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IntroductionYou may have seen many threads on xda about porting roms. All of them provide step by step tutorial but they do not explain everything and do not answer common questions. So i decided to post a guide and answer all questions about porting roms.
Please note that I am not a developer or an expoert porter (I should say i am a noob) but I will to explain everything as simply as possible.
What is Porting?You can think of porting as simply getting a rom, designed for another device to work on your device.
What do I need for porting roms?You need two roms. One designed for your phone called "Base rom" and another which you want to port called "Port rom"
What skills/software do I need to port rom?Porting a rom is as simple as copy and paste. If you know how to copy and paste folders then you can port a rom.
For software side, you only need an archiver for porting (eg 7-zip)
How do I choose a base rom?Usually you choose cyanogenmod as base. The version number is important for porting.
Choose CM7 if you are porting android 2.3 (gingerbread rom)
Choose CM9 if you are porting android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich rom)
Choose CM10 if you are porting android 4.1 (Jellybean rom)
Choose CM10.1 if you are porting android 4.2 (Jellybean rom)
Can I port all roms?No you cant.
You cannot port stock roms like sense, touchwiz etc.
You can port aosp roms like aokp, paranoid etc
Can I port from any phone?No. The phone must meet some requirements for you to be able to port.
What are those requirements?Well these things should be common in your phone and the phone you are porting from
1. Both should be armv7 (very important)
2. Both should have same resolution
3. Both should have same pixel density
4. Both should be of same brand (Not required but highly recommended)
5. Both should have same cpu (again not required but recommended)
What phone is best for porting?There is no "best phone for porting". It depends upon your phone. Simply put that if your phone and port phone have all the above things common then it is probably the best phone for porting.
HOW TO PORT ROM
1. Download base rom (designed for your phone) and port rom (the rom you want to port)
2. Open them with 7-zip (no need to extract)
3. Delete app, framework, fonts and media folders in BASE rom and move the app, framework, fonts and media from PORT rom to BASE rom
4. Your rom is now ready. Boot into recovery, Wipe everything and flash the BASE rom. It should boot. If it does not boot then do the next step
5. Go into system/lib folder in both the roms and replace the libandroidruntime.so file
6. Remember the final rom is BASE rom which you should flash on the phone.
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Important: Before porting any rom always ask the developer about permission. I he allows then port and if he refuse then work on another rom. Dont ask him again and again.
Hey,
Good work!
You can port roms like sense, touchwizz... see my guide
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GalaxyUser said:
Hey,
Good work!
You can port roms like sense, touchwizz... see my guide
Sent from my XT890 using xda app-developers app
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Well yes but they require advanced knowledge about porting and are always buggy. This faq is for absolute beginners
UPDATE: added a guide to port rom. Hope you will like it
Could I port a rom designed for Samsung Galaxy Beam GT-i8530 to my Samsung Galaxy Beam GT-i8520 (Note that the first product model ends with 30 and the other ends with 20).
They are different phones and I would like to be able to update the stock Android 2.1 on my i8520 to Android 2.3 or above, preferably with the projector app/function of the i8530.
Both phones have projectors built in, but they are a little different in specs.
can we port 4.2 rom to 4.1.2 with same resolution, cpu & processor ??
plz confirm
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Could I port a rom designed for Samsung Galaxy Beam GT-i8530 to my Samsung Galaxy Beam GT-i8520 (Note that the first product model ends with 30 and the other ends with 20).
They are different phones and I would like to be able to update the stock Android 2.1 on my i8520 to Android 2.3 or above, preferably with the projector app/function of the i8530.
Both phones have projectors built in, but they are a little different in specs.
