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[CM9] Building from source

Hey Everyone,
This is my first post here on XDA. I've been around for a while and always try to read a lot before attempting anything so as not to break stuff; hence the reason for no posts so far. I appreciate all of the helpful information I find on these forums and it has been great for keeping my trusty Dinc running well and running the latest Android OS.
I have been busy with school, but finally have some time to sit down and bang out some Android development, leading me to my
Question/problem: I am attempting to build android from source to get up and running on being able to create my own ROMs or help contribute to others and I've run into a problem. I'm stuck in a boot-loop during the CM9 boot animation. I have a logcat dump during the boot that shows the errors and the cycle of it trying again and again, but I'm not sure where to go next.
Background:
I have been running drk.hd's CM9 ROM for the last month or so (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558923) and I have enjoyed it. It works very well. He has build instructions posted on his github here: https://github.com/drkhd/android_device_htc_inc. I have followed those steps exactly as posted, which all work as expected. I have not run into any build/compile errors, but after flashing the zip file, I end up in the boot-loop.
Logcat:
I pasted the logcat here: http://pastebin.com/wVVbmeRY
The last ~400 lines just repeat until killing the logcat. I can see errors about media services dying and a fatal signal 11, but again, I'm not sure what to do with this information.
Any help is much appreciated. I know this should really be in the dev forum, but as I mentioned, this is my first post; I don't have 10 posts yet, so I cannot post in the dev forum until that point. I am really just starting to dig into this stuff, so go easy on me and help guide me in the right direction so I can take things and run with them. Once I get a feel for how best to approach android development, I should be able to pick it up pretty easily.
Thanks

I know this thread should really be in the dev forum, but if any of you have any suggestions or can at least point me in the right direction for where to look for answers, that would be great.
Thanks again

Dezier11 said:
I know this thread should really be in the dev forum, but if any of you have any suggestions or can at least point me in the right direction for where to look for answers, that would be great.
Thanks again
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This is the right forum. Development threads are meant to be for ROM and other development support, Q&A is where I would ask about this too but I guess the other devs either aren't around or don't know how to answer your question. cmlusco is a dev of touch of blue and he lingers around Q&A a lot so maybe if he comes across this he can give you some insight. I would really like to get into building ROMs as well but I don't have any experience in coding just yet. I don't really know what kind of experience is required to build ROMs either and my only Ubuntu machine is 32-bit so I am essentially out of the race for now. That being said, I found this guide that I was going to use for my own building ventures until I realized I needed a 64-bit machine but maybe it can help you or maybe the support can give you a little direction. I hope this helps!!
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...99-guide-ubuntu-compiling-android-source.html

nschiwy said:
This is the right forum. Development threads are meant to be for ROM and other development support, Q&A is where I would ask about this too but I guess the other devs either aren't around or don't know how to answer your question. cmlusco is a dev of touch of blue and he lingers around Q&A a lot so maybe if he comes across this he can give you some insight. I would really like to get into building ROMs as well but I don't have any experience in coding just yet. I don't really know what kind of experience is required to build ROMs either and my only Ubuntu machine is 32-bit so I am essentially out of the race for now. That being said, I found this guide that I was going to use for my own building ventures until I realized I needed a 64-bit machine but maybe it can help you or maybe the support can give you a little direction. I hope this helps!!
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...99-guide-ubuntu-compiling-android-source.html
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I would love to help but i have no clue how to build from source. All i know how to do is take stock roms and modify and tweak them. I do not have a linux setup, i use win 7 with cygwin and android kitchen. Android kitchen does a lot of the work for you. Apktool is another great windows program for decompiling and recompiling apks. It just takes time to tweak and modify everything. Google and xda are your best friends, you can find the answer to just about anything you want.

cmlusco said:
I would love to help but i have no clue how to build from source. All i know how to do is take stock roms and modify and tweak them. I do not have a linux setup, i use win 7 with cygwin and android kitchen. Android kitchen does a lot of the work for you. Apktool is another great windows program for decompiling and recompiling apks. It just takes time to tweak and modify everything. Google and xda are your best friends, you can find the answer to just about anything you want.
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yes you can flash it which suitable for your device
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[email protected] said:
yes you can flash it which suitable for your device
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I have sync Evervolv source code and I'll make this days

Thank you guys for your responses. I appreciate you taking the time.
nschiwy, I'm still working my way through the thread you provided, hopefully something there will help.

