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Hi everybody,
I just compiled a stock AOSP 2.3.7 ROM from aosp sources as one of the team members got recently a P990 and I decided to do some stuff for this device although I don't own one. This is where you can help as I can't test myself.
I have attached the build.prop already for those who are interested in having a look into it.
The ROM is based on GWK74 Android 2.3.7 and has yet no modifications added compared to the stock AOSP project. You can participate and share your ideas by means: leave / stay with launcher2 / gallery3d / stock camera+browser-app or replace those with better alternatives. I want to make this ROM barebone-like to provide you a highly customizable ROM. As like you do with stock CyanogenMod ROMs you will have to add the CM-GAPPS on your own via CWM. I won't include them into the ROM so you could even modify the gapps-package and adjust it to your needs.
As I am actually not familar with the available kernels and how they perform on P990 I will include the built-in cm-kernel.
People wanna help with testing this please leave a message on this topic (no PMs plz). The first download links should appear this evening / tonight (UTC+1) as I am going to do a final fresh compile now. Those leaving a message will receive the link by PM. Once I receive positive feedback I will make it public.
The sources I used:
CM-github (modified LGE P990 + star-common device tree for AOSP)
Android Open Source Project
About me:
neopeek - primarily focused on XDAndroid project and making ROMs based on the XDAndroid project.
Im in
10chars
Me too
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Count on me!
I'm in mate!
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ok you all got a private message with the link!
Hello,
It's a good start. I can't install it via CWM 5.0.2.7. I will try via CWM 5.0.2.0.
ok thx for providing feedback. Might require some fix to the updater-binary or updater-script. Lemme check this...
Same here, status 0
No idea what that means though
Error status 0 is caused by a wrong updater-binary. My fault! Misplaced some files while packaging it. I have re-uploaded the ROM now again. This time I used CM7 META-INF but added my own updater-script. To assure other issues the zip is unsigned now. So you will have to disable "signature checks" in CWM, too. Don't forget to wipe data/cache partitions in CWM, too.
Can I test this rom?
Count on me!
It's not modified like CM, just pure Android 2.3.7? Hmm I think It's a good idea, if you will be able to fix CM's bug (of course if there are here) it will be maybe one of the best rom. You can count on me too though.
Free to test if you need more testers for feed back? ;-p
Waiting eagerly for build, wanna give a shot
Hey all,
I've been working on an unofficial port of Xylon, a lightweight CM10.1 ROM. This ROM has been build from source. However, after several misbuilds and one succesfull build, the ROM is bootlooping. How can I discover what the source of this bootloop is? In other words, how do I fix it?
I have a little experience porting a ROM for another device (see my signature), that was easy, because logcat worked during the bootprocess. I couldn't get this working on my N7000...
I would be very happy if someone could help me. Thank you!
Zip file mediafire
look at logcat and identify the event that happens just before it bootloops
Can logcat be taken using adb ? If it can, take a look at the events leading up to the bootloop .
P.S. I would suggest changing the title to 'Xylon port bootloop problem' and PM'ing @chasmodo or @beerbong or @neobuddy89
Guardian Rom by x942Thanks to:
The Guardian Project
Cyanogen Mod
Android Open Source Project
Open-Pdroid Project
Any one else I am missing
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What is Guardian Rom?
Guardian ROM is a custom android ROM multiple devices. The ROM is completely Open Source and based off of the CM10.1. While this build is stable because it's based on CM10.1 it is a preview so please expect some bugs, & missing features (i.e updater).
What Features does Guardian Rom have?
Kernel is hardened with SecDroid Tweaks.
ROM is patched with and includes OpenPdoird for
permissions management.
Guardian Project apps are pre-installed – These include Orbot (Tor), Gibberbot (Secure IM),
and more.
CSSimple and OStel (https://guardianproject.info/wiki/Ostel) are included as replacements to the
built calling apps. providing encrypted communications.
If encryption is enabled and password is entered wrong 10 times the phone wipes user data.
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Coming Soon:
Including support for Deniable Encryption (similar to Truecrypt hidden volumes).
Including GRSecurity for exploit mitigation and more secure phone.
Including SQLCipher to ensure all data is encrypted whenever possible
Including a customer “app store” for our repos.
Different lockscreen pin and Pre-Boot authentication password.
Auto-Prompt for encryption setup on first boot.
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How to use:
Simply flash the flashable zip through your favorite custom recovery. (TWRP is recommended as it supports encrypted devices). Once flashed you should enable Full Disk Encryption by doing the following (may very depending on device):
Code:
Settings --> Security ---> Password [enter a strong 8-16 char password]
Than
Code:
Settings --> Security ---> Encryption --> Enable Encryption
Downloads:Downloads are over here.
Please verify the downloaded file with the attached GPG signature to ensure is is a legit copy.
GAPPS
Google Apps are NOT included and before you flash them you may want to read this article.
