[Q] Emulator to test ROMs? - Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi everyone,
I cooked my first ROM and I would like to test it on my computer before flashing it to my phone. Since I expect it to fail anyway and crash my D2, an emulator would be quite convenient. All I could find is the SDK emulator that only allows me to test apps, but no ROM...
So, is there an emulator that's doing just that? From what I've read on other threads that are 3 years old, it seems it didn't exist by then, but what about now, have any progresses been made?
Thanks in advance!

Emulator is only for Application over a ROM
There is NO imulator for Widnows Mobile 6.5.x yet.
But IDE like Visual Studio provide you the imulator for testing your application for targeted Windows Mobile .
Thanks.

Sad day... but thanks, I'll just try to flash my phone then, and see what happens!

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Sundream,c_shechar,nokser,ather90,s0nblack,efsine

1st of all s0ry if s0me of the names menti0ns are n0t,in the right speling.. Theres only a thing that gives me a question that keeps bothering me, what the diference w/sundreams r0ms, w/other r0ms,,thats been released, because only sundreams roms gives me the ability to play gba roms,r0ms that fully suports pocket_gba, could somebody explain why is it,some of the roms doesnt suports gba emulations,,what is it,, or is there any availble patch to any rom so that it could play pocket gba emulator? Or is there any other gbA EMULATOR other than pocket gba,, pls if somebody could explain it,why and what should i do,.Tnx
That is strange as I have used the latest roms from c_shekhar and ather90 and am currently using the latest one from Nokser, and PocketGBA is fine on all of them. Seems fastest on Noksers one which is the main reason I am using it as I do a lot of gaming on my XDA!
Ha?Is that real?
Are you sure? Because, pocketgba doesnt instal w/n im using other roms, could you upload it here,i could try it? Or pm me for the link?It would be a very big help,for somone like me,
bro, my fellow pinoy, I have tried all of Sundream,c_shechar,nokser,ather90,s0nblack,efsine ROMS. And I can always play pocket gba, pocket snes, and pocket playstation 1 with all of their roms. Seems nothings wring with there roms. Maybe its your pocket gba that has problem?
san mo na-dwonload ang pocket gba mo bro?
Ha?Is it so,
i have downloaded my pocket gba in the websight itself, ahm, one thing i know,ahm does the net 2framew0rk is instaled in my mMC,, . Does it afect the instalatiö for pocket gba?C0z everytime i try install,it always failed,
The PocketGBA I use is not an installer file. Its just a rar file that you unpack to the SD or wherever you want
Hey ben,
Could you pls upload,, your gba emulator here,? Ive tried a emulator from sunbag.Net,, the one in zip and when i extracted the file,, and try to run it failed, id already try it with ather's dark and diam0nd edition, also with n0kser,,. And the r0m of s0nblack that is being ported, fr0m latest htc opal, but then it still,w0nt work at all,
I looking for that somewhere on my computer at home, I had it somewhere - the general principle of operation is emule Himalaya
Nokser
Im hoping,for that, c0z n0w im back w/ build 19588

Debian on CyanogenMod?

