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[Galaxy Ace II General] arroyo:
@KingDani1997

You can hardbrick device easily if you somehow overwrite BOOTloader area or EFS area where IMEI is stored. Also if you mess up something with power management. Kichen ROM's (made out of stock ones) are much more safe, but they do not bring that performance gain as built from sources ones (CM, AOSP ...). Someone said that USB-JIG can bring your device to life. Yes and No...

Yes ... it allows you to flash phone if you have working bootloader only and the rest is corrupted. But it won't work work if you get hardbrick or you have corrupted bootloader or EFS.

In Poland Samsung does not care about bricked device if you have bought telephone from operator with for example one year contract. GSM operator is your official warranty provider (say hello to the Orange). That is why, when you have software different that operator's one, you warranty is voided. Different situation if you have bought phone from shop, then you are covered by Samsung warranty (it you have Custom binary=NO).
[Galaxy Ace II General] KingDani1997:
Than i am sorry for the wrong infos. But i flashed and rooted my sgs+ and I bought it at Media Markt and Samsung repaired it (I am living in Germany). A few posts before you said that it is easier to build CM. If you know a guide and can give me the link, i can try to build it in about 2 weeks after my exams. I have a 50.000 kbs internet connetion and the hardware of my computer is ok, so I can try to.
[Galaxy Ace II General] arroyo:
@KingDani1997

I know that the things are different in Germany (but I hate your Green Zones in Berlin... my 1.9TDI cannot go there).

For example Amazon in US does not care what you do with their stuff. ("Dog ate you Kindle? ... Would you like to get refund or should I send the new one?")

In Poland when I had my old K750i and it was flashed to W800i (could be done) warranty provider declined to fix my broken joystick (flashing was not the root cause of broken joystick).

Back to topic how to make CM10:

1. Make your environment: http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

2. Basing on one of the many guides try to build CM10 for i8160:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1807505

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1971645

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Development

3. Using any of the existing guides your i8160 won't boot.

If it would boot, then I am sure we would have a CM10 running on Ace2 already. Been There, Done That.

4. Debug ... debug ... pray ... debug ... hate Samsung for its sources ... debug ... and so on...
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
We should all try to build. Then ee collaborate all the work done. Either we set up different trees then somehow merge it until we get a good build. S Advance and SIII Mini hs booting builds but does not have working RIL. I think makinf RIL fully functional would be a really hard part. But then again, I don't think a lot of Ace II users know how to troubleshoot source compiled builds. Its easy to follow instructions on a guide but there are things that a guide can't cover.
[Galaxy Ace II General] arroyo:
Totaly agree with Dr01nE, but there is bitter truth underneath...

Even if you open the DEV thread... you have some skills and willingness... you build your environment... you give a hope... you collect thanks for your approach... and after some time you still may not have something to be flashed by community.

People would hate you for that! And if they do, your willingness to share your work goes to zero. (I have one skilled developer on my mind right now who had almost working CM7.)

Better idea is to use Github and not share anything here, before you have something to show. Many DEVs do like that.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
Yup. the people who build should have their own way of communication wuth each other (e.g. skype/gtalk) and no one should post DEV/WIP threads until a booting build is releasable.
[Galaxy Ace II General] forbidden8:
@arroyo its seems that you know many things about android development and have a good comp configuration, what is the reason you not try to build rom's and kernels? If i have better comp with good spec' i will try for sure. But my old XP/SP3/1.8Ghz dual core with only 2gb ram and 400gb hard is not enought good for building. Oh yeah and my girlftiend... she use my pc like workhorse... photoshop, corew draw and all kind of crap, that make my pc very slow... :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] arroyo:
I did and I failed. There was nothing to be proud of. I tried to build AOSP basing on this tutorial. Device did not booted. ODIN worked. I just do not have enough skills and time to debug result.

