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I have finally, successfully, gotten jt1134's device tree and Froyo framework all configured for the Mesmerize. This is a Vanilla Froyo (no Cyanogenmod) build and works enough to play around with (= But, I should warn you, this isn't a terribly stable build, so don't freak out if something acts weird d= Also, I'm not responsible for any harm you may do to your devices..
It's late and I have an 8:00 am tomorrow so I haven't tested everything out yet, but what is working and not working should be similar to what jt1134 has listed over in his Fascinate thread. Here's what I've tried though:
Working:
Phone
SMS
GPS
WiFi
Not Working:
Data?
Bluetooth
Camera
sdcard?
Oh, and it may randomly 'boot loop' a few times.. don't freak out though.
For this to work you need to be using the Mesmerize Froyo kernel I recently posted. To get everything setup just download the ROM and the Kernel and put them on your sdcard. Boot into recovery and make a backup. Wipe your data and cache partition. Flash the ROM. Flash the Kernel. Reboot. Froyo! If you're going to try to adopt this ROM for everyday use (good luck), make sure you grab the GApps package and flash that last.
I haven't got a Mesmerize device tree on github yet, but you can find the alterations to the kernel up. Really, you should look at jt's source/github because that's where all the dirty work is done (= Also, some of his work is under ModADroid on github.
Download Links:
Mesmerize Vanilla Froyo ROM: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464066/Mesmerize/ROMs/froyo_mesmerize_0122.zip
Mesmerize Froyo Voodoo Kernel: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464066/Mesmerize/Kernels/0123_mesmerize_voodoo5.zip
I'll post a link to a nonvoodoo kernel when I get one compiled.
Froyo GApps: http://goo-inside.me/google-apps/gapps-hdpi-20101114-signed.zip
Be careful!! This kernel is named the same as jt's Voodoo Sound 2.1 Kernel that he released yesterday. You may want to rename one of the two if you plan on using both. The ROM will bootloop or freeze at the lockscreen if you mistakenly use a 2.1 kernel (=
Source:
http://github.com/jt1134
http://github.com/dcow
Credits:
jt1134 <-- for all the SCH-I500 framework work
punk-kaos <-- for his contributions to the SCH-I500 framework
phidelt82 <-- for keeping me company late at night (not like that.. ..) and for letting me bounce ideas off of him, calling me out when I'm being stupid, and flashing whatever I throw at him (=
Enjoy!
Let me be the first! Thank you so much this should hold me over until official release comes out.. Maybe even then lol, thanks again.
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cpfeifer said:
Let me be the first! Thank you so much this should hold me over until official release comes out.. Maybe even then lol, thanks again.
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Perhaps if we get a to a final release or beta then. I don't think you'll be wanting to employ this for everyday use until we get more issues fixed.
cpfeifer said:
Let me be the first! Thank you so much this should hold me over until official release comes out.. Maybe even then lol, thanks again.
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Perhaps if we get a to a final release or beta then. I don't think you'll be wanting to employ this for everyday use until we get more issues fixed.
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It was definitely fun to play with, but yeah, as for everyday use, there is still work to do. Hopefully soon though. I know I'll be digging in some more tonight to see if I can find anything fixes.
be glad to help test things once you get a little bit more stable with this.
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It was definitely fun to play with, but yeah, as for everyday use, there is still work to do. Hopefully soon though. I know I'll be digging in some more tonight to see if I can find anything fixes.
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The sdcard issue is just a problem with the init.rc I think.. but we'll see whats still not working after I get jt's latest source built and we can work from there.
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The sdcard issue is just a problem with the init.rc I think.. but we'll see whats still not working after I get jt's latest source built and we can work from there.
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I think it has to do with the mounting. It looked the same as the other init.rc's that I was looking at, but it was all running together at that point last night. I'll dig into it some more tonight and look at the mounting of the base init file and see what I can come up with. Hopefully something will jump out.
Dont pull bin/vold from a prebuilt image, make sure you're building the aosp version. Also, make sure you are pulling prebuilt/vold.fstab from my device repo.
Android uses the vold daemon and fstab files to manage sdcard mounts, not a simple mount command like the ones used in init.rc for other partitions.
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Thank you guys for all the hard work!
