[ROM][LP][ALL-ON-NAND][TEAM REDUX] Glade ROM 5.0 Bleeding Alpha 1

[MSF Jarvis]

For proper info, go to this thread by @kirmaniarslan and read the first post.

Now, getting on with the ROM, this is BLEEDING ALPHA! I will happily take all the appreciation you will give, but whining that stuff is broken will be ignored/reported ASAP. Only bravehearts that understand that the pico can never be bricked are allowed to flash this ROM and give some helpful feedback along with a logcat.

Common Glade ROM features (Read posst linked above)
All-On-NAND, smoothness beyond any Lollipop ROM before
Super-slimmed, if you miss one of the apps I kicked out, tell it below and I'll try to provide a flashable zip ASAP
Super easy installation, no fiddling around with partitions(Everyone has atleast one sd-ext partition, right? That's all this needs)

Create ONE sd-ext partition for /data
Flash the TWRP 3.0.0-0 recovery from here
Install ROM zip
Reboot into bootloader, then take out the boot.img from the zip and flash it through fastboot :

fastboot flash boot boot.img

A workaround for this boot.img problem is being looked for, incase you're wondering

Alpha-1

The entire Glade ROM team and everyone they've borrowed commits from. More info available in original thread linked above
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XDA:DevDB Information
All-On-NAND Lollipop project for HTC Pico, ROM for the HTC Pico (Explorer)

Contributors
MSF Jarvis, abhi_qwerty, kirmaniarslan,thewisenerd
Source Code: https://MSF-Jarvis's Brain.geek

ROM OS Version: 5.0.x Lollipop
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
ROM Firmware Required: TWRP 3.0.0-0 Recovery
Based On: CyanogenMod

Version Information
Status: Alpha
Current Stable Version: < -- None -- >
Current Beta Version: < -- None -- >

Created 2016-02-24
Last Updated 2016-02-24

 

[MSF Jarvis]

Credits
@kirmaniarslan for initial builds of Glade ROM for the Pico
@thewisenerd and @kirmaniarslan for initial kernel works
@abhi_qwerty for the current kernel (Coming with Alpha 2 tomorrow)

If someone feels I left him out, please get in touch with me and the mistake will be rectified.
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Changelog :
Alpha 1

• Initial release

Alpha 2

1. Updated kernel with several optimisations to reduce processor overhead : Commits
2. Slimmed down multiple applications
3. Rooted using SuperSU v2.65. Thanks to @Chainfire for the flashable zip and updater-script integration method
4. Removed MediaScannerOnBoot feature due to FC's
5. Add Team Redux Logo to About Phone
6. Update a few strings
7. Set zRAM as default
8. DeOdexed all applications
9. Increased /system size to 446.8 mB . Thanks to @thewisenerd for awesom3
10. Remove Stock AOSP Browser
11. Add Lightning Browser as user app. updater-script unloads the APK to /sdcard/user-apps from where you can install it on first boot.
12. Add TeamRedux's controlcenter script to manage different kernel parameters

Some extra information :

Pretty soon all this kernel will support will be F2FS on the filesystem front. So my suggestion would be to use F2FS from day one to avoid issues. I will also be removing the ext* binaries from within the kanged builds of TWRP 3.0.0-0 that will go along with the ROM.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

What's up at the moment

You'll find a glimpse of the future of the ROM in this post at most times

Alpha_2

Thanks to the interest you guys have shown in the ROM, I have been hard at work to make this smaller and better. Here's a glimpse that should clear the things up for everyone :

[email protected]:~/Testing/Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-0449$ adb push Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-Alpha_2.zip /sdcard/
2242 KB/s (138143181 bytes in 60.152s)
[email protected]:~/Testing/Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-0449$ adb reboot recovery
[email protected]:~/Testing/Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-0449$ cd system/
[email protected]:~/Testing/Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-0449/system$ du -sch
251M	.
251M	total
[email protected]:~/Testing/Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-0449/system$

And, No you haven't read it wrong. The ROM IS at 251 mB extracted, plus the experimental kernel above pumps up /system to a straight 440 mB. After flashing, the size is:

~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                   205.5M    168.0K    205.3M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   205.5M      3.7M    201.7M   2% /tmp
/dev/block/mtdblock4      8.0M      1.2M      6.8M  15% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1      6.2G      3.1G      3.2G  49% /sdcard
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1      6.2G      3.1G      3.2G  49% /and-sec
/dev/block/mtdblock3    424.4M    252.9M    171.5M  60% /system
~ #

Also, the recovery log while installing is also of some interest :

