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How to cook a rom?

So, there are so many people making really good roms now. A little dash of this and a hint of that, and viola, your flashing my rom on your phone!!
So how do you start cooking roms?
What software is needed? Do you need eclipse? Do you just need a file manager and an unzip utility?
Has anyone created a tutorial on cooking a rom?
I have some skill with android, and am pretty good and flashing and stuff, I wouldnt mind adding root a build that I like or taking something else out. Maybe add an app to the image, or add an option to my recovery image.
Where do I start?

Have a look at this thread, particually post #8
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530972
Also you could try posting in the Sapphire Android development forum next time

Thanks, Im up and going now. Me and my brother (my brother and I) are going to make a 'loaded' rom with lots of apks preloaded apks.
Question, where are the default wallpapers stored? What about the animated boot logo?

josharmour said:
Thanks, Im up and going now. Me and my brother (my brother and I) are going to make a 'loaded' rom with lots of apks preloaded apks.
Question, where are the default wallpapers stored? What about the animated boot logo?
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The boot animation depends if you're asop or sense. Sense (If I remember correctly) is System/customize/resources. And ASOP is System/Media

[Q] Boot sequence/process

Dear,
I currently use the excellent Nand Rom NexusHD2 Gingerbread from tytung.
In my phone, i want see the boot process like linux, when he boot and delete the animation.
Is it possible ? If yes, what is the procedure ?
Thanks you for your help !

Sorry mate, but you can't have this.
Sent from my HD2 using XDA App

Okay,
Can i ask why ?
Android is based on linux, the boot process don't change ?
I don't know really how Android works, but if the boot screen is desactive, you can not see the kernel boot process ?
Like this screenshot
PS : Sorry for my very bad english (i'm french)

The bootlog doesn't just appear if there's nothing else being shown. Magldr would have to be coded to show it, and it isn't.
The only thing you could do is to approach the Dark Forces Team and ask them to recode magldr so that it shows the bootlog, but I really don't think you'll get it.

Okay john !
Thanks you very much

Custom Boot Animations?

Hey guys and gals one quick question. I am coming from a Samsung Mesmerize to a MT4G, and when i wanted custom boot animations i had to root and the install the Voodoo lagfix.
Do i have to lagfix my MT4G or will it run custom boots after i root?
Never mind guys i found the answer...sorry for the post

clem2595 said:
Hey guys and gals one quick question. I am coming from a Samsung Mesmerize to a MT4G, and when i wanted custom boot animations i had to root and the install the Voodoo lagfix.
Do i have to lagfix my MT4G or will it run custom boots after i root?
Never mind guys i found the answer...sorry for the post
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Haha, htc hardware is quite superior comparing to samsuck. There are no lag to be "fixed" to begin with.
You will need to root it to run custom boot animations.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

help
hey i know this sounds pretty stupid and all but i cannot seem to find out how to change the boot animation on my phone. (mt4g) i have seen all the development forums and i have looked at many other ones but i almost wonder if im over thinking it.. so with all this said simply put how do i change my boot animation from the T-mobile MT4G to like a droid x one. also can u please give exact step by step instructions? thanks!

TheEnd94 said:
hey i know this sounds pretty stupid and all but i cannot seem to find out how to change the boot animation on my phone. (mt4g) i have seen all the development forums and i have looked at many other ones but i almost wonder if im over thinking it.. so with all this said simply put how do i change my boot animation from the T-mobile MT4G to like a droid x one. also can u please give exact step by step instructions? thanks!
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First you need root some kind of file manager. I use root explorer. Then you download the bootanimation you want. If its not already named bootanimation.zip, rename to that.
If you're using an asop rom like cm7 the bootanimation will be located in system/media, if you're using a sense rom the bootanimation will be located in system/customize/resource. All you do is copy the bootanimation you downloaded and paste it in the correctsponding place depending on the rom you're using. Make sure you switch the permission to r/w before pasting. In root explorer the r/w r/o button is on top.
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This is by far the best ROM for the MT4G

thank you very much that helped. and i was in turn over thinking it. but now im off to trying to make bootanimations. and do u have a skype? id like to be able to actually talk to some one instead of just brain boggling my self all the time. im kinda new to android but i do know how to use a computer extremely well. but if ud like to skype message me and ill send u my stuff.

Custom animations on this phone?

Hey everyone, I was checking out some apps today and stumbled across this: Boot Animation app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.boot.animations
And there are some sick looking animations. Has anyone ever tried this for this phone? Was it successful or did it jack it up?
If someone knows that could tell that would be great.
Much appreciated!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337

ToastyyX said:
Hey everyone, I was checking out some apps today and stumbled across this: Boot Animation app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.boot.animations
And there are some sick looking animations. Has anyone ever tried this for this phone? Was it successful or did it jack it up?
If someone knows that could tell that would be great.
Much appreciated!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
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It works great as long as your kernel supports it.
Any AOSP ROM will likely work fine.
Stock TouchWiz ROM will NOT support it, nor will Google Edition. At least not with stock kernel.
Even rooted, those kernels require QMG boot animations. Which this app you linked to does not support.

Excellent, thank you very much. I'm on stock everything just rooted. I was gonna try it, but I'm glad I asked.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337

I've looked at this but wasn't sure either. I'll be interested to see if it works.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189934

And if you have the ROM/kernel's that require QMG format boot animations, but don't want to use that type of animation, then go to this thread and follow the directions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1897969
After applying his mod, you can now run the bootanimation.zip type boot animations provided by ROM Toolbox and Aniboot apps on the Play Store. Such as the link in the OP.

Script Boot Animation

Afternoon guys,
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to not have a boot animation and just show the code that is running in the background?
I'm not all for that fancy loading screens and stuff and it would look neat to see the running code during bootup instead.
Thanks!

danasht said:
Afternoon guys,
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to not have a boot animation and just show the code that is running in the background?
I'm not all for that fancy loading screens and stuff and it would look neat to see the running code during bootup instead.
Thanks!
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Which rom u are using, Touchwiz, AOSP, AOKP,CM ?
and what do you mean no boot animation?
If you delete the bootanimation you will have a blackscreen while the device is booting.
If you mean the Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) message before the bootanimation is starting then is the answer No, you can't remove that message.
If you want to remove the boot animation after this message while the device is booting then the answer is yes you can remove it.
I hope u understand this man

What he is looking for is to see the commands Android is executing while booting, similar to booting Windows in safe mode. Over on the Inspire 4G forums one of the devs did this, and it wasn't well received. He slipped it into his ROM without telling anyone and they all thought their phones were broken. To make it happen requires modding the kernel.

Hybridmax said:
Which rom u are using, Touchwiz, AOSP, AOKP,CM ?
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Yeah Strephon that's what I'm looking for, unfortunately I'm not handy with modifying kernels like that so I guess that's that. But thank you very much for replying guys!