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[DEV] ICS Pre-Alpha

NOTE: THIS ROM IS NOT CURRENTLY USABLE! DO NOT FLASH IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
Ladies and gentlemen of XDA, I present to you ICS on the TF101! This ROM is currently very much still in development, and is not usable in it's current state, but it boots! This is more or less a proof of concept at the moment.
What's not working:
Display has a green overlay most of the time
Touchscreen
Wifi
Camera
HW Acceleration
Pretty much everything else
What does work:
adb
Boots to launcher
Touchpad on the dock (currently only method of input)
To install:
Download the system blob from http://mirror.mostoftheinternet.com/android/ROM/tf101/system-AOSP-20111230.blob.bz2
Boot into recovery
Do factory reset
Mount /sdcard using the menu
Use adb to transfer the blob to the device
Code:
adb push system-AOSP-20111230.blob.bz2 /sdcard/blob.bz2
Enter device shell
Code:
adb shell
Decompress blob and apply
Code:
bzcat /sdcard/blob.bz2 | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4
Reboot and wait for it to install
Done!
If you are able to contribute at all, please let me know. The Git repo for this is at https://github.com/Deathisfatal/android_device_asus_tf101/tree/cm9.
Dev notes:
Most of the random crashes (and the green colour) seem to be caused by an issue with the graphics
Eventually, I plan to move to CM9 once they move closer to release
Screenshot! (yay, green...)
http://mirror.mostoftheinternet.com/images/ics.png

this
is
sex

Congrats
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Are you going to setup a repository for this? I was actually planning on starting a port of my own but I would love the opportunity to jump in and work with you.

Already have, forgot to add it to the post
Thanks for the support, guys.

Nice to finally see even an early build as this, well done i`ll be keeping an eye on this thread

Deathisfatal said:
Eventually, I plan to move to CM9 once they move closer to release
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This would make my day! If we manage to get CM9 to start working, I would love to help try or try to be the main man behind porting MIUI (English Site). I've helped a decent bit with porting it to my phone (Samsung Epic 4G). From everything i've seen so far the kernels of CM7 and MIUI are pretty much interchangeable, so it should be a fairly easy transition if CM9 functions. I don't know squat about kernels, so i wouldn't be of any help there though.

UH i had this like 3 weeks ago, but didn't post cuz it sucked so much.
Here's mine, no green stuff either.
I also didn't post it because it's a straight up kang of the Iconia guys' but whatever.
LOL
Thanks to OP for your hard work...
www.scienceprousa.com/jcarrz1/icstest.zip just flash in clockwork but don't expect much...........

Mind sharing your vendor files, jcarrz1?

Deathisfatal said:
Mind sharing your vendor files, jcarrz1?
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Nope cause it's a straight-up kang of the iconia guys'. And they took their source down because n00bs b crazy.
I really admire that you actually have a device tree and stuff, I'm too inexperienced to do that.
Nice!
jcarrz1

Maybe this may help? https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_asus_tf101

Was going to start an ICS port today as well so I'll be forking your branch and hopefully helping out. Glad we are going to get some progress on this!

arayray said:
Maybe this may help? https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_asus_tf101
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My original code is a fork of that. Their repo is pretty incomplete.
Was going to start an ICS port today as well so I'll be forking your branch and hopefully helping out. Glad we are going to get some progress on this!
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Excellent!

Deathisfatal said:
My original code is a fork of that. Their repo is pretty incomplete.
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Yeah its pretty outdated... Lets get a community effort here..

Good to see a start on this, a bit later than expected!
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For the graphics drivers, as the tf101 uses the same SOC as the xoom, it might be possible to pull the tegra2 drivers from google's wingray aosp sources (found here)

First of all for your work
You know what i dont get is this
http://phandroid.com/2011/11/27/asus-transformer-not-prime-gets-early-ics-port/
where is bumbledroids work?(this was november still)
i am a total retard when it comest od developing but if you ever need any beta tester i have loads of experience on rooting/romming devices an am in possesion of a SBK1 asus transformer with keyboard.

looking forward to giving it a go
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Are you compiling against AOSP or CM9?

