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Why oh why can I not get anything to boot on my gosh darn incredible? I've tried everything except making it all work.
I want so badly to get something to boot, but alas it never happens. Stuck at the white screen is as far as I ever get. I don't even get the satisfaction of seeing a bootloop, at least then I'd be seeing some sort of progress. Its disheartening. I've tried all kinds of roms and system dumps to no avail.
There must be something I'm doing wrong, what?
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Do wipe data and cache before flashing?
Yeah. I did manage to get a boot loop with the huashan gingersense leak. So some progress.
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Give more detail, and I might be able to help. What steps are you taking to port the ROM?
You need a kernel from your device at least. You also need to change some entries in build.prop and rename the init.devicename.rc to your device's name and not the original ROM's. Then you need to replace any device specific drivers and libs with ones from your device. And then, it still might not work. There's a lot going on here.
I'm assuming that by 'porting' you mean taking an existing ROM from another device and making it work on yours. The word has a different meaning also, which is take AOSP/CM/whatever and make it work on a device that it doesn't currently work on.
gnarlyc said:
Give more detail, and I might be able to help. What steps are you taking to port the ROM?
You need a kernel from your device at least. You also need to change some entries in build.prop and rename the init.devicename.rc to your device's name and not the original ROM's. Then you need to replace any device specific drivers and libs with ones from your device. And then, it still might not work. There's a lot going on here.
I'm assuming that by 'porting' you mean taking an existing ROM from another device and making it work on yours. The word has a different meaning also, which is take AOSP/CM/whatever and make it work on a device that it doesn't currently work on.
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Thanks I've swapped the boot.img, changed the build.prop, didn't rename the init file I instead copied over it. Copied the wifi modules, all the missing libs, the usr folder, bin folder, etc folder, and xbin.
Problem is when I change the libs it never gets past the splash, but when I change just the boot.img it'll boot loop.
And yes I mean from one device to another.
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Thanks I've swapped the boot.img, changed the build.prop, didn't rename the init file I instead copied over it. Copied the wifi modules, all the missing libs, the usr folder, bin folder, etc folder, and xbin.
Problem is when I change the libs it never gets past the splash, but when I change just the boot.img it'll boot loop.
And yes I mean from one device to another.
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Personally, I wouldn't copy entire folders over. I also wouldn't copy the boot.img over. I'm not saying that it won't work in some cases. It might. I've always swapped the kernels inside the boot.img, and renamed the device specific init file. Then, I would compare the init files from an existing ROM for my device with the init files from the ROM that I'm trying to port and see if there are any lines that are device-specific. If the init file is trying to start up something that doesn't exist on my device, then it doesn't make sense to keep that line. On the other hand, there might be a line that changes something for that ROM that IS needed.
This same thing kind of goes with the libs and other files too. You might have one lib that relies on another lib being there. And it might need a particular build of that lib. And other files might call certain libs. This is one reason that building from source generally works better over the long run than trying to get one device's ROM to work on another.
You have device specific and ROM specific things going on at the same time, so wholesale copies tend to miss one or the other. Plus it's nice to dig in and get an idea about what's going on.
Also, if you can get adb access while it's booting, grab a logcat. It might give you an idea about what is failing.
I re-did the boot.img by replacing the kernel and renaming (in this case) init.hua_shan.rc to init.inc.rc. It gets past the "HTC Incredible" splash. So, that's a plus.
I did get a logcat, as I always do when I flash a new rom that hasn't been tried before. I use pastebin so take a 'gander' at it if you will.
From the looks of it Alsa, bouncycastle, and audio libs are having problems. Oh, and the bootanimation.zip didn't get dumped from the Huashan, but it's no big deal.
http://pastebin.com/VVxufgQL
Oh, and thank you for the help you have provided thus far.
Mr. Rager said:
I re-did the boot.img by replacing the kernel and renaming (in this case) init.hua_shan.rc to init.inc.rc. It gets past the "HTC Incredible" splash. So, that's a plus.
I did get a logcat, as I always do when I flash a new rom that hasn't been tried before. I use pastebin so take a 'gander' at it if you will.
From the looks of it Alsa, bouncycastle, and audio libs are having problems. Oh, and the bootanimation.zip didn't get dumped from the Huashan, but it's no big deal.
http://pastebin.com/VVxufgQL
Oh, and thank you for the help you have provided thus far.
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Did you also change the ro.board.platform parameter in build.prop so that it matches the chipset name originally on your device?