Looking forward to trying this out! Just to be sure- when I'm done playing I can go straight back to the exact way I have it now as long as I have a nandroid backup? No harm done?
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co6alt said:
Looking forward to trying this out! Just to be sure- when I'm done playing I can go straight back to the exact way I have it now as long as I have a nandroid backup? No harm done?
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No, you also need to revert to a 2.1 kernel as well. I mean 2.1 will boot on this kernel, but I can't say that it will work perfectly, and I found my scdard still didn't after a restore until I reverted kernels.
So restoring doesn't change the kernels, just the rom?
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So restoring doesn't change the kernels, just the rom?
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What you should do is download jt1134's Mesmerize Voodoo5 w/ Voodoo Sound kernel and flash it. You should then take a backup in perfect working order. If you want to play with 2.2, wipe, flash the rom, then kernel. When you're done, wipe, restore the backup, then flash the previous kernel.
Gotcha. Ha, I just found out about voodoo sound. That'll be tonights project, then 2.2 tomorrow hate this edge network junk
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Gotcha. Ha, I just found out about voodoo sound. That'll be tonights project, then 2.2 tomorrow hate this edge network junk
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EDGE? AT&T.. What?
I've got the source downloading for jt's latest build so hopefully we'll have some improvements soon. (=
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EDGE? AT&T.. What?
I've got the source downloading for jt's latest build so hopefully we'll have some improvements soon. (=
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Sweet waiting for a few more things to be functioning before I try using it. Thought maybe about trying to tomorrow but only as a test.
Edit: I just flashes the ROM and Kernel last night 0 problems booting and starting up phone was basically functioning then when I installed the Froyo Gapps I couldn't use the phone anymore because no data connection couldn't get passed the google account setup but seemed to work.
The only thing that was weird is before I installed the gapps zip while playing around the phone kept going back to the silver Android logo seeming as if it was restarting and going back to the lock screen but I managed to test the Phone, called 611 got US Cellular so that works!
Thanks again for your work I definitely and looking forward to this.
Big thanks to the devs! This is an awesome step forward. I flashed the ROM and Kernel, and although it's definitely alpha, it's awesome progress!
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It's pitiful that team of hobbyists and enthusiasts, working for free, in their spare time can port 2.2 faster than Samsung, who employs a full staff of software and hardware engineers, armed with development tools and source code. SAMSUNG, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED.
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Yoder808 said:
Big thanks to the devs! This is an awesome step forward. I flashed the ROM and Kernel, and although it's definitely alpha, it's awesome progress!
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It's pitiful that team of hobbyists and enthusiasts, working for free, in their spare time can port 2.2 faster than Samsung, who employs a full staff of software and hardware engineers, armed with development tools and source code. SAMSUNG, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED.
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From what I've read, it isn't a question of capability, i'ts just politics.
Thankfully we have wonderful developers to take the crap manufacturers throw at us and turn it into what really should be!
bdemartino said:
From what I've read, it isn't a question of capability, i'ts just politics.
Thankfully we have wonderful developers to take the crap manufacturers throw at us and turn it into what really should be!
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Oh I agree 100%. They COULD have rolled out 2.2 months ago, if they wanted to.
Yoder808 said:
Oh I agree 100%. They COULD have rolled out 2.2 months ago, if they wanted to.
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Samsung could have rolled out an firmware update but from what I've read they leave it up to the carriers to decide when they roll out updates.. especially OTAs since its on their end. US Cellular does spend a large amount of time testing their phones before releasing anything because their still small business orientated. That said, they easily could have rolled something out for us much earlier than this, as far as the small business goes they could have released it un-supported to commercial users and told business' not to load it yet plus not shipped any phones with it.. at least we'd have the option then..
There is a new leak of gingerbread out for the SGS over in the I9000, and apparently this is supposed to be version that will be the official release.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009177
Nice, hopefully it doesn't take forever to see it officially released like it did with Froyo!
Waiting for source
I'm not too worried about AT&T, I believe once the source is released we will have many official releases XDA style
once the source is out we will have it. thank god for xda! and of coarse supercurio! i have been rocking out to music for the last couple days thanks to voodoo sound, not that the sound was bad before but now i can really appreciate it. also getting some better iem's (in ear monitors) the samsung ones are ok, well for an included accessory they are amazing but nothing compared to what is out there. i wouldnt think about getting a different phone right now. but i will see if the infuse has the hifi wolfson amp in it. the galaxy s 2 looks amazing but makes me wonder what will be out when i am up for a new contract.
