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Google Experience only

I am happy with what I have since the new update from Viewsonic.
If I only want to add Google Experience, marketplace, do I still need to go through the process of rooting, installing clockwork and a new UI?
Is there just a simple way to add GE to the Classic UI?

Gapps install
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842590

Everyone,
I have had zip luck with this method of installing zapps. Not a dev, but I've been doing this long enough.....
I moved the Recovery file to to /sdcard. Checked for command and command line inside that file All ok to my eye.
Downloaded the gapps file which my WinRAR pronounces a WinRAR/Zip file. So I tried renamein the original update.zip and didn't get any install. So I extracted using winRAR. Still no install.
I tried the permutations as well. Extracted using G-Tablet extract. Still no results.
There must be something I am missing here -- too much holiday cheer or too many crowds or whatever.
Suggestions?!
Rev

butchconner said:
Everyone,
I have had zip luck with this method of installing zapps. Not a dev, but I've been doing this long enough.....
I moved the Recovery file to to /sdcard. Checked for command and command line inside that file All ok to my eye.
Downloaded the gapps file which my WinRAR pronounces a WinRAR/Zip file. So I tried renamein the original update.zip and didn't get any install. So I extracted using winRAR. Still no install.
I tried the permutations as well. Extracted using G-Tablet extract. Still no results.
There must be something I am missing here -- too much holiday cheer or too many crowds or whatever.
Suggestions?!
Rev
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I HAD to resort to putting on Clockwork Mod 0.8 to get GApps on my G Tablet.
Putting the update.zip on the internal and sd card storage did not work for me either with the newest update installed.
Clockwork Mod is a super easy install - just follow the instructions on how to install G Apps...basically: put CWM on your SD card in it's root (meaning NOT in any directories) and rename it update.zip, put the corresponding recovery directory on the SD as well. I use Winrar as well, I drag the recovery directory right from the file itself and to the SD Card.
Will look like:
Drive: update.zip
Drive: /recovery/command
basically.
Flash it the normal stock way (power and volume +). I press Power and Volume + without even powering off the device, because if the device is powered down and then you start it and miss that first start up, the device WILL delete the recovery/command file and the update won't flash.
GL

I don't officially get to play with my GTab until after package opening tomorrow so I can't do anything today, but I'm trying to line up my to do list. I have never rooted, flashed, or modded anything but am not afraid to play around as long as I don't brick the tablet.
What do you mean when you say "put the corresponding recovery directory on the SD as well. I use Winrar as well"? What is the corresponding recovery directory? What do you use Winrar for? I Googled "winrar" and found " WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal, and first released in the fall of 1993.[1] It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, because the encoding method is held to be proprietary. " I cannot figure out why it would be needed to load the standard Android market.

MSU_Sparty,
When you do updates (or installs) that have to be flashed onto the internal sdcard, they usually com in pairs of files. You will have an update.zip file that has the update in it (DUH!) -- and accompanying it will be a "Recovery" directory that has a command file in it (The command file has only one line that "calls" the update.zip file.
WinRAR "Zip" utility enters the picture because most of the devs here use WinRAR to package updates. The when they tell you to decompress it, you use WiinRAR and are left with a .zip file to install.
That's the question I had about this update. The Gapp file show to be a RAR package, but when I un-RAR it I come up with no .zip file -- only regular files.
Hope this helps you understand.
Rev
P. S. -- If you are new to this business, take it slow and easy and read ahead on this site and make sure you understand what you are doing. I try to do that, but even with years of IT experience I still mess things up once in a while.

Neoprimal,
Thanks for the tip about CWM. I have two tablets and the other has CWM on it and is fairly modded.
But this tablet I am trying to keep basically stock so I can get updates, etc. and see what the "state of product" is.
As mentioned in my previous answer, I am stumped because I am not getting what looks to be an update.zip file from the Gapp download. When I use WinRAR to decompress the Gapp file, I don't get a .zip file -- only a couple of directories. On the other hand, when I rename the Gapp file update.zip and try to flash it it doesn't work.
Again, thanks for the reply.
Anyone else with suggestions!!!????
Rev

Thanks. What you've written really does clarify the previous post. I appreciate it.
But let me ask another naive question. Why don't the developers create their update programs so they can be installed by just downloading them OTA like most applications? That would sure make it easier for neophytes. I'm guessing that the reason is because we aren't really adding an application but replacing the OS.
I greatly appreciate your guidance and that of all of the folks who use this forum.
Happy Holidays!

[Q] How to retrieve file from TWRP backup?