Also, the next time you flash this ROM, dump the recovery log file before you reboot. This may show you errors encountered during the flash which were not shown in the normal output. A common error is porting a large ROM - such as Desire HD's - to a device with a small system partition in comparison. A workaround is to remove unneeded apps under system/app to reduce size of the ROM.
You may also want to try the Porting option in my Android Kitchen, it does the renaming, kernel and driver modifications for you.
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Did you also change the ro.board.platform parameter in build.prop so that it matches the chipset name originally on your device?
Also, the next time you flash this ROM, dump the recovery log file before you reboot. This may show you errors encountered during the flash which were not shown in the normal output. A common error is porting a large ROM - such as Desire HD's - to a device with a small system partition in comparison. A workaround is to remove unneeded apps under system/app to reduce size of the ROM.
You may also want to try the Porting option in my Android Kitchen, it does the renaming, kernel and driver modifications for you.
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I've had a busy past couple of days, but I'll check into the recovery dump and see what's up. I did change the ro.board.
I was trying to abstain from your porting tools, no offense, only so I could do it manually. Just trying to gain more experience, I guess, and learn. Your kitchen is excellent. I use to set up my environment and deodex among other things. The porting tool, though greatly eases the pain and shorten the manual labor ( yes lazy America) , take the learning curve out, a bit. But I guess I could take a look at the script to see what's going on too. Lol.
EDIT#1 - So I just tried to flash my rom. However, it wouldn't, because for some reason my phone is very particular about how one copies files over to the sd card. For one, you have to have the phone booted up, MIUI GB latest in my case, and mount usb storage. If I mount it through recovery, it corrupts my sd card, too bad I wish I knew that earlier. It's a PITA really...Ubuntu...
But, as phone WAS:
Hboot - 0.92
Radio - 11.19
Ship S - OFF
I tried copying and flashing through recovery. Fail as usual. So, I was gonna boot up into MIUI and try to copy from there, and got the infamous 5-vibe and twinkle.
I tried several times to boot into MIUI, but after many battery pulls, I figured out something ODD. In the bootloader the first couple of times it skipped the scanning process, then it started scanning again. Upon further inspection:
Hboot - still 0.92
Radio - still 11.19
Ship S - ON <---NOT A TYPO
Why? I haven't a clue. I tether my phone, so I got it booted, yay, but to do it, my sd card has to be removed and my usb plugged in, then turn on. So, my next edit will be a progress update. AFTER I s-off again ( that sounds kinda dirty, lol ), and re-format my sd. Also, my phone thinks it's charging...ITS UNPLUGGED. Lol, infinite-charging batteries, it's the future...
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So...Good news is I got another incredible with amoled screen
Bad news I got another incredible with nothing on it, or rooted :-( But I rooted it before I even activated it with *228
But, alas, I still have all of my work on my computer. I managed to back it up before my phone crapped out. Plus I kinda get to start from the beginning so I can be more observant, and particular.
So, back to work...will update tonight.
Edit 1 - So after some more tinkering I've managed to fix some issues, but others have popped up namely the HTC Sim card authentication, which I have no idea about, yet, bouncycastle.jar is being stubborn by not fiding its classes, and libaudioflinger.so is failing to link to libsystem_server.so which in turn fails the link to libandroid_servers.so. Same three problems as before it seems.
Here's a pastebin of the logcat.
http://pastebin.com/QYde7fuQ
I'll keep tinkering about and see what I can come up with. Hopefully I'm closer to getting this thing booted up than I think.
When I installed Kaosinate either v2 or v3 (I don't think v4), it didn't have a bootanimation in there.
Instead of any SAMSUNG or anything like that, I watched the raw boot process, text and all (like I've seen in maybe a Linux system before on bootup).
It looked a lot like a logcat dump while booting up.
I want that back, and I haven't found a ROM or a mod to do so, at all.
Someone seemed to think that init.rc would need to be modified to make it happen, but I want to find out how!
I've searched around and someone is still trying to find this in the Nexus One forums, and was satisfied with a custom bootanimation (which I am not)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646279
I am wondering if I would be able to modify a flashable .zip with the init.rc from Kaosinate v3, and then throw it into jt's CM 6.2.0 ROM that I'm using, and find any success?
Has anyone else looked into, desired, or completed this process?
You need to rebuild the kernel to enable it. It requires some code changes as well as a few config changes. I also don't know if you can use boot animations after making the changes.
So it is a situation where I need to use a specific kernel then..
I think that this is what it looks like, when this guy gets Android on his iPhone, and you watch the boot process.
Good shot of it at like 1:52:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO2KQHkt4A
Yeah, it is kernel specific, and by default, the stock Samsung source does not support what you want, so you'd have to make a few edits and also change some config options related to the changes as well.
