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Extract firmware images from an Android OTA payload.bin file

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extract_android_ota_payload.py

Extract Android firmware images from an OTA payload.bin file.

With the introduction of the A/B system update, the OTA file format changed. This tool allows to extract and decompress the firmware images packed using the 'brillo' toolset.

Incremental firmware images are not supported (source_copy, source_bsdiff operations).

Usage

$ extract_android_ota_payload.py <payload.bin> [target_dir]
  <payload.bin> : file extracted from the OTA zip file or the OTA zip file
  <target_dir>  : output directory for the extracted file

Example

$ python3 extract_android_ota_payload.py marlin-ota-opm4.171019.021.d1-fd6998a5.zip /tmp/
Extracting 'boot.img'
Extracting 'system.img'
Extracting 'vendor.img'
...
Extracting 'modem.img'

Dependencies

python-protobuf,bzcat,xzcat

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