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I'm interested in (developing?) a clean ROM for this device, anyone can show me some pointers on how to do that? Do these Chinese boxes contain any spyware? Or are they clean and don't upload user data/meta data besides GAPS being installed and uploading to google. I have some experience with...

I use the latest Ubuntu under Virtual Box in windows. In the VM configuration of the ubuntu VM image i specify the android image to be mounted as well.

Yeah thats possible, however only before you injected the image, you wont be able to install XPosed then however (and with it XPrivacy, one of the few ways to make an Android phone secure) For example if you inject a rooted image, but then by mistake update SU breaking the root, a reboot of...

You mean the system image? Basically you can change what you want.. however if you delete stuff it might impact other things that use it as well. In the image I created last year I tried to remove most bloatware (all verizon, and some unhandy motorola apps), removed the noisy bootanimation and...

In theory that should be possible, unless 6-7.7 has something baked in that counteracts the process, which i can confirm 6-7.3 did not have yet. To be 100% sure someone has to try this out.

Alas, i guess it's not possible to find the tethering apps or stock live wallpapers in the market (anymore) You have to find the apk's somewhere on the net i'm afraid.

1) I'm not sure it does that, can't reproduce, but if it does on your machine i'm sorry to say i dont have the time to figure that out, you can always try it yourself if you just puzzle together the advices in the many posts in this thread. 2) You can install live wallpaper apps yourself, i...

well sadly the 615 is still 28nm tech, was hoping for a really powerefficient 14nm processor, it's not like those are not out there yet...

Hallo. Are you saying that you had random shutdowns a couple of times a day, which where fixed by running a battery calibration? You are now running this rom without any crashes/shutdowns?

awesome man, keep up the good work for these amazing phones

congrats! well done. fun isn't it? customizing your own phone? ---------- Post added at 12:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:19 PM ---------- In theory you could ofcourse grab your OTA system image (if the device is already rooted) diff it with what you want and reflash that, the...

yeah you are right, i forgot about that (ran into the same problem myself back then) anyway the method crack.mech pointed out should work

I did use that phyton script myself, however if you are not sure about it, you can always just grab the image from the phone after you flashed vanilla with RDS right? like this: set sBD="%date%-%time:~0,2%.%time:~3,2%" adb wait-for-device adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p38...

Why dont you make a diff between the vanilla/original rom and your version of the rom? That way you just have to flash the vanilla with RDS and then your own and then you will be done. Here crack.mech explained how to convert the original (non rooted) rom to something you can diff with your own...

Actually, in diff.txt i put a string (the text content) that is almost fit to copy paste to the python script, however you need to delete a starting quote and comma and place a closing quote behind it. You could also by hand edit the python script, the line that says which parts it need to use...

one word: encryption ---------- Post added at 10:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:36 PM ---------- Ok guys version 1.2 is ready and uploaded Viper4Android working on my side... Don't forget to flash stock with RDS before flashing the new version.

OK, i was able to bake in viper... Will upload later tonight.

Interesting, it looks like only the libv4a_fx_ics.so was created there (the other files have much older timestamps) However i would expect it to create the libv4a_fx_jb.so instead, since ice-cream-sandwitch is rather old... what model is your old phone? and what version of android does it run...

Rooting should not be that hard to do, the method here has been greatly improved recently (1 or 2 weeks ago) The actual flashing takes only about 30 minutes now. However it does not unlock the bootloader which i assume is needed for this LS rom.

Actually i think they are provided in the .apk itself, when i open it with winrar i see some of the .so files in the assets folder. Im gonna try use that for now, but thanks for your offer, perhaps i need it at a later stage

I actually did not remove the "Manage SIM card" app, i can see SimManager.apk & SimManager.odex sitting right there in /system/app Can you tell me where you expect to be able to open them? and what exactly you are missing? ---------- Post added at 05:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53...

Thanks for your kind words. Can you tell me what the SIM Toolkit is being used for? Would restoring it not give messages everytime you boot up the phone that you are not using a Verizon SIM? If not i can consider retoring it if you can give me an explantion what it does.

I did incorporate Viper4Android in my debloated rom and made it compatible by altering the build.prop file, however it needs to install drivers afterwards and restart, since the system is read-only the drivers go away again due to that restart. I need someone to provide me with an installed...

Ok, so then for the mini its a trade off between like 200mb space or less battery time, i guess thats an easy choise. Myself i find 3g/4g suck the most power, when i switch the phone to 2g when i only want to be reachable through whatsapp/mail etc. then my battery lasts about a full day longer...

Busybox is already installed in the rooted system. You can find it at /system/xbin/busybox .. which is sufficient to install GravityBox module in XPosed.

