Because I'm bored most of the times, I decided that I will try to port the cm for our p9 lite. First of all, I wanna say that I'm not a developer and my experiences with porting aren't too big (i only ported some roms from moto g to moto g 4g version and cm11 to unbranded chinese tablet). So my question is guys, do you think that it's worth trying? I read that it's pretty hard to make custom rom for devices that have chipsets like kirin, mediatek etc... But since Huawei released their kernel sources for this device I thought that it isn't a bad idea
What do you think?
there are a few guys on p8 lite forum that are trying for a while now...i think it's just to hard and we don't have experienced devs to work on our device
snapdesign said:
there are a few guys on p8 lite forum that are trying for a while now...i think it's just to hard and we don't have experienced devs to work on our device
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Yeah, they even ported cm13 to p8 lite thats why I started thinking about it
dc239 said:
Yeah, they even ported cm13 to p8 lite thats why I started thinking about it
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i don't think they did it... there are 3 guys that work on the same project...
I would love to see CM on this device.
It is pretty popular as well, so maybe we will see a build one day.
If somebody understands chinese, I bet it is worth to keep an eye out on their forums
Maybe it is also worth to observe the progress on the P9...
Schlengge said:
I would love to see CM on this device.
It is pretty popular as well, so maybe we will see a build one day.
If somebody understands chinese, I bet it is worth to keep an eye out on their forums
Maybe it is also worth to observe the progress on the P9...
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I looked on the chinese forums too (our p9 lite is named huawei g9 in china) but there are only threads about twrp recovery and roms that are based on stock. I'm now taking my time to learn how cm and the other stuff works so i will try to report some progress soon hopefully
dc239 said:
Because I'm bored most of the times, I decided that I will try to port the cm for our p9 lite. First of all, I wanna say that I'm not a developer and my experiences with porting aren't too big (i only ported some roms from moto g to moto g 4g version and cm11 to unbranded chinese tablet). So my question is guys, do you think that it's worth trying? I read that it's pretty hard to make custom rom for devices that have chipsets like kirin, mediatek etc... But since Huawei released their kernel sources for this device I thought that it isn't a bad idea
What do you think?
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We have kernel source code, and we can start building cm13,
But first we need a device tree.
My knowledge is limited to build ROMs from source, and yes i have kernel source code and cm13, but i need device tree and I don't have time to build it from scratch
lzimbrea said:
We have kernel source code, and we can start building cm13,
But first we need a device tree.
My knowledge is limited to build ROMs from source, and yes i have kernel source code and cm13, but i need device tree and I don't have time to build it from scratch
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But we can use a device tree from p8 lite which has similar chipset (kirin 620) and then modifiy it. Correct me if i'm wrong
dc239 said:
But we can use a device tree from p8 lite which has similar chipset (kirin 620) and then modifiy it. Correct me if i'm wrong
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As far as I know p9 lite has kirin 650 SoC, after some quick research i found that these two are different from many points... Of course you can try it but they aren't many chances of success.
Update:
I have done more research and someone was able to build and update kernel from that source. So we have a short start. At least we know that kernel source is ok
lzimbrea said:
I have done more research and someone was able to build and update kernel from that source. So we have a short start. At least we know that kernel source is ok
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That's some good news, so the main problem for now is to build the device tree , but I don't know where to start (for now)
Hello,
I would just like to give my support to you and say that I'd really like if you could port CM to our P9 Lite! I'd contribute and donate also
Memovic said:
Hello,
I would just like to give my support to you and say that I'd really like if you could port CM to our P9 Lite! I'd contribute and donate also
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Just to let everyone know. I planning to start working on kernel and device tree for p9 lite.
Probably I will make a new thread on development section soon. But don't expect to be a release soon... Will take a while till first build
lzimbrea said:
Just to let everyone know. I planning to start working on kernel and device tree for p9 lite.
Probably I will make a new thread on development section soon. But don't expect to be a release soon... Will take a while till first build
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Great news and good luck. I bought this device with 2 years of payment plan, so I don't expect on buying anything new soon haha.
i talked with @XePeleato on the p8 lite section... they have made great progress... maybe he can help if you want... seems like a great guy
snapdesign said:
i talked with @XePeleato on the p8 lite section... they have made great progress... maybe he can help if you want... seems like a great guy
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Yeah, I don't have the device but I may be able to help you out whenever I finish CM13, since then I'll have more time. By the way, don't be too excited about the kernel sources, We also have the p8 lite kernel source but many stuff is missing.
Emm,is it a bad idea to make a sort of a chat room for those working on CM for the P9 Lite?
It would go much faster if several people worked on it together instead of working separately,right?
So far I took the P8Lite device and vendor trees,replaced the blobs/sensitive stuff with the ones from the P9 Lite and edited the config files.
I tried to make the -eng build(of course,to be able to logcat broken things),yet the build info wouldn't mention the full build name in the "CM_VERSION=" section. I must've missed something I can't locate no matter how hard I try.
