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Hi there, we are going to use excellent dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen to cook our custom ROMs for LG P500. The list of the things we are going to need:
Original ROM (Check this thread)
LG Utils 0.4.2 (Check this URL)
DzDecryptor v1.0b(Check this thread)
Cygwin (Check this URL
Unyaffsmbn (Check this thread)
Dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen (Check this thread)
Note: I have a "romcooking" folder on my home (C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking), inside i have all the utils needed, and the .kdz file for the stock ROM. I recommend to use tab to complete filenames since they are too long.
First we need to get a dz from the kdz (original firmware), extract LG Utils 0.4.2 and open KP500-Utils-EN.exe (You need to run this as administrator, or else you are getting an empty .cab file), select the I option (Extract files from KDZ file), and type the route to your .kdz file (Mine is C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\V10A_00.kdz). Now, you must have a V10A_00.cab (Or another name, it depends on the stock rom you downloaded), open it with a extractor like 7zip or similar and extract the file "LGP500AT-00-V10a-EUR-XX-SEP-25-2010+0.dz" or similar to our romcooking folder.
Then we are going to uncompress the .dz with DZDecrypt (Press Win + R, type cmd and enter, then you cd to the folder where DzDecrypt is located (ex:
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cd C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\DZDecryptor_v1.0b
then we type:
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DZDecrypt.exe "C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\LGP500AT-00-V10a-EUR-XX-SEP-25-2010+0.dz" C:\Users\Patricio\romcooking\stockrom
This is going to create a "stockrom" folder in our original romcooking folder, you are going to see a lot of files in the stockrom folder, the important ones are boot.img and system.mbn (DZDecrypt should have merged your system.mbn_0, system.mbn_1 and system.mbn_2)
We need to install cygwin, open the setup.exe, just keep hitting next until you are on the select packages screen, go to "Devel" menu and select to install gcc, gdb and make, in "Interpreters" check perl, in "Archive" check zip and unzip, in "Web" check wget, in "Editors" check nano and vim and in "Utils" select cpio, util-linux and ncurses. Make some tea and wait for the cygwin install to finish and we are ready to go to the next step.
We are going to compile unyaffsmbn, copy the extracted files from unyaffsmbn, system.mbn and boot.img to C:\cygwin\home\Patricio, now fire up cygwin and compile unyaffsmbn with:
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gcc -o unyaffsmbn unyaffsmbn.c
Now uncompress system.mbn, delete symlinks of bin/ and zip everything with:
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mkdir system
cd system
../unyaffsmbn.exe ../system.mbn
find bin -type l -exec rm {} +
cd ..
zip -r stockrom.zip boot.img system/
We are ready to go to the kitchen (We have a stockrom.zip on C:\cygwin\home\Patricio, remember that)
Now we are going to use dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen, we need to have installed JDK. After we have downloaded and uncompressed the kitchen (Mine is in C:\cygwin\home\Patricio\kitchen), we need to put the ziped file we got in the previous step into the original_update folder of the kitchen. We are ready to go! fire up cygwin and cd to the kitchen location and exec ./menu , select option 1, you should see the zip file, put the number of it, and you are ready to go (It will create a WORKING_XXXXXX_XXXXXX folder, you can modify the files in WORKING_XXXX_XXXXX/system, add APKs, modify the apns file, etc).
This command also gives us a lot of options for our rom: enable root, add busybox, deodex our files, zipalign, etc. If you are going to edit text files, use an editor like Notepad++ or any other program that can open/edit/save files in linux compliant style. It's pretty easy to use the kitchen, just check the official thread for options or help
The common options i use are:
Add root permission (option 2), press f when asked and you are done
Add Busybox
Change name of the rom, easy cake
Advanced options, press 0
Add /data/app functionality
Add Apps2SD
Add custom boot animation functionality
Deodex files in your ROM
And Finally: Zipalign all *.apk files to optimize RAM usage
That should do the trick, when you are ready to cook your rom, just type 99, wait for it to build and it should be in the OUTPUT_ZIP folder in your kitchen folder.
Took info from this thread (About decompressing .dz and .mbn, and making it to work with the kitchen), and info from ruigui and tritant in this thread. The awesome android kitchen by dsixda. Sorry if i forgot to mention any work, just post it or pm me
If you have anything you want to add to the guide, just post it
You don't need to dual boot to linux. It can be done with cygwin.
When you follow dsixda's guide to install kitchen, do as said but don't install cygwin from that guide.
Instead, download from official site, choose default options, but add these packages (it will be compliant with kitchen and give a little extra funcionality):
Devel: gcc, gdb, make
Interpreters: perl
Utils: cpio, util-linux, ncurses
Archive: zip, unzip
Web: wget
Editors: vi, nano
Good guide, nicely done
EDIT:
In my wife's machine (using windows 7 64bit. i'm without computer, for now....), i've installed cygwin as said above.
