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[JB 4.1.1][ROW] Just managed to compile

Hello!
I've spend some days to compile JB for TPT ROW 32Gb. And there are the following results:
Works:
--Display. Interface is _very_ smooth
--Pen
--Automatic brightness
--External SD
--USB host
--Bluetooth
--WiFi (Partially: Signal strength indicator broken. Disable avoiding poor networks in advanced menu)
--GPS
--Internal sdcard
Doesn't work:
--Camera
--3G
--Sound
I also had to repack boot image to include configuration changes (init* files).
See attached logcat.
next step I will try to add proprietary source files for Wifi and camera and compile JB again.
==Boot image gzip for flashing with system image using nvflash or dd from recovery==
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1737679/part07.20120724.img.gz
==System image gzip for flashing with boot image using nvflash or dd from recovery==
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1737679/part08.20120724.img.gz
Remember to always do a backup copy of your device images before flashing new ones.

Great work mate! I assume that if we want to test this later on our tablets, we need to be rooted?
suntechnic said:
Hello!
I've spend some days to compile JB for TPT ROW 32Gb. And there are the following results:
Works:
--Display. Interface is _very_ smooth
--Pen
--Automatic brightness
--External SD
--USB host
--Bluetooth
Doesn't work:
--Camera
--WiFi
--3G
--GPS
--sdcard fuse mounting
I also had to repack boot image to include configuration changes (init* files).
See attached logcat.
next step I will try to add proprietary source files for Wifi and camera and compile JB again.
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Woohoo! Look forward to trying this!

This is amazing work! Thank you.
I see Lenovo finally released the ICS source code. Maybe this will help you get some other stuff working.
Also, how were you able to flash your build? Have you not upgraded to OTA3? I'm assuming you still have CWR working.
Thanks again.

Great work, thanks! I'm glad that there is work going on!

Great news! As I installed ota3 before rooting my device, I hope that there will be some way to get cwm and root working...
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

Very happy that you're working on a new ROM for our device!!!
And I really hope that someone finds a way to root OTA3 since I was also too dumb to do that before updating.
Cheers!

Wow!! Keep up the good work!!!

can't wait, great work!

Great!
I thought I will be first
According to full_indigo device ID, it is AOSP, not CM? Wow..
I think together we could at last make 3G work as other hw are relatively easy to fix(may be not true for camera as sources again changed). I familiar with Qualcomm RIL framework and can't wait to see how it works with tablet and more opensource hardware module..
I also had to repack boot image to include configuration changes (init* files).
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lenovo haven't packed init scripts? Oo how it works then? ;/
PS: hello from Russia

obscure.detour said:
This is amazing work! Thank you.
I see Lenovo finally released the ICS source code. Maybe this will help you get some other stuff working.
Also, how were you able to flash your build? Have you not upgraded to OTA3? I'm assuming you still have CWR working.
Thanks again.
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Lenovo released ICS open source code but they forgot to release new kernel sources. This prevents me from building bcmdhd driver instead of bcm4329. It looks like JB is oriented for NL80211 wireless interface and not WEXT.

this isnt for the K1 is it

It's for tpt only

When can we see this in a flashable version? Not to sound pushy, I know we have all see the development slow down.

Are there any other tricks we need to get this up and running? I flashed partition 7 and 8 using NVflash but my tablet is stuck in a boot loop at "lenovo"
EDIT: Is this incompatible with CWM recovery?

What is TPT
Not to sound stupid but what is TPT? I have a K1 as well and am wondering if this will work?

TPT= ThinkPad Tablet

Lenovo released ICS open source code but they forgot to release new kernel sources
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yes I also tried to get more info but for now no response. At last they released external folder of their custom build, which also contains alsa-audio, as I seen in cm9 device tree, it should fix audio with ease(maybe after patch as sources again changed in JB).
It looks like JB is oriented for NL80211 wireless interface and not WEXT.
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but WEXT is there isn't it?
Anyway, congrats on working wifi.

Has anyone else got this up and running? I tried uninstalling CWM and reflashing part 7 and 8 but still no luck.

mr toasty said:
Are there any other tricks we need to get this up and running? I flashed partition 7 and 8 using NVflash but my tablet is stuck in a boot loop at "lenovo"
EDIT: Is this incompatible with CWM recovery?
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Some of existing software probably blocks normal startup. It is always advised to clean dalvik-cache and user data (backup first). It's up to you.
Right after Lenovo logo you should see 'Android: Optimizing applications' or something similar.

