Tronsmart T428 Stock ROM - disccusions on the best ROM

[alwaysbless]

on arctablets forum

Bah, I saw that link earlier when search but it wants me to register. Anyway you can just paste the link here or pm it to me lol, ive been testing the latest 4.2.2 rom released by tronsmart with the hwcomposer from the first stock from april 28th - and its working great on this rom also only problem is now the time warner cable app doesnt work again lmao.

[Finless]

The time warner apps is crashing due to the SDK level in build.prop. Unfortunatly you cannot edit that in build.prop or bootloop. Time warner needs to update thier APP to handle SDK Level 17.

Bob

[alwaysbless]

The time warner apps is crashing due to the SDK level in build.prop. Unfortunatly you cannot edit that in build.prop or bootloop. Time warner needs to update thier APP to handle SDK Level 17.

Bob

Ride on thanks for looking into it, will post this on the twc forums and see if I can get a response.

[alwaysbless]

Alright so pretty much I give up at tryna frakenstein things myself lol, using rk29xx image tool I ripped the system.img from the rom on arctablet forums its size is @ 510,976 then i replaced modules and kernel.img from t428 rom and flashed using both the finless flash tool and rkbatch tool but nada but a flash of the picture from the boot.img and bootloops. Prolly would work if I was using linux to do this stuff but im too lazy to install and wubi wont let me dual boot with windows 8 =/

Update: ha, turns out I was using a wrong file. Thats what I get for doing this all while at work, im running it now will do my tests and post results in a bit.

Having issues with this rom even letting me install apks, think it might be overheating? idk but Ive tried 3 times now to install dropbox and each time its resulted in a reboot?

[Finless]

Welcome to my world of porting ROMs and constantly trying THIS from THAT.... and THAT from THIS... Especially with early devices like this where you are trying to find the best combination!

It takes a freakin long time with much frustration. But hey... I could use the help so have at it!

The Cube ROM will need a crap load of work to satisfy most users as a TV Stick.

By the way I personally do not like the aspect ratio! Sorry... I tried to change it by writing to FB0 and changing internal resolution but it wont change

Bob

[alwaysbless]

I actually like how it has the status bar at the top its the first time ive seen an android stick with a status bar like a phone/tablet. With that being said, I still think I screwed something up along the way so I cant really call this a fair test. The whole UI of android is lagging for some reason and using the hwcomposer that was working perfect for me yesterday is now having frame skipping, so until I can get this ui working properly I cant really say how the new 6/1 rom is performing. What could be causing it though? did I screw up on modules or something or does it sound like build.prop thing maybe? Neither of them sound probable to me, but then again idk. lol

[Guest]

I actually like how it has the status bar at the top its the first time ive seen an android stick with a status bar like a phone/tablet. With that being said, I still think I screwed something up along the way so I cant really call this a fair test. The whole UI of android is lagging for some reason and using the hwcomposer that was working perfect for me yesterday is now having frame skipping, so until I can get this ui working properly I cant really say how the new 6/1 rom is performing. What could be causing it though? did I screw up on modules or something or does it sound like build.prop thing maybe? Neither of them sound probable to me, but then again idk. lol

I made 12000 tests

The cube rom, for now, have stability and best results not only with videos, with the last hwcomposer of t428.

Disabling only the lock screen, i have all working. The best smoothness on the ui and wifi very stable.

The other hwcpmposer make problems also if you have good videos with some video apps.

[alwaysbless]

I made 12000 tests

The cube rom, for now, have stability and best results not only with videos, with the last hwcomposer of t428.

Disabling only the lock screen, i have all working. The best smoothness on the ui and wifi very stable.

The other hwcpmposer make problems also if you have good videos with some video apps.

Wish I could say I had the same experience lol, I know its something Im doing like probably repackaging the system IMG wrong (ive been using unyaffs) but if u get the chance to upload would love to test!

[Finless]

unyaffs? I am surprised that even works. The system.img is nothing more than a EXT4 file system. It is not yaffs file system.

You simply mount this as EXT4 in Linux. I think there is a Windows tool that will mount EXT4 file system images as well.

