[MOD] 2013 Droid Ultra Family Ghost Patch (obsolete)

[Rottgrub]

The below information is obsolete. Please use the official obake version of CM12 for support on 2013 Droid devices.

A small patch I put together to make the new CM11 Ghost builds work (kinda) on the 2013 Droid Ultra series phones (Mini, Ultra, Maxx). It may also work for other Ghost based ROMs, but I haven't tested this.

So far, it's been lightly tested on the Droid Ultra M (Mini), and Droid Ultra Maxx. No guarantees, but it's been working okay so far for me.

Thanks to @an21281 for testing, and @mainbord for the original Droid Mini bins. Thanks also to the CM team for supporting us without even knowing it. =)

YOU ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL RISKS BY CHOOSING TO USE THIS PATCH
- If it breaks your phone, you get to keep both halves. If it eats your data, not my problem. Etc, etc.
- If you are lazy or like to take shortcuts, definitely don't use this.

Requirements:
- Unlocked bootloader. Phone should be on newest stock bootloader, radio, etc. (4.4.4 currently)
- Philz recovery for ghost: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/ghost/
- CM11 Ghost: CM11 Ghost
- GApps. I use the PA Nano package: PA Gapps

Instructions:
- Boot to recovery, and wipe data and cache.
- Install CM11 Ghost, then GApps, then the patch

Notes:
- This is done in my free time, and isn't something I plan on supporting. If I have time, I may make updates.
- I'm not actually using CM11 on my phone at the moment, so can't test things currently.
- TWRP for ghost doesn't set the right properties. Go bug them.
- The huge "full" GApps packages can fill up /system and break ****.

Changelog:
0.6 - 4.4 bins
0.8 - 4.4.4 bins

** Please search the forum or Google your question before posting. Thanks! **

 

[kitcostantino]

Thank you so much!!

Man, i kept trying to figure out how to rewrite the build.prop and change the binaries to be able to flash the ones that switched to the ghost source. I really, really, appreciate this patch. Maybe with the present state of BL unlock and the super cheap price on the maxx we will actually (for once) see a large amount of development for the msm8960dt branch and not just be limited to the ghost builds. thank you for this, again.

 

[an21281]

Thanks for taking the time to make this patch, everything has been working perfectly so far!

 

[Rottgrub]

Man, i kept trying to figure out how to rewrite the build.prop and change the binaries to be able to flash the ones that switched to the ghost source. I really, really, appreciate this patch. Maybe with the present state of BL unlock and the super cheap price on the maxx we will actually (for once) see a large amount of development for the msm8960dt branch and not just be limited to the ghost builds. thank you for this, again.

Glad to hear it's working for you.

At least as far as the Maxx goes, all the heavy lifting was done by the CM11 folks.

The patch for the maxx is one binary file for the button lights, two simple configs, and a few lines in build.prop.

I'll be curious if the patch works for the plain Ultra.

 

[mainbord]

Glad to hear it's working for you.

At least as far as the Maxx goes, all the heavy lifting was done by the CM11 folks.

The patch for the maxx is one binary file for the button lights, two simple configs, and a few lines in build.prop.

I'll be curious if the patch works for the plain Ultra.

Droid mini CM, keys and sound works!

 

[Johnny Wong]

This patch is going to be very useful if Lollipop is going to integrate the best of Motorola. This means I'll be able to flash CM ghost and still have native active display or whatever it is called in the Nexus 6. At that point, the customs ROMs will actually be relevant to the Moto X and Droid Maxx.


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[Rottgrub]

Droid mini CM, keys and sound works!

Great! Thanks for getting the ball rolling! Guessing you figured out the camera problem you were having? (I was guessing maybe a gapps issue with the Google Camera?).

 

[mainbord]

Problem with camera was in 19oct nightly, i installed 21 oct build and it works. Sorry for my english.

 

[Rottgrub]

Problem with camera was in 19oct nightly, i installed 21 oct build and it works. Sorry for my english.

Your English is fine. Thanks for the warning about that build date.

 

[rob0809]

So when CM has a lollipop build (CM12?), we might be able to use this patch and have the Google version of Active (Ambient) Display? The only thing that keeps me from running CM is lack of a smooth working Active Display. This would be great news!

 

[nubia11]

What happened to half of the pages in this thread

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[Rottgrub]

What happened to half of the pages in this thread

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I asked the mods to clean up the off topic posts. The posts removed were requests for information either already contained in the first post, or easily found with a quick Google search. Unfortunately, these sorts of posts contribute nothing to the discussion, and make it hard for readers to find actual data when/if they have problems.

That said, I'm glad people were able to help you out. Have you had any luck getting it working?

 

[nubia11]

No. I'm not sure if I can use twrp ghost on my XT1080.... If so I will try it and let you / others

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No. I'm not sure if I can use twrp ghost on my XT1080.... If so I will try it and let you / others know

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[nubia11]

It isn't working... Here is what I get... "This package is for device xt1056" also... Error executing updater binary in zip/sdcard/cmghost/cm-11 11 20141023-nightly..........and so on. Any ideas?

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[nubia11]

I'm just wondering if maybe I didn't flash something right. You would think that the patch would go first but I did exactly what was in the op

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[Rottgrub]

I'm just wondering if maybe I didn't flash something right. You would think that the patch would go first but I did exactly what was in the op

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Install Philz CWM recovery. Boot to recovery, and wipe data and cache.
Install CM11 Ghost, then GApps, and only then the patch.

 

[nubia11]

Thank you

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[aneeshmbabu]

I'm getting flashing error

 

[jakereeves31]

I'm getting flashing error

Make sure you're using Philz recovery.

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[aneeshmbabu]

Make sure you're using Philz recovery.

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I'm using twrp , how to flash philz recovery.. I already installed twrp.. Thanks for ur help , step wise help needed for flashing philz recovery.. My model xt1080,droid maxx