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Got the sammy infuse in my hands right now, so how do I do a system dump?

xdahgary said:
Got the sammy infuse in my hands right now, so how do I do a system dump?
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adb pull /system

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24.8 MB Mystery file dsp.crash.1288434925.img

This file magically appeared on root of my SD card. I have no idea how it was generated or where it could have come from.
In preparation of installing CM6.1 I was backing up my SD card and noticed this monster file, I saved a copy to my desktop and am almost tempted to burn a copy as i'm kinda curious what the heck it is. I changed the file extension to txt to possibly view anything that might make sense, but no such luck, all gibberish.
For lack of any other clues i'm wondering if it has anything to do with DSP Manager? I did have a couple of force closes early on with DSP Manager but its been behaving fine for awhile now so i'm clueless.
Anybody have any input on this?
I'm not overly concerned but at the same time if i've got some rogue program running around creating 24 MB img files i'd certainly like to know.
ATT version N1
CM 6.0 stable at the time .img file was spawned
A bit of Google:
http://gitorious.org/linux-on-qualc...mmit/e8211cd8a41fbe8d0e82b173922b608ff9037c03
Read the remarks in the code.
img is a file system format extension. Why would you try and open it as a text file? lololol
Jack_R1 said:
A bit of Google:
http://gitorious.org/linux-on-qualc...mmit/e8211cd8a41fbe8d0e82b173922b608ff9037c03
Read the remarks in the code.
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Just what the doctor ordered, Thanks
GldRush98 said:
img is a file system format extension. Why would you try and open it as a text file? lololol
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Actually, I've had great luck trying this in the past, a few times!
fastboot flash dsp.crash.1288434925.img /system
Is what I'd do to have a look...
djmcnz said:
fastboot flash dsp.crash.1288434925.img /system
Is what I'd do to have a look...
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Lol, ya went over my head here, are you saying I can flash this to my system folder and have an additional DSP Manager to look at (after nandroid, ha)?
More details please, I'm not adverse to trying this as long as I'm not going to break anything.
Don't try this, as it'll rewrite your system partition with whatever is saved in the IMG. It's definitely not the system, the size isn't nearly big enough.
djmcnz said:
fastboot flash dsp.crash.1288434925.img /system
Is what I'd do to have a look...
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productofusa said:
Lol, ya went over my head here, are you saying I can flash this to my system folder and have an additional DSP Manager to look at (after nandroid, ha)?
More details please, I'm not adverse to trying this as long as I'm not going to break anything.
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Jack_R1 said:
Don't try this, as it'll rewrite your system partition with whatever is saved in the IMG. It's definitely not the system, the size isn't nearly big enough.
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Yeah, it was a joke... never flash a file you don't know the contents of.
Jack_R1 said:
Don't try this, as it'll rewrite your system partition with whatever is saved in the IMG. It's definitely not the system, the size isn't nearly big enough.
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I like my system partition just the way it is thanks. But yeah probably wouldn't have flashed anything until it made more sense. Now it makes sense.
djmcnz said:
fastboot flash dsp.crash.1288434925.img /system
Is what I'd do to have a look...
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just nandroid before all that madness is unleashed on your phone!

