Custom ROM on Motorola Q *Project*
 

I am starting a project up, although the device is old it is still a good device, I am going to be working on getting this to work, Once I do get it, if I do, I will try and expand everything to the new Q devices, Qc and Qm and stuff like that.

So I will try and post my progress here has i can get it.

Where I stand right now.

I have files decompressed, I have all of the dumps, for a verizon Motorola Q monster file. I have SYS and OEM from those. I have found the IMGFS start address and I am working on getting the xip out of there now.

The motorola q has a rom size limit of 78000 KBS, it uses XPR rom compression Type.

I am working now on getting the xip like i said, going through the files with a hex editor trying to find everything. once i can get the xip out, i will be able to build the rom and everything. once i get that made, I will need a test device to flash and see if it works.


I have posted a message in Bargin trader about someone having a Moto Q I Could buy for this project thought i would mention it here has well.


Stay tune for future updates.

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let me reserve a post

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Hey! i have an old sprint moto q im using again for the moment, in a few weeks, itll be my once again spare phone, let me know how i could help

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This would be awesome. It would be great to update my wife's phone. She is jealous of all the flashing I do to my touch pro.

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spend the last few days at work, back now, making progess on this. i do have a motorola q now, no battery, so i will pick one up here soon, so then i can start to test things i have made arleady.

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ok that's good news.
I gave up on it and gave my girl's lil' bro the Q
I purchased an Alltel TP.
I would of kept it if I had knew that there was a project in the midst.
I like the scroll wheel on the right side.
Its just a good phone to me.
*Off-Subject*
What are you gonna do when Alltel completely transitions over to Verizon?

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I'm rounding up the Squad from IntraSpace to help you

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Sweet thanks for doing that. has for now, I will share a little of my progess so far. here is the XIP for the Q and the Q9c, I will get the Q9m later on. But here are those 2 xips.

The Q9c is a 6.1 XIP, SYS 19704
The Q XIP is WM5, SYS 5.1.14960


Also the Q9m XIP is now uploaded.

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This is fascinating. Keep us posted. I just started using a Q (waiting on a pre) and I love ROMs.

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I think you should focus mainly on the original Q then move forward, because the original Q is the one in most need of the upgrade.

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This Should Be a Sticky

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Yes the orginal Q is my main focus, but once I figure that out. then I will have the stardard down and it will work on the others has well.

but yes, the orginal Q is my main focus. I am charging up 2 batteries for them now, so I can get everything tested and going. I will be flashing the first trial run tomw morning to see how everything goes. for now I will just be flashing the same stock rom. and from there start to porting it. But what i need to do first is to make sure that I can rebuild a stock rom without an issue.

so that is my next step, and I will be doing that when I get off wrok tomw morning.

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Well good news, I have found out some interesting things with the Motorola Files. and I have been able to recreate the stock roms. so I can dump the stock roms and I can rebuild them. and flash them back to the Q and have everything work. So It is close and this will be a realty.

Right now this is not really a streamlined way of building for them, but once I get stuff going, I will post screenshots and I will also post a file and kitchen up with details how everyone can do it.

But I am getting really close on this now. so this has been a good day.

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Can I ask for a favor?

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Feel free to ask, I will try my best to awnser it. I might not get to it right away, but I will do my best. I need to catch some sleep today. I will have to see,

but feel free to ask any questions or anything.

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sounds good con, is it gonna still gonna be WM5?

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I know there was some confusiion has if this will bring 6.0 and 6.1 and 6.5 to the orginal Q, and I am going to bring at least 6.0, will get 6.1 shoudnt be a big deal. and 6.5 I will try but I can not promise much of anything at this point.

But yes it will bring 6.0 to the orginal q.

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Is there somewhere we can donate in appreciation once this is done? 6 on my Q would be worth something.

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i will not take donations, i do this for a hobby and cause i love doing it, and because of that. i will not accept aanything. i already have one other person that has offered a Q for me to use has a test device, so that alone is more then i could have asked for. its time this happened on the Q i had that device when it was first out, and i was really hoping for wm6, and then when it never happen, i was sad, and everywhere i read, rthey said it cant be done, that if there is no official rom, then it cant be done, and so i feel now like although late, this can still be done, and that it will help othere.

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That's mighty awesome of you.

I'm using a Q till the Pre gets here, and would gladly help test if needed.

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Stupid files now. I am doing a lot of the work in a hex editor trying to get everything like I want to. splitting the files up and everything else. and it is kinda being a pain. Staring at hex code all day is hard on the eyes. But I will get this.

where I am at now, is I think I have all the files broken up like i want. and now i am having troubles rebuilding the imgfs.bin, what happens is when i flash, it gets stuck in bootloader, so i am looking at a stock and trying to find out what command i am missing that will send it out of bootloader. once i find this, then it will be a large step forward.

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Whoa, I have a Q too! I'll give any support that's needed. Thanks for the awesome work! (I hope this is possible for Sprint Q's :P)

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People please put some money together so he can have a Moto Q for testing purposes.

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there is no need to raise money, this has been a great community, and has offered to send me 2 q so that i can test on. sovi have devices to test on, so there is no need to raise money, this community has rally helped me out, and has been very gracis to me. with everything, everyone thgank you so much.

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I too wish to chime in and tell you how excited I am about this project. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help in the process.

Thanks for all the hard work you put in this endeavor. You rock! :headbang:

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sweet, this project has been needed for a long time, i would love to test this on my q when it is ready for testing,
anything i can do to help pls let me know , im not great with hex, but very willing to learn.

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A Big THANKS to Noir and Kdj67f for donating some Q to help me with this for testing. So Thanks to both of you for this very generous gift. It will be used to really help this project.

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any new news?

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ive p***** on my q to a friend of mine and sorta forgot how its had become outdated so quickly based on the fact that upgrades just really werent happening.. so to find out that your sorta stepping in the make changes is pretty damn awesome.. i gotta say this is a post i will be following cause if your a past owner of the q you gotta feel the excitement in this one... winmo6, HUGE STEP.. thanks con

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so i guess the word "p a s s e d" is foul language.. hmmm dont know why that was edited..

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Thanks for this. I am very excited about it!! keep up the good work!

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I'm currently using the Q. Best device I've ever owned to tell you the truth. I really appreciate you putting time and effort into this project. You will make tons of people happy if 6.1 is on the Q.

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Sorry went to sister graduation, and then I am working. 2 more days of work, and then I will have 4 more days to devote to this. I am close, I have 5 of the 6 parts working perfert, I need to get the last part working.

what is happening right now is when I flash it, it will go fine, and everything is write okay, but then it gets stuck in bootloader mode. so I am missing something that will get it out of there. and I am looking, but its taking some time.

so that is where I am at right now with this, its coming along and it will be good once it gets finished.

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COOL!
Does the Q have built in GPS?

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i have three q's at my store and my personal q i can brick if you want testing help con and the command you are missing is probably the initialization string which tells the ARM to read the internal memory... could have accidently overwritten it in your file rewrites

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I also have a old Q from sprint that can be used for testing. Just let me know where I can get the files when they are ready and I will gladly give it a try. Thanks for your contribution

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a lot of BRAND NEW posters interested i see

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Man, that was a threadstopper, no new posts for two days?, im a BRAND NEW POSTER, and im way interested in this project, I would like to learn how it's done, so i can maybe make my own rom at some point, isn't that what this forum is about?, learning to do things on your own? but to learn to do something you have to learn about it first.......

I look forward to any updates on this one,thanks con for taking the time to work on such projects.

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Any updates Con? Is it being more difficult than you initally thought?