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I created a tool a while back for Galaxy S II owners to backup and restore the '/efs' partition and perform basic NV Repair on their devices.
This proved so popular that I recently updated the application which now includes a feature to automatically detect the mount point of the '/efs' partition. This allows any supported device to be used with EFS Pro and also adds support for future devices.
Check out the link below for more info and download:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18524176
Enjoy!
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Nice to see you here lyriquidperfection. Used your tool for my S2 few months ago. Works wonders. Cheers!
I actually spot your program a few days back in the GSII forum, the EFS file seems small, should not be a problem right?
Mach3.2 said:
I actually spot your program a few days back in the GSII forum, the EFS file seems small, should not be a problem right?
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Tar file should be around 5mb and Image file should be around 20mb.
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lyriquidperfection said:
Tar file should be around 5mb and Image file should be around 20mb.
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Hmmmm, then I may have a problem..
Let me try again.
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Not working with my Nexus. It gives the error operation failed at the time of detecting the EFS partition on the phone.
Running AOKP M5 and the phone is GSM
Guys,
for those of you having issues with the app, just do it yourself. It's not like it's complicated:
su
dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/efs of=/sdcard/efs.img
Done. The file will be called efs.img in /sdcard.
efrant said:
Guys,
for those of you having issues with the app, just do it yourself. It's not like it's complicated:
su
dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/efs of=/sdcard/efs.img
Done. The file will be called efs.img in /sdcard.
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Actually had a proper back up already, just toying with the programme.
Pressed from my Maguro
EFS Pro has now been updated to v1.8.3.
Nexus S / Galaxy Nexus support has now been fixed hopefully.
Differences in the 'efs' location, name and partition layout was causing issues.
Please test this new version and post your feedback please as I dont have a physical device to test on.
,,,
There's another app I know of that claims to be able to back up and restore efs on the gnex and some other galaxy devices. It's called kTool and you can read about it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314719
or search for it on Playstore.
It seems to back it up OK, but I hesitate to do a test restore, since a problem there could permabrick the phone. Has anyone actually personally verified that kTool restores the efs partition reliably?
strumcat said:
There's another app I know of that claims to be able to back up and restore efs on the gnex and some other galaxy devices. It's called kTool and you can read about it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314719
or search for it on Playstore.
It seems to back it up OK, but I hesitate to do a test restore, since a problem there could permabrick the phone. Has anyone actually personally verified that kTool restores the efs partition reliably?
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No claims about my tool! EFS Pro does exactly what it says on the tin! Tested all functions myself!
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efrant said:
Guys,
for those of you having issues with the app, just do it yourself. It's not like it's complicated:
su
dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/efs of=/sdcard/efs.img
Done. The file will be called efs.img in /sdcard.
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Hi, efrant. I assume the efs partition or IMEI is checksummed somewhere in such a way that you couldn't simply dump the efs, alter the IMEI with a hex editor, and write it back?
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lyriquidperfection said:
No claims about my tool! EFS Pro does exactly what it says on the tin! Tested all functions myself!
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Heh, OK thanks.
strumcat said:
Hi, efrant. I assume the efs partition or IMEI is checksummed somewhere in such a way that you couldn't simply dump the efs, alter the IMEI with a hex editor, and write it back?
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That's an excellent question. It is and it isn't. Have a read of this thread. (I honestly haven't really looked into, but I guess I could if there is a need for it. And I don't really want to get myself or XDA in trouble by talking about cloned IMEIs. )
Yup. Ditto.
thanks for your efforts putting this together OP.
suggestion: this could be moved to themes & apps, perhaps?
Backup thru Recovery ??
Sir,
Full On respect for ur Creations.:angel::angel::angel::angel:
My phone is bootlooping. Softbricked.
Before i do anythng i want to back up efs. Pls help me out. :fingers-crossed:
P6200 Samsung tab 7 plus
Can get into recovery n download mode.
How to back up. For backup wid EFS Pro phone should boot into ROM rite.
Any way to backup thru recovery????
Thank you
maverix13 said:
Sir,
Full On respect for ur Creations.:angel::angel::angel::angel:
My phone is bootlooping. Softbricked.
Before i do anythng i want to back up efs. Pls help me out. :fingers-crossed:
P6200 Samsung tab 7 plus
Can get into recovery n download mode.
How to back up. For backup wid EFS Pro phone should boot into ROM rite.
Any way to backup thru recovery????
