[ROM][Unofficial/Experimental][Android 4.3] CyanogenMod 10.2 for SGS4A (int'l)

LeJay · Aug 6, 2013

-------------------------Warning!-------------------------------------

This ROM is for SGS4A (int'l) ONLY. Does not work on SGS4 from AT&T as it has a locked bootloader.
Please refer to this thread for a bounty on the bootloader.

-------------------------Please note---------------------------------

This is an experimental build of CyanogenMod 10.2 running Android 4.3.
Meaning there's a couple of known issues with the camera. It is my hope these will be sorted out over time.
If anyone has any interest in helping out, please PM me. Or simply fork the code if you want.

-------------------------Instructions---------------------------------

Install CWM recovery from here.

Download most recent ROM from here.

Download most recent Google Applications for Android 4.3 from here.

Boot into recovery by holding the Volume Up button as the phone is booting.

Back up your current ROM inside CWM recovery.

Flash CyanogenMod ROM to your device using CWM recovery.

Flash Google Applications to your device using CWM recovery.

Do a wipe data/factory reset from within CWM recovery.

Reboot system

---------------------------Known issues-----------------------------

Several camera functions such as HDR don't work.

---------------------------Build from source------------------------

Please consult this guide for setting up CyanogenMod for compile.
Please use

Code:

repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-10.2

when you initialize the CyanogenMod repository so you get the source for CM-10.2.
Download roomservice.xml (see below) and put in ~/android/system/.repo/local_manifests/.
Run 'repo sync' and compile with 'brunch jactiveltexx'. You can get the proprietary files from the ROM.

As always, I take no responsibility in case your phone blows up.

And thanks to the CM team for all their hard work.

LeJay · Aug 6, 2013

Downloads

---------------------------CM-10.2 ROM (Android 4.3) -------------------

---------------------------cm-10.2-20130917-----------------------------------
CyanogenMod 10.2 - 20130917
CyanogenMod 10.2 - 20130917 (mirror - thanks to mrvovven)
---------------------------cm-10.2-20130910-----------------------------------
CyanogenMod 10.2 - 20130910
CyanogenMod 10.2 - 20130910 (mirror - thanks to mrvovven)

---------------------------CM-10.1 ROM (Android 4.2.2) ----------------

CyanogenMod 10.1 - 20130810

----------------------------Google apps -------------------------------

Download the official Google apps. Need to download this in order to have apps like Google Play.

For CM-10.1 choose Android 4.2 apps.

For CM-10.2 choose Android 4.3 apps.

http://goo.im/gapps

------------------------------------- KERNELS ---------------------------------

- SGS4A android 4.2.2 kernel for CM10.1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oo1hr2n6evp3zu9/sgs4a-cm10-1kernel.zip

LeJay · Aug 6, 2013

----------------------- Changelog--------------------
-------CyanogenMod 10.2 - 20130917----------
- Fixed video preview resolution
- Disabled zsl for slightly more stable camera app.

-------CyanogenMod 10.2 - 20130910----------
- Updated kernel to most recent version of cm-10.2 for SGS4.
- Replaced all sensor drivers with SGS4A kernel sources.
- Replaced several camera blobs in /system/lib/* with SGS4A versions enabling basic camera functionality.

-------CyanogenMod 10.1 - 20130810----------
Initial build.

ceo.mtcl · Aug 7, 2013

Good job.

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pdf5 · Aug 8, 2013

hello

anyone tried this out ?

feedbacks ?

thanks in advance

LeJay · Aug 8, 2013

pdf5 said:
hello

anyone tried this out ?

feedbacks ?

thanks in advance

This is not something you should install unless you want to be compiling and debugging yourself. It's far from usable as day to day rom. I hope I'm clear on that.

LeJay · Aug 11, 2013

Fixed wifi and a number of small issues. Should be a lot more stable. Seems the main remaining issue is, not surprisingly, the camera. If anyone knows how the entire camera driver setup is supposed to work in android, I'd love some help

aurelm · Aug 13, 2013

LeJay said:
Fixed wifi and a number of small issues. Should be a lot more stable. Seems the main remaining issue is, not surprisingly, the camera. If anyone knows how the entire camera driver setup is supposed to work in android, I'd love some help

Call it just a hunch. But have you tried the camera drivers from the s3 ? I would say that it's basically the same camera and has been added in s4 active because after 1 year it became very cheap to continue manufacturing and this way compensate for the more expensive case and water proofing.

LeJay · Aug 13, 2013

aurelm said:
Call it just a hunch. But have you tried the camera drivers from the s3 ? I would say that it's basically the same camera and has been added in s4 active because after 1 year it became very cheap to continue manufacturing and this way compensate for the more expensive case and water proofing.

Honestly, not exactly sure how the setup is. I assume it's mostly in some proprietary libs separate from the kernel, but it's hard to find good information on it.

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Darkman · Aug 14, 2013

Thank you for you work!!

But search another File hoster!! DropBox close your account if the trafic is to big!!

Epsylon3 · Aug 15, 2013

So S4 Active Original is the intl i9295 ?

