[ROM][UNOFFICIAL] CyanogenMod 11 [Android 4.4.4]

WinSuk · May 1, 2014

CyanogenMod 11 (based on Android 4.4.4 "KitKat") for the HTC Liberty/Aria/Gratia/etc

NOTE: Just to make this clear, this is UNOFFICIAL, and NOT supported by CyanogenMod.

Hboot 1.02 or higher is required! (Revolutionary or HTCdev unlock)

Liberty is now an official device on the androidarmv6 project

This means updates will show up in Settings > About phone > CyanogenMod updates
However updating via the updater may not always work, due to very constrained system space.
Patches can be submitted to http://review.androidarmv6.org/

Huge thanks to everyone working on marvel/Wildfire S (Olivier, izi501, feroxx, Kevinjoa, thehacka1, benjamingwynn, JDevs, more I don't know?) & the androidarmv6 team

The kernel includes TONS of CPU governers, and a couple extra I/O schedulers.
I don't really care for kernels with this many CPU governers, but the rest of the changes to the kernel are useful, and it's more work taking them back out so I left them in

No idea what may or may not be better, but the default seems to work fine.

Screenshots: http://winsuk.net/screens/liberty/cm11/

Required recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2474662

Known bugs/etc:

Slow - everywhere (I recommend CM9 or CM10)
Apps sometimes don't load on boot (appear to be completely gone) - even system apps
WiFi hotspot doesn't work
Screen brightness sometimes sticks at dim when turning on
Transparent GIFs in browser have a solid background
Large images in browser are usually broken
No adb screenrecord
No ART

Notes:

USB tethering: enable it, unplug & replug, then enable it again and it should work
For a transparent status bar, enable high-end graphics in Performance settings
USB debugging verify (the popup when you plug into a new PC) doesn't always work, so it has been disabled
Gesture typing, Photosphere, and voice recognition: all require closed-source libraries from Google built for ARMv6, which don't exist.
I can't make any of these work unless Google does.

Downloads!
Newest builds from the androidarmv6 buildbot can be found here:
http://download.androidarmv6.org/_builds/liberty/

Mirrors for stable build RC11:
cm-11.0.0-RC11-liberty.zip - d94c7e2163ce434241bfc0ee02c84eb1
androidarmv6: http://download.androidarmv6.org/_builds/liberty/stable/cm-11.0.0-RC11-liberty.zip
Google Drive: http://goo.gl/D635Gc
xda devdb: http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=9311
MediaFire: https://www.mediafire.com/?kf3it5ckd46mf3o

Google Apps: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2756379

Google Search cannot be installed from the Play Store, however if you can get an apk for it (like here maybe), it will work (sans voice) with one setting change:
1. install Google Search app (from apk)
2. open it, and hit Yes, I'm in
3. let it crash
4. open Google Settings from the app drawer
5. navigate to Search & Now > Voice > "Ok Google" hotword detection
6. slide hotword detection to off
7. done, it works

There is also an app to sort-of enable voice search in Google Search/Now: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2709285

Source:
Manifest with full ROM & kernel source
Kernel source only

Previous builds can be found here or here or here

Changelog of builds:

XDA:DevDB Information
Unofficial CyanogenMod 11, ROM for the HTC Aria

Contributors
WinSuk, Olivier, izi501, feroxx, Kevinjoa, thehacka1, benjamingwynn, JDevs, androidarmv6 team, more I don't know?
Source Code: https://github.com/androidarmv6/android/tree/cm-11.0

ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
ROM Kernel: Linux 2.6.x
ROM Firmware Required: hboot 1.02 (Revolutionary or HTCdev unlock)
Based On: CyanogenMod

Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Beta Version: 20140614
Beta Release Date: 2014-06-14

Created 2014-05-01
Last Updated 2014-12-04

fmshe · May 2, 2014

The camera has the opportunity to fix?

WinSuk · May 3, 2014

fmshe said:
The camera has the opportunity to fix?

Maybe... Our camera blob (from gingerbread) is extremely outdated, and something it relies on was removed in 4.4.

WinSuk · May 3, 2014

New build uploaded:

20140503 (May 3rd, 2014):

Fixed hardware video decoder (& encoder?)
Fixed GPS

http://goo.gl/c6Kekq
c298645ed377de26a6c3a833b7b70fc0

xda devdb mirror: http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=5948
MediaFire mirror: https://www.mediafire.com/?ld5pld43a3x2pr9

I've now tested Google Apps and everything seems to work fine, so I changed the OP to only have one link for them (what I would recommend using)

But the Play Store won't let you install Google Search (aka Google Now)

kura808 · May 3, 2014

Awesome! Hoping you could get the camera working. This is quite exciting.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Cosmo123 · May 5, 2014

No way this is happening

I gave this phone to my mom and she is not the biggest tech enthusiast but there are some things that just don't work with GB. You once again breath new life into this device. Thank you!

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

WinSuk · May 7, 2014

New build, snap snap

(sorry, hard to make "new build" original every time

)

20140507 (May 7th, 2014):

Got camera working (all of it including timelapse no glitches either)
Added some extra encoder/decoder files - not sure if they are doing anything right now
Latest changes from CM (whatever that may be)

http://goo.gl/4YeJLa
e6c97b311bc3a32e1a17f0c199821f0b

xda devdb mirror: http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=6027
MediaFire mirror: https://www.mediafire.com/?f8tulxczubrzfcx

If you are updating from a previous build and the camera app doesn't appear, run this from terminal emulator or adb shell:

Code:

su
pm enable com.android.camera2/com.android.camera.CameraLauncher

Cosmo123 · May 8, 2014

Hey WinSuk, I know these are annoying questions, but Google Now is basically the only thing missing that's keeping me from installing this on my mom's phone. I understood your explanation about voice recognition and Google's libraries and am now wondering if that's the same reason Google Now isn't working. Do you think it will ever be possible to install Google Now? Thanks so much!

