im starting this thread to see if anyone knows how to or what applications can help me build a custom rom cause id like to start building roms like the hero roms and what not but dont know if their is any place that will kinda give a brief explanation on how to build a rom or change an existing rom.
but in the beginning any roms i make will be for my personal use only until i completely figure everything out
so any info at all please share lol
thanks
what the flux capacitor
any luck in getting this info?
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im so in the mood to learn and make some roms....i wanted to ask can somoene help me by guiding me or maybe linking me to the right direction because i really want to customize roms...not too hard but to be able to tweak a bit on roms...pleae can someone help???
I'd recommend starting with going to the Android Open Source Project. They have full docs on how to download and compile the source code. Once you've successfully built a stock image you can start mixing and matching or tweaking code.
You can also Google things like "building froyo source" and such to find tutorials. Many of those will be for specific phones but the general principals are similar.
If you want to jump in the deep end Cyanogen's wiki has a tutorial on building Cyanogenmod from source.
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ok thanks alot!
Hi everybody.
I had been using Samsung Spica and I made my own modifications of CM or Samdroidmod. I sold this phone and bought Motorola Milestone few days ago.
I wanna make some custom CM7 or Froyo roms. Could you give me some informations about making custom roms. Signing update zips is needed?
I would appreciate any help from you.
loL!....im actually bout to post this till i found ya ..same question here but slightly different...i' ve tried modifying custom roms by simply removing and adding apps/scripts/framework mods/service.jar mod from a custom rom and then signing it with Autosign. As far as i can remember it works.
But one thing is still puzzling me. Is the Process is that simple?? what are the side effects of doing this?
eg. all those png optimization done, zipalign stuff improvement stuff etc- will it be affected?
If im not wrong, there are codes in the rom that will be executed to install particular apps etc.So if we remove that particular app/other stuff what will happen to the lines?? will it skip crucial optimization lines? will it do sumting else? what will it do??!
it would be great if someone can explain this and highly appreciated too especially for beginners that google day and night and couldnt find the connection...
join to the question, will glad to hear answer
cmmon guys...help a brother out....anyone?!please
ok guys.. i've been doin pretty good with the SenseLX rom.. still have much to learn. My next goal is to port a rom from scratch and start working on it as a project. my only question is how do i do that? lol i keep looking up link but there is no guide on porting a rom to the g1... which is suprising because this is like the oldest androis phone in the world... lol so my question is.. can i just adb pull on a newer phone and jus get a rom like that? obviously work on it to flash lol but is that an option? or do i need to find a source here on xda where i can find a list of stock roms to port over?
pleeeease somebody point me in the right direction...
you should ask one of the devs. i have no expirience with any programming or stuff. they have some kitchens that help you port themes and stuff but i have no idea
To get a copy of a rom to port, either Google around for one or copy the system.img and boot.img from a nandroid backup from the device.
To begin porting I would suggest using the porting tools in the htc android kitchen
Also you probably need to port from a device with similar hardware (ARMv6, low ram, mdpi)
Hi,
I'm trying to build cyanogenmod 6 (froyo) from sources on github for G1.
Sidenote. The reason I'm trying to do this is i'd like to modify kernel parameters. I'm trying to make the phone talk to external device using built in serial port. I can do it with my current CM6, but it looks like serial debugger engages and starts responding to the device and also steals some of the data being sent to phone.
To build I used instruction posted at cyanogen wiki "HTC Dream & Magic: Compile CyanogenMod (OS X)" which covers gingerbread but checked out froyo-stable branch at first. I know that gingerbread version stopped supporting G1 at some point last year.
Without much success even after fixing manifest to point to updated repo urls from kernel.org to googles repo etc. The problem is that apache-http seems incompatible with old sources and it is referenced by head.
I also tried froyo branch, but it doesn't build as well because something seem to be broken for dream_sapphire, and it is not present in the devices anymore.
I've tried searching for compilation errors, and general build questions/instructions here and on cyanogen's forum, but looks like CM6 is not very active these days.
Can someone point me into right direction where to search for relevant info on building it? Would getting a proper revision help or should I combine stuff from several branches to make it work?
I've already spent quite a lot of time figuring out how build is being configured and how things stitch together but without much progress on the actual build.
And with times required to sync a whole repo and build it, it is becoming frustrating.
Any help would be muchly appreciated!
Regards,
Oleg
It's dead.
I also wanted to make a cm6 rom, but I couldn't get anything to work.
I got the addresses all updated but it looks like a bunch of the files have completely dissappeared. You may be able to make it skip those, but then it may not work completely.
Go for AOSP?
Now that's a shame. I wanted to build CM because I'm familiar with it and the other thing is that they have reasonable instructions about building it. But at least I don't need to waste my time trying to figure out how to fix it.
In fact I don't need any extras they provide, a bare android would suffice to me if all the sensors and connectivity would be available. But I'm not familiar with internals of building vendor specific stuff. My understanding was that I need proprietary parts together with AOSP to build a working ROM and that's one of the things CM guys did. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Now that's a shame. I wanted to build CM because I'm familiar with it and the other thing is that they have reasonable instructions about building it. But at least I don't need to waste my time trying to figure out how to fix it.
In fact I don't need any extras they provide, a bare android would suffice to me if all the sensors and connectivity would be available. But I'm not familiar with internals of building vendor specific stuff. My understanding was that I need proprietary parts together with AOSP to build a working ROM and that's one of the things CM guys did. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Nope AOSP is as easy to build now
Go to the android site and follow directions
Google for "build android"
At the part when doing repo init you need to get the right branch
Go to "build for devices" then scroll down for recommended branches and look for the dream
One thing you'll need to do differently is do "make otapackage" instead of plain "make"
And once that's done you'll need to tweak the zip and get rid of the "recovery" folder and tweak the updater-script
Oh yeah, and I don't know exactly how you would do this part, but you'll need to get the source for a newer kernel in there, like ezterry kernel and use it with 2708+ radio/spl
Unless you wanna use the AOSP kernel & spl & radio which is old
What I did is just flash his kernel after the rom, but you want to do kernel stuff so yeah...
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I require some help to choose a custom rom for my phone, so I wanted ask anybody about your experiences with roms.
The reason is that I really lost oversight over the amount of roms. I currently installed arragis cusmoized vanir rom and while it has more features than I can remeber to make use of, I wonder what other roms offer.
I mean it would be awesome to know whether other roms are stable and useful for everyday use. So far, I can confirm that with vanir rom, everything runs good and smooth, the phone sleeps good enough and much longer sleep time than on Stable CM release 10.2, the Voice search also works and the camera is from 4.3 and there is transparency for status bar.(Finally! I always wanted that).
I really want to know if there are roms out there better than my current one. However,I am reluctant to try them all out because I am weary of flashing and reflashing 500x times and risking losing my IMEI, which then would cause me to spend even more time. So please, any successful rom user out there,please tell me your experience.
kennethpenn said:
Looking for the best ROM? The fastest ROM? Head over to the development section and try a few for yourself. We do not allow threads asking about the best/fastest ROM at XDA. Please do not create threads comparing ROMs.
Thanks!
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These kind of threads are harmful to the feelings of the developers
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