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Hi everyone! Have you ever wanted to compile your own nightlies, but are too intimidated or "not a dev"?
For various reasons, I've decided to write a guide about how you too can enter the wonderful world of development.
Before we begin, I'm going to say one thing. I'll probably repeat it a bunch of times too, to be sure everyone reads it at least once while skimming through this. PLEASE GOOGLE YOUR QUESTION FOR AT LEAST 5 MINUTES BEFORE ASKING IT HERE. The main reason I wrote this guide is to try to refocus the point of the "Development" forums on XDA. There are many users out there that seem to think this is a place to make demands for answers without trying to contribute or learn anything themselves. Developing isn't an easy thing. You should know a little bit of Linux going into this, if not, prepare yourself for some reading. This isn't the place for you to ask how to install Ubuntu, or why you need 64 bit. Just have a little faith and trust me.
Major thanks goes out to Hashcode.. Seriously, you have no idea what an inspiration he's been. For all intents and purposes, this guide will show you how to set up your system and compile ROMs based on his work, perhaps even help work on fixes. I suppose I should thank google, cyanogenmod, team aokp, thingonaspring (minimoto rocks!) a few others. You know who you are.
On with the show.
Here's a list of things you will need:
1) A decent computer (at least dual core, 2+ gig of RAM, 50 gig free HD space) capable of running Linux
2) A copy of Builduntu
3) Spare time and the desire to learn.
Double check that your main system is 64 bit. 32 bit OS will not work!
Once you get Builduntu up and running (there are instructions @ the above link), read on.
You need to make a decision. What flavor of Android do you want to compile? In other words, AOKP, Cyanogenmod, AOSP, LiquidSmooth, SimpleAOSP etc etc etc.
For the purposes of teaching everyone, I'm going to base this guide on AOKP.
You've made it this far, you're basically almost there. *cue motivational montage music*
When Builduntu says, "initialize the build repo", that means to sync your source code with a git repository. Run these commands in a terminal:
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mkdir ~/android
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cd ~/android
The following command will do the actual initialization:
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repo init -u https://github.com/AOKP/platform_manifest.git -b jb-mr1
Ok, after this next part you're going to want to take a break. It's time to actually download to your computer (sync) the source code. As of writing this guide, it is over 10 gigabytes of information, depending on which "flavor" of Android. In the terminal:
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repo sync
Don't worry, just execute and walk away. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, this could take a long time. Anywhere from one hour to "maybe-you-should-do-this-before-you-go-to-sleep". Up next is actually doing the compiling.
When that finishes, you have the source code. Let's get to business. This next bit will probably take a while also, but again, it's a set-it-and-forget-it situation.
Code:
cd ~/android
source build/envsetup.sh
lunch yourdevicenamehere
make otapackage
That should do it! Watch for errors, but everything should work at this point. Again, how long this takes is completely dependent on how fast your computer is. If it completes without a hitch, you'll have a flashable zip file located in ~/android/out/target/product/yourdevicename/
Congrats, you just compiled from source! Now, if you really want to get adventurous, you can start delving into the code itself and make some changes. But this post isn't the place to get into all that. Good luck, and please say thanks if this guide was helpful!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE If you happen to find an error in my guide (not just a question about it!) PLEASE PM ME. I will give you credit in the post. A potentially useful fix could be buried pages deep in the thread and unfortunately get lost if it's only a reply. Thanks!
Many thanks!
Although I didn't tried this howto yet, I feel obligated to thank you for this. In the past I though about trying to do something directly tweaking the code and, who knows, contribute with something nice to our "D3 society". But could never figure how to start it. I will spend some time trying to make it work using this "manual" and give some feedback about it.
Again, thanks.
Re: [DIY] How To Compile Your Own Nightlies (and Learn Something in the Process)
Great post.
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Thank you for taking the time to show the community how to contribute and give back what has been given.
Thanks for this awesome guide! I followed your directions and did produce a zip that I can flash with safestrap. Unfortunately it will not boot though:crying: Is there anything else to do with the kexec zip to make it safestrap compatible? Or did I just screw something up
Either way I am glad I did this and without your 2 great guides I never would have. So thank you again sylentprofet! :highfive:
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Thanks for this awesome guide! I followed your directions and did produce a zip that I can flash with safestrap. Unfortunately it will not boot though:crying: Is there anything else to do with the kexec zip to make it safestrap compatible? Or did I just screw something up
Either way I am glad I did this and without your 2 great guides I never would have. So thank you again sylentprofet! :highfive:
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Hmmmmmm. That is a frustrating problem. I've had it happen before..
