[GUIDE]How To Port ROMS to Your Device [AOSP]

Sakthivel_Subbiah

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Can i able to port sony xperia m dual stock rom to my micromax A74 canvas fun using these steps ? Both having similar specs except NFC and ram is 1gb..
Micromax A74 is MTK6572 cpu and running on stock jellybean 4.2.2 ROOTED .... Thanks in advance....
 

Mohammad Hashir

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Assalam o Alaikum,
I have Motorola Droid Pro..

Can I use CM7 for Droid Pro as a Base and CM10 for hTC Wildfire S as a Port..?? There is only a difference of processors, Droid Pro has 1ghz and Wildfire S has 600mhz.. Some other differences are also there but they can be ignored like Bluetooth 2.1 vs Bluetooth 3.0..
 

ArjunrambZ

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Can i able to port sony xperia m dual stock rom to my micromax A74 canvas fun using these steps ? Both having similar specs except NFC and ram is 1gb..
Micromax A74 is MTK6572 cpu and running on stock jellybean 4.2.2 ROOTED .... Thanks in advance....
porting a stock rom is a helljob...
and this guide is only for AOSP

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mubeen_94

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hey, I'm trying to port Samsung galaxy s4 shv-e330s 's stock 4.4.2 ROM to Samsung galaxy s4 i9506.........basically the same devices but they may have different modems, ril, acdbs and kernel...........could you please guide me?
 

ArjunrambZ

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hey, I'm trying to port Samsung galaxy s4 shv-e330s 's stock 4.4.2 ROM to Samsung galaxy s4 i9506.........basically the same devices but they may have different modems, ril, acdbs and kernel...........could you please guide me?
regarding kernal, at first try using any kernel from ur device specific one, and flash the rom, but im unaware about the change of two phones, so basically follow the guide and port it, if boots then u may be lucky, if not then tryn replacing all the ril.libs from ur phone
 

mubeen_94

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regarding kernal, at first try using any kernel from ur device specific one, and flash the rom, but im unaware about the change of two phones, so basically follow the guide and port it, if boots then u may be lucky, if not then tryn replacing all the ril.libs from ur phone
What about the adbs?? This will be the first time I'll be doing this and I'm a complete novice, so I'm taking every measure very carefully. Could you just search about the two devices and help me out. Also, could you guide me about the kernels and where can I find them?

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ouro898

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I tried the method and it worked perfectly, mostly. The only problem is that apps aren't starting up on boot. I have certain apps like Tasker and Swapps that I need to start up after rebooting (obviously). Plus, Hangouts always turn off the SMS feature, and this also happens after reboot. How do I go about this? Do you have any fix for this? I'd greatly appreciate your help.
 

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Update or Help needed

I will be glad if this thread is updated to support CM 11 (Android 4.4.x) because i have successfully followed the steps involved and successfully ported on to my device but am just stacked in bootloops for years, I dont know if something is missing somewhere else, i guess from above because I dont remember missing a step :eek:.
A lot of commitments has happened since Android 4.4.x

Bootloops
TwistedKat from HTC One S onto HTC Desire HD
OmniROMs from Samsung Galaxy SIII and SIII mini onto HTC Desire HD
ParanoidAndroid from Nexus 4 onto HTC Desire HD

Still Testing.... Other AOSP ROMS...

Anyway thanks for your time in providing this awesome guide.
 
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taha_e

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This guide is great specially if some sources are not available to be clear could someone explain for me
I have galaxy camera and would like to have cyanogenmod 11 on my device but no source available, the most close device i guess is galaxy s3
so is it possible to pick a S3 rom of cyanogen and port it to galaxy camera by this method?
 

uinod3

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karbonn titanium x

Code:
/*
 * ~ DO READ THIS BEFORE ATTEMPTING~
 
 * Iam not here to guarantee any successful PORTING. nor i am responsible
   for bricked devices, dead SD cards, or a broken device. YOU are
   choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger
   at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you. But I will try
   my best to explain all the necessities, so you won't mess up your Device.
 *
   ~END
*/

Hello XDA'S Today i'm back with a useful guide/tutorial for ANDROID ROM PORTING

may have tried porting roms to their phones and has been succefull but most of the case is that we being end up in bootloops or cwm errors

So i'm dedicating this post for all users how are having a craze of rom porting or for atleast those wgo wanted to try rom porting

SO LETS START


And lastly Before you a port a ROM, make sure you asked permission from the Developer!


Hi sir i am using "Karbonn Titanium x" mobile..... (Mt6589t chip set)
i have sucessfully flashed a rom by port with my stock rom....
but the problem is with resolution...
the icons and apps are very small in my mobile...and data in each app is very small like keypad, dile pad, messaging every thing was too small......
how to increase the resolution are resize the apps....?
please help me there is no manifacters for this rom so i tried to port rom....
please solve my problem











































HERE THE BASIC ROM PORTING IS OVER BUT FOR SOME SPECIFIC COSTUME ROMS WE NEED LITTLE MORE STUFFS TO WORK ON ,THEY ARE SHOWN BELOW

ONLY FOR MIUI ROMS :




FOR ParanoidAndroid And PAC:



Specially For PAC Rom:


FOR SPECIFIC MANUFACTURE DEVICE





IF YOUR BASE ROM HAS ISSUES LIKE CAMERA ISSUE THAN YOUR PORTED ROM TOO WILL HAVE ISSUES.

NOW ZIP YOUR ROM AND POST IT BUT DON'T FORGET TO GIVE CREDITS TO THE DEVELOPER OF PORT ROM..

TROUBLESHOOTING AFTER SUCCEFULL PORT

After a succefull port also there can be many bugs present which has to soved logically
here are somethings which can help in DEBUGGING

1) IF GALLERY FC :
open the system/framework and find framework-res.apk file[can use any extracting app]
in both the roms and go to res folder then to xml subfolder and copy and replace the storage_list.xml file from source to port rom
( framework-res.apk\res\xml\storage_list.xml)





Credits & Thanks to

# rishabh.raj37
# Peteragent5



Happy porting! :cowboy::cowboy::cowboy:
:laugh:
 

sugarkane87

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I'm trying to port PA 4.6 and use cm11 as base, the rom is booted up but the camera is missing in homescreen or in app drawer and checking to setting>apps>all the camera is present . Try to install 3rd party camera app, can't open it. Any ideas guys?
 
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