[HELP] Cannot Deodex ICS Stock ROMS with DSIXDA Kitchen

[Guest Dope M.S.R.]

Okay, so I downloaded the stock images from google and i've tried and tried and when I come up to load the system.img file in ext2read it will not show up at all. i select the image but the program does nothing. any ideas what I might be missing?

Windows 7 64bit

Java JDK 32 and 64bit (dont ask)

dsixda ver. 181

thanks!

[Guest EddyOS]

ext2read is for ext2 images, the GN has ext4 but not one compatible with the dsixda kitchen. I'm currently trying to work out what to do but no one really wants to help :(

[Guest PaulW21781]

I don't use Windows, so you may need to set up a VM running something like Ubuntu to sucessfully do the update.

The images from the google update are a 'Sparse EXT4" volume. You need to use utility called simg2img which can be found within ext4_utils.zip (attached to the following)

http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1081239

Download the sources, and compile them by using 'make'

Then extract the system.img from the Google Update to the folder where the simg2img binary has been compiled, and type:

#./simg2img system.img sys.img

This will create a sys.img file (around 640MB), copy this new file (aswell as the boot.img file extracted from the update) into dsixda/original_update and run the kitchen :)

As a quick note, Don't run simg2img on boot.img, it's not needed!

Edited December 17, 2011 by PaulW21781

[Guest EddyOS]

Top man, think that's where I was going wrong yesterday. Will get onto it with my VM next week

[Guest D I]

I already have a fix for this issue in the Android Kitchen but have not checked it into GitHub yet. ;)

Or rename file to system.img.ext4 before extracting, and then run kitchen.

-dsixda

Edited December 17, 2011 by D I

[Guest Dope M.S.R.]

Thank you and awesome job dsixda!!! I will give that a try as well. And to others, thank you as well. PaulW thanks for the quickfix for the facebook text on xda. not that I use facebook much but eh.

I want to be in ubuntu right now but my desktop is down right now. and my laptop is win7 64bit.

Again Thank you everyone!

[Guest EddyOS]

dsixda you legend! :D

[Guest EddyOS]

Well, using the above tips I've got a ROM built. Happy days you'd think? WRONG!

ROM won't flash, getting 'error status 0' - anyone know how to sort it? I think it's to do with the updater-script but don't know for sure

[Guest Dope M.S.R.]

I got the same error too. thats okay its progress in my eyes lol

[Guest EddyOS]

It's down to the updater-script and also where certain parts of the ROM now need to be as we no longer have separate locations for internal and external files. It's all a bit confusing!

[Guest Dope M.S.R.]

I'll just be waiting for this Git push hopefully if that is what dsixda was intending :-D. I could what I use to do and just copy that stuff and use someone else's updater scripts.

[Guest EddyOS]

Basically, the su and busybox binaries needs to go to /xbin as opposed to /bin and then use someone's updater-binary/updater-script and it seems to work

[Guest Dope M.S.R.]

one more noob at building source question...

Can you download Google apps source code to compile into your own builds yourself or no?

[Guest EddyOS]

I've been trying to find it myself but I can't find anything from Google directly

dsixda has updated the kitchen but it's still wrong, the kernel doesn't flash properly and I kept boot looping once I got the updater-sript working so I'm gonna try again in the new year and make my desktop a complete linux box as opposed to using a VM

Edited December 21, 2011 by EddyOS