Just tried a compile myself, and CM10 doesn't work. Silly me for thinking that everything would go smoothly. It could be some changes reflected recently on CM's end. The joys of development!
However, I just tried an AOKP 4.2 build, and it does boot. So I'm going to make some quick changes to the guide to reflect building for AOKP while I examine the code and see what's up.
There's nothing more frustrating when a build completes successfully and then won't flash. I'll keep everyone posted.
this looks amazing
thank you for spending the time to write this up!
May be up for a reinstallation of my Ubuntu (currently 12.04 x86 :/).
Wonderful, might try to adapt for the galaxy note 3.
Lillie via LG Spectrum (waiting for N3 DE) & tapatalk
*EDIT* This thread is now based upon the work by @fattire and @slayher, who got it up on the 910T. For that phone see this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...nt/unoffcial-cm-12-0-t-mobile-note-4-t2964887
This thread is for dev's interested to help out porting CM12 to our device. I've researched for info regarding CM ports and good information is actually quit scarce. A dev might post something like 'hmm stuck at boot anim' and then the next day 'got it, booting now !' without explaining what he did to solve it. I want to change that, so this thread can serve as a guide for other first time porters too (this is also my first porting project), documenting every step as in much detail as possible.
For ROMS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...official-cm-12-0-910f-note-4-trltexx-t2987412
Please use this thread for R&D/development ONLY !!!
Ok, I'm really starting from scratch and never done any phone ROM porting. I've just made a new virtual disk running ubuntu and am currently downloading the CM12 repo. I figured, how to get even started here. I figured that the goals we need to attain in this order:
1) compile the kernel samsung supplied
2) make sure we can boot into kernel
3) get ADB up and running
4) get CM12 starting up, even the bootanim alone would be a nice goal to reach
5) Booting into homescreen
6) Fixing all stuff like modem, wifi etc etc etc
Anyway, I'm currently downloading CM12 sources as we speak ...
This is by the way a link I found very useful: http://www.androidenea.com/2009/08/init-process-and-initrc.html It describes the Android init process, cause I was wondering, how to even start all this ? How to get from kernel to CM booting: that's where init.rc should come into play of course
Good luck this is a long project. I build carbonrom for another phone where everything for cm was allready fixed. I would start with a phone that allready has support to learn how the process goes. You can brick your phone and it's a process of trail and error... But I hope you manage good luck!
KaptKeefmenneke said:
Good luck this is a long project. I build carbonrom for another phone where everything for cm was allready fixed. I would start with a phone that allready has support to learn how the process goes. You can brick your phone and it's a process of trail and error... But I hope you manage good luck!
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean ? If the phone already has support, then what's there to port ? Or do you mean building CM itself ? That I've done quite a few times already, did quite a bit of work on the i9500, fixing RILD issue's, kernel issue's and other stuff.
soo...maybe m wrong (has been a while snce ive ported) but im goin to drop a few lines anyhow......
porting is very different from source building.....the only reason you would need to dl the cm sources would be to compile the rom using sources...and right now the note 4 has none we would need device,kernel,common,vendor sources for that....so... we cant source build right now only port....sp what we need to do is research which device officially or unofficially that has cm with same specs as the note4 things like screen size, board, things of that nature....and would highly recommend using the same carrier as well.....but once we have that info....dl that phones cm rom zip....dl one of our phones rom zips.....now for the fun....ill lay out a way i did it maybe is the same still ...
place both cm zip and note 4 zip on desktop..
create a new folder call it new
drag all files from the cm zip into the new
open the new and open the note 4 zip have them side by side
now your going to drag pretty much all folders/files from the note 4 system folder into the new sytsem folder one folder at a time excluding:
app,priv-app,etc,fonts,media,framework,xbin (im probably forgetting one or two but has been a long time)
now the fun begins....time to edit some xmls and trial and error on pretty much everything until it is working right
you are also going to want to change out the kernel and have to edit the updater-script in the meta-inf....
im positive im forgetting a few things but this is pretty much what i can remember......from off the top of my head...some of the guides ill link in a bit will go into greater detail and explain things more in depth
a few links ive had bookmarked that will help ya
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1908008
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732957
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957219
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272270
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113479
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801690
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2251719
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941239
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805408
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058850
all of these links in one way or another have helped me during my porting phase hope they do the same for you ...like ive said before im more of a source builder so thats what imgoing to be trying to do is getting a working tree... but if you need help just hit me up ill do what i can
Shouldn't this thread be in general?
