[ROM][Development/Experimental][Micromax A70][CyanogenMod from Source]

abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

Hi All.

I am Abhisek and I am trying to build CyanogenMod from source for our Micromax A70.

Micromax A70 is quite popular in India as a budget phone, but this device is stuck with Froyo. No more updates from Micromax as well as no kernel source from Micromax. So I am trying to build CyanogenMod from source for Micromax A70.

I am choosing CyanogenMod over AOSP as CyanogenMod supports more devices and have many patches over AOSP. So building CyanogenMod will be easier than AOSP. If successful, I will port a Oxygen/AOSP build.

I was about to give up hope until I found out how to enable ADB on Micromax A70. So I have successfully enabled ADB & obtained the system dumps. Now I can start on this project.

Current Status:

1. ADB is working perfectly.
2. System dump obtained.
3. Hardware info obtained.
4. Firmwares obtained.
5. CyanogenMod sources download in progress.
6. Currently creating the device & vendor folders.

I will keep the progress updated here. Lets hope for best.

P.S. Mods if this thread is inappropriate or in wrong forum, please do the needful. Couldn't find a better place to post this.

abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

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abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

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abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

I will provide the adb tutorial in case anyone is interested ( that is how I got the system dump ). All credits go to mastermind1024 of androidforums.com. It's not my work, so if you have to thank, thank him. He is the one did all the adb working stuff. You can read the original post Here.

Update:

mastermind1024 is here on XDA. You can see the tutorial Here.

For me, I have to manually run /sbin/adbd from Android terminal emulator to get a working adb connection. You also have to give permission for adbd in SuperUser. FYI I use ubuntu.

If you need the boot.img & recovery.img You can follow the tutorial Here

Ron G · Mar 10, 2012

abhis3k said:
Hi All.

I am Abhisek Mukherjee and I am trying to build CyanogenMod from source for our Micromax A70.

Micromax A70 is quite popular in India as a budget phone, but this device is stuck with Froyo. No more updates from Micromax as well as no kernel source from Micromax. So I am trying to build CyanogenMod from source for Micromax A70.

I am choosing CyanogenMod over AOSP as CyanogenMod supports more devices and have many patches over AOSP. So building CyanogenMod will be easier than AOSP. If successful, I will port a Oxygen/AOSP build.

I was about to give up hope until I found out how to enable ADB on Micromax A70. So I have successfully enabled ADB & obtained the system dumps. Now I can start on this project.

Current Status:

1. ADB is working perfectly.
2. System dump obtained.
3. Hardware info obtained.
4. Firmwares obtained.
5. CyanogenMod sources download in progress.
6. Currently creating the device & vendor folders.

I will keep the progress updated here. Lets hope for best.

P.S. Mods if this thread is inappropriate or in wrong forum, please do the needful. Couldn't find a better place to post this.

you mean this rom is under development? I don't have a70 just asking. And you are on right place. Also microsoft needed to open kernel source.

abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

cips gokhle said:
you mean this rom is under development? I don't have a70 just asking. And you are on right place. Also microsoft needed to open kernel source.

You meant Micromax right

Yes the ROM is under development. The repo sync is taking forever.

I have a pathetic BSNL BB Connection here.

Ron G · Mar 10, 2012

abhis3k said:
You meant Micromax right

Yes the ROM is under development. The repo sync is taking forever. I have a pathetic BSNL BB Connection here.

sorry yes i mean micromax. and best for your rom. i think it's first 2.3 a70 rom?

varun.chitre15 · Mar 10, 2012

Good!
How much % is the sync complete?
Moreover who are u on androidforums?

abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

varun.chitre15 said:
Good!
How much % is the sync complete?
Moreover who are u on androidforums?

I have same userid abhis3k. Sync seems to be complete at 70%, I can only see the directory size, Fetching projects is showing 89%

abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

cips gokhle said:
sorry yes i mean micromax. and best for your rom. i think it's first 2.3 a70 rom?

Yes AFAIK if I succeed, this will first GB ROM for A70.

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I have tried to run ADB with root permissions. It works, but somehow adb remout does not work.

P.S.: I found the problem, the system was already r/w.

varun.chitre15 · Mar 10, 2012

I would say NO bcoz i m from a secret team and we had ported GB to A70 and touch doesn't work in any of the Ports
Moreover u will wonder that touch doesn't work in Android 1.5,1.6 which i had ported from HTC G1 also it doesn't work in 2.1 which i ported from Micromax A60
So we need to build ROM from source which u r doing. Moreover that is not enough because as soon as sync completes then we need to enable touch drivers in BoardConfig.mk

abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

varun.chitre15 said:
I would say NO bcoz i m from a secret team and we had ported GB to A70 and touch doesn't work in any of the Ports
Moreover u will wonder that touch doesn't work in Android 1.5,1.6 which i had ported from HTC G1 also it doesn't work in 2.1 which i ported from Micromax A60
So we need to build ROM from source which u r doing. Moreover that is not enough because as soon as sync completes then we need to enable touch drivers in BoardConfig.mk

Great!! I had no idea A70 had a GB port. If you can share the details It would be easier to compile for A70.

mastermind1024 · Mar 10, 2012

abhis3k said:
Great!! I had no idea A70 had a GB port. If you can share the details It would be easier to compile for A70.

I think akshay is uploading that port now.he has made a thread n uploading right now.i dont know if it's the same that varun is talking abt but mostly it is.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1540104

abhis3k · Mar 10, 2012

mastermind1024 said:
I think akshay is uploading that port now.he has made a thread n uploading right now.i dont know if it's the same that varun is talking abt but mostly it is.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1540104

Sure I will check it out. It will speed up the development.

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This seems like a binary port using kitchen. Right?

varun.chitre15 · Mar 11, 2012

Binary port?
Its ported using kitchen which involves replacement of kernel.
And when sync completes, inform us here,a we will make two roms.
One with unchanged boardconfig.mk and second with modded boardconfig.mk

Sent from my Micromax_A70 using Tapatalk

abhis3k · Mar 11, 2012

Replacement of kernel includes replacing binary files including so ko and firmware files. Which are all binary. Only recompile includes a output which is not binary replacement.

Download is still at 93%. I will come back when its finished.

Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA

mastermind1024 · Mar 11, 2012

I am also at 91% since a week..i am getting fatal errors on sync now n then..project downloads upto abt 86%(abt 650mb) n then I get error...i had to do all again..still no luck.i wish i can finish it tonight.we (me,varun,akshay) eager to lunch rom from cm source as we have hope that changing boardconfig will give us working touch.let's see.

mastermind1024 · Mar 12, 2012

extract-files.sh

I have completed sync & also made extract-files.sh
I want others to examine & complete it if I have missed something.

abhis3k · Mar 13, 2012

mastermind1024 said:
I have completed sync & also made extract-files.sh
I want others to examine & complete it if I have missed something.

@mastermind I have checked the file. Seems so good so far. I hope my sync will also complete by tonight. I am going crazy with these BSNL broadband problems

Have you started the build? Let me know the boardconfig.

samrox144 · Mar 13, 2012

mastermind1024 said:
I have completed sync & also made extract-files.sh
I want others to examine & complete it if I have missed something.

the script doesnt have adb pull for the binary akmd2.without which sensors wont work .

and in a70 there is also a file called Focal touch.kcm and this is used by the kernel at boot i checked in dmesg .

so add this two files two ..
akmd2
focaltouch.kcm [from usr/keychars]

[ROM][Development/Experimental][Micromax A70][CyanogenMod from Source]

Should Micromax release the Kernel Source Code?

Definitely

It is their private property

They are violating Android License

No idea.

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