Hi guys, i googled so much about that but everything is for linux. I found some tutorials but now im stuck. I need some dev or anyone who uses git, compiling with sources and applying diff on windows, to teach me some steps. I know how to download source codes, but dunno which to use for what and how. Basically i "just" need to apply diff to source code and compile.
I am posting this here because here are great devs and people, and also i would like to compile for nexus s.
I hope someone could help me with that.
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Not to be rude, but why not just use Linux?
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Not to be rude, but why not just use Linux?
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Because virtual box is not stable, and i have important data on PC, and installed, also i use PC for gaming. i dont want to set up all over again.
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Because virtual box is not stable, and i have important data on PC, and installed, also i use PC for gaming. i dont want to set up all over again.
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You can use ubuntu's wubi installer to install Ubuntu in windows, in such a way that it doesn't involve creating new partitions or messing with bootloaders.
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You can use ubuntu's wubi installer to install Ubuntu in windows, in such a way that it doesn't involve creating new partitions or messing with bootloaders.
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How much space does it uses when installed? Im low. also, do you know, what sources i need to download if i want to apply one of evilisto mods? Framework_base and app package settings? Because if i download all sources on my drive it will take a lot od GBs and download will last forever. Or there is not a way other than full download?
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Usually not. I have desperate hard drive forw windows. If your low on space to that point maybe you should invest in a new hard drive.
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Usually not. I have desperate hard drive forw windows. If your low on space to that point maybe you should invest in a new hard drive.
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Im just low on c(Windows partition), d has a lot of place i guess ill have to give it up. I cant let pc download and compile 2 days.
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Get a smaller distro and its no biggie on space. Not like puppy dog but maybe kbuntu xbuntu, etc
Or anything debbain, really, saves loads of time. Gentoo is hard to learn, gotta be good at linux for it.
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Im just low on c(Windows partition), d has a lot of place i guess ill have to give it up. I cant let pc download and compile 2 days.
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I'm sure the ubuntu wubi installer will let you specify D: as the target drive.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer
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I'm sure the ubuntu wubi installer will let you specify D: as the target drive.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer
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I will try this weekend. Tnx.
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I installed ubuntu, now only need to download sources. And let the party begin. I hope.
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alen1901 said:
I installed ubuntu, now only need to download sources. And let the party begin. I hope.
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Cool. I've subscribed to this thread in case you need more help
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Cool. I've subscribed to this thread in case you need more help
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Guess what, i need help. i put sources to download few hours, i was out on a drink. When i came back, ubuntu was frozen. Mouse, keyboard, picture, terminal. So i could just hit restart button and i lost all what was downloaded until that. Do you know what might couse that? I put 10gb for instalation on wubi. Now i installed it again with 20gb and i will try again. Maybe i was low on ubuntu partition space?
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Guess what, i need help. i put sources to download few hours, i was out on a drink. When i came back, ubuntu was frozen. Mouse, keyboard, picture, terminal. So i could just hit restart button and i lost all what was downloaded until that. Do you know what might couse that? I put 10gb for instalation on wubi. Now i installed it again with 20gb and i will try again. Maybe i was low on ubuntu partition space?
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Probably, I think 20gb is probably not enough for compiling a whole ROM. Go for 100GB and allow a generous swap space, at least 16GB. If you are compiling the kernel, 20gb will be enough, and you won't need as much swap either.
But one you get used to Ubuntu you'll probably want to keep it, so you might as well allocate as much space as you can.
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Probably, I think 20gb is probably not enough for compiling a whole ROM. Go for 100GB and allow a generous swap space, at least 16GB. If you are compiling the kernel, 20gb will be enough, and you won't need as much swap either.
But one you get used to Ubuntu you'll probably want to keep it, so you might as well allocate as much space as you can.
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On installation i can choose from 2gb-35gb for ubuntu. Not higher. But i have 120gb of free disk. And why i need swap etc. I just need to download rom sources, apply diff patch and compile.
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Wubi sucks, slow, instability....imho.
Your other option is to delete everything off d: that you can afford to lose, then use the ordinary Ubuntu install disk to repartition d: manually before installing.
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Wubi sucks, slow, instability....imho.
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Yeah i noticed its slow like hell haha.
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Your other option is to delete everything off d: that you can afford to lose, then use the ordinary Ubuntu install disk to repartition d: manually before installing.
