Your image is unpacked in recovery folder”, you have successfully unpacked the image file.
Now open the recovery folder in the Carliv unzipped folder. Look around for a folder named “ramdisk” and other files.
Create a new folder somewhere and name it “stock” (you can name it anything you want). Copy and paste all the contents from the “recovery” folder (ramdisk folder and all 10 other files).
Next, delete the recovery.img file that was left behind on the “recovery-resources” folder before.
Also, delete all the contents in “recovery” folder.
Copy and paste the custom recovery image file, the TWRP that you want to port into the “recovery-resources” folder.
You will need to repeat the same steps as before.
never delete the custom recovery image in the “recovery-resources” folder.
Copy the “recovery.img-kernel” and “recovery.img-kernel_offset” from the stock folder and paste it to the TWRP which you extracted in recovery folder in carliv image kitchen . Overwrite it to replace existing files with the same name.
In the Carliv Image Kitchen window, type 2 and hit the enter key.
A message notifying that the image file was repacked will appear. You can view it on the output folder named “output”. This is the brand new TWRP ported image file.
Copy the newly made image file from the “output” folder and paste it to a new folder. Rename it as you want with any name of your choice. Hope it helps. If you are still stuck I'll do it for you

Tab E said:
Use md5 firmware extractor
[TUTORIAL] How To Extract Files From a TAR.MD5 Stock ROM (SPH-D710)
I've received a TON of PM's and emails asking how to do this and I've decided to do a write-up for everyone. Now to start off, this does not automatically make you a Super Duper Developer, this does not show you how to make your own TAR ROMs...
forum.xda-developers.com
Open carliv.bat batch file.
Copy your device’s stock ROM’s recovery.img and paste it in the “recovery-resources” named folder that is located inside the unzipped folder.
In the Carliv Image Kitchen window, type in R and press enter. Next, type 1 and hit enter again.
Type 1 to unpack the image file that you downloaded earlier.
If you get a message, “Your image is unpacked in recovery folder”, you have successfully unpacked the image file.
Now open the recovery folder in the Carliv unzipped folder. Look around for a folder named “ramdisk” and other files.
Create a new folder somewhere and name it “stock” (you can name it anything you want). Copy and paste all the contents from the “recovery” folder (ramdisk folder and all 10 other files).
Next, delete the recovery.img file that was left behind on the “recovery-resources” folder before.
Also, delete all the contents in “recovery” folder.
Copy and paste the custom recovery image file, the TWRP that you want to port into the “recovery-resources” folder.
You will need to repeat the same steps as before.
never delete the custom recovery image in the “recovery-resources” folder.
Copy the “recovery.img-kernel” and “recovery.img-kernel_offset” from the stock folder and paste it to the TWRP which you extracted in recovery folder in carliv image kitchen . Overwrite it to replace existing files with the same name.
In the Carliv Image Kitchen window, type 2 and hit the enter key.
A message notifying that the image file was repacked will appear. You can view it on the output folder named “output”. This is the brand new TWRP ported image file.
Copy the newly made image file from the “output” folder and paste it to a new folder. Rename it as you want with any name of your choice. Hope it helps. If you are still stuck I'll do it for you
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The stock rom i downloaded has multiple .md5 archives. And [AP_A 750...] has inside a recovery.img.lz4 file
Should i download other stock rom? Or use this as .img.lz4

itsmirel said:
The stock rom i downloaded has multiple .md5 archives. And [AP_A 750...] has inside a recovery.img.lz4 file
Should i download other stock rom? Or use this as .img.lz4
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Btw, the tutorial "How To Extract Files From a TAR.MD5 Stock ROM" isn't working anymore. his MyBB forum doesnt work. (MyBB has experienced an internal error and cannot continue.)

