[Q] how to cook a rom for the x10i

1eyedmonster

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hi i notice alot of the devs a waving farewell to there x10's but i love my machine and hope that devs carry on developing as long as possible! sooooo i am thinking of cooking my own rom but have no idea how is there a tutorial on how to do this or if any one could give me some pointers???:D
 

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lesson no. 1

you need the base files...

you can get it from?
1. a nandroid backup of your own device

2. a pc companion blob

3. someone else's rom

4. an ftf file



option 3 is best usually :)
option 2 and 4 are worst...and anyways can be used only for stock based roms

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championswimmer

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lesson 2

how to extract files

1. if its a .sin file, use sin2img.exe by azuzu or sin2img.py by defer and continue to step 2

2. if its a .img file, get unyaffs.exe (or get the whole xperia rom manager package) and use it to extract

3. if its a zip...well....what do you need then? nothing

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championswimmer

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lesson no 3

thre is a thread in dev section written by spaarc which is about porting roms (its 80% complete...lol)

though it may not pertain to you, if you are not porting cm7/miui but still that's a very informative thread...read it thoroughly

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1eyedmonster

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first question is how do you do a nandroid backup of my own device? secondly i cant seem to find sin2img.exe is there a specific site or maybe a link hint hint
 
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And..a bit problem here...I like the DonutHd2 lockscreen clock..
And my question is, what the file name? And is that possible to ad this thing to cm7 based rom? Because I like cm7 because it has screenshot ...
Please someone make it cleat for noob like me
Thanks ...
 

championswimmer

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And..a bit problem here...I like the DonutHd2 lockscreen clock..
And my question is, what the file name? And is that possible to ad this thing to cm7 based rom? Because I like cm7 because it has screenshot ...
Please someone make it cleat for noob like me
Thanks ...
framework-res.apk contains clock fonts :)

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