Root [Virgin Mobile] [VMOBI][ROM][KERNEL] Victorious ROM + VaeVictus OC kernel (Updated 7-30-13)

[JerryScript]

I'm getting set up with a new host for the ROM files tonite. This will allow me to post a version of the entire stock Victory firmware deodexed for those who want everything plus the ability to theme.

The relative ease of getting the stock firmware deodexed makes me want to set up a version of Dsixda's Kitchen for the Victory. I would like to make a cross compatible set of scripts that would combine the Kitchen with several of the available theming scripts cooked up by various devs (if they are willing to allow it). Two years of ROM building has proven to me that you cannot please everyone with any single release, so making an easy to use combined Kitchen seems the best way to go. No promises, but I'll see what I can do.

 

[JerryScript]

FYI - NinjaMorph from the Play Store does work on Victorious! I tested by changing the color and rotation of the Restart icon in the power menu (made it blue and rotated a bit):

Get your aprons on, it's time to start cooking up some themes!

Anyone who wants to share a theme and doesn't know how to pull the apk and create an update zip, post here and I'll help out. If need be, I'll write up a quick tutorial for it.

Note- I believe you have to have a deodexed ROM like Victorious to use NinjaMorph safely. A quick Google search showed some reports of bootloops when using NinjaMorph on odexed phones!

 

[kwknott]

I've been looking at this phone and now I see Jerry is deving for it. I remember your great OV roms so this may have made up my mind

 

[infamous1]

Hey JerryScript, can you make a backup or a rom file with the bloatware thats actually usable like S Memo and the clock app, S voice, VM Account App, music player ect. I can unintall the ones i dont need later, but just wondering for some of us who use the utilites that actually have a use everyday, Thsnks man it will save me a ton of time since i dont have a pc to extract it from a backup file that way.

 

[JerryScript]

Hey JerryScript, can you make a backup or a rom file with the bloatware thats actually usable like S Memo and the clock app, S voice, VM Account App, music player ect. I can unintall the ones i dont need later, but just wondering for some of us who use the utilites that actually have a use everyday, Thsnks man it will save me a ton of time since i dont have a pc to extract it from a backup file that way.

No problem, I already have the complete stock firmware deodexed, but it's huge. Once I get hosting setup that allows 500mb files, I'll post a download link.

 

[aycjay95]

Where would I find sprintdm. Apk?

 

[AndroidHaCks]

In system/app

 

[infamous1]

No problem, I already have the complete stock firmware deodexed, but it's huge. Once I get hosting setup that allows 500mb files, I'll post a download link.

Sweet! I can't wait I appreciate all the work you put into this. I definately love this phone it has plenty of potential. This is a great step forward.

 

[aycjay95]

It wont allow me to. any way to force it?

 

[JerryScript]

It wont allow me to. any way to force it?

Here you go:

SprintDM-flashable.zip

Download and place on your sdcard.
Boot into recovery.
Wipe cache and dalvik-cache.
Install zip from sdcard, and choose SprintDM-flashable.zip (may be on extSDCard)
Reboot (anytime you wipe dalvik, it will take longer to boot, be patient).

Let me know if you have any problems. I don't know if this apk requires other dependencies, so if it doesn't work, pull a logcat and we'll see what it needs.

 

[aycjay95]

Flashed fine, but it's still here, and it's still not delete able.

 

[AndroidHaCks]

Download System Cleanup from the Play Store, open it up, go to "apps" scroll down to SamsungDM Service, Iong press, and freeze it (or delete it if you're feeling adventurous)

 

[JerryScript]

Flashed fine, but it's still here, and it's still not delete able.

Sorry, I thought you wanted it back.

 

[BrianDJ]

Does anyone have the Redspot uncapped .zip file that they could put up? I downloaded Victorious and now would like to flash the 1.5 kernel to be complete. The link on the redspot thread does not work.

 

[infamous1]

FYI - NinjaMorph from the Play Store does work on Victorious! I tested by changing the color and rotation of the Restart icon in the power menu (made it blue and rotated a bit):

Get your aprons on, it's time to start cooking up some themes!

Anyone who wants to share a theme and doesn't know how to pull the apk and create an update zip, post here and I'll help out. If need be, I'll write up a quick tutorial for it.

