[GUIDE] How to extract System.img - Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 General

For Windows Version Only
Required Files:
1. Obviously Windows Operating System
2. Ext4 Unpacker
3.Ext2Explore
4. System.img of your ROM​
Step 1
Launch Ext4 Unpacker softwareand then select open button
Step 2
Select the System.img of your ROM which you want to extract
Step 3
Now press the "Save as EXT4 button"
Step 4
Now select where you want to save the .ext4 file and enter a name with extension ".ext4" ,then press save
Step 5
Have some tea till the ext4 image is being unpacked
Step 6
Now launch "ext2explore" software. Select it and right click then select "Run as administrator" .
Step 7
Now select File then Open image
Step 8
Select the file you saved earlier with Ext4 Unpacked software and then select "Open".
Step 9
Now select t the file you just have imported in EXT2Explore and then press the "Save" button.
Step 10
Select the folder where you want the unpacked system files to be placed.
Step 11
It will take around 5-10 minutes to get unpacked.
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And finally go the folder which you selected. The system files should be placed there

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so u finally got it...i was just about to give u this....lol....

k2wl said:
so u finally got it...i was just about to give u this....lol....
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Lol
Press thanks if you like my work/advice

May we know the purpose/importance of this? After extract what now?
Sent from my GT-I9082 using xda app-developers app

bongski55 said:
May we know the purpose/importance of this? After extract what now?
Sent from my GT-I9082 using xda app-developers app
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After cygwin extracts the firmware, there is system.img. I was unable to extract it even if the explore2fs opened up, so I found up this method.
anything more to ask?
Press thanks if you like my work/advice

Razor! said:
After cygwin extracts the firmware, there is system.img. I was unable to extract it even if the explore2fs opened up, so I found up this method.
anything more to ask?
Press thanks if you like my work/advice
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That is for you. What do people like me going to do with the contents of system.img?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app

bongski55 said:
That is for you. What do people like me going to do with the contents of system.img?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app
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u can use to extract system folder in cygwin...sometimes it is useful...to have options...
u almost must know 2 to 3 different methods...
like i can do this diffrently as follows...
download http://www.rwilco12.com/Files/Misc Files/SGS2 to Ext4 Utility/sgs2toext4.zip
extract it somewhere.
make sure u have java installed
in the folder extracted right click with shift button ppressed...u will get option to open command window here.
when cmd is open give this command
java -jar sgs2toext4.jar
it will open up.
then just drag and drop ur system.img there and u get system.ext4.img
download disk internal linux reader from internet
after installing disk internal linux reader ...click on mount image.>>raw image>>next>>browse to our ext4.img file created.
and u can browse ur system.img there and can save it. u can also mount hidden.ext4.img,cache.ext4.img like wise.
this can be very usefull if u want to extract chache,hidden,system imgs. (u might get bored of linux and want to do some fun on ur windows pc).

bongski55 said:
That is for you. What do people like me going to do with the contents of system.img?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app
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Do I forcibly told you follow this guide? And I think neither I asked what will you do with system.img ?
So it's better not to troll me.

Razor! said:
Do I forcibly told you follow this guide? And I think neither I asked what will you do with system.img ?
So it's better not to troll me.
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Idid not mean to offend you. At least k2wl give a proper response. When you give a "guide" you should at least give a reason or purpose. I am interested on the system folder as a lot of things there pertaining to the rom. Maybe you found a way in windows to put it back to "img" ? We don't know because you did not explain. So please stop being emotional and give a proper response like k2wl did.
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bongski55 said:
Idid not mean to offend you. At least k2wl give a proper response. When you give a "guide" you should at least give a reason or purpose. I am interested on the system folder as a lot of things there pertaining to the rom. Maybe you found a way in windows to put it back to "img" ? We don't know because you did not explain. So please stop being emotional and give a proper response like k2wl did.
Sent from my GT-I9082 using xda app-developers app
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I thought you must be knowing that would "system.img" is.
After cygwin setup working folder system.img is present inside it. I was not able to extract it using the cygwin as it was not responding. So I found an alternate method, this method will extract the system files. And then you can place it inside the working folder.