Then added two folders to my home dir:
kitchen and unyaffsmbn
In kitchen, use the kitchen
In unyaffsmbn, copy the files from unyaffsmbn.zip to that dir, then compile it there
EDIT2:
If you edit text files under windows, USE NOTEPAD++, or any other program that can open/edit/save files in linux compliant style.
There are differences in Windows and Linux when ENTER is pressed, and you'll have issues when trying to flash or run your custom ROM
hi there... thanks a lot for your guide.
I'm trying to do the things you wrote step by step... I have extracted the dz file successfully, then I extracted the content using DZDecrypter... I found three files called system.mbn0, system.mbn1 and system.mbn2. The first and second are 80 Mbytes, the third just 17... Which one is the correct? When I try to use the command "unyaffsmbn system.mbn" (obviously I renamed the first and then the second) I get an error message ("impossible to execute binary file", or somenthing like that... I don't know how's in english because I'm italian).. Is that concerning to the presence of those three different files? Did somethind go wrong with the extracting process? Or maybe I didn't do somenthing important? Before doing this, I installed "build-essential" and did "gcc -o unyaffsmbn unyaffs.h" but apparently nothing happend... I got neither errors nor processes...
can you help me?
Awesome bro, I can try to make custom rom with indian version, ty.
vinnux said:
hi there... thanks a lot for your guide.
I'm trying to do the things you wrote step by step... I have extracted the dz file successfully, then I extracted the content using DZDecrypter... I found three files called system.mbn0, system.mbn1 and system.mbn2. The first and second are 80 Mbytes, the third just 17... Which one is the correct? When I try to use the command "unyaffsmbn system.mbn" (obviously I renamed the first and then the second) I get an error message ("impossible to execute binary file", or somenthing like that... I don't know how's in english because I'm italian).. Is that concerning to the presence of those three different files? Did somethind go wrong with the extracting process? Or maybe I didn't do somenthing important? Before doing this, I installed "build-essential" and did "gcc -o unyaffsmbn unyaffs.h" but apparently nothing happend... I got neither errors nor processes...
can you help me?
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you shouldn't get three system.mbn files, did you used the 1.0b of DzDecryptor? when i used it, it said something about merging, i think that it gets the three files and then combines them to get a proper system.mbn
I used the downloaded version from the link you posted. At least I guess... :/ Well I'm going to try again soon! Thanks a lot again for your guide!
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA App
Other methode for exctract mbn file, not need to connect the phone.
Windows only....
(1) Download LG-Utils 0.4.2: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/ks360...tils-0.4.2.zip
(2) Run KP500-Utils-EN.exe (or whatever language you prefer out of the available choices) and select I to extract the KDZ.
(3) Open the resulting CAB file and extract the DZ file.
(4) Download DZExtract: http://www.frenchcoder.com/upload/DZExtract-V0.2.zip
(5) Use DZExtract to extract the MBN files:
DZExtract -x GW620RAT-V10c-OCT-21-2009-RGS-CA_DZ+0.dz C:\extractedTo\
after compiling and chmod I do:
Code:
[email protected]:~/work/unyaffsmbn$ unyaffsmbn system.mbn
unyaffsmbn: command not found
both files are in that folder. Am I doing anything wrong?
Cheers.
@tritant - LG-Utils link not working
So.... You MUST compile unyaffsmbn first. Only then you'll have an "executable".
Code:
gcc unyaffsmbn.c -o unyaffsmbn
Then copy system.mbn to unyaffsmbn folder.
After that, do:
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cd PATH_TO_UNYAFFSMBN
./unyaffsmbn system.mbn
You missed the ./
You can download lg utils from here
tuxcomputing said:
after compiling and chmod I do:
Code:
[email protected]:~/work/unyaffsmbn$ unyaffsmbn system.mbn
unyaffsmbn: command not found
both files are in that folder. Am I doing anything wrong?
Cheers.
@tritant - LG-Utils link not working
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'course I compiled
of course your method worked and the one in the first post didn't...
exist only a windows version of dzextract?
ioshi said:
exist only a windows version of dzextract?
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couldn't find a linux version, sorry.
btw, i'm rewriting the guide, hope to update it soon
please add the compiling method from ruigui (in the previous page). For some reason that's the only way I was able to compile on Ubuntu 10.
Cheers
It was a typo in first post (he switched file to be used in gcc).
Give the man some time to reorganize his thread
I did not mean to be rude by any means!
I appreciate the effort to create the how-to! Hopefully people will read the thread if they get stuck and use the right commands so that they don't abandon the idea of creating their own ROM
I also didnt want to call you rude... Sorry...