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I doubt that you will be able to get it to load, I've ported cm7,9 and cm10( cm10 requires me to decompile framework.jar add cdma smali files recompile the framework.jar. swap out the baseband libs and edit the build.prop cm7 and cm9 are the easiest for porting as its basically copy and paste cm9 is just baseband and build.prop edits for me to get cdma working it
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darkharbinger81 said:
I doubt that you will be able to get it to load, I've ported cm7,9 and cm10( cm10 requires me to decompile framework.jar add cdma smali files recompile the framework.jar. swap out the baseband libs and edit the build.prop cm7 and cm9 are the easiest for porting as its basically copy and paste cm9 is just baseband and build.prop edits for me to get cdma working it
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Thank you. I'm completely new to this and I'm not sure I really understand porting yet.
can i port 4.1 rom to 4.0 device with same specification ?
pankycool123 said:
can we port 4.2 rom to 4.1.2 with same resolution, cpu & processor ??
plz confirm
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vny10 said:
can i port 4.1 rom to 4.0 device with same specification ?
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Sorry for being late but someone pm'ed me about this thats why answering.
You need the same android version for both the port and the base rom otherwise it will not boot.
grt guide!!!!
from which phone i can port roms for my karbonn a9?
Really?
You said that you can port from ARMv7 to ARMv7 only. Is it not possible to port ARMv6 to ARMv6?
Good day! im using galaxy y, is it possible to port apps and framework from stock based roms to cm7 rom through your guide?
Are there any additional steps to be followed if jumping to the next android version aka from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2 ? I am asking this because i want to port a Kitkat based rom from a similar MTK 6572 device to our own device with exactly the same specs but different android versions, they even are the same brand.
Hi, can I use touchwiz stock like base rom and port on it cm10.1 ?
I'm using this phone for a while, but since it is made in China and lack supports
It is still in 2.3.x branch, which contains some known security issues
So, I'd like to know how to build a custom rom for it, my friend told me Slim is one of the most stable custom ROM on the run, and fits my minimaist style, can you give me some advice?
P.S. I've been looking into many Chinese sites, but still I can't get the full list of device tree
EDIT: seems it is a mtk6516 CPU with dual SIM
it has some different model names:
Meizu G11
Chianjing A007 or V7
found some maybe useful specs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501849&page=2
Just got this little beast to play around with yesterday.
My minote4G is based on KitKat 4.4.2 running on MIUI V5, wondering if there's already any upgrade version to V6 for my Redmi Note Type mentioned above? ...
I read the forum here and miui english forum and seems to have so many types of Redmi Notes with different Type of ROM official Code. This is my first time having this confusing ROM Code compare to other handheld I have.
Appreciate it much of your help, to share some extra guidance.
I have the same ROM installed.
Looking for v6 I read a post in english miuiDotCom "[Tools, Tips & Tutorials] [MiUI Device Team] Note 3/4G - Which ROM should i use? "
There are 2 variants of Redmi Note 4G devices; (i) TDD-LTE, (ii) FDD-LTE. For both devices, you can choose between (i) 4G-Global, (ii) 4G , ROMs
4G-Global is v5 multi-languages, with google apps. 4G is v6 only chinese and english and does not have google-app preinstalled.
Roms can be downloaded from the same forum at Downloads.
Sorry I can´t post links.
Running this..it's the latest multi Miui V6 with all google apps pre-installed. No Chinese apps. Runs great and looks even better.
https://goo.im/devs/ibotpeaches/miuiandroid/releases/4.12.26m/
Official Stable V6 ROM
bigota.d.miui.com/V6.2.2.0.KHICNBK/miui_H3LTE_V6.2.2.0.KHICNBK_a7592e51ac_4.4.zip
You can checkout for updates from below link.
http://en.miui.com/download-218.html#342
Redmi Note 4G - Chinese and English
Redmi Note 4G Global - Multi Language.
You can also prefer to download developer ROM if you wish to play around, but be ready to handle if there are any minor bugs coz that is dev rom.
Good luck flashing!
Froid said:
Running this..it's the latest multi Miui V6 with all google apps pre-installed. No Chinese apps. Runs great and looks even better.
https://goo.im/devs/ibotpeaches/miuiandroid/releases/4.12.26m/
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Must I do a full wipe before I install this using the default or PhilipZ recovery? Will there be a problem if my phone is rooted?
greeny2010 said:
Must I do a full wipe before I install this using the default or PhilipZ recovery? Will there be a problem if my phone is rooted?