Need dump of d3 CDT and devtree

Hey guys,
Got both these partitions now all I need is a dd image of the system partition from stock d3 so I can put in the SBF.
Please try this and let me know if it works:
dd if=/dev/block/system of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
System dump download
http://androidcommunity.com/motorol...-wallpapers-boot-animation-and-more-20110711/
techdigital said:
http://androidcommunity.com/motorol...-wallpapers-boot-animation-and-more-20110711/
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That is a dump of the system partition, I need the CDT partition.
ill see what i can get, my droid 3 is one of the soft bricked ones so i have to depend on others. http://www.multiupload.com/IGD0S3J8LK
techdigital said:
ill see what i can get, my droid 3 is one of the soft bricked ones so i have to depend on others. http://www.multiupload.com/IGD0S3J8LK
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Thats a link to the CRC of the test ROM, someone pointed that out to me earlier, thanks though. I'm on to looking for a dd of the system image, final thing I'm missing. All I have found so far are zips of the files which isn't what I'm looking for.
I'll let you know when the SBF is ready, more testers the better.
Whats the easiest method to get a dd image of the /sysytem?
suzook said:
Whats the easiest method to get a dd image of the /sysytem?
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I don't know what the system partition is, but I think this will work:
dd if=/dev/block/system of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
nullness said:
I don't know what the system partition is, but I think this will work:
dd if=/dev/block/system of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
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Using terminal on the phone?
Ok, got it. Its big. How do i get it to you?
if you could zip it up and upload it to megaupload or something that would be perfect!
nullness said:
if you could zip it up and upload it to megaupload or something that would be perfect!
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Ok, does it contain any personal info? Also, i modified sytemui.apk, and frameworkres.apk to look like gb theme. Is that a problem? If so, maybe someonelse should upload theirs.
suzook said:
Ok, does it contain any personal info? Also, i modified sytemui.apk, and frameworkres.apk to look like gb theme. Is that a problem? If so, maybe someonelse should upload theirs.
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I would prefer a stock one so people can go back to stock, but no the system partition doesn't contain any personal info at all, its designed to be run read-only which is why you need root to mount it rw to edit it
C'mon guys someone must have a dd of stock system partition
nullness said:
I would prefer a stock one so people can go back to stock, but no the system partition doesn't contain any personal info at all, its designed to be run read-only which is why you need root to mount it rw to edit it
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ill do it,ive renamed like 10 apps to .bak though. is it cool to leave those as .bak or do those need to be put back to .apk
erismaster said:
ill do it,ive renamed like 10 apps to .bak though. is it cool to leave those as .bak or do those need to be put back to .apk
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I want a system image as it shipped with the phone, apps and all. I really need a completely stock never touched one.
nullness said:
I want a system image as it shipped with the phone, apps and all. I really need a completely stock never touched one.
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alright ill rename them back to .apk. wont take long. ill post the link as soon as i get it up
Here it is
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X2OPU8V1
WOOHOO ^^^^
Would this reverse the ota leak install if it turned out to be a dead end?
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Does this mean user created SBF?
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Yes that is it exactly.

[REQ] Bell XT860 System.img

If any of the bell users out there would be kind enough to pull their /system folder for me I would be eternally greatful. I think if you open an adb shell on your computer, "su" to get root and then "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p21 of=/sdcard/mmcblk1p21.img" that would be what I'm looking for. Thank you in advance.
Edit ... If a mod wants to move this to general droid 3 I would also be greatful, too many windows open and too many hours messing with this lol. Apologies
Edit 2: ty Danifunker for an helping me w/my broken command, I thought dd would take a directory as input for this lol. Hope you're able to figure out your posting problem .
danifunker said:
Hey there,
I realized you need mmcblk1p21, so I did dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p21 of=/sdcard/mmcblk1p21.img
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Edit 3: Files were uploaded
danifunker said:
http://www.multiupload.com/SORQERFAYT
Looks like you already had some help, but this is in actual image file.
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Thank you Danifunker
Willis111 said:
If any of the bell users out there would be kind enough to pull their /system folder for me I would be eternally greatful. I think if you open an adb shell on your computer, "su" to get root and then "dd if=/system of=/sdcard/system.img" that would be what I'm looking for. Thank you in advance.
Edit ... If a mod wants to move this to general droid 3 I would also be greatful, too many windows open and too many hours messing with this lol. Apologies
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You might want to post this in general and make the something to the effect of:
"HELP! XT860 NON-ROOTED SYSTEM.IMG NEEDED!"
rynosaur said:
You might want to post this in general and make the something to the effect of:
"HELP! XT860 NON-ROOTED SYSTEM.IMG NEEDED!"
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I figured "request" = help ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/request ) and "bell xt860 system.img" = the rest. Rooted or unrooted works. Thanks for the help though