Hello! I (believe) I have invaluable audio recordings of my daughter within a TWRP backup, which I'm trying to retrieve.
I cannot reload this image because I upgraded my Note 3.0 to 5.0 and lost the custom recovery.
So, I was trying to get it through the TWRP backup itself. I read that I can rename the data.ext.win to .tar so as to be able to see the contents. I tried this; however, I keep getting a message that the zip is corrupt. I believe this is the case b/c my TWRP is made up of multiple .win, e.g. data.ext4.win000, data.ext4.win001, data.ext4.win002, data.ext4.win003, and data.ext4.win004. I renamed all of them in order and attempted to extract but extracting the last one. Zip went through the process of extracting them but then said it was corrupt.
I also read about IZArc, which Norton removed saying it is a heuristic virus. detection of a threat based on malware heuristics.
Thoughts?

grimloktt said:
Hello! I (believe) I have invaluable audio recordings of my daughter within a TWRP backup, which I'm trying to retrieve.
I cannot reload this image because I upgraded my Note 3.0 to 5.0 and lost the custom recovery.
So, I was trying to get it through the TWRP backup itself. I read that I can rename the data.ext.win to .tar so as to be able to see the contents. I tried this; however, I keep getting a message that the zip is corrupt. I believe this is the case b/c my TWRP is made up of multiple .win, e.g. data.ext4.win000, data.ext4.win001, data.ext4.win002, data.ext4.win003, and data.ext4.win004. I renamed all of them in order and attempted to extract but extracting the last one. Zip went through the process of extracting them but then said it was corrupt.
I also read about IZArc, which Norton removed saying it is a heuristic virus. detection of a threat based on malware heuristics.
Thoughts?
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Anyone? Thnx in advance!

Unbrick you Mediapad M5 - Install OTAs - Customized HuRUpdater for Mediapad M5

I am sharing with you here my version of HuRUpdater 0.4 customized for the Mediapad M5. I am not taking any credit here for HuRUpdater, the original work can be found here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-9/development/tool-flash-official-firmware-recovery-t3769279. Please follow the instructions there on how to install it to an SD card. Also unzip the hurupdater zip, and in a sub folder you will find huruupdate-binary and busybox. Place these two files in the same folder on the as card where you have the other zips. Finally run it from custom recovery.
Your boot loader needs to be unlocked.
HuRUpdater can be used to:
Recover the tablet from a soft brick or bootloop. As long as you can install and access TWRP, it should be good to go.
Restore the tablet back to stock after installing a custom ROM.
Install full OTA updates after unlocking the bootloader, since it appears you cannot install OTAs anymore once the bootloader is unlocked.
Revert back to an older version of the ROM (watch out for XLOADER versions though, make sure that match https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/how-to/beware-bla-l29c432b147-t3817241)
When I was trying to install an OTA after unlocking my bootloader and installing a custom ROM, I found out that HuRUpdater doesn't work out of the box for the Mediapad M5, so I made some minor customizations:
HuRUpdater looks for the volume keys when it starts up in order to read user inputs, and if it doesn't find it, it bails out. I removed that check for the volume keys, so the script will now run without requiring any user input.
HuRUPdater brings its own busybox binary, but it uses unzip trying to install it, which doesn't seem to be available on the M5. I changed it to copy it to the destination instead from the same folder as the other zips.
HuRUpdater checks whether the update will lock your bootloader, and then require you to press a volume key to confirm. Since volume keys are not working and this locking is probably undesired, the script will now bail out if it finds that your booloader may become locked.
NOTE: After successful flash you have to factory reset! And this must be done using the stock recovery, not TWRP!
I have only used it successfully on the Mediapad M5, but but there should be no reason why it wouldn't work on other devices on which HuRUpdate fails when looking for volume keys.

First big thanks for your post! I have a blank Mediapad here without anything any system flashed on it. When I flash HuRU it states an error with the following lines in recovery.log:
Code:
mkdir: 'utils': File exists
cp: bad '/external_sd/CMR-W09C432/hurupdate-binary': No such file or directory
chmod: utils/hurupdate-binary: No such file or directory
cp: bad '/external_sd/CMR-W09C432/busybox': No such file or directory
chmod: utils/busybox: No such file or directory
/tmp/updater[261]: unzip: not found
/tmp/updater[261]: /tmp/utils/busybox: not found
Error with update.zip file. See recovery.log for more details
Updater process ended with ERROR: 1
Any idea on how to fix this?

