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[Q] Switching from Droid Incredible 2 to Droid 3, few questions below

Ok, soooooo I'm switching over from the Droid Incredible 2 to the Droid 3 due to absolutely horrid reception issues. I never get higher than -100dbm anywheres, and this is the 4th one I'm on. So, Verizon is sending me a "certified like new" Droid 3. My first question is what is everyone's experience with reception. Does everyone have a rather good experience with the reception or is it kind of iffy? Secondly, what's the modding scene like? Is there like a "popular" mod out for the D3 sort of like what Cyanogenmod is for the Incredible 2?
Thanks.

I had an HTC Eris and it also had reception issues. I've had the D3 since Monday and it's much, much better. dbm seems to be a little bit better, but calls are clear, no stutters, etc.
I haven't rooted, but there is a development forum here. I'm sure that you'll find out all that you'd want to know from there.

doogald said:
I had an HTC Eris and it also had reception issues. I've had the D3 since Monday and it's much, much better. dbm seems to be a little bit better, but calls are clear, no stutters, etc.
I haven't rooted, but there is a development forum here. I'm sure that you'll find out all that you'd want to know from there.
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Seems to be an ongoing thing with HTC phones lately. I wonder who they are contracting their radio development out to lol.

digitalsynner85 said:
Ok, soooooo I'm switching over from the Droid Incredible 2 to the Droid 3 due to absolutely horrid reception issues. I never get higher than -100dbm anywheres, and this is the 4th one I'm on. So, Verizon is sending me a "certified like new" Droid 3. My first question is what is everyone's experience with reception. Does everyone have a rather good experience with the reception or is it kind of iffy? Secondly, what's the modding scene like? Is there like a "popular" mod out for the D3 sort of like what Cyanogenmod is for the Incredible 2?
Thanks.
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I had an Inc1, had my eye on the Inc2 but it just wasn't good enough for me, so I waited a while then went with the D3 in July.
As for reception on the D3, it is amazing. My Ince would be between 75-85 in Houston (bigass city), but now I'm in Waco (tiny little ****hole, lol) and get constant 60's on the D3. So reception is way better.
Also, for the modding scene, there's 4 options right now. There's Steel Droid, Monster rom, DarkDroid (mine), and an alpha build of CM7.

dpwhitty11 said:
I had an Inc1, had my eye on the Inc2 but it just wasn't good enough for me, so I waited a while then went with the D3 in July.
As for reception on the D3, it is amazing. My Ince would be between 75-85 in Houston (bigass city), but now I'm in Waco (tiny little ****hole, lol) and get constant 60's on the D3. So reception is way better.
Also, for the modding scene, there's 4 options right now. There's Steel Droid, Monster rom, DarkDroid (mine), and an alpha build of CM7.
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Heh, I'm in New Iberia, LA and it's just like Waco. At least the part I'm in lol. Glad to hear that in the tiny little ****holes, there is still hope for reception! Thanks for the listing of roms. I'll go have myself a little peek at them and see what's what. Hopefully the "certified like new" doesn't mean "it works, yet it's all discombobulated from people screwing with it before" lol.
Edit: I'm looking at your ROM dp and it looks pretty nice. So I'm guessing that since there is CWM recovery, that you can just flash a ROM like on the DInc and the DInc2 by going into CWM and installing from zip, correct?
Edit 2: I was also looking around, it seems there are 2 versions of the Droid 3? Or am I just losing my mind? lol

Hrm... 2 versions? There are three models: The XT883 comes from China, the XT862 is Verizon ONLY in the USA (Can never be used on any other provider in the USA even if unlocked), and the XT860 from Bell Mobility Canada, which will work on any network in North America if unlocked as far as I know (this is what I have on AT&T).

Savior057 said:
Hrm... 2 versions? There are three models: The XT883 comes from China, the XT862 is Verizon ONLY in the USA (Can never be used on any other provider in the USA even if unlocked), and the XT860 from Bell Mobility Canada, which will work on any network in North America if unlocked as far as I know (this is what I have on AT&T).
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Glad you knew what I meant lol. That was the answer I was looking for . I was thinking models but said versions. Thanks for that answer haha.

digitalsynner85 said:
Glad you knew what I meant lol. That was the answer I was looking for . I was thinking models but said versions. Thanks for that answer haha.
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What he said previously, lol. Bu tyeah, Tehere are three models out there. CT862 (verizon droid 3), XT860 (bell/canada), and XT883 (i think) for china/asia. idk, im drubnk outt amy mind, lol.
But ywes, it works exactly like cwm did on our old Incs, just flash things like noraml in cwm. but makes sure to always have a currwnt bacjup just in case. And also, aftet installing a rom, ALWAYS go back into your bootstrap app and tap/click/press "bootstrap recovery" to reinstall recovery. cuz when you flash a rom, it breqaks 2nd init. So you need to reflash recovery each time you flash a rom.

