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So during the time was ban on XDA for flaming Noob. I have had the time to take a rom of my liking and personalize it to what I believe to be the perfect rom, well for me at least. Now that have everything all together I want to share my creation with the world and Good people here on XDA. But I have no idea how to make everything in to a DOT .zip file. I need help and I was wondering if anyone would care to help me.
What will be included in the rom:
GB launcher2
Galaxy tab TWlauncher clone
OC 1.2ghz Kernel w/ universal lagfixes
Gingerbread style theme w/ a little color
GPS fix
swype
Gb keyboard w/ working vibration and sound
boot-animation.zip
Avatar Movie app
Sims3 app and sims3.apk
Rom manager
Xda app
Root explorer
Superuser
New market app
Android 2.2.1
and more.....
This rom will be a mix of Eugene and masters roms so all thank goes to them and a couple other people on the forum.
Thank You

sader2202 said:
So during the time was ban on XDA for flaming Noob. I have had the time to take a rom of my liking and personalize it to what I believe to be the perfect rom, well for me at least. Now that have everything all together I want to share my creation with the world and Good people here on XDA. But I have no idea how to make everything in to a DOT .zip file. I need help and I was wondering if anyone would care to help me.
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Hi. I think you'll find a lot of support on XDA for building your own ROM and/or for theming. You've covered a lot of different areas in terms of what you want to do. I have a few recommendations.
1. Do a quick search, either here or in Google, on how to build Android ROMs. There's a lot of good information out there and some of it might resonate with you in terms of how they explain things. That said, if all you're doing is changing a few files around; files you already have, then you would simply add them to, or replace the existing ones from a ROM you like. Just be sure to connect with the developers of that ROM so you can give credit where credit is due. Or, you could start with the Stock ROM and do it that way. But, in either case, you would be essentially using WinZip or some similar app to build the .zip file as you'd like to see it.
2. Consider hooking up with one of the existing developers and start making contributions to their work. That would give you a chance to work with some of the best people who are already doing what you want to do. I think in that case, it wouldn't take too long for you to come up to speed on who they've approached things. Also, this helps you from making some novice mistakes that I'm sure they've made along the way.
Lastly, consider the "value add" of your ROM over those that are already available. If you build something and no one has heard of you and then they don't see your ROM as having anything better or different to offer, then people might not want to use it. For example, Team Whiskey has Obsidian. Then they released Onyx. However, Onyx was materially different than Obsidian in that they removed a lot of the TouchWiz based theming and T-Mobile applications. So, a lot of people saw value in that.
Anyway, good luck. I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun!

This thing sounds quite nice! Would you be interested in posting the 2.2.1 build you got your hands on and the GB KB with Vibration? I haven't seen either of those elsewhere.

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This thing sounds quite nice! Would you be interested in posting the 2.2.1 build you got your hands on and the GB KB with Vibration? I haven't seen either of those elsewhere.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845162
updated version has vibration
accidently hit thanks

sader2202 said:
So during the time was ban on XDA for flaming Noob. I have had the time to take a rom of my liking and personalize it to what I believe to be the perfect rom, well for me at least. Now that have everything all together I want to share my creation with the world and Good people here on XDA. But I have no idea how to make everything in to a DOT .zip file. I need help and I was wondering if anyone would care to help me.
What will be included in the rom:
GB launcher2
Galaxy tab TWlauncher clone
OC 1.2ghz Kernel w/ universal lagfixes
Gingerbread style theme w/ a little color
GPS fix
swype
Gb keyboard w/ working vibration and sound
boot-animation.zip
Avatar Movie app
Sims3 app and sims3.apk
Rom manager
Xda app
Root explorer
Superuser
New market app
Android 2.2.1
and more.....
Thank You
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First, google WINRAR and download it.
Then select all your files, right click and click ARCHIVE and then choose location, name, and wait until its done, and it'll be in a .zip.

Root Explorer is not a free app, so you may want to reconsider adding that as part of your ROM.

wannagofast said:
Root Explorer is not a free app, so you may want to reconsider adding that as part of your ROM.
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Oops thanks for the heads up. I've been using it so much that i forgot that i brought it.

xriderx66 said:
First, google WINRAR and download it.
Then select all your files, right click and click ARCHIVE and then choose location, name, and wait until its done, and it'll be in a .zip.
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Thanks i had that install in my pc. thanks again.

xriderx66 said:
First, google WINRAR and download it.
Then select all your files, right click and click ARCHIVE and then choose location, name, and wait until its done, and it'll be in a .zip.
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wannagofast said:
Root Explorer is not a free app, so you may want to reconsider adding that as part of your ROM.
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Following the steps above, able to get him to do his ROM.
So this thread is no longer necessary!
Thanks for the help and feedback of all!
Closed Thread!

