- Extension
- .img
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The Android Open Source Project
- GNU
- 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.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-gzip