USING DSIXDA ANDROID KITCHEN FOR ROM PORTING TO ANY MT6573by yuweng@xda

As a basic rule of thumb, always port ROM from the same screen size/ specifications as your device. Eg. If yours is a 3.5 inch then select custom ROM with the same screen size. Where else if yours is a 4.0 inch then select custom ROM with 4.0 inch screen or else at lot of features will not work such as camera & etc will force close.

General porting features with dsixda's Android Kitchen that can be use on MT6573 From Base Stock ROM From Custom ROM

1. system.img system.img2. system.img update.zip3. update.zip system.img4. update.zip update.zip

Porting Method 1 ( Super Easy )Your Stock system.img as base ROM & port to custom ROM update.zip

Yonip OT-918N Custom ROM V1.2Download link :

http://www.4shared.com/zip/QUO32psH/YONIP_OT-918N_ROM_v1.html?

First, copy your system.img & custom ROM you want to port to original_update

Select Option 19

Key in a

Press Enter

First, select your Stock ROM system.img

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Now select the custom ROM you want to port

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Key-in x to exit

Copy your Stock ROM firmware folder from MY_DEVICE_WORKING\system\etcThis firmware folder contains your phone's driver. Typically for MT6573, SIM 2 will not work if you use firmware from other MT6573 custom ROM. For some, both SIM doesn't work if you

use firmware from custom ROM while if your are lucky & when it is compatible then it will work.

Now copy your stock firmware to newly created WORKING folder /system/etc/firmware to replace it with your stock firmware

Key-in 99

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Press Enter

Turn on USB storage at your phone, go to OUTPUT_ZIP right click mouse & send it to removable Disk & install via CWMR

Ported Yonip OT-918N in working state. For this ported ROM, camera is not working on my device while all others are functioning well.

Porting Method 2 ( Medium )Direct Patching

Go to http://bbs.lewaos.com/download.php to download ROM. Lewa ROM provide Over The Air (OTA) update. Green color on the left is stable version & update is available once a month. Blue color on the right is developer test version & it is updated as said in the webpage. The best thing about Lewa ROM is that it supports MT6573.

With this guide, you can port Lewa to your MT6573

For this example, we're going to use the developer version which can be updated every friday. There is only one choice for MT6573, that is the Lenovo A60/ A65.

Android Kitchen -> ADVANCED OPTIONS -> Miscellaneous options / Plugin scripts -> boot.img-MT65xx-unpack

Copy Lewa boot.img to boot.img_MT65xx

You only need the boot.img-ramdisk folder from Lewa boot.img. Create a new folder name Lewa, copy to it & delete off everything

Copy your stock boot.img to boot.img_MT65xx folder

Delete off everything except Lewa folder & boot.img-kernel.img. Copy out boot.img-ramdisk folder from Lewa folder

Repack it with menu option 1

Rename newboot.img to boot.img & copy it to the desktop

Open Lewa ROM with 7-zip but don't extract it. Just drag & drop the newly created boot.img into 7-zip

Copy your stock ROM firmware folder beside 7-zip then drag & drop it into 7-zip /system/etc

Porting Method 3 ( Hard )Native porting

Some custom ROM doesn't work with method 1 or 2 & therefore require what i call as native porting. This means you're using your stock ROM & patch it with appropriate files from custom ROM. However, most 4.0 inch mt6573 can be ported without using this method.

Download link : http://www.eten-

users.eu/index.php?/topic/21427-g11i-mt6513-g11i-pro-mt6573-support-thread/

Copy your stock ROM & extract custom ROM to original_update

Extract your stock ROM system.img. At the WORKING folder, delete off the RED circle

folder

Typically ROM porting for mt6573, app, bin, etc, fonts, framework, *.so at lib, media & xbin

must be deleted & use custom ROM's file.

For this custom ROM, the fonts is the same file while the media is for 4.0 inch

bootanimation so i'll just keep my stock ROM media folder

Copy app, bin, framework, xbinfrom G11i_Pro

Paste it to WORKING folder, system

At WORKING folder system/etc, delete everything except firmware folder.

At the custom ROM etc folder, copy everything except firmware

Paste it to WORKING folder system/etc

Copy *.so from custom rom /system/lib/

Paste it to WORKING folder /system/lib/

Put a check mark & Copy and Replace

All *.so files has been copied to WORKING folder

Copy HoloLauncher_1.1.0.apk or any other launcher to WORKING folder /system/app

This is because G11 default SenseLauncherG11.apk will FC & is not compatible for use at other MT6573

Use the same previous procedure as Lewa ROM to repack G11 boot.img-ramdisk folder with your stock ROM boot.img-kernel.img.

Delete off META-INF from WORKING folder & copy META-INF & data folder from G11 to WORKING folder

Select Option 23 to convert updater-script

Select option 1

Press Enter

Press Enter

Select 13

This will add /data/app & automatically update the update-script

Select option 99 to build ROM. Collect your *.zip from OUTPUT_ZIP folder & flash via CMWR.

First reboot might take awhile. At adb shell, bash is display meaning everything should work. If it doesn't boot then you must have miss a step. Redo the whole process, try again & it

should work.

As said earlier, this port is 4.0 inch android ported to 3.5 inch. Most 4.0 port to 4.0 works with Method 1. However, 3.5 inch ported to 4.0 for some ROM is not working too, meaning you

need to use this native porting for it to work.

SenseLauncher will FC when you select it

G11i_pro Custom ROM by Bruno supports Amarullz Ad2sdx

Ad2sdx mod by casacristoDownload link

http://www.mediafire.com/?g7igexcer1ufjwj