Re: [android-building] Adding files to the Android file system after building

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

The standard Android assumption is that the userdata partition is
empty in the factory state, so that a factory reset (which wipes the
cache and userdata partition) really brings the device back to its
factory state.

JBQ

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:06 PM, galapogos <goi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a development board that runs Android 2.3, and after building, it
> generates a few files that can be flashed to the board, including
> system.img, recovery.img, ramdisk.img, uramdisk.img and uImage.
>
> I would like to add files to the Android file system, specifically in
> /data/data/someapp. However, I am unable to find the /data/data/ directory.
> There's a /data in recovery.img, but there's nothing in it.
>
> Is /data/data only mounted after the OS boots up?
>
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