yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
He fixed it, again.

Sometime soon I need to reinstall ubuntu :) I do exactly what he does and it doesn't work.

nick is now my ramdisk packer
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
kernel with fixed logo: http://www.mediafire.com/?urwp2k6f97uanof
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
I did exactly the same thing.

sometime next week its time to upgrade linux! anyone recommend a flavour?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Fllear:
Now we wait for sola :victory:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
i can make one for the sola but i need to know a few things:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
right, thanks nick for that, i've been using champs kernel-tools to save typing, it's obviously not working for me either

many thanks to keiran too, man, how much time did we kill with this! ;)

anyway, we have recovery now, and one messy thread :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ironic138:
i flashed over 10 kernels today, i think! Thanks for your hard work!

Keiran, how much do you need for your U? (only a question)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] princechrming:
I'm glad all your efforts are paying now. :cheers:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Fllear:
What you need to know?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
Arch? Will need to maybe patch ICS to build with GCC 4.7, but it's a nice distro anyway.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
lol forgot that:P

output off:

adb shell find /sys/ | grep brightness
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
haha me and nick tested like 25 recoveries just yesterday night, and when he stopped using champs stuff and did that it worked. lucky still he has no bad blocks lol

can someone test this: http://icxperia.com/keiran/whynot.elf <- I implemented recovery different way, curious to see if it works ;)

good job nick ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
You can see in thread in general :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
ARGGH!! crazy bootloops!

Seconded :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
here is the last one for the U (with last small fix, not very important. it is not necessary to flash this if you already have recovery)

http://www.mediafire.com/?47x5g50cq6ncrct
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
thanks!!

btw - you left the ramdisk (1) and some backup (~) files in the ramdisk (so it's 3MB bigger)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
In the corner, Newsworthy thread?, go on ;)

Keiran
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
It still works ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
the 1 file is normal because when repacking it puts 1 file there (dno why) i am not going to change it, because it works fine:) and the boot partition is 16 mb:)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
eh? :silly:

oh yeah, gotcha ;)

I'm not moaning, believe me this is sweet relief! my handset thanks you :highfive:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
you guys are lucky:)

i thought i will give it 1 try before i am going to sleep and it worked!:)

otherwise you guys won't have it now:)

and tomorrow i am too busy:)

edit: really the last one: http://www.mediafire.com/?3dxtk79kyavtb5a

changes: debuggable and insecure (forgot that, sorry)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
So now we have recovery on P and U, anyone going to develop any custom ROM's? How about some ICS themed stock while we wait for ICS so we can build AOKP :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] spxc:
I'm working on extraxting stock img, can you send me the mount points for our xperia u? So i can build a cwm zip.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LastSoul88:
emm.. did i did something wrong??

adb shell find /sys/ | grep brightness
'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

edit:

ok.. using terminal..

find /sys/ | grep brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/max_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/dim_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/keyboard-backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/keyboard-backlight/max_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/keyboard-backlight/dim_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/button-backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/button-backlight/max_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/button-backlight/dim_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/red/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/red/max_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/red/dim_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/green/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/green/max_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/green/dim_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/blue/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/blue/max_brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nmk-i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0040/leds/blue/dim_brightness
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
he meant adb shell "find /sys/ | grep brightness"

keiran
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LastSoul88:
oo.. ok.. tnx.. sorry for my noobnes... :silly:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
The one in bold, that's the one he needs ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
I'll go with Ubuntu 12.04, always loved Ubuntu.

Of course unity interface won't be on it for long if I get my way.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gengi:
Sorry about my question but these 2 days had to much info in this thread and i need to put ideas in one place.

Can i install this kernel by flashing in one phone with stock kernel and locked bootloader?

Thanks for your help in advance. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Rapier07:
Stock kernel - YES

Locked bootloader - NO

Sent from my ST25i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
Wht Abut The Recovery For Sola
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
Then you should go with Debian. After 12.04 I hate Ubuntu ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
hi friends, you're crazy :D great respect for your work. :good:

now the kernel of the sola, would be great :o
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Elwino2.3:
Wow... CWM Xperia U!!!! Works!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marce78:
Ok ..... but now we need something to flash in recovery ahahahaah.

Great work bro, thx so much
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Elwino2.3:
Now we just wait the AOKP ROM... :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] smoker46:
Hi guys how can i install the recovery on my P?

Sorry for the stupid question and thanks on advice!

Inviato dal mio LT22i con Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
Yay debian! I'm a bit biased, been using it since I ditched Ubuntu around 10.10. It's great as long as you don't mind compiling your own stuff, as the repos are outdated compared to Ubuntu. Stable over new is the philosophy..

