You know.. It's great that these devs even bothered making us some roms for our phone but I find it a bit cowardly that they can't even get on their own thread and be honest with us that they left. I donated to these guys for their contribution but honestly at this point, without any responses or even posting the newest version 901 on their thread.. I wouldn't have.
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Not to defend them, cause i have done the same as you, but they have always started that they will not make roms for unofficial releases, which is what .901 is at this point.
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Not to defend them, cause i have done the same as you, but they have always started that they will not make roms for unofficial releases, which is what .901 is at this point.
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893 was official and they didn't release anything for that. I loved liberty for the Droid X, and liberty for the bionic is good but not as great as their X version or eclipse.
Team Liberty started to work on the nexus before the 893 came out.. Once they finish there, they are planning on coming back to build another ROM for the Bionic. Hopefully another true OTA comes out before they start developing on the 893 model.
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It looked like devs were jumping on the Bionic at first, but now it seems there is nobody working on new rom development.
I have tried unleashed and it is nice, but was really looking forward to CM7.
Goto IRC, and the channels for Bionic are DEAD.
Anyone have any news of any new rom dev going on at all for the Bionic?
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It looked like devs were jumping on the Bionic at first, but now it seems there is nobody working on new rom development.
I have tried unleashed and it is nice, but was really looking forward to CM7.
Goto IRC, and the channels for Bionic are DEAD.
Anyone have any news of any new rom dev going on at all for the Bionic?
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Go to AndIRC #bionic
And Team Liberty has been working hard on our ROM... Although its still a week or two out... I do release test build on IRC though
Its not always dead in there. But I have to agree its not hopping like the Charge channel.
I think the locked bootloader and lte radios have a big part in things being slow. I'm willing to bet it will pick up soon enough
Edit.. and note my above statement is for freenode #bionic. I've yet to be to AndIrc.... headed there now
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Go to AndIRC #bionic
And Team Liberty has been working hard on our ROM... Although its still a week or two out... I do release test build on IRC though
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Thanks kejar, I was downloading your latest 39 build and you must have cancelled the page when my download was about finished, because it said complete on my end. I formatted everything on my Bionic and tried to install the 39 zip for it to only tell me it was a bad zip.
No biggie, I made a nandroid
I'd say the biggest problem is this: devs don't get paid for this and the bionic is $600 off contract. Alot of them have families and jobs/careers outside this - actually I would say most do.
My best advice? If you like a dev and want to see him give the bionic love, reach out to him. Start a donate thread.
For the time being, Unl3ash3d is doing me good. Looking forward to Liberty and CM7.
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I'd say the biggest problem is this: devs don't get paid for this and the bionic is $600 off contract. Alot of them have families and jobs/careers outside this - actually I would say most do.
My best advice? If you like a dev and want to see him give the bionic love, reach out to him. Start a donate thread.
For the time being, Unl3ash3d is doing me good. Looking forward to Liberty and CM7.
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^^^That right there hits it on the spot... This is a free service and most people don't contribute to the devs so it takes more time for things to come around... But sometimes this is the best way because it produces the best results
I agree, I have donated to most of the devs. I had thought everyone donated to one of the cm7 devs.
I don't ask for anything for free, that's not my point.......
My point is, dev has stalled on Bionic.
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I agree, I have donated to most of the devs. I had thought everyone donated to one of the cm7 devs.
I don't ask for anything for free, that's not my point.......
My point is, dev has stalled on Bionic.
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Liberty and CM7 are coming, and probably Eclipse soon.
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I've had 8 android devices in a combination of phones and tablets. What they've all had in common is threads like this. It's still very early in the game. Development will pick up.
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Thanks kejar, I was downloading your latest 39 build and you must have cancelled the page when my download was about finished, because it said complete on my end. I formatted everything on my Bionic and tried to install the 39 zip for it to only tell me it was a bad zip.
No biggie, I made a nandroid
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Yea they are only up for limited a limited amount of time... if you follow me on twitter I will post when a new test is available
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This is an amazing hack by Hashcode! He built a hack to load CM7 on the Droid 3 that will also work on the Droid Bionic! I tested it on the Droid Bionic today and it worked! (ya I am crazy)
Now you need to note that this is in the begining stages, but with us Devs teaming up, this can be great!
Thanks to Hashcode and of course Cyanogenmod team!
Hashcode Github: https://github.com/Hashcode
Details can be found here:
http://youtu.be/eh2r-4g-JWs
Also thanks to Droidtheroy for his rom that was featured in the begining of this video! =)
Nice!)
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Sweet! Just when I thought development for the bionic was slowing down!