But we were exhanging some pms and he is redoing this tutorial.
Sometimes we make mistakes while typing long posts
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thanks for this great tutorial
everything works like a charm , but when i flash my new rom i have an error says no enough space while writing boot image
any idea?
Update: okay i solved the problem, it seems that i missed up with the boot settings!
I finally made the zip file, but when I start the kitchen and select it, i find this:
"Warning: No META-INF folder found under working folder!
Warning: No META-INF/com/google/android folder found, creating it.
Did not find an update-script. Shall I create one (y/n)? (default: y): "
is that normal? and what should I do? :/
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I finally made the zip file, but when I start the kitchen and select it, i find this:
"Warning: No META-INF folder found under working folder!
Warning: No META-INF/com/google/android folder found, creating it.
Did not find an update-script. Shall I create one (y/n)? (default: y): "
is that normal? and what should I do? :/
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yes this is normal, i got that warning, and i entered "yes" to create one, and everything went just fine!
good luck
For me, work with wine on linux mandriva 2010.2
[[email protected] rootlg]$ wine DZDecrypt.exe "LGP500AT-00-V10b-EUR-XX-OCT-01-2010+0-DZ.dz" rom
DZ-Decryptor v1.0b *ALPHA RELEASE* by BIGB0SS from COPS.
[■] Opening file "LGP500AT-00-V10b-EUR-XX-OCT-01-2010+0-DZ.dz".
[■] Allocated memory: 280 Mo.
[■] Unpacking informations:
- Unpacking "amss.mbn" (Packed:008D2935 - Unpacked:010F6000).
- Unpacking "partition.mbn" (Packed:000000E9 - Unpacked:00000390).
- Unpacking "qcsblhd_cfgdata.mbn" (Packed:00000240 - Unpacked:00002534).
- Unpacking "qcsbl.mbn" (Packed:00007D88 - Unpacked:0000DFF0).
- Unpacking "oemsblhd.mbn" (Packed:00000026 - Unpacked:00000028).
- Unpacking "oemsbl.mbn" (Packed:0002C637 - Unpacked:0005EFB4).
- Unpacking "amsshd.mbn" (Packed:00000028 - Unpacked:00000028).
- Unpacking "appsboothd.mbn" (Packed:00000022 - Unpacked:00000028).
- Unpacking "appsboot.mbn" (Packed:00008A6F - Unpacked:0000D484).
- Unpacking "boot.img" (Packed:00385B3F - Unpacked:0038A800).
- Unpacking "system.mbn_0" (Packed:0307280E - Unpacked:05000000).
- Merging "system.mbn_1" (Packed:028EAA5A - Unpacked:05000000).
- Merging "system.mbn_2" (Packed:00738F81 - Unpacked:01003F40).
- Unpacking "recovery.img" (Packed:003BE683 - Unpacked:003C3800).
- Unpacking "splash.img" (Packed:00001C3A - Unpacked:0004B000).
[■] SubFiles: 0x780C3E84. (DzCreator)
[■] Closing file "LGP500AT-00-V10b-EUR-XX-OCT-01-2010+0-DZ.dz".
This guide will help you in porting ROM's to different devices. Although it my not work 100% of the time, it should you show the steps involved in porting a ROM but also which files are important to a device's functionality.
Some handy tools to have before starting:
- The Android SDK, this contains ADB logcat which is a hugely important tool in ROM development. It lets us know what is perhaps causing an app to F/C or a ROM to bootloop. See our guide on how to set this up HERE
- Notepad++ , very useful for altering scripts.
- Patience, getting ports to boot can sometimes take a lot of effort and time but hopefully this guide will show you the quickest and easiest way to get your ported ROM booting.
Okay first decide which ROM you would like to port, don't port HDPI ROM's to MDPI devices or vice versa it just won't work.And it's best to start with the easy and simple ports to get some experience behind you before you go off porting Sense 3.0 to your X10.
Let's get started...
Porting is fairly easy and requires only some folders, files and a boot.img to be replaced.
Now because this is a universal guide I can only tell you how to get the basic hardware working on your port. AOSP ROMs are fairly easy to figure out so you won't have much trouble figuring out what needs replacing. Manufacturer specific ROMs such as Sense 3.0 ROMs are bit more difficult to figure out but the basic skills you will be taught here can be applied in principle to those ROMs.
1. First off lets start with the biggie, the kernel. Those of you familiar with linux will know how important the kernel is a to system, I won't go into detail here but if your kernel isn't specific to your device then your ROM won't boot. The kernel is contained within the boot.img of your ROM's zip (or zImage if it's a Samsung). During flashing it is unpacked and wrote to the system.