-brought to you by Xperia Arc S, XDA Premium and AOKP
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
If you want new, you should go for Arch.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
Totally agree, once you start using arch you discover a brand new linux- world.. His package manager and build system is fantastic

If you prefer stay of debian based just use debian testing
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
ok, i found some time today to make the last modification to the sola kernel (still test dno if it works)

link: http://d-h.st/flY

Please try it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
You should push all the ramdisk stuff to github now that it's fixed.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
Flashing kernel on first page for xperia U i have to fix something or everything works? (wifi especially)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jsel:
First you need to have your bootloader unlocked. Here's a tutorial for that. After that boot your phone to fastboot mode by holding the volume down button and connecting usb cable when the phone is powered off. Then flash the recovery with: fastboot flash boot kernel.elf
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ironic138:
Everything works!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
Thanks, is not rom dependent right? Al long as its a GB build it should work on latest official build too.. Btw is stock + recovery or custom?

Is root enabled?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
It's stock + recovery, should not be ROM dependant.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ironic138:
i'm on KA02 because of the notification quick panel. And yes, it has got root!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
anyone tried the sola recovery??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Eavesdrop:
will try it now .. how to enter recovery anyway ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
with volume buttons
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Eavesdrop:
Good Job ! Everything's working on SOLA .. tried mounts, and backup .. tell me if you need me to test anything else on recovery ..

But one thing's i have noticed, when i back up .. it says at the end "No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext" .. as we all know .. sola has 2 sd cards .. 1 is the internal memory being detected as the default sd card and the sd-ext which is the "REAL" sd card .. it will be awesome if we can also backup the contents of the sd-ext ..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
sd-ext is not SD external, but SD ext FS, a second partition that is used by app2sd scripts on legacy devices.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Great CWM works, i can make a backup sd card. ext sd card not found. :D

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL GUY`S WHO WORKED ON THIS RECOVERY!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
nice:)

so recovery project is done:D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Eavesdrop:
in sola, that's the way we have it .. sd card=internal storage ... ext_card=real sd card .. that's how sony built this phone ..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
well done all! :highfive:

(after all that flashing my handset is still fine! :p)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Eavesdrop:
Wait, i've seen a problem.. after backing up, my ext-card wasn't being detected at all .. ive tried to remove it then put it back again, but it's still not being detected .. can you please look at it ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jsel:
No, sd-ext is the ext2/3/4 -formatted partition, to be used used with apps2sd scripts, which mounts it to /data, /data/app, /data/data or whatever it is set to mount to. That's how CWM is built.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
same here, ext. sdcard is not available
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Eavesdrop:
oh, ok .. sorry for that .. for a not so knowledgeable user's perspective, that's how we see it :D

---------- Post added at 07:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:39 PM ----------

Ok, I flashed krabappel's kernel back then flash this again, yes, the problem is with this kernel .. i think you forgot that sola is different from U and P coz it has an external sd card ..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Here the recovery logfile
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
can you do:

adb shell "cat /proc/partitions"

when you have a sd card inserted?? (and one without sd card?)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Ok...

SD card

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

7 0 4190 loop0
7 1 2111 loop1
7 2 9387 loop2
179 0 7634944 mmcblk0
179 1 1023 mmcblk0p1
179 2 512 mmcblk0p2
179 3 128 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4
179 5 8192 mmcblk0p5
179 6 3072 mmcblk0p6
179 7 5120 mmcblk0p7
179 8 8192 mmcblk0p8
179 9 16384 mmcblk0p9
179 10 1048576 mmcblk0p10
179 11 2097152 mmcblk0p11
179 12 256000 mmcblk0p12
179 13 16384 mmcblk0p13
179 14 4173824 mmcblk0p14
179 32 1902592 mmcblk1
179 33 1902521 mmcblk1p1
254 0 4189 dm-0
254 1 2110 dm-1
254 2 9387 dm-2
$

without SD card

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

7 0 2111 loop0
7 1 4190 loop1
7 2 9387 loop2
179 0 7634944 mmcblk0
179 1 1023 mmcblk0p1
179 2 512 mmcblk0p2
179 3 128 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4
179 5 8192 mmcblk0p5
179 6 3072 mmcblk0p6
179 7 5120 mmcblk0p7
179 8 8192 mmcblk0p8
179 9 16384 mmcblk0p9
179 10 1048576 mmcblk0p10
179 11 2097152 mmcblk0p11
179 12 256000 mmcblk0p12
179 13 16384 mmcblk0p13
179 14 4173824 mmcblk0p14
254 0 2110 dm-0
254 1 4189 dm-1
254 2 9387 dm-2
$
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gengi:
Isn´t there anyway for those that have locked bootloader to have recovery?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
not yet, but maybe in the future
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
I will configure it so sola has internal and external sd card in recovery later, for now, we have done well.

