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[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
quick alpha 4.4 build

Hi all,

After check-picking several patches from @steven676, here is a quick alpha KitKat build for you. Don't hope too much. Browser rendering is broken. And for now I don't have the time to fix bugs. The only thing I can confirm is that it's just running pretty fast. lol

Download KitKat | Mirror. MD5: d1e025e977c24a9249087bf928230999

What works:

Call, 3G data, SMS, Wifi, Bluetooth(?), light/gravity sensors, Camera, sdcard, NFC, CRT off, Superuser etc

Serious bugs:

WebView is mostly broken. This means you will get black squared screen in all apps which use WebView as their built-in net viewer.

Most of gapps not working properly as others report.

Lags here and there, but in general it's faster than 4.3 AOSP for me. If you run into severe lags, did you do factory reset before flashing?

Thanks for all reports and feedback.

Also please note:

Take It As Your Own Risk.

latest CWM is required. I'm using 6.0.4.3 version.

frameworks and dalvik are built from stock AOSP.

No Launcher3, no Live wallpapers. L3 seems boring without gapps.

Don't enable ART run-time or you will get lots of FC since most of apps are not ready with it.

Kernel was already updated to 3.0.101.

Cheers,
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
Thanks Downloading ! This rom is without gapps?
[Nexus S Android Development] wishmasterf:
as usual...

ok

Means?

Is Launcher3 the new stock -launcher or an alternative?

No problem with sensors and/or kernel moduls?

Means?

Cheers,[/QUOTE]

Thanks!
[Nexus S Android Development] dabotsonline:
Thanks for this, [MENTION=2253579]cn.fyodor[/MENTION] . So, just to clarify, TWRP 2.6.3.0 doesn't work?
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
Great!!! wiping phone as I type... :)
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
i will test with cwm 5.8.0.2..no flash..
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
Please don't quote me like that. lol

I don't know.

It means I didn't change one byte of frameworks and dalvik in this build.

New and also as an alternative. :P
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
where i can downlaod the lst cwm ?from official page cant download

ok i flash the last
[Nexus S Android Development] Zahih:
Download Rom Manager from Play Store.

---------- Post added at 08:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:03 PM ----------

Thx [MENTION=2253579]cn.fyodor[/MENTION], gonna try this...

:thumbup::thumbup:
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
ok i flash the rom ..miss the gapps ,,,,broswer come black :P
[Nexus S Android Development] ej8989:
no gapps? cannot even sync contacts via google accounts? i wanna try this badly. but no contacts = i'm dead.
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
no playstore i mean .
[Nexus S Android Development] adm1jtg:
Paranoid android has a 4.4 gapps you can download
[Nexus S Android Development] DarkShadow69:
Anyone tried these?

Gapps from dhacker : http://d-h.st/EIM

SuperSu-v1.65
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
If you use Nexus root toolkit, you can boot CWM temporarily without having to flash a rom to install the zip or recovery image.. I tried Philz, with no luck, but it booted with the latest cwm.. :)

Had a Pico tts stopped working message while signing in to google.. Maybe a Gapps issue.. And the screen has cut off issues on the sim unlock screen, had issue signing into calender app (wouldn't let me sign in, though I was already signed into google?) Google didn't auto restore apps.. Having an issue with the back button not responding.. Had a Google keyboard stopped message while in settings menu...

Camera doesn't have photosphere..

All apps seem to work, as well as settings, though i haven't tried the art runtime...

Here is a benchmark, though the app fc'd twice prior on the last gpu test... :)
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
Anyone try the rom with gapps?
[Nexus S Android Development] adm1jtg:
I am using with pa gapps

So far its all running but have found a few things

When playing pandora screen never shuts off unless you press power

Cannot restore sms messages with either tb or gcloud

BT had a huge issue making initial pairing but is now working fine with a2dp

I get su out of date errors... will check if there is a cw flashable

Confirmed as op says philz wont work latest clockwork does

I do get some occasional lags but nothing i cant live with

So far very anti-climatic update

GREAT JOB GETTING THIS UP AND RUNNING SO QUICK TO ALL INVOLVED
[Nexus S Android Development] spider623:
Download the apps from android authority and use interactive governor and also try ART in the developer settings
[Nexus S Android Development] noloukos:
can someone upload the rom to a mirror?
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
Yes, that why in my above post it mentioned gapps and signing into google... :D

