[ROM][4.4.4][Jul-22] UNOFFICIAL LiquidSmooth v3.2 | Security Patch Level: 1st Jun 15

ze7zez · May 1, 2017

You can try Videocam Illusion (audio at 44.1KHz!).

mirabilos · Aug 14, 2017

Problem installing more applications

I have a problem installing more applications. It says the internal storage has only 20M free, but according to df on the command line, /data/app (which is where they actually go) has >500M free.

I think that redirecting only select subdirectories of /data instead of the whole of it is not enough to fool the PackageInstaller?

Furthermore, the PackageInstaller has a hardcoded limit of 100s for installing an APK. When running with ART (yada yada I know LiquidSmooth don’t support it, but it made the device more stable *and* faster for me) this is often too short.

mirabilos · Sep 15, 2017

It was not just the package installer. Using a2sd xdata provides me with enough space for applications, at the cost of speed apparently, but this is necessary.

The package installer 100 second problem, however, persists. I *think* it’s here (the 100000 occurring twice):

https://github.com/spezi77/android_...m/android/server/pm/Installer.java#L230..L232

Also, there’s only the 2016-07-22 download available currently; someone said the 2015-12-12 download was more stable. I may need to reinstall some day.

mirabilos · Mar 20, 2018

hard crashes of launcher and others, bootloop, with newest APKs

Unfortunately, this ROM is hit by the following CM bug:

• https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/issues/963
• https://github.com/tasks/tasks/issues/577
• https://github.com/ccrama/Slide/issues/2555
• https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/64434571

There’s a workaround…
https://github.com/pihug12/Slide/commit/39a7ac8096addb05d29319fb416c83c9490be18d
… but it has to be applied to the äpps during building them, so it doesn’t help us users of this ROM in the general case.

I’ll try to dig for a fix, but if someone better equipped to do that than me (spezi?) can do that, please do. We’ll probably just need to exchange one file on /system, just like with my hotfix for Bluetooth internet sharing.

Update: found a fix. The patch from https://git.replicant.us/replicant/.../?id=953d2a3493aaceb3209afc7eef1ff1e7f7242908 worked and was easy enough to binary apply.

Code:

adb pull /system/lib/libandroidfw.so

from the device and disassemble it (“objdump -d libandroidfw.so | less”, might need “sudo apt-get install binutils-multiarch” on the host system first). Then search for the call to _ZN7android10ResXMLTree5setToEPKvjb in the function _ZN7android12AssetManager10getPkgNameEPKc (the first occurrence, most likely). It will look roughly like this:

Code:

    fcc4:       2300            movs    r3, #0
    fcc6:       4641            mov     r1, r8
    fcc8:       4602            mov     r2, r0
    fcca:       4620            mov     r0, r4
    fccc:       f003 fc4e       bl      1356c <_ZN7android10ResXMLTree5setToEPKvjb>

In a hex editor, it looks like this:

Code:

    FCC0  28 46 B8 47 00 23 41 46  02 46 20 46 03 F0 4E FC  (F.G.#AF.F F..N.

The “movs r3,#0” is passing false (the default value) as the third argument to the method call, we will need to change it to “true” according to the patch, so we change the \x00 to \x01 and get:

Code:

    fcc4:       2301            movs    r3, #1

In a hex editor, after the change, it looks like this:

Code:

    FCC0  28 46 B8 47 01 23 41 46  02 46 20 46 03 F0 4E FC  (F.G.#AF.F F..N.

Note how the \x00 (or \x01 now) is *before* the \x23.

I’m attaching the fixed file for the 2016-07-22 ROM.

ze7zez · Mar 21, 2018

mirabilos said:
(...)
Also, there’s only the 2016-07-22 download available currently; someone said the 2015-12-12 download was more stable. (...)

Here you are. Take and test.

