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[Q] Porting Roms to I9500?

Hey guys, this is kind of a silly question knowing that the two devices (i9500 and i9505) have different processors and graphic cards but is it even possible to port the i9505 custom roms to the i9500?
Developer Question: How hard would it be if possible to port it and how hard would it be to make the rom compatible for both devices?
Thanks in Advance
Stay Cool:d

nabil alami said:
Hey guys, this is kind of a silly question knowing that the two devices (i9500 and i9505) have different processors and graphic cards but is it even possible to port the i9505 custom roms to the i9500?
Developer Question: How hard would it be if possible to port it and how hard would it be to make the rom compatible for both devices?
Thanks in Advance
Stay Cool:d
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i guess its possible
compatibility might not be a big issue cause u r just going to port apps,media frameworks and lib files
But u can only port ofiicial 4.2.2 based roms of i9505 to i9500
Which guide r u referring to while porting?

Arjav23 said:
i guess its possible
compatibility might not be a big issue cause u r just going to port apps,media frameworks and lib files
But u can only port ofiicial 4.2.2 based roms of i9505 to i9500
Which guide r u referring to while porting?
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is it possible to port MIUI rom to i9500 ?

gdonanthony said:
is it possible to port MIUI rom to i9500 ?
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Which miui?
Is it based on stock 4.2.2 ?
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i dont know about which is which though
maybe v5 just guessing

gdonanthony said:
i dont know about which is which though
maybe v5 just guessing
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link?
from which phone?

@Arjav23
MIUI v5 Galaxy Nexus (4.2.2) ive just seen it
BTW heres the link: http://en.miui.com/thread-4841-1-1.html

gdonanthony said:
@Arjav23
MIUI v5 Galaxy Nexus (4.2.2) ive just seen it
BTW heres the link: http://en.miui.com/thread-4841-1-1.html
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Y don't you give it a go
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Arjav23 said:
Y don't you give it a go
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i dont have experience.. and my laptop is broke
if someone can do it he will be famous for it

gdonanthony said:
i dont have experience.. and my laptop is broke
if someone can do it he will be famous for it
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At the moment I'm trying to port a rom fron s3
Maybe after that
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Arjav23 said:
At the moment I'm trying to port a rom fron s3
Maybe after that
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if u can do it go for it ...
thanks in advance

nabil alami said:
Hey guys, this is kind of a silly question knowing that the two devices (i9500 and i9505) have different processors and graphic cards but is it even possible to port the i9505 custom roms to the i9500?
Developer Question: How hard would it be if possible to port it and how hard would it be to make the rom compatible for both devices?
Thanks in Advance
Stay Cool:d
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I would say it's nearly impossible, as i9500 and i9505 had different processors, camera sensor, GPU etc. Talking about processors, the Exynos 5 Octa and Snapdragon 600 is a big difference. Those ROM files like lib.so and framework files had already built in for their hardware.
However, I remebered that someone wants to port HTC One ROM to Galaxy S3 International version (Exynos 4 Quad), it worked. But with lots of lots of bugs including lags. When he gaveup he finally stated that it's hard to port ROMs on different hardwares.
Hope this helps
Sent from my Galaxy S4 i9500

TheMrcool212 said:
I would say it's nearly impossible, as i9500 and i9505 had different processors, camera sensor, GPU etc. Talking about processors, the Exynos 5 Octa and Snapdragon 600 is a big difference. Those ROM files like lib.so and framework files had already built in for their hardware.
However, I remebered that someone wants to port HTC One ROM to Galaxy S3 International version (Exynos 4 Quad), it worked. But with lots of lots of bugs including lags. When he gaveup he finally stated that it's hard to port ROMs on different hardwares.
Hope this helps
Sent from my Galaxy S4 i9500
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are u sure?
cause i have sucessfully ported many roms from galaxy ace to galaxy apollo

Pls port roms on cm10.2
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[Q][i9500] Why aren't there more custom ROMs?

