Request for Collaborators: Merging the CM11 ROMs into one "official" one - HTC Sensation

Hi,
I see at least 3 different CM11 roms based on kitkat:
* http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2524961 [ROM] CyanogenMod 11.0 | Android 4.4.2 KitKat [KANG] [May-6]+[NIGHTLIES]
* http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2530073 [ROM][STABLE][Android 4.4.4] CyanogenMod 11 with 3.0.16 kernel [July 25, 2014]
* http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2692278 [UnORom][3.4Kernel] CM-11 Android 4.4.4 [Stable v2.0][29 July][Final]
All more or less unmaintained as far as I can see - please correct me if I'm wrong!
What are the remaining difficulties to get a official CM11 ROM out of these? Then a lot more infrastructure from CM could be used - e.g. development tools, build machines & downloads. If the problem is to get a build machine on which 3-5 persons could would together over the Internet - I'll spend a vserver on my own dedicated server if there is a serious effort to bring up an official CM11 ROM.
If there are rather tiny things I could try(!) to help - I have almost no experience with android system development, but with Linux and development (C, Java, embedded devices,...) in general.
Two links for the rough procedure:
* http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro - the hard part, but luckily almost done (isn't it?)
* http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_Submitting_A_Port - the final
Wiki-entry: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Pyramid_Info

+1 for uptodate pure CM11 rom for sensation. I hope someone will join to you.

I think Flemmard's variant of CM is ready to be official!

official CM11 to Sensation!!!! We need it

+1

+1 It would be great thing for senny to so see official CM11 because many developers left us.

I don't think it's possible to make an official CM11 for our phone. IIRC, to be official it can't use legacy drivers and for the CM11 to work on our phone, I think we are using drivers from ICS because that's until where our drivers are updated, I'm not sure.
And "official" one in other hand would be amazing, I tried PA and etc but I always return to CM.

scanferr said:
I don't think it's possible to make an official CM11 for our phone. IIRC, to be official it can't use legacy drivers and for the CM11 to work on our phone, I think we are using drivers from ICS because that's until where our drivers are updated, I'm not sure.
And "official" one in other hand would be amazing, I tried PA and etc but I always return to CM.
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Flemmards CM use KK drivers.

+1 for me too.

It's good to take a question - how many developers are developing at this moment?
Albinoman moved to Galaxy S5
SultanXDA has forced to developing Nexus 5 device
Shantur give up his work and we can flash new builds only if Sajito will up new version (contains upstream changes)
Ivanich has decided to close his storage, so we cannot download anything...
...Ideas?

Inf1n1te said:
It's good to take a question - how many developers are developing at this moment?
Albinoman moved to Galaxy S5
SultanXDA has forced to developing Nexus 5 device
Shantur give up his work and we can flash new builds only if Sajito will up new version (contains upstream changes)
Ivanich has decided to close his storage, so we cannot download anything...
...Ideas?
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That's not true... Team Venom also left us
For now we have official slimkat builds and maybe bilal liberty still develops for senny.
That's sad. We had many great developers and suddenly many of them left us. It will be great to see official CM builds.

Thats very sad, why they all leaving, i dont understand that. How's Ivanich latest 08/27 rom? Better than Sultan 07/25?
greetz

macicgangsta said:
That's not true... Team Venom also left us
For now we have official slimkat builds and maybe bilal liberty still develops for senny.
That's sad. We had many great developers and suddenly many of them left us. It will be great to see official CM builds.
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bilal don't support our device anymore.

Inf1n1te said:
...Ideas?
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The good thing is that all the great developers left us with good ROMs.
I think it is difficult to replace the devs. I can't fix the bugs they didn't fix until now, but I would like to try to keep at least one of the Cyanogenmod ROMs updated with upstream. I think in a month or two I will have time to start with that (if no one else is doing it until then).
@mifritscher: I think the lack of a build (or at least download-) server was a problem for devs here and then. So yes, your offer could be very helpful! Thanks for that!

