yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] updateing:
I have been working with CM11 for Xperia TX.However,Ace Plus was my first Android phone :)

It seems that you need to get a working Recovery that supports SELinux permission management to flash the ROM zip,otherwise you may get an Installion Aborted(Status 7,some changes failed) error.I have come across this problem on TX.

And without proper SELinux permission,the system may not boot.(THIS IS A GUESS)But the wrong SELinux perm did cause a WiFi hotspot problem for me.

Furthermore,if you want to enable ADB access during boot process,you need to change/add the following lines into ramdisk/default.prop.

ro.secure=0
ro.adb.secure=0
persist.sys.usb.config=mtp,adb

Hope that helps :)
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] MegaBoyX9:
That explains some things. Btw which recovery do you use on TX?? We have cwm 6.0.4.5. but it gives same errors with set.metadata.
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] updateing:
For Omni,it's TWRP 2.6.3.0 But the SELinux feature must be installed(I don't know how to check it...maybe we need a kernel which supports SELinux also...)
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] hakan1906:
to develop??
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] Androidoo:
hey devs...what about kitkat 4.4?? is the development still on or stopped:crying:
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] MegaBoyX9:
I think it's currently on hold. And does anybody know who is testertrebon from git? Right now I think he is our best chance of seeing kitkat on ACE plus.
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] smartandroidtech:
A developer has a booting KitKat rom on ACE Plus I can not tell you the name because I do not know if he wants to release his rom on xda also, for the moment. To flash the rom do not need a recovery cwm 6.0.4.5 or TWRP 2.6. He used the TWRP 2.5.0.0.
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ANDROID-000:
Tell him plss share his work to us:thumbup::p
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] marco.roello:
[ROM][4.4.2][speedmod]-GT-S7500

Searching around It seems the best real work based on kitkat. Only Camera and FM radio not working.

The release date is seems very near (few days)

Here is the link

http://www.androidiani.com/forum/samsung-galaxy-ace-plus-modding/299846-rom-speed-mod.html
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] Androidoo:
great news..plz tell him to share his work:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ANDROID-000:
Is that another furom site? Is that mean that it will not release here in XDA.:what: i cant quiet understand the laguage but if it is for ace plus, it will definitely break the silence in this divice furom:thumbup::D:p;)

Thanks for sharing info...:thumbup:

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Is he that [MENTION=5190110]marco.roello[/MENTION] link posted?
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] Martins2759:
That's giugiu19, he's on xda also, he'll release it here... :)
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] smartandroidtech:
Yes !!!! I have speak with he and....he will release 4.4. kitkat on androidiani but he/i can share his work :D

http ://i.i mgur.com/v9KOamR. jpg

http ://i. imgur.com/qdgcB1p. jpg

http ://i. imgur.com/6JvFjyS. jpg

I still can not post links

the camera does not work fully like Radio FM.

He will release it towards the end of the month.
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] MegaBoyX9:
Will it be clean CM or his SpeedMod??
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] smartandroidtech:
It will be a fusion between Cyanogenmod11 and Omni rom. With pure Android interface.

Speed Mod Kitkat:

*Based on Android 4.4.2 Kitkat (next relase )

*Kernel : DirtyKernel 3.0.105

*Pre-rooted

*Busybox

*Init.d Support

*Zipalign on every boot

Tweaks:

*Ram Tweaks

*Dalvik Tweaks

*R/W SDCard Tweaks

*GPS Tweaks

*Battery Tweaks

*2G and 3G Tweaks

*TCP Tweaks

*Host update

*Bravia Engine 3

*ION

Script:

*Speed Mod Tweaks

*Frandom-Generator

*LMK

*Adreno boost port

*Games booster Tweaks

*Fast Boot

*Build.prop tweak

*Zram 128 compress

Project information (4.4.2):

*KitKat 4.4.2 ported....

*Delete unnecessary apk

*Added Gapps

*Updated traslation

*Tested ART Runtime - Work

*Mount SD fixed

*Screenshot fixed

*Replaced stock gallery with "Nexus 5 gallery".

*Added Mii File manager

*Added Real Player

*Added Next Browser

*updated translation mms.apk

*Added bootanimation by [MENTION=5660193]smartandroidtech[/MENTION]

*Delete mms.apk

*Added Hangout

Bug:

*FM Radio

*Camera

Screenshots: At this moment I can't share links(XDA)

Credits:

Thanks...

