[Completed] Unpacking and repacking system.img error

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Hello, I'm trying to unpack and repack a system.img file using cygwin and the "simg2img" and "make_ext4fs" binary file. I am using cygwin because Linux is too much for VirtualBox and I have a bootcamped Mac so I don't have a lot of space on my Windows partition. My problem is when I run this: $./simg2img system.img sys.raw it returns with this -bash: ./simg2img: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error I really don't understand why this is happening and I checked the Ubuntu forums many times but I still cannot find anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588461
^^ Trying to follow that guide.
Thanks in advance

ethanscooter said:
Hello, I'm trying to unpack and repack a system.img file using cygwin and the "simg2img" and "make_ext4fs" binary file. I am using cygwin because Linux is too much for VirtualBox and I have a bootcamped Mac so I don't have a lot of space on my Windows partition. My problem is when I run this: $./simg2img system.img sys.raw it returns with this -bash: ./simg2img: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error I really don't understand why this is happening and I checked the Ubuntu forums many times but I still cannot find anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588461
^^ Trying to follow that guide.
Thanks in advance
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Hello,
Funny you mention that thread. Because this post is in it:
does any one knows how to do it on cygwin? can you give me a full detail of the steps on how to set this thing up in cygwin.
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cygwin cannot run native linux excute file without rebuild from source ~
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So. Time to look at the real problem. How can Linux be too much for Virtualbox when you can run a full Windows OS on the other side of bootcamp?
Linux doesn't have that serious of system requirements, especially if you skip the GUI. Skip Ubuntu for sure, in favour of Puppy Linux, Lubuntu or even Debian (with issuing the boot parameter - by pressing tab - and then typing "desktop=lxde" if you need to install a GUI at all). Do all of this in the Mac side of bootcamp where you will have more resources. Virtualbox should handle it well, even if it's a little slow.
Adapt as you go (e.g. RAM allocation can be as little as 64MB for console only, but in reality, squeeze out as much as you can afford to):
> App Development Forums > Development Tools > IDEs, Libraries, & Programming Tools > [GUIDE] VirtualBox Set-Up (MORE TO COME!)
Hope this helps, and good luck!

joel.maxuel said:
Hello,
Funny you mention that thread. Because this post is in it:
So. Time to look at the real problem. How can Linux be too much for Virtualbox when you can run a full Windows OS on the other side of bootcamp?
Linux doesn't have that serious of system requirements, especially if you skip the GUI. Skip Ubuntu for sure, in favour of Puppy Linux, Lubuntu or even Debian (with issuing the boot parameter - by pressing tab - and then typing "desktop=lxde" if you need to install a GUI at all). Do all of this in the Mac side of bootcamp where you will have more resources. Virtualbox should handle it well, even if it's a little slow.
Adapt as you go (e.g. RAM allocation can be as little as 64MB for console only, but in reality, squeeze out as much as you can afford to):
> App Development Forums > Development Tools > IDEs, Libraries, & Programming Tools > [GUIDE] VirtualBox Set-Up (MORE TO COME!)
Hope this helps, and good luck!
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Hello, I actually installed LINUX on actual hardware on another computer, my only problem was repacking the image I could not flash the repacked image which I have turned into a tar file with cygwin in ODIN it would fail. Also I meant it was too much because it was slow and I didn't have enough space thats why I mentioned the dualboot setup I only have 5gb free.

ethanscooter said:
Hello, I actually installed LINUX on actual hardware on another computer, my only problem was repacking the image I could not flash the repacked image which I have turned into a tar file with cygwin in ODIN it would fail. Also I meant it was too much because it was slow and I didn't have enough space thats why I mentioned the dualboot setup I only have 5gb free.
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I would avoid cygwin at all steps. It's only good for routine commands (I used to use it to do "ls -lR" dumps of my CD archives), not for special projects. NTFS is a whole different beast than ext4, and it sounds like the permissions you have vs. the permissions you are supposed to get don't match up. So Odin is refusing to cooperate.
Good news that you have a different computer to run GNU/Linux on. FWIW, the missing information was how much disk space was left on the OSX end of things, which is why I suggested VirtualBox "on the Mac side".
Back to the drawing board, but it looks like you have the resources to get something successful this time.
If not, and Linux was used in all the steps, can always sort out the problem in the guide you originally linked by asking there.
Hope this helps.

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[HELP] Repacking boot.img on windows

been following amon's instructions (the one that was used for cyanogen's 32a mod)... modifying them a bit for windows... downloaded strawberry perl and when i run repack-H.pl i get an error saying it can't find the mkbootimg-H file... so i was wondering where i should put this so that strawberry perl can get at it
Thanks a lot... first time developer here

I keep it in my /tools/ dir with the repack script.

ok so i've navigated to my folder with boot.img-kernel and the boot.img-ramdisk folder and i'm running the command
perl C:\Users\*my user name *\Desktop\aoeu\android\tools\repack-H.pl boot.img-kernel boot.img-ramdisk boot.img
and i'm getting 2 errors...
'cpio' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file (i figure this is because i'm on windows... haven't found a solution for this yet but i'm sure i can get cpio for windows somewhere)
and 'mkbootimg-H' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
would love help in any way... as i've said i'm running windows 7 with strawberry perl installed...
*edit* if this helps i'm trying to put together a rom that has hofo kernel v2 on top of jacheroski 2.1

I don't think you can repack ROM's in Windows. You can get VirtualBox and install a Linux distro using it.

hotweiss said:
I don't think you can repack ROM's in Windows. You can get VirtualBox and install a Linux distro using it.
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damn lol i did my best to make it work... virtualbox here i come!

Phil_McRevis said:
damn lol i did my best to make it work... virtualbox here i come!
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Install Linux Mint in virtualbox, as it has most of the things you need out of the box.
www.linuxmint.com
Download the port tools:
http://www.4shared.com/file/122118622/fd190fe1/PortTools.html
Download the Linux Android SDK.
Go into your home folder and type this in:
sudo gedit .bashrc
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Add this line at the end:
export PATH=${PATH}:/home/phil/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools
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Copy all of the port tools in your tools directory, except the sign app.
Right-click on them and make them executable.
Repack and unpack as you please.
When you sign them, you have to copy the three signing files in the directory with the zip.
That's the most of it.
PS-VirtualBox is a bit lacking when on a Windows 7 host. Your USB devices might not be seen, and folder sharing is very difficult to set-up. So you'll most likely have to do all of your work on the Linux guest, upload it, and then download it on your Windows host.

Phil_McRevis said:
been following amon's instructions (the one that was used for cyanogen's 32a mod)... modifying them a bit for windows... downloaded strawberry perl and when i run repack-H.pl i get an error saying it can't find the mkbootimg-H file... so i was wondering where i should put this so that strawberry perl can get at it
Thanks a lot... first time developer here
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mkbootimg-H is a linux binary, it will not run on Window$
Just install Ubuntu using wubi instead of a virtualbox.
Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application. This is a much easier approach as a slow virtualbox.

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

[Q] How can I root my Infuse without a computer or through linux mint 11

My computer has very low ram, as a result anything related to flash or anything having high memory requirement crashes and usually freezes ie resulting in a restart
So I would like to keep the computer out of the equation
I am wondering if one can root a phone without a computer
This may seem like an odd request/question but I am in a terrible place, my stuff was stolen, I am even more broke than before.
Thanks for any help

You can try z4root.apk but it may or may not work....really need a computer with superoneclick
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using xda premium

use virtualbox to run Windows and use superoneclick using the virtual Windows.
here's the website with info for getting it going and downloads
https://www.virtualbox.org/
good luck

hollywood528 said:
use virtualbox to run Windows and use superoneclick using the virtual Windows.
here's the website with info for getting it going and downloads
https://www.virtualbox.org/
good luck
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his computer has low ram. running a vm will make that situation much much worse!
look in the dev section for a root/unlock tool from lost1 it includes adb, ragagainst the cage binary and a batch script for windows and shell scripts for linux and mac. just extract the package to a convienient place like c:\ in windows or your home or root directory in linux then using comand line cd into the extracted folder and run the approraite script.

I can do this within linux ?

GreenAce92 said:
I can do this within linux ?
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yes, there are different scripts for different os's the root.sh is the one for Linux. under the assumption you are a Linux newb to execute a ascription you may need to change permissions to executable first. you can usually set this in gnome or whatever window manager you like. or with chmod
chmod 0755 root.sh
then to execute the script you just type
./root.sh
this is all assuming you are within the folder that contains the script.
it appears all it does it move a binary to /data/local wait a few seconds and then copy su to /system/bin. you could easily do that through adb if you are familiar with it.

So uhh
Could you dumb this down even further, I am a complete linux newb as you say and I have just installed Linux Mint 11 32bit on an old HD of mine so Linux is here to stay, I'm interested in learning it too
But anyways... what can you suggest so that I can catch up / understand what you have just told me to do?
Thanks for this

GreenAce92 said:
So uhh
Could you dumb this down even further, I am a complete linux newb as you say and I have just installed Linux Mint 11 32bit on an old HD of mine so Linux is here to stay, I'm interested in learning it too
But anyways... what can you suggest so that I can catch up / understand what you have just told me to do?
Thanks for this
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first download the root/unlock package from this thread
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081072
unzip the package and find the root.sh file.
ok, Linux sets file permissions that tell the system who can access the file and how. on Ubuntu new files are set as non executable by default. mint being based on Ubuntu is the same. the permissions are set with a 4 digit number, the first number is special permissions and you wont use that very often. the second digit is for the user that owns the file, the 3rd is for the group and the 4th is for the others.
if you use command line the chmod command will set these permissions. 7 designates read write and executable, 6 is read write, 5 is read and executable, 4 is read only.
but you can also set a file as executable in gnome. right click the icon and choose properties. there should be a box that says "is executable" or "alow execution of file as program" or something. check that box for the "script.sh" file.
once you do that right click in the widow of the folder that the root.sh script is in and choose "open in terminal" or "open window terminal here" this will open a command line window open to that directory.
make sure debugging is enabled in settings>applications on the phone and connect with the data cable. don't mount the SD card.
now type ./root.sh
that should start the script and root the phone. reboot when it's done.

