[CLOSED] [GUIDE] [how to] CREATE OWN ROM [FOR ANY ANDROID DEVICE] [FOR N00B] [EASIEST METHODS]

NOTE: THIS GUIDE WILL WORK ANY ANDROID DEVICE BUT HAS FEW EXTRA PRE-SUGGESTED LINKS FOR GALAXY ACE PLUS USERS.

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• dsixda for his awesome kitchen. Please Hit Thanks button for him.
• inspired by isidromxz's thread.
• Please kindly remind me if i have forgotten to write any name in thanks section, i have collected all things from many many sources and with modification.

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• Absolute Beginners.
• People with little or no programming skills.
• people who really want to learn how to make custom rom's
• people who want to learn android and don't know where to start.

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• Java JDK FROM HERE OR JAVA.SUN.COM - FOR INSTALLING CYWIGN
  

  (WARNING: Do not install Cygwin before the JDK!!

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• Cywign Direct Download- Linux Terminal For Windows
• Android Kitchen (ROM Development Tool)- For Cooking custom ROM and many more things, Please update this Kitchen to latest version when available.
  

  Official Link to dxda's Kitchen - Official Thread and Github source. Please refer FAQ on official thread for Kitchen related problems.

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• Demo META-INF Folder Download- For Making Flashable zip files and comparing updater script.
• Custom Booting.zip - for custom boot animation
• notepad++ - for editing files like build.prop, updaterscript
• MOST IMPORTANT TOOL YOUR BRAIN... AND ALSO LOTS OF TIME... [DOWNLOAD LINK NOT AVAILABLE...lol]

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Try this Dsixda Kitchen Install Picture Tutor(recommended)

OR

watch this video tutorial by gitagaire for how to setup cygwin and kitchen(recommended)

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• AFTER YOU HAVE DONE ALL CHANGE/MODIFICATION YOU WANTED OPEN CYGWIN AGAIN AND TYPE
  

  cd kitchen(enter)
  ./menu(enter)

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  now convert update script to updater script(in option 23)
  
  
  
• now lets edit updater script(optional)
  
  

  Thanks to user langthang for a great updater-script guide.
  Download it HERE

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  the updater-script basically tells CWM what steps to take during the installation(flashing rom).
  If you don't have any experience please don't edit anything other than what is in this simple tutorial.
  
  TO EDIT UPDATER SCRIPT -
  1.Go to META-INF/com/google/android
  2.Open the updater-scrip file with Notepad++
  3.Any text that would appear during the CWM install should be in this format :
  
  
  Code:

  ui_print("Put your text in HERE");

  
  Add your text start at top and save,
  then replace with new updater-scrip
  
  
  
  
  IF YOU GET ANY ERROR YOU CAN COMPARE YOUR UPDATER SCRIPT WITH MINE (attached in 1st post)
  NOTE: DO NOT COPY WHOLE UPDATER SCRIPT JUST EDIT PART WHERE YOU GET ANY ERROR...
  most common errors will be in mount, remount part in starting and end and boot.img installing part... so replace only those lines....
  
  
  
  AND AT LAST
  
  [*]Now that you have made some changes it's time to pack the rom and test!!
  
  
  
  1. Run the cygwin and type
     

     cd kitchen(enter)
     ./menu(enter)

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  1. enter option 99 - "biuld rom from working folder"
  2. Choose your build option and few more enters
     I recommend that you go with all default options until you get more experience with the kitchen.
  3. When rom is packed and signed it will ask to change rom zip name (type name of your rom)
  4. When its all done you will find a folder inside "cygwin/home/yousername/kitchen" called output_zip
  5. Inside the folder is your new rom ready to be flashed and tested!!!
     
     
  
  IF YOU WANT THAN YOU CAN MAKE CWM FLASH ABLE ZIP'S MANUALLY USE THIS TOOL BY I.AM.H3RO
  
  
  congratulations you have build your own rom
  
  
• TROUBLESHOOTING (by hell_lock)
  
  
  • If you are facing java related problem with cygwin than refer to this post. and Google search
  • If you get problems in installing a rom then compare your updater-script in META-INF folder with one attached in first post.
  • If you have a rom without kernel then remove these lines:
    
    Code:

    assert(package_extract_file("boot.img", "/tmp/boot.img"),
           write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p8"),
           delete("/tmp/boot.img"));

    NOTE: mmcblk0p8 can be different with different devices... this works fine with galaxy ace plus...
  • If there is a package error then extract the files of the rom and repack them using any compression software.
  • If rom installed correctly but stuck onto logo screen?? Then remove try removing kernel and flashing rom again.
  • If rom installed correctly but got onto bootloop then there could be many possibilities which could lead to this. If you want accurate cause of it then do a logcat.
  • If there are some apk's which are not working then check if you correctly modded them.
  • For status errors like status error 0, status error 6, status error 7 see this guide by Tha TechnoCrat and for rest go here and type your error.

