Hi Everybody
after some weeks Trying developing ROM's and Kernels i almost Give up... the kernel developing to MTK SoC is too much different compared to qualcomm SoC's (To me at least...) after compile more than 10 kernels to Run at my phone i only get Bluetooth and Radio FM not working with random reboots annoying frequently... but a real modifications to get this phone more smooth usage fail every time...(if you only compile the original source kernel it will run exactly like original kernel...)
I'm too n0#b alone to get everything running at developing process(kernel or ROM dev.).. at qualcomm phones(Xperia Acro S and Xperia L), i get more things running correctly with much more help from others Developers... but not released anything because it will be more from the same as others releases...
so if anyone here have more knowledge about that developing process things i have the Kernel Source and ROM platform to our phone...
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i already try make CM12.1 run too.. but don't boot =#.. and if get work soon will be too much unstable to release, like my kernels =#
i will try port CM12.1 from @fire855 using that tutorial
the other possibility is try make compile the CM12.1 using our sources with modification from this ROM
but i will need help to make it compile right =#
so.. i will like have a discussion about that process with you guys... if anyone have some experience to help our phone have more custom's things to don't be locked with Original stuff/performance only.. if anyone have a useful guide, video or tutorial to compile anything to MTK SoC's it will be great too :highfive:
I appreciate your effort! I don't know much about MTK personally, but there is a thread on 4pda about porting CM 12.1 to MTK processors.
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=671898
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Ilxaot said:
I appreciate your effort! I don't know much about MTK personally, but there is a thread on 4pda about porting CM 12.1 to MTK processors.
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=671898
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already started try port CM12.1 ... but will not work too much things... almost every sensor will not work because that cross-firmwareOS port (CM Modules Drivers have a different compilation process =#) what i can do is try upgrade our source kernel using other MT6592 Sources to can compile the CM12 to our device... but again i will need find Module Updates drivers(blob) from other phones sources... =#
and my status with that right know is fixing a lot of errors while i compiling the kernel... i don't reach the inHouse ROM Compilation to than can get more Errors on logs to fix to release a simple Almost "stable" rom to how want test if it works properly to everyone... but don't push me to get that finished.. i work everyday and when i have time i try my best to develop that :highfive:
and release a unstable ROM/kernel is a wrong because maybe can brick someone phone because my errors (ramdisk modifications, and partition table map when installing the rom)... or we can wait BLU release the Lollipop with Hope because on twitter( @ UKkazam) tell me about no lollipop updates to this phone =#
i Tweeted to [@ KazamUK] asking they about lollipop updates and receive two replays... One say about newer updates to fix bugs on OS but not about lollipop and other saying "unfortunately, not upgrades to newer Android versions will be released"... otherwise [@ BLU_Products] Replay this "Please stay tuned on our social media for future updates, thanks!"... so... we have a faith about BLU brings Lollipop to our device? i don't have sure but with lucky it will happens :highfive:
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and the porting CM12.1 ROM don't worked with me... bootloop =# and CatLog is extremely confuse =#
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I have an opportunity to make a PORT CM12 for BLU VIVO AIR in two days. A neighbor of mine bought a VIVO AIR and I will do whatever is necessary to get the ROM on the device.
I helped the BLU VIVO IV the users to have CM12. But as the device was not mine, so I could not fix some bugs. In the same epoch I talked to a BVA User and helped the kernel issue. He had given me feedback in relation to not have phone signal and not be able to replace the IMEI. But as I had no time, and the phone in my hands, the CM12 ROM stood with him.
Currently, it is quite possible that after CM12 MT6592 to be 95% stable in most of these devices Socs, the VIVO AIR may also have.
Once I have the device in hands, I'll let you guys know if CM12 can be available for all users VIVO AIR.
But if anyone know a actually already exist a ROM CM12 for VIVO AIR and clones.... Let me know...??
That would be awesome and I'm sure as me a lot of users are going to be happy about it
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Honor 7 (PLK-L01) Kernel Source Code Discussion​
Hello, honorable Honor 7 users , I hope you all are using this device to the fullest, now I'm starting this thread to discuss about the kernel source code for our beloved device. There are a lot of benefits from it.
1. We can create a master tree for our device.
2. After creating the tree we can create various branches of different custom ROMs, so that we can compile them from it.
3. We can add different CPU Govereners to our device to unleash its better performance, or better stability.
4. ETC. ETC.
There are still more benefits from the kernel source code.
Having The Honor 7 Kernel Source Codes Is Extremely Important For Development
Thank you for posting about that.
Indeed having the Android kernel source codes of (Huawei Honor 7 - PLK-L01) will help a lot in the development and porting process.
I am going to contact Huawei support team today to see when they are willing to share the source codes.
For anyone who is interested in this, please reply to this post and try to contact them too pointing your interest in having them.
This would be the most important step towards having custom ROMs on this amazing device.
Special thanks for "DigiGoon" to bring that up. :good:
Source Code
Yes, absolutely right @kenshiwara we can create custom ROMs and can tweak them to make this device even more better.
