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[KANG] CM7.2 w/ FP by ghost_og

*Update 3/6/12*: I probably should have done this awhile ago, but I just wanted to clarify that this was a one-off release. It will not be updated since Nightlies/Weeklies are up and running again. In fact, they will have everything this ROM has plus more!
In trying to build CM7 (w/ FP) from source, acerbix, crnkoj, and I unwittingly built CM7.2 . You can follow along with our adventures here. We found that using the FP branches of the Atrix-Dev-Team's github repos with the new upstream CyanogenMod changes no longer produced a fully working FP build. After merging and copying the necessary code in frameworks/base from the ADT's repo on top of the newer CM7 stuff, it gave us a working 7.2 build.
I thought others may want to try out an updated CM7. This was my first attempt at compiling from source, so there may be bugs. A few changes I've noticed:
- "Holo" lockscreen
- T9 dialer
- Corrected calendar lockscreen widget
- More detailed battery stats (I think).
There are more if you feel like looking through the CM commits since the last official weekly/nightly release.
I'm not a developer. I will not be offering any kind of support beyond the possible update when worthwhile upstream changes are made. However, feel free to ask and answer questions here. I'm sure the other community members will be willing to help one another out.
Please keep in mind that this is a kang and in no way related to the official CM7 build, so please do not use those threads to post issues if you decide to try this.
Here are all of the sources I used:
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android
https://github.com/Atrix-Dev-Team/android
https://github.com/ghost-og/android_frameworks_base
Here's the download link:
https://rapidshare.com/files/2700446381/update-cm-7.2.0-Olympus-KANG-ghost_og.zip
Sorry for using RapidShare. Multiupload was having issues when I tried uploading this there. I'll try to change it later.
*edit* Dropbox mirror. Be gentle:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11998742/update-cm-7.2.0-Olympus-KANG-ghost_og.zip

Link not working for me mate...
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

Thanks for this. How recent is this? Does it encompass all of these changes: https://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=olympus

Nice work,ghost_og.
I've used CM7.2 before on my Defy and Milestone 2. Many improvements over previous CM7. I'm waiting for multiupload link. Thanks for your hard work.

guidoido004 said:
Link not working for me mate...
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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Hmm, worked for me. It redirected at first, but then it should give you a 30-sec wait window. Sorry for the crappy hosting.
NguyenHuu said:
Thanks for this. How recent is this? Does it encompass all of these changes: https://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=olympus
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I built it 1/16/12, so I think the French translations were the last thing I caught. Sorry for the extra work, but checkout the main CM repo and checkout the commit history.

ghost_og said:
Hmm, worked for me. It redirected at first, but then it should give you a 30-sec wait window. Sorry for the crappy hosting.
I built it 1/16/12, so I think the French translations were the last thing I caught. Sorry for the extra work, but checkout the main CM repo and checkout the commit history.
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Thanks, will test it out, been looking for some updates to CM7.

The only nightly update you doesnt have is the ones specific for atrix....
You also could add tweaks and mods on it ^^
Flashing now, lets see how much good is it. Hehehe
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ghost_og said:
In trying to build CM7 (w/ FP) from source, acerbix, crnkoj, and I unwittingly built CM7.2 . You can follow along with our adventures here. We found that using the FP branches of the Atrix-Dev-Team's github repos with the new upstream CyanogenMod changes no longer produced a fully working FP build. After merging and copying the necessary code in frameworks/base from the ADT's repo on top of the newer CM7 stuff, it gave us a working 7.2 build.
I thought others may want to try out an updated CM7. This was my first attempt at compiling from source, so there may be bugs. A few changes I've noticed:
- "Holo" lockscreen
- T9 dialer
- Corrected calendar lockscreen widget
- More detailed battery stats (I think).
There are more if you feel like looking through the CM commits since the last official weekly/nightly release.
I'm not a developer. I will not be offering any kind of support beyond the possible update when worthwhile upstream changes are made. However, feel free to ask and answer questions here. I'm sure the other community members will be willing to help one another out.
Please keep in mind that this is a kang and in no way related to the official CM7 build, so please do not use those threads to post issues if you decide to try this.
Here are all of the sources I used:
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android
https://github.com/Atrix-Dev-Team/android
https://github.com/ghost-og/android_frameworks_base
Here's the download link:
https://rapidshare.com/files/2700446381/update-cm-7.2.0-Olympus-KANG-ghost_og.zip
Sorry for using RapidShare. Multiupload was having issues when I tried uploading this there. I'll try to change it later.
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I think all of the fingerprint changes have been committed today, so you should get them if you pull the source to make your own build. No more splicing files necessary!
EDIT: Oops, I was wrong. Fingerprint branch was updated, but still need to merge those files into the base CM build.

the T9 dialer is great. Looking forward to more updates as more changes are comitted. Good work.

