Custom ROM for HTC 816G(MT6592)

Custom ROM for HTC 816G(MT6592)

HTC has a poor track record of giving updates to the midrange smart phones.Most of the mid range smartphones are stuck with the old kitkat version of Android.The story is not much different for HTCs most successful midrange android smartphone 816G octacore(MT6592).

Here we provide the step by step instructions to update your htc 816g octacore(mt6592) to the most stable Android 5.1.1 Lolipop.

1.Root your phone

This is the first step for installing a custom ROM.We discuss the easiest method to root you htc 816G.

Download the Kingo Root application for your computer from here and turn on the developer settings in your phone by tapping several times in the build number.Then turn on the USB Debugging option.

Then open the Kingo Application in PC and connect your phone to the computer.Then sit back and relax.The application will automatically root your phone.

2.Download the custom recovery

Custom recovery is needed to flash Custom ROMs to your phone Download the TWRP custom recovery image from here.

3.Download the Rashr tool 

Rashr is the simplest tool to flash the custom recovery to your phone.Download Rashr from here.

4.Download the 5.1.1 Lolipop Custom ROM

Download the most stable Custom ROM for htc 816G(mt6592) from here.

5.Download SP flash tool

Download the latest SP flash tool for your phone from here and store it in your PC.

6.Flashing the Custom recovery

Open the Rashr app and you will see options to flash recover from storage.Select the downloaded recovery image and it will flash recovery to your phone.

Then reboot to recovery  and select Wipe then Advanced Wipe and select System,Cache and Dalvik Cache.Then wipe.Then turn off the phone by pressing and holding the Volume UP,Volume Down,and power buttons.

7.Flashing 5.1.1 Lollipop

This is the most exciting step.Open the SP Flash tool. Select the scatter loading option and select the scatter.txt  file of the extracted ROM and click download.Now connect your phone and the ROM will be flashed by itself.

Turn on the phone when Download Successful dialog box appears and enjoy the cool features of android 5.1.1 Lollipop.

                                 

Kindly share this link with other htc 816G users.

5 simple steps to make a custom CynogenMOD ROM from Source

Every one wishes to make there own Cyanogen ROM ,Straight to point

Requirements:

AT LEAST 4 GB RAM(compiling takes a lot of times so faster PC makes faster compilation)

INTERNET CONNECTION(Slow connection will be a show stopper)

Setting Up Things:-

Ubuntu 14(64 BIT) - http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

After installing Ubuntu setup the things.

Open Terminal (CTR L+ALT+T)

So here are the steps

INSTALL THE BUILD PACKAGES

Several "build packages" are needed to build CyanogenMOD. You can install these using the package manager of your choice.

OPEN TERMINAL AND TYPE THESE CODES

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

For both 32-bit & 64-bit systems, you'll need:

bison build-essential curl flex git gnupg gperf libesd0-dev liblz4-tool libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxml2 libxml2-utils lzop maven openjdk-7-jdk pngcrush schedtool squashfs-tools xsltproc zip zlib1g-dev

In addition to the above, for 64-bit systems, get these:

g++-multilib gcc-multilib lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev lib32z1-dev

Create the directories

You will need to set up some directories in your build environment.

To create them:

$ mkdir -p ~/bin

$ mkdir -p ~/android/system

$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH

INSTALL THE REPO COMMANDS

Enter the following to download the "repo" binary and make it executable

$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo

$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Initialize the CyanogenMod source repository

Configure edit

$ git config --global user.email "YOUR EMAIL"

$ git config --global user.name "USER NAME"

Downloading Sources

$ mkdir ROMname

(Example = mkdir cm-12.1)

$ cd ROMname

(Example = cd cm-12.1)

$ repo init -u Link_ Of_Init -b branch

(Example = repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-12.1)

$ repo sync -j#

(# = Number of threads per core)(Example = repo sync -j4)

Enter the following to initialize the repository and make sure the cm branch entered here is the one

you wish to build and is supported on your device

Note:

$ repo sync

To start the download of all the source code to your computer

The CM manifests include a sensible default configuration for repo, which we strongly suggest you use. For reference, our default values are -j 4 and -c. The -j 4 part means that there will be four simultaneous threads/connections. If you experience problems syncing, you can lower this to -j 3 or -j 2. -c will ask repo to pull in only the current branch, instead of the entire CM history.

Prepare to wait a long time while the source code downloads.

Compiling ROM

Open Terminal

$ cd ROMname

(Example = cd cm-12.1)

$ . build/envsetup.sh

$ breakfast

(Menu will appear choose ur device from list,This command will download all dependencies of device)

$ brunch -j#

(# = Number of threads per core)(Example = repo sync -j4)(Menu will appear choose your device from list,This Command will start Compiling ROM)

Installing ROM

Assuming the build completed without error (it will be obvious when it finishes), type

$ cd $OUT

which is the CyanogenMod installation package.

install the zip package through the recovery