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[DISCONTINUED][UB][UNOFFICIAL]BeanStalk-4.4.285

MrGezz

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I to present to you the BeanStalk Rom created by Beanstalk Team. This is a build composed off of the 4.4 builds he has added a lot of features on top of it. So you get speed, stability, ultimate battery life and ultra customization ability. Many of the additional code additions came from Slim ROM and also Derteufels build and have been modified. A huge thanks to them for their work and dedication. Also a big thanks to everyone involved with CM and OpenSEMC as that is the building stone in this project.

Feature List....

Note : Some of enlisted Features are yet to be merged as there is huge work in progress in kitkat

  • CM based
  • Insane amount of edits/tweaks/fixes to make this build absolutely fly
  • Ultimate battery life through optimizations
  • HALO))) 2.0
  • Multi Window
  • Active Display
  • Lockscreen background options (Color fill, Custom image, Transparent)
  • Customizable Lockscreen text color
  • Lockscreen rotation
  • Option to enable all widgets
  • Minimize lockscreen challange
  • Use widget carousel
  • Slider Shortcuts
  • Static Lockscreen shortcuts
  • Lockscreen button actions
  • LCD Density
  • Scroll elasticity options
  • Default App grip option
  • Custom Carrier label
  • Dual Pane options
  • Customizable boot animation (off, default, set your own bootanimation)
  • Custom original BeanStalk Wallpapers by skyliner33v
  • Custom BeanStalk bootanimation by skyliner33v
  • Status bar color and transparency
  • Clock and date options which includes color, location, style
  • Signal Styles which include color and text instead of icons, alternate GB signal layout, hide signal icons
  • Breathing SMS option
  • Battery styles - Includes specific colors and styles. Also includes battery bar
  • Do not disturb option
  • Show notification count
  • Pie controls (need to have lockscreen background set to something other then default to work correctly (dont ask why) )
  • Fully customizable navigation bar - Includes style, layout, color, nav rings, pretty much everything you can think of.
  • Quick settings color settings, tiles per row, Quick pulldown, text color
  • Notification shortcuts, behaviour, drawer style (customizable colors), toggle colors, longpress quicksettings icon to enable/disable toggles
  • Keyboard and input method options which include disable full screen keyboard and auto rotate
  • Kil app back button with customizable timeout values
  • High end graphic effects option
  • option to disable/enable vibrate on expand for notifications alerts
  • Low battery warning customizable options
  • Recents RAM bar fully customizable with color styles
  • Clock widget for LockClock including extra options to fully customize every feature of the lockclock
  • Build.prop MOD options to enable/disable tweaks as preferred
  • Less frequent Notification sounds options
  • CRT screen off/on options to specify how the animation shows
  • Enable/disable wake up on charge option
  • Superuser fully embedded into the build and accessed from settings menu
  • CM Performance options and features
  • About BeanStalk option with links to github source and facebook for beanstalk. Also links to my twitter and donate.
  • option to use a fully themable MMS packages. You can access from mms - settings - theme settings
  • Numerous other options hidding throughout the build

Known Bugs
  • HDMI does not work
  • No FM Radio
  • CPU 1 always offline
  • pop up that asking for reboot on each start up (just ignore the warning and don't click restart)

Credits go to
  • RaymanFX
  • scott.hart.bti
  • deedwar

sources
device tree
kernel

XDA:DevDB Information
[DISCONTINUED]Beanstalk KitKat, ROM for the Sony Xperia Ion

Contributors
MrGezz
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x
ROM Firmware Required: Unlocked Bootloader

Version Information
Status: Testing

Created 2014-02-07
Last Updated 2014-08-28
 

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Downloads & Changelogs

Downloads
1st released
beanstalk 4.4.247
BeanStalk-4.4.249
BeanStalk-4.4.251
BeanStalk-4.4.278
BeanStalk-4.4.285

UPON UPDATING>>>>just wipe dalvic after flashing ,

GAPPS

Rom Changelogs
BeanStalk-4.4.285
-sync with latest beanstalk repos
-change ro.sf.lcd_density=320 to ro.sf.lcd_density=240
-deodex again

BeanStalk-4.4.251
-odex
-sync with latest beanstalk repos

BeanStalk-4.4.249
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2014/02/12
-fix the screen flickering on most apps (report if still there)
-include cm-file manager
-pre-active script
-remove some un-usefull apss

2014/02/06
-initial release



Beanstalk Changelogs
 
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Instruction&Info

Coming from Stock / other AOSP Roms
  • Wipe Caches + Data / Factory Reset
  • Install Rom
  • Install Gapps
  • Reboot

Some Info
  • this rom have already included xposed , so it is not recommended to use ART
  • if the init.d doesn't stick after reboot , download busybox installer from playstore and replace the preinstalled one
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experiment the ROM before asking question

Detail Instruction
Code:
[LIST=1]
[*]make sure you're unlocked bootloader
[*]download the zip
[*]extract boot.img from the zip
[*]copy the zip to your phone memory
[*]turn off your phone
[*]turn on flashtool and enter fastboot mode
[*]connect your device to your laptop/computer while holding power up button to enter fastboot mode
[*]select kernel to flash (pick the boot.img that have been extract from the device) (you will get TWRP recovery after flashing this kernel)
[*]reboot your phone using the button/option in flashtool / or manually reboot yourself
[*]hold power up button to enter recovery (TWRP)
[*]In TWRP , mount all
[*]factory reset ,
[*]reboot back to recovery (because you can't format the system) <-- happen to me
[*]after reboot to recovery again (in TWRP again)
[*]mount all , and this time you can format system
[*]then you should flash the zip ..and reboot system
[*]after the reboot , it's up to you whether to flash Gapps or not .
[/LIST]
 
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xperia_ion

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The RAM bar is wrong. The free RAM section is wrongly labelled as used RAM. 407MB is the amount of RAM used.

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how to fix it ?

edit: yeah its a bug. ive notice it when i check my ram usage in Clean Master. thanks to @lee480
 
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parthv21

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Dose this rom support screen record? And what are the features that are missing from the rom? Cause in the op it says a few features missing..
And what are the known bugs here??
Is it pre rooted?

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lee480

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There's several bugs that I noticed.



Selecting Advanced Settings will fc the settings app.




Might not be clear in this pic, but the icons circled is blurred and isn't fitted for our screen's resolution.