Let me mirror this up for you mate. Give me a while to upload it on my crappy connection.

kennethpenn said:
Let me mirror this up for you mate. Give me a while to upload it on my crappy connection.
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Thank you! I appreciate it. Hehe, rapidshare...

ghost_og said:
Thank you! I appreciate it. Hehe, rapidshare...
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http://bandbinnovations.com/xda/update-cm-7.2.0-Olympus-KANG-ghost_og.zip
Have fun!

ghost_og said:
In trying to build CM7 (w/ FP) from source, acerbix, crnkoj, and I unwittingly built CM7.2 . You can follow along with our adventures here. We found that using the FP branches of the Atrix-Dev-Team's github repos with the new upstream CyanogenMod changes no longer produced a fully working FP build. After merging and copying the necessary code in frameworks/base from the ADT's repo on top of the newer CM7 stuff, it gave us a working 7.2 build.
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Yeah, those two branches were unrebased and unmaintained for quite a bit I have cleaned up the FP code a bit these days and rebased them, so you can now build from them too.
PS: We'll probably release a new weekly soon, with another long term, supported release (ba2tf-style) following after if no obvious regressions appear.

turl1 said:
Yeah, those two branches were unrebased and unmaintained for quite a bit I have cleaned up the FP code a bit these days and rebased them, so you can now build from them too.
PS: We'll probably release a new weekly soon, with another long term, supported release (ba2tf-style) following after if no obvious regressions appear.
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Great news! I was debating whether or not to post this. I didn't want to step on any toes. Thanks for the hard work; I just synced and started a new build.

is it possible to flash this right over neutrino rom or is it best to full wipe?
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If coming from a cm7 based rom then just wipe /cache and dalvik. Been working for me switching between different versions.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

turl1 said:
Yeah, those two branches were unrebased and unmaintained for quite a bit I have cleaned up the FP code a bit these days and rebased them, so you can now build from them too.
PS: We'll probably release a new weekly soon, with another long term, supported release (ba2tf-style) following after if no obvious regressions appear.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhUmRE2YOo

Can faux kernel be used with this rom?

Nipit said:
Can faux kernel be used with this rom?
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Yes. The latest open beta runs very well for me.

turl1 said:
Yeah, those two branches were unrebased and unmaintained for quite a bit I have cleaned up the FP code a bit these days and rebased them, so you can now build from them too.
PS: We'll probably release a new weekly soon, with another long term, supported release (ba2tf-style) following after if no obvious regressions appear.
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Wow great news!! Will the Weekly #5 be based on CM7.2?

Adding multi-window support to your Omni build

Since this has been asked a few times
Multi windows support is not in by default
You need to cherry-pick this to include it in your build
https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/53/

thank you,
I added it into my p5110 build, i'll let you know if it works well.
edit:: working well

I won't lie, I plan to build Omni today as my first-ever Android build. It may go hilariously badly, it may go wonderfully. Is it in the command line that I cherry-pick that piece of code? The rest I think I can figure out myself. Thanks in advance.

dibblebill said:
Is it in the command line that I cherry-pick that piece of code?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37053013&postcount=7

chasmodo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37053013&postcount=7
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You probably will want to do a "repo start" first, otherwise your commit will be clobbered on sync.
e.g. from the root of the source tree:
Code:
repo start work frameworks/base
for more on repo - http://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html

Thank you both. Very helpful. It's wonderful receiving help from the developers, especially since this will be my first build
Sent from my Nexus 10

dibblebill said:
Thank you both. Very helpful. It's wonderful receiving help from the developers, especially since this will be my first build
Sent from my Nexus 10
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For everybody there was a "first time"

chasmodo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37053013&postcount=7
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When I execute this using the linked cherry pick, all I get is "fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

dibblebill said:
When I execute this using the linked cherry pick, all I get is "fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
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you tried this mate?
Code:
git fetch [url]https://gerrit.omnirom.org/android_frameworks_base[/url] refs/changes/53/53/19 && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD
before that u must be inside ~/android/omni/frameworks/base if i im rigth, u get there by
Code:
cd ~/android/omni/frameworks/base
someone correct me if im wrong pls.

