[BETA][DEV] Advanced Boot - full featured booting

Advanced Boot is a full featured booting utillity for any device, any platform, any architecture.
this is still in the development process but works significately still.
SOURCE CODE IS BEING UPLOADED SOON AS WE SPEAK
please feedback only bugs encountered.

NOTE: this is only available for ARM devices at the moment, to allow on x86 just replace the /AdvBoot/xbin/busybox with the x86 version.

this can be integrated inside a rom in 2 ways.
heres how
a kernel hook
a debuggerd hook

Code:

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-User implementation
To implement this as a user follow the following steps
1. Flash the AdvancedBoot.zip in recovery
2. Choose to install or remove Advanced Boot
3. Reboot

-Rom implementation
To implement in rom follow the following steps
1. Include AdvBoot in the /system/ directory of your rom
2. Rename /system/bin/debuggerd to debuggerd.advboot
3. Copy /system/AdvBoot/core/debuggerd into the /system/bin/ directory

-Kernel implementation
To implement in kernel follow the following steps
1. Include AdvBoot in the /system/ directory of your rom
2. Add the following lines to init.rc

# Advanced boot - full featured boot services on any device
    if [ -e /system/bin/mount ]; then
        MOUNT="/system/bin/mount"
    else
        if [ -e /system/AdvBoot/xbin/busybox ]; then
        MOUNT="/system/AdvBoot/xbin/busybox mount"
        fi
    fi
    if [ -e "/system/AdvBoot" ]
    then
        $MOUNT -o remount,rw /system
        chmod 0777 /system/AdvBoot
        chmod 0644 /system/AdvBoot/bin
        chmod 0775 /system/AdvBoot/bin/advboot
        chmod 0775 /system/AdvBoot/xbin/busybox
        touch /system/AdvBoot/kernel-implemented
        sh "/system/AdvBoot/bin/advboot"
    fi

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this tool allows the following features to be ran on boot, also allowing users(if you enable user configurable) to customize preferences to suit the rom.
ill also be releasing an app to configure this(that only shows on the device if user configuration is enabled)
NOTE: some features are yet to be integrated and some are still buggy.

Code:

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Advanced Boot - full featured boot services on any device
By Ricky Divjakovski



Setting Advanced Boot preferences
    by default adv.boot.user.configurable is enabled
        adv.boot.user.configurable enabled will allow users to edit preferences from /sdcard/boot.prefs.
        if not preferences from /sdcard/boot.prefs will not be applied.
        developers - edit the /system/boot.prefs file
        users - edit the /sdcard/boot.prefs file
        AdvBoot/boot.prefs will be loaded by default.
        if found /system/boot.prefs those settings will over-ride default settings.
        if found /sdcard/boot.prefs and adv.boot.user.configurable enabled those settings will over-ride default and system settings.
        you can see why a toggle is added to allow users to configure the preferences right?
note:        if enabled default boot.prefs will be copied on first boot to /sdcard/boot.prefs is not found
                to enable user configuration.
                if users delete /sdcard/boot.prefs then user configurable will be disabled until they factory reset the device.


-Enabling advanced boot
        will ebable this tool to apply default, developer or user configuration.


-User configuration
        enabling user configuration will apply preferences from /sdcard/boot.prefs if found.


-Init.d
        enabling init.d will allow scripts to be executed on boot from the directory of choice(adv.boot.initd.path).


-External init.d
        enabling will allow scripts to run from a secondary directory of choice(adv.boot.external.initd.path).
        this option is for developers who prefer their rom not be modified by users but enable them to have the same
        privelleges and also preserve their init.d tweaks for updates if secondary choice is on /sdcard.


-Zipalign on boot
        if zipalign on boot is enabled then all apps and framework(/system/app, /system/priv-app, /system/framework, /data/app_
        will be zipaligned on boot.
        this tool is smart so the tool will remember what apps have been zipaligned so only files
        that have not been zipaligned will be zipaligned on boot.
        if all have already been zipaligned zipaligning will not be applied.


-Dalvik2Cache
        enabling this will move the dalvik-cache to the /cache partition on first boot if /cache is greater then 100000
        to optimize the performance.
       

-Battery tweaks
        enabling this will increase battery by doubling the default dirty_writeback_centisecs dirty_expire_centisecs values.


-Bootanimation and bootsounds
        simple, you can enable or disable boot animation and sounds.


-Custom DPI
        enabling this allows dpi modding from the boot.prefs file.


-Automount /system or /data
        enabling will allow the enabled partitions to be mounted as readable and writable on boot.


-Enabling sdcard readahead
        enabling sdcard readahead will change the system value to the selected value.
        2048 is a better setting then the devices default.


-Auto settings backup/restore
        enabling will backup wifi passwords, messages and more.
        if the files that are backed up are not detected, the tool will restore the settings on second boot.
        this may not work if changing from OEM roms to AOSP roms.

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XDA:DevDB Information
Advanced Boot, Tool/Utility for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors
Ricky Divjakovski

Version Information
Status: Testing
Current Beta Version: 1.0.0.0
Beta Release Date: 2015-09-16

Created 2015-09-16
Last Updated 2015-09-16