Inf1n1te said:
It's good to take a question - how many developers are developing at this moment?
Albinoman moved to Galaxy S5
SultanXDA has forced to developing Nexus 5 device
Shantur give up his work and we can flash new builds only if Sajito will up new version (contains upstream changes)
Ivanich has decided to close his storage, so we cannot download anything...
...Ideas?
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Sensation is a 3 year old device. i think as the devs have moved on to other devices, so should we. though our sensation has a lot of potential, i dont think devs will work on an android L port or making CM11 official. though there is hope with ivanich & bilal_liberty

Inf1n1te said:
It's good to take a question - how many developers are developing at this moment?
[....]
Ivanich has decided to close his storage, so we cannot download anything...
...Ideas?
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I can give storage space and bandwidth if it's useful, please contact me to discuss the details.

I can build but i dont know how to make a device tree so if someone can do the device trees i can do the builds

I don't know if we have everything working as on stock, also I don't know if the rom would pass cts.
But even if everything works, I don't think there's anyone around who has enough time to maintain an official build.
But at this point there's only one cm which is still updated and that's ivanich's one. Where's the difference in having an official build?

Where to go from here?
I'm just a casual user looking for a ROM. Going through these threads is confusing and so many links are dead.
What available for the sensation right now?

cynamun said:
I'm just a casual user looking for a ROM. Going through these threads is confusing and so many links are dead.
What available for the sensation right now?
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Except for official slimkat all available and maintained roms are part of DevB so just click here in forum in the dev:db bar on roms.

Related

CyanogenMod

Hey guys when official CyanogenMod for ChaCha will be relesed?
liviucristian17 said:
Hey guys when official CyanogenMod for ChaCha will be relesed?
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well, first of all this would depend on which -version- of cyanogenmod you're referring to. there is currently both a CM7 build out as well as a CM9.
And the current Cyanogenmod being worked on is CM10(although unfortunately nobody has started a port for the ChaCha with CM10 yet)
the next thing it depends on is when the builds become stable. most custom CM based roms out currently have a few major bugs(for example, the CM9 port doesn't yet have the front camera working)
and lastly, it depends on the developers of these ports to submit their source to the cyanogenmod community/team and for the cyanogenmod community/team to accept it as a stable and official build.
so "when" really depends on the developers, and the stability. so, likely not anytime soon.(especially based on the slow development for most roms for this phone lately)
kronflux said:
well, first of all this would depend on which -version- of cyanogenmod you're referring to. there is currently both a CM7 build out as well as a CM9.
And the current Cyanogenmod being worked on is CM10(although unfortunately nobody has started a port for the ChaCha with CM10 yet)
the next thing it depends on is when the builds become stable. most custom CM based roms out currently have a few major bugs(for example, the CM9 port doesn't yet have the front camera working)
and lastly, it depends on the developers of these ports to submit their source to the cyanogenmod community/team and for the cyanogenmod community/team to accept it as a stable and official build.
so "when" really depends on the developers, and the stability. so, likely not anytime soon.(especially based on the slow development for most roms for this phone lately)
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I'm talking about CM7(official)!On their website on ,,get.cm" I don't see htc chacha/status tab!If you know where to download official CM7 pls tell me!
liviucristian17,
there's no Official and i think liviucristian17, CM7 still lacks the front camera?

