Building your own ROM

[thewraith420]

Sure you can, in device_thunderc.mk use PRODUCT_COPY_FILES

That worked thanks

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[flapjack.fiasco]

So I've synced, built my first ROM, and flashed it, and I've spent the last week browsing through all the source. Needless to say, I'm in over my head, but learning as much as I can.
Say I want to eliminate a stock app pre-build. I assume there's more to it than just deleting the source folder for the app, right? Let's use the stock email app as an example. What would be the correct procedure for eliminating it from the ROM?

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[JerryScript]

So I've synced, built my first ROM, and flashed it, and I've spent the last week browsing through all the source. Needless to say, I'm in over my head, but learning as much as I can.
Say I want to eliminate a stock app pre-build. I assume there's more to it than just deleting the source folder for the app, right? Let's use the stock email app as an example. What would be the correct procedure for eliminating it from the ROM?

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Find which make file includes it in a product packages statement.

To truly get an understanding of what's happening in the build process, follow the make files. Starting from the top level Makefile, follow each other mk file included down the line (your looking for the file names in the lines that state "include" in some fashion, syntax depends on the particular make file). You'll end up going through devices.mk files, vendor.mk files, etc. Along the way, you will see how each part of android is put together.

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

Thanks so much JerryScript! I'm not new to Linux, I've been using it here and there for years, and I took a Linux systems administration course in college. I'm currently working on my AS in computer programming. I've just never built an OS from source before, as I'm sure is the case with most people. Point being, I consider myself fairly computer savvy, but it's obvious that there's a lot of work ahead of me.

What's your background JerryScript? Have you done work similar to this before? I know tdm does work like this professionally, but, I don't know, I guess I just want to hear that someone with an equivalent level of competence to mine progressed to the point where you are.

And thanks again to everyone here, you've all been great help!

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[thewraith420]

Ok so I've synced and built iho from source and everything seemed to go well but once the ROM boots on my phone everything works but I get no signal at all. Switch back to backside and everything is normal again... I did do the new radio update. Anyone else have this issue?

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[LeslieAnn]

Could be that something was in the middle of updating when you sync'd. Otherwise something has changed.

Sync and try again.

 

[jack454]

Ok so I've synced and built iho from source and everything seemed to go well but once the ROM boots on my phone everything works but I get no signal at all. Switch back to backside and everything is normal again... I did do the new radio update. Anyone else have this issue?

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Same problem here. Been that way for a week.

 

[Discovered]

When I synced with iho a few days ago it looked they were changing the build procedure. Going to check later on.

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[cammykool]

anone have experice with installing bin files in ubuntu? JDK in in bin format and wont install

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

anone have experice with installing bin files in ubuntu? JDK in in bin format and wont install

There's a repo for SunJDK, and it's not the one JerryScript gives in the original instructions. I'll look it up for you after the kids get to sleep.

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[cammykool]

i used

~$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"

as a repo and then ran

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

in return i got

root@alexandra-desktop:~# sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package sun-java6-jdk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package sun-java6-jdk has no installation candidate
root@alexandra-desktop:~# $file jdk-6u31-linux-i586.bin
jdk-6u31-linux-i586.bin: command not found

 

[sellers86]

Could be that something was in the middle of updating when you sync'd. Otherwise something has changed.

Sync and try again.

I actually had the same problem yesterday building from your server.

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[pbailey212]

Sun Java 6 isn't working with Ubuntu now. There was some licensing issue I heard. You can still get it from other sources. Just not from sun. If you Google it, you will find one somewhere. I will try to find the one I used later on

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[cammykool]

ive been hunting for hours

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

I still haven't had the few minutes to search for it, but it comes up in searches for sun jdk ubuntu 11.10. I made the mistake of searching for 10.04 since that's what I'm running, but all the info related to 10.04 points to outdated repos.

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[cammykool]

allright i think it worked,... do i just follow jerrys instructions to test if it worked?

 

[cammykool]

im getting repo command not found

root@alexandra-desktop:~/android/system# repo init -u git://github.com/inferiorhumanorgans/android.git -b gingerbread
No command 'repo' found, did you mean:
 Command 'rep' from package 'rep' (universe)
 Command 'repl' from package 'nmh' (universe)
 Command 'repl' from package 'mailutils-mh' (universe)
repo: command not found

 

[pbailey212]

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-sun-java-6-in-ubuntu-11-10-using-ppa.html I'm pretty sure this is the method I used

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[cammykool]

im passed java trying to sync repo and i get the error above

 

[cammykool]

did chmod not stick?