custom ROM PICOphone4 GDX

Procrastinating build the custom rom for this GDX model for weeks, and been playing with 6589 kitchen script for a while, 🙂 hahaha … No! Actually, somehow, many of my personal script were broken due to my careless hacks during XMir, Wayland packaging and Linaro 13.07 experiment … what a really big mess I tell you 🙂 … the experiment itself wasn’t successful, but I learn many things and all i can say is … young man these days are really good on bleeding edge coding. Creating, fixing and modifying many script to bring back my working system, it’s ok for now …  i’m happy with it … and let’s cut this crap and continue … 🙂

Here we go the features for this custom rom :

• Android 4.2.1 with 3.4.5 kernel
• Rooted, busybox, fully deodexed, zipaligned
• rooted boot.img
• init.d support + busybox run parts
• gps, bt, hsdpa tweak
• Superuser by Clockworkmod (thanks to Koush)
• entropy generator tweak (thanks to lambgx02)
• Removed unnecessary and bloatware apps
• … something i forgot to list

And here we go the custom rom :

Download : PICOphone_4_GDX_signed_082613_114945

MD5 : 3a16692ea5c1437e77eb4daa84bb4646

EDIT 08012014 :

Sendspace deleting them because there is no download activities in a month, so i’m uploading again to another filehost :

Download : PICOphone_4_GDX_signed_082613_114945

And here is the steps to flash this custom rom :

Requirement and Preparation :

• Read this thoroughly :
  Your warranty is now void !!!
  I 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!
  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!!
  If you have any other objection, don’t bother to comment, just close this page!
• This custom rom need a custom recovery to flashed into the device, if you haven’t got it, get it here : cwm and twrp recovery for PICOphone4 GDX. Both are working good for this device, get it whichever you like.

Flashing Process :

The steps to flash this custom rom is pretty straight forward :

• 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’s at the internal sdcard or external sdcard. I prefer you to put this on external sdcard to avoid any difficulties.
• 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 … then you’ll be in recovery mode.
• BACKUP your stock rom and data using BACKUP feature, make sure you use external storage as destination because this backup is relatively big.
• Choose Wipe Data / Factory reset and execute it.
• Choose Wipe cache partition and execute it
• Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache and execute it
• Go back to main menu, and choose Install
• 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.
• After the installation completed, choose Reboot System
  
• Done

Here is the result after flash :

Custom ROM in SPFlashTool Format :

This SPFlashtool format custom rom is needed to inject the twrp recovery I explain on another article. Please read the reason behind this here. And here we go the custom rom :

Download : PICOphone_4_GDX_SW20130816_jfdesignnet.rar

MD5 : 23d64a47821902e59ba46cd29c08deab

EDIT 08012014 :

Sendspace deleting them because there is no download activities in a month, so i’m uploading again to another filehost :

Download : PICOphone_4_GDX_SW20130816_jfdesignnet.rar

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 … really sorry, I cannot support it because I never use and don’t have winblows. You may refer to this tutorial : MT65xx Flashing Tutorial 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

Enjoy 4.2.1 custom rom version on your PICOhone4 GDX !