Excellent
Many thanks to you good sir, I shall report back when I have tried this

Try looking here, works on Windows, Mac, and Linux: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081072

GreenAce92 said:
Excellent
Many thanks to you good sir, I shall report back when I have tried this
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oh forgot, you might need to set adb as executable as well. same thing. right click and go to properties>permissions>allow execution... or whatever it says in gnome. (I use kde and occasionally xfce for low performance hardware, but mostly kde)

Use heimdall to flash a custom kernel

[Q&A] How to build/modify your own linux image for eMMC install Debian sample inside

[Q&A] How to build/modify your own linux image for eMMC install Debian sample inside
This thread is for help and support with all linux distributions instalable in eeepad asus transformer. I will explain how to build your own image file or modify existing one in order to use lilstive OLife script.
As ubuntu is the most popular distro, please, all de questions related with ubuntu post them in lilstevie's thread.
You can install any distribution with arm architecture support, but you'll need to make some tweaks in the image in order to work propperly. As my experience in linux is most of it related with debian is the distro i will give the best support, but i'll try to answer every question you ask.
I've chosen debian armHardFloat port instead of debian armel fore many reasons, you can read about this port here:
http : //wiki. debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort
This port is still young so right now there are packages still unaviable to install but they are entering in wheeze day to day. If you preffer to use armel instead or armhf you can always do, you will loose improvement but you will have (at the time of writting this) less packages aviable. In the future (not far away) it will be the best option.
Building your own image:
There are many ways to create a image file but because we are going to need qemu in order to debootstrap the instalation the easiest way to create it is with qemu-img
Code:
qemu-img create debian-armhf.img 400M
I have only given 400M of space because is going to be a minimal instalation without desktop enviroment, it could be smaller but, just in case, that's the size i've chosen. The transfer with OLife it will be faster if the image is smaller.
When you boot for your first time you will find an error because there is no valid MSDOS partition table, this is ok, nothing happens because of that but if you want to avoid it use fdisk to create a partition table
Code:
fdisk debian-armhf.img
we need now to give format to the filesistem:
Code:
mkfs.ext4 debian-armhf.img
It will ask if you really want to do because it's not an ordinary partition and you have to type "s" to proceed
Now whe have ready the image and we have to mount it in some folder to install debian in it:
Code:
mount -o loop debian-armhf.img debian
asuming debian as the created folder for that.
We are ready to debootstrap de instalation:
Code:
debootstrap --verbose --arch armhf --foreign --include=btrfs-tools,locales,kbd,wpasupplicant wheezy debian http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
this will make the first step to install wheezy armhf, --foreing parameter is because the target architecture is different from the host one and it's going to stop before de second-stage, it will include the packages btrfs-tools locales and kbd, you can add as many as you want but it will be always faster if you install them manually once installed in the transformer. I didn't install ssh server because i have a dock, but if you don't have it will be needed to complete the instalation with a remote shell, but you can also install packages later with chroot after the second stage.
In order to be able to chroot we will need qemu-user-static, with armhf it's needed 1.0 version with armel it's not necesary, it can be any version not too old. Also if you have an i386 system it's recomendable to install an amd64 kernel to do chroot or debootstrap will fail configuring cron. Actually i think in this sample image there is anacron instead of cron because there was an issue i thought it was related with that but later twb found out the problem was another different and now it's solved.
we will add qemu-arm-static to the instalation to be able to chroot
Code:
cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static debian/usr/bin/
we chroot to the new enviroment:
Code:
chroot debian
and execute the second stage of debootstrap:
Code:
./debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
After finish the instalation we will set the root password
Code:
passwd
and now it's ready, you can make tweaks, install packages (as ssh if you need it) or whatever you want, but you will have to add a repository to /etc/apt/sources.list in order to install any packages.
In this image and debootstrap proccess i've used german repositories because are the fastest for me, but you can use another one, right now it's neede also experimental repository to have working touch screen, but as soon xserver-xorg-input-evdev with full multitouch support enters sid as it won't be necesary
example of /etc/apt/sources.list
Code:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
I have already installed in this image necesary packages for that and experimental repositories won't interfiere unless you pass the parameter for apt-file so you can forget about this if you want, but if you are building your own image apt-get install -t experimental xserver-xorg will do the work.
we have ready now our image but it need some files and tweaks to make everithing work in the eepad.
From here you can apply this to any arm image you want to test.
(all the files needed are in the attached file files.tar.gz in the rigth folders)
we need to add modules and firmware, i've extracted them from lilstive ubuntu.img
strictly necesary are:
Code:
/lib/firmware/nvram.txt
/lib/firmware/brcm/*
but you may need another ones if you are going to use external hardware, that's on you.
there are also two folder in /lib/modules one is for the asus kernel and the other one for chrome os kernel, i suggest to add both of them because it's just a bit space and you will be able to use the image with both kernels.
In order to make wifi work i've made /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf file with some parameters found in one of the threads of lilstevie and /etc/modules with the modules to load.
You will also need to configure /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf all this files are in the attached files.tar.gz but wpa_supplicant.conf is not because it depends of each ones wifi, but there is a wpa_supplicant.conf.example and you can always google for it a bit. If you don't have a dock make sure you do this correctly or you won't be able to connect to the internet and ssh device to continue instalation easily
if you want to be able to use adb (wich is really usefull if you for example did not correctly configure wpa_supplicant) you will have tu add also "/usr/bin/adbd" and /etc/init.d/adbd"
I've modify the original init.d script to avid LSB tags missing warning error, it's not really necesary rsyslog as previous service started but ... it works.
In order to make adb service start automatically we will execute (inside the chroot of course)
Code:
update-rc.d /etc/init.d/adb defaults
This may be different in non debian based distributions, but you can always ln manually to rcX.d
Finally, there is the "bug" it has made me think something was wrong and change cron with anacron, when you boot it appears to stop booting starting a service (cron, dbus, deppending what you have installed) but it isn't you can login pressing ctrl + alt + F2 (touchpad key),
we think it's related with the bootloader and default tty as 7 or something like that.
As workaround add in /etc/rc.local "chvt 1" (without quotes) just before exit 0 line
Because there is not oem-installation like in ubuntu after the first boot there are a couple of things to do, we have to resize the image to fit the partition, change password, configure locales and xorg keyboard-layout (if you have more than one locales) add an user and include in relevant groups and maybe more in the future so i've made a postinstalation.sh script included in /usr/bin:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Making online resize of the root partition"
partition=`mount -l | grep " / " | awk '{print $1}'`
resize2fs $partition
echo "changing root password"
passwd
echo "configure locales"
dpkg-reconfigure locales
echo "configure xserver keyboard layout"
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
echo "configure localtime"
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
echo "Please anter a user name"
read username1
adduser $username1
echo "adding user to relevant groups"
adduser $username1 audio
adduser $username1 video
adduser $username1 netdev
adduser $username1 plugdev
adduser $username1 bluetooth
adduser to bluetooth will fil because there is not installed any bluetooth manager so there is not bluetooth group yet, and remeber tu use OLife script to inject bluetooth firmware in order to have bluetooth working.
And that's it i think i haven't miss anything but i will update this when needed. You can now install your image with lilstevie's OLife script, you will have to rename it to ubuntu.img from now. If everithing went ok you can now install the desktop enviroment you prefer, on screen keyboard or whatever you like.
I haven't test network manager and i've only tested kde-netbook, but there are still broken dependencies and it's a bit slow. This will improve as soon as we have hardware acceleration (if we ever do), and armhf port goes ahead.
Lilstevie is going to host my images and maybe OLife script will have more options in the future, but from now you can download from here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/debian-armhf.img.tar.gz
(md5sum inside)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/files.tar.gz
All credits and many thanks for lilstevie and twb for all the help they gave me.
I will apreciate any correction not only in this process but also in my english grammar/ortography

Please, any mod or admin can correct the word modufy in the title?
reserved

Thanks
Following your instructions, I can finally replace ubuntu with debian, which resides my home laptops, office desktop, and now, on my tablet as well. Unfortunately debian has no "onboard" package... and it's rather inconvenient without a dock.
Thanks anyway for bring debian to this tablet.

boseliquid said:
Following your instructions, I can finally replace ubuntu with debian, which resides my home laptops, office desktop, and now, on my tablet as well. Unfortunately debian has no "onboard" package... and it's rather inconvenient without a dock.
Thanks anyway for bring debian to this tablet.
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What has onboard that haven't other onscreen keyboards? i haven't ever tried onboard and i just tried a couple of onboard keyboards in debian, i also did managed to load it automatically in login screen, But i did never went deeper, like "only appear if the focus is in textbox" or something like that.
Anyway i has to be easy to rebuild that package for debian or just install it from ubuntu. What do you exactly need?

onboard onboard
Onboard has keys that simulate middle-click and right-click of mouse. I tried to install ubuntu's deb file, but runs into problem with dependencies. Compiling the source on the tablet led to error related to gdk/gdk.h which i couldn't figure out how to resolve.
Onboard respond better than others, e.g. xvkbd and florence both have run-away key presses, i.e. a string of letters appear even for a quick single tap on a key.
Also, onboard integrates nicely with lightdm. I used xdm plus florence to log in (the screen keyboard hides most of xdm's GUI).
With fluxbox, debian seems faster than ubuntu+fluxbox on the tablet. That's why onboard is nice since fluxbox menu requires right-clicking on the desktop. Fortunately, fluxbox keys are easily configurable, so i still can shutdown by pressing some key combination.
Hopefully lilstevie has the time to work on hardware acceleration, which would then allows to dump android completely.