*To GiuGiu19 - Developed the Rom SpeedMod

*To all guys of Androidiani forum for their advice

*To all the DirtyDev team for their help, support and for the fantastic kernel

*To smartandroidtech and genio98 for their continued support.

Don't create a thread for this rom, for the moment
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] Androidoo:
[MENTION=5660193]smartandroidtech[/MENTION] this seems to be exclusively from the dev..greatwork..:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ANDROID-000:
did you ask what recovery will be use in that rom? had you tested it? so excited to flash that rom
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] smartandroidtech:
Recovery: TWRP 2.5.0.0

I had tested a pre-pre-build
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] tinocnm:
speed mod kitkat

Will we have to use hangouts, or will it have the normal sms application
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] smartandroidtech:
I think there will be both, it's up to you to decide.

But I'm not sure
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] simbatkasim:
galaxy ace plus not work

how do ya can not open to existing kitkatnya android device android writings wrote :(:(:(:(
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] marco.roello:
[GT-S7500][ace-plus][speed mod][kitkat][4.4.2] Ready

I'm glad to read that the rom is now available.

http://www.androidiani.com/forum/samsung-galaxy-ace-plus-modding/299846-rom-speed-mod.html

I'll get a try. I'm curious to test battery life.

BUG SM KitKat :

Camera

fmradio
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] smartandroidtech:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2622857&goto=newpost
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] trendchanger:
yazid is still working on kitkat??
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] yazidkucrit:
MOD EDIT LINK HERE
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yadabwoy:
Hi , I flashed the 4.4 stock rom with root on my f320s but it has no recovery and I cant install recovery to restore the backup I made, someone please help me go back to an older rom or install twrp, thanks
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yadabwoy:
all sorted now thanks to leoaudio13
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monyozt:
can you share how to?
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
Changelog and technical information

Changelog

2014-01-08

Added option to update/rescan for ROMs

2014-01-07

First public test release

Technical information

It works by extracting the boot ramdisk to root and patching init.rc files after boot selection.

More to be added​

Changes from the original MultiROM

This port is based on the original MultiROM by [MENTION=3418703]Tasssadar[/MENTION], which is available for multiple devices including the Nexus 4, 5 and 7. However, since his original port did not account for supporting external SD cards, and also didn't handle most Xperia devices without a recovery partition, I've rewritten some part of his original MultiROM to handle these things.

Differences include:

All binaries are placed in the ramdisk altogether instead of the internal storage.

MultiROM Xperia does not mount the partitions before starting the real Android init. Instead, it generates a script and patches some files (including init.rc) to trick the target system to mount filesystem images (loop mounting loop devices).

One ROM can contain multiple user profiles (i.e. data, cache and persist).

The code to boot generic (non-Android) Linux ROMs is removed due to heavy rewrite of parts from the original MultiROM.

It currently only support using partition filesystem images, neither symlink nor bind mount is supported.
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
Reserved
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Working perfectly.

Booting time(from sdcard) is okay I would say.

Now we just need the modified TWRP. Hope you could get it for us too.

Thanks
[Sony Xperia M] ansebovi:
how did u get it work?

which model c1904 or c1905?

which sdcard?
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
Till now I've discovered a few bugs in this test release:

Sometimes, microSD card is not detected because the initialization is too long.

This varies between cards. A theory is that SDHC might take a longer time to initialize, which happens after MultiROM has scanned for partitions.

You can try rebooting a few times and if, by any chance, the card initialized right in time, you will be able to boot the external ROM.

I have a few possible solutions for this, and I will update to you when I've implemented a working solution.

USB OTG storage devices may not be detected properly. Needs investigation...

Thanks to [MENTION=5010777]ansebovi[/MENTION] for testing and informing about these.
[Sony Xperia M] GedeWK:
i followed all the instructions, flashing the boot.img (i renamed the boot file to multirom.img) and move the files to my sdcard, why when i reboot, its just rebooting normally (no rom select screen) ?

EDIT: Rebooted again and it worked.

EDIT AGAIN: Is there any way to flash gapps? or just flash normally with cwm?
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Flashed boot.img using fastboot.

Extracted ROM in the root of sdcard.

