i got a early upgrade today and i am wondering what development has gone on. i know it has recovery mode and i know that you can put roms on it. but does it have a asop rom? also is the rom fully unlocked or is it like how the droid x used to be? thanks any help will be great because i dont know if i want to wait for the galaxy prime(nexus prime/droidprime) or get this already.
I've deodex my phone so far.
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The bootloader is locked like the DX there are people working on finding the unlock procedure for it but there will be no ETA on that (if ever) until it happens. Honestly if you are concerned with Modding, considering the amount of attention this phone has already received from the Dev community it should