[G1 Android Development] jubeh:
You guys are grand. Remind me of the Sesame Street episode where they're looking for the letter M, and then letter M says "See, I'm not letter M, I have a moustache".

SO, king, you're saying that I can take this rom, toss a file or two on top of it, and then claim that "NO!, IT'S NOT YOURS, LOOK AT THE TWO FILES I ADDED, I'M A DEV, ETC, BTW, WHAT'S JAVA, LOL" :rolleyes:

You all guys are a bunch of posers, and I'm honestly getting tired. Taking scripts from other people doesn't make you a dev, having read tutorials or asked questions about which files to replace to make the rom boot doesn't make you a dev, mashing boot images together with other people's work on them doesn't make you a dev, and sure as hell, being a *dBag crook* and stealing other people's physical and intelectual property sure as f**k doesn't make you a dev.

You guys are a joke, can't even open up a framework folder and md5 the file that actually matters in a build (if you're really a "dev", you'll know and post which one) and also baksmali it to check which framework version it is. With that said, I'm 100% behind Tom on this one. I, being one who's been classifying all these rom dumps by framework version, can tell that this rom is very different from every single hero rom out there, plus there's some code in there that's specific to the sapphire.

What Tom was saying was that Drizzy took a rom that Tom was making work on the G1 and Drizzy just passed it on to King. He never said this was all his work, this work really belongs to the community, since that's where most of these improvements to make Hero work on G1 were created.

Want to know how easy it is for any idiot to port a rom and claim to be a "dev"? I won't hold your hand, but basically, take the original rom, unpack the boot.img and repack it with another kernel (most use either cc's in Jac's rom or cyanogen's kernel), change the adb binary too so you can use adb, then re-pack. Then use all the files from the /system of the original dump and put them along with the new boot.img, and a META-INF/com/google/android directory with an update-script inside (depending on what you've done to the rom, it might require some editing). Put the wlan.ko inside the lib/modules directory so that wifi can work, the new one has to be from the rom you pulled the kernel from, and last, replace the htc proprietary files from the hero with the ones from the Dream (you can download them from HTC's website). At this point you have a bootable, workable hero build, but several things missing, like sensors, lights, etc. This is where stealing other people's scripts come in, since they've already done the work, this makes the rom more complete.

Now, to the part about "optimizing". Coolbho3000 made a script that takes all your apks and compresses all the pngs inside and then re-packs the apks with higher compression, and then aligns the apks to memory, this is the supposed "secret optimizing" drizzy kept talking about. IMHO, this "optimization" is idiotic. Higher compression requires more memory and more clock cycles to decompress, this is only an optimization in the size of the rom, but performance-wise, it's slower. Just try a build without "optimization", just zipaling, and you'll see the difference. These guys have done NOTHING, they just take other's work (and money if you're stupid enough to click that donate button) and then sell it off as their own, dev my a**.

By the way, Mookie_Jones is Drizzy again, and King (and possibly Mlign) are all part of the same gang, heck, maybe the same person... They just won't leave!