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[Q] porting Roms..

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)

[q] how i develop a rom/kernel?

Hello there!
I know it may be such a noob question but, anyone (dev) here can tell how can I start to develop my own ROM or Kernel?
I already read eagleeyetom's post about how to make a ROM, but it is not the same as developing ROM. I also read somewhere on XDA that ROM is made by a "kitchen", so I doubt "Can I use kitchen to develop ROMS for our Xperia X8? Or it is just for HTC phones?"
I would love to start developing like xperiafan13, lrakkarl, NobodyAtAll, Doixanh, FrogyFuneral, etc...
Can someone here give me a highlights about all that?
Thanks in advice!

Ohh...l can't teach you about development,but l know that is big differents btw people who write all new stuff based on driver's (nAa) and people who just portred other Rom's and etc... but every new developer is welcome
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I too might become a developer soon.

I need to know it kitchen works on x8. I would develop a ROM for daily use with everything stable and great battery life. I don't believe we should develop ROM for HD gaming for our x8 since it has short battery life and more performative we make it, more battery it drains.

Whats up guys noone is willing to help???

[Q] Can anyone help me

Hi, I have an HD2 myself but someone I know wanted other software on her i9000.
Can anyone give me some links to install CWM etc? or i easy titorial.
Also Wich android rom would be best, MIUI 2.3.7 or an ICS Miui? anyone got a nice link for that? (I never owned a Samsung so I'm a bit lost here)
thx in avance

have a try with chainfire kernel, it roots the phone and install cwm as well. tutorial is included in his thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788108&highlight=chainfire
sorry i havnt tried miui rom

mean you that here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449156
this is miui ics for i9000

Thank you a lot people, I'm going to install all you have said. Just waiting for an ICS MIUI update (don't want to give the girl a rom with bugs she will/can find)

Samsung S2/S3 Rom on Captivate

Hello ,
few days ago i updated my gf's s2 to new JB that was leaked offical samsung but from odin, then i got an idea, cuz i have Captivate Armani I9010 and i was using Remics JB as last rom, cuz it was look rly nice likly s3 rom, but i didn't like aops dialer layout and some more staff and i got idea of porting S2 or even S3 rom to captivate, and i was playing with some tutorials and android kitchen but without lucky, as I have rly bad knowledge of programing thinks , but I'm trying and want to learn more, my point was that maybe its posible to use some custom aops rom as base(ofc if developer agree) and port s2 rom over, i know that to port stock apk's form s2 that i like i need to port aslo framework, but what else?
Is someone with knowledge are up to help me or take this project if it interesting?
Or if this is totally wrong , what is real way to go of port s2 rom to captivate? I'm sure that its posible i saw some video of s2 rom on i9000 with is pritty much same as capativate. (it was GB i think because video is old) but if it able to port one rom there is no difference but what is good way to start.
I am really sorry about my English , its not my main language, and I am interesting in learning as much as i can about android dev.
Ps. OR mabye it would be easy to just port some of apk instead of porting whole rom. (secphone seclaucher secmms seccontacts systemui etc etc)
Greetings.

bg.stefan90 said:
Hello ,
few days ago i updated my gf's s2 to new JB that was leaked offical samsung but from odin, then i got an idea, cuz i have Captivate Armani I9010 and i was using Remics JB as last rom, cuz it was look rly nice likly s3 rom, but i didn't like aops dialer layout and some more staff and i got idea of porting S2 or even S3 rom to captivate, and i was playing with some tutorials and android kitchen but without lucky, as I have rly bad knowledge of programing thinks , but I'm trying and want to learn more, my point was that maybe its posible to use some custom aops rom as base(ofc if developer agree) and port s2 rom over, i know that to port stock apk's form s2 that i like i need to port aslo framework, but what else?
Is someone with knowledge are up to help me or take this project if it interesting?
Or if this is totally wrong , what is real way to go of port s2 rom to captivate? I'm sure that its posible i saw some video of s2 rom on i9000 with is pritty much same as capativate. (it was GB i think because video is old) but if it able to port one rom there is no difference but what is good way to start.
I am really sorry about my English , its not my main language, and I am interesting in learning as much as i can about android dev.
Ps. OR mabye it would be easy to just port some of apk instead of porting whole rom. (secphone seclaucher secmms seccontacts systemui etc etc)
Greetings.
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The best way to go about porting a ROM would be to ask one of your fav dev and read one hell of a lot!
Theming is fairly easy, you open the app with something like apktool and work your way through (or can use kitchen). As far as porting apps, it would mainly be the framework but you gotta keep in mind functionality that the Cappy doesn't have.
Reading and guides are really your best friends here. It can all be self learnt but it requires a lot of patience, gotta expect some good old headbanging lol
Here's a thread that could help you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814