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If coming from an older version of MIUI then you do not need to full wipe. He releases a new version every week/Friday...here is the main page. Search for the latest date and go into that folder. In this case it's 5.1.9(date being 1/9/2015)...Our phone is named "dior". Every week you can go in and get the latest build. Just flash that in recovery without wiping your data and everything will stay intact. You will need to flash the latest SuperSU zip along with the ROM to maintain root or use the built in root app. The fact that you are rooted now does not matter.
https://goo.im/devs/ibotpeaches/miuiandroid/releases/
Froid said:
If coming from an older version of MIUI then you do not need to full wipe. He releases a new version every week/Friday...here is the main page. Search for the latest date and go into that folder. In this case it's 5.1.9(date being 1/9/2015)...Our phone is named "dior". Every week you can go in and get the latest build. Just flash that in recovery without wiping your data and everything will stay intact. You will need to flash the latest SuperSU zip along with the ROM to maintain root or use the built in root app. The fact that you are rooted now does not matter.
https://goo.im/devs/ibotpeaches/miuiandroid/releases/
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Thanks for the useful information .. :good:
After flashing the following rom ..
Android version 4.4.4 KTU84P
MIUI version MIUI 4.12.26 Beta
Baseband version MPSS.DI.3.0-39afeeb
Kernel version 3.4.0-g26e4aff-00654-g222c97
Received the message 'Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped'. However, all the applications can run without problem.
What I missed in the flashing?
If you're coming from anything besides MIUI then you have to do a full wipe....Also, no need to flash a baseband or kernel. I would start fresh with the latest build from 1/10
Froid said:
If you're coming from anything besides MIUI then you have to do a full wipe....Also, no need to flash a baseband or kernel. I would start fresh with the latest build from 1/10
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Should I also flash the gapps for KK as well?
Talking about doing a full wipe, can I use PhilipZ recovery to do this?
Yes you can use Philz to wipe. Don't flash gapps. They're already included in these MIUI builds and it could cause issues.
Updating to MIUI6 Redmi Note 4G (India)
Froid said:
Running this..it's the latest multi Miui V6 with all google apps pre-installed. No Chinese apps. Runs great and looks even better.
https://goo.im/devs/ibotpeaches/miuiandroid/releases/4.12.26m/
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Hi, Am having Redmi Note 4G (India), can i update firmware to MIUI 6 by flashing developer ROM in below link??
(https://goo.im/devs/ibotpeaches/miui...ases/4.12.26m/)
Do i need to have custom recovery like Philz to flash above ROM or can i flash it from Updater application inside MIUI?
Can i flash custom recovery without having rooted my device?
Can i flash MIUI6 developer rom without having rooted my device?
Also Redmi Note 4G developer rom (named dior) is common for all variants of Redmi Note 4G mobiles? (heard there are variants in it).
Pls help me on this.
Froid said:
Running this..it's the latest multi Miui V6 with all google apps pre-installed. No Chinese apps. Runs great and looks even better.
https://goo.im/devs/ibotpeaches/miuiandroid/releases/4.12.26m/
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two questions:
1. do these images have root enabled?
2. what's the difference between the various images?
perro999 said:
I have the same ROM installed.
Looking for v6 I read a post in english miuiDotCom "[Tools, Tips & Tutorials] [MiUI Device Team] Note 3/4G - Which ROM should i use? "
There are 2 variants of Redmi Note 4G devices; (i) TDD-LTE, (ii) FDD-LTE. For both devices, you can choose between (i) 4G-Global, (ii) 4G , ROMs
4G-Global is v5 multi-languages, with google apps. 4G is v6 only chinese and english and does not have google-app preinstalled.
Roms can be downloaded from the same forum at Downloads.
Sorry I can´t post links.
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hi sir/madam. copy rights infringe. u are copying what i posted!
!GreddyZC76 said:
hi sir/madam. copy rights infringe. u are copying what i posted!
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I was trying to take him to other/your post with the information he wants without links. Sorry. I can delete it if you want or post your nick at the other forum.
I can´t find the old post now, the updated post is writen by GR33dyBlackie
G'Day everyone!