UPDATES:
Since this is a preview I have not had a chance to remove or modify the CM Updater. Please do NOT use it as you will be flashing a stock CM10.1 build and not Guardian Rom. This will be fixed shortly.
Reserved.
you could cherrypick some stuff from here
selinuxproject.org/page/SEAndroid
baz77 said:
you could cherrypick some stuff from here
selinuxproject.org/page/SEAndroid
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I may use SeAndroid. Right now I am focusing on the encryption side of things instead of the exploit mitigation side. That will come later.
Been following your work on sec Droid, this looks like a very very good start! May I know which version of CM that you used for this? Or it is based on the latest repo when you built it.
Thanks!
Flowed from my Nexus⁴
azrash said:
Been following your work on sec Droid, this looks like a very very good start! May I know which version of CM that you used for this? Or it is based on the latest repo when you built it.
Thanks!
Flowed from my Nexus⁴
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Awesome! Thanks! It's is based off the latest repo. I simple pulled and than modified the sources. I am currently getting some hosting for our own repo and Tor Hidden service for downloading. Stay tuned much more to come.
TimeAndroid said:
Look'in good, might try.
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The next build will have an AOSP 4.2.2 base with Mobiflage built in. Also Lock screen PIN and Pre-Boot PINs are now separated. So you can use a simple 4 digit pin on the lock screen and a 32 character pin at boot.
Also for more security you have to passwords one for the "outer volume" which you use as you daily usage and one as "hidden volume" which is your hidden os. You use the second for anything sensitive. That way if an attacker tries to force you to give up your password you just give up the outer volume (decoy) password. There is no way to prove the hidden volume exists.
Encryption also uses AES-256-XTS now instead of AES-128-CBC. Better key length and protection against watermarking attacks.
EDIT: If anyone wants early access please PM. The build is not ready for prime time as there is no GUI for encryption but can be used as a daily driver.
SecUpwN said:
No, I'm sure you're right. But since he explicitly stated that he won't build an ('unofficial') AOKP version, I'm looking for a way to get in the favor of the securiry modifications without gaving to switch to another ROM. It's just that AOKP has so many cool simplifications compared to CyanogenMod, I'd like to avoid a switch backwards. Maybe he could create an unsupported AOKP version every month? Possible?
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Or you could compile your own. Not trying to sound like a d**k but he had already stated numerous times he is only doing Cm base and yet u and others keep saying do this for aokp. There is a reason he is using cm as a base.
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DontPushButtons said:
I'm guessing the modifications he has been making go a little further beyond a flashable zip. Otherwise he would've done that instead of making a whole rom around privacy.
Could be wrong..
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Yes. I custom kernel is needed at the very least. Not to mention removal of Google Apps and tweaked UI for encryption (mobiflage). All of these are OS level tweaks and cannot be made into a ZIP.
droidkevlar said:
Or you could compile your own. Not trying to sound like a d**k but he had already stated numerous times he is only doing Cm base and yet u and others keep saying do this for aokp. There is a reason he is using cm as a base.
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This. AOKP will NOT be supported. EVER. If anyone wants a different base download the source code from my github and compile it yourself. Build documentation is on there. Furthermore AOKP and CM10.1 are both great roms, however there are too many variables. Both have a ton of unneeded binaries and settings. We cannot guarantee security are these builds. We choose CM10.1 because it's fully open source and has fewer complications then AOKP. On NEXUS devices we are using AOSP modified with our security tweaks. On non-nexus we use CM10.1 for now for simplicity.
I am hoping with the recent Google Edition devices it will be easier to port/compile AOSP onto those devices.
TL;DR:
WE WILL NEVER OFFICIALLY SUPPORT AOKP.
Thanks for understanding.This message is only meant to stop these requests, not to be rude so please don't take it that way.
Cleaning
This thread is in the DEVELOPMENT section. And is for the "Guardian Rom [Secure] [Privacy] [Preview]".
If you need to report an issue or bug then READ THIS POST ABOUT BUG REPORTS
Keep ALL posts aimed at the ROM development.
This thread is NOT A Q&A thread.
So don't ask why the WiFi won't work, post a LOGCAT of the actual event or it did not happen.
I have cleaned this thread.
If you repeatedly make junk posts, then INFRACTIONS will follow.
~JAB
Hey @x942, where is our Android 4.3 version of this funky ROM?
SecUpwN said:
Hey @x942, where is our Android 4.3 version of this funky ROM?
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We are working toward this. The issue we are having is that while 4.3 is latest 5.0 may be just around the corner. We don't want invest a ton of effort just to have re-port everything to 5.0 if it's released 2-3 months from now. That's not to say 4.3 won't happen. It's just we are focusing on adding more security. For now stable is 4.2.2.:good:
Am I missing where to find the flashable zip?
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Will this ever come to a Samsung Galaxy 3, or are your plans only for Nexus devices?
koz said:
Will this ever come to a Samsung Galaxy 3, or are your plans only for Nexus devices?
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S3 is underway. We have support for:
S3, HTC One, Nexus 4, Galaxy Nexus, S4, Nexus 7 and soon Moto X, Note 3 and Nexus 5.