Android 4.4.2 - LS-KK-v3.0-2014-05-06-bravo.zip MD5: 970d87fdc8b9969737a71c28190778b4

Android 4.4.4 - LS-KK-v3.2-2015-12-06-bravo.zip

mirabilos · Mar 21, 2018

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Gail5 · Jul 26, 2018

mirabilos said:
Update: found a fix. The patch from https://git.replicant.us/replicant/.../?id=953d2a3493aaceb3209afc7eef1ff1e7f7242908 worked and was easy enough to binary apply.

I’m attaching the fixed file for the 2016-07-22 ROM.

Do you know whether this fixed file can bel appled for Cyanogenmod 11.0-xnph44s Kitkat 4.4.4 running on the Oneplus One? I am encountering the same problem. Thanks.

mirabilos · Jul 26, 2018

Gail5 said:
Do you know whether this fixed file can bel appled for Cyanogenmod 11.0-xnph44s Kitkat 4.4.4 running on the Oneplus One?

I am very sure it can’t. These files are utterly specific not just to the ROM but to the individual build of each ROM.

However, with the documentation above in my post, you (or someone more skilled than you, if you send them the original unpatched /system/lib/libandroidfw.so file) can easily patch it for your ROM.

Gail5 · Jul 26, 2018

mirabilos said:
I am very sure it can’t. These files are utterly specific not just to the ROM but to the individual build of each ROM.

However, with the documentation above in my post, you (or someone more skilled than you, if you send them the original unpatched /system/lib/libandroidfw.so file) can easily patch it for your ROM.

Thanks for answering so quickly. My device is not rooted so this method isn't going to work.

mirabilos · Jul 26, 2018

Gail5 said:
Thanks for answering so quickly. My device is not rooted so this method isn't going to work.

The fixed file will always need to be installed with root permissions and S-OFF, how else would you go replacing it?

A regular ROM upgrade could just add the source code patch I linked and recompile the ROM with it… this method is strictly for binary-patching a running ROM.

mirabilos · Sep 24, 2019

My second “bravo” HTC Desire!

Hi everyone,

I received a second “bravo”, which means I can now split between “with Google” and “Open Source / Security / Privacy” ☻ (also got to use a company SIM on one for 2FA).

I’ve installed the LS-KK-v3.2-2016-07-22-bravo.zip image on it, whereas my old bravo still runs the LS-KK-v3.2-2015-12-06-bravo.zip image. Observations:

• Still no Gallery äpp, but Gallery2.apk from cm-11-20150815-UNOFFICIAL-bravo.zip copied to /system/app/ works just fine.

• The Bluetooth fix from https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65831613&postcount=99 is applied already.

• The package installer fix from https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75958727&postcount=184 is not applied. The PKZIP archive file I’ve attached to that post is the correct one for the 2016-07-22 ROM.

• Switching from Dalvik to ART makes the 2016-07-22 system no longer boot (SIGBUS in dex2oat), but switching back via adb shell → su → setprop persist.sys.dalvik.vm.lib libdvm.so → Enter → reboot makes it work; thanks https://android.stackexchange.com/a/66977/55417 for the help.

Edit: oops, no, I’m apparently also running Dalvik on the other device. Gapps is what makes things sloooooow. (Or maybe swap or ksm.)

• I’ve used a2sd install → y → n → n and then a2sd xdata, as on the other device, because äpps are just too fat these days, but with a decent fast µSD card.

• open_gapps-arm-4.4-pico-20190924.zip won’t install, I have about 25.9*MB free on /system and it wants almost 90*MB… we’ll see what we can do about that…

I guess, with using xdata, I could use a differently partitioned HBOOT which has a larger /system and smaller /data? Current usage is:

Code:

~ # df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                   208076        32    208044   0% /dev
/dev/block/mtdblock4      5120       800      4320  16% /cache
/dev/block/mtdblock3    256000    230084     25916  90% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5    187008     67760    119248  36% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2   4128448     70044   4058404   2% /sd-ext
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3    516040     16404    499636   3% /sd-ext2

But how can I change the HBOOT partition table? The 250M /system is the largest AlphaRev prebuilt size…

ze7zez · Sep 24, 2019

mirabilos said:
But how can I change the HBOOT partition table? The 250M /system is the largest AlphaRev prebuilt size…

If you like experiments, then try hboot "bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40.zip" from Alex-V.