I would like to upgrade my ol' Huawei Ascend G740 to a newer firmware, but since Huawei doesnt release updates by themselfes, i thought about doing that by using custom recovery.
But i dont really want to use an official rom, i have Jelly Bean 4.1.2 and im not really happy with it. i prefer to have lightweight systems (like slim bean) without tons of Bloatware in it, so i started googeling. But i cant seem to find ANY roms for my smart phone, is the G740 that uncommon that nobody bothered to support that device? or is it possible to get roms for similar smartphones and install it on my (rooted) G740-L00? i dont know.
And if theres really no good custom rom for my G740 out there, i would like to update my phone to Andoird 4.4 anyways, even if that means to use official stock roms like KitKat or whatever, in that case, which one would you recommend?
I hope you guys can help me out!
Greeting,
- Manu
I would recommend this CM11 rom for G7: htcmania com/showthread.php?t=980860
(fill the Space between htcmania and com with a dot)
Just translate it the page to english or whatever and follow the guide!!
Sendt fra min G7-L01 med Tapatalk
nikpik01 said:
I would recommend this CM11 rom for G7: htcmania com/showthread.php?t=980860
(fill the Space between htcmania and com with a dot)
Just translate it the page to english or whatever and follow the guide!!
Sendt fra min G7-L01 med Tapatalk
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Hey, I am new to the website and I checked the G7 rom you linked but I noticed that there's also a CM12 rom: htcmania com/showthread.php?t=1069214
(fill the Space between htcmania and com with a dot). However, on the pictures it says the version is Android 5.1.1 and as far as I know this version has not come out. Can you explain?
macho760 said:
Hey, I am new to the website and I checked the G7 rom you linked but I noticed that there's also a CM12 rom: htcmania com/showthread.php?t=1069214
(fill the Space between htcmania and com with a dot). However, on the pictures it says the version is Android 5.1.1 and as far as I know this version has not come out. Can you explain?
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It's a costum rom, but it haves a lot of bugs. I'm using right now on my Ascend G7-L01 and it works fine.
As far as I have heard then there will come an official lollipop rom out in this month, I'm so excited!!!
Huawei orange yumo G740-l00 rom backup
Huawei orange yumo G740-l00 rom backup :
please I need rom for my device, the right rom because i tried to flash rom like G740-L00_V100R001C109B146_Firmware_Spain_Orange_Android_4.1.2_EMUI_1.5_05011XXP ,but without any result.
my device is demaged ,i only access to recovery and fastboot ,recently i installed TWRP recovery ,
If someone have the same device please backup your rom and upload it on mediafire or any site else.
then I will try t restore it on my device using TWRP recovery,
Maybe it'll work
I've searched but couldn't find anything useful about how to best debloat a Chinese MIUI ROM for the non-Chinese market? I'm awaiting a Xiaomi Mi 5S in the coming days which doesn't have an internatinoal ROM yet albeit any other AOSP cloaser ROM. So it will be coming with a Chinese ROM. I would surely like to debloat it properly and make Google apps available on it by default so it would be more like a normal Android phone. I've heard that MIUI is a ice ROM (only been using Nexus devices so far, but never tried anything else apart from original AOSP or some custom AOSP ROM (becase device wasn't officially supported any more by Google). So. Debloat a MIUI 8 then...
Flash xiaomi.eu ROM
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This should help: http://xiaomitips.com/download/google-installer-app/
I haven't tested it myself, as I'm also waiting for the phone delivery.
This is just for the whole google stuff, you might want to first uninstall all apps in the normal app uninstall menu.
Flash xiaomi.eu ROM as @Klanac89 said and then I use App Quarantine to freeze remaining bloatware. Works a dream.
How to disable "security" app without issues? When I try delete apk with root I have a lot of FC and other issues.
Is there any way possible to instal a stock-like ROM on the Xiaomi Mi5S? Cyanogenmod for example, rooting, TWRP recovery all that stuff.
Thanks in advance
Kikkert said:
Is there any way possible to instal a stock-like ROM on the Xiaomi Mi5S? Cyanogenmod for example, rooting, TWRP recovery all that stuff.
