[ROM][ICS] CM9-based Port [Updated: Nov 5th '12]

CyanogenMod 9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) based port for HTC Liberty ("Aria/Gratia")

This is a port of CM9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) started by me for Liberty
Currently in Beta

Big thanks to:
CyanogenMod Team
Ganster41 (hardware video decoding)
gladiac(aka modpunk on xda) & Droste from marvel (EGL & HW acceleration, camera, GPS, kernel, and probably more)
munjeni (GPS, EGL & HW acceleration)
s0be (EGL & HW acceleration, kernel)
Qualcomm (ARMv6 ICS GPU drivers needed for EGL & HW acceleration)
Everyone who has shared their working ICS source

Screenshots: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1077120/Android/ICSshots/index.html


Working:

• Pretty much everything not listed below

Partially working:

• Backlight for navigation buttons (on static brightness) - Turns off with the screen, and only comes back on when the brightness is changed
• Camcorder - Effects don't work, time lapse doesn't work, only one resolution @ 15fps
  Default camera app will output bad video. Use another app for camcoder until this is fixed
• Panorama - Slow, preview freezes after capturing (switching to camera/camcorder then back will unfreeze it)

Not working:

• Voice search and voice button on keyboard
  Solution: delete /system/app/VoiceSearch.apk & download Voice Search from the Play Store

Known bugs (that aren't listed above):

USB Mass Storage pops up in front of everything when USB is plugged in, and after "Preparing SD card" is done (while plugged in)

Sound behavior with headphones/headset plugged in:
Not sure if ICS is like this by design or not, but ringtones notifications and alarms are played through both the headset/headphones and the back speaker.
Media (like music or videos) is only played through the headset/headphones

Mobile data notification tray toggle: Sticks on enabled, but it still toggles the data correctly
Not sure if this is a problem with the button on CM's end, or if it's Liberty-specific.
Hitting another button will fix it

Inserting an SD card while running will sometimes show as damaged. A reboot will fix it

Watching videos for too long can crash the whole system

Emergency calling is untested



Links:

BETA 7
http://goo.gl/ZgG5O
af16f7d517ecbf154bd5db90c6405f17

MediaFire mirror (slower, ads, captcha): http://www.mediafire.com/?8p9wsmmz5mgng29

If Wifi isn't working, try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1445766


Google Apps for Ice Cream Sandwich: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip


ROM source: https://github.com/WinSuk/android/tree/ics

Kernel source: http://git.cryptomilk.org/projects/marvel/kernel_htc_msm7227.git/?h=ics

Old releases: http://www.mediafire.com/?8dxvcr5xw3fy5



Install Guide:
Recovery version 5.* would probably be best

Old bootloader from 2.1 Eclair:
- Update to 2.2 Froyo and S-OFF - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1159237

Clean install (from CM7, sense, or any other ROM):
- wipe data/factory reset
- Install ROM package
- Install Google Apps package (optional)

Update from previous CM9 build:
- Install ROM package
- Reinstall Google Apps package (if previously installed)

Normal cache isn't used for anything that persists through reboots (from what I can tell), and the Dalvik cache is updated as needed upon booting (that's what the "Android is upgrading..." message is doing)
The ROM package is supposed to restore Google Apps, but doesn't sometimes, so I added that as a step


Tips & tricks:

FM Radio: Use Spirit FM (and allow any root requests)

Trackball wake:
Open Terminal Emulator and type:
then reboot.
To disable it, run the same thing again.



Release history:

BETA 7 - November 5th, 2012
--- Fixed USB debugging running while disabled
--- Trackball wake has been switched to a script (run "trackballwake" from Terminal Emulator)
--- Working hardware video decoding (huge thanks to Ganster41!)