To replace the kernel we need to decompile it and no this isn't as easy as opening it winzip. The best way to do this is using Linux; we can use a combination of both perl scripts and terminal commands.
In order for us too see the kernel files contained within the boot.img, we need to first unpack it and this will extract the kernel binary and the ramdisk. What you need at this point is the split_bootimg.zip. This contains a perl script which will extract both files and display the boot.img header, the kernel command line and the board name (if specified).
An example of the output would be:
Page size: 2048 (0x00000800)
Kernel size: 1388548 (0x00153004)
Ramdisk size: 141518 (0x000228ce)
Second size: 0 (0x00000000)
Board name:
Command line: no_console_suspend=1
So how to use this perl script you ask? Well...
First open a terminal and cd to the directory which contains the perl scripts you just downloaded. Next, type this command: "perl split_bootimg.pl boot.img" and that will extract the kernel to your current directory.
Now, we need to extract the ramdisk, the ramdisk has been unpacked from the boot.img and is sitting your current directory with the file name "boot.img-ramdisk.gz", at the moment this still isn't useful to us so we need to un-gzip and then un-cpio it.
So for that we need the Linux terminal. So again from the terminal or using the same terminal enter these commands:
mkdir ramdisk < Creates a directory where we can store the ramdisk
cd ramdisk < Changes our current directory to that of the ramdisk
gzip -dc ../boot.img-ramdisk.gz | cpio -i < Will un-gzip and un-cpio ramdisk
Okay so now we can see all the ramdisk files:
./init.devicename.rc
./default.prop
./proc
./dev
./init.rc
./init
./sys
./init.goldfish.rc
./sbin
./sbin/adbd
./system
./data
So what's important here is the "init.devicename.rc" and "unvented.device.rc". This is the target devices .rc files contained within the ramdisk, now all we have to do here is rename this .rc file to that of the device you are porting to, e.g: "init.trout.rc" > "init.hero.rc"
Some devices ramdisk differ and may not contain "unvented.device.rc" so if this is case for you,then begin by renaming the init.device.rc to your model id and leave it at that. If you get problems well.. that's what the live support is for.
The other file which may be of use to us here is "init.rc", this contains all the system wide kernel properties which we can change to our liking but we'll leave as it is for now.
So now we've edited the ramdisk, we need to change the kernel so that the one the ROM uses is actually specific to our device, when we used the split_bootimg perl script it also unpacked the kernel and that is also in our current directory with the filename "boot.img-kernel".
Easiest way to replace the kernel is to take a kernel update zip for your device, un-zip it and rename the zImage file to "boot.img-kernel" and copy and replace the file of the same name in your directory.
Okay, now that's all done, we need to pack this back up into something that android can understand when it's being flashed. So we need to make a new boot.img from the files we have in our current directory.
First, we need to pack the ramdisk back up into it's original state, so again we need to use the Linux terminal. The command that will do this is this:
find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ../newramdisk.cpio.gz
Remember the ../ is the path to the directory of your ramdisk, remember to remove anything that won't be used by the kernel as cpio will include EVERYTHING in the working directory.
Okay now that the ramdisk is back in it's original format we need to repack the kernel and ramdisk into the boot.img.
So back into the terminal we go and this time we're going to use the "repack-bootimg" perl script (as if that wasn't obvious enough). The command you will ise here is esentially the same to the one we used to split it, so:
"perl repack-bootimg.pl ../path to kernel ../path to ramdisk directory ../path to outfile"
And the boot.img is complete!
So if we look back to the ROM we are porting we can see that we need to put the boot.img into the root of the zip, this will hold true for almost every Android ROM. Next we need to replace some of the files which allow the hardware and keys to work. This is the easy part.
Go into the root of the zip and follow this path to the kernel modules; "/system/lib/modules" Delete all the files you find here.
Now take the kernel modules which came along with the kernel you added to the boot.img and copy them there. Next follow this path to the propietary hardware files;
"/system/lib/hw" Delete all the files you find here.
Again this as simple as taking the files from a ROM meant for your device and copying them into this directory. So what we've done there is added the kernel modules that we can set symlinks to in the updater-script and contain the modules needed for things like WiFi, bluetooth etc. The "/hw" directory as you can see contains the files which control the sensors and lights such as GPS and the accelerometer.
Next, we can look at making sure the hard and soft keys work, the files which contain the layout of your device keys can be found in;
"/system/usr/keylayout" and "/system/usr/keychars"
Touch only those 2 directories.
Delete all the files in here and copy the ones from your device (following the same directory) here.
Okay now to finish off we need to copy over the mount point information for your device and the WiFi drivers.
Follow this path; "/system/etc" and delete only these files and directories.