Su needs updated... Oh and it's the google keyboard that messes up, the Aosp is fine.. :) I am having issues with uninstall apps working..
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
i see which gapps u use?
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
http://d-h.st/EIM
[Nexus S Android Development] pandas:
can someone upload the rom to a mirror?
[Nexus S Android Development] malymato:
Reupload

Could someone reupload build 02, please? Can't wait to make my NS snappier once more!
[Nexus S Android Development] siffar:
Bandwidth used. Does someone has a mirror?
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
Couldn't get it to boot with Devil kernel, and wouldn't boot using scripts...
[Nexus S Android Development] 4I-I:
Mirror pls! ;)
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
I will wait for more stable release...
[Nexus S Android Development] homerograco:
I'm restoring my apps now, let's see how good is it. Anyway, worked with PA Gapps, even Google Now from home screen is working. ROM is running slow though, anyone tried Marmite in it?
[Nexus S Android Development] champca:
Mirror Mirror on this wall. Which rom is fairest of them all.

Please Mirror would love to try this out
[Nexus S Android Development] homerograco:
Updates:

Super SU 1.65: Working

Marmite 9.1 CM: Working

Everything I've tested worked flawlessly (highlights to Bluetooth, Google Now and Camera).
[Nexus S Android Development] 4tticuz:
What about lags etc?

For sure no daily driver, but just wanted to know about that.
[Nexus S Android Development] down4life:
Can anyone make some mirror pls?
[Nexus S Android Development] rho57:
superuser works. just download the latest cwm build on the website. got the link from the cwm superuser app on Play Store.

http://download.clockworkmod.com/superuser/superuser.zip
[Nexus S Android Development] homerograco:
Is quite usable, I mean, there are lags here and there but I'm satisfied for now. Apps that rely on browser rendering are buggy, though...

With Marmite 9.1 cm I get between 160 and 120 MB of free memory, which is better than most 4.2 or 4.3 ROMs I've tested.

I'm anxious for next versions of this ROM, seems promisisng!
[Nexus S Android Development] malymato:
You people either troll or ignore. Don't know what is worse.
[Nexus S Android Development] Mawtin:
Very exciting! Can't wait for a stable release
[Nexus S Android Development] cn.fyodor:
If you get severe lags, did you do factory reset before flashing? Rom runs pretty fast for me, no lags in general. For the gapps, please give the community more time, PA gapps is also an early built package. Thanks for all reports and feedback. :P

EDIT: Don't enable ART run-time in this build...
[Nexus S Android Development] rho57:
Mine isn't that laggy too. Well, after deleting the system apps that i don't really use. Thanks btw. I'm looking forward to more stable builds. One more thing, would it be possible to turn the notification and quick settings dropdown background black instead of transparent gray? I think it looks cleaner that way.
[Nexus S Android Development] Engic0:
link

uploaded on drive! hope it helps...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwH_ei8HzV_JeUtaZUluNHVSblk/edit?usp=sharing
[Nexus S Android Development] Zahih:
Thanks..

Yesterday failed to download. I will try this.

Btw, has anyone try Banks Gapps?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34610569
[Nexus S Android Development] Hulala50:
Best alpha build I've seen so far :)

After few improvements this is becoming daily driver, so smooth :D
[Nexus S Android Development] V_tunes:
hello, guys. i just install the alpha build, everything works fine, but there is issue with google now and browser, when the page or information is loading, the bottom is dark, even loading is finished.
[Nexus S Android Development] down4life:
Stock browser doesnt work properly, use opera or something :)