Hello everyone,
I was wondering if I can run Debian on my CM. There ist this guide on this BBS, that explains how to run it on JF Mod. So will it only run on JF?
May the force be with you.
I was wondering the same thing. A buddy of mine is going to give me his G1 to play around with since he's gotten a new phone. Id love to run Deb on it, but am unsure. Im not sure exactly what firmware customization JF has done on his. If we could find that out, we may be able to figure out if it'll work for us by comparing it with what has been done with the CM firmware. (His site isnt all that specific as to the details and is obviously not as current as the CM development. JF writeup
Another question would be if we could just add it during the install. Just as how with CM you have to install the android parts that CM cant release... maybe we could add in the JF Rom before CM (but after the android rom) and hope that the parts it needs gets installed but doesn't break CM.
Ive never messed with an Android before, so I'm just guessing here.
EDIT:
After searching... I did find this post. (read the post and the reply)
So maybe its worth the shot to just try it and see what happens (I wont get my G1 till next week, so I cant give you any feedback before that)
Yes, you can get Debian installed on G1.. I have tutorials up on how to install, resize the image and then install a GUI for it... check it out: http://www.myhangoutonline.com/tutorials/g1/install-linux-on-your-g1
It would be absolutely awesome if that would work! I am giving it a try in a few days. Has anyone experience points with the linked method? Not that you are going to brick your beloved G1.
I also found those links on this BBS. I just thought it would be wise to post them here for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=507291
http://bayleshanks.com/tips-computer-android-g1
http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&id=2248&catid=9
http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&id=1615&catid=9
http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&id=1610&catid=9
However almost all links seem to be outdated. They are a few month old what I think is suspicious since debian should attract much more attention. Any theories why there are only a few that are interested?
I just can recommend deb. Its a whole world of software. Probably the best on earth.
yes... the method i have in my tutorial works... I've used debian before on my G1... it will not brick it... it all pretty much runs from your SDCard. If you don't like it, just delete the folder and bam, it's gone...
Follow the tutorial... there are 3... 1 to install linux: http://www.myhangoutonline.com/tutorials/g1/install-linux-on-your-g1
then 2 more... after that one, you'll need to resize your debian image, then you'll need to follow the 3rd tutorial to install a GUI. all 3 are at the site... enjoy it! it's a lil slow, but it works. i would recommend it without the GUI, but you can try both and see which you like better.

XBMC on WebTop

Now that we know that it is running custom version of ubuntu, anybody want try compiling and running xbmc on it ?
XBMC trunk already contains most of the patches for tegra 2 and more will applied soon according XBMC developer ( davilla ). We should be able to test it now ..
<davilla> ssh in, install build tools, git install xbmc trunk, build for tegra2 and see if it works
That would be AWESOME!! I myself was wondering about running XBMC on webtop.
I tried installing git, but apt-get threw a bunch of dependency errors. I tried "apt-get -f install" but it wanted to remove most of the installed packages because they were not needed.
Any updates ?
Instead of trying to install via git why not download the tar of it and extract it ...
Hey guys!
Any news about it?
I really would like to see XBMC on webtop´s atrix!
I found this for the bravehearts.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-
TO_install_XBMC_for_Linux_on_Ubuntu,_a_Step-by-Step_Guide
NOTE: I have not tried it. You are in the DEV section, any mod attempts that YOU make to YOUR phone are YOUR own responsibility.
It is not listed here .... https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/armel?text=xbmc
So it probably has not been attempted.
I already did this steps but can´t work.