Neat, hope the source appears sooner rather than later after the official release.
Lol... I must be losing it. And official sgs 2.3 leaks and this is the extent of the discussion. .... Lol wtf.
most people are more excited by cm7 for some reason. this is what i will use as soon as a reorient kernel comes about, all i can do is hope the source is realesed shortly. i think it was available pretty quick after jpx/jpy were released so i think it wont take long.
Nevermind
whiteguypl said:
Lol... I must be losing it. And official sgs 2.3 leaks and this is the extent of the discussion. .... Lol wtf.
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Probably because this is like the 5th thread this weekend about this.
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Probably because this is like the 5th thread this weekend about this.
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Regardless... It's a big deal. And none of the other threads made it very far. At all.
Go look at the i9000 forums. They're littered with posts and 2.3 sgs roms. All we have are crickets.
To be fair, we don't have the source available, so the leaked rom is kind of useless to us. It's a neat novelty, just to flash for a few minutes to see what's in store, but it's definitely not something you would use daily.
Just downloaded the Rom.. anyone know of a good kernel to use with this rom?? will CM7 kernel work with this rom? since its 2.3.3
TriC_101 said:
Just downloaded the Rom.. anyone know of a good kernel to use with this rom?? will CM7 kernel work with this rom? since its 2.3.3
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Highly doubtful.. It should come with a compatible kernel and modem packaged in to it.
I wouldn't flash it straight through odin if I were you, though. If you have access to a linux machine, you should repackage it as a cwm flashable zip that doesn't flash boot or sbl, otherwise you risk either perma-bricking your phone or locking your bootloader.
My memory must be going. I remember us having ported i9000 2.2 roms well before the source dropped.
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Just downloaded the Rom.. anyone know of a good kernel to use with this rom?? will CM7 kernel work with this rom? since its 2.3.3
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Stock kernel will boot, but there will be sound logic, screen orientation, button mapping...... problem list extends
Not until Sammy realeses the source code of GS gingerbread ROM that we can have reoriented kernels.
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My memory must be going. I remember us having ported i9000 2.2 roms well before the source dropped.
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No... We didn't have reoriented kernel until JPM source was released. And before that, we were playing with the leak JI6 Captivate Froyo.
Guess it's time to start taking vitamins.
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My memory must be going. I remember us having ported i9000 2.2 roms well before the source dropped.
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Vibrant owners have a port of this already, so yes it would seem that reorienting can be done without source, but devs aren't touching this for some reason...I really hope that changes cause I want to try this out but don't have the knowledge base to try to reorient the kernel myself and don't have time to learn currently.
No source, no kernel, no ROM. That simple.
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Sorry if this has been asked, but I checked a lit of the q&a but is there any hope or any developers working on ICS for us? And because I don't know much why is it hard to port to the sgs 4g?
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An entire kernel needs to be built from practically scratch... Its a tonnnn of work. And our GB source JUST came out...
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OK sorry, like I said I don't know much and just was curious. Thank you for the info tho
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An entire kernel needs to be built from practically scratch... Its a tonnnn of work. And our GB source JUST came out...
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Really? I know some (almost all except the very newest ones) of the Motorola phones have completely locked boot loaders which prohibit any unauthorized kernel from being loaded. Take for example, the Milestone and the Milestone xt720- they were forced (figuratively speaking) to build roms for Froyo and Gingerbread off of the same, crappy kernel that was released with Eclair. They have done a lot, it's far from stable. Which surprises me considering how bad the phone was, how few people got it, and the general negative attitude that tends to flow through Xda.
I don't know much about it- for example, once the kernel is built for gingerbread, does a new one need to be built, or can that kernel be repurposed?
How about building a Gingerbread Kernel ( CM7 based )
Now that they have finally released a Gingerbread source for the 4GS, It would be nice to have a CM7 build. I know the Devs are busy with ICS, or other products, but if one would be willing to work with me, I'd be willing to make a jab at it. I can currrently build the released kernel, but something is missing that I can not get the zimage to successfully load. It is also smaller in size. The only referenced web discussion I could find was for the I9003 series and there are files mentioned that are not part of the 4G. Any help would be appreciated.