Personally, I recommend SlimKat, which is more polished.

mirabilos · Sep 24, 2019

ze7zez said:
If you like experiments, then try

Thanks… but I’d rather understand the changes.

The partitions seem to be around offset 0007e160 in the .img file, but around 000328f0 there’s also changes which I wonder whether they are necessary…

ze7zez · Sep 24, 2019

mirabilos said:
Thanks… but I’d rather understand the changes.

The partitions seem to be around offset 0007e160 in the .img file, but around 000328f0 there’s also changes which I wonder whether they are necessary…

The "Android HTC - Hacking explained" thread may be useful to you.

mirabilos · Sep 24, 2019

Hacking bootloader…success!

ze7zez said:
The "Android HTC - Hacking explained" thread may be useful to you.

Thanks, but unfortunately, it does not help *at all*.

I’ve patched the “Bravo Stock” HBOOT from http://web.archive.org/web/20180709183725/http://alpharev.nl/ with https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/rskandroid/hboot_patcher_r1-win32.rar in a Windows® VM I luckily had access to (it does not work in Wine, unfortunately), http://web.archive.org/web/20170414...blogspot.com/2011/07/custom-hbootsupdate.html documenting that someone named “dzo” wrote source code for Linux to do that but (ARRRRGH!) not linking to it, and a search finds nothing.

I’m attaching the patched HBOOT (336/5/96) in the hope it is useful. I managed to flash it and boot 4EXT Recovery afterwards and am now formatting all partitions in order to restore the backup.

Edit: I had to fastboot erase system, as formatting it in the recovery didn’t work as a mount process was hanging in the background. Afterwards, format all except SD card worked, and now I’m restoring the backup.

Edit 2: Backup restored, system still boots, installing opengapps pico now also works. Yay! (Now I can de-Google-ify the other Desire.)

Code:

root@bravo:/ # df
Filesystem               Size     Used     Free   Blksize
/dev                   201.3M   136.0K   201.2M   4096
/sys/fs/cgroup         201.3M     0.0K   201.3M   4096
/mnt/asec              201.3M     0.0K   201.3M   4096
/mnt/obb               201.3M     0.0K   201.3M   4096
/mnt/fuse              201.3M     0.0K   201.3M   4096
/system                336.0M   304.1M    31.9M   4096
/data                    3.9G   181.8M     3.8G   4096
/cache                   5.0M   824.0K     4.2M   4096
/sd-ext                  3.9G   181.8M     3.8G   4096
/data                    3.9G   181.8M     3.8G   4096
/mnt/media_rw/sdcard0    24.7G   676.2M    24.0G   16384
/mnt/secure/asec        24.7G   676.2M    24.0G   16384
/storage/sdcard0        24.7G   676.2M    24.0G   16384

mirabilos · Mar 14, 2020

GPS week rollover issue / patch?

Hi *,

I’ve been having problems getting a GPS fix for a short while. Is this ROM affected by the GPS week rollover issue? If so, is there a patch I could apply (I can probably rebuild affected parts of the system or binary-patch them if easy enough)?

Update: This ROM/device is definitely affected by the GPS week rollover bug. So, how can we get a fix (either meaning)?

(Well, I can get a fix if I lay the phone on a flat surface outdoors, ideally still connected with the charger or a battery pack though, and let it run https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.android.gpstest.osmdroid/ for a long time; AGPS/PSDS seems to only help a little.) But I’d like for the GPS week rollover bug to be fixed.

mirabilos · May 9, 2020

{Mod edit: Quoted post was deleted}

There’s your problem, you did not move /data/data, so you don’t get additional space in that area.

I moved the entire /data though (a2sd xdata). It may be slower, but it makes the device usable.

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