[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanon:
Two new ROMs

Time to liven things up around here! :D

I have two ROMs made by the great people at 4PDA.ru for our phone. All credit goes to members qvid (JB) and viruss95 (MIUI) for making these ROMs. I did absolutely nothing but post them here for more people to find. I have little knowledge of how to help you if you seriously brick your phones. With a backup, however, it should all be all-right. Still, you are warned, BE CAREFUL.

JB 4.2.2 ROM based on SlimDroid4 ported by qvid:

WORKING:

BT, WiFi, GPS, both SIMs, Camera, USB, Radio, 3G (ON ONE CARD ONLY!)

BUGS:

1. LED notifications don't work at all, no program helps.

2. Front camera partly works (To get a working front camera you need either Snap Camera HDR used in night mode, or Zoom Camera. I haven't tested the front camera on video calls or Hangouts.)

3. "Radio" bug (some kind of pin is requested while making calls): FIX - tick the " GSM only" setting on the given SIM card settings.

MEMORY AND TWEAKS

This version of JB doesn't support moving apps to the SD card! This means that you will have only 1.3 GB for installing all your programs! There's no workaround that I've been able to find, it's just how the ROM was built. It seems all the newer versions of Android are like that. Moreover, the data of all your apps is now stored on the smaller 1GB "phone memory" partition, making the whole thing even more troublesome. What you had as "sdcard0" is now the phone memory, while "sdcard1" is your SD card. This can be fixed by extracting and overwriting the file "vold.fstab" (attached) into the system/etc folder via Root Browser or some similar program. That will switch the cards - your SD card will now look like your "phone memory", and your phone memory will behave like your external card, so the order will be pretty much like Alcatel set it up. After that, set it up so that everything will install to the phone, as that is now your SD card. That only helps with cache and game data files, and not the app installation itself. That will still be solely in the internal memory. So with a game with an 80MB apk and 800MB of data it will be like this - the game will be installed on the "internal memory" partition, and take up 80-100MB of space, while the data files will most likely go to sdcard0/Android/data.

The ROM was shared as Beta 1 in May of this year, but nothing else has been modified since. It simply works, it's stable, fast and pretty. I just installed it and had no problems whatsoever. Should someone fix these small bugs it would be perfect.

Installation instructions:

1. You need to have TWRP installed and set up already, the instructions and files can be found in this thread.

2. Download the file from this link and save it on the root of your card.

3. Boot to recovery and do a full backup, after that a full wipe (custpack, dalvik, really everything but the sd card)

4. Reboot to recovery! (Important, it didn't work for me without this step!)

5. Flash the zip

6. The instructions are in Russian, but they are easy to follow, you will get a choice of optional programs and even launchers to install in a menu, but most of the stuff is outdated by now, so you can skip them. I choose the stock launcher (Launcher2), Apk installer, Font Changer and XTheme Engine to keep as my programs from the given list. Sorry, but I didn't make any screenshots. :(

7. After flashing, reboot into your shiny new system. It will be in Russian, so swipe down the statusbar, click on the rotating cog in the right corner, find Язык и ввод, click it, and choose English in the first field.

The second ROM is a MIUI v. 4.5.30, made by viruss95, it can be downloaded here.

I HAVE NOT TESTED IT AT ALL! Members on 4PDA have had problems with the GPS, camera autofocus and weak WiFi signal, but everything else seems to be working. It is a bare ROM, needs Gapps (from here). It's also abandoned, as the author doesn't know how to fix the bugs. I'm putting it here in hopes that someone might get an idea on how to improve it.

That's pretty much everything. I recommend you trying the JB ROM, I'm very satisfied and I think I'm going to stick with it.

Cheers!