Bob

[alwaysbless]

unyaffs? I am surprised that even works. The system.img is nothing more than a EXT4 file system. It is not yaffs file system.

You simply mount this as EXT4 in Linux. I think there is a Windows tool that will mount EXT4 file system images as well.

Bob

I installed ubuntu this morning and mounted the img with mount -o loop /home/user/system.img /home/user/test but it will not let me replace files because of error "there is not enough disk space" im far from a linux expert but I assume this is because it is a mounted img and not a real directory. What do you guys use in linux to extract the img file so you can plug your files in

[Finless]

What I do is make a new system.img that is larger using DD.
Then I mount the new system and format it EXT4.
Then I mount the original system and copy everything over to the new system.

Now you have a system that allows you to screw around.

Here is the Linux script I made called mksyslarger.sh

Rename the original system.img to system_orig.img

Then run this script.

The output system will be called systemext4.img


#!/bin/sh

cp -r system_orig.img system.img

mkdir system
mkdir system2
sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop system.img system

dd if=/dev/zero of=systemext4.img count=115000

sudo /sbin/mkfs.ext4 systemext4.img

sudo mount -o loop systemext4.img system2

#copy everything over now!
sudo cp -r --no-dereference --preserve=all system/* system2

read -p ">-->Unmount systems - hit enter"
sudo umount system
sudo umount system2

read -p ">-->Clean up - hit enter"

sudo e2fsck -y -v systemext4.img

#delete the dirs
sudo rm -f -R system
sudo rm -f -R system2
sudo rm -f -R system.img






Bob

[alwaysbless]

What I do is make a new system.img that is larger using DD.
Then I mount the new system and format it EXT4.
Then I mount the original system and copy everything over to the new system.

Now you have a system that allows you to screw around.

Here is the Linux script I made called mksyslarger.sh

Rename the original system.img to system_orig.img

Then run this script.

The output system will be called systemext4.img


#!/bin/sh

cp -r system_orig.img system.img

mkdir system
mkdir system2
sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop system.img system

dd if=/dev/zero of=systemext4.img count=115000

sudo /sbin/mkfs.ext4 systemext4.img

sudo mount -o loop systemext4.img system2

#copy everything over now!
sudo cp -r --no-dereference --preserve=all system/* system2

read -p ">-->Unmount systems - hit enter"
sudo umount system
sudo umount system2

read -p ">-->Clean up - hit enter"

sudo e2fsck -y -v systemext4.img

#delete the dirs
sudo rm -f -R system
sudo rm -f -R system2
sudo rm -f -R system.img






Bob

Ok, so I made the script and changed permissions then executed it and it almost worked lol. Im still getting tons of errors about no space left on device when writing to system2/ and the img it wrote was only 58mb. My hdd has over 590gb of free space according to properties and df -h and df -i is confirming that so im not sure whats going on, maybe screwed something up with partitions while installing?

[Finless]

Ok, so I made the script and changed permissions then executed it and it almost worked lol. Im still getting tons of errors about no space left on device when writing to system2/ and the img it wrote was only 58mb. My hdd has over 590gb of free space according to properties and df -h and df -i is confirming that so im not sure whats going on, maybe screwed something up with partitions while installing?

We are getting into ROM making discussions and the parameter file and sizes.

I have a thread here where I explain all this:

http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.p...cks-by-Finless

So this is getting off topic. Please take the questions about making ROMs to that post. I will answer there.

hint though... the COUNT= value in DD decides how big system2 will be. My example was just that.... the value I give there for sure is probably not large enough! Google Search "Linux DD" and see... there are many ways to set this value.


Bob

[Diaperman]

Flashing a t428 rom using a Mac osx computer

Hi, I'm new to this site. Has someone or can someone explain or lead me to an area of this site where it explains how to flash a rom using an apple computer. I have a Tronsmart T428 and want to update to latest 4.2.2 rom.

thanks

[Finless]

Hi, I'm new to this site. Has someone or can someone explain or lead me to an area of this site where it explains how to flash a rom using an apple computer. I have a Tronsmart T428 and want to update to latest 4.2.2 rom.

thanks

There are no flash tools for Apple. Sorry.

Bob