Important: You may post in this thread only if you understand and agree to following rules...
1. Be polite while posting.. you may be "Recognized" big shot but that doesn't entitle you to post your creepy opinion anywhere and everywhere.
2. ChippyNote was started for personal use hence will have features which i desired. I decided to share my work so that like minded people can benefit from it.
3. Screenshots are shared to give a glimpse of look and feel of ROM, If looks are not as per your liking, please move on. There are 1000 other roms out there from where you can choose what you like.
4. Developers are not here for money. Please consider their tremendous efforts and numerous hours spent before asking something new.
5. I will greatly appreciate polite suggestions and will try to include them if i find them in line with ChippyNote purpose statement.
6. I don not know anything and everything about android. I collected just few droplets from this forum. So do not expect every issue to have quick resolution and every question a perfect answer. And one more thing, No.. i do not work for google or samsung.
7. For credits, If i missed any one, send me a PM. I like to give credit where it is due.
8. Thanks buttons are there to be used. Do not quote long posts, No spamming with offtopic discussions. No criticism to other developers in this thread, take it somewhere else.
9. Last but not the least, You should ask if you have questions, but before that you must search, search and search.
Purpose: Share ChippyNote ROM which is custom ROM for my personal use and explain process to transform a stock TW rom to one which can be characterized as slim, light, stripped, barebone, naked or whatever you may like to call after removing all those useless programs and features which are commonly called as bloats.
Hi, Few members approached me to understand the stripping/slimming process of a stock TW rom. For the benefit others I am sharing here what i was able to understand. For experts there is nothing much but you can always suggest improvements.
Due to other priorities, I am not able to check thread during weekdays but only on weekends.
Credits:
* majdinj
* Phil3759
* xperiacle
* DF1E for Simple Explorer
* XDA-developers
* CM community
* SGN N7000 community
* and of course you, if not covered above
Current Version
Download: ChippyNote.V4: (143mb)
Features:
Installation Process:
Coming from Touchwiz 4.1.2
1. Flash latest philz-cwm6 kernel+recovery
2. Reboot to recovery
3. wipe data/factory reset => Clean to install new rom
4. Install ChippyNote.v4
4. Following are the apps you may install if needed. Simple search on XDA will provide you a link.
-KK email/exchange
-KK Calendar/calendar provider
ScreenShots : 21st Dec2013
Dialer and Contacts Screenshots
Themed Secmms.apk Screenshots
APPLICATIONS SCREENIES
Bootanimation
Previous Versions
Step by Step Process
1. Following applications/files were used during this exercise.
3. open philz signed zip with 7zip and pull zimage to original_update folder of kitchen.
4. start dsixda's Android Kitchen (guides available on XDA to setup dsixda kitchen)
5. while setting up working folder provide set of .img files as original rom
6. carefully follow the process as guided by kitchen to get all folders extracted
7. once you complete rom extraction, move all apks from preload app directory to system app directory for deodexing
8. move to advanced options for deodexing. just make sure to use right api level (16) while deodexing app and framework folders.
9. Here you may also find option 13,14 and 17 useful to include root, init.d, data app, updaterscript
10 if you have used option 17 for updaterscript then it will be good idea to visit your updater script under "Kitchen\original_update\WORKING_xxxxxxx\META-INF\com\google\android" and check if everything is alright
11. if you are seasoned rom maker then you may check out build.prop under system folder in working directory of kitchen.
12. you can add tweaks if you wish. Here are assorted one that i use.
13. So now we have pure deodexed stock rom structure available. You can zip it flash it to your note. But i may like to strip it before passing it on to my device so that it is real slim and fast. So here we go
14. First round of stripping will be to eliminate all those files and apps which user dont use atleast once in a week and can be deleted straight from working folder. As a user one can always decide to keep the apps that you need. I prefer to delete any app that i dont use atleast once in a week. For me here is the list of files which i delete
15. Remove com.dropboxpartner.jar from framework since dropbox apk already deleted
16. remove language files which are not required from following folders
17. Remove non-required fonts. I removed following...
18. Lets clean up the media folder. I delete following files. You can delete as per your liking.
19. Lets identify the unused libs from lib folder for safe deletion.
20. After deletions its time to check on bulky apps and replace it with lighter one. Following are the ones used in this rom.
21. After deletion and replacement i optimised stock apps for size. basically lang files which were not needed , were deleted and pngs were optimsed/edited. This is where i theme apks. This need apktool setup.
22. move apk to be optimised to apktool folder and decompile it.
23. Now one can delete language (not used) specific folders inside apk such as raw-de or values-de if german language is not used. I retained de,es,fr,it and ru which can cover quite a lot of users.
24. Now check out larger png/jpg files. generally i look for files which are bigger than 10kb. To optimise i use paint.net with optipng plugin
25. In case you want to theme or mod any apk you can do it here.
26. once you are done compile apk. Instead of signing i prefer to drop META-INF and AndroidMenifest.xml from original apk to modded apk
27. this way you can strip down the larger apks such as secsettings or framework-res. Now move all the stripped apks to respective folders in ROM working folder.
28. zip all now to get your rom.
