Root Time to build

[Sleepingsirens]

After almost a year of having this phone and switching through roms, i wanted to build one finally! The biggest problem is: I dont know where to begin, I know a little about code and I'm learning in school, but can anyone lead me on where to go and what to do?

 

[NGD1]

hi Sleepingsirens
i"m happy to see you've taken an interest in building your own ROM for you're phone
here's the link to the "custom ROM" section of our website, it should give you some insight and present you with other ROM developers that I'm sure would be glad to help you
Custom ROMS
i wish you the best of luck and hope to see a thread with your rom featured in it soon!

 

[g60madman]

hi Sleepingsirens
i"m happy to see you've taken an interest in building your own ROM for you're phone
here's the link to the "custom ROM" section of our website, it should give you some insight and present you with other ROM developers that I'm sure would be glad to help you
Custom ROMS
i wish you the best of luck and hope to see a thread with your rom featured in it soon!

I don't want to take anything from NGD1 post, however we have a whole section setup for all MTDEV roms with a full walk through in our wiki.

Here you can pick what version you would like to build.

http://code.google.com/p/mtdev-cm/w/list

 

[Sleepingsirens]

hi Sleepingsirens
i"m happy to see you've taken an interest in building your own ROM for you're phone
here's the link to the "custom ROM" section of our website, it should give you some insight and present you with other ROM developers that I'm sure would be glad to help you
Custom ROMS
i wish you the best of luck and hope to see a thread with your rom featured in it soon!

I don't want to take anything from NGD1 post, however we have a whole section setup for all MTDEV roms with a full walk through in our wiki.

Here you can pick what version you would like to build.

Wiki Pages - mtdev-cm - CyanogenMod by Team MTDEV - Google Project Hosting

Thanks guys, im checking them both out right now, wish me luck

 

[Chairshot215]

G60's instructions are very good and is for the most part what I used as a guide. When I first got my Kindle some of the developers had bin a bit snobbish in that they would not post compiled Roms or not make recovery flashable kernels giving fastboot instructions instead. Spent 2 days with the guide they had posted originally for CM7 but it was ultimately G60's guide that had got me through. Otherwise I guess those developers got their intended result in that I may never had learned otherwise. Have a dedicated system now a days but started out running Ubuntu on Windows via VirtualBox. Took longer to compile, like 4 hours but was fine when I would compile once or twice a week. Not so much now that its 4 or 5 times a day.

 

[dsmryder]

I fyou need specific help. I know one of us will help you out. We have all done a bunch uf setups. I did see some setup instructions for newer versions of Ubuntu too.

 

[b_randon14]

I fyou need specific help. I know one of us will help you out. We have all done a bunch uf setups. I did see some setup instructions for newer versions of Ubuntu too.

Yeah if you choose a newer version of Ubuntu, or Linux mint 13 like I use, mine did not come with the actual oracle Java development kit, so I had to remove all the openjdk packages, download the oracle Java jdk 6 binary for Linux and install it, then I had to remove some symlinks and create new ones to get the Java symlink in /use/bin to point to the oracle jdk 6 one. But it works great now for compiling cm7 and cm9/cm10 both!

And yeah a dedicated Linux install is way easier to build on. And dual.booting Linux and windows on a system is quite easy. I am here for help as well!!

 

[nyioo7]

If you wanna just play around for now, use UOT Kitchen. Get Apk_Multi_Tool and you can try to mess around to understand the XML codes. That's very basic. And of course, you can use Dsixda's Android Kitchen to dissect previously made ROMs and stock ROM to compare where the changes are made. The reason why you shouldn't use ApkTool is because you won't know the commands and without decompiling the files, it'll just throw you junks that you can't read. Hope that helps.