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I want to develop

Hi everybody i was wondering if there was any developer that could help me learn how to develop some roms and stuff for the sgs4g i really want to help. I'm 14 help me please need step by step instructions!!

mods delete please
another clutter prone to happen.
dear ssh678.
even though your ambition is highly admired, there are rules & regulations you need to read prior to posting.
this is probably what you're looking for.
~cheers

That thread is a dead end. What exactly are you trying to do? I can help you a little bit.
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this is the wrong place to post questions. mod please move this thread.

chris.... said:
That thread is a dead end. What exactly are you trying to do? I can help you a little bit.
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I'm just trying to learn how to make roms and kernels so if i wanted to make a rom my way with everything i want with a kernel that i made i would post it and let everybody try im a noob sorry... im just trying to make roms and kernels

ssh678 said:
I'm just trying to learn how to make roms and kernels so if i wanted to make a rom my way with everything i want with a kernel that i made i would post it and let everybody try im a noob sorry... im just trying to make roms and kernels
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Any programming experience?
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chris.... said:
Any programming experience?
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along with you wanna learn linux?
cause linux experence cough helps tons cough

RaverX3X said:
along with you wanna learn linux?
cause linux experence cough helps tons cough
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Yeah, plus Linux is awesome anyway
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well knowing how to read configure and install via source helps along with compileing kernels.. Hince why linux exp is a major plus

You need either Linux or a Mac to build from source anyway
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I'm gonna hijack the thread since the OP is taking too long to reply.
I have some experience with Linux. Programming experience with HTML, Javascript, PHP, Java and C/C++.
Any tips?

FBis251 said:
I'm gonna hijack the thread since the OP is taking too long to reply.
I have some experience with Linux. Programming experience with HTML, Javascript, PHP, Java and C/C++.
Any tips?
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get eclipse get the android sdk set them up also get the samsung sorce code from Samsung have a look at it
get fimmilar with complying your own kernels from source so on so forth read learn ask questions.
Dont be afraid of soft bricks

chris.... said:
You need either Linux or a Mac to build from source anyway
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ok i will dual boot linux with windows but i have no programming experience i will be taking classes in highschool but for now nothing so i need some major help thanks for helping! Any linux OS? Which one? i need link thanks! Also need to learn c++ Thanks......HELP!

ssh678 said:
ok i will dual boot linux with windows but i have no programming experience i will be taking classes in highschool but for now nothing so i need some major help thanks for helping! Any linux OS? Which one? i need link thanks!
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Ubuntu is pretty easy to use
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ubuntu is easy to learn.. Read read everything best advice i can give the reason i stated eclipse is u can test of a fake phone via the program without fear of killing ur own device for apps and what not lol thats always a plus

ssh678 said:
ok i will dual boot linux with windows but i have no programming experience i will be taking classes in highschool but for now nothing so i need some major help thanks for helping! Any linux OS? Which one? i need link thanks! Also need to learn c++ Thanks......HELP!
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You'll wanna learn Java, specifically, Object Oriented Programming. Stick to one of the more popular Linux distributions since it'll be easier to get your computer set up and deal with driver problems and the like. For now, maybe Ubuntu would be your best choice.

Come on, don't blame on me,but do you have any ideas of Linux otherwise this will be a thread with only HOW-TO install Linux and how to fetch repo and mod them to destroy the main reason they were build. TO WORK ON YOUR PHONE !
I don't want to be rude! Im only think that it is senseless to learn first android devin, when you never used Linux befor :/
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Borky_16 said:
Come on, don't blame on me,but do you have any ideas of Linux otherwise this will be a thread with only HOW-TO install Linux and how to fetch repo and mod them to destroy the main reason they were build. TO WORK ON YOUR PHONE !
I don't want to be rude! Im only think that it is senseless to learn first android devin, when you never used Linux befor :/
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hate to say it he does have a point with 0 prior experence u might wanna start learning linux first and foremost and work from there

Yeah but this thread is a good idea for people who are halfway there and want to learn
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never said it wasnt

[Q/A] Ask Us Your Questions Here About Roms & Mods

Fed of looking at threads opened up here & there for even smallest thing!
So i decided to answer them all! Ask you're Questions & Requests about Roms,Mods etc here!
Me, Emo and others who are aware of it will answer them!
Keep it clean! Good Luck!

Feel free to ask
Herpderp Adreno + Tegra.

This should be stickied.