[DEV]Chroot-Linux on Xperia Devices Locked/Unlocked Bootloaders(Debian,Ubuntu,BT5up)

Hi,
I have just bought a new Xperia Pro and Here is My first Contribution.Hope you guys like it.
I have tested it personally on the Unoffical MIUI port for PRO.But it should work on other Kernels and Xperia Devices as well.
I am posting a few Screens for you guys and as you can see lxde is already pre-installed for you guys.
Feel Free to comment
Disclaimer:-
I am Not responsible if anything Happens to your Phone.You do it at your own Risk and Responsibilty,
If you Screw Up then dont Blame Me.
I am not responsible for Anything.
What is chroot?
A chroot image is like a Virtual Machine where you are running an O.S within an O.S.The point of this is that you have a whole Linux System running on a phone where you can ofcourse access all the utilities available in Linux.and as it runs inside of android you dont need to flash anything and can use both the chrooted O.S and Android together.
Things required:-
1)Terminal
2)Root
3)Sdcard with atleast 2GB of free space
4)A Brain
Please Consider Donating to add to my late night coffee and Books Fund.
Link:-
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4k1f5l9jxy2nr9n/debian.7z
Mirror:-
http://www.4shared.com/archive/uNEXsuNS/debian.html?refurl=d1url
Note:
Please read the ReadMe.txt file attached to this post first for instructions.
A special request to all those who are donatinglease send me a P.M so that i know who you guys are.
Donators:-
None So Far
Thank you.

Posting Ubuntu over Here
Remember to Read the Read Me File First.
Link:-
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7ekya7u7zo19p8/ubuntu.7z
Mirror:
http://www.4shared.com/archive/Qv0u_lWN/ubuntu.html
Mirror:
http://min.us/mZVpflpS5

Posting Back Track 5 Linux
Remember to Read the Read Me
Back Track linux Temp mirror(From My O2x Thread)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccf7lhfazl7li7u/btl.7z
Mirror:-
http://www.4shared.com/archive/EoGkvPD9/btl.html?refurl=d1url
NOTElease Download the file btl attached to this post and extract it on your computer and copy the btl file within and paste it in the btl directory downloaded from the above hosts replacing the old one.Now the chroot should run.
added a new Script and deleted the old one.Please use that now.I tested it personally on Stock and it is working perfectly.
As soon as it boots it asks if you wanna start VNC server?Press N and then follow the readme file.
Incase of any probs please let me know

and another

One More

Final Reserve

Nice Run..! First..

Nice work:good:
And im gonna donate [if you make mods I need]
But what is so usefull to have this??

xperiap said:
Nice work:good:
And im gonna donate [if you make mods I need]
But what is so usefull to have this??
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A chroot image is like a Virtual Machine where you are running an O.S within an O.S.The point of this is that you have a whole Linux System running on a phone where you can ofcourse access all the utilities available in Linux.and as it runs inside of android you dont need to flash anything and can use both the chrooted O.S and Android together.check the Screenshots.
GO ahead:Try Ubuntu...it will give you a better Idea.

Hi! Have you tried this on stock kernel? I believe stock kernel doesn't have loop devices enabled and MIUI is a rebase of CM? Not sure though that's why I'm asking.

Riyal said:
Hi! Have you tried this on stock kernel? I believe stock kernel doesn't have loop devices enabled and MIUI is a rebase of CM? Not sure though that's why I'm asking.
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The Miui i used was on Stock Kernel.The Kernel Does Support Loop devices.Miui is a Rebase of CM but the loop functionality is related to Kernel.So,Yes it Works on Stock Kernel on Locked/Unlocked Bootloaders Both as we are not flashing anything.
Anyway Give Ubuntu a go.

manasgirdhar said:
The Miui i used was on Stock Kernel.The Kernel Does Support Loop devices.Miui is a Rebase of CM but the loop functionality is related to Kernel.So,Yes it Works on Stock Kernel on Locked/Unlocked Bootloaders Both as we are not flashing anything.
Anyway Give Ubuntu a go.
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Thanks! Just clarifying things out I haven't meddled with stock kernel that much that's why I am asking. Well the kernel sources sony provided has loop devices disabled by default glad that it's enabled on the official precompiled one.
Anyways! Try packing backtrack that should be alot useful than debian w/ lxde or a classic ubuntu image.
I got backtrack to run on Pro sometime ago when I was still using gingerbread.

Riyal said:
Thanks! Just clarifying things out I haven't meddled with stock kernel that much that's why I am asking. Well the kernel sources sony provided has loop devices disabled by default glad that it's enabled on the official precompiled one.
Anyways! Try packing backtrack that should be alot useful than debian w/ lxde or a classic ubuntu image.
I got backtrack to run on Pro sometime ago when I was still using gingerbread.
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Already Did.Will upload it sometime Later today or tomorrow.
Debian and Ubuntu both have lxde pre-installed.
Edit:-BT5 UP.