• This is universal method and can be done easily using terminal emulator.
  For this simply download Terminal Emulator from Android Market.
  we need freshly flashed device here. OTHERWISE YOU WILL HAVE LOT OF JUNK FILES.
• Open it and type:
  

  su
  tar -c system/* >> sdcard/system.tar

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  This will copy all your /system folder to your SDcard with name System.tar
  This will take some time to finish so be patient.
• After it's done you should have a tar file in your /sdcard named system.tar
  You can extract it using Winrar or 7zip software. But yes this will have huge size , as it has other useless folders so you will have to delete them. After extracting this system.tar file you will get following folders (Similar one)
  
  

  • /etc
  • /fonts
  • /framework
  • /lib
  • /lost-found
  • /media
  • /sd
  • /semc
  • /usr
  • /xbin
  • build.prop
  • And some other files and folders like ""autorooted,kernel files" etc

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  Now simply delete the folders marked in red color and its done.Don't worry if you don't have folders with red colors above,we don't need them.
• And the final files that we will have in our system folders will be
  
  

  • /app
  • /bin
  • /etc
  • /fonts
  • /framework
  • /lib
  • /media
  • /semc
  • /usr
  • /xbin
  • build.prop

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  If it dont have semc folder no need to worry.
  NOTE: YOU CAN ALSO GET THIS SYSTEM FOLDER BY USING ANY ROOT BROWSER. JUST FIND THIS FOLDER AND COPY/EXTRACT TO SDCARD
  
• NOW COPY THIS system FOLDER TO WORKING FOLDER

1. getting stock boot.img from stock rom.
extract your stock rom with winrar or 7zip. you will see boot.img there. copy it to working folder

2. getting custom boot.img from custom kernel.

• download any custom kernel which is only for your device. [galaxy ace plus [s7500] users get from here or here]
• extract it with winrar or 7zip and copy boot.img to working folder

NOTE: many of new devices have kernel.bin and other files instead of boot.img so skip this part if your device don't have it...

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watch this amazing tutorial by neroyoung on how to editing rom with kitchen
NOTE: DON'T FORGET TO DEODEX YOUR ROM

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• Adding/removing applications
  1. Go to the working folder where you extracted your rom, inside you will find:
  
  
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  2. Then go to "system/app" inside this folder you will find all the rom applications(apks) you may also find some in the data folder if your rom has this folder.
  3. Copy, replace, and change any app(apk) be carefull if you dont know what the apk is do not delete!!
  LIST OF APPS YOU CAN DELETE - HERE OR HERE
  If you can not find some apps in this guide then try opening all those app in your phone and see app name and icon or move those apps from system/app to sdcard and see what is not working...
  
• Adding new boot animation
  android kitchen doesn't works for this in Samsung phones. So we need a different method.
  1) Download and extract the bootanimation and samsungani file from Custom Booting.zip attached in first post.
  2) Put them in the /system/bin folder and replace the existing files there
  3) Now download any boot animation, and rename the bootanimation to “sanim.zip”.
  4) Now, navigate to /system/media and replace the “ODEanim” with “sanim.zip”
  You are done with the bootanimation change
  
• customizing the theme
  1. replace stock launcher with launchers like nova launcher
  2. theming using uot kitchen (fonts, status bar, batery and other icons etc

  
  watch this amazing toutorial by jdlogan151
  

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• Edit the gps script for your country/location
  1. In the workingfolder/system/etc/ you will find a file named gps.conf, you can
  edit this file with notepad++ or even word.
  2. using the right gps script in this file can speed up gps lock, you can
  find some from angeldeath, download extract and replace the gps.conf.
  
  
  
  
• Adding ringtones :
  
  
  • Take your ringtone file...it should be in .ogg format..If not then convert it to .ogg..
  • Locate to the folder system>media>audio>ringtones>
  • Copy and paste your .ogg files here in ringtones folder..
  • You can also change notifications, alarm and UI tones like this..
• Changing the Fonts :
  
  
  • Take your desired font.ttf file and rename it as DroidSans.ttf..
  • Locate to the folder system>fonts>
  • Now, replace the file DroidSans.ttf with your desired DoridSans.ttf...
  • To change the lock screen clock font...replace the Clocktopia.ttf with your desired one..(rename first)..
• build.prop tweaks!!
  check this or this or this post for build.prop
  NOTE: EDIT BUILD.PROP WITH NOTEPAD++. SIMPLE NOTEPAD WILL CORRUPT THE FILE.
  
