S100/S150 android 4.03 KoTiX rom v2.4 (with "keep user data" option) - UPDATED to rom v2.6

Here I am with another update of my 4.03 rom for the S100/S150 car dvd units.
The rom is based on the latest 06/06/2014 roadnav fw for I001 (nissan) but it include a file megane3.apk for the I145 model in the folder "winca\system\app" (just delete it if you don't need it).
In this firmware version and in the previous 05/20/2014 roadnav have finally fixed the "System Upgrade" function in the settings menu that was broken since they released the first official 4.03 fw; with this function it is possible now to avoid using the fused sd recovery and use a normal SD card (inserted in the dvd slot),to update the firmware.
Even more it's possible now, throught the aroma installer, to keep the user app and data when upgrading android! So no more hassle of redownloading and reinstalling you preferred apps, you'll keep all your settings as they were before the update.
NOTE:  just the units with "System Upgrade" function correctly working can use the "Don't erase user data" option.
I added a couple of more options to the installer:
- a "WIPE Menu"  to let you choose to format or not the data partition
- an option to preinstall or not the user apps from the folder "winca\app" in the sd.

For those who are new to my roms, here are the aroma installer options that you'll find:

1. MAIN MENU

• Flash original full firmware (including BT, MCU etc..)
• Flash KoTiX custom ROM 
• Quit

2. ANDROID MENU

• Install ROOT files
• Install 160 DPI mod (using xposed and app setting)
• Preinstall user apps from Winca\app sd folder 

3. MODDED APPS

• Install KoTiX Radio player mod
• Install Bluetooth app mod
• Install Viper4Android

4. WIPE MENU

• Format data partition (If unchecked it will erase dalvik-cache only)
• Format internal Hard Disk

5. HARDWARE FLASH

• Flash Bluetooth module
• Write Flash.bin (vers. S00C)
• Write MCU.bin (vers. N004)

UPDATE: I have removed the link to the old 2.4 rom and added the new 2.6 rom.
They are very similar because both are based on the same 06/06/2014 firmware, but 2.6 have some important fixes and some apps taken from even newer firmware August 01.

This is what you'll get:

- Keep apps and data function is working properly now so you can update the firmware without loosing your settings and datas
- Waze work fine
- Youtube work fine
- The bluetooth dialer now can download all contacts from phone without problems
- Switching from radio to third party players like jetaudio turn off the radio (to go back you need to pause the player)
- I added some new logos i found in new builds.
- I added an option to format internal sdcard in the aroma installer
- maybe other things...
 Here is the link to download the new 2.6 rom that include some extra apps too:

 S150 4.03 KoTiX_v2.6.rar   
Link removed to avoid people with new fw bricks their units.

Enjoy and if you like my work, please consider donating ;-)

S150 MODS INJECTOR for android 2.34

Hi guys, lately I've worked a little on the android 2.34 fw... I've tryed to port the aroma installer but the touch screen don't respond so I decided to make something different, I created a flashable zip that include:

• root access (CWM Superuser)
• my radio player mod
• bootanimation from my 4.03 fw
• more apns for 3g connection
• some user apps preinstalled: EsFileExplorer, Jetaudio, AudioGlowLW, TitaniumBU,WAZE.
• Viper4Android

Here is my Mods Injector V1.0  

It is only for S150 units with android 2.34 firmware , it's NOT for units with android 4.03.

Uncompress it on a normal SD (don't need a fused one), put it in sd DVD slot (not GPS) and from settings do a "System Upgrade"

It will NOT erase your user data, it will just erase dalvik-cache.

If you already have one of the mentioned above apps.... i don't know... you tell me what will happen.

Enjoy

New S150 KoTiX 2.2 ROM based on the 30/04/2014 android 4.03 fw - UPDATED to 2.3

Time for a new ROM update today:

S150 KoTiX v2.2
EDIT: I have updated the ROM to version 2.3 to include a fix for Youtube and GooglePlayServices:
S150 KoTiX v2.3
If you don't use them, you can stay on v2.2

05.06.2014 - Fixed Google Play Services and Youtube
26.05.2014 - New bootanimation
25.05.2014 - New 160 DPI mod using Xposed and AppSetting
24.05.2014 - Removed Gapps option, they are already there!
14.05.2014 - New base fw 20140430

The rom is based on the latest 30/04/2014 winca firmware.
As you can see in the changelog winca already added the gapps so there is no need of them anymore in the aroma installer.
There aren't big changes in the rom but I used a different method to get the 160 DPI mod using Xposed framework and AppSetting, allowing to use the default launcher and allowing me in the future an easyer way to upgrade to a new fw without needing to mod each apk file.
Anyway the xposed framework will be installed in a strange way so that will be already running the app setting module right after flash but if you try to run it, it won't work. Let's see what you guys think of it and togheter will try to find a better way of running it.

