[ROM] Clear Wind RC2 - RELEASED! (For Wind for now)

[morrislee]

Version RC1 based on Wind 1.46.1500.3.

This ROM is designed for Wind variant only, READ EVERYTHING before flashing

I worked very hard to write the update.zip script and modifing the stock ROM to do this as flawless as possible. I am also providing my own direct mirrors at my own expenses
Everything is done practically from scratch, so any donations will be appreciated!

Boot partition (kernel) will not be touched or included in this ROM, so Wind users can safely flash away!

Features:
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deodexed
zipaligned on boot
1% battery steps notification icon
overscroll glow (white)
disabled capacitive button lights
allows it to go to mininal brightness when dark enough (autobrightness)
minimum clock speed to 192MHz from stock 384MHz to save battery
my build.prop tweaks
blocked ads
DSP Manager
removed some bloat
removed Wind's bootanimation (that was ugly as hell....)
disable ext4 journaling
sd cache to 2048 to improve speed
updated crap loads of system apps
I am probably missing a few more, can't remember all

Planned Features:
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30 Media Steps (done)
Transparent Scrollbars so it does not look so "old" (done)
CRT off animation (done, thanks to heyjoe66!)
Webkit text reflow disabled by default (looking into this)
Fix garbled camera preview and video playback (looking into this)
* done means will be added to next release

Bugs:
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- Mail cannot start and FC every time due to some hard coded lines in Mail.apk, it requires an odexed framework. FIXED IN RC2
- If you are coming from another custom ROM, you must nand restore to original or RUU to global. Otherwise, you will get codec issues for lines in videos and camera previews.


Install instructions:
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Unlock bootloader
Install TWRP recovery
Nand backup (boot, system)
Flash Clear Wind zip
Reboot

If you are coming from another custom ROM:
Use hasoon2000's toolkit and install original Wind's kernel or flash RUU
Install TWRP recovery
Nand backup (boot, system)
Flash Clear Wind zip
Reboot

Downloads:
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Clear Wind RC2: forumdoandroid.com
Clear Wind RC1: forumdoandroid.com

Add on's:
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N/A

Report any problems on here, or PM me

Screenshots:
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Remember to click thanks if you like this!

 

[xTristinx]

Nice

Seems Legit. Im in need for the Wind stock ruu and cant find it but this seems like it would work

 

[morrislee]

Seems Legit. Im in need for the Wind stock ruu and cant find it but this seems like it would work

I will be deploying through fastboot, no need to flash custom recovery theoretically. And the deployment only flashes the system partition, I also have a stock unmodified version of system(not even rooted) so you can always go back to stock if necessary.

So all you need is unlocked bootloader, but you can always relock it after you reflash my stock system.img through fastboot

 

[yo2boy]

I'm willing to beta test it

(Side note: I'm in the need of the stock wind rom, hope you have it )

 

[krook6023]

Seems Legit. Im in need for the Wind stock ruu and cant find it but this seems like it would work

You can find the most recent WIND/GlobaLive RUU's and most others in my public Dev-Host folder (linked below). I uploaded them here because if was very hard to get an open download slot at FileFactory.com (used by Football & TMartin) Dev-Host has been reliable me (I donated a little $$ to them as well, so we can all have easy access to these files).

***I got all of these RUU's from Football & TMartin except Globalive 1.46.1500.3 which is from bbs.gfan.com (Chinese Web Site)***​

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/krook6023/RUU_Ruby/​

***I got all of these RUU's from Football & TMartin except Globalive 1.46.1500.3 which is from bbs.gfan.com (Chinese Web Site)***​

 

[morrislee]

Turns out, you can't use fastboot to flash images that big.... I am not sure how RUU could. I searched it up, seems like a lot of RUU's are having the same issues.

You will need to use custom recovery, for this one, I chose TWRP. (might work with CWM)

It is in your best interest to do a nand backup for now with your stock unmodified system because I never tried RUU if it can fully recover. I can provide the stock recovery image later so you can restore using custom recovery and flash the original recovery image via fastboot then relock, no need RUU at this point.

 

[Double0EK]

You flash RUUs by renaming it to P85IMG.ZIP (correct me if I'm wrong) have it on your sdcard (don't remember if Internal or external) then boot into HBoot. It will find the file and flash it. Not sure if you must relock your bootloader or not.

Wait....I sent this with Tapatalk?