btw. Google now works wine :D even OK Google works :D
[Nexus S Android Development] superng888:
Hehe... Opera will have black patches after a while as reported by other testers ;) Worth a try though.
[Nexus S Android Development] down4life:
:D well have tapatalk app, thats important :D we will wait for another update, but this is quite good. Only thing that annoys me is that contacts are messy :eek:
[Nexus S Android Development] homerograco:
That's what I got.
[Nexus S Android Development] 4I-I:
I have downloaded the rom from all three mirrors and always got a status 7 error... i tried booting anyway but it gets stuck at the google logo! do you guys know what i could do? i flashed with pa gapps...
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
u must flash the last cwm recovery
[Nexus S Android Development] V_tunes:
latest CWM hasn't Fix permissions option....
[Nexus S Android Development] 4I-I:
I just flashed cwm 6.0.3.4 and it still doesnt work...:-/ what am i missing?
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
You need to read before flashing.... newest Cwm recovery is a MUST!!!.. the posts are there for a reason...
[Nexus S Android Development] down4life:
Try to redownload...maybe its corrupted.
[Nexus S Android Development] andrei1015:
6.0.3.4 is not the latest. Latest one is 6.0.4.3. You need to flash it from the bootloader using fastboot flash recovery.
[Nexus S Android Development] 4I-I:
oh youre right! im sorry i switched the 3 and 4 :D
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
can fix it from app on play store
[Nexus S Android Development] rho57:
Im using CWM 6.0.3.8 and I didnt have any problems flashing.
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
Very good try !! but i will wait for browser fix and gapps..then i will use it :P
[Nexus S Android Development] torchwolfery:
got to say

well I flashed this this morning and so far its running very smooth indeed. occasionally I get a black flash when I sue browser but other than that everything i use works perfectly... have to say it feels like when i first got it truth be told...
[Nexus S Android Development] arnoslag:
Just push these 4 files to system/lib and photosphere will work.

it's not a flash zip, extract it push to 4 files in system/lib to your lib and phere is working.

http://speedy.sh/CDVpj/system.zip
[Nexus S Android Development] Setting.Out:
Thanks, I put photo sphere, the launcher and the rest of the updated apps to have a play with them... I was commenting on the ROM as stock.. but am back to my 4.1.2 ROM now.. :)
[Nexus S Android Development] ElmirBuljubasic:
Can someone test heavy gaming on 4.4?

Thanks.
[Nexus S Android Development] jayzu2512:
Who can upload rom into other site? I can't download to uploadingit.com :(
[Nexus S Android Development] thehulk1969:
This is what I have found in the way of Kitkat Gapps. I haven't tried them though.

http://d-h.st/EIM
[Nexus S Android Development] thesebastian:
Anybody posted Paranoid Android gapps?

If not, here you are: Link
[Nexus S Android Development] thehulk1969:
Have tried them and they work fine...

Also, Dolphin Browser renders fine on my phone.
[Nexus S Android Development] cgaston:
So far, so good for me!! Thanks!!
[Nexus S Android Development] leap_ahead:
You dont get black after some minute?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mrpink10:
I added a black status bar and a transparent status bar version to this theme.

Here's a theme I made that changed some of the status bar icons white. I made this for myself and I thought I would share it. The default gray really isn't my color lol. I wanted to keep it as close to stock as possible without adding new stuff. I wanted to keep it white and simple, similar to the S4.

Themed:

- Clock

- Battery %

- Signal bars

- WiFi

- 4G

- Alarm

- Sound mode

- Airplane

- Bluetooth

I also made the green battery icon brighter. I hope you guys like it.

Make a Back Up before you flash!!

Step 1. Flash

Step 2. Reboot

If you mess this up and something goes wrong, don't blame me lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jason4962:
is there an revert zip we.can flash if something goes wrong?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mrpink10:
Just replace the SystemUI.apk in the zip file with the SystemUI.apk from the original rom. Flash that and it will take you back to stock.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blfolson:
Very nice! Would you consider making it transparent or true black?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mrpink10:
Eventually, I'm going to look into that. I just need to find the right line of code to manipulate.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blfolson:
Cool maybe Rushing knows?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mrpink10:
I added a transparent and a black version.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blfolson:
Awesome!!!! Thx a million!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dennisalex:
doesnt work on Shadow 1.5 not tweaked.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mrpink10:
Hmm, I got it to work on mine using 1.5 not tweaked. That's strange.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] smokinjoe2122:
Works fine for me too...Wifi says LTE, but other than that, it looks amazing...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mrpink10:
Yeah, I couldn't get the stock WiFi signal bars to go white the way I wanted them too. So I cheated and grabbed the WiFi signal from the S4 systemUI, which happen to be LTE.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] smokinjoe2122:
Either way it looks fantastich :) Thanks dude!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Arkain2K:
So this theme replaced all the pentagrams and shiet from the UI right? I'll put it to good use if I migrate from JB6 :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mrpink10:
No, this just modded the status bar icons for versions 1.4 and 1.5.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] troby86:
If you download the "999" version of Shadow, and use this theme, it looks amazong with no pentagrams.
[General Questions and Answers] zabenoid:
I have lost Note and Note 2, both had avast anti-theft, rooted and configured...

