[Galaxy Tab 8.9 General] orlandoxpolice:
The purpose of this thread is to discuss the issues so far in putting out ROMs for the SGH-i957, and to see if we can work out some of the issues.

The current status of the SGH-i957

Previous Work:

CWM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1462770

Root: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1401100

OC Kernel: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1402643

Stock Rooted Deodexed ATT ROM: http://dev-host.org/3qr <--this is near unusable and lags, we are trying to figure out why. Thank jomeister15

DEV ONLY WILL NOT BOOT ICS 4.0.3 for the LTE Tab: http://dev-host.org/5w0 DEV ONLY WILL NOT BOOT Thank jomeister15

With these in place, we should be able to start making some ROMS. We initially were having issues creating an updater script which would work correctly with CWM.

Myself and Scarchunk both attempted to make ROMs, but could not get working updater scripts. jomeister15 managed to deodex, zipalign, and root the stock ROM from sammobile.com, and then create a CWM flashable zip which flashes and boots successfully. This is the update script.

show_progress(0.1, 0);
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p24", "0");
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p24", "/system");
package_extract_file("check_data_app", "/tmp/check_data_app");
set_perm(0, 0, 0777, "/tmp/check_data_app");
run_program("/tmp/check_data_app");
package_extract_dir("data", "/data");
set_perm_recursive(1000, 1000, 0771, 0644, "/data/app");
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");
symlink("dumpstate", "/system/bin/dumpcrash");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/cat");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/chmod");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/chown");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/cmp");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/date");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/dd");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/df");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/dmesg");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/getevent");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/getprop");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/hd");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/id");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/ifconfig");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/iftop");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/insmod");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/ioctl");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/ionice");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/kill");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/ln");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/log");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/ls");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/lsmod");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/lsof");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/mkdir");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/mount");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/mv");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/nandread");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/netstat");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/newfs_msdos");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/notify");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/printenv");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/ps");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/reboot");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/renice");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/rm");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/rmdir");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/rmmod");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/route");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/schedtop");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/sendevent");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/setconsole");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/setprop");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/sleep");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/smd");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/start");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/stop");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/sync");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/top");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/umount");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/uptime");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/vmstat");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/watchprops");
symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/wipe");
set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0755, 0644, "/system");
set_perm_recursive(0, 2000, 0755, 0755, "/system/bin");
set_perm(0, 3003, 06755, "/system/bin/ip");
set_perm(0, 3003, 02750, "/system/bin/netcfg");
set_perm(0, 3004, 02755, "/system/bin/ping");
set_perm(0, 2000, 06750, "/system/bin/run-as");
set_perm_recursive(1002, 1002, 0755, 0440, "/system/etc/bluetooth");
set_perm(0, 0, 0755, "/system/etc/bluetooth");
set_perm(1000, 1000, 0640, "/system/etc/bluetooth/auto_pairing.conf");
set_perm(3002, 3002, 0444, "/system/etc/bluetooth/blacklist.conf");
set_perm(1002, 1002, 0440, "/system/etc/dbus.conf");
set_perm(1014, 2000, 0550, "/system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks");
set_perm(0, 2000, 0550, "/system/etc/init.goldfish.sh");
set_perm(0, 0, 06755, "/system/bin/su");
symlink("/system/bin/su", "/system/xbin/su");
set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0755, 0555, "/system/etc/ppp");
set_perm_recursive(0, 2000, 0755, 0755, "/system/xbin");
set_perm(0, 1000, 0755, "/system/xbin/busybox");
symlink("/system/xbin/busybox", "/system/bin/busybox");
package_extract_file("installbusybox", "/tmp/installbusybox");
set_perm(0, 0, 0777, "/tmp/installbusybox");
run_program("/tmp/installbusybox");
show_progress(0.1, 10);
show_progress(0.2, 0);
package_extract_file("boot.img", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p8");
show_progress(0.2, 10);
unmount("/system");
unmount("/data");

The issue now is that any ROM that is flashed through CWM is experiencing considerable lag. Even just the stock unmodified ROM (applies to Telus as well) in a CWM flashable zip lags.

Any insight on what could be causing this would be appreciated, and as further issues may come up, we can discuss them here.

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Accompanying Information

C:\Users\Ryan\ADB>adb shell mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p24 /system ext4 ro,relatime,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p26 /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered
,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordere
d 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p21 /efs ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered
0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 /firmware vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_uti
me=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 /system/etc/firmware/misc_mdm vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,
dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,e
rrors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /tombstones ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=o
rdered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,d
efault_permissions,allow_other 0 0

Most Recent Firmwares:

ATT: I957UCKJ7 (10/26/2011)

Bell: I957MUGKK4 (11/14/2011)

Telus: I957DTLKL2 (12/9/2011)