[ROM][MESMERIZE][SHOWCASE][4-10-11] MIUI v8.0 ALPHA

[ciiara]

So will the In Call Volume be fixed anytime soon? ^_^ Not to sound ungrateful! I love this rom

 

[MrSpradlen]

Looking forward to more updates on this rom, looks awesome. Great work guys!

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[MrSpradlen]

How are things goin with this?

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[bdemartino]

How are things goin with this?

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Uh, as I tried to state in the original post - I didn't develop the ROM I just took the work the fascinate guys had done and made the proper edit's to get it running on the mesmerize. So unless the fascinate guys get something working or make an update, you won't see any advances with this.


As far as the ever plaguing mms/camera/bt issues with AOSP builds - hopefully someday we may see a fix - but from what I've heard it requires some sources we currently don't have access to. (Either way, the real developers, those who build these things from source, would have to have fixed it before I or anyone else could kang it to the mesmerize.)

 

[ChromWolf]

Uh, as I tried to state in the original post - I didn't develop the ROM I just took the work the fascinate guys had done and made the proper edit's to get it running on the mesmerize. So unless the fascinate guys get something working or make an update, you won't see any advances with this.

And really, the Fascinate thread for their MIUI port isn't going anywhere either; most of the developers seem to have moved into Gingerbread ports.

There's a silver lining to that dark cloud though; the latest release of official MIUI is Gingerbread based. I personally would LOVE to see a Gingerbread MIUI for the Mes (and by virtue, the Fascinate, etc.), and would love even more to be involved in building it; and as far as "being the first", I don't think anyone else is really working on it, I think everyone's mostly focused on CM7..... But I am no where even close to a developer. I'm not even worthy of saying I've kanged a ROM after it's been compiled.

But I'm learning. I'm beginning to research the fundamentals of kernels and scripting, and I hear advanced developer terms thrown out in IRC, but I don't fully know what they mean.

The bottom line is this: I want GB MIUI. I want it to work 100%, but I'll be happy if call volume was adjustable. I can't do it right now; I don't know how, and someone else may do it before me by the time I *do* learn how. I'm not making anything even close to a promise, and you shouldn't hold your breath. But I love using MIUI, and I want it up and running. If I actually get somewhere with it, XDA will be the first to know. Well, second. The IRC chan will be first. XD

 

[bdemartino]

And really, the Fascinate thread for their MIUI port isn't going anywhere either; most of the developers seem to have moved into Gingerbread ports.

There's a silver lining to that dark cloud though; the latest release of official MIUI is Gingerbread based. I personally would LOVE to see a Gingerbread MIUI for the Mes (and by virtue, the Fascinate, etc.), and would love even more to be involved in building it; and as far as "being the first", I don't think anyone else is really working on it, I think everyone's mostly focused on CM7..... But I am no where even close to a developer. I'm not even worthy of saying I've kanged a ROM after it's been compiled.

But I'm learning. I'm beginning to research the fundamentals of kernels and scripting, and I hear advanced developer terms thrown out in IRC, but I don't fully know what they mean.

The bottom line is this: I want GB MIUI. I want it to work 100%, but I'll be happy if call volume was adjustable. I can't do it right now; I don't know how, and someone else may do it before me by the time I *do* learn how. I'm not making anything even close to a promise, and you shouldn't hold your breath. But I love using MIUI, and I want it up and running. If I actually get somewhere with it, XDA will be the first to know. Well, second. The IRC chan will be first. XD

Honestly from what I've learned over the past few months, this is how most of these developers have become... developers. Even people with vast experience in coding languages still have issues learning how to develop android. The only way to learn is to dig in, look at the code, and research research research. (mostly by just asking the other guys who have had experience working with it already) So keep at it! jt1134, adrynaline, phidelt82, nemesis2all etc. are all more than helpful when it comes to questions and pointers, so pick up as much as you can from those guys (and anyone else of course) as you run into any road blocks.


As for a GB MIUI, I'd like to see it as well - however - at this point the issues plaguing the AOSP builds will still be present in a 2.3 port of MIUI because the base that must be used is AOSP/CM7 (as far as I know). So at this time, I don't see a fully functional MIUI build as being possible regardless of version (2.2 or 2.3.) until the base ROM is fully functional (which from what I've heard requires some sources we do not have).

 

[ChromWolf]

Honestly from what I've learned over the past few months, this is how most of these developers have become... developers. Even people with vast experience in coding languages still have issues learning how to develop android. The only way to learn is to dig in, look at the code, and research research research. (mostly by just asking the other guys who have had experience working with it already) So keep at it! jt1134, adrynaline, phidelt82, nemesis2all etc. are all more than helpful when it comes to questions and pointers, so pick up as much as you can from those guys (and anyone else of course) as you run into any road blocks.

I'm gonna use this as my opportunity to call out to the community and say if you want MIUI as well, and wanted it updated, here's your chance to help with it. I think if enough people decide that saying "when will it be done" isn't as good as saying "how can I help", we cane go somewhere. That's not calling anyone on the carpet; that's just saying, consider jumping to the next step. Sort of an "Ask not what your developers can do for you..." kinda thing.

As for a GB MIUI, I'd like to see it as well - however - at this point the issues plaguing the AOSP builds will still be present in a 2.3 port of MIUI because the base that must be used is AOSP/CM7 (as far as I know). So at this time, I don't see a fully functional MIUI build as being possible regardless of version (2.2 or 2.3.) until the base ROM is fully functional (which from what I've heard requires some sources we do not have).