Thank you
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You can flash TWRP 2.2.2.0 recovery and boot it. It has an option to back up efs.
strumcat said:
You can flash TWRP 2.2.2.0 recovery and boot it. It has an option to back up efs.
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Yea just use twrp
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Hi
I having a huge problem, i restored efs img through efs pro (latest version) and it mounted and pushed files ok, but before it finished it wrot efs backup is corrupted (or similar) do not use this backup.. and then rebooted phone - and since there have been NO way to mount/delete/format the efs dir on sd, cant root, install rom from cwm or anything because its totally locked it seems, installed twrp 2.3.3.0 and its working, but im not able to mount efs dir from here either , i tried format all data/cache/system/sd but still unable to mount efs it says????
and says there is no sim card even there is.
Only thing i can is flash stock rom from sammy but not latest v 4.1.1 only v 4.0.4 then it boots to os but tells me its in factory mode (no wi-fi bla)
if i flash 4.1.1 its gets stuck on galaxy boot logo - tried flashing syiah 1.86 through odin but just hangs on siyah logo!!!
What do i do ? is the phone softbricked or what PLZ help out - big thanx in advance
Hi all
I am looking for a way to customize the boot logo (splash logo) for Google Nexus 7 tablet.
I tried searching in this forum and others over Google but could not find exact steps.
waiting for suggestion.
Thanks
Ankit
The boot animation? Or what comes up before that?
Cause boot animation is easy...but the animation before it is tougher.
Changing Google Splash On Nexus S, Nexus 7
I also tried a lot of thing but not able to change the splash screen (google) from any nexus devices.
please anyone help to change the splash on nexus 7 or nexus S...
Thanks in advance..
EXPERIMENT said:
The boot animation? Or what comes up before that?
Cause boot animation is easy...but the animation before it is tougher.
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Not the boot animation, I want to change the Google image with lock. I would like give it a shot if anyone knows the steps that would be a great help.
Thanks
Ankit
found anything out.
Hi ive been making a theme for my nexus 7 and was wondering if you found anything out??
I'm interested as well. So far it seems like some other devices, such as Samsung phones, store it in the kernal, as some custom kernals for those devices feature a custom splash screen. I've heard scattered reports of some Nexus 7 users being able to use fastboot adb to flash one using this command:
Code:
fastboot flash splash splash1.img
But I don't have adb set up on my computer, so I'm unable to test this.
Just go and download ROM Toolbox pro you have as many as you want to choose from all animated. Hope this helps
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Yeah, I really want this. The boot animation is a totally different thing.
My galaxy s2 had it's own boot logo with my face and I'm interested now in changing the "Google" text to my name.
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On the Nexus S and other Samsung devices it is stored in the PARAM partition. You can hex edit the param.lfs partition image with a new JPG image and flash it using Heimdall or Odin to permanently change the boot logo. There is currently no way to write an file to the partition normally since the file system is proprietary. (There are also other methods which are dirty hacks using scripts etc.)
On some Tegra devices the raw BMP image is directly stored in partition 6. You can use nvflash to write a BMP to this partition directly.
KurianOfBorg said:
On the Nexus S and other Samsung devices it is stored in the PARAM partition. You can hex edit the param.lfs partition image with a new JPG image and flash it using Heimdall or Odin to permanently change the boot logo. There is currently no way to write an file to the partition normally since the file system is proprietary. (There are also other methods which are dirty hacks using scripts etc.)
On some Tegra devices the raw BMP image is directly stored in partition 6. You can use nvflash to write a BMP to this partition directly.
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Can someone confirm this works and write a procedure for this?
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theres an app on the play store that does what the op wants
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=aperture.ezekeel.logome&hl=en
YoshiFan501 said:
theres an app on the play store that does what the op wants
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=aperture.ezekeel.logome&hl=en
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Clearly states in the description that it's for galaxy nexus only...
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silverramsrt said:
Clearly states in the description that it's for galaxy nexus only...
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It also costs money. Which is a complete ripoff.
I thought we had root our device, then only we could change the bootscreen which is in the /system/media folder... I'm a noob for nexus 7, cuz I use the htc desire and mod for that....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox
This one can do it.
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namaste74 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox
This one can do it.
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That only does boot Ani's not splash screens
Right you are, sorry.
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I believe that ubuntu team will be posting there galaxy nexus image rom here at this link
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/
please dont yell at me if im wrong..
nullbesign said:
I believe that ubuntu team will be posting there galaxy nexus image rom here at this link
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/
please dont yell at me if im wrong..
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Also check: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TouchInstallProcess
I haven't seen anyone link to this yet, what's this about?
