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Gert van den Berg edited this page Jun 23, 2015 · 2 revisions

Overview:

The Update Zip Creator (UZC) is the module that handles all of the operations relating to creating and manipulating update zips. Simply drag and drop a folder containing a /system and/or /data folder in its root directory, and the tool will do the rest. If the /META-INF folder doesn't exist, the tool automatically generates the update-script for you. However, if /META-INF already exists, the tool won't overwrite it.

EXPERIMENTAL: In addition to the above capabilities, the tool also offers the ability to run a custom script that you supply before flashing the /system and/or /data updates to your phone. Although this has been tested using a simple echo script with no ill effects, the echo script had no visible effects. Please be careful when using this feature.

Module Status: Complete (Status Legend)

What it means to be "correctly structured":

A folder is considered correctly structured if it has a /system folder and/or /data folder in its root directory. For example, if you have a folder called update and update has two folders inside of it named system and data, then you have a correctly structured folder. The same would be true if you had either system or data (only one of the folders)

Tutorial (Windows):

  1. Extract the files from the download somewhere
  2. Double-click the .exe file
  3. Drag a folder that is correctly structured (see above) into the command-line Window
  4. Follow the on screen instructions
  5. Copy the completed zip to your SD card and flash in Clockwork recovery

Tutorial (Linux):

If I get enough interest, I'll fix this module to play nicer with Linux

  1. Extract the files from the download somewhere
  2. cd into the extracted directory using a terminal window
  3. Download the two Python files that make up the tool and place them in the extracted folder
  4. Make sure you have 7zip installed (p7zip-full package on Ubuntu)
  • If you can't find it, try 'aptitude search 7zip' and then install that package. Make sure typing 7za at the command line does something.
  1. type 'python UpdateZipCreator.py'
  2. Drag a folder that is correctly structured (see above) into the command-line window
  3. Follow the on screen instructions
  4. Copy the completed zip to your SD card and flash in Clockwork recovery

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