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Shouldn't this thread be in general?
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yes it really should being as there is no development only discussion...but thats the moderators job not mine
spleef said:
yes it really should being as there is no development only discussion...but thats the moderators job not mine
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Threads regarding R&D belong in development, so I guess it really belongs here. Even more so cause if it's moved to general, tons of n00bs will join in and destroy the thread. please keep this developers only.
Anyway thanks to see you join in Spleef, much appreciated !! Still setting up my environment myself ...
spleef said:
soo...maybe m wrong (has been a while snce ive ported) but im goin to drop a few lines anyhow......
porting is very different from source building.....the only reason you would need to dl the cm sources would be to compile the rom using sources...and right now the note 4 has none we would need device,kernel,common,vendor sources for that....so... we cant source build right now only port....sp what we need to do is research which device officially or unofficially that has cm with same specs as the note4 things like screen size, board, things of that nature....and would highly recommend using the same carrier as well.....but once we have that info....dl that phones cm rom zip....dl one of our phones rom zips.....now for the fun....ill lay out a way i did it maybe is the same still ...
place both cm zip and note 4 zip on desktop..
create a new folder call it new
drag all files from the cm zip into the new
open the new and open the note 4 zip have them side by side
now your going to drag pretty much all folders/files from the note 4 system folder into the new sytsem folder one folder at a time excluding:
app,priv-app,etc,fonts,media,framework,xbin (im probably forgetting one or two but has been a long time)
now the fun begins....time to edit some xmls and trial and error on pretty much everything until it is working right
you are also going to want to change out the kernel and have to edit the updater-script in the meta-inf....
im positive im forgetting a few things but this is pretty much what i can remember......from off the top of my head...some of the guides ill link in a bit will go into greater detail and explain things more in depth
a few links ive had bookmarked that will help ya
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1908008
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732957
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957219
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272270
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113479
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801690
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2251719
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941239
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805408
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058850
all of these links in one way or another have helped me during my porting phase hope they do the same for you ...like ive said before im more of a source builder so thats what imgoing to be trying to do is getting a working tree... but if you need help just hit me up ill do what i can
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Great addition to the thread ! Hmm I haven't done any porting myself. I figured once we have a kernel up (compiling it should be easy), then what's stopping us from booting CM ? I mean of course RILD won't work if we don't have a JNI (or what's it called on ART, ANI ? ) interface to the modem. Of course we won't have NFC, internet, telephony, all that. But merely booting a graphical interface that should be doable with Nexus 6 source code, right ? I mean all we need is SoC sources so we have cpu & graphics working, right ? So That was what I had in mind myself but your approach actually is quite the same now I think of it
Thread is moved to general AGAIN. Hehe. Starting a development thread ON XDA and have it in the developer section seems harder than porting CM12 Anyway I guess it doesn't matter in which section it is, as long as n00bs and trolls stay out and we can focus on development only.
Anyway, downloading kernel sources as we speak ...
BTW, here is Nexus 6 source code: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/google-nexus-6-factory-images/
Going to down that right now too ...
Ok, building kernel as we speak. I just installed the arm-eabi-4.7 toolchain, like this:
git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.7/
And then edited the makefile and issued the 3 commands all as specified in README_Kernel.txt from the Samsung Kernel. So far so good
And yes, as expected, build breaks:
drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs_test.c:25:19: fatal error: ../sd.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs_test.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/scsi/ufs] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/scsi] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
Hehe, Samsung wouldn't be Samsung if they would supply a kernel that actually builds from the start Going to investigate ...
Actually that seems like an easy fix, just linked the file correctly
And a new break:
In file included from drivers/gud/MobiCoreDriver/logging.c:21:0:
drivers/gud/MobiCoreDriver/main.h:24:22: fatal error: platform.h: No such file or directory
I'd say it's looking for the file in platforms/MSM8960_SURF_STD, going to link it correctly ...
And building again ...
n file included from drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_trace.h:255:0,
from drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp.c:61:
include/trace/define_trace.h:79:43: fatal error: ./mdss_mdp_trace.h: No such file or directory
Include should point to kernel includes, fixing it again
And building again ...