Obviously thief was able to flash them so that avast was gone.

So what can i do to prevent flashing and so make the phone unusable for the thieves?

I ordered now Galaxy S4, i really feel the most important thing is that i can prevent anyone from using it if i want.

Do i need to superglue my SD card or something? Or cut some pin to prevent DL mode?

Please! I want to be able to use my phone outside too :)

-Thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] zabenoid:
Help! Anyone?

Is there some way to prevent flashing?

national weekruc

Anyone?

Opinions?

I did use avast option that should stand factory reset, but i think when you flash, it will be gone... Could there be some possibility to partition memory and hide some partition that would contain avast, or something?
[General Questions and Answers] zabenoid:
Someone should give this a thought now, the world is full of people robbing phones, only way to prevent it is to find a way to make phones noth worth robbing. I like to root and flash and do watever i want with MY phone, and i want to prevent anyone else doing it to MY phone.

So, suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] lmorenoe:
Carriers try blocking flashing.

If they can't keep users from doing it, it's very doubtful that you can stop a thief from doing it.
[General Questions and Answers] SimonTS:
Unless phones are provided with a password protected bootloader ... and if they did that the carriers would use it as a way to stop us from flashing our phones and the devs here would spend their lives finding ways around it.

And so the circle continues :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] zabenoid:
Thank you for replies!

So im pretty much left with hardware choises... SD can be superglued so the thief would have a bloody hard time removing it... But how about adb and DL mode... how im gonna cut the wires so i can still charge my phone? Maybe if i get the wireless charger i can superglue the whole microusb port useless... Then i cant figure out how to flash anymore! :)

Well now. SD i can superglue, im not going to change it anyway... Microusb port would be nice for charging, wireless chargers are not everywhere and mobile phones are meant to be... mobile! :) So i need the pinout of the port and i need to leave the pins with current, cut the rest... Propably need some tools of a surgeon! Why the hell cant operators or phone sellers do it for me, for a fee or something? I could pay, afterall the s4 costs some 500€, i could easily spend a hundred or two...
[General Questions and Answers] SimonTS:
So ... you plan to glue the SD card in and cut the data wires on the USB port just to stop someone else from being able to flash a ROM on your phone?

1) This will invalidate your warranty

2) If you ever need to reflash your device you will be unable to

3) If your SD card does corrupt (it happens) you won't be able to change it

4) Anyone planning to steal your device won't know this stuff before they steal it, so you will still lose your phone

Remind me again, what are you planning to achieve by doing this? :eek:
[General Questions and Answers] zabenoid:
Well ok, not trolling! :)

1) Warranty would be nice, yes, but in my experience if a device works a week it will continue to work, the thing is that warranties are cheaper for manufacturers than testing so they will leave that for users and replace faulty ones.

2) Yes i can flash, if i just copy a zip in to a sd card! Because i can do that, no one else cant!

3) Thats a point too, but basically i like more being afraid that my sd card faults than being afraid of robbery.

4) Ofcourse i have a note in the phone that promises a small reward for returning it. After thieves notice that the thing is useless they propably take the opportunity to get even some money.

And the big why is: What the F happened to the ages old concept of a lock?!? If i have (and i have) a cool bike i will buy a lock worth about half the bike. And it continues to be mine. What is that crap someone using my phone? Junkies everywhere go after smartphones & trade it for a ridiculous money and again people everywhere are more and more and more afraid! Then they buy Fkin guns! Thats so stupid. Just don't carry cash, lock your digitals and dont wear expensive suit, and you dont have to worry! I feel very let down that no manufacturer makes a safe phone. Maybe they have a contract with NRA or something? Or maybe they like thieves because then people have to buy new phones! It wouldnt be too hard to make some almost-hardware-pin lock, would it?

