[Z][ROM][JB 4.3.1] Chameleon OS - Nightlies & OTA

[jeroenqui]

I WILL APPLY AS A DEVICE MAINTAINER FOR CHAMELEON OS.

THIS IS FOR UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER ONLY, AS YOU NEED TO FLASH A CUSTOM KERNEL!!!

Credits
@FXP @Kali- @codeworkx @binary for all the work on the hardware bringup for yuga
@cdesai @Entropy512 @championswimmer for their work on the device tree
FreeXperia team
CyanogenMod team
Chameleon team

Chameleon OS (or ChaOS for short) is a custom Android ROM that gives the user more control than they can experience on any other Android ROM. Starting with a CyanogenMOD base, we customize each piece to give ultimate control while maintaining the simplicity we all love about Android. The most notable feature of ChaOS is the theme engine, which can apply different pieces of themes in a true mix-and-match style. The launcher has been completely overhauled with tons of options that you'd normally need to download a third-party launcher for, such as home screen previews, folder sorting, and folder icon styles. The Messaging app has also had some UI retouches, including messaging bubbles and quick emoji button.

The entire framework of ChaOS has been modified around the theme engine, allowing for custom fonts, boot animations (with animated preview), and themes. No longer do you have to try to find the perfect theme, with Chameleon OS you can patch it together with your favorite pieces from different themes. Messaging, Phone, Status Bar, icons, everything can be set completely individually from each other which provides the capabilities to completely re-imagine your phone. Creating themes for the ChaOS Theme Engine is superbly simple and has extreme versatility.

Even with all of the features we've currently implemented, ChaOS will continue to mature with even more refined settings and features. We will be completely open source and will welcome developers to join us, whether it be by maintaining a device or utilizing our gerrit review. Even if you're not a developer, your voice will not go unheard. We will continually poll our users for the most wanted features and do our best to implement them.

Features:
http://www.chameleonos.org/features.php
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Screenshots:

More screens:
http://www.chameleonos.org/screenshots.php
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Known bugs:
None, please tell me!!

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Download link Custom Builds
http://d-h.st/users/jeroenqui/?fld_id=18781

Download link Nightlies
http://roms.chameleonos.org/index.php?device=yuga

Why should you choose nightly?
- Always the latest updates released every day
- Stable stock ChameleonOS device files

Why should you not use nightlies?
- MEOW kernel is not included
- Linaro optimizations are not included
- TWRP is not included (CWM is)

It's all up to yourself.

Install instructions:
If you come from a rom without CWM/TWRP recovery and don't have a recovery yet:

extract the boot.img from the package.
put boot.img in your fastboot directory.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot

Enter CWM recovery.
If you come from another rom, Do a factory reset. Full wipe
If you come from other version, just format cache and dalvik cache.
Flash zip + gapps (gapps only need to be flashed if you come from another rom)

Reboot! Enjoy! Press Thanks!

Sources:
https://github.com/ChameleonOS/

Website:
http://www.chameleonos.org/
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XDA:DevDB Information
Chameleon OS - Custom & Nightlies & OTA, a ROM for the Sony Xperia Z

Contributors
jeroenqui
ROM OS Version: 4.2.x Jelly Bean
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x
ROM Firmware Required: Unlocked Bootloader
Based On: CyanogenMod

Version Information
Status: Testing

Created 2013-08-09
Last Updated 2013-11-17

 

[jeroenqui]

Changelog:

1009:
- MEOW-kernel v1.10.04 included -
Changelog here

- ROM -
Expand Tablet UI to allow selection of Phablet, Phone, or Tablet UI modes
Active display: Add sunlight mode
Launcher: Fix not being able to edit folder names that are unnamed
Fix adding apps to lockscreen targets without explicit icon selection
Show application's package name in the "App info" screen
Settings: Lockscreen Targets Icon Revamp
Include ChaOS Updater in all builds
Active display: Updates and fixes
Themes: Add ability to apply color filters to composed icons
ChaosLab: Add section for adding lab features
Gesture Anywhere: Add gesture anywhere feature into the ChaOS Lab

0921:
- MEOW-kernel v1.09.21 included -
DoubleTap 2 Wake
Sweep 2 Wake (use 2 fingers to scroll from top to bottom to wake the device when screen is off)
Merge of Sony release 10.3.1.A.2.67
Several small fixes
More information here

- ROM -
Active display: More info here
Active display: Add options for date and am/pm
Handle lights out for net stats.
Lockscreen: Use bold for hours and thin typeface for minutes.
Thememanager: Add support for landscape orientation.

0914:
- Includes TWRP recovery 2.6.3.0
- Includes MEOW-kernel (underclock to 192MHz, undervolt, more cpu and gpu governors, more i/o schedulers, fast charging, smoothness fixes, etc.)
- All the new kernel fixes / updated WiFi drivers / Sony Sysmonitor (makes the phone less warm)
- All changes from here: http://review.chameleonos.org/#/q/status:merged,n,z uptill change 2360

0814:
- Android 4.3
- Added battery bar
- Theme compatibility mode which overrides theming when enabled for an installed application
- Settings: Navigation drawer style settings
- Contacts/Dialer: Updated Contacts app UI with a more theme friendly layout
- MMS: New MMS app using the new sliding panel layout used in Google's Hangouts app
- ChaOS Launcher: Support for only one home screen
- ChaOS Launcher: Improved speed when displaying home screen previews
- ChaOS Launcher: Fixed icon sizes when moving shortcuts to/from dock
- Lockscreen: New gesture based passwords to unlock your device by drawing a custom defined gesture
- SystemUI: Modified tablet UI for better support on smaller screens
- SystemUI: Circular memory meter displayed, with available and total memory, in recent applications panel
- Appbar: Option for it to be located on the left or right
- Appbar: Adjustable trigger region
- Appbar: Adjustable transparency
- Appbar: Option to hide icon labels
- Firewall: ChaOS Firewall included to give you better control over which apps can access the internet