Comparing i9505 forum, i9500 has a very little ROM, even cyanogen doesn't support it, All guys with i9505 can easly download a stable AOSP 4.4 kitkat, but not i9500???? Why?

ahmedm24 said:
Comparing i9505 forum, i9500 has a very little ROM, even cyanogen doesn't support it, All guys with i9505 can easly download a stable AOSP 4.4 kitkat, but not i9500???? Why?
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You should really search before posting... Try the android development in s4 device db. As i9500 is a exynos based processor and Samsung keeps the source code unavailable for devs, new roms or AOSP rooms are difficult to come by... However you can find some work on progress. I9505 is based on qualcomms chips are openly available..
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Hello- Go to the Chinese forums, there are dozens of amazing ROMs for your phone.
Cheers, LL13-

penkeerthi said:
You should really search before posting... Try the android development in s4 device db. As i9500 is a exynos based processor and Samsung keeps the source code unavailable for devs, new roms or AOSP rooms are difficult to come by... However you can find some work on progress. I9505 is based on qualcomms chips are openly available..
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Great explanation...:good::good:

You can thank my post
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Samsung Stock kitkat 4.4.2 for Galaxy Grand

Friends please make a stock 4.4 Rom for our galaxy grand duos...
becoz for S3 Archiport . 4.4.2 rom is available with full S5 look ....so please anyone build such a Rom for Grand...
Sorry for my bad English....and Thanks in Advance..

vadakkeveetil said:
Friends please make a stock 4.4 Rom for our galaxy grand duos...
becoz for S3 Archiport . 4.4.2 rom is available with full S5 look ....so please anyone build such a Rom for Grand...
Sorry for my bad English....and Thanks in Advance..
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Okay with that we'll add a ramdisk from note 3 and yeah also Broadcom has released wireless charging chipset we'll include that and also make the processor quad core like s3 is it fine now satisfied???
Have some conscience and pls dont spam!!! [emoji34][emoji35]
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Sulaimanshariff said:
Okay with that we'll add a ramdisk for note 3 and yeah also Broadcom has released wireless charging chipset we'll include that and also make the processor quad core like s3 is it fine now satisfied???
Have some conscience and pls dont spam!!! [emoji34][emoji35]
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HAHA...

Sorry frnd ......Archiport kitkat based stock rom is really nice ..........thats y i asked ........sorry for spaming......

vadakkeveetil said:
Sorry frnd ......Archiport kitkat based stock rom is really nice ..........thats y i asked ........sorry for spaming......
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Note 2 and s3 have same soc
Thus porting is possible
No one besides sammy can MAKE a stock rom...if any bcm28155 device gets kitkat . i guess porting would be possible..

Sulaimanshariff said:
Okay with that we'll add a ramdisk from note 3 and yeah also Broadcom has released wireless charging chipset we'll include that and also make the processor quad core like s3 is it fine now satisfied???
Have some conscience and pls dont spam!!! [emoji34][emoji35]
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Hey 4.4.2 sammy custom rom will be possible for s2 and note 1 without quad core processor......and ramdisk from note 3....

doctor_droid said:
Note 2 and s3 have same soc
Thus porting is possible
No one besides sammy can MAKE a stock rom...if any bcm28155 device gets kitkat . i guess porting would be possible..
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Thanks sir .....

May not be possible
Pretty difficult task.

vadakkeveetil said:
Friends please make a stock 4.4 Rom for our galaxy grand duos...
becoz for S3 Archiport . 4.4.2 rom is available with full S5 look ....so please anyone build such a Rom for Grand...
Sorry for my bad English....and Thanks in Advance..
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There you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2698242

doctor_droid said:
Note 2 and s3 have same soc
Thus porting is possible
No one besides sammy can MAKE a stock rom...if any bcm28155 device gets kitkat . i guess porting would be possible..
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The Galaxy Mega 5.8 will get kitkat soon and it has the same CPU of the Grand.

I can not install the CWM recovery, when odin finish and shows "PASS!" the device boot in to android system stock recovery mode
any idea why?
my androis is 4.2.2 official

Look what we have here!
vadakkeveetil said:
Friends please make a stock 4.4 Rom for our galaxy grand duos...
becoz for S3 Archiport . 4.4.2 rom is available with full S5 look ....so please anyone build such a Rom for Grand...
Sorry for my bad English....and Thanks in Advance..
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Hey mate,are you looking for something like this? Check this outhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2698242

[Q] tw s4i9505 port official lollipop note 3 ROM

I open the post first official ROM note 3 missing chef to develop ROM for our s4 i9505,much remains to view our phone
open thread
Link : oficial note 3
https://mega.co.nz/#!RsRRnZBC!4fg39KkeatkTtcShS4rUljWpU1rGnMC9XL3C17z8Crk

Please explain exactly what this is?

is the official ROM note 3, if it could be ported to our device

javitolopez69 said:
first official ROM note 3 missing chef to develop ROM for our s4 i9505,much remains to view our phone
Link : oficial note 3
https://mega.co.nz/#!RsRRnZBC!4fg39KkeatkTtcShS4rUljWpU1rGnMC9XL3C17z8Crk
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What do you mean, my friend?

