[ROM][UNOFFICIAL] Cyanogenmod 7 & 9 KANG builds for Epicmtd

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There is a similar thread in the Captivate section (posted by sixstringsg) so I thought I would bring one here. The purpose of this thread is to encourage people to make KANG builds of CM7&9 and provide a place for them to post links to their builds. KANGS may include code that is not fully tested or they may simply be clean, up-to-date builds straight from the repo... and thus, are lightly supported if at all. If you build KANGS... post them in this thread.

I have been building these KANGS (they really call them UNOFFICIAL's now ) for my wifes phone for a while now and thought it time to post some for you guys. I recently dropped CM7 in favor of taking the wife up to CM9. Most of the builds are "clean"... meaning that I haven't cherry picked any of the changes awaiting approval in gerrit HERE

If you are coming from a Samsung ROM wipe everything. If you are coming from CM7 or another ICS ROM, at least wipe cache, dalvik, and system. You may get away with not wiping data (I do mostly).

Flashing this KANG is an open admission that you hate your phone and are intent on bricking it. I accept no responsibility for any damage that you inflict upon your phone. Kangs from Androtransfer.com WILL download using the phones browser, but you may have to rename the file .zip from .htm before you flash. If you use Firefox or Opera for downloading it, it works properly. For some reason the stock Android browser and Chrome don't parse the link correctly.

Latest KANG... download from here

Flash the 4/29 gapps with CM9. Download from here

If you want to start building CM9 for epicmtd... GO HERE

...more to come later. I will add info about cherry picking, etc...

Once you have your build environment configured, here are a couple of things that I do.


Open the local_manifest.xml (located in .repo folder) adding the following line...

<project name="koush/proprietary_vendor_samsung" path="vendor/samsung" remote="github"/>

This will sync all the samsung proprietary files and basically allow you to make builds for a phone you don't have.

For the epic, I have added these lines...
<project name="CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_epicmtd" path="device/samsung/epicmtd" remote="github"

<project name="CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_victory" path="kernel/samsung/victory" remote="github"/>
This syncs the kernel source as the kernel is built in-line and is not prebuilt.

<project name="EpicCM/epictools.git" path="epictools" remote="github" revision="ics"/>
Currently epictools allows you to turn off the backlight of the capacitive buttons unless they are pressed. Could be nice if you are watching a movie in bed on your phone.

More details... HERE (github.com/epicCM)
Cherry picking details... coming soon

FIRST!

What's different in that build?

Sent from my SPH-D700 CM9 ANDROID 4.0.4

Originally Posted by Zeinzu

What's different in that build?

Sent from my SPH-D700 CM9 ANDROID 4.0.4

My guess would be nothing... we have unofficials in the gnex forum... that the guy does just to get it out to people quicker... nothing special just faster than their build bot.

Originally Posted by Zeinzu

What's different in that build?

Sent from my SPH-D700 CM9 ANDROID 4.0.4

That build is clean (no cherry picks) built with latest merges from the cyanogenmod ics branch.

so... unofficial "nightlies"?

Thanks for putting this up op

Sent from my SPH-D700

I updated OP to clarify why I posted this thread. Just as you said... to prevent 30 different threads of people posting KANG builds... this will be the ONE.

Since KANGs are ever changing, there is no reason to update the OP as the Kanger will post a link to his latest KANG near the end. We have the same type of threads going in Captivate and Crespo.

If this thread is deemed "not welcome" than by all means delete it. As I see it, interest in the epic is waning. I am merely trying to encourage.

This is intended as a KANG thread... not a thread for my specific kang. It is not the same as the beta 3 version. There have been merges since that ROM was built. Can I name them all? Nope.