Everything Development Thread - HTC Amaze 4G

Hi guys, I've gotten quite a few pm's lately about learning how to develop things for our Amaze. So I decided to make this thread as a the one stop shop to ask all your development questions and to discuss the problems your encountering and get answers to them instead of keeping everything private so if you want to learn how to cook, modify, develop your own android rims this is the place to come Ask away
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Awesome! Well i wanna learn how to cook roms and modify them, like for example replacing apps and adding apps
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Umm... How do you flash a Rom
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ETA on an update for Team nightmare Sense 4.0?

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eggydrums said:
Awesome! Well i wanna learn how to cook roms and modify them, like for example replacing apps and adding apps
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A good place to start would be here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246 it' lets you extract roms and a bunch of other things so you can see how a rom is constructed. /system/app is where the system apps are they can't be updated from market so that's where you would put superuser and stuff but user apps would go in /data/app which you can make using the kitchen i linked you too I made my first rom with it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1303850
ziggy46 said:
Umm... How do you flash a Rom
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Well ziggy first you take your amaze and put it in the oven for 1 Hour then you take it to a body of water and through it right in the middle and your done lol

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Thanks ill try that later. Are there any chances of a brick? Lol
Oh and I cab help out with this thread to cause I know a lot as well
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sportsstar89 said:
A good place to start would be here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246 it' lets you extract roms and a bunch of other things so you can see how a rom is constructed. /system/app is where the system apps are they can't be updated from market so that's where you would put superuser and stuff but user apps would go in /data/app which you can make using the kitchen i linked you too I made my first rom with it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1303850
Well ziggy first you take your amaze and put it in the oven for 1 Hour then you take it to a body of water and through it right in the middle and your done lol
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Thanks sports i will try. If im gonna try and cook a rom, can i use a rom thats already made, much like how eclipse speed rom that he made using energy rom?
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eggydrums said:
Thanks sports i will try. If im gonna try and cook a rom, can i use a rom thats already made, much like how eclipse speed rom that he made using energy rom?
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Yes you can make roms from other roms. That's what devs do when they say that they based a Rom from another.
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Dang my computer is too suckish to set up the kitchen :/
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When I try and install the ROM, I get an error. I think it says, expected 4 args but got 3. something along those lines lol.

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hasoon2000 said:
When I try and install the ROM, I get an error. I think it says, expected 4 args but got 3. something along those lines lol.
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Your own rom?
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hasoon2000 said:
When I try and install the ROM, I get an error. I think it says, expected 4 args but got 3. something along those lines lol.
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Updater--script error?
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Dark Nightmare said:
Updater--script error?
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Yep that's what it is
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sportsstar89 said:
Yep that's what it is
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I tried making my own ROM. I looked at the updater-script. The kitchen makes it and add the MTD format type rather than EXT4. I have no clue how to fix it.
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I have a few questions
1-what libs do you push so that the AOSP ics keyboard (or any other for that matter) to work
2- how do you set a default wallpaper for a sense rom, do you open up the Rosie apk or the htc resource... Because when I change the framework wallpaper it doesn't stick
3- what are some more examples of init.d scripts as I don't know many
These questions are relatively simple so don't scold me.....

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hasoon2000 said:
I tried making my own ROM. I looked at the updater-script. The kitchen makes it and add the MTD format type rather than EXT4. I have no clue how to fix it.
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The problem with the kitchen is it doesn't have an config script for the ruby so just take any updater script from any Rom and it'll work
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EclipzeRemix said:
I have a few questions
1-what libs do you push so that the AOSP ics keyboard (or any other for that matter) to work
2- how do you set a default wallpaper for a sense rom, do you open up the Rosie apk or the htc resource... Because when I change the framework wallpaper it doesn't stick
3- what are some more examples of init.d scripts as I don't know many
These questions are relatively simple so don't scold me.....
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1. I'm not quite sure try the latinime libs and input libs and i believe some of it is framework
2. customize folder i think just replace what the default wall paper is which a file with the same name
3. to Zipalign
Code:
LOG_FILE=/data/zipalign.log
if [ -e $LOG_FILE ]; then
rm $LOG_FILE;
fi;
echo "Starting Automatic ZipAlign $( date +"%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S" )" | tee -a $LOG_FILE;
for apk in /data/app/*.apk ; do
zipalign -c 4 $apk;
ZIPCHECK=$?;
if [ $ZIPCHECK -eq 1 ]; then
echo ZipAligning $(basename $apk) | tee -a $LOG_FILE;
zipalign -f 4 $apk /cache/$(basename $apk);
if [ -e /cache/$(basename $apk) ]; then
cp -f -p /cache/$(basename $apk) $apk | tee -a $LOG_FILE;
rm /cache/$(basename $apk);
else
echo ZipAligning $(basename $apk) Failed | tee -a $LOG_FILE;
fi;
else
echo ZipAlign already completed on $apk | tee -a $LOG_FILE;
fi;
done;
echo "Automatic ZipAlign finished at $( date +"%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S" )" | tee -a $LOG_FILE;
Calibrate Battery
Code:
SLEEP=120
if [ -e /data/.battery-calibrated ] ; then
exit 0
fi
(
while : ; do
LEVEL=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/capacity)
CUR=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_current)
if [ "$LEVEL" == "100" ] && [ "$CUR" == "0" ] ; then
log -p i -t battery-calibration "*** LEVEL: $LEVEL CUR: $CUR***: calibrating..."
rm -f /data/system/batterystats.bin
touch /data/.battery-calibrated
exit 0
fi
# log -p i -t battery-calibration "*** LEVEL: $LEVEL CUR: $CUR ***: sleeping for $SLEEP s..."
sleep $SLEEP
done
) &

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sportsstar89 said:
The problem with the kitchen is it doesn't have an config script for the ruby so just take any updater script from any Rom and it'll work
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Can you give me some tips so I can make it work myself?

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hasoon2000 said:
Can you give me some tips so I can make it work myself?
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Well the problem is that it has the wrong mount points so you change MTD or yaffs to EXT4 and you'll need to change the partition numbers which you can compare on any other updater scrip I would need to see it to tell you more
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Google amaze 4g mount points and also how to write updater-script, I found an excellent tutorial right here on xda that taught me to write a script and the mount points are helpful for the obvious reason, though there are some universal methods I found in peoples scripts that are much easier to write.
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