The most noticable changes anyway are in the external folders "system" and "Igo", where in system you can add system apps, modify the build.prop or other folders that you need to preinstall during flash.
The iGO folder has been added by winca in this last fw and will be copied to the internal harddisk, so i guess you should copy there the maps or whatever iGO needs.

As many of you already know in the winca folder there is an "app" folder that is used to preinstall the user apps during the flash of the firmware. In this folder you can put all the apks you like, just paying attention to remove spaces from the apk name.
I prepared a small package with some usefull apps you can paste in that folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/luy3f1j266qi0xb/S150%20Extra%20apps_v1.0.rar

Enjoy for now, I'll wait for your comments ;)

NOTE for new users: if you want all the above mods you'll have to choose the "Custom install" option in the installer.

New S150 KoTiX  2.1 Rom available!!

I've uploaded the new version of my Aroma 4.03 rom v2.1, download link is at the end of the post.

First I'd like to thanks the russian developer Dimadina for his 160 DPI mod, the UI looks a lot of better now, the third party apps and the whole UI is not zoomed anymore and it's much better to use. So all credits for this mod goes to him :good:

From Dimadina  rom I also decide to copy the same MCU file becaue the V003 included in the 28/03 original winca fw is not stable and was causing me problems at boot/shutdown of the unit, like taking around 10 seconds to light up the power button before the logo.

So this is the changelog:

04.05.2014 - Added Custom Bootanimation option
30.05.2014 - Fixed Viper Lib installation
           - Changed Aroma resolution to lower dpi
           - Fixed Aroma progress bar
           - Added option to use 160 dpi interface

I increased the Aroma resolution, so we have more room for cheboxes and the progress bar is kind of working now (need more fixes  but it's ok)
Viper4Android now install without problems, you don't have to install the drivers, just enable it for the speakers.
If you select 160 DPI mod you can still choose my modded version of the radio and bluetooth apk.
I added the option to install a bootanimation in "data/local" just put the bootanimation.zip in the "bootanimation" folder, best if you use a "...x480" resolution as the screen size is 800x480, just don't use a 480x800 that is vertical mode.

If this rom don't have problems, I will stop for a while modding the 4.03 rom and I'll start porting the aroma installer, the modded radio and other mods to the 2.34 fw. With the aroma will be easyer to move to 4.03 and go back to 2.34 without flashing MCU.

Enjoy ;)

S150 4.03 Aroma-Root-160DPI_v2.1


(As always the firmware is made for the C001/I001 model, if you have different unit, use it at your own risk and be sure you have the original firmware for backup and you know what you are doing, specially regarding the risks of flashing MCU.)

New S150 android 4.03 firmware available

A few days ago winca released a new android 4.03 (ICS)  firmware  for S150 unit I001:

I001_4.0_20140328.rar

(If you have different unit, use it at your own risk and be sure you have the original firmware for backup and you know what you are doing, specially regarding the risks of flashing MCU.)

Today I am releasing a modified version of it that include the Aroma installer from which you can choose which mods to install and which one not.

Ones the Aroma installer start it will ask you to choose between the Full original untouched I001_4.0_20140328 firmware or to customize the installation as you wish.


The things you can select in the custom install are:

- CWM Supersuser (root)
- Gapps (remember to activate the "Stay awake" in developer settings)
- Viper4Android Audio effects
- RadioPlayer and Bluetooth modded apks
- Flash Hardware Flash,MCU and BT


Let me explain a little what are these options:

- CWM Superuser will install SU binary and Superuser.apk to gain root access and superuser privileges to the android system

- Google Apps are the proprietary Google-branded applications that come pre-installed with most Android devices, such as the Play Store, Gmail, Maps, etc.
Winca did not add all the Gapps in their firmwares but  many users find them beneficial to take full advantage of the Android ecosystem. 

