Creating Parrot OS live-usb from .iso

Greetings from ORIGINULL , behold the new penetration testing platform called Parrot OS.
Todays tutorial is about creating a live-usb from the .iso image that you download from the official site.

Live-usb :-  Its is the process of writing the image onto a Flash-drive, hence making it a Bootable-USB which can be run on any system lying around . One would need a live usb if he/she wants to quickly deploy the power of the Parrot OS

TOOLS:-

1) Parrot OS
2) Win32DiskImager

METHOD:-

1) Download Parrot OS and Win32DiskImager from the above links.
2) Run Win32DiskImager in Administrator mode.

3) Browse to the .iso file you downloaded , make sure you select type to "*.*" or the image will not show up in the list.

4) Select the USB to write into, and press "Write".

5) On successful completion you will be promted by this screen , congratulations !! you have a live-USB to deply onto systems.

Custom icon pack ANDROID

At some point or the other you love to customise your phone with OMS mods with Substratum , but only one thing remains, that is the Icon-Pack matching your theme colour .You try hard searching the entire store but you are out of luck fining the exact colour matching your theme.

No need to worry ORIGINULL has a solution. (P.s. Works for monochrome i.e. single colour icons)

                   BEFORE                                                                    AFTER
TOOLS
1) Icon-Pack.apk
2) APK-Easy Tool
3) Xn-Convert

METHOD

1) Run APK-Easy tool
2) Select the file you wish to mod , give a decompile name and a compile name.

3) Go to "options" " Apktool version " and select the apk.jar from drop down.
4) Decompile the source apk and a successful prompt appears.

5) Open Xn-Convert and add the apk folder to input.
     Default path is in documents
    "C:\Users\abc\Documents\APK Easy Tool\1-Decompiled APKs"
6) Go to actions => Add action => Image => Replace colour
7) Select the upper colour box , chose pick colour and select icon colour to be replaced.

8) Select the lower colour box and feed in RGB values for the colour you want , for me Amber is (255,191,0)

9) Go to output and configure as shown in screen.

10) Press convert and all your images will be converted in batch.

11) Go back to APK-Easy tool and compile the converted apk.

12) Go to compiled directory , copy the apk and install it.
13) Congratulations, you now match the icon colour with that of your theme.

Softbrick recovery using ODIN (SAMSUNG)

So you like to utilize the power of android and customisations , start tinkering with your phone and one fine day your phone is stuck in a boot-loop.

Don't have to worry cause ORIGINULL is to the rescue.

TOOLS
1) Samsung Drivers
2) ODIN
3) Stock Firmware
4) You and your HURT Phone

METHOD

1) Put your phone into Download-mode or so called ODIN download mode.For the demo model G-355H you enter it by pressing Power+Home+Volumedown untill it vibrates.

2) Connect to your PC , so that ODIN detects your device.

3) Click on AP and select downloaded Stock-Firmware.tar.md5 , again if you need to flash a specific image file for eg , recovery.img convert it into .tar here.

4) Press start to begin flashing Stock-Rom , if completed successfully you would see Pass!!

5) Congratulations , your phone will restart and is recovered back to stock.

Create .tar FROM .img for ODIN (SAMSUNG)

If you come across with a soft-bricked samsung device and you realise you download an .img file for recovery . Well, its good news that you can use ODIN to get back to stock-rom  but then you realise that ODIN works with .tar files.

Well, there is nothing to worry about as we have an easy workaround.

TOOLS
1) 7Zip

2) File.img (File you need to convert)

METHOD
1) Install 7-Zip 

2) Right click on the file you want to convert / 7-Zip / Add to archive ..

3) Select arcive format as .tar and press ok

4) Congratulations!! you know have a file to flash with ODIN.