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If the standard procedure below does not work, maybe one of these alternative software may do the trick. Some manufacturers produce ROMs which are more or less far from AOSP standard (unusual addresses, headers, file format, etc.). Most of them however, at least in the open source arena, do not seem regularly maintained, so the best bet in my opinion to have working, maintained and documented tools is to go with CyanogenMod's ones. The file names, however, lead me to think these should be old prebuilt versions of CyanogenMod's tools (the project being closed, there is neither documentation nor support).ДЄll these tools (and others you may find with any search engine) should work the same way, but some may work better than others in handling some particular edge-case you may face with your own device.

#Boot editor free serial#

This answer in Unix.SE recommends some tools from the now seemingly defunct Android Serial Port project.

#Boot editor free archive#

CNexus on the XDA forum provides an archive with a selection of tools.

Don't be fooled by the fact it is hosted on GitHub: it is a closed source proprietary binary and only compiled binaries are available on their repository (actually I'm even wondering about the exact interest of using a source-code repository to store binary blobs, but different people, different minds.).

Xiaolu's mkbootimg_tools seems also mentioned quite often and allows to unpack and repack boot.img and the device tree file dt.img.

Kuisma's unmkbootimg appears pretty often in help forums and seems to do a good job in helping to handle odd cases, outputting 'human readable' English recommendation when some modification are required in mkbootimg source code and displaying the exact command-line to use to rebuild the image.

Some are free closed source proprietary binaries: This project seems indeed still maintained which is not very common in this area, however the actual advantage over CyanogenMod's original tools remains unclear to me.

osm0sis proposes a fork of CyanogenMod's tools 'forked and updated' according to the project's own description.

szym targets easiness by adding shell script wrappers to its toolset to make the complete unpacking and repacking process more straightforward.

The original author officially stopped maintaining the project, a few other users forked it like javilonas or cmotc.

#Boot editor free for android#

The Android Kitchen was apparently meant to be some kind of Swiss army knife for Android developers.

Here are a few examples, I did not test them personally so cannot recommend any and I present them only for reference purposes: There are, however, a relatively large number of alternatives to unpack the boot.img file which all work more-or-less the same.Д«asically, such unpack tool will extract the content of the boot.img file and display a set of parameters you will have to pass to Google's mkbootimg tool to build a file whose configuration (mainly kernel parameters and memory addresses) will match the original one. This tool does not seem specifically designed for CyanogenMod in any way, so most chances are that it will work for other ROMs as well. While Google's AOSP only provides the tool to build the boot.img file, CyanogenMod also adds the unpackbootimg tool allowing you to unpack it. The next time you boot the computer, your default will be shown for the amount of time you chose.The method I present here relies on CyanogenMod's Android source code.

Click OK on both dialog boxes to close them.

ItвЂ™s just below the Default operating system menu.

Check the box labeled Time to display the list of operating systems.

In the Default operating system menu, choose which system - Balsa or Windows - you want to run when the user doesnвЂ™t make a choice ( see red circle above).

The Startup and Recovery dialog box will open ( shown on the right above).

Select the Settings button under Startup and Recover ( see arrows above).

Select the Advanced tab ( see blue circle above).

The System Properties dialog box will open ( shown on the left below):.

Click on the link labeled Advanced Systems settings on the left side of the screen.

This page is also available under the System item in the Control Panel.

Windows will display a System Properties page.

Right-click on Computer and choose Properties in the menu.

Start Windows in an account with Administrator privileges.

You can change how long the menu displays and which system - Balsa or Windows - runs by default.

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It tells you how to change the boot menu on a Windows 7/Vista system that has been set up to run Balsa. This page is a portion of the Quick Start for Balsa. Back to Quick Start В» | Modify the Windows Boot Menu-XP В»