I'm interested in baking my own rom for my Iconia, but haven't had much luck with Google. Any rom I make at least at first will be for my own interests, mostly adding and removing apks and possibly some light themeing and such. Would anyone be willing to write a good tutorial? Most I have seen are either anchient or HTC specific.
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Hey all,
I'm new to the XDA forums and was wondering if I could some advice regarding ROM development on the DX. I've done some UNIX kernel work and know a fairly good amount of java as well, so I was thinking about looking into developing a ROM of my own as a side project. Can anyone direct me towards some information regarding the porting requirements needed by the DX, or possibly I could help out on another ROM to get up to speed on the process?
From what I've seen around here all ROMs for the DX are made by stripping the stock ROM of MOTO Blur, and adding a few packages that are custom or AOSP. Also, be prepared for people to tell you what to do... it seems to be the popular thing to do.
I would also love to maybe one day get into making a ROM, but I haven't seen any guides or the like for people who want to make a ROM. I would imagine it be a tad difficult.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667298
I haven't done any of this I just was interested and found this awhile ago.
Looking forward to see what you can come up with!
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Hey all,
I'm new to the XDA forums and was wondering if I could some advice regarding ROM development on the DX. I've done some UNIX kernel work and know a fairly good amount of java as well, so I was thinking about looking into developing a ROM of my own as a side project. Can anyone direct me towards some information regarding the porting requirements needed by the DX, or possibly I could help out on another ROM to get up to speed on the process?
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My word of advice, since there's a locked bootloader, find every kind of work around you can for performance and battery, otherwise, your rom will be like the rest.
My rom may not come with the best options and all the advanced customizations, but i'll be damned if one outperforms mine in performance at least.. on paper and in theory, anyways. lmao
Qwontum said:
Hey all,
I'm new to the XDA forums and was wondering if I could some advice regarding ROM development on the DX. I've done some UNIX kernel work and know a fairly good amount of java as well, so I was thinking about looking into developing a ROM of my own as a side project. Can anyone direct me towards some information regarding the porting requirements needed by the DX, or possibly I could help out on another ROM to get up to speed on the process?
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In addition to what drod said... Hit up @Aliasxerog on Twitter! He is currently looking for help with Linux kernel work. He has been working on a new init for the X to bypass the bootloader issue we have all grown to love! If you could give him some help, I'm sure he, along with the entire Droid X community would be forever in your debt
Shoot him a message and see what he has to say...
I can help you out if you have any questions, I am making a couple of roms for the DROID2 right now and the Dx is pretty much the same phone, just send me a pm if you need anything.
Qwontum said:
Hey all,
I'm new to the XDA forums and was wondering if I could some advice regarding ROM development on the DX. I've done some UNIX kernel work and know a fairly good amount of java as well, so I was thinking about looking into developing a ROM of my own as a side project. Can anyone direct me towards some information regarding the porting requirements needed by the DX, or possibly I could help out on another ROM to get up to speed on the process?
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.... well, pretty much everything, from flashing roms to boot screens.
Most of the instructions, both here and modaco and other sites are well documented, but arnt easy for the layman to follow or to know why one does something in a process.
Id like to see a blow by blow guide with commented out notes so us noobs can get a grasp as to whats happening.
Perhaps with a clear difficulty level to show whats tried and tested and whats at an alpha stage for eg the cm mod vs pauls mod to stop fopk getting unstuck.
Comments?
Rgds
Lok
Would be nice to have a list of all the various mods and roms for the Vega with links and tutorials. There's a thread like that on Modaco I think, but I believe its just related to Paul's mod and usb drivers.
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you'll prob find quite a lot of stuff coming from me in respect of lower end stuff in the coming weeks - tutorials and the like. I've been concentrating on my defy recently but am going to put that to one side and concentrate on the vega for a while. I have observed and understand fully there are alot of new people to Android and its well needed.
Hello all
Modaco and here have always had alot of great advice, but for utterly new users some terms etc are diff to understand.
I know that flashing a rom isnt for the faint hearted,, but with a device like the vega, which is essentially crippled without pauls rom etc itd be great to get a simple guide to make this devce wha it could be.
Btw apologies for terrible spelling, but the stock vega keybioard is a pain.
Looking forward to any unbiased guides.