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Now that they have finally released a Gingerbread source for the 4GS, It would be nice to have a CM7 build. I know the Devs are busy with ICS, or other products, but if one would be willing to work with me, I'd be willing to make a jab at it. I can currrently build the released kernel, but something is missing that I can not get the zimage to successfully load. It is also smaller in size. The only referenced web discussion I could find was for the I9003 series and there are files mentioned that are not part of the 4G. Any help would be appreciated.
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Oh trust me, devs are looking at cm7. I know I am, like its a big New York steak!
But its going to be a while, unless you can employee me to work on it. Otherwise... Gotta pay the bills before I have fun.
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I know that and realize other priorities make everyones time valuable. I am trying to get up to speed and just need a little bit of help getting the base kernel to build. I have successfully built the CM7 in the past for the captivate, but this is the first time for an raw, untouch source release from samsung.
Thanks for your input.
Also, just to note. There are multiple kernel devs here.
Still waiting for drhonk to release some Bali goodness.
My kernel has a different goal and approach from drhonk's. Search the op of my kernel thread for 'plan'.
As usual, all code is GPL and is available on github (see my signature), so if you want to learn or help out, start with the source.
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Really? I know some (almost all except the very newest ones) of the Motorola phones have completely locked boot loaders which prohibit any unauthorized kernel from being loaded. Take for example, the Milestone and the Milestone xt720- they were forced (figuratively speaking) to build roms for Froyo and Gingerbread off of the same, crappy kernel that was released with Eclair. They have done a lot, it's far from stable. Which surprises me considering how bad the phone was, how few people got it, and the general negative attitude that tends to flow through Xda.
I don't know much about it- for example, once the kernel is built for gingerbread, does a new one need to be built, or can that kernel be repurposed?
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you seem to be forgetting that every device except for the SGS1 series takes a boot.img this makes it a lot easier to do things because of the partition layout. sgs1 series uses zImage with initramfs, and has a BML/RFS file system. Not ext4, mtd, yaffs2, ext3...but a **** file system.
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you seem to be forgetting that every device except for the SGS1 series takes a boot.img this makes it a lot easier to do things because of the partition layout. sgs1 series uses zImage with initramfs, and has a BML/RFS file system. Not ext4, mtd, yaffs2, ext3...but a **** file system.
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Yea, don't sweat this quite yet, Krylon360
I say we work on the cwm that converts to ext4 like epic4g, like you'd suggested in irc. I already have some code and tests in place to convert to mtd. It's just not in any kind of stable/usable/releasable form yet. It's still early code.
When (hopefully soon) I get time, and hopefully an email back from chipworks about some info I need, I'm going to get u-boot rolling. It's hard for me to explain all the benefits of this now, but some snippets:
fastboot mode (say, flash an mtd partition like: fastboot flash <partition name> <file>)
android usb gadget support (adbd) in u-boot (say to have early console access at the bootloader), and plenty of other goodies.
many other things I just don't have time to list, on top of the fact that we can now control the bootloader...
doing the auto conversion is cake. it's just a bit inside init.rc that tells it to run a script in /sbin, that script is just a quick conversion to ext4. as long as /system, /data, and /cache have the ext4 mounting bit in init.rc, and the ext4.ko is in /lib/modules, it should would just fine.
I'll get the script while Im at work tomorrow.
Krylon360,
you mentioned the initramfs being combined with the zimage. Can you shed some light on how this is done?
bhundven,
Thank you for your help. I will be checking out your source to look over and looking at your forum. Thanks Again!
I know everyone has prob said this. But I'm willing to test betas and such for the sgs4g. Let me know if I can. Thanks
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Hi, I know I haven't contributed much to the community, so I decided to work on something.
I've just finished building a MIUI port for our phone. Testing hasn't been going well. I'm just getting a black screen.
So I was wondering if anybody wanted to help test this or help fix bugs and whatnot. I can't guarantee that this won't brick your phone, sorry.
So... is anybody interested?
Also, this is a post from the General section... I'm just reposting it here.
Here's the link to the (not working) rom so far:
MOD EDIT:
I am sorry, but I will not allow untested roms to be published here.