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Nah, i dont want to do that. I just want to try this out, if it works, i would maintain mods for few most popular roms(or make only for myself), but i wouldnt use ubuntu and that stuff every day. Thats why i hoped i can do it like mentioned in posts.
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I'll test. I dont know how ubuntu would run though
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I'll test. I dont know how ubuntu would run though
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Right now it is only to dual boot between 2 ROMS
That's awesome! Would love to try this.
Testing, Testing
Let me know, I'm down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
will report results when testing...thanks for keeping me posted
I would love this too. I could have a sense based rom as my main rom and then cyanogen as a backup.
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Right now it is only to dual boot between 2 ROMS
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Dude. That sounds badass.
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That will be awesome to switch between AOSP and Sense or another rom.
This seems like a fantastic idea.
Is there enough memory for this?
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Is there enough memory for this?
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Looks like the 2nd ROM is ran from the sdcard, kinda like running Android on WM phones was for a while.
I would kill for this on my Evo, and by kill, I mean donate what little monies I have to the cause. Tired of nandroiding back and forth between Sense and CM everyday. But, I'm linux retarded, so I definitely need windows instructions.
Thanks for getting this going, if you need someone to test with windows, I'll give it a go.
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Looks like the 2nd ROM is ran from the sdcard, kinda like running Android on WM phones was for a while.
I would kill for this on my Evo, and by kill, I mean donate what little monies I have to the cause. Tired of nandroiding back and forth between Sense and CM everyday. But, I'm linux retarded, so I definitely need windows instructions.
Thanks for getting this going, if you need someone to test with windows, I'll give it a go.
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I'm going to try and get a batch script written. It's been a while since I have messed with batch files, but I can send you a PM later tonight with directions on doing it from Windows to test out whether it works.
And yes it is stored on the sdcard. I am not sure how big your ROM's are so we might have to modify the sizes of the partitions.
Right on.
The sense ROM I'm running now is 208mb zipped, about 278 unzipped. CM6 with gapps is about 88mb zipped.
Always willing to put my evo on the line for further testing. I'm willing to try.
Running windows 7 64 bit.
Evo with 8gb free on sd card so i have plenty of space for roms
So if you need another let me know please. This sounds like a great idea
I'll test for you
I'm running Ubuntu dual-booted with xp pro on my netbook. I also have experience running Android on my Touch from the sdcard. I'd love to be able to dual-boot Magnus' CM-BT or another CM ROM with a sense ROM. Especially since Minneapolis is now 4g enabled!
Each partition is for each part of the rom. 200mb is for system 100 each for data and cache. The system partition might need to be increased.
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Always willing to put my evo on the line for further testing. I'm willing to try.
Running windows 7 64 bit.
Evo with 8gb free on sd card so i have plenty of space for roms
So if you need another let me know please. This sounds like a great idea
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Ditto to what he's got
Ill test too!!
I'll put up some detailed instructions tonight or tomorrow.
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Sounds AWESOME!! Where do we sign up . My 16GB sd card will be plenty
I have been reading a ton on this data2sd, data2ext, data2ext2, and so on. I have tried many a method built for other phones on my hero with not much luck. However this evening I found a modified DarkTremor app2sd script that craigacgomez in the Nexus 1 forums modified to include data2ext. I flashed and after reboot gave the TU command ap2sd cachesd to start the move.Rebooted and everything seemed OK. Now I ran a Quadrant and I FLEW through tests 1 and 2 of the I/O, I hung on the third test, Database Writes. Seeing the I/O go so fast with this script proves we can do something like this on the HeroC. I am no DEV but I have done enough testing along with jeremysterling for you all to use the best script to start from. I am linking to the post that includes the script HERE.
NO NOT FLASH THIS IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!
THIS WILL NOT WORK CORRECTLY ON YOUR PHONE!!!
With that said, I will continue to search around and get all the info I can. I hope a DEV can pick up on this and bring a HUGE improvement to the Hero's I/O
This is the thread that got us started on the idea. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868982
I'd love to see this working.. I looked over Data2sd a couple of days ago and was like ummm this is toooo confusing... But would love to try it with detailed instructions!
From what I have read is it increases internal storage and speeds up the I/O of all phones. As we all know when running a Quadrant Benchmark our I/O performance is seriously LOW!
Yea of course... only way of speeding that up is JIT but doesn't really help that much... I'm using a Class 2 sd card though would I still benefit from this mod?