Hi! seeing that you're a fanatic of these perhaps it would be useful if I give you these.
http://50.56.186.177/filez/
Those are packed and reduced sizes of debian & fedora arm images made to fit for chrooting on mobile devices. I made those for my previous device and is very stable already with 256mb RAM
the debian image is a squeeze version. Plus included is the fix for pulse audio. I'm not sure if it would work out of the box for android but with just a little bit knowledge with basic linux stuffs you could get it running perfectly

Riyal said:
Hi! seeing that you're a fanatic of these perhaps it would be useful if I give you these.
http://50.56.186.177/filez/
Those are packed and reduced sizes of debian & fedora arm images made to fit for chrooting on mobile devices. I made those for my previous device and is very stable already with 256mb RAM
the debian image is a squeeze version. Plus included is the fix for pulse audio. I'm not sure if it would work out of the box for android but with just a little bit knowledge with basic linux stuffs you could get it running perfectly
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THANKS for the link...Meego wont chroot..tried it on the optimus a few months ago and failed..problem with zephyr..will give it a go later.fedora I had as well..but the thing is ...Does anyone except me even use these here????

I do but not that much. Like I said I just only tried backtrack and obviously I use it only when needed
Say do you think it would be possible to include a custom kernel on a chrooted image? It would be cool if we have backtrack here with monitor mode enabled. I think the wlan drivers/hardware of Xperia devices have the capability.
Or also try posting this thread to some other Xperia Sub forums. Arc/Pro users seem to be not very open to these kind of works. They just care on custom ROMs
In short they aren't geeky enough They aren't even that interested in dual booting.

Riyal said:
I do but not that much. Like I said I just only tried backtrack and obviously I use it only when needed
Say do you think it would be possible to include a custom kernel on a chrooted image? It would be cool if we have backtrack here with monitor mode enabled. I think the wlan drivers/hardware of Xperia devices have the capability.
Or also try posting this thread to some other Xperia Sub forums. Arc/Pro users seem to be not very open to these kind of works. They just care on custom ROMs
In short they aren't geeky enough They aren't even that interested in dual booting.
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In theory yes its possible.but changes will have to be made to the arm kernel to chroot.when u type uname in terminal the output inside the chroot is different than the android kernel.but I think native booting will be better than chrooting..not being interested is just odd....its so much fun having linux on the go

manasgirdhar said:
A chroot image is like a Virtual Machine where you are running an O.S within an O.S.The point of this is that you have a whole Linux System running on a phone where you can ofcourse access all the utilities available in Linux.and as it runs inside of android you dont need to flash anything and can use both the chrooted O.S and Android together.check the Screenshots.
GO ahead:Try Ubuntu...it will give you a better Idea.
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It would help a lot of people if you would put this description in the first post, or even a better description. Great work!

ameer1234567890 said:
It would help a lot of people if you would put this description in the first post, or even a better description. Great work!
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Thanks for the advice.added to first post...not good with explanations

Riyal said:
I do but not that much. Like I said I just only tried backtrack and obviously I use it only when needed
Say do you think it would be possible to include a custom kernel on a chrooted image? It would be cool if we have backtrack here with monitor mode enabled. I think the wlan drivers/hardware of Xperia devices have the capability.
Or also try posting this thread to some other Xperia Sub forums. Arc/Pro users seem to be not very open to these kind of works. They just care on custom ROMs
In short they aren't geeky enough They aren't even that interested in dual booting.
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Actually I know I am going to say something Off-Topic
1) People on XDA are now the people who have got a smartphone just because they can afford one and wanna make their phone look "kewl" than the others with the same device
2) People do dumb things like cross flashing kernels.. They dont even read carefully what the OP says..
3) Running linux on a phone would be the best thing.. specially on an xperia pro where you get a harware keyboard..
I would like all noobs to see this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16682226&postcount=2441
and this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15826094&postcount=45

[DEV]Ubuntu-touch for all Xperia2011 devices

Hello,
Developers, I really need help to get the ubuntu-touch port working again!
After the first release of Ubuntu-Touh I tried to port it again to our devices, but I don't get them booting. I only get a black screen. I have updated all sources on github and made the appropriate changes. You can find all relevant sources and information on my new website http://danwin.github.io/ubuntu-touch.html where I have uploaded the non-bootng builds for developers.
I still have the old builds available for those, who want a booting ubuntu-touch, but without any functionality: http://danwin.github.io/ubuntu-touch.html

it is so laggy on mini Dude :/

screenshot please

rod555 said:
screenshot please
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there is already a video available, but I have made some Photos of my Neo V, sorry for bad quality: http://ubuntuone.com/6keWFpFBG0kEsVF7mBF54D

Can you add the screenshots in the op as pic

slimmer2 said:
Can you add the screenshots in the op as pic
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I don't think this is really necessary, as I have a video from kakalko4 embedded there, which has a lot better quality than my screenshots. You can download the zip provided above and unzip the pictures inside, if you really want to see them.

can you make a more understandable guide how to install it because i try to follow your guide and my phone boots to kernel logo and for couple of second phone turns off

MarioJerkovic said:
can you make a more understandable guide how to install it because i try to follow your guide and my phone boots to kernel logo and for couple of second phone turns off
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ok, updated.
You have to created an ext4 partition with CWM of another kernel or Linux and flashed then my kernel to use the ext4 partition on your SD-Card as /data, because ubuntu is to big for the internal storage. Have you really done that step?

