[Pipo Project] M9 Pro ROM testing

[CybeRNerO]

Why don't you download the apk from titanium backup website? The developer has a link with the latest version, you can get it from there and put it into the SD, will be autoinstalled with the first boot.

Edit: here is the link for the website, you can download the apk from there

http://matrixrewriter.com/android/

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[colinabroad]

No Worries Randy, just loaded it up now and am again struggling to get onto the play store. Is there anyway you can cook Titanium into the ROM so we can add apps without signing up to Google? I know you need the pro key from the store, but once you have titanium it is easy enough to get from your SD card. I think!

[rrileypm]

Sorry, Colin...its been a busy week. This took me by surprise too. Steve is doing a great job...and I think I have most of the wrinkles ironed out of the system.

Let us know what you think!!!

BTW...kudos to Colin for being our China connection in getting all of the sources from Pipo. Without Colin's help, none of this could have been possible!!!!!

[colinabroad]

Secret testing !

OK Guys,
Who forgot to mention to me that you were testing for the M9Pro ?? :-( I am in! I just bought myself an iPad Air2 which is amazing, but not cheap! Cheaper than the equivalent Samsung tablet though (at least here in China!) My main reason was lack of reliability and also availability of the internet and apps over here - no google no dropbox, no facebook, no youtube etc etc without a VPN and they are starting to clamp down on VPN use as well, so anything Andriod is becoming a nightmare . ALSO my trusty M9Pro is failing fast, but will be fine for my daughter to play with! The iPad works right out of the box, is blazing fast on the internet and lasts four or five DAYS on one charge !!! - yes, I use it: read books, check emails etc etc, just as I have tried on the PIPO - it is simply in a different class altogether. No GPS antenna though, so I wonder how it is supposed to work for navigation out in a car with no WiFi !!??
So, I will get into the testing of the latest one posted here over the weekend and come back soonest with feedback - lets hope we can get one last ROM for this ever popular tablet.
Cheers for now,
Colin.

[retroze]

Excellent, thanks for the info!
Btw, yesterday i flashed system.img from PipoM6Pro_ROM_150129_3G.zip over PipoM9Pro and it worked!! a bit slow , but it worked.

[rrileypm]

Aside from stock functions, I add:

Root, with SuperSU (Chainfire) with several other files/binaries
init.d script support
Symbolic Links and binary for busybox commands
Auto-install of apps and recovery on first boot. Also auto-install of apk files from external SD autoinstall folder
Google Play Store fixes to all of better compatibility
Custom Boot Animation by Tattman65
Reboot App by Petrus
Multi-User support activated (hense the modification to framework.jar)
As stated above, the SystemUI.apk was changed to revert back to normal Navigation Bar layout.
Plus a few build.prop tweaks I add for better performance...English default, Central Time Zone...etc.

That pretty much covers all of the changes I make.

[retroze]

Will all this flashing on my m9pro ruin the nand chip lifetime?

Sent from my P9 using Tapatalk

NAND Flash memory depending of the class should have no less than 5K read/write cycles. So, we can be prudentially safe with our daily basis flashes.

[retroze]

With your permission, my version of the firmware.
Everything seems the same but the work of init.d implemented differently.

And a little bit of software to preinstall.
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/2295dc9...y_bucefal82.7z

Thanks to you all for the effort and time spent to improve the PIPO M9 PRO experience.
Although i have a very deep knowledge of operating systems and OS hacking, I'm newbie to this world of Android ROMs modifications, anyway i'm learning really fast.

Can we know what are the specific modifications made to the firmware and how they improve the M9 PRO experience?
I see the following files have been added or modified from original system.img in freaktabrom

retroze@ubuntu:~/Desktop/PipoM9/system$ find $1 -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} \; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head -n 20
2015-02-08 07:14:46.164346406 +0100 ./build.prop
2015-02-08 07:12:00.796654000 +0100 ./framework/framework.jar
2015-02-07 23:44:56.494685598 +0100 ./preinstall/recovery.img
2015-02-07 23:44:55.783670006 +0100 ./media/bootanimation.zip
2015-02-07 23:44:55.282659018 +0100 ./bin/preinstall.sh
2015-02-07 23:44:54.921651102 +0100 ./bin/flash_image
2015-02-07 23:44:54.552643009 +0100 ./preinstall/Reboot_v1.2.2.apk
2015-02-07 23:44:54.218635685 +0100 ./etc/permissions/android.hardware.location.gps.xml
2015-02-07 23:44:53.876628185 +0100 ./etc/permissions/android.hardware.location.xml
2015-02-07 23:44:53.441618646 +0100 ./etc/permissions/com.android.location.provider.xml
2015-02-07 23:44:53.089610924 +0100 ./etc/permissions/tablet_core_hardware.xml
2015-02-07 23:44:52.749603470 +0100 ./xbin/busybox
2015-02-07 23:44:52.379595355 +0100 ./bin/busybox
2015-02-07 23:44:52.036587834 +0100 ./etc/init.d/99SuperSUDaemon
2015-02-07 23:44:51.340572570 +0100 ./bin/.ext/.su
2015-02-07 23:44:50.833561452 +0100 ./xbin/su
2015-02-07 23:44:50.497554084 +0100 ./xbin/daemonsu
2015-02-07 23:44:50.153546540 +0100 ./app/Superuser.apk
2015-02-07 17:08:32.000000000 +0100 ./priv-app/SystemUI.apk

just downloaded your ROM mod (i haven't install it yet), i see that: hosts file has been added, resolv.conf to googles DNSs , slightly touched build.prop ...

I'm really really happy with this Pipo M9 Pro FreaktabROM + original PIPO overclocked kernel (3.0.36+ #96).

Next step, to custom improve the kernel!

[rrileypm]

I've flashed each of my tablets hundreds of times...bricked a few...and they always seem to come back to life.

Eventually NAND can fail. It's a gamble....worth taking...in my opinion.

The good news is that if you fry your NAND...there's ways of booting from external SD...being tried now on the M9 Max threads. I haven't tried it myself, but the concept is promising.

[Kenneth]

Will all this flashing on my m9pro ruin the nand chip lifetime?

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[bucefal82]

With your permission, my version of the firmware.
Everything seems the same but the work of init.d implemented differently.




And a little bit of software to preinstall.

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/2295dc962fe7/Reload_PIPO_M9_PRO_by_bucefal82.7z

[Kenneth]

[Pipo Project] M9 Pro ROM testing

Wow, it appears there are still many missing files from this SDK that I guess we will need to add as we discover them.

I will hold off on making another version until we discover more files that need to be added.

Overall, though...how's this ROM running?

ROM seems fine.... Wish that the lagging will be gone once and forever on the m9pro

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[bucefal82]

Russian:
Возможно я не правильно понял...
Если речь шла о работе НоваЛаунчер,то извините когда вы его ставите в систему, откройте этот файл апк, и посмотрите присутствует ли папка Либ в ней если да ,то следует перенести либ файл соответствующий нашему процессору в нашу папку с Lib

English Google
Maybe I misunderstood ...
If it was on NovaLauncher then sorry when you put it into the system, open the APK file, and see whether there is a folder Lieb it, if so, should be moved to the appropriate file Lib our processor in our folder Lib
Not Work game Injustice: Gods Among Us

[rrileypm]

Wow, it appears there are still many missing files from this SDK that I guess we will need to add as we discover them.

I will hold off on making another version until we discover more files that need to be added.

Overall, though...how's this ROM running?

[bucefal82]

For normal operation NovaLauncher need a library libgif.so
patch through TWRP
libgif.so.zip