[Unofficial] Paranoid Android G2 4.6b3+ NoHeatMod - G2 General

Creating a new thread as posting modding info in the official thread might be considered rude/inappropriate/hijacking.
Read the official thread first, starting october 6 2014.
These modding descriptions are for the works of the AOSPA and AOSPA-legacy team, about 101% of the credits go to @ayysir and @houstonn and all oft PA team. Awesome stuff.
Feel free to donate to them in the way of their liking.
And of course @777jon, owner of the cited unofficial VS980 thread, who gave the essential hint about the display-caf package
This thread is intended to provide a knowledge base for modding the official builds as long as they seem flawed for some of us. Feel free to reference helpful stuff from other threads in accordance to forum rules.
D802 @ AOSPA 4.6b3

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Here's what made the issue go away for me on D802. This might be dangerous, so don't do it if you can't live with the risk of bricking your phone, you are entirely on your own if something goes wrong.
Prerequesites:
- Install official 4.6b3 AOSPA-legacy zip-image to phone
- [optional] Install Renders Kernel
- Install updated root
- Download and extract unofficial 4.6b3 VS980 zip-image from @777jon 's thread (yeah, it's the wrong phone, but we need only one file; find thread in Forum yourself, got yelled at for crosslinking stuff before )
Procedure:
-MAKE NANDROID BACKUP!
-Copy file from extracted VS980-image [zip]/system/lib/hw/hwcomposer.msm8974.so to phone's sdcard folder via USB (eg. ./Download)
-Start terminal on phone or adb shell
-Create backup dir:
Code:
mkdir /sdcard/noheatbackup
-get root access by typing
Code:
su
-make /system writeable by typing
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /system
-backup existing file by typing
Code:
cp /system/lib/hw/hwcomposer.msm8974.so /sdcard/noheatbackup/
-overwrite existing file by typing
Code:
cp /sdcard/Download/hwcomposer.msm8974.so /system/lib/hw/
-reboot by typing
Code:
reboot
-Note that you will need to be on a root shell to remove the backup again with
Code:
rm -r /sdcard/noheatbackup
:
Screenshot after replacing /system/lib/hw/hwcomposer.msm8974.so : Heat issue gone, see temp in status bar. After deep sleep, temps are about 3-5 K over room temperature.
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D802 @ AOSPA 4.6b3

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Thanks for creating a new thread man, but i don't think this qualifies for the Original Development section though
@Judge Joseph Dredd please move to correct section

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mjwhirly said:
Thanks for creating a new thread man, but i don't think this qualifies for the Original Development section though
@Judge Joseph Dredd please move to correct section
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Just move it whereever this kind of stuff belongs to. I still have to learn forumish [emoji17]
D802 @ AOSPA 4.4

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Oh yes. See me:
Can i do it?
Download the vs980 From Post on original g2 development thread. Extract the zip and copy the file. (the 06/29 version)
Download the official beta 3 on aospal and extract it. Now i'll copy the file before and paste on beta 3 extracted zip, then i replace it. Now i'll zip the files and flash them via twrp. This method works too?

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bielphc said:
Oh yes. See me:
Can i do it?
Download the vs980 From Post on original g2 development thread. Extract the zip and copy the file. (the 06/29 version)
Download the official beta 3 on aospal and extract it. Now i'll copy the file before and paste on beta 3 extracted zip, then i replace it. Now i'll zip the files and flash them via twrp. This method works too?
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No, i meant the 4.6v3 version from october. Might work the way including it to the zip, but I'm really new to this and haven't tried.

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Benztown said:
No, i meant the 4.6v3 version from october. Might work the way including it to the zip, but I'm really new to this and haven't tried.
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Ok. you saved my life. Thx. i love this rom but i dont want to cook a pizza on him.
thx

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"-overwrite existing file by typing cp /sdcard/Download/hwcomposer.msm8974.so /system/lib/hw/"
My phone rebooted of it self after doing the step above!?
But the copying seem to have worked! Thanks a lot for this guide!

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For me doesn't work.

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slade9220 said:
For me doesn't work.
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Did you take the VS980 zip from @777jon s thread? I guess the official one has the same issues as the d802 official one.
Also I did it in an ADB shell, dunno if it works on phone's terminal.
D802 @ AOSPA 4.4

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Benztown said:
Did you take the VS980 zip from @777jon s thread? I guess the official one has the same issues as the d802 official one.
Also I did it in an ADB shell, dunno if it works on phone's terminal.
D802 @ AOSPA 4.4
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Thanks.. I'll try! ✌
Edit: IT WORKS! THANKS!

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Do Anyone try the new 4.6Beta4?!

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I wonder if you can just take the hwcomposer.msm8974.so file from any rom based on dr87's source?
Its the same thing right?
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Edit
I just extract the lib from 3 different rom cm unofficial by fabioio (no number), pa vs980 (1), and mahdi 920 (2). Fabioio's cm is smallest and both pa and mahdi are of the same size.

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punyategar said:
I wonder if you can just take the hwcomposer.msm8974.so file from any rom based on dr87's source?
Its the same thing right?
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Edit
I just extract the lib from 3 different rom cm unofficial by fabioio (no number), pa vs980 (1), and mahdi 920 (2). Fabioio's cm is smallest and both pa and mahdi are of the same size.
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I didn't compare the sources and also didn't check for device dependencies. If its design is done properly there shouldn't be any though. So yeah you should be able to take it from any dr87 based image as long as the structure doesn't change between different commits.
For the size that might just be different compiler options or even just symbol paths. Difficult to compare.
Also with this whole pa closedsource vs. pa opensource one cannot be sure what's really behind the official builds. Can someone actually bring me up to speed what's behind this open/closed source nonsense? Just IP protection?
D802 @ AOSPA 4.4

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slade9220 said:
Do Anyone try the new 4.6Beta4?!
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After what I've read... I'll stay miles away from that build [emoji16]
D802 @ AOSPA 4.4

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Benztown said:
I didn't compare the sources and also didn't check for device dependencies. If its design is done properly there shouldn't be any though. So yeah you should be able to take it from any dr87 based image as long as the structure doesn't change between different commits.
For the size that might just be different compiler options or even just symbol paths. Difficult to compare.
Also with this whole pa closedsource vs. pa opensource one cannot be sure what's really behind the official builds. Can someone actually bring me up to speed what's behind this open/closed source nonsense? Just IP protection?
D802 @ AOSPA 4.4
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The closed source thing is supposedly because that particular stuff(?) Is still buggy. Seeing how stuff go at desktop linux, this reason is really weird.
Yeah i just did the copy paste thing, i got stuck at lg logo. Right as i paste it the cellphone rebooted. I havent changed permission. I havent tried it for the second time though. Not sure if itll be the same.

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punyategar said:
The closed source thing is supposedly because that particular stuff(?) Is still buggy. Seeing how stuff go at desktop linux, this reason is really weird.
Yeah i just did the copy paste thing, i got stuck at lg logo. Right as i paste it the cellphone rebooted. I havent changed permission. I havent tried it for the second time though. Not sure if itll be the same.
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That does indeed seem weird. It seems to me that custom roming is more about magical coding wizardry and fame than about progress in a classical open source sense. Maybe it's just an issue about age. I'm obviously too old...
Strange, my phone didn't reboot. I did it with adb shell and su.
D802 @ AOSPA 4.4