Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Img file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to tbz2 in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i photo.img -c "convert to tbz2" (how).
Let your AI agent convert Android Boot Image to TBZ2
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the Android Boot Image files in my Downloads folder to TBZ2”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i photo.img -c "convert to tbz2"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert Android Boot Image to TBZ2?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i photo.img -c "convert to tbz2" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
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.
File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