Rebooted. Selected sdcard>cm11>boot. And it booted

Model C1904

SanDisk micro sd 8GiB class4
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
I've added an option in the "Misc" tab to rescan for ROMs as a temporary measure. Flash the new boot image to get it. Please refer to the first post for download.

Sent from my Sony Xperia M (C1905)
[Sony Xperia M] GedeWK:
Well, how to install gapps to the ROM? I need the play store :(
[Sony Xperia M] daruto80:
to do the tutorial I have to have the bootloader unlock?

to do the tutorial I have to have the bootloader unlock?...because i have the bootloader locked and i like to introduce in cwm.
[Sony Xperia M] ansebovi:
u should not quote op on any thread...edit ur post..remove quote

and yes u need an unlocked bootloader
[Sony Xperia M] elias234:
since it is called multirom xperia , can't it be ported to xperia z ? and other xperias , or it is made exclusively for xperia m ?
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
It's only for Xperia M at the moment since it is not completed yet.

If anyone feels like porting it to other devices I will surely appreciate, but for me I will wait till most of it is ready before porting to other devices.
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
Uploaded test package with unofficial CM11 Beta 1. Just extract it to SD card, just like the previous test release.

Although I don't expect daily usage on a pre-alpha test release, if you want to keep your data in CM11 Alpha 1, copy the `default` directory from cm11-alpha2 and replace the one in cm11-beta1.

Just a little update, I am coding as I type this, but you cannot expect the alpha release of MultiROM Xperia to be here in a short time 'cause there is a lot to do. You can still try the test packages at the moment.
[Sony Xperia M] elmkzgirxp:
Is the testing still in process? Because I can't wait to try this out. I hope it would be done sooner...
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Booting all the 4 ROM(s)!

Thanks Alvin :D :highfive:
[Sony Xperia M] rebelos:
XZ already have multi rom elias it has been done by mithun46
[Sony Xperia M] elias234:
it is out dated , and it needs an app , says always unsupported rom , mithun stopped the developing for it ( he never replies on his thread nor on any question about the multirom )
[Sony Xperia M] elmkzgirxp:
How were you able to get it to read ROMs? I'm currently having trouble and have tried almost everything. I compared the test zip and the FXP311 zip and found out that they are completely different.
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
You just have to make system.img of whatever ROM you wanna use and extract ramdisk and zImage from the kernel and apply a little mind on how it boots the CM test provided. That's all. All ROM's work fine just LiquidSmooth gives systemUI fc only while multi booting else it also works fine. :good:
[Sony Xperia M] elmkzgirxp:
What did you use to extract files from the kernel?

EDIT: Oh, wait, nevermind. I figured it out. Thanks anyway.
[Sony Xperia M] ibrhmozn:
could u make this for stock 4.3 bro ? that was amazing
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
can u upload this on other server..cant access here
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
Is thr any update exist of this thread??
[Sony Xperia M] omar_m98:
I

Great work! But does it work on xperia m dual? , I've always wanted to try multiple roms on my phone but I get bored of all the waiting time (downloading,flashing, looking for bugs,etc),, please can you make it work on XMD?
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
It also work on XMD.. just c the screen shot of it u will come to know
[Sony Xperia M] omar_m98:
Oh! Sorry! I read the thread for few times and I didn't see that at all! I was so focused on the instructions

However I'll wait until it supports android 4.3 :D
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
Same here.. Waiting for 4.3 support.. Then will flash
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
Hey admin.. Do u exist or not?? Please respond.. Ur negligence towards the thread will result in '' thread closed ''...
[Sony Xperia M] elmkzgirxp:
It would be a shame if we a lose a developer that got our device to what it is now. He basically started everything from scratch and contributed a huge part to this device's development. Let's just hope he's fine and nothing bad happened to him. It's the least we can do.
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
So r u able to use multi rom on ur device?? [MENTION=5267309]elmkzgirxp[/MENTION]
[Sony Xperia M] elmkzgirxp:
No, I'm currently on 4.3.
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
How did u make the system.img of the flashable zip or how can we convert the format of flashable zip to be recognized by multi rom boot
[Sony Xperia M] elmkzgirxp:
Just check out aweosomeabhjeet's post on the previous page.
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
I checked but didn't understand.. So asking the exact procedure from u if u can help
[Sony Xperia M] elmkzgirxp:
So did I. Plus, I don't remember saying I'm using MultiROM because it doesn't support 4.3.
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
Hi everyone, I don't have time to continue on this in the near future, but just want you to know that I am not dead. Technically the technique should work for Android 4.1 to 4.4, but you will need to pack the ramdisk and system images on your own. I saw that someone should already be capable of this, so if any of you packed working images or can write instructions on how to pack them, please feel free to post on the forums. Just remember to give credits to the developers. :)
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
Tnx for the response developer.. M just hoping either u or other person work on this technique as soon as possible.. Anyways thanks in advance..
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
I would surely write a detailed tutorial with all the steps included once I get time from my exams :)
[Sony Xperia M] dastan4eva:
Please can someone with enough know how take this project forward for us, it's epic [emoji1]
[Sony Xperia M] alvinhochun:
Since xda is "nice enough" to notify me of something, I may as well take a few minutes to explain more... based on my possibly outdated knowledge.

