Cant unzip recovery file to get files for flashing partitions

[Milena]

@aibd

You notice how there are several methods to extract the bits you need

• payload dumper from the main ROM .zip
• extract from e-recovery.img
• via fastboot enhance from ROM.zip as @LilBeth

Ok. Ive tryed all of those solutions.

• extract from e-recovery.img
  It was impossible to mount recovery image or to simply unzip it using winzip, 7zip or windows tool.
  I was trying to do this on 3 different PCs.

• payload dumper from the main ROM .zip
  That method works but it took me some time to manage it.

• via fastboot enhance from ROM.zip as @LilBeth
  That was most inuitive and noob friendly method. Thank You

Still it’s not possible to unpack recovery.img file -windows says that the file is corupted or just cannot open.

So still I will try to find that method with super easy tool which I found on Youtube and match your documented instalation proces.

[LilBeth]

Hello,
glad to know you tried and found fastboot enhance useful for your goals.
But, i m asking, where did you find/get recovery.img you reported as corrupted/unable to open ?

When you unpacked payload.bin via fastboot enhance, you clearly got some partitions.
The partition named boot.img is the recovery you will need to flash the rom, extract it.
The others partitions you need, dtbo.img and vendor_boot.img are the same available, just extract them as well.

Take a look please at this wiki, just as reference.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/renoir/install
E os is lineage os based.
Steps explained here to install lineage os 20/t will also work for e os s, based on lineage os 19.1
You will observe, is basically written, that the recovery.img is the boot.img
You don’ t need more than this, no need to unpack other files.
The next e os build, 1.16, will be shipped soon, read mid October.
This new release should fix the missing builds, recoveries and additional files as well.
Now It’ s all in your hands.

[aibd]

@Milena

So still I will try to find that method with super easy tool

I am not a Windows user, but I think that Windows method is described in words as:

There is a tool called Payload-Windows-GO. Basically you just hover over the payload file over the EXE file of the tool and it extracts it.

quoted from the XDA forums link in Post #8 but this is relevant to extraction from the main ROM.zip only.

I think we have to look at this as an inadequacy in documentation as I also was not able to extract the required bits by following my reading of the /e/ install page quoted in Post #10. First I check my download was not corrupted.

$ cat recovery-e-1.14-s-20230819321663-dev-renoir.img.sha256sum
860a1d85e05837447a2969dd5011941edcae45cb9c7cf8d71e296551128ccfcb  recovery-e-1.14-s-20230819321663-dev-renoir.img

$ sha256sum recovery-e-1.14-s-20230819321663-dev-renoir.img
860a1d85e05837447a2969dd5011941edcae45cb9c7cf8d71e296551128ccfcb  recovery-e-1.14-s-20230819321663-dev-renoir.img

$ sudo mount -o loop /home/test/test/recovery-e-1.14-s-20230819321663-dev-renoir.img /media/two
mount: /media/two: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

[LilBeth]

Hello,
agree with you about renoir’ s documentation stuff you pointed.
As we can observe in this page
https://images.ecloud.global/dev/renoir/ the recovery always came as a single img file, not as described and expected, so a zip.
Additional partitions, dtbo and vendor_boot images, are missing.
Unpacking recoveries images won’ t produce missing files.
I think the only way to get them, as of now, is by unzipping rom’ s zip to get payload.bin and then use the mentioned methods to unpack it obtaining required partitions, as i suggested in my previous post.

[aibd]

Hi, thanks for the confirmation, I created Documentation instructions to extract dtbo.img and vendor_boot.img from e-recovery.img – #7386

[chrisrg]

I think there is some confusion of language going on here. We don’t want to be extracting anything from e-recovery.img; a file with that name is a complete recovery.img in itself.

eOS is intending to bundle the necessary .img files for booting recovery all together for downloading where the user can simply unzip them. Take a look for example at this download page for lemonade where for eOS-S the files are bundled together as “Recovery and boot img” (no .img).

The name of the bundle can be anything so long as it’s a zip.

For the time being users can extract the payload.bin from the OS download zip and extract the .img’s from that.

[aibd]

@chrisrg

I think there is some confusion of language going on here

Indeed, I agree. The lemonade page demonstrates the intention well and I had not previously seen this provision of needed files, thanks.

I made an edit to the issue

The wording “First unzip the /e/OS Recovery file” does correctly apply when the files are published in the format used on this page. https://images.ecloud.global/dev/lemonade/. Perhaps users need to be aware to wait for the images to be published in the intended format.

[Jack]

There is indeed confusion here…

I tried following @aibd 's instructions but running the payload thing gives an error, even when adjusting last argument to simply dtbo:
$ ./payload-dumper-go -partitions -o dtbo,vbmeta 2023/10/16 06:19:37 File does not exist: dtbo,vbmeta

Any guidance, please?
I’m following the install instructions for hotdog which is affected by this issue (that I can’t fully understand).

