[ROM][JB 4.2.2] [WIP] [ Katnerstone Hybrid ] [MultiWindow Panels (Cornerstone)]

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

Katnerstone Hybrid Rom

JellyBean 4.2.2
MultiWindow Panels - EOS4 & Cornerstone based
KatKernel & KatBoost included

Hi everyone

Here's the first rom including my Cornerstone port to Jellybean 4.2.2

Quite a few have been impatient to get it, and as TeamEOS prefers not to have an official Cornerstone build at the moment,
I'm taking it into its dedicated thread, so that you can get a first taste, and it should help the traffic in the original EOS4 thread that way too.

Keep in mind that it's still a Work in progress, don't try it unless you're ready to play with a few bugs and workarounds for the moment.
Make sure you read post#2 to see the already known issues & workarounds

DOWNLOADS:

ROM: Katnerstone-4.2.2_V033.zip
FSYNC is off by default in the rom, if you prefer it on just flash this after the rom: fsync_on.zip
Latest Gapps Package: 4.2.2 Gapps for TF101
Older 4.2.1 Eos Gapps for TF101
If you prefer to have the Swipe feature in the default Keyboard you can use this version, but the Keyboard will crash on auto-correction
If you use this version, make sure you go the keyboard settings and change these settings:
+ Auto-correction off
+ Show correction suggestions:always hide

What's Cornerstone ?
Cornerstone is a code modification to the window manager & graphic layers that allows you to run 3 apps together on the same screen in different panels.
You can also run without the 3 panels (so that it is the same than running a regular rom), start or stop the multi panel interface at any time,
the side panels can also be collapsed or expanded at run time.
For more information see their website: http://www.onskreen.com/cornerstone/

Features:
Feature wise you get all the EOS4 features + Cornerstone on top.
See respective links for details.

Installation Notes:

Main Goals:
Well of course the ultimate goal will be to eat all the bugs

I'll go by priorities:
- Fix the few bugs introduced when not running in 3 panels mode.
That way we can basically use it as a daily rom, and then decide to activate the panels or not as needed.
- Fix the cornerstone specific bugs.
- Improve the rom and cornerstone features.

Issues & Workarounds:
Keep in mind that it's still a work in progress, and I'll try to improve it as time permit.
Cornerstone is not released for Jellybean 4.2.2, so it required quite a few adjustments, and there are still bugs,
some introduced by the 4.2.2 version, and some that are still there since the 1st cornerstone version for ICS.

See post #2 for more details & how to report

Disclaimer: The usual
The rom is provided as is.
Use at your own risk, I won't be responsible for any damages caused to your Transformer or to yourself.
In most cases if something breaks, flashing a rom on top should fix it.

Changelog: -
Sources: https://github.com/timduru/

Credits:
- TeamEOS for the original EOS4 rom
- Onskreen for the original cornerstone code

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

Additional info & links

Known Issues & Tips:

How to report:

What to send in your report::

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

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st0nedpenguin · Mar 15, 2013

Ermagherd I haven't sat and stared at a download bar like this for quite some time.

josteink · Mar 15, 2013

This looks pretty cool and is definitely appreciated. But I have to admit I'm more interested in this from a developer point of view than downloading your ZIP

Is this something which is viable to build yourself or integrate into your own Android-build?

From what I can tell from the source, this is an additional overlay which you apply to your device-tree. Is that correct? Or is it just a hot-patched / copied over the Android-repo after it's synced?

Or am I completely missing the big picture? Any feedback appreciated

st0nedpenguin · Mar 15, 2013

I managed to work around the trippy flashing screen and overlay system bar, but I'm not able to select the menu button in TiBu whether I'm using Cornerstone or not.

Also I appear to have the weird no desktop image bug from the recent EOS build.

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

josteink said:
This looks pretty cool and is definitely appreciated. But I have to admit I'm more interested in this from a developer point of view than downloading your ZIP

Is this something which is viable to build yourself or integrate into your own Android-build?

The thing with the cornerstone code is that it's heavily modifying the android framework / window manager.
So you get an extra spaghetti layer on top of the existing android window manager spaghetti code

So it's not the easiest to maintain as you'll need to update back & forth and merge the regular rom changes all the time.

From what I can tell from the source, this is an additional overlay which you apply to your device-tree. Is that correct? Or is it just a hot-patched / copied over the Android-repo after it's synced?

It's file replacements/patching mostly in frameworks/base
which is quite busy and where most roms modifications already are unfortunately

Then you have the multi panel interface that is in separate packages, so at least that last part is easy to add on top.

But yeah, I'm still pondering how to release the code currently, as it's merged into EOS4 framework/base basically.
Doing file overwriting replacements like posted originally on the cornerstone git won't work well for other roms, these had to be adapted for 4.2.2 & EOS specific code.
I think the less painful might be to just post the new forked framework/base for EOS4.
Have to see...

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

st0nedpenguin said:
I managed to work around the trippy flashing screen and overlay system bar, but I'm not able to select the menu button in TiBu whether I'm using Cornerstone or not.

