- Extension
- .img
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- The Android Open Source Project
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-tar