How to make custom VMOS ROM for VMOS Pro

Posted by AndnixSH

You must know the basics of the Android ROM structure, and also be able to manage the files, like editing build.prop, init.rc, copying files from flashable zip manually, etc. I will not explain in depth of it since there are plenty of infomation on XDA forum. Don't worry, you don't need any coding knowledge.

Do not expect that you can make a ROM of other Android versions like Android 11 than the VMOS provided, or use the ROM from other devices. You would need a kernel source from VMOS, VM drivers sources, AOSP project sources to build and so on and make changes to VMOS app to support it properly. It's a lot harder than you think. If you need other Android version, consider sending a feedback to VMOS team. Dumb questions like this are subject to be ignored

Special thanks to 4pda forum for more info

Getting started:

Where to get the original ROM?
You can just backup your installed ROM and you will have a backed up zip file on /storage/emulated/0/vmospro/backup.
Your rom will be downloaded along the path /data/data/com.vmos.pro/rom/ No extension, this is a .7z archive.
And meta information along the path /data/data/com.vmos.pro/rom/rom_info/ Without extension, this is json.
If you have root, you can get original ROM files from /data/data/com.vmos.pro/rom, but the problem is the ROM is in .7z archive and you need to rezip it as .zip file. It is not recommended way to do and you will likely getting ROM installation error

Here's how:
On the main screen, click the small settings icon of your ROM and choose System backup


Start the backup. Let it run in foreground


After it's done, click OK


You will see the backup on /storage/emulated/0/vmospro/backup


Even modify on phone straight forward, without PC


Enjoy modding!

Modifying ROM
Adding Google apps, root and Xposed

I have uploaded my files that you can use to add files in the ROM


Copying Google, Root and Xposed files to the ROM is pretty much straight forward

Root:
Recommended to use my modded Root. The package name has been changed to com.andnixshpmt1.superuser

In order to get root work, duplicate daemonsu to su and sx in xbin folder. I already did that in my modded Root

Cleaning up the file system
√ - The folder can be deleted
× - The folder cannot be deleted

acct √ - processor logs
data × - data section (you can clear its contents)
cache √ - OTA cache
config √ - don't know, but you can delete
dev and mnt × - FS logs and something else (you can clear their contents)
oem √ - something related to OEM
sys √ - a folder for drivers but we don’t have them
system × - this is the system itself :D
storage × - the internal memory of Roma
sbin × - system binaries
root and proc √ - have nothing to do with root

Remove logging related
Delete files in system/bin

  1. bug report
  2. bugreportz
  3. dumpstate
  4. dumpsys
  5. logcat
  6. debuggerd
  7. debuggerd64
  8. logd
  9. logwrapper
  10. log


Delete files from system/etc/init

  1. atrace.rc
  2. debuggerd.rc
  3. debuggerd64.rc
  4. dumpstate.rc

Add lines to /system/build.prop

Code:

logcat.live=disable

dalvik.vm.checkjni=false

debugtool.anrhistory=0

profiler.debugmonitor=false

profiler.launch=false

profiler.hung.dumpdobugreport=false

persist.android.strictmode=0

ro.kernel.android.checkjni=0

ro.kernel.checkjni=0

profiler.forse_disable_err_rpt=1

profiler.forse_disable_ulog=1

dalvik.vm.verify-bytecode=false

ro.config.nocheckin=1

net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1

ro.config.ksm.support=false

libc .debug.malloc=0

av.debug.disable.pers.cache=true

persist.vendor.ssr.enable_ramdumps=0


Removing Unwanted Apps:

