KITCHEN ANDROID

dsixda's Android Kitchen

Compatible with Windows (Cygwin) / Linux / Mac OS X


Introduction

• This is a tool for those who want to start learning how to make custom ROMs, or who just want to save some time with their ROM customization.
• My goal is to make your life easier, and, at the same time, help you learn about the Android OS.
• The kitchen will not automatically turn you into a developer. You are not programming anything or building a ROM from the ground up. The kitchen merely presents a user-friendly interface to hide all the rough details. However, this may be the push that gets you into development in the future.
• A little bit of prior UNIX command-line knowledge would be useful to get started with the kitchen, but the help guides should be enough for a newbie. Knowledge of command lines is always important if you ever want to get involved in Android or development.

Code:

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 Android Kitchen - by dsixda (xda-developers.com)
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Main Menu

 1. Set up working folder from ROM
 2. Add root permissions
 3. Add BusyBox
 4. Disable boot screen sounds
 5. Add wireless tethering
 6. Zipalign all *.apk files to optimize RAM usage
 7. Change wipe status of ROM
 8. Change name of ROM
 9. Check update-script for errors
10. Show working folder information

Advanced Options

 11 - Deodex files in your ROM
 12 - Add task killer tweak for speed (stock ROM only)
 13 - Add /data/app functionality
 14 - Add Nano text editor + sysro/sysrw
 15 - Add Bash (command shell)
 16 - Add Apps2SD
 17 - Add /etc/init.d scripts support (busybox run-parts)
 18 - Add custom boot animation functionality
 19 - Porting tools (experimental)
 20 - Tools for boot image (unpack/re-pack/etc.)
 21 - Unpack data.img
 22 - Sign APK or ZIP file(s)
 23 - Convert update-script or updater-script
 24 - Miscellaneous optins / Plugin scripts

99. Build ROM from working folder
00. About/Update kitchen
 0. Exit

THIS PROJECT IS RETIRED.

Quote:

This project is retired as of 2013, as I have become overwhelmed with the number of devices to support, the demand, bad health, and the constant requests for help, especially with a new addition to the family and busy life. Unfortunately I am still suffering from a torn scapholunate ligament in my hand that I incurred in late 2010 as a direct consequence of the extra time I spent on the kitchen on my laptop. Thus I cannot spend time on these kinds of activities on a regular basis.

If you need help with your device, please ask in the appropriate device forum. I just want to request people to stop asking me about the kitchen in my posts in other xda-developers threads or Facebook groups that are not related to the kitchen; it is not fair to me or other users in those threads. I have not worked on the kitchen since spring 2013, and have moved on.

This all doesn't necessarily mean the kitchen won't work anymore in the future. Please refer to the information in this post for how to perhaps get newer devices to work with the kitchen. I really hope this kitchen helps you out. If you want to, send me a tweet or hit 'Thanks' at the end of this post (or whatever else) to let me know it worked out for you.

Thanks for your support!

Supported devices

Help

- ALL INSTRUCTIONS, FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS, AND HELP - Posts #3 and #4
- Release Notes - Post #2
- Download optional plugins - Post #5
- Acknowledgements - Post #5
- General questions about Linux/Mac/Cygwin - Use Google


Download Kitchen

Please be aware that this project is semi-retired due to my bad health, family and life in general. I cannot keep up with updates all the time. Please read the important info above, all your answers should be found there. Download link is below. Have fun and I hope you support my work!

DOWNLOAD HERE :)

Support my work

DONATE VIA PAYPAL
Optionally send me a donation if you found my work useful (will go towards medical expenses, toys for my kids, etc.).
This is just a voluntary token of appreciation and not meant to be pre-payment for something that you want me to do.

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BACKUP USING CYGWIN

This guide is intended to make a full backup of your android phone (the entire memory block with all partitions) or a single partition (including sdcards, etc) directly to your computer, in either

• Block level (with dd): for single partitions or whole memory block (all partitions in one piece). The backup always has the same size which is the size of the partition.
• File level (with tar): only for individual partitions. This only includes files and folders, so occupies much less space, depending on how much filled is the partition.

It can be done with the phone powered on or from ClockWorkMod Recovery (from both ADB works, while in Fastboot doesn't so won't apply). Unless specified the commands meant to be used from Windows. For Linux and Unix is similar.


