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<h1>landrover a9</h1>
<h3>Contributors</h3>
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<li>alexlep</li>
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<h3>Random information</h3>
<ul>
<li>Obscure phone:<blockquote>
<p>This is just another clone from millions of devices from Chinese manufacturers.</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>MT6582 CPU</li>
<li>Product code F090_GPS_KK</li>
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<h3>Status</h3>
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<li>a boot.img file with kernel, initramfs and dtb file from pmOS does <em>not</em> work.</li>
<li>alexlep has a boot.img file from the vendor somewhere (extracted from the device?), that works when flashed via <code>fastboot boot</code>. It can not be extracted like a normal boot.img file, as reported on IRC. Probably the extraction tool can't handle the files.</li>
<li>according to alexlep, there is a 512b header in front of the kernel and initramfs:<blockquote>
<p>ramdisk and kernel has 512 bytes added in the beginning of the files</p>
<p>custom header with file description</p>
</blockquote>
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<li>...and simply prepending that header in front of a custom initramfs/kernel does not work, as he reports.</li>
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<p>extracted boot.img, first bytes of pmOS initramfs (not working):</p>
<pre class="codehilite"><code>sp@sppc:~/else/pmbs_work/chroot_native/pmos/extracted$ xxd -l 50 ramdisk
00000000: 1f8b 0800 0000 0000 0203 949a 0d70 1ce5  .............p..
00000010: 79c7 5fb0 09b2 621b 411d ac16 0317 c7a1  y._...b.A.......
00000020: 0ed8 d6d9 96b1 2026 11b5 70d4 5814 4344 ...... &amp;..p.X.CD
00000030: ea49                                     .I</code></pre>


<p>extracted boot.img, first bytes of the vendor's initramfs (working):</p>
<pre class="codehilite"><code>sp@sppc:~/else/pmbs_work/chroot_native/olololo/extracted$ xxd -l 50 ramdisk
00000000: 8816 8858 f5a7 0c00 524f 4f54 4653 0000  ...X....ROOTFS..
00000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff  ................
00000030: ffff</code></pre>


<h3>Links</h3>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/73">#73</a> lists lots of issues with the device, and additional information, such as fastboot's partitions output</li>
<li><a href="http://ruggedphoneco.com/smartphones/8-alps-a9-smartphone.html">This might be the same phone?</a></li>
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