[ROM][JB][4.1.2][Discontinued] Pristine JB All Languages v4.0

ThaiDai · Nov 16, 2013

Pristine JB All Languages v4.0
Slim version (removed bloatware and some apps) and Full version available

Thread is discontinued. I do not think that there will be updates for TW based Roms on N7000. And I switched to the Nexus 7 2013 LTE and so no more Custom Roms.

Latest Downloads restored (on 16th Nov 2013):
Hotfile: Pristine_XXLC1_v1.0.1 MD5 50964f7909b22d7a1ede92f84d51f8a8
Hotfile: Pristine_XXLT4_v3.0.4_(Slim) MD5 034942a9b5f2d97e48125a97086cf02b

-- Benefits of Slim Pristine ------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Rom is deodexed, zipaligned and rooted (PhilZ Kernel) like usual and was cooked using my tutorial in Post 2.
I removed all bloatware and many apps I do not use or do not like.

Because of this I assume (and I feel) that this results in a fast (at least for a TW based JB), stable Rom. Because of the reduced number of running apps and services you even might have better battery life - but there is no reliable proof for this - it seems only logical. So when I apply a mod/fix/tweak I will only use them if there is no risk for an impact on speed or stability.

What is different or new?
1. I extended the "All languages" by Hebrew. For this I added resources from JB stock for other Samsung devices. Resulted in quite some errors that couldn't be solved by the batches I use but simply by checking it with my own hands.
You can switch to hebrew now - but as told before - you'll need a different keyboard until I found the remaining error.
Everything else works with this language - one exception: gallery - but I assume this is acceptable
2. Of course all the old languages (see the list in OP) are still inside.
3. I release the Slim version first.
4. I removed SamsungChinese_IME_HKTW.apk. So the unsolved error when making a clean install and starting the Rom isn't active anymore. Same as above: have to search for the cause of the error.
5. I didn't add my "android.policy.jar" as workaround for my IMEI problem. Now the Rom contains always the "original" one from XXLT5. I made a CWM-installable zip for me that replaces the android.policy.jar and so I get the SIM Pin dialog and lockscreen etc.

Fixpack 1 v4.0
I replaced Keyboard and File Manager with the apk from my old version 3.2 which didn't contain Hebrew (but of course all other languages). The problems reported by the members (Thanks again) should be solved - at least on my device they are.
Replaced APK: SamsungIME.apk and SecNoteMyFiles.apk

Modpack 1 v4.0
My first three small tweaks I wanted to have without any impact on stability or performance:
- TW Launcher with 7x7 icons (slightly reduced icon size), I like that very much, because TW Launcher is fast and I can use AccuWeather now (in Nova Launcher not possible). And now I understand the structure of the system apk in res folder much better.
- Kmokhtar's theme (but without the additional buttons on top), I like the style of his theme
Modded APK: SecLauncher2.apk and for the theme FlashbarService.apk, SecContacts.apk, SecPhone.apk, SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk

Next steps: Don't know, will have to read and search a bit for more Tweaks I like

-- Pristine JB All Languages v 4.0 (Slim) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dev-Host: Pristine JB All Languages v4.0 (Slim) MD5_fb28cc42b1c4bc4dbc953ce825cfc4b9.zip - 512.46 MB
Seed-Box: Torrent Magnet URI
Hotfile: https://hotfile.com/dl/225568844/4d...MD5_fb28cc42b1c4bc4dbc953ce825cfc4b9.zip.html

Fixpack 1: Fixpack 1 v4.0 MD5_af6feb5a4c1ea7372c9ac635f3ab440c.zip - 5.74 MB
Modpack 1: Modpack 1 v4.0 MD5_6d3029914afc8aad507d5baf5e97af16.zip - 43.01 MB

Reinstall Pack removed apps in v4.0: Dev-Host: Reinstall All Removed Apps v4.0 MD5_debec9e41d9be3a8c946a50f50140f74.zip - 277.95 MB

-- Changelog: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
06.06.2013: Reinstall pack for removed apps in v4.0 added
05.06.2013: First Fixpack and first Modpack added
04.06.2013: OP updated, added hotfile and torrent as download alternative
03.06.2013: v4.0 with All Languages including Hebrew in slim version