First Thanks on the First Post. Jonahly.

jonahly said:
First Thanks on the First Post. Jonahly.
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Hope you find it useful
Make.Believe
If you're good at something
Never Do It For Free - JOkER

thank you for this usefull tuto
and how to save it aguain to .img after extract and make some mod

hi
how to extract boot.img in kernel file??

javad938 said:
hi
how to extract boot.img in kernel file??
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Follow the steps.
This is not for decompiling kernel.

works very good here. i'm developer for Nexus 4 . Do you know tutorial about META-INF?

Thanks for the awesome tut brother.
Download Original Samsung USB Driver
Download: http://androidmtk.com/download-samsung-usb-drivers

Related

how to open(unpack) android update.app

????????????
That should be under general...
Sent from my Huawei Ideos X5 1.12.9(ret4rt)
boss_y said:
That should be under general...
Sent from my Huawei Ideos X5 1.12.9(ret4rt)
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It should indeed.
Moved to General
I believe flibblesan used a tool to unpack it, cant remember what it was called. Ask him
edit. or dzo.. cant remember
i'd like to know the name of the tool....
Google is your friend
http://android.modaco.com/topic/298436-perl-script-for-unpacking-the-updataapp-files/
demolition23 said:
Google is your friend
http://android.modaco.com/topic/298436-perl-script-for-unpacking-the-updataapp-files/
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that script is already included in dsixda kitchen....the problem is that the kitchen extracts the updata.app and a "out" folder (where there are some files, among them system.img).
the most important problem is that i can't extract system.img with dsixda.
matteof93 said:
the most important problem is that i can't extract system.img with dsixda.
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It should be (I haven't checked it myself) an ext3 image, which you can just mount under Linux anyway.
qwerty12 said:
It should (I haven't checked it myself) an ext3 image, which you can just mount under Linux anyway.
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ok, i will try later....now i am on windows
EDIT: mounting the system.img on ubuntu the file seems to be empty.....is there any tool to extract it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036147
This should work
Sent from my U8800 using Tapatalk
No, doesn't work either. The link is for unyaffs, which is the same app dsxda kitchen uses for extraction
dancer_69 said:
No, doesn't work either. The link is for unyaffs, which is the same app dsxda kitchen uses for extraction
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18905974&postcount=6
dont working.
andreasha said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18905974&postcount=6
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just tested on ubuntu. i have obtained the system.img but i had some issues extracting updata.app and i don't have the boot.img
I not open please video or photo
ı'm using ubuntu latest version
I am trying to sort this out now, but not getting so far. Looks to me that the hash locations found in the script are wrong so it is not finding boot.img and other files and is breaking the script.
http://www.zebadger.com/android/scripts/split_updata.txt
Code:
my %fileHash=( "\x00\x00\x00\x10","appsboot.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\x20","file25.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\x30","boot.img",
"\x00\x00\x00\x40","system.img",
"\x00\x00\x00\x50","userdata.img",
"\x00\x00\x00\x60","recovery.img",
"\x00\x00\x00\xC0","file11.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xD0","file08.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xE0","file05.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF0","file04.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF1","file07.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF2","splash.raw565",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF3","file01.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF4","file02.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF5","file14.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF6","boot_versions.txt",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF7","upgradable_versions.txt",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF8","file09.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xF9","version.txt",
"\x00\x00\x00\xFA","file20.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xFB","appsboothd.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xFC","file23.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xFD","file16.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xFE","file18.mbn",
"\x00\x00\x00\xFF","file21.mbn",
);
Have looked through the update.app with a hex editor, but not seeing anything that correlates to those lines. Can find boot.img etc, but they are referenced differently. Will look at if hex dump is a different thing and see if it references boot.img properly. If we could get this working, we could make a lot more custom roms as it would be easier to make them in the kitchen using official huawei files with mods.
Ok so system.img can be mounted using furius iso in linux on a loop setting, not a fuse one. Now to try and find the boot.img
http://android.modaco.com/topic/311...s-new-version-of-split-updatapl/page__st__180
See last post, unless he is only joking/being sarcastic, looks like we may get some support for our update.app files for the u8800 in zebadgers script. would be great if we could get full support in the android kitchen for our phone
Ok, last one for now, spent whole afternoon combing through scripts and hex editor readouts. Still not much closer. I can find a couple of files in zebadgers script that if you rename them to boot.img (F0, F3 and F4) will let the script do its job, but they are clearly not the boot.img, too small and not right.
There are still four mystery files named unknown_file 0-3 and 2 look to be the correct size for a kernel/boot.img but I dont know where they come from. They are not from the filehashes in my above post.
hi paul....so did you managed to obtain the system.img from update.app?
which script have you used?
about the boot.img: i don't think that it is absolutely necessary....i can copy my boot.img through the pink screen and use it in the dsixda kitchen. is that right?
ps: i think that the boot.img of the B512 is the same of the B540...isn't it?