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Mind giving us updates as you roll with it?
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Mind giving us updates as you roll with it?
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What is performance like (for both this current working version and the D3)?
What's currently broken in this one?
Just curious, I know this isn't a stable release. More wondering into the generals about it.
This is the excitement I've needed lately. I've been reading the hype on the galaxy nexus and razr which have been eclipsing our new bionics. I know that's just how it seems to me, in reality its the bootloader that its slowing the development and further excitement. Cyanogen was stellar on my OG Droid. Koush rules!
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I assume there probably will be no data atm? Dat RIL issue.
Definitely will be following this. Switched from reblurred to liberty, and when this becomes stable, which I'm sure will take no time at all, I'll flash this. But I thought there was a developer already working on a cm7 for the bionic? Has been for a while I think
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Definitely will be following this. Switched from reblurred to liberty, and when this becomes stable, which I'm sure will take no time at all, I'll flash this. But I thought there was a developer already working on a cm7 for the bionic? Has been for a while I think
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Yeah, Cvps from what i understand has it booting up but havent heard much else
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Yeah, Cvps from what i understand has it booting up but havent heard much else
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The last update from him was well over a month ago, I feel like a lot of people got took when they gave their money to get him the bionic
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Have faith! Cvps is a good dev. He's got a lot on his plate, including med school I believe. Remember rule 1 of cyanogenmod... don't ask about ETAs. He will release it when its ready.
Yea what ^ he said even if it takes two years
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Yea what ^ he said even if it takes two years
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I don't think anyone in this section of the forums will have a bionic in 2 years. I'm already looking for my next phone.
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The point is you should never donate to anyone expecting anything in return, ever...it's that simple.
There are plenty of so called devs out there who are completely undeserving of anyone's donations, but CVPCS is not one of them.
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The point is you should never donate to anyone expecting anything in return, ever...it's that simple.
There are plenty of so called devs out there who are completely undeserving of anyone's donations, but CVPCS is not one of them.
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ThatDudeButch comes to mind. I read his response to the x2 people on Rootz and will never run one of his ROMs on principle. Even if it's the hottest thing out.
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ThatDudeButch comes to mind. I read his response to the x2 people on Rootz and will never run one of his ROMs on principle. Even if it's the hottest thing out.
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I'm greatly appreciative of your comments mistawolfe. I was a victim of TDB with the X2 promises. After two months of waiting and very little progress on the X2 anywhere else, I gave up and threw in the towel. That was my lesson -- money wasted. I now own a Bionic and I can't be happier. And now, when I donate, it's to sites like MDW, Rootzwiki, DL and here. At least that way, I have a reasonable expectation that my money is going to good uses. I live for forums like these and I will do all that I can to help them thrive. I was just very touched and happy to hear that someone else identified with my pain. Thanks again.
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I'm greatly appreciative of your comments mistawolfe. I was a victim of TDB with the X2 promises. After two months of waiting and very little progress on the X2 anywhere else, I gave up and threw in the towel. That was my lesson -- money wasted. I now own a Bionic and I can't be happier. And now, when I donate, it's to sites like MDW, Rootzwiki, DL and here. At least that way, I have a reasonable expectation that my money is going to good uses. I live for forums like these and I will do all that I can to help them thrive. I was just very touched and happy to hear that someone else identified with my pain. Thanks again.
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I was already gone from my x2 when I stumbled across the Rootz thread. It's funny, Butch starts out all nice and open to the other members, then as soon as he gets the phone he changes tone. I'm in sales, so we call that the old "bait and switch" - By the end of it he was just downright nasty - probably crushed many people. I sat and read the whole thread one day and was just disgusted.
I'm not saying he should have given them a blow by blow on a daily basis, but if you read the thread from start to finish you'll see what I'm talking about. Absolutely no respect for that guy - ZILCH.
So this is using another bootloader? If that's the case custom kernels would be available through this bootloader right?
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So this is using another bootloader? If that's the case custom kernels would be available through this bootloader right?
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No. Still locked.
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Hello,
Some of you may know me and some not. But, my name is Hashcode and I'm the lead (and only dev) for the Droid 3.
I have always been involved with Bionic development somewhat, but never directly due to my lack of a device.
That has changed. I was offered a dev Bionic at a good price by an XDA user, and it arrived today.
I have several goals in mind for it:
- My first project is to bring up LTE in AOSP ROMs such as ICS and CM7. I can say (and many of you know) that this is not an easy task. I will be re-coding the entire LTE framework that Motorola put into stock Moto Blur (Gingerbread) so that it works with the RIL libraries that we currently have for Bionic.