 

[morrislee]

You flash RUUs by renaming it to P85IMG.ZIP (correct me if I'm wrong) have it on your sdcard (don't remember if Internal or external) then boot into HBoot. It will find the file and flash it. Not sure if you must relock your bootloader or not.

Wait....I sent this with Tapatalk?

Yeah, I am aware of the process, but it is just that i found some other HTC devices getting the errors. I am not sure how RUU handles the process, even renaming it to "P85IMG.ZIP" might end up extracting the img files inside, one of them being system.img.

for the global RUU's, they come in exe format, I think it walks you through the process to restore it, but I never did.

 

[Double0EK]

Have you tried adb commands?



Wait....I sent this with Tapatalk?

 

[morrislee]

Have you tried adb commands?



Wait....I sent this with Tapatalk?

Pretty sure within recovery, I can adb shell and use dd to copy it over, but it will require 1.5GB + on the sdcard for the uncompressed system.img. so yeah, that is why i made the update zip instead, easier for people to use. If they are required to use custom recovery, might aswell make it easy for them

 

[Vadimus_ca]

ClearWindRC1.zip - size: 1245184 bytes [modified date: 04/17/2012 02:08:59]

Is it correct file to download?

 

[sglscovill]

Just tried to download and it was incomplete every attempt. Not sure if this would make a difference, but I was downloading with my Amaze. Will try again when I get home.

 

[morrislee]

Just tried to download and it was incomplete every attempt. Not sure if this would make a difference, but I was downloading with my Amaze. Will try again when I get home.

I am not sure what happened. Reuploading it again

 

[sglscovill]

I would hit you up with a thanks, mine are all used up for today. Will owe it up tomorrow. The picture looks great though! Nice and tidy rom. I too can not stand the boot animation and all the bloat from the stock rom.

 

[Vadimus_ca]

No camera (lines instead of live image), no WiFi (error), no Exchange Sync (force close).

Wiped /data - still no success.

What's wrong? What kernel do I need?

 

[morrislee]

No camera (lines instead of live image), no WiFi (error), no Exchange Sync (force close).

Wiped /data - still no success.

What's wrong? What kernel do I need?

Because you are using a Wind variant, and you have installed a custom ROM with custom kernel not supported by Wind variant. you need to use the toolkit to flash Wind's kernel and flash Clear Wind again

 

[Vadimus_ca]

Because you are using a Wind variant, and you have installed a custom ROM with custom kernel not supported by Wind variant. you need to use the toolkit to flash Wind's kernel and flash Clear Wind again

Can you point out where can I find a stock 1.46.1500.3 kernel?

BTW I flashed [Kernel]Amaze[2.6.35.13](v009)OC~1.73/JRCU/UV/CIFS+UTF-8/Power Saving[Mar-13] kernel now.

WiFi is now working, but still no camera/Exchange.
Are you sure Exchange force close can be kernel-related?

 

[morrislee]

Can you point out where can I find a stock 1.46.1500.3 kernel?

BTW I flashed [Kernel]Amaze[2.6.35.13](v009)OC~1.73/JRCU/UV/CIFS+UTF-8/Power Saving[Mar-13] kernel now.

WiFi is now working, but still no camera/Exchange.
Are you sure Exchange force close can be kernel-related?

Faux's kernel has different video codec handling, your camera or any other video playback in youtube etc in horizontal will look like that until you install the Wind's kernel. You will need toolkit version 3.1, not 3.0 on xda. you can find it on android-dev.us

I am getting FC's on the Mail app too, I think it is the result of deodexed framework. I see lots of other ROMs are having the same issues logged in thedebug monitor. Anything else FC's?

 

[Vadimus_ca]

Faux's kernel has different video codec handling, your camera or any other video playback in youtube etc in horizontal will look like that until you install the Wind's kernel. You will need toolkit version 3.1, not 3.0 on xda. you can find it on android-dev.us

I am getting FC's on the Mail app too, I think it is the result of deodexed framework. I see lots of other ROMs are having the same issues logged in thedebug monitor. Anything else FC's?

No other FC so far.

Just flashed stock kernel. No go, still lines in camera.
Wiped data, system, cache.
Trying to reinstall the rom.

UPD
Performed a clean reinstall. Epic fail.

 

[yo2boy]

Same here, getting lines in the camera. Everything else works fine (besides mail FC)