Gsm hero guys have this working In a custom rom and are pulling quadrant scores around 700
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Gsm hero guys have this working In a custom rom and are pulling quadrant scores around 700
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Oops didn't mean to thank you... lol, I wonder how Aospmod would run with this mod!!
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Oops didn't mean to thank you... lol, I wonder how Aospmod would run with this mod!!
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I'll take the thanks aosp told me he's working on it
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does the rom seem faster?
Hah... Yo cordell I kind of want to try this.. How would I do it?
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From what I've read, there appears to be a slight but noticeable performance boost
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Hah... Yo cordell I kind of want to try this.. How would I do it?
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It isnt working correctly, yet. We need someone with Linux to open the files and tweak them for our phone
I take that back, it half way works as it is right now, but if you have to ask how you may not wanna do it, lol
Data2sd vs data2ext is kind of a hot topic around the forums. Sd seems more stable but ext gives the ridiculous I/O boost
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It isnt working correctly, yet. We need someone with Linux to open the files and tweak them for our phone
I take that back, it half way works as it is right now, but if you have to ask how you may not wanna do it, lol
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Well I'm not slow or anything very tech savvy and I've seen some instructions... Just thought you would have an easier route.. Guess ill wait until its stable...
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Well I'm not slow or anything very tech savvy and I've seen some instructions... Just thought you would have an easier route.. Guess ill wait until its stable...
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Its flashable...
BUT You have to have 2 gig partition on SDcard of ext2. Also make NANDROID and back up your SD card, when you format it (I use EASEUS) to make the ext2 partition it will wipe everything off of it! Put that nandroid on PC before partitioning sdcard or you will lose it. Its just a lot to do when its not fully working thats all. No way to get your stuff back if you forget to back nandroids on PC. A second sd card is ideal
can't wait for this
superHERO ;]
aosp 9.9.2
2.6.29.6 aospbot#1 (kernel)
2.42.02.10.29 (baseband)
16GB Class 10 microSD card
MTD Partitions (300MB+)
Collins PH Battery Tweak
Launcher Pro Plus
BatteryFu (battery saver)
Titanium Backup (bloatware remover)
I guess I will download Ubuntu and try to open .SO files so we can see the code that the script is trying to write to our SDcards. Maybe by entering through adb we can see what may be failing? Kinda thought this thread would have picked up a dev or 2 Its a pretty hot topic on all the other phones forum, original dev made front page of XDA
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I guess I will download Ubuntu and try to open .SO files so we can see the code that the script is trying to write to our SDcards. Maybe by entering through adb we can see what may be failing? Kinda thought this thread would have picked up a dev or 2 Its a pretty hot topic on all the other phones forum, original dev made front page of XDA
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not sure if you got my pm but we need ext4 before data2ext will work properly. I spoke with Decad3nce about it briefly and he said he's worked on a little. i think everyone's just busy with finals lately
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not sure if you got my pm but we need ext4 before data2ext will work properly. I spoke with Decad3nce about it briefly and he said he's worked on a little. i think everyone's just busy with finals lately
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Yeah, I have playing with my laptop. I did install ubuntu using wubi but decided I like ubuntu over win xp. So while trying to install ubuntu as only OS I found my cdrom doesn't like to burn iso files to well. Been a struggle to say the least. I think it will happen when kernel comes into play. The masses are more excited over the dropping of gingerbread, I don't see it being much better than 2.2 for us, unless we get a new kernel to go with it!
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You guys know if you jump over to darch's godspeed recovery aka faster and hacked version of amon ra's it has built in BFS, overclocked to 768, and it has ext4 support. I know some of you use clockwork recovery which is cool, and theres nothing wrong with that but this recovery would be easier to partition your sdcard right from your phone. I dont use clockwork recovery so i dont know if it has ext3 or ext4 support. Also I have been reading a ton about data2sd and data2ext as well because im interested in I/O boost too.