-- Installation ------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Check MD5 of your download first.
2. Copy Zip to your SD card.
3. Use safe kernel for installation (PhilZ Kernels).
4. Reboot into recovery of this safe kernel.
5. Clear cache
6. In Advanced: clear dalvik cache
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Next two steps are only necessary when you want to make a clean installation
6a. Factory reset/full wipe
6b Format /system, /preload, /data
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7. Install zip
8. Reboot and configure
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-- Languages in v4.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Combined languages in all (but one) apk from XXLT5 ("Hungary"), XXLT4 (Germany), DDLSC (India), JPLSB (UAE), XXLSZ (Russia), ZSLO2 (China), DXLSE (South East Asia) and Hebrew from devices like Note2, S3, S4
Combined CSC, T9DB, hdic
Modified apk from apps- and framework-folder (that is the ugly part, because it takes time and bloody fingers)
95 csc sets for different countries:
ABS, AFG, AFR, ALO, ARB, AUT, BGL, BRI, BTC, BTU, CEL, COA, CPW, CYO, DAM, DBT, ECT, EGY, ETR, EUR, FOP, FTD, FWD, GLB, HAJ, ILO, INS, INU, ITV, JED, KEN, KOR, KSA, MAT, MED, MID, MIR, MM1, MRT, MSG, MSR, MTN, MWD, NPL, ORS, PAK, PCL, PHE, PTR, SEB, SEK, SER, SIN, SKZ, SLK, SMA, SMO, STH, TDR, TGY, THL, THR, TMC, TML, TOP, TPH, TRA, TSR, TTT, TUN, TUR, TWO, VHC, VIM, VNO, XEF, XEH, XEO, XEU, XEV, XEZ, XFA, XFC, XFE, XFM, XFV, XME, XSE, XSG, XSK, XSP, XTC, XTE, XXV
Display List (from language.xml)
en_GB;ar_AE;az_AZ;bg_BG;ca_ES;cs_CZ;da_DK;de_AT;de_CH;de_DE;el_GR;en_AU;en_IE;en_NZ;en_US;en_ZA;es_ES;es_US;et_EE;eu_ES;f_FI;fa_FA;fr_CH;fr_FR;ga_IE;gl_ES;hr_HR;hu_HU;hy_AM;is_IS;it_IT;ka_GE;kk_KZ;ko_KR;lt_LT;lv_LV;mk_MK;nb_NO;nl_BE;nl_NL;pl_PL;pt_BR;pt_PT;ro_RO;ru_RU;sk_SK;sl_SI;sr_RS;sv_SE;tr_TR;ur_PK;uk_UA;uz_UZ;zh_CN;zh_HK;zh_TW;iw_IL;
Input Support List (from language.xml):
en_GB;ar;az;bg;bn;ca;cs;da;de;el;en_US;es;et;eu;fa;fi;fr;gl;gu;hi;hr;hu;hy;is;it;iw;ka;kk;kn;ko;lt;lv;ml;mr;nb;nl;pa;pl;pt;ro;ru;sk;sl;sr;sv;ta;te;tr;uk;ur;
216 Apps modified (added missing languages to apk)

-- Removed Apps in v4.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Credits ------------------------------------------------------------------------
XDA: for all the tutorials, threads and information here. It was easy to find everything I needed for making a Custom Rom.
eybee1970: no need to explain, he gave me valuable information when I discovered XXLSC on my device and wanted to make dumps.
bangsti: for his support and fast servers, great alternative to my torrents
Phil: for his kernels with recovery etc.
majdinj: for his collection of tutorials
kmokhtar: for his Arya theme
Sammobile.com: thanks for their infos of leaks or official releases

and to a lot of members: writing me PM and offering support or giving hints - even when I didn't or couldn't use them. Thanks, that's community as it should be.

-- Old Changelogs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------

ThaiDai · May 30, 2013

Tutorial Stock to Custom Rom for Galaxy Note (updated 2013/05/30)

Tutorial "Stock2CustomRom": How I made this Custom Rom

Changelog
30.05.2013: Added line to change the API-Level before deodexing from 17 (for 4.2) to 16 (for 4.1.x). In v0.220 API level 16 was the default, 0.223 aims at 4.2 Roms with the default 17.
25.05.2013: Updated, removed "dump" chapters because there are no dumps anymore, switched to explaining using an official release (JB right now), corrected errors.
14.02.2013: Adding updates to tutorial while using it with ZSLM5
09.02.2013: Updated top last version of kitchen, testing with ZCLSD
02.12.2012: Finished first "Release" v1. Waiting for replies and will search for mistakes. But not now.