boseliquid said:
Onboard has keys that simulate middle-click and right-click of mouse. I tried to install ubuntu's deb file, but runs into problem with dependencies. Compiling the source on the tablet led to error related to gdk/gdk.h which i couldn't figure out how to resolve.
Onboard respond better than others, e.g. xvkbd and florence both have run-away key presses, i.e. a string of letters appear even for a quick single tap on a key.
Also, onboard integrates nicely with lightdm. I used xdm plus florence to log in (the screen keyboard hides most of xdm's GUI).
With fluxbox, debian seems faster than ubuntu+fluxbox on the tablet. That's why onboard is nice since fluxbox menu requires right-clicking on the desktop. Fortunately, fluxbox keys are easily configurable, so i still can shutdown by pressing some key combination.
Hopefully lilstevie has the time to work on hardware acceleration, which would then allows to dump android completely.
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Ok, i'll give it a look and if i can i will build a debian package in order to include it in the image

I've managed to build a couple of packages for onboard. You can't imagine how much crap it's in building dependencies, mono, unity and so many things, so i've removed appindicator dependency because i don't think it's going to be really necesary. The true is that i don't have so much time right now so,
Can you please test it and tell me if you have any problem? I can try to rebuild another older version in order to avoid unity crap and those things without messing the code, but if this works well it's the eassiest solution.
You have to install both packages, the other dependencies are instalable from debian oficial repository, at least i haven't got any problem installing it in my building environment.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/onboard_0.95.1-1_all.deb
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60048492/python-virtkey_0.60.0-1_armel.deb

arch of python-virtkey is armel instead of armhf
Almost there... but obtained the following error msg:
Unpacking onboard (from onboard_0.95.1-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of onboard:
onboard depends on python-virtkey (>= 0.60.0); however:
Package python-virtkey is not installed.
onboard depends on python-gconf; however:
Package python-gconf is not installed.
dpkg: error processing onboard (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Thanks again.

boseliquid said:
Almost there... but obtained the following error msg:
Unpacking onboard (from onboard_0.95.1-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of onboard:
onboard depends on python-virtkey (>= 0.60.0); however:
Package python-virtkey is not installed.
onboard depends on python-gconf; however:
Package python-gconf is not installed.
dpkg: error processing onboard (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Thanks again.
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python-virtkey is provided in my previous post, just install it, after that
#apt-get install -f
will resolve and install automatically pending dependencies.
I've already tried and it works.
EDIT: i have been working in the suppose you are runnin debian armel and not armhf

To get bluetooth working, you need an armhf build of brcm_patchram_plus.
Thankfully it's GPL'd, so here's a copy.

Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble getting Debian on my TF101 using OLiFE.
I'm forced to use the android/Ubuntu dual-boot option, but that's another story.
Basically, there's a kernel panic and I can't see the entire screen without it rebooting one second later. I am able to flash my TF101 properly without bricking (it's a B60), but everytime I boot it up as my default OS, I get that rebooting screen.

NothingMuchHereToSay said:
Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble getting Debian on my TF101 using OLiFE.
I'm forced to use the android/Ubuntu dual-boot option, but that's another story.
Basically, there's a kernel panic and I can't see the entire screen without it rebooting one second later. I am able to flash my TF101 properly without bricking (it's a B60), but everytime I boot it up as my default OS, I get that rebooting screen.
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Kernel panic kinda implies the problem is with the kernel, not with Debian. If you're using the 3.1 kernel, try the 2.6 one by lilstevie. Whichever kernel you're using, you're better off seeking help in one of the kernel-specific threads.

rdnetto said:
Kernel panic kinda implies the problem is with the kernel, not with Debian. If you're using the 3.1 kernel, try the 2.6 one by lilstevie. Whichever kernel you're using, you're better off seeking help in one of the kernel-specific threads.
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Could or couldn't it may also be a problem with initramfs and boot parameters. I now because i experienced it. So if you give us more information, better, try to record a video of the bootloop and pass it slowly to see the error, i did that and it worked for me

Franks Tools-new modified Ubuntu install
Hello i dont know if this is right thread,i like to ask you advanced users for some help.I wanna install ubuntua via new modified Franks tools by kenshin,released few days ago,i cannot find exact answer what i need to progress.
My questions are: How can i made nvflashable files system.img boot.img recovery.img and others to use franks tools? how to obtain these images?
2.) and if i will use those images that can be found here on forum can i then just flash for example Revolution HD rom? ,or does it destroy my installation of ubuntu via franks tools?
because i know that there is little play with partitions so i am not sure if i can flash any rom after use of franks tools dual boot option.thank you for help

shaola said:
Could or couldn't it may also be a problem with initramfs and boot parameters. I now because i experienced it. So if you give us more information, better, try to record a video of the bootloop and pass it slowly to see the error, i did that and it worked for me
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I did everything stock and did exactly what you said to do for Debian, though I used the armel architecture and the adb wouldn't work with an error.
By everything stock, I mean that I didn't alter anything from the OLiFE folder except adding the ubuntu.img file.

NothingMuchHereToSay said:
I did everything stock and did exactly what you said to do for Debian, though I used the armel architecture and the adb wouldn't work with an error.
By everything stock, I mean that I didn't alter anything from the OLiFE folder except adding the ubuntu.img file.
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The original kernel from OLiFE didn't work for me - I had a boot loop. Try manually compiling the lilstevie kernel, or using a kernel from Jhinta's kernel thread.
The packed kernels (CWM zips) for Ubuntu will work exactly the same under Debian. (or at least in the direct mount case - I don't know about loop mount)

i can't get wifi up ... could someone help?
it is shown in iwlist wlan0 scan but i can't find an network ...
while boot it sends many intervals and abort this progress with givin' up.
i just copied li/firmware file from olife.img und files from this thread over it ...
anyone could help please?

NoDiskNoFun said:
i can't get wifi up ... could someone help?
it is shown in iwlist wlan0 scan but i can't find an network ...
while boot it sends many intervals and abort this progress with givin' up.
i just copied li/firmware file from olife.img und files from this thread over it ...
anyone could help please?
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what are you uing to scan? this driver ony supports wpasupplicant, not iw nor iwconfig

hi,
i installed the ubuntu image with olife on my transformer. i don't like ubuntu very much, i prefer debian which i run debian on my computer as well. i stumbled over this thread so i wondered what's the status of debian on our transformer.
can anyone tell me whats currently working.

hanswurschtus said:
hi,
i installed the ubuntu image with olife on my transformer. i don't like ubuntu very much, i prefer debian which i run debian on my computer as well. i stumbled over this thread so i wondered what's the status of debian on our transformer.
can anyone tell me whats currently working.
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The same as in ubuntu. But you may need some tweeks. Depends of the kernel you are using. nvidia has released also a beta of the nvidia drivers for armhf and not only armel so you may use armhf or armel with jintha's kernel and have almost everithung working.

[GUIDE] Ubuntu in a chroot on the Galaxy S4 - now with Native Booting!