Hi All.
I have a Kindle Fire 3rd Gen (soho) that I've rooted with 11.3.2.5 using the FireRooter Program. I've opted to use 11.3.2.5 because XPosed doesn't seem to have the modules necessary to block the System Updates when using 11.4.5.2... Even removing the osacerts file in the etc/security directory doesn't stop it from downloading the 4.5.4 update ... and I don't want to do that.
Anyway, What I REALLY want to do is change the "Kindle Fire" bootup logo. I was able to extract the apk using the APK Multitool while I was under the 11.4.5.2 Rooted OS... However after following that obsolete guide ... (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355267) ... I replaced the apk as it instructed and ended up at a black screen, even after several reboots. So apparently it won't work on the 11.4.5.2 OS... I'm going to try to do the same with the 11.3.2.5 OS, currently reflashing it now.... but wanted to ask those who've already done it if there is any easier method of changing the "Kindle Fire" bootup logo?
I have my own images already, saved in the exact format\settings that I opened them with.
I've also been trying to change the wallpapers, but the /res/drawable-mdpi folder does not exist in the framework-res.apk under 11.4.5.2 OS ... which is where the Wallpapers are supposed to reside according to the guide. (which I KNOW is outdated, but figured it was worth a shot anyway)
I will gladly settle for just changing the Kindle Fire Bootup Logo.
Hello?
The multi user and guest account feature is not available on either of the two recent releases of Lollipop for the Z3v. I did some research and it appears this is the case, not only on other Verizon handsets like the Droid Turbo and the Galaxy S5 / S6, but a few other non-VZW devices as well. I'm not sure why it was removed but apparently it's just hidden. It can be enabled and I followed the instructions for doing this for the various other devices and can report that it works for our Z3v (see attached screenshots).
I've kind of cleaned up the instructions and put them below. Usual disclaimer - I'm not responsible for anything that may happen to you or your cat if you choose to do the following. You DO need root access to edit and write to the system file.
** To be safe, please make a backup of your phone and/or a copy of the build.prop file that you are going to edit.
Get ES File Explorer. Run it and enable Root Explorer setting. (You may be able to use any file explorer and editor with root access but this is used most in the instructions and works.)
With ES File Explorer, go to device/system/ and find the file: build.prop
Choose to edit it with ES Note Editor.
Scroll to the end of the file and type in the following:
fw.max_users=5
fw.show_multiuserui=1
Save the file.
I'm not sure if the next step is required but it was in half the instructions I saw, and I did it myself: Click and hold the file, go to Properties, and then change the permissions to Read, Write & Execute. [all three]
Reboot your phone.
When you're up and running, access multi user mode by pulling down your notification shade and then clicking on your user icon at the top right corner.
Notes so far:
A guest user does not have access to the original user's files on the internal drive - the guest user has their own file directory. The guest CAN access the External SD Card, though.
Therefore, an app such as Movie Creator can and will create a "highlight" movie that is composed from photos that are saved on the external SD Card. Just keep this in mind as far as privacy.
There is a per user option that lets you decide whether or not the additional users can use the phone and access the text messages. If you disable this ability, while they cannot open the phone app to make a call, the CAN receive an incoming call.
You can find out more about the nuances of additional users with your Google Fu.
Enjoy!
Wow! Great work!
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Wow! Great work!
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Thanks! I really wanted this feature and it seemed like not many people care too much about it. It's my way of circumventing the awful permissions control we currently have in Android. That is, there are apps I want to use but refuse to install because of their overreaching permission requirements (contacts, etc) and so I can now create a second user with a new "dummy" Gmail account that has no sensitive information and install these apps without worrying.
By the way, something neat I figured out about this. Additional user accounts are not allowed to side load apps (the toggle to install from unknown sources is grayed out). I figured out that if the main user / owner restores an app through Titanium Backup, any other currently existing user will have it installed for some reason. I don't know why this happens but it's a neat glitch that gets you around that restriction.
Well I think most people simply don't let others touch their phones and so don't have a use for multiple user accounts. I find that my phone, as big as the screen is, is becoming more and more of a computer / tablet replacement. I like the idea of a multiuser functionality, but mostly to hide my own stuff. I'll silk never let anyone else touch my phone!
The use for multi-user that I've seen that makes the most sense is people with children. They will create a user profile for the child so they can't get into any of the parent's stuff or settings. That or the guest profile which will let them do whatever the heck they want without screwing up the phone.