makkeonmies said:
you tried this mate?
Code:
git fetch [url]https://gerrit.omnirom.org/android_frameworks_base[/url] refs/changes/53/53/19 && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD
before that u must be inside ~/android/omni/frameworks/base if i im rigth, u get there by
Code:
cd ~/android/omni/frameworks/base
someone correct me if im wrong pls.
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[codegit fetch https://gerrit.omnirom.org/android_frameworks_base refs/changes/53/53/19 && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD[/code]
Exactly as copied and pated from the cherrypick itself, yep.
I was, however, in ~/android/omni/.repo/projects/frameworks/base, though. Now I got it fixed and inserted. thanks!
on my way to being a ROM hacker/compiler, then later developer
EDIT: Will the sources for this rescync automatically when I repo sync, or will I have to also re-cherry pickk this every few days?

dibblebill said:
[codegit fetch https://gerrit.omnirom.org/android_frameworks_base refs/changes/53/53/19 && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD[/code]
Exactly as copied and pated from the cherrypick itself, yep.
I was, however, in ~/android/omni/.repo/projects/frameworks/base, though. Now I got it fixed and inserted. thanks!
on my way to being a ROM hacker/compiler, then later developer
EDIT: Will the sources for this rescync automatically when I repo sync, or will I have to also re-cherry pickk this every few days?
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If you do a "repo start" before cherry-picking, repo will try to automatically rebase when syncing. It will not sync newer patchsets though.

thanks, very useful.
just to know, why isn't it yet merged ?

BENETNATH said:
thanks, very useful.
just to know, why isn't it yet merged ?
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Because it still has a lot of bugs that need to be worked out?
Unfortunately, since Omni went public, we've had a ton of device support stuff to work with people on, so the more difficult items have temporarily stalled.

Entropy512 said:
Because it still has a lot of bugs that need to be worked out?
Unfortunately, since Omni went public, we've had a ton of device support stuff to work with people on, so the more difficult items have temporarily stalled.
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sadly i would say.
BBQ was a great timing but people went crazy on omni, which is a good and a bad thing ^^
i've built omni for my device, with the commit, and it's nice, but currently, it's nearly strictly an AOSP, which is a bit frustrating
keep the hard work, courage to all the omni dev !

BENETNATH said:
sadly i would say.
BBQ was a great timing but people went crazy on omni, which is a good and a bad thing ^^
i've built omni for my device, with the commit, and it's nice, but currently, it's nearly strictly an AOSP, which is a bit frustrating
keep the hard work, courage to all the omni dev !
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Yeah, I would've liked to have polished things a bit more - but the BABBQ was an opportunity we didn't want to miss.

yep,
anyway, great work. what you guys need now is to keep that alive, and to limit the time spent on bringing devices, better enhance the rom.
Rom builders will join the effort for all the rom stuff, especially as it's really easy (i've bring my device in a dozen of minutes, from a CM branch. needs polishing but works)

Does anyone have the last patch set for multiwindow the 4.3 branch? It seems like the past two weeks worth of patches were lost after the Gerrit server hard drive failure, and I just got my first build done yesterday so I'm not sure what I can cherry pick to test out multiwindow. The last comment remaining seems to imply that the last patch set was broken.

https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/1510/

chasmodo said:
https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/1510/
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That's the 4.4 branch. Time to cherry-pick!

sgt. meow said:
That's the 4.4 branch. Time to cherry-pick!
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Are you cherry picking back to 4.3 or doing a 4.4 build? Let us know how it goes! I just set up a build this weekend for my N8013 but Gerrit was down so I couldn't get multiwindow, and when it came back the Gerrit ticket was missing two weeks worth of patches as I mentioned so I was feeling like it would be risky to try to apply it.

Anyone else trying to build CyanogenMod 14 ?

I'm working on CM14, after a lot of go through I finally zipped it.
but its not booting up.
I used following Resources
Device Tree - It needs a lot of modifications.
Kernel
Vendor Files
MSM 8996 HALs from CM14 are giving Errors, so I used HALs from OMNI
EngMod: Logcat

Bump!
No one?

WhyOrean said:
Bump!
No one?
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Unfortunately i cant help but i bump this thread
Thanks for your effortand hope someone helps.

