[Brainstorm/REQ] Porting CM6 to XT720

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Greeting guys,

The guys at Milestone & Droid's forum had successfully ported CM7 to their phone. Due to the locked bootloader and no official froyo update, the lease we can do is porting CM6 to our phone.

Due to my limited experience on rom cooking, i would like to seek guide and help from the experts. thank you.

Build from source: http://android.doshaska.net/cm6build
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...Mod_for_Sholes

Wiki page: https://www.droid-developers.org/

I saw a video of it in youtube for the milestone. This would be cool if someone could make this work for our phone and it would be stable. I like the time and effort that is put into these froyo builds, but they are not stable like eclair.

Originally Posted by Brian5475E

I saw a video of it in youtube for the milestone. This would be cool if someone could make this work for our phone and it would be stable. I like the time and effort that is put into these froyo builds, but they are not stable like eclair.

Dexter 1.3 vanilla and Dexter 1.3 with bugfix v2 and 3 is rock solid here, so dunno what you're talking about.

IMHO, If you just want a stable ROM,we should give our devs some time so they can iron out the issues-in-hand. They're not working with team as CM guys, so please be patient.

But on the other hand, you're a great big fan of CM and currently stuck with XT which can't get CM out of the box, you may try.

Originally Posted by spiderx_mm

IMHO, If you just want a stable ROM,we should give our devs some time so they can iron out the issues-in-hand. They're not working with team as CM guys, so please be patient.

But on the other hand, you're a great big fan of CM and currently stuck with XT which can't get CM out of the box, you may try.

Getting an unofficial CM on XT720 is my ultimate goal, but I don't know how to do it yet. I'm learning about Android by fixing bugs/tweaking Dexter's ROM.

I pulled the CM6 sources and tried to build and follow the instructions on nadlabak's website. It seems like CM6 hasn't been built in a while so there are some bit-rot problems. For example it can't pull down the rom-manager stuff. I don't know if we need that or not. We don't (yet?) have rom-manager for XT720. Then there's the issue of the proprietary files. The proprietary files that need to be saved for Milestone (nadlabak's extract-files.sh script) doesn't match the files on XT720. So we'll have to work that out as well.

Originally Posted by Mioze7Ae

Getting an unofficial CM on XT720 is my ultimate goal, but I don't know how to do it yet. I'm learning about Android by fixing bugs/tweaking Dexter's ROM.

I pulled the CM6 sources and tried to build and follow the instructions on nadlabak's website. It seems like CM6 hasn't been built in a while so there are some bit-rot problems. For example it can't pull down the rom-manager stuff. I don't know if we need that or not. We don't (yet?) have rom-manager for XT720. Then there's the issue of the proprietary files. The proprietary files that need to be saved for Milestone (nadlabak's extract-files.sh script) doesn't match the files on XT720. So we'll have to work that out as well.

I think they use Androidiani Open recover instead of Rom Manager on Milestone's CM.

I feel that the more people involve on this project the better. Just my thought.

Originally Posted by helmi666

I think they use Androidiani Open recover instead of Rom Manager on Milestone's CM.

I feel that the more people involve on this project the better. Just my thought.

What I meant was that compiling cm2mm 6 requires the ROM-Manager source code, but the download of that source fails. I think the git just moved, but I haven't tried chasing it down yet.

Originally Posted by Mioze7Ae

What I meant was that compiling cm2mm 6 requires the ROM-Manager source code, but the download of that source fails. I think the git just moved, but I haven't tried chasing it down yet.

Just let me know what you need. I'll try my best to ask around. I really hope more people will join this 'Quest' :P

Originally Posted by helmi666

Just let me know what you need. I'll try my best to ask around. I really hope more people will join this 'Quest' :P

ROM-Manager source code,

Originally Posted by Mioze7Ae

What I meant was that compiling cm2mm 6 requires the ROM-Manager source code, but the download of that source fails. I think the git just moved, but I haven't tried chasing it down yet.

svn checkout http://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselab...manager/trunk/ rom-manager-read-only