If you want to develop, release sources, but please do not release an "unteseted rom that might potetially brick your phone"
here is the guide for you guys to build, test, and then release as a work in progress, DO NOT RELEASE UNTESTED VERSION!!
Well woohoo we got ppl working on my favorite rom. Thank YOu sir. Really appreciate your time. And looking forward to hear about how it goes. Good luck
just a suggestion. Put down load link here so mod does not put this thread in general!
iandr0idos said:
I'm just reposting it here.
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Thank god there's still some interest in MIUI
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appdroid said:
Well woohoo we got ppl working on my favorite rom. Thank YOu sir. Really appreciate your time. And looking forward to hear about how it goes. Good luck
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Will do. I'm waiting for dropbox to finish uploading...
i can't wait for miui to port over either with cm 7 full and cm9 being tempted from i9100 lol .. if you need any help with .smali or .baksmali or anything i can do from theming prespective send me a msg.
edit: i just looked @ how miui could be ported and boy its not easy and not hard either. i wish i had alot of time to sit and port this miui but im lookin' after other things blahhh..
If you guys want to help, take a look at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1483332
I'm using this with the Cobra ROM... It took me hours to get the rom to build at all. xD
Right now, I'm going to try with a more stock-ish rom...
So, if anybody has more experience with this than I do, I'd really appreciate the help.
I was in the middle of porting MIUI when I saw this thread! Sweetness, double the power
Woooooo! Can't wait to see this launch
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Link posted. Try to fix it if you want. I'm going to try again with another rom for now though
I was actually just working on this myself, I took the Galnet miui for the galaxy s II and moved alot of the essential libs, modules, ril and camera firmware + the kernel over from our cm7 port but could not get it to boot past a black screen. Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I'm fairly certain it would not boot. I could upload my attempt if anyone wants to give it a go.
Use a lot of logcats
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hamburgertrain said:
I was actually just working on this myself, I took the Galnet miui for the galaxy s II and moved alot of the essential libs, modules, ril and camera firmware + the kernel over from our cm7 port but could not get it to boot past a black screen. Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I'm fairly certain it would not boot. I could upload my attempt if anyone wants to give it a go.
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What a bad idea.
The SGS II has nothing in common hardware wise with the SGS II LTE, since the chipsets are different.
Longcat14 said:
What a bad idea.
The SGS II has nothing in common hardware wise with the SGS II LTE, since the chipsets are different.
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haha why in the world would you do that its like exynos vs snapdragon . FIGHT >_<
Not only that, but pushing random libs has had a history of hard bricking this phone...
I'm not "pushing random libs" and also I didnt just take a rom from the SII and cram it down my phones throat. I removed their kernel and took MANY files from our cm7, I'm not aimlessly copy-pasting. I switched out the necessary files to get it to boot, and removed the exynos specific firmware and modules and replaced it with our own qualcomm files. I think part of the reason it didnt boot was I hadn't tried reflashing da g's cm7 kernel, something tells me the zip didn't flash it right. Although it takes way too much trial and error, so I'm thinking of working with the Miui patch rom for a faster port.
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so unless you can suggest to me a phone that is also made by Samsung and shares the chipset, and has CM7 or miui released for it.. telling me It's a bad idea doesnt help the port very much, If my phone shall be bricked it shall do so for a good cause I appreciate the concern and warning
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I'm not "pushing random libs" and also I didnt just take a rom from the SII and cram it down my phones throat. I removed their kernel and took MANY files from our cm7, I'm not aimlessly copy-pasting. I switched out the necessary files to get it to boot, and removed the exynos specific firmware and modules and replaced it with our own qualcomm files. I think part of the reason it didnt boot was I hadn't tried reflashing da g's cm7 kernel, something tells me the zip didn't flash it right. Although it takes way too much trial and error, so I'm thinking of working with the Miui patch rom for a faster port.
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so unless you can suggest to me a phone that is also made by Samsung and shares the chipset, and has CM7 or miui released for it.. telling me It's a bad idea doesnt help the port very much, If my phone shall be bricked it shall do so for a good cause I appreciate the concern and warning
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Amen to that. Let's not criticize but help each other. I know there's so many on here that love MIUI and can't wait to have it on our phones.
