Hello,
So far, I have:
A working Android build environment (Ubuntu 11.10 x64).
Managed to build, install and boot AOSP on my Nexus S. (I have downloaded but not attempted to build CM7 yet.)
Created a Github account.
Samsung's open source files for my target device, the Galaxy Gio GT-S5660M.
I've read some documentation and forum posts about Github, but I remain unsure as to what I should do to fork in a way that:
I'll be able to keep on syncing the remainder of the code.
My new device directories and modifications could be brought back (pulled?) to the main CM7 code base.
Will avoid needless frustrating re-downloads of the source code.
Thanks in advance,
Darkshado
After some further reading, I'm beginning to grasp some git basics...
I've forked two CM7 repos so far, added them as remotes in the appropriate installations. (Instead of forking and cloning, since I already had repo sync'ed the whole CM7 source. My commits show up on Github like they should, and I should be able to merge in commits to the origin remotes.)
I'm not going to do any pull requests until I've managed to build and boot.
By the way, yesterday I attempted to build AOSP with a bunch of files overwritten by the Samsung sources (that's how they tell you to do it!!) and this failed, as I expected.
Goodbye,
Darkshado
Update: I'm currently trying to port CM7 to the Gio 5660M. Still attempting a first successful build as I'm writing these lines.
My main issue so far has to do with the camera. I get the following error message:
make: *** No rule to make target « out/target/product/gio5660M/obj/lib/libcamera.so », needed by « out/target/product/gio5660M/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libcameraservice_intermediates/LINKED/libcameraservice.so ». Stop.
After toggling off the camera by using the stub, I hit the same error further into the build with this:
make: *** No rule to make target « vendor/samsung/gio5660M/proprietary/wifi/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.0/athtcmd_ram.bin », needed by « out/target/product/gio5660M/system/wifi/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.0/athtcmd_ram.bin ». Stop.
I know this has to do with makefiles, but that's about it...
Thanks in advance for any help,
Darkshado
hi i'm interested too.
hi I found your github because I also interested poriting cyanogemod to galaxy gio korea(SHW-M290K). the device hardware is different from s5660. so I need some modification.
and your libcamera problem is that there is some reason that the make system can't find libcamera.so, so they cannot compile libcamera service. it should be in ./vendor/samsung/gio/proprietary according to your extract-files.sh .
have one cuorisity. I searched gio android device make file. and none of them are relreased source code. how did you make them?
I found this information. it may help you.
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1_PortingGuides
I'll have to update my Github, hadn't been in a rush due to lack of progress, but now my problem lies with libaudio instead.
I got the Samsung sources for the 5660M on their open source website, although I mostly worked with the CM7 ports for similar devices like Tass and Cooper as well as a Gio source provided by Phiexz but it didn't build either.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
proprietary does not help
do you have any progress since last time?
well, I admit that proprietary files does not help.
does your s5660m hardware identical to s5660v?
becasuse galaxy gio in Korea(shw-m290k,shw-m290s) does different hardware.
well in this case, like me, you need to hack into not only android pdk, but also android kenel.
I have seen that phiexz has released kernel with latest cyanogenmod kenel in his github and I am modifing it to shw-m290k. there are some hardware differences i have to apply to.
I suggest you to compare phiexz's kernel and samsung original kernel from samsung opensource homepage.
My problem right now is that I don't have that much spare time to put into this, and that I'm very much learning as I go, so progress is not always that quick. Also, I'd like to get my Touchwiz based ROM updated and working properly before trying to build AOSP or CM again.
Another thing I want to try is building the kernel (probably based on Phiexz's) that will support ext4, and compare performance of the Touchwiz ROM on ext4 versus RFS.
As far as we can tell, GT-S5660 (Europe/Asia) GT-S5660M, L and V are identical except for the radio firmware. People with the 5660M initially encountered issues after flashing 5660 ROMs because they also contained the AMSS image.
my cyanogen kernel is based on samsung open source kernel
because cm-kernel on cyanogenmod github dont support our device, if we wnt use that kernel we must add some hardware pofile & board for galaxy gio
so alternative is make samsung's open source kernel compatible with cyanogenmod
Wouldn't it be much better from a code maintainability standpoint to make the CM kernel work on the Gio? (Also if you ever hope to get official CM team support, that's a given.)
The way I understand repo and git, you could create a github repo for your device and board configs and add those to your repo manifest so the whole CM7 source and your modifications all sync properly.