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OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image
Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
LZO arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lzo
AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lzo.o
LD arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage
Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
Kernel ready Of course that was the easy part, hehe, but still, progress. Tomorrow going to start with the difficult part, getting CM up
I've ported before but only tw where it was mainly framework edits. Never worked with cm before but like the op I'm keen to learn. If i can help at all just let me know, I use linux mint myself rather than Ubuntu but they're very similar
So, just downloaded Nexus 6 sources. It seems that directory /device/moto/shamu contains the device hardware stuff we need ! Going to research some more today ...
*EDIT* also mind the propietary-blobs.txt in that directory. I'm still waiting for my Note 4 myself (hopefully friday), but this needs to be compared with the files on the device, cause if they exist, they will be blobs of course and we need them.
Since this thread is no longer just about me trying to get lollipop running on this phone (I AM still doing that though) I decided to 'rebrand' it as a general development thread for OSA. What's OSA? It stands for Only Some Android...ok so whats that? A team name I came up with to make myself feel more important (btw we're always looking for contributors).
So instead of focusing on just lollipop I will be discussing pretty much anything and everything I am doing in regards to the Desire 510.
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Hi all, I am currently working on getting lollipop working on the Desire 510. So far I had a successful compile of LiquidSmooth 5.1.1 a couple nights ago but not a successful boot. I am currently 97% done syncing the CyanogenMod 12.1 sources (5.1.1 r3) and am now using the omni twrp sources to ensure a higher compatibility for the recovery, I am hoping for a successful boot soon.
I have the virgin mobile cdma model of the device and that's what I will be targeting although I will do my best to make sure the device tree is universal. If anyone has any insight or advice I am all ears.
I am going to use this thread as a development thread until I get the required 10 posts and I get a booting rom.
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Hi all, I am currently working on getting lollipop working on the Desire 510. So far I had a successful compile of LiquidSmooth 5.1.1 a couple nights ago but not a successful boot. I am currently 97% done syncing the CyanogenMod 12.1 sources (5.1.1 r3) and am now using the omni twrp sources to ensure a higher compatibility for the recovery, I am hoping for a successful boot soon.
I have the virgin mobile cdma model of the device and that's what I will be targeting although I will do my best to make sure the device tree is universal. If anyone has any insight or advice I am all ears.
I am going to use this thread as a development thread until I get the required 10 posts and I get a booting rom.
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im pretty sure shinrus device tree has a unified irl,its here https://github.com/shinru2004/android_device_htc_a11 ,also,did you update the kernel you were using? our kernel doesnt have support for loli,all tho rbhero has a branch in his kernel tree that he said works on loli
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im pretty sure shinrus device tree has a unified irl,its here https://github.com/shinru2004/android_device_htc_a11 ,also,did you update the kernel you were using? our kernel doesnt have support for loli,all tho rbhero has a branch in his kernel tree that he said works on loli
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Im working on all that, I'm looking into using the msm8974 kernel, from what I have read it's practically identical to the 8226, I am also using the a5 (desire 816) as a template since the two devices are so similar. Little by little I am getting there, having to figure out these errors as they come.
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Im working on all that, I'm looking into using the msm8974 kernel, from what I have read it's practically identical to the 8226, I am also using the a5 (desire 816) as a template since the two devices are so similar. Little by little I am getting there, having to figure out these errors as they come.
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rbhero has a modded a5 tree up if you wanna take a look at it,and just since your here..
have you gotten a error to something along the lines of:
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/pattyboi/source/out/target/product/a11/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libqdutils_intermediates/export_includes', needed by `/home/pattyboi/source/out/target/product/a11/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libsurfaceflinger_intermediates/import_includes'. Stop
pattyboi:) said:
rbhero has a modded a5 tree up if you wanna take a look at it,and just since your here..
have you gotten a error to something along the lines of:
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/pattyboi/source/out/target/product/a11/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libqdutils_intermediates/export_includes', needed by `/home/pattyboi/source/out/target/product/a11/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libsurfaceflinger_intermediates/import_includes'. Stop
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I actually just did, thanks for the heads up. I am going to look at / try his configs and see where it goes.
Yeah I have gotten a few of those errors, but not on surfaceflinger, mine are mostly on bionic and libcutils
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I actually just did, thanks for the heads up. I am going to look at / try his configs and see where it goes.
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gonna be trying that myself,let me know if you get anywhere
for sure, that's what this thread is for afterall
OnlySomeDood said:
for sure, that's what this thread is for afterall
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You might wanna PM a mod and ask them to move this over to the development area: Desire 510 Android Development.
