AndroidPolice incorrectly reports this as the DROID3's FM Radio apk working on the BIONIC. In fact, it's the DROID2's FM Radio apk... however, it does also work on the DROID3!
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...fm-radio-tune-in-using-the-droid-3-radio-apk/
This is old news for the Droid 3, see this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186075
I think the original apk actually came stock on the Droid X. It has a few stability issues on the Droid 3 and probably the Droid Bionic as well. It's still a worthwhile app and I'm surprised it wasn't loaded in on these phones since the hardware is there.
Ah, I tend to assume threads about app support are in the Themes and Apps board. That thread was in the wrong place so I didn't see it. :/
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Is there any possible way to port that BlurHome.apk in the Droid X dump to the Motorola Droid, I couldn't find it in the forums.
thepwneddroid said:
Is there any possible way to port that BlurHome.apk in the Droid X dump to the Motorola Droid, I couldn't find it in the forums.
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There is a way by most likely porting the whole build over. But I'm waiting for the droid2 to come out which is supposed to have ninjablur running on froyo. It should be a very easy port since it's basically an upgraded droid from what I've heard.
Ok, great. thanks for the reply.
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There is a way by most likely porting the whole build over. But I'm waiting for the droid2 to come out which is supposed to have ninjablur running on froyo. It should be a very easy port since it's basically an upgraded droid from what I've heard.
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so, now that the droid 2 is out, r u working on a rom?
if I may interject, that may be hard due to the locked bootloader, but stranger things have happened, though I do wonder what you find desirable in blur. Not meant to be rude, it's just that launcher pro payed has awsome homescreen widgets for social networks, and to my knowlede one of the main reasons people root is to rid their phones of forced upon software like blur. Though if it's really uninvasive, I guess I could see how that could be usefull. (oh, btw hardware changes all the time, just because its the droid 2, don't automatically think its an easy port to throw onto the D1) Did you know the Htc Incredible was originally supposed to have 8 gigs of rom, and, I believe like 2 gigs of ram, too. Though you see how that played out, slap the droid label on anything and you can sell about half the actual device to people at the same price, but I digress. Basically, if you really, really want this ported, make some developer friends online, ask nicely on the forums, or, you know, become a rom chef.
I happen to have one of the Nexus One developer phones with a CDMA radio. The software version is 2.1.1. I've tried updating the phone with new builds for the the standard Nexus GSM phone but it kills the radio (no signal and GPS) but otherwise the phone works (ends up being a Nexus Touch). So it seems that any software build has calls for a specific radio type and this phone will forever be on 2.1.1?
You need to get an updated radio build. The problem is - I'm not sure that the normal radio can fit your chip.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll have to do some more digging into this phone to determine the radio and then look for a phone with the same radio. Although Android 2.1.1 isn't all that bad and the phone works well.
No further development occurred on this Nexus Verizon phone after the plug was pulled in March 2010.
Wait. You have a Verizon nexus one?
Can you share some pics and details????
Too cool.
DownloaderZ said:
Wait. You have a Verizon nexus one?
Can you share some pics and details????
Too cool.
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Everything's the same except the radio.
They sold this as a dev phone?
what25 said:
They sold this as a dev phone?
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No, never sold. I was told that a few phones were produced with the CDMA radio for development testing on Verizon's network for any issues with general and 3G operation. They were not supported by Verizon. The Google Android hardware team provided testing and support until 4/2010.
I've just flashed the 2.3.3 OTA release on this phone and again it killed the radio but everything else works. I'll just use it on wifi since I've updated from my Eris to a Droid X.
Did you use it as a phone on Verizon? Don't you have to do the entire activate the phone thing with them due to cdma?
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Did you use it as a phone on Verizon? Don't you have to do the entire activate the phone thing with them due to cdma?
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Yes, the phone was activated on my existing plan for awhile. Othewise the "Verizon Wireless" on the lock screen doesn't show up and you get nagged to activate each time you boot the phone.
I may ask the same original question of the thread on the developer's forum. It may have been better suited for that forum.
What about the radio from an Incredible? The N1 and Incredible are pretty similar... not sure man, I didn't even realize there was a CDMA N1 in existence.
i guess there is now way you can extract the radio image from your original ROM, then upgrade to gingerbread, then try and flash that radio image on top of gingerbread radio?
(maybe wont work if version numbers go backwards...?)
One of the pre-requisites for going to 2.2 and higher was an upgraded radio...
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Yeah look at the Droid incredible radio's, being that's what became of the failed Verizon version?
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RogerPodacter said:
i guess there is now way you can extract the radio image from your original ROM, then upgrade to gingerbread, then try and flash that radio image on top of gingerbread radio?
For some reason, when I do an rom upgrade from a normal nexus gsm build, it doesn't write over the radio. The CDMA radio is still displayed on the Phone Info but zero bars of signal 0dbm 0asu readings.
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Yeah look at the Droid incredible radio's, being that's what became of the failed Verizon version?
My guess would be the Incredible too. There is the chance that if I flash the radio with an image that isn't compatible with the hboot, then the phone will be bricked. I did that with a G1. Since this phone has no published specs that I can use to compare the actual radio device against another phone, I'm hesitant to take the chance since 2.1.1 isn't all that bad. Even if I knew the chipset, I wonder if I would go for it?