DanWin1210 said:
ok, updated.
You have to created an ext4 partition with CWM of another kernel or Linux and flashed then my kernel to use the ext4 partition on your SD-Card as /data, because ubuntu is to big for the internal storage. Have you really done that step?
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Yep done it and working ubuntu is working it lags a lot :/ but i dont care i am happy that we got Ubuntu on our old devices

I take it this a the same one as we already have? (crappy demo with no gsm)

replicant101 said:
I take it this a the same one as we already have? (crappy demo with no gsm)
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For now yes, but hopefully officiallysonyrebel can make the kernel patches in one or two days available, so I can rebuild all images to make the daily builds of ubuntu booting, which have a lot of improvements.

Kernel patches related to what? I can help out. And I remember officiallysontrebel saying that he doesnt know much about kernels on the ray thread that was removed.

emwno said:
Kernel patches related to what? I can help out. And I remember officiallysontrebel saying that he doesnt know much about kernels on the ray thread that was removed.
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The daily images of ubuntu aren't booting and officiallysonyrebel said that this is related to some kernel patches that have to be made, you can PM him and ask if you can help him with patching, so we can make the daily images also booting, which have a lot improvements in stability and usability.

DanWin1210 said:
The daily images of ubuntu aren't booting and officiallysonyrebel said that this is related to some kernel patches that have to be made, you can PM him and ask if you can help him with patching, so we can make the daily images also booting, which have a lot improvements in stability and usability.
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thats strange.... It cant be kernel related, if you had added the new configs to the source code. It could be with the lastest CM10.1 changes for the 2011 devices. Take a look at http://github.com/cm42semc , here you will find the latest commits. I say this because if there was a problem with the Ubuntu Images, i.e something new needed to be added to get the build to boot, then it wouldn't boot on my n7100 either (as i made the same changes as prescribed on the guide). Either way its just a hunch. Give it a go.

With kernel patches, can performance be addressed?

emwno said:
thats strange.... It cant be kernel related, if you had added the new configs to the source code. It could be with the lastest CM10.1 changes for the 2011 devices. Take a look at http://github.com/cm42semc , here you will find the latest commits. I say this because if there was a problem with the Ubuntu Images, i.e something new needed to be added to get the build to boot, then it wouldn't boot on my n7100 either (as i made the same changes as prescribed on the guide). Either way its just a hunch. Give it a go.
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I'm already using these sources and the daily images only get a black screen. A lot of other people report the same issue for their devices (not Xperia), too. You can have a lock at my changes on https://github.com/DanWin and maybe you find the mistake I made, if I made any.

replicant101 said:
With kernel patches, can performance be addressed?
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Maybe, but the daily builds of ubuntu have a lot better performance and stability than the mwc-demo image, which is currently the only booting version.

DanWin1210 said:
I'm already using these sources and the daily images only get a black screen. A lot of other people report the same issue for their devices (not Xperia), too. You can have a lock at my changes on https://github.com/DanWin and maybe you find the mistake I made, if I made any.
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Yes, others did have a blackscreen, even the n7100 users did. But some, including myself got it to boot.
This is what I did:
1. Wipe system / data / dalvik
2. install device part
3. install ubuntu image
NOTE: You made a new partition on the sdcard where ubuntu was to be installed. I recommend you to WIpe your sdcard, create a new partition and try again. Also try with try flashing with a different recovery / kernel then flashing the ubuntu kenrel in the end. Sometimes recoveries mess up.

Thx for the job but i had some problemes with the ARc S when i flash the Ubuntu systeme it's abortes whith the statu 0 what i have to do ?

d4k-pho3nix said:
Thx for the job but i had some problemes with the ARc S when i flash the Ubuntu systeme it's abortes whith the statu 0 what i have to do ?
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Normally status 0 means success, can you go in CWM to advanced -> show log and enter the output of this here, maybe I can help you.