Just put the image on your sdcard, rename it to recovery, and go to terminal and type
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
For those who dont know how to flash recovery. You can also do this from adb.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=672324
I have also been reading alot here too about data2ext4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=859419
Although cyanogen doesn't really like other apps2sd scripts or hacks of this nature in his roms I would like to try this with cm6 myself. Right now were getting quads of about 400 but jumping to 700 would be really awesome and a great deal of speed increase. I am also noticing alot of roms are including this script in their roms and or kernels and was wondering how the devs here felt the heroc would benefit from this. Back when flipz was making roms for the heroc he had a rom called FRESH TOAST which was a 2.1 rom that he and toastch worked on. It was the first heroc from to use bfs(I think) and it had to run with a partitioned sdcard to ext4. It was blazing fast even though it wasnt complete and was more of a WIP/DEV rom; I had never seen sense run so fast. So I do believe the heroc can play nice with ext4. Sorry for going on and on this has just caught my eyes over the past week and I am really interested. Maybe if we get the .34 kernel going with this script the heroc would be a beast lol.
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Yeah, I have playing with my laptop. I did install ubuntu using wubi but decided I like ubuntu over win xp. So while trying to install ubuntu as only OS I found my cdrom doesn't like to burn iso files to well. Been a struggle to say the least. I think it will happen when kernel comes into play. The masses are more excited over the dropping of gingerbread, I don't see it being much better than 2.2 for us, unless we get a new kernel to go with it!
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you could use power iso and mount the cd within windows and install along side... or it might burn the iso smoother than the current software your running... just a thought... you'll have to find a serial for power iso unless you buy it
sorry to get off topic... lol... i just installed ubuntu 10.10 along side windows cause i liked how easy it was to move around in after i installed a virtual box version, i've always used opensuse but my computer's insides aren't new enough to run smooth enough for me... and everything kind of works out of box with ubuntu...
Hi, I am interested in starting some custom ROM work for our device. I am just looking for a little bit of direction on where to start. I understand things are a bit more complicated with our locked bootloader, but I know there is still a lot to be done. What are some good places to start tweaking performance? How about graphics and theming? if there is anything else I should know that would be great. I am not an extremely experienced programmer, but I have some experience and I am fairly comfortable tweaking system stuff. Lastly, Is there any way to get an emulater going for the A2? this would be very helpful for development to save the pain of boot loops and errors on our real device. thanks for everyone's help! Hopefully our development will take off for this phone once we get the bootloader bypass working or get it fully unlocked.
This needs moved to general.
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This needs moved to general.
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ok sorry
I just want to get one thing out there. If you want to develop you will NEED Linux. It makes things a lot easier than using windows.
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farshad525hou said:
I just want to get one thing out there. If you want to develop you will NEED Linux. It makes things a lot easier than using windows.
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I am currently quad booting Windows, my custom arch build, ubuntu, and debian, so I am set there! I prefer linux to windows anyways, i mostly use windows just for compatability, but I am in ubuntu right now
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I am currently quad booting Windows, my custom arch build, ubuntu, and debian, so I am set there! I prefer linux to windows anyways, i mostly use windows just for compatability, but I am in ubuntu right now
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Wow impressive.. I just use Ubuntu on a virtual machine..
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Wow impressive.. I just use an Ubuntu virtual machine..
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Arch is pretty awesome if you have the patience/time to set it up. It's not that hard, just takes some work to figure it out
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Arch is pretty awesome if you have the patience/time to set it up. It's not that hard, just takes some work to figure it out
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You'll also need a ROM kitchen to decompile ROM's, or you could just extract the zip and rezip... only problem is that if you make any major changes you need to write a new updater-script...
I know the SDK has AVD, but it's outdated and extremely slow. You can install custom roms on it but only older ones because its based on the yaffs2 filesystem and most current roms use EXT4. I had high hopes for bluestacks too but its locked down pretty tight and I don't see us being able to flash roms to it anytime soon. We have emulators for pretty much everything else, something like this shouldn't be too hard if we work at it. Dynamic recompilation seems to be the best way to go, but feel free to give input if you feel otherwise.
I guess our starting point should be here: http://fms.komkon.org/EMUL8/HOWTO.html
The man who wrote the guide above is some high-end developer that builds emulators for Android, but he seems to be pretty knowledgeable. He has an email you can contact him if you need help with a specific thing: [email protected].
As they come in, I'll list all the information regarding developments in this project in the post below.
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Wow! Looks an excellent project for Devs
I have few questions
1. Will be there a possibility to define and emulate specific devices?
2. How ROMs are flashed, the emulator will have a recovery too?
3. How many of you are working on it?
varun.chitre15 said:
Wow! Looks an excellent project for Devs
I have few questions
1. Will be there a possibility to define and emulate specific devices?
2. How ROMs are flashed, the emulator will have a recovery too?
3. How many of you are working on it?
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1.) One of the goals would be hardware and kernel emulation, I would imagine they could be set as variables where you could input your own kernel and we could make some predefined hardware options for you to choose from. It would be hard but I think it could be done.
2.) I don't exactly know, but seeing as that's how we already do it we could try. Early alphas would probably be more of a "kitchen" where your menu is in the terminal and you manually put your files in the respective folders.
3.) Just me at the moment, I haven't found anyone to help. I haven't really made too much progress either, right now I'm decompiling AVD to figure out how it runs.
If this works, it would be a lifesaver. I say we should PM you any predefined device settings we want, and have a drop down list that automatically sets it. And to emulate recovery I don't see happening like on our devices, but maybe some of the wipe features, and flashing over a current rom? Also anything you need for help I can do, just ask. I'm good at design, and UI, just can't create it myself. And can you possible make it cross platform? Because I switch between windows and Linux.
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If this works, it would be a lifesaver. I say we should PM you any predefined device settings we want, and have a drop down list that automatically sets it. And to emulate recovery I don't see happening like on our devices, but maybe some of the wipe features, and flashing over a current rom? Also anything you need for help I can do, just ask. I'm good at design, and UI, just can't create it myself. And can you possible make it cross platform? Because I switch between windows and Linux.
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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 right now, so it's going to be Linux at first but once its stable enough the plan is to make it cross-platform. And I do need help, I need all the help I can get! Hence community project haha.
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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 right now, so it's going to be Linux at first but once its stable enough the plan is to make it cross-platform. And I do need help, I need all the help I can get! Hence community project haha.
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I can live with Linux at first. And I know, but I mean any help a non-coder can give. I will at least test it, and give some device specifics, but anything else that I can really do?
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I can live with Linux at first. And I know, but I mean any help a non-coder can give. I will at least test it, and give some device specifics, but anything else that I can really do?
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Either way, I appreciate the help! Ill PM you if I need a tester and you should pop in every once in awhile to see how things are coming along. I'm not going to lie, this is harder than I thought it was but it seems do-able the more I study AVD.
I'm thinking we might be able to change the filesystem on AVD to run EXT3/EXT4 and get it to run a little smoother and build it to run without eclipse, then modify it to fit our needs.
That's sound good. And anyone who would get the most use of it would be fine with a terminal based one right now, and you can work on a GUI later unless someone else helps you soon. I'll keep checking as this comes along, hopefully it won't take too long to get a preview working.
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I am too up for testing!
You can use Qt for GUI, its easy.
Its based on C++ and hence is very fast than other GUI libraries.
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I am too up for testing!
You can use Qt for GUI, its easy.
Its based on C++ and hence is very fast than other GUI libraries.
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Any chance you would know how to use it and can help him?
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Any chance you would know how to use it and can help him?
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Yes I can
You can see my tool in my signature. It is based on Qt
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Yes I can
You can see my tool in my signature. It is based on Qt
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That's good. And your sig isn't showing up in the tapatalk app.
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I feel pretty confident in this project, I'm going through Androids source code starting with 1.5
I've been thinking this over, it would be much easier to add EXT3 and EXT4 support to AVD and tweak it for speed. Im working on it now, ill try to get an early alpha out as soon as I can put it together.
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I've been thinking this over, it would be much easier to add EXT3 and EXT4 support to AVD and tweak it for speed. Im working on it now, ill try to get an early alpha out as soon as I can put it together.
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Great
Do lemme know if you need any help with GUI
Originally Posted by flapflip22
I've been thinking this over, it would be much easier to add EXT3 and EXT4 support to AVD and tweak it for speed. Im working on it now, ill try to get an early alpha out as soon as I can put it together.
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Great
Do lemme know if you need any help with GUI
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Will do!
I'm not asking for an eta or anything, but have you got anything working yet, or still looking at the code? I really want to try this out soon.
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What is the status?
Hey guys,
After having nearly lost all my data because android would not recognize my Decryption password I would like to try to compile frost.
I don't know if it will work for the HTC one but I really want to give it a try to help out other people who might have to factory reset due to encrytion problems.
It looks fairly simple to compile it, only I have never compiled any kernel .img before.
Before I actually try to compile it I would like to get advice on how best to do it and what to avoid while compilling.
Again I really want to get this compiled for the HTC one as this had me in a really bad spot.
https://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/frost
I know there are some questions in here but I really do want to get it compiled for you guys in this thread to have a way of possibly recovering encrypted data.