Good post,needs sticky.
So now whe have Infected Rom, Titanium and we are going to have Cyanogen,no?
I love Cyanogenmod and its a good new to know you are working on it

DarknessDragon said:
Good post,needs sticky.
So now whe have Infected Rom, Titanium and we are going to have Cyanogen,no?
I love Cyanogenmod and its a good new to know you are working on it
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We are working on it for sure and heavily! We i'll make an official statement when we have a bootable build! I'll be back to home tommorow so i'll sort out that

Hi all!
All I want to say that thank to XDA's community and its devs , Ive seen the evolution of the scene SGR from no roms nor kernels to infected and titanium roms and as I seen theres a CM7 project on the go and even AOSP.... thats much more than I expected when I bought it so thanks for everything!

Uh, I was just looking up on MIUI rom and I have got a question. Why is CM more popular? MIUI seems like a much nicer experience.

MIUI is much newer, supports quite few devices and it's basically based on CM. To get MIUI u must first have CM /AOSP.

FeralFire said:
Uh, I was just looking up on MIUI rom and I have got a question. Why is CM more popular? MIUI seems like a much nicer experience.
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Lol! No offence! But i hate iPhone

eaglerazor123 said:
Lol! No offence! But i hate iPhone
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No offense. But, why is that 99.99% of Android lovers hate iPhone and vice versa?

eaglerazor123 said:
Lol! No offence! But i hate iPhone
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I hate iPhone as well.
When I looked at MIUI, my first thought were like that as well, "This is an iOS copy. How on earth is this so popular?"
But then I went through it and it seemed pretty awesome.

How do you make an Odin flash able ROM and one for CWM?
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I've heard that NVflash is a lower level of firmware flashing than Odin and NVflash makes Optimus 2x almost inbrickable.
Is it possible that we can have this method for our phones too?

AbShake96 said:
How do you make an Odin flash able ROM and one for CWM?
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Odin flashable roms aren't easy to make! And CWM needs an Updater-Script which have to be written according to our custom rom n file structure! Take a look at herehttp://freeyourandroid.com to get u started..

dh33r4j said:
I've heard that NVflash is a lower level of firmware flashing than Odin and NVflash makes Optimus 2x almost inbrickable.
Is it possible that we can have this method for our phones too?
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Lg is totally diff from Sammy! Odin is best for Samsung For non-bricking tip Dont get confused!

FeralFire said:
I hate iPhone as well.
When I looked at MIUI, my first thought were like that as well, "This is an iOS copy. How on earth is this so popular?"
But then I went through it and it seemed pretty awesome.
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I have a 3GS and a Galaxy R sitting next to my R and Defy XD
Ahh yes , my Backflip is charging .
With my iPad 2 .
This shows that I go for good hardware . Who cares what the software is
Herpderp Defy.

Why do we get only 721 mb of ram despite having 1gb of it???. Sgs2 shows .91gb of ram
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Seeking advice on building AOSP
Hi,
I want to learn building ROMS. I am aware that it is a difficult job, but I want to give it a try. I have read the AOSP buld instructions, but they don't mention the steps involved in creating a new build target. I understand that the process is maybe different for each device, so could any of the ROM developers here please tell me about the steps involved in doing the same for our Galaxy R?
If the answer is very involved, a short summary and relevant links will help a lot, too.

zerocool_rkl said:
Why do we get only 721 mb of ram despite having 1gb of it???. Sgs2 shows .91gb of ram
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Some memory is used for other things like system memory (Internal ROM space) and GPU RAM .
Herpderp Defy.

n0frills said:
Hi,
I want to learn building ROMS. I am aware that it is a difficult job, but I want to give it a try. I have read the AOSP buld instructions, but they don't mention the steps involved in creating a new build target. I understand that the process is maybe different for each device, so could any of the ROM developers here please tell me about the steps involved in doing the same for our Galaxy R?
If the answer is very involved, a short summary and relevant links will help a lot, too.
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The thing when I tried myself was that there was no public repo for it , so I decided to make one myself .
The repo itself took a lot of time out of me
As of now the repo is incomplete .
Herpderp Defy.

Anyone Dev in 3.0 kernel

Hi.. any dev
Our cm9 is under progress because the 3.0 kernel is hold .dhiru can finish a fully working cm9 with a 3.0 kernel.
So we( users of i9003)hope any Dev can help us in the kernel development...can put time in..
It is our last hope in i9003
loukalok
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quick question, if kernel 3 is released, then ALL the known bugs will be fixed??

marshygeek said:
quick question, if kernel 3 is released, then ALL the known bugs will be fixed??
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Yes according to dhiru

marshygeek said:
quick question, if kernel 3 is released, then ALL the known bugs will be fixed??
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May be, it can easy to fix USB.....
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@all
we have the source code for K3, but 1st make it to boot on our devices, than debug for the new Kernel bugs, than continue to port CM9.
so, not like we have kernel 3, than we have CM9 stright away.

