Sup!
My phone is unable to boot due to the error "Could not do normal boot. Invalid KERNEL LENGTH!"
I already downloaded the kernel i need but since i can't even boot into recovery, i need to flash it with odin.
The file format is .zip, i couldn't find it in .tar format and inside of the zip also isn't a .tar but two .img files and some other important looking stuff.
Is there any way that i can flash the kernel back on?
TIA for any help
Will this work, its a bit old but you can give it a shot.
https://itechify.com/2016/06/23/how-to-convert-kernel-zip-to-tar-md5-tool/
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Where can I find a recovery tarball that will work with odin? I do not want to load a new rom just fix the booting.
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Hi,
According to many articles I've read, stock Android rewrites the recovery partition with a stock recovery image at each boot. So to make a custom recovery stay we're asked to remove a file called "recovery-from-boot.p" in /system which does work.
But WugFresh's Nexus Toolkit flashes a file called "perm-recovery-signed.zip" to make it say. And to revert to stock recovery, it downloads and flashes the stock recovery image and then flashes a file called "undo-perm-recovery-signed.zip".
I'd have guessed just flashing the zip would make the ROM replace the Custom Recovery with the Stock version. Why does it flash the recovery? What do these files do?
Clarification is appreciated.
Thanks.
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I did notice the recovery.img file in many versions of the .zip file have the same date and it's from 2008. Is it supposed to be the same and so old?
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and also i cant just flash the zip because im on linux and cant use odin
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