[ROM][ARC/ARC S] IceCream Sandwich Alpha [ROM:v02][Kernel:v05-new][Dt:26/Dec]

So This time DroidXDA thanks to the buddy over XDA(DooMLord)
For this update.zip simplification installation

Now more improvement in v2 from v1 :: here

[ screenshots ]


  
 
  
[ WARNING ]

1. THIS IS AN ALPHA ROM
2. WE KNOW LOTS OF THINGS DONT WOR
3. I AM NOT A ROM DEVELOPER... THIS WAS POSTED JUST SO THAT ARC USERS CAN HAPPILY ENJOY THE ALPHA ICS ROM (that too prerooted  )
4. MORE THINGS WILL FOLLOW AS AND WHEN I CAN GET THEM TO WORK
5. DO NOT ASK FOR FURTHER UPDATES/ETA
6. ALL USER DATA (from /data partition) WILL BE WIPED WHILE INSTALLING THIS

[ features ]

1. Easy to flash update.zip via recovery
2. Prerooted with superuser and busybox installed
3. currently using stock kernel provided by SE (will make my own kernel later)

[ credits ]

• Sony Ericsson - posting these ALPHA builds for the developer community
• Bin4ry - the WiFi/BT/GSM enabler
• Koush - gapps for ICS

[ requirements ]

• stock .42 firmware (use FTF)
• unlocked bootloader
• supplied files

[ how to install ]

1. download my kernel latest kernel from this post
2. flash my kernel using:
   
   Code:

   fastboot flash boot boot.img

   then reboot from fastboot using:
   Code:

   fastboot reboot

3. device will now start booting and show my kernel logo
4. when the blue LED lights up keep spamming/pressing BACK button
5. u will now enter my modded recovery
6. flash the ROMs update.zip (this will take some time a minute or two)
7. to enable the WIFI/BLUETOOTH/GSM download this here 
8. to enable googple appls download here
   
9. thats it now reboot device and it will start booting into ICS 
10. first boot will take time!!!
11. Enjoys

[ features ]