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You could always try and get some info from HTC. Can't hurt to ask them about the phone.
The chipset is QSD8650. I believe that's the same as Incredible. You can look in the Incredible forum and compare their radio build versions with yours - if they have the same structure, I guess you'll need to make some sort of a mix between Nexus HW and Incredible's Baseband drivers. I'm sure it's possible, it's just very hard without having the source.
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The chipset is QSD8650. I believe that's the same as Incredible. You can look in the Incredible forum and compare their radio build versions with yours - if they have the same structure, I guess you'll need to make some sort of a mix between Nexus HW and Incredible's Baseband drivers. I'm sure it's possible, it's just very hard without having the source.
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I assume you can tell by one of the pictures I posted?...
My radio is 1.00.02.03.24 Hboot is the same for Nexus GSM, 0.35.0017 with MicroP 0b15. Looks pretty much the same as a GSM except for the phone.
Droid Incredible radio seems to be something like 2.15.00.nn.nn. Eeee, I'm scared to try it.
Oh well, thanks all for the comments and suggestions so far. Looks like 2.1.1 is it for this phone...
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Radio update success
Bit the bullet and tried the radio.img from a EVO, which I found on XDA-developer forum to work with the Droid Incredible. Well, the phone still works, GPS and camera work.
Unfortunately, when I install a GSM build, the radio 2.15.00 still remains but the same problem with 0dbm signal remains. Even if reinstall the radio.img after the build, no success.
Maybe I should offer this radio as a prize for building a Nexus One GB image that works with an EVO radio image...
Got a Droid X as my phone now...
Wow you actually attempted to flash a new radio, and one from a different device?! And it actually works? You have some guts, nice work. This is actually good info for future android phones, now we know what might be possible.
Flashing radio is by far highest risk of bricking.
Saw that cyanogen tweeted that they are working on CM9, or Ice Cream Sandwich, and that they have an eta for release of 2 months. Awesome!
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For bionic?
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That is in general, I know people are working hard at porting CM7 to the Bionic in the meantime and a lot of that work should carry over into CM9.
Right now from what I understand the biggest issue (outside of general bug fixes and h/w support) is that the 3/4g data connections dont work. Now while it might not be too hard for them to get 3g working (it is a standard qualcomm chip) the 4g chip is a custom motorola chip with little to no documentation so we might see CM7 show up without 4G support and may have to wait on an official build from Motorola for that.
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That is in general, I know people are working hard at porting CM7 to the Bionic in the meantime and a lot of that work should carry over into CM9.
Right now from what I understand the biggest issue (outside of general bug fixes and h/w support) is that the 3/4g data connections dont work. Now while it might not be too hard for them to get 3g working (it is a standard qualcomm chip) the 4g chip is a custom motorola chip with little to no documentation so we might see CM7 show up without 4G support and may have to wait on an official build from Motorola for that.
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Camera, sd card and i think bluetooth are also still issues.
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so we might see CM7 show up without 4G support and may have to wait on an official build from Motorola for that.
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That will be fine with me since I live on the border of 4G coverage and only go in it once a week or so. It's fairly obvious that this is a minority of cases.
1. How difficult is it to root and install custom ROMs on the Droid Bionic?
2. Are there any custom ROMs based on AOSP or CM7? Or those without Motoblur? I looked through the Development forum and I don't see any rom with those specifically stated... I saw some CM9 roms but I don't want to use those yet until support for ICS is more widespread on the apps I usually use.
3. Has anyone gotten a Wiimote or 6axis controller to work on emulators with the stock rom? or with any of the custom roms?
4. How does webtop work? Does it work with custom roms? I want to use a lapdock for typing things during my internship in the hospital. Can webtop use Smart Office or any office app in the phone?
5. All Droid Bionics have the Verizon logo on the bottom of its front right? The seller didn't post a picture of the phone and I won't be the one to pick it up personally... What particular markings can I describe to a nontechy aunt so she would be able to determine if the phone for sale is Droid Bionic?
1. Yes
2. Nightly builds of AOSP and CM are at droidhive.com
3. Huh
this is why poeple leave xda just sayin way to man noob questions most of the development is over a droidhive stated previously and rootzwiki poeple leave here cause of noobness like this just sayin.. good luck..
raylgo said:
1. How difficult is it to root and install custom ROMs on the Droid Bionic?
2. Are there any custom ROMs based on AOSP or CM7? Or those without Motoblur? I looked through the Development forum and I don't see any rom with those specifically stated... I saw some CM9 roms but I don't want to use those yet until support for ICS is more widespread on the apps I usually use.
3. Has anyone gotten a Wiimote or 6axis controller to work on emulators with the stock rom? or with any of the custom roms?
4. How does webtop work? Does it work with custom roms? I want to use a lapdock for typing things during my internship in the hospital. Can webtop use Smart Office or any office app in the phone?
5. All Droid Bionics have the Verizon logo on the bottom of its front right? The seller didn't post a picture of the phone and I won't be the one to pick it up personally... What particular markings can I describe to a nontechy aunt so she would be able to determine if the phone for sale is Droid Bionic?