[Noob-Tutorial] How to create a CWM flashable zip file from FTF Firmware

Hi @all,
I´m using the Flashtool and other provided tools here in the Forum for a long time (thanks to all people who are involved in the developing)
Now I want to give something back.
I´m not a developer but I understand (hopefully) basic things.
I have also some phones which does not support the flashmode so I am reliant to the fastboot mode and CWM.
At this point my goal was to flash the stock ROM to the Xperia Z.
I found a tuturial how to make a flashable zip file for CWM but it was for old devices with yaffs2 filesystem and the new ones have ext4.
After some search I found everything what is needed and I want to share it with you.
The Tutorial covers basic things but maybe it will help some people who will try it.
Step 1
Download the Stock-FW you want (FTF-File)
Step 2
Rename the .ftf File to .zip
Step 3
Extract the system.sin (with 7zip or WinRar for example)
Step 4
Open Flashtool go to "Tools" -> "Sin Editor" -> Choose the extracted system.sin and push "extract" Data
Step 5
You will get an system.ext4 file
Step 6
We have to extract the files which are in the system.ext4 file - for this I used the DiskInternal Linux Reader
Step 7
After extracting the files you have to put all the files in a folder named "system" (low letters)
Step 8
Create a folder named for example "Firmware"
Step 9
Put the "system" folder in the "Firmware" folder
Step 10
Download the Attached META-INF File - extract it and copy the META-INF Folder in the "Firmware" folder
Step 11
Now you have in your "Firmware" folder two sub-folders
"system" and "META-INF"
Now you only have to zip the both folders for example with 7zip or WinRar
Important: You have to set the compression to "Store"
Step 12
Copy the zip File to your SD-Card and flash it with CWM
If you want you can now add files to the system folder - like busy box - and or modify things and flash it over CWM.
Special thanks to Bin4ry
Best regards
UserX10
Learned ! Thank you.
Nice tutorial!
EDIT: The flashable zip is huge (990MB), did this have anything to do with the compression being set to 'store'?
xL3thalTuRdZz said:
Nice tutorial!
EDIT: The flashable zip is huge (990MB), did this have anything to do with the compression being set to 'store'?
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If you don't set it to store it wont work at all, no rom/flashable zip have anything other than store compression the same goes for bootanimations
Edit: OP/Mod you might just want to change TFT file to FTF in step 1
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Edit2: It seems like this only goes for bootanimations, sorry my bad.
Great.....learning it now
Thanks for the positive feedback.
Changed also the typo on Step 1
I've tried setting compression to 'Normal' and all seems to be going fine...
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Can this be applicable to nxt devices like mine?thanks for the tutorial...
Sent from my LT22i using Tapatalk 2
how to extract from ext4
can you explain with details :fingers-crossed:
im getting ext4 file again after extracting !
ShivangDave said:
can you explain with details :fingers-crossed:
im getting ext4 file again after extracting !
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You have to selected the .ext4 file open with LinuxReader. (like you .doc file with Word)
LinuxReader will "mounted" it in his own window, open your "new" disk (2Go) then select the "Save" option above...
tempofestival said:
You have to selected the .ext4 file open with LinuxReader. (like you .doc file with Word)
LinuxReader will "mounted" it in his own window, open your "new" disk (2Go) then select the "Save" option above...
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did it via linux ! thanks any way !
When I tried to extract Xperia S's stock rom from the ftf using DiskReaderInternals, then the rom would boot but USB would never work. Even the guy above me (ShivangDave) tried extracting using DiskReaderInternals for Miro but the rom failed to boot and got stuck at the Sony logo. That's why it is better to use linux to extract the system.ext4 image.
i want to make a flashable zip to install aps
UserX10 said:
Important: You have to set the compression to "Store"
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How do I set the compression to "Store"?
Thanks a lot for your guide!
MinnesotaVikings1961 said:
How do I set the compression to "Store"?
Thanks a lot for your guide!
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whenever you add file in archive it will show a box first ! 'NORMAL' is default ! change it to 'Store' !