telsk said:
First of all for your work
You know what i dont get is this
http://phandroid.com/2011/11/27/asus-transformer-not-prime-gets-early-ics-port/
where is bumbledroids work?(this was november still)
i am a total retard when it comest od developing but if you ever need any beta tester i have loads of experience on rooting/romming devices an am in possesion of a SBK1 asus transformer with keyboard.
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Right, and if the cyanogenMod device tree for tf101 is by bumbledroid then why doesn't touch work yet?
jcarrz1

ICS Binary for Tegra2 released

Hi,
Nvidia has just release binary and tools to build ICS ROM for Tegar2 plateforme...
http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-resources
Bye

looks like (a lot of) the stuff needed to get our own built AOSP image running properly on the TF101.
Who knows, we might see a proper ICS rom before Asus releases their own .

I cant wait to see a ics-rom on my TF101!
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Ohhhh... Nice.... I'm new around here does the transformer have a dev that build aosp roms from source (not kanged)

That page has been around forever and doesn't have what is necessary to get AOSP on pretty much anything.
There's been a few accounts posting that all around the same time frame the last few days all over the Tegra based device forums.....hmmmmmm.

thanks for this!reading ics 3ad it seems that it isn't so usefull...(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21768082&postcount=361)what are you think about that?

They posted an ICS device image for ventana. We can pull the required binaries from there as a starting point rather than trying to get ICS to work with the binaries pulled from honeycomb.
I'm downloading it now.
Thanks for the post!

daoist said:
They posted an ICS device image for ventana. We can pull the required binaries from there as a starting point rather than trying to get ICS to work with the binaries pulled from honeycomb.
I'm downloading it now.
Thanks for the post!
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...we already have binaries that work with ICS, I've had builds in the public with working (and very smooth) graphics for weeks. If these ones are comparable then it'll be a nice source to pull them from, build a ROM without having to pull from a device etc. but they don't make anything any easier as you suggest.

paulburton said:
...we already have binaries that work with ICS, I've had builds in the public with working (and very smooth) graphics for weeks. If these ones are comparable then it'll be a nice source to pull them from, build a ROM without having to pull from a device etc. but they don't make anything any easier as you suggest.
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But isn't there a new kernel in there or something to help with the (deep) sleep problems? Or is the reference board too diferent from our TF101 board?

It's all quite helpful. Cribbing stuff from a working compile is going to be easier than doing it from scratch.

dipje said:
But isn't there a new kernel in there or something to help with the (deep) sleep problems? Or is the reference board too diferent from our TF101 board?
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There's a kernel binary, sure. It won't run on the TF101 though because as you mention it's not the same board. Ok, maybe it would run, but if it does then it'll have all the wrong peripheral setup etc. The source for the kernel is (presumably) the same nvidia source that's been available for a while and is the basis of the TF101 kernel I've been working on, so it shouldn't be significantly different.
daoist said:
It's all quite helpful. Cribbing stuff from a working compile is going to be easier than doing it from scratch.
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'Cribbing' what exactly? I'm not sure what you think you can usefully take from this.

paulburton said:
There's a kernel binary, sure. It won't run on the TF101 though because as you mention it's not the same board. Ok, maybe it would run, but if it does then it'll have all the wrong peripheral setup etc. The source for the kernel is (presumably) the same nvidia source that's been available for a while and is the basis of the TF101 kernel I've been working on, so it shouldn't be significantly different.
'Cribbing' what exactly? I'm not sure what you think you can usefully take from this.
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All the proprietary binaries/configs/etc. The sort of stuff we'd pull via extract-files.sh. Right now you've done an excellent job building it up from what we had in honeycomb. Now we have known-good files from ICS.

daoist said:
All the proprietary binaries/configs/etc. The sort of stuff we'd pull via extract-files.sh. Right now you've done an excellent job building it up from what we had in honeycomb. Now we have known-good files from ICS.
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Well, no. The _only_ things that I intend to use binaries for are the graphics drivers and bluetooth firmware. Bluetooth firmware doesn't care at all which version of android you're running, so we can ignore that. Which just leaves graphics drivers, which are already taken from an ICS ROM (fortunately the TF101 isn't the only tegra 2 tablet!).

