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I've had my Eris for about 16-months and find the 3.2" screen size and resolution lacking. Being terribly impatient, I've been looking for something to upgrade to without spending a lot of cash.
I figured I could get a used Droid 1 and sell my Eris and not be out too much.
I've put many many custom ROMs ( froyo ) on the Eris, overclocked, etc and would like to do the same on a Droid 1.
How are they at rooting and installing ROMs? How have they held up for ya'll over time? Would the performance be any different? I assume/hope a little better...not that the Eris is bad at 729Mhz.
I have a motorola milestone (same as the droid except I use got mine from telus canada to use on ATT) The Droid/Milestone is awesome. It is super easy to root, just look for universal androot on the market. Its a one click root program. I have mine rooted, overclocked @ 1100mhz, I have a wireless tethering, Telus lite v4 rom (super fast) and a nice software called Swapper (on the market) to use 512mg of my sdcard as virtual memory to give the Milestone/Droid extra memory. I have to tell you the Milestone has a locked bootloader, whereas the Droid 1 from verizon is even easier to root and modify. I know both these phones are aging but they are fantastic devices. I absolutely love my milestone/droid phone. You cant go wrong.
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. :/
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.
y0himba said:
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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leerpsp said:
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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I love my DROID 3, its a great phone with and has been holding me down for a while. But i am itching to try something different and really the development for DROID 3 is small. We have all these versions of ICS "gummy bear" or whatever and none of them have working camera or bluetooth. I know this is something that may or may not be able to be worked out, but what gives? Does anyone know if we'll ever have ICS on the DROID 3
I don't think that we will see a fully working ICS on this device anytime soon. The main thing that is missing from ICS for our phones are the HWCodecs. Without them, it will never be complete. Hashcode is having a hard time getting them to work. Also, all the ICS roms that you see out now are built from the same base so they all have the same problems.
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mindstate said:
I love my DROID 3, its a great phone with and has been holding me down for a while. But i am itching to try something different and really the development for DROID 3 is small. We have all these versions of ICS "gummy bear" or whatever and none of them have working camera or bluetooth. I know this is something that may or may not be able to be worked out, but what gives? Does anyone know if we'll ever have ICS on the DROID 3
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Camera and front facing camera work on all builds.camcorder doesn't work.Bluetooth works on all builds, but sometimes you lose audio if you have Bluetooth on with no device connected.just cycle bt off and on in that case.
To answer your question, no we won't unless there's an ics leak for the d3.
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thanks for the responses guys, i didn't know BT worked on all versions..i almost never use my video camera feature, so not missing much there. So for me it can be a daily driver, once i fix something. Thanks guys
mindstate said:
thanks for the responses guys, i didn't know BT worked on all versions..i almost never use my video camera feature, so not missing much there. So for me it can be a daily driver, once i fix something. Thanks guys
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keep in mind Ffc only works for taking pictures.it doesn't do video at all.one additional non working feature is flash.
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koftheworld said:
keep in mind Ffc only works for taking pictures.it doesn't do video at all.one additional non working feature is flash.
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and by flash you mean flash video?
mindstate said:
and by flash you mean flash video?
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exactly.
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Nope.
mindstate said:
I love my DROID 3, its a great phone with and has been holding me down for a while. But i am itching to try something different and really the development for DROID 3 is small. We have all these versions of ICS "gummy bear" or whatever and none of them have working camera or bluetooth. I know this is something that may or may not be able to be worked out, but what gives? Does anyone know if we'll ever have ICS on the DROID 3
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The simple answer is: no, we won't. The long answer you can find on "hash of codes" blog.
The saddest thing is HASHCODE this in only one person on this planet who worked on ICS for D3
Like i sed before on other topic, its not a problem have a full wroking ICS on D3 but it take a lot of work
The same was with Milestone 1 and Gingerbread, Kabaldan do everything for milestone 1 even ICS
This is very very sad, because is a lot of people who will do everything for D3 but they dont have sufficient skills like Kabaldan / HasHcode and others etc.
niko99 said:
The saddest thing is HASHCODE this in only one person on this planet who worked on ICS for D3
Like i sed before on other topic, its not a problem have a full wroking ICS on D3 but it take a lot of work
The same was with Milestone 1 and Gingerbread, Kabaldan do everything for milestone 1 even ICS
This is very very sad, because is a lot of people who will do everything for D3 but they dont have sufficient skills like Kabaldan / HasHcode and others etc.