- vold.fstab
- /wifi
- /ppp
Now follow the same path in a ROM for your device and copy over these files.
Okay we're done!
Before flashing take a look and some guides which show you how to write updater-scripts, incase you need to create important symbolic links.
Happy Porting!
**mod edit** credits to JieeHD from the VillainROM team for this guide! original thread here: http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/porting-android
reserved for future......
Hey,how did i help in this?
PS:i m thinking of buying this phone.....is it any good?
i have both the galaxy sl and spice mi 410 i copied from your thread so had to give you credit even though you are not the original poster
spice mi 410 competely outshines galaxy sl so much so that i hardly use sl hooked to this at i.6ghz its lightning fast great plays any game hardly random reboots though average camera galaxy sl better
side note :if you could build succh a nice rom with sl god knows what good you can do with mi 410 please buy it haha
cranium rocks
oh cool............i had forgotten about that thread
2nd hand for 9999 only.................
Hey that's my tutorial... Hope it helps someone....
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
rdannar said:
Hey that's my tutorial... Hope it helps someone....
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
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than credit to you i am just sharing with everyone "hope it helps someone"
Thank you!!! Will try too port a gt-I9100 rom to a gt-I9100G.
Hope it will be easy with this guide.
Dear Preyesh1.... Could you add the credit to the creator of this guide or at least you mention the url source because I've seen this guide just exactly as in this thread somewhere in the internet.
Except if this guide is pure of yours.
Just to remind...
Edited: Never mind... The creator has been here after all...
I have some questions:
so this means you can take the U9000 android 2.2.2 kernel and merge with ICS?
or does this only works with kernel coming from a GB build to another GB build?
It will help me cause I'm gonna use it soon
Sent from my Triumph using XDA
ziggy46 said:
It will help me cause I'm gonna use it soon
Sent from my Triumph using XDA
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Hey are you going to port your rom to your device this will be great...!!
I wanna try this great tutorial
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Nice plagiarism.
I mean look at that OP. You've selected the entire article, hit copy, hit new post here, hit paste then hit submit. That's plagiarism of the laziest kind you could have at the very least put some effort in, formatted the text, used code blocks etc.
My word.
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preyesh1 said:
See our guide on how to set this up HERE
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Hahahahaha.
USING DSIXDA's KITCHEN TO CREATE YOUR OWN SOFT-MODs
(THIS IS MY FIRST BIG TUTORIAL, SO PLEASE CO-OPERATE AND HELP ME MAKING THIS GUIDE BETTER!!)
DsiXDA has created an excellent Kitchen for 'cooking' custom ROMs. So first THANKS goes to DsiXDA.
READ THIS BEFORE PROCEEDING:
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For Kitchen to get working you need a Linux environment. My choice is go for Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 (I won't recommend 11.xx as Unity spoils the 'Cooking' experience). You should have a little bit of experience with Ubuntu. You can do it on Windows too. Install Ubuntu inside VirtualBox. I won't recommend using cygwin as it may reduce the performance.
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GIVE CREDITS TO THE ORIGINAL DEVELOPER
I. Setup the Kitchen:
Download DsiXDA's Kitchen at https://github.com/dsixda/Android-Kitchen/archives/master. Download the 0.179 version
Get an 'original' ROM (not soft-modded). The ROM that I used in this tutorial is Pebe's CyanogenMod 7
Get JDK. It's necessary. Execute the following command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
When asked for password, enter the one which you use for logging in.
For 64-bit system, you need the ia32-libs ( sudo apt-get install ia32-libs )
Extract the contents of the dsiXDA's kitchen to a folder, say kitchen, in your Home folder (for convenience). Just inside the kitchen folder there should be the ./menu file
Open Terminal. Browse to your kitchen directory
cd ./kitchen
source ./menu
It should open up the Kitchen Menu
This is the basic setup of your Kitchen. Now move up to the next big step.
II. Actual ROM:
Copy the ROM (in my case, it is cm7_v2.zip (pebe's CM7)) and paste it in the original_update folder
Execute Kitchen (Step 5 from I). Select option '1. Setup working folder from ROM'. Another menu appears, hit ENTER. It'll show up the available ROMs list. It should display at least one ROM. In my case it was "(1) cm7_v2.zip". Enter selection number: 1. Hit ENTER. It'll prompt for changing the name, leave it, no need. Hit ENTER. It'll start extracting the ROM. In my case, it found the updater-script. It'll ask to convert the script into update-script. We want update-script at the moment, so just hit ENTER. It should say 'Finished setting the working folder!'. Hit ENTER. You'll be back to Menu.
The Menu shows various options like 'Adding Root permissions, installing busybox, etc'. You can play with them. As most of the ROMs have Root and Busybox installed, we don't need any of these features.