So guys, if more and more people will demand for the source code from Huawei then more closer we will get to have a custom ROM out of it, and I think that this device will gain much popularity after the company releases it worldwide, so we will get more and more developers working on it on different ROMs, but for that we need kernel source, so please contact Huawei for the same it's for our good only.
its funny,
I sent a email to them, on Monday asking the same thing (no reply thought) and was going to start a post about it , guess i was beaten to it
I really like this device, and would be a shame if not customs roms are available
phoenix
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created a petition online, please sign it and add it to the 1st post:
htt p://ww w.ipetitions.com/petition/honor-7-source-code
(I cant post link outside XDA, delete the space)
ps: if anyone has any other ideas for the description, just tell me
themegaphoenix said:
its funny,
I sent a email to them, on Monday asking the same thing (no reply thought) and was going to start a post about it , guess i was beaten to it
I really like this device, and would be a shame if not customs roms are available
phoenix
edit:
created a petition online, please sign it and add it to the 1st post:
htt p://ww w.ipetitions.com/petition/honor-7-source-code
(I cant post link outside XDA, delete the space)
ps: if anyone has any other ideas for the description, just tell me
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A petition will make zero difference. Honor UK and EU staff are well aware that they need to provide GPL code but they have to wait for the software team in China to provide the files. No point hassling them on social media etc as it won't make the code magically appear.
And even if we had kernel source it does not mean that custom ROMs will appear!
If you expected to be able to run custom ROMs then I'm sorry but you bought the wrong device.
flibblesan said:
A petition will make zero difference. Honor UK and EU staff are well aware that they need to provide GPL code but they have to wait for the software team in China to provide the files. No point hassling them on social media etc as it won't make the code magically appear.
And even if we had kernel source it does not mean that custom ROMs will appear!
If you expected to be able to run custom ROMs then I'm sorry but you bought the wrong device.
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Having the source can mean that developers can make custom ROMs and flash it through twrp. I get your point that there is a lack of developers for this device, but I would like to mess around with the source, and see if I can create a ROM (only ported mtk ROMs in the past and modify some files in the past, which would require some learning)
And I didn't buy this device for custom ROMs, but it would be nice to have some
flibblesan said:
A petition will make zero difference. Honor UK and EU staff are well aware that they need to provide GPL code but they have to wait for the software team in China to provide the files. No point hassling them on social media etc as it won't make the code magically appear.
And even if we had kernel source it does not mean that custom ROMs will appear!
If you expected to be able to run custom ROMs then I'm sorry but you bought the wrong device.
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As, I said earlier, with kernel source we can create tree, and out of the master tree we can create branches for various custom ROMs, and well in past I have made a ROM without kernel source, and made a tree for my other device(XOLO Play T1000), and successfully flashed via TWRP, it was having problems with network, wifi, so didn't made it to xda so, I think after having the source code we can create something
themegaphoenix said:
its funny,
I sent a email to them, on Monday asking the same thing (no reply thought) and was going to start a post about it , guess i was beaten to it
I really like this device, and would be a shame if not customs roms are available
phoenix
created a petition online, please sign it and add it to the 1st post
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Thank you for supporting this thread and creating a petition as well. I have signed your newly created petition a moment ago.
As we said before, having the Android kernel source codes will massively help in the porting and development process.
It is within the development cycles of Huawei to release the source codes at a certain stage. Let's hope though, that they can release them soon.
It's annoying me that Huawei are still unable to respect the GPL by releasing kernel source on time whenever there has been a firmware update. It's even more annoying for my friends that work for Huawei in the UK who are pretty passionate about the devices and eager to help the community out but are sadly at the mercy of the Chinese office that are reluctant to provide any source. I really don't understand why they are being like this, since they have recently been supportive of Cyanogenmon on some devices as well as the Nexus 6P.
What possible reason could Huawei have for witholding the code for the Honor 7? I'm starting to wonder if Huawei have incorporated code into the kernel that isn't compatible with the GPL or is completely closed source.
flibblesan said:
It's annoying me that Huawei are still unable to respect the GPL by releasing kernel source on time whenever there has been a firmware update. It's even more annoying for my friends that work for Huawei in the UK who are pretty passionate about the devices and eager to help the community out but are sadly at the mercy of the Chinese office that are reluctant to provide any source. I really don't understand why they are being like this, since they have recently been supportive of Cyanogenmon on some devices as well as the Nexus 6P.
What possible reason could Huawei have for witholding the code for the Honor 7? I'm starting to wonder if Huawei have incorporated code into the kernel that isn't compatible with the GPL or is completely closed source.
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Even then, they should have made an statement about it, but what would stop them to lie about it?
They could also broke some patents with the phone, so they are trying to cover it up by not releasing the code
flibblesan said:
What possible reason could Huawei have for witholding the code for the Honor 7? I'm starting to wonder if Huawei have incorporated code into the kernel that isn't compatible with the GPL or is completely closed source.