Try port rom 7.0 from one plus 3 with file of miui n leak

Update: Got it booting :highfive:
But it seems like its display needs to be calibrated.
It shuts down after a giving a quick glance.
This time I used Precompiled Binaries from TheMuppets
Also Hardware/qcom/display-caf and Hardware/qcom/media-caf throw errors.
So I used ones from CM13 Branch.
-> Syncing CM14.1, seems like CM14 is abandoned.

WhyOrean said:
Update: Got it booting :highfive:
But it seems like its display needs to be calibrated.
It shuts down after a giving a quick glance.
This time I used Precompiled Binaries from TheMuppets
Also Hardware/qcom/display-caf and Hardware/qcom/media-caf throw errors.
So I used ones from CM13 Branch.
-> Syncing CM14.1, seems like CM14 is abandoned.
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good job man! :good:

Whoa, that would be great, please keep us informed!

LineageOS 14.1 Berni's alternative builds

Hi all:
This is a thread for my alternative LineageOS 14.1 roms for suzuran.
I'm building these roms from time to time for my own needs and I think other people should participate.
Since the "official" development of LineageOS 14.1 has been stopped, I decided to build a new version only if the Android security patch level has been changed or I've changed anything.
Download 2021-07-19
This is a 7z archive with the zip'ed rom and the md5 file in it. Please unpack this archive, copy the included two files somewhere to your device, reboot into TWRP and flash this zip file. Enable zip verification and md5sum checking. Maybe you have to rename the md5 file to *.md5sum; depending on the TWRP version you are using.
Kernel sources
Tree sources
Features:
OS Version: 7.1.2 Nougat
Kernel: Linux 3.10
New: Android security patch level: 5 June 2021
Using sony blob's from stock version 32.4.A.1.54
Important informations:
You should be familiar with general installation of custom roms.
Required for installation: TWRP 3.1.1 (or newer).
OR use my self built TWRP-version 3.5.2!
No need for making a clean install, but sometimes it helps a lot!
This rom is pre-rooted. For those who want to use magisk or any other rooting tool, you can easily remove this by flashing this file.
Use this rom at your own risk! It comes without any warranty! I'm not responsible for any damage! If you don't agree with that, don't try to flash this rom in any way.
Differences between my version and the "official" one:
Kcal Display Driver - Thanks to @GreyLeshy and @Sony user 16
Voltage Control - Thanks to @GreyLeshy and @Sony user 16
OMS-Support - Thanks to @nathanchance
Added F-Droid and UnifiedNLP! If you don't want this, simply de-install it.
I've included some little extensions like changelog and volume adjustment.
I've set maximum speaker volume to a higher value.
I've increased microphone gain.
I've increased all volume steps from 7 to 15.
I've changed the microfone gain to avoid echo in phone calls.
I've enabled data for MMS.
I've enabled MHL.
Not working:
VoLTE, VoWiFi
If you want to use encryption, you have to disable SIM PIN first!
One (last) request: Please don't ask for including any app. I won't do this, because I want to keep this rom as clean as possible.
Changelog
Troubleshooting:
If you're running into an error, please search in this thread if this error is already posted, before you post it again!
If not, I need a LOG to see what went wrong. Without a LOG I can't help you!
A LOG can be fetched by connecting the device with an USB cable to your PC and then by typing these commands line by line:
Code:
adb root
adb shell logcat -b all -d > logcat
Send my this LOG file via PM.
If you think this could be a SELinux related issue, please try to set the device to permissive mode first.
If the issue is gone, I need the policy file too (plus LOG). Fetch it by typing this line in a terminal:
Code:
adb pull /sys/fs/selinux/policy
If you stuck in a bootloop you can fetch a LOG with this trick:
Press the power button and the volume up button together until the device shuts down.
HOLD the power button.
Release the volume up button and press the volume down button immediately after releasing the volmue up button.
The device should start into TWRP recovery.
Tap on "Advanced", then on "Terminal" and enter these commands line by line:
Code:
cd sys/fs/pstore
cp * /sdcard
Send me the copied file(s), if any, via PM.

Nice
Berni-0815 said:
Hi @all:
First of all, please excuse my bad english... :angel:
They said I should create my own thread for my alternative LineageOS 14.1 roms for suzuran. Here it is.
I'm building these roms from time to time for my own needs and I think other people should participate.
Download
Kernel sources
Tree sources
OS Version: 7.1.2 Nougat
Kernel: Linux 3.10
Required for installation: TWRP 3.1.1
Important informations:
You should be familiar with general installation of alternative roms.
I've included some little extensions like changelog and volume adjustment.
There is no need to make a clean install, but sometimes it helps a lot!
Use it at your own risk!
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Hi ! It would be great if u put out the advantage of yours vs with the official LOS

Berni i said before and i m saying again please make this topic a lineage based rom..
İnclude minimal app for google play store.
And maybe can add substratum inside.. or can be a default diffefent theme ..
I believe you can..
Thx bro.