Now comes a bit advanced part. Select ADVANCED OPTIONS. There are various options like Deodex files, add Nano text editor, signing APKs, etc. I'll explain each of them:
Deodex: Merges ODEX and APK together. However, it's applicable for ODEXed ROMS (mostly Stock 2.1) only. Neither of GB and FroYo versions are ODEXed. So you can skip this step.
Add task killer tweak: It's a good alternative to Supercharger script. Only thing is, it isn't as versatile as Supercharger script. Leave this if you don't know anything about Task killer values like FOREGROUND APP, BACKGROUND APP, etc
Add data/app functionality: Suppose you've come across a situation that the system size reaches almost 150 MB (standard for GT540) and still you want to add some more apps, then this tweak is for you. It adds the /data/app folder. You can place apps in this folder. These apps will be directlty installed in the /data partition thus eliminating the 150MB limit.
Add Bash: Adds command-line completion in Terminal commands. Install if you want. Not needed.
Add Apps2SD: This is much primitive type of Apps2SD in which you have to create an ext partition on your SD card. Not recommended. Link2SD (app) is much better.
Add busybox run-parts: This tweak is most important one. I enables the startup scripts option, that means, scripts placed in /etc/init.d folder will get executed during the booting process. Recommended for Stock and AOSP ROMs only.
Add custom boot animation: If you want to add a custom boot animation to your ROM, then you need this. Select this option. It'll ask you to proceed, hit ENTER. A folder /data/local will be created inside the WORKING_xxxxxxx_xxxxxxx folder. Place your bootanimation.zip in that folder. Google some nice boot animations or if you want to create your own boot animations, Despotovski brothers had made a 'Boot Animation maker', check it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234611
Rest all tweaks are not required for now
III. Something's Cooking!
There will be a folder named something like WORKING_xxxxx_xxxxxxxx in your kitchen folder. Open it up. It contains the actual system, boot.img file, data directory etc.
The best feature of DsiXDA is that you can easily 'browse' the system.
Open the system folder. Here you can see the apps, etc, lib, usr, etc folders.
Adding / Removing Apps: Open the apps folder. You'll see APKs of all the system apps. Try removing some apps. You can remove Dev tools, pre-installed CM themes or any other app. Add your own apps. Copy-paste your apps here. If their filenames have spaces in them (like Root Explorer.apk) remove these spaces (like RootExplorer.apk). You can also use the /data folder for adding more apps.
Adding some other stuff: The /etc folder has a lot of cool stuff too. The apns-conf.xml file contains the APNs. System can auto-detect the APN according to your carrier. I got an apns-conf.xml file which contains a huge list of APNs. Just replace the existing file.
Adding Fonts: Pick your favorite font (I like Ubuntu). Grab the .ttf file of that font. Open /fonts folder. Remove the existing DroidSans.ttf file. Copy-paste your font file in it and rename it to DroidSans.ttf.
IV. Final Steps:
Open the kitchen menu. Advanced Options → Sign all APKs
Back to main menu. '9. Check update-script for errors'.
'6. Zipalign all APKs'
'99. Build ROM'. If it shows warning regarding BOOT-EXTRACTED folder exists, select y (remove BOOT-EXTRACTED).
Select a build option → 1. Interactive Mode
Would you like to Zipalign → n (we already did that before)
It'll start making update.zip.
Add updater-script to your ROM → y (We want compatibility with ClockworkMod)
Proceed with the change → y
Sign your ROM → y
Change the name → n
Once you're back to main menu, select Exit (x)
Your ROM is located in OUTPUT_ZIP folder (It'll be a zip file)
Copy this zip file on your SD card. Reboot into Recovery. Select 'Install zip from SD card', select the ZIP file.
Reboot. See if everything works properly.
I KNOW THERE MIGHT BE ZILLIONS OF ERRORS IN THIS GUIDE. IF YOU'RE STUCK AT SOME POINT OR CANNOT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, TELL ME. I'LL TRY TO MAKE THIS GUIDE MORE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND.
THIS IS A BASIC SOFT-MODDING GUIDE. I'M DOING SOME INVESTIGATION REGARDING THEMING AND BUILD.PROP TWEAKS. I'LL BE ADDING THESE SECTIONS LATER.
WOW nice work making this TUT!!
Nice Work!
thanks!!
gonna try this out sometime
There is a search feature guys this was posted about like half a year ago
I tried the kitchen its not that great all you can do is zipalign change some options and re package
TBH androidboss you probably could do more using terminal and root explorer
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Guys! Before Soft-Modding please ask the Devs first. They worked and took up free time for those roms and they would like a thanks.