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When you're looking to weekend devs as your only source of code development on hardware less than a year old ... (xt860 was released in Canada august 4th 2011) it's a sign of a ****ty manufacturer. Hardware quality is there but w/out software/manufacturer support it's sort of useless.
Anyone ever flashed a RAZR rom to a BIONIC? I was thinking about doing one of these...
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/1050-aokpaxi0m-ab5kang/
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/2405-romcdmakoa-aokp-5282012/
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/2366-romcdmakoa-rom-any-leak-5282012-1122pm/
From what I understand, the two phones are pretty much identical hardware, but the RAZR has an overclocking feature on the processor. I don't think I'd brick the phone, not permanently anyway, as long as I have a NAND backup right?
the razr and the bionic are pretty much cousins in terms of the hardware department, yes.
i wouldn't risk it though, then again, i am used to HTC rom precedures, so, and i know there each htc phone is different, though the HTC evo is similer to verizon's old Droid Incredible, despite being two tottally seperate sizes.
From what I've read they have figured out RAZR's video recording, which is one of the big downfalls of the Bionic ICS roms right now - no video rec. Wanted to try it, but if I brick it, I will have to buy another...cash.
Thought I'd post a shout here in case anyone else had already been through the pain and suffering
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From what I've read they have figured out RAZR's video recording, which is one of the big downfalls of the Bionic ICS roms right now - no video rec. Wanted to try it, but if I brick it, I will have to buy another...cash.
Thought I'd post a shout here in case anyone else had already been through the pain and suffering
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it's the same way with the incredible and evo on HTC, and some other newer phones, the camera app crashes everytime and ends up resulting in a stream of force close errors.
IMHO, i'm not even going to bother with new OTA'S until the devs here cook up a de-bloated rom, same goes for ics, truth be told, Google owns a majority share of motorola mobility now, so we might see a quasi motoblur/vanila look.
Flashed RAZR AXI0M CMPLX from...just hung at black screen after Safe strap intro screen. Went into Safe strap and flashed the latest 'Bionic CM9 unofficial' and it booted. Bummer :-/
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Well, I will give you a E for effort. I have a bionic also and was going to try this too but so much for that. I will have to wait for official build in July or August. Sucks
Ok kinda on topic. On my DROID bionic (that I just got as a warranty replacement from the piece of trash called the DROID charge), I went from ICS to gb temporarily because I wanted to try liberty. I tried it and it was on. 8XX, so I decided to download a new rom. I went to download eclipse, and I accidentally downloaded the version for the DROID 3, and being me, I didn't notice. Wiped data, booted, and it said welcome to Droid 3. I was confused, but kept going. Anyway, everything worked perfectly, except for recognizing an sd card and the radio. And the DROID 3 hardware is much different than the bionic im pretty sure. Out if curiosity and foolishness, im going to go try and flash the razr aokp axiom rom. will report back.
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Ok kinda on topic. On my DROID bionic (that I just got as a warranty replacement from the piece of trash called the DROID charge), I went from ICS to gb temporarily because I wanted to try liberty. I tried it and it was on. 8XX, so I decided to download a new rom. I went to download eclipse, and I accidentally downloaded the version for the DROID 3, and being me, I didn't notice. Wiped data, booted, and it said welcome to Droid 3. I was confused, but kept going. Anyway, everything worked perfectly, except for recognizing an sd card and the radio. And the DROID 3 hardware is much different than the bionic im pretty sure. Out if curiosity and foolishness, im going to go try and flash the razr aokp axiom rom. will report back.
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Sorry for replying so late, but the custom ROMs do not contain radio data, so you'll need to revert to stock, upgrade to latest stock, THEN flash the custom ROM of your choice.
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rami98 said:
Ok kinda on topic. On my DROID bionic (that I just got as a warranty replacement from the piece of trash called the DROID charge), I went from ICS to gb temporarily because I wanted to try liberty. I tried it and it was on. 8XX, so I decided to download a new rom. I went to download eclipse, and I accidentally downloaded the version for the DROID 3, and being me, I didn't notice. Wiped data, booted, and it said welcome to Droid 3. I was confused, but kept going. Anyway, everything worked perfectly, except for recognizing an sd card and the radio. And the DROID 3 hardware is much different than the bionic im pretty sure. Out if curiosity and foolishness, im going to go try and flash the razr aokp axiom rom. will report back.
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I know this is a crazy thought.. but why not try this the other way around? The Droid 3 guys are desperate for ICS after learning that will be no official. All I can be sure of is that you will have to wipe data first. Im on my first phone,... so I cant personally do this.