[Win] Android recovery emulator - emulate zip installations

[Ricky Divjakovski]

Android Recovery Emulator

The android recovery emulator is a utility that allows you to emulate the android recovery.
Most options are supported and you can flash zips and roms with this, wipe data/factory reset, clear cache etc, this is basically a virtual device.
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Supported syntax -
(#) comments
(ui_print) printing
(package_extract_file) extracting files
(package_extract_directory) extracting directories
(block_image_update) updating blocks
(run_program) execution
(delete) deleting
(delete_recurive) recursive deleting
(abort) aborting installation
(format) formatting
(mount) mounting
(set_perm) setting permissions
(set_perm_recursive) setting permissions recursively
(set_metadata) setting metadata
(set_metadata_recursive) setting metadata recursively
(symlink) symlinking
(show_progress) showing progress

Supported error output -
Checks for non existing files
Checks for non existing directories
Outputs possible errors for files or directories not embedded in zip
etc.

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XDA:DevDB Information
Android Recovery Emulator, Tool/Utility for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors
Ricky Divjakovski

Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: V1.0.0.0
Stable Release Date: 2017-04-16

Created 2017-04-16
Last Updated 2017-04-18

 

[Ibuprophen]

Okay... I could use something like this but, just 2 questions.

1) Will the results from the Emulator also reflect those results from a TWRP Recovery?

2) For the CWM that this Emulator is based upon, are the results based upon for the last known release version or for all release versions?

Thanks!

 

[Ricky Divjakovski]

Okay... I could use something like this but, just 2 questions.

1) Will the results from the Emulator also reflect those results from a TWRP Recovery?

2) For the CWM that this Emulator is based upon, are the results based upon for the last known release version or for all release versions?

Thanks!

The GUI is merely a theme, based on latest recoveries

 

[Beasty244]

So could this be used to flash ROMs onto an unrootable device? Not "unrootable", but USB debugging doesn't work on it so I can't root it but there are ROMs for it

 

[eduzerokm]

So could this be used to flash ROMs onto an unrootable device? Not "unrootable", but USB debugging doesn't work on it so I can't root it but there are ROMs for it

No this is just an emulator, it doesn't do anything to a real device

 

[Miustone]

Where was that Years ago? I'm alomst 24 and My whole Life was wasted on testing ZIPs... Could You please give Me back My Time? lol

Thanks a lot for that! You're a true Hero for Me dear OP. Keep it Up! :angel:

 

[afaneh92]

Great work as alawys.

I have idea on my mind several months ago!
Can you make twrp theme emulator so we can test themes on the run.
Or you can make this open source so I can make it my self.

 

[jrkruse]

Very nice. If the ability to emulate aroma installers could be added it would be really cool.

 

[veez21]

@Ricky Divjakovski , does this support the legacy environment? Like using update-binary? Shell?

 

[ranf]

BTW: works starts in Ubuntu 16.04 with mono.
But if these created subdirs with backslashes will really work? IDK

 

[JIJOK]

Hello there, just noob question, I used it with a stock ROM with supersu and dualrecovery ( I have stock z1 compact ) and this is what I get, why that errors ?

http://imgur.com/a/BmSNw

 

[logosA]

VERY GOOD , but it doesn't ''like'' magisk
could this be fixed or bypassed somehow, so be able to continue flashing and reach to the end ?

 

[Ricky Divjakovski]

Great work as alawys.

I have idea on my mind several months ago!
Can you make twrp theme emulator so we can test themes on the run.
Or you can make this open source so I can make it my self.

Im going to add TWRP option in next version

Very nice. If the ability to emulate aroma installers could be added it would be really cool.

im already on it
will take about a week to properly implement

@Ricky Divjakovski , does this support the legacy environment? Like using update-binary? Shell?

at the moment it only checks if the script exists via "run_program" and parsing the first arguement to the program that then checks if the file exists, if it doesnt it throws a possible error, shell support will eventually be added, but for now the basics

BTW: works starts in Ubuntu 16.04 with mono.
But if these created subdirs with backslashes will really work? IDK

i will be compiling this for linux aswell when i get some free time

 

[Ricky Divjakovski]

Hello there, just noob question, I used it with a stock ROM with supersu and dualrecovery ( I have stock z1 compact ) and this is what I get, why that errors ?

http://imgur.com/a/BmSNw

thats because theres a second zip file inside your zip, thats not supported yes

 

[Ricky Divjakovski]

VERY GOOD , but it doesn't ''like'' magisk
could this be fixed or bypassed somehow, so be able to continue flashing and reach to the end ?

seperate zip file? i will add the functionallity for that next build

 

[logosA]

thats because theres a second zip file inside your zip, thats not supported yes

yes, saw that happened , flashed rom successfully but second zip (magisk) inside the rom made that error appears.

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seperate zip file? i will add the functionallity for that next build

almost all the latest roms in Samsung galaxy Note 2 these days, include magisk as default root method.
This is a second zip inside the rom zip, which as I understood creates that error

 

[Ricky Divjakovski]

yes, saw that happened , flashed rom successfully but second zip (magisk) inside the rom made that error appears.

---------- Post added at 10:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:45 AM ----------



almost all the latest roms in Samsung galaxy Note 2 these days, include magisk as default root method.
This is a second zip inside the rom zip, which as I understood creates that error

im working on a fix for that now so maybe tonight or tommorow when i get free time i will release

 

[logosA]

That really will be a tremendous help for us, who flash roms all day long and got stuck in bootloops and errors.
This way , we will be able to test before actually try.
Thank you very much OP.
Excellent, original work !

 

[methuselah]

@Ricky Divjakovski this so needed emulate zip installer... I wish i could have found this years back. Great work.

 

[Ricky Divjakovski]

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