There seems to be a lot of concerns about being able to flash roms in the future without using recovery and tripping knox. Why do we really need a recovery to do this? Sure it's easier. The recovery simply extracts and archive and runs an updater-script to add/delete/update modded files and set proper permissions etc. These are basically shell commands. Why can ADB be used on a rooted device to accomplish the same?
I have written a few mods and deodexed my fair share of roms. This can all be done through ADB by extracting the files.. deodexing/modding them and putting them back. and change a few permissions.
This works great for quick edits but to do a complete rom this way would require quite an installer script.
I can see a rom package being uploaded to the device and an installer script executed via ADB to put everything in it's place.
And do we know exactly what trips knox? (other than trying to write an image file directly to the recovery partition?) Can dd be used to write a prepared image to the system partition without blowing things up?
I'm not trying to make all this sound like it's easy...it's not! just trying to change the "We can't do anything without a recovery" mindset.
I understand a program called fireflash is in development. I'm not sure of it's intended purpose other than a Mobile Odin replacement (which it is). I hope it evolves into a complete package flashing application and we can put all this fear of tripping knox and losing potential features to rest.
I encourage responses and expect these ideas to be blown full of holes. I'm used to it.
I have written a few mods and deodexed my fair share of roms. This can all be done through ADB by extracting the files.. deodexing/modding them and putting them back. and change a few permissions.
This works great for quick edits but to do a complete rom this way would require quite an installer script.
I can see a rom package being uploaded to the device and an installer script executed via ADB to put everything in it's place.
And do we know exactly what trips knox? (other than trying to write an image file directly to the recovery partition?) Can dd be used to write a prepared image to the system partition without blowing things up?
I'm not trying to make all this sound like it's easy...it's not! just trying to change the "We can't do anything without a recovery" mindset.
I understand a program called fireflash is in development. I'm not sure of it's intended purpose other than a Mobile Odin replacement (which it is). I hope it evolves into a complete package flashing application and we can put all this fear of tripping knox and losing potential features to rest.
I encourage responses and expect these ideas to be blown full of holes. I'm used to it.
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