0708:
- This time it actually boots!
- ROM is fully compiled with Linaro O3 optimizations for an ultra-smooth experience
- Updated TWRP to 2.6.0.0
- Included my custom kernel with undervolting, underclocking, added wheatly and intellidemand CPU governors, added sio and row I/O schedulers, FauxSound and USB fast charge!
- All Chameleon OS updates uptill today (too much to list here, check: http://review.chameleonos.org/#/q/status:merged,n,z

0619:
-Initial version
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[tanoxxx]

Bravo Jeroen :good:

i dont like this rom.. i prefear a lot your PAC..

but you deserve a thanks :good: and compliment for you work :good:


PS. Dont abandon PAC please, continue to make it better and better... otherwise I'll kill myself

 

[jeroenqui]

Bravo Jeroen :good:

i dont like this rom.. i prefear a lot your PAC..

but you you deserve a thanks :good: and compliment for you work :good:


PS. Dont abandon PAc please.. otherwise I'll kill myself

Haha, don't worry.. PAC is my baby, I will never abandon it.. Just wanted to try something else to get more experience, and this is a nice and unique rom.

 

[tanoxxx]

Haha, don't worry.. PAC is my baby, I will never abandon it.. Just wanted to try something else to get more experience, and this is a nice and unique rom.

ahahahah thanks, i can live now

like too your Baby, is a pretty nice :angel:

Thanks for all Great Jeroen...

i hope someday you become an official XDA developer.. you deserve it :fingers-crossed:

 

[sacredsoul]

Options are always good. Nice to see you branching out. Great work!

Sent from my C6603 using xda premium

 

[robifis]

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. THINGS MAY CHANGE. IF I FIND IT STABLE ENOUGH, I WILL APPLY AS A DEVICE MAINTAINER FOR CHAMELEON OS.

THIS IS FOR UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER ONLY, AS YOU NEED TO FLASH A CUSTOM KERNEL!!!

Credits
@FXP @Kali- @codeworkx @binary for all the work on the hardware bringup for yuga
@cdesai @Entropy512 @championswimmer for their work on the device tree
FreeXperia team
CyanogenMod team
Chameleon team

Screenshots:

More screens:
http://www.chameleonos.org/screenshots.php
​

[B]Changelog:[/B]
0619:
Initial version

Download
http://d-h.st/users/jeroenqui/?fld_id=18781

Install instructions:
If you come from a rom without CWM/TWRP recovery and don't have a recovery yet:


Enter CWM recovery.
If you come from another rom, Do a factory reset. Full wipe
If you come from other version, just format cache and dalvik cache.
Flash zip + gapps (gapps only need to be flashed if you come from another rom)

Reboot! Enjoy! Press Thanks!

Sources:
https://github.com/ChameleonOS/

Website:
http://www.chameleonos.org/
​

I'm getting bootloop.....Did everything as always (when flashing) weird.
It starts up, then says SystemUI force close and bootloop.
Any ideas?

 

[jeroenqui]

I'll look at it, thanks for reporting

Sent from my C6603 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[robifis]

I'll look at it, thanks for reporting

Sent from my C6603 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

No problem, its been in bootloop for a while now. Too lazy to turn it off lol

 

[RascarC]

Bootloop for me too. After flashing again after full wipe problem remains.

Sent from my C6603 using xda premium

 

[DooMLoRD]

good work!


carry on deving!

 

[flytomars]

Is there Chinese language in this rom?

 

[vibranze]

Sounds like MIUI ROM, especially the theming features. I will try once it's get stabilized. Kudos for your new ROM!
Cheers.

 

[jeroenqui]

After the weekend I will make a new build with the bootloop fixed.
So.. What do you guys think of this ROM ?
Is it nice enough that you will use it? Worth the efford to maintain it for this device?

 

[FSN]

After the weekend I will make a new build with the bootloop fixed.
So.. What do you guys think of this ROM ?
Is it nice enough that you will use it? Worth the efford to maintain it for this device?

yes, I'd love to run this on my Z

 

[MamaSaidWhat?]

After the weekend I will make a new build with the bootloop fixed.
So.. What do you guys think of this ROM ?
Is it nice enough that you will use it? Worth the efford to maintain it for this device?

I think so mate. I've used most AOSP based ROMs across a variety of devices (CM, AOKP, PAC, Carbon, Bam, JellyBeer, ReVolt, PA, Slim, Baked etc.) but this I'm yet to sample.

It looks very interesting. I'm not sure how it will compete with your awesome PAC ROM build, or krabappel's excellent Carbon build but I would definitely love to give something different a try

Sent from my C6603 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[exmatproton]

After the weekend I will make a new build with the bootloop fixed.
So.. What do you guys think of this ROM ?
Is it nice enough that you will use it? Worth the efford to maintain it for this device?

Too bad i am having display flickering issues on every Android 4.2+ build out there (CM10.1, PAC, FreeXperia etc...even the Sony build). Otherwise i would install this immediately

 

[mariosanoguera]

I think its a very good work, but even if you get it bugless PAC will always be preffered for all the features.. but who knows, maybe you make this rom even more awesome!

 

[jeroenqui]

I still didn't get it to boot properly. Will give it another try this week. I'm sure it can be solved, I'm debugging and looking at the logs to find the reason.

Sent from my C6603 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[Lemagex]

This, miui, whichever releases first, will be my daily driver.