Root [Virgin Mobile] CM10.1 port

[xstefen]

I'm down

 

[Chiral]

Why start with a rom for a Stellar that is already known to not boot?

IIRC the only thing that makes the Victory's MSM8960 'lite' is the reduced L2 cache. Did they change the rest of the board too? The GPUs are the same, one would assume the modem is the same as well. Seems more economical that theyd use as many of the same components as possible for economy of scale.


Aside from half the l2 cache, half the ram, and a different display shouldn't the Victory have nearly identical specs to an S3? Wouldnt it be easier to change those 3 parameters on a known working S3 rom and toss a Victory kernel on top than try to fix a non-working ported Stellar rom?

Edit: wouldnt those 3 things be kernelwork anyways? What makes S3 roms incompatible with the Victory aside from the kernel? What would happen if you flashed an S3 rom and then VaeVictus?

 

[NolenUmar]

Why start with a rom for a Stellar that is already known to not boot?

IIRC the only thing that makes the Victory's MSM8960 'lite' is the reduced L2 cache. Did they change the rest of the board too? The GPUs are the same, one would assume the modem is the same as well. Seems more economical that theyd use as many of the same components as possible for economy of scale.


Aside from half the l2 cache, half the ram, and a different display shouldn't the Victory have nearly identical specs to an S3? Wouldnt it be easier to change those 3 parameters on a known working S3 rom and toss a Victory kernel on top than try to fix a non-working ported Stellar rom?

Edit: wouldnt those 3 things be kernelwork anyways? What makes S3 roms incompatible with the Victory aside from the kernel? What would happen if you flashed an S3 rom and then VaeVictus?

Let me go see lol

 

[AndroidHaCks]

The LG motion 4G has the same MSM8960 lite board, and it has a mostly functional CM10. I'm gonna attempt to kang it from my phone (don't have a computer) with g60's CM10

 

[Chiral]

IIRC, Samsung uses goofy partitioning/file structure, definitely gonna make porting from an LG more than a simple tweak n' flash.

 

[AndroidHaCks]

I know. Just gonna see what I can do

 

[Chiral]

I am loving the spirit of the Victory community.

You guys rock.

 

[Chiral]

I know. Just gonna see what I can do

Ripping apart the modem backup that just got posted may help figure out the partitioning.

 

[sp33chy]

Why start with a rom for a Stellar that is already known to not boot?

IIRC the only thing that makes the Victory's MSM8960 'lite' is the reduced L2 cache. Did they change the rest of the board too? The GPUs are the same, one would assume the modem is the same as well. Seems more economical that theyd use as many of the same components as possible for economy of scale.


Aside from half the l2 cache, half the ram, and a different display shouldn't the Victory have nearly identical specs to an S3? Wouldnt it be easier to change those 3 parameters on a known working S3 rom and toss a Victory kernel on top than try to fix a non-working ported Stellar rom?

Edit: wouldnt those 3 things be kernelwork anyways? What makes S3 roms incompatible with the Victory aside from the kernel? What would happen if you flashed an S3 rom and then VaeVictus?

Victory has the same amount of RAM as S3, so I think they're even more similar. I do get the feeling the Victory is a minified S3, and that you're onto something.

Edit: nevermind, looks like there are two version of the S3, one with 1gb and one with 2gb

 

[Chiral]

My bad, I thought the S3 had 2gb.

Edit after your edit: Still, shouldnt be much of a hurdle. I'm no dev expert, but I dont see why a kernel built for a victory on the hw side and a 4.1.2 S3 rom on the software side wouldnt allow us to use CM10 S3 roms.

Edit edit: anybody down for ripping up an S3 kernel to see just how different it is from ours? I could do it, but my desktop is a 3.0 P4 with 512mb RAM. And my HD is a 50gb with a few hundred MB free (could make it 40gb, havent booted the thing in a year except to root my victory, no qualms wiping it). Is this sufficient for light dev work? I'm a quick learner familiar with Java (command line), Flash and BASH.

My phone has better specs than my desktop. Lulz.

 

[NolenUmar]

The stupidity involved in what I just did to my phone... is astounding! Lol, screen wont even turn on -_- But Hey, if I can't fix this I've been thinking of getting an S4 for a while anyways.

This literally reminds me of a particular incident I had in Detroit when I was twelve. Tried to (on a whim) swim to Canada from Belle Isle...

 

[JerryScript]

The stupidity involved in what I just did to my phone... is astounding! Lol, screen wont even turn on -_- But Hey, if I can't fix this I've been thinking of getting an S4 for a while anyways.

This literally reminds me of a particular incident I had in Detroit when I was twelve. Tried to (on a whim) swim to Canada from Belle Isle...

I can just hear you saying to your teenage buddy who was egging you on "Hold my beer!"

 

[Chiral]

The stupidity involved in what I just did to my phone... is astounding! Lol, screen wont even turn on -_- But Hey, if I can't fix this I've been thinking of getting an S4 for a while anyways.

This literally reminds me of a particular incident I had in Detroit when I was twelve. Tried to (on a whim) swim to Canada from Belle Isle...

Flashing a rom/kernel shouldnt have been able to brick your phone, regardless of the circumstances.

No recovery? Download mode? ADB? Flashing from recovery shouldn't bork anything below the level of the write.


Edit: pull your battery and plug your phone in, bet the screen turns on. We'll get it fixed

Step 1: try recovery. If that works flash g60's stock backup.
Step 2: if recovery broken, try reflashing twrp through Odin in download mode.
Step 3: if no download mode (I dont see how flashing a rom could cause this), try ADB console to wipe system/recovery and then download mode to Odin and flash twrp.

 

[NolenUmar]

I took the battery out and plugged it in... lol nothing. The red low battery light turns on but that's it. It tries to install a driver called QHSUSB_DLOAD but it fails every time. Odin won't even pick it up.

 

[TeachMe]

post removed useless info by me sorry.

 

[xstefen]

thats cm10, not 10.1, so thats android 4.1, which is what we have already?

 

[AndroidHaCks]

I would love to have a fully functional CM10, even though we're already on 4.1. It would be a good bit smoother and better on battery than stock most likely

 

[xstefen]

I agree and wouldn't require the kernel upgrade either. Hmmm

 

[AndroidHaCks]

Stock Android is pretty sexy too

 

[xstefen]

Whenever I decide to go back home I'll look into this, or maybe even just tearing apart the stock rom, iunno

 

[TeachMe]

ok so just tossing this out there i know a little about linux and have several spare pc's setting around i am going to format one and set it up to be a dev box ill need guidance but i am a very fast learner so what version of linux should i start with ? my job gives me 4 days a week off soi have lots of time to try things i want to learn this stuff so i can start helping out.

 

[xstefen]

starting at the easiest, ubuntu 10.04, ubuntu 12.04, ubuntu 13.04

 

[rbheromax]

Just set up ur rig then just hang around #victory-recon someone should have learned enough to help u out, I'm there sometimes (I use that very strongly, sometimes)

 

[xstefen]

get ur rig going, get ubuntu installed, join us on irc, ill help ya get goin

 

[TeachMe]

Ill set it up today thanks guys