Can we have MIUIV4?

Originally Posted by glucky

Can we have MIUIV4?

Easier said than done....the Defy Miui v4's that we port from are based on Quarx CM9 from March 08. The newer CM9's don't like to be the base rom for v4 porting. Miui v4 is based on pure AOSP roms, not CM9; where GB Miui was based on CM7 and more compatible with CM7 porting.

Since it only takes 30-40 minutes to port and see if it works, I'll attempt porting v4 with the latest skank rom I ported last night. Maybe it'll work, maybe not.

In the meantime, I'm about to upload the yesterday's skank slightly tweaked with 30 step volume mod, Motoinspired CM9 Theme, HWA Selector --- I also have the srs mod installed with it, but frankly, the srs mod has washy treble that I don't like so I'm going to remove it first. I should begin that upload in 40 minutes, with it finishing 40 minutes after that. BTW, the lastest Skank (0628) is really stable and battery efficient (I fell asleep lisnening to music, woke up 8 hours later with 65% battery -- 45% loss with wifi on, radio on, 2 hours web surfing on wifi, 8 hours of music, 6 reboots, full brightness, and installing 20 apps from google sync is very acceptable to me -- means I can listen to music while driving for 12 hour, have about 4-8 talk hours, and have that last for at least 2 days on a single charge.

EDIT: Call of Duty being played in the other room, need to wait for the bandwidth to be freed up before I can upload.

As far as the Port Project is concerned, I have the Aroma layout almost finished (just need to add in an install rom feature), its completely translated for English and ready for multilingual. The rest of the Aroma part will only take 5 minutes or so to complete, then its on to the edify scripting and shell scripting; followed by actual testing of the tool. If I had to guess, 50%+ of what I'm trying to do has never been done in Aroma as far as I know; and if they work as expected, you'll soon start seeing Aroma Roms that install from Nandroid Backups as that's a feature I know Walter79 and espaciosalter20 both want. Expect something in the next 4-5 days as all I really have left is a ton of edify scripting and shell scripts (around 20-30 shell scripts I assume).

Skankport 0628 (NOW UP)

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Port to Bravo of Skank CM9 0628

Does anyone here still need install instructions???
--If so, feel free to look in any other damn CM thread, they're all the same

Gapps not included, so flash it as well.

30 step volume mod
Motoinspired 1.4 Theme
HWA Selector 1.5 Beta
Bravia Engine
Vibhinna 1.01 Beta (Multiboot Manager Reloaded)
Defy Apps Removed (Torch, Rom Updater)

DOWNLOAD HERE

I don't think that Bravia Engine is working with ICS roms due to there being no Bravia being mentioned at all in logcat output; you can see it loading on GB Roms; also my first time trying Bravia on ICS. Everything else, however, is working perfectly*. Before enabling it in HWA, Chrome actually loaded and let me enter an address, but only showed a grey screen instead of fark.com which did load....Chrome's almost there.

*Except for camera....

camera isn't connecting for me...when I tried making my own skank port based on your instructions, it didn't connect either. any advice?

also, sio wasn't present (only noop and cfq) according to no frills, so I flashed the droidx zip to get it

Originally Posted by syllogyking

camera isn't connecting for me...when I tried making my own skank port based on your instructions, it didn't connect either. any advice?

Not as of yet....I do know the problem -- its not loading the kernel module correctly. I've already tried the Defy modules, replacing camera.kobe.so with a renamed camera.jordan.so, using the Kobe CM9 camera app, swapping init scripts with Quarx CM9...I'm kind of stumped for the moment, but I've only been at it for about 10 minutes now. I never actually tested the camera, just ported over like usual, which usually works.

I'm just hoping that there isn't a new step in camera porting....

For sio, I didn't fully tweak the overclock.sh like I normally do as a test to see if the scripting would work like its supposed to. Apparently it doesn't....You can remove the 2 governors from the DX zip and also remove the 2 insmod lines for the Governors in the init script to save a bit of ram....and the boosted governor works as well as boostedass anyways. I'm not sure what Epsylon did, but he did do something to it.

Perhaps a better option would be to ask Fuzz for some help in starting up a Bravo build environment. I've built my own CM7's in the past. I'd already be doing the same for CM9, but I've been getting sync errors every time I try to sync with Quarx's Bravo repo since he's been releasing CM9 (usually due to MotoMagic, then I fixed that and couldn't sync with Quarx's personal repo).

The building and compiling isn't hard at all, its just a matter of syncing the repo (which I can't do) and knowing how to use git (which I don't). I'll send Fuzz a pm shortly and we'll see what happens from there.

EDIT: PM Sent; Hopefully he'll help me out in setting up a Kang build environment.

Yeah, I'm fearing there might be some further tinkering that now needs to be done to get the camera to work again. Since Fuzz basically adds cherry picks to epsylon's commits (he pushes mostly tpruvot commits in git), I'm thinking all of this is going to quickly change. The reason being because epsylon has already stated that jelly bean is going to be ported to defy in a few weeks, and that I can believe. But because the camera app is further "improved" in jb, it might still require some more steps to keep us on pace with the "bleeding edge".

anyways, I wish I had the time to read up on Android dev and get started on git, but unfortunately real life is taking priority atm

thanks for the pm initiative. hopefully, fuzz imparts some insight.

Oh the fun fun world of porting never ends when you own a Bravo.

From what I've understood, Jellybean isn't that big of an update so I'm not surprised that they're doin it (and doin it and doin it well). I actually expect them to keep coding until the platform just can't handle the new software any longer without updating the kernel...

I figured out my github sync problems -- the manifest.xml linked to the bravo repo was out dated, so I switched it to Quarx's manifest.xml on his github and have now fully synced it with no problems.

I was thinking that if I was going to ask for help, I might as well try to build it from the repo first (or at least have it all on hand).

If all goes well it should compile in while I'm sleeping.

I'm referring to CM9 & not a Skank Kang, btw.

EDIT: NOW COMPILING, time to smoke a bowl and go to bed.
EDIT2: Didn't compile correctly...
EDIT3: Think I found that problem as well, been compiling for 3+ hours now. Problem was I followed the Bravo ICS instructions to the letter & and they're now wrong. Using Quarx's Defy+ Instructions, modified for the Bravo, are working.
EDIT4: Successfully compiled CM9, going to test it in the next hour or so -- took over 5 hours to build.

My First CM9 Compile

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Here ya'll go -- my first compiled CM9 rom. This is basically Quarx 0526 with an updated CM app base. Haven't tested it much, but camera works, it synced with Google and installed all my apps, and it hasn't FC yet. It doesn't have the new hwui.allow feature yet, as I'm still learning git and want to do this all in the proper manner.

Once I learn how to properly sync the Defy repo to the Bravo repo and not screw up the camera is when I'll start to be able to make Bravo Kangs.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Install as usual, gapps not included.


While I don't want to start doing too much too fast, I'd like to add in Pdroid support, use Motoinspired as the default theme (I really like it), add in what ever the Skank roms do, and maybe add in Paranoidandriod to the mix.

I've actually wanted to do this since CM9 was released but I got caught up with v4 porting that went nowhere, v4 Patchrom that's being a pita but getting somewhere albeit slowly, found some work, and finally got COD Elite. I'd post my gamertag, but I'm currently using my Dad's since my PS3 is out of commission for the moment (it fell out of my truck door).

/Dammit, all this has done is set my other project back a few days, but I think we'd rather have Kangs from Bravo source rather than a tool to port them from the Defy.....Anyone disagree with that?

Great works skeevy420 ...congratulation..