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/
SkuzFoz said:
I haven't seen anyone link to this yet, what's this about?
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/
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I wondered there too and was wondering myself. it has the codenames for all the nexus devices, Galaxy Nexus (GSM), Nexus 4, Nexus 7 ect
i wlii try to flash the maguro file size 48mb....report at once....hope not to brick my gnex...lol
adambala said:
i wlii try to flash the maguro file size 48mb....report at once....hope not to brick my gnex...lol
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I would have gone ahead but I'm not sure why there are different versions. Totally confused on boot and recovery images, but I've been out of the ROM loop for a long time.
nothing.....no boot.....just restoring my xenon rom...
The zip is flashable, contains a boot.img and has scripts to install stuff. the others are .IMG files, and the main phablet one is the biggest file at over 400megs.
edit: the one that is almost 500megs is a flashable zip too, has updater script. since that is the only one of that size, i bet that is the main ubuntu, and the others are the drivers, boot images, ect, specific to different devices.
yeap...i am downloading the img file now but i am not sure if i want to enter fastboot to flash it...
adambala said:
yeap...i am downloading the img file now but i am not sure if i want to enter fastboot to flash it...
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We can flash it via fastboot like google images???????
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kagouro said:
We can flash it via fastboot like google images???????
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No one knows yet. but you can try, but you risk bricking your phone. My galaxy nexus is dead now, charging the battery. Not going to experiment with my nexus 4, since it's my daily phone. by the time my gnex charges someone will figure it out or they'll be instructions posted on the ubuntu site.
I think we should fastboot flash all the img boot recovery system and then flash the zip. So start from the bottom of the page
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Page offline ! They took it down.
j3r3myp said:
I think we should fastboot flash all the img boot recovery system and then flash the zip. So start from the bottom of the page
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I'm going to guess you might need their recovery to flash it. Otherwise why bother making one.
So nice I hope to use it soon~~
The files are still there, they just put up a blank index.html file so you can't see the directory I have all the files for nexus 4 and Gnex
Here's the links to Gnex
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...wc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.zip
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...mo/quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...uantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+maguro.img
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to.../quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...c-demo/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip
the last one is the ~500 meg file.
Luxferro said:
No one knows yet. but you can try, but you risk bricking your phone. My galaxy nexus is dead now, charging the battery. Not going to experiment with my nexus 4, since it's my daily phone. by the time my gnex charges someone will figure it out or they'll be instructions posted on the ubuntu site.
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Brick it? Really?
As long as you dont flash a new bootloader, there's really no risk of bricking your phone, because, via your old bootloader you can always boot back into fastboot mode.
I'm not sure you know what the word "brick" means: Dead as a brick. Unrecoverable. Useless.
If it's recoverable, it's not a brick. Being in a state where you have to reflash some things in fastboot hardly constitutes a brick.
Sorry about the nitpick, but as a owner of much less open devices, where the risk of bricking $1k worth of equipment was a real risk when rooting/flashing, I find myself offended every time I see people whine about Nexus'es being "bricked".
Is the 500MB img for GNex, to your opinion?
Luxferro said:
The files are still there, they just put up a blank index.html file so you can't see the directory I have all the files for nexus 4 and Gnex
Here's the links to Gnex
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...wc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.zip
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...mo/quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...uantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+maguro.img
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to.../quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-to...c-demo/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip
the last one is the ~500 meg file.
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From a shell, just type the following:
Code:
# wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.zip http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.zip.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+maguro.img http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+maguro.img.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-ubuntu_stamp
Guys why new thread when v have already one Ubuntu discussion.. This makes people search more... close this thread
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josteink said:
From a shell, just type the following:
Code:
# wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.zip http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.zip.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+maguro.img http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+maguro.img.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img.md5sum http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/quantal-ubuntu_stamp
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I also mirrored the original page with all download links:
http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/ubuntu_images.html
Not new to flashing, but I made a huuuuuuuuge mistake today. I accidently flashed the wrong recovery image for the 2012 N7 while trying to unlock and root (yeah, I'm an idiot). Now it gets stuck on the N7 bootup logo.
I can boot into fastboot and recovery mode, but it fails to mount the sd card so I can't do **** anymore. Can't even get it back to stock t this point Any suggestions? I'm on a mac, but have access to PC. Have tried both CWM and TWRP. TWRP just gives me the password screen and 0mb storage. Can't figure out how to get around it or get my storage mounted. CWM won't mount the sdcard either. Trying to adb, but no stock image yet...