chongns said:
@all
we have the source code for K3, but 1st make it to boot on our devices, than debug for the new Kernel bugs, than continue to port CM9.
so, not like we have kernel 3, than we have CM9 stright away.
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Now are waiting to debug
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loukalok said:
Now are waiting to debug
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you mean we have kernel 3 booting ?

chongns said:
you mean we have kernel 3 booting ?
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No.....
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loukalok said:
No.....
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I would be happy to help port kernel 3.x to this device. Your best bet is to go for kernel 3.4 as it's newer and will have more security and performance boosts, and it will also have updates to the OMAP architecture.
The only thing holding me back from helping you guys is the lack of a device. I have heard a few people want to organise one (some guy named Fuss is getting rid of his?), I'd be happy to pay for shipping the device to New Zealand.
This is OMAP so anything is possible for this phone.

hillbeast said:
I would be happy to help port kernel 3.x to this device. Your best bet is to go for kernel 3.4 as it's newer and will have more security and performance boosts, and it will also have updates to the OMAP architecture.
The only thing holding me back from helping you guys is the lack of a device. I have heard a few people want to organise one (some guy named Fuss is getting rid of his?), I'd be happy to pay for shipping the device to New Zealand.
This is OMAP so anything is possible for this phone.
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Well here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26295293&postcount=11. He was developing for our phone after we donated a device to him, but in the end could not do much for us, maybe he had some real life problems or something, but now he is willing to give it away. Are you sure you are willing to pay the shipping costs? It would be great, but i think we should hear from dhiru first. He is porting CM9 to our device currently, and is doing an awesome job so far, just needs the kernel 3.x Here is the CM9 thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449649

hillbeast said:
I would be happy to help port kernel 3.x to this device. Your best bet is to go for kernel 3.4 as it's newer and will have more security and performance boosts, and it will also have updates to the OMAP architecture.
The only thing holding me back from helping you guys is the lack of a device. I have heard a few people want to organise one (some guy named Fuss is getting rid of his?), I'd be happy to pay for shipping the device to New Zealand.
This is OMAP so anything is possible for this phone.
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i hope u'll take the phone man, and good work with 3.0 kernel! =)

bscraze said:
Well here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26295293&postcount=11. He was developing for our phone after we donated a device to him, but in the end could not do much for us, maybe he had some real life problems or something, but now he is willing to give it away. Are you sure you are willing to pay the shipping costs? It would be great, but i think we should hear from dhiru first. He is porting CM9 to our device currently, and is doing an awesome job so far, just needs the kernel 3.x Here is the CM9 thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449649
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I shall give fuss a buzz and let him know I'd be willing to take the device off his hands.

so what about this kernel?are u developing it?

Mamica said:
so what about this kernel?are u developing it?
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Wow. Aren't you a persistent one... Ive seen your spams in 3 different threads already. And you've been replied to by three different guys. Now you've bumped a 16 day old thread...
So Mamica, since we're in the general section, can you enlighten us with your reason for asking the ETA and the developer of Kernel 3.0 over and over and over again? What's the reason for this urgency?
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there isn't any urgency and the people i asked didn't answer me at all
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i just want to know if the project started

@Mamika, you don't have to ask this in every thread u see. If people don't answer u is because it is answered. It is very simple to read threads and get ur own answers to everything. People is tired of other who want the easy way. They ask and want people to solve their doubts and questions...
Kernel 3.0 port hasn't started. Hillbeast is going to compile it and dhiru will use it to solve bugs like HW acceleration in video. Hillbeast needs a device. Fuss has sent his device to hillbeast a week ago and it is going by ship so we don't know when will it arrive. No one knows that so please stop asking, be pacient and do not spam the threads. Hope u understand..

This is what I wanted, a simple answer.It took a long to give one.....Thanks for your desire to write

Mamica said:
This is what I wanted, a simple answer.It took a long to give one.....Thanks for your desire to write
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this simple answer u can get by easy search also...! Dont expect that everyone will answer ur every question.

vishal24387 said:
this simple answer u can get by easy search also...! Dont expect that everyone will answer ur every question.
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Vishal, smoke is coming out from your nose
@Mamica: Although i do not own this device anymore, i was well aware of what is happening on developing the 3.0 kernel for sgsl by reading through the forum. About fuss, hillbeast, how the sgsl community helped each other in order to send to hillbeast the device etc. A simple search(yeah, annoying to write and specially annoying to read ) or scroll through this forum may have answered your question. Anyway, this is not intended to bash you in anyway but just a reminder that a simple search (

ephraim033 said:
Vishal, smoke is coming out from your nose
@Mamica: Although i do not own this device anymore, i was well aware of what is happening on developing the 3.0 kernel for sgsl by reading through the forum. About fuss, hillbeast, how the sgsl community helped each other in order to send to hillbeast the device etc. A simple search(yeah, annoying to write and specially annoying to read ) or scroll through this forum may have answered your question. Anyway, this is not intended to bash you in anyway but just a reminder that a simple search (
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Ha ha ha...no buddy. I am not at all angry. I have spend nearly 1.5 yrs on xda. So now I am used to behaviour of new members. I just want that they should learn to search & get info instead of keep on posting or pm same questions again & again

