EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer
Write operating system ISO images to USB drives, no root required
Davide Depau System
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Description
EtchDroid is an open-source application that helps you write images to USB drives.
Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.
⭐️ Supported devices ⭐️
✅ USB flash drives
✅ USB SD card adapters
❌ USB hard drives / SSDs
❌ USB docks and hubs
❌ Internal SD card slot
❌ Optical or floppy disk drives
❌ Thunderbolt-only devices
⭐️ Supported disk image types ⭐️
✅ Modern GNU/Linux operating system images, including Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, pop!_OS, Linux Mint, FreeBSD, BlissOS and many more
✅ Raspberry PI SD card images (but you must unzip them first!)
❌ Official Microsoft Windows ISOs
⚠️ Community-built Windows images, made for EtchDroid (be careful: they may contain viruses!)
❌ Apple DMG disk images
❌ Older GNU/Linux OS images < 2010 such as Damn Small Linux
Source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/EtchDroid/EtchDroid
What’s new (2.1)
Quality-of-life release with bug fixes and new translations.
• Improved reliability: fixed several crashes while writing to USB drives
• Very large USB drives that can't be written now show a clear error message
• Fixed a crash when opening images on some Android 13 devices
• Telemetry is now correctly disabled on microG-based ROMs
• Added new translations: Finnish, Galician, Burmese, Sardinian, Slovak and Ukrainian
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- NotificationsShow notifications.
- Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
- Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- etchdroid.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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