[MOD] MultiROM (sharing kernel)

I found the bug with not isolating kernel in additional roms after posting multirom here. Unfortunately I havent solved it yet. I decided to not delele this project because the rest of this works. This is useful who want to have similar rom in on tab. For example to test apps. Sorry for inconvience.
this is beta release. for p900 only.
I'll write full instruction later. For full description see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
I'm not sure that everything is stable, so I dont publish source code. I dont want to distribute buggy sources. thanks for understanding.
for stock firmware only. for now. use stock frimware as primary. you can flash cm as additional.
Installation:
1. https://yadi.sk/d/RVXpEgc6c4GKo - this is modded recovery. flash via odin
2. https://yadi.sk/d/CHl8wTYYc4GMZ - patched kernel. (patched my 1.3 pro kernel)
https://yadi.sk/d/D2riVhEgc4GPP - multirom main program
flash through modded recovery patched kernel and multirom.
uninstallation:
https://yadi.sk/d/jc4uxZeCc4GRb - flash this uninstaller through recovery, then flash original twrp
known issues:
- 1920x1200 resolution in twrp
- in List Roms installed roms dont shown
- in multirom boot menu touchscreen downt work. use buttons (vol-,vol+,power)
multirom apk from play store doesnt support this release.

reserved

more reserved

bonuzzz said:
this is beta release. for p900 only.
I'll wrote full instruction later. For full description see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
I'm not sure that everything is stable, so I dont publish source code. I dont want to distribute buggy sources. thanks for understanding.
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I saw earlier that you had plans for this, but I didn't expect it to happen this quickly.
Anyway, great initiative.

WOW
@bonuzzz,
nice to see you here. Actually I bought this high end class tablet because of its specifations and over standarts. Still is the most powerful tablet in market.. But somehow it always lacked development and support of developers. Recently maybe the price is dropped so it started make owners smile little bit.
I was almost giong to change it, but still there is no powerful alternate..
I would like to be a tester of multiboot. because I would love to see ubuntu desktop in this tablet.
Thank you!

m_carleone82 said:
@bonuzzz,
nice to see you here. Actually I bought this high end class tablet because of its specifations and over standarts. Still is the most powerful tablet in market.. But somehow it always lacked development and support of developers. Recently maybe the price is dropped so it started make owners smile little bit.
I was almost giong to change it, but still there is no powerful alternate..
I would like to be a tester of multiboot. because I would love to see ubuntu desktop in this tablet.
Thank you!
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it's not so difficult to run ubuntu desktop here, but it wiil be very big problem with drivers. I thought about ubuntu, but now I'm not going to have a deal with it. I advice you to look linux deploy

Great job
bonuzzz said:
it's not so difficult to run ubuntu desktop here, but it wiil be very big problem with drivers.
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Here are some drivers for the GPU. I will look into it.
http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/features/mali-t6xx-gpu-user-space-drivers/

ESmazter said:
Great job
Here are some drivers for the GPU. I will look into it.
http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/features/mali-t6xx-gpu-user-space-drivers/
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If you could get it working it would be great.

arcadia2uk said:
If you could get it working it would be great.
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I'm currently having a lot of work with multirom, so I think I'll not have time to deal with ubuntu

bonuzzz said:
I'm currently having a lot of work with multirom, so I think I'll not have time to deal with ubuntu
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My appreciation was actually meant for ESmazter saying: I will look into it

oops, i haven't noticed esmazter's phrase

I found the bug with not isolating kernel in additional roms after posting multirom here. Unfortunately I havent solved it yet. I decided to not delele this project because the rest of this works. This is useful who want to have similar rom in on tab. For example to test apps.

bonuzzz said:
I found the bug with not isolating kernel in additional roms after posting multirom here. Unfortunately I havent solved it yet. I decided to not delele this project because the rest of this works. This is useful who want to have similar rom in on tab. For example to test apps.
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I was still hoping to get the minor issues resolved, notably the issue with Rom's installer are not shown in the installed ROM's section.

Any possibility of porting this to Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014)? The hardware is almost exactly identical. Really like your work, keep it up!

hhairplane said:
Any possibility of porting this to Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014)? The hardware is almost exactly identical. Really like your work, keep it up!
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I dont have any plans to port to other devices. It doesnt fully working and I dont have any progress with it...

Do you mean the first (pre multirom install ) flashed rom kernal is the only kernal that boots regardless of the chosen rom, is multirom a separate bootloder that is chainloaded by the original bootloader? Does multirom have a config file describing the various kernals with different filenames if so can it be manually edited? Does multirom mount emulated system partition images or are their actual multiple prexisting system partions in the mbr that multirom can choose from ? What would quilify as similar roms, stock and omni are they similar enouph ?

brock28 said:
Do you mean the first (pre multirom install ) flashed rom kernal is the only kernal that boots regardless of the chosen rom, is multirom a separate bootloder that is chainloaded by the original bootloader? Does multirom have a config file describing the various kernals with different filenames if so can it be manually edited? Does multirom mount emulated system partition images or are their actual multiple prexisting system partions in the mbr that multirom can choose from ? What would quilify as similar roms, stock and omni are they similar enouph ?
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I dont recommend to use this multirom because it has the bug with sharing kernel. So you need to use similar roms as primary and as additional. I dont have an idea how to solve it at this moment.