Please!
Does this tutoriral can be applied to other models as Neo V.
Thank you and best regards!
fer14 said:
Please!
Does this tutoriral can be applied to other models as Neo V.
Thank you and best regards!
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This Tutorial should also work with the Neo V. Only one thing could be different.
But depending on your Android Version (when I remember well) it could be possible that you have instead of an ext4 file a yaffs2 file. In this case you can search the forum for an how to for this extension.
TheHawk002 said:
If you don't set it to store it wont work at all, no rom/flashable zip have anything other than store compression the same goes for bootanimations
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I use a template for flashing various things and I just drop stuff in it using Normal compression and it flashes ok, might be more important for full ROMs or zips to be run on the Phone like a boot animation, but for flashing the odd apk or other file I don't think it matters.
UserX10 said:
This Tutorial should also work with the Neo V. Only one thing could be different.
But depending on your Android Version (when I remember well) it could be possible that you have instead of an ext4 file a yaffs2 file. In this case you can search the forum for an how to for this extension.
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XperienceD said:
[GUIDE] How to make your regional firmware an .FTF file
[Guide] How make a FTF of stock firmware from SUS files
[GUIDE]How to make a rooted flashable rom from ftf file[FOR ALL XPERIA PHONES]
[tutorial] | how to extract system.sin
[tutorial] step by step method to extract ftf file from ics [ics]
[Tool] Yaffey - Utility for reading, editing and writing YAFFS2 images
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UserX10 said:
Hi @all,
I´m using the Flashtool and other provided tools here in the Forum for a long time (thanks to all people who are involved in the developing)
Now I want to give something back.
I´m not a developer but I understand (hopefully) basic things.
I have also some phones which does not support the flashmode so I am reliant to the fastboot mode and CWM.
At this point my goal was to flash the stock ROM to the Xperia Z.
I found a tuturial how to make a flashable zip file for CWM but it was for old devices with yaffs2 filesystem and the new ones have ext4.
After some search I found everything what is needed and I want to share it with you.
The Tutorial covers basic things but maybe it will help some people who will try it.
Step 1
Download the Stock-FW you want (FTF-File)
Step 2
Rename the .ftf File to .zip
Step 3
Extract the system.sin (with 7zip or WinRar for example)
Step 4
Open Flashtool go to "Tools" -> "Sin Editor" -> Choose the extracted system.sin and push "extract" Data
Step 5
You will get an system.ext4 file
Step 6
We have to extract the files which are in the system.ext4 file - for this I used the DiskInternal Linux Reader
Step 7
After extracting the files you have to put all the files in a folder named "system" (low letters)
Step 8
Create a folder named for example "Firmware"
Step 9
Put the "system" folder in the "Firmware" folder
Step 10
Download the Attached META-INF File - extract it and copy the META-INF Folder in the "Firmware" folder
Step 11
Now you have in your "Firmware" folder two sub-folders
"system" and "META-INF"
Now you only have to zip the both folders for example with 7zip or WinRar
Important: You have to set the compression to "Store"
Step 12
Copy the zip File to your SD-Card and flash it with CWM
If you want you can now add files to the system folder - like busy box - and or modify things and flash it over CWM.
Special thanks to Bin4ry
Best regards
UserX10
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I tried this on Xperia SP but the installation is aborted, does this supports Xperia SP? If not, how can I make another one for Xperia SP? Thanks
tdth said:
I tried this on Xperia SP but the installation is aborted, does this supports Xperia SP? If not, how can I make another one for Xperia SP? Thanks
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which error ?
---------- Post added at 08:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:50 PM ----------
tdth said:
I tried this on Xperia SP but the installation is aborted, does this supports Xperia SP? If not, how can I make another one for Xperia SP? Thanks
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this works... make sure you have correct update-binary file and also script !

How to view & unpack system.img.ext4?

