Accept and Continue. Login Register. My Zebra Register Logout. Zebra Blog. Unzip the file to a folder, once unzipped, you will see an OSUpdate folder that contains all the required files needed to reload OS. Insert the SD card into the device. To launch the process, the device must have a charged battery or cradle. Selecting the icon will launch the OSUpdate process and when completed, the device will reboot.
Unzip the file to a folder, once unzipped, you will see the individual files of OSUpdate needed to reload OS. I did it through windows, but it would be so great if android can do it! To make the SD card bootable, you have to modify the boot sector of the card. This can not be done from a standard Android application. If the Android device is rooted, it can almost certainly be done from a native Linux program, or an NDK program.
If the device is not rooted, you can probably not do what you want. As Chris Stratton commented, if the card is already made bootable, you could probably then change for instance what OS is booted up and how.
Say, there is startup code which loads and boots an OS, then you can change the configuration file for the bootloader. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 8 years, 11 months ago.
Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 23k times. Ali Ali. No reason for this to be closed, it's a perfectly appropriate question - it is not asking for an app recommendation, it is asking if it is possible for an app to do this. What possibilities are and are not open to applications on a platform is very much a development question.
Incidentally, the answer is most likely no, except on a "rooted" device. ChrisStratton Thanks Chris, I don't know much about the file system in android, i know this much an app can access the SD so I guessed there must be a way to modify it somehow to be bootable! If the card is already bootable, you could probably modify what it boots to a degree on an older android device, but on the most recent devices my impression is that you can no longer access the sdcard root folder but only a user-specific folder within it.
However I have not looked into this in detail. If you already have a custom executable on the card capable of searching the rest of it, you could definitely leave new data or extensions for it to work with.
Migrating this here was completely inappropriate. The question concerns technical possibilities of Android as a development platform, specifically what its security model does and does not permit third party application developers to do.
It is NOT an administration, configuration, or usage question.
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