Easy way to make my Cubot Zorro support Cynanogen Mod - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, my stock OS and other software on my phone is S**T, together with my phone, it lags a lot etc.... I was wondering if there's a easy way to make my phone support CM, or it would also be nice if u know a way to change my os or firmware or smth like that so it's a bit less lagggggyyy... I don't even know what I'm talking about, it has a freaking Snapdragon 410...

Easy way? Not sure about that. But if there's no current development for your device, here's a good place to start to find a guide on porting, and learn yourself. :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/chef-central/android
Good luck!

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[Q] how to port ics (serious learner)

Lemme get some things out of the way.. I am a noob. I have searched. I have read some of the results from the search. I am overwhelmed by the 20+ pages of results (lol). I am not 100% sure this is the correct forum for this (not sure where else would be ).. I believe this is one of those things where I need help based on my situation.. Ok, so here I go.
I wish to start porting ICS to my phone. That's my goal. I have general understanding of how linux works, but I do not know much about the android specifics of how they work, or what needs to be modified for this to work. I do not plan to use the kitchen tool as I wish to learn this the hard way. I believe this will help me become more understanding in what I am doing. However, at this point I don't and that's why I'm here. My phone model is irrelevant almost because its prepaid and usually the communities don't even recognize their existence.. at least that's how I feel about it. But I digress. My phone is the zte warp by boost mobile and I am here to learn hopefully the things that will get me started on porting ICS to this phone. I right now believe that the best thing for me to learn is how the android related files work because as it is, I only looked at guides on how linux works and I understand most of it. I'm not sure that's the best thing that will help me port ics, but I'm certain it is important.
Please help me figure out where I should start in learning how to port ICS to my phone basically.
Thanks XDA
anyone? I am quite serious about wanting to do and go into this but I have yet one thread that anyone's ever replied to.. (or post iirc) which puts a damper on me
Snake X said:
Lemme get some things out of the way.. I am a noob. I have searched. I have read some of the results from the search. I am overwhelmed by the 20+ pages of results (lol). I am not 100% sure this is the correct forum for this (not sure where else would be ).. I believe this is one of those things where I need help based on my situation.. Ok, so here I go.
I wish to start porting ICS to my phone. That's my goal. I have general understanding of how linux works, but I do not know much about the android specifics of how they work, or what needs to be modified for this to work. I do not plan to use the kitchen tool as I wish to learn this the hard way. I believe this will help me become more understanding in what I am doing. However, at this point I don't and that's why I'm here. My phone model is irrelevant almost because its prepaid and usually the communities don't even recognize their existence.. at least that's how I feel about it. But I digress. My phone is the zte warp by boost mobile and I am here to learn hopefully the things that will get me started on porting ICS to this phone. I right now believe that the best thing for me to learn is how the android related files work because as it is, I only looked at guides on how linux works and I understand most of it. I'm not sure that's the best thing that will help me port ics, but I'm certain it is important.
Please help me figure out where I should start in learning how to port ICS to my phone basically.
Thanks XDA
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From my limited knowledge, I think it is a huge task undertaking, you can download Android source code from Google, the hard part will be the device driver development and porting for Linux kernel (and maybe portion of Android). If you are lucky, you can use the existing phone bootloader (or you have to port one). Understanding the inner of the phone (different chip set may need different device driver) will be another challenging task.
by the device driver development, you mean all the libs that go into the phone? Couldn't I just copy/paste the pre-existing libs that are already made for the phone? Also the phone im working with is a bit strange really.. noone has been able to compile the kernel from its source and get it to boot yet.. when it was compiled the zImage was different than that of the stock one.
And yeah, I have downloaded the aosp source.. I just need to know where to start at and the processes involved really
Snake X said:
by the device driver development, you mean all the libs that go into the phone? Couldn't I just copy/paste the pre-existing libs that are already made for the phone? Also the phone im working with is a bit strange really.. noone has been able to compile the kernel from its source and get it to boot yet.. when it was compiled the zImage was different than that of the stock one.
And yeah, I have downloaded the aosp source.. I just need to know where to start at and the processes involved really
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To answer you question no the drivers and lib files are different for aosp based rooms then they are for the stock OEM from. The first step will be to get a working kernel. Without anything you do will be pointless
I'm somewhat interested in the same thing, and from what I've gathered, you'll need to do these things to begin ROM development:
1. Read every page on the AOSP site and grab a copy of the AOSP source. It probably wouldn't hurt to read the regular Android developer wiki as well.
2. Learn about Linux driver development:
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ (this is apparently considered THE BOOK on Linux driver development)
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drivers_linux
3. Learn pretty much every detail about your phone and its hardware, especially when it comes to how ROMs are installed on it. For example, my phone (the Droid X2) has a locked bootloader, so 2nd init has to be used to boot new ROMs, and this makes it so that we cannot update the kernel.
You can usually find this sort of information on your phone manufacturer's website. Sometimes they even post the source code to their phone's drivers, which is helpful.
4. Look at other ROMs (preferably for your phone) and see how they work. The source code is freely available for most popular ROMs.
For example: CyanogenMod keeps their source code in a public git repository: https://github.com/cyanogenmod
5. Get to work on porting!
I would highly recommend starting with something smaller, however, just as a start. One good jumping-off point is probably this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272270
If any part of this was wrong, or if I left something out, somebody feel free to correct me, I'm still a noob.
Thank you so much for your direction, however,, android kitchen.. im not sure about that because isnt that only ment for htc devices? My phone is made by zte
what device do you even have?
if it's stuck officialy on 2.1 or 2.2 there's no hope that if you even port it that it'll work
its the zte warp from boost mobile (prepaid). Btw if I compile an aosp ics launcher and put that on my phone whats the chances of that working?
edit: it uses 2.3.5
Well Sebastian responded on android forums, apparently zte is very bad at version control with their kernel sources. So when they complete one project, they use the same source for the next project, and what they release could be for anything. Apparently the blade source had the same issues, it took him a while to get them to correct the source
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Yeah I noticed that there were ppl saying there were things similar but I'm not sure what will work or what won't.. guess its time to start a petition on zte to release the source code lol
edit: seems like zte's bein a bad company and violated the GNU GPL license for not providing a complete source code.. I compiled an email and sent it to someone who can proof read it and send it to the right person for this kinda thing.. danggit zte