Introduction
When I got the OTA update to XXSLC I had the idea (no wonder) to make a usable Custom Rom (from now abbreviated to CR) out of it.
But how to do this?
I could've asked for help and a step by step tutorial - PM to some developers or cookers are great - or I could search XDA and try one of the many solutions written down somewhere.
In the IT world I prefer the last one, but I wanted an easy way: a kitchen. Why should I reinvent everything from scratch? Good for my ego, bad for my family.
With the XXLC dump this changed again and with the information that dsixda's Android Kitchen (I call it dAK from here) now will work with the N7000 I was curious again.
And after that I used the tutorial for cooking my Custom Roms from the official JB releases.

Limitations
No branches and options how to do something in different ways will be here - only the one-way-street I use. If you want other options you have to do it yourself and read the original threads with detailed descriptions.
I will not make snapshots for every button press or action - in the beginning I will not make even one of it. Later may be where really necessary.
I try to speak "plain english" - normally I speak "Thai english" - so please do not wonder if I use very simple language - I'm used to it and I didn't study in Oxford or Cambridge.
All steps and explanations are written in detail in the originals or on the web sites. Here you see only what you really need, without telling every "interesting" detail.
Working in Cygwin means you are using Linux, I will not explain all commands I use (like cd, ls, pwd etc.). It's not important here (it's fine to know), only using the kitchen is relevant.

What do we need? Downloads first

How to prepare everything? Installation instructions

Reading and unpacking the Images

Unzip the downloaded JB release. Inside you will find a "tar"-file (this is a linux archive). You have to unpack this one too. Inside there are (for the Note): zImage, cache.img, factoryfs.img, hidden.img and modem.bin.
- factoryfs.img - this /system
- cache.img - containing CSCs (for your country specific settings, providers, apps, languages etc.)
- hidden.img - the /preload partition with more apps, important now because a nice way to save space in /system
- modem.bin - radio
- zImage - not the kernel from the dump but Philz Kernel for your release (or your Custom Rom will not boot). Get the zImage from the zip.
Start the kitchen (Cygwin Icon, cd kitchen, ./menu) as Administrator (then you won't get warnings/errors later in the process)
Type "1", "Enter", "Enter". dAK should show you the "Available ROMs"
Type "1", "Enter" and select the dumped files. You'll see a Note telling you why a rooted kernel is important (we have Philz)
I want to change the name of the "working folder", so I press "y", "Enter" and change the name to "WORKING_THAIDAI". Choose your own folder name or don't change (not change the WORKING_ part, only the part after this!)
dAK will copy zImage and then compiles "simg2img" which it will use for converting the .img-files in a usable format
External Tool "Ext2explore" opens and in the Terminal you get infos what to do. So slowly now and read.
In the "Ext2Explore" choose menu entry "File"-"Open Image". Go to your working directory ("Working_...") and open folder "system". Select "ext4_factoryfs.img" (maybe you do not see the extension) and open it.
Right-Click the first entry in the left window and press "Save". Important: in the dialog switch and select folder "system" again. After pressing "OK", wait until the copy-process is finished. Close "Ext2Explore" and switch back to the terminal window. If you read there you can control again if you did what I wrote here.
Press "Enter"
Now the same as before for hidden.img. Tool "Ext2explore" opens, select "ext4_hidden.img" in folder "hidden", right-click and "Save" it to "hidden" folder (not to "system"!), wait until copy finishes and close "Ext2Explore".
Press "Enter"
You'll get some information about the /preload and that the kitchen will handle this automatically.
Press "Enter"
Now you get the offer to extract the Customer Software Customization (CSC) from cache.img. Press "Enter" (default is y)
And again you'll have to use an external tool - how to use is written down exactly. So please read it and follow the 7 steps (explained here of course)
Start Linux Reader and select in menu "Drives" - "Mount Image".
If not selected please choose "Raw Disk Images" and press "Next".
There you have to switch to your working folder in the kitchen until "system". Select "ext4_cache.img". Open it.
Marked in red you'll see a Hard disk drive called "Linux Ext Volume 1" (or "Linux native Volume 1). Double click it (open it). And again double click on the folder "recovery". You see the "sec_csc-zip".
Mark it and right click the "sec_csc.zip" and select "Save Files" and press "Next".
Uncheck "Save directory structure" and change "Output folder" to the "system"-folder in your working directory. ATTENTION: Linux Reader remembers old entries, so there might be the system folder of an old working directory with another name. Please always check the correct folder or the CSC isn't extracted into your actual working directory (I hate this part, because this happened right now when I wrote these lines).
After you selected the system folder press "Next" two times and close the Linux Reader program.
Switch back to your kitchen window and press "Enter". The kitchen will extract the content of sec_csc.zip
When asking to copy the apps to your working folder do NOT choose the default. Switch to "y" and "Enter" because we want to use CSC.
In the line "Add boot.img (y/n)?. Choose "y", "Enter"
After that dAK takes care of symbolic links, update-script etc. and ends with the information "Finished setting up working folder!"
Type "y", "Enter" to view the Rom infos. After a while you get a list of information. Entries will change with the next steps
Press "Enter"

