[CLOSED][How To]Make your Own Custom ROM By NeroYoung [3/4/2012]

neroyoung · 06:02 PM

[CLOSED][How To]Make your Own Custom ROM ~~By NeroYoung~~ [3/4/2012]

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Hi,
If you willing to learn to build custom ROM then you should have following things

Basic Knowledge about handling Command Promt

Basic Windows software knowledge

PC with all tools properly installed

And a mobile with bootloader unlocked

This tutorial is for "Windows OS (Windows 7 x64 in my case)" And Android 2.3+ OS (2.3.4 GingerBread in my case).

In this whole post you will learn How To -

Make custom ROM

Unpack .ftf packages

Use Cygwin

Setup Android Kitchen

Edit .apk files

Edit .jar files

Edit .9.png files

Rooting System

Writing scripts

Making flashable zips

Porting apk software

A2SD Techs

Editing build.prop

Editing init.d tweaks

Information of every customizable file

Making Hosts

apn configs

editing boot.img

converting png to rle or vice versa

more and more things to arrive

Tools Required :

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Download the tools as per your need.Link is given in the name itself below....

Flashtool - For Flashing stock ROM if anything goes wrong (Download link in the installation tab of website)

apktool - for editing apk files and jar files (you can use APK manager but apktool is simpler)

Cywign - Linus Terminal For Windows

ROM Kitchen (ROM Development Tool) - For Cooking custom ROM + boot.img related tools - to edit boot.img files (Its inside the ROM Kitchen Files)

ftf-extractor - It will extract system files from the ftf package which you will use to make your ROM

fastboot - For flashing kernel to your device

DoomLords Easy Root Kit v4 - To Root Stock/Custom ROM

Demo META-INF Folder - For Making Flashable zip files

DroidExplorer - For advance tools regarding real time phone memory handling through windows.

Flashable Zip Demo - For those who want to just apply some stuffs through CWM

neroyoung · 04:05 PM

Tools Overview

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Introduction

This video gives information about the basic tools for ROM development.
Tools will be uploaded once the tutorial is completed.And the links will be posted in 1st post.This tutorial is for all kinds of devices.No matter what your device is ... you can use this tutorial...

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Settings Up Cygwin And Kitchen

This video teaches you how to setup Cygwin And Kitchen.The softwares told in this video can be downloaded from first post

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Setting Up Remaining Tools (ftf extractor,flashtool,fastboot etc)

This video teaches you how to setup all remaining files and folders...

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neroyoung · 03:56 PM

Getting System Folder

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Extracting .FTF File

This tutorial guides you how to extract system folder from .ftf packages and get system folder for your custom ROM easily.
For this we have used ftf extractor.

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neroyoung · 03:30 AM

Working With Android Kitchen

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Getting Started

This tutorial will tell you how to setup working folder in kitchen and how to root your ROM,change name,add busy box etc.
This is pre requirement on ROM development.So this video will continue after total customization is done !
After this video you can jump to next post to proceed with customization and then come back to setup to second video in this post so you can continue packing of system folder in flashable zip

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