7310 bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg

I am trying to find the stock 7310 boot animation files: bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop qmg files from the 7310. Please.
Thanks,
you need to have root... then go to system->media and there they are... enjoy
JU57FL1P said:
you need to have root... then go to system->media and there they are... enjoy
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Thanks for replying. I knew I should have given more information, darn it! I have a rooted i957 LTE that has a really ugly Telus boot screen, Since I don't plan on using this tab for data with AT&T or Telus, I'd like to just get a Samsung (or a generic android) boot animation. I've found some other boot animations in different forums, but I thought that the 7310 would be my best bet because the resolution should be correct without any tweaking. I've seen people posting links to boot files in the past and was hoping someone could do the same with the 7310. Thanks again for your reply.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648314
but you have to download the rom file, put it in there and then flash the rom with the modified .zip inside it (DON'T EXTRACT THE ROM ZIP FILE)
JU57FL1P said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648314
but you have to download the rom file, put it in there and then flash the rom with the modified .zip inside it (DON'T EXTRACT THE ROM ZIP FILE)
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Here's the situation. I am using the DannoRom_2xx. His Rom has the two qmg files in question located in system>media. I have tried replacing those files with other qmg animation files and they don't seem to want to be replaced. Do I need to replace the files in the ROM and then re-flash the ROM? Actually, I did accomplish part of what I wanted to do (although I'm not sure how I did it.) I did get rid of the Telus screen so now I just have a black screen while my tab is booting. Obviously this is not an urgent problem, I'm just determined to figure out how to do this. It was much easier using zip files on the Nook Color last year. Thanks for trying to help.
heliosue said:
Here's the situation. I am using the DannoRom_2xx. His Rom has the two qmg files in question located in system>media. I have tried replacing those files with other qmg animation files and they don't seem to want to be replaced.
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How did you try to replace them?
The /system file-system is mounted read-only. It needs to be re-mounted read-write before you can modify it. And then re-mounted read-only in the interest of safety.
boscorama said:
How did you try to replace them?
The /system file-system is mounted read-only. It needs to be re-mounted read-write before you can modify it. And then re-mounted read-only in the interest of safety.
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Even after setting system permissions to R/W, this is the message I get when I try to move or replace those QMG files that are located in system.
Thanks,
heliosue said:
Even after setting system permissions to R/W, this is the message I get when I try to move or replace those QMG files that are located in system.
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Hmmm. There is another explanation (other than not being rooted, which you already seem to be).
Is the /system/media a distinct file-system? Or a symlink?
(I don't believe the i957 is that different, though)
What does the mount or df command say?
And 'ls -ld /system/media' ?
Also, have you tried doing the mv/cp using adb?
boscorama said:
Hmmm. There is another explanation (other than not being rooted, which you already seem to be).
Is the /system/media a distinct file-system? Or a symlink?
(I don't believe the i957 is that different, though)
What does the mount or df command say?
And 'ls -ld /system/media' ?
Also, have you tried doing the mv/cp using adb?
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Okay, I surrender! I am not afraid to admit that I am apparently in over my head. I just wanted to replace the current QMG files with some others,and it looks like I have ventured into, what is for me, unchartered territory. I have used ADB in the past, but I don't think I know enough to be really comfortable with it. Samsung's proprietary animation files are way beyond my ability to deal with. I'll be following this thread to see if someone out there who is much more knowledgeable than I, comes up with a procedure that I can understand and actually implement.
Thanks to any and all who have tried to help me solve this problem.
heliosue said:
I'll be following this thread to see if someone out there who is much more knowledgeable than I, comes up with a procedure that I can understand and actually implement.
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Really? Wow. OK.
I will note that this is your thread and this is xda-developers, not Samsung user support.
Sitting back and waiting to have the solution spoon-fed to you while someone is trying to help you is not exactly the way to endear yourself to the community.
boscorama said:
Really? Wow. OK.
I will note that this is your thread and this is xda-developers, not Samsung user support.
Sitting back and waiting to have the solution spoon-fed to you while someone is trying to help you is not exactly the way to endear yourself to the community.
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Easy for you to say. Sorry if this offends. Please tell me what I should do in this circumstance. Your most recent response is way over my head. I gave as much information that I could come up with. Other than that, what would you have me do. Should I pretend that I know what you are talking about, or should I acknowledge that this thread has moved beyond my ability to understand. I was hoping to find someone with some recognition of the problems I was dealing with. Obviously not something you have experienced for yourself. I tried everything that was suggested until I got to this last post which made absolutely no sense to me. Of course I can google until the cows come home, and I probably will, trying to figure out what all of the references you made actually mean. I really am sorry if I led anyone to believe that I knew and understood more than I do. I come from the earlier XDA threads for the Nook Color which was a very special place for all of us newcomers who were so excited about learning what we could do. It has been all too obvious that those Nook Color forums were the not the norm. I have managed to work my through a few other android products: the touchpad, the nexus s, and the galaxy 7.7. All rooted with help fro XDA. The 8.9 doesn't seem to have the same interest and dedication that some of the other forums have. Sorry to have been a distraction.
heliosue said:
Please tell me what I should do in this circumstance. Your most recent response is way over my head.
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If you'd simply said ^^^^ this ^^^^ before, I'd have said:
"Download a terminal app from the store and run the commands I mentioned before."
and then I wouldn't have thrown away the update.zip I had prepared for you.
I need help and i'm not giving up... lol
boscorama said:
Really? Wow. OK.
I will note that this is your thread and this is xda-developers, not Samsung user support.
Sitting back and waiting to have the solution spoon-fed to you while someone is trying to help you is not exactly the way to endear yourself to the community.
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ok so i'm having the same problem as this guy.... except i want my stock bootanimation changed. the animation is labeled bootsamsung.qmg, i have rooted my samsung galaxy s3 and my samsung galaxy tab 2 but both have same file type.... have done lots of research and still have not found out why when i root does not change bootanimation to a zip.... i have root explorer and it shows the same in both devices. Any help would be great. I really appreciate all the help with the rooting i have had just from reading xda threads.
BillyBigRoot said:
ok so i'm having the same problem as this guy.... except i want my stock bootanimation changed. the animation is labeled bootsamsung.qmg, i have rooted my samsung galaxy s3 and my samsung galaxy tab 2 but both have same file type.... have done lots of research and still have not found out why when i root does not change bootanimation to a zip.... i have root explorer and it shows the same in both devices. Any help would be great. I really appreciate all the help with the rooting i have had just from reading xda threads.
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Hello there!
It seems that you can get new QMG files by following this tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189934
It says shutdown but it's actually for both