- CM Team:
--- Lots? I haven't been keeping track of changes to CM9 (or even looking at them) since I started working on CM10


BETA 6 - July 19th, 2012
--- Autobrightness & light values fixed - if autobrightness wasn't working very well before, it should be better now
--- Barcode scanners fixed
--- Searching for network operators fixed
(thanks munjeni for finding these)

- Kernel changes (credit to gladiac):
--- SmartassV2 CPU governor added & set as default
--- Conservative & userspace governors removed (mostly for space savings)

- CM Team:
--- Added padding to status bar brightness control (to help huge devices, not really needed on liberty though)
--- Camera burst mode (up to 20 shots)
--- Increasing ringtone volume option
--- New Wallpapers from the CM Community
--- Power widget improvements (haptic feedback now works, etc)
--- etc


BETA 5 - June 14th, 2012
- CM Team:
--- Add option to enable notification counts on status bar (for example, if you have 4 unread emails there will be a 4 over the gmail notification icon)
--- Lock screen background customization
--- Lock screen calendar
--- Lock screen weather
--- Make status bar brightness control more responsive
--- Merge & update changes from Google (4.0.4_r2.1, IMM76L)
--- New ringtones & notifications - http://goo.gl/Ld5iA if you want to see their names
--- Screen OFF/ON animation settings (new screen-on animation looks fantastic gingerbread's was lame)
--- Updated boot animation featuring Cid
--- VolUp+VolDown now toggles the ringer
--- Lots more. These are just changes I thought were worth mentioning


BETA 4 - May 26th, 2012
--- Enabled the first listed change from CM below

- Kernel changes (this one credit to s0be):
--- Switched to newer/current zRam (the old one wasn't actually working.. it might be working in beta 3 though)

- CM Team:
--- Re-added stuff that improves GPU performance for us
--- Apollo music player
--- Snooze or dismiss an alarm by flipping the device (in alarm settings)
--- As always, etc.


BETA 3 - May 15th, 2012
--- Fixed panorama (thanks to the ZTE Blade devs)

- Kernel changes (not me):
--- Increased maximum memory size for KGSL (this should help with the force closes)
--- Disabled KGSL_PER_PROCESS_PAGE_TABLE - this means KGSL will take up less memory (will help with FCs too)

- CM Team:
--- Themes
--- Custom lockscreen shortcuts (system icons work, application icons don't yet)
--- PowerWidget icons now glow when tapped
--- New CM-specific icons in various places (they seem to be converting everything to Cid)
--- etc


BETA 2 - May 5th, 2012
--- Fixed bluetooth tethering
--- Fixed inverted colors on camera preview
--- Fixed camcorder (output fix & other stuff thanks to Droste)

- Kernel changes (credit to gladiac):
--- Enabled stuff needed for data usage limit & warning (in other words "Fixed data usage limit & warning")
--- Memory optimizations & other stuff like swap, zRam, KSM.. all of which need to be manually enabled (see Tips & tricks above)
--- Available CPU frequiencies have been changed to 120-806mhz (from 245-864. If you want the insane ones back, you'll have to build it and take the risk yourself )

- CM Team:
--- Ad-hoc network support
--- Slide lock delay (other half merged)
--- Lots of other stuff


BETA 1 - April 25th, 2012
--- Partially working camera (thanks: gladiac & Droste)
--- Fixed GPS (thanks: munjeni & gladiac)
--- Fixed WiFi icon (and may have fixed/improved wifi sleep)
--- Temporary trackball wake until CM adds it
--- CM team - Notification light settings, [optional] extended volume popup, etc


ALPHA 3.1 - April 13th, 2012
--- Fixed remaining [known] rendering bugs
(one still slightly remains with force gpu rendering turned on - fading marquee on old[not updated for ICS] apps renders with black boxes)


ALPHA 3.0 - April 9th, 2012
--- Working GPU rendering (aka "EGL")
--- Working hardware acceleration
--- Enabled USE_OPENGL_RENDERER, which makes things look pretty
--- Built-in data usage meter fixed (limit & warning don't work yet)
--- Improved wifi sleep.. it still doesn't wake up sometimes
--- Default wallpaper changed to Phase Beam live wallpaper
--- Enabled electron beam screen-off animation
--- CM team: Updated to Android version 4.0.4, New CM9 boot animation, etc
New bugs:
--- Parts of screen sometimes go inverted (status bar icons are most noticeable, they turn orange)