Can someone with a U test this: http://icxperia.com/keiran/recovery.elf

This one was built with CM buildsystem ;)

Keiran
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Ok i can wait :-)

But i have to flash back the advanced kernel, my music is on my sd card.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pel.89:
To be able to work on locked BL need to be recode for the stock kernel?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
Can someone explain the problem with the Sola?

Is it, after you made a backup in CWM it no longer mount's external sdcard in recovery? or in system?

If you are on Sola, your external sdcard is at /ext_card, please look there...

Keiran
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
in case someone care, flashing xperia u kernel does wipe totally the system expect internal personal storage
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Eavesdrop:
no, the moment we flash the kernel, the ext_card isn't being detected .. it's on the directory but has no contents .. and in the settings "storage" .. ext_card is showed as "Unavailable"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
Probably just need it in fstab.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
how did you flash it??

with fastboot flash system kernel.elf or fastboot flash boot kernel.elf

normally it doesn't wipe system (and no one noticed it before)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
fastboot flash boot kernel.elf

but maybe the problem is that i just RE unlocked bootloader ... dunno
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
Ya The External Memory Not Working On Sola Plezz look Into It!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
Yes unlocking will wipe your /data partition

I have bad news: my HDD needs to be replaced:( so I need to buy a new one what can take some time because I don't have the money
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Yes, with ES File explorer we can see only the empty ext_card folder and it has no permissons
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
I will write a script to check if mmcblk1p1 exists, and if it does, mount it rw to /ext_card, is this okay?

Keiran
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
i'm getting crazy, can't use KA sspeed rom because it cause pink spot camera issue on my device ... and stock is so limited :( need a rom asap
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Yes, for me, i only need access to the ext .sd card.

For the backup, int.sd card is ok.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] cheong12001:
I would like to ask if i flash another kernel, will the cwm recovery gone with your kernel?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
how is going work on system tree for porting? btw recovery is great,.. and rainbow led colors o xperia u are just crazy XD
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
Kinda frozen right now as the kernel doesn't want to work. I'm building a kernel based on Linaro's snowball 3.0-android tree, mostly trying to bring in the board and external hardware modules from Sony's 2.6. It's not that big of a change, but still needs a few rewrites and my OCD is all like FIX ALL THE COMPILER WARNINGS and then I learn about LLVMLinux and clang has more warnings and now I'm making sure **** doesn't happen the moment we flash it, so I'll get back to you with my progress and push it to Github when it compiles.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
Can someone with a U take a picture of the LED trigger that tells you to enter recovery, I want to see if what I did worked :D

Also, we've got our kumquat (Xperia U tree) so that it can compile kernel.elf by it self (champs did the original script, I did a few fixes and pushed prebuilts) so were getting better and better :)

I'm going to clean up boardconfigcommon tomorrow after updating my Ubuntu :)

I know 12.04 has issues with building android, but I have access to a buildbot so its all good ;)

Tomorrow after I've upgraded Ubuntu I'll write a lil script to mount mmcblk1p1 to /ext_card on boot for Sola users :)

Next step is wait for Sony ICS sources and prebuilts, then port their boards to igloo kernel, then set up vendor tree and update device tree.

And that's when we'll give you a free unicorn each ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
Legal notice: Unicorns are metaphorical beings
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
Wbt The Rom ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
20 minute job then :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marce78:
Is it possible to have support for the NTFS in this kernel, usb otg support only fat partition :(.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
Can someone with a Sola flash stock kernel and do:

cat /fstab

And post the output thanks ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LastSoul88:
this is from my sola using doomlord kernel with autoroot.. i am at office rite now... cant flash stock kernel.. :p

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$ cat /fstab

# These declarations must match the mount statements in

# <buildroot>/device/semc/riogrande/files/init.riogrande.rc

/data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p11

/cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12

/modemfs ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
same with Stock&CWM Kernel

With Stock Kernel, the permissions for the ext_card folder are correct
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
Right, workaround for /ext_card not mounting external sdcard on sola:

in terminal emulator or adb shell:

su
busybox mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /ext_card

Keiran

edit:

Something more for you guys.