I've forked the CM7 manifest files off github, added my gio files and removed all those extra devices I didn't need, so my repo syncs are much faster too. (The idea comes from http://slightlymorethanworthless.blogspot.com/2011/05/remove-unwanted-devices-from.html)
hey a quick question...
just starting out here..
i'm on win7 32 bit, going to run ubuntu on virtualbox.
shud i choose ubuntu 32 bit or 64?
sorry for OT.
doesn't really matter
roofrider said:
hey a quick question...
just starting out here..
i'm on win7 32 bit, going to run ubuntu on virtualbox.
shud u choose ubuntu 32 bit or 64?
sorry for OT.
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doesn't really matter. but compiling process needs much cpu power. so 64x would be better.
Well, im not a dev or a user of gt5660m, but good luck to you, hope u can finally port it
Sent from the GUN in my pants
darkshado, if you have same problem untill now.
http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=220
look this page. and check out koush's proprietary page. especially for samsung cooper(galaxy ace). because many of kernel procedure are same for gio.
https://github.com/coolya/android_device_samsung_cooper.git
https://github.com/koush/proprietary_vendor_samsung
i've upload galaxy gio source + proprietary files for galaxy gio
please see & help to fix some problem
github.com/phiexz
Darkshado said:
Hello,
So far, I have:
A working Android build environment (Ubuntu 11.10 x64).
Managed to build, install and boot AOSP on my Nexus S. (I have downloaded but not attempted to build CM7 yet.)
Created a Github account.
Samsung's open source files for my target device, the Galaxy Gio GT-S5660M.
I've read some documentation and forum posts about Github, but I remain unsure as to what I should do to fork in a way that:
I'll be able to keep on syncing the remainder of the code.
My new device directories and modifications could be brought back (pulled?) to the main CM7 code base.
Will avoid needless frustrating re-downloads of the source code.
Thanks in advance,
Darkshado
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Really the best kernel for your phone is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991020
BLN enabled, optimized&stable kernel, jelly bean look
Whoa! Zombie thread!
Dude: the ROM you linked was published over a year after my original post in this thread. I'm pretty sure there was NO CM7 build available for the Gio back then. That's what I was trying to work on, but got beat to the punch by Maclaw and a couple others. (Hard-bricking my Gio and having a sluggish laptop to build on didn't help.)
Besides, I got rid of my Gio a long time ago. I enjoy my Note 2 and keep my Nexus S as backup.
Im interested to know how these guys (CyanogenMod, codeworkx) take the ASOP Jellybean and get it running on the i9300, ive seen (http://review.cyanogenmod.com) where they show the open/megred/abandonned status information.
Do they run a debugging app on the i9300 while testing for issues, how is it done?
Also, when samsung add their own features, like touch wiz, camera app + fm radio on top of ASOP, how do they go about (trying) porting it over to Jellybean to make it work? Is that samsung proprietary code? and does that require decompiling before trying to debug and port??
Any info/links to point me in the right direction is appreciated.
Cheers, Nic
niczoom said:
Im interested to know how these guys (CyanogenMod, codeworkx) take the ASOP Jellybean and get it running on the i9300, ive seen (http://review.cyanogenmod.com) where they show the open/megred/abandonned status information.
Do they run a debugging app on the i9300 while testing for issues, how is it done?
Also, when samsung add their own features, like touch wiz, camera app + fm radio on top of ASOP, how do they go about (trying) porting it over to Jellybean to make it work? Is that samsung proprietary code? and does that require decompiling before trying to debug and port??
Any info/links to point me in the right direction is appreciated.
Cheers, Nic
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The devs just download the AOSP/CM sources from their Android git/CM git and compile it in linux with device specific source files. These device files can be forked from a device like GNexus and modify it to support your phone. If the device files are already modified for your phone, then you can just clone the git repo and compile the Android/CM build.
They might run debugging app or they may not.. it depends on the dev's themselves.
Don't know how samsung does it. They make their own proprietary code.
This is just to give you a brief idea of how things get done here. If you wanna know more just Google. There are plenty of guides available on the internet, there are a lot of guides in xda too.
accidentally thanked u
The front page of XDA has a development section .
jje
Hi all devs for P7510:
I'm following guides all over the place in my attempt to learn a thing or two by building AOSP ICS (specifically the 4.0.4_r1 branch) from source. I know that Google states building anything other than master on a version of Ubuntu higher than 11.10 is experimental and not really supported - seen many Google Groups threads indicating this. I've been able to patch and fix some of the errors that I'm seeing, but others that I'm searching for are answered with links back to the AOSP website where it's simply saying building anything other than the master branch on Ubuntu 12.xx is not officially supported.
