Hello.
I'm on a Galaxy S5 (klte) on T-Mobile (g900t). There are a ton of custom ROMs with great features and amazing devs providing great support. However, I've come to find myself jonesing to make my own ROM, for personal use. I've seen some guides online and I'm fairly certain I can do it.
Here's where I would need help: I'd like to make a Frankenstein-like ROM. Take bits and pieces of several ROMs and make some new and only for personal use.
Obviously, I would ask permission to use various parts of a devs ROM before started this endeavor but I would like to know if this has been done by others as I'm sure I'm not breaking any new ground.
Sent from my G900T from nowhere.
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Hey guys,
I will be getting an android 4.0 phone from china here in a couple days. It doesnt support updates, or anything and I'd like to get Jelly Bean on it. I also have a Captivate I'd like to start developing roms for. I need the simplest explanation of how to make custom roms from aosp for either phone, or if there is another way, or if someone would like to take on the job that'd be great as well. any and all help is greatly appreciated.
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(That's the simplest thing you can do)
If the phone from China is really that unique the chance of you going from knowing nothing about developing to making a working JB ROM (which would require writing drivers) is next to zilch. But if you really want to learn and are willing to put in the effort there is an endless supply all over the internet (and within the hundreds of other threads like this).
So i've done some research, but i'm really, really new to Android Rom's and Kernels. I'm not a developer. What i am is someone keen in understanding about Android.
If someone wanted to make a new device, say their own Galaxy, Nexus, LG G2 etc How much work would need to be put into the kernel for the new device and also the new Rom? This includes a Smart TV and a separate phone.
Would it be hard to hire a team to develop a custom Rom and Kernel for the new devices? or? I see MiUi has done quite well but they've had millions of dollars of investment and lots of employees and people along the way to help.
Also does it take a big team or could it be done with a small specialised team of individuals and designers?
Thanks Guys and be gentle if it's a stupid question.
BUMP
Hello devs,
I've learned a lot in this community. I've rooted before with my first android phone the Skyrocket, but this phone has made me far more aware of the android world with things such as what a kernel is, Gapps, mods, efs back ups, etc. Took me a while to realize im in a position in which I simply am not in a place in life to be a flashaholic becuase im very dependent of my phone being a college student, but it's such a tease not to be when your device has a group of new ROMs every 2 weeks with nightlies being made daily. Anywho long story short, I've upgraded to the Note family as my daily driver.
Besides selling the phone like I always do when i upgrade, I've decided I'll keep my Lg as I'm kind of attatched to it and I can greatly help this community by becomming a "flash dummy" if you will. This model is the At&t varient. I can help in cases involving:
1.Devs who don't have this phone, but builds ROMs for it
2.Devs who don't want to test builds themselves for various reasons
3.Test nightlies for quality before releasing to forums/published sites
4.Need file extractions of any kind (radios, stock drivers, efs etc)
Basically I'm free to flash my heart out with this phone now that i have it around as a backup. So devs if you need feedback with logs or a testing phone, I have one.
I'll Update OP with feedback for specific ROMs as I test them. Users may also feel free to use this thread as refrence for ROM features and issues that apply to certain ROMs so you'll know to expect before flashing.
Disclaimer: This is not a "Im leaving" post either. Complete opposite actually. I'll still be flashing and reporting issues.
Even Samsung, in their great wisdom, included all of the telephony apps on my Galaxy Tab S (SM-T700). This device is NOT capable of making phone calls, period!
I would think that if one is going to all the effort to create a "custom" ROM one would *customize* it to that device, and that would include gutting it of all unnecessary cruft, and crap. I know how to delete all that stuff and it's one of the first things I do after rooting. But why should I even need to do that?
Am I missing something here?--possible. Am just a dumbass?--again, possible. What I am NOT is a n00b...I've owned and modified and tweaked and broke and fixed numerous PCs since 1983. As well as several android devices over the last few years.
Just so you know, I have all the appreciation and respect in the world for the real experts who do the hard work and provide the fruits of their labor to all of us for free. All they ask is that we make the effort to find the info on xda and other places ourselves--of course there is nothing like a simple Thank You to show appreciation.
Thank You
TiTiB (tweak it 'til it breaks ∆ Galaxy Tab S
Hello!
Now, who am I, I am a dude who got sick of his android phone and decided to take the initiative!
Well, you see, many many Android users get sick of their phones, of the bloatware by the manufacturers and their user interface, we got tired of not getting the updates and falling back!
So what do we do, we root and probably install a Custom ROM, pretty good eh, android is about choice after all!
So, what happened..I tried doing the same, didn't get satisfaction from the ROMs available for my phone, and now I am stuck
As they say, if you want something done, do it yourself, which is why I decided to take upon myself the responsibility of making a Custom ROM for the user, I want to leave the source code out there, for everyone and anyone to tinker with it and port it to his phone, and I wanted to create the ROM the Android master race deserves...created by a user for users
You might think "This is all wonderful, but where do I come in?"
You, sir, are the user, you are the one this project is created for, and I need your help
I need you guys to help me create this ROM, I need you to tell me what you want to see in that ROM (Marshmallow), I want you to tell me what features are needed and what features are desired, what do you guys think Android M lacks and what shouldn't be touched, what should I improve and what should be left alone, I need your help to make something you would want to use.
HEY, ANDROID IS ALL ABOUT CHOICE AFTER ALL, AND I WANT YOU TO MAKE THE CHOICE!
P.S.:If you could name your phone, what UI or CustomROM you're running (or any CustomROMs you have used before) and tell me what features were implemented there and I should recreate or improve, the pros and cons of your ROM
P.S.S: I know I am asking for too much here, but as you might have thought, this looks like lots of work.
If you are interested in helping or being part of the UberROM project (name subject to change), tell me here, if you're a dev with experience on porting ROMs and tinkering with the AOSP, let me know, I could use all the help I could get!
Thank you!