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Hi! I'm currently making a somewhat desperate attempt at porting cm12 to the d950. I know some basic things, I once tried to make a custom kernel. I have the device and vendor trees set up, with the cm12 source and the files from the flex source, and I've been making some changes. Can anyone help point me in some direction from here?
dongdong6968 said:
Hi! I'm currently making a somewhat desperate attempt at porting cm12 to the d950. I know some basic things, I once tried to make a custom kernel. I have the device and vendor trees set up, with the cm12 source and the files from the flex source, and I've been making some changes. Can anyone help point me in some direction from here?
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Okay, so now I need to run extract-files.sh, only problem is it doesn't exist. and from my understanding, I have to already be running cm12 to do this, which obviously is not possible. Can anyone help me get the proprietary blobs?
You're better off looking at the g2 proprietary blobs as when I was trying I had the most success with them on CM11, its a good starting point
So should I take those, then make changes to suit the flex?
Yeah, its a good place to start, but it won't suddenly make it compile, it helped sort a couple of issues once we'd got it compiling in the first place....
Try msg playfulgod and see if he will point you in the right direction
Alright, I've got something that looks pretty good going, but I can't do anything without a working kernel. And as I don't know much about kernels, could Someone possibly try to make one for cm12? Also, I have the blobs from my boyfriend's g2, and I've made a lot of changes, but I might need a little more guidance. Any help is appreciated.
Do you have coding experience though thats the question.
Either Build a dummy kernel or modify the original kernel from cm11 roms that your device has and built it alongside the system images.
CyanogenMod doesnt allow Building of only the system.
Youll need to modify the following:
Kernel Source
Device Trees
Vendor Files
A good way to look at what is required for a cm12 bringup is to check other similar devices with the same architecture and compare the changes and the sources you have on your pc.
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I took programming classes, and there were a few units on android.
So I just forked the blobs from playfulgods repo, and I've made a lot of changes to tbe devices folder, as well as 'POSSIBLY' do something good as for a kernel, but I doubt that will work. How does one build the kernel to test it? Using linux btw. I have all of the dependencies and everything, could someone explain breakfast/brunch/lunch?
HEY SO I THIN K I HAVE SOMETHING THAT MIGHT WORK AFTER HAVING SOME REALLY SMART PEOPLE HELP sorry for caps, but now I have something in the out folder for zee, what do i do with this, and how do i make it flashable? could someone do it for me? and also, kernels?
dongdong6968 said:
HEY SO I THIN K I HAVE SOMETHING THAT MIGHT WORK AFTER HAVING SOME REALLY SMART PEOPLE HELP sorry for caps, but now I have something in the out folder for zee, what do i do with this, and how do i make it flashable? could someone do it for me? and also, kernels?
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I can write and add the meta-inf folders to make it flashable. But I don't do kernels
mattwheat said:
I can write and add the meta-inf folders to make it flashable. But I don't do kernels
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I would really appreciate that! What means should I take of sending you the output?
dongdong6968 said:
I would really appreciate that! What means should I take of sending you the output?
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I see 2 things with the Out Folder having problems.
1) What has the Build System Generate in the out folder?
2) CM12 will generate a pre configured Zip File if it doesn't, the build failed
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Furrydaus said:
I see 2 things with the Out Folder having problems.
1) What has the Build System Generate in the out folder?
2) CM12 will generate a pre configured Zip File if it doesn't, the build failed
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If anyone wants to take a look I zipped the out folder.
So you're going to tell us you zipped the folder but you're not going to tell us where it is? Lol
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dongdong6968 said:
So I just forked the blobs from playfulgods repo, and I've made a lot of changes to tbe devices folder, as well as 'POSSIBLY' do something good as for a kernel, but I doubt that will work. How does one build the kernel to test it? Using linux btw. I have all of the dependencies and everything, could someone explain breakfast/brunch/lunch?
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The device tree repos found in lg-devs github are the correct ones just change kernel source to our stock kernel and edit z.mk and verndor files can be extracted with the ./extract-fikes.sh script . But our kernel needs to be updated a little which i am working on mostly caf header need to be added to include/Linux for media and display. I trued using msm8974 kernel but our kernel has specific blobs we use which is easier to use stock kernel.
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dongdong6968 said:
HEY SO I THIN K I HAVE SOMETHING THAT MIGHT WORK AFTER HAVING SOME REALLY SMART PEOPLE HELP sorry for caps, but now I have something in the out folder for zee, what do i do with this, and how do i make it flashable? could someone do it for me? and also, kernels?
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What you mean you got something lol. We just need to update our stock kernel which you can have a better understanding. Of what i mean visit lg-devs for z repos . we should stick to stock kernel doe.
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I would really appreciate that! What means should I take of sending you the output?
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Upload it to drive then message me with a link
mattwheat said:
Upload it to drive then message me with a link
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/dx3sjp8bq720bkn/out.zip?dl=0
Furrydaus said:
So you're going to tell us you zipped the folder but you're not going to tell us where it is? Lol
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Sorry, completely forgot. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dx3sjp8bq720bkn/out.zip?dl=0
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.