Request
Hi,
Please add the new moto g xt1032 to your list of planned devices - it would be a great way to get more people secured as it is a very popular handset
Thanks for all your hard work!
x942 said:
S3 is underway. We have support for:
S3, HTC One, Nexus 4, Galaxy Nexus, S4, Nexus 7 and soon Moto X, Note 3 and Nexus 5.
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Has this ever been developed for the Galaxy S3? I haven't been able to find a download anywhere...
@X942 gaurdian rom sounds very interesting to me. would also like the att slll i747 to be added on list for consideration for dev.
am not a dev myself.
thank you for your work/time/energy. :thumbup:
err on the side of kindness
good
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x942 said:
S3 is underway. We have support for:
S3, HTC One, Nexus 4, Galaxy Nexus, S4, Nexus 7 and soon Moto X, Note 3 and Nexus 5.
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I cant find a download for the Note 3 ROM. The only thing I read about it is an update on http://shadowdcatconsulting.com/blog/ saying that support will come soon.
I have decided to rework the thread to ovoid any confusion as the intent of posting this thread was to ask questions about compiling custom Roms from AOSP source that someone like myself who gained their development experience on other devices that building from pure AOSP code was not an option and are not as familiar working with AOSP. In the past my own experience comes from using and modifying for example the Cyanogenmod source so after attempting to now base my Rom on AOSP this time around with Lollipop have run into a few unfamiliar differences. As each question or topic is addressed I will update the Op. The hope is not only will I find solutions or answers to my own questions but that others in the same position will also be able to find use of the discussions posted in this thread.
Compiling the AOSP source into a format that can be safely flashed using a custom recovery. This was a 3 part question the first was just simply how to compile AOSP in a format other then .img files that can be flashed using a custom recovery without the need of flashing through fastboot or needing to use the adb sideload option.
1, Compiling AOSP into the for of an update.zip.
This was answered in short by know.patience by suggesting to use the “make otapackage” command in place of "make" to start the build. Was also made aware that a few modifications would need to be made to avoid producing an update package that does not use the new block format but instead the old style zips we are most used to seeing.
2, Now can create an update.zip using the “make otapackage” command ran into an issue that by flashing the update.zip produced would in the process replace the custom recovery used to flash with the Nexus Stock recovery. This was answered by Lethargy who suggested and provided a Link for the following commit.
For getting rid of the AOSP recovery:
https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/48521e167c642db76c9d4f52b1c63f9abc7f707f
https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/1d9224bd45ef2b4f5601a157de2bfe3bb1c95558
3, Now can create an update.zip using the “make otapackage” and after applying the above commit are now able to flash the update.zip without replacing the recovery Lethargy also provided links for the following commits.
To get rid of the block-based zip format:
https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/4d458300d935a3a9d893a590286cb578dcf54db2
You'll also want to make sure you have this commit so it doesn't flash awfully slow in recovery (8~ minutes, but only around 1-2 minutes with this commit):
https://github.com/Lethargy/android_system_extras/commit/52f8d5fc3edfacd112827d0a41516c1dc5f4a468
This one isn't required but you may as well:
https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/242be9ae4f05e3cb1d39d635cac7147ff904700c
Compiling using the AOSP Master branch vs release branches. In following the directions provided on the Google development site are given the command for downloading the source code using the Master branch. Using the Master branch as apposed to a release branch such as android-5.0.2_r1 or lower have found that the source compiles just fine but have run into one issue and just a general question that a little explanation would be helpful for general understanding of the AOSP Master branch.
The issue is that after flashing a Rom compiled using the Master branch everything in the Rom works as expected other than the radio. I have so far using the same exact vendor blobs as compiling a release branch have not had a signal and baseband version is listed under about phone as unknown.
The general question is that the android version listed compiling a Rom using the Master branch is version 5.0.50.50.50.50. In general I have yet to understand what this version number represents and very little to no information available via the Google Box.
Between the both I now wounder if the Master branch is intended for actual use or if so what changes are required so the baseband version is recognized and radio / Ril will work?
Quick Answer:
Google first commits new code into master and then is later tagged with an update for realease so in generall many things can be broken and the master branch is and not intended to be stable so if building from master expect that things will be broke or buggy.
Compiling Rom and Kernel together. For those of us again used to compiling using say the CM code are now used to compiling the Kernel along with the rest of the code. I know it is easy to just compile the Kernel and include in the device tree but for those of us who would still like the Kernel compiles with the rest of the code there is no information available on the Google Developers site for doing so and there seems to be a few differences as have tried just using the lines used in the CM Hammerhead device repository. I have come across these commits from Cl3Kener that should help. Hate posting other developers code but is on Github so is there for the public at large. So far have only tested as is so will update if finding not all changes are necessary or can be modified.