Building new ROM would like to test in Emulator, help!

Building a new ROM for the Optimus V. Got a ROM built, but I would like to test before flashing to device. I've got AVD and when I set it up using the system.img it will not load. I notice I cannot select abiearm-v6 (or Neon) and wonder if that is the issue. I've scoured Google to no avail. If any of you guys out there have a link to a tutorial or some hints to get me going in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advanced!

[Q] Dialer from 4.4 kitkat

Hello everyone, I was wondering if it was possible to take the Dialer apk out of the 4.4 kitkat release and make it useable in the S3. Yes, I have tried exdialer, but it doesn't do the exact same thing as the actual dialer would do.
If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.

deadh0b0 said:
Hello everyone, I was wondering if it was possible to take the Dialer apk out of the 4.4 kitkat release and make it useable in the S3. Yes, I have tried exdialer, but it doesn't do the exact same thing as the actual dialer would do.
If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.
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Try it out and let us know. Worste case you restore to a backup you make before hand right?
I'd imagine it might work, if not the source of the dialer may need tweeking, changing the rom to work with the dialer might break other things (just a guess).
Still, try it out, it may not have been targeted to older versions of Android so maybe rebuilding it from source in eclipse to target older version like 4.1.2 and see if it compiles without error, error would just point you to what needs to be fixed on the surface, then try to compile it for 4.1.2 again and keep testing, that would be what I would do if I was interested in it. If the source isn't available for that app, maybe try decompiling it, but I have only read a little about that so I am not able to give any advice as to what decompiled code might look like.
Good luck.

deadh0b0 said:
Hello everyone, I was wondering if it was possible to take the Dialer apk out of the 4.4 kitkat release and make it useable in the S3. Yes, I have tried exdialer, but it doesn't do the exact same thing as the actual dialer would do.
If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.
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Did you ever figure this out? Apparently the dialer with business search is in the Nexus 4 OTA.

The ROM I use has some kitkat apps running see this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47077105&highlight=kitkat#post47077105
So they may work.
Always backup first though!

Want to cm11 the VS985

I would love to begin working on cm11 for the VS985! I have some android experience and used to be active here as Backwards1979 but I am completely locked out of that account. I used to work with visableck on the Samsung Galaxy stellar.
I just need to know where to begin to port the cm11 to VS985. Any help or push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Pbaird1979 said:
I would love to begin working on cm11 for the VS985! I have some android experience and used to be active here as Backwards1979 but I am completely locked out of that account. I used to work with visableck on the Samsung Galaxy stellar.
I just need to know where to begin to port the cm11 to VS985. Any help or push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
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It's already been ported to the VS985 man. Posted yesterday:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/development/rom-cyanogenmod-11-vs985-t2934822
Great to see another dev on here for the VS985 though! If you ever need help with anything let me know. I'm pretty Android and Linux proficient and I'm not afraid to do some low-level modifications to my precious G3! Adb work and leveling LAF to do fastboot work is no problem and I've even had success compiling images from source and making slight modifications to allow porting to similar variants. I'll be glad to test anything you need as well! Best of luck!

Thank you! I have been looking since bump hit and I have not been able to find it!

That includes last night and today... I don't want anyone to think that I just wanted a handout and haven't done any of my research.

Emulator set-up and TWRP compilation for a vk815

I've got a working development set-up and have compiled the Lollipop files and kernel for the vk815 with it. I've installed the SDK but using the 'emulator' is less than easy. I could use help with creating a vk815 config so I can bounce my outputs against it. I would also like to compile TWRP and run that through the 'emulator'. The pre-compilation for that isn't going well and I need some hand holding. Once I'm finished, I'll be happy to share but I really need some help with this last half of the project.
Thanks,
Jim

jowski said:
I've got a working development set-up and have compiled the Lollipop files and kernel for the vk815 with it. I've installed the SDK but using the 'emulator' is less than easy. I could use help with creating a vk815 config so I can bounce my outputs against it. I would also like to compile TWRP and run that through the 'emulator'. The pre-compilation for that isn't going well and I need some hand holding. Once I'm finished, I'll be happy to share but I really need some help with this last half of the project.
Thanks,
Jim
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Yeah I can't help you with that one. It's over my pay grade but I do want to say thank you and applaud you for this. I've been really surprised no one has stepped up to the plate for this. Thanks for this

Any progress on this?