Funny thing is that on the same environment and the same AOSP repository, kernel building for Xperia T went good. I just replaced sources GT-I8160_JB_Opensource.zip with latest Xperia T sources from http://developer.sonymobile.com/downloads/xperia-open-source-archives/. There were no errors. Next day my friend was so kind to brick his new phone with my kernel ... but it booted. Xperia T was working. No issues were found.

SAMSUNG SUCKS IN SUPPORTING DEVELOPMENT! THEIR SOURCES ARE USELESS!

I do not believe they are using the same sources that they are providing on http://opensource.samsung.com/. They should learn from Google and Sony how to support development.

It is more than enough. On my PC it took less than 20 minutes to compile kernel and only two CPU cores were mostly used. I do not remember if it had eaten all available RAM.

Tell me about it ... I have wife and 1.5 year old daughter.
[Galaxy Ace II General] WiCiO_MeDi:
yep, you certainly look devastated in you avatar, life always catches up to you ;)

without CM support there's really slim chance for aosp, and without experienced dev (not modder) is pretty much nonexistent :(
[Galaxy Ace II General] forbidden8:
So... no hope for AOSP/CM in near future? My hopes was on @bagnz0r but he left Ace2 community...
[Galaxy Ace II General] tds4u:
Hope dies last. At least on April 20 we'll know what the final release is and how to develop own ROMs.
[Galaxy Ace II General] arroyo:
And you would not do the same?

Every second posts on his threads at the end were abusing flames from some XDA members. He cleaned almost whole GB source and he was really close to JB AOSP. He did the right thing in my opinion moving to Xperia Sola. That is why I am fan of sharing NONE info regarding development till its ready. Like maclaw does for example.

22.05.2013 from samsung website

Stop believing what thanks beggars says. They are always saying "this week" on rumors thread.
[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
Guys 22.05 is for ucraine not for all the world

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[Galaxy Ace II General] tds4u:
Hmm, they updated website on April 3rd. Before there were more model and earlier release dates (post from January). Okay, waiting :eek:
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Juest use Sammobile website to know what firmwares are realeased :)

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE

Buy me a drink ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] KingDani1997:
Might be helpful: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
Anyone know how to add my device's source to my build environment? I have AOSP and CM sources loaded. I want to know what to do with Ace 2's kernel and platform source and U8500 Common source. Thanks
[Galaxy Ace II General] KingDani1997:
Why don't you ask OliverG96? He is a great dev and he get CM booting on SGS III mini.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
Alright I'll try. though I doubt devs are friendly to noobs.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bilgets:
according to this > http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2060017

build/envsetup.sh
breakfast codina

but im not sure what he mean with "MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE IS ON OFFICIAL LATEST CYANOGENMOD ROM "

you could always ask here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2103727
[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
Hey guys, I got a noob question, hope it's OK to ask here.

I like to integrate updates of system apps into the ROM with TB. The only problem is that TB replaces the symlinks in /system/app with the whole APK. That means if you want to use the space in /preload again you have to move the APK and create a new symlink.

I am trying to write a little shell script to do that, but I can't copy files to /preload because it is read-only (only in the Terminal Emulator, if I use Root Explorer it works). Umount doesn't work, so I can't remount it as rw.

Copying the APKs manually and creating a new symlink via the Terminal works, but I would like to have a script for that :)

Am I missing anything or is it simply not possible over the Terminal Emulator?

Thanks a lot!
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Honestly i dont know lol

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE

Buy me a drink ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
Does anybody here know can i flash only modem.bin.md5 on my phone , and can that solve my mobile data problem (no mobile data at all, no signs), i can make calls and send messages. Is it the same to flash modem.bin.md5 from MC8 or it is better to find modem from latest firmware update in my country ?
[Galaxy Ace II General] KingDani1997:
Go to cwm, go to wipe menu and wipe everything and flash the official jelly bean again with repartition
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
i tried everything, didn't solve my problem
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Thank You, that you are so kind to inform us about it. (gosh...)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bilgets:
you could try

mount -o rw,remount /preload
[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
How to get v6supercharger working automatically after reboot?