[mihi]

/e/OS on fxtec pro1x

I think the right command is maybe: ./payload-dumper-go -partitions dtbo,recovery payload.bin I get an extracted_<date>_<time> directory and inside I find: cd extracted_20231014_132513 $ ls -1 dtbo.img recovery.img Best regards, exit

[Jack]

@/e/OS on fxtec pro1x

I think the right command is maybe: ./payload-dumper-go -partitions dtbo,recovery payload.bin I get an extracted__ directory and inside I find: cd extracted_20231014_132513 $ ls -1 dtbo.img recovery.img Best regards, exit

I worked this out whilst you were finding me the answer. Noch einmal, vielen Danke!

This is the slightly different answer that I worked out:
correct format:
./payload-dumper-go payload.bin -partitions dtbo,vbmeta

• where dtbo and vbmeta are the names of the .img files you are trying to extract
• nominating an output folder with -o name didn’t work for me

[AnotherElk]

@Jack

./payload-dumper-go -partitions -o dtbo,vbmeta

@Jack

correct format:
./payload-dumper-go payload.bin -partitions dtbo,vbmeta

• where dtbo and vbmeta are the names of the .img files you are trying to extract
• nominating an output folder with -o name didn’t work for me

In the wrong command payload.bin is missing, and the -o inbetween -partitions and dtbo,vbmeta breaks the -partitions parameter, letting payload-dumper-go either see dtbo,vbmeta as the file to work with (which doesn’t exist) or as the output folder specified after -o (which doesn’t exist) … I can’t test the specifics right now.

[Jack]

I was bold in suggesting ‘Correct format’!

Perhaps better to say that it is a usable format! It did actually create a pretty expansive extraction of ¿all? .img files in the file, so I’m clearly getting it slightly wrong. I’ll link your answer on the gitlab workaround instructions.

[AnotherElk]

@Jack

Perhaps better to say that it is a usable format! It did actually create a pretty expansive extraction of ¿all? .img files in the file, so I’m clearly getting it slightly wrong.

I downloaded the Windows version just now, which gives the following usage info:

Usage: payload-dumper-go [options] [inputfile]
  -c int
        Number of multiple workers to extract (shorthand) (default 4)
  -concurrency int
        Number of multiple workers to extract (default 4)
  -l    Show list of partitions in payload.bin (shorthand)
  -list
        Show list of partitions in payload.bin
  -o string
        Set output directory (shorthand)
  -output string
        Set output directory
  -p string
        Dump only selected partitions (comma-separated) (shorthand)
  -partitions string
        Dump only selected partitions (comma-separated)

If I want to understand this in a strict sense, the input file (payload.bin) should be last after the options (-partitions dtbo,vbmeta), or even not given (I assume payload-dumper-go would work with payload.bin in the same directory then), so you could try whether
./payload-dumper-go -partitions dtbo,vbmeta payload.bin
or simply
./payload-dumper-go -partitions dtbo,vbmeta
would make a difference for you, extracting only the 2 given partitions.

[Jack]

Bingo! The Correct Syntax
Well done. I tested it in Linux

./payload-dumper-go -p dtbo,vbmeta -o FolderName payload.bin 

Results in the folder FolderName being created and these files extracted there:

payload.bin: payload.bin
Payload Version: 2
Payload Manifest Length: 101356
Payload Manifest Signature Length: 267
Found partitions:
LOGO (15 MB), abl (225 kB), aop (205 kB), bluetooth (881 kB), boot (101 MB), cmnlib (397 kB), cmnlib64 (516 kB), devcfg (57 kB), dsp (67 MB), dtbo (25 MB), hyp (492 kB), imagefv (20 kB), keymaster (262 kB), modem (158 MB), multiimgoem (16 kB), odm (191 MB), product (456 MB), qupfw (74 kB), recovery (101 MB), storsec (25 kB), system (1.5 GB), system_ext (372 MB), tz (3.2 MB), uefisecapp (127 kB), vbmeta (8.2 kB), vbmeta_system (4.1 kB), vendor (582 MB), xbl (3.2 MB), xbl_config (127 kB)
Number of workers: 4
vbmeta (8.2 kB)  [=======================================================] 100 %
dtbo (25 MB)     [=======================================================] 100 %

[aibd]

Users must also be sure to adjust the command, careful to read the install instructions they are using.

For instance in the OP the required partitions are dtbo.img,vendor_boot.img.

[georgie_abitbol]

Hi

I only have a chromebook (yes, I know) and can’t find the way to unzip any file, even with linux (I’m too noob to easy use linux).
I can adb flash, but don’t know how to use payload-dumper.

[LilBeth]

Hello,
read here.
https://www.androidpolice.com/zip-and-unzip-files-chromebook/
Hope it helps you.

[georgie_abitbol]

Hi

thanks, I can unzip files like zip files, but for a .img file, I can’t. And I really don’t know how to use payload-dumper-go in command line, in chromeOS linux environnment.

[aibd]

I was thinking of writing a walkthrough …

and have now put it here [Walkthrough] Extract eRecovery and boot images using payload-dumper-go

[georgie_abitbol]

Really thanks for help !
Now I have all necessary files.