I also tried to build the kernel first,but it asked for the cyanogenmod_hi6250_defconfig in /arch/arm64/configs. I then "added" it(improvised by creating a copy of the stock defconfig and just renaming it),and then the build procedure asked for "hisi_cm_hi6250_debug_defconfig" in /arch/arm/configs,and I have no clue on how to get that one.
This is the first time I tried to do a thing like this,but I wanted to try,and sharing information(even the ones which appear to be useless) might help someone...
I will sync the improvized device and vendor trees when I get back home(Sunday),hopefully it will be at least a bit helpful to everyone.
It is most likely that you guys will keep ignoring me,but we surely can make it go faster if we work together.
The Marionette said:
Emm,is it a bad idea to make a sort of a chat room for those working on CM for the P9 Lite?
It would go much faster if several people worked on it together instead of working separately,right?
So far I took the P8Lite device and vendor trees,replaced the blobs/sensitive stuff with the ones from the P9 Lite and edited the config files.
I tried to make the -eng build(of course,to be able to logcat broken things),yet the build info wouldn't mention the full build name in the "CM_VERSION=" section. I must've missed something I can't locate no matter how hard I try.
I also tried to build the kernel first,but it asked for the cyanogenmod_hi6250_defconfig in /arch/arm64/configs. I then "added" it(improvised by creating a copy of the stock defconfig and just renaming it),and then the build procedure asked for "hisi_cm_hi6250_debug_defconfig" in /arch/arm/configs,and I have no clue on how to get that one.
This is the first time I tried to do a thing like this,but I wanted to try,and sharing information(even the ones which appear to be useless) might help someone...
I will sync the improvized device and vendor trees when I get back home(Sunday),hopefully it will be at least a bit helpful to everyone.
It is most likely that you guys will keep ignoring me,but we surely can make it go faster if we work together.
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that's what i said in the p8 lite section a while back... for devs to work together... in the end they finally started a project together and made big progress... maybe a google plus page or on Hangouts...
snapdesign said:
that's what i said in the p8 lite section a while back... for devs to work together... in the end they finally started a project together and made big progress... maybe a google plus page or on Hangouts...
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I use Hangouts to communicate with my fellow rom builders/dev.
Hangouts is pretty good for chat groups,and is easy to establish/use.
I also asked one excellent dev for help when he gets the time.
So,theoretically,we have a decent number of capable people for this endevour.
My Hangouts mail is [email protected].
Anyone who is interested in exchanging information can freely talk to me.
The Marionette said:
It is most likely that you guys will keep ignoring me,but we surely can make it go faster if we work together.
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I'm 100% in, but i can't help you too much, cause i'm still trying to learn about the rom developing...
The Marionette said:
I use Hangouts to communicate with my fellow rom builders/dev.
Hangouts is pretty good for chat groups,and is easy to establish/use.
I also asked one excellent dev for help when he gets the time.
So,theoretically,we have a decent number of capable people for this endevour.
My Hangouts mail is [email protected].
Anyone who is interested in exchanging information can freely talk to me.
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I may join if you like me to, but if you are focused on CM, delete vendor.mk, I completely rebuilt it to work on CM, you can't add such a high amount of blobs.
What I may suggest, is to fork the kernel (of your device) and the P8LiteDev tree, and use it as a base, but remove the blobs from vendor.mk
It would be also a good idea to deodex your rom and upload it somewhere.
Guys, just curious to know if we, Zenfone 5 owners be lucky enough to get Android 7.0 Nougat. Are any ROM experts already working on this? Thanks guys for the awesome work on other ROMs. :good: :highfive:
v1n0d said:
Guys, just curious to know if we, Zenfone 5 owners be lucky enough to get Android 7.0 Nougat. Are any ROM experts already working on this? Thanks guys for the awesome work on other ROMs. :good: :highfive:
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Saw another post on the same subject.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-5/help/cm-14-t3447362
@v1n0d Stop asking for nougat, we are lucky that we received marshmallow, devs are doing the possible to make nougat
And, just PLEASE, when you start typing the title, check for similar threads who are asking the same question (It'll show links when you start typing). So instead of creating new thread everytime, just post on the relevant thread.
Stop making thread asking for nougat, and please, do not bother developers.
It's Now boring to flash 7.1.2
So many Roms available for Redmi Note 3 pro
As it is now even available official update of MIUI.
Now is there any possibility of getting Oreo as Custom Rom ???? Via any sources ???
I think Google has Already realized the orignal OTA of Oreo..:victory:
If you have taken your time to use the search button you would have known that there are threads already created for this same discussion. Make yourself useful by also making the rom instead of asking unnecessary questions.
PS: I will be glad to be your rom tester when you are done making Android Oreo for our device
Lets keep all Oreo discussions in one thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/how-to/android-oreo-coming-soon-t3661177
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