- Extension
- .img
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The Android Open Source Project
- Julian Seward
- Description
- An Android boot image (boot.img, recovery.img) packs the kernel and ramdisk a phone or tablet boots from, in the ANDROID! header format mkbootimg writes; device makers and custom ROM tools flash it, and Samsung Odin needs it wrapped in a .tar.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-bzip2