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I'm not "pushing random libs" and also I didnt just take a rom from the SII and cram it down my phones throat. I removed their kernel and took MANY files from our cm7, I'm not aimlessly copy-pasting. I switched out the necessary files to get it to boot, and removed the exynos specific firmware and modules and replaced it with our own qualcomm files. I think part of the reason it didnt boot was I hadn't tried reflashing da g's cm7 kernel, something tells me the zip didn't flash it right. Although it takes way too much trial and error, so I'm thinking of working with the Miui patch rom for a faster port.
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so unless you can suggest to me a phone that is also made by Samsung and shares the chipset, and has CM7 or miui released for it.. telling me It's a bad idea doesnt help the port very much, If my phone shall be bricked it shall do so for a good cause I appreciate the concern and warning
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Yeah, it's probably a better idea to start out with the CM7 alpha build we have here, and work our way to MIUI through something like this. I'll try and help as much as I can, and if you do ever get some logcats, please feel free to post them so we can get an idea of what's going wrong.
Okay. Good, good. Just sounded a bit like you were. Definitely sounds like you know what you're doing then, haha. Trying to steer people away from things we've known to bork our picky phone is all.
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what i can say to you fortune is this no one's gonna be steered away from these projects but you have to understand unless cm7 finishes there is no way miui will progress because stock won't do it for miui, if that was the case id port miui too without my eyes being blinked..lets all work with each other and help each other as much as possible. what i can suggest for devices to look @ i believe are t989 which is somewhat close not alot ..but thats another one to try and see and also samsung epic 4g is another one..
I will work on it for a bit, soon it should be working haha
Here is the system image from MY SGS 3, I thought one of our other devs might want to turn this into a ROM. I would do it, but I am a little swamped at the moment with after hours android dev work.
If someone has not taken a stab at it by the time I am back in here more "permanently", I will make my attempt at porting it over. You will need to grab a script that they use for CM, to grab the files off of your phone, also here is a good reference on porting as well.
SGS3 ROM to port:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/main/Motorola_ATRIX_2_Developers/jimbridgman/system.img.gz md5sum: 29a6c707d25520c28528b502bb190c7e
Porting guide, a very nice one at that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1512319
Have some fun.
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Here is the system image from MY SGS 3, I thought one of our other devs might want to turn this into a ROM. I would do it, but I am a little swamped at the moment with after hours android dev work.
If someone has not taken a stab at it by the time I am back in here more "permanently", I will make my attempt at porting it over. You will need to grab a script that they use for CM, to grab the files off of your phone, also here is a good reference on porting as well.
SGS3 ROM to port:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45576654/system.img
Porting guide, a very nice one at that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1512319
Have some fun.
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I might take it on (you know me, that means I will try and fail and leave it dead most likely), but how the hell will we even get it to boot without at least an ics kernel? will we just have to wait until we get the update?
EDIT: i assume the gs3 is GSM correct?
lkrasner said:
I might take it on (you know me, that means I will try and fail and leave it dead most likely), but how the hell will we even get it to boot without at least an ics kernel? will we just have to wait until we get the update?
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Try kexec, That is how the cyanogenmod team is "dual booting" for testing roms... who cares if it is just one proc for a test boot.... Once you can POC it with a 2.3.6 kernel, then you know you are on the right track, and can do a test flash. The only real issue you might have is that the source seems incomplete to me.
I know this because I tried to compile it and had all kinds of issues with missing pieces. I have successfully compiled two kernels that I am testing on my SGS 3 at the moment (one overclocked, the other under volted).
Just make sure you go and grab the arm-abi tool kit, this is the one I use, from
codesourcery:
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/codesourcery
All you need is the light version. It might take some work, but you may be able to merge the ICS kernel code (it is posted as a sticky higher up ^^^) with the MB/ME865 kernel to get what is missing. There are some how-tos out there to do it.
Yes the AT&T version is GSM(HSPA+)<E
Can you post the built in apps of sgs3 eg: s voice.
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kc92iyngr said:
Can you post the built in apps of sgs3 eg: s voice.
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It is in the system.img file I posted.... just mount it as an iso and you can pull out /system/app and grab the Svoice.apk from there.
kc92iyngr said:
Can you post the built in apps of sgs3 eg: s voice.