Notice (4/16/14): I'm no longer here. I've said "goodbye" to AT&T and their locked bootloader schemes. I'm voting with my wallet - I've sold my I337 and switched to T-Mobile. My apologies to the community, but you're now on your own here.
Intro/About/Requirements:
This thread started as a guide for people who wanted to run Ubuntu in a chroot, and then connecting to it locally with a VNC client. This method has been used countless times on other devices, with many thanks to @zacthespack and his his group, LinuxonAndroid. Unfortunately, this method did not work out-of-the-box on my device, so I tweaked things to work with the Galaxy S4 and posted them here in this thread.
However, the most people immediately noticed that with this method the performance is not great, and some applications can't work in a headless environment. With a comment made by zackthespack, I began researching what it would take to get Ubuntu to write directly to the device's framebuffer. After a few months, I not only managed to accomplish this, but also developed a way to get the Galaxy S4 to boot directly into Ubuntu. As far as I have seen, both of these are a "first" for this handset.
All of these methods require root. The VNC Chroot does not require a custom kernel, but the other methods require a custom-built kernel. For the I337 (AT&T) handset, this can pose a problem if you have bootloaders that are MF3+. If you're using MDB/MDL bootloaders still, you shouldn't have a problem with this and you can Loki the custom kernel without issue.
Depending on your ROM and/or Kernel, you may also need a new version of BusyBox installed, even for the VNC method. You'll find a few apps on the Play Store that can do this for you. Beware that some of them are not easily reversible (such as TinyBox), so if you're stuck on MF3 with no way to create/restore a nandroid/system backup, you should be careful.
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Disclaimers:
Following this guide and/or flashing anything I've provided to your device is your own responsibility. If something breaks, you break your device, or something explodes, I can't be held liable (I'll help correct any situations you may put yourself in, however). I claim no rights to any proprietary software or intellectual property included in this post or the packages contained herein. By using any of this software, you agree to whatever licenses/agreements that the creators may have included with their software. If you use any of this stuff in your own project, please provide credit where credit is due. For example, if you take my u.sh script and adapt it to some new device (i.e. Galaxy S 5), please at least mention where it came from.
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VNC Chroot Method (original):
This method is loosely based on this thread for the Galaxy S3 and the ubuntu.sh script there. It didn't work for the S4, but I've made several tweaks to it, simplifying it a ton, and otherwise getting it to work perfectly on my S4. I've tried this using my AT&T Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337) on both the MDL build and the MF3 build - both seem to work great.
Instructions:
Download the Ubuntu 13.04 Small v1 image here.
Create a folder on your sdcard labeled "ubuntu" by whatever means you want to.
Extract the ubuntu.img from your downloaded zip into this folder.
Download my version of the ubuntu.sh and place it on the root of your sdcard.
Open the script in a text editor and read through it. Never run a script like this on your android without first knowing what it does - especially when the author is telling you that you need root. If you're happy with it, proceed.
Install an terminal emulator of your choice. I personally used this one, and technically an adb shell will work too (but you'll be tethered to your PC...).
Install a VNC Client of your choice. I personally used this one, but there might be better/faster ones out there.
Open the terminal emulator, and execute the following commands:
Code:
su
sh /sdcard/ubuntu.sh
If you see a bunch of errors and get dumped back at the "[email protected]:/ # " prompt, then something went wrong. Report your errors in this thread. Remember, this requires root (and the "su" command to get there, of course).
You'll be prompted for some setup parameters, which you can save at the end for later. Just answer each question and press Enter after each:
You'll need to provide a new password for the "ubuntu" user. A simple passwords like "ubuntu" works, unless you want some security.
Start VNC server? (y/n) - always choose "y". We need this to interact with the device.
SSH server? Optional. If you use it, you should enable it.
Screen size: Enter whatever you want. I personally used 960x540 (one quarter of the S4's screen size) so that I could actually interact with things using the touch screen.
Save settings as defaults? - You might not want to do this until you have a screen size that works best for you.
Once you see the prompt, "[email protected]:~# " - you're in! You now have Ubuntu running in a chroot. As the on-screen instructions suggest, type "exit" at this prompt to end the chroot and Ubuntu. It is recommended to do this when you are done so that the ubuntu.sh script can clean up after itself (unmounting things, etc.).
Leave your terminal emulator app running! Use your Home button to return home and leave it running.
Open you VNC client and connect with the following settings:
Nickname: (whatever you want)
Password: ubuntu
Address: localhost
Port: 5900 (default)
Username: (leave blank)
Color Format: 24-bit color (you can use lower if you want better performance)
Connect. For the VNC app I used, I had to zoom in to make the screen fit correctly (use pinch-to-zoom, and then use the "+" button on-screen). Also, you can play around with the Input Mode some if you wish.
Enjoy Ubuntu!
As you can see, it's not terribly complicated to get this up and running. Once you have set it up the first time, it's a lot smoother from then on out. The script is designed to allow you to use the external SDCard if you wish. Just use place the ubuntu.img in an "ubuntu" folder on your external SDCard, drop the ubuntu.sh on the root of the external SDCard, and use "sh /mnt/extSdCard/ubuntu.sh" instead (don't forget "su"!).
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Freedreno Chroot Method (NEW):
This long-winded tutorial will explain how you can setup Xubuntu-desktop in a chroot. Before attempting any of this, you should read through all the steps and be sure you're comfortable performing the steps needed.
This requires roughly 2GB free space on your /data partition - the actual finished install is about 1.4GB, but it will require some extra space while it installs Freedreno and other components. HINT: Keep in mind that your /data partition is shared with your internal sdcard (your internal sdcard gets whatever space is leftover at the end of the /data partition), so you can get an idea how much free space you have by looking at how much space your internal sdcard has available.
Instructions:
Step 0 (option A) - Build Custom Kernel
You will need to install a custom kernel that has specific options enabled in the configuration, along with a few patched files in the source code. This list of changes is based on a delta from the stock I337 MF3 kernel, available at http://opensource.samsung.com/. You should be able to apply these changes to "any" kernel that you can build from source, so this documentation may apply to devices other than the I337.
Kernel Mods:
Required config changes:
Code:
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
# CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT is not set
CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_MSM_KGSL_DRM=y
# CONFIG_KGSL_PER_PROCESS_PAGE_TABLE is not set
# CONFIG_MSM_KGSL_PAGE_TABLE_COUNT is not set
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_MSM_TRIPLE_BUFFER=y
CONFIG_FB_MSM_DEFAULT_DEPTH_BGRA8888=y
# CONFIG_FB_MSM_DEFAULT_DEPTH_RGBA8888 is not set
Fix for Wi-Fi problems when using MF3 kernel on UCUAMDL bootloaders (i.e. "unadulterated" or "neutered"):
Code:
CONFIG_PROC_AVC=y
Required Patches to kernel source code:
https://github.com/freedreno/kernel-msm/commit/4c0281745f8c85707be88acebb557aca0b8f1dba
https://github.com/freedreno/kernel-msm/commit/228f65d48d4855d903e3b4642179dfa14eedd040
https://github.com/freedreno/kernel-msm/commit/54b510b2e6bccf08fdf3a8ad00a62b27c2f8c1e6
Additional changes required for sudo to work (added 10-25-13 in v4):
Code:
# Samsung Rooting Restriction Feature
#
# CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING is not set
# CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_SETUID is not set
# CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_FORK is not set
# CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING_LOG is not set
Additional changes to the initramfs required for sudo to work (added 10-25-13 in v4):
Edit fstab.qcom, remove the nosuid, part of the line that references userdata.
Step 0 (option B) - Download Custom Kernel Instead
Don't want to compile your own kernel from source? If you have the I337, you can use mine! As mentioned above, this kernel is based on the original MF3 source from Samsung, with the modifications listed above. If you are stuck with MF3+ bootloaders on your I337, you will not be able to install this kernel directly (at the time of this writing). MDB/MDL bootloaders are fine, but you will need to flash loki-doki afterwards (this kernel is not pre-lokified!). This kernel might work with other similar variants (such as the M919), but I haven't tested this on anything except my own I337 daily-driver. YMMV. If you run into issues, you might need to wipe cache/dalvik. This will likely only work with TouchWiz-based ROMs (I have not tried it with AOSP). Here's some downloads for you:
mf3-freedreno-android-boot-v4.zip - CWM/TWRP flashable zip.
- Boots to android, allows Ubuntu with Freedreno to work in a chroot.
- Compiled with the original (slightly modified) MF3 initramfs and "mf3-freedreno-minimum-zImage-v4" (below).
- Includes minimal configuration changes described above, plus the WiFi fix part.
mf3-freedreno-minimum-zImage-v4 - Just the MF3 kernel itself with minimal changes to get the chroot to work.
mf3-freedreno-minimum-config-v4 - Yeah, that's right. I'm providing the .config files I used for all of this.
Step 0.5 - Install the Kernel
Before you can start up the chroot properly, you'll need to have the custom kernel installed. You don't want the "ubuntu-boot" version right now, because you don't have an Ubuntu install to boot to. If you're using my pre-built kernel, first flash mf3-freedreno-android-boot-v4.zip and then flash loki-doki.zip.
Step 1 - Companion Files
Download this file: mf3-freedreno-companions-v4.zip - Non-flashable zip. This includes the script files, which you should promptly read through both u.sh and launch.sh. It is always good practice to read through any script file you get from the internet, making sure it's doing what you would expect it to. Also check out CREDITS.txt, which includes information about the included upstart-dummy.tar.gz and start-stop-daemon files.
Extract the companion files .zip and place its contents on the root of your internal sdcard (/sdcard/). Don't extract the contents of upstart-dummy.tar.gz. This is your $src directory. You can change this if you wish (see script for details).
Step 2 - Install/Configure Ubuntu
Install an terminal emulator of your choice. I personally used this one, and technically an adb shell will work too (but you'll be tethered to your PC...). At the console/shell, type the following two commands:
Code:
su
sh /sdcard/u.sh bash
The script will download Ubuntu Core and install Freedreno, upstart-dummy, and lubuntu-desktop. Total download size will be around 425MB. Total install time will vary, but count on it taking at least 45 minutes to install and configure everything. At the very end, you'll be prompted to enter a password for the new user "ubuntu".
Step 2.5 - Exit ubuntu
When you see the message "Type 'exit' (without quotes) to leave ubuntu," the install is complete. You'll notice that your prompt changed to "[email protected]". This is the easiest way to confirm that you're actually inside the ubuntu chroot. Type exit and hit Enter to get back to android.
Step 3 - Fire it up!