ROBNX85 said:
Hi ! It would be great if u put out the advantage of yours vs with the official LOS
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As I wrote: "I've included some little extensions like changelog and volume adjustment."

emosis said:
İnclude minimal app for google play store.
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As I said a few days before: I don't want to include gapps! If somebody wants to use gapps, feel free to flash them separately. You can download them here. You need arm64 and 7.1 for suzuran.
And maybe can add substratum inside..
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Substratum support is not longer available, because the devs have stopped their development for Nougat since august.

Berni-0815 said:
As I wrote: "I've included some little extensions like changelog and volume adjustment."
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Add a basic ad-blocker too ?

Berni-0815 said:
As I said a few days before: I don't want to include gapps! If somebody wants to use gapps, feel free to flash them separately. You can download them here. You need arm64 and 7.1 for suzuran.
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I agree gapps should not be included. It is easy enough to just flash it right after flashing the rom
I am thinking about official vs rom, I think the two roms are probably nearly identical. Probably the most important factor will be the frequency of updates.

PeppeBove said:
Add a basic ad-blocker too
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You can use AdAway which is an open source host list based ad blocker. See https://adaway.org

PeppeBove said:
Add a basic ad-blocker too
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I don't see a reason to bake something into the ROM when there are many apps that can do it.
I think something like Xposed-type tweaks being put into settings would be more appropriate. Alleviating the need for xposed. But I don't think it makes sense to load random apps into the ROM.

New version; please have a look at the first post

Berni-0815 said:
New version; please have a look at the first post
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Awesome work, thank you so much! Flashing it now.
Just 1 question - do you know if encryption works on your builds?

I've never tried it. I've not so good experience with encryption on a stock rom; so I've decided not to use this feature at all!

Hi Bernhard.
Thanks for your hard work!
i have a question for you.... As i understand it you take all the changes/updates from the offifcial lienage and implement them into your own build. And add the changes as described in post 1.
Am i right about this?
I think that battery life is bad on the official compaired to the version you do.
Do you add battery improvements in your build?
Thanks in advance.
Torben 5247

torben5247 said:
Thanks for your hard work!
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Oh, it is not so hard to do this, but, thank you! Sometimes I have to search a few hours or try (and revert) something, but in the end I've gotten everything to work as I like it to work.
As i understand it you take all the changes/updates from the offifcial lienage and implement them into your own build.
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I'm using the LineageOS repositories from github as they are, that's right. I don't use my own repo's; nzzane is doing this AFAIK (Klick). A few weeks ago I'm using other repo's, because LineageOS had bad (will say: not working) sources for our devices.
And add the changes as described in post 1.
Am i right about this?
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Yes! :good: One or two of my changes should be implemented into the "official" builds, but until now I don't understand how to use "commitments". Maybe in a few days... :angel:
I think that battery life is bad on the official compaired to the version you do.
Do you add battery improvements in your build?
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No. Nothing like this.
On my own device battery life is about three days...

Hi,
PeppeBove said:
Add a basic ad-blocker too
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emosis said:
İnclude minimal app for google play store.
And maybe can add substratum inside..
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Like other persons, I don't want to have a lot of applications include in the rom. I want to choose the ones I use. This is one reason that made me come to alternative rom.
Another reason is that Lineage use less google s"hit" than stock rom.
So if you have the vision of more app and google stuff include, you better stay on stock. Alternative Roms offers me more freedom; but that's just my opinion...

This is prerooted? There are some of us out there that need to install certain apps before rooting.

Cerhio said:
This is prerooted?
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Yes.

Berni-0815 said:
One or two of my changes should be implemented into the "official" builds, but until now I don't understand how to use "commitments".
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I've just committed three of my changes. We'll see if they will be merged...

Berni-0815 said:
I've just committed three of my changes. We'll see if they will be merged...
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The brightness settings? I hope so
What else?

Berni-0815 said:
I've just committed three of my changes. We'll see if they will be merged...
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That's so great to hear, let's hope they get accepted.
Huge thank you for keeping this device alive Berni!

Custom Roms/LineageOS on SM-T505

Hello, everyone.
I noticed, there are many custom roms, but not that many for the SM-T505. Is it because it's newly released, or are there other reasons?