Cheers
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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]
Hipom said:
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?
dady000 said:
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.
dady000 said:
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.
Avsky0 said:
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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Who can port port Sailfish os on Xiaomi redmi 4a?
Dedemit !!!
I could try to do this as a project as most of it is just Linux-y stuff, which I adore.
Since kernel sources have been released (by someone) for the rolex (search on GitHub and you'll probably find it) and also android_manifest.xml (comes really handy) has been also released.
This is definately now possible, just that it may take A LOT of effort to get it functioning right...
Quick update:
I've got HAL to compile on xiaomi_rolex (this phone) thanks to local_manifest provided by @Carlos Arriaga. There should be SailfishOS in no time if everything else goes smoothly...
nik1234567 said:
Quick update:
I've got HAL to compile on xiaomi_rolex (this phone) thanks to local_manifest provided by @Carlos Arriaga. There should be SailfishOS in no time if everything else goes smoothly...
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was anyone able to build one?
Sorry for not updating, but I've managed to get it compiled. But the thing is that it won't load the kernel....... while building a seperate project (postmarketOS) it seems to be a issue with device tree blobs, I tried compiling even as QCDT but no avail. If anyone can help me out, I would appreciate it. As I have no idea how the Linux and Android kernel level stuff actually work.
the output of
Code:
fastboot boot new_boot_image_i_made.img
is always something like
Code:
dtb: Not Found
and fastboot immediately freezes afterwards.
Discontinued.
Awaiting for thread deletion.
Thanks...Nice work after your miui 5 ROM
Help please..
Need someone who can risk his device by testing this ROM......
Happy holi.....
Happy holi my friends...
May this holi bring lots of Colors in your life!! and in mine too.
Kunal Gautam said:
Need someone who can risk his device by testing this ROM......
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I tried to install but it gives error 7 i think update.script should be rechecked.
Deep_dhimaan said:
I tried to install but it gives error 7 i think update.script should be rechecked.
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Thank you very much, i've understood whats the problem( as a pm by ashkineeeeee).
New update coming soon. Stay tuned.
Hey bros...
so there were some problem with permissions, it seems that it is fixed now..
Flash the ROM and review here....
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dont flash the rom now!!!
Some files are missing in boot.img
how stupid i am!!
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Flash it now!
Last build not installed,error 7.
mels01 said:
Last build not installed,error 7.
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Logs,screenshots?
Try installing from internal storage... Or update your recovery to the latest one by android andi...
Thanks!
Hey, I would like to help out, can I have the link to the ROM?
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Hey, I would like to help out, can I have the link to the ROM?
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I agree this message is a bit long but it is worth reading.
- Thanks, but sorry. Even if I give you the links and even if spend your precious time you would only be able to fix the error 7.
- Actually I've already fixed that(or know what's the issue atleast). There are files that are missing from the directories that are listed in the updater script. They cannot be deleted as the original base ROM I compiled was from UA(unlegacy android) that are based on the newer sources.
- Some files that are required for MIUI are also missing.
- Boot.img is incomplete. Which will result in bootloop even if I upload the error 7 fixed ROM.
- I am giving my board exams that are one of the biggest exams in India. And I cannot afford to score less in these.
- All I need is a older base ROM ,CyanogenMod 11 made around may of 2016. And also it must support init.d because the port ROM requires that.
- I've taken permissions from the maker of the port ROM. He has allowed me to proceed.
- All I need is permission from Android-Andi, as only he has older CM ROMs.
- I cannot compile because older sources are not available or maybe I am not known to them
Hope you understand. Thank you.
P.S. - Android-Andi if you read this please reply. You are the only one who can help me(by providing me permissions to use your ROM as a base).
With best regards,
Kunal Gautam
Links
Kunal Gautam said:
I agree this message is a bit long but it is worth reading.
- Thanks, but sorry. Even if I give you the links and even if spend your precious time you would only be able to fix the error 7.
- Actually I've already fixed that(or know what's the issue atleast). There are files that are missing from the directories that are listed in the updater script. They cannot be deleted as the original base ROM I compiled was from UA(unlegacy android) that are based on the newer sources.
- Some files that are required for MIUI are also missing.
- Boot.img is incomplete. Which will result in bootloop even if I upload the error 7 fixed ROM.
- I am giving my board exams that are one of the biggest exams in India. And I cannot afford to score less in these.
- All I need is a older base ROM ,CyanogenMod 11 made around may of 2016. And also it must support init.d because the port ROM requires that.
- I've taken permissions from the maker of the port ROM. He has allowed me to proceed.
- All I need is permission from Android-Andi, as only he has older CM ROMs.
- I cannot compile because older sources are not available or maybe I am not known to them
Hope you understand. Thank you.
P.S. - Android-Andi if you read this please reply. You are the only one who can help me(by providing me permissions to use your ROM as a base).
With best regards,
Kunal Gautam
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Have you seen this CM 11? https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-2/7-inch-development/rom-cm-11-0-galaxy-tab-2-t3737392
Just made last month by @Deltadroid
Links are removed because *the ROM is not complete yet*.