1st post...be gentle :0)

Hey everyone!
Just caught wind of unlocking / rooting etc, within 2 days I have rooted and flashed a custom rom twice! (getting a massive bug for it)...
I have a couple of quick questions if any one would be kind enough to answer.
I currently have Funzy Runnymede (RCmix 4.2.11) installed and I am looking to change the boot animation and splash screen and also shut down screen. I have searched with regards to going through ES and using the zip file being added to system - source however it does not work, I am thinking this is due to it being a custom ROM. How would I find out were to put the zip file?
Also I have seen some very cool killer driods / electrified driods for wallpapers and cannot find them anywhere.. checked market and a few links within xda.
Sorry for the long post and I look forward to your responses.
Many Thanks
Mick

Hi Mick,
I assume you have asked or looked through the rom thread and the Desire HD Themes and Apps section for ideas?
I can't answer your question directly I'm afraid but I gave you your first thanks to make you feel at home.

Thanks Grant!
Yes looked through Rom thread but cannot ask due too not having privelages!
Many thanks for the thankyou, not sure where/how to return the favour?
Anyone else running runny, maybe help me out?
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA App

hi m8, i use ultimate multi tool for changing splash & bootanimation, have had no probs using this so far, search forum for this also plenty of bootanimation/ splash zip on this forum.

Be careful when flashing boot screens mate I messed about with a couple before and ended up getti.g boot loops !!! :-( I'm pretty new to the flashing game too I've been using virtuous unity roms they recently done a 3.5 Rom called affinity its fantastic smooth as silk that's based on runny' ;-)

[GUIDE] How to port sense to non-HTC devices.

How to port Sense.
Source: http://forums.androidcentral.com/optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/164989-guide-how-i-port.html (second post)
This is NOT my guide, just posting it here!
This is a very difficult process that I hope you'll understand.
First step is to find a device that is preferably VERY similar to your device, in this instance I guess we would use the htc thunderbolt, which I've been told multiple times that it is used for the MT.
You're going to want to use CM7 for parts. Simple enough.
I will be referring the Sense ROM to SENSE and CM7 as BASE to simple things up. So remember that.
When I say replace, I would recommend deleting from one and adding it with the other
Open up Sense and Base in different windows.
Put in the boot.img from Base into Sense (make sure you put the original boot.img in some other place that you'll remember)
go into /system/usr on both
replace keylayouts and keychars from Base into Sense (this is just your keys)
download dsixda's kitchen (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246)
Get the ROM you have so far set up in it and what not (I'm a little fuzzy at this part)
Once you get done with that, run the menu in terminal and navigate your way to decompile the boot.img (action key- "a") and then run the same thing except run the action key "w" to decompile the original boot.img. So the key here is to decompile both boot.img's.
Go into the ramdisk on both and go into init.rc
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IN THIS (THE MATTER OF BOOT AND BOOTLOOP) IS THE LINE
"export BOOTCLASSPATH" near the top. It will have a bunch of lines after it. Now in the Base's boot.img, delete this whole line. Replace it with the lines from Sense's boot.img.
Now you can add anything else you want that looks like it belongs (preferably anything sense related)
Don't recompile the boot.img yet.
Now we add a2sd. To do this, just follow this guide (https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=158823170833688)
The only thing you do in there is the edits to the init.rc, don't listen to the decompiling/recompiling mentions. Now you can go back into the menu for the kitchen and recompile the boot.img (action key - "b"). Now don't compile the WHOLE ROM, just take the new boot.img in working_** and put it into the Sense zip.
Now you're going to want to download my ROM (sorry, just don't feel like uploading each individual file) http://gannon5197.blogspot.nl/2012/03/got-sense-booted.html
And go into the /system/bin on both
these are the files you're going to need: a2sd, bash, apps2sd.hlp, busybox.a2sd, chka2sd, jita2sd, launcha2sd, starta2sd, and maybe possibly sh (try once without it)
And you're going to want to set permissions for each one of these in the updater-script (look at mine for references)
Now also look at my zip and you'll see move_cache_sd. Put that in yours and set permissions for it in updater-script (use mine for references)
After that, the other stuff is mainly just getting rid of all the bloatware, (look in /system/app and /system/media) I wouldn't delete any libs as of right now. If you try to flash it and it reboots recovery then it is too big.
If it is too big, you're probably going to want to move a lot of the apps to data. To do this, just make a file called data/app/put_your_apps_here on the root of the zip. You're going to have to set permissions for it in the updater-script, but use the test.zip I sent you in the original.
This will most likely get you booted. Nothing will likely work. Which is expected. If you have any problems, just use logcat. It will be your bestfriend. Have fun porting
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reserved