~ # twrp install /sdcard/Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-Alpha_2.zip 
Installing zip file '/sdcard/Glade-v1.0-pico-UNOFFICIAL-20160224-Alpha_2.zip'
Checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found
Formatting /system...
Mounting /system writeable...
Extracting core system files...
Making symlinks...
Symlinking busybox...
Setting metadata...
Installing boot.img ...
unmounting /system...
Rooting with SuperSU....
Placing user apps
script succeeded: result was [t]Done processing script file

One issue I am having is that the updater-script is not formatting /system, so people will have to do it by themselves.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

[email protected]:~/Home/AIK-Linux$ adb shell
~ # mount /system
~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                   205.7M    136.0K    205.5M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   205.7M     20.0K    205.6M   0% /tmp
/dev/block/mtdblock4      8.0M      1.2M      6.8M  15% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1      6.2G      3.1G      3.2G  49% /sdcard
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1      6.2G      3.1G      3.2G  49% /and-sec
/dev/block/mtdblock3    446.4M    371.8M     74.5M  83% /system
~ #

Hmm, that's more like it.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

Expect it to be on your phones tomorrow

 

[Gnhtc]

Expect it to be on your phones tomorrow

You did awesome work bro.You have made it possible . Now I am waiting for tomorrow for your next build.
You show in earlier posts that there is much space left in system. Is it means that gapps can be installed. And any bugs in this build other than Bluetooth and camcorder.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

You did awesome work bro.You have made it possible . Now I am waiting for tomorrow for your next build.
You show in earlier posts that there is much space left in system. Is it means that gapps can be installed. And any bugs in this build other than Bluetooth and camcorder.

Thanks for the support, you guys are great motivation. GApps should be installable, though the latest open GApps package threw me into a bootloop. Maybe some older one should work. I have also built a new recovery for the ROM to accommodate the increase in /system, otherwise zips wouldn't be able to use the space beyond 424 mB, while the actual space is ~446 mB. Also, I found that somehow s2w managed to get enabled even though I explicitly declared in the defconfig that it shouldn't be. Therefore I will also be bundling the controlcenter script and a prebuilt config file into init.d to keep everything disabled on first boot. And no, no other issues except Bluetooth and Camcorder have been noticed, other than the fact that a psychotic teen popped in his team's logo in about phone

 

[Gnhtc]

Thanks for the support, you guys are great motivation. GApps should be installable, though the latest open GApps package threw me into a bootloop. Maybe some older one should work. I have also built a new recovery for the ROM to accommodate the increase in /system, otherwise zips wouldn't be able to use the space beyond 424 mB, while the actual space is ~446 mB. Also, I found that somehow s2w managed to get enabled even though I explicitly declared in the defconfig that it shouldn't be. Therefore I will also be bundling the controlcenter script and a prebuilt config file into init.d to keep everything disabled on first boot. And no, no other issues except Bluetooth and Camcorder have been noticed, other than the fact that a psychotic teen popped in his team's logo in about phone

No matter bro team redux done a great job so you guys deserve that logo to be there.
Keep doing your nice work bro whatever you do its always awesome.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

No matter bro team redux done a great job so you guys deserve that logo to be there.
Keep doing your nice work bro whatever you do its always awesome.

Get us to the XDA Portal. Those guys are still celebrating that the Pico has got Sense 5. KitKat and Lollipop never crossed their way. A little info wouldn't hurt them, right?


And also, that would also help my parents see the aw3som3 work me and my team do here and probably not force me to leave all this.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

No matter bro team redux done a great job so you guys deserve that logo to be there.
Keep doing your nice work bro whatever you do its always awesome.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/cm12-how-to-easily-port-xperia-lolipop-t3110734/page1

If anyone's interested in this I can try porting it to the pico. For beta 1, not the Alpha 2 I'll release today. Some fixes have to be done, but on the whole, alpha 2 should be rock stable and bug free. And camcorder did start recording, but the videos aren't getting saved so I guess we can safely assume that it's broken.

Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e using XDA Labs

 

[sbappi]

Great job @MSF Jarvis my brother was like when he saw lolipop on pico.
Waiting for alpha 2 because i'm having issues with alpha 1 like settings has stopped and sometime system UI has stopped etc...
Please upload it with more details on installation like F2FS on the filesystem.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

Great job @MSF Jarvis my brother was like when he saw lolipop on pico.
Waiting for alpha 2 because i'm having issues with alpha 1 like settings has stopped and sometime system UI has stopped etc...
Please upload it with more details on installation like F2FS on the filesystem.