Inline Kernel Building
https://github.com/OptiPop/device_lge_hammerhead/commit/7de8fd95b6df16cb6311161d5048874d69cf1cb1
https://github.com/OptiPop/device_lge_hammerhead/commit/87768896f4eb8fcd989ce3b8492ca65305513851
https://github.com/OptiPop/device_lge_hammerhead/commit/5460eb3aa76ea5d813f64a3b3bab6ace1be6de68
Adding Pre-Built APK's
Seems Sprint users need a few apk's for updating prl and what not that are included into the Stock release but are not part of the AOSP code. For some reason through vendor or even device have tried adding these apk's into the build. First try I created a sprint vendor section and received a few errors untill learning would need to add sprint into a vendor white list found in build. Will post link to file later. After found the extra "Services.jar" I found in the stock image not found in the aosp compiled Rom did copy into the build but the apk's had not. Looking in the other vendor blobs noticed lge adds "qcrilmsgtunnel.apk" so followed the example and even tried just adding the other spk's into lge expanding the list used for adding in "qcrilmsgtunnel.apk" but still no luck. Also have tried adding through the device files for Hammerhead just to get them into the Rom for testing and still no luck. If this was CM or any other Rom not using pure aosp this would have been a 5 minut project so need to do some aditional homework.
Again think this thread could be a good resource for developers who are new to building their Roms around AOSP so wanted to include everything I run into during the process of moving away from using a heavily modified CM based code as the base of my Rom to using AOSP in its place so developers who are or in the same process or for those in the future can use as a resource to quickly adjusting. I have been building CM based Roms like Starship for years and after hours of working on other aspects to suddenly be stumped by these small differences between platforms can be very frustrating.
to the OP:
answer to your first question comes in two parts.
a) use 'make -j# otapackage' will generate a zip that is flashable in custom recovery.
b) if you plan on adding other files after the zip is made, you will need this info here:
https://github.com/android/platform_build/commit/26e6619c37e294fe2ee63aaa759e0ac861775ce8
There are some modifications needed to generate the OG zip files instead of the new "block" format.
Google hasn't released the 5.0.1 image for the N5 but that doesn't mean you can't build it and install it yourself. I'm running it and it seems okay to me so far although I'm hardly an expert.
simms22 said:
op.. this section is only for developers, to get work done. if you have questions, they belong in the q&a section. you arent new, you should know this. again, this section is only for developers, mot for the normal xda folk to post questions. you have a q&a section just for asking questions. please, ask a mod to move your thread there.
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I am building a customized AOSP Rom I am interested in sharing so was looking for help or direction in creating an update zip that can be flashed in a custom recovery like TWRP. I am not used to compiling AOSP and with the help of know.patience in the first reply am now able to compile an update.zip I can flash in TWRP but in doing so it also replaces TWRP with the Stock recovery. I have still been using the .img files to flash personally but am still trying to figure out how to solve the recovery replacement issue. I still have other features I am adding and testing before I would like to post my work but before I get to that point I still need to figure out my recovery replacement issue. Maybe using the words personal use may have been confusing but at the moment until ready I have only been using my work personally but would like to at some point post and share. I also have work that is not AOSP based I am sharing in the Android Development section but I have been building CM and other source based Roms and sharing for years. This is the first device I have been able to build AOSP and still have a few things to figure out before sharing any of my AOSP based work. I am otherwise not sure why you think these are questions for general Q&A.
I started this thread in Android Development as there was only about 4 posts in this section and I see many AOSP based Roms in Android Development who's developers obviously know the answers to my questions so tried to get away posting there in hope one of these developers could help or like in the first response point me in the direction of a commit before the thread was moved by a mod into this section. Do you think someone in the general Q&A section is better equipped to help answer questions about compiling an AOSP based Rom in the form of an update.zip that can be flashed in TWRP without also replacing TWRP with the Stock recovery?? Would also be nice knowing what changes in the code need to be made in compiling an old style update.zip that does not use the new block format. This would be a bonus but overall not %100 needed as instead of moving files around after the code has been compiled have added init.d support and first have all the files I want moved into a staging directory and then form an init,d bash script to move the files during first boot and remove those that are not needed like this example I used in my CM based version of the Rom I am trying to update for AOSP for 5.0.
https://github.com/Starship-Android/android_device_starship-common/blob/cm-11.0/app-update
https://github.com/Starship-Android/android_device_starship-common/blob/cm-11.0/cleanup
I must seriously be underestimating the knowledge and in general the types of questions being asked and answered in the general Q&A section.
Honestly if not for the amount of times thanked I would think this comment was not so much about helping or community but more about someone trying to puff themselves up by trying to appear important by making decisions about what questions are worthy of being asked but judging by the number of times they have been helpful I am thinking its either a case of not reading or understanding the question being asked or my own inability to express my questions in the proper manor. Either way its definitely not about taking up resources in a section with less than 10 total posts. The frustrating part as a community as I like to believe we are all in is that why I worked on other parts in updating my Rom had expected that at least more than one developer out of all the AOSP based Roms posted in the development section would have helped me with this one part. Its not like I am asking how to be a developer just a resource to help with two simple things I am sure I could have figured out and will most likely still figure out without any help. Overall my thoughts behind posting this question was that why I am working to figure out something a bit more time consuming at least more than one person would be helpful enough to copy and past a commit.