What's Tibu ?
And do you mean you can't select the button because it's under the status bar at top ?
If it's too high that can definitely happen, until I've fixed that issue listed in post #2

Did you try hitting the menu button on the dock or with LMT ?

Also I appear to have the weird no desktop image bug from the recent EOS build.

Yeah the new code doesn't seem to like cornerstone.
It should be fine if you use another launcher.

josteink · Mar 15, 2013

timduru said:
What's Tibu?

I'm guessing Titanium Back Up

st0nedpenguin · Mar 15, 2013

timduru said:
What's Tibu ?
And do you mean you can't select the button because it's under the status bar at top ?
If it's too high that can definitely happen, until I've fixed that issue listed in post #2

Did you try hitting the menu button on the dock or with LMT ?

Yeah the new code doesn't seem to like cornerstone.
It should be fine if you use another launcher.

Titanium Backup as guessed ^ up there.

It's weird, because I can see the button, I can click on the button, the button even highlights to show the click, but nothing happens.

The wallpaper thing isn't really an issue since as you said I can just use another launcher once I can get my backups working.

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

st0nedpenguin said:
Titanium Backup as guessed ^ up there.

It's weird, because I can see the button, I can click on the button, the button even highlights to show the click, but nothing happens.

The wallpaper thing isn't really an issue since as you said I can just use another launcher once I can get my backups working.

Hmm, yeah that's weird I can reproduce that too, not sure what Titanium backup menu doesn't like...
The other buttons seems to works fine, like the scenario one next to it.
For the moment if you need to change something that is reached with the menu button, I'd advise to flash the regular EOS4 back, change the setting there,
flash back this rom, and only wipe /cache + dalvik-cache without doing a full wipe as to keep the settings / apps

Overall you should be able to "dirty-flash" this rom on top of EOS4, that should save time too.

st0nedpenguin · Mar 15, 2013

Well I moved my backups onto the internal sdcard as a lazy fix, but now when I try to restore them in the batch action menu, none of the buttons there work either.

kokabunga · Mar 15, 2013

Re: [ROM][JB 4.2.2] [WIP] Katnerstone Hybrid - MultiWindow Panels (Cornerstone)

Tim, you will always surprise me. I'm lucky to share the same device like yours...
If not your work, i would have already spend another 600$ to get another device...
But in my opinion, tf101 bas no challengers because of guys like you. Sincere

Envoyé depuis mon Transformer TF101 avec Tapatalk

bloodge1 · Mar 15, 2013

Re: [ROM][JB 4.2.2] [WIP] Katnerstone Hybrid - MultiWindow Panels (Cornerstone)

Thanks so much for taking on this exciting project. So far, cornerstone doesn't minimize. It animates like its going to, but then doesn't. The screen cuts off the top of everything whether or not cornerstone is used. And I get flickering whenever I'm suppose to choose how to open a file. The dialog box flickers and its almost impossible to tap the box to make a selection. Also, hiding system bars doesn't work.

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

bloodge1 said:
Thanks so much for taking on this exciting project. So far, cornerstone doesn't minimize. It animates like its going to, but then doesn't. The screen cut off the top of everything whether or not cornerstone is used. I attached a screenshot of this. And I get flickering whenever I'm suppose to choose how to open a file. The dialog box flickers and its almost impossible to tap the box to make a selection.

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app

What do you call minimize, Collapsing the 2 small panels to the right ?
It works for me, but just not all the time, When it doesn't you just need to hit the collapse / expand button again and it should work.
Read post #2 first, as it's indicated there already along with the other stuff you report.

gav2fc · Mar 15, 2013

dirty flashing.....

timduru said:
Overall you should be able to "dirty-flash" this rom on top of EOS4, that should save time too.

Go on.....tell me more

On your latest B175 from the other day - are you saying that should be able to flash this straight over it? (after backing up of course)

(if any issues do you think I can dirty flash back)

timduru · Mar 15, 2013

gav2fc said:
Go on.....tell me more
On your latest B175 from the other day - are you saying that should be able to flash this straight over it? (after backing up of course)

(if any issues do you think I can dirty flash back)

Yeah should work fine.
Just flash on top and wipe /cache + dalvik-cache should be enough for these versions.

stcanard · Mar 15, 2013

What to do ... I was just thinking yesterday about how beautifully stable and useful my TF101 was and now this comes out. I must resist, must use my system for a while first.

Ahh, to heck with it. nandroid backup & flash this to try it is

[edit so I don't spam the thread]

Wow, just wow. I had wondered if it would be a novelty running windows on a small screen, but no - it took me no time flat to see how useful this could be.

Tim, you have definitely outdone yourself - I'll do my best to run it as a day-to-day build to report anything I can see. So far I see nothing that would prevent me from doing that!

garryveda · Mar 15, 2013

timduru said:
Yeah should work fine.
Just flash on top and wipe /cache + dalvik-cache should be enough for these versions.

May I use KatKernel96 for this build or I should use native kernel (built-in your cornerstone by default)?

stcanard · Mar 15, 2013

garryveda said:
May I use KatKernel96 for this build or I should use native kernel (built-in your cornerstone by default)?

If I read correctly from the top post, KatKernel is the native included kernel, so it's already there!

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