Root [Rom][5-26-12]Broken Out Spectrum 3.0 w/ Blitzkrieg Kernel

[mtmichaelson]

Hello all! Here it is Broken Out Rom for the LG Spectrum!!! It has been fully cleaned out to decrease size and to increase speed. It will continue to be a work in progress! I hope you all enjoy!!!

What is this?
This is a very lightweight rom built both for speed and stability. This rom is based off of the latest LG version of Gingerbread, ZV5. It is fully deodexed, and debloated. Almost all of LG has been replaced and as time goes by, I hope to remove the rest. Swype has also been changed to the newest Beta. A few items have been replaced with AOSP versions to increase speed and decrease size. Also included is the appwidgetpicker to clean that up.

Changelog
v. 1.0 Initial Release
Rom:
Based Off of ZV4 Gingerbread
Deodexed
Zipaligned
Heavily Debloated
Debinged the Browser
Custom Boot Animation
AOSP Lockscreen
Power Menu Mod
Accurate Battery Mod
Center Clock Mod
Cleaned Up Notification Pull Down
Changed Low Battery Pop Up to 1%
CRT Screen Shut Off
Added Launcher Pro
Updated all Apps Including Google Play
Newest Swype Beta
Build.prop Tweaks
Init.d Tweaks
Loopy Smoothness Tweak
Added Sony Bravia Engine
Added Beats Audio Libs
Made My Own Host File From Several Sources to Block Ads
Blocked All CIQ Logs From Verizon and Google (Requires Reboot After Install)

v. 1.1
Remapped Voicemail Button in Dialer to Google Voice
Removed Beats Audio
Fixed Low Audio with Speakerphone
Fixed Space in Notification Bar
Added Google Voice
Added Xloud Driver
Updated Gmail

v. 1.2
Added Terminal Emulator
Added New Init.d Scripts for Setting Governor and CPU Frequencies

v. 1.3
Readded Beats Audio
Small Framework Tweak for Speed

v. 2.0
Updated System to ZV5
Add ICS Style Settings Menu
Updated All System Apps

v. 3.0
Update System to ZV6
Added Sony Xperia S Theme
Added Sony Xperia S Weather, Clock, and Photo Widgets
Removed ICS Style Settings Menu
Other Small UI Tweaks

Kernel:
v. 1.0
Compiled and built from stock source

v. 1.2
OC Kernel
Overclock CPU to 1.8ghz
First Boot is Set at 1.5ghz
Overclock GPU to 300mhz
Added Smartass2, Interactive, and Lagfree Governors
Added BFQ I/O Scheduler
Added SLQB Allocator
Changed From JHash2 to JHash3
Added ZRAM Swap (To Turn on Use Terminal Emulator Type "su" to Gain Root Access, Then Type "zram enable" )
Included tun.ko Module
Upped Charge Speed
Other Memory and Performance Edits

v. 1.3
Undervolted
Increased GPU Overclock
Lowered WiFi Voltages
I/O Tweaks
Audio Tweaks
Many Other Speed and Battery Tweaks

v. 2.0
Increased Undervolting
Added CleanCache
Added Frontswap
Added zcache
Added xz Decompressors
Lowered Charge to 650mA
Too Many Tweaks to List (Check my Github For More Details!!!)

v. 3.0
Added User Adjustable Voltages
A TON of code tweaks, check my git for more details!!!

Screenshots

How do I install this?
1.) Download the .zip & make sure 4g is enabled.
2.) Place zip in external sdcard
3.) Back up
4.) WIPE DATA!!! (It is recommended to wipe going to 3.0!)
5.) Go to install zip from sdcard
6.) Select BrokenOutSpectrum3.0.zip
7.) Do not wipe data after flashing!!!
8.) Reboot!
9.) To Block CIQ Logs Requires Reboot After Initial Boot

Technical Info
This rom includes edits to several jar files, xml's and build.prop edits. As time goes more will be done.

Downloads
Rom & Kernel
v. 3.0 Dev-Host - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
v. 2.0 Dev-Host - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
v. 1.3 Dev-Host - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
v. 1.2 Dev-Host - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
v. 1.1 Dev-Host - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
v. 1.0 Dev-Host - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service

Kernel
v. 3.0 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54501789/Spectrum/BlitzKriegKernel3.0.zip

Special Thanks!!!
xXxPachaxXx for Sony Bravia and Xloud
Neph81 for porting over CWM
AtomIlluminati for testing
coderaz for testing

Donations
For those that enjoy the work that I have done and would like to support my efforts financially through the donate to me button, any amount is appreciated, but all that I ask is that if you like my work, please hit the thanks button!!!