XDA is weird in that with other devices all the developers would join a team and start a shared group of repository’s for one another to use in trying to make the best possible experience and options for everyone. For example in the op I posted an example of hours of work I did showing what libraries are needed by one another just so others could use it also in trying to port as much as possible for in that case the Galaxy Mini. Then with other devices like seems to be the case with the N5 its all about competition and what I am starting to call the smartest person in the room syndrome. Its just a shame there are only 5 maybe 6 threads posted in this section and I think that says allot about the community in general. So many good things could come about if we just tried to be helpful and pull as much knowledge together as we could. Anyhow think its time for ending this rant.
chairshot215 said:
compiling an AOSP based Rom in the form of an update.zip that can be flashed in TWRP without also replacing TWRP with the Stock recovery?? Would also be nice knowing what changes in the code need to be made in compiling an old style update.zip that does not use the new block format.
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To get rid of the block-based zip format: https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/4d458300d935a3a9d893a590286cb578dcf54db2
You'll also want to make sure you have this commit so it doesn't flash awfully slow in recovery (8~ minutes, but only around 1-2 minutes with this commit): https://github.com/Lethargy/android_system_extras/commit/52f8d5fc3edfacd112827d0a41516c1dc5f4a468
This one isn't required but you may as well: https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/242be9ae4f05e3cb1d39d635cac7147ff904700c
For getting rid of the AOSP recovery: https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/48521e167c642db76c9d4f52b1c63f9abc7f707f then https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/1d9224bd45ef2b4f5601a157de2bfe3bb1c95558
Lethargy said:
To get rid of the block-based zip format: https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/4d458300d935a3a9d893a590286cb578dcf54db2
You'll also want to make sure you have this commit so it doesn't flash awfully slow in recovery (8~ minutes, but only around 1-2 minutes with this commit): https://github.com/Lethargy/android_system_extras/commit/52f8d5fc3edfacd112827d0a41516c1dc5f4a468
This one isn't required but you may as well: https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/242be9ae4f05e3cb1d39d635cac7147ff904700c
For getting rid of the AOSP recovery: https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/48521e167c642db76c9d4f52b1c63f9abc7f707f then https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/1d9224bd45ef2b4f5601a157de2bfe3bb1c95558
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Thank you this is well beyond what I was looking for and don’t worry I make it a point not to send out PM's with questions that can be helpful for others as well. Otherwise would have blown up the AOSP Rom posters in development but thanks for the information.
chairshot215 said:
.. and don’t worry I make it a point not to send out PM's with questions that can be helpful for others as well..
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If you mean "I'll probably ignore you if you try asking for support over PM.", that's part of my forum signature.
If you need anything else feel free to @mention me in a thread, though.
I reworked the Op to avoid confusion as Mods have been moving the thread around into different sections. I personalty believe these questions are more geared towered development than general Q&A but at least at the moment I appear to be wrong about that. Never know though as in the past one day one of the mods may decide to move the thread back into its intended location but until then I guess these topics will be of better use to general users than developers.
chairshot215 said:
I reworked the Op to avoid confusion as Mods have been moving the thread around into different sections. I personalty believe these questions are more geared towered development than general Q&A but at least at the moment I appear to be wrong about that. Never know though as in the past one day one of the mods may decide to move the thread back into its intended location but until then I guess these topics will be of better use to general users than developers.
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You should include the other commit (https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/1d9224bd45ef2b4f5601a157de2bfe3bb1c95558) which fixes building since the first one results in "IndentationError: unexpected indent".
Lethargy said:
You should include the other commit (https://github.com/Lethargy/android_build/commit/1d9224bd45ef2b4f5601a157de2bfe3bb1c95558) which fixes building since the first one results in "IndentationError: unexpected indent".
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Thanks for the heads up, when testing these I also cherry picked a few other things that looked related. Have to double check but may have forked the repository’s from you so would receive credit if anyone decided to look over my repository’s. Well overall my personal Github has been pretty bare as in the past most work was done on more obscure Virgin Mobile devices with only a few developers so we would pretty much create an organization for all the developers to use.
https://github.com/MTDEV-CM7
https://github.com/MTDEV-CM10
https://github.com/vmobi-triumph
https://github.com/MTDEV-KERNEL
https://github.com/MTDEV-MIUIv4
https://github.com/MTCM9
https://github.com/MTCM10
https://github.com/HTCCM9
https://github.com/HTCCM10
https://github.com/HTCStarShip
https://github.com/HTCUbuntu
https://github.com/vmobi-shooter
https://github.com/vmobi-gogh
These days have been keeping everything under Starship-Android.
