Convert flashbackup file to SHX

How to convert flashbackup bin file to SHX file

(This guide is updated & simplified on 13 March 2007.)

Here is a simple guide for converting flashbackup 2 bin file to SHX file. It is tested on a Motorola mobile phone V360 with 08.A0 bootloader. It should work for V360/L7 with R4513 firmware. The same concept can be applied for other moto P2K phones.

Prerequisite:
Familiar with Hex editing and SHXcodec/RandomSHX.

Don't read on if you don't meet the prerequisite.

Tools you need:
1. xvi32 or any other Hex editor.
2. SHXcodec or RandomSHX
3. Flash&backup 3

Steps:
1. open flash&backup 3, select your "active phone profile" according to your phone model, click "Read data", you will see a list of Code Groups (CG) and their start & end address. The following image shows the addresses for V360/L7 with R4513 firmware. The offsets shown in FB3 are not the actual offsets of the bin file. You must minus off 10000000 from the FB3 offsets to get the offsets of the bin file. That is, strip off the first number from the left. For example, 10920000 in FB3 will be 920000 in the bin file, and 11240000 will be 1240000.


2. open your uncompressed flashbackup bin with Hex Editor and extract each individual code group, based on the above start and end offsets. Save each CG as individual bin file. (If your backup is a compressed format, rename the extention to cab, then uncompress it using winzip/winrar.)

How to extract code group using xvi32:
a) open the flashbackup bin file
b) go to the offset of the start address of the CG, select "Edit - Block mark"
c) go to the offset of the end address of the CG, select "Edit - Block mark" again
d) select "Edit - clipboard - copy"
e) select "File - New"
f) select "Edit - clipboard - paste"
g) save the file
h) repeat steps a)-g) until you extract all the CGs

3. choose one of the following method to compile a SHX file. (Note: you should not include PDS code group in the MP.)

(for 08.A0 bootloader) get a stock moto monsterpack, open it with SHXCodec, then replace all the code groups with the bin files you extracted in step 2, then compile a new SHX file.

(for 08.D0 or other bootloader) get a stock moto monsterpack, extract it using RandomSHX, then replace all the bin files with the bin files you extracted in step 2 (check the address in the lst file to make sure you replace the correct file), then compile a new SHX file using RandomSHX.

4. now you should have a flashable backup file.

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