Do a clean wipe and those FC's won't appear. Alpha 2 will come tomorrow. And then I'll stop development for about an year till I am through with my class 12 exams.

 

[Gnhtc]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/cm12-how-to-easily-port-xperia-lolipop-t3110734/page1

If anyone's interested in this I can try porting it to the pico. For beta 1, not the Alpha 2 I'll release today. Some fixes have to be done, but on the whole, alpha 2 should be rock stable and bug free. And camcorder did start recording, but the videos aren't getting saved so I guess we can safely assume that it's broken.

Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e using XDA Labs

I am interested in that bro. If it is beta 1 it will be great. No problem if camcorder is broken I only want a stable and fast lollipop ROM which you are going to release.
Thanks bro for keeping our device alive.

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Do a clean wipe and those FC's won't appear. Alpha 2 will come tomorrow. And then I'll stop development for about an year till I am through with my class 12 exams.

No problem bro if you are leaving the development because studies are always important. Its always your choice what you want.
We only thank you for doing awesome work for our device . you have given some more life to it.
I hope you will always rock in you exams just like here.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

Great job @MSF Jarvis my brother was like when he saw lolipop on pico.
Waiting for alpha 2 because i'm having issues with alpha 1 like settings has stopped and sometime system UI has stopped etc...
Please upload it with more details on installation like F2FS on the filesystem.

I am interested in that bro. If it is beta 1 it will be great. No problem if camcorder is broken I only want a stable and fast lollipop ROM which you are going to release.
Thanks bro for keeping our device alive.

---------- Post added at 12:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:27 PM ----------


No problem bro if you are leaving the development because studies are always important. Its always your choice what you want.
We only thank you for doing awesome work for our device . you have given some more life to it.
I hope you will always rock in you exams just like here.

http://msfjarvis.me/daily_blogs/2016/02/24/The-Beginning-Of-The-Pops!/


This is the detailed kernel level changelog for Alpha 2. There's some family issues that have suddenly popped up and so I can't really give a proper ETA anymore. Sorry guys.

 

[Gnhtc]

http://msfjarvis.me/daily_blogs/2016/02/24/The-Beginning-Of-The-Pops!/


This is the detailed kernel level changelog for Alpha 2. There's some family issues that have suddenly popped up and so I can't really give a proper ETA anymore. Sorry guys.

Bro whatever you did for us its always awesome we surely miss the developer like you who always ready to reply for their users.
Thanks for doing all that for our device which we can't believe.
Will you release your last build alpha 2 or not so that we can wait for it.
Wishing for you a great future.

 

[MSF Jarvis]

Bro whatever you did for us its always awesome we surely miss the developer like you who always ready to reply for their users.
Thanks for doing all that for our device which we can't believe.
Will you release your last build alpha 2 or not so that we can wait for it.
Wishing for you a great future.

You guys are making me emotional . I have bought myself a new phone so that I would not be playing with the pico when I should be studying. Its the Lava Pixel v1, sprout8 if anyone would want to follow me around


Though I'll try me best to release the Alpha 2 ASAP. Though its almost stable. I have deodexed it, trimmed it, updated the kernel, and also rooted it with SuperSU. And oh, since some apps like browser were not very nice IMHO, I have also arranged to keep a browser apk in the zip that will get extracted to /sdcard/user-apps/ so you can install them after first boot.

 

[Gnhtc]

You guys are making me emotional . I have bought myself a new phone so that I would not be playing with the pico when I should be studying. Its the Lava Pixel v1, sprout8 if anyone would want to follow me around


Though I'll try me best to release the Alpha 2 ASAP. Though its almost stable. I have deodexed it, trimmed it, updated the kernel, and also rooted it with SuperSU. And oh, since some apps like browser were not very nice IMHO, I have also arranged to keep a browser apk in the zip that will get extracted to /sdcard/user-apps/ so you can install them after first boot.

Will you release it today and gapps will work or not ?

 

[MSF Jarvis]

Will you release it today and gapps will work or not ?

I will release it todayI just realised I've burned through my FUP for this month. WIll upload only after this month ends, but I have to remove the MediaScanner feature first because it is giving FC each time we use it. GApps should work, I will link you to a suitable package.

 

[amine b-l]

Expect it to be on your phones tomorrow

bluetooh brocken
can you have a solution

 

[MSF Jarvis]

bluetooh brocken
can you have a solution

I can't fix any bugs now. I won't even be developing this further, I'll upload the Alpha 2 in 4-5 days and then retire from development for the time period of my education.