From now on, you can start Ubuntu using u.sh in any of these three ways:
sh /sdcard/u.sh - This will make initial prep, STOP android (black screen), launch the chroot, install/configure if needed, and will execute "service lightdm start". This will give you the greeter and you can login as "ubuntu". If the lightdm service stops for whatever reason (see info about the home button below), the script will continue by exiting the chroot and rebooting your device.
[*]sh /sdcard/u.sh bash - Same as above, except that it will not stop android, not startx (will give bash shell instead), and will not reboot your phone when you exit the shell.
[*]sh /sdcard/u.sh destroy - This will do exactly as it sounds - destroy your ubuntu installation. This will unmount your /sdcard from ubuntu (if still mounted somehow) and then recursively delete your ubuntu installation. If you change the source or destination directories in the main script, you should be careful deleting things.
NOTE: Remember to ALWAYS run any these from a root shell, whether via terminal emulator, via adb shell, or using SManager (or similar).
Step 4 - Note the Home Button and Touchpad
Take note that any time you have X running via lightdm, the hardware Home button will kill the X server. This is intentional, and will exit the chroot and reboot your phone. You'll also notice that currently, the touchscreen acts like a giant touchpad (like on a laptop). Use two fingers to right-click or scroll. Direct touchscreen input is not available at this time due to a segmentation fault that evdev causes when used on this device in a chroot.
Step 5 - (optional) Make Changes and Do it All Over Again
Customize the crap out of it! Edit my u.sh, launch.sh or xorg.conf and have fun. If you find great improvements, please post them in this thread! In future revisions, I might include them. Things should be well documented within the scripts. You might even change the bit at the end of launch.sh that starts "service lightdm start&" instead of "startx" - this would give you the greeter and let you login as the user "ubuntu" if you want. Also note that those three files are the only ones that must remain in your $src directory if you wish to continue to run this as a chroot. By the way, booting directly to Ubuntu after it is installed does not require any of the companion files anymore.
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Native Boot Method (NEW):
This part of the tutorial is for those who wish to take things a step further and boot your device directly into Xubuntu-desktop. This will require that you setup the Freedreno chroot properly, and then you'll be installing a new boot.img. While this doesn't replace your /system partition, you won't be able to boot directly into Android while you have this boot.img installed.
Instructions:
Step 1 - Install Ubuntu
Basically, you need to perform all the steps for the Freedreno Chroot method, and get that up and running first. All you're doing here is swapping out your kernel.
Step 2 (option A) - Build Custom Kernel
You'll need all of the kernel customizations included in the freedreno chroot method, plus these listed below:
NOTE: You will need some proprietary blobs, which can be found on your device in the /etc/firmware directory.
Config changes to enable booting directly into Ubuntu (beyond replacing the initramfs...):
Code:
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_="audience-es325-fw.bin a300_pm4.fw a300_pfp.fw vidc_1080p.fw"
CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=tty0 fbcon=vc:0-3"
# CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER is not set
CONFIG_CMDLINE_EXTEND=y
# CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE is not set
Optional config changes to enable the framebuffer console when booting directly into Ubuntu - useful for debugging.
Code:
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y
# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION is not set
# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
NOTE: You will need to grab some .ko files that are created, which must be loaded in the following order:
Code:
insmod /ko/font.ko
insmod /ko/softcursor.ko
insmod /ko/bitblit.ko
insmod /ko/fbcon.ko
I recommend that you include these four lines into the init script that is included in the ubuntu ramdisk. These can go pretty much anywhere after the ". /scripts/functions" part, but before it calls out to run-init. Also, don't forget to drop those .ko files into a new /ko directory in the initramfs. If you want to load these with modprobe, I'll leave that up to you (good luck).
Replace the entire ramdisk/initramfs:
At this time, I'm not going to provide instructions on how to do this. You'll need this mako boot.img straight from Ubuntu, repacked with the zImage created here. For what it's worth, the re-pack tool I'm using includes --cmdline 'androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31 zcache', but I'm not sure if that's needed (especially considering our kernel seems to use qcache?). Anyways, good luck.
Step 2 (option B) - Download Custom Kernel Instead
Again, if you don't want to compile your own kernel from source, you can download mine and use it. The same warnings and restrictions apply as they do in Step 0 (option B) of the Freedreno Chroot method. And here's your downloads:
mf3-freedreno-ubuntu-boot-v4.zip - CWM/TWRP flashable zip.
- Boots to Ubuntu directly, but only if your Ubuntu install is located at /data/ubuntu (Default).
- Compiled with the original MF3 initramfs and "mf3-freedreno-everything-zImage-v4" (below).
- Includes all configuration changes described above.
mf3-freedreno-everything-zImage-v4 - Just the MF3 kernel itself with all changes for both chroot and direct booting to Ubuntu.
mf3-freedreno-everything-config-v4 - Yet again, I'm providing my complete .config file for this.
Step 3 - Install the Kernel
Here's the easy part. Flash your completed boot.img, flash loki-doki, and reboot. If you're using my pre-built kernel, first flash mf3-freedreno-ubuntu-boot-v4.zip and then flash loki-doki.zip.
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Flashable Zip Method (NEWEST):
It's finally finished: a flashable .zip that you can use to dump a pre-built rootfs onto your data partition. This will still require that you flash one of the two custom kernels (whether for chroot or native booting), but it will allow you to skip the whole build/install process.
ubuntu-install-v4.zip - CWM/TWRP flashable .zip. Requires approx 2GB free space on your data partition during install, and the final install size is approximately 1.3GB (may want more free space to add your own programs/etc.). Output folder is /data/ubuntu. This can be changed in u.sh, but heed the warnings within!
Instructions:
Instructions for Chroot-style Ubuntu:
Download the "companions" .zip and extract its contents to the root of /sdcard.
Download the "ubuntu-install" .zip to your internal or external SDCard.
Download the "mf3-freedreno-android-boot" .zip to your internal or external SDCard.
Make a nandroid backup of your phone, and store it on an external SDCard or your computer. Always a good idea to have this.
Install the "ubuntu-install" and "mf3-freedreno-android-boot" .zip files, followed by loki-doki.zip if you need that for your device (e.g. I337).
Restart and resume with Step3 of the Freedreno Chroot Method.
Instructions for Native Boot Ubuntu:
Download the "ubuntu-install" .zip to your internal or external SDCard.
Download the "mf3-freedreno-ubuntu-boot" .zip to your internal or external SDCard.
Install the "ubuntu-install" and "mf3-freedreno-ubuntu-boot" .zip files, followed by loki-doki.zip if you need that for your device (e.g. I337).
Restart and let it start into Ubuntu!
NOTE: The username is "ubuntu" and the password is also "ubuntu" - it is highly recommended that you change this ASAP.
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Known Issues/Bugs:
Below is the list of known issues that I can think of, from the top of my head. This will probably be updated later as everyone points stuff out. Some issues only apply to some of the methods, so the applicable methods are listed in parenthesis after each.
Sound has not been tested (freedreno/native)
3D graphics or OpenGL support has not been tested (all)
Some applications don't work in a headless environment (vnc)
Some applications don't like to run as root, such as chromium (freedreno) lightdm is working in companions-v3, so no need to login as root anymore
Onboard is not working (freedreno/native) fixed in companions-v3
sudo does not work (all) fixed in kernel-v4 for freedreno/native, but problem remains for (vnc) if you are not using a custom kernel
A few kernel Oops's (native)
Shutdown menu doesn't always work (freedreno/native) fixed partly in companions-v4 - proper locale settings seem to allow the shutdown menu to work once you are logged in
Performance issues due to VNC connection (vnc)
No 3G/WiFi/network connection that I'm aware of... (native)
No control over 3G/WiFi/network/bluetooth yet (all)
Xorg's normal touchscreen driver evdev causes segmentation faults (freedreno/native)
Working on a possibly trying to get fbdev to work natively without Freedreno for simplicity (freedreno/native)
Anything you'd normally expect from a phone does not exist (freedreno/native)
Screen rotation (with or without accelerometer) doesn't work yet (freedreno/native)
HDMI/MHL output remains untested at this time. I got it to briefly work once, but I need to revisit this. (freedreno/native)
Many more to come, I'm sure...
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To-Do:
Add mirrors to the download links.
Add a CWM/TWRP-flashable .zip that just dumps a clean Ubuntu install onto your data partition. This should be easy enough. completed!
Fix some of the bugs above.
Simplify the launch.sh and xorg.conf files. The u.sh script seems pretty solid.
Develop a method that works with only fbdev. This method might eliminate the possibility of 3D acceleration, but should enable screen rotation and other nifty things.
Possibly look into getting kexec (or similar) to work on the Galaxy S4 to offer a dual-boot option. Low priority at the moment, because flashing a kernel back and forth is pretty easy stuff.
Get Ubuntu Touch to work. This would eliminate a lot of bugs. I mostly need to just buckle-down and build CM10.1 from source, and then slowly visit each step of the Ubuntu Touch boot process.... Ugh.
Rebuild Freedreno to try to get Mesa/Gallium3D working properly. I'm probably going to need a lot of help from Rob Clark on this one!
More to come...
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Revision History:
[11-13] mf3-freedreno-companions-v2.zip - Updated launch.sh: added some error checking and fixed the Freedreno build process.
[11-15] mf3-freedreno-companions-v3.zip - Updated launch.sh to include onboard and English language. Removed florence and xvkbd. Removed .keyb script. Added sudo. Simplified upstart-dummy, and included new upstart-dummy.tar.gz. Prepped for new flashable .zip method.
[11-26] mf3-freedreno-companions-v4.zip - Updated launch.sh: included fix for onboard so that it should work anytime lightdm is launched, added some bits for sudo to work, and home button now kills lightdm (not just the Xsession); Updated u.sh: Added check for root, added notes about sudo and nosuid.
[11-26] mf3-freedreno-android-boot-v4.zip & mf3-freedreno-ubuntu-boot-v4.zip - Finally fixed sudo! See kernel mods sections for details.
[11-26] ubuntu-install-v4.zip - rebuilt with new companions.
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Aou said:
Check out this app: SManager (Script Manager). It makes running the ubuntu.sh or u.sh a whole lot easier, plus you can send it into the background (vnc method only). Just remember to jump back into SManager later, use the Menu Key and open the console to be able to kill the ubuntu.sh. You can also add "bash" as an additional argument (freedreno method only). This seems to be an effective replacement for the Terminal Emulator. Don't forget to choose the "su" option to run either script as root.
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I have literally spent hundreds of hours working on this project, and many more hours documenting it thoroughly - just so that I could share it with all of you. If you found this guide, custom kernel or scripts to be beneficial, please hit the THANKS button on this post.

