[REF] Unpacking and repacking stock rom .img files - xda-developers

[REF] Unpacking and repacking stock rom .img files - xda-developers: "As most of you are aware, the stock rom tarball is comprised of several .img files which don't seem to be of any file system format and it is difficult at first to see what is inside these files without flashing via Odin."

'via Blog this': jazzor

Well, thanks to fguy, this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1054836 provided me the necessary inspiration to investigate just exactly what are these img made of.

Hopefully, this will allow easy removal of all the Samsung junk, deodexing, rooting etc etc without going through adb.

As it turns out, they are simply sparse ext4 images, and the AOSP source tree already contains the necessary utilities to both unpack and repack these img files via "ext4_utils" in system/extras (http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=pla...ras.git;a=tree)

For your convenience, I have provided a repackage of the source code for ext4_utils with a simple Makefile, for keen developers to make the necessary tools for unpacking and repacking the stock img files. Making these tools requires a linux development environment, which is beyond the scope of this topic.

To make the tools, simple extract the attached source code and type "make".

To unpack the .img file:

Code:

./simg2img factoryfs.img output.img

To view the contents of .img file:

Code:

mkdir tempdir; mount -o loop output.img tempdir

To repack .img file:

Code:

./mkuserimg.sh -s /some/directory/with/files ./factoryfs_custom.img ext4 ./temp 512M

As I do not have Odin at the moment, I am not able to test the repacked files can be reflashed successfully. I will test this shortly.


UPDATE
I have just tested repacking the stock factoryfs.img. It so happens that the original ext4_utils does not properly preserve permissions on the new ext4 image. I have made a slight modification to the source and reuploaded the zip.

You can now successfully unpack, remove and change the stock apps, root and modify the stock image using instructions above!!

I hope this will help people create their own custom roms.

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