[ROM] 5.0.* CyanogenMod 12.0

Hi, if anyone would like to run a 5.0.1 Google OS on a Archos G9 80S device (and currently basically verified only with this), download and extract the file
18_03_2015-20_58_50.7z
Installation (tested only with linux) :
- reboot into SDE menu and under "Format System" perform a "Reset Android & Storage" to clear all data of previous installations (this is really important for the first installation. Updating a existing installation (same major version) doesn't require this step !).
- reboot into SDE menu and under Developer Edition Menu -> "Export Data Partition"
- mount this usb drive
Code:
sudo mkdir <Mount_Path>/local
sudo cp archos.ext4.update <Mount_Path>/local/archos.ext4
sudo sync
sudo umount <Mount_Path>
- wait until the unmount process is done
- reboot into SDE menu and under Developer Edition Mernu , Flash Kernel and Initramfs : copy zImage and initramfs.cpio.lzo on the new driver that appears on desktop/laptop
- Wait for reboot your devices : after reboot you can see Android prepares the system for a while .....be patient at least ~20 minutes for the first run!
What's new ?
------------ since 18_03_2015-20_58_50 -------------
tiler size modifications within kernel, suggested by stevemp (thanks!)
CM updates.
------------ since 15_03_2015-22_26_59 -------------
Netflix and widevine fixes from stargo (thanks!)
CM updates.
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Only CM updates.
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Initial release.
Kernel got some zram optimizations.
Rebuild: All used revisions for this release are stored in a separate folder in the archive.
Additions:
Archos Control Panel App from @mordesku: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47789812&postcount=88
Thanks: @stargo @Hashcode @trevd
@CM community @all the cool omap4 hackers where I taken some code and inspirations !!!
Without these peoples, It would not so easy to make some (working) builds of the CM-12.0.
Archive:
15_03_2015-22_26_59.7z
12_12_2014-21_41_41 / 12_12_2014-21_41_41 (devHost)
09_02_2015-22_26_59.7z
XDA:DevDB Information
Archos G9 CyanogenMod 12.0, ROM for the Archos Gen9
Contributors
Quallenauge
ROM OS Version: 5.0.x Lollipop
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x
Based On: Cyanogenmod
Version Information
Status: Alpha
Current Beta Version: 12_12_2014-21_41_41
Created 2014-12-12
Last Updated 2015-03-18

Dankeschön
I now understand why TI exited the mobile SOC market - How can they expect to sell new stuff when the OMAP4xxx just won't die!
I shall give this one a whirl, It'll be good to get my archos off of the stock ICS.
I'm assuming you've dropped the recovery nonsense for that moment then?
is selinux off?
Is adb on a first boot? as I would recommend that folks leave it hooked up the computer after flashing that
way you can run adb logcat so you know what is going on. It sure beats watching a boot animation for ~20 minutes.
IIRC the 2012 nexus 7 took about 10 Minutes to boot so it's not far off.
I see you forked hotplugd! Let me apologize for the code quality, I was young and foolish and didn't know what I was doing ..
I think I might revisit it at some point or at least delete it lol
Anyway If I've got a bit of time / motivation I might have to have a cheeky hack on this , now that you've done all the hard work! .
I hope you don't mind but I've also given the file some re-hosting love just uploading it to devhost and androidfilehost too. I figured the space might aswell get used for something useful.. I'lll post the links when it's complete.:good:
Hack On! :good:
trevd
@Quallenauge dev-host link. If you want to add it to the first post. http://d-h.st/96J

Installed and i must say it's working really good :good:

schwatter said:
Installed and i must say it's working really good :good:
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Hahahah! BI ZAR! I check the forum for my Archos 101 Gen9 Turbo once every X months, and checked it today and see LOLLIPOP / CM12?! GREAT!
And whats the status? I use the tablet a lot still, so what is NOT working?
Edit: Flashed it to a Archos 101 Gen9 Turbo, and all is working, and fast as hell. GREAT!

I came from Freezenook's ROM BUILD7 (VERY happy user) but now tried this:
A MA ZING!
How fast and cool this Lollipop is on our (old) Archos (101) Gen9 (Turbo) tablet!!!
For now only compliments and almost everything seems to work, and this is a major and recommended step! Great OS this Lollipop!
Tested
Speed: Good (17.106 AnTuTu 5.3)
Sound/Video: Yes
Touch: Very good
Camera: Yes
Battery: Good
Size: Lot of free space (3 - 4 GB free!)
Memcard: NOT TESTED YET
USB: Yes (with Archos Panel app (USB & deep sleep))(USB storage works)
MicroUSB: Only charging (no devices?)
HDMI: NOT TESTED YET
Headphone: Yes (low volume though)
Apps: Some apps I normally use on my tablet and phones (KitKat or older) are not (yet?) compatible, and cannot install. I really miss some, like Archos Video (Free)(MediaCenter.apk). Is it possible to port this APK to our new Lollipop, I would love that. And the other apps are just not there yet I guess (busy making them Lollipop compat)?