  
• adding mods and scripts...
  download mods and scripts from links below and copy past all files in same folder as your rom... like for init.d scripts add them to system/etc/init.d/here and all permissions in updater script to your updater script...(dont forget to give them credit for it...)
  links:-
  
  
  • [TweakZV6] Init.d best tweaks[Flashable] Increase your performance by st@matis
  • Collection build.prop; init.d; etc. by optik19918
  • init.d Tweaks collection by dsexton702
  • [SCRIPTS][TWEAKS][CWM]SlaidyBoost-V2.3 by slaid480
  • [CWM][SCRIPTS][TWEAKS] Adrenaline™ Engine by ImbaWind
  • V6 SuperCharger by zeppelinrox
  • [SCRIPTS]CronMod-A2SD/D2EXT/INT2EXT by croniccorey
  • Xloud and Bravia engine by aiman112
  • AwesomeBEATS™ v.3 by ...Awesome...
  • (MOD)Beats Audio(2.3+up) by RockoDev
  • Tuned MegaBassBeat by kurotsugi
  • Maximum MultiTasking Mods + V6 SuperCharger BY zeppelinrox
  • [AROMA] Beats Mode - Enhanced Beats sound V7.5 by MemAllocatoR
  • Interactive Phone Modification [GUIDE]
  • ICS Style 'Settings.apk' - Make it yourself by balamu96m
  • StatusBar Tweaks by Master&Slave™
  • Change lockrings on any rom by daveyannihilation
  • change ICS lockscreen animation to Honeycomb style by evilisto
  • S Voice for any devices [ICS] by PlaYOuT
  • Implement Swipe to Remove Notification by hansip87
  • Remove SMS log from Call log by wilfredcool007
  • Activate the rotation of the lockscreen by GalaxyUser
  • How to use AROMA INSTALLER in any ROM/MOD by pankaj88
  • All in one tweaks build.prop,init.d,Wifi,Xloud,Bravia,A-Gps,A/V Sync,Modules by XtremePeople
  • Add 6 lockscreens Mod + Lockscreen Gestures by pratyush.creed
  • How to add customizable 14 statusbar toggle buttons for samsung ROM by lidroid
  • Create a custom notification dropdown by jeffsanace
    
    these are few i love, find more yourself...
  
  
  
  
• MORE WILL BE ADDED SOON...

• editing .apk files
  

  THERE ARE TWO BEST TOOLS FOR EDITING .APK FILES
  

  1. APKTOOLS
  This video by neroyoung teaches you how to setup APKTOOL folder as well as teaches you how to edit .apk files.
  

  
  2. APK Manager
  this video by adgoosuc teaches you How to unpack,repack and sign an APK File with APK Manager
  

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  [*]Editing .JAR Files
  

  In this video by neroyoung you will get information on how to edit .jar files like services.jar using APKTOOL.
  

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  [*]THEMEING .apk FILE
  
  
  HERE IS A AWESOME TUTORIAL BY Andrewtst FOR THEMEING ANY .apk FILE.
  
  for porting themes:
  1. download and extract theme you want to port.
  2. open both apk(base and port) in 7zip/winrar
  3. drag and replace png files with same name
  this works with only png files not with xml and others
  
  FOR THEMING YOUR ROM YOU CAN EDIT framework-res.apk AND GET MANY COOL THINGS
  LIKE you can change smiles, default wallpaper, default lockscreen wallpaper, add 14 toggle mod and many cool things...
  for that use Framework Flasher or apktools or any other tool and do changes manually.
  
  CHECK THIS GUIDE BY dully79 TO KNOW WHICH FILES YOU CAN MODIFY AND HOW.
  
  HERE ARE FEW MORE COOL GUIDES -
  ICS Style 'Settings.apk' BY balamu96m
  Implement Swipe to Remove Notification BY hansip87
  add customizable 14 statusbar toggle buttons for samsung ROM BY lidroid
  
  
  FOR MORE SEARCH MORE...

