[Miscellaneous Android Development] lingfude:
Hi everyone,

In this thread you will find my KITKAT custom Rom and Kernel for Newman N1.

KitKat 4.4.2 custom ROM (ported from ZTE V970 KK 4.4.2 by Superdragonpt)

Release of Stable v1.2 2015-02-01 (SDCard update)

Now compiled with the latest Linaro Toolchain 4.9.3 (2105-01)

New Compilation Flags and MOD Flags: Neon; Cortex a9; arm v7; Linaro's 4.7+ / 4.9.x Flags; fgcse-las; etc

Add: CPU Governors: Sakuractive (Optimized HotPlug Governor) (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Add: I/O Schedulers: ROW and SIO (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Add: Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS): Responsiveness Tweeks (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Add: Dynamic management of dirty page writebacks (Fully controlled via Settings > Performance Control) (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Change: Increase Swappiness to 70 (60 > 70) (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Change: Disable Gentle Fair Sleepers (Better UI responsiveness) (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Change: Minimum Readahead increased to 32Kb (16 > 32) (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Change: Maximum Readahead increased to 1024Kb (128 > 1024) (cherry-pick from superdragonpt source)

Removed: Motorola's FLEX Info

User Customizable AROMA Installer

Single/Dual SIM Selection

Root Selection (Choose to apply Root (last version), or stay un-rooted)

Wipes are optional

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Release of Stable v1.1 2015-01-16 (SDCard update)

Add: SmartAssV2 and PegasusQ governors

Fix: Battery green led when charge is over 90%

Fix: Headset button for call/music control

Fix: Small bug on compass permissions

Fix: Small bug on als_ps permissions

Upd: Some Google app to last version

NOTE: After install v1.1 apply one of the following patches available in Download section:

For Dual SIM (active SIM Management): KK_Patch_Dual-SIM_build.prop.zip

For Single SIM: KK_Patch_One-SIM_build.prop.zip

Release of Stable v1 2014-12-19 (SDCard update)

Fix: Bluetooth (thanks qus)

Fix: Camera AF - no more need of KK_Cameras_Fix.zip (new driver for both cameras)

Fix: SIM Management (now working, and available on Settings)

Default build.prop setting: ro.product.dualsim=f (SIM Management disable)

To enable SIM Management: ro.product.dualsim=t

Fix: CPU scaling permissions

Add: MTK Engineering Mode on Settings

Add: CPU Performance Control on Settings

Add: AOSP Browser

Known problems

You tell me

Release of Beta2 2014-12-09 (SDCard update)

Fix: 3G call hearing problem (thanks to superdragonpt)

Fix: Camera AF (now with the correct driver)

Fix: CPU governor and scaling

Default Governor: Hybrid

Default I/0 Scheduler: cfq

Fix: Automatic Time Zone (no more com.android.phone FC)

Mod: Modified KK Permissions to allow apps/data to read/write from External SD Card (Google Removed External SD Card access on KK)

Add: Insecure ADB

Known problems

BT not working

Release of Beta1 2014-12-01 (SDCard update)

Custom kernel 3.4.67 (beta) - Thanks to qus1 and superdragonpt

Camera and AF working

Wifi working

Radio FM working

Notifications LED working

Known problems

Second SIM not tested

GPS not tested

BT not working

About the Rom

Rom based on the Official Release by Motorola XT919 / XT920 (Combo-Chip MT6628)

Ported from ZTE V970

Many fixes were needed to make it work on our Combo-Chip (MT6620 - Responsible for the Radio / GPS / WiFi / etc)

Includes New Custom KitKat Kernel 3.4.67

GPL Compliance (kernel sources)

Kernel 3.4.67 source code
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Credits

Me for finding the Motorola XT919 / XT920 kernel source code :D

Special Thanks to superdragonpt for the KK 4.4.2 ROM and many kernel fixes

Special Thanks to qus1 for the initial Help / RAW Original Motorola Rom

Thanks to dsixda for the ROM kitchen

Thanks to brut.all and iBotPeaches for the apktool

Thanks to bgcngm for the Unpack/repack MT65xx Scripts

Thanks to Chainfire for the Supersu
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DISCLAIMER

I will NOT be responsible for any damages, bricks or any type of problems that you cause to your phone.

Flash at your own risk and always make a backup first.

DO NOT LEECH MY DOWNLOADS, PLEASE LINK YOUR PAGE TO THIS THREAD.
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If you like my work, you can easily show your appreciation by pressing "Thanks" button or maybe Donate and buy me a beer. ;)

XDA:DevDB Information

[ROM] [KERNEL] [KitKat 4.4.2] Newman N1 (MT6577) | (Freelander i10 / Digma iDxD4), ROM for the Android General

Contributors

lingfude

ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 1.2

Stable Release Date: 2015-02-01

Current Beta Version: 2

Beta Release Date: 2014-12-01

Created 2014-12-01

Last Updated 2015-03-14