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

kura808 · May 8, 2014

Cosmo123 said:
Hey WinSuk, I know these are annoying questions, but Google Now is basically the only thing missing that's keeping me from installing this on my mom's phone. I understood your explanation about voice recognition and Google's libraries and am now wondering if that's the same reason Google Now isn't working. Do you think it will ever be possible to install Google Now? Thanks so much!

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

I don't think it's possible because we don't have an arm v7 soc. The Aria is a v6, which is very old and most likely will never get updated. Though, Google now somewhat worked on the Aria when I was running CM9 (only contextual info). No voice features though.

You can try use the app Utter, which is similar to Google now in that it controls your phone via voice. I'm not sure if it works on our Arias.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Cosmo123 · May 8, 2014

kura808 said:
I don't think it's possible because we don't have an arm v7 soc. The Aria is a v6, which is very old and most likely will never get updated. Though, Google now somewhat worked on the Aria when I was running CM9 (only contextual info). No voice features though.

You can try use the app Utter, which is similar to Google now in that it controls your phone via voice. I'm not sure if it works on our Arias.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Thanks for your reply. I didn't mean the voice functions of Google Now, just the app itself. So basically Google Search, Google Now cards and notifications.

WinSuk · May 8, 2014

Cosmo123 said:
Hey WinSuk, I know these are annoying questions, but Google Now is basically the only thing missing that's keeping me from installing this on my mom's phone. I understood your explanation about voice recognition and Google's libraries and am now wondering if that's the same reason Google Now isn't working. Do you think it will ever be possible to install Google Now? Thanks so much!

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Just tried the newest Search app, and it works fine after you disable hotword detection : O

1. install Google Search app (I don't really want to distribute an apk myself, so here is a trustworthy source)
2. open it, and hit Yes, I'm in
3. let it crash
4. open Google Settings from the app drawer
5. navigate to Search & Now > Voice > "Ok Google" hotword detection
6. slide hotword detection to off
7. done, it works

I think ima add this to the OP...

kura808 · May 8, 2014

Just installed your ROM and it runs great!! Such a difference coming from your cm9 build. Quite impressed.

I was wondering if s2ext will work with this ROM? I understand kitkat broke the SD card support but our rom storage is quite small. I was only able to install a few apps before hitting the limited memory alert Lol. Are there any work arounds? =)

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Cosmo123 · May 8, 2014

kura808 said:
Just installed your ROM and it runs great!! Such a difference coming from your cm9 build. Quite impressed.

I was wondering if s2ext will work with this ROM? I understand kitkat broke the SD card support but our rom storage is quite small. I was only able to install a few apps before hitting the limited memory alert Lol. Are there any work arounds? =)

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

What do you think about symlinking the whole data partition to the SD card? Just an idea.

Could you do me a favor and take a few screenshots of the used storage and ram? Would also be interesting to know how much of the system partition is used/free. Thanks again

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

kura808 · May 8, 2014

Cosmo123 said:
What do you think about symlinking the whole data partition to the SD card? Just an idea.

Could you do me a favor and take a few screenshots of the used storage and ram? Would also be interesting to know how much of the system partition is used/free. Thanks again

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Sorry but I don't know how to symlink it lol. Is that like how when we used to use darktremors a2sd mod?

So after installing 7 apps, I only got about 18mb of rom left lol. The amount of free ram is quite good though.

Sent from my LT30p using Tapatalk 2

WinSuk · May 8, 2014

kura808 said:
Just installed your ROM and it runs great!! Such a difference coming from your cm9 build. Quite impressed.

I was wondering if s2ext will work with this ROM? I understand kitkat broke the SD card support but our rom storage is quite small. I was only able to install a few apps before hitting the limited memory alert Lol. Are there any work arounds? =)

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

What app are you using?
I tried Link2SD, but it doesn't like the /sd-ext mount point... can be fixed by deleting /system/etc/init.d/05mountsd and rebooting.

fmshe · May 10, 2014

Status bar loses transparency

WinSuk · May 10, 2014

fmshe said:
Status bar loses transparency

Read the first post?

WinSuk said:
Notes:
For a transparent status bar, enable high-end graphics in Performance settings

fmshe · May 10, 2014

WinSuk said:
Read the first post?

thank you

WinSuk · May 12, 2014

The storage space is the most difficult part on this device right now...
Missing fonts for languages have been added, but even after stripping out the live wallpapers, it (and a few other changes) leaves just under 13MB free on /system... Google Apps takes up 26MB.
I'll be taking CMWallpapers out before the next release, but at 9.3MB - that isn't quite enough...
The newest recovery (6.0.4.8) also won't fit without stripping out everything that isn't needed (images, comments & linebreaks in files, etc).
We may have to start using custom partition sizes soon...

Another option is symlinking Google Apps to the /cache partition (40MB, mostly unused), like the gapps package I linked for 4.3

Cosmo123 · May 13, 2014

WinSuk said:
Another option is symlinking Google Apps to the /cache partition (40MB, mostly unused), like the gapps package I linked for 4.3

Are there any downsides to this? Isn't the cache partition just as fast etc?

Do you think your ROM is already usable as a daily driver? As I said I don't own the phone anymore and can only rely on the community before I install it for my mom.

Do you think ART will ever work? I think this phone would benefit from it greatly. Thanks

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