EDIT: oh ok

the real dev thread

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juppi · Aug 19, 2013

I've a MicroSD in my SGS4A and i can't choose the external_sd in the CM File Explorer.
Is there any solution?
For example creating symlink or mounting in /sdcard
I've never tried anything of that!

aquarat · Aug 20, 2013

It's working really well

Wifi works yay, well done! Hopefully you can get the camera working too.

snadge · Aug 23, 2013

Building from source

Hi,

I'm happy to see such great progress already, and am only diving in to this because I'd like to be able to lend a hand in any way I can.

Is it too soon to be asking questions about how to build for 10.2? I'm having a go at it right now, and if I use Lejay's kernel and device configuration (jactivelte), the kernel fails to compile, something about BUG_ON rcu error, I can come back to that if its relevant. So I tried Epsylon3's suggestion to use tpruvot's kernel and device config. This builds a rom, but black screen, can't see anything or get into adb. If I flash Lejay's kernel over the top of my 10.2 build, it boots. Phone (dialer) keeps force closing in a loop, which is annoying, but asides from that it seems to boot.

Keep up the good work, can't wait to get some 10.2 love.

LeJay · Aug 23, 2013

snadge said:
Hi,

I'm happy to see such great progress already, and am only diving in to this because I'd like to be able to lend a hand in any way I can.

Is it too soon to be asking questions about how to build for 10.2? I'm having a go at it right now, and if I use Lejay's kernel and device configuration (jactivelte), the kernel fails to compile, something about BUG_ON rcu error, I can come back to that if its relevant. So I tried Epsylon3's suggestion to use tpruvot's kernel and device config. This builds a rom, but black screen, can't see anything or get into adb. If I flash Lejay's kernel over the top of my 10.2 build, it boots. Phone (dialer) keeps force closing in a loop, which is annoying, but asides from that it seems to boot.

Keep up the good work, can't wait to get some 10.2 love.

Comparing the 9295 and 9505 kernels, there's quite a lot of differences. Cyanogenmod tried to merge the two, but apparently gave up. The question is really if we should start with the 9505 and add the camera or start with the 9295 and make it compatible for CM. The stuff i uploaded here is a port of the 9505 kernel, but now I'm looking into starting out with the 9295 kernel instead.

The problem with 10.2 is of course there's no released 9295 kernel for android 4.3. I'm guessing there are not that many differences, so it might not be too hard.

I think I'm getting the same compile error you were with 10.2. Not sure what it means.

LeJolly · Aug 23, 2013

Are you going to try to make CM 10.2?

snadge · Aug 24, 2013

LeJay said:
Comparing the 9295 and 9505 kernels, there's quite a lot of differences. Cyanogenmod tried to merge the two, but apparently gave up. The question is really if we should start with the 9505 and add the camera or start with the 9295 and make it compatible for CM. The stuff i uploaded here is a port of the 9505 kernel, but now I'm looking into starting out with the 9295 kernel instead.

The problem with 10.2 is of course there's no released 9295 kernel for android 4.3. I'm guessing there are not that many differences, so it might not be too hard.

I think I'm getting the same compile error you were with 10.2. Not sure what it means.

I had a chat with noobnl about it, and he pointed out a patch on gerrit: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/44552/

I spent hours manually merging it with cm jf kernel, to finally end up with a kernel that gives me. You guessed it, a black screen. After investing about a days worth of effort into it, I ended up with a buggy unstable CM10.2 build, that will boot if I flash LeJay's kernel zip, but its unuseable. It's going to take some serious effort to come up with a functioning CM10.2 kernel for the International S4 Active. In the meantime, a CM10.1 build with a non functioning camera, is still way better than the stock TouchWiz rom, so I'm happy. :laugh:

snadge · Aug 25, 2013

Ok, I got bored and had another play around with 10.2 and the CM jf kernel. With the black screen problem, if you power the device down, then boot into recovery (power + vol up), you can adb pull /proc/last_kmsg and it tells an interesting story. It looks like the init scripts are totally borked. init.qcom.rc and init.carrier.rc are completely missing. I tried simply copying them into the root, but it looks like its a bit more complicated than that. The problem is clear that it is unable to mount /system for whatever reason, because it can't find /system/bin/sysinit, then pretty much gives up after that.

This looks like a pretty simple problem for a relatively experienced device maintainer, or rom kernel dev to be able to fix. It would be nice if we could get some more developer attention for this device.

LeJay · Aug 25, 2013

snadge said:
Ok, I got bored and had another play around with 10.2 and the CM jf kernel. With the black screen problem, if you power the device down, then boot into recovery (power + vol up), you can adb pull /proc/last_kmsg and it tells an interesting story. It looks like the init scripts are totally borked. init.qcom.rc and init.carrier.rc are completely missing. I tried simply copying them into the root, but it looks like its a bit more complicated than that. The problem is clear that it is unable to mount /system for whatever reason, because it can't find /system/bin/sysinit, then pretty much gives up after that.

This looks like a pretty simple problem for a relatively experienced device maintainer, or rom kernel dev to be able to fix. It would be nice if we could get some more developer attention for this device.

You probably forgot to add jactivelte to the list at the bottom of device/jf-common/Android.mk. I didn't want to fork their repo just to add one word on a line, so you have to do this manually. It's probably also a good idea to extract rom files from a cm.10.2 rom for something like jfltexx.

LeJay · Aug 25, 2013

LeJolly said:
Are you going to try to make CM 10.2?

I have cm10.2 running. The problem is really the camera.

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