Tired of fastboot? Already got CWM installed? Place kernel.elf on sdcard and flash this zip.

http://www.mediafire.com/?14il8dbe2si45te

MAKE SURE THAT /sdcard/kernel.elf EXISTS BEFORE FLASHING THIS.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
What is this exactly?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
A flashable zip :D

You place kernel.elf on sdcard (make sure it is named kernel.elf) and then you flash this zip in CWM, which flashes the kernel for you. This means that you don't necessarily have to use fastboot to flash kernels :highfive:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device

directory
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
su
busybox mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /ext_card

;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Ok and then?!

ES File explorer show me the files on ext_card

After reboot is the same like before
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Blacklistest:
w:Dw..simple way to flashing kernel without fastboot???? awesome
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Elwino2.3:
Not simple, But VERY SIMPLE :good: :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
Anyone tried it? :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s.t.a.r.s:
Yep, flashing ZIP works :-)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
lol i told you it was better this way

no chance of bad sectors
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
This insn't dd if of, this is write_raw_image :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Simc13:
now we just need custom ROMs!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hbk10:
Check this out - http://www.xperiablog.net/2012/07/17/cyanogenmod-10-alpha-coming-to-xperia-devices-soon/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] babu.rajiv2007:
They've not mentioned a thing about 2012 lineup :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Eavesdrop:
i can confirm this, after reboot .. the ext_card is not being detected again ..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
Wht Abut The Kernel For Sola ?

Made The Changes ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
The issue is being looked at, and we are working on it :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
what's the problem on the sola??

sd card (external) not mounting in cwm?

if i mount it as sd-ext it will back-up you whola sd card (if is is 8 gb your back-up will take at least 9gb of space)

and if i mount internal as sd-ext and external as sd-card you need to put the roms etc. on the external
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LastSoul88:
i think the problem is that the phone cannot detect the sd card in the system... thats why keiran made a simple script to enable the system mount the sd card... :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
and now if anyone could provide me with a stock, untouched, kernel (including the ramdisk) for the sola so that i do not need to download the whole damn ftf...

in english :

please provide kernel.sin from sola's latest firmware :)

EDIT : thanks vvv i got it :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LastSoul88:
here you go... :) www.mediafire.com/?c0ix12lnpcwclj5
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Irseq:
Any difference with this and ICX kernel? Also, does it support governors?

Sent from my Xperia P @KA03 rom, ICX kernel.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
no extra governess. this is just advanced stock with cwm

and you are able to flash kernels with recovery now:)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
check this build for sola

http://icxperia.com/championswimmer/pepper-xperia-Sola/sola-rec.elf

and tell me if external sd card problem is fixed
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kandros:
Little OT as this thread is plenty of developers

I actually know nothing about rom buildbing and porting, but is something i really want to learn.. Before i start doing something risky and maybe useless i want to ask is it virtually possible to port cm7 on xperia U?

If not why ? (im very courious)

If is possible any tip where to begin searching and reading?

Thanks a lot and sorry for OT
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pel.89:
we need unlocked bl for this right?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shreyasdilip:
as of now, yes
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sobhan06:
Guys Any chances of ICS ROM before sony releases ICS ROM for Xperia U ???

Iam waiting for the pure version of ICS ans not the sony ICS version :P :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Elwino2.3:
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Just wait until CM9 come on Xperia U :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
That will come after ics from sony
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
Yes, because we need ics proprietary libs and also 3.0 kernel :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
2 questions for you keiran: where do you put the recovery? In the stock kernel on in the your custom one?

When we get the recovery will we get a freexperia rom?

Tx
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
1. Recovery goes in ram disk, in any kernel really :) I am going to put it in DooM advanced stock kernel (it already has busybox)

2. No, I have talked with freexperia and they are developing CM9 when Sony updates the devices to ICS.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
hi!

i have moved things around a bit on the kumquat repo... the recovery should still compile anyways...

what i have done is moved common stuff to the u8500-common repo so that there is no data redundancy between kumquat, pepper and nypon :)

just in the most unlikely case my commit broke anything for you please inform me :)

i'll try to set up the releasetools for u8500 devices

can you just confirm the mkelf.py command used for these devices ??

the one i know is

python mkelf.py -o kernel.elf 0@0x00200000 1@0x01200000,ramdisk

is that right ???

btw right now (untill automated kernel packaging is not set up at AOKPXperia) you can use my kernel kitchen (link in signature) to unpack and repack kernel.elf files :)

btw have you already written the bootrec scripts ??