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building cm from source

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spen1995

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I think im going to try and compile cm from source, i already synced all the necessary repos, wish me luck.
we might have cm for are device tonight
 
i finally got the repo synced the other day too. i plan on giving this a shot also. what steps r u taking on changing the source for the venture? r u gonna upload your source changes?
 
Awesome bro :-) same research ive been doing. Dont get ur hopes up too much about getting it done soon tho. Building cm is usually not an easy process, and will more than likely require a lot of trial and error. Best of luck tho, man! One suggestion tho.... If i remember right, u had said that u no longer own a Venture. U might wanna look into picking up a cheap, "beater" venture to test on before releasing any form of a beta version. Building cm is an intensive process that could easily hard brick a device, and we dont want anyone around here bricking their phones. If u end up coming up with a build u feel good about, send it my way privately before releasing to the public. I will see if i can get it to run thru an emulator first, and then if all looks good, ill try it out on one of the ventures i have lying around. Best of luck bro. Im excited to c what u come up with!
 
Hows it looking? Keep us updated on your progress! Share any issues u r having, or any errors u come across... If we work on this as a community, this may go faster and end up being a successful project! I kno there is lots of people here that would love to see this happen! Feel free to bounce ideas and questions off of us! :-) Dont leave this project dead in the water if u r having trouble figuring it out on your own! I would love to see u succeed at this project! Keep us updated! Oh, and if u post all your source code to git, it would make it a lot easier for us to review as a community, and help figure out where any errors r being made :) im rootin' for ya!
 
so u r using a new PC to build android now? r u using ubuntu? if so, r u using the same exact version on this PC that u were before? the dependencies for building android vary from version to version of ubuntu. u may just have ur build machine set up incorrectly. what steps r u using to do a build, and what errors r u getting when u try?
 
I am stuck at the moment cuz of hard drive issues on my current build machine. Dont have enough space to do a full build, and ran into issues while attempting to repartition. I am currently in the process of setting up another build machine to give it a go. Gonna have to resync the souce again... Ugghhh...
 
By the way, if anyone knows of a device that is similar in hardware/build of the venture, and already has CM7 ported, please post names of any devices. If we have a similar device as a jumping off point, it should make things easier. Thanks!
 
alright I will look it to it tomorrow to see what phones has similar hardware
also what is the chipset for the phone?
 
Thank u for ur research :-) ill check it out in depth tomorrow. I should have been more clear tho... When i said msm7x27, the "x" is a variable... I kno off hand that there is an msm7227 chipset, possibly others. So any chipset that follows msm7x27 with the x in that being a variable, i would b interested in knowing about. There isnt actually a chipset named msm7x27.
 
Also, im tryin to (hopefully) find something structurally similar to the venture (i.e. Hardware keyboard, rear camera, etc...). The perfect device would b structurally similar, have the same chipset (or something in the msm7x27 family), and already have a CM port up and running.
 
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