Danzano said:
There is a search feature guys this was posted about like half a year ago
I tried the kitchen its not that great all you can do is zipalign change some options and re package
TBH androidboss you probably could do more using terminal and root explorer
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really i should try one day!
with credits and thanks!!
Algud if you need tips or want a hand customizn give me a shout hell if you wana use enigma and just cretic it to you're liking be my guest
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Danzano said:
Algud if you need tips or want a hand customizn give me a shout hell if you wana use enigma and just cretic it to you're liking be my guest
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yeah thanx bro!!
i will try and make one during this weekend
once i get my phone fixed..
i will pm you if i need help with something about the
soft-mod!!
All good
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Danzano said:
All good
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pm' ed u!!
soz its a bit long!
I'll be writing the "Theming using UOT Kitchen" tutorial tonight
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I'll be writing the "Theming using UOT Kitchen" tutorial tonight
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18934516#post18934516
you can base on this if u want
ROM Tools v2
Version 2 BETA
v2b (Officially v2)
Linux Script
by iamareebjamal
Automated Android script for extracting boot.img and bml15 partition
My PC has issues so I can't use it to build mods and scripts, also, I have a very slow internet connection. That's why I don't upload my ROMs. Provided, I build EACH and EVERY one of my mod on my mobile, including those long scripts with repeating commands and making it easy for other guys to use, I could've just created a script with two commands which rendered error if used incorrectly, but I make it noob proof in every way possible so that there are minimum errors from your side and if something gets wrong, you know what it is. Even uploading 5 mb of mod makes it very difficult as I have to reupload if it fails. Writing scripts on mobile is not easy, you'll know if you have done it, it takes hours. Also, these colorful and easy guides are also made on mobile by writing BB codes ONE BY ONE by hand.
I am telling you because a person day before yesterday posted my Amazing Sounds Mod in another forum without my permission. However, he has removed it now. My work is fully open sourced for you to learn and make your own mods. But taking part of my work and posting as yours is not appreciated.
The MOST you can give me is love, prayers and Thanks
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Out of the time I was absent from XDA(13 hours ) , I was searching for a method of extracting the kernel from your ROM
Imagine, you want to extract boot.img from your ROM but don't know what to do, you don't have internet to download the stock or custom kernel or simply want to extract it?
I did not find anything except the solution of Android Kitchen but what if you want to do it on your android?
As a bi product of this search, I got a lot of knowledge about the partitions used by Android system and the blocks that define them.
I also got basic knowledge about Linux Scripting.
So, I created this script that backs up your boot.img and bml15.img partitions.
boot.img - kernel of your device
bootextractorv2.sh - Backs up your kernel
bml15.img - IMEI partition
bml15extractorv2.sh - Backs up your IMEI partition
Note:- SGY Toolbox also backs up and restores bml15_EFS.img. And that also with a nice user interface, I just created this mod, because I wanted to but I recommend newbies to use SGY Toolbox for backing up IMEI
However, I found no tool able to backup the kernel, so it may be very useful for some members
ChangeLog
Code:
*More Interactive
*More Intelligent
*Added Option to create Odin Flashable Tar package for kernel
*More Convinient
Requirements :
Root Acess
Busybox
Android device
Hands
Terminal Emulator or Script Manager
(Script Manager recommended)
Instructions
Script Manager Method (Easy):-
1. Download Script Manager.
2.Download desired script and place it on sdcard.
3. Open Script Manager and enable browse as root.
4. Go to the downloaded script and click on the green android icon(root) in the pop up window.
5. Click on Run. Follow Instructions and enjoy
Terminal Emulator Method (Hard):
1. Download Terminal Emulator.
2. Download desired script and place it in the root of the sdcard.
(You can place it anywhere else but the directory should not have spaces and you will have to change the commands accordingly)
3. Open Terminal Emulator and type (After every command you have to press enter)
Code:
su
And Grant Root Access
Then, type
Code:
sh /sdcard/bootextractorv2.sh
or
Code:
sh /sdcard/bml15extractorv2.sh
according to the the script you want to run
4. Now, follow the instructions on screen and enjoy
Download bootextractorv2.sh
Download bml15extractorv2.sh
Credits :
Miscellaneous Google search posts showing how to write Linux Script
Me for writing the script
Rafael.Baugis for source
Ryuinferno for guide
Reserved
I'll test on S5830 and report asap
edit: Script wouldn't run on S5830 with script manager. With terminal emulator it dumps an empty boot.img
daxanh said:
I'll test on S5830 and report asap
edit: Script wouldn't run on S5830 with script manager. With terminal emulator it dumps an empty boot.img
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kernel partition of s5830 is different
Give me the Partition
And I will make the mod
V2 completed
Uploading ASAP
OP Updated
v2 released
nice work man...thaks a lot
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He didn't really mean the love and prayers.
