[Wildfire Android Development] ErwinP:
Hello you all,

Here's a non-official CyanogenMod 9 beta ROM which is almost fully working on our wildfire.

/!\ WARNING /!\ this ROM is currently BETA. Important things work, there are still things that doesn't work and the device is suffering slow-downs

If you can't stand that, make sure you have a nandroid backup to revert to after 'test'.

Please read this first:

I am absolutely no developer. I just learnt how to compile from source, and all that I'm presenting here is the result of the big efforts from the CM9 team in general, and Arco68's more specific - the CM guru for our device.

I cannot be taken responsible for anything regarding this ROM: if it suddenly bootloops, if it looks bad, if certain things don't work or stop working or if your devices tries to bite you mother-in-law and messes up the hair of your fiancée just the day before your wedding - it can be my fault, but it is your own responsibility. So don't come complaining that I screwed up your wedding party - you shouldn't have been occupied with your phone the day before your wedding in the first place.

I greatly encourage everybody to help to make this ROM better. Not only because this ROM has some great potential, but most because it is fun to do (and very addictive, be careful!) and you learn A LOT from it. So If you have find a fix of any kind, post it here and send me a pm so I can update the OP with your contribution. But please: say exactly what you did! This is an open source project and nothing is more frustrating than seeing that a specific problem has occurred on another device as well, and then noticing that people "just fixed it, yeah baby". If you are new to all this building headaches - don't use this thread to start learning how to work with git and github, but personally I don't have no single problem with more advanced questions in which the effort that you have already tried to fix it, can be seen.

I won't be posting changelogs - they are way to much changes to keep track on the ones that effect the wildfire. For recent merged changes, I refer to the gerrit.

Do not complain, but enjoy both the fact that we can run ICS on our low-end device.

This being said: download time!

New build from 2013.01.01: download.

For all previous builds, check my google drive

Custom google apps (no faceunlock stuff, no GalleryGoogle.apk, only non-neon libs => smallest footprint (something like ~4mb)):click and press ctrl-S (Thanks to Sympnotic for making it)

latest "official" gapps :download (goo-inside.me)

MTD partion size

With tiny gapps, /system takes 181 mb -> I use 200 mb to be confortable

With tiny gapps /cache takes 1.2 mb

Updates worth mentioning regarding the Wildfire

General updates. Please note that there are almost no updates, as the CM team is focussing now on CM10.1.

Ported the libstagefright changes for the msm7x27 to match the new OMX IL libraries. I however do not think that it works...

Ported some Trebuchet features from cm-10.1. This is still a work in progress, and I don't know to what extend I will succeed with this.

Fix NPE when rotating

Remove wallpaper offset

Only mark preferences changed when they actually are changed

Fix for NPE in showAllAppsCling

Fix desktop alignment when Search Bar is hidden

LauncherModel: Fix possible NPE

Wallpaper Hack

This doesn't work good yet! In fact, it gives a very interesting phenotype: when you select this, you will not see the homescreen dock anymore (so the buttons for launching the app drawer, ... that are on the bottom of the screen). However, you can still click on them, as if they were there. So you don't see them, but they are there ;)

Workspace: Update wallpaper offsets to match hack for recent apps window

Not (properly) working

Wallpaper hack

Do not set Launcher Drawer's scrolling Transition effect to "Tablet". It reboots your device every time you open the Launcher (thanks to musicazx)

Camera panoramic view

The flashlight option on your camera. It does however work in the camcorder (the native one and Camcorder Illusion)

Playing youtube video's in HD quality (without HD it goes fine)

Gallery (use QuickPic as a good alternative)

Voice-to-text: read this

Data usage is working well, but the "general" graph is showing all blue.

Stuff that works but need resizement

Apollo - but only a bit.

Tips and tricks

Best Overclock settings are between 691 and 768 MHz w/o problems. SMARTASSV2 is the best compromise between performance and battery life.

Tip from Onisciente: If we turn off (Settings > Trebuchet > Applications settings > Widgets : Join with apps. App drawer will be faster; it won't display widgets in App drawer list, "widgets"

If you find Trebuchet Launcher slow, there are some alternative launchers. Nova Launcher is one of them, Apex Launcher & LauncherPro work great

FM radio : should be fixed but for now, use Spirit Free FM (Spirit Free FM thread):

Allow it to have superuser rights

Go to settings - audio - method and select msm7x30

When playing a youtube video, make sure that you disable HD, or it will not play well. You can do that by clicking on the red HD icon at the left of the video. If the icon isn't red anymore, HD is disabled.

Google VoiceSearch: read this.

WinSuk's script for trackball button wake-up is included. To enable/disable it: open terminal emulator, type 'trackballwake', allow superuser rights, wait for the message of success and reboot. ALL credits for this script goes to WinSuk!

Credits goes to

the whole CyanogenMod team

Arco68

And people working on this rom :

Sympnotic

Rallapag

plakiko

Have fun with it!

Erwin