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CLUSTER ANDROID-UPDATE-EXTRACTS · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-12-27

Android system image utilities

These products help Android users manage system images by extracting partitions from OTA packages, installing generic images via DSU, and repacking firmware into flashable zips. The dated history before the index is too thin to discern a trend (only 3 entries). Traction is led by payload-extractor with 6 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2018: 1JUL 2023: 1JUL 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
DEC 2018OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 3 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01payload-extractor10★17 days—hand-codedhobbyWeb app that extracts partition images from Android OTA update packages, letting users retrieve files like boot.img without downloading the entire firmware.
  2. 02Custom RR: ROMs & Recovery0★2 moliveopen sourceAndroid catalog app that lists custom ROMs, recoveries, and GSI images for supported devices with download links and filtering.
  3. 03DSU Sideloader0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAndroid utility that installs and boots generic system images through the built-in dynamic system update feature without altering existing partitions.
  4. 04OOS Firmware Extractor0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app that extracts firmware from OxygenOS ROMs, creating flashable update zips from selected files.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.