valko8877 said:
First big thanks for your post! I have a blank Mediapad here without anything any system flashed on it. When I flash HuRU it states an error with the following lines in recovery.log:
Code:
mkdir: 'utils': File exists
cp: bad '/external_sd/CMR-W09C432/hurupdate-binary': No such file or directory
chmod: utils/hurupdate-binary: No such file or directory
cp: bad '/external_sd/CMR-W09C432/busybox': No such file or directory
chmod: utils/busybox: No such file or directory
/tmp/updater[261]: unzip: not found
/tmp/updater[261]: /tmp/utils/busybox: not found
Error with update.zip file. See recovery.log for more details
Updater process ended with ERROR: 1
Any idea on how to fix this?
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Oh, sorry, think you found a bug and I need to update the instructions. Please unzip the hurupdater zip, and in a sub folder you will find huruupdate-binary and busybox. Place these two files in the same folder on the sd card where you have the zips and try again.

konradsa said:
Please unzip the hurupdater zip, and in a sub folder you will find huruupdate-binary and busybox. Place these two files in the same folder on the sd card where you have the zips and try again.
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Thanks a lot! That worked. It got way too late for me, to come to this idea by my own. Spent several hours to revert to stock firmware and now your version of HuRU seems to to do its work. Currently its flashing Huawei's ZIP files.

valko8877 said:
Thanks a lot! That worked. It got way too late for me, to come to this idea by my own. Spent several hours to revert to stock firmware and now your version of HuRU seems to to do its work. Currently its flashing Huawei's ZIP files.
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Great, glad it worked for you, I updated the instructions in the first post. The reason I ended up with variant of hurupdater is just like you I found out nothing else works, I was trying to install an OTA.l after unlocking boot loader. When I have some time I will think about how to make this a little more seamless. Let me know if you see any other problems.

konradsa said:
Let me know if you see any other problems.
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Yeah, so far so good, tablet is now on stock firmware. The flash was successful, after extracting both binaries from your HuRU ZIP to same folder as the other ZIP's including HuRU, flashing the HuRU ZIP itself again and letting it do it's magic. That tool saved me a lot of more hours of working out on how to revert to Stock, while every Huawei way to go and also the Androids way to go have failed. Thanks again! I can also confirm, that the "vanilla" version of HuRU does not work on Mediapad because of the mentioned error of not finding the user input device. Using the specialized Mediapad one instead did it's thing. Thumbs up!

You really saved me!!!! I tried everything before this post... I was about to give up.
Wanted to install multi user function (which has been deleted in the lite version), gone through a series of steps and post including unlocking, rooting, flashing custom bootloader, installing a mask, etc... throughout the way something happened and I got stuck at the TWRP bootloader, nothing worked, everything I tried yielded an error of some kind. This was my salvation! I'll be forever in debt! Tanks a lot!!!!

Self Packed ROM.ZIPs not installable

Hello,
some weeks ago I got to an old Mediatek 6572 device for free. Mobistel Cynus E1. My first smartphone
For some reasons I want to make an another ROM on it. (I want a special app, that is only for Android 4.4 and higher, but that should not be topic here. I don't think, that I find a solution for this.)
After some learning, tweaking, backup, rooting (system and shell) and porting to Custom Recovery CTR I found a Custom-ROM (Mediamod 5) I wanted to test, which was tagged with "MTK6572" and "Jellybean 4.4.2", so that I come to the closest possible compatible ROM. I only had to make the changes in the folders between Stock-ROM and Port-Rom like it is written in the descriptions out there and also in this community, since there is no already special explicit Cynus E1 ROM out there. I made 4 versions (changed files in "system" folder only, changed in boot.img and updater-script only, changed both and changed none).
Put all 4 on the ext. SD-Card. The first installation was started from ROM Manager app, which rebooted with some parameters (Wipe cache) into the recovery mode then and started the installation. But nothing started. Installation aborted.
BUT: The original .zip worked. In the sense, that the installation started and was completed. Not that I could boot after this in the system. The Screen was illuminated, but dark.
Hmm, what was wrong with my .zip ROMs?
I unzipped the original ROM, changed only one attribute in of the updater-script in Metafile/google. Zipped all again - Installation aborted
Unzipped original .zip, changed nothing, zipped all again. - Nothing, Installation aborted.
Tried 7-Zip as alternative to Winrar for Zipping. - Nothing. Installation aborted
Tried 2 different zip-signer (sign-em.bat and flashable zip signer) found in this forum. Nothing changed. Installation aborted.
I can't work out, what information/data get lost and at which process when I decompress the archive and compress the folders againt without any other action?
Can you help me?