https://github.com/Starship-Android
Have 2 other members listed who I had worked with in the past but has otherwise been a solo organization with one of the other members who decided on going with the Moto X and Verizon over the N5 and showed little interest in his 2012 version of the N7 as it was intended for being a Nexus only device line up and the second being my Kernel Guru from a few devices back who mainly joined to help me out with a few things but ultimately what I am getting around to is this is the first time working %100 solo. Have to say without having anyone to bounce off ideas and share findings with things definitely move much slower and take a bit of getting used to. Is also the reason for starting threads like this. Most of this stuff looking in the developer section appeared to be pretty common knowledge but having never worked from pure AOSP before was slowing down other development for about a week just to figure out what seemed like half the community had already known and with what probably took at the most 5 or 10 minutes of copying and pasting commits probably saved me a weekend of sifting through github and testing. I hope by creating a thread like this will be able to do the same for others.
Hi guys,
Anyone manage to fix RIL problems with master branch?
I also build AOSP roms so for sure i will hangout here
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malcho said:
Hi guys,
Anyone manage to fix RIL problems with master branch?
I also build AOSP roms so for sure i will hangout here
Sent from my AOSP on HammerHead using XDA Free mobile app
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Never tried.
ODEXED
i am successfully build cm12 with fully odexed. now i like to odex some prebuilt apk also but LOCAL_DEX_PREOPT=true not odexing prebuilt apk. can somebody help me? already DEX_PREOPT=true working fine.
soorajj said:
i am successfully build cm12 with fully odexed. now i like to odex some prebuilt apk also but LOCAL_DEX_PREOPT=true not odexing prebuilt apk. can somebody help me? already DEX_PREOPT=true working fine.
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Why do you need to odex a prebuilt apk?
Not sure if what you want is even possible.
But if odexing your prebuilt apk is necessary then why not odex it then include the .odex with the prebuilt?
Lethargy said:
Why do you need to odex a prebuilt apk?
Not sure if what you want is even possible.
But if odexing your prebuilt apk is necessary then why not odex it then include the .odex with the prebuilt?
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suppose i want to odex gapps. how to?
malcho said:
Hi guys,
Anyone manage to fix RIL problems with master branch?
I also build AOSP roms so for sure i will hangout here
Sent from my AOSP on HammerHead using XDA Free mobile app
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Nothing so far, I downloaded the master and 5.0.2_r1 branches and have loaded both in meld for looking over differences but have not yet identified from the dif between the 2 branches that is responsible for ril working in release branch but not master. Still have allot to look over though still. Still have not found a decent explanation of the master branch to know if its recommended to build from but still just for Knowledge sake am interested in knowing. At first thought maybe apn's but not so sure with baseband also listed as unknown from my Master branch builds.
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Nothing so far, I downloaded the master and 5.0.2_r1 branches and have loaded both in meld for looking over differences but have not yet identified from the dif between the 2 branches that is responsible for ril working in release branch but not master. Still have allot to look over though still. Still have not found a decent explanation of the master branch to know if its recommended to build from but still just for Knowledge sake am interested in knowing. At first thought maybe apn's but not so sure with baseband also listed as unknown from my Master branch builds.
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As far as i know all the patches goes to master branch then from this branch ,if they are ok,is distributed to lower branches.I also didn't find info why is named as 5.0.50.50.I will try to investigate this ril problem
malcho said:
As far as i know all the patches goes to master branch then from this branch ,if they are ok,is distributed to lower branches.I also didn't find info why is named as 5.0.50.50.I will try to investigate this ril problem
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Thanks will definitely update the Op with any findings. Was very surprised to find the thread again as it has now been moved 4 times by 4 different Mods, some bounce it to general Q&A and then is bounced back here by another. I understand its not comprised of the most advanced development topics but with that said is still way more advanced than the topics being discussed by general users over in the general Q&A section. I had just thought it would be a nice one stop place for learning the basics of AOSP development. With the constant moving and scolding messages being received one would think the threads very existence is up there with crossing the streams and threatens the existence of Android development.
@chairshot215 Thank you for starting this thread. Thank you @Lethargy for all of your insight. I like to do my own perosnal builds every once in a while for my nexus devices. What I have observed over the years is that the Master Branch will sometimes have funky version numbers like you have described. One thing to consider is what @malcho mentioned. If all commits indeed go there first before the respective branches(although this may not entirely be the case), then it is likely that some things may be broken in the master branch from time to time, hence the ril problem. I think with the galaxy nexus I ended up running into issues from time to time with the master branch, and from there learned to build for specific branches/tags. For instance, there are times when items within a specific branch will be ahead of master in some areas and behind it in others, as in this link to platform_build for lollipop release https://github.com/android/platform_build/tree/lollipop-release. So with that, it is probably in our best interests to just use specific branches.