Android is Linux, therefore it uses a kernel and a root filesystem. Very often, a ramdisk created from an initramfs is used as a root filesystem.

Note: Android boot image is a file format which has the kernel and initramfs included. This boot image is often (mis-)referred as a "kernel". In this post, "kernel" refers to the actual kernel, not the Android boot image.

In a normal Android system, the initramfs contains the Android `init`, a program used to mount partitions from the flash and load the other parts of Android. There are three partitions, namely "system", "data" and "cache". In the case of the Xperia M (and almost all current Android devices), they are eMMC partitions formatted in ext4.

In the case of MultiROM Xperia, the initramfs instead contains the MultiROM program. This program will replace the root filesystem with the initramfs of the OS to be booted and execute the Android `init` of it to kickstart the original Android boot process.

Since the Android init mounts the eMMC partition, we need a way to replace this process when booting external ROMs or else it will use the internal partitions instead and booting will fail. The method I chose is to make use of "filesystem images", which essentially contains the data supposed to be in the eMMC partitions. When an external ROM is booted, MultiROM will somehow make the Android `init` use these filesystem images instead of the internal eMMC.

So, if one wants to set up ROMs for it, he/she needs to either perform a bit-by-bit dump of the partitions of a working system, or create blank filesystem images and place files inside.
[Sony Xperia M] yadnesh297:
Need some help!!!!!

How to make orignal 4.3 load with modem (error:- no sim inserted )

n also how to extract data of android l system for xperia m coz its in .dat file so unable to make img file for dat:(
[Sony Xperia M] gouster3:
Reqest Port CM12

Hi. i am using CM12 as main ROM. Works good for me, and i want to use Ubuntu Touh, and some another roms to boot from SD Card.

But, kernel Works only with Stock ROM in phone, can you please make Ported Kernel with this MOD to work with CM12 as main ROM please?

In attachment is OverClocked CM12 Kernel, that i need to boot as internal.

I have CM12 Rom in my phone now, can you modify attached kernel and add yout mod in it pleas?

my e-mail is: horniak@outlook.sk.

Thanks, i like your work.

//cannnot add attachments... so, here is link to thread with kernel:

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-m/general/kernel-cpu-1-6ghz-overclock-t2954123/post57066264#post57066264

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I have copyed zimage, boot.cpio, and some other files from CM12 kernel to Your kernel. Works fine, but

screen has problems in ROM menu. sometimes is left side of screen on right side, and right side on left side, and sometimes is it normal, and it is changint every second. :(, and touch Works not.

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when i plug in charger, or pc in phone, it becomes bootloop, i think it is problem with compatibility between CM12 ROM, and my attemp to port kernel.
[Sony Xperia M] akshatmassy:
Can i use it with latest cm11 in c2004
[Sony Xperia M] manoj36:
No it won't work in it..
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
I have compiled 4.3 stock kernel with multirom.

Please let me know if anyone wants to test. I sold my XM, so can not test.
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
I want to test them dude, so let me know how to and hope it works perfectly :D
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Sure. Take this boot.img

All you have to do is have adb and fastboot installed

While in windows, open cmd in fastboot folder and connect the device

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot multirom-test.img
fastboot reboot

It should boot to the menu as in screenshots of the OP.

Keep backup of the original boot.img so you can flash it if anything goes wrong.

