GT-I8150

Hi ! 🙂 Octoplus support a wide range of operations on supported phones.The available set of operations for a particular phone can be checked through “Help” option of “Octoplus Samsung Tool” interface. It is easy to read unlock codes for a phone with Octoplus, but the steps can be slightly differ based on the phone model.

If the operation is available, the result will include the following set of codes;

MCK = Unfreeze Code for Samsung
NCK = Network Code Key
NSCK = Network Subset Code Key
SPCK = Service Provider Code Key
CPCK = Corporate Code Key

Check the availability of “Read Unlock Code” operation

Lets see the available set of operations for the phone model GT-I8150 which is um using in this example. The 6th option says it is available for this model. Click on the link and see the steps for “Read Unlock Codes”

The steps to “READ unlock Codes” for Samsung GT-I8150

Lets follow the steps above.

Connect the “Octoplus Box” to PC . Then connect the phone to the box. The cable um using for this is “UART 530k”.
Launch the “Octoplus Samsung Tool” —> “Main” tab –> “Select Read Codes”
Result

Hope this guide give you an overall idea of the process. You will have to follow the steps given for your phone model using “Help”. Some additional steps may required in some cases.

Cheers !!! 🙂

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;