Dirtycow-based TA Dumper for Sony Xperia Devices. (v2.0)
Author:
Jens Andersen
Xda: rayman
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnJens
GitHub: EnJens
Source can be found on https://github.com/EnJens/backupTA.
Must be built within AOSP (e.g. checkout to external/backupTA)
Changelog:
Requirements:
Phone running a dirtycow capable OS (E.g. recent N builds won't work).
If you have already upgraded, downgrading (temporarily) should be possible.
It should work on all recent xperia phones, but there might be exceptions.
It works on Linux, Windows and Mac (OS X)
Instructions:
Download:
Credits:
Tested on:
XDA:DevDB Information
Universal (Dirtycow-based) TA Backup, Tool/Utility for the OEM Cross Device Development
Contributors
rayman, rayman
Source Code: https://github.com/EnJens/backupTA
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2016-12-07
Last Updated 2020-07-27
Author:
Jens Andersen
Xda: rayman
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnJens
GitHub: EnJens
Source can be found on https://github.com/EnJens/backupTA.
Must be built within AOSP (e.g. checkout to external/backupTA)
Changelog:
- More devices supported. The dreaded "Permission denied" should be long gone
- Stability improved
- TA dump is now verified before pulling
- An error message is correctly shown when the process fails.
Requirements:
Phone running a dirtycow capable OS (E.g. recent N builds won't work).
If you have already upgraded, downgrading (temporarily) should be possible.
It should work on all recent xperia phones, but there might be exceptions.
It works on Linux, Windows and Mac (OS X)
Instructions:
- Ensure you have adb access (e.g. drivers installed, enabled etc)
- Run backupTA.sh (linux) or backupTA.cmd (windows) in the root directory.
- TA will be saved as TA-ModelNumber-Serial-Timestamp.img in
the backupTA.sh directory. - On failure, the TA file should be missing, but please check that the file is 2.097.152 bytes
Download:
Credits:
- rayman
- Bumble-Bee (Testing)
- Myself5 (Testing and some scripts)
- oshmoun (Testing)
- Androxyde (Testing)
- munjeni (checkta source)
Tested on:
- Xperia Z1
- Xperia ZL
- Xperia Z2
- Xperia Z3
- Xperia Z5
- Xperia Z5 Compact
- Xperia E5
- Xperia M5
- Xperia M4 Aqua
- Xperia C5
- Xperia X
- Xperia XA
- Xperia XA Ultra
- Xperia X Performance
- Xperia X Compact
- Xperia XZ
XDA:DevDB Information
Universal (Dirtycow-based) TA Backup, Tool/Utility for the OEM Cross Device Development
Contributors
rayman, rayman
Source Code: https://github.com/EnJens/backupTA
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2016-12-07
Last Updated 2020-07-27
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