The XBMC is the most important thing to work for me on Atrix. I´ll wait for someone do that work,
brunnogama said:
I already did this steps but can´t work.
The XBMC is the most important thing to work for me on Atrix. I´ll wait for someone do that work,
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I tried a couple of steps too, dependency hell. Not sure if it will be figured out in DEV section since it's more of an app thing.
I thought I saw a VM once that dev work could be done on. I'm on travel next week 10 hours of flight time plus sitting in Chicago for 3 hours both ways. Maybe I'll get motivated.
Oh man!
I hope you get motivated!
Really thanx!
You would need an x86 emulator or VM to run this I believe as it is only coded for x86. Running it through an emulator would be slow and unreliable or just plain broken most likely. Not to discourage anyone from trying.
XBMC Official Hardware Support List
Asking for a port of it would go in XBMC dev forums
the2dcour said:
You would need an x86 emulator or VM to run this I believe as it is only coded for x86. Running it through an emulator would be slow and unreliable or just plain broken most likely. Not to discourage anyone from trying.
XBMC Official Hardware Support List
Asking for a port of it would go in XBMC dev forums
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Nope I've seen XBMC running on a beagleboard native, As well it ran very well. We have 2x the ram and 400mhz x2 more speed. So it should run.
I downloaded the XBMC through official site and one of the Readme file (README.armel) talks:
"
This is a port of XBMC for use on ARM Architecture.
As this is not an official version of XBMC, in-depth testing on various setups has not been done. USE WITH CAUTION!
For the purpose of this port, the following Hardware and Software was used.
Software: Scratchbox (cross-compiler) on a Linux (Ubuntu) machine.
Hardware: BeagleBoard (ARM Cortex-A8 with IMG POWERVR SGX).
The source code is based on XBMC for Linux - version 9.11 (Camelot)."
So, I think its possible to run on Atrix, correct? But I have to do a lot of hard things to try it and I´m not able to do it, but it´s a good news.
I think I'm getting lost here....
What is the intention for using XBMC within webtop? Streaming to or streaming from phone?
I've found these apps
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.plexapp.android
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.psa.android.media
http://code.google.com/p/android-xbmcremote/
Longterm features
Download media locally to device's SD card
Stream media to device
And here's the VM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992178
xPerfect virtual appliance - Android SDK r10 / NDK r5b - dev
dicksteele
I´ll try to explain (sorry, bad english)
I´ll conect my Atrix on dock HD and 2 hd extern (plugged on dock usb´s port).
So, trought the webtop, I open the XBMC and this show me the files (movies and tv series) on my HD´s.
XBMC has a nice e configurable interface.
I´ll look this apps!
Thanx!
Interesting......
I'd try it but going on travel tomorrow and I need my phone
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/stable/main/binary-armel/package/xbmc.php
Hi man.
I´d tried it (the armel version) but appears a lot of dependecies and I could´t try to install it.
Here is xbmc dev forum with it but for tegra 2 reference board though:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=71297&highlight=tegra
Is the Ubuntu running as a VM on Atrix4G ?
brunnogama said:
Hi man.
I´d tried it (the armel version) but appears a lot of dependecies and I could´t try to install it.
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You need to use xbmc trunk which contains all the patches for tegra 2. Can you post what you have tried ? Any errors ?
GhostXtreme said:
Here is xbmc dev forum with it but for tegra 2 reference board though:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=71297&highlight=tegra
Is the Ubuntu running as a VM on Atrix4G ?
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I don't believe it's running as a VM, it's running as a full instance.
From what I can read on the XBMC threads there are some problems.
But I found a guide for the BeagleBoard that might help people get going, dont think it will run out-of-the-box with this guide.
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/2010_Projects/XBMC