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You might wanna PM a mod and ask them to move this over to the development area: Desire 510 Android Development.
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Well the reason I posted this here is because I don't have the required ten posts yet. So I wouldn't have been able to make this thread to post anything. This is #9 and I am making progress so i will go ahead and contact a mod soon to have it moved over.
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Well the reason I posted this here is because I don't have the required ten posts yet. So I wouldn't have been able to make this thread to post anything. This is #9 and I am making progress so i will go ahead and contact a mod soon to have it moved over.
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Gotcha. I didn't even know that was a rule. I was just giving you the heads up lol.
no worries. yeah you need 10 posts in order to post anything in the development subforums for the devices.
I just pm'd a mod and asked to have the thread moved to the appropriate subforum. Also I am making a LITTLE Progress, it does feel like two steps forward and one step back however. I'm confident that between those of us who are wanting it that it will happen.
Not sure if anyone is interested but I created another slack room under my account if anyone developing for the 510 wants to join and collaborate in order to (hopefully) let this device see its potential. Just pm me and i'll send you an invite.
Quickie update, I keep running in to the same set of errors and I know the answer is right in front of my face but im just not seeing it. I have a sneaking suspicion that I may be missing some headers and libraries on my machine but I can't be sure.
Also I've forgotten how much I dislike working with kernels lol
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no worries. yeah you need 10 posts in order to post anything in the development subforums for the devices.
I just pm'd a mod and asked to have the thread moved to the appropriate subforum. Also I am making a LITTLE Progress, it does feel like two steps forward and one step back however. I'm confident that between those of us who are wanting it that it will happen.
Not sure if anyone is interested but I created another slack room under my account if anyone developing for the 510 wants to join and collaborate in order to (hopefully) let this device see its potential. Just pm me and i'll send you an invite.
Quickie update, I keep running in to the same set of errors and I know the answer is right in front of my face but im just not seeing it. I have a sneaking suspicion that I may be missing some headers and libraries on my machine but I can't be sure.
Also I've forgotten how much I dislike working with kernels lol
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whats up with the kernel? im good in that department for the most part,roms are...eh,not my specialty
I can't get any kernel to compile, I keep getting failures while making the drivers.
Currently using a pre compiled image to at least try to get the rom built, I can solve these errors, i've done it before on other devices. How's progress on your end if any?
OnlySomeDood said:
I can't get any kernel to compile, I keep getting failures while making the drivers.
Currently using a pre compiled image to at least try to get the rom built, I can solve these errors, i've done it before on other devices. How's progress on your end if any?
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can you post one of the errors when you get a sec?
& none,got so angry at the stupid libqdutils thing i had last night i havent even attempted anything yet,been working on setting zswap/vnswap up so we have some leeway when it comes to ram..you got github at all?
I was fighting with libcutils for about two days, stupid friggin unicode strings....but I got past that, right now it's mostly "no rule to make target" stuff which is easy enough after you go digging around to find the right file/line to edit. Right this very second though I am working on getting the mkbootimg.mk properly set up and get a recovery image cooked.
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I was fighting with libcutils for about two days, stupid friggin unicode strings....but I got past that, right now it's mostly "no rule to make target" stuff which is easy enough after you go digging around to find the right file/line to edit. Right this very second though I am working on getting the mkbootimg.mk properly set up and get a recovery image cooked.
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i think rbheros last twrp works with loli,never tested it,all tho he should me screenshots of him running it,so you might just wanna save the time and use it
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i think rbheros last twrp works with loli,never tested it,all tho he should me screenshots of him running it,so you might just wanna save the time and use it
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The TeamYAR TWRP doesn't, not to my knowledge. He had one built locally but he didn't send it to me. I have a CM12 kernel that he built that boots (rom is still ****) but needs default encryption disabled amongst other things.
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The TeamYAR TWRP doesn't, not to my knowledge. He had one built locally but he didn't send it to me. I have a CM12 kernel that he built that boots (rom is still ****) but needs default encryption disabled amongst other things.
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well sh*t..i think there is a way to disable encryption from the ramdisk..not entirely sure how tho
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i think rbheros last twrp works with loli,never tested it,all tho he should me screenshots of him running it,so you might just wanna save the time and use it
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It's kind of a "me" thing, If I am going to go thru the effort to port cyanogenmod to an unsupported device then I'll take the extra time to compile every bit, including the recovery.