REQUIREMENTS

• Rooted Android Phone
• Busybox installed on your phone
• If you are using Linux / OS X you have native tools, for Windows download Cygwin, and install with it netcat, pv and util-linux. Get them from Cygwin's setup.exe
• ADB installed.
• Make sure adb.exe is in your windows' path. See here and here, or use Path Manager.
• Android phone with USB Debugging enabled, and the proper drivers installed on Windows so the phone is recognized. Typing 'adb devices' on a terminal should show your device.

PARTITION IDENTIFICATION
You now have to identify the partition or block device that you want to backup. For a single partition you can use either tar or dd, while for the entire memory block you can only use dd.
For example, on Galaxy Nexus you have the list of partitions here and for Galaxy S2 here.
Usually on android, the entire block containing all partitions is located at /dev/block/mmcblk0 and the data partitions is a subpartition of it. You can push parted with GPT support to your device and see all information on a partition or block.

Whole phone memory -> /dev/block/mmcblk0 (may vary, in some phones this is the sdcard)
Subpartitions -> depends on each device. Usually at /dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name/ there are listed by name linking to the real device.



Back up of the whole memory block (via adb)
Connect the phone in ADB mode and unlock the screen. 
Open one Cygwin Terminal and enter (replace mmcblk0 if needed):

Code:

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
adb shell
su
/system/xbin/busybox nc -l -p 5555 -e /system/xbin/busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0

You will see the cursor blinking at the left. Now the phone is waiting to send the block over the network.

Open another Cygwin terminal and type:

Code:

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
cd /path/to/store/the/backup
nc 127.0.0.1 5555 | pv -i 0.5 > mmcblk0.raw

You will see how the image size is growing until it finishes. Now you have the whole phone backed up in raw format. You can see the contents of the GPT partition with gptfdisk tool, available for windows, linux and such. See official website and sourceforge to get it. You can do it the same from ClockWorkMod Recovery but you have to mount first the /system partition since the busybox included with clockworkmod does not come with netcat and you have to use the one from the system partition.
With further linux tools you could edit or extract single partitions from the whole block.

You can use adb via wifi as well with applications like WiFi ADB.


Back up of the whole memory block (via wifi)

Original post: [Q] Nandroid directly to computer w/o sdcard

We need to install a FTP server on the computer or the other device, configure a user with a password if we want to, and set some port. It uses by default 21 but this example uses 40. We must set a home dir for the user with write permissions.

Usually is a good idea to put myfifo in /cache not in /data because we may overwrite sensitive data in case we want to use that raw image for data recovery.

Open one Cygwin terminal

Code:

adb shell
su
mkfifo /cache/myfifo
ftpput -v -u user -p pass -P 40 COMPUTER_IP block.raw /cache/myfifo

Open another Cygwin terminal

Code:

adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 of=/cache/myfifo

Tips:
- Fifos only can be made on linux native filesystems, for example on a FAT partition is not possible.
- Reading from a partition does not modify it.

Now check on Filezilla Server the speed


Back up of the whole memory block (USB tethering, Wifi tethering)
To use tethering you have to disconnect the computer from all networks and connect it only to the phone with the type of connection you want.
Once you connect it, you can view the IP of the computer and the IP of the phone from connection properties. The ip is the computer ip and the gateway is the phone's ip.

• Wifi Tethering: Computer <---Wifi---> Phone <---3G---> Internet
• USB Tethering:
  • Computer <---USB---> Phone <---Wifi---> Internet
  • Conputer <---USB---> Phone <---3G---> Internet

This is exactly the same as via wifi, except that the transfer speed is much higher because the computer and the phone are directly connected, instead of using a router as a gateway. In this case, the gateway is the phone. USB tethering has the highest transfer rate.


Back up of a single partition (raw = every bit of the partition)
It is exactly the same as the the previous but replacing mmcblk0 by the corresponding partition. You can use in this particular case several software to read the partition from windows, depending on partition filesystem: DiskInternals Linux Reader, Ext2Read, Ext2 File System Driver for Windows, Ext4Explore, plugin for Total Commander and ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver. You can also use recovery software on individual partitions like Recuva in combination with VHD Tool or command line tools included with operating systems.


Back up of a single partition (tar = only files and folders)
In this case, you need the partition mounted. To see the list of mounted partitions type on Cygwin Terminal

Code:

adb shell mount

Now you need to know where is mounted the partition you want to backup, for example the firmware is mounted on /system, which is the ROM.
In this case you will have to open three terminals, because of android limitations:

Open one Cygwin terminal and create a fifo, in /cache, for example, and redirect the tar there

Code:

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
adb shell
su
/system/xbin/busybox mkfifo /cache/myfifo
/system/xbin/busybox tar -cvf /cache/myfifo /system

We have to do it this way because redirecting the tar to stdout (with - ) is broken on android and will corrupt the tar file.