Thanks for reopening it bro...
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk 2

No problem :thumbup:

Don't know how this above awesome thread is so blank
Have u tested if this way works
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great guide, gonna try out soon

hmm this one's new for me. saved
should come in handy sometimes

someone has to do this for the Galaxy S2.
Will it also work for ICS ROMs?

I must do this. Anybody know where I can get the firmware for the One S?

Can i use a Gingerbread ROM as a base instead of cm7?

Hello for lg p500 there is 2 sense rom but data and mic not working in both rom can you help to solving that problems????btw great tutorial.

in fact sensse porting is differnet from the tutorial showed it is a little bit more difficult and there are some libs needed that there is only for the devices you are porting to. so a general tread will not really work

QuBe2 said:
in fact sensse porting is differnet from the tutorial showed it is a little bit more difficult and there are some libs needed that there is only for the devices you are porting to. so a general tread will not really work
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Well this is not my tutorial just found it on the internet so I don't know if it works

Lord Inglip said:
Well this is not my tutorial just found it on the internet so I don't know if it works
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why sharing things on the internet

QuBe2 said:
why sharing things on the internet
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Because it's the internet. This guide was the only thing I could find.
Well you ported a htc sense One x rom to the Nexus S, so can you show us how you did it?

Lord Inglip said:
How to port Sense.
Source: http://forums.androidcentral.com/optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/164989-guide-how-i-port.html (second post)
This is NOT my guide, just posting it here!
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Similar phone means the same chipset,processor and gpu??

a2441918 said:
Similar phone means the same chipset,processor and gpu??
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Yes it's better if the phones have the same hardware

Lord Inglip said:
Yes it's better if the phones have the same hardware
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I have an xperia x10.. will the nexus one and HTC desire be suitable??

My cm7 rom which i downloaded doesn't have a boot.img file.. So how to get it?? Is it the system.img got from a nandroid backup?? and the sense rom which the post refers to is the stock sense rom of the phone in a zip format or a modded one??

Not working..stuck at boot logo

[Q] Suggestions for a new ROM (to be introduced)

Hey People!! I'm new to XDA and this is my first post :silly: I'd like to introduce a new ROM. So basically i want to make something different for the galaxy y- the phone we've all loved to love! I want to have a redesigned launcher looking somewhat similar to the ICS ad Jellybean with softkeys like the one on ICS. It should be Deodexed rooted and have access to many other features (like pre-installed chainfire and stuff like that :fingers-crossed: ). Im planning on updating the stock kernel to the Merruk Technology Pre-final v2.0 as i've used it and it seems pretty fast and stable (I'm still waiting for the build to be final). I've a Init.d hack with battery calibration and also a hack which (I don't know how) decreases your ram usage haven't tested it yet but people who've used it says it works on stock rom too (which to me seems impossible because stock rom dosen't support init.d. Correct me if i'm wrong :highfive I've decided what to call it too. Now i only need some help which if anyone could offer would be truly amazing to me........
Aair

aair said:
Hey People!! I'm new to XDA and this is my first post :silly: I'd like to introduce a new ROM. So basically i want to make something different for the galaxy y- the phone we've all loved to love! I want to have a redesigned launcher looking somewhat similar to the ICS ad Jellybean with softkeys like the one on ICS. It should be Deodexed rooted and have access to many other features (like pre-installed chainfire and stuff like that :fingers-crossed: ). Im planning on updating the stock kernel to the Merruk Technology Pre-final v2.0 as i've used it and it seems pretty fast and stable (I'm still waiting for the build to be final). I've a Init.d hack with battery calibration and also a hack which (I don't know how) decreases your ram usage haven't tested it yet but people who've used it says it works on stock rom too (which to me seems impossible because stock rom dosen't support init.d. Correct me if i'm wrong :highfive I've decided what to call it too. Now i only need some help which if anyone could offer would be truly amazing to me........
Aair
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What kind of help do you need? You should have mentioned that in the first post.

