Sadly, this is probably not what you were expecting.
This is simply a cache of CyanogenMod Recovery ramdisk-recovery.img
files for each Sony device supported in AOSP 5.0 Lollipop.
Two major challenges face AOSP developers of Xperia devices:
- Sony devices cannot boot into the recovery partition.
- Custom recoveries such as ClockworkMod or TWRP cannot be built with AOSP.
So how do we install OTA based scripts such as Gapps?
Easy hack: put the recovery in the boot partition!
With this script the device's LED will shine purple on boot. During this time the user can press and hold Volume+ to enter recovery.
You need to define these in your device repo:
- BOARD_CUSTOM_BOOTIMG := true
- BOARD_CUSTOM_BOOTIMG_MK := device/sony/recovery/custombootimg.mk
You will also need these two commits in your /build folder: