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Build Cyanogenmod

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on March 11, 2015

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Build CyanogenMod: 7. Extracting proprietary files from an already built CyanogenMod ROM

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on February 11, 2015

Posted in: Build OS. Tagged: brunch, custom rom, CyanogenMod, extract-files.sh, make *** no rules. Leave a comment

Hi ! 🙂 If you have issues in directly getting proprietary blobs from the the device, for an example while building the source if you often get make errors saying some files are missing, instead pull files from device you can obtain them from a already built CyanogenMod ROM.

Step 1:

First of all find an already build Cyanogenmod ROM zip file for you device model. You can search at http://forum.xda-developers.com

Step 2:

Download the zip file and extract the source in to a directory named original

:$ mkdir -p ~/original

Step 3:

Now open a new terminal at the device/samsung/<device model> and execute the extract-files.sh

:$ cd ~/android/system/device/samsung/<device model>

:$ ./extract-files.sh <path to the unzip files folder>

Ex.

:$ cd ~/android/system/device/samsung/ancora

:$ ./extract-files.sh /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora

Full Log:

tharaka@tharaka-ubuntu14:~/android/system$ cd ~/android/system/device/samsung/ancoratharaka@tharaka-ubuntu14:~/android/system/device/samsung/ancora$ ./extract-files.sh /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora
./extract-files.sh: line 1: #!/bin/sh: No such file or directory
Found DEVICE=ancora VENDOR=samsung
have argument /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora
test path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora
test path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora found
Function to perform the extraction from either adb or paths
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/bin/bcm4329.hcd
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/bin/bcm4329.hcd
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//bin/rmt_storage
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//bin/rmt_storage
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//bin/rild
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//bin/rild
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//bin/radish
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//bin/radish
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_command_control.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_command_control.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_h263_dec_mc.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_h263_dec_mc.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_h264_dec_mc.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_h264_dec_mc.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_h264_enc_mc.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_h264_enc_mc.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_mp4_dec_mc.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_mp4_dec_mc.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_mp4_enc_mc.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_mp4_enc_mc.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_vc1_dec_mc.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/vidc_720p_vc1_dec_mc.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/yamato_pfp.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/yamato_pfp.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//etc/firmware/yamato_pm4.fw
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//etc/firmware/yamato_pm4.fw
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/egl/libEGL_adreno.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/egl/libEGL_adreno.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_adreno.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_adreno.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2_adreno.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2_adreno.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/egl/libq3dtools_adreno.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/egl/libq3dtools_adreno.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/egl/eglsubAndroid.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/egl/eglsubAndroid.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2S3D_adreno.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2S3D_adreno.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libActionShot.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libActionShot.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libakm.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libakm.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libarccamera.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libarccamera.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libaudioalsa.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libaudioalsa.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libC2D2.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libC2D2.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libCB.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libCB.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libsc-a2xx.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libsc-a2xx.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libOpenVG.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libOpenVG.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libOpenCL.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libOpenCL.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libgsl.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libgsl.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libbt-vendor.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libbt-vendor.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libc2d2_z180.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libc2d2_z180.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system/vendor/lib/libadreno_utils.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system/vendor/lib/libadreno_utils.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libcamera.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libcamera.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libcaps.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libcaps.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libgemini.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libgemini.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libmmipl.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libmmipl.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libmmjpeg.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libmmjpeg.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libmmosal.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libmmosal.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libmmparser.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libmmparser.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libOmxMp3Dec.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libOmxMp3Dec.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/liboemcamera.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/liboemcamera.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libPanoraMax3.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libPanoraMax3.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libs3cjpeg.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libs3cjpeg.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libseccameraadaptor.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libseccameraadaptor.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libsecjpegarcsoft.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libsecjpegarcsoft.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libsecjpegboard.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libsecjpegboard.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libsecjpeginterface.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libsecjpeginterface.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libsecril-client.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libsecril-client.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libsec-ril.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libsec-ril.so
full path /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora/system//lib/libril.so
Copying from cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora: /system//lib/libril.so
Function to perform the extraction from either adb or paths
egrep: ../samsung/ancora/proprietary-files.txt: No such file or directory
Generating ../../../vendor/samsung/ancora/ancora-vendor-blobs.mk …
Generating ../../../vendor/samsung/ancora/ancora-vendor.mk …
Generating ../../../vendor/samsung/ancora/BoardConfigVendor.mk …
tharaka@tharaka-ubuntu14:~/android/system/device/samsung/ancora$ /home/tharaka/original/cm-11-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-ancora

Cheers ! 🙂

Build CyanogenMod: 6. Extracting proprietary files from the device

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on January 27, 2015

Posted in: Build OS. Tagged: build, CyanogenMod, Linux, proprietary blobs. 1 Comment

Hi ! 🙂 I hope you have followed the 5th and 6th posts of Build CyanogenMod and ready with your device connected to the Linux VM. Because in order to successfully extract proprietary files from the device you need to connect your device via USB cable and enable ADB on Linux.

Step 1:

Open a new terminal –> Goto device/samsung/<your device> –> Execute the extract-files.sh file

Command:$cd ~/android/system/device/samsung/ancora

Command:$ ./extract-files.sh

Step 2:

Check the new files at android/system/vendor/ancora

Yesss ! we have got new proprietary blobs extracted from the device. 🙂 🙂

Cheers ! 🙂

Build CyanogenMod: 3. Getting device-specific code

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on January 25, 2015

Posted in: Build OS. Tagged: ancora, cm-11.0, CyanogenMod, GitHub, GT-I8150. 2 Comments

Hi ! 🙂 Once you have completed downloading cyangenmod mainline source code, next you should get the device specific configuration and kernel source. You are a lucky chap if your device is listed under the available github repositories of cyanogenmod at GitHub (https://github.com/CyanogenMod) . Then you can simply use following commands.

Run the envsetup.sh script at android/system/build folder

Command:$ source build/envsetup.sh
Command:$ breakfast [device_name]

For an example if your device is a Samsung Galaxy S3;

Command:$ source build/envsetup.sh
Command:$ breakfast i9300

In my case things became little bit different. My device here is a Samsung Galaxy W (GT-I8150). Currently CyangenMod GitHub does not contain any repository for this device. So I had to look a different way to proceed from here. With reference to the wiki page of cynaogenmod ( http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/ ) an alternative to the breakfast command is to build an own local_manifest.xml.

Here at https://github.com/arco I found some git repositories holding device,vendor and kernel files for GT-I8150.

Step 1: Create the local_manifest.xml file inside .repo/localmanifests

Goto android/system –> Press (Ctrl + H) to view hidden files —> .repo folder will appear

Go inside the .repo –> you will see two folders called mainfests and local_manifests.

manifests folder—> contains the default.xml

default.xml : “The master list of all the git repositories that together comprise the CyanogenMod source code are defined in CyanogenMod’s default.xml manifest.” Do not change this file.

Create a new xml file called local_mainfest.xml inside local manifests folder

local_manifest.xml: Add all the new device specific dependencies to this file. This local manifest allows you to customize the list of repositories used in the copy of the source code by overriding or supplementing the default manifest. Thereby you can extend or change the repository without editing the default.xml.

Step 2: Add the new dependencies to the local_manifest.xml file


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<manifest>

<remote name="arco" fetch="https://github.com/arco" />

<project path="device/samsung/ancora" name="android_device_samsung_ancora" remote="arco" revision="cm-10.1"/>
<project path="vendor/samsung/ancora" name="android_vendor_samsung_ancora" remote="arco" revision="cm-10.1"/>
<project path="kernel/samsung/samsung-kernel-msm7x30" name="samsung-kernel-msm7x30" remote="arco" revision="cm-10.1"/>
</manifest>

Step 3: Execute repo sync

Command: $ repo sync -j4

Fetching each new repository included in the local_manifest.xml

Fetching android_device_samsung_ancora

Fetching android_vendor_samsung_ancora

Fetching samsung-kernel-msm7x30

Completed fetching and syncing repository

Completed syncing… See what you have got ! 🙂

Now lets have a look on what we have got new 🙂

system/device/samsung/ancora

system/vendor/samsung/ancora

system/kernel/samsung

Note: (Possible Errors)

When you run the envsetup.sh script at build folder and follow up breakfast command, if your device does not present in the cyanogenmod github repository you will get an error like following;

So,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Go ahead create your own local_mainfest.xml file (Y)

Cheers !! 🙂

Build CyanogenMod: 2. Get-prebuilts requires while building

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on January 24, 2015

Posted in: Build OS. Tagged: CyanogenMod. Leave a comment

Hi ! 🙂 When you are done with downloading CyanogenMod source code, (Refer: Getting CyanogenMod source code ) next recommended step is to run the get-prebuilts script located at the vendor/cm directory This will install some new files under the vendor directory, which will be useful while building the source code.

Command: $ cd ~/android/system/vendor/cm

Command: $ ./get-prebuilts

Installing new source to vendor/cm directory –> proprietary directory

proprietary directory contains Term.apk plus several files inside lib folder.

Inside lib folder

Cheers ! 🙂

Build CyanogenMod: 1. Getting CyanogenMod source code

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on January 23, 2015

Posted in: Build Android, Build OS. Tagged: Android, CyanogenMod, Repo, source code. 1 Comment

Hi ! 🙂 If you are interested in building a fresh operating system for your Android device from CyanogenMod source code, lets start from here… First of all you need to get the required source code which will take some extra hours from your time to sync. So be patient.

Prerequisites:

Linux environment
Repo – repository management tool built on top of Git

What is CyanogenMod?

Why are we using CyanogenMod ? that because we are interested in what CyanogenMod offers which does not present in other official firmware. 🙂

I extracted the following description from CyanogenMod official web site

“CyanogenMod (pronounced sigh-AN-oh-jen-mod), is a customized, aftermarket firmware distribution for several Android devices. Based on the Android Open Source Project, CyanogenMod is designed to increase performance and reliability over Android-based ROMs released by vendors and carriers such as Google, T-Mobile, HTC, etc. CyanogenMod also offers a variety of features & enhancements that are not currently found in these versions of Android…”

Step 1: Install Repo

Repo is making the job easy for Android developers to collect the source code , since it enables downloading files from several git repositories.

Create a folder name bin inside home directory.

Command: mkdir -p ~/bin

Download repo

Command: curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo

Make it executable

Command: chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Add ~/bin to PATH

Command: gedit ~/.bashrc

Open the ~/.bashrc add following

# set PATH so it includes user’s private bin if it exists
if [ -d “$HOME/bin” ] ; then
PATH=”$HOME/bin:$PATH”
fi

Step 2: Initialize CyanogenMod source repository

Create directory structure ~/android/system

Command: mkdir -p ~/android/system

Change directory

Command: cd ~/android/system/

Initialize repo

Command: repo init -u https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-11.0

With this command it initializes the repository in the android/systems directory.

Step 3: Downloading the source code with sync

Next step is to sync the source of CyanogenMod. Fetching and cloning will take several hours. Until the fetching is completed you will not see source files in the directory.

Command: repo sync -j4 -c