- Extension
- .img
- .bzip2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The Android Open Source Project
- bzip2
- 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.
- It is an open-source file compressor and decompressor that is freely available and uses the Burrows-Wheeler codec. It isn't a file archiver as it compresses single files.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-bzip2