Thats a worldwide big problem and i hope someone takes care of it. If you can jailbreak something, cant you prevent it too? I think it should be possible.

But anyway F to samsung for not letting me have keys to my phone in the beginning, and forcing me to hack to reclaim it, it is MINE! :)

Suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] TT-Twister:
I was thinking the same thing when I got my phone stolen.

And I have come to the conclusion the only way to stop this is make seamless factory sealed phones that can't be opened.

They need to get rid of any ports that allow you to connect to the PC.

Instead they will need to go with wireless charging and only allow you to access the phone through their software using a wireless data transfer method.

They can do this over a wifi connection OR they can simply provide a "wireless dock" that allows you to charge as well as connect to your pc through the software.

Might be a good idea to split the phone storage. So no matter what you can't access the part of storage that has the operating system.

This will obviously limit peoples ability to mess about with the operating system, but I can't see any other way to stop theft of smartphones.
[General Questions and Answers] govwin:
The best way is to let it be flashed

You should be asking, "How can I get back a stolen phone?".

If you block/disable any functionality of a stolen phone remotely, it will end up in pieces the next minute the thief realizes.

1. Easiest way with a tech savvy, citizen serving law enforcement agency: They can track any phone using IMEI. The technology exists. But OEMs would rather lobby the other way. Their reasoning could be: The one who lost would buy a new one anyway. The one who stole won't buy anyway.

2. Your own (vigilant?) way: Open up the smartphone, add GPS receiver and GSM or custom homing signal hardware powered directly by the battery (with no software control) to pinpoint the location.

Thanks for waiting so many years for the solution :D
[General Questions and Answers] MattHdH:
Well on Xiaomi had a great job to prevent flashing by locking the bootloader, and can unlocked by verified account attached on the phone. But the problem is the thief has ability to flash with dead mode by connecting some pin on the PCB phone. And if you unlocking bootloader, it's can easily to flash. Just like my stolen phone Redmi 4x. I can't reach the location phone anymore.

I think the developer must make feature to verify the phone with account to get ability to unlocked. And prevent ability to direct flash. It would be great. You can work with your own custom rom or root mode and the important think is just you with your account to do that.
[General Questions and Answers] japtain.cack:
What's confusing to me is why, on d*** near any device with a BIOS worth its salt, you can modify the behavior of hardware buttons. I want the only way to power off my device to be a dead battery. If I can lock a BIOS, and use LUKS to prevent booting a device, I should be able to do the same with android devices. These hard coded hardware buttons are nonsense, and you should be able to disable ADB/flashing. File based encryption is nonsense as well. If I brick my device, that's on me. Ideally, I would want the presence of a hardware key to allow shutting down, accessing adb, the bootloader, or flashing my device.

Of course a phone can be dismantled, but my goal is to make that difficult enough, they have to take it somewhere to do that first. Prolong the inevitable for as long as possible. Just being able to prevent someone from simply powering off the device right away is enough in most cases. My Bluetooth based locator has proven this a few times already, when, luckily, the thief didn't think to turn off the phone.

I've worked with law enforcement before, they couldn't care less about my phone, not enough profit to be made on a case like that. My only goal is to prevent powering off my device long enough for me to find the thief. They wont steal anything ever again when I do (because I'll give them a stern talking to, 😉).

My question for the community is, are there any bootloaders that boot into a pre-boot environment, require a key, of some sort, to decrypt the real bootloader, prevent adb/flashing, and a way to disable hardware button functions (like reboot/shutdown)? This thechnology has existed for years for server and desktop/laptop use. Why is this such an afterthought for possibly the most important, and often expensive, devices we own?
[General Questions and Answers] tbstroken:
I'm glad to say that at list on xiaomi phones (redmi note 10 pro) it's possible to prevent flashing, using cerberus app to block USB debugging, and also encrypt the twrp