- Viper4Android Audio  is an audio enhancing software to provide everyone with better audio experiences

- RadioPlayer and Bluetooth I modded these 2 apps changing a little bit the graphic and the layout,
 you'll have a bigger and center RDS info in the radio and a bigger and center caller id in the        bluetooth app

- Flash Hardware Flash,MCU and BT  Here you can choose to update or not the Flash, MCU and Bluetooth module, this is usefull to the users that come from a 2.34 android firmware that want to keep their mcu and flash. Also i would say that it's always a little risky an mcu upgrade and will be more safe to don't upgrade it very often.


Here is my new firmware mod:

Official%204.03%20Aroma-Root_v2.0.rar

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My S100 unit is dead!! Please donate!

My beloved S100 unit is suddenly dead, the LCD screen doesn't work anymore and i don't know if it's just that or more probably the mcu board.

If any of you people out there have enjoyed my work on S100 units, from the wince skins and skinpacks to the android conversion, the custom roms, the aroma installer etc., please, this is the time to really consider donating a few euros to let me buy the spare parts or a new unit to keep me up working on this car navi players.

Thank you in advance to everybody who will help me on this.


 Sincerely,

 Marco.

EDIT: Donate button was broken, it's fixed now.

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I received enought donations to repair my unit, my replacements parts are on the way and I'd like to thank all the people who helped me to collect the money for it.

A VERY BIG "THANK YOU!" TO ALL THESE GUYS:

gustavo pantol***, Albert Sir***, rocco giarac***, Jarno Kort****,Tresk Max**,Kristian Waclaw***,isidoro sor***o uc***,Marco Cer***,Francesco Micc****,Antonio Gamb****,Patrizia Laz****,Patrizia Dis****,Giuseppe Com***,Davide Lu***,Paolo Mu***,

Rudolf ver***, Francesco Ferr***,Javier Mor***,ERIC MART****,Santino Risit***,Damir B*

UPDATE ON MY REPAIR DRAMA

I received the parts but I couldn't fix my unit yet, I had to order more parts and I'm waiting for them.

2nd UPDATE ON MY REPAIR DRAMA 

THE UNIT IS NOW FIXED!!!

Thank's to everybody who contributed to this cause :D 

 

S150 Custom ROM developement

After a couple of months modifying the android 4.03 beta firmware for the S150 unit, we have finally an official build of the firmware.
Comparing the beta, many things has been fixed from Roadnav like GPS speed reading, 3rd party launchers behaviours, etc.. but some bugs and issue are still there and some new ones came up.
My intent is to try to fix some of the smaller bugs (even if probably I'll never be able to do it) and to be more comfortable making mods and flashing the firmware I decided to build an "Aroma installer".

The main advantage of the installer is that we can choose to make a full update of the firmware or to update just some parts of it like bootloader, kernel, configs, data, etc.. In this way will be easyer, quicker and safer to update all the custom ROMs that i'll build.

So here is the link to the first version of my custom Official 4.03 ROM:

Official 4.03 Aroma-Root_v1.0.rar

The only differences from the original, for now, it's just the root access and a build.prop mod to show more apps in the playstore faking the device as a Nexus 4G.
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A new version is available:
Official 4.03 Aroma-Root v1.1.rar 
 

The changelog is this:

12.02.2014 - Added Huge Apn list from CM10.1
10.02.2014 - Added Logo external folder.
                   - Modified Launcher2 with 8x4 grid and centered home.
07.02.2014 - Fixed Preinstall issue in aroma

I've added the possibility to load custom logos from a "logo" folder, in the same way happen for the apps preinstall.
Just add in the logo folder all the logos you want in the format:
mylogo.rle
mylogo.png

After flash you will find them in Settings->Device->boot logo
If you like you can set tem manually in the file personize.prop in the config folder like this:

ro.default.bootlogo=mylogo

Just specify the same name of the files



These are the instructions to create logos:
- create your logo in png format 800x480, 16 bit (32 bit is fine too, it will just be bigger in bytes and takes longer to load)
- convert it to rle format using the tool included in the rom archive PNG2RLE.
- create another png image for thumbnail preview with size 166x108
- name the rle and the thumb file with same name eg. mylogo.rle and mylogo.png

After flash you will find them in Settings->Device->boot logo
If you like you can set tem manually in the file personize.prop in the config folder like this:

ro.default.bootlogo=mylogo

Just specify the same name of the files

If you 'd like to do it without flashing you need root access and:
- copy these 2 files using root explorer (EsFileExplorer option enabled) in the Bootlogo\Logo folder
- go in settings->device->boot logo to apply your new logo.
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New version of the rom:
http://kotixworld.blogspot.it/2014/05/new-s150-kotix-2.html


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