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Is there any Utility that can be used in Ubuntu 14.04 to flash a ROM or a custom recovery to an android? I am interested in flashing the stock ROM and CWM recovery to a Broadcom chip based android mobile running on android 4.4.2 version.

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I meant, any specific application that can be used without going to the command line prompt e.g, SP Flashtool we use in Windows7 for flashing to a MTK android device. – Prasanna Kumar Mallik Jul 25 '15 at 5:49
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The adb and fastboot tools that come with the Android SDK are in the repository:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

To flash the images, connect the device to the machine, enable USB debugging and reboot the device into the bootloader by running adb reboot bootloader.

Then flash the images using fastboot. For example, to flash a custom recovery partition:

fastboot flash recovery custom-recovery.img
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Yes. But one does not simply "flash a ROM" from USB, but parts or more specifically images. These will be system.img, recovery.img and so on.

Install fastboot:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Then simply, reboot to fastboot and do:

$ sudo fastboot flash system system.img
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