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Whole AOSP is under GPL so i think they should release it
I signed it too. Let us home Huawei will release the source code, but like flibblesan said, I have my doubts about a quick release
AmitJordy said:
I signed it too. Let us home Huawei will release the source code, but like flibblesan said, I have my doubts about a quick release
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Well, they replied to my tweet, and I think it will be out soon (**EXCITED)
You can check it HERE
flibblesan said:
It's annoying me that Huawei are still unable to respect the GPL by releasing kernel source on time whenever there has been a firmware update. It's even more annoying for my friends that work for Huawei in the UK who are pretty passionate about the devices and eager to help the community out but are sadly at the mercy of the Chinese office that are reluctant to provide any source. I really don't understand why they are being like this, since they have recently been supportive of Cyanogenmon on some devices as well as the Nexus 6P.
What possible reason could Huawei have for witholding the code for the Honor 7? I'm starting to wonder if Huawei have incorporated code into the kernel that isn't compatible with the GPL or is completely closed source.
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Thank you for your comment and for your supporting this topic.
As they had released the source codes for Honor 6, there is no reason for them to not share the codes of Honor 7. As @DigiGoon have stated, they replied to his tweet already and never denied the idea or his request.
It would be nice if anyone who is interested in having the source codes and supporting the developers who are willing to work on porting ROMs for this device to comment on that tweet, share it and like it. :laugh:
kenshiwara said:
Thank you for your comment and for your supporting this topic.
As they had released the source codes for Honor 6, there is no reason for them to not share the codes of Honor 7. As @DigiGoon have stated, they replied to his tweet already and never denied the idea or his request.
It would be nice if anyone who is interested in having the source codes and supporting the developers who are willing to work on porting ROMs for this device to comment on that tweet, share it and like it. :laugh:
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Yes, throw it everywhere so that more users will know about it, and new developers emerges out of somewhere, hopefully we will get the source code soon
sgned the petition...has huawei released source code for any other of their phones?
seen the answer to my question...doh!!
sheridan2000 said:
sgned the petition...has huawei released source code for any other of their phones?
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Thank you very much for doing that! :good:
Yes, Huawei supports the open source community. They had released most of their previous Android kernel source codes including Honor 6 in the past.
Hopefully it is just a matter of time before they release the codes of honor 7. We are very excited to start working on a ROM.
Signed from by side too but I don't have any hope of any release...
beber75 said:
Signed from by side too but I don't have any hope of any release...
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Thank you very much for your support! As they released the source codes of the previous model, there is no logical reason for them not to release them for this one.
They do respect the open source community and hopefully they will release soon.
Have faith and stay optimistic about it
I've bought this phone today, i really hope Huawei provide source code for Custom ROM.
And I've already signed the petition
Edit : Huawei doesn't provide any CPU source code, just EMUI source code...
Hy all,
I love this phone, but one thnig disapoint me : NO roms oO NO customs roms at all !
I have nexus devices before, and all this custom think missing me ,
I read than developers don't love this phone because SAmsung don't released the source code
but I see this on Samsung website :
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=sm-g928
It's all versions source
It's not enought to start real developpement ?
Source code is not the issue. A locked bootloader is the issue, on Verizon and AT&T anyway.
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Cm or aosp no, but you have a lot of roms and kernels in the development section.
the problem is that exynos is not open source, especially some hardware blobs!
that's the reason why qualcomm based devices will get cm and aosp, exynos based devices would need a lot of fiddling and reverse engineering, thus cm/aosp support is often not the case!
Hi,
How come there's such a lack of custom kernels for our S10+ devices?
I remember the S7/S8 having some atleast.
Has it become increasingly difficult or have our usual developers left the Samsung ecosystem?
Samsung isn't known for being developer friendly. I think Samsung needs to release their kernel source code for the S10+ before devs can create custom kernels. Maybe they haven't done that yet.
Kernel source has been released already . With the us version being locked and the EU version not having the same proc and being known to be hard to dev for . It could be awhile
RaverX3X said:
Kernel source has been released already . With the us version being locked and the EU version not having the same proc and being known to be hard to dev for . It could be awhile
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But can we patch stock kernel with some mods like usb-drive and cdrom-drive emulation
I knew that these 2 libs must be added to patch but how safely i can patch it? Can you or somebody help?
drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c
drivers/usb/gadget/storage_common.c
Thanks
Hi everyone,
I just noticed that the Z300C Source code has been released by ASUS (2020/11/04).
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/Zenpad/Z300C/Z300C_V4.7.5-update.tar.gz
Any enthusiast who are willing to help me try to build it ?
Edit:
I uploaded the source code on Github if anybody is interested in it :
https://github.com/dchenaux/android_kernel_asus_p023
So the build worked
I created a zImage.
Now i'm wondering what would be the next steps ?
My goal would be to make an aosp ROM.
I found some basic device tree for the tablet which I forked here :
https://github.com/dchenaux/android_device_asus_p023
I'm currently investigating how to achieve that. I never ported aosp for an unsupported device. If you have any advice I would be happy !
sadly i have no idea about how to build a rom, but i hope you reach the goal!
also, could you help me find out what file controls battery charging?
btw how did you find out about the release of the source code?
Hey
Sorry I didn't have time until now to investigate further, but it's still in my todo list.
I was looking for the stock rom on the Asus website and I saw that the source code was available.
Hi, any luck on making a custom ROM yet? (Sorry for the bad English)