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I'll pull them out for you later today, I am about to tear this apart. it is downloading crazy slow though. I'm on an island in Vermont, so as you might imagine, my internet is not fantastic.
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jimbridgman said:
Try kexec, That is how the cyanogenmod team is "dual booting" for testing roms... who cares if it is just one proc for a test boot.... Once you can POC it with a 2.3.6 kernel, then you know you are on the right track, and can do a test flash. The only real issue you might have is that the source seems incomplete to me.
I know this because I tried to compile it and had all kinds of issues with missing pieces. I have successfully compiled two kernels that I am testing on my SGS 3 at the moment (one overclocked, the other under volted).
Just make sure you go and grab the arm-abi tool kit, this is the one I use, from
codesourcery:
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/codesourcery
All you need is the light version. It might take some work, but you may be able to merge the ICS kernel code (it is posted as a sticky higher up ^^^) with the MB/ME865 kernel to get what is missing. There are some how-tos out there to do it.
Yes the AT&T version is GSM(HSPA+)<E
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Am I right that is SHOULD boot on a stock ICS kernel, like what came from that leak, if so, I can have someone that is running that test it out, and make sure the system is right, then I can build a kernel to run with kexec until we can get a real update.
I am new to porting and sort of to kernel building so tell me if this process sounds right for this.
1. fix up the gs3 system with our proprietary files -thats easy, I know how to do that
2. have someone that is running an ics kernel test it if possible
3. if that works it means I just need a stock ics kernel to run in kexec, which shouldn't be too hard because we should be able to use the me865 source and modify it to work with mb865. If it does not work, kernel building starts from scratch, which is were I will have to do some more research, and any help from you or others would be helpful.
My other question is how do we even load the new kernel with kexec? wouldn't we need this to boot first, then we can swap the kernel? Or is there a way to load up both at the same time?
I think I will set up a WIP thread for this if you don't mind. feel free to PM me if you don't want to post stuff here.
Thank you so much for all your help, and have fun with your new toy
lkrasner said:
I'll pull them out for you later today, I am about to tear this apart. it is downloading crazy slow though. I'm on an island in Vermont, so as you might imagine, my internet is not fantastic.
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Am I right that is SHOULD boot on a stock ICS kernel, like what came from that leak, if so, I can have someone that is running that test it out, and make sure the system is right, then I can build a kernel to run with kexec until we can get a real update.
I am new to porting and sort of to kernel building so tell me if this process sounds right for this.
1. fix up the gs3 system with our proprietary files -thats easy, I know how to do that
2. have someone that is running an ics kernel test it if possible
3. if that works it means I just need a stock ics kernel to run in kexec, which shouldn't be too hard because we should be able to use the me865 source and modify it to work with mb865. If it does not work, kernel building starts from scratch, which is were I will have to do some more research, and any help from you or others would be helpful.
My other question is how do we even load the new kernel with kexec? wouldn't we need this to boot first, then we can swap the kernel? Or is there a way to load up both at the same time?
I think I will set up a WIP thread for this if you don't mind. feel free to PM me if you don't want to post stuff here.
Thank you so much for all your help, and have fun with your new toy
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Yeah I think that is a good start. Take a look at this link, the guys from team epic that do cyanogenmod ports have come up with a way to use kexec to test booting thier kernel and roms. You might PM one of them, I have not gotten to that point yet, plus these guys are working on the Sprint version, of the SGS3, but I am sure they can explain how they are doing this with kexec. These guys are on XDA, I have chatted with them on a couple issues I was having.
http://www.epiccm.org/
Oh, P.S.
Here is how to compile the "stock MB/ME865" kernel:
1. How to Build
- get Toolchain
From android git server , codesourcery and etc ..
- arm-eabi-4.4.3
- edit Makefile
edit "CROSS_COMPILE" to right toolchain path(You downloaded).
EX) CROSS_COMPILE= $(android platform directory you download)/android/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-eabi-
Ex) CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/local/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-eabi- // check the location of toolchain
$ export ARCH=arm
$ make m2_att_defconfig
$ make
2. Output files
- Kernel : arch/arm/boot/zImage
- module : drivers/*/*.ko
3. How to Clean
$ make clean
Just make sure the toolkit is pointed to the install of the codesourcery toolkit I linked in the above post.