dpwhitty11 said:
What he said previously, lol. Bu tyeah, Tehere are three models out there. CT862 (verizon droid 3), XT860 (bell/canada), and XT883 (i think) for china/asia. idk, im drubnk outt amy mind, lol.
But ywes, it works exactly like cwm did on our old Incs, just flash things like noraml in cwm. but makes sure to always have a currwnt bacjup just in case. And also, aftet installing a rom, ALWAYS go back into your bootstrap app and tap/click/press "bootstrap recovery" to reinstall recovery. cuz when you flash a rom, it breqaks 2nd init. So you need to reflash recovery each time you flash a rom.
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Ok, I guess you answered my next few questions then haha. So steps are to 1-click-root then reboot. Flash your rom like normal and then upon rebooting, I'd go into bootstrap and flash recovery again, correct? Is that bootstrap app thing included in all the roms releases or do I just keep a copy of it on my computer and just transfer it to my phone after every flash?
Also, if after flashing a ROM, my phone encounters a bootloop, what do I do? Can I still access the recovery in some fashion to flash my nandbackup or will I have to do extra things to fix it?

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Hrm... 2 versions? There are three models:
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Actually the known models are four:
Two droid 3/global phones
XT862 (verizon)
XT883 (china telecom)
And two Milestone 3/GSM only phones
XT860 (bell canada)
ME863 (Chiina Unicom)

Interesting. I guess the Chinese love knocking off a good phone lol. Has anyone had the issues of the slider mechanism either going out or going bad and it creating a really bad "grinding" feeling when you slide it up or have had it loosen up so that when you hold it horizontal it just slides down automatically w/ no effort on your part or had it loosen up so that the keyboard feels like its about to come loose from the device altogether?

digitalsynner85 said:
Interesting. I guess the Chinese love knocking off a good phone lol. Has anyone had the issues of the slider mechanism either going out or going bad and it creating a really bad "grinding" feeling when you slide it up or have had it loosen up so that when you hold it horizontal it just slides down automatically w/ no effort on your part or had it loosen up so that the keyboard feels like its about to come loose from the device altogether?
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I had the MS1 for almost one year, and although te mechanism was not pleasant like the ones seen on the Europeans phones (because not assisted) it was robust enough, on D3 is the same if not better: not assisted, not silky, but robust and not loose.

digitalsynner85 said:
Ok, I guess you answered my next few questions then haha. So steps are to 1-click-root then reboot. Flash your rom like normal and then upon rebooting, I'd go into bootstrap and flash recovery again, correct? Is that bootstrap app thing included in all the roms releases or do I just keep a copy of it on my computer and just transfer it to my phone after every flash?
Also, if after flashing a ROM, my phone encounters a bootloop, what do I do? Can I still access the recovery in some fashion to flash my nandbackup or will I have to do extra things to fix it?
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Well, the way ROMs work on the d3, you keep all your apps and data when you flash something. So you only need to install the bootstrap app once, but you still need to open the app and reinstall the recovery each time.
If you bootloop immediately after flashing a rom, you probably have to SBF (unless you're bootlooping because of a metamorph and you were able to reinstall the recovery). Check out the dev section for the SBF, im posting from my phone atm so I can't link you.
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dpwhitty11 said:
Well, the way ROMs work on the d3, you keep all your apps and data when you flash something. So you only need to install the bootstrap app once, but you still need to open the app and reinstall the recovery each time.
If you bootloop immediately after flashing a rom, you probably have to SBF (unless you're bootlooping because of a metamorph and you were able to reinstall the recovery). Check out the dev section for the SBF, im posting from my phone atm so I can't link you.
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Thanks for clarifying. Sorry if I'm asking n00b-ish questions. I just want to cover all my bases before I get knee deep and I wind up bootlooping it or bricking it lol.

digitalsynner85 said:
Thanks for clarifying. Sorry if I'm asking n00b-ish questions. I just want to cover all my bases before I get knee deep and I wind up bootlooping it or bricking it lol.
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If the sbf are available (they are) is almost impossible to brick (in an unrecoverable way) a motorola phone, because the locked bootloader.

dpwhitty11 said:
Also, for the modding scene, there's 4 options right now. There's Steel Droid, Monster rom, DarkDroid (mine), and an alpha build of CM7.
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Don't forget narcotICS!
EDIT: There's also a link in the development section to Liberty, hosted on rootzwiki
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Camspanners said:
Don't forget narcotICS!
EDIT: There's also a link in the development section to Liberty, hosted on rootzwiki
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I was looking at the narcotICS one. I couldn't get the pic to load of it, but it sounds like a solid rom so far

Is there any hope for a stable droid 4 rom?