Tab E said:
Use md5 firmware extractor
[TUTORIAL] How To Extract Files From a TAR.MD5 Stock ROM (SPH-D710)
I've received a TON of PM's and emails asking how to do this and I've decided to do a write-up for everyone. Now to start off, this does not automatically make you a Super Duper Developer, this does not show you how to make your own TAR ROMs...
forum.xda-developers.com
Open carliv.bat batch file.
Copy your device’s stock ROM’s recovery.img and paste it in the “recovery-resources” named folder that is located inside the unzipped folder.
In the Carliv Image Kitchen window, type in R and press enter. Next, type 1 and hit enter again.
Type 1 to unpack the image file that you downloaded earlier.
If you get a message, “Your image is unpacked in recovery folder”, you have successfully unpacked the image file.
Now open the recovery folder in the Carliv unzipped folder. Look around for a folder named “ramdisk” and other files.
Create a new folder somewhere and name it “stock” (you can name it anything you want). Copy and paste all the contents from the “recovery” folder (ramdisk folder and all 10 other files).
Next, delete the recovery.img file that was left behind on the “recovery-resources” folder before.
Also, delete all the contents in “recovery” folder.
Copy and paste the custom recovery image file, the TWRP that you want to port into the “recovery-resources” folder.
You will need to repeat the same steps as before.
never delete the custom recovery image in the “recovery-resources” folder.
Copy the “recovery.img-kernel” and “recovery.img-kernel_offset” from the stock folder and paste it to the TWRP which you extracted in recovery folder in carliv image kitchen . Overwrite it to replace existing files with the same name.
In the Carliv Image Kitchen window, type 2 and hit the enter key.
A message notifying that the image file was repacked will appear. You can view it on the output folder named “output”. This is the brand new TWRP ported image file.
Copy the newly made image file from the “output” folder and paste it to a new folder. Rename it as you want with any name of your choice. Hope it helps. If you are still stuck I'll do it for you
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i am in the same position, have read your guide intensively but do not succeed in finding the "recovery-resources" folder, and i my version of CiC there is no R (ecovery) in the main menu. will you be so kind to make the twrp?

benniehelder said:
i am in the same position, have read your guide intensively but do not succeed in finding the "recovery-resources" folder, and i my version of CiC there is no R (ecovery) in the main menu. will you be so kind to make the twrp?
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Following this guide has booted TWRP on some devices. Please make sure you are on android 10

Tab E said:
Following this guide has booted TWRP on some devices. Please make sure you are on android 10
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thx,thx,thx for the support!. I have done the carliv protocol but in the end the new compiled twrp failed in Odon. Maybe the new image converting to ,tar is the culprit? after that i tried to do the method in the video but twarp was 3 seconds visible and then back in bootloop!. i shall DL the magisk 20.3 edition. maybe that makes the difference'I bought this A7 last monday after a HUawei, that has no posibilities whatsoever for twrp or root, but in this Samsung I totally surprised that it, untill now, is so umbeatable, albeit unlocked!

benniehelder said:
thx,thx,thx for the support!. I have done the carliv protocol but in the end the new compiled twrp failed in Odon. Maybe the new image converting to ,tar is the culprit? after that i tried to do the method in the video but twarp was 3 seconds visible and then back in bootloop!. i shall DL the magisk 20.3 edition. maybe that makes the difference'I bought this A7 last monday after a HUawei, that has no posibilities whatsoever for twrp or root, but in this Samsung I totally surprised that it, untill now, is so umbeatable, albeit unlocked!
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how to make from the new homemade recovery a tar, so you can flash with odin?

benniehelder said:
how to make from the new homemade recovery a tar, so you can flash with odin?
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Convert TWRP .img to .tar (for ODIN)[Easy]
Sometimes the latest version of TWRP is in ".img", so some people use an older version instead, which is in .tar, so they can flash it with ODIN. The thing is that the ".tar" version is just the ".img" compressed XD, so I'm going to show you how...
forum.xda-developers.com

i had done this with z7 myself already, but to no avail, but: i began, in a moment of despair, with Odon to try all the .tars i had collected sofar , to flash and when i flashed PBRP (it was not the first time) it worked!!!. after a week the gizmo do have a recovery, that is not stock! Little new prob: By rebooting system he bootloops (for a change!) in bootloader mode.