Thanks,
I will probably start with port some apks but, as its not that hard job, but should like to learn how to port rom really i was reading some guides with was like its ok for any phone from same generation cpu like armv7 ported and base rom need to be same version, used same manifecture of device . and what i did used deo-dexed s2 rom JB 4.1.1 official one (aslo found one slimed s2 rom 4.1.1 aslo) and tryed few different as base CM10 for cappy was one of them its 4.1.2 but i think there is no big difference i tryed some 4.1.1 roms as base with was work on phone ok but when i made rom trought those guides its stack on bootanimation and logcat just spam that like every apk die
That was one of guides where it's says that it will work for all stock/cm/aokp roms ICS and JB updated.
There are few really easy steps and what i expected is that phone will boot and will be buggy as **** till a lot of tweaks but it didnt even boot ((
PS. I was looking around and i found that there are some custom rom (this was for s2 ) that are based on samsung base not aokp or cm. And they have all features of custom rom with all stock samsung look witch i like and stock phone/dialer/contact/tw/systemui/ etc etc/
My questions is there mabye that kind of rom for captivate or at least i9000 since i think its easier job to port from i9000 then from s2. And what would be base because last fw for cappy or galaxy s is GB, is there any posiblilty to get ISC or JB samsung based rom on this device?

bg.stefan90 said:
Thanks,
I will probably start with port some apks but, as its not that hard job, but should like to learn how to port rom really i was reading some guides with was like its ok for any phone from same generation cpu like armv7 ported and base rom need to be same version, used same manifecture of device . and what i did used deo-dexed s2 rom JB 4.1.1 official one (aslo found one slimed s2 rom 4.1.1 aslo) and tryed few different as base CM10 for cappy was one of them its 4.1.2 but i think there is no big difference i tryed some 4.1.1 roms as base with was work on phone ok but when i made rom trought those guides its stack on bootanimation and logcat just spam that like every apk die
That was one of guides where it's says that it will work for all stock/cm/aokp roms ICS and JB updated.
There are few really easy steps and what i expected is that phone will boot and will be buggy as **** till a lot of tweaks but it didnt even boot ((
PS. I was looking around and i found that there are some custom rom (this was for s2 ) that are based on samsung base not aokp or cm. And they have all features of custom rom with all stock samsung look witch i like and stock phone/dialer/contact/tw/systemui/ etc etc/
My questions is there mabye that kind of rom for captivate or at least i9000 since i think its easier job to port from i9000 then from s2. And what would be base because last fw for cappy or galaxy s is GB, is there any posiblilty to get ISC or JB samsung based rom on this device?
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They can all be ported, it's mostly framework. Although, I never ported a ROM so I'm not the best one to guide you through this. If I'm not mistaken, there are guides in XDA-U. Also, there are quite a few nice Devs around here that could help you through it.

Thanks, I saw some of those guides some are generic some are on example but i for porting samsung (s2) based rom i need to use some jb base for captivate cm or aokp but there some difference when porting roms even if both base and port are same version JB . Cuz they are not on same base. And i hope it is not difficult to make. If it's not hard I would please ask some od dev to give me some guide. On what i have to take care . What to do and i will gief all effort and time to make it working.

Hybrid ROM

Hi folks,
before i bought the One, i used to have a Sony Xperia Neo V. There we had an AOSP-Stock Hybrid ROM created by JJdoctor (or similar ).
It had all benefits from Stock (working HDMI, best camera...) but with all those nice AOSP Apps. And the icing on the cake was that he included the advanced settings of AOKP.
I would love to see something similar for my One and i wanted to ask, if someone is already at it.
If not, i wanted to ask you guys if you can recommend me some material to get involved into Android developing so that i am able to create this kind of ROM by my own.
I am an experienced (Java) developer, so i think i can go straight to the advanced stuff...
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance

The best hybrid rom for our one is the PacMan, and it's a mix of Paranoid, CM and AOKP.
If you want a sense rom with some features of AOKP you have to wait the ViperRom, that will be out soon.