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It's kind of a "me" thing, If I am going to go thru the effort to port cyanogenmod to an unsupported device then I'll take the extra time to compile every bit, including the recovery.
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i dont blame you,makes sense to me
Good day lads,
Disclaimer:
Code:
I don't know if you noticed a thread in the Q&A section that was closed by Matt. While I respect Matt's decision to close it, I find it a very relevant topic... The future of LineageOS for the P9 Lite. Please note that I do respect meticulous' wishes to charge for his work because I know how time consuming it is I wish to firmly express that I do not condone this mentality when it comes to Linux based operating systems.
I decided to make this thread with my little Dev knowledge in order to attract more devs who's willing to put in work on a stable device tree for free in spirit of community and for all to enjoy.
I do not have the Lineage source code at the moment but I will start downloading soon, I do know that I will need help and I encourage more devs/beginners to lend a hand for the benefit of us all.
Please, to begin, post links to relevant tarballs/links/downloads for development purposes, device tree and kernels, anything you've worked on so perhaps we can all work together.
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Hmmm... The fact that building android ROMs is time consuming is not a good enough reason to request money for OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. Yes, LineageOS and android in general are open source, so that's an infraction.
About the collective effort, that's a good idea, but there are no sources from Huawei right now. You need to wait for the Nougat sources if Huawei really gives a dime about releasing them. From that point, it is easier to develop and get stuff working. Until then, good luck working without sources and experimenting stuff. Not to mention that there's no official TWRP as well, and TWRPs posted here on XDA for our devices have specific requirements to get them flashed on your device.
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Hmmm... The fact that building android ROMs is time consuming is not a good enough reason to request money for OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. Yes, LineageOS and android in general are open source, so that's an infraction.
About the collective effort, that's a good idea, but there are no sources from Huawei right now. You need to wait for the Nougat sources if Huawei really gives a dime about releasing them. From that point, it is easier to develop and get stuff working. Until then, good luck working without sources and experimenting stuff. Not to mention that there's no official TWRP as well, and TWRPs posted here on XDA for our devices have specific requirements to get them flashed on your device.
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Why do you need to come here with negativity? I don't support meticulous but he can do what he wants with the device sources he took the time to build, heck, he doesn't need to release those sources so I don't know what you're talking about, firstly. Secondly, a device tree can be built, Q.E.D we as a community can work on it together, if they release it we'll just have it much easier.
Note also; I've asked for relevant input and help from the community.
Thanks for your time though.
EDIT: P.S Professional Flasher, have you ever built a ROM before? Because that's my target here, finding people who knows how to fix error and put the tree together
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Carlyle_f said:
Why do you need to come here with negativity? I don't support meticulous but he can do what he wants with the device sources he took the time to build, heck, he doesn't need to release those sources so I don't know what you're talking about, firstly. Secondly, a device tree can be built, Q.E.D we as a community can work on it together, if they release it we'll just have it much easier.
Note also; I've asked for relevant input and help from the community.
Thanks for your time though.
EDIT: P.S Professional Flasher, have you ever built a ROM before? Because that's my target here, finding people who knows how to fix error and put the tree together
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Ignore it's just a critic custom rom user....[emoji12]
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Ignore it's just a critic custom rom user....[emoji12]
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My words are razor sharp but honest and realistic.
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Asphyxiate666 said:
Hmmm... The fact that building android ROMs is time consuming is not a good enough reason to request money for OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. Yes, LineageOS and android in general are open source, so that's an infraction.
About the collective effort, that's a good idea, but there are no sources from Huawei right now. You need to wait for the Nougat sources if Huawei really gives a dime about releasing them. From that point, it is easier to develop and get stuff working. Until then, good luck working without sources and experimenting stuff. Not to mention that there's no official TWRP as well, and TWRPs posted here on XDA for our devices have specific requirements to get them flashed on your device.
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Open source does not mean free, period.
pilgrim011 said:
On xda, it does mean free, period. People that think that they should be paid for contributing here are not welcome on XDA.
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you are totally right
Just finish already. If you want to discuss all that situation just create some g+ group or telegram for this.
XDA dev thread is not for that king of discussion.
Also it should be in QA SECTION.
You start xda dev thread when you have something made already. Not just with idea.
lsander said:
If you want to discuss all that situation just create some g+ group or telegram for this.
XDA dev thread is not for that king of discussion.
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This disussions are undesired here. I know a board where you can discuss that. If you want, feel free to have a look at it. This little Board is very pleased about every enlivenment. Opened a thread over there.
