Root cm13 booting on a zmax

[hroark13]

 

[Eshaanm]

Amazing! Keep up the good work!

 

[CESARGUERRA]

hroark13 you're a bad @$$. AWESOME WORK!!! A beer or two on me .
I kwow that CM13 is not camera friendly when it comes to use the stock app so maybe we will need to use Open Camera or something like that... I'm sure that's not even important now lol.
We all appreciate your hard work.

 

[driod108]

Respect !

 

[CYCONUMNUM]

He does it again!!!!!!
Thanks for caring enough to put in the effort and time and sweat and frustration.....
I bet it was a walk in the park
What's the biggest difference between 12 and 13 besides being based on M ?

Never mind.. I googled it... Sry

 

[hroark13]

He does it again!!!!!!
Thanks for caring enough to put in the effort and time and sweat and frustration.....
I bet it was a walk in the park
What's the biggest difference between 12 and 13 besides being based on M ?

Never mind.. I googled it... Sry

I honestly don’t know the difference. my kernel and device tree need some changes, and still do

I got it booting. but there is a lot of stuff not working, but getting cm13 booted on a new phone is a major milestone

 

[CYCONUMNUM]

I can't even fathom it....
I lose track reading a paragraph..

 

[hroark13]

OK for those that want to help

I am uploading an alpha rom, everything is still broken

one of the things I need to do is figure out which of the pre-built and proprietary files that I used in cm12.1, will work in CM13

here is the rom

http://www.mediafire.com/download/u0ack7q31hkobbt/cm13_zmax_alpha1.zip

here is the zip file that has the files i used in cm12

some of these files will fix stuff, and some of them with break stuff, and make the rom not boot

https://www.mediafire.com/?7pko5tcc8lm8d7s

here is a list of what some of these files are for
https://github.com/hroark13/android_device_zte_draconis/blob/cm12.1/proprietary-files.txt

I am not sure how much time I will have to put into this project, but at least if I get some people to help, maybe stuff will get fixed quicker

 

[hroark13]

here is the source if anyone wants to try and build this

Device tree
https://github.com/hroark13/android_device_zte_draconis/tree/cm13

Kernel
https://github.com/hroark13/android_kernel_zte_draconis/tree/cm13

Vendor
https://github.com/hroark13/android_vendor_zte_draconis/tree/cm13

you have to patch VOLD, the patch is in the device tree
https://github.com/hroark13/android...vold_do_not_abort_on_setexeccon_failure.patch

after it builds you have to unzip and switch out the boot.img and re-zip it

because the
file_contexts
property_contexts
sepolicy
inside the boot.img needs to be replaced

you can just use my pre-built boot.img, but if you are making changes to the kernel source or ramdisk, then you will need to make repack your own boot.img

 

[hroark13]

pretty quiet in here, 9 downloads and no one is talking

 

[KefkaPalazzo92]

Good job with the cm13

Well I'm gonna wait until is fix

 

[Deleted member 587086]

I'm running Carbon 5.1.1 on my Z970 right now, and it's way better than the stock 4.4.2 ever was, but I'm so chuffed to think that M might actually be a possibility now! Thanks for all your efforts @hroark13 !

 

[Masterchief87]

pretty quiet in here, 9 downloads and no one is talking

Once phone/MMS and data are working I'll start using it as a daily driver and try to help with finding bugs and how to reproduce them.

In the mean time I might be able to find a little extra time at night to expirement with those proprietary files for the existing build when I don't need to be able to use the phone nearly as much.

We might also be getting a couple other developers back to work on stabilizing Marshmallow now that you got it to compile and boot.

I might even fire up my box and try compiling it myself as well, but dont hold out too much hope on me being able to accomplish anything from that end. So far the only device I can compile ROMs for is my 2013 Nexus 7. I don't know what it is cause Ethan told me he could use your tree and kernel the way they were but they wouldn't work for me.

Either I wasn't setting everything up right, or changes were made to the android source code after you finished your tree and kernel that made it necessary to modify them. My builds would always error out with "no rule to make target" errors. Anyway, I seriously doubt that's enough info to know the cause of my problems but just throwing it out there.

 

[dfuse06]

Awesome job bro! Compiling Broken now!

 

[dfuse06]

I had to add a commit for the kernel for timeconst.pl to get her to build. Had to eliminate the perl warning.
here is the commit
https://github.com/dfuse06/android_...mmit/31b84adc1330460f9bac5443ef532418bc8e5217
Just waiting on Masterchief87 now!!!!

 

[dfuse06]

I'm thinking with some up bring of the kernel we can get this thing rocking and rolling.

 

[hroark13]

I'm thinking with some up bring of the kernel we can get this thing rocking and rolling.

do you have a zmax ?

if not, I a have one, and can tes stuff for ya

 

[dfuse06]

do you have a zmax ?

if not, I a have one, and can tes stuff for ya

I got someone sending me one. Blind builds suck!!

 

[hroark13]

Awesome job bro! Compiling Broken now!

just to be clear, a lot of stuff still does not work, you probably have the newest version of the vendor folder, which has almost all those files from that zip still in it

I am not sure if we should try to use the latest 4.4.4 files, like b13 or what ever it was

also did you repack your botot image ?

 

[hroark13]

yeah I wont work on a rom unless i have phone in hand

 

[dfuse06]

just to be clear, a lot of stuff still does not work, you probably have the newest version of the vendor folder, which has almost all those files from that zip still in it

I am not sure if we should try to use the latest 4.4.4 files, like b13 or what ever it was

also did you repack your botot image ?

I know a lot of the stuff doesn't work and I didn't re pack the boot img. I wanted to see what would happen. Got to optimizing apps and was able to get a log.

 

[hroark13]

I know a lot of the stuff doesn't work and I didn't re pack the boot img. I wanted to see what would happen. Got to optimizing apps and was able to get a log.

if we are able to make a working sepolicy, the ramdisk does not need re-packing

but selinux baffles me

 

[dfuse06]

if we are able to make a working sepolicy, the ramdisk does not need re-packing

but selinux baffles me

I hate selinux too.

 

[Masterchief87]

I got someone sending me one. Blind builds suck!!

yeah I wont work on a rom unless i have phone in hand

As long as everything goes well I should have another zmax and be able to send @dfuse06 one within the next 10 days. In the meantime I'm more than happy to test and pull logs and do whatever I can on my end.

 

[Masterchief87]

OK now I'm messing with the cm13 alpha for a while cause we're done messing with broken for the night.

@hroark13 you probably already know about most of this stuff if not all of it but I'm gonna throw it all out there in case there are any issues you have not yet noticed.
List of broken stuff I've found.
WiFi
Data/cell signal(when I try to open mobile network settings I get the message that com.android.phone has stopped and settings force closes)
Doesn't recognize sim or SD card
Bluetooth
Home button just vibrates
Can't connect to camera(changed selinux to permissive via terminal and still had same issue...used "setenforce 0" to change to permissive mode)
No sound
Tried to mount my micro USB flash drive and it didn't work with stick mount or with the option in settings(it hung up at "checking for errors)
Tried to figure out how to mount the SD card manually but couldn't figure out the correct mount point and didn't want to mess up the phone by mounting the wrong partition.

I'm going to go back to my nandroid of broken5.1.1 now and get some sleep. I'll start getting logcats and go further in depth on the next test run. If there is anything else I can do to help let me know.