I am getting ready to re-do my dev environment with Ubuntu 10.04 to see if that really does make a difference somehow, but had a couple of questions that I'm hoping someone can answer as I get ready to try again.
1) Has anyone out there built AOSP 4.0.4, from a branch other than master, successfully for the P7510 device?
2) If so, with what version of Ubuntu/Linux and were there many errors encountered when compiling that required fixes via manual code revision rather than simply applying a missing dependency or toolchain fix?
I've searched high and low and it's proving particularly difficult to find info on whether or not someone has been able to build a non-master branch of AOSP ICS 4.0.4 for this particular device. I know I could just abandon it and try to build JB or something instead but really want to see if I can pull this off. Hoping someone out there can help me out!
Update: I was able to complete a build today!! Please disregard the questions, self answered.
Sent from my GT-P7510 bleeding CM10 inverted awesome
Hello there forum users! This thread was created with the sole purpose of helping me (and others) find out how to build ROMs for unsupported devices.
Basically, I've built AOKP from source, but the device I was building for was already supported. What I'm trying to do now if build Dirty Unicorns 4.2.2 for my device, which is not supported by the ROM. From what I've read, I've already forked the "vendor_du", "
android_device_samsung_vibrantmtd", "vendor_samsung", "proprietary_vendor_samsung", "android_hardware_samsung", "android_packages_apps_SamsungServiceMode", and "android_build".
How do I build the ROM for the Samsung Vibrant T959, when it is not supported. If someone has miraculously found a post that I have missed, I would appreciate it very much. Additionally, a list of commands and explanations would greatly assist me. I'm pretty new to the whole Android building thing so I thank you all for help!
Ain't nobody is going to help you ^^ I am looking for that kind of knowledge too. I would like to start building roms from source and make some modifications to CM10's kernel
check out Legion modz team thread
it has a little info on it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314836
and make google your best friend
so much way to take...
theabnormalguy said:
Hello there forum users! This thread was created with the sole purpose of helping me (and others) find out how to build ROMs for unsupported devices.
Basically, I've built AOKP from source, but the device I was building for was already supported. What I'm trying to do now if build Dirty Unicorns 4.2.2 for my device, which is not supported by the ROM. From what I've read, I've already forked the "vendor_du", "
android_device_samsung_vibrantmtd", "vendor_samsung", "proprietary_vendor_samsung", "android_hardware_samsung", "android_packages_apps_SamsungServiceMode", and "android_build".
My github account is MaxusPrimus
How do I build the ROM for the Samsung Vibrant T959, when it is not supported. If someone has miraculously found a post that I have missed, I would appreciate it very much. Additionally, a list of commands and explanations would greatly assist me. I'm pretty new to the whole Android building thing so I thank you all for help!
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Im starting to learn to build from source. Theres many tutorials on how to get started. Ill post links when I get to my pc later. First I would get the source code for kernel on samsung. If not available get stock rom to dump required files aswell as other files needed. I dont know if this will guide you in the right direction. Just keep in mind and always remember the kernel hardware devices is different then the operating system. You juz need to learn google how to merge the to.
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flipinfin said:
Im starting to learn to build from source. Theres many tutorials on how to get started. Ill post links when I get to my pc later. First I would get the source code for kernel on samsung. If not available get stock rom to dump required files aswell as other files needed. I dont know if this will guide you in the right direction. Just keep in mind and always remember the kernel hardware devices is different then the operating system. You juz need to learn google how to merge the to.
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Heres some starting links that im using starting to build from source. the samsung open source page look for your model number http://opensource.samsung.com. Obviously. you can build your own kernel.
how to unpack repack img http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081239
http://www.kandroid.org/online-pdk/guide/index.html very useful link aswell as this one http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html.
heres a link to identify partition tables http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1959445. . Heres another link that you prolly can pull files from if needed http://www.teamandroid.com/2013/04/...kp-build-6-android-422-jelly-bean-custom-rom/
Dont take this the wrong way but i think your getting confused how roms kernels etc r built its all open source. That rom is based off of jelly bean and alls they did was change the name. Though its open source so i would assume you can repo the rom at https://github.com/. In addition if i was you i would download the rom "which you prolly already have and do some investigating.. heres another useful link http://xda-university.com/as-a-developer/porting-aosp-roms-using-source-code. Never forget google is your best friend. Fogot to mention if you aint on linux i would switch os real soon. I think this link will be ver ver very helpful https://bitbucket.org/bigwillyg/buttered_toast_shooter
Is that Vibrant T-Mobile ? cuz if it is http://aokp.co/devices/vibrantmtd theres your starting point