Aside from that I have read that devs find the feature very useful for testing. Heck, that's not a bad idea to install and test apps, in general.
uh oh.
Well something didnt work. Maybe a certain build I have to be on or what. I followed the instructions to a t. Now stuck on endless boot loop. Only bad part is I'm on as hotel room working out of town without a laptop Or pc to fix it. I used a one click root just today and didn't install a proper recovery. Any thoughts
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Well something didnt work. Maybe a certain build I have to be on or what. I followed the instructions to a t. Now stuck on endless boot loop. Only bad part is I'm on as hotel room working out of town without a laptop Or pc to fix it. I used a one click root just today and didn't install a proper recovery. Any thoughts
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I had a problem with this also twice cause I'm always doing stupid things to my phone my guess is you didn't change the system to r/w but modified it anyway or you used a editor that would let you input the correct values I used s manager I think. As far as getting your phone working you could try safe mode or maybe a factory reset if you can hold power and the volume button down and enter recovery.
Tigerhoods said:
I had a problem with this also twice cause I'm always doing stupid things to my phone my guess is you didn't change the system to r/w but modified it anyway or you used a editor that would let you input the correct values I used s manager I think. As far as getting your phone working you could try safe mode or maybe a factory reset if you can hold power and the volume button down and enter recovery.
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I believe the mistake was made when i changed the permissions per instructions. I finially got to my house and im using adb to freeze the loop then going to push a script over to fix the permissions. I will update when i get it done and I will post my fix. Also I used ES file explorer, which i have already used it for years now. Never had anything like this happen before. it just baffles me. I have never got any instructions off of XDA that led to any malfuntion of my phone. But oh well, sh!+ happens.
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I believe the mistake was made when i changed the permissions per instructions. I finially got to my house and im using adb to freeze the loop then going to push a script over to fix the permissions. I will update when i get it done and I will post my fix. Also I used ES file explorer, which i have already used it for years now. Never had anything like this happen before. it just baffles me. I have never got any instructions off of XDA that led to any malfuntion of my phone. But oh well, sh!+ happens.
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Hey! I'm so sorry! I got a couple of new phones (Droid Maxx 2 and LG G4) and have been using those phones so I haven't been checking these forums like I was when I just had the Z3v. Really sorry to hear that you ran into that kind of trouble . Thing is, the instructions above are culled from 4 or 5 different sets of instructions for various devices that I found across the web. I performed them step by step myself while cross referencing them to each other and combined them all to the instruction set above as I did it. Did you ever fix it with the method you mentioned? I'm curious if it was the permissions thing (odd, because it worked for me).
Jurassic Pork Fried Rice said:
Hey! I'm so sorry! I got a couple of new phones (Droid Maxx 2 and LG G4) and have been using those phones so I haven't been checking these forums like I was when I just had the Z3v. Really sorry to hear that you ran into that kind of trouble . Thing is, the instructions above are culled from 4 or 5 different sets of instructions for various devices that I found across the web. I performed them step by step myself while cross referencing them to each other and combined them all to the instruction set above as I did it. Did you ever fix it with the method you mentioned? I'm curious if it was the permissions thing (odd, because it worked for me).
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it is guys if done right your system needs to be switched to r/w then go back to r/o after modifying the build prop if you modify in r/o you will get bootloop to a hard brick it depends.
Jurassic Pork Fried Rice said:
Hey! I'm so sorry! I got a couple of new phones (Droid Maxx 2 and LG G4) and have been using those phones so I haven't been checking these forums like I was when I just had the Z3v. Really sorry to hear that you ran into that kind of trouble . Thing is, the instructions above are culled from 4 or 5 different sets of instructions for various devices that I found across the web. I performed them step by step myself while cross referencing them to each other and combined them all to the instruction set above as I did it. Did you ever fix it with the method you mentioned? I'm curious if it was the permissions thing (odd, because it worked for me).
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Well I kinda fixed it. I went and bought a HTC M9. Lol but not yet, I'm still working on it. I have found scripts to run, even a specific build.prop fix to push, but I have windows 10 and couldn't get adb to find the device. Plus I'm a little rusty. So I broke out my old windows 7 laptop I have used just for rooting an modding phones and tablets. I did get adb and fastboot to find it once. Then some reason lost it. I didn't have it ready to go. But I'm almost 100 percent sure I can get it. Just need to play around with it a little bit more. Having trouble with drivers etc. I will let you know when I have it.
And didn't really hurt my feelings getting the phone I truly want. I never had problems with HTC since I was flashing roms on my old window phones. I just want my pictures I cannot replace.
