[TOOL] Convert sin to flashable.zip

Disclaimer:

Our tool was made for testing and educational purposes, ME is not responsible for what you do on/with your device using our tool, you must agree that you using our tool on your own risk, I am not responsible if you brick your device or anything else!

What is this for:

This tool converts xperia sin file and directly create flashable.zip for use to flash your android device with recovery.

Changelog:

- version 1. (missing selinux label generator)
- version 2. (implemented selinux label generator tool. Missing static busybox)
- version 3.
- version 4. some small corections, added missing update-binary
- version 5. some improvements, new sin unpack tool

How to use:

Extract sin2zip.rar archive & simple run CONVERT.bat & chose system.sin image , tool will produce flashable.zip

What you need to check or probably modify in generated flashable.zip:

1. busybox I have used is 32bit, it will work on 64bit too (not busybox.exe !!), I not recommend to change busybox, but before you go for busybox replace make sure it is STATIC busybox and have working (chcon and chown) with -h parameter!
2. check updater-script e.g. first 3 lines and last 2 lines!
3. this -> https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=80593639&postcount=7

Source code:

modified ext4_read tool is in attachment. Original ext4_read is here, many thanks to author! I have notified Igor, hope we see selabels listing integration in 7z without need for hackish ext4_read
sony dump tool -> https://github.com/munjeni/anyxperia_dumper

That kitchen do not have anything related to our tool. I have done some progress in extracting selabels from ext4 by searcing with inode number \0/
Right now tool is able to extract selabels by inode number pointing

serajr said:

So you are on the drawing board again! Cool... :highfive:
About what you wrote in the j4nn's thread (1. to make fota unpack tool), count on me if you need help, ok!
If I'm not mistaken, I sent you a ota update_package file from my x performance some time ago, but if I am, here it goes again.
Cheers.

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Thanks! I will look into ota package till after I finish our tool

Almost done! New version v2 is out! Made small tool to read ext4 image and print selabels to updater-script, it look like this:

if regular file or folder:

if symlink:

Tool is curently 95 percent done, not realy ready for flashig produced flashable.zip , need to implement 5 percent of the things. You can try but plese do not try to flash with recovery it will not work corectly!

Version 3 done! Before you flash flashable.zip please check updater-script first 3 lines and last 2 lines! Do in mind our tool didn't include the rest of firmware like kernel, vendor...etc, tool only convert one sin file to flashable.zip, if you need the rest of firmware run CONVERT.bat and chose another sin file, do merges in zip by hand and do merges-modification in updater-script by hand too. Not recommended for newbies! I can't tell you if produced flashable.zip is working I'm not tried to flash flashable.zip, but I think it going work. Important thing is initial tool is done and somebody need to test. Let me know Enjoy!

Version 4 done. Enjoy!

@serajr here is some info https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=80599561&postcount=1330 , your file is the same format as j4nn

Version 5 done.