Tutorial: Android Internals - Building a Custom ROM, Pt. 1 of 2

This for those this a great , aw some step by step tutorial with in depth nareation on how to truly build Android . I have yet to see a tutorial that is deeper than ripping and repackaging a Rom. This teaches it all to you
Android Development.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_H4AlQaNa0
In this two-part series, Marko is going to show you how to build a custom Android ROM from scratch. This series will cover:
Building Android From Source
- Setting up your machine
- Getting the source code: git and repo
- Building the source code
- Android project layout - what is what
Building Custom Android ROM
- Customizing the build
- Adding and removing applications
- Rooting the device and modifying users
- Modifying startup process
- Installing native libraries
Modifying Android Frameworks
- About Android frameworks and services
- Sensor service
- Telephony service
- Multimedia framework

I glad to engage in this work. I now start learning

PrakashGD said:
I glad to engage in this work. I now start learning
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Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1404442

This was way too much. Still didn't help with other problems.
See what it was trying but for a newb want the best tutorial.
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This tutorial is brilliant im surprised there isnt more like this!
fabzbear said:
This was way too much. Still didn't help with other problems.
See what it was trying but for a newb want the best tutorial.
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No offence but If this tutorial is way to much, you should even be considering building a custom rom

JoinTheRealms said:
This tutorial is brilliant im surprised there isnt more like this!
No offence but If this tutorial is way to much, you should even be considering building a custom rom
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Let me rephrase what I said because I'm reading it now and I can see why it came across like that.
The tutorial is ok and it shows a couple in depth stuff but it doesn't fully cover everything, not the little things I've had to go around xda to find to make my build work.
Simply put it not a full tutorial but it comes close.
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AWESOME and thanks for posting, definitely checking this out =D =D =D

i will definitely check this out! thanks!

Does it work on Windows Vista?

Thanks for sharing!

fabzbear said:
This was way too much. Still didn't help with other problems.
See what it was trying but for a newb want the best tutorial.
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I feel your pain bro.
Wasnt that long ago when I was a noob too
However, I suggest you check out this dudes post. Helped me a lot back then.
peace B|
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862782

Does this really helped anyone??
I just wanna know because i own a non famous android phone which has very less roms and mods so i just wanna use this method to compile
ROMs for my phone from sources like cm repos.

i used to make pots roms for the lg p500, i tried to make one for my atrix 2 and nothing, i asked to some developers of atrix 2 (very famous by the way) and i tell them how i make those ports and they tell me that it was other metod for our atrix 2, and NEVER TELL ME WHAT WAS THAT METOD, I ASK LIKE 3 MORE TIMES AND NEVER GET AN ANSWER. It was depressing :crying::crying::crying:

Hi thanks for posting this tutorial and for your work. One thing would like to ask is if anyone no's of some more links or books as I would like to learn how to code and correct bugs and add features to ROMs or build my own. I would greatly appreciate any help thanks in advance.

Rom building

i know iv asked this before but im really trying to get into android development
Wondering what exact kind of knowlege do i need to know to develop ROMs?
also i heard that i would need a linux computer , is this true?
( i only have XP & 7 )
anyway, i want to be able to contribute to xda
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Linux is needed to build from source. If you are going the source building way. Let me know, I can tell you what you need.
Or you can download stock ROM's and mod them. Port ROM's from around the area, good start too.

The Archangel said:
Linux is needed to build from source. If you are going the source building way. Let me know, I can tell you what you need.
Or you can download stock ROM's and mod them. Port ROM's from around the area, good start too.
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idk anything about building or modding lol

NovaxxBite said:
idk anything about building or modding lol
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if i were you, i would start with porting. the easiest ROMs to port are AOSP based CM7. make sure the devices are at least similar to each other, the HTC Desire HD would be a good start. don't even try Samsung Galaxy to this phone, the structures are too different from each other, and porting that would take a long time.
so read and search around the forums, make sure you read as much as you can read, and don't hesitate to refer back to the guides and posts by other users if you don't understand. and of course, there are people on this board (such as myself) who are more than willing to help you out with troubles and any further questions.
Good luck!

NovaxxBite said:
idk anything about building or modding lol
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first do ports instead. my port guide is designed around the cm7 platform. use that an what saranhai said

Here you go! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974420
*shameless self plug*