SPOILER: REMOVING UNWANTED APPS

Android 4.4.4
system/app/BasicDreams.apk
system/app/BasicDreams.odex
system/app/Bluetooth.apk
system/app/Bluetooth.odex
system/app/Email.apk
system/app/Email.odex
system/app/Exchange2.apk
system /app/Exchange2.odex
system/app/Galaxy4.apk
system/app/Galaxy4.odex
system/app/HoloSpiralWallpaper.apk
system/app/HoloSpiralWallpaper.odex
system/app/HTMLViewer.apk
system/app/HTMLViewer.odex
system/app/VideoEditor.apk
system/app/VideoEditor.odex
system/app/QuickSearchBox.apk
system/app/QuickSearchBox.odex
system/app/PrintSpooler.apk
system/app/PrintSpooler.odex
system/app/PicoTts.apk
system/app /PicoTts.odex
system/app/Photable.apk
system/app/Photable.odex
system/app/PhaseBeam.apk
system/app/PhaseBeam.odex
system/app/NoiseField.apk
system/app/NoiseField.odex
system/app/OpenWnn.apk
system /app/OpenWnn.odex
system/app/PinyinIME.apk
system/app/PinyinIME.odex
system/app/MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
system/app/MagicSmokeWallpapers.odex
system/app/WAPPushManager.apk
system/app/WAPPushManager.odex
system/ app/VisualizationWallpapers.apk
system/app/VisualizationWallpapers.odex
system/priv-app/BackupRestoreConfirmation.apk
system/priv-app/Backup/RestoreConfirmation.odex
system/priv-app/Contacts.apk
system/priv-app/Contacts.odex
system/priv-app/ContactsProvider.apk
system/priv-app/ContactsProvider.odex
system/priv-app/Dialer.apk
system/priv-app/Dialer.odex
system/priv-app/Mms.apk
system/priv-app /Mms.odex
system/priv-app/SharedStorageBackup.apk
system/priv-app/SharedStorage/Backup.odex
system/priv-app/VoiceDialer.apk
system/priv-app/VoiceDialer.odex
system/priv-app/FusedLocation. apk
system/priv-app/FusedLocation.odex
system/priv-app/InputDevices.apk
system/priv-app/InputDevices.odex
system/priv-app/ProxyHandler.apk
system/priv-app/ProxyHandler.odex
system/priv- app/OneTimeInitializer.apk
system/priv-app/OneTimeInitializer.odex
system/priv-app/TeleService.apk
system/priv-app/TeleSercice.odex

Android 5.1.1
/system/app/CaptivePortalLogin
/system/app/com.baidu.input
/system/app/HTMLViewer
/system/app/via
/system/app/PicoTts
/system/app/PacProcessor
/system/priv-app/Contacts
/system /priv-app/ContactsProvider
/system/priv-app/Dialer
/system/priv-app/SharedStorageBackup
/system/priv-app/MmsService
/system/priv-app/FusedLocation
/system/priv-app/ProxyHandler
/system/priv -app/InputDevices
/system/priv-app/Telecom
/system/priv-app/TelephonyProvider
/system/priv-app/TeleService

Android 7.1.2
/system/app/BasicDreams
/system/app/CaptivePortalLogin
/system/app/CtsShimPrebuilt
/system/app/WallpaperBackup
/system/app/via
/system/app/PrintRecommendationService
/system/app/PhotoTable
/system/app/PacProcessor
/system /app/OpenWnn
/system/app/iflyime
/system/app/HTMLViewer
/system/priv-app/BackupRestoreConfirmation
/system/priv-app/BlockedNumberProvider
/system/priv-app/CtsShimPrivPrebuilt
/system/priv-app/StorageManager
/system /priv-app/SharedStorageBackup
/system/priv-app/TeleService
/system/priv-app/TelephonyProvider
/system/priv-app/Telecom
/system/priv-app/OneTimeInitializer
/system/priv-app/InputDevices
/system/priv-app/FusedLocation
/system/priv-app/ProxyHandler


Other garbage:

  • /system/tts (Android 7.1.2 speech synthesizer)
  • /system/xbin/dexlist (garbage file)
  • /system/etc/NOTICE.html.gz (Android Licenses)
  • /system/etc/event-log-tags (Something strange)


Warning:
Before you are sharing your rom, make sure to delete data folder since it may contain sensitive data. It is important you DO NOT store any sensitive data in VMOS whatsoever. I'm not responsible if your data got stolen

Installing ROM:
To install your custom ROM, click on 3 dots and choose Import local ROM. I'm not sure what's the difference between Rec the VM (Restore) and Import local ROM. I think it's to fully preseve data



Choose a file


That's all

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