I mean, is the d4 going to be overlooked due to the new razr hype?
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i have faith in the Devs that we will see stuff. Even if at first it is ports from the Razar as the hardware is almost identical. Right now there are a few ROMs that are out, but without the files to factory restore a lot of us are not yet wanting to take the risk of loading custom ROMS.

Thats where i stand. Ive only rooted thus far. I went to motorola without doing my homework. Ive had htc phones in the past and loved the roms available for sense. But when i look at the droid roms it seems they must not be as "popular" as the ones for htc sense. But then again i havent participated in the forum scene enough to research yet.
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Sometimes it just take a little longer for them to come out on Motorola but we do get custom ROMs. Once the recovery files are leaked for the Droid 4 fast boot system then I believe we will start to see many more ROMs.

CM9 for Droid 4
I know that the CM9 ICS ROM that hashcode is developing is still in beta stage but honestly that ROM is very stable. I have been using it for over a week testing all the various hardware functions and they all work fine. I was very impressed with it. No major issues with it at all. Just some very minor issues with the software.

whiteout is right.... hashcode's ICS (both CM9 and AOKP) work almost flawlessly for me. I have used both, and they both have everything working, including front facing camera now! with only little bugs here and there that will be worked out shortly.
keep in mind, this phone has only been out for a month, and there are no stock recovery files out there for us if we really eff somthing up.
dont know about you, but i am thrilled with the development so far and LOVING my ICS experience on the droid4.

I know how you feel; this happened to the Droid 2 thanks to the Droid X, but I think it's safe to say that is not the case here. Actually, for there to be a nearly stable ROM for a phone within a month of it being released, is pretty darn awesome! I think the only reason we haven't seen, say, a CM7.1 ROM yet is because everyone is busy working on CM9.
Side note; since we do have all the drivers, is it possible for someone to get CM7.1 compiled for the phone? I suspect this would not take much work for someone who knows what they're doing, and it would be a nice step up from stock for those of us who actually need to keep a stable phone until CM9 is ready.

I really like roms that also add alot of visuals like change the look of the phone
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I can tell you that at the moment we have two good Android ICS roms in the works, I don't know if those will have many visual options.
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blpw said:
Sometimes it just take a little longer for them to come out on Motorola but we do get custom ROMs. Once the recovery files are leaked for the Droid 4 fast boot system then I believe we will start to see many more ROMs.
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I sure hope we get a good stock recovery file soon. I boot-loop bricked my D4 with careless use of Titanium Backup PRO (moving around system Dalvik cache, deleting rather than freezing stock bloat apps, etc.). Since factory resetting hasn't help, I assume I've trashed the system core and need to reflash from stock... which I guess hasn't been released yet. Sigh.

I just got my Droid 4 a few days ago, and quickly tried the ICS/CM9 ROM, and while it still has some kinks to work out, it definatly has a strong following, and Im sure we will get more things in the future.

[Q] Droid 3 ICS-Root?

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?

y0himba said:
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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Thinking of getting Atrix HD ... root, roms?

Hey guys,
It turns out my Atrix 4G is eligible for the Motorola trade up program and the Atrix HD is the only high end Motorola phone on AT&T. Is the phone rooted yet and are there any roms available? I did a search and there doesn't appear to be official Cyanogenmod, or any other roms for that matter. The main reason I would want to flash would be to get rid of motoblur ... if there are no custom roms is there at least a way to get rid of motoblur and return to android stock UI?

Its rooted and there will be official jb coming out soon! (beta already out)
Motoblur is only in traces, it got phased out.

I'm a flashaholic myself but I'm actually enjoying the Atrix HD just the way it is. Upgraded from the Atrix 4G as well and I'm definitely glad I did. The jellybean leak is very well put together and the 4.2 apps available for download definitely adds to the greatness that is the Atrix HD. The Razr MAXX battery mod increased the life of the phone big time.
Sent from my Jellybeaned Motorola Atrix HD MAXX

I've had my AHD for about a week now, and I'm usually a flashaholic, but honestly I don't see any obvious reasons to need to flash anything. I loathed Motoblur, and thankfully it's not here. I did root though, for obvious reasons. I can tell you that I am extremely picky about phones, and can name probably ten phones I've used this year, and this is my favorite.