Thanks in advance
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No, not until we get kernel sources and someone builds the roms
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No, not until we get kernel sources and someone builds the roms
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Can root / instal twrp + xiaomi.eu rom and customize it as u want with xposed.
Probably not as good as CM, but is a good start.
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Flash xiaomi.eu ROM
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Care to provide a link to it?
literadesign said:
Care to provide a link to it?
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Use the guide from xiaomi.eu, (unfortunatelly i can not post link on this forum yet), the post is called "All-in-one Guide Compilation On How To Flash Xiaomi.eu Roms On Your Mi5s"
I used the guide above to succesfully flash xiaomi eu rom on my mi5s. All the necessary links to tools and roms are available in the guide.
Friborg said:
Use the guide from xiaomi.eu, (unfortunatelly i can not post link on this forum yet), the post is called "All-in-one Guide Compilation On How To Flash Xiaomi.eu Roms On Your Mi5s"
I used the guide above to succesfully flash xiaomi eu rom on my mi5s. All the necessary links to tools and roms are available in the guide.
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But is xiaomi.eu ROM official or is it just some other ROM that's faking officiality?
xiaomi.eu ROM is a custom rom, like CM. It just looks more or less the same and I think it's even part the same developers as the official ROM, but that's just a guess.
patoberli said:
xiaomi.eu ROM is a custom rom, like CM. It just looks more or less the same and I think it's even part the same developers as the official ROM, but that's just a guess.
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If they're not official devs, then I don't know how are they able to create custom ROM as Xiaomi hasn't officially released kernel sources? XDA developers can't do zilch about custom ROMS but they can. That would make them either creme de la creme of Android/Linux devs or they just have access to more Xiaomi original sources than the rest of the world does... Is there a third option?
literadesign said:
Is there a third option?
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Could the changes be in the APKs and not the kernel?
CL0SeY said:
Could the changes be in the APKs and not the kernel?
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I suppose they could be yes, but one would need either source code of all those APKs or at least a working reverse engineered source. Which gets us basically back to square one. There's a lot more APK sources than there is of the kernel. I would guess so. Which simply means much more work.
Honestly I'm not sure. I don't have an account at xiaomi.eu (yet), but maybe you want to ask your question there?
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The only information I found: https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/how-is-this-different-than-miui-com.18629/
Sadly they don't write about SafetyNet there.
flash the mi 5s poland version rom which is official
https://miuipolska.pl/DOWNLOAD/
I haven't flashed it yet. However, from my past experience, the Polak rom comes rooted and debloated.
Hmm if that is the same as the official beta ROM, then this version doesn't yet include support for the MI 5s. That was probably completely added this week, in the new version 6.11.24 (source: http://en.miui.com/thread-417573-1-1.html). Release notes with the list of supported devices will be out tomorrow. Last weeks version included the 5s for the first time, but it was "on hold - because of new drivers", which means no download links.
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Hmm if that is the same as the official beta ROM, then this version doesn't yet include support for the MI 5s. That was probably completely added this week, in the new version 6.11.24 (source: http://en.miui.com/thread-417573-1-1.html). Release notes with the list of supported devices will be out tomorrow. Last weeks version included the 5s for the first time, but it was "on hold - because of new drivers", which means no download links.
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No download links in 6.11.24 either. And I suspect that device listing has a typo as instead of stating Mi 5s it should likely state Mi 5s Plus which does have global ROM support. I sincerely hope there will be a global ROM for Mi 5s as well in the near future, but that may never happen. I hope my request to unlock doesn't get rejected though, so I have hopes of flashing the EU version... BTW: 6.11.24 still has Mi 5, Mi 5s (plus), Mi Mix on hold because of Qualcomm.
im8a said:
flash the mi 5s poland version rom which is official
https://miuipolska.pl/DOWNLOAD/
I haven't flashed it yet. However, from my past experience, the Polak rom comes rooted and debloated.
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If this is official ROM then you should be able to flash it without unlocking your device. If an unlock is required, then I'm afraid this is not official as I'm pretty sure there is no special Polish version of the ROM. It's either Chinese or Global... Everything else is unofficial and requires bootloader unlock.