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1. Not difficult. Devs have created excellent bootstrap apps that let you install Clockwork Recovery (or a variant) so that you can change ROM's like you always have.
2. Since the kernel cannot be modified (due to the unlocked bootloader) we do have have any AOSP or Cyanogenmod ROMs. The closest I've seen to AOSP is the Eclipse ROM.
3. I don't know.
4. Webtop will work with custom ROM's. Webtop runs on a separate partition that custom ROM's don't modify.
5. The Droid Bionic typically does have a Verizon logo on the lower-right. The Bionic, unfortunately, doesn't have much of anything to set it apart. A generic description could have people mistaking the Droid X or Droid X2. Bionics have the closely-coupled MicroUSB & HDMI ports on the left side. Headphone jack on top. Camera sensor has "8MP | AF - 1080p HD VIDEO" labeled on it. The loudspeaker on the back has a tiny oval shaped hole for it. That's the best I can do.
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Hello. I will be receiving a Droid 3 as a warranty replacement tomorrow. It comes with ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) pre-installed. I have been searching, and cannot find a way to root the Droid 3.
I am hoping I missed it. If someone can point me to the tutorial for rooting the Droid 3 with ICS, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello. I will be receiving a Droid 3 as a warranty replacement tomorrow. It comes with ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) pre-installed. I have been searching, and cannot find a way to root the Droid 3.
I am hoping I missed it. If someone can point me to the tutorial for rooting the Droid 3 with ICS, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
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Where did you hear it will come with ICS...? Because it won't.
I was told this by the Verizon rep. It is a warranty replacement. he specifically said it has ICS on it. No, I am not mistaken. Maybe he was?
Even if it doesn't, I have been unable to find a tutorial for rooting the Droid 3.
I can assure you that it will not be arriving with ICS, I'm sure he must have been mistaken. It will most likely be running Gingerbread 2.3.4 with the 5.6.890 system software.
Anywho... here is the tutorial you are looking for http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1240130
If you do get one with ics on it then I will be calling Verizon and having them replace my phone for one like that
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If you do get one with ics on it then I will be calling Verizon and having them replace my phone for one like that
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If you get a phone w/ics system dump before anything else please, if you need a hand lots of people here will help (or on irc) but since moto still has the d3 listed as "evaluating" for ics and haven't even started working on a build I would say the rep is more than likely mistaken. Hopefully not but if moto had an ics build for the d3 I imagine we would have heard about a soak or something. As for your question I would probably try the root for d4 and if that didn't work check out what they're using on the nexus etc
If you do get ICS please tweet Hash. We really could benefit from it.
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We would still have a locked bootloader and the same kernel issues though. I'd put money on the rep being wrong, but I'd like to be proven wrong.
so what version of android did you end up getting on the d3?
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You folks were right. He was wrong. It has 2.3.4.
It runs pretty fast, compares well to the DX2. I wanted CM ROM on it, but none are completely working. Camera has issues GSM FCs and so forth. I just wish my DX2 would work. Haven't used a physical keyboard in a while either.
What do you folks think of your Droid 3s?
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What do you folks think of your Droid 3s?
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I bought my D3 FOR the keyboard. I came from an enV touch and the thought of a touchscreen keyboard that wasn't 100% perfect made me shiver. Looking back, I would definitely have gone with a SGS II. I didn't know anything about the D3's bootloader being locked and the full touch screen is definitely worth the unlocked bootloader. That being said, I still love the keyboard. It's better than any I have ever used.
I don't hate my Droid 3. It runs my ICS roms rather smoothly and the only thing that I wished worked is Google Chrome. I use the camera but I found that I have not wanted to use the video recorder since switching; even if it DID work.
If you want a CM ROM that is pretty stable, I'd recommend 7.2 found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308924
It's a bit more stable than CM9, though it still has some bugs. Stable enough for a daily driver in my opinion.
My d3 is alright but if I was sent one now with any option of sending back either for a different phone or terminate a contract(within 30 days or whatever and setup a new one) I would jump @ the chance, just because its a little old, 1g ram would be nice but imo it's like dual core phones, 1 core is wasted 90% of the time, upgradable to ics would be very nice too, custom kernel would be nicest though(htc,lg etc etc). I guess what I'm saying is its decent but I wouldn't buy one now.
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I'd say droid 3 is all about the keyboard. Without the keyboard, there would be many better phones. Phones with 1GB ram, unlocked bootloader and a better screen.
However, I'd rather have a keyboard than have those ^ things without a keyboard .
It seems to run faster, and more smooth than my Droid X2. It's ugly though, and it will take some getting used to a physical keyboard again. I have it rooted, radiocom hacked. I want to tweak the camera, but the thread is confusing me a bit as to which zip to use, or which edits to make to build.pro and the XML file. I would prefer to edit rather than install a zip as I don't really want a bootstrap on the phone.
App Brain is making me frustrated though, since Fast Web Installer will not log in.
So far, I am loving this.
Another heartbreak. If D3 doesn't gets ICS by July, I'll let it go.
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