Hi, I am new to Android and rooting and I am attempting to root my Galaxy S3 and I have been following mr.Robinsons guide. However I can't manage to get the .tar file I need. I download the AT&T RAR, extract it and see 10 or so files with Recovery images,boot image, mbn files..etc.
Why is this happening?
Anyone aware of what to do?
GilaMonster1 said:
Anyone aware of what to do?
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Just google UNRAR.
GilaMonster1 said:
Hi, I am new to Android and rooting and I am attempting to root my Galaxy S3 and I have been following mr.Robinsons guide. However I can't manage to get the .tar file I need. I download the AT&T RAR, extract it and see 10 or so files with Recovery images,boot image, mbn files..etc.
Why is this happening?
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I reread his guide, just to be sure I got my instructions correct. You should have downloaded a .7z file. Extract that and now you have a .tar file. Do not extract it. Open up Odin, click on pda, and point it to the tar file.
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can u point out the folder???
It resides in the User Temp folder of your windows user profile.
And is deleted as soon as the firmware upgrade is completed on your phone.
can you post the exact compressed file name..what zip utility are you using.
I know winzip is suck..cant unzip alot of stuff.
What size is the package file ?
if the package is stored on non-english characters..that post problem too.
Its just any random file name ending with a TMP extension. Its about 257MB.
e.g. tmp2EFA.tmp
Still no leads to opening this file.
Post the first line of the file: some formats are identifiable based on their opening signature.
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i2umi said:
Its just any random file name ending with a TMP extension. Its about 257MB.
e.g. tmp2EFA.tmp
Still no leads to opening this file.
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What unzip program are you using ?
Can you try change the extension to .7z and use WinRar to unzip it..Winzip no go
Before Kies starts to flash the firmware, it decrypts the .tmp file to .zip file in the same directory. When Kies update window says "Extracting binary file" or something like that, you can copy the zip file from temp directory. It contains one tar and one dll file. Tar file can be flashed with Odin
Norpa76 said:
Before Kies starts to flash the firmware, it decrypts the .tmp file to .zip file in the same directory. When Kies update window says "Extracting binary file" or something like that, you can copy the zip file from temp directory. It contains one tar and one dll file. Tar file can be flashed with Odin
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If that's the case, are there any other ways to decrypt this file back to zip directly than doing the whole upgrade thing again just for the zip?
hmanxx said:
What unzip program are you using ?
Can you try change the extension to .7z and use WinRar to unzip it..Winzip no go
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Tired all. no go.
i2umi said:
Tired all. no go.
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Use the method given on post #8
Hi all
I am trying to locate the yakju-icl53f-factory-89fccaac.tgz file on googles website, but they've changed the file to yakju-icl53f-factory-89fccaac.tar now.
Does that mean I can flash it with Odin now?
If I try to extract the contents with 7-zip its just a single file without an extension - no separate bootloader, etc files.....
Any ideas???
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I am trying to locate the yakju-icl53f-factory-89fccaac.tgz file on googles website, but they've changed the file to yakju-icl53f-factory-89fccaac.tar now.
Does that mean I can flash it with Odin now?
If I try to extract the contents with 7-zip its just a single file without an extension - no separate bootloader, etc files.....
Any ideas???
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still .tgz http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
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still .tgz http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
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When you hold your cursor over the file links they say TGZ, but when you click to download its TAR..
Try that
cheetah2k said:
When you hold your cursor over the file links they say TGZ, but when you click to download its TAR..
Try that
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The fix, if anyone else has the same issue as me, just rename the file back to TGZ, then use 7-zip to unzip it. For some reason Windows 7 changes the TGZ to TAR at the time of download.
cheetah2k said:
The fix, if anyone else has the same issue as me, just rename the file back to TGZ, then use 7-zip to unzip it. For some reason Windows 7 changes the TGZ to TAR at the time of download.
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Interestingly, it seems to be Internet Explorer renaming from .tgz to .tar. Downloading in Firefox just appends the .tar (eg "----.tgz.tar")
(Windows 7, and Firefox beta 10 & IE 9)
cancerouspete said:
Interestingly, it seems to be Internet Explorer renaming from .tgz to .tar. Downloading in Firefox just appends the .tar (eg "----.tgz.tar")
(Windows 7, and Firefox beta 10 & IE 9)
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i use chrome. no problems
cheetah2k said:
The fix, if anyone else has the same issue as me, just rename the file back to TGZ, then use 7-zip to unzip it. For some reason Windows 7 changes the TGZ to TAR at the time of download.
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Thankyou was scratching my head for a second there.
Hi guys, I would like to extract boot.img from a Stock ROM without the need of installing it on my (Galaxy Note 2 T-mobile). All I found on the internet is how to extract it from an installed ROM.
So I would like to:
1. Extract the boot.img
2. Then flash it through ODIN to my custom ROM (Jedi Master 14)
Thanks in advance and please help me :crying:
Why would you do that?
