{"id":3187,"date":"2013-08-06T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2016-04-26T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:34:18","slug":"custom-rom-picopad-gdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=3187","title":{"rendered":"custom ROM PICOphone4 GDX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Procrastinating build the custom rom for this GDX model for weeks, and been playing with 6589 kitchen script for a while, \ud83d\ude42 hahaha &#8230; No! Actually, somehow, many of my personal script were broken due to my careless hacks during XMir, Wayland packaging and Linaro 13.07 experiment &#8230; what a really big mess I tell you \ud83d\ude42 &#8230; the experiment itself wasn&#8217;t successful, but I learn many things and all i can say is &#8230; young man these days are really good on bleeding edge coding. Creating, fixing and modifying many script to bring back my working system, it&#8217;s ok for now &#8230;\u00a0 i&#8217;m happy with it &#8230; and let&#8217;s cut this crap and continue &#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here we go the features for this custom rom :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android 4.2.1 with 3.4.5 kernel<\/li>\n<li>Rooted, busybox, fully deodexed, zipaligned<\/li>\n<li>rooted boot.img<\/li>\n<li>init.d support + busybox run parts<\/li>\n<li>gps, bt, hsdpa tweak<\/li>\n<li>Superuser by Clockworkmod (thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103583939320326217147\">Koush<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>entropy generator tweak (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/member.php?u=1107425\">lambgx02<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Removed unnecessary and bloatware apps<\/li>\n<li>\u2026 something i forgot to list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here we go the custom rom :<\/p>\n<p><del>Download : <a title=\"PICOphone_4_GDX_signed_082613_114945.zip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sendspace.com\/file\/pxil68\" target=\"_blank\">PICOphone_4_GDX_signed_082613_114945<\/a><\/del><\/p>\n<p>MD5 : 3a16692ea5c1437e77eb4daa84bb4646<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>EDIT 08012014 :<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sendspace deleting them because there is no download activities in a month, so i&#8217;m uploading again to another filehost :<\/p>\n<p>Download : <a title=\"PICOphone_4_GDX_signed_082613_114945\" href=\"http:\/\/d-h.st\/xq7\" target=\"_blank\">PICOphone_4_GDX_signed_082613_114945<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Requirement and Preparation :<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Read this thoroughly :<br \/>\n<em><strong>Your warranty is now void<\/strong> !!!<\/em><br \/>\nI am not responsible if you brick your phone, get stuck in a bootloop, or if your phone grows arms and tries to kill you. Flash at your own risk!<br \/>\n<em> Please do some research if you have any concerns about risk of flashing a custom rom before continuing! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you!!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> If you have any other objection, don\u2019t bother to comment, just close this page!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven\u2019t got it, get it here : <a title=\"cwm and twrp recovery for PICOphone4 GDX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=3185\" target=\"_blank\">cwm and twrp recovery for PICOphone4 GDX<\/a>. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><strong>Flashing Process :<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Download the custom rom from link above and copy it to the root of your sdcard, you may check it first with your file manager to confirm it was there. There are two sdcard storage on this device, so you must know it\u2019s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you to put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boot into recovery mode by turning off your phone, hold down Volume + button then press power button, hold them both until you see axioo logo on screen then release it. Wait a sec or two \u2026 then you\u2019ll be in recovery mode.<\/li>\n<li>BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong><em>Wipe Data \/ Factory reset<\/em><\/strong> and execute it.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong><em>Wipe cache partition<\/em><\/strong> and execute it<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong><em>Wipe Dalvik Cache<\/em><\/strong> and execute it<\/li>\n<li>Go back to main menu, and choose <strong><em>Install<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will open a list of file on your sdcard, choose the custom rom zip file that you put on step 1 and flash it.<\/li>\n<li>After the installation completed, choose <em><strong>Reboot System<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Done<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the result after flash :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gdx-workspace.png\" rel=\"lightbox[3187]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3200 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gdx-workspace-169x300.png\" alt=\"gdx-workspace\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gdx-apps.png\" rel=\"lightbox[3187]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3261 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gdx-apps-169x300.png\" alt=\"gdx-apps\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gdx-about.png\" rel=\"lightbox[3187]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3262 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gdx-about-169x300.png\" alt=\"gdx-about\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Custom ROM in SPFlashTool Format :<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This SPFlashtool format custom rom is needed to inject the twrp recovery I explain on another article. Please read the reason behind this <a title=\"cwm and twrp recovery for PICOphone4 GDX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/?p=3185\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And here we go the custom rom :<\/p>\n<p><del>Download : PICOphone_4_GDX_SW20130816_jfdesignnet.ra<\/del>r<\/p>\n<p><del>MD5 : 23d64a47821902e59ba46cd29c08deab<\/del><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>EDIT 08012014 :<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sendspace deleting them because there is no download activities in a month, so i\u2019m uploading again to another filehost :<\/p>\n<p>Download : <a title=\"PICOphone_4_GDX_SW20130816_jfdesignnet.rar\" href=\"http:\/\/d-h.st\/Ees\" target=\"_blank\">PICOphone_4_GDX_SW20130816_jfdesignnet.rar<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this custom rom in SPFlashtool format, you will get my custom rom I explain above and my TWRP recovery, all in one package. To install this custom rom, you need SPFlashTool program which only available on winblows os platform so &#8230; really sorry, I cannot support it because I never use and don&#8217;t have winblows. You may refer to this tutorial : <a title=\"Flashing Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/mt6575-flashing-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\">MT65xx Flashing Tutorial<\/a> it is very well explained by Bruno Martin. Please be really careful using SPFlashTool, especially when flashing ROM not for your device, since it may bricked your device<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy 4.2.1 custom rom version on your\u00a0PICOhone4 GDX !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procrastinating build the custom rom for this GDX model for weeks, and been playing with 6589 kitchen script for a while, \ud83d\ude42 hahaha &#8230; No! Actually, somehow, many of my personal script were broken due to my careless hacks during XMir, Wayland packaging and Linaro 13.07 experiment &#8230; what a really big mess I tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,9],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}