This may take a few weeks to iron out and debug, but I think it will be well worth the effort as it pushes the Bionic into the next big era of Android. A phone w/o LTE data is mainly just for looks, and I'm sure it's been frustrating as hell for the entire community to watch the world go by.
- Full support and testing of Safestrap for the Bionic. I hear that webtop doesn't work like it should, and perhaps that there is a ROM or 2 that give problems? Let me know.
- I'll be working with dhacker29 to help finish ICS for the Bionic. A lot of my code is already in the build, and now I can port over the in-progress camera code as well.
I will be posting status updates here and RootzWiki as well as on my blog:
http://www.hash-of-codes.blogspot.com
Feel free to follow me on twitter: hashcode0f
Game on.
I look forward to your help with the Bionic. It has a lot of potential and it will be nice to see some things come to fruition.
Glad to see you finally got a bionic! Looking forward to what you and dhacker come up with
Finally!!!! Things are getting better.
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Glad to see another great developer supporting the bionic.
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This.Is.Flipping.AWESOME! Glad to see you'll be putting in some more Bionic dev love, Hashcode...I'm really looking forward to seeing where things go from here (which is NOT to say other dev's haven't been doing a great job...because they have...but more is usually better, esp when Hash is on the case!
This is great news. Welcome aboard!
I just wet myself. What you have done thus far is awesome and we are lucky as hell that somebody put a Bionic in your hands.
Thanks for everything so far, and in advance, for all the sweet things you will undoubtedly bring to the Bionic world...it's been lonely around here lately...lol
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Great news! Safestrap is awesome! I've been recommending it to everyone. If I can do anything to help, just ask! And ignore the haters.
Thanks Hash.
I wish I could help out, but I know nothing beyond the basics in coding.
Hell yeah, thank you.
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So hash and DHacker are working together on ics CM9 rom... Now all we need is to get Embeem into the mix and we'll really have something amazing =D
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This is without a doubt one of the best pieces of Bionic news to date. Thanks so much for your efforts!
Steve
Alllright!
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I just wet myself. What you have done thus far is awesome and we are lucky as hell that somebody put a Bionic in your hands.
Thanks for everything so far, and in advance, for all the sweet things you will undoubtedly bring to the Bionic world...it's been lonely around here lately...lol
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+1!!!
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YAY!!!!!!! ILY!!! Thank you so much! I'm patiently waiting =3
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+1!!!
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+1 LMAO
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Welcome!!! We hope you enjoy your stay!
I'll be looking forward to this.
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Great news!
So happy to hear of your new toy. Looking forward to our phones progress. Thanks for all your time and efforts. Have a brew or two on me.
The future of Rom development is not looking too good for the Droid Bionic. According to the Eclipse forums it appears that nitro the main developer of Eclipse is selling his Droid Bionic. Eclipse 2.2 was the only Droid Bionic Rom that was build off of the 902 update. The stable Rom choices for the Droid Bionic appear to be limited. Gummy appears to be the only stable Rom (not alpha or beta) for the Bionic that is remaining in development.
Yeah this is what happenes when we got a locked bootloader. It chases people away Maybe well have more people jump on the bionic when or if we get ICS soon. all we can do is hope :S
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Yeah this is what happenes when we got a locked bootloader. It chases people away Maybe well have more people jump on the bionic when or if we get ICS soon. all we can do is hope :S
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That has nothing to do with why I sold my bionic.
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I was not able to post the link to nitro's form due to the 10 post rule. If you look at the eclipse form nitro says he is selling his phones because he needs some extra cash not because he dislikes the bionic or locked boot loader.
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That has nothing to do with why I sold my bionic.
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Sorry. Didnt mean to offend or jump to conclusions.
this sucks eclipse is the best! but you gotta do what you gotta do
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Well...this kind of sucks. This was stable and had some great battery life, was almost hoping for an ICS port one of these days
I have been looking and am unable to find any new ROM's past March 10th. Has development stopped for the bionic? No disrespect meant to the developers, but I was just wondering. Are we waiting for an ICS system dump for the kernel or an I just not looking well enough. Again, thanks for all you do. I guess I am just used to Kaos when I was on the Eris. Sometimes we had 3-5 updates in a day. Just wondering. At this time I am using gummy 1.0.2 and loving it. Just wanting to be able to flash more. Force of habit.
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Droid Hive.
Where is that?
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Let me google that for you
Yup droid hive. ROX Rom is coming along nicely!
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Let me google that for you
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smart ass.
but quite clever. bahahahaha
i srsly lol'd
Bionic development has slowed down quite a lot lately. The place I see with the most action and releases is Rootz. Best to peek there.