[COMING SOON][TOOL]DumbestCrayon's ROM Builder

bmj1086 · Feb 6, 2010

Okay, I started this project about a month ago and I never really got into it. Now that I have some spare time I decided to continue.

I'm writing a program to download the latest CyanogenMod or TheOfficial Nexus ROM. After that you will choose what you want in the ROM (eg. wifi tether, Amazon MP3, Spare Parts)

Once you decide what you want in the ROM the program will remove whatever you do not want and rebuild it for you. After you rebuild it, it will give you the option allow the program to move it to your sdcard and even reboot your phone into recovery where you can perform a Nandroid and apply the ROM yourself (I will not write the program to apply the ROM because it's not really a good idea).

The program will be free of charge and you can download it and install it directly on your computer. (Windows only, sorry)

Now this sounds a LOT easier than it really is so if anybody has any experience with C# let me know if you want to help. Send me an email at [myscreenname] gmail com. Please do not email or chat me unless you're wanting to help develop the code. When I need testers I will let you know.

Permission was granted by Cyanogen

Q & A

Q: How is this different than Modaco's ROM kitchen?
A: Mine is software, installs on your computer with updates, and it will be free.
It's not exactly the same thing but close.

No hard feelings Modaco, don't take it personal.

Q: When will it release?
A: I can't tell you a date or a specific time but I'm working on it and I will post it the minute I think it's stable enough to pass out.

Q: Will it work on Linux or Mac?
A: Originally no, but I've had some ideas come in about Mac so I'll let you know

Since this will be free of charge I will take donations [no obligation, donate as you please]
Click Here to donate

Breakthecycle2 · Feb 6, 2010

AWesome idea man!

simms22 · Feb 6, 2010

see, youre not the dumbest crayon after all!

uansari1 · Feb 6, 2010

How is this different than Modaco's ROM kitchen?

bmj1086 · Feb 6, 2010

uansari1 said:
How is this different than Modaco's ROM kitchen?

I was waiting on this question.

Mine is software, installs on your computer with updates, and it will be free.
It's not exactly the same thing but close.

parrot5 · Feb 6, 2010

uansari1 said:
How is this different than Modaco's ROM kitchen?

"The program will be free of charge and you can download it and install it directly on your computer."
Free (no need to be a paid member of somewhere) and it's not a web app.

samir5421 · Feb 6, 2010

AWESOME!!!! I have always wanted something like this... and its free!!!

deadpoux · Feb 6, 2010

it will run on linux ?

th3fallen · Feb 6, 2010

I'd love to test it for you when your looking for some beta testers

bmj1086 · Feb 6, 2010

deadpoux said:
it will run on linux ?

Nope sorry =/

Funny because I use linux as my main OS but I have more experience writing software for Windows.

th3fallen said:
I'd love to test it for you when your looking for some beta testers

Okay, thanks. I'll let you know when I get to that point.

bigdookie · Feb 6, 2010

Thanks for you efforts. I Don agree with modaco charging for something that has been free to access. What if xda forum started charging to access this site? It would kill the spirit of what most Tom chefs do here. Smh.

bobtentpeg · Feb 6, 2010

Sheesh, you guys don't read, or something.

He doesnt charge for access to his ROMs. But he offers his subscribers the benefit of being able to customize their ROMs to their liking, pre-flash. The "base" install without customizations are, and always have been, available for free.

Domskibus · Feb 6, 2010

Wow!

Any idea of a release date?

MrADeveci · Feb 6, 2010

I can see a new section of the cm website coming soon ..............

Legaleye3000 · Feb 7, 2010

Will you already need to be rooted for this program to work or will this be a graphical program that will also root the phone? Thanks

aodpoe · Feb 7, 2010

Looking forward to this, i will definitely contribute to your cause.

maxawesome · Feb 7, 2010

I will also volunteer to beta test for you, as well as donate for a copy of the final product. I think its awesome you're doing this.

And, as a guy who tri-boots Fedora, OSX and Win7, I feel you on the "I only write Windows stuff".

However, you should check into this tool, to make what you're writing at least cross-platform for Mac. And, its totally free (and no, I don't work for them).

Appcelerator Titanium Desktop

bmj1086 · Feb 7, 2010

Legaleye3000 said:
Will you already need to be rooted for this program to work or will this be a graphical program that will also root the phone? Thanks

I thought about doing that but I think I might wait on that. Not sure yet.

Domskibus said:
Wow!

Any idea of a release date?

Not sure yet I'm trying to work on it whenever possible so I would say soon.

bmj1086 · Feb 7, 2010

maxawesome said:
I will also volunteer to beta test for you, as well as donate for a copy of the final product. I think its awesome you're doing this.

And, as a guy who tri-boots Fedora, OSX and Win7, I feel you on the "I only write Windows stuff".

However, you should check into this tool, to make what you're writing at least cross-platform for Mac. And, its totally free (and no, I don't work for them).

Appcelerator Titanium Desktop

I'll look into it but I don't own a Mac lol.

maxawesome · Feb 7, 2010

dumbestcrayon said:
I'll look into it but I don't own a Mac lol.

You don't need a Mac to deploy to one. This is basically an IDE with a Cocoa compiler as well as a .NET compiler.

Kind of similar to how Visual Studio translates whatever language you're writing in to MSIL before compiling, but on a broader scale.

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