P.P.S
Your defconfig might be another pointer name, that you will have to find out for sure. You know the one above called m2_att_defconfig.
For the beginners don't try the rom,you might kill your phone!
I'd like to give this a try as well . Thanks a lot for all the help!
If/when we get this to work, do you think a JB port won't be too far behind? How big are the differences between stock ICS and JB kernels?
cogeary said:
I'd like to give this a try as well . Thanks a lot for all the help!
If/when we get this to work, do you think a JB port won't be too far behind? How big are the differences between stock ICS and JB kernels?
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Glad to see you back around here, but lets not even give anything towards JB until we get ICS. if you are interested in helping with that, send me a PM, I have made some progress with cm9 (as in it boots fine, and i have some ideas for the radio).
cogeary said:
I'd like to give this a try as well . Thanks a lot for all the help!
If/when we get this to work, do you think a JB port won't be too far behind? How big are the differences between stock ICS and JB kernels?
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Yay! Cogeary's back! Good to see you around again...
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cogeary said:
I'd like to give this a try as well . Thanks a lot for all the help!
If/when we get this to work, do you think a JB port won't be too far behind? How big are the differences between stock ICS and JB kernels?
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ICS to JB is going to be a much smaller kernel jump, but there will be a HUGE performance increase due to project butter which is now officially part of Jelly Bean.
The key to running something like this is to get a kernel compiled and running with kexec, even though it is just 1 proc, it is a good way to get started. Ports will be much easier if you do some merging of the changed code in newer kernels and do merged kernel. There are instructions for doing a kernel that is merged from 2 sources to get a complete kernel.
Now this will just work for testing and porting, and the actual ICS or JB install from at least a leak will be needed to actually run the port, but you can get ahead of the game by doing what I have mentioned.
Well going to give this a go in a few days doing some maintenance on my computer but will get back with something (hope not a bricked phone) .....
(off topic ranting)
Hate to say it at this rate what getting close to a year since Ics release Jb might just be a pipe dream..... Think I am growing grey hairs waiting for something to give here..... Without bootloader unlock I feel so useless (Yea I could make a recovery image with all the bells and whistles but I got bigger plans).....
Downloaded so I could tinker with some files. Thanks for sharing.
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Lol. Just my luck for the dropbox account to be temporarily shut down when my download's on 99%.
Well I guess I'll just sit here and wait. Unless anyone wants to be so kindly awesome enough to mirror it?
cogeary said:
Lol. Just my luck for the dropbox account to be temporarily shut down when my download's on 99%.
Well I guess I'll just sit here and wait. Unless anyone wants to be so kindly awesome enough to mirror it?
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sure, no problem, give me a bit, my internet is slower than hell where I am right now.
EDIT: of course I didn't add it to dropbox originally, so now it is uploading to google drive. It just hit 1%
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Lol. Just my luck for the dropbox account to be temporarily shut down when my download's on 99%.
Well I guess I'll just sit here and wait. Unless anyone wants to be so kindly awesome enough to mirror it?
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Yeah I got the dreaded e-mail from dropbox last night....
I will see what I can come up with for a hosting solution for this. I will update the OP once I have something.
cogeary said:
Lol. Just my luck for the dropbox account to be temporarily shut down when my download's on 99%.
Well I guess I'll just sit here and wait. Unless anyone wants to be so kindly awesome enough to mirror it?
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I uploaded it to my Drive right away after downloading - try this for SGSIII ICS: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-CZ8hXV8qOiVGtjOHZ3ZEg5eFU
P.S. - I also have a JB dump there, if anyone's interested: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-CZ8hXV8qOiSkc3QkE1Y0ZsRkU
EDIT: make that 2 jelly beans: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-CZ8hXV8qOiS2QtcG41QUh4R1k
...I was pretty active during the I/O hype last week...
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Yeah I got the dreaded e-mail from dropbox last night....
I will see what I can come up with for a hosting solution for this. I will update the OP once I have something.
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Why not try Filedropper or Mediafire?
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Why not try Filedropper or Mediafire?
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I am actually trying to get my recognized developer cert on here and get free premium access to xdafilehost, that all the recognized devs get access to.
We will see if I get it or not. If not I have other options, but things like filedropper will not do, I already looked into it