Rooting and deodexing

Building your Rom

--- If this doesn't work: maybe you made a mistake or I made one here. Please add your comment in the thread. Do not send me PM please ---

Glossary/Abbreviations

Custom Rom (CR): A Rom that is changed from the maker's original by adding functionality like root access, modifications, bug fixes etc.
dsixda's Android Kitchen (dAK): A Rom making factory with "endless" scripts and collected tools bundled together. Now usable for N7000. Complete thread here - please read if you really want to understand everything

Credits
XDA: for all the help, documents, tutorials ...
dsixda: for his wonderful kitchen
Phil3759 for his patched stock Kernels
...

ThaiDai · Dec 1, 2012 at 3:50 PM

one more and enough

dsmas · Dec 1, 2012 at 3:54 PM

Welcome to the club.

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izumi diego · Dec 1, 2012 at 3:57 PM

Reserved, tank's for development.

dsmas · Dec 1, 2012

any md5 check sum pls. OK. Got it.

ThaiDai · Dec 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM

dsmas said:
any md5 check sum pls. OK. Got it.

MD5 is part of the filename - easiest way to compare. But I added it to the first post. Thanks

olegych76 · Dec 1, 2012 at 6:11 PM

Installed smoothly. Everything seems fine, but the task killer is gone and touchwiz crashes if i try to set the city for the weather widget.

ThaiDai · Dec 1, 2012 at 6:14 PM

olegych76 said:
Installed smoothly. Everything seems fine, but the task killer is gone and touchwiz crashes if i try to set the city for the weather widget.

I will add the list of deleted apk later in the OP, maybe there's something deleted what is needed for this. We'll see.

But thanks for your reply here: so I can be sure the torrent and the Rom are ok.

klem__ · Dec 1, 2012 at 7:46 PM

ThaiDai said:
Tutorial: How I made this Custom Rom

Just an idea: I will write down everything here how I made this Custom Rom. So it will be easier for me and - maybe - for others to use it again.

Thx thai waiting for this how-to
Thank in advance

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smaiitm · Dec 1, 2012 at 7:46 PM

ThaiDai said:
Tutorial: How I made this Custom Rom

Just an idea: I will write down everything here how I made this Custom Rom. So it will be easier for me and - maybe - for others to use it again.

This would be extra-ordinarily wonderful. Waiting for this. Thanks!

romyo · Dec 1, 2012 at 8:12 PM

thanks! *******ThaiDai :good:

Vincent8111 · Dec 2, 2012

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ardicli2000 · Dec 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM

ThaiDai said:
Tutorial: How I made this Custom Rom

Just an idea: I will write down everything here how I made this Custom Rom. So it will be easier for me and - maybe - for others to use it again.

Would be fantastic and helpful.

TIA

dsmas · Dec 1, 2012

Flash and installation was smooth. Multi windows and air view seems not working. Very limited needful appns are only included but that is ok. Needs lot of mods.

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valentinrascu · Dec 1, 2012 at 10:07 PM

new dump firmware? ?

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klem__ · May 9, 2012 289 43 0

valentinrascu said:
new dump firmware? ?

Inviato dal mio GT-N7000 con Tapatalk 2

One question are you on rooted version or did you perform a upgrade

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shoey63 · Dec 1, 2012 at 11:13 PM

smaiitm said:
This would be extra-ordinarily wonderful. Waiting for this. Thanks!

+1

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saturax555 · Dec 2, 2012 at 12:36 AM

ThaiDai said:
Tutorial: How I made this Custom Rom

Just an idea: I will write down everything here how I made this Custom Rom. So it will be easier for me and - maybe - for others to use it again.

that's a great idea !!! would be great to have a kind of tuto to make a simple custom rom.

ferryaryan · Dec 2, 2012 at 12:48 AM

Any mirror for normally download, i mean not in torrent?
Thanks

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