For me it works but if I reboot, it reset the minfrees...
[Galaxy Ace II General] chape199:
Have u tried to make a init.d script to enable it on each reboot?

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Have you tried to make a init.d script to enable it on each reboot?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
No my knowledge for this isn't enough.
[Galaxy Ace II General] chape199:
So i think there isn't another solution.

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
Thanks!

That seemed to work. At least as a single command at the terminal. I will try to put it in the script later and get back to you.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bilgets:
Good to know that it worked :D
[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
Are u able to build? Or someone else? I think it's not tricky.

Otherwise I will learn smth about init.d next days and try to build for my own.
[Galaxy Ace II General] chape199:
No I don't know how to make it. Share it if you make it

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[Galaxy Ace II General] hesaps1234h:
Hey someone can make CRT TV off effect. It will be very cool
[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
*made it

Of course :P

Kyrillosv7b without custom kernel have it!

But there is black lockscreen bug.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
Hey, me again :D

It's weird, when I use the command you gave me in a terminal emulator it works but if I put the exact same command in a script und run it with sh script.sh it doesn't work. It gives me this:

# sh script.sh

Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

: not found

#

Is there a different syntax for scripts? Is there anything different because it's an emulator? I don't get it
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
# mount -o rw,remount /preload/ /preload/
[Galaxy Ace II General] monstro78:
ok guys some help plz

I created a zimage kernel and I want a anykernel.zip compatible with our phone to put inside.

and a question... at htc devices with bash command "fastboot boot <kernel>" we can flash kernel temporary (for testing) until the next reboot. Is that possible to our device??
[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
ZImage si kernel.bin, just rename it into kernel.bin and add md5 sum. Did you add initramfs before?

Temporary kernel is not possible for our device

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[Galaxy Ace II General] monstro78:
no I didn't add initramfs...
[Galaxy Ace II General] hesaps1234h:
I am on italian job. Someone can upload that file?
[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
This is not a file. It's a mod.

Base rom of Kyrillosv7b is MB4 so he have to port this.
[Galaxy Ace II General] :
Any chances for AOSP ROM for our device? I think that Touchwiz is awful, I love the Holo Theme of pure Android. Is it a problem for some devs to compile pure AOSP Jellybean Vanilla ROM for Ace II?

Thanks for help in advance :)

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Sigint89:
If it wasn't a problem we would have one long ago.
[Galaxy Ace II General] :
But what is the problem? I think our kernel should fit the AOSP build, am I wrong?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] mojito0:
Soo to clear this out. 1st our device is not dead. 2nd there are 2 type of roms, until now our developers have just worked on taking the stock firmware and modify the shyt out of it to make a nice custom ROM (this is a stock based ROM)

The 2nd type is Rom built from source, that means that you get your devices firmware/kernel sources and combining/compiling or however you wanna call it with the AOSP/AOKP/CM or whichever other source they want. Now obviously the 2nd one (build from source( is harder and since most of our devs are not as much experienced they need to take their time to actually figure out how the whole thing works. Y'know building a JB rom from source is not the simplest thing, not to mention how much time it can take while compiling in a slow pc (and trust me compiling JB needs a high end pc/workstation) not to mention our zero support from the official cm team so we are on our own.

EDIT: Oh I forgot to mention porting but yeah I would probably prefer waiting more to get a solid cm/aosp/aokp build from our devs and get updates and improvements based on our opinion than just getting some port from other devices.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Sigint89:
I'm no specialist but after reading some posts from our devs and other people who tried building AOSP I can assume that is because of lack of our CPU's documentation and low quality of Samsung Jelly Bean sources. In effect building AOSP / CM for our device requires tremendous amounts of skill and time.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
I would become developer , i hope very soon, now i am busy with school. We are waiting for sources better sources or new unbranded version of rom. I think it is not wroth to start working riht now with TMN rom we have :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bilgets:
Hmm im not really sure.. if you want it to flash a rom you can see from the italian job updater script
[Galaxy Ace II General] monstro78:
can someone know how to extract initramfs from our device???
[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
You must extract it from stock kernel, and make some modification to add cmw in case

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[Galaxy Ace II General] asdfzz:
edit
[Galaxy Ace II General] astankov:
I followed the instructions in the kernel source code and I was able to compile it.