Sorry 'bout that
anasdcool71 said:
What kind of help do you need? You should have mentioned that in the first post.
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im not a themer, so a themer helping me out would be kinda good :cyclops:
and since this is my first mod a few bug fixing advices would be great too...
Aair

Many themers of our forum have made guides for other users to learn from. You can search in the Themes and Apps section for them.
About bugs, first make the custom rom. If you encounter a bug, tell us and we'll be happy to help you.

could you please post the links of such posts which contain methods of themeing the status bar and launchers??? and also how do you edit some apks which ive downloaded from the play store??
aair

aair said:
could you please post the links of such posts which contain methods of themeing the status bar and launchers??? and also how do you edit some apks which ive downloaded from the play store??
aair
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Go to /data/app/ you will see all your apps there....
After getting those apk you can freely edit...
Btw wat u want to edit in apk
Globally recognised and certified NOOB

Try using uot kitchen for initial theming. Use my guide in sign to go to advanced level
Sent from my GT-S6102 using XDA

just decompile and recompile the systemui and framework-res,
everything is in the drawable-ldpi

I too m making a rom but i think theming is much more difficult than making a rom so i suggest use someone's theme and ask him for permissions:thumbup:
Sent from my GT-S5360 using xda app-developers app

THEMES for LSxxxx 4.1.2 only in 2nd ROM

Hi all.
I open this thread about how i theme my OMEGA V20 LSD ROM only for people who are using an LSD ROM (works with LSJ,LS8 or >) in 2nd ROM.
Before continuing reading my speech, You have to follow this uniq thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2120514
to understang what i'm talking about.
If you have understand the thread, you can adjust and use my ZIPs as you want.
(I use the thread mentioned with OMEGA V20 LSD which i REPACK for good use in 2ND ROM.)
I Assume that my ZIPs THEMER are working only in this configuration.
What about this special configuration with a little explaination :
due to the volume of LSJ,LS8,LSD rom,your system have to be organize like that :
\system\app\*.apk
\data\app\app\*.apk (which contain apks system which normally are in \system\app\ but in our case, they are
symlinked in \system\app\*.ln so we have gain place in partition \system\ , also *.apks and *.ln are
put with the good rights.
So if you have this configuration you can use my ZIP and in case modified them before flash if your APKs system are put in <> forders from mine.
I have to modify installtheme.sh and updater-script too.
You can see some example here too :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCpwfLOP4As
some other interesting screenshot on pages http://paymadman.blogspot.fr/2013/03/theme-pour-omega-v20-lsd.html
and http://paymadman.blogspot.fr/2013/02/omega-v20-lsd-orange-ou-vert.html
If i make a mistake in creating thread here, inform me to help me too.
Thank's for reading until here and hope you have also understand my poor school english we learn in France and excuse it
All my ZIP here or here always updating
Be careful
Sometimes flashing my ZIP take very very long time but dont be affraid, it's not freeze like windows XP before blue screen , you have to be patient during flash, that's all

If someone make Omega(or any other stock rom) looks like a CM10.1 that would be an achievement for sure.
Nice info man.

AW: THEMES for LSxxxx 4.1.2 only in 2nd ROM
Well done Mate
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app

some other repack theme
ohwarumbloss said:
Well done Mate
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All thank's to you Man, for your thread too
After http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2172236 Liverpool Theme I repack for Omega v20 2nd Rom,
I test this from
http://foro.elrincondelmovil.com/ro...oid_4-1-2_xxms1-adesirello-y-sherpa47-243053/

New repacked MODS from ApriliaM3 and Spannaa
Regarding these 2 links
http://d-h.st/users/ApriliaM3/?fld_id=13203#files
and
http://goo.im/devs/Spannaa/SGSII_VRThemes/JellyBean_VRThemes/
I think some NeatRom users and others LSN JB 4.1.2 users that manage a 2nd ROM should have a look here , i share some repack i just finish now.
Thanks to waste time to test them
And Thanks ApriliaM3 and Spannaa for their great great works .