Note- I believe you have to have a deodexed ROM like Victorious to use NinjaMorph safely. A quick Google search showed some reports of bootloops when using NinjaMorph on odexed phones!

I was just wondering if you don't mind, when you say you can pull the apk. Can we uses themes that we could normally use on custom roms like CM or AOKP, for this rom since its deodexed. We just cant use theme chooser, but I was wondering if that is possible. Maybe some way we can change what toggles are in the notification drawer, some how replace gps and sync for mobile data and volume control, I know changing the density allows more toggles but that messes up the dialer and a lot more, wondering if that could be accomplished or done with a modification to something I can try.

 

[JerryScript]

I was just wondering if you don't mind, when you say you can pull the apk. Can we uses themes that we could normally use on custom roms like CM or AOKP, for this rom since its deodexed. We just cant use theme chooser, but I was wondering if that is possible. Maybe some way we can change what toggles are in the notification drawer, some how replace gps and sync for mobile data and volume control, I know changing the density allows more toggles but that messes up the dialer and a lot more, wondering if that could be accomplished or done with a modification to something I can try.

Since I'm not currently building from source, changes like that would have to be made to the xml and/or smali files. Google Dsixda's Android Kitchen (GalaxyS2 version) for a very easy way to decompile almost any apk. I like to use it instead of individual apk decompilers since it can decompile the entire ROM, preventing errors due to dependencies, making it an overall simpler experience.

If changes to the density are all it takes to change the number of toggles that are visible, then that would be a relatively easy edit, you just change the the line with the density check. To make it visually OK, you would probably have to edit both the images and res/drawble xml files.

 

[aycjay95]

Sorry, I thought you wanted it back.

I was wondering, but I figured since I'm a noob and might be wrong, it was worth a shot.
Nonetheless, thanks for the effort.

 

[nurakun]

My phone runs much faster after flashing it this rom. Thanks JerryScript

 

[infamous1]

Does anyone know where the boot animations are stored on This device, I thought system/media or system/local but no luck and the animation sounds so i change change it to something cool it gets annoying lol when im changing the status bar icons and have to reboot it plays that self destruct thing twice lol

 

[JerryScript]

Does anyone know where the boot animations are stored on This device, I thought system/media or system/local but no luck and the animation sounds so i change change it to something cool it gets annoying lol when im changing the status bar icons and have to reboot it plays that self destruct thing twice lol

The boot sounds are PowerOn.ogg PowerOff.ogg located in /system/media and /system/media/audio/ui You can change them as you like.

The bootanimations are VMU_bootsamsung.qmg, bootsamsung.qmg, and bootsamsungloop.qmg located in /system/media They are in a Samsung proprietary format. There is a Samsung devlopers software tool for theming you can download to make qmg files, but I haven't figured out the proper formatting in the software yet. It does work for the S2, so we can probably figure out how to get it to work with the proper image dimensions and animation length.

You can also modify the build.prop file to stop all bootanimations. Eventually, I will add my own bootanimation binary to Victorious's boot.img, and port my bootanimation chooser from BACKside-IHO to allow you to easily preview and change your bootanimation. That's still down the road a bit.

 

[infamous1]

Sweet I was wondering where they were, I seem the files in .qmg format but figured since I couldn't test to see what they were I would leave them alone. Cool I'm glad the boot sounds aren't locked down so bad. Sweet I can't wait to see you work your magic Its already an awesome ROM and the radios work so it can be a daily use ROM, I love it.

 

[Kobeii]

Hey gotta question. So. I followed the installation instructions, made backups, cleared caches, then ran the install. When i get to setting permissions, the install fails with status 7. Is there anything i can do to fix that?

Edit: to further clarify

Setting permissions
set_perm: some changes failed
E:error in /external_sd/Victorious-0.1.1.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted

 

[903Tex]

Hey gotta question. So. I followed the installation instructions, made backups, cleared caches, then ran the install. When i get to setting permissions, the install fails with status 7. Is there anything i can do to fix that?

Edit: to further clarify

What recovery are you running?

Try downloading the file again. Could be a bad download

 

[Kobeii]

I'm running the latest build of cwm for the victory. I downloaded multiple times and still no luck. I'm thinking is probably due to me having Jupiter's kernel but I'm not sure

 

[903Tex]

Install twrp recovery. Havent had any problems with it