Thanks a lot !!

Supergeil!!!
Still amazing to see that you're still at it @Quallenauge
I will definitely flash it as soon as I have time.
The only concern I have is the USB Port. Does it stil work in 5.0 ? For me it didnt in 4.4, so I flashed back as I needed my Archos to read my Media USB-HDD. I have a 101S btw.
Well as soon as I have flashed it, I am going to test it and try a few things, hope I'll get it working :fingers-crossed:

Hi trevd!
trevd said:
I'm assuming you've dropped the recovery nonsense for that moment then?
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This is not a "nonsense". But it doesn't reflect my current needs. It would be cool to have a standard recovery image to format the data partition with f2fs (The kernel should support it right now!).
trevd said:
is selinux off?
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Yes. Currently I doesn't know how to enable selinux rules, because "rootfs" isn't the mounted loop device but the "real" root. So the file nods are forced to "ubject_r:unlabeled:s0" which doesn't fits.
trevd said:
Is adb on a first boot? as I would recommend that folks leave it hooked up the computer after flashing that
way you can run adb logcat so you know what is going on. It sure beats watching a boot animation for ~20 minutes.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, ADB is turned on by default. I don't like it, when my device doesn't be verbose
trevd said:
I see you forked hotplugd! Let me apologize for the code quality, I was young and foolish and didn't know what I was doing ..
I think I might revisit it at some point or at least delete it lol
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, the old binary is bound to an older libsigchain.so. So I had to recompile it. The code quality is far better than my output So thanks for your work!
I have an issue with the ril implementation. Mobile signal is turned on, but the datakey pppd stuff is not called. Do you have an idea whats going wrong - where can I look.
Should I use your implementation from android_hardware_ril_libarchos_ril ?
trevd said:
@Quallenauge dev-host link. If you want to add it to the first post. http://d-h.st/96J
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[/QUOTE]
Done. Thanks!

trevd said:
Dankeschön
I now understand why TI exited the mobile SOC market - How can they expect to sell new stuff when the OMAP4xxx just won't die!
I shall give this one a whirl, It'll be good to get my archos off of the stock ICS.
I'm assuming you've dropped the recovery nonsense for that moment then?
is selinux off?
Is adb on a first boot? as I would recommend that folks leave it hooked up the computer after flashing that
way you can run adb logcat so you know what is going on. It sure beats watching a boot animation for ~20 minutes.
IIRC the 2012 nexus 7 took about 10 Minutes to boot so it's not far off.
I see you forked hotplugd! Let me apologize for the code quality, I was young and foolish and didn't know what I was doing ..
I think I might revisit it at some point or at least delete it lol
Anyway If I've got a bit of time / motivation I might have to have a cheeky hack on this , now that you've done all the hard work! .
I hope you don't mind but I've also given the file some re-hosting love just uploading it to devhost and androidfilehost too. I figured the space might aswell get used for something useful.. I'lll post the links when it's complete.:good:
Hack On! :good:
trevd
@Quallenauge dev-host link. If you want to add it to the first post. http://d-h.st/96J
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nilse said:
Supergeil!!!
Still amazing to see that you're still at it @Quallenauge
I will definitely flash it as soon as I have time.
The only concern I have is the USB Port. Does it stil work in 5.0 ? For me it didnt in 4.4, so I flashed back as I needed my Archos to read my Media USB-HDD. I have a 101S btw.
Well as soon as I have flashed it, I am going to test it and try a few things, hope I'll get it working :fingers-crossed:
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External USB drive isn't supported right now. I will have a look, when I have some free time ( and after fixing the RIL mobile data connection stuff ).

Quallenauge said:
Hi, if anyone would like to run a 5.0.1 Google OS on a Archos G9 80S device (and currently basically verified only with this),
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Wow, excellent! Thank you!
Could you please, write what you know that definitely doesn't and does work, as you did for older CMs?
Does ART work? Could CM 10.2 be updated to 12, or should we erase everything like with clean CM installation? HDMI?

@nilse: Yes USB (inc drives/storage) works (via Archos Panel app)!
@Bor-ka: Always do a full format/erase/factory settings etc, for SURE with a major leap like CM11 > CM12 or MORE!!
See my older post for a test of all hardware etc!
And again: Some apps I normally use on my tablet and phones (KitKat or older) are not (yet?) compatible, and cannot install. These apps are just not there yet I guess (busy making them Lollipop compat)?
I really miss some, like Archos Video (Free)(MediaCenter.apk). Is it possible to port this APK to our new Lollipop, I would love that!

thank you again for your great work.
Works on 80g9H 512 mb ram.
will test more functions and edit this post later.