Possible Overclock?

Hey everyone I was exploring the system files of my tablet and I found a file called core_cap_level located in /sys/kernel/tegra_cap. This file creates the clock cap at 1.2ghz. My question is could I edit this file to raise the cap to let's say 1.7ghz? If it's possible could it be done straight from the tablet?
Current file content: "1200(1200)" which i believe means 1.2ghz
file content edited: "1700(1700)" which would mean 1.7ghz
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No you need a custom kernel. if it was that easy it would have been done allready. I looked in the system too and found a bunch of files and scripts related to clock speed. Im not a dev so i dont know what they are for, but like i said if it was that easy it would have been done.
Some of the others are
/etc/cpu1.sh there are also cpu 2,3,4,5 .sh files
/sys/module/cpu_tegra and cpu_tegra3 directories have a bunch of files related to clock speed too

ive been looking into this, the kernel source i believe is available on asus website but I'm not sure if its compatible with the rom I'm using which is hydro rom, or compatible with say cm9 or aokp, theres not alot of information out there for new developers like myself. even if i did manage to download the source, modify it and compile it, how exactly would I integrate it, that I have no idea, I've always been a windows developer, when it comes to linux, things are all over the place, different builds, different hardware, different code, etc. its annoying at the same time as you can end up wasting alot of time trying to find the one thing you need to find, not alot of help out there either, if someone wants to work with me and has a little experience in dev then im sure we could solve this problem?

Ok well thanks for the replies guys and i also wan't to start up with linux/android developing but i'm also trying to learn myself. I have tried to create a kernel several times but I can never compile it correctly. Although I wasn't compiling from the source either so i wasn't able to increase the clock speeds. But it was a start.
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I'd think that once you find what needs to be edited/added in one kernel weather it be cm, aokp or stock it should be almost the same for the others. Im mean arent they all based on stock and then modified? Of course you might not be able to use a cm kernel with an aokp rom, but whatever kernel you choose to start with should look very close to the others outside of some optimizations.
Oh and charle you can only compile a kernel from source, or any other program for that matter!

O sorry well i was building from the source that asus has provided us with but i meant like from the ground up or is that even possible?
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Oh I misunderstood you, you said you didnt compile from the source. Yes you should be able to download the source code from asus and compile it

so whos up for an overclock project? Charles, what were you doing, describe your entire setup/processes you attempted to compile source, which source did you use, which tools, explain everything and we should try and make sense of it all, i want the tf300 up to 1.7ghz I think that would be quite stable and antutu is over 14000+
there is a kernel on prime forum so we can find out which part need to be modified, the hard part is which tools do we need, which compiler, how do we integrate this ??
maybe we can fix slow i/o for sql as well without disabling fsync

well im not completely familiar with linux this is my first attempt with it but this is not my first time developing ok well first off i was using ubuntu then I downloaded the source. I also used tools from the ndk. i first unziped everything pointed the stock-kernel to the ndk tools. Once i did that I used the make clean command which prept the kernel for compilation. Once that was done i was suppose to find the defconfig file in my kernel and run the following command in terminal "make unknown_defconig". this would configure the default configuration file but I didn't know which one to use so i pulled the config file from my tablet and i ran the command "make config" after that command i ran "make menuconfig" which opened a gui which allowed me to configure the kernel i believe? once i was finished with that i saved it and tried to compile it but i never succeeded. I know this i hard to follow, but i'm still learning myself so it's hard to explain.
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Charle692 said:
well im not completely familiar with linux this is my first attempt with it but this is not my first time developing ok well first off i was using ubuntu then I downloaded the source. I also used tools from the ndk. i first unziped everything pointed the stock-kernel to the ndk tools. Once i did that I used the make clean command which prept the kernel for compilation. Once that was done i was suppose to find the defconfig file in my kernel and run the following command in terminal "make unknown_defconig". this would configure the default configuration file but I didn't know which one to use so i pulled the config file from my tablet and i ran the command "make config" after that command i ran "make menuconfig" which opened a gui which allowed me to configure the kernel i believe? once i was finished with that i saved it and tried to compile it but i never succeeded. I know this i hard to follow, but i'm still learning myself so it's hard to explain.
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I'm going to mess about myself and follow your procedure charles see if I have any luck, if any dev could shed some light or chip in, much obliged, we want more power out of this beast! the TF300 has lots of potential

i will continue trying as well but im going to research a bit more before i start up again maybe im missing something. Let me know how it goes for you.
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Keep in mind if you overclock to 1.7 you also need to up the voltage.
I think the most we can get of the 1.2 is a max of 1.5 with out a new kernel.