In case you are trying these steps but think these steps are taking you nowhere, then its better you stay away. it can result into anything from world war 3 to your phone getting fried. If you are ok and understand what you are doing but need some clarification, i will try my best efforts and available knowledge.
1. Be polite while posting.. you may be "Recognized" big shot but that doesn't entitle you to post your creepy opinion anywhere and everywhere.
2. ChippyNote was started for personal use hence will have features which i desired. I decided to share my work so that like minded people can benefit from it.
3. Screenshots are shared to give a glimpse of look and feel of ROM, If looks are not as per your liking, please move on. There are 1000 other roms out there from where you can choose what you like.
4. Developers are not here for money. Please consider their tremendous efforts and numerous hours spent before asking something new.
5. I will greatly appreciate polite suggestions and will try to include them if i find them in line with ChippyNote purpose statement.
6. I don not know anything and everything about android. I collected just few droplets from this forum. So do not expect every issue to have quick resolution and every question a perfect answer. And one more thing, No.. i do not work for google or samsung.
7. For credits, If i missed any one, send me a PM. I like to give credit where it is due.
8. Thanks buttons are there to be used. Do not quote long posts, No spamming with offtopic discussions. No criticism to other developers in this thread, take it somewhere else.
9. Last but not the least, You should ask if you have questions, but before that you must search, search and search.
Purpose: Share ChippyNote ROM which is custom ROM for my personal use and explain process to transform a stock TW rom to one which can be characterized as slim, light, stripped, barebone, naked or whatever you may like to call after removing all those useless programs and features which are commonly called as bloats.
Hi, Few members approached me to understand the stripping/slimming process of a stock TW rom. For the benefit others I am sharing here what i was able to understand. For experts there is nothing much but you can always suggest improvements.
Due to other priorities, I am not able to check thread during weekdays but only on weekends.
Credits:
* majdinj
* Phil3759
* xperiacle
* DF1E for Simple Explorer
* XDA-developers
* CM community
* SGN N7000 community
* and of course you, if not covered above
Current Version
Download: ChippyNote.V4: (143mb)
Features:
Installation Process:
Coming from Touchwiz 4.1.2
1. Flash latest philz-cwm6 kernel+recovery
2. Reboot to recovery
3. wipe data/factory reset => Clean to install new rom
4. Install ChippyNote.v4
4. Following are the apps you may install if needed. Simple search on XDA will provide you a link.
-KK email/exchange
-KK Calendar/calendar provider
ScreenShots : 21st Dec2013
Dialer and Contacts Screenshots
Bootanimation
Previous Versions
Step by Step Process
1. Following applications/files were used during this exercise.
a. Stock ROM (N7000XXLT9_N7000XXLT3_N7000OXXLT3_HOME.tar)
b. philz latest XXLT9 kernel from here (http://d-h.st/mOm)
c. dsixda kitchen
d. 7zip
e. Notepad++
f. paint.net with optipng plugin
2. open rom tar file with 7zip and pull .img files(cache.img,factoryfs.img, hidden.img) in original_update folder of kitchen. b. philz latest XXLT9 kernel from here (http://d-h.st/mOm)
c. dsixda kitchen
d. 7zip
e. Notepad++
f. paint.net with optipng plugin
3. open philz signed zip with 7zip and pull zimage to original_update folder of kitchen.
4. start dsixda's Android Kitchen (guides available on XDA to setup dsixda kitchen)
5. while setting up working folder provide set of .img files as original rom
6. carefully follow the process as guided by kitchen to get all folders extracted
7. once you complete rom extraction, move all apks from preload app directory to system app directory for deodexing
8. move to advanced options for deodexing. just make sure to use right api level (16) while deodexing app and framework folders.
9. Here you may also find option 13,14 and 17 useful to include root, init.d, data app, updaterscript
10 if you have used option 17 for updaterscript then it will be good idea to visit your updater script under "Kitchen\original_update\WORKING_xxxxxxx\META-INF\com\google\android" and check if everything is alright
11. if you are seasoned rom maker then you may check out build.prop under system folder in working directory of kitchen.
12. you can add tweaks if you wish. Here are assorted one that i use.
14. First round of stripping will be to eliminate all those files and apps which user dont use atleast once in a week and can be deleted straight from working folder. As a user one can always decide to keep the apps that you need. I prefer to delete any app that i dont use atleast once in a week. For me here is the list of files which i delete
16. remove language files which are not required from following folders
22. move apk to be optimised to apktool folder and decompile it.
23. Now one can delete language (not used) specific folders inside apk such as raw-de or values-de if german language is not used. I retained de,es,fr,it and ru which can cover quite a lot of users.
24. Now check out larger png/jpg files. generally i look for files which are bigger than 10kb. To optimise i use paint.net with optipng plugin
25. In case you want to theme or mod any apk you can do it here.
26. once you are done compile apk. Instead of signing i prefer to drop META-INF and AndroidMenifest.xml from original apk to modded apk
27. this way you can strip down the larger apks such as secsettings or framework-res. Now move all the stripped apks to respective folders in ROM working folder.
28. zip all now to get your rom.
In case you are trying these steps but think these steps are taking you nowhere, then its better you stay away. it can result into anything from world war 3 to your phone getting fried. If you are ok and understand what you are doing but need some clarification, i will try my best efforts and available knowledge.
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