why wont twrp see my backups??? :(

Ok I allways keep 2 good backups.. i flashed a aosp rom last nite which i dont really like just to try it out.. backed up my sense rom like always now today i go into recovery to wipe and restore my backup and twrp wont find the backups.. i kno they are there cause i can hit install and i see the folder and i can go into it.. everythings fine.. this sucks so bad man!! whats the deal with twrp anyone ever have this problem? O SNAP! sorry im a big dummy i just tried to mount internal storege and it works now.. sorry never had that happen before.. i was going nuts! thanks
P.Mobile said:
Ok I allways keep 2 good backups.. i flashed a aosp rom last nite which i dont really like just to try it out.. backed up my sense rom like always now today i go into recovery to wipe and restore my backup and twrp wont find the backups.. i kno they are there cause i can hit install and i see the folder and i can go into it.. everythings fine.. this sucks so bad man!! whats the deal with twrp anyone ever have this problem? O SNAP! sorry im a big dummy i just tried to mount internal storege and it works now.. sorry never had that happen before.. i was going nuts! thanks
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just out of curiosity what version of TWRP do you run?
adb shell
rm -r /data/media/0/TWRP
ln -s /data/media/TWRP /data/media/0/TWRP
weird now when i use root explorer i have 2 storages?? when i plug my phone into my laptop i have a bunch of folders one new folders thats named 0 and thats where my other storage is at?? i dont get it.. it was never like this before... im on twrp 2.5.0.0.. this sux! i dont kno what the heck happend?
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adb shell
rm -r /data/media/0/TWRP
ln -s /data/media/TWRP /data/media/0/TWRP
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what is that?
P.Mobile said:
what is that?
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It'll let your backups be seen? I thought that was what your thread was for.
Indirect said:
It'll let your backups be seen? I thought that was what your thread was for.
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Yea it is but I wrote I figured how to get to my backups in the end of my post.. now my storage is messed up look.. I have to go into this then in that 0 folder to get to my stuff.. it wasn't like this before very odd I'll post screen shots
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Now I go into my storage which is now them 3-4 folders and my old storage in that 0 folder
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Yup flashing an asop Rom changes the file structure.
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Konfuzion said:
Yup flashing an asop Rom changes the file structure.
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dam no way to fix it back to normal now huh?
P.Mobile said:
dam no way to fix it back to normal now huh?
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There is if you search.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321685&highlight=aosp+sense
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adb shell
rm -r /data/media/0/TWRP
ln -s /data/media/TWRP /data/media/0/TWRP
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Just ran into this problem after being stuck in a boot loop. Working on a new Rom. Went from 4.1.2 to 4.2.2 so the file structure changes. Thought I was screwed but this worked perfect. Thanks
Rirere said:
There is if you search.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321685&highlight=aosp+sense
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i only been coming on here for a few years i dont search first.. next time ill try that

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