This mostly works, but I think I may have made an error. I see it starting the sshd, but not VNC server. I can call vncserver, but when launching the vnc client app I just get stuck at "Establishing Handshake" until it times out. This differs from when I don't call vncserver, where I get immediately connection refused.
I'm going to redownload the image and start from scratch, but the image isn't very friendly when I'm trying to figure out how to rerun the initial configuration script...

On my S4 running OTA-MF3 with root, this didn't work for me until i used Busybox Installer from the market. Tried internal and external without it, neither worked. Only thing that looked like an error after that was
Code:
chown: cannot access '/external-sd/': no such file or directory
but this only showed the first time I ran it. Opened VNC connection just fine from my computer to the phone, and though there was slight graphics glitching (orange and red boxes on desktop) it worked just fine and they didn't interfere. Thanks for this!

Tsaukpaetra said:
This mostly works, but I think I may have made an error. I see it starting the sshd, but not VNC server. I can call vncserver, but when launching the vnc client app I just get stuck at "Establishing Handshake" until it times out. This differs from when I don't call vncserver, where I get immediately connection refused.
I'm going to redownload the image and start from scratch, but the image isn't very friendly when I'm trying to figure out how to rerun the initial configuration script...
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It's not, I agree. I found that the easiest way to clear the configuration and start anew is to do the following from the "[email protected]" prompt (that is, within ubuntu):
Code:
rm /root/DONOTDELETE.txt
rm /root/cfg/linux.config
DeadlySin9 said:
On my S4 running OTA-MF3 with root, this didn't work for me until i used Busybox Installer from the market. Tried internal and external without it, neither worked. Only thing that looked like an error after that was
Code:
chown: cannot access '/external-sd/': no such file or directory
but this only showed the first time I ran it. Opened VNC connection just fine from my computer to the phone, and though there was slight graphics glitching (orange and red boxes on desktop) it worked just fine and they didn't interfere. Thanks for this!
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Interesting. I looked through the image's init.sh, and found something that's relatively new (wasn't in beta):
Code:
# Fix for sdcard read/write permissions by Barry flanagan
chown ubuntu /external-sd/
As far as I can tell, that message is harmless. It's only included in the initial configuration, as it's in the section:
Code:
if [ ! -f /root/DONOTDELETE.txt ]
As for the need to download/install the BusyBox installer, that's not surprising at all. I've had so much trouble BusyBox ever since I switched to MF3. I might include this as an extra step in the OP - thank you.

You kidding right...does this really work? To cool, thanks Aou. Great work.

TheAxman said:
You kidding right...does this really work? To cool, thanks Aou. Great work.
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Yessir, it does indeed work! The S4 handles it very nicely with the extra RAM & CPU it has to spare, so the only limiting factor is VNC. If someone could devise a way to get Ubuntu to draw directly on the screen from within that Chroot, that would be perfect. I don't think it's really possible by design, but this might be the closest we get to running native linux on the I337 until we see some unlocked bootloaders.
Thanks

Aou said:
Yessir, it does indeed work! The S4 handles it very nicely with the extra RAM & CPU it has to spare, so the only limiting factor is VNC. If someone could devise a way to get Ubuntu to draw directly on the screen from within that Chroot, that would be perfect. I don't think it's really possible by design, but this might be the closest we get to running native linux on the I337 until we see some unlocked bootloaders.
Thanks
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In fact I am currently working on getting xorg to write to androids frame buffer which will mean no more vnc
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

zacthespack said:
In fact I am currently working on getting xorg to write to androids frame buffer which will mean no more vnc
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
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You, sir, are the man. thank you so much for working on this! I threw $10 at you to help fund the skittles/cheetos/carrots/beer/pizza/whatever it takes to help you along.

Added a couple things to the OP. Looks like pure-stock roms will indeed need BusyBox installed, by some means or another. Also, found SManager, which makes executing the ubuntu.sh script much, much easier.

The second script that allows me to launch ubuntu, but the first that allows me to get a real X server on my vnc. Thank you so much !
PS: Why am I unable to install wine ?
"Package wine is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source"

This is working pretty good, slow though, do I have it setup right, or did I miss something?

TheAxman said:
This is working pretty good, slow though, do I have it setup right, or did I miss something?
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I have found it to run a bit slow, and with regular crashing of GUI programs too. Is it just slow or unusable? You can always try closing other apps besides terminal and VNC, or try to VNC from a computer even.

tboss1995 said:
The second script that allows me to launch ubuntu, but the first that allows me to get a real X server on my vnc. Thank you so much !
PS: Why am I unable to install wine ?
"Package wine is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source"
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Looks like you're not the only one. Check out this thread on the LinuxOnAndroid site:
http://forum.linuxonandroid.org/index.php?topic=268.0
TheAxman said:
This is working pretty good, slow though, do I have it setup right, or did I miss something?
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DeadlySin9 said:
I have found it to run a bit slow, and with regular crashing of GUI programs too. Is it just slow or unusable? You can always try closing other apps besides terminal and VNC, or try to VNC from a computer even.
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Most of the slowness comes from interacting with it via VNC, it would seem. Hard to compare to anything else, considering VNC is all we've got at the moment. I wonder if @zacthespack can shed some light on this. As he mentioned before, he's working on getting it to draw directly to the Android screen. I'm certainly not going to ask for any status updates, but I'm wondering if he can confirm that we'd see a speed increase without VNC...
EDIT: Also, as I use it more, I am noticing the app crashes too (such as Chromium). Could just be something in the 13.04 image, but also could be because we're running this all on ARM architecture.

Aou said:
Looks like you're not the only one. Check out this thread on the LinuxOnAndroid site:
http://forum.linuxonandroid.org/index.php?topic=268.0
Most of the slowness comes from interacting with it via VNC, it would seem. Hard to compare to anything else, considering VNC is all we've got at the moment. I wonder if @zacthespack can shed some light on this. As he mentioned before, he's working on getting it to draw directly to the Android screen. I'm certainly not going to ask for any status updates, but I'm wondering if he can confirm that we'd see a speed increase without VNC...
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RE installing WINE, sure you can install the ARM verson but Wine is not a emulator (infact WINE stands for Wine Is Not a Emulator) so you can only run ARM compiled windows software.
Yest there is a good speed increase, as with VNC xorg writes to the vnc server and passes it to the vnc client to then render on the screen.
With the new method xorg just writes to Androids frame buffer, no inbetween man.
And it can get even faster once we have graphics accelerations although not all chip sets will get that.

zacthespack said:
RE installing WINE, sure you can install the ARM verson but Wine is not a emulator (infact WINE stands for Wine Is Not a Emulator) so you can only run ARM compiled windows software.
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Good point, forgot about that. It's really just a big package of Windows dependencies, responding to API calls, etc. The software that Wine runs is still sending stuff to/from the processor directly, therefore it would have to be compiled for ARM.
I wonder what Windows8 programs are available that are compiled for ARM (because of the Microsoft Surface and all...).

Aou said:
Good point, forgot about that. It's really just a big package of Windows dependencies, responding to API calls, etc. The software that Wine runs is still sending stuff to/from the processor directly, therefore it would have to be compiled for ARM.
I wonder what Windows8 programs are available that are compiled for ARM (because of the Microsoft Surface and all...).
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There's plenty or ARM software within the built in app store, but I'm not sure where they install to or how one would go about extracting them. I have it on desktop and it shows what processors it runs on. Can't wait for the straight to screen function though
Also, I'm going to see if a different image is more stable. Chromium was the most obvious crashing for me and others generally crashed.

DeadlySin9 said:
There's plenty or ARM software within the built in app store, but I'm not sure where they install to or how one would go about extracting them. I have it on desktop and it shows what processors it runs on. Can't wait for the straight to screen function though
Also, I'm going to see if a different image is more stable. Chromium was the most obvious crashing for me and others generally crashed.
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I noticed that with 12.04, it doesn't seem to connect to Xorg or something, because when you use VNC, it only shows a grey screen with a cross cursor. Same for both "Lite" and "Full" packages. Haven't tried older (10.x) packages of Ubuntu.
The other Linux images should work just fine. Optionally, you can edit the ubuntu.sh script to be more appropriate, but it should theoretically work the same (unless the init.sh is located elsewhere inside the image...).

I tried the Ubuntu 10 image and the Debian image but ubuntu didn't run vnc (vncserver not found or something) and debian kept saying I didn't have permissions.

It appears chromium is incredibly unstable on this image, so I've uninstalled it.
I'm currently working on trying to get Minecraft to work, but ever since 1.6.2 and this new launcher, it's incredibly difficult to modify the client files and such. Something is going wrong with liblwjgl.so. I can get the launcher to work correctly, but when it goes to load the game, it can't find liblwjgl.so and says that it might be because of 32bit vs ARM. I did get lwjgl installed correctly, and pulled the ARM version of the .so and stuck it in [what I believe was] the right .jar file, but it still has the error.
I'll keep you all posted. If I can get this to work, and if zacthespack can get xorg to draw on the android screen, ... :good:
EDIT:
Found out that every time the launcher runs minecraft, it downloads several libraries and other crap to run the game, to keep itself current and to support multiple versions, yada, yada. Unfortunately, this means that it downloads https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft..../2.9.0/lwjgl-platform-2.9.0-natives-linux.jar every time you click Play, and overwrites any custom one you might have (i.e. one with ARM libraries inside). I tried revoking write access to the file, but then the launcher aborts the launch because it can't overwrite the file.
Any suggestions?
EDIT #2:
Well, the easy solution was to modify the file, run the launcher, disconnect mobile data temporarily, and then launch the game ("couldn't connect to server .... have local copy of file .... assuming it's good...."). No more errors about that stupid library file. However, the game immediately crashes now with an error report. Investigating this now. PROGRESS!