Yousvel said:
What do you mean, my friend?
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He's saying he wants someone to port it

Joeyxc said:
He's saying he wants someone to port it
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That's friend, but I think it must be difficult

javitolopez69 said:
That's friend, but I think it must be difficult
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It woud at least be acceptable in the general section. But not in development threads.

The link is not availabe ? Whats wrong

link is ok

Port this ROM to S4 would be a GREAT idea !:good::good::good::good:

Insert logic here....

Note 3 has a snapdragon 800 while the S4 has the Snapdragon 600.
a post from @Albe95 where he explains everything.
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Yep I already saw that. How they port that? Simply thanks to Exynos they port full ROM of Note 3 exynos on their S4 exynos. It would be bad for Aosp ROM but Exynos is better for porting (look at Note 2 and S3: they port KitKat on S3 and 4.4.4 of s3 neo on Note 2 because Exynos of these 2 phone are very similar)
Now is that possible for our S4 Snapdragon? No. Why? There is too much difference between Snap600 and Snap800. It's possible to port on Snap800 variant of S4? With most of probably (99%) yes. In fact S5 ROM can completely ported to Note 3 for example (801 vs 800)
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then the more serious problem kernel

javitolopez69 said:
then the more serious problem kernel
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y u no understand? it cannot be ported okay?
it's better to wait for a stable build than a broken not working build.
patience dude.....

Ok ,

[request] lollipop rom for samsung galaxy core 2 sm-g355h

Please any dev try to make custom rom Base on lollipop for this low end device There is no such custom rom even it can handle lollipop smoothly but it's ignore by many dev as its flag as low end Samsung device please anyone try to build a Ron for core 2 sm-g355h thanx in advance [emoji20] [emoji17] [emoji53] [emoji52] [emoji55]
Sent from my SM-G355H

I join this request. Currently I own a SM-G355M. It seems that we have to wait until Samsung delivers the lollipop update.

Still No Lollipop !!!!!
Android 6.0 is gonna come out
but still no lollipop for our poor SM-G355H/M(Samsung Galaxy Core 2)
Feeling So Sad

I have some porting knowledge and im ready to sacrifice my device for it, is there a phone that is close to the g355h hardware-wise?

white-energy said:
I have some porting knowledge and im ready to sacrifice my device for it, is there a phone that is close to the g355h hardware-wise?
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I think G313HU is the close similar to the G355H....it may help you

white-energy said:
I have some porting knowledge and im ready to sacrifice my device for it, is there a phone that is close to the g355h hardware-wise?
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The Core Prime has nearly the same specs and he has official L Firmware see here

Shopnoghuri said:
I think G313HU is the close similar to the G355H....it may help you
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AnDrOiiiD_YT said:
The Core Prime has nearly the same specs and he has official L Firmware see here
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Quite good.. defenitely going to try porting the 5.1 from the Core Prime.. my first guess that we'll run into Camera issues since they have different cameras, we might need compatible G355H (or similar) camera lib for 5.1 if the older libs will run into compatibility issues.

white-energy said:
Quite good.. defenitely going to try porting the 5.1 from the Core Prime.. my first guess that we'll run into Camera issues since they have different cameras, we might need compatible G355H (or similar) camera lib for 5.1 if the older libs will run into compatibility issues.
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Ok I will search and see if I find one
I didn't found any Android device with L ROM/Firmware with the exact same Camera specs as the GC2. One question: The Moto E (1st Gen) has the same Camera specs but he hasn't Front Camera... Is it possible to use the lib from this device and make front camera work? [emoji4]
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AnDrOiiiD_YT said:
Ok I will search and see if I find one
I didn't found any Android device with L ROM/Firmware with the exact same Camera specs as the GC2. One question: The Moto E (1st Gen) has the same Camera specs but he hasn't Front Camera... Is it possible to use the lib from this device and make front camera work? [emoji4]
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Well, i've looked through some forums and i found this..
As per samsungs database core 2 (SM-G355H) & Core prime (SM-G360H) have common camera.
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so i think we're good, will be easy to port.
Update: Well... i've done some more researching and it seems like only the G360F is getting the Android 5 update and the device specifications differ..
G355H: http://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model/c7bd2c38
G360H: http://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model/9ea92fe9 (No difference from G355H)
G360F: http://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model/18f33232 (Differs from both G355H and G360H)