Rgds
Lok
Hey guys. I know I am probably a complete noob at this stuff but I would really like to learn how to build custom roms. I know it involves some serious coding and things like that but I feel like if I follow someones instructions I will eventually get the hang of it. I am not looking for someone to link me to a guide cause they can be very hard to follow for noobs ecspecially for the Droid X. (Don't think I'm wrong in saying that.) If anyone knows how to make custom roms and has the tools to make one if they could please help me out it would be much appreciated. I am a fast learner and will definately pay you and give you credit to everything I create. Here is what I have available. Hopefully I will be able to build a Rom with this.
-Droid X - Rooted
-Windows Computer with Windows 7 Software
-Ability to download anything without getting viruses because of High Quality Norton Protection
Hopefully someone can help me out with this.
Thank You
smyers1012 said:
Hey guys. I know I am probably a complete noob at this stuff but I would really like to learn how to build custom roms. I know it involves some serious coding and things like that but I feel like if I follow someones instructions I will eventually get the hang of it. I am not looking for someone to link me to a guide cause they can be very hard to follow for noobs ecspecially for the Droid X. (Don't think I'm wrong in saying that.) If anyone knows how to make custom roms and has the tools to make one if they could please help me out it would be much appreciated. I am a fast learner and will definately pay you and give you credit to everything I create. Here is what I have available. Hopefully I will be able to build a Rom with this.
-Droid X - Rooted
-Windows Computer with Windows 7 Software
-Ability to download anything without getting viruses because of High Quality Norton Protection
Hopefully someone can help me out with this.
Thank You
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Don't mean to dash any hopes you had of building a ROM, but unless you know java pretty well... the chances of building a ROM are slim... Android is built on java and so knowing some form of java would be required to build a ROM. Even a lot of the devs who are extremely talented at developing such as droid2169 who I have talked to say even with their experience ROM development is tough.
This isn't something you can have someone teach you in a short amount of time without some sort of coding experience... I wish you the best, as I also would love to be able to do some dev work to contribute back to the community, but it's not as simple as legos. You can't just take pieces and put things together...it requires a great deal of work and understanding.
how about themes? are they difficult to make?
smyers1012 said:
how about themes? are they difficult to make?
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it depends... If you are familiar with photoshop, and know some of the architecture for android (I.e. xml file contents, and what they pertain to) then no, it is one of the easier things to do in android. You can also look into metamorph. This allows you to build themes easier by replacing images with ones you find in other themes or out on the web wherever. There are tutorials for metamorph.
A big difference compared to putting some files together for a hybrid on my Blackberry.
Well I'd like to build a theme if anyone will teach me about xml or whatever i need to know about it... I will pay and give you credit in the theme
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Well I'd like to build a theme if anyone will teach me about xml or whatever i need to know about it... I will pay and give you credit in the theme
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I can give some basics. To start you will want to use a program like photoshop, gimp, or paint.net for image creation. You will want to use apkmanager and learn how to use it. I will try and grab some more info and post back later.
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http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/246462-theme-help-tutorial.html
Hello all,
At this point there are some developers that are making notion ink adam roms.
Is there one of those developers that could and want to write a howto for building adam roms, i the past i have had some smart phones, and with the help of this forum i've build my own roms for them.
That's something i liked to do, and sometimes not even to share them with the community, but just to adjust some thing i wouldn't like in a baked rom.
I think lot's of visitors of this site, would like to take a shot at it, and who knows maybe someone can bake the perfect rom.
Please keep in mind, that if you are the person who is going to write the howto, that you don't take steps for granted. What may look standard for you could be a difficult step for a starter.
I would really like a tut so i can try and build my first own rom for the adam
Kind regards,
Michel
i want to make rom custom for my love. But i don't know how to?
maybe somebody help me, please.
You can't just "make" a rom.
May I recommend MIUI or CM7?
If you really have no clue how, I don't think I'd try just yet. There's a lot of learning involved... I'd start with apps and move up from that. There are plenty of resources to be had, just search XDA and google. That said, you'd better be very determined and skilled if you want to put together a ROM. The master behind Cyanogenmod is extremely talented - and got a job based on his work. Just look at how few ROM creators there are compared to how many people develop apps... Then note that few if any of them do it solo. If it were easy, there'd be a lot more ROMs out there