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
I don't know how you going to use boot.img to fix your problem. But the .md5 rom files are just zipped files. unzip and you will find the boot.img file. Are you sure that this will fix your problem?
Are you trying to change your boot image?
Use a tar archive program (7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, PKZip, this format is pretty universal) to extract what you need from the official Samsung ROM images. (Check out sammobile.com if you haven't already, you will need to register.)
You might get some error message about the end of the archive, that's normal and due to the presence of the MD5 hash at the end of the file, which most programs will be able to work around nonetheless.
Repack the relevant file with a *nix tar binary, or under Cygwin on a Windows machine. (YMMV, but those are the two only ways I've managed to have the files work with Odin.)
Reboot phone to download mode and flash with Odin as usual.
Done.
Thanks a lot. Thats exactly what I am looking for.
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Darkshado said:
Use a tar archive program (7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, PKZip, this format is pretty universal) to extract what you need from the official Samsung ROM images. (Check out sammobile.com if you haven't already, you will need to register.)
You might get some error message about the end of the archive, that's normal and due to the presence of the MD5 hash at the end of the file, which most programs will be able to work around nonetheless.
Repack the relevant file with a *nix tar binary, or under Cygwin on a Windows machine. (YMMV, but those are the two only ways I've managed to have the files work with Odin.)
Reboot phone to download mode and flash with Odin as usual.
Done.
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and how do we do?
i flash the file without pepacking it so i can t bot, kernel error!
I'm really annoyed if you can explained to me how do we do it
thx
Hello all, I need some help finding the .tar or the .md5 file from the stock ROM zip file (Tab Pro 8.4).
I am trying to flash / revert back to stock ROM and recovery, since I am giving this tablet to my nephew. I've downloaded the official firmware directly from Samsung, I've downloaded Odin V3.07 and the samsung drivers are installed on my laptop. I've used Odin before, to flash files (months ago), but where I'm getting stuck is on Odin when I go to select the .tar or the .md5 file form the zip, I can't locate the files. I've extracted them several times using different methods, but not a single time have I been able to extract a .tar or .md5 file, all I get is: META-INF folder, system folder and boot disk image, no .tar or .md5 file anywhere in the folders either.
Am I an idiot here or what am I doing wrong that I don't get the .tar or .md5 file?
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
i am not sure where you downloaded it from. i took it from sammobile and the name of the zip is: T320XXU1BNI1_T320DBT1BNJ1_DBT.zip inside it being a file named: T320XXU1BNI1_T320DBT1BNJ1_HOME.tar.md5
PS: i have a german device thats why the DBT code...please download yours...
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i am not sure where you downloaded it from. i took it from sammobile and the name of the zip is: T320XXU1BNI1_T320DBT1BNJ1_DBT.zip inside it being a file named: T320XXU1BNI1_T320DBT1BNJ1_HOME.tar.md5
PS: i have a german device thats why the DBT code...please download yours...
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I am downloading it one more time from sam mobile just to make sure. How did you extract the zip (what program)? 7zip, winrar, etc?
i think i know whats going on. i use winrar for windows you probably use something else. inside .zip there is a .md5 file but inside .md5 file there are meta folders etc. some software consider it being an archive inside an archive and it doesn't even bother to tell you that probably it's extracting folders directly...
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i think i know whats going on. i use winrar for windows you probably use something else. inside .zip there is a .md5 file but inside .md5 file there are meta folders etc. some software consider it being an archive inside an archive and it doesn't even bother to tell you that probably it's extracting folders directly...
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use 7 zip, there should be a .tar.md5 in the .zip only extract the .tar.md5. dont extract anything from the tar.md5. just select the tar.md5 in odin after you put your device in download mode
Totally lost. Try to download marshmallow tar and update. But I download, open heimdall and use browse for file. But it is not valid to open and put in cue. I don't know what to do. Is it a different file for Apple. Mac socks by the way. I have no other choice.
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Totally lost. Try to download marshmallow tar and update. But I download, open heimdall and use browse for file. But it is not valid to open and put in cue. I don't know what to do. Is it a different file for Apple. Mac socks by the way. I have no other choice.
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Try watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7u-iUo5C6M
If you need the latest TAR file, it is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...ide-links-files-update-root-restore-t3366862/
koop1955 said:
Try watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7u-iUo5C6M
If you need the latest TAR file, it is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...ide-links-files-update-root-restore-t3366862/
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Have done already. Thank you.
koop1955 said:
Try watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7u-iUo5C6M
If you need the latest TAR file, it is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...ide-links-files-update-root-restore-t3366862/
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Tried again. Just fails to load pit file. Doesn't recognize tar file. Can't even choose file. Tried jodin, can't download. Tried smart switch but apparently sprint doesn't allow that either
cherubashe said:
Tried again. Just fails to load pit file. Doesn't recognize tar file. Can't even choose file. Tried jodin, can't download. Tried smart switch but apparently sprint doesn't allow that either
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You have to extract the tar file. What you actually flash is the file with an extension of .MD5.