Well, developers do not grow on trees. I guess there are not enough devs here who have the P9 Lite device.
However I like the intention of the thread author. For that reason please try to discuss in a human way.
In the end: I am vers interested in learning how to build custom roms but I can't find a way how to learn it. Does anyone have some good advice?
Updated kernel
Hello everyone, I've recently been working on updating the Honor 5c kernel to 3.10.105 and so far it seems to be working fine on my P9lite, LineageOS 14.1. It's based purely on stock, with one or two commits borrowed from Meticulus' kernel repo, so it compiles without errors.
Since this is a new account, I can't link my repo directly, you can find it on my github profile, Avsky.
I'll be making my own additions to master branch, while stocklike branch will contain only fixes and kernel updates.
If somebody would like to test them, you can get the boot image from releases tab on github. Stock kernel hasn't been tested, mind you, always keep a backup!
Also depending on how much time I have, I might get started on bringing OmniROM to our device (I'm really missing it). I'm just a college student though, so it might never see the light of day, any help is much appreciated.
Avsky0 said:
Hello everyone, I've recently been working on updating the Honor 5c kernel to 3.10.105 and so far it seems to be working fine on my P9lite, LineageOS 14.1. It's based purely on stock, with one or two commits borrowed from Meticulus' kernel repo, so it compiles without errors.
Since this is a new account, I can't link my repo directly, you can find it on my github profile, Avsky.
I'll be making my own additions to master branch, while stocklike branch will contain only fixes and kernel updates.
If somebody would like to test them, you can get the boot image from releases tab on github. Stock kernel hasn't been tested, mind you, always keep a backup!
Also depending on how much time I have, I might get started on bringing OmniROM to our device (I'm really missing it). I'm just a college student though, so it might never see the light of day, any help is much appreciated.
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Hello, I tried your kernel on AOSPA MM but I couldn't get the proper unpacked zImage. I got only 9.7 MB gzip which contains the 22 MB Image but I couldn't extract it.
Could you provide the zImage?
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Hello, I tried your kernel on AOSPA MM but I couldn't get the proper unpacked zImage. I got only 9.7 MB gzip which contains the 22 MB Image but I couldn't extract it.
Could you provide the zImage?
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Strange, I can extract it without problem using abootimg. Anyway, zImage now included on releases page.
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Strange, I can extract it without problem using abootimg. Anyway, zImage now included on releases page.
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That zImage looks like the same I got from unpack. For some reason it won't boot when I repack it with my ramdisk.
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That zImage looks like the same I got from unpack. For some reason it won't boot when I repack it with my ramdisk.
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I repacked and uploaded my image with ramdisk from your latest AOSPA, could you try it? Sizes varied a bit, I've used my abootimg config with SELinux changed to permissive, as that is the case in your image.
EDIT: I'm uploading extracted zImage as well.
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I repacked and uploaded my image with ramdisk from your latest AOSPA, could you try it? Sizes varied a bit, I've used my abootimg config with SELinux changed to permissive, as that is the case in your image.
EDIT: I'm uploading extracted zImage as well.
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Yeah of course it works :silly:. Looks like my boot-packing skills are pretty low. Good job :fingers-crossed:
dady000 said:
Yeah of course it works :silly:. Looks like my boot-packing skills are pretty low. Good job :fingers-crossed:
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Glad to hear it! Your images seem to be using uncompressed zImages, while in stock ROMs they're gzipped, seems like unintentional change somewhere in your build process.
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Glad to hear it! Your images seem to be using uncompressed zImages, while in stock ROMs they're gzipped, seems like unintentional change somewhere in your build process.
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Yeah you're right. I just checked it and I am copying Image instead of Image.gz. Seems like it's only a 'cosmetic' issue because it runs anyways.
Great news guys, my sources now compile with latest Linaro toolchain. The kernel actually barely needed any fixes, but I'm not releasing anything prebuilt yet, since I have no idea what impact on stability my hacks might have.
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ndroid1562 said:
Well, developers do not grow on trees. I guess there are not enough devs here who have the P9 Lite device.
However I like the intention of the thread author. For that reason please try to discuss in a human way.
In the end: I am vers interested in learning how to build custom roms but I can't find a way how to learn it. Does anyone have some good advice?
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Perhaps reading through GitHub commits, checking the code and see whether or not you're really interested. If you're using a Linux distribution which I strongly advise, learn bash scripts first - it's easy and self explanatory and from there you will get basics of directories and calling up files.
