[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve8x8:
MoDaCo (Lucky76) Sonic KitKat for U8510

As SoniKK doesn't boot on a U8510, and eismann14 has started another attempt to port KitKat (http://www.android-hilfe.de/custom-...ndroid-4-4-kitkat-fuer-huawei-ideos-x3-5.html), I started experimenting.

In a rather naive approach, I tried to merge both: copied boot.img and the whole /system/lib/modules tree from eismann14's build into SoniKK_G_Alpha_2.zip, and at least it boots.

I get a "Google" string, followed by a pulsing 4-colour bootani, but that's all for now. No reaction at all to keypresses...

I have connected the phone to power, and will wait another hour before I try to backup the whole thing for examination.

Edit: After removing the battery, and booting into recovery, I performed a Nandroid backup, and unpacked the data.yaffs2.img - to find that the system had proceeded quite far (with 39 entries in the dalvik-cache) before throwing tombstones in circles:

data$ find . -type f -newer dalvik-cache -ls | cut -c42-
21032 Jul 28 15:03 ./data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db-journal
69632 Jul 28 15:03 ./data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
126409 Jul 28 15:16 ./system/packages.xml
4 Jul 28 15:03 ./system/sync/stats.bin
0 Jul 28 15:03 ./system/sync/pending.xml
4 Jul 28 15:03 ./system/sync/status.bin
122 Jul 28 15:03 ./system/sync/accounts.xml
7457 Jul 28 15:16 ./system/packages.list
4096 Jul 28 15:16 ./system/entropy.dat
70 Jul 28 15:03 ./system/inputmethod/subtypes.xml
1282 Jul 28 15:16 ./system/users/0/package-restrictions.xml
128 Jul 28 15:16 ./system/users/userlist.xml
7680 Jul 28 15:16 ./system/batterystats.bin
232875 Jul 28 15:15 ./tombstones/tombstone_01
254003 Jul 28 15:14 ./tombstones/tombstone_08
251451 Jul 28 15:14 ./tombstones/tombstone_07
250864 Jul 28 15:16 ./tombstones/tombstone_02
254554 Jul 28 15:13 ./tombstones/tombstone_05
257854 Jul 28 15:15 ./tombstones/tombstone_00
250962 Jul 28 15:13 ./tombstones/tombstone_04
253717 Jul 28 15:13 ./tombstones/tombstone_06
258220 Jul 28 15:15 ./tombstones/tombstone_09
251301 Jul 28 15:12 ./tombstones/tombstone_03
9 Jul 28 15:16 ./property/persist.sys.dalvik.vm.lib

All tombstones seem to contain similar information.

data$ grep ^pid: tombstones/tombstone_01
pid: 10903, tid: 10957, name: MountService#on >>> system_server <<<
pid: 10903, tid: 10903, name: system_server
pid: 10903, tid: 10904, name: GC
pid: 10903, tid: 10905, name: Signal Catcher
pid: 10903, tid: 10907, name: JDWP
pid: 10903, tid: 10908, name: Compiler
pid: 10903, tid: 10911, name: ReferenceQueueD
pid: 10903, tid: 10912, name: FinalizerDaemon
pid: 10903, tid: 10913, name: FinalizerWatchd
pid: 10903, tid: 10914, name: Binder_1
pid: 10903, tid: 10915, name: Binder_2
pid: 10903, tid: 10916, name: SensorService
pid: 10903, tid: 10917, name: WindowManager
pid: 10903, tid: 10918, name: Thread-17
pid: 10903, tid: 10920, name: ActivityManager
pid: 10903, tid: 10921, name: android.bg
pid: 10903, tid: 10923, name: android.fg
pid: 10903, tid: 10924, name: android.ui
pid: 10903, tid: 10925, name: android.io
pid: 10903, tid: 10926, name: CpuTracker
pid: 10903, tid: 10927, name: FileObserver
pid: 10903, tid: 10928, name: PackageManager
pid: 10903, tid: 10950, name: PowerManagerSer
pid: 10903, tid: 10951, name: system_server
pid: 10903, tid: 10952, name: AlarmManager
pid: 10903, tid: 10953, name: InputDispatcher
pid: 10903, tid: 10954, name: InputReader
pid: 10903, tid: 10955, name: MountService
pid: 10903, tid: 10956, name: VoldConnector
pid: 10903, tid: 10958, name: NetdConnector

Where to look next?