I made a custom firmware from the stock v.04, but the size is a little big, should I upload it?

before made your dump try fill all unused space with zero
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/zerofree.8.html

( other possibility > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44725/clear-unused-space-with-zeros-btrfs

on a second time you could use conv=sparse option when use dd or just directly compress on the fly

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