But then, if i leave for example maps on the system (the old version) will the new version also be on the system partition after it updated? With some of those google apps it could make a few hundred MB difference for your normal partition if that was the case. If it will anyway install the...

Weather.apk is needed for the command center (which i kinda like) I actually use gapp's myself, but i guess you are right, that they can be installed from the play store, it's outdated versions anyway. However as long as Play Store and Google Services are installed it doesn't really matter for...

It's the 3c_ota.apk app doing that, its why i removed it from my debloated rom which you can see a few posts up. Sent from my XT1080 using XDA Free mobile app

Debloated System Rom Droid Maxx Android 4.4.4. SU6-7 Debloated System, including Busybox, Xposed, Droid Turbo Command Center widget and Viper4Android. Make sure you have vanilla 6-7 flashed using RDS, copy the contents of the ROM to your python dir, run the break-bootloader and then the root...

Dont you think if people that invent root methods by semibricking phones can't unlock the bootloader yet, it is a bit 'ambitious' to think some app in the playstore for an entirely different phone would do the trick? ---------- Post added at 10:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:44 AM...

If you have followed the instructions to the letter (for example manually updating the windows driver the the Qualcomm device seems to be a pitfall for many) then you would have been golden. Perhaps start over and make sure you dont leave any step out?

That list is kinda old, 3c_ apps are still called ccc there, also most app names dont have package name (com.motorola.blahblah) anymore in their name I found if i want to keep the handy motorola apps (like active display) working, i have to be a bit conservative on deleting apk's, i actually had...

OK, im gonna try that then, thanks

What is taken from the device will result in a more then 2GB large system.mbn file, this file always has the same size, even if i delete 500mb of stuff from it, and convert it back, it will still be 2GB This 2GB mbn file is what is split up to more then 2000 pieces of 1MB and then the different...

How to do this with an unrooted system? I have my debloated image ready, and i want to diff it with the vanilla system, to avoid needing 2 steps to get it on the device.

i will try to keep it simple... any apps i should not remove for any reason? (495MB removed) app/appdirectedsmspermission.apk app/BasicDreams.apk app/BasicDreams.odex app/Books.apk app/BrowserProviderProxy.apk app/Bug2GoStub.apk app/com.motorola.android.nativedropboxagent.apk...

I fixed the Active Display now, looks like it's good to go... What do you think is smartest? Flash the rom from vanilla 6.7? or from CrashXXL 1.02? It does contain by itself root, xposed, busybox an gravitybox installed fine. Im thinking to make it run from vanilla instead of 1.02 because if a...

Sure, once its stable, added back in most of the motorola apps, actually right now flashing v3 to my device Need (not need but want) to research so much about whats in the android image, so little is to be found about the real workings of each of the apps sadly it comes down to alot of puzzling...

Like CrashXXL posted, he created base xposed framework files and symlink baked in the rom, allowing for an xposed install using the apk he provided after you rooted using his new method (1.02) I did this myself and xposed is running fine, downloaded xposed apps, and they persist after reboot, no...

If you get that error, reboot your computer, and try again. (i had the same)

its not a big effort, whole process takes 30 minutes now.. just flash stock su6-7 again and use the new files linked in the OP

I'm making a maximum debloated version for myself (now 502MB removed from system image, about half of it media files) If you want to add Viper you need to identify all the files it places, then grab your system image using above method, mount in linux (I used virtualbox) then add those files (or...

You can not run/instal Viper once you have rooted it using CrashXXL method? You are talking about this Viper right?

yey, first try, the device actually booted up, and i managed to only break Active Display.... as far as i can tell now. :D Still need to tweak more before it can replace my main (unrooted) droid maxx, or before i can release this rom Method at least worked all the way through.

for those that want to create their own (debloated) system image file: after you root using the latest CrashXXL method you can follow these instructions. i actualized and extended the commands a bit for your convenience

for the new root method the commands would be a bit different... the following assumes you have 2 empty folders in a common folder and the old and new system files in that same common folder called system_new.mbn and system_old.mbn old image: split -a4 -d -b 1048576 system_old.mbn old/system...

Tried, and working, many possibilities using xposed... even writing your own code that can actually access most of the system. Great!

Thanks! Im going to try that today.

yesyes did that, but then on the device with 1.02 flashed, where/how do i find xposed? when i take the image from it appart i find busybox yes in the xbin folder, but not xposed anywhere, i migh be overlooking something (please be aware i never ran/installed xposed before)

did you install it and have xposed? where do you find it? please point me in the right direction. i installed and did not find xposed (see my earlier question)