So I was trying to get the media folder from the Galaxy s4 black.
Downloaded the firmware, extracted it until system.img.ext4.
Now how do I open this?
Tried with ext2explore - it did nothing when I chose the file
Tried with diskinternals - raw disk image - File system not supported
Anybody?
bungadudu said:
So I was trying to get the media folder from the Galaxy s4 black.
Downloaded the firmware, extracted it until system.img.ext4.
Now how do I open this?
Tried with ext2explore - it did nothing when I chose the file
Tried with diskinternals - raw disk image - File system not supported
Anybody?
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Have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294909
I use it all the time
I also cannot open the system.img.ext4 file with ext4 unpacker. ( it crashes after working for 15 minutes), is there another solution?
Just rename system.img.ext4 to system.img
I was having the same problem and it worked once I did this.
Not working
OmarEinea said:
Have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294909
I use it all the time
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I've done this numerous times, tried renaming it and all, I swear I did this the exact same way a few weeks ago and it worked no problem. Ext2Explorer doesn't do anything and the ext4 Unpacker freezes and always makes me force close it now. I'm using Windows 8.1 but I also tried this by mounting in Linux and I get an error as well, "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0," etc... So I'm not sure what happened I've downloaded the firmware from 2 different sources and from one of the sources I downloaded it from 4 different mirrors totaling 5 different downloads so there is no way my files are corrupt it won't work with ANY of them. I'm honestly so confused I don't even know where to look anymore so here I am posting along with the last few people that seem to share my pain. Hopefully someone can help us.
This is the firmware I'm using download and try it out for me pretty please let me know if your system has any issues?
N900TUVUENK3
Solved below
Open Galaxy S4 system.img.ext4
This is my tested method on SHV-E330L, a korean variant of Galaxy S4.
1) Unpack with sgstoex4.
2) Open unpacked file with ext2explore.
No other method works like ext4_unpacker etc., if it helps please hit thanks
Thanks!
galliard said:
This is my tested method on SHV-E330L, a korean variant of Galaxy S4.
1) Unpack with sgstoex4.
2) Open unpacked file with ext2explore.
No other method works like ext4_unpacker etc., if it helps please hit thanks
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Wowzers I literally just ran across that method and was about to post then I saw you already said it, good to know if I didn't find it I wouldn't have been left in the dark as you are right that is THE ONLY method that works at the moment for a lot of different people.
Change to system.tar.gz
OmarEinea said:
Have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294909
I use it all the time
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Change to system.tar.gz then extract
Open system.img.ext4 in windows easily with 2 tools!
First download this 2 tools
1. linux reader
2.jar file
http://www.diskinternals.com/download/ (linux reader)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=645192&d=1309768531
DOne 50 %:good:
Step 1)
Download Diskinternals Linux reader and open it up.
Step 2)
Download sgs2ext4.jar and open it up.
Step 3)
Take you system.img and move it into the sgs2ext4.jar application and wait until it is done.
Step 4)
Now you should get a system.img.ext4 file or something like that just make sure ext4/ext is in the name
Step 5)
Now in Diskinternals click on Drives –> mount image, now a window will pop-up, leave the box on RAW disk image and click next, now search for the system.img ext4 file and choose it.
Step 6)
Now you see a new drive which looks like this: Linux EXT Volume 1 (Number can be different) Open the drive and click on commands and then select all.
Step 7)
Now do Ctrl+S to save the files where you want them, i suggest you to make a folder on you desktop called system and save it there.
Good Luck !:laugh:
hit thanks if helped
can please provide the link to download sgstoex4. file
galliard said:
This is my tested method on SHV-E330L, a korean variant of Galaxy S4.
1) Unpack with sgstoex4.
2) Open unpacked file with ext2explore.
No other method works like ext4_unpacker etc., if it helps please hit thanks
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can please provide the link to download sgstoex4. file .. i could not find it..
sparky vicky said:
First download this 2 tools
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First, read the topic "Extract Deodex Sign and Zipalign an official ROM" and there credits.
Wow, I could not realize that you posted it more than a year ago. I really appreciate and thank you for your help. Finally, I can achieve single file I'm looking for inside ???

How to unpack system.img.ext4 ! ! ! !