 

[brianmaedche]

Is this one different then the one you gave me the link to?

 

[coderaz]

Amazing work, MT! 10x better than stock!

 

[mtmichaelson]

Is this one different then the one you gave me the link to?

It is basically the same except I added the misc.img in it to get out of recovery loop when CWM is entered with the button combo (thanks Neph for finding this method!)

 

[brianmaedche]

It is basically the same except I added the misc.img in it to get out of recovery loop when CWM is entered with the button combo (thanks Neph for finding this method!)

Nice. Thanks for the build it sure beats stock any day.did you get my pm about the other ?

 

[Brandonson112]

Would it be possible to add a sync button in on the power control on the notification pulldown?

 

[phillip_viado]

can you make the battery icon stock battery icon with no numbers

 

[coderaz]

I see a lot of mods in the future... Lol

 

[hollywoods14]

Ok this will be my first Rom flash so i have a few questions to make sure i am doing everything right.

1. getting the file on the sd card? Is it as simple as navogating to this forum on phone and dowloading the file?
2. Back up? I have done a nandroid frm CWM and i have done titanium backups. i will also make a copy of my card on my computer, is this all i need to? or is there more to it?
3. wipe data? i do this from CWM correct? im not sure what gingervolt is, so that shouldnt apply to me.
4.getting all my downloaded content back on the phone? and contacts ans such?
5. going back to stock rom? easy? the reson why im doing back ups?

thank in advance. i know im new and annoying, but im juts being cautious and making sure im doing everything correctly.

 

[coderaz]

Ok this will be my first Rom flash so i have a few questions to make sure i am doing everything right.

1. getting the file on the sd card? Is it as simple as navogating to this forum on phone and dowloading the file?
2. Back up? I have done a nandroid frm CWM and i have done titanium backups. i will also make a copy of my card on my computer, is this all i need to? or is there more to it?
3. wipe data? i do this from CWM correct? im not sure what gingervolt is, so that shouldnt apply to me.
4.getting all my downloaded content back on the phone? and contacts ans such?
5. going back to stock rom? easy? the reson why im doing back ups?

thank in advance. i know im new and annoying, but im juts being cautious and making sure im doing everything correctly.

1. Yes, download to your SD card.

2. What you have done for backups is perfect.

3. Yup.

4. Which downloaded content? Apps and such? As for contacts, those should all be synced to Google. For call logs, SMS/MMS, alarms, user dictionary; I use my backup root to back skull those up but there are other apps.

5. Your nandroid backup will allow you to return to stock.

Hth...

 

[Neph81]

Quick question. Why does your script flash the misc.img file during it? The file should only be needed if the person used the button combo to enter recovery, and even then, they would need to re-flash the file each time they used the button combo to enter recovery.

 

[mtmichaelson]

Quick question. Why does your script flash the misc.img file during it? The file should only be needed if the person used the button combo to enter recovery, and even then, they would need to re-flash the file each time they used the button combo to enter recovery.

Why not lol. With the revolution we spent many threads answering questions on how to get out of recovery because people don't know how to search. If this cuts down on one thread it was worth it lol.

Not to mention if I boot loop while testing I only have to flash one file instead of 2 after using the button combo. So I guess the short answer is laziness on both sides.

 

[Neph81]

Actually, your first part makes the most sense and is not something I would have thought of. Out of sight and out of mind

 

[Neph81]

BTW, doing backups now and I can't wait to test out the Rom. I've been dying to get away from the LG lock screen. I'll let you know if I run into any issues.

 

[lamashat]

can someone help me out? i need help backing up and wiping. I'm new so any help would be appreciated.

 

[mtmichaelson]

can someone help me out? i need help backing up and wiping. I'm new so any help would be appreciated.

When booted into cwm select the option backup/restore, then backup. Give it several minutes to run. When done go to main screen in cwm and select wipe data/factory reset and let it run. When done select install zip from sd card, then choose zip from sd card, then brokenoutspectrum1.0.zip and let it run. When done, go back to main screen select reboot!

 

[hollywoods14]

wooooooo!!!! 1st Rom install done successfully, working on getting all my crap loaded back on now. What a scary expeirence the 1st time. I sat there in CWM with 'wipe data' highlighted for about 5 minutes before i actually did it. Then almost had a heart attack when i went to install the .zip and didnt see it. It was in a folder aptly named 'download' though, my heart dropped so quick when i didnt immediately see the file though.... lmao. Everything seems ot be working great so far, nice clean crisp tranistions. The inital reboot seemed to take slightly longer than normal, or it was just me freaking out a little. The boot animation repeated about 10 times it seemed like, all i could think of was boot loop ( never had it so not sure what actually happens). Not too excited about the launcher pro though, i was really groing very fond of my Go Launcher set up, would it be counter productive to reinstall Go Launcher EX? Dont seem to care too much for swype either, but its nice that i can use it like a regular keyboard. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the lack of bloatware and excess crap though, excellent build!


note: anyway to change the stock email app?