Yes, this is a new device and many people are probably waiting for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals to grab one. I just grabbed one for $150 on Amazon, a steal compared to something like a Fire tablet IMO. This is a low-end tablet, so there won't be as much focus on it as say a flagship phone. But thankfully it's already been unlocked and rooted, so the next step will be to get TWRP on it, and then custom ROM development can start to pick up on it. Don't expect any updates before the end of the year for custom ROMs though, it will likely take time to have TWRP up and running on it, but I am hopeful that we will see good things on this tablet in 2021

Without kernel sources it won't happen. See https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t505 and https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500.
You can request them on that page. I did it a few times but no response so far.

paziusss said:
Without kernel sources it won't happen. See https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t505 and https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500.
You can request them on that page. I did it a few times but no response so far.
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Interesting... is it just me or is there no button to start an inquiry?
EDIT: Found it... just posted an Inquiry.

Watching!! I just bought the T500.

jlang11 said:
Watching!! I just bought the T500.
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Just got an answer from Samsung, but don't get to excited. It was just an automated answer, that they received my inquiry. So stay tuned...

https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=t500 gives you a 514mb file with kernel and vencor files.
Maybe both 505 and 500 are similiar enough to get you started

Sources are available: https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500
They include a toolchain in kernel tree, broken KConfigs and a lot of junk. I will try to clean a bit a mess and update a lean kernel tree to github

paziusss said:
Sources are available: https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=sm-t500
They include a toolchain in kernel tree, broken KConfigs and a lot of junk. I will try to clean a bit a mess and update a lean kernel tree to github
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Will you also do a diff against the upstream version so we can see what they changed?

selemine said:
Will you also do a diff against the upstream version so we can see what they changed?
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Sure, but I'm going to remove the toolchain from the kernel tree since the beginning. It takes About 1GB alone and I don't want to have it on git refs because it will still take a lot of space even if removed.
The rest of changes will be available on github.

paziusss said:
Sure, but I'm going to remove the toolchain from the kernel tree since the beginning. It takes About 1GB alone and I don't want to have it on git refs because it will still take a lot of space even if removed.
The rest of changes will be available on github.
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It's been a long time, since i took up building custom roms and forgot about it for a while... if the kernel is cleansed from all the BS no one needs, that would be awesome.

There are a lot of small changes to comments and changes of 2 characters in a line. Wonder if they backported stuff there.

Kernel of the SM-T505 was just released...
If this is of any relevance, the download is 'just' 200MB... i wonder why.

The Platform Archive is mostly identical, just a few text files with notes and copyright were missing.
The Kernel Package as well, just small changes to netfilter and
a new defconfig file.
Defconfig for both devices also is more or less the same
gta4lwifi_eur_open_defconfig is missing one line compared to gta4l_eur_open_defconfig
CONFIG_SAMSUNG_FREECESS=y
Guess the difference comes from the toolchain mentioned above.

@paziusss
How far have you come?
Would be great if we had something clean to start a twrp and easier rooting

selemine said:
@paziusss
How far have you come?
Would be great if we had something clean to start a twrp and easier rooting
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Sorry, I have a very bad internet connection (uplink it is ~50-100KiB/s)
I created the repo a month ago: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi
,tried to push and failed. Never tried again until now, but it is still failing.
So, if somebody is nice enough to dump the contents of the SM-T500 kernel in a github repo, I can fork and submit the patches without having to upload the whole thing myself.

paziusss said:
Sorry, I have a very bad internet connection (uplink it is ~50-100KiB/s)
I created the repo a month ago: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi
,tried to push and failed. Never tried again until now, but it is still failing.
So, if somebody is nice enough to dump the contents of the SM-T500 kernel in a github repo, I can fork and submit the patches without having to upload the whole thing myself.
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Here you go

jayzarry84 said:
Here you go
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Thank you! It helped.
I had to apply the patch manually, so everything is in a single commit, but should be easy for others to understand what each chunk of code does.
Here you go: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi

paziusss said:
Thank you! It helped.
I had to apply the patch manually, so everything is in a single commit, but should be easy for others to understand what each chunk of code does.
Here you go: https://github.com/pazos/android_kernel_samsung_gta4lwifi
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Just realized I didn't upload the Platform folder contents. It's uploading as we speak

jayzarry84 said:
Just realized I didn't upload the Platform folder contents. It's uploading as we speak
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I really have to ask, can i use this to build a custom rom for the SM-T505 as well?