Thanks, but I need to confirm a few things before I could use a ROM(includes init.d support and a bunch of other things). Also, it is very important that deltadroid provide me permission to use his ROM.
Thank you!
Regards,
KG
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I just saw deltadroid's thread, the title clearly says that the ROM is for p3110. I want to make a unified one. I need a ROM made with unified device tree.
If I do port, it will only work on p3110 and maybe on every 7" device. I don't want do this.
Sorry, but yeah thanks!
Just wait till 3 april 2018. Most probably I will upload.
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Or I must say it an update. 75 percent of the work is done. Somehow I managed to get a base ROM(only I know how). Only build.prop editing and Updater script editing work left(these are the most difficult BTW).
Update coming soon. Stay tuned.
I've updated the links. I've uploaded the new ROM. I've done with porting(i guess). I've used a lot of time.
Flash and review!
Kunal Gautam said:
I've updated the links. I've uploaded the new ROM. I've done with porting(i guess). I've used a lot of time.
Flash and review!
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No wonder the ROM doesn't work.... Security patch is in a wrong format.
"ro.build.version.security_patch=2080-17-March"
It should be, "ro.build.version.security_patch=2018-03-01"
or,
"ro.build.version.security_patch=2018-03-05"
And this, hardly doubt this will work, but idk.
"ro.build.date.utc=999999999999"
Mistakes....................
EDIT**** Build id should be the app id: example lets say the id is 678, on build.prop, it would say 678.
you have, "ro.build.id=KUNAL"
secretwolf98 said:
No wonder the ROM doesn't work.... Security patch is in a wrong format.
"ro.build.version.security_patch=2080-17-March"
It should be, "ro.build.version.security_patch=2018-03-01"
or,
"ro.build.version.security_patch=2018-03-05"
And this, hardly doubt this will work, but idk.
"ro.build.date.utc=999999999999"
Mistakes....................
EDIT**** Build id should be the app id: example lets say the id is 678, on build.prop, it would say 678.
you have, "ro.build.id=KUNAL"
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You, sir, definitely have a lot to offer. I am afraid that this is not the actual problem. By now, I surely understand the importance of logs. Would be very helpful if someone could arrange me them.
And about your post it seemed really rude, raw, insulting and manipulating to me. But however, helpful. It makes it really hard to continue developing for a 6 years old Tab, with hardware that has nothing to offer in 2018. At least, I am trying.
Since, this was an Alpha build(because I moved sources) these problems are sure to arise. I did the same(build.prop things) with my kinda successful ROM MIUI 5(see it in the 7" forums).
I guess you haven't tasted port ROMs yet. They are hard to build. Alike your compiling ones, you have source, type some commands, turn your computer on for about 5 hours, when done upload it.
I am sure you must have did trail and error (in chemistry and math) porting ROMs is just the same. I am sure, that as a developer, you must know what logs actually mean.
But whatever, thank you for you review(insult I guess).
Kunal Gautam said:
You, sir, definitely have a lot to offer. I am afraid that this is not the actual problem. By now, I surely understand the importance of logs. Would be very helpful if someone could arrange me them.
And about your post it seemed really rude, raw, insulting and manipulating to me. But however, helpful. It makes it really hard to continue developing for a 6 years old Tab, with hardware that has nothing to offer in 2018. At least, I am trying.
Since, this was an Alpha build(because I moved sources) these problems are sure to arise. I did the same(build.prop things) with my kinda successful ROM MIUI 5(see it in the 7" forums).
I guess you haven't tasted port ROMs yet. They are hard to build. Alike your compiling ones, you have source, type some commands, turn your computer on for about 5 hours, when done upload it.
I am sure you must have did trail and error (in chemistry and math) porting ROMs is just the same. I am sure, that as a developer, you must know what logs actually mean.
But whatever, thank you for you review(insult I guess).
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FYI, I port ROMs. It was pointers what to fix, if you wanted to get this ROM better, than it is already.
Kunal Gautam said:
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P.S. - Android-Andi if you read this please reply. You are the only one who can help me(by providing me permissions to use your ROM as a base).
With best regards,
Kunal Gautam
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Sorry, I won't give permissions after different people used my ROMs as base in the past without permissions. Hope there is a learning affect....
Since i love OpenSource: Sources are available on every official GitHub (slim, Omni, Lineage, UA) and up to date (note: I wouldn't have to do this, I could keep all device trees private but I am updating them for everyone - always). You'll have to compile your own base ROM to use for such port ROMs (I am not a fan of).
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Sorry, I won't give permissions after different people used my ROMs as base in the past without permissions. Hope there is a learning affect....
Since i love OpenSource: Sources are available on every official GitHub (slim, Omni, Lineage, UA) and up to date (note: I wouldn't have to do this, I could keep all device trees private but I am updating them for everyone - always). You'll have to compile your own base ROM to use for such port ROMs (I am not a fan of).
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Thank you. For at least replying. You works will always be appreciated. Now, I am gonna close this thread. Thanks again!
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.
paziusss said:
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.
jlang11 said:
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
paziusss said:
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.
paziusss said:
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?