@hackwerk, thanks!
For some reason unknown to me, there is no "export partition" in my SDE, so reformatting and copying to the /local/ is a little bit painful to me - should do it with adb shell.
But anyway, Archos Video Player is a show stopper for me. Since it is the only player that can natively play 720p/1080p movies on this tablet via DLNA/Samba. Tried MX player with latest codecs - no luck.
All
Did anybody compare deep sleep in CM with the stock ROM?
IIRC deep sleeped tablet with a stock ROM (4.*, 3.*) could lose only about 10 battery _a_week_ if not used. May be my memory deceives me, of course. But with CM 10.2 and no background tasks it drops by ~ 10% a night. (Didn't try Wakelock and Greenify though)

Bor-ka said:
@hackwerk, thanks!
For some reason unknown to me, there is no "export partition" in my SDE, so reformatting and copying to the /local/ is a little bit painful to me - should do it with adb shell.
But anyway, Archos Video Player is a show stopper for me. Since it is the only player that can natively play 720p/1080p movies on this tablet via DLNA/Samba. Tried MX player with latest codecs - no luck.
All
Did anybody compare deep sleep in CM with the stock ROM?
IIRC deep sleeped tablet with a stock ROM (4.*, 3.*) could lose only about 10 battery _a_week_ if not used. May be my memory deceives me, of course. But with CM 10.2 and no background tasks it drops by ~ 10% a night. (Didn't try Wakelock and Greenify though)
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SDE: This ia an easy alternative way of installing the ROM (which I used)!
Video: Have you tried Skifta (good for network!) or other majors, like GoodPlayer, MediaPlayer Classic or the brand new official VLC Player (and thus MX Player))?
Maybe in combination with the "All Codecs for Archos Video" app?? Must be possible!
And maybe / I hope we can 'port' the MediaCenter.apk to Lollipop!
Battery: Is already good, but everyone talks about an app called Lux! And Greenify.
But yes Deep Sleep can be enabled in this ROM in the Archos Panel app too.
And maybe these famous mods can help too ( @Quallenauge: Checked them already I think?)?

hackwerk said:
SDE: This ia an easy alternative way of installing the ROM (which I used)!
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Unfortunately I do not have "Enter the SDE menu on your device and select export data partition," in SDE.
See here, with screenshot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57243821&postcount=2
For video thanks, I'll try. Completely forgot about VLC. Tried MX already, it plays Ok from the internal memory/SD but gloriously fails over the network.
What Lux does is automagically lowers screen brightness, Yes, it is very useful app, but it will lower battery drain in the active mode, not in sleep when the screen is off. And it has a bad habit on my current cm10 installation - sometimes it restarts when I'm reading a pdf book at night (low memory?) and I get some two seconds of full brightness in my eyes. Ouch.. I think I'd revert back to manual "dimmer" or "blue light filter" and manual brightness adjustment.
What is strange, users at our local forum report that 5.0 is slower than the stock (?!) ROM on 80S 1.5 Turbo (4460) / 1GB RAM. I wonder what it will be like on my 1.2 (4430) / 512 RAM..

Thanks Quallange and all of you who helped him I saw your progress with 5.0 on github and I wanted to compile it myself but yeah I didn't had space for that sadly, I wanted to ask you flr it but then I see now that you got a cm12 thread when I am tomorrow home from school I will flash this :good:
Edit:
This song describes my 5.0 feeling:
http://youtu.be/p8sZcmQr6KY
It works till now pretty good. I am having the 512mb turbo version but after disabling things that I don't use it runs all smooth :good: o

I installed this Rom on my 101 g9 with 512 MB RAM.
It s like a new device. A lot less lagging and better ui response.
Only thing i found is that the keybord hides every now and then when i want to type some text.
Thanks a lot for this masterpiece of work *like*
Sent from my SM-N7505 using XDA Free mobile app

biggoof75 said:
I installed this Rom on my 101 g9 with 512 MB RAM.
It s like a new device. A lot less lagging and better ui response.
Only thing i found is that the keybord hides every now and then when i want to type some text.
Thanks a lot for this masterpiece of work *like*
Sent from my SM-N7505 using XDA Free mobile app
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I agree, much more snappy than CM11. I've also had the keyboard hiding issue (stock and Swype). Thanks for keeping the G9 alive Quallenauge :good::good:

G9 80H
i installed the rom but it places data on internal storage. hard drive is placed at /storage/sdcard1 and is read-only
how can i place data on the hard drive?
Note: besides the internal storage issue, the rom runs nicely.

Hi Quallenauge.
Realy magic this ROM, many thanks.
If with JB sometime I have only 80 MB RAM free and with KK 145, now I have over 200 !!!
But I have a problem, app ( iGO ) can't write on external card.
Tried with 3 different SDFix and manually in system/etc/permissions/platform.xml
With Root Explorer I can copy, but can't modify permision.
There is a solution to this problem ?
Thanks in advance.