Open a second Cygwin terminal and type:

Code:

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
adb shell
su
/system/xbin/busybox nc -l -p 5555 -e /system/xbin/busybox cat /cache/myfifo

Open a third Cygwin terminal and type:

Code:

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
cd /path/to/store/the/backup
nc 127.0.0.1 5555 | pv -i 0.5 > system.tar

You can browse the tar file with Winrar, Total Commander, PeaZip and almost any compression tool. Note that you shouldn't extract files or edit it since the tar format saves the permission and owner data for each file, that is lost when extracted to FAT / NTFS partitions and you will mess things when restoring.

LINKS

• [GUIDE] Internal Memory Data Recovery - Yes We Can!
• How to Create and Attach a Virtual Hard Disk in Windows 7
• [Guide] Types of Android backups

Samsung Tab 2

New Hard Reset / Factory Reset Method Using Odin3 Flasher:

In case you cannot put the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5100 Into Recovery Mode for any reason, Or the Normal Hard Reset operation does not solve your problem, Then you can use this new method to Hard Reset the device so easy, This New Method will reprogram the User area, And it can solve many software errors too, Just follow the steps below:

- Download and Extract Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5100 Hard Reset File.

- Download Odin3 flasher.

- Put your phone into Download Mode.

- Run Odin3.exe

- Click on CSC button and Select the Hard Reset file.

- Connect your phone to PC via USB cable, And wait until Odin3 detects the phone.

- Click on Start button and wait until the operation done.

- Now your Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5100 will be rebooted.

- Done.

[BACKUP TUTORIAL] How to backup IMEI number in Asus zenfone 4 A400CG

WELL I KNOW THIS IS AN EARLY STAGE OF ASUS ZENFONE 4 DEVELOPMENT AND THIS TUTORIAL MIGHT NOT BE USEFUL FOR NOW, BUT WHO KNOWS, THE ZENFONE 4 in THE FUTURE MAY OR MAY NOT GET DEVELOPMENT 
SO EVERYTHING HERE IS JUST A PREVENTION OF LOSING imei/Radio OF THE ZENFONE 4, so after you cook a custom rom or do something which corrupts the imei/baseband, just take a backup and save it somewhere safe in your PC or CLOUD

SO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO HAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR imei NUMBER IS TO just type some lines in the keyboard


NOTICE:::::::****ROOT IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TO WORK****:::::
Instructions for backup
1. Download terminal emulator from GOOGLE PLAY STORE
2.Open terminal emulator and type

Code:

su

and press enter
3.You will be prompted to grant superuser permissions, select grant(This will work only if you have root)
4.Now type

Code:

dd if=dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=sdcard/mmcblk0p3.img

now press enter and wait till some long texts appear.
5.Open file manager and goto internal storage and check if there is a file with the name
mmcblk0p3.img [Its size is about 21MB] now keep that file in some safe place where it wont get deleted

Instructions for restore imei
1.Open terminal emulator and type

Code:

su

and press enter
2.Now type

Code:

dd if=sdcard/mmcblk0p3.img of=dev/block/mmcblk0p3

now press enter and wait till some long texts appear.

DONE!!!!!
thats it..

Sony Xperia C (C2305) Rooting and Installing Custom Recovery topic

Sony Xperia C (C2305) Rooting and Installing Custom Recovery topic

Guys,
This is my First Post.
Sony Xperia C (C2305) Rooting!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):)


--->Tested and Working Properly.....:cowboy::cowboy::cowboy::cowboy::cowb oy:
Requirements:

1.Sony Xperia C (C2305) smartphone with minimum 80% battery level

2.A Windows PC

3.A Micro USB Cable

4.Xperia C device driver

5.Rooting Package

Follow these Steps Carefully:good::good::good::good::good::good:

1.First download the rooting package from below attachment to your computer.

2.Once you downloaded the package, just unzip the package and save them in your desktop.

3.After that enable the USB debugging option in your phone by navigating to the path Settings > Developer Options. In case, you could not see the developer option in your phone just go to “About Phone” and tap it 7 times on build number, there you can find that option.