Porting without source

Hi guys
I have an android with kitkat (Not even stock roms available online for it), and I want to port lolipop to it. The trouble is, all the tutorials I see assume you have source to work from.
Now, I dont have source, But I have an entire bit for bit partition dump (dd). I cant access about half the partitions, but thats the least of my worries.
I'm not interested in installing a new radio, I only want the OS upgraded.
Any advice?
I know people have done this, and even much harder stuff.
Yeh. Jut bumping really.

[UMI EMAX] Possible source code extraction from custom rom? {IDEA}

Okay, First of all, I know this is the incorrect place for a "development" thread, But I am currently unable to post in the correct area.. So here is the second best place.
I've had an idea. Since sadly I am gonna be giving back the Samsung Note 2 (Friend let me borrow it) I have to do something with the new Umi eMax I have.. Its a great potential phone but MEDIATEK wont freaking let us have the source code... So, Why not pull it off a rom? You can easily download something like ColorOS, Get the kernel, and extract the Source code, Am I not right?
I am wanting to do this because Umi has been sitting around barely doing jack trying to get the new 5.0 android up and running.. So installing CM 12.1 would be great!
This is probably totally impossible.. as I am a beginner at this kinda stuff, But, would this idea work or not?
I have the build.prop file if anyone wants to take a look at it.. Though we probably all know it runs off the MT6752.
So, Does anyone have any ideas? Or am I just getting completely over confident on this?
Trying to get 10 posts....

Root for a new build?

Hello everyone. I've updated my Xperia tablet Z4 lte to the 28.0.А,8,240. So does it means that I've lost the ability to make the root?((((( because the instruction of only one method for rooting says that it fits only for 28.0.A.7.24 or 28.0.A.7.27 builds.
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get your version numbers straight
look up Androplus kernel here (read the whole thread)
give us some sources for
only one method for rooting
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I know several methods, they all exchange the kernel on the boot partition and have a more or less tedious way to install SuperSU
Year, thank you for your answer. I see root is possible for our device, but I hesitate to do it as I don't know exactly which apps would stop working once and for all without drm keys and there are no good custom roms, even cyanogenmod. I wonder, this device was released ten months ago, and so little done.
It make me feel blue, as it kills the hope that something would change in the nearest feature((((((
If you need my help in testing new ways of root, some new roms, feel free to send a word to me, I would try to help as much as I can))))
How do you learn how to root a phone, I have no tech background
depends...
How do you learn how to root
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for some people it is just "can haz video asap!?"
If you venture into uncharted territory you needs lots of technical background and some experience.
What works on one device may work with a little modification on another.
So you read a lot. xdadevelopers is a good starting point. There are books on the subject. Look for "reverse engineering" or "system security". Good Linux knowledge is very useful.
The tools you need are all free and come with more documentation than you want to read with your Linux distro.