• [v05-modCWM v04 TouchEdition onwards] new CWM5.0.2.7 TouchEdition recovery!!!
• [v05 onwards] fixed USB mounting IN RECOVERY ONLY
• [v05 onwards] fixed ADB IN RECOVERY ONLY
• [v04 onwards] fixes wifi & GSM data
• [v04 onwards] using 4.1.C.0.6 SEMC sources
• [v03 onwards] fixed TouchScreen drivers to support ICS
• [v03 onwards] fixed USB mounting issues in ROM (thanks to FXP-ics kernel sources)
• [v03 onwards] changed kernel version string to "-DooMKernel"
• [v03 onwards] most (kernel specific) modules integrated right inside ramdisk [no need to separately flash them]
• [v03 onwards] added new Max frequency:  2.0Ghz 
• [v03 onwards] added lots of intermediate frequencies (from 122Mhz to 2.0Ghz for almost every 100/120Mhz there is a select-able frequency)
• [v03 onwards] added fully working two way call recording
• [v03 onwards] added CPU governors:
  • BrazilianWax
  • Smoothass
  • Lagfree
  • InteractiveX
  • Savaged-Zen
  • SmartAssV2
  • Smartass
  • Scary
  • MinMax
  • Interactive
• [v03 onwards] added I/O Schedulers:
  • V(R)
  • BFQ v2-r1
  • Simple I/O (sio)
• [v03 onwards] enabled a few I/O Schedulers
  • noop
  • Anticipatory
  • Deadline (default)
  • CFQ
• [v03 onwards] added SLQB memory allocator (and set it as default)
• [v03 onwards] added TinyRCU along with fixes (and set it as default)
• [v03 onwards] bumped BFQ to v2-r1
• [v03 onwards] added Stochastic Fair Blue Net scheduler
• [v03 onwards] bumped jHASH to v3
• [v03 onwards] increased VM max readahead to 512kb
• [v03 onwards] some patches to fix kernel memory leaks
• [v03 onwards] minor fix to display the kernel version info correctly in "About Phone"
• [v03 onwards] added some mounting tweaks
• [v03 onwards] major cleaning of kernel sources (cleaned defconfigs using FXP defconfigs as reference)
• [v03 onwards] TESTING: reverted some changes in kernel sources to older FW kernel sources to test if the issue of increased battery drain is resolved
• [v03 onwards] compiled using newest gcc-4.6.2-(2011.10) linaro toolchain with O4 optimizations
• [v03 onwards] using 4.0.2.A.0.42 kernel sources
• [v03 onwards] added FULL USB-OTG support! [Keyboard + Mouse + USB-Storage] (no need to use any modules anymore  ) [for exact usb-storage mounting commands refer to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?t=1224676] [UNTESTED]
• [v03 onwards] enabled NLS_UTF8
• [v03 onwards] added user-level/runtime CPU voltage control with fixes to show only those frequencies which are enabled in CPU-freq table [VDD control "sysfs interface"] (for more info keep checking this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=362)
• [v03 onwards] enabled SWAP support
• [v03 onwards] enabled CDROM filesystem support in kernel (now u can mount ISO files)
• [v03 onwards] enabled ARM THUMBEE extensions
• [v03 onwards] init.d scripts/binaries execution support
• [v03 onwards] enabled support (in kernel) for many file systems
  • EXT2
  • EXT3
  • EXT4
  • NTFS (Read & Write)
• [v03 onwards] enabled NFS (client & server) support in kernel
• [v03 onwards] enabled CIFS support in kernel
• [v03 onwards] enabled access to kernel .config (can be pulled from /proc/config.gz)
• [v03 onwards] enabled TUN/TAP driver support (integrated in kernel) [VPN support]
• [v03 onwards] enabled IPTABLES/NETFILTER support
• [v03 onwards] for sake of safe booting the device will always boot at min 245Mhz / max 1024Mhz
• [v02 onwards] autorooting (with latest Superuser binaries and app 3.0.7)
• [v02 onwards] added support for userinit scripts:
  • if sd-ext is mounted then it will execute /sd-ext/userinit.sh & shell scripts in /sd-ext/userinit.d/ folder
  • also scripts in /data/local/ will be executed... it will execute /data/local/userinit.sh & shell scripts in /data/local/userinit.d/ folder
• [v02 onwards] init.d (/system/etc/init.d/) script execution support
• [v02 onwards] insecure ramdisk (ro.secure=0 & FS mounted as RW)
• [v01 onwards] included my own version of CWM5.0.2.7 recovery

[ download link ROM ]
ROM:

MAIN v01

XPERIA-ARC-DooMLoRD-SE-ICS-ALPHA-v01.zip
MD5HASH: 3abc5d042747b0de3a441b8ecf8ea003

UPDATE PACK v01 to v02

ARC-DooMLoRD-SE-ICS-ALPHA-v01-to-v02.zip
MD5HASH: fcf1e424a400787c956d241e93e05001

 

 

v05 modCWM v04 TouchEdition: (changelog and details here)
[ARC/ARC S] DooMKernel ICS ALPHA v05 modCWM v04 TouchEdition [1.6Ghz version only]
MD5HASH: 564cefa01843bf20784750a3f975407f

 

 

 

ADDONS

[RECOMMENDED] Wifi + BT + GSM enabler!!! (thanks to Bin4ry) [Ref.: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...#post20342456]

[RECOMMENDED] Google Apps for ICS!!! (gapps-ics-20111125-2.zip) [Thanks to koush] [Ref.: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1356228 ]

[OPTIONAL] ICS original launcher!!! (thanks to tyrand3) [Ref.: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...3#post20340903]

[OPTIONAL] ICS Bootanimation [ info ]

[OPTIONAL] ICS On-Screen Buttons Enabler!!!! - v01 - [ info ] - v02 - [ info ]

[OPTIONAL] ICS On-Screen Buttons DISABLER!!!! [ info ]