During compilation lots of warning occurred. Now I want to check is it working.

Can I brick my phone if is not working?

If someone is brave enough to check it here is the link: https://mega.co.nz/#!yFER3Jra!esbG3CHGkJoWtKzPDPX3BA3WD4F3MsY5UIyG_CnvWGc

!!! I made this purely for fun and some experience in source compilation. Don't expect miracles it is just stock kernel!!!
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bilgets:
no chance.. maximum possibilites is stuck at splash screen :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] astankov:
OK! Thanks for sharing that info. Samsung source suck...:mad::mad::mad: The only good thing is that I learned how to compile something from source. Used Ubuntu 13.04 x64 and that was my first build. Lets hope is not the last...:D
[Galaxy Ace II General] KingDani1997:
Good luck! What did you exactly compile? I did not get it
[Galaxy Ace II General] astankov:
Compiled i8160_EUR kernel from samsung sources but people that did it before me said that it is not working. No matter it was good training.
[Galaxy Ace II General] KingDani1997:
Ok. I do not want to be curious, but what is your next project?:cyclops:
[Galaxy Ace II General] astankov:
There is no next project - I'm still learning. As I said before it was my first build so I have lot to learn. To be able to compile something from source code it does not make you developer. To be developer means that you are able to write the source code. Maybe I will become developer some day but who knows. For now learning is my priority.

Regards!
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rikxzdjz:
Good , keep spirit and learning ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
When i am trying to zipaligin in dsixda's kitchen i got this :

Zipaligning ./system/app/AccuweatherDaemon.apk ...

Unable to open './system/appAccuweatherDaemon.apk' as zip archive

Error: unableto zipalign,aborting

anyone ?
[Galaxy Ace II General] asdfzz:
Isnt accuweather on preload?
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
I was trying to build my own rom but it isn't flashing , something is probably wrong in updater-script.

The problem was : some apps were already zipaligned so i move it till zipalign finishes.

Now i am back to MB4 because mobile data dont work on mc8 for me, i am waiting new firmware ( i hope with mobile data for me :D) to build new rom ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] hafidzduddin:
apk on system/app just linked

real apk on /preload/symlink/system/app

to make dsixda kitchen you must change 1 file. cache.bin.md5 if im not wrong. change to blalaslasda.img (i forget) read gs2 guide. :p

dsixda automate push your preload app to system app when deodexing. and put back to preload app after deodex app.

im success to build 1 flashable zip rom before my laptop brick :D :D
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
will you help me with rom when we get new firmware? If you want ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
A little off topic but how do we get free playstore credits?
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
I can help. dsixda is very easy to use.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
it is easy but i dont know how to write updater-script , that is the biggest problem
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Open script from any working Rom and learn from it.

It's not especially hard and easy to understand (although my first Rom from kitchen boots, but something goes wrong after first page of setup wizard:))

Kitchen makes updater-script when Rom is cooking, you need to make slightly corrections...

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[Galaxy Ace II General] arroyo:
Nice new JB (MC8) custom ROM ... if someone is interested:

JellyMod_A2_v1

Download link: here

All credits go to tiky2008 from 4pda community.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
Well, I need to know what you want to acheive.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Erwin1477:
What are the features etcetera?

I'm interested
[Galaxy Ace II General] mojito0:
Uhm..there is an expander in the post saying "features"? There is only 1 post containing the ROM, impossible to miss.
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Could you point me where did you find it?Because all i can see is that kitchen should do it automatically, but i don't see any stuff about renaming cache (if it is about removing information from cache.bin - it looks like it don't work on ace's rom)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Erwin1477:
Shame on me haha, the Rom is nice btw! Especially the animations are awesome, I would say: Give it a try! :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
@Up

Rom is fast for sure but i don't like the theme, especially the transitions...

