[DEV] CyanogenMod 7 [UNRELEASED] [ALPHA] - Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go

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Hello!
Today I present to you an idea, sparked by the brilliant Gingerbread Rocks! ROM. To me, Gingerbread is the undefeated king of stability and performance. With the ST25, we're all hoping unrealistically. Everybody here is complaining about the lack of Android 4.1 on our device. Well, why not look at what we do have?
We've got several stable Gingerbread releases to base a ROM upon. So why not port the best there is?
Which is why I present to you CyanogenMod 7 for the Xperia U
The build is in progress. If anybody would like to join the development team (I'm really just starting out in Android Development), then PM me with the subject line "CyanogenMod Dev".
Many thanks,
-Toby
FOR ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE SOURCES
Vendor- https://github.com/DevSwift/android_vendor_sony_kumquat
Device- https://github.com/DevSwift/android_device_sony_kumquat-cm7
https://github.com/DevSwift/android_device_sony_montblanc-common-cm7
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Early stages, tonnes and tonnes of thanks to DevSwift1 for his contributions.
NOTE TO MODS: THIS THREAD IS NOT SPAM, NOR IS IT POINTLESS. IT IS NOT FOR RECRUITMENT, AS A STABLE CYANOGENMOD 7 WILL BE RELEASED IN THE DUE WEEKS. THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER. THANK YOU.

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Toby Benington Ingram said:
Hello!
Today I present to you an idea, sparked by the brilliant Gingerbread Rocks! ROM. To me, Gingerbread is the undefeated king of stability and performance. With the ST25, we're all hoping unrealistically. Everybody here is complaining about the lack of Android 4.1 on our device. Well, why not look at what we do have?
We've got several stable Gingerbread releases to base a ROM upon. So why not port the best there is?
Which is why I present to you CyanogenMod 7 for the Xperia U
The build is in progress. If anybody would like to join the development team (I'm really just starting out in Android Development), then PM me with the subject line "CyanogenMod Dev".
Many thanks,
-Toby
NOTE TO MODS: THIS THREAD IS NOT SPAM, NOR IS IT POINTLESS. IT IS NOT FOR RECRUITMENT, AS A STABLE CYANOGENMOD 7 WILL BE RELEASED IN THE DUE WEEKS. THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER. THANK YOU.
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All the best !!

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drvijayanand said:
All the best !!
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Many thanks! Best of luck with your ROM too

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I have builded cm7 for st25i but i have problems with ramdisk... If you want i can upload my device and vendor for cm7

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My best wishes for you. Great idea, hope it will become succesfull.
Regards.

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I asked many developer why they dont build CM 7 for our device and couldnt find an answer...Seem FXP won't support this dev any..
And building a CM 7 kernel is wont be easy for you i think.. Hope other developers supports you and we have CM 7.. And CM 7 based many custom ROM

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DevSwift1 said:
I have builded cm7 for st25i but i have problems with ramdisk... If you want i can upload my device and vendor for cm7
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It would be phenomenal help if you were to upload. Does it boot regardless of the ramdisk?
Ultracity said:
My best wishes for you. Great idea, hope it will become succesfull.
Regards.
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Thank you!
emosis said:
I asked many developer why they dont build CM 7 for our device and couldnt find an answer...Seem FXP won't support this dev any..
And building a CM 7 kernel is wont be easy for you i think.. Hope other developers supports you and we have CM 7.. And CM 7 based many custom ROM
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I'm aware it won't be easy, and FXP don't support porting CM7 to any new devices. I might try and contact them on the matter, because as you said, compiling a stable kernel won't be an easy task. Many thanks.

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Hope to see daylight to this project.

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XperianPro said:
Hope to see daylight to this project.
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As do I. I plan to only release Alpha builds to real developers, so I save the "blahblah isn't working" comments and the cumbersome changelogs. Once we've got a daily driver/near complete rom, I'll be releasing it available to everybody.
Just a word of warning to everybody, if I don't find other developers who are interested in the continuation of this project, work may be a little slow as I'm in exam period at school. School always comes first, but whenever I get a spare moment I'll be working on this. Thank you all so much for your interest, it really is nice to have such strong support already.

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CM7 would be great for this phone, I think the 388MB of available RAM do put Xperia U in the Gingerbread universe, so, CM7 is the best logical step.
I hope we will see this happen. :fingers-crossed:

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Seems this will be greatest ROM ever for XU xD.
Sent from my ST25i using Tapatalk 2

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0M3G4_ said:
CM7 would be great for this phone, I think the 388MB of available RAM do put Xperia U in the Gingerbread universe, so, CM7 is the best logical step.
I hope we will see this happen. :fingers-crossed:
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The way I see it, if CyanogenMod 7 can run smoothly on my old HTC Wildfire (about 180MB of RAM available, 528mhz CPU) then it will run amazingly fast with ~400MB of RAM and a dual core 1GHz phone. Not to mention the HTC Wildfire doesn't have hardware video acceleration, but the Xperia U has Mali-400 graphics.
Fingers crossed.
Elwino2.3 said:
Seems this will be greatest ROM ever for XU xD.
Sent from my ST25i using Tapatalk 2
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That's what I'm hoping, haha!

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R: [DEV] CyanogenMod 7 [UNRELEASED] [ALPHA]
Place holder not allowed here,just a tip... publish a buuld or whatever or this will be closed

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GEKTHEBOSS said:
Place holder not allowed here,just a tip... publish a buuld or whatever or this will be closed
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I'll work on getting a VERY basic build together and out, so the thread isn't locked.
Thanks Gek, I've enjoyed your work on these devices :highfive:

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Sources:
Vendor- https://github.com/DevSwift/android_vendor_sony_kumquat
Device- https://github.com/DevSwift/android_device_sony_kumquat-cm7
https://github.com/DevSwift/android_device_sony_montblanc-common-cm7
I think it's good for start Enjoy!

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DevSwift1 said:
Sources:
Vendor- https://github.com/DevSwift/android_vendor_sony_kumquat
Device- https://github.com/DevSwift/android_device_sony_kumquat-cm7
https://github.com/DevSwift/android_device_sony_montblanc-common-cm7
I think it's good for start Enjoy!
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Many thanks, I'll set my own Git up later and we'll get to work on something
Mind if I link in the OP? I'll give credit to you, of course. It'd just be handy so that people can get their own take on things. Thanks again.

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Toby Benington Ingram said:
Many thanks, I'll set my own Git up later and we'll get to work on something
Mind if I link in the OP? I'll give credit to you, of course. It'd just be handy so that people can get their own take on things. Thanks again.
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Of course

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DevSwift1 said:
Of course
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Linked and thanked, cheers :laugh:

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just a noob question.i like cm7.alreadyused in my other devices.it doesn't support my language(Bengali) but stock rom supports it. so any way to get working all the fonts from stock rom? sorryfor asking in the dev thread.

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Equama said:
just a noob question.i like cm7.alreadyused in my other devices.it doesn't support my language(Bengali) but stock rom supports it. so any way to get working all the fonts from stock rom? sorryfor asking in the dev thread.
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In short, I believe so, yes.