Goodluck
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Hello, everyone.
I noticed, there are many custom roms, but not that many for the SM-T505. Is it because it's newly released, or are there other reasons?
Yes, this is a new device and many people are probably waiting for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals to grab one. I just grabbed one for $150 on Amazon, a steal compared to something like a Fire tablet IMO. This is a low-end tablet, so there won't be as much focus on it as say a flagship phone. But thankfully it's already been unlocked and rooted, so the next step will be to get TWRP on it, and then custom ROM development can start to pick up on it. Don't expect any updates before the end of the year for custom ROMs though, it will likely take time to have TWRP up and running on it, but I am hopeful that we will see good things on this tablet in 2021
Without kernel sources it won't happen. See https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t505 and https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500.
You can request them on that page. I did it a few times but no response so far.
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Without kernel sources it won't happen. See https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t505 and https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500.
You can request them on that page. I did it a few times but no response so far.
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Interesting... is it just me or is there no button to start an inquiry?
EDIT: Found it... just posted an Inquiry.
Watching!! I just bought the T500.
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Watching!! I just bought the T500.
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Just got an answer from Samsung, but don't get to excited. It was just an automated answer, that they received my inquiry. So stay tuned...
https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=t500 gives you a 514mb file with kernel and vencor files.
Maybe both 505 and 500 are similiar enough to get you started
Sources are available: https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500
They include a toolchain in kernel tree, broken KConfigs and a lot of junk. I will try to clean a bit a mess and update a lean kernel tree to github
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Sources are available: https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500
They include a toolchain in kernel tree, broken KConfigs and a lot of junk. I will try to clean a bit a mess and update a lean kernel tree to github
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Will you also do a diff against the upstream version so we can see what they changed?
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Will you also do a diff against the upstream version so we can see what they changed?
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Sure, but I'm going to remove the toolchain from the kernel tree since the beginning. It takes About 1GB alone and I don't want to have it on git refs because it will still take a lot of space even if removed.
The rest of changes will be available on github.
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Sure, but I'm going to remove the toolchain from the kernel tree since the beginning. It takes About 1GB alone and I don't want to have it on git refs because it will still take a lot of space even if removed.
The rest of changes will be available on github.
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It's been a long time, since i took up building custom roms and forgot about it for a while... if the kernel is cleansed from all the BS no one needs, that would be awesome.
There are a lot of small changes to comments and changes of 2 characters in a line. Wonder if they backported stuff there.
Kernel of the SM-T505 was just released...
If this is of any relevance, the download is 'just' 200MB... i wonder why.
The Platform Archive is mostly identical, just a few text files with notes and copyright were missing.
The Kernel Package as well, just small changes to netfilter and
a new defconfig file.
Defconfig for both devices also is more or less the same
gta4lwifi_eur_open_defconfig is missing one line compared to gta4l_eur_open_defconfig
CONFIG_SAMSUNG_FREECESS=y
Guess the difference comes from the toolchain mentioned above.
@paziusss
How far have you come?
Would be great if we had something clean to start a twrp and easier rooting
selemine said:
@paziusss
How far have you come?
Would be great if we had something clean to start a twrp and easier rooting
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Sorry, I have a very bad internet connection (uplink it is ~50-100KiB/s)
I created the repo a month ago: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi
,tried to push and failed. Never tried again until now, but it is still failing.
So, if somebody is nice enough to dump the contents of the SM-T500 kernel in a github repo, I can fork and submit the patches without having to upload the whole thing myself.
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Sorry, I have a very bad internet connection (uplink it is ~50-100KiB/s)
I created the repo a month ago: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi
,tried to push and failed. Never tried again until now, but it is still failing.
So, if somebody is nice enough to dump the contents of the SM-T500 kernel in a github repo, I can fork and submit the patches without having to upload the whole thing myself.
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Here you go
jayzarry84 said:
Here you go
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Thank you! It helped.
I had to apply the patch manually, so everything is in a single commit, but should be easy for others to understand what each chunk of code does.
Here you go: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi
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Thank you! It helped.
I had to apply the patch manually, so everything is in a single commit, but should be easy for others to understand what each chunk of code does.
Here you go: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi
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Just realized I didn't upload the Platform folder contents. It's uploading as we speak
jayzarry84 said:
Just realized I didn't upload the Platform folder contents. It's uploading as we speak
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I really have to ask, can i use this to build a custom rom for the SM-T505 as well?