How to unpack system.img.ext4 taken from the side SAMMOBILE.com of the phone SGS4 and SGS5 !?
Search "Diskinternals Linux Reader" on Google, download and install it.
Open the program and mount image, choose your ext4 file, that's all
Inviato dal mio GT-I9505
AntaresOne said:
Search "Diskinternals Linux Reader" on Google, download and install it.
Open the program and mount image, choose your ext4 file, that's all
Inviato dal mio GT-I9505
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Doesn't work. When you open system.img.ext4 with it, it errors out saying "File system not supported." There's an extra step for Samsung firmwares, unfortunately the sgs2ext4.jar tool posted around XDA no longer works (it's over two years old anyway).
siraltus said:
Doesn't work. When you open system.img.ext4 with it, it errors out saying "File system not supported." There's an extra step for Samsung firmwares, unfortunately the sgs2ext4.jar tool posted around XDA no longer works (it's over two years old anyway).
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your right, Linux Reader will not work with the SGS4 img files.
So I was looking for the same thing and put together a way that worked for me on windows 7 64bit...
1. download the sgs2toext4.jar from rwilco12's website or the xda thread
2. run sgs2toext4.jar and then drag your "system.img.ext4" file that you got from your tar.md5 file into the main window that says "Drag Here"
3. it will take a couple minutes to create the new "system.img.ext4.img" file, so let it run until it says in the window that it is done...then close the program
4. download ext2explore-2.2.71 from the sourceforge website
5. once downloaded, extract the .exe file and right click on ext2explore.exe to "run as administrator"
6. then click on File at top left and then Open Image...select your "system.img.ext4.img" file
7. Highlight the file in the right window pane and click Save
8. then save the contents to a folder of your choosing and VIOLA!!
hope that helps!
Linux reader works perfect, you just need to use an older version, not the latest
onelovekir said:
run sgs2toext4.jar and then drag your "system.img.ext4" file that you got from your tar.md5 file into the main window that says "Drag Here"
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Except that when I drag my system.img.ext4 file to the sgs2ext4.jar window, it just keeps saying "0 bytes" forever and ever and extracts nothing. I left it for an hour once and it just created a 0-byte file.
siraltus said:
Except that when I drag my system.img.ext4 file to the sgs2ext4.jar window, it just keeps saying "0 bytes" forever and ever and extracts nothing. I left it for an hour once and it just created a 0-byte file.
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Have you by any chance installed the Java SDK? If not, try installing that first before running the applet.
onelovekir said:
Have you by any chance installed the Java SDK? If not, try installing that first before running the applet.
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I have the latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. Why would I need the entire SDK?
siraltus said:
I have the latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. Why would I need the entire SDK?
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Yeah I don't see why you would but that might be the difference from mine and yours, cuz mine worked no problems
onelovekir said:
Yeah I don't see why you would but that might be the difference from mine and yours, cuz mine worked no problems
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Maybe because I was trying to extract a Note 3 and Note 4 firmware and not an S4 firmware and Samsung changed the formats...
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Maybe because I was trying to extract a Note 3 and Note 4 firmware and not an S4 firmware and Samsung changed the formats...
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aaahhh could be, its very possible...then i'm not sure, you could always host your img file on the cloud and maybe I could try and do it for you, just send me a PM with the link
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Maybe because I was trying to extract a Note 3 and Note 4 firmware and not an S4 firmware and Samsung changed the formats...
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Buddy. Have to you found out the solution for this?
Even I am trying to extract Note 4 Lollipop rom but not possible.
Any work around?
Thanks.
Try this guys: You have to emulate Linux in windows using cygwin and that will unpack the system.img.ext4 files
Use the modified android kitchenHere and learn the way to install it in the original thread here
Run android kitchen and then choose the rom and voila! unpacked! Now I don't know if it will work with lollipop but you can give it a try
too complicated? for simpler ways try : this

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Here it is, I need to extract stock img from root folder so I can supply a few guy with it . I lost the tutorial on how to do that can someone brush me up on the how tops thanks in advance guys
I need to deliver I gave my word
Woody Herald said:
Here it is, I need to extract stock img from root folder so I can supply a few guy with it . I lost the tutorial on how to do that can someone brush me up on the how tops thanks in advance guys
I need to deliver I gave my word
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So, where is the problem? If you just want it completly original download the flashable unrooted stock zip from here and unzip the file. It contains all partitions from the phone. If you need the files inside of those images just rename the *.bin- and *.img-files to *-zip and unzip them. Done.
Good luck.
Jan Philipp said:
So, where is the problem? If you just want it completly original download the flashable unrooted stock zip from here and unzip the file. It contains all partitions from the phone. If you need the files inside of those images just rename the *.bin- and *.img-files to *-zip and unzip them. Done.
Good luck.
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