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Solved
Bump and Solved.
Very shameful that I had not saw this: I didnt select the files/folders "system", Meta-inf" "boot.img" ... for the archive, but the ROM-folder, in which these files were. Clearly that so the installation routine didn't find the files.

frishar said:
Bump and Solved.
Very shameful that I had not saw this: I didnt select the files/folders "system", Meta-inf" "boot.img" ... for the archive, but the ROM-folder, in which these files were. Clearly that so the installation routine didn't find the files.
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In your original post, you stated that you modified the updater-script, the updater-script is in the META-inf file, so I don't see how you missed that.
Also, in your original post, you vaguely described the things you did with statements like moved "some files" from original ROM to port ROM or to "some partitions"
You didn't state exactly what you modified.
I know you tried to describe your situation but how it actually came out is you basically only stated that you tried porting a ROM by "doing some stuff like in the guides everywhere but it didn't work". That isn't enough information for anyone to even START understanding what your issue might be.
Sent from my LGL84VL using Tapatalk

Droidriven said:
In your original post, you stated that you modified the updater-script, the updater-script is in the META-inf file, so I don't see how you missed that.
Also, in your original post, you vaguely described the things you did with statements like moved "some files" from original ROM to port ROM or to "some partitions"
You didn't state exactly what you modified.
I know you tried to describe your situation but how it actually came out is you basically only stated that you tried porting a ROM by "doing some stuff like in the guides everywhere but it didn't work". That isn't enough information for anyone to even START understanding what your issue might be.
Sent from my LGL84VL using Tapatalk
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Like I said. I also failed for nonmodified version, when I only unpacked and repacked the rom.zip. My mistake was, that for Repacking I selected the folder, which was not there in the original .zip, but which was created by winrar at unpacking (with the files and folders in it). So the installation routine of CWM/CTR couldn't detect the files.

Help with TWRP backup createTarFork() error 255

Hello,
I have Huawei Mediapad T5 tablet AGS2-W09 with Lineage 16.0 installed. I wanted to do backup in TWRP but I’m getting the error : createTarFork() process ended with ERROR : 255
I browsed to the backup location and found in the recovery.log that the problem is with the file :
/data/misc/bluedroid/pwxCDGSOXfhjCjV95kpJ7B
When I browse to /data/misc/bluedroid/ folder with Root Explorer, I see 3 files in it: bt_config.bak , bt_config.conf , macbt
When I browse to /data/misc/bluedroid/ folder with TWRP file explorer, I see again 3 files but names are completely changed, files are : pwxCDGSOXfhjCjV95kpJ7B , Fxe1ZW1HOXwv5qJD9v2MGD , yoVsIPDhhbKzaMIWc7rggD
I tried to delete this file through adb, but I get a message : permission denied. I tried to delete the file with TWRP file manager, but it didn’t work (there is no error message while deleting but the file is still there). Now after trying to delete this file, another problem appeared: when I’m in TWRP and want to do backup, the size of my data partition is now shown as 6969766643856MB !!!. Obviously it doesn’t let me do the backup because there is no enough space on my storage.
Is it safe to remove these 3 files by Root Explorer ?
Or at least the file “macbt” (same as pwxCDGSOXfhjCjV95kpJ7B) which is causing the problem ?
Is it safe to remove complete bluedroid folder ?
Any idea how to solve this without formatting the tablet ?

Look inside here:
createTarFork() process ended with ERROR=255
OOS 5 Oreo, non rooted, stock kernel, TWRP 3.2.1 blue_spark 8.61 every time i try to make a nandroid backup i get this error: createTarFork() process ended with ERROR=255 and backup fails any ideas?
forum.xda-developers.com

jwoegerbauer said:
Look inside here:
createTarFork() process ended with ERROR=255
OOS 5 Oreo, non rooted, stock kernel, TWRP 3.2.1 blue_spark 8.61 every time i try to make a nandroid backup i get this error: createTarFork() process ended with ERROR=255 and backup fails any ideas?
forum.xda-developers.com
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Yes, I saw this before. It is a problem related to multiple users, I do not have them.
I checked many threads and I couldn’t find similar one. My problem is related to files in the folders /data/misc/bluedroid/ which are maybe corrupted.
Can I just delete this folder ? Or the files which are inside? What does bluedroid folder and files inside do ?

having the exactly same problem as you, could not backup data in twrp because it errors out
I:Error adding file '/data/misc/bluedroid/8h7VnJk1nlucU5cHQERctB' to '/external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/8UE5T18301007382/2021-10-03--10-27-53/data.f2fs.win000'

Did you find a solution. I've the same problem on the same device.