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# otadump [![crates.io][crates.io-badge]][crates.io] **`otadump` helps you extract partitions from Android OTA files.**
Partitions can be individually flashed to your device using `fastboot`. Compared to other tools, `otadump` is significantly faster and handles file verification - no fear of a bad OTA file bricking your device. ![Demo][demo]

Features

	crazystylus/otadump	ssut/payload-dumper-go	vm03/payload_dumper
Input file verification	✔	✔
Output file verification	✔
Extract selective partitions	✔	✔	✔
Parallelized extraction	✔	✔
Runs directly on .zip files	✔	✔
Incremental OTA support			Partial

Benchmarks

Comparing the time taken to extract all partitions from a few sample files (lower is better):

Benchmarks

Note: otadump was run with args --no-verify -c 12 and payload-dumper-go was run with args -c 12

System specifications:

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (12) @ 3.700GHz
RAM: 16 GiB
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 / Linux 6.0.6
SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 250GB

Installation

macOS / Linux

Install a pre-built binary:

curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazystylus/otadump/mainline/install.sh | bash

Otherwise, using Cargo:

# Needs LZMA, Protobuf and pkg-config libraries installed.
# - On macOS: brew install protobuf xz pkg-config
# - On Debian / Ubuntu: apt install liblzma-dev protobuf-compiler pkg-config
cargo install --locked otadump

Windows

Download the pre-built binary from the Releases page. Extract it and run the otadump.exe file.

Usage

Run the following command in your terminal:

# Run directly on .zip file.
otadump ota.zip

# Run on payload.bin file.
otadump payload.bin