Problem
I'm aware I may need to modify the script in order to accommodate my setup, but I figured I'd post here first before changing anything in case someone else had a similar problem and came up with the solution.
I followed all the instructions, except I want to boot from an external USB stick (mounted using StickMount).
I reviewed the script, dropped it on the root of the USB stick, and copied the unzipped image to a folder named ubuntu.
Here is the output when I run the script:
Making mount points and mounting to them...
mount: mounting /dev/loop20 on /data/local/ubmnt failed: Operation not supported
mount: mounting devpts on /data/local/ubmnt/dev/pts failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting proc on /data/local/ubmnt/proc failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting sysfs on /data/local/ubmnt/sys failed: No such file or directory
Connecting to /sdcard...
mount: mounting /sdcard on /data/local/ubmnt/sdcard failed: No such file or directory
Putting in some settings...
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
/sdcard/usbStorage/sda1/ubuntu.sh[19]: can't create /data/local/ubmnt/etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
/sdcard/usbStorage/sda1/ubuntu.sh[20]: can't create /data/local/ubmnt/etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
/sdcard/usbStorage/sda1/ubuntu.sh[21]: can't create /data/local/ubmnt/etc/hosts: No such file or directory
ubuntu is configured with SSH and VNC servers that can be accessed from the IP:
(You will see an error about wlan0 if your WiFi is disabled. Safe to ignore.)
----------------- OKAY, starting Ubuntu! -----------------
chroot: can't execute '/root/init.sh': No such file or directory
----------------- Ubuntu has exited! -----------------
Cleaning up - unmounting everything and removing what we made...
umount: can't forcibly umount /data/local/ubmnt/dev/pts: No such file or directory
umount: can't forcibly umount /data/local/ubmnt/sys: No such file or directory
umount: can't forcibly umount /data/local/ubmnt/proc: No such file or directory
umount: can't forcibly umount /data/local/ubmnt/sdcard: No such file or directory
umount: can't forcibly umount /data/local/ubmnt: Invalid argument
Welcome back to your android.
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I am running as root, BusyBox free has been installed. My terminal app has been granted root privileges. The path to the USB stick is sdcard/usbStorage/sda1.
Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated! :fingers-crossed:

[Utility] Odin for Linux !!! (JOdin3 CASUAL)

I have finally found a working version of Odin for Linux!
JOdin 3 Casual powered by Heimdall
You need at least Java 8, if you don't have it already:
To see the java version type:
Code:
java -version
Aptitude Package Manager:
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt update
sudo apt install oracle-java9-installer
If necessary change the java environment to the new one(this should be changed automatically by the installer of the new package):
Code:
sudo update-alternatives --config java
JOdin3 Mirrors:
mega.nz
androidfilehost.com
FYI:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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Thanks I am new to this and not a developer. I have downloaded Jodin3 files but how do I install please? Thanks Hugo

iamhugo said:
Thanks I am new to this and not a developer. I have downloaded Jodin3 files but how do I install please? Thanks Hugo
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Download jdoin .gz file, decompress it to your directory you want e.g /home/username/programs/jodin/
than right click on the file "JOdin3CASUAL" and open it, if you have installed java 8.

i need take smilock this program will be good?

Okay, so, I have to ask. Why does this program need super user authentication? I don't understand why it needs that level of access if it's just for flashing the ROM on a cellphone. I'm just saying that's unrelated to needing root access on my computer, I think.

Zakku said:
Okay, so, I have to ask. Why does this program need super user authentication? I don't understand why it needs that level of access if it's just for flashing the ROM on a cellphone. I'm just saying that's unrelated to needing root access on my computer, I think.
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I am not 100% shure but I think it has something to do with access to the usb port... Odin needs permission to use the port for other things than mounting a flash drive... Again im not shure, haven't looked into it much. Since the adb cli also need root permissions I think that odin also really needs higher permissions.

Toby4213 said:
I am not 100% shure but I think it has something to do with access to the usb port... Odin needs permission to use the port for other things than mounting a flash drive... Again im not shure, haven't looked into it much. Since the adb cli also need root permissions I think that odin also really needs higher permissions.
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IT is quite common, Xiaomi also needs sudo to work
.

Looks like Oracle not supporting Java 9 through PPA
I downloaded files and it looks like "old" version
Can someone explain to me how to get "new" version because I am trying to install firmware on Note9
I just spent 4 hours looking through youtube and the web trying to get the "new" version of jodin.
ty for any help given.

Why odin needs su access
Odin needs su access because the underlying adb shell needs root to execute programs on the device itself, which Odin will need to do in order to perform the update/root procedure. I'm not an advanced android engineer, but I know linux well enough to know running arbitrary code on an attached peripheral is a security hole and should not be run unless one knows what they are doing (hence needing su, since admins are the ones that should know if a program is malicious)

Hi! Can this be installed on Arm64, specifically through a containerized instance of linux? Asking for a friend!
[UPDATE]
OK, so to explain the reasoning behind the question... I've been trying to explain to this dude why this won't work but he refuses to listen because odin is in the linux repositories despite the software description saying something about MRI machines. He now finally after a couple hours understands the difference between that odin and this odin. FINALLY.
He wants to run this odin on his TabS4 through linux on dex in order to flash his note 9... I know... I tried... Maybe someone here can explain it better to him, I have him keeping an eye on these comments.

phoenixbyrd said:
Hi! Can this be installed on Arm64, specifically through a containerized instance of linux? Asking for a friend!
[UPDATE]
OK, so to explain the reasoning behind the question... I've been trying to explain to this dude why this won't work but he refuses to listen because odin is in the linux repositories despite the software description saying something about MRI machines. He now finally after a couple hours understands the difference between that odin and this odin. FINALLY.
He wants to run this odin on his TabS4 through linux on dex in order to flash his note 9... I know... I tried... Maybe someone here can explain it better to him, I have him keeping an eye on these comments.
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I highly doubt that this would work for the sole reason that odin and for that matter fastboot and adb, need OS level access to the usb controller. DeX in desktop mode would take up the only available usb-c port, this would be a problem since on pc you need to connect the phone directly to the mainboard on the pc instead of using a usb hub. Without the docking station this *might* work but then again I doubt that the linux container has enought OS level permissions to use the usb port in that way. On the bright side, arm64 shouldn't be a problem since java is also available on arm. This means that the odin .jar should be able to run and show the gui but flashing wouldn't be possible but you could give it a try. If odin doesn't work try fastboot on android(not in DEX), links below.
That said there are other ways of getting phone to phone flashing to work. Here are some links:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586472
https://github.com/kosborn/p2p-adb/
With fastboot you could flash twrp and with that could flash root and custom roms and so on. This nowadays is the preferred method anyway, since you wouldn't depend on a usb cable to f*** up the rom flash.

Using JOdin3 with 'sudo' shows 'java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space'
These are recommendations I'd found:
Heap size specifies the amount of dynamic memory to be made available to the JVM code.
For systems with less than 1 GB of physical memory, use a maximum heap size of 256 MB, and an initial heap size of 0 MB.
For systems with 2 GB memory, use a maximum heap size of 768 MB, and an initial heap size of 256 MB.
For larger systems (more than 2GB), use a maximum heap size of 1024 MB, and an initial heap size of 512 MB.
Is that also suitable for JOdin3?
This is the current error I've got:
Exception in thread "Thread-78" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.OdinFile.extractOdinContents(OdinFile.java:145)
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.Odin.getHeimdallFileParametersFromOdinFile(Odin.java:50)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.getHeimdallCommandFromOdinPackageList(JOdinController.java:621)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.access$3300(JOdinController.java:54)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController$13.run(JOdinController.java:572)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
How do I edit the 'heap space' settings for JOdin3 in Linux Mint 19.1?

Toby4213 said:
I have finally found a working version of Odin for Linux!
JOdin 3 Casual powered by Heimdall
You need at least Java 8, if you don't have it already:
To see the java version type:
Code:
java -version
Aptitude Package Manager:
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt update
sudo apt install oracle-java9-installer
If necessary change the java environment to the new one(this should be changed automatically by the installer of the new package):
Code:
sudo update-alternatives --config java
JOdin3 Mirrors:
mega.nz
androidfilehost.com
FYI:
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That's all good and JOdin3 launched, yet while uncompressing the system.img file (about 1.5GB) the following error shows:
[VERBOSE]Heimdall Device detected!
verified file /home/location/Downloads/OudereStockRom-4.4.2kk/T210XXBNH4_T210OXABNH4_HOME/T210XXBNH4_T210OXABNH4_HOME.tar.md5
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/boot.img
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/recovery.img
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/PBL.bin
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/param.lfs
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/loke_2nd.bin
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/loke_pxa988.bin
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/system.img
Exception in thread "Thread-31" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.OdinFile.extractOdinContents(OdinFile.java:145)
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.Odin.getHeimdallFileParametersFromOdinFile(Odin.java:50)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.getHeimdallCommandFromOdinPackageList(JOdinController.java:621)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.access$3300(JOdinController.java:54)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController$13.run(JOdinController.java:572)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

xdausernl said:
These are recommendations I'd found:
Heap size specifies the amount of dynamic memory to be made available to the JVM code.
For systems with less than 1 GB of physical memory, use a maximum heap size of 256 MB, and an initial heap size of 0 MB.
For systems with 2 GB memory, use a maximum heap size of 768 MB, and an initial heap size of 256 MB.
For larger systems (more than 2GB), use a maximum heap size of 1024 MB, and an initial heap size of 512 MB.
Is that also suitable for JOdin3?
This is the current error I've got:
Exception in thread "Thread-78" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.OdinFile.extractOdinContents(OdinFile.java:145)
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.Odin.getHeimdallFileParametersFromOdinFile(Odin.java:50)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.getHeimdallCommandFromOdinPackageList(JOdinController.java:621)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.access$3300(JOdinController.java:54)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController$13.run(JOdinController.java:572)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
How do I edit the 'heap space' settings for JOdin3 in Linux Mint 19.1?
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xdausernl said:
That's all good and JOdin3 launched, yet while uncompressing the system.img file (about 1.5GB) the following error shows:
[VERBOSE]Heimdall Device detected!
verified file /home/location/Downloads/OudereStockRom-4.4.2kk/T210XXBNH4_T210OXABNH4_HOME/T210XXBNH4_T210OXABNH4_HOME.tar.md5
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/boot.img
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/recovery.img
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/PBL.bin
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/param.lfs
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/loke_2nd.bin
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/loke_pxa988.bin
decompressing file:/tmp/CASUALroot-2019-07-28-20.56.18/system.img
Exception in thread "Thread-31" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.OdinFile.extractOdinContents(OdinFile.java:145)
at CASUAL.communicationstools.heimdall.odin.Odin.getHeimdallFileParametersFromOdinFile(Odin.java:50)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.getHeimdallCommandFromOdinPackageList(JOdinController.java:621)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController.access$3300(JOdinController.java:54)
at com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinController$13.run(JOdinController.java:572)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
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Just f*ing google it...
I dont know whats so hard about reading the error message but ok here you go:
Code:
java -Xms512m -Xmx2g -jar JOdin3CASUAL.jar
Here the link: https://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/java/java-xmx-xms-memory-heap-size-control
If you are wondering what magic that is, its literally the first answer for typing "java increase heap size"