Need help porting any Cyanogenmod to my device

So i've been looking on the internet for some ways to port any CM to my device J100FN, i found quite a few but some of them are outdated or badly explained etc etc...
I'm gonna put it plain and simple.
I have linux, i have my stock rom J100FNXXU0AOD1, and i can surely get any CM somewhere in the internet (note that i have CM12 for Samsung S3 neo already so tell me if that's gonna do it)
Here are the tutorials that i found so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAyxypK7_K8 (says that i need a CM already built for my phone, which is no available)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545618 (same with this one)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245786 (and this one is kinda poorly explained at the begining)
Note that i have a rooted device and TWRP recovery up and running on it, also i read about this "Cyanogenmod compiler" thingy thing, but i couldn't manage to download it, i think the repos are down now or idk. (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415661) (https://korben.info/cyanogenmod-compiler.html)
IDK MAN I REALLY NEED CYANOGENMOD ON MY GALAXY J1 LTE, i'm kind of a rookie when it comes to complicated roms maneuvering but i still do have basic knowledge (flashing, rooting, few terminal cmd's etc etc...)
Please help, and thank.
Putshi said:
So i've been looking on the internet for some ways to port any CM to my device J100FN, i found quite a few but some of them are outdated or badly explained etc etc...
I'm gonna put it plain and simple.
I have linux, i have my stock rom J100FNXXU0AOD1, and i can surely get any CM somewhere in the internet (note that i have CM12 for Samsung S3 neo already so tell me if that's gonna do it)
Here are the tutorials that i found so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAyxypK7_K8 (says that i need a CM already built for my phone, which is no available)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545618 (same with this one)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245786 (and this one is kinda poorly explained at the begining)
Note that i have a rooted device and TWRP recovery up and running on it, also i read about this "Cyanogenmod compiler" thingy thing, but i couldn't manage to download it, i think the repos are down now or idk. (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415661) (https://korben.info/cyanogenmod-compiler.html)
IDK MAN I REALLY NEED CYANOGENMOD ON MY GALAXY J1 LTE, i'm kind of a rookie when it comes to complicated roms maneuvering but i still do have basic knowledge (flashing, rooting, few terminal cmd's etc etc...)
Please help, and thank.
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Don't let this thread die please :/
Like come on 34 views but no replies...
How did you get the TWRP for your phone? Is there one for the J100? I haven't managed to root my J727 One thing you could do is use the google android tree with all its garbage and then copy and paste the CM tree into it. But quite frankly I hesitate to suggest this because it's a huge pain in the ass, and like I said, I haven't managed to get TWRP working for my phone doing this. I can get it compiled but... I have no idea what makes it specific to the phone. I thought it was enough just to have the kernel for the specific phone...
peterius said:
How did you get the TWRP for your phone? Is there one for the J100? I haven't managed to root my J727 One thing you could do is use the google android tree with all its garbage and then copy and paste the CM tree into it. But quite frankly I hesitate to suggest this because it's a huge pain in the ass, and like I said, I haven't managed to get TWRP working for my phone doing this. I can get it compiled but... I have no idea what makes it specific to the phone. I thought it was enough just to have the kernel for the specific phone...
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Idk man, I just looked up a tutorial on how to root it, I had to look quite deeply but I found it and it's working just fine, it requiers you to flash the boot.img too and then root it with Kingoroot, this is the tutorial I followed www .halabtech. com/root-for-j100fn/ (I know it looks shady but it worked, also I can't post links because my account is new...)
Also I asked a dev and he asked me about the source code of the cpu or some stuff, tbh I have no idea why you would need that to make a rom out of a stock rom...
As I've been informed by twrp, the recovery image typically has it's own kernel which means its specific to the device. I'm not totally sure of the reasons for this. I ended up returning the galaxy j727u which has a locked bootloader for a xiaomi, I'll see how it goes.
I see, but that doesn't really advance in my case
Is any devs out there willing to help out a stupid newbie :^)
Come on now don't let this thread die

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