[Q] JB MIUI For Galaxy S 4G

Hey guys, I have been looking for a jb miui ROM for this device and i cant find one, i know there are some ics miui ROMs, but i would really like a jb miui ROM.
There is one for the vibrant, can I use it for my Galaxy s 4G or can anyone port it to our device?
Vibrant MIUI JB ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2289234
Thanks
i'll build it when miui comes out with miui 4.2
airfluip1 said:
i'll build it when miui comes out with miui 4.2
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Thank you i will be looking forward to it.
Beast said he would do it.
sent from me
that's been in my queue for a while along with aokp aries and paranoid android.
airfluip1 said:
i'll build it when miui comes out with miui 4.2
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313073
Just because there are some homebrew ports doesn't mean that MIUI is 4.2 yet.
http://en.miui.com/download.html
Official Downloads
Author : MIUI Developer Team
Kernel : Android 4.1
Latest update : 3.6.21
Download : http://www.miui.com/download.html
Language : Chinese and English
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Why does it matter ? We use unofficial ROMs anyway...
sent from me
That's like saying that since a car, airplane, and weed-whacker all run on gas, you should just put the same stuff in each. Actually, the unofficial ROMS is a more tenuous connection than my gas connection. It's more like saying that since a bullet train, horse, and diesel bus all run on fuel, the fuel which goes into each shouldn't matter. It's all fuel.
Hey, you could (please don't) use an unofficial Vibrant ROM too. That's unofficial. What's the difference? The difference is that it won't work. And might brick your phone. That's bad.
Our only current Aries kernel is 4.2.2 and still has issues. MIUI is still 4.1.2 and would introduce an entirely new set of issues tied into GPS, Bluetooth, and so forth if/when a 4.1.2 Aries kernel was compiled. Does that make it impossible? No. But it means that as the build impetus - when MIUI is 4.2 - has not happened yet... it's not a great use of time yet. Unless one of the devs wants it. In which case, MIUI being not-updated is something they don't need to be hammered over the head with.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313073
4.2.2?
Port. If YOU see source linked from that page so our devs could actually do something useful to build that...
Hi Theraze
I have to disagree with you.
Port is not a dirty word and most of our ROMs are actually ports and not built from source. Furthermore, MIUI ROM is usually ported and not built from source and only recently did Xiaomi open their sources for the public. Even more than that, both MIUI versions brought to us by Beast were ports from Nexus and not built from source.
Now, regarding the incompatibility between kernel & OS - if it works on Nexus, I assume the adjustments were made, so one can enjoy both 4.2.2 & MIUI benefits. There is no logical reason why it couldn't be ported to our beloved device.
sent from me
I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying that our build-from-source dev who asked you to let him know when it hit 4.2 hasn't had his request met.
Does that mean that someone (him or another dev) CAN'T port it? Nope. But it makes it a lot less likely that air can just pull the source in and compile it using the Aries bits if the buildable MIUI is still only 4.1.2 and our Aries is 4.2.2 instead.
Again, I think we're agreeing on the general bits... yes, this is possible. But airfluip1 asked to be notified when buildable MIUI was 4.2.2 and that's when he said he'd build it. Not port it.
I don't care if a ROM is ported or built from source.
I will try to play with porting it myself.

[Q] is MoKee any good?