I'm most definitely not holding my breath on MIUI GB; I'd LOVE to just be good enough to port over pure MIUI to the Mes, but I'm no where near that good, and not even the devs BDE listed above are doing that for the most part (jt may be the exception). I'd love to find a mostly-similar device hardware wise that has an active MIUI port (as in, from the MIUI Dev site), but that's also CDMA; and that's been one roadblock.

I'm cool with just slapping in the CM7 parts, but for one, it seems "quick and dirty", which doesn't seem fitting with the concept of MIUI, and for another, I dislike the idea of being stuck with the same issues as everyone else's AOSP builds; it just feel like I'm stuck relying on those devs to fix them. And maybe that's true; like I say, I'm no dev, and these guys totally are, and I may be stuck dumping CM7 parts into MIUI to get it to work. I just can't in good conscience go about it without trying it my way first, just to see what happens. XD

I'm kinda thinking "aloud" here, so I'll wrap this up.

 

[bdemartino]

I'm gonna use this as my opportunity to call out to the community and say if you want MIUI as well, and wanted it updated, here's your chance to help with it. I think if enough people decide that saying "when will it be done" isn't as good as saying "how can I help", we cane go somewhere. That's not calling anyone on the carpet; that's just saying, consider jumping to the next step. Sort of an "Ask not what your developers can do for you..." kinda thing.




I'm most definitely not holding my breath on MIUI GB; I'd LOVE to just be good enough to port over pure MIUI to the Mes, but I'm no where near that good, and not even the devs BDE listed above are doing that for the most part (jt may be the exception). I'd love to find a mostly-similar device hardware wise that has an active MIUI port (as in, from the MIUI Dev site), but that's also CDMA; and that's been one roadblock.

I'm cool with just slapping in the CM7 parts, but for one, it seems "quick and dirty", which doesn't seem fitting with the concept of MIUI, and for another, I dislike the idea of being stuck with the same issues as everyone else's AOSP builds; it just feel like I'm stuck relying on those devs to fix them. And maybe that's true; like I say, I'm no dev, and these guys totally are, and I may be stuck dumping CM7 parts into MIUI to get it to work. I just can't in good conscience go about it without trying it my way first, just to see what happens. XD

I'm kinda thinking "aloud" here, so I'll wrap this up.

If your main goal here is to get a fully functioning MIUI (or any AOSP for that matter) then i would say you would need to focus on the AOSP rom- jt1134 has a great github and it's well organized so that others are able to use it (he has a tree for AOSP) - lmartin92 was able to sync his repo and make the proper USCC edits and then build the native mesmerize ROM from it- I'm not sure if lmartin's github is up to speed and able to be used by outsiders but you may try contacting him. He's currently working on a native build of CM7 through the same process (using jt's source once again) last I heard.

Once you were able to have a full build done and booting, then you would be able to test and troubleshoot on the phone(using logcats, don't forget that the radio has a different logcat, can't remember the commands off top) then go back to the source code to determine the fix. This appears to be how punk.kaos has been going about fixing up the camera in his CM7 build (from what I've read on his twitter) but I may be missing a step or two in there.

As far as I know, the code within the source is mostly C++ vs. what we see post-build (java bytecode, assembly) but I'm sure there are other languages used there too (i've never actually gotten as far as to see what source files look like personally)

That's about the only suggestion I can think of for a starting point at this moment.

 

[ChromWolf]

I'm gonna go ahead and put this out there in hopes the right people are watching.

I've been kinda keeping it under wraps since I honestly don't know what the hell I'm doing as I've never done it before, but... I'm VERY SLOWLY working towards porting GB MIUI. I finally caught a bit of a break with the scripting, and got it to flash yesterday evening.

Don't get your hopes up just yet; pretty much NOTHING worked. In fact, the only things that *did* work were the launcher screen (could drag the screen back and forth), and the already-included CM7 "TV shut-off" animation when you turn the screen off. EVERYthing else is pretty much broken. I don't even know if call volume will be adjustable in this ROM, since this experiment was using the Nexus S (which is GSM), so the radio is completely broken. I knew it would be, but still.

I REALLY want GB MIUI, but I'm starting to get to the point where I think I'm in over my head, and could really use some help. If you've ported ROMs and miss having an up-to-date MIUI, here's your chance to get in on it.

 

[sageDieu]

I'm gonna go ahead and put this out there in hopes the right people are watching.

I've been kinda keeping it under wraps since I honestly don't know what the hell I'm doing as I've never done it before, but... I'm VERY SLOWLY working towards porting GB MIUI. I finally caught a bit of a break with the scripting, and got it to flash yesterday evening.

Don't get your hopes up just yet; pretty much NOTHING worked. In fact, the only things that *did* work were the launcher screen (could drag the screen back and forth), and the already-included CM7 "TV shut-off" animation when you turn the screen off. EVERYthing else is pretty much broken. I don't even know if call volume will be adjustable in this ROM, since this experiment was using the Nexus S (which is GSM), so the radio is completely broken. I knew it would be, but still.

I REALLY want GB MIUI, but I'm starting to get to the point where I think I'm in over my head, and could really use some help. If you've ported ROMs and miss having an up-to-date MIUI, here's your chance to get in on it.

*hug*

I'm nowhere near being able to help develop but would love to test if you get there. I'm sure you can find some interested developers, probably bde, dfgas, lmartin, etc... good luck.

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