 

[WaVeS]

First off, Thanks. I donated (very little because I'm broke, more to come).
My first reaction, awesome! Very fast, very smooth. Quadrant score of 2629. Dats Fast!
I did notice my camera wasn't working, I could bring it up but the actual button wouldn't take the photo. After a reboot it worked just fine. Not sure if that is worth noting or not. Also is there a file explorer? Am I just overlooking it? I think that would be useful for the 1.1. I do miss the LG weather and time widget but beautiful widgets will do just fine.
Great Job on this! I look forward to the updates.

 

[IMUcarmen]

Not too excited about the launcher pro though, i was really groing very fond of my Go Launcher set up, would it be counter productive to reinstall Go Launcher EX? Dont seem to care too much for swype either, but its nice that i can use it like a regular keyboard. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the lack of bloatware and excess crap though, excellent build!


note: anyway to change the stock email app?

You can install any launcher you want. GO launcher is super smooth and you aren't going to hurt anything by using it. Also go on the market and get a different email app. and if you don't like swype (which i don't either) then go to the market and download the keyboard you want. You can also freeze swype with a app freezer like rom toolbox pro, or Titanium backup pro, among others, and freeze what you don't use. Even when I'm using a debloated rom I still usually manage to find a dozen or more things to freeze because I have no use for them.

 

[hollywoods14]

You can install any launcher you want. GO launcher is super smooth and you aren't going to hurt anything by using it. Also go on the market and get a different email app. and if you don't like swype (which i don't either) then go to the market and download the keyboard you want. You can also freeze swype with a app freezer like rom toolbox pro, or Titanium backup pro, among others, and freeze what you don't use. Even when I'm using a debloated rom I still usually manage to find a dozen or more things to freeze because I have no use for them.

ty, i was using Go Launcher and Go keyboard so ill prolly go back to that. im gonna play with this for a while 1st and see how i adjust. Does Launcher pro offer other themes and such like Go?

 

[Dcaugust]

I really want to do all of this, but I am relatively new to the whole "root" scene. My spectrum is rooted and I have gotten rid of some bloatware on my own, but I really want to flash a new rom and have everything nice and clean. In order to get to the point that Hollywoods14 is at, do I need to go through the adb steps that neph81 explained in the other thread in order to get cwm working on the spectrum?
-these may be dumb questions but I appreciate any help in getting me to the point where I can successfully flash the rom. Thanks in advance!

 

[hollywoods14]

I really want to do all of this, but I am relatively new to the whole "root" scene. My spectrum is rooted and I have gotten rid of some bloatware on my own, but I really want to flash a new rom and have everything nice and clean. In order to get to the point that Hollywoods14 is at, do I need to go through the adb steps that neph81 explained in the other thread in order to get cwm working on the spectrum?
-these may be dumb questions but I appreciate any help in getting me to the point where I can successfully flash the rom. Thanks in advance!

you should be able to use the one click method to flash CWM, worked fine for me. Be prepared for some uneasy moments in your gut as your doing all this for the 1st time..lmao. Besure to read evething over very well before performing any mods, and if your unsure just ask. I am just as you, so welcome to the ' root scene'.

 

[Dcaugust]

thanks. This is definitely going to be a dumb question...Where do I find the one click method?haha

nvm...found it in this forum. Thought I couldn't use it because I was already rooted, but I saw that there are options to only install recovery. I'm sure there will be more questions as I continue through the process.

 

[CTALLY]

Thanks for all your great work on this ROM.

I understand everything above - what I am not totally clear on is this:

I do not currently have CWM on the device.

Do I need to have CWM installed and flashed before I flash this ROM,

...or when I run the .bat will it install a CWM recovery for me to do the nandroid backup first,

...and then allow me to flash the new rom second...

Sorry for the question - but I could not discern the answer from the posts.

 

[hollywoods14]

thanks. This is definitely going to be a dumb question...Where do I find the one click method?haha

nvm...found it in this forum. Thought I couldn't use it because I was already rooted, but I saw that there are options to only install recovery. I'm sure there will be more questions as I continue through the process.

correct you can only install recovery. make sure phone is set to ethern net connection and debugging. I also installed the drivers again even though i was pretty sure i already had them.