Okay cool, thanks for the info guys! Looks like the Atrix HD will be my next phone!

You won't be disappointed!
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Yeah same here, I was a flashaholic as well, probably been through 6 or 7 phones this year already and once I got my hands on the Atrix HD, I am completely happy.

Agreed that the stock jellybean leak is very well done, feels like vanilla jb with a few nice tweaks. Of course once we have recovery working there will be ROMs and kernels hehe

Do keep in mind that your SD card can not be used to install any apps on to it nor can it be used to install a game and then the game installs any extra data.

A working recovery is almost here guys. Hashcode is working his azz off to finish it right now!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1964259&page=10

sounreal said:
Do keep in mind that your SD card can not be used to install any apps on to it nor can it be used to install a game and then the game installs any extra data.
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Hopefully custom ROMs will bring a workaround for this.

AzraelsVoice said:
I've had my AHD for about a week now, and I'm usually a flashaholic, but honestly I don't see any obvious reasons to need to flash anything. I loathed Motoblur, and thankfully it's not here. I did root though, for obvious reasons. I can tell you that I am extremely picky about phones, and can name probably ten phones I've used this year, and this is my favorite.
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100% confirm!
Snappier than the S3 and Hox (int.) i compared with..
No lags, freezes, etc...just runs extremely good under stock os..

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100% confirm!
Snappier than the S3 and Hox (int.) i compared with..
No lags, freezes, etc...just runs extremely good under stock os..
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Exactly, I haven't had a single hiccup AT ALL with my AHD. I wanted to throw my S3 against the wall. This Motorola is just solid.

New Droid 4 Owner -- Need some advice

Hey guys! My contract from verizon is running up and I desperately need a new phone; but I still have unlimited 4G and I'm not going to let Verizon contract me into another phone and lose it! HAH What a joke, 2gb a month for the "cheapest" option? No thank you. So I went ahead and ordered a mint condition Droid 4 for a nice price It should arrive this Friday
I'm upgrading from a Thunderbolt (the old girl served me well) and I cannot, and I can't stress this enough, cannot WAIT to have a physical keyboard back. I used to to be a Blackberry Curve and Tour owner back in the day before I made the switch to Android.
My question to you guys is, what ROM should I run? I want a full experience, so no non-working mechanics so I will be staying away from the broken camera roms, at least til they're stable. Also, what other things should I know before getting my new phone?
Thanks, and I hope to be part of the xda droid 4 owning family in a couple of days

captainstarbucs said:
Hey guys! My contract from verizon is running up and I desperately need a new phone; but I still have unlimited 4G and I'm not going to let Verizon contract me into another phone and lose it! HAH What a joke, 2gb a month for the "cheapest" option? No thank you. So I went ahead and ordered a mint condition Droid 4 for a nice price It should arrive this Friday
I'm upgrading from a Thunderbolt (the old girl served me well) and I cannot, and I can't stress this enough, cannot WAIT to have a physical keyboard back. I used to to be a Blackberry Curve and Tour owner back in the day before I made the switch to Android.
My question to you guys is, what ROM should I run? I want a full experience, so no non-working mechanics so I will be staying away from the broken camera roms, at least til they're stable. Also, what other things should I know before getting my new phone?
Thanks, and I hope to be part of the xda droid 4 owning family in a couple of days
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If your looking for bug free myfishbear's Eclipse ROM is probably the way to go. As for other things to know, you will need to root and install safestrap recovery in order to install ROMs. I recommend the Droid 4 Utility ICS Only. That will allow you to root and also has a function to install safestrap.
And welcome to the D4 forums!
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If your looking for bug free myfishbear's Eclipse ROM is probably the way to go. As for other things to know, you will need to root and install safestrap recovery in order to install ROMs. I recommend the Droid 4 Utility ICS Only. That will allow you to root and also has a function to install safestrap.
And welcome to the D4 forums!
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Thank you! I was seriously expecting responses like "buy a better phone" or something. Quick question; do I have to flash radios like I did with the Thunderbolt? If I get stock gingerbread OS, should I upgrade to stock ICS and then root? Or will it not make a difference?
Thanks!

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Thank you! I was seriously expecting responses like "buy a better phone" or something. Quick question; do I have to flash radios like I did with the Thunderbolt? If I get stock gingerbread OS, should I upgrade to stock ICS and then root? Or will it not make a difference?
Thanks!
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I love my D4 You do not need to flash radios or anything like that. If it still has GB on it I would go ahead and update to ICS first and then root. That way you don't have to mess with root keeper or anything like that.