Android Modding Stuff going over my Head :)

Hey guys,
Its been few days since I have browsing through XDA about modding , flashing , rooting etc and all that Greek Stuff ...Literally
I think it will be ages before I get to know even 1 % of it
Any one with same Situation ?
You will never know the power of Android modding until you try.
Coming from the Windows Mobile world and being a hardcore ROM-flasher and betatester for HardSPL's , I must say the the Android world can feel a little different.
Especially rooting your Note, where one had to download a complete Google SDK, ADB device drivers, hack my windows to recognize ADB as new device, then exploiting it... that was not as easy as I thought.
Once your rooted, which gives you a persistant software in your flashmem called CWM (clockwork recovery) its simple.
If you need help just ask
Move over to the dark side young padawan
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[Q] Help for a Newbie in P7

Hello ,
I got my P7 for about 4 Months now,
and I wanted to have the EMUI 3.0 and Lolipop
but I think the Original System is 4.4.2 and Emui 2
I want to ask What can I do to Root or make a ROM (Sorry I really dont know he defrance total newbie ) , but I dont want to lose the support of Google or the Google Market , what should I do , can anyone help me in that ???
give me details and tell me what to do
thanks
look at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/asc...7en-rom-v3-0-emui-3-0-4-4-2-18-11-14-t2945104
darkzero2022 said:
Hello ,
I got my P7 for about 4 Months now,
and I wanted to have the EMUI 3.0 and Lolipop
but I think the Original System is 4.4.2 and Emui 2
I want to ask What can I do to Root or make a ROM (Sorry I really dont know he defrance total newbie ) , but I dont want to lose the support of Google or the Google Market , what should I do , can anyone help me in that ???
give me details and tell me what to do
thanks
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If you are newbie than do nothing ! Wait for official upgrade ! Because you will cry !
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Ziolek67 said:
If you are newbie than do nothing ! Wait for official upgrade ! Because you will cry !
Sent from my HUAWEI P7-L10
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Really ???? Why ?? Huawei is too slow in making the Updates , all now is Andoird 5 and P7 is stuck in 4.4.2
It's proberly better staying on 4.4.2 than on lolipop. Many bugs on lolipop.
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darkzero2022 said:
Really ???? Why ?? Huawei is too slow in making the Updates , all now is Andoird 5 and P7 is stuck in 4.4.2
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Ok than lest go to update.... I will waiting for yours requests for help
darkzero2022 said:
Really ???? Why ?? Huawei is too slow in making the Updates , all now is Andoird 5 and P7 is stuck in 4.4.2
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Wow do you realize android 5 has been out officially for a week or two and pretty much every phone apart from nexus which uses the software directly from Google themselves who make android, still don't run it yet and expect to be running it in 2015.
Not even big teams that use the aosp code directly such as cyanogen or paranoid have got a stable fully functional rom out yet.
It takes time for the 3rd party developers to customize and test android for there devices once the official version gets released as they all use the final source code which only has been out 3-4 weeks.
Also no company apart from Google is much better, Samsung are still rolling out 4.4 to some of there devices with some like the s2 still on 4.2 and end of life presumably others will jump straight to lollipop from 4.3 etc.
Also on rooting what do you wish to achieve by doing so?
Rooting can be very dangerous if you don't know what your doing with devices like ours.
Take a look for example at all the posts in this forum asking to downgrade their l10's from emui 3 to 2 which they upgraded to custom versions etc without thinking and the issues they now have with boot loops and stuff.
If you want to run xposed you can find many people with similar things recently in this forum that can't get it to work.
Also rooting etc you lose the ability for any future updates via OTA and recovery and would need to manually update your device potentially bricking it every single time which bricking means you can no longer use your device and have to buy a new one.
Also are you capible on the PC with using it, command prompt Linux shell etc and doing things like installing Windows and other things.
If not then rooting is not for you.
Also do you know how to code in Linux C etc and know the workings of the Linux os, if not then there is no way you are going to make a custom rom. All you might be able to achieve is just repackaging someone else's ROM with minor edits and even then the tools to do that mainly use Linux to run as it's native windows doesn't have all the stuff Linux has natively in this regard.
Ziolek67 said:
If you are newbie than do nothing ! Wait for official upgrade ! Because you will cry !
Sent from my HUAWEI P7-L10
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drguild said:
Wow do you realize android 5 has been out officially for a week or two and pretty much every phone apart from nexus which uses the software directly from Google themselves who make android, still don't run it yet and expect to be running it in 2015.
Not even big teams that use the aosp code directly such as cyanogen or paranoid have got a stable fully functional rom out yet.
It takes time for the 3rd party developers to customize and test android for there devices once the official version gets released as they all use the final source code which only has been out 3-4 weeks.
Also no company apart from Google is much better, Samsung are still rolling out 4.4 to some of there devices with some like the s2 still on 4.2 and end of life presumably others will jump straight to lollipop from 4.3 etc.
Also on rooting what do you wish to achieve by doing so?
Rooting can be very dangerous if you don't know what your doing with devices like ours.
Take a look for example at all the posts in this forum asking to downgrade their l10's from emui 3 to 2 which they upgraded to custom versions etc without thinking and the issues they now have with boot loops and stuff.
