Guest Atomix86 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Hi all, I am genuinely interested in _attempting_ to tinker with/create a custom ROM. I have the SDK installed etc, but I am interested to know how to extract the files within the .img files used in the official ROMs (as I wish to base mine off an official ZTE ROM to preserve compatibility). My first thought was to copy the /system DIR from the phone itself and go from there, but I noticed there are a hell of a lot more folders (acct, dev, etc, init, mnt, proc, sys) and was unsure which also would need to be copied if I were to go that way (which I imagine, is probably the wrong way ha). Sorry if I sound incredibly stupid (hey, we all have to start somewhere!), any help is appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wacky.ddw Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Hi all, I am genuinely interested in _attempting_ to tinker with/create a custom ROM. I have the SDK installed etc, but I am interested to know how to extract the files within the .img files used in the official ROMs (as I wish to base mine off an official ZTE ROM to preserve compatibility). My first thought was to copy the /system DIR from the phone itself and go from there, but I noticed there are a hell of a lot more folders (acct, dev, etc, init, mnt, proc, sys) and was unsure which also would need to be copied if I were to go that way (which I imagine, is probably the wrong way ha). Sorry if I sound incredibly stupid (hey, we all have to start somewhere!), any help is appreciated! I am allso a noob at this but, i know you can make a nandroid backup copy it to your pc and use unyaffs to extract the .img files. Just google unyaffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Atomix86 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Ok cheers ill check it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest D3abL3 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 unyaffs is only for system/data/cache imgs. Use gzip, 7z, split_bootimg, mkbootfs, mkbootimg for boot.img. Use nbimg for splash.img. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Atomix86 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 unyaffs is only for system/data/cache imgs. Use gzip, 7z, split_bootimg, mkbootfs, mkbootimg for boot.img. Use nbimg for splash.img. Thanks, looks like I've got some research to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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