Convert sparse Android data image (.dat) into filesystem ext4 image (.img)
This is a C++ equivalent of the original sdat2img tool, which was originally written in Python by xpirt, luxi78, and howellzhu.
Note: newer Google's Brotli format (system.new.dat.br) must be decompressed to a valid sparse data image before using sdat2img binary.
This project requires clang to build. Please ensure that clang is installed on your system before attempting to build the project.
make
./sdat2img <transfer_list> <system_new_file> [system_img]
<transfer_list>= input, system.transfer.list from rom zip<system_new_file>= input, system.new.dat from rom zip[system_img]= output ext4 raw image file
This is a simple example on a Linux system:
~$ ./sdat2img vendor.transfer.list vendor.new.dat vendor.img
- OR
~$ ./sdat2img system.transfer.list system.new.dat