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@chairshot215 Thank you for starting this thread. Thank you @Lethargy for all of your insight. I like to do my own perosnal builds every once in a while for my nexus devices. What I have observed over the years is that the Master Branch will sometimes have funky version numbers like you have described. One thing to consider is what @malcho mentioned. If all commits indeed go there first before the respective branches(although this may not entirely be the case), then it is likely that some things may be broken in the master branch from time to time, hence the ril problem. I think with the galaxy nexus I ended up running into issues from time to time with the master branch, and from there learned to build for specific branches/tags. For instance, there are times when items within a specific branch will be ahead of master in some areas and behind it in others, as in this link to platform_build for lollipop release https://github.com/android/platform_build/tree/lollipop-release. So with that, it is probably in our best interests to just use specific branches.
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Thanks for the response and have definitely learned its better building from branches with a release tag. Still very curious why and how the branches are structured so thanks for the explanations.
Way totally off topic for the thread but landed a brand new SSD and decided to install everything fresh. After everything was set back up and wanted to start building I ran my usual,
-j'grep 'processor' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l'
a very old habit before fully understanding what number to use after -j so used grep to figure it out based on Googles recommendation. The command did not work so removed the grep and just made it -j4 but also with 0 success. At first just figued I missed somthing setting everything back up and "make" is just not working but wrong again as running "make" command without -j of any number works just fine.
Also tried this with CM12 as I am doing 2 versions of my Starship Rom. One from AOSP and one using CM. Figured AOSP would be special for Nexus users why also having a version for CM I can make most changes by adding a Starship Device Tree could easily port the Rom to any device running CM supported or not.
https://github.com/Starship-Android/android_device_starship-common/tree/cm-12.0
Also found why compiling CM that -j also results in an error
Invalid lunch combo: cm_hammerhead--j4
No such item in brunch menu. Try 'breakfast'
So far have not found anything using the Google Box so figured may as well ask. If have not figured out by now I have no shame in asking questions. Oddly enough that is for things that are probably relatively simple. Took a better part of a week figuring out how to start CM using the Now Launcher and setting up init.d bash scripts for moving around and replacing libs after learning the Gapps package includes libs that will not work so the solution needed to be that the CM Gapps package libs needed to be replaced with either stock or libs pulled after installing the Now Launcher from the Play Store after flashing Gapps and the Rom staring. Also then what if user updates and wipes the system partition after the new and updated llibs have been moved into place. Anyhow point of story is things like this I will just figure out without bothering anyone but for the cant believe I need to stop what I am working on to figure out something most likely very simple and can be answered with very little time spent I have no shame in just asking. Not that someone else’s time is less important but like I have mentioned before is frustrating just after spending hours or days figuring out something asked in dozens of threads is just frustrating getting caught up or loosing momentum and thought processes over something so simple there are little resources available. Also I assume most devs have the same experience when you have an idea or thought behind resolving an issue that once you stop and change direction it just sometimes never comes back and that short time you had I guess can be called an epiphany is gone once going back. Otherwise thats how I justify asking dumb ars questions.
Have been busy porting the SM-T285 to OmniRom 5.1, would just like to post the progress so far:
I've managed to reach a point where I managed to get graphics working and bring up the Android Home screen, however I still need to fix wifi, bluetooth,cellular.
If anyone can point me to someone who has experience porting spreadtrum devices, esp the sc8830 please pm me.
Below is a semi working SM-T285 device tree that I am currently working on:
Device Tree:
https://github.com/jedld/device_samsung_gtexslte.git
jedld said:
Have been busy porting the SM-T285 to OmniRom 5.1, would just like to post the progress so far:
I've managed to reach a point where I managed to get graphics working and bring up the Android Home screen, however I still need to fix wifi, bluetooth,cellular.
If anyone can point me to someone who has experience porting spreadtrum devices, esp the sc8830 please pm me.
Below is a semi working SM-T285 device tree that I am currently working on:
Device Tree:
https://github.com/jedld/device_samsung_gtexslte.git
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How is this coming along. I see you've been working on it right through last night. Any progress with the RIL?
TopTongueBarry said:
How is this coming along. I see you've been working on it right through last night. Any progress with the RIL?
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I got rild working, now trying to get wifi up.
Current OMNIRom status for the SM-T285.
1. Phone/LTE Services - OK
2. Graphics (hwcomposer/gralloc) - OK with bugs
3. Wifi - Still need to fix wpa_supplicant issues OK (10/20/2016)
4. Bluetooth - Broken, stock uses a custom bluedroid lib, will need to reverse engineer bluetooth commands
5. Audio - OK
6. Accelerometer - OK
7. GPS - Not Tested
8. USB Services (adb, tethering) - OK
9. Camera - Broken
Will post ROM once I sort these issues out.
Looking forward to this. :good:
I've just switch to porting OMNIRom 6.0 to the SM-T285, screenshots here:
SM-T285 running marshmallow
ril got broken when moving from 5.1.1 unfortunately, so working to get it back on. However there are now no more graphical bugs, the SM-T285 actually runs impressively on the Marshmallow
A release should be happening this week, I hope I beat samsung to Marshmallow with this device
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I've just switch to porting OMNIRom 6.0 to the SM-T285, screenshots here:
SM-T285 running marshmallow
ril got broken when moving from 5.1.1 unfortunately, so working to get it back on. However there are now no more graphical bugs, the SM-T285 actually runs impressively on the Marshmallow
A release should be happening this week, I hope I beat samsung to Marshmallow with this device
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Awesome.