@white-energy
I saw this and i dont know if Samsung will really release that phone ( 4 Month old post and its not better than the normal prime )

AnDrOiiiD_YT said:
@white-energy
I saw this and i dont know if Samsung will really release that phone ( 4 Month old post and its not better than the normal prime )
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Pretty good catch there mate!
I've poked around in google and found the firmwares: http://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-G531H/
Will definitely mess around with it asap.
Update: Oh i just checked the specifications of that model and it seems that the G531H isn't the Grand Prime VE.. emm.. hopefully we'll see that model out..
Update 2: It's confusing.. i can't find some solid info anywhere..
Update 3: Okay.. found something useful and it seems that the SM-G531H is the correct model that contains the same SoC as the G355H.. so we're good.

white-energy said:
Pretty good catch there mate!
I've poked around in google and found the firmwares: http://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-G531H/
Will definitely mess around with it asap.
Update: Oh i just checked the specifications of that model and it seems that the G531H isn't the Grand Prime VE.. emm.. hopefully we'll see that model out..
Update 2: It's confusing.. i can't find some solid info anywhere..
Update 3: Okay.. found something useful and it seems that the SM-G531H is the correct model that contains the same SoC as the G355H.. so we're good.
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That's great news! :highfive:
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That means that we going to advance for a custom Lollipop Rom for GC2? I love to see that project, because i want a lollipop ROM on my device but Samsung will not update it.. Sorry for bad english, i'm from Portugal

Why don't someone port a cyanogenmod ROM for a galaxy core 2

mekanysm said:
That means that we going to advance for a custom Lollipop Rom for GC2? I love to see that project, because i want a lollipop ROM on my device but Samsung will not update it.. Sorry for bad english, i'm from Portugal
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Sorry but hardly. G531 has 8 GB of internal storage(system reserved aprox. 1.6 GB because system image for G531 is larger than 1.4 GB ) and our G355 4 GB (system reserved aprox. 1.1 GB) so I don't see that fit.
G531: http://androiddevice.info/submission/28381/show
G355: http://androiddevice.info/submission/29929/show
Anish Prasad said:
Why don't someone port a cyanogenmod ROM for a galaxy core 2
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I'm working on cm-11.0 from source and I asked for help many times. To make a team but no one did anything so I don't see that fit to. for now

Y300-0100 said:
I'm working on cm-11.0 from source and I asked for help many times. To make a team but no one did anything so I don't see that fit to. for now
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I´m new in porting but i have some experience, i can help you with that

Well you are working on cm 11 that's great ....so what help do you need from me...? Well I am not much familiar with porting.... But I can help...

mekanysm said:
I´m new in porting but i have some experience, i can help you with that
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Anish Prasad said:
Well you are working on cm 11 that's great ....so what help do you need from me...? Well I am not much familiar with porting.... But I can help...
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well, porting already working rom from one device to another is one thing. But what rom (device) would you use?? No one build cm-11.0 for any device similar to ours. I have been searching a lot...
Building from source is totally different thing. A lot of time time to find needed proprietary files, setting up device tree, patching if needed and than building with no errors. And finale is it rom bootable or not.
I build cm-11 rom for g355hn but all I got is cm boot logo and 50-60 lines of logcat where I could seen successful loading wifi modules, loading MALI libs and some display drivers and than boom. Logcat stop and I'm in boot loop where I can't see anything else what cause phone from booting.
So if anyone can help my sources are right here:
https://github.com/Y300-0100/android_device_samsung_kanas3gnfcxx
https://github.com/Y300-0100/android_kernel_samsung_SM-G355HN_XEC
https://github.com/Y300-0100/proprietary_vendor_samsung
https://github.com/Y300-0100/proprietary_vendor_samsung.bak

Samsung Galaxy s duos 2 is similar to Galaxy core 2 and cm11 is available for this device from XDA developers

Anish Prasad said:
Samsung Galaxy s duos 2 is similar to Galaxy core 2 and cm11 is available for this device from XDA developers
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Not only cm11 but also cm12, i ported cm11 for galaxy core 2. I just need testers