Making Altitude ROM, a custom Android OS
It’s been a while since I last worked on my custom ROM. (See here for the previous post). In the elapsed time between the last post and now, I finally managed to get everything working properly. The first problem I encountered was that the phone would not boot despite the fact that the ROM was installed seemingly without any errors in TWRP. It would hang on the initial splash screen without ever reaching the ROM’s boot animation. At first, I thought this would be solved by simply removing the custom boot animation I had added. I thought that perhaps some incompatibility with the file was preventing the phone from initializing the boot sequence beyond the bootloader. This was not the case. Next, I considered that some of the files that I had removed should not have been due to some strange Knox issue. In fact, I managed to find some confirmation of this fact in the forum thread of the ROM kitchen, which suggested that removing some .jar files related to Knox would prevent the pho...