Toby4213 said:
Just f*ing google it...
I dont know whats so hard about reading the error message but ok here you go:
Code:
java -Xms512m -Xmx2g -jar JOdin3CASUAL.jar
Here the link: https://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/java/java-xmx-xms-memory-heap-size-control
If you are wondering what magic that is, its literally the first answer for typing "java increase heap size"
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Thanks Toby4213, you're right ... and I have been there but didn't know how to use it as this is all new for me so I'm sorry for being a noob.
But I still remain unable to get the job done.
Using your line of code with or without 'sudo' results in this error:
Error: Unable to access jarfile JOdin3CASUAL.jar
Do I need to take some additional steps?

xdausernl said:
Thanks Toby4213, you're right ... and I have been there but didn't know how to use it as this is all new for me so I'm sorry for being a noob.
But I still remain unable to get the job done.
Using your line of code with or without 'sudo' results in this error:
Error: Unable to access jarfile JOdin3CASUAL.jar
Do I need to take some additional steps?
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Sorry for being rude earlier, had a bad day.
matador84 said:
Thanks I am new to this and not a developer. I have downloaded Jodin3 files but how do I install please?
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Alright so this is what you both have to do:
1. As stated in my original post make sure you have java installed.
2. Download the JOdin archive file linked in my original post
3. Unpack the archive into a folder. Linux Mint should automatically generate a folder called "JOdin3CASUAL-linux-R991"
4. navigate into this folder using the terminal(you can right click and select open "terminal in this folder" or similar) type: cd ./JOdin3CASUAL-linux-R991
5. once you are in the JOdin3CASUAL-linux-R991 folder type ls into the terminal. You should see 2 folders "app" and "runtime" and a file called "JOdin3CASUAL"
6. Type cd ./app
7. again type ls and now you should see the file "JOdin3CASUAL.jar" among another file and a folder
8. Now you can run the .jar file with the before mentioned command: java -Xms512m -Xmx2g -jar JOdin3CASUAL.jar
I hope everything is clear now. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I absolutely encourage the use of Linux and compared to ****ty Windows 10 it is an absolute dream to work and tinker with.
I would recommend that you start to learn how to use the terminal/console. It is really easy once you know what you are doing. Here is a great link to get started: http://linuxcommand.org/

Toby4213 said:
Sorry for being rude earlier, had a bad day.
Alright so this is what you both have to do:
1. As stated in my original post make sure you have java installed.
2. Download the JOdin archive file linked in my original post
3. Unpack the archive into a folder. Linux Mint should automatically generate a folder called "JOdin3CASUAL-linux-R991"
4. navigate into this folder using the terminal(you can right click and select open "terminal in this folder" or similar) type: cd ./JOdin3CASUAL-linux-R991
5. once you are in the JOdin3CASUAL-linux-R991 folder type ls into the terminal. You should see 2 folders "app" and "runtime" and a file called "JOdin3CASUAL"
6. Type cd ./app
7. again type ls and now you should see the file "JOdin3CASUAL.jar" among another file and a folder
8. Now you can run the .jar file with the before mentioned command: java -Xms512m -Xmx2g -jar JOdin3CASUAL.jar
I hope everything is clear now. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I absolutely encourage the use of Linux and compared to ****ty Windows 10 it is an absolute dream to work and tinker with.
I would recommend that you start to learn how to use the terminal/console. It is really easy once you know what you are doing. Here is a great link to get started: http://linuxcommand.org/
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Apology accepted .... and I'm busy with trial and error.
Now on Linux Mint 19.1 Heimdall is installed and I have this 'JOdin3CASUAL-r1142-dist' version.
So when I unzipped the compressed file in the default 'downloads' folder, I found a folder with 2 folders and a file inside like you described.
Next I entered the 'app' folder and launched inside the terminal session, pasted the command you provided 'java -Xms512m -Xmx2g -jar JOdin3CASUAL.jar'.
The following error popped up:
Error: Could not find or load main class com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinMain
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/application/Application
So I firstly installed openjdk-11, but the problem still persists.
Did I do something wrong or are steps missing?

xdausernl said:
Apology accepted .... and I'm busy with trial and error.
Now on Linux Mint 19.1 Heimdall is installed and I have this 'JOdin3CASUAL-r1142-dist' version.
So when I unzipped the compressed file in the default 'downloads' folder, I found a folder with 2 folders and a file inside like you described.
Next I entered the 'app' folder and launched inside the terminal session, pasted the command you provided 'java -Xms512m -Xmx2g -jar JOdin3CASUAL.jar'.
The following error popped up:
Error: Could not find or load main class com.casual_dev.jodin.JOdinMain
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/application/Application
So I firstly installed openjdk-11, but the problem still persists.
Did I do something wrong or are steps missing?
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Alright so I finally got it working myself. I haven't used jodin for a long time.
Ok so first make sure that you have JavaFX installed. For that just type sudo apt install openjfx in the terminal.(This might be optional for you, if you get an error containing JavaFX thats the command to fix it)
Since JOdin doesn't quite work when launched via the .jar file the only way to get it to run is to use the binary. Thats the file in the very first folder just called "JOdin3CASUAL".
But since we are not running the jar directly we cant add -Xmx2g as a launch option. In order to get the bigger heap size type export _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx2g in the terminal. You have to run this everytime you close the terminal window. In order to keep this setting permanently add this line to the .profile file in your home directory.
After that go into the folder with app, runtime and JOdin3CASUAL and type: sudo ./JOdin3CASUAL
Hope this works for you.
Cheers

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Alright so I finally got it working myself. I haven't used jodin for a long time.
Ok so first make sure that you have JavaFX installed. For that just type sudo apt install openjfx in the terminal.(This might be optional for you, if you get an error containing JavaFX thats the command to fix it)
Since JOdin doesn't quite work when launched via the .jar file the only way to get it to run is to use the binary. Thats the file in the very first folder just called "JOdin3CASUAL".
But since we are not running the jar directly we cant add -Xmx2g as a launch option. In order to get the bigger heap size type export _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx2g in the terminal. You have to run this everytime you close the terminal window. In order to keep this setting permanently add this line to the .profile file in your home directory.
After that go into the folder with app, runtime and JOdin3CASUAL and type: sudo ./JOdin3CASUAL
Hope this works for you.
Cheers
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I took all the steps you wrote down for me and I got JOdin working, finally..
But there goes something wrong still.
Because ... uploading the stock ROM (1,5GB) should take a while, is not done in just a few minutes.
Uploading all the files should take at least 10 minutes to complete.
Yet, in the end, it does say reset in green though.
And I'm quite sure that something is wrong, because I didn't see the blue status bar on the Samsung tablet during the upload process.
Uploading the extracted files seperately in Heimdall, 10 pieces out of the stock ROM, will take 10 - 15 minutes to complete and the largest of them all is the 'system.img' file which is 1,2 or 1,5GB in size.
With Heimdall I do see the status bar in both the program while uploading and in blue the same status bar on the Samsung tablet.
On the end of the day, I still have a rooted and faulty Android system running on that Samsung tablet.
Somehow the clean factory default is not loaded when the Samsung device reboot after all uploads with Heimdall.
Although the software uploaded is Android 4.4.2 for Tab3 7.0 8GB WiFi, with all the correct changes, date of build and country code.
Is there a final method to clean out the current faulty content of the Samsung Tab3 device?

xdausernl said:
I took all the steps you wrote down for me and I got JOdin working, finally..
But there goes something wrong still.
Because ... uploading the stock ROM (1,5GB) should take a while, is not done in just a few minutes.
Uploading all the files should take at least 10 minutes to complete.
Yet, in the end, it does say reset in green though.
And I'm quite sure that something is wrong, because I didn't see the blue status bar on the Samsung tablet during the upload process.
Uploading the extracted files seperately in Heimdall, 10 pieces out of the stock ROM, will take 10 - 15 minutes to complete and the largest of them all is the 'system.img' file which is 1,2 or 1,5GB in size.
With Heimdall I do see the status bar in both the program while uploading and in blue the same status bar on the Samsung tablet.
On the end of the day, I still have a rooted and faulty Android system running on that Samsung tablet.
Somehow the clean factory default is not loaded when the Samsung device reboot after all uploads with Heimdall.
Although the software uploaded is Android 4.4.2 for Tab3 7.0 8GB WiFi, with all the correct changes, date of build and country code.
Is there a final method to clean out the current faulty content of the Samsung Tab3 device?
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I'm sorry but I don't know why its not working for you. I don't use odin anymore so I haven't tested the uploading anything to the phone.
I would recommend you to use adb and fastboot. Both are available in the standard repository, just type sudo apt install adb and sudo apt install fastboot. Furthermore it is much saver to do any flashing that way, because it is basically the intended way of debugging a android smartphone/tablet.
Edit: ok I just found out that fastboot does not work with samsung devices
Try to use odin on windows https://samsungodin.com/ or through wine on linux but I highly doubt that this would work.
I am sorry, but at this point I can't help you more. I haven't used a Samsung device in about 4 years and have no idea any more about all the problems and kinks with odin or generall samsung devices.
I wish you the best of luck.

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