ENDED - Arnova 7G2 Finless Bob's "GingerComb" Custom ROM Version 2.1 BETA 2

[Finless]

Cool! Your logcat caught the exception.... DAMN IT... it's the binder lib. I was worried about that as I changed the service manager which uses the binder. However if I use the 7G2 binder the ROM will not boot. Maybe I did not need to change the service manager lib file to fix the battery. It might have just been the framework files.

Get ready for another system.img as that is what it will take.

Stay tuned.

Bob

[Finless]

New System.img again

OK Crash on closing status bar notifications is fixed. Gallery seems to work too.

What I do NOT KNOW is if this fix now broke the battery icon again????
I am keeping my fingers crossed!

So like before here is a new system.img. Again replace the system.img in the ROM flash kit and
please Erase IDB and flash the entire thing not just the new system.img.
We need a clean system for debugging.

Sorry to make you guys flash and erase all your stuff but thats life

Here is the new system.img.

http://video.freaktab.com/?subpath=f...ta_system2.zip

Let me know if the battery icon still works. If it doesnt, this is going to be much harder to fix next go around.

Bob

[bay1902]

downloading now, will report back soon.

[bay1902]

I hate to report this but after a full reflash the ? is back and battery stats not working again

[bay1902]

also just had a gapps FC on restarting the tablet..strange

[Finless]

I hate to report this but after a full reflash the ? is back and battery stats not working again

Crap! OK I am going to put back 2 more files, test, and lets see if the battery icon comes back. I may have removed too much this time.

So one more system.img to try.

Bob

[bay1902]

Isn't this fun!

Crap! OK I am going to put back 2 more files, test, and lets see if the battery icon comes back. I may have removed too much this time.

So one more system.img to try.

Bob

[Finless]

Bay, I am not sure why your having these FC issues on gapps. All I can say is the only time that happens to me is if I reboot on first boot up too soon. What I do is wait for the screen to time out and go to sleep. Then while sleeping thats when I do the first reboot.


OK so at least this will let me know WHAT is handling the battery indicator. We have whittled it down

Everything here is the same as the system.img where the battery indicator worked EXCEPT services.jar. If battery icon does not work now, at least I know WHERE the problem is.
I checked and closing notifications does not cause a force close.


So here is one more system.img. You know what to do with it

http://video.freaktab.com/?subpath=f...ta_system3.zip

Again let me know if the battery works this time.

Bob

[bay1902]

Downloading & flashing now. Will take your point on the reboot. Will post back soon Bob.

[bay1902]

Bob,

Full reflash, waited for screen off & rebooted. Still have the ?

Its the services.jar, it has to be! Everything else appears ok & stable, just the battery indicator not working again. So it looks like we've isolated it. Is this something you can handle?

We are soooooo close!

[Finless]

While I have taken apart APKs, I have never tried modding a framework.jar file.

I am researching it now. It doesnt look that easy. I am going to have to take apart the stock 7G2 jar, and the cube jar, and see what code, permissions or whatever is different.

This could be long and involved but at least we now know what it is.

Bob

P.S. remind me next time I decide to port a ROM.... NOT to do the 7G2

Bob

[bay1902]

Bob,

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...cheesy but true, especially with the 7g2! Been looking around at the services.jar myself. According to xda it seems possible & others have used it to change the increments, but i'm no programmer!

Know you can do this! Ready to test when you're ready. Leaving my 7g2 where it is until we know what's next. Besides, once you've done this once you'll never have the same issue with the 7g2! lol

Thanks for all your work on this, all this cos of a stupid battery!

While I have taken apart APKs, I have never tried modding a framework.jar file.

I am researching it now. It doesnt look that easy. I am going to have to take apart the stock 7G2 jar, and the cube jar, and see what code, permissions or whatever is different.

This could be long and involved but at least we now know what it is.

Bob

P.S. remind me next time I decide to port a ROM.... NOT to do the 7G2

Bob

[Finless]

I am a OS guy not a Android SDK programmer. So this maybe beyond my knowledge at this time!

I am good at looking at code even java based code and understanding somewhat of what it is doing. But again... NO gaurentee I can figure this out.

I am going to ask for some help from Miklaus who is far better at doing this. Maybe he can figure it out.

My other route is to figure out the 7G2 lib files needed to work with the services.jar. I think if I can keep the status bar from crashing I may get it that way. However services.jar could be so closely tied to framework-res that I cannot use 2 different builds like this.

I think I am going to try to solve the FC on status bar and while doing that, see if miklaus can figure out services.jar

Bob

[Finless]

BTW, if one of you guys want to step up and figure out how to take apart services.jar, pull the odex file, and backsmali it so I can see the code, Feel free!

If you do, please do both the services.jar from the 7G2 as well as the Cube ROM.


In the mean time, I am off to study.

Bob

[Finless]

OK... first step OUT OF THE WAY!
Lots of studying and doing things I have never done before!
It was fun but also a pain in the ASS!

I found APKMultiTool.... I was able to take apart services.jar and rebuild it stock and it works!

Now to dig into the code and see if I can fix this battery icon issue.
I may just take a SWAG at it and use the smali files that have battery in the name and put them in the cube services.jar and see if it works!

Bob