If you want to run xposed you can find many people with similar things recently in this forum that can't get it to work.
Also rooting etc you lose the ability for any future updates via OTA and recovery and would need to manually update your device potentially bricking it every single time which bricking means you can no longer use your device and have to buy a new one.
Also are you capible on the PC with using it, command prompt Linux shell etc and doing things like installing Windows and other things.
If not then rooting is not for you.
Also do you know how to code in Linux C etc and know the workings of the Linux os, if not then there is no way you are going to make a custom rom. All you might be able to achieve is just repackaging someone else's ROM with minor edits and even then the tools to do that mainly use Linux to run as it's native windows doesn't have all the stuff Linux has natively in this regard.
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Thanks For your Valuable words,
I really enjoyed them and get my mind open
well I do have Good Experience in linux and Command line , C Programming actually didnt go deep with it really ,
But i think I will stick to your opinion and wait ,and while I do so I will learn more about the whole subject ,and maybe increase my knowledge in this Field . (Android Programming - the C Programming - how things work in Android , ROMS , ETC)
but would you mind telling me from where to start ???
darkzero2022 said:
Thanks For your Valuable words,
I really enjoyed them and get my mind open
well I do have Good Experience in linux and Command line , C Programming actually didnt go deep with it really ,
But i think I will stick to your opinion and wait ,and while I do so I will learn more about the whole subject ,and maybe increase my knowledge in this Field . (Android Programming - the C Programming - how things work in Android , ROMS , ETC)
but would you mind telling me from where to start ???
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Apologies if I came across about abit hard this forum has had allot of impatient people jumping in recently trying to run Emui 3 on l10's then asking to downgrade as you may have noticed the other teams like paranoid are already dealing with lots of people saying there to slow for not having lollipop out within a hour of aosp.
I had the same issue running a custom Minecraft server that people got really angry then refused to play and bad mouth the server if we didn't update that day when update time for us was about a week given the number of customizations we had 41 plugin's in the end, sometimes longer if there were more changes the mod and custom server devs had to deal with.
Emui 3 and lollipop has more bugs more as it's new from what I found I may start a proper consolidated emui talk thread later for those running it opposed to all the l10 when are we getting it out help me downgrade threads.
The place I think you should start is to download the source code for your version from the emui webpage and start analyzing it out of interest.
There's another Dev on here doing the same thing so you might want to contact him for info.
Also there are tools on Linux that easily let you unpack stock image files and the ext container and repack them.
That way you can see the full file structure and how a rom is packaged.
It's good just to see what's inside roms and how the first roms are usually made by a repackage before source.
I will stress the same as above that while these are starting points you would need to know what you are doing and something more hackable like a cheap nexus or or Chinese tab (about $50 USD) with easy upgradable firmware something would be better to start on.
Also grab down the android tools with eclypse for Linux, the sdk virtual device and have a play around making a app and stuff also you can edit the virtual rom safely etc.
The Linux version of the tools is far superior as you can natively mount the virtual ext cards for host file transfer and do other things which you can't under windows.
By ext above I mean the virtual partition files which are either ext 3 or 4 last time I looked.
I'm not a coder myself and I only did basic stuff in the past as I had a Chinese android 2.2 tablet the MID ones as my first device, I used a custom rom on which was just a repack with file system changes with bloat removed etc.
I looked into this out of interest and curiosity, each rom update I repacked it with the apps I used so I didn't need to reinstall them, there was probably a better (proper) way than just unpacking the ext file system from the img adding my apps in to the deploy folder and repacking.
Also I unpacked a APK weather app etc to make changes and use a custom background and others like themes to grab icons and assets this is a good start with looking at app packages and how that all works as well as making your own app in various tools eclipse for one which is the official tool but there's hundreds of android programming softwares online even to do simple stuff as make a stand alone html5 app from a webpage.
The tools on Windows I found were lacking and harder to find for the rom stuff, with Linux it was built into the system a lot of things.
What Linux is the best for doing Android stuff I don't know so that will need to be researched.
As mentioned devices can be dangerous for custom stuff especially newer ones with bootloader security, the older Chinese style ones and some others you could reflash easily from sdcard with a update.img file as they didn't contain that lock out security on boot and debugging.
I nearly bricked a few devices in the past, once having to rely on the bootloader and Android Commander a powerful tool and device terminal to mount the partition rw while in the bootloader to rename a file backI renamed as a test that caused the system to stop booting.
You can still get some tabs that do that about 50 USD on eBay etc I think.
darkzero2022 said:
Hello ,
I got my P7 for about 4 Months now,
and I wanted to have the EMUI 3.0 and Lolipop
but I think the Original System is 4.4.2 and Emui 2
I want to ask What can I do to Root or make a ROM...
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I'd strongly advise that you wait. My experience. You can root v4.4.2 VERY easily using vroot. Wait for lollipop, honestly. Is a nightmare recovering your position if you try to move now.
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