Hey, I've been flashing roms for about 2 years now and just recently registered an account on XDA. I've been interested in making roms myself since the day I flashed my first rom (WeaponG2x) but could never figure out how exactly to go about doing so. I tried dsixda's kitchen but it didn't work for me so I'm wondering if any of the devs here can tell me what exactly I need to know to make a rom, where to start, and any tips they might have that could be useful to someone like me. A big thanks to anyone who can help, any and all info is appreciated.
Edit: Nvm, I find out you can only do it on mac and linux and I'm running windows.
theboss23 said:
Hey, I've been flashing roms for about 2 years now and just recently registered an account on XDA. I've been interested in making roms myself since the day I flashed my first rom (WeaponG2x) but could never figure out how exactly to go about doing so. I tried dsixda's kitchen but it didn't work for me so I'm wondering if any of the devs here can tell me what exactly I need to know to make a rom, where to start, and any tips they might have that could be useful to someone like me. A big thanks to anyone who can help, any and all info is appreciated.
Edit: Nvm, I find out you can only do it on mac and linux and I'm running windows.
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You can do it on windows. It's called cygwin. And I recommend dsixda kitchen. For doing it with just scripts is very challenging for novice users.
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My friend asked me this earlier and it got me wondering....what would happen if we flashed a rom from a different phone after changing the boot.img?
You brick it. Don't ever ever EVER flash a ROM for another phone.
I was not thinking about doing it myself...i was just curious as to how the porting process gets underway and it sparked that question. This is a very broad category...but what are the main steps to porting from another device?
rizdog23 said:
I was not thinking about doing it myself...i was just curious as to how the porting process gets underway and it sparked that question. This is a very broad category...but what are the main steps to porting from another device?
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You can use Android kitchen to port the ROM and then try to get it booting.... Not exactly Easy I have been working on a DX ROM from nexus s still won't install.... or you can look up freeyourandroid and it has directions to do it yourself but it does the same as kitchen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
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Hello,
Long time lurker, not much of a poster.
Anyway - I was wondering if there are any guides or if anyone could give me some pointers on how to create a deodexed version of stock ROM?
What kind of effort is required to accomplish this?
Thank you in advance.
hydro945 said:
Hello,
Long time lurker, not much of a poster.
Anyway - I was wondering if there are any guides or if anyone could give me some pointers on how to create a deodexed version of stock ROM?
What kind of effort is required to accomplish this?
Thank you in advance.
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I've started looking into using dsixda's Android Kitchen to accomplish this. Will this method work? I'll report back after I play around with it some.
hydro945 said:
I've started looking into using dsixda's Android Kitchen to accomplish this. Will this method work? I'll report back after I play around with it some.
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yes. it works fine. that's what most people use. there are stock deodexed versions out already. no need to repeat what has already been done unless you just want to learn.
t3project said:
yes. it works fine. that's what most people use. there are stock deodexed versions out already. no need to repeat what has already been done unless you just want to learn.
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Thanks t3. More looking to learn all the basics and eventually help the community. Thanks for your advice!
I am trying to upgrade my Galaxy S II to Jellybean using the following link but am not sure how to do so. I found the following link but it appeared to help me achieve nothing. Can you point me in the right direction or help me figure out how to get jellybean on my GS2? I'm sure it has been address so please point me in the right direction if nothing else. Additional insight is also always nice! Thanks everyone!
SDK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27963070
Article: http://www.ehow.com/how_12211911_system-dump-android.html
SuperMonkey0627 said:
I am trying to upgrade my Galaxy S II to Jellybean using the following link but am not sure how to do so. I found the following link but it appeared to help me achieve nothing. Can you point me in the right direction or help me figure out how to get jellybean on my GS2? I'm sure it has been address so please point me in the right direction if nothing else. Additional insight is also always nice! Thanks everyone!
SDK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27963070
Article: http://www.ehow.com/how_12211911_system-dump-android.html
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Not quite sure what your trying to accomplish using an SDK cleaner. But that won't help with the upgrade. Follow this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2195283
Ariana makes it real easy to get the device rooted so you can select whatever JB ROM you want and to install it. Hope that helps.
And BTW, Welcome to the xda community.
magda623 said:
Not quite sure what your trying to accomplish using an SDK cleaner. But that won't help with the upgrade. Follow this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2195283
Ariana makes it real easy to get the device rooted so you can select whatever JB ROM you want and to install it. Hope that helps.
And BTW, Welcome to the xda community.
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Thanks for the direction and the welcome. I'm looking to upgrade my ICS GS2 to Jelly Bean. Will the above link help me do so? I want that google now feature along with the other optimizations. Thanks again for the info!
my htc dhd has a 2.3.7 android os, I want to upgrade for the new rom and new android os
I don't know nothing about nothing. all I nead is a good advice about nice tutorial/guides for work on it
Thank's!