Hi there
I will shortly be joining either the custom rom user world or bricked phone world. :silly:
I am absolutely new to the topic and would love some advice from you all.
My phone is stock ICS and I want to switch to a ROM which is very stable and fast.
Earlier i was thinking of going for PA or Cyanogen but neither seem to officially support Motorola Atrix 2. :crying:
MoKee is the only distribution which apparently has official support for my phone.
I was wondering if there is any other ROM which officially supports Atrix 2?
How good is MoKee? Would you recommend this ROM to a newbie? From what i know, Cyanogen seems to be the easiest to install.
Also, can someone list the steps to installing Mokee?
I read the content at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2305303
but for a 1st time newb all that seems very intimidating.
thank you
Rishav
Rishav Sharan said:
I was wondering if there is any other ROM which officially supports Atrix 2?
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All of new ROM's for our Atrix2 are fast and most of them are stable (depends on user )
& Even though CM 11 is not official for our phone, but currently it is the most stable and all bug fixed rom for our A2
(I am not saying Mokee or other ROMs are not stable, but at this stage CM 11 has all bug fixed and I am sure Mokee & other will incorporate it soon :fingers-crossed: )
Also all ROM's have same procedure to install, so all ROM's are easy to install (Thanks to BMM)
You can follow steps in that link or check this video tutorial for using BMM
"Axxiom Kat" also has official support to our device.
It doesn't matters (at least for this device) whether the ROM has official support or not, our device has a team of some Recognized Contributors and A2EPT (Atrix 2 edison porting team) which keep the ROM up to date as like it is an official ROM :victory:
So dont worry flash any ROM you want :highfive:
sameerm02 said:
All of new ROM's for our Atrix2 are fast and most of them are stable (depends on user )
& Even though CM 11 is not official for our phone, but currently it is the most stable and all bug fixed rom for our A2
(I am not saying Mokee or other ROMs are not stable, but at this stage CM 11 has all bug fixed and I am sure Mokee & other will incorporate it soon :fingers-crossed: )
Also all ROM's have same procedure to install, so all ROM's are easy to install (Thanks to BMM)
You can follow steps in that link or check this video tutorial for using BMM
"Axxiom Kat" also has official support to our device.
It doesn't matters (at least for this device) whether the ROM has official support or not, our device has a team of some Recognized Contributors and A2EPT (Atrix 2 edison porting team) which keep the ROM up to date as like it is an official ROM :victory:
So dont worry flash any ROM you want :highfive:
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Thanks Sameer!
Guess CM11 is the best bet for me.
Btw, what is the kernel update?
Would you recommend me to go for a custom kernel now? or is it something i should attempt only when i have the hang of modding?
Rishav Sharan said:
Thanks Sameer!
Guess CM11 is the best bet for me.
Btw, what is the kernel update?
Would you recommend me to go for a custom kernel now? or is it something i should attempt only when i have the hang of modding?
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All rom's have inbuilt custom kernel (kexec kernel), if you wanna try overclocking your device you can use JBX kernel
JBX can be flashed after ROM installtion.
But for a newbie like you dont flash it yet, first try some ROM's; when you get used to it then try JBX.
And if this helps you, dont say thanks press Thanks button below the post !!
And we have separate Q&A section for question and answers
Please dont post questions here in general section
MoKee is bug free and gps works berry good
Mokee is stable and you can try SlimKat as well
Slimkat worked best for me as far as battery life, but cm11 was best overall
atrix 2 cm11

CM 11-M8 for our device?

ran into this post today, features a galaxy s relay getting an update, which has the same specs as our beloved blaze, any idea what's what? maybe it can be ported by our wonderful devs?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/cyanogenmod-11-m8-now-available-for-supported-devices/
here's the link ...
It can build for blaze, yes.
Traace said:
It can build for blaze, yes.
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ok i'll start by tagging the developers here to see their magic happen, as i have noticed most of the issues are solved which were unsolved with Cm11 releases
@InkSlinger420 @xWolf13 @Somcom3X
Phones too buggy.
That's why there are no snapshots/ RC.
Maintainer determines if a build (our CM11) is stable enough to become a Snapshot/M update.
xWolf13 said:
Maintainer determines if a build (our CM11) is stable enough to become a Snapshot/M update.
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understood, from what i've heard, from a friend of my brother's, who's running Cm11 M8 on his galaxy s relay, seems to run stable, no major issues reported. sadly couldn't talk to him more since he's in an area that's got crappy network reception. I think if we tag the developers on this post we can get them to work their magic on our device, i think the issues that reside with the current CM11 might be resolved and run just as well as 4.1.2 builds

[Q] question about CM12 Unofficial Hammerhead

It seems that since a couple of new builds in, there's suddenly a stream open to the official OTA updates in the CM updater in the unofficial builds of @mo976, are these builds similar or identical? What's the difference?
I might be mistaken though, but wanted to be sure about this..
Thanks a lot, I'm enjoying these builds either way mo976. :good:
Difference is, one is official, and the other isn't. Best to rely on the official one because of the amount of people working on it.
Thanks man :good:

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