"Run it and enable Root Explorer setting. (You may be able to use any file explorer and editor with root access but this is used most in the instructions and works.)"
Alas- I am not rooted, and therefore can not enable "Root Explorer" option. Unless someone has some other suggestions- I think I can't do this unless I'm rooted.
Well this is probably what I did to brick my first z3v.
I don't suggest anyone do this at all. There does seem to be an issue with the permission setting on the build.prop file. If it's not reset correctly after editing, you'll get stuck in a loop or worse. I'm stuck in bootloop, but can get into recovery. I made a backup hoping to learn how to edit the build.prop (delete it and rename the copied original to set it back as it was). But I can't even run the original zip that GigaSPX made up for us. (I don't have a backup like I hought I did.)
Anytime I try to install the flashable prerooted zip it tells me it's done after 2 seconds and says;
set_perm: some changes failed
I'm typing this on my z2 tablet, which has the multi user feature enabled. I'm going to see if RootExplorer will give me some clues as to why this doesn't work.
In the mean time I'm hoping someone can help me out?
If love to get this feature to work, but it has to be safe.
Just checked the build.prop on my tablet and got no clue.
AddictedToGlass said:
Well this is probably what I did to brick my first z3v.
I don't suggest anyone do this at all. There does seem to be an issue with the permission setting on the build.prop file. If it's not reset correctly after editing, you'll get stuck in a loop or worse. I'm stuck in bootloop, but can get into recovery. I made a backup hoping to learn how to edit the build.prop (delete it and rename the copied original to set it back as it was). But I can't even run the original zip that GigaSPX made up for us. (I don't have a backup like I hought I did.)
Anytime I try to install the flashable prerooted zip it tells me it's done after 2 seconds and says;
set_perm: some changes failed
I'm typing this on my z2 tablet, which has the multi user feature enabled. I'm going to see if RootExplorer will give me some clues as to why this doesn't work.
In the mean time I'm hoping someone can help me out?
If love to get this feature to work, but it has to be safe.
Just checked the build.prop on my tablet and got no clue.
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a backup usually means going into your twrp and hit the back up button and make a copy of your system including data and all that. This is mandatory before messing with the build prop. If you want Pm me your build prop and I will send it back to you. With multi user enabled.
Yup, I know what a back-up is and how to do it, and I know it's a must before messing with the build.prop. I just really thought I had done it recently...
-and I had! But I forgot that a few days ago I bought myself a Christmas present; a 200 Gb micro SD, and copied most of the contents to the new card from my old one. I chose not to copy the backup because I had planned to make some changes and create a more recent backup. Never happened though because I got side tracked loading music and such. Lol!
So I'm all back together, but would still like to play with this feature. So I'm going to give it another shot.
A guest user does not have access to the original user's files on the internal drive - the guest user has their own file directory. The guest CAN access the External SD Card, though.
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Perhaps the wrong thread but: enabled multi user on a Cube T8 only to find that guest and other user can access INTERNAL sd but not external sd. I'd rather have it the other way round. So the kids (other users) can use the whole of 32 GB sd card rather than me having to share the small internal sd with them.
Any ideas how to fix this? Phablet is not rooted btw.
got bootloop..... but i'm safe as i've backup.... through recovery..
I've inserted two lines and fell in bootloop
Thanks bro.. working....!!!! but second step is not needed...
I've got an "old" Sony Xperia Z1, which is still alive thanks to ROMs.
There was released a Q LOS ROM for it. The thing is I don't like the round default Robot font, but I like the condensed variant so every time I flash a new ROM I flash a set of those fonts and a boot animation too.
It worked flawlessly everytime, except for this time.
I've been googling around looking for a clue, but seems it's not just me.
I tried to look too in the /system/fonts folder with both TWRP's built in file explorer and cmd, but on both cases it shows /system is empty (!)
So if anyone knows what happened, or if there's another workaround or something, it'd be nice if you let me know
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I've got an "old" Sony Xperia Z1, which is still alive thanks to ROMs.
There was released a Q LOS ROM for it. The thing is I don't like the round default Robot font, but I like the condensed variant so every time I flash a new ROM I flash a set of those fonts and a boot animation too.
It worked flawlessly everytime, except for this time.
I've been googling around looking for a clue, but seems it's not just me.
I tried to look too in the /system/fonts folder with both TWRP's built in file explorer and cmd, but on both cases it shows /system is empty (!)
So if anyone knows what happened, or if there's another workaround or something, it'd be nice if you let me know
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I'm using the FontFix app on my oneplus 7 pro with custom rom and root. haven't tried to change a boot animation yet tho