Just curious. Will safety net pass?
venomrat said:
Awesome.
Just curious. Will safety net pass?
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Haven't tried, however I am led to believe that safetynet fails in general for all custom roms that is not based on stock like CyanogenMod or Omni.
Hello there, your work looks very good so far! Its good to see that someone finally takes care of the Tab A 7.0
Are u planning a T280 Release too?
Greetings
jedld said:
Have been busy porting the SM-T285 to OmniRom 5.1, would just like to post the progress so far:
I've managed to reach a point where I managed to get graphics working and bring up the Android Home screen, however I still need to fix wifi, bluetooth,cellular.
If anyone can point me to someone who has experience porting spreadtrum devices, esp the sc8830 please pm me.
Below is a semi working SM-T285 device tree that I am currently working on:
Device Tree:
https://github.com/jedld/device_samsung_gtexslte.git
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Quick question, I have very little or no experience about porting a rom. How do you do it and what applications and guide do you use to port a rom? I have a SM-T350 and I'm going to port Cyanogenmod 14. Thanks for the reply, in advance.
ParadoXGodzillA said:
Quick question, I have very little or no experience about porting a rom. How do you do it and what applications and guide do you use to port a rom? I have a SM-T350 and I'm going to port Cyanogenmod 14. Thanks for the reply, in advance.
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I don not personally have an all in one guide that I am following. There are various sites that provide bits and pieces of it, for CM, they have their own porting guide here: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro
Unfortunately, the guide above is only good for creating an initial setup. To be able to make the rom work on your device, you are probably going to need a bit more, sites like android open source provides a brief overview of how the bits and pieces work at a low level:
https://source.android.com/devices/index.html
I also had to deal with SELinux, and this is the part where there is a lot of lacking tutorials.
Next is mostly device specific. The best case scenario is if your device already has a CM port available (previous version) or if a device with similar hardware has it. If the SM-T350 already has a CM port available somewhere then your job is going to be a bit easier. If not it is going to extremely hard depending on what sort of hardware you are dealing with. There are some hardware manufactures that provide good support like Qualcomm and those that aren't so good at it Spreadtrum *cough*. In my own experience with the SM-T285 there aren't many devices with CM around that sport the same hardware, the best I got going was a Samsung Galaxy Core (core33g) CM port that I found in github after looking really hard. The real challenge is figuring out how things work and what "changes" the specific manufacture did to existing aosp. There are times where you are forced to use the stock (proprietary) libs and attempt to shim(patch functions) them to work.
I already have experience compiling CM from source since I also have a Nexus 5 which has pretty good support. I also have several years experience as an Android Developer as well as prior dev experiences related to Java/C/C++. You should also be familiar with the languages used in building android namely C/C++, Java as well various scripts as well as dealing with linux as there would be times when you need to make modifications to backport/forwardport functions used by proprietary libraries.
jedld said:
I don not personally have an all in one guide that I am following. There are various sites that provide bits and pieces of it, for CM, they have their own porting guide here: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro
Unfortunately, the guide above is only good for creating an initial setup. To be able to make the rom work on your device, you are probably going to need a bit more, sites like android open source provides a brief overview of how the bits and pieces work at a low level:
https://source.android.com/devices/index.html
I also had to deal with SELinux, and this is the part where there is a lot of lacking tutorials.
Next is mostly device specific. The best case scenario is if your device already has a CM port available (previous version) or if a device with similar hardware has it. If the SM-T350 already has a CM port available somewhere then your job is going to be a bit easier. If not it is going to extremely hard depending on what sort of hardware you are dealing with. There are some hardware manufactures that provide good support like Qualcomm and those that aren't so good at it Spreadtrum *cough*. In my own experience with the SM-T285 there aren't many devices with CM around that sport the same hardware, the best I got going was a Samsung Galaxy Core (core33g) CM port that I found in github after looking really hard. The real challenge is figuring out how things work and what "changes" the specific manufacture did to existing aosp. There are times where you are forced to use the stock (proprietary) libs and attempt to shim(patch functions) them to work.
I already have experience compiling CM from source since I also have a Nexus 5 which has pretty good support. I also have several years experience as an Android Developer as well as prior dev experiences related to Java/C/C++. You should also be familiar with the languages used in building android namely C/C++, Java as well various scripts as well as dealing with linux as there would be times when you need to make modifications to backport/forwardport functions used by proprietary libraries.
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Thanks for the info by the way. Can you add me on XDA-Developers so I can ask you any questions for going through the process of making your own rom? SM-T350 doesn't have any Cyanogenmod but only an EVERVOLV rom that has many bugs. Also do you have a tip or a link for Java/C/C++? I have no experience.
Thanks if you respond back!