All other testers are welcome too :)
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
Unable to download file ..

need mirror ..
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6xjqtzO7-JYQ1puN3hJVDNLSTQ/edit?usp=docslist_api

Try this

Edit : Or this http://www.mediafire.com/download/3hxjxhu5hkhhhl0/multirom-test.img
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
not working dude, my device get death boot, no vibrate or boot up, just blank screen, but dont worry, after flashing original kenel i get back my device
[Sony Xperia M] gouster3:
Hi, i have ramdisk.cpio zimage and cmdline. i need rename ramdisk.cpio - > ramdisk.gz, cmdline name is same. but i dont know, if zimage is "kernel" file.
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
[MENTION=5788126]itsnie[/MENTION]

http://d-h.st/Ab0e

Strange. Try this. It should boot normally without any multirom.

Purpose : Let us go step by step and test kexec-hardboot patch first, if that works, we'll proceed to multirom porting.

Edit : Make sure you are on stock 4.3
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
not work dude, only vibrate after flashing multirom-test.img :crying:
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Didn't expect that.

I will compile from CM sources now, seems I am making some mistake.
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
waiting for that, i always ready for tester, because i want to see multirom for this device :p
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
[MENTION=5788126]itsnie[/MENTION]

Uploading new test :D

It should probably work this time because I have corrected almost everything stupid I did in it.

Edit:

Here take this one http://d-h.st/drgO

Hoping for positive results.

Edit 2 :

Also please upload proc/iomem
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
the result is same as before, only vibrate .. how to take iomem if device getting softbrick?
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Ah! Not again.

Well no worries.

just flash stock kernel again it will be back and then take iomem.
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
yup, im already flashing stock kernel .. let me know how to take iomem? sorry im noob :D
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
In adb type

adb shell
su
cat proc/iomem > sdcard/iomem.txt

and upload that txt here
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
Ok, that is ..
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Last test for now

If this didn't boot I would seriously bang my head

http://d-h.st/fcqG
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
Yeah now booting perfectly :D

But screen are glitches .. :crying:
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Glitches could be fixed. The great thing is that it booted :D

Off to fixing glitches and porting multirom. We'll meet very soon again with working multirom :cheers:
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
uh ok, i hope multirom run perfectly for my device .. :D

and now i'm waiting to booting secondary rom #LoL
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Multirom ready. Wanna test? :p

If yes, backup nandroid first,so if anything goes wrong, you can revert back where you started.

I'll edit this in 10-15 mins, stay tuned :D

Edit :

http://d-h.st/d2Gx

http://d-h.st/gWE

Download both the files

For recovery.img

fastboot flash FOTAKernel recovery.img

For the zip file

Enter recovery and flash it.

after flashing reboot and see if multirom menu shows up. If it does :success:

If it doesn't, boot to recovery again and go to advanced > multirom > Inject curr. boot sector and reboot.

I hope it works :good:
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
multirom menu not show and recovery is same as before flashing recovery.img .. ?

try again?
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
in adb type:

adb reboot recovery

See if it takkes you to the new recovery. If yes, flash "multirom...xx....zip" there and inject curr. boot sector in advance > multirom.

Edit : Make sure you are on the new boot.img I gave.
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Anybody up for testing or I abandon this project?
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
The result is same dude, i try that in many time ..
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Okay!

Please upload sdcard/multirom/error.txt

Edit : Please let me know what the situation is. Were you able to boot into new recovery? Did it have advance > Multirom?
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
I not find error.txt in multirom directory ..

I not able to boot into new recovery and whats your new recovery dude? Does that is cwm, or twrp? because recovery mode always show cwm v6.0.4.7 ..
[Sony Xperia M] itsnie:
[MENTION=4881390]aweosomeabhijeet[/MENTION]

I think the problem is in your boot.img, because if i change your boot.img with original kernel packed with philz touch recovery, without change your recovery.img, i sucsses fully booting to multirom recovery ..

Ss multirom recovery in attachment
[Sony Xperia M] aweosomeabhijeet:
Edit : removed

Try to enter the recovery from the led by pressing volume down button. It should boot TWRP with multirom functionality. Once done, repeat the steps I mentioned.

Edit 2 : Extremely sorry for that. I think I compiled one without extract_elf utility that made this to happen.

Edit 3 : now that I know why it happened I'm compiling new recovery within 15 mins.