1. Jerry Hildenbrand's Avatar
    With an OTA on the horizon, I know a lot of people are gonna be looking for stock files for their Nexus. It always happens, so I figured instead of feeding you I would teach you how to fish

    You'll need Linux. You can install it, run a live CD, or use Wubi and install as a Windows app -- any way will work.
    You'll need the factory system.img for your device. You can find it inside the factory image tar file provided by Google.
    You'll need the file attached to this post.

    1. Create a folder in your home directory named restore
    Code:
    $ cd ~
    $ mkdir restore
    2. Place the binary that's inside the attached zip file in the restore folder
    Code:
    $ cp path/to/the/file/simg2img ~/restore/simg2img
    3. Make sure the binary file is executable
    Code:
    $ chmod +x ~/restore/simg2img
    4. Place the system.img file from the factory images in the restore folder
    Code:
    $ cp path/to/the/file/system.img ~/restore/system.img
    5. Make a folder called GNEX
    Code:
    $ cd ~
    $ mkdir GNEX
    5. Change to the restore folder, and prepare the system.img for mounting
    Code:
    $ cd ~/restore
    $ ./simg2img system.img gnex.raw
    6. Mount the system image as a folder
    Code:
    $ sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop gnex.raw ~/GNEX/
    7. Open the GNEX folder with your file manager, get anything you want from it.
    8. When you're finished, unmount the image
    Code:
    $ sudo umount ~/GNEX/
    9. Profit$$

    Note that this only works with ext4 images, and has only been tested on images from Google for the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, and Nexus 7.
    Thanks zhengkarl for the source for the simg2img binary
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    11-10-2012 04:38 PM

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