fastboot-assistant

Description

Program to facilitate the installation of custom ROMs and GSIs on Android devices. Based on GTK and Shell.

Functions

• Check the ADB/Fastboot connection
• Create a working directory
• change to the working directory
• boot into fastboot mode
• Reboot from fastboot mode
• Reboot into download mode
• boot into recovery
• lock/unlock the bootloader
• delete user data
• backup your full system (root) or use the Open Android Backup → thanks to @mrrfv
• Rename files (recovery.img, boot.img, vendor.img, system.img, payload.zip)
• flashing recovery.img, boot.img, init_boot.img, vendor_boot.img, vendor.img, system.img, vbmeta.img, dtbo.img, userdata.img, metadata.img, preloader.img, preloader.bin, super.img and many others
• get device infos
• some instructions for the program
• set active slot
• resize/remove/create boot/vendor/system partition

Versions

https://github.com/NachtsternBuild/fastboot-assistant/releases

• see Changelog.md for all changes or just GitHub.
• see the SECURTIY.md

Sweet Unix v.0.5.x

• fastboot-assistant v0.5.5.2 → Linux (Ubuntu/Debain/Fedora/RHEL/CentOS) / Windows via WSL

Notes

• Use at your own risk.
• The device may be damaged.
• Not every device supports all of the functions
• Not all operating system variants have the same range of functions.
• The programme is currently in the test phase. Errors may occur in the programme.

Some brownies

• A big thank you to:
  • @mrrfv → Open Android Backup
  • @Jean28518 → my build-deb.sh is a modified version of @Jean28518s version.

Installation of the programme

Linux

The following tools are required to run the programme.

• Android Debug Bridge (adb)
• Fastboot
• xz-utils
• unzip
• wget
• heimdall → heimdall must be installed manually on all distributions that use RPMs

These are installed automatically with the Debian package. Root rights are required for installation.

• Install the Debian package in the terminal with:

sudo apt-get install /PATH/to/fastboot-assistant.deb 

or via a graphical user interface.

• Install the RPM:

sudo rpm -i /PATH/to/fastboot-assistant-0.5.5.2-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm

Windows

1. unzip the zip file
2. Follow the steps in the README.md from the Zip

Removing fastboot-assistant

1. open terminal
2. Execute the following command:

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo dpkg -r --force-all fastboot-assistant
# Fedora/RHEL/CentOS
sudo rpm -e fastboot-assistant

Further information

• see instructions in the applications themselves
• or the dokumentation

In case of errors

• Don't be shy, just complain.
• Or do it better (see build)

build

see build: https://github.com/NachtsternBuild/fastboot-assistant/tree/main/Anwendung