Nabs Zains said:
He didn't really mean the love and prayers.
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lol
ROFL
You disclosed my secret Nabs
:good: simple & important... all ace_i owner should get this before 'cooking' ur device...
nice tool for kernel backup... :good:
Doesn't work for me, S5830i stock firmware. If I use script manager method, a lot of "not found" messages, and finally the boot folder is empty. I give script manager root permission. And if I use a terminal emulator, the same error messages, finally there is a 5MB boot.img file, but "untouchable". I can not copy in any other folder. If I connect to PC, boot.img is missing. Appears again in the mobile when I disconnet the USB. I can not change file permissions with root explorer....
Also when the script ask if I want to create a zip file for recovery, I select 1 and I get "bad integer, run again"
Thank you
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Doesn't work for me, S5830i stock firmware. If I use script manager method, a lot of "not found" messages, and finally the boot folder is empty. I give script manager root permission. And if I use a terminal emulator, the same error messages, finally there is a 5MB boot.img file, but "untouchable". I can not copy in any other folder. If I connect to PC, boot.img is missing. Appears again in the mobile when I disconnet the USB. I can not change file permissions with root explorer....
Also when the script ask if I want to create a zip file for recovery, I select 1 and I get "bad integer, run again"
Thank you
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You have busybox?
If no,
You can't run it
Yes, and the script founds it (it says). Finally I zipped boot.img with root explorer and that zip file could be copied to the PC. Guess the file is ok. Thanks.
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Yes, and the script founds it (it says). Finally I zipped boot.img with root explorer and that zip file could be copied to the PC. Guess the file is ok. Thanks.
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Why you zipped it?
English is not my language. I explained that boot.img was untouchable. I tried to copy to computer and I always got writing errors. Rebooting wasn't useful. Permissions couldn't be changed with root explorer.. The file was there, but couldn't do anything with It. Tried to zip it and it worked, and I copied the zip to my computer..
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English is not my language. I explained that boot.img was untouchable. I tried to copy to computer and I always got writing errors. Rebooting wasn't useful. Permissions couldn't be changed with root explorer.. The file was there, but couldn't do anything with It. Tried to zip it and it worked, and I copied the zip to my computer..
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Sure that there is problem in busybox applet sync
I don't know why script couldn't detect it
I don't know what the problem was. I installed, not without many problems, the last busybox available, and everything worked ok. Out of curiosity, I compared boot.img file extracted with "problems" and the boot.img extracted now cleanly, and are identical.
Regards
[Q] IMEI backup work on GT-S5570 Galaxy Mini???
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S5570 has another partition table
So no
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Hello,
I search to unpack the boot.img to change files but impossible, I tested all, no program can unpack ... could you pleased help me ?
Thank you in advance.
The RAZR I one? Look in the development section. It will extract it very easy.
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I don't find thé hex dump tool ans didn't understand the tuto..
Search in the dev section for:
Unpacking RAZR I boot.IMG from turl.
Our boot image isn't the same as others. There is no way u can extract things without the needed files. If u can't do anything with the topic about the boot.IMG in the dev section, I can't help u.
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I have find this.. But i don't understand what is the ''tool'' when you use...
can you give me all the URL of files and tool and... For editing the boot.img please ?
Thank's..
Up...
The only way (as far as i know) to unpack a boot.img from the Razr I is to use an linux powered PC. The tools in the topic that are provided need to be build first. And for it to build u need a linux (ubuntu) operating system. I will upload (when i have the time) my tools to unpack and repack the boot.img with a description on how to use them, but they only work on linux.
p.s. don't bump the post if it isn't answered in 1 day. Sometimes someone that will reply isn't online or is doing other things and didn't noticed it. If it were 3 or more days, oke. Just my opinion
Hazou
Bootimage tools
Here u go. My bootimage extract and pack package. It only works on linux. See the zip, and extract it somewhere in your linux distribution.
Instructions:
1. Put a boot.img in the root of the extracted bootimage packages (where the folders Ramdisk, Bootimage, Kernel, Tools are)
2. Execute the file extract.
3. Kernel can be found under the map kernel
4. Ramdisk can be found under the map Ramdisk/ramdisk
5. Modify your things
6. Pack the files by executing create.
Notes:
In the map Bootimage is a bootstub (bootold.img) needed for rebuilding the boot.img and some old scripts
In the map Kernel will be the extracted kernel. The file bzImage will always be used for rebuilding.
In the map Ramdisk will be the extracted ramdisk in the map ramdisk. The map 'ramdisk' will always be used for rebuilding,
In the map Tools will be the tools needed for extracting and creating.
If u have some questions about this tool, ask!
Credits to Turl1 for the tools
Hazou