Anyone got any ideas?
You need to restore recovery.IMG from someone else's Nexus 7 (flash via fastboot). I did the exact same thing. Look in the root your nexus thread...about 5 pages in. Dude posted it for me.
Nexus 7 (2013) - tapatalk
skeeterou said:
Not new to flashing, but I made a huuuuuuuuge mistake today. I accidently flashed the wrong recovery image for the 2012 N7 while trying to unlock and root (yeah, I'm an idiot). Now it gets stuck on the N7 bootup logo.
I can boot into fastboot and recovery mode, but it fails to mount the sd card so I can't do **** anymore. Can't even get it back to stock t this point Any suggestions? I'm on a mac, but have access to PC. Have tried both CWM and TWRP. TWRP just gives me the password screen and 0mb storage. Can't figure out how to get around it or get my storage mounted. CWM won't mount the sdcard either. Trying to adb, but no stock image yet...
Anyone got any ideas?
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Have you tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381438 ?
treoo0_1 said:
You need to restore recovery.IMG from someone else's Nexus 7 (flash via fastboot). I did the exact same thing. Look in the root your nexus thread...about 5 pages in. Dude posted it for me.
Nexus 7 (2013) - tapatalk
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Well, when I use the command "adb devices" the tablet doesn't even show up. But I can use the Nexus 7 root toolkit for the first gen to flash different recoveries by renaming them, so I don't know what the heck is going on...
Good news: You didn't brick your N7. I'm assuming your boot loader is unlocked. So:
Flash TWRP 2.6.0.0 for the NEW N7
Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44007919 To fix the 0MB issue.
Now, if you haven't wiped System, you should be able to wipe data and then reboot.
If you did wipe System, find that System.img floating around and flash that.
And always, good luck!
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skeeterou said:
Have you tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2381438 ?
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This worked!!! I had to flash TWRP and format data from there, and that got everything fixed. Thanks everyone for the help. I was worried.
Glad to hear you figured it out. Time to make a nandroid for next time
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swagstr said:
Glad to hear you figured it out. Time to make a nandroid for next time
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Yep, definitely. I've been flashing for years, but one little mistake can cause a world of pain lol. Lesson learned. Thanks again!
Yeah, I got the 0MB bug for a bit... I was like... Crap, should have waited for the System.img to be posted. Got it figured out though
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The system restore files are up already.
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After unlock your device, it will show a warning message instead the original green motorola logo. I did some modifications on logo.bin and it will back to original logo.
To do it, simply do:
fastboot flash logo logo_file_name
PS: Remember to use fastboot packed with factory image.
ADDED CWM FLASHABLE IMAGES!!!
logo.zip - original Moto G logo image without warning message
logo_gpe.zip - GPE Moto G logo image without unlocked padlock
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You are the king! Thanks a million times!
How did you do this? Just curious, as this did not work on RAZRi months ago.
shaftenberg said:
You are the king! Thanks a million times!
How did you do this? Just curious, as this did not work on RAZRi months ago.
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Via hex edit, man! I discovered that on header of file there's a mapping of boot type -> offset of image. =P So I changed offset of logo_unlocked to be the same as logo_boot.
so simple... double king!
can cofirm this works awesome on telcel Mogo G now the ugly warning is gone, thanks a million
Tried to flash and don't know what has happened the image is not what it should be. Could someone point me in the right direction to get the correct fastboot so I can reflash. Thanks
Did you decompressed zip file?
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Work fine thanks
ffosilva said:
Did you decompressed zip file?
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Just reflashed it now working changed my usb port this time
I can't wait to get home from college to flash this baby... I shouldn't even be here with a brand new phone in hand =\
Thanks in advance... I know will work =D
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Works great thanks! I wonder if this would work for my moto x as well?
Yes, it will
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Forget what I said...
thanks dude, worked like a charm!
Hi!
Thank's a lot!!!
To do it, simply do:
fastboot flash logo logo_file_name
I am sorry, but im really noob, could you be more specific, should I go to recovery and flash it via flash from sd card or using adb?
sorry for noob question
If you doesn't unlocked your phone bootloader, you doesn't need it; if you're unlocked your phone bootloader you know what fastboot is.
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I do have it unlocked and rooted, I just didnt understand the instructions to change the file, can you explain it with more details please, sorry to bother you.
tnx in advance!!
EDIT: nevermind, I figured it out, tnx anyway
Perfect
Tranks !!!
ffosilva said:
PS: Remember to use fastboot packed with factory image.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by this exactly?