Thanks for the reply again! I will upgrade to ICS then root
It'll be here tomorrow, can't wait!

I suggest rooting stock and freezing a bunch of the garbage ICS apps that you will never use.

Fwiw, I've recently bought a used D4 for the same reason
(High 5!) And have not installed a new rom. I've just rooted, mainly so I could freeze a few things and use rom toolbox's ad blocker. Not to take anything away from the devs who do great work, but personally I'm totally happy with the (rooted) stock ICS. I know JB is supposed to be snappier, but I'm not seeing any sluggishness anyway. Welcome to the D4 world-the keyboard is AWESOME, really.
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I'd prefer to install Eclipse rom because there is no bloat to freeze and it's really fast. Also, it gets rid of a few spy tools Moto and Verizon placed on the stock roms.
Moreover, when using safestrap (which is needed to flash a rom) you don't have to worry about screwing up your system because it prevents you from messing up the stock rom.

FedEx is terrible. My phone won't be here til tomorrow
Anyway.
I think I will try and use Eclpise first. It looks like what I am after

Another vote for Eclipse here
The JB ROMs, CM10, AOKP etc. are all very nice, but missing crucial features like camera flash and the HDMI port.

Does eclipse introduce any bugs? If it gives stock functionality without the stock bloat, I'll be changing my mind...
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The Kraken! said:
Does eclipse introduce any bugs? If it gives stock functionality without the stock bloat, I'll be changing my mind...
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Not noticed any bugs.
I find the (optional, flashed separately) speed tweaks to really hurt battery life, but the basic ROM (plus olegfusion's GSM patch) works just fine.

Thanks! In that case I'll probably try it out when my semester ends and I have time to tinker.

I want to tag in here, I recently purchased this phone and im from the Netherlands. I read that the Droid4 will have stock JB (4.2) support. The thing is, I am dutch and the phone isn't unlocked. Now i've been trying to understand if the update is possible for me and if the update is out allready (cant find anything about it)
Little background info:
I've had the desire Z when it intially launched and it broke down last month. Been using the desire for a month and im going nuts! Really missing a physical HD and when I started googling it seemde that the droid4 is made for me, but not being sold in stores in the NL.

It depends... what are running right now? what are you looking for? performance or battery life??????????????

I have not seen any news that this phone will get 4.2, but Motorola currently has the device listed among those that will receive 4.1 at some point (no date scheduled, though). There has not yet been an official stock release of any form of Jellybean to the Droid 4 so far.

Sorry for the late reply, I got the phone now and I saw that Hashtag is one of the core dev's for 4.1/4.2 AOKP/CM10. The phone is unlocked when upgrading to ICS via WiFi, so thats not a worry. The problem is that I cant get the data to work, ive posted about it here
Fixed! Was blind and didnt see this post Ideal for GSM users

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Sorry for the late reply, I got the phone now and I saw that Hashtag is one of the core dev's for 4.1/4.2 AOKP/CM10. The phone is unlocked when upgrading to ICS via WiFi, so thats not a worry. The problem is that I cant get the data to work, ive posted about it here
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I've never had much luck with GSM/UMTS data on Hashcode's ROMs. Stick with something like Eclipse ICS for now until Hashcode's ROMs mature a bit.

if I were you, I'd also go for the eclipse rom.
I had installed the jb rom at first, but somewhen it got really slow and apps began to crash, I also lost connection with my carrier more often then with the eclipse rom that I've changed to now.

captainstarbucs said:
Hey guys! My contract from verizon is running up and I desperately need a new phone; but I still have unlimited 4G and I'm not going to let Verizon contract me into another phone and lose it! HAH What a joke, 2gb a month for the "cheapest" option? No thank you. So I went ahead and ordered a mint condition Droid 4 for a nice price It should arrive this Friday
I'm upgrading from a Thunderbolt (the old girl served me well) and I cannot, and I can't stress this enough, cannot WAIT to have a physical keyboard back. I used to to be a Blackberry Curve and Tour owner back in the day before I made the switch to Android.
My question to you guys is, what ROM should I run? I want a full experience, so no non-working mechanics so I will be staying away from the broken camera roms, at least til they're stable. Also, what other things should I know before getting my new phone?
Thanks, and I hope to be part of the xda droid 4 owning family in a couple of days
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I just recently got a used Droid 4 myself, and I have to agree with ECLIPSE. It was the first rom I installed (immediately after I got the phone), and I rooted/safestrapped with the ICS Utility. It was an absolute breeze, and ECLIPSE is running wonderfully.