ALPHA 2.3 - March 9th, 2012
--- Changed default wallpaper to ICS one
--- Headphones(maybe headset too) [partially] fixed - no icon yet
--- WiFi & USB Tethering fixed (Bluetooth untested)
--- CM team added stuff, such as: CM ringtones, facebook contact support, profiles, etc


ALPHA 2.2 - February 9th, 2012
--- SD-EXT (with S2E) working great
--- Enabled signal icon to show H (when available)
--- CM Team added stuff: status bar brightness control now functions, etc
--- Behind-the-scenes changes that may help with getting EGL


ALPHA 2.1 - February 4th, 2012
--- Atmel touchscreen fix, Round 3 - Confirmed working!
--- Trackball button now functions correctly
--- More changes by CM Team (such as: CPU overclock settings now function)


ALPHA 2.0 - January 28th, 2012
--- Atmel touch screen fix - Round 2
--- Better scaled boot animation
--- Bluetooth fixed (lightly tested)
--- Phone signal fixed
--- USB Mass Storage fixed
--- CM stuff added by CM team (such as: status bar settings, notification tray settings, etc)


ALPHA 1.1 - January 19th, 2012
--- Fix for atmel touchscreens, change trackball to navigation [how it is in Gingerbread].. button on trackball still doesn't work perfect
--- Remove libEGL_adreno200.so for partial EGL fix (slow, uses software rendering) - Gallery now opens but still has problems, Boot animation shows, Maps isn't black anymore. Some other stuff might work now like games


ALPHA 1 - January 17th, 2012
--- Initial release

Hey, got hw aceleration partialy working and camera also http://paste.ubuntu.com/895380/ problem is SIGSEGV with libgsl.so... anyone know whats use of the libgsl.so ?

EDIT:
fixed SIGSEGV ... was problem with refresh rate code that I created... guys, I must to say its faster than software emulated

Need to port netlink qtaguid from kernel 3 (have some problems now) and than I will create new thread with mine cm9 build

I wasn't going to post this because it's not built from source, but there's too much of a demand now

Hardware acceleration isn't working in it yet, but EGL loads and does pretty well (pretty much on-par with Gingerbread IMO).
With it loaded, lots of broken stuff is fixed, like Gallery, [3rd party] live wallpapers, taking screenshots, app switcher/closer thumbnails, games that require it, etc. And it's much smoother.

Wifi isn't broken for me (apart from it sleeping, which is still broken)

Anyway, here
http://www.mediafire.com/?ukkxs44mnf41jh4
md5: df25d2a75ea06702bb208321af8e1e6f

(This isn't a main release, so it won't be going in the first post or anything)

OK, been a month since the last release, so I'm gonna upload one with a few things fixed

ALPHA 2.3:
- Changed default wallpaper to ICS one
- Headphones(maybe headset too) [partially] fixed - no icon yet
- WiFi & USB Tethering fixed (Bluetooth untested)
- CM team added stuff, such as: CM ringtones, facebook contact support, profiles, etc

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?pced5sdg1s2ouva
MD5: 2eb56e92318b35e3185fe5b854d2bdac

And somewhere along the line Superuser stopped crashing when entering preferences, so woo (might be fine in alpha 2.2, dunno)

Edit: Ah poo, accidentally clicked submit.. haven't actually uploaded it yet >_<

aster190 said:

My brother likes my Aria so much that he wants to get one himself(He likes small phones too). I encouraged him to get the Desire C since it's more powerful and updated, but he wouldn't have any of it. He didn't care for power as long as the phone could do regular things. He also didn't care for the way the Desire C looked, and liked the Aria's sleek design better.

Looks like the Aria still has some charm

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After ten days working in desire c I want to say its s*i* in comparation with "high-end" aria, desire c have no compas, have no button lights, have no camera auto fokus...etc, only have full working ics sense rom but speed is not much diferent than aria!!! I not sold my aria so I think I will sel desire c instead of aria and will back to aria again (maybe )... aria is the best small phone with everything needed in an small phone.