I will have to work on my own rom again;)

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
You will need cache.IMG.md5 on kitchen. Rename it to cache.IMG and then go to 00 (Advanced Options) > Plugin Scripts > Extract cache.IMG or something. After unpacking, you will get sec_CSC.zip grab the contents of the file and place the system folder to your ROM's system folder.

Also the new dsixda kitchen already creates a script to create the preload symlinks. You have to add preload directory first before compiling the ROM.then add a line in updater script to run that symlink creator. You just have to replace the check data app with preload script name.
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Thank you, I didn't understand everything, but I will try to learn:)

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[Galaxy Ace II General] odjiex:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/72313-cm10-for-samsung-galaxy-ace-2need-help/
[Galaxy Ace II General] Adriangbba6:
Good news :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] kokiss:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2246822

May be it help for dev.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
No it won't. If a dev wants to build AOSP/AOKP/CM/PA or whatever he needs to have at least knowledge on akava for Android (To debug/Write Sources), a decent PC and Internet connection and a little bit of experience building android. And so far I dont think anyone is capable of that... yet.

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831202

Can someone modify updater script for our device, i need to flash MB4 modem
[Galaxy Ace II General] Erwin1477:
Guys, I've got a problem. I can't open the gallery anymore, it says that it needs more space, but I think that's strange because I don't have many things on my phone. Can anyone help me?
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal_ag:
Hi . Today I will continue work on CM10 for ACE 2 . If you ask me something use twitter Twitter or just reply on my blog BLOG .

Plan for today :

1.Port device tree

2.Make working device tree

3.Make first build.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Adriangbba6:
Good luck dude :thumbup:
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
diego-ch has almost working CM10 (4.1.2) for S Advance .. maybe you can ask him for help.
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal_ag:
I know about this . I think that the sources for S Advanced could help but when maclaw will release his one for S 3 Mini work will be easier .
[Galaxy Ace II General] hesaps1234h:
Waiting for good news! :thumbup:
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
well. I don't think maclaw will release his sources.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Adriangbba6:
Anyone can give me stock mc8 boot.img :(

Thanks
[Galaxy Ace II General] Kilstor:
Why you want the ugly boot.img from mc8?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flipped192:
Running Vicious Toro V5 JB 4.1 on Nexus. Option for facebook sync is there. But doesnt work?

Any Ideas? fix?

THanks !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bozzykid:
It was there in ICS as well. But I'm pretty sure Google still disables the facebook package name in the sync providers apk so it will not work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
Facebook is not using the correct api. If they fix that, sync would work
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iGoogleNexus:
I'm on Awesomes Rom and I can't get Facebook to sync ... Lol it says it has the ability =\

-Google
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mohitrocks:
I use an app called HaxSync to sync facebook pics/numbers with my contacts
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flipped192:
Rom

I had a few 4.0 roms that had Facebook fix. Any ideas how to apply to JB?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bozzykid:
Facebook sync already works with the Facebook app on non Nexus devices. It's a dispute between FB and Google so Google blocks the katana package name from sync working.
[Sony Tablet S] SWFlyerUK:
Is it me or is the PS Store just crap, I've had enough of it now.

First, I bought Theme Hospital several months ago, and then it wouldn't download. 6 weeks later I fimially had it in my device.

Go to play it yesterday to find that it closes back to the homescreen. No longer listed in the PS Store or download lost.

Yesterday I noticed some news games, so just went to buy Constructor and to my suprise (not) Iget an error when I try to buy it.

I'm fed up with it, absolutely fed up.
[Sony Tablet S] Cat McGowan:
Your PS Store must be different from mine. My PS Store does not list either of those games. Are you talking about the PlayStation Store app that is installed on your tablet?
[Sony Tablet S] SWFlyerUK:
I am indeed. I paid £5.99 for Theme Hospital, I'm in the UK.