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• CHANGING HARD KEY FUNCTION (REMAPPING BUTTON)
  
  

  1. open /system/usr/keylayout/[phone model]-keypad.kl with notepad++
  (Some phone may have different names, but it will always end with "keypad.kl)
  it will look like this --

  Code:

  # Copyright (c) 2011, Code Aurora Forum.
  #
  # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  # You may obtain a copy of the License at
  #
  # [url]http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0[/url]
  #
  # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  # limitations under the License.
  #
  
  #
  key 2     1
  key 3     2
  key 4     3
  key 5     4
  key 6     5
  key 7     6
  key 8     7
  key 9     8
  key 10    9
  key 11    0
  key 158   BACK              WAKE_DROPPED
  key 230   HOME              WAKE
  key 60    SOFT_RIGHT        WAKE
  key 62    ENDCALL           WAKE_DROPPED
  key 229   MENU         WAKE_DROPPED
  key 59    MENU         WAKE_DROPPED
  key 139   MENU              WAKE_DROPPED
  key 228   POUND
  key 227   STAR
  key 231   CALL              WAKE_DROPPED
  key 61    CALL              WAKE_DROPPED
  key 232   DPAD_CENTER       WAKE_DROPPED
  key 108   DPAD_DOWN         WAKE_DROPPED
  key 103   DPAD_UP           WAKE_DROPPED
  key 102   ENDCALL           WAKE_DROPPED
  key 105   DPAD_LEFT         WAKE_DROPPED
  key 106   DPAD_RIGHT        WAKE_DROPPED
  key 115   VOLUME_UP         WAKE
  key 114   VOLUME_DOWN         WAKE
  key 212   SLASH
  key 213   DEL               WAKE_DROPPED
  key 355   DEL               WAKE_DROPPED
  
  key 16    Q
  key 17    W
  key 18    E
  key 19    R
  key 20    T
  key 21    Y
  key 22    U
  key 23    I
  key 24    O
  key 25    P
  
  key 30    A
  key 31    S
  key 32    D
  key 33    F
  key 34    G
  key 35    H
  key 36    J
  key 37    K
  key 38    L
  key 14    DEL
          
  key 44    Z
  key 45    X
  key 46    C
  key 47    V
  key 48    B
  key 49    N
  key 50    M
  key 51    COMMA
  key 52    PERIOD
  key 28    ENTER
          
  key 56    ALT_LEFT
  key 42    SHIFT_LEFT
  key 215   AT
  key 57    SPACE
  key 53    SLASH
  key 127   SYM
  key 100   ALT_RIGHT
  
  key 399   GRAVE

  
  HERE YOU WILL FIND 3 ROWS...
  

  1. As you can see, there are different attributes assigned to each key. like this
  

  Code:

  key 102   HOME
  key 139   MENU
  key 158   BACK
  key 115   VOLUME_UP
  key 114   VOLUME_DOWN

  
  2. Specific application/action launchers:
  

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  HOME                     #Launches "Home"
  MENU                     #Launches "Menu"
  BACK                     #Takes you back to the last activity
  SEARCH                   #Launches "Universal Search"
  CALL                     #Launches the "Phone" activity and corresponding .apk or initiates a call
  ENDCALL                  #Ends a call
  CAMERA                   #Launches "Camera" activity and corresponding .apk
  FOCUS                    #Initiates Auto-Focus while using the Camera
  VOLUME_UP                #Self explanatory
  VOLUME_DOWN              #Self explanatory

  
  3. And attributes saying if it should wake the phone at button push to complete the action, or if it should just complete the action without waking the screen.
  

  Code:

  WAKE                 #Completes the action without waking the screen
  WAKE_DROPPED         #Wakes the phone to complete the action

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  2. NOW WE WILL EDIT SECOND AND/OR THIRD ROW
  Erase the center row value for any key to completely disable it. To reassign the key, replace the center row value with another one from the same row. Change the right row value to either "WAKE" or blank to enable the wake function. Do not modify the left row.
  NOTE: don't edit left row i.e. first row which contains specific key identity number.
  
  FOR EXAMPLE I DO THESE CHANGES
  DEFAULT VALUES ---
  

  Code:

  key 115   VOLUME_UP         WAKE
  key 114   VOLUME_DOWN       WAKE

  
  CHANGED VALUES ---
  

  Code:

  key 115   CAMERA         WAKE
  key 114   FOCUS          WAKE

  
  NOW VOLUME UP KEY WILL WORK AS CAMERA KEY AND VOLUME DOWN KEY WILL WORK AS FOCUS KEY....
  NOTE: all words should be in BOLD letters i.e. capital letters...

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• MORE COMING SOON