[Q] how to cook a rom for the x10i

[1eyedmonster]

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???

 

[championswimmer]

wait...I'll tell u... when I'm at home...now on road

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[NuriJ]

wait...I'll tell u... when I'm at home...now on road

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Please don't tell at pm, post here so everyone can see

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[championswimmer]

yes of course

I'll post here only

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[championswimmer]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[championswimmer]

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

nandroid backup =.xrecovey/cwm backup

search "azuzu tools" on google
or "xperia rom manager"

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[championswimmer]

lesson 4

read as much as possible about amend/edify script...

without that script, your rom cannot be installed... that script defines the "flashing" process

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[championswimmer]

lesson 5

get accustomed with adb, and logcat....

these are an Android developer's foremost tools

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[1eyedmonster]

Is that azuzu small tools?

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[laneyofdeath]

No this is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979912

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[1eyedmonster]

Trying to get my head around it think im getting there had oodies permission to use his rom as a base so will try and update to latest miui with my added tweaks exciting

 

[nelikp]

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]

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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[nelikp]

Can u tell me a bit details?
I mean framework -Res.apk /res /drawable /hdpi or somewhere?

 

[championswimmer]

Can u tell me a bit details?
I mean framework -Res.apk /res /drawable /hdpi or somewhere?

maybe drawable-ar or drawable-iw...

I'm not certain...just pull out all files from all folders and see....

it.might be just a font file too

.apk/resources/fonts

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[NuriJ]

Can u tell me a bit details?
I mean framework -Res.apk /res /drawable /hdpi or somewhere?

Open framework-res in winrar, & navigate to /assets/fonts
That's the lockscreen clock fonts..

 

[nelikp]

Thanks...I will try when i have a free