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I'm trying to get a device tree and twrp up and running in my free time, but its not going so great. We should see if danhalen would post the source he used for cwm and use the l90 and g2 mini d620 sources for further reference.
 
Bad_MOFO_33 said:
shinobisoft github for w7,( https://github.com/shinobisoft ) seems like the best bet just edit it for our device
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thanks for that link, ill have to check it out this weekend. I've looked at zaaap's work for the g2 mini and Quarx's for the l90, but I havnt seen this yet. I have a core i3 with 4gb ram, so compiling will be slow even if i get something working, so hopefully you or anyone else that wants to try has a faster computer lol.

On a related note, from messing with trying to port a cm11 rom from the above mentioned devices and getting kernel secure boot errors even with bump, i think if we just get a cm/caf kernel compiled, we could probably just port stuff without needing to compile until someone fleshes out building from source.
 
just wanted to tell you guys im still working on this, i think my device and vendor files are good, but im having trouble with kernel modules. i saw on the g2 mini those guys used the gcc 4.7 toolchain to build the kernel, so im doing that to see if it fixes problems. ill update more when i have something concrete to give.
 
whoshotjr2006 said:
just wanted to tell you guys im still working on this, i think my device and vendor files are good, but im having trouble with kernel modules. i saw on the g2 mini those guys used the gcc 4.7 toolchain to build the kernel, so im doing that to see if it fixes problems. ill update more when i have something concrete to give.
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Edit 2: Go try my twrp! lemme know how it works.
 
donjuro said:
Idk if you guys know this, but to expand what we can take bits from, I found it the 8926 board is pretty much the same as the 8226 board. I believe we can use our kernels interchangeably.
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i'd agree, i saw many references to msm8226 in our build files in kernel source, and im even using an msm8226 build flag in my device tree. seems to work lol
 
Hmm.. Just a suggestion. Couldn't we just port a custom rom from the Optimus L90? It seems to be a very similar phone with similar specs just for T-Mobile.
 
donjuro said:
I thought our board was the 8226
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were the 8926, 8926 has lte, 8226 is in moto g first gen that doesnt have lte. same board though.

Corey Fields said:
Hmm.. Just a suggestion. Couldn't we just port a custom rom from the Optimus L90? It seems to be a very similar phone with similar specs just for T-Mobile.
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already using l90 sources, with g2 mini d620 sources, and whatever is close. thanks for the suggestion though.
 
whoshotjr2006 said:
were the 8926, 8926 has lte, 8226 is in moto g first gen that doesnt have lte. same board though.


already using l90 sources, with g2 mini d620 sources, and whatever is close. thanks for the suggestion though.
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Sorry for all the questions, im new to the forum. would you mind telling me how close we are to a custom rom on this phone? i could possibly be a help. I am tech savy and i'm familiar with the android filesystem. I'm just not good with development and coding/scripting.
 
Corey Fields said:
Sorry for all the questions, im new to the forum. would you mind telling me how close we are to a custom rom on this phone? i could possibly be a help. I am tech savy and i'm familiar with the android filesystem. I'm just not good with development and coding/scripting.
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hey dont apologize for asking questions, ask away. thats how you learn for yourself. :)

i'd say we are a lot closer to a custom rom on this phone now, just getting the device tree up to a workable state was the hard part. im tracking down build issues right now on cm11, and once i get all that ironed out we will have a good source to start playing with, of course with issues that can be resolved later with tweaking.

if you would like to help out, the sources i posted in the twrp and philz threads will both build twrp, philz and a custom kernel on omnirom. ill have to upload my cm sources sometime soonish, once i get things fleshed out, but downloading both the source code for the rom and the device, vendor and kernel trees will get you building. good luck!
 
whoshotjr2006 said:
were the 8926, 8926 has lte, 8226 is in moto g first gen that doesnt have lte. same board though.


already using l90 sources, with g2 mini d620 sources, and whatever is close. thanks for the suggestion though.
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Well that's odd that z-cpu would show that our board is the 8226. But I always thought before that it was 8926.
 
donjuro said:
Well that's odd that z-cpu would show that our board is the 8226. But I always thought before that it was 8926.
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im pretty sure most of the processor identification apps are using the line in build.prop ro.product.board=MSM8226, and i think the 8226 and 8926 are the same chip. i'm going off of this: http://system-on-a-chip.findthebest...00-MSM8926-vs-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-400-MSM8226 as a reference, as i've never been able to completely tell which one we have. pretty sure its why the builds and makefiles are so compatible between the two chips.

i cant remember exactly where and if i find it again ill post it, but i want to say somewhere in the kernel source files it said something about general arch equal to msm8226, with an msm8926 target arch. but dont quote me on that, im still new to a lot of this and horrible with kernel work.
 
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