Henm3000 said:
my htc dhd has a 2.3.7 android os, I want to upgrade for the new rom and new android os
I don't know nothing about nothing. all I nead is a good advice about nice tutorial/guides for work on it
Thank's!
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Here you go!
http://bit.ly/13VrMks
Unfortunately my friend this is not a hold my hand and guide me forum. You need to do some reading and learning like the rest of us. We all had to do it and we all were new at this once. So please read and search then read and search some more before you end up coming back to us requesting help to fix your phone.
Never attempt anything without some kind of basic knowledge of what you are trying to do.
To get anything higher than 2.3.7 means you have to go custom rom like JB or ICS. So my first advice to you would be reading up on how to get your bootloader unlocked since its a DHD. If its an inspire then read up on rooting if its still supported.
Good luck and enjoy the learning.
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Reinaldo33897 said:
Unfortunately my friend this is not a hold my hand and guide me forum. You need to do some reading and learning like the rest of us. We all had to do it and we all were new at this once. So please read and search then read and search some more before you end up coming back to us requesting help to fix your phone.
Never attempt anything without some kind of basic knowledge of what you are trying to do.
To get anything higher than 2.3.7 means you have to go custom rom like JB or ICS. So my first advice to you would be reading up on how to get your bootloader unlocked since its a DHD. If its an inspire then read up on rooting if its still supported.
Good luck and enjoy the learning.
Sent from my GOLDENEYE S4
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I agree...
To op. Please look through the forums, people have already done lots and lots of work already for you, creating guides and tools and roms and recoveries.
Now I don't want to sound mean, but at the end of the day your going to have to do all the work rooting and flashing yourself, this stuff is not easy for beginners (noobs) your going to have to do some reading and learning.
However this does not mean that some one is not going to help you after you've learned some skills.
Welcome to the xda DEVELOPERS community.
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ranger4740 said:
i agree...
To op. Please look through the forums, people have already done lots and lots of work already for you, creating guides and tools and roms and recoveries.
Now i don't want to sound mean, but at the end of the day your going to have to do all the work rooting and flashing yourself, this stuff is not easy for beginners (noobs) your going to have to do some reading and learning.
However this does not mean that some one is not going to help you after you've learned some skills.
Welcome to the xda developers community.
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yeah what he said!
Thank you for your time.
First of all I have been rooting and unlocking many android devices and variants for years now. I have had some amazing success at it as I am pretty good at reading and following directions. I have decompiled and made some small mods to different roms, edited build.prop files. I am well versed in adb and fastboot commands as well as using odin and heimdall. i know how to record and read logcats.
That said I have a bootloader unlocked dev edition vzw s5, and would like to try my hand at fully porting a rom. Specifically from a GSM s5 to Verizon CDMA. Once I get it functional on MY device i would then like to mod it to be safestrap flashable for those that dont have dev edition verizon s5's. I should also mention i have the dev's blessing to do this and if i share it i will make sure first and foremost to give the original dev credit.
The problem is all the guides i find, even on here, seem to be outdated and dont quite work all the way. So if someone could point me to a good CURRENT (android 5.0 and up) guide for this or maybe guide me a little through the process, I would be eternally gratefull and would include whoever helps (and there donation links) in the credits if i share the finished rom.
Again thank you in advance for your time and consideration, if it weren't for the community here at xda the entire android world would be a much more different and boring place.
I am looking to bring the maverick s6 v4.5 to the Verizon s5. It is already available for every other variant
kxhan15 said:
I am looking to bring the maverick s6 v4.5 to the Verizon s5. It is already available for every other variant
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It should work, and fix radio is a thing of 5 minutes
BlackMesa123 said:
It should work, and fix radio is a thing of 5 minutes
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Already done but thank you. Mods please mark as solved.
kxhan15 said:
Already done but thank you. Mods please mark as solved.
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Hi there, i was wondering, a re e you gonna release that rom if you got it working? And could you share your process on converting the radio stuff? Ive been looking into doing the same with my sprint galaxy s5 (uses same technology to connect to the cell towers) but have been in the same situation as you. Thanks.
chippinganimal said:
Hi there, i was wondering, a re e you gonna release that rom if you got it working? And could you share your process on converting the radio stuff? Ive been looking into doing the same with my sprint galaxy s5 (uses same technology to connect to the cell towers) but have been in the same situation as you. Thanks.
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Are familiar with decompiling and rebuilding apks, modding the build.prop, framework-res and rebuilding roms?
kxhan15 said:
Are familiar with decompiling and rebuilding apks, modding the build.prop, framework-res and rebuilding roms?
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Yes to everything ecxpet for the building apks part lol. Yeah feel free to write out a how to guide on doing it, because there are probably people out there who would love that, including me! And i think there might also be someone who will create a script thatll do it automatically, Depending on what the process is.