All rights reserved.If you want to update your Android device but you’re not quite sure how to go about it, you’re in the right place. On subsequent boots, the recovery partition already contains the new contents, so no reprogram is necessary. They are different, so the recovery partition is reprogrammed with the desired contents. As part of normal startup, the system checks the contents of the recovery partition against the desired contents (previously stored as a file in /system).The newly updated boot partition is loaded, and it mounts and starts the newly updated system partition.One of the new files on the system partition contains the contents of the new recovery partition. Data is pulled from the package and used to update the boot and system partitions.It finds command-line arguments in /cache/recovery/command that point it to the update package.

The kernel and system in the recovery partition are booted instead of the kernel in the boot partition. Once the firmware update process is triggered, it follows these steps: See Firmware update Firmware update process You can also install an update package from a custom Android application using the Firmware update service API provided by Digi. The firmware update process starts.ĬAUTION! Remember that the system will be restarted during the update process.

Confirm the update package you want to use by selecting OK in the Update firmware dialog.

Browse to your update package file in the Android file system and select it.

Navigate to the Android settings and select the About tablet category.

It can be located either in the internal memory or in any removable device such as micro SD or USB stick.

Place the update package you have generated anywhere inside the Android file system.

Once you have generated an update package, you can use it to update your system.įollow the steps to update your system from the Android settings menu using an already generated package:

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