4.After that connect your Sony Xperia C (C2305) to the computer by using USB cable.

5.Once your computer recognize your device just run the Sony Xperia C Root.exe that you have extracted earlier and save the same in your desktop.

6.Allow the rooting package to root your smartphone.

All the credits goes to its developer:p:p:p:p:p:p:p

Enjoy Sony Xperia C users:cowboy::cowboy:

Now Rooting is done U can see the Kinguser app in your phone:good::good::good::good:


Install Custom Recovery for all Xperia C devices

1) Download recovery.img from below

2) Put recovery.img to your phone's memory(not into folder)

3) Download [ROOT] Rashr - Flash Tool
from play store and open, click Recovery Update from storage and choose your file.
It is done .:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

Now you can flash any custom rom using this recovery!!!!!:cowboy::cowboy:
Feel free to comment if u guys stuck anywhere!!!
Enjoy!!!

Thanks

Attached Files

	Sony_Xperia_C_Root.rar - [Click for QR Code] (4.05 MB)
	recovery.img - [Click for QR Code] (6.00 MB)

Sony Xperia Acro S [LT26W] Jellybean [6.2.B.0.200] Root

Sony Xperia Acro S [LT26W] Jellybean [6.2.B.0.200] Root

 




Download Jellybean Firmware
LT26w v4.1.2(6.2.B.0.200)   Password is MMAS
flash this firmware if you have already not got the OTA update. 

Bootloader should be unlocked for this procedure.
To check:
Dial *#*# 7378423 #*#*   -> “Service Info” -> “Configuration“.
Bootloader unlock allowed – Yes << Then Bootloader is Locked
Bootloader Unlocked         – Yes << Then Bootloader is unlocked
To Unlock Bootloader
Open flashtool, click on unlock bootloader button, and done!!
or you can use the method on Sony developer site.

acro s kernel  =>  Download Link 
update-superSU-v 1.25.zip   =>    Download Link 

copy update-superSU-v 1.25.zip to your sd card


Save acro s kernel file in the flash tool’s firmware folder
Connect your phone to the PC in fastboot mode by pressing ( power off >> volume up Key) Press flash button on flashtool, select fastboot mode and press OK


In the Fastboot Toolbox, press “Select Kernel to Flash”


Once completed flashing, safely remove flashboot phone and then go to recovery mode by pressing power and holding volume up key unlit it vibrates and notification LED lights up.
In recovery mode select  install zip from sd /external sd, select  update-superSU-v 1.25.zip Install, Reboot.


You should have root and SuperSU app installed.

All credits to a Burmese website (www dot myanmarmobileapp dot com) where I found this procedure. Although I cant read their text, I guessed my way through most of it and it worked for me!!!  

SONY XPERIA ARCO S CWM + TWRP

[Disclaimer] Do it at your own risk. I am not responsible for anything happened to your phone. 

Hi all, it's been a long time and finally we have JB on our device.

So here is a modified Stock Kernel with dual recovery (CWM + TWRP) and init.d support which I created based on DoomLord and Desperanto86's kernels

Credits:
1. Desperanto86 - for the twrp recovery (2.4.4)
2. DoomLord and FXP team - for cwm kernel (6.0.2.7) and too many things to mention

Link (do not mirror)
6.2.B.1.96 - http://www.mediafire.com/?nyd6iusho6kd848 
6.2.B.0.211 - http://www.mediafire.com/?5bplib92za7rpcr 
6.2.B.0.200 - http://www.mediafire.com/?fbxqlf0jbkv8bik 

Instructions:
1. Copy the downloaded file to the fastboot folder
2. Get into fastboot mode, and type:

Code:

fastboot flash boot kernel_62B196_acroS.elf
fastboot reboot

To get into CWM - Reboot your phone, press the volume up key a few times when the magenta led light appears
To get into TWRP - Reboot your phone, tap the screen a few times when the magenta led light appears

If you like it, please hit the [Thanks] button or you can buy me a beer 

ALCATEL FLASH 2

http://www.androidcribs.com/2015/11/how-to-fix-bootloop-in-alcatel-flash-2.html

SAMSUNG ODIN COLLECTIONS

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SAMSUNG FIRMWARE SITES

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ALL SAMSUNG PIT FILE COLLECTIONS

PIT and OPS files:

We try to give you the most we can of Pit and Ops files to use with Odin flasher but you are taking the complete Responsibility to use them, So in case you are not sure what or how to use do not use any.

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