Anyone else up for the challange?
What?
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What?
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What sort of reply is that?
I can help you compile it
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What?
You need to be a bit more specific
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What sort of reply is that?
I can help you compile it
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Thanks MacHackz. I really think alot of people could benefit from having a tool to recover encrypted data.
All I can say is I'm willing to try everything
gazlufc said:
Thanks MacHackz. I really think alot of people could benefit from having a tool to recover encrypted data.
All I can say is I'm willing to try everything
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Firstly you need linux, and afaik this will only work on 4.1.2 right now
MacHackz said:
Firstly you need linux, and afaik this will only work on 4.1.2 right now
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Yeah I seen it will only work on 4.1.2 but lucky enough HTC hasn't update all devices to 4.2.2 yet .
I have a Ubuntu virtual machine setup for doing the compiling. Just installing required items now.
Should have everything setup tomorrow to start compilling
gazlufc said:
Yeah I seen it will only work on 4.1.2 but lucky enough HTC hasn't update all devices to 4.2.2 yet .
I have a Ubuntu virtual machine setup for doing the compiling. Just installing required items now.
Should have everything setup tomorrow to start compilling
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Seems like you already know how
Edit: After further discussion we have decided to re-open this thread.
For now, lets leave it in general, once some development has been done we can talk about moving it back to development
Just wanted to say thank you for XDA for allowing us to start work in FROST.
I'm currently discussing FROST with a few other XDA'ers who are also interested in helping me out and getting this developed.
Once I know more (hopefully this evening) I will post an update.
Again thanks XDA for allowing this to be done
So u got the thread up, Awesome. Shoot me a pm when ya ready...
Welcome to your new home FROST
I'd like to help as well
I've got Eclipse/ADT set up ready to use for a couple of App ideas I've got. If it's just compiling Android code, I''m happy to help.
I've just finished a degree in Computer Security & Forensics (2:1) with a dissertation on Android security & security awareness. Prior to that I'v been a Systems Analyst and developer for a number of years (Mainframe/Unix/Microsoft). so although I'm fairly new to Android, I know my way roind an IDE or terminal editor and I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty woth code.
Nice to hear man, and looking forward to getting started.
Ive had a few issues with my pc and have got most of it sorted now. So of all goes well i will be able to start work after many delays
And I could definitely use you help if you can man
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lol, just have seen this.
The link to the University of Erlangen has some pretty neat resources, but I currently have no android phone to try making such a recovery image for.
For the case of (hopefully) your own phone you are trying to get the /data back: This software relies on the device having been unlocked not long ago. If the device was not unlocked for a week or so, you have no real chance of the keys being still in ram.
If you have a weak PIN, its bruteforce feature might work, if you have a strong one it may take very long. I'd recommend you to make a bit level image of the /data partition just in case (type man dd in your commandline in linux, the dd tool should also be in phone recoveries). And possibly try to encrypt it on your desktop that propably gets it done faster. Also you do not need to make a device specific recovery and you dont need to cross compile.
Also this: http://www1.cs.fau.de/filepool/projects/frost/frost.crackpin.tgz
might just work. Read through the README file in the archive, its straightforward.
thx good thing to konw
There's a reason they freeze the phone. If you hope to recover the keys from a phone that is powered off for anything like 5 mins or more forget it :/ . (The time really depends on the memory chips)
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darks1der said:
It looks fairly simple to compile it, only I have never compiled any kernel .img before.?
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Is thia project still being worked on, @darks1der? It looks promising!
Hey the project is being worked on however it is going slower that expected due to alot of personal issue's.
I hope to have everything resolved ASAP so I can devote my self to FROST
darks1der said:
Hey the project is being worked on however it is going slower that expected due to alot of personal issue's.
I hope to have everything resolved ASAP so I can devote my self to FROST
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Will FROST be able to recover deleted files from the phones internal storage? I'll send strength your way so that you'll get your life to awesomeness again.
FROST only works if your bootloader is unlocked. Since unlocking your bootloader wipes data you're screwed (unless there's some hack to prevent this for your device bootloader). Image the phone or copy the encryption header and try to brute force/dictionary attack your own password key as much as you want without worrying about data being wiped. Download Kali Linux live CD maybe it has some Android forensics tools I think it does. If not google around for 'android brute force encryption' somebody will have tools to do this.