New Infinity User

Hi all, I'm just got my Infinity a few days ago and love it. I have already rooted it but am looking at unlocking and putting custom ROMS and Recoveries on it. I wanted to ask you guys what are some good Mods, Patches, Roms, and recoveries I should use. Thanks for your help guys.
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Malkozaine said:
Hi all, I'm just got my Infinity a few days ago and love it. I have already rooted it but am looking at unlocking and putting custom ROMS and Recoveries on it. I wanted to ask you guys what are some good Mods, Patches, Roms, and recoveries I should use. Thanks for your help guys.
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You must use twrp for sure. The two best ROMS out there are cyanogen mod and CROMIX. Also Hundsbuah's kernel for CROMIX is excellent. Pimp my ROM is a good app for modding but only use it on cyanogen or CROMIX.
Tylor
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ROM: CleanRom Xenogenesis 4.4 DeOdex
Kernel: Hundsbuah's V3.0.5 OC Kernel
Theme: Timberwolf's Blues and Jazz Theme

Tylorw1 said:
Pomp my ROM
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LOL! Really.
Cromi-X is the easiest recommendation on your to-do list, and Pimp My ROM really does neat things when using in conjunction with lucius.zen's excellent tweaking guide. pjc21 has some great color modifications out there for CROMI(-X) that are really worth tryig out.
And as Tylorw has already put forward -- use Goo Manager to install TWRP and make absolutely sure that you have the latest version! -- as we speak, that'd be 2.5.0.0 -- because CWM seems to have some trouble handling Android versions of 4.2.x properly and may brick your new toy.
Welcome to the club!

MartyHulskemper said:
LOL! Really.
Cromi-X is the easiest recommendation on your to-do list, and Pimp My ROM really does neat things when using in conjunction with lucius.zen's excellent tweaking guide. pjc21 has some great color modifications out there for CROMI(-X) that are really worth tryig out.
And as Tylorw has already put forward -- use Goo Manager to install TWRP and make absolutely sure that you have the latest version! -- as we speak, that'd be 2.5.0.0 -- because CWM seems to have some trouble handling Android versions of 4.2.x properly and may brick your new toy.
Welcome to the club!
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Haha my mistake. I was using swipe and well, apparently doesnt like the word "pimp" .
Tylor
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ROM: CleanRom Xenogenesis 4.4 DeOdex
Kernel: Hundsbuah's V3.0.5 OC Kernel
Theme: Timberwolf's Blues and Jazz Theme

Cool I will look at doing everything when I get the chance. Any thing else I should look for or any good apps I should get? Oh.....what is better, Odex or DeOdex?
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Malkozaine said:
Cool I will look at doing everything when I get the chance. Any thing else I should look for or any good apps I should get? Oh.....what is better, Odex or DeOdex?
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Dont matter but it is said Odex runs better, but I been using DeOdex lately.
Tylor
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk HD
ROM: CleanRom Xenogenesis 4.4 DeOdex
Kernel: Hundsbuah's V3.0.5 OC Kernel
Theme: Timberwolf's Blues and Jazz Theme

Malkozaine said:
Cool I will look at doing everything when I get the chance. Any thing else I should look for or any good apps I should get? Oh.....what is better, Odex or DeOdex?
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I've seen a lively discussion in here somewhere (probably the CROMI thread) in which our guru _that delivered the coup de grace to the ODEX/DEODEX myth -- it only matters insofar as you want to tweak and modify (specifically: theme). Once booted, the same code is run by both versions -- the boot of one of them (I believe DEODEX, but I may be 100% wrong there) takes longer because the code to be run has to be generated first. As in the end it doesn't matter -- and since I have theming options available for both versions due to pjc21's efforts -- I run whatever version comes out first. As long as you do not clean the caches and reboot, there's no speed difference except for placebo.

MartyHulskemper said:
I've seen a lively discussion in here somewhere (probably the CROMI thread) in which our guru _that delivered the coup de grace to the ODEX/DEODEX myth -- it only matters insofar as you want to tweak and modify (specifically: theme). Once booted, the same code is run by both versions -- the boot of one of them (I believe DEODEX, but I may be 100% wrong there) takes longer because the code to be run has to be generated first. As in the end it doesn't matter -- and since I have theming options available for both versions due to pjc21's efforts -- I run whatever version comes out first. As long as you do not clean the caches and reboot, there's no speed difference except for placebo.
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Aw.....but I like placebos........makes suger pills worth it.
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CROMi will make the device what it is supposed to be. Had mine for 6 months before taking the leap and I wish I had not waited so long, especially given I have extended coverage through best buy, thus making a bricked device covered via insurance. On that note, it may be worth it to look into some type of supplemental coverage for a safety net in case (heaven forbid) something does happen. However, should you choose not to, I have been researching this stuff and reading up on the thread daily (and almost everything on the 3.x thread) for the last 2 months and I have just recently for the first time seen a post about someone possibly bricking their device. Im pretty sure it was because they did not have the right version of TWRP. This speaks milestones to the quality of dev that SDBags (CROMi dev) is. The ROM is stable and fast, and if you follow his instructions vigilantly, you will most likely unlock the true potential of the TF700 and be even happier. Good luck!
Edit: As far as Kernels go, I have seen mixed things about Hunds, if I were you I would go with the stock based kernel by _that2 (as in version 2) and run that for a few days before you decide if you wanna make any kernel tweaks. His is the most stable. Afterwards, you can dirty flash over if you want to switch kernels, just wipe dalvik and cache (not factory reset) when done.
And stick with the stock launcher

Turin87 said:
Afterwards, you can dirty flash over if you want to switch kernels, just wipe dalvik and cache (not factory reset) when done.
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There is no need to wipe anything when changing kernels, it's just wasted time.

boot tf700t with grate-driver/linux kernel-5.8.0

hi all.
Some time ago i pulled out my old tf700t and replaced the screen. After that it was time
to try to update my linux partition and found a newer kernel = grate-driver/linux
on github ( cannot post a link because this is my first post) .
I want to update to that kernel but have broblem when it goes into the boot process (just a black screen) . I am using dualboot with kexecboot and running gentoo and CROMBi-kk
on it and i am stuck . is there someone who can bring me some light to my problem?
regards hedmo

The tf700t was not supported into grate until now, please see:
Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T (asus-tf700t) - postmarketOS
wiki.postmarketos.org
Some features are still not working though.

aat596 said:
The tf700t was not supported into grate until now, please see:
Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T (asus-tf700t) - postmarketOS
wiki.postmarketos.org
Some features are still not working though.
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aat596 said:
The tf700t was not supported into grate until now, please see:
Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T (asus-tf700t) - postmarketOS
wiki.postmarketos.org
Some features are still not working though.
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@aat596 . You are a bit right there. THE problem was not the kernels but more kexecboot support for newer kernels then 3.1.10. i have manage to get My tf700t Up and running with grate-kernel and on THE road to get a working ENV.

hedmo said:
@aat596 . You are a bit right there. THE problem was not the kernels but more kexecboot support for newer kernels then 3.1.10. i have manage to get My tf700t Up and running with grate-kernel and on THE road to get a working ENV.
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I suggest you to join #pmOS-on-transformers in matrix.org.
I don't have the necessary knowledge to solve this problem, they could help you there (I'm already in, by the way) .
Also, one of the members posted this:
Ion A / Rustage · GitLab
Rust based init binary for multiboot menu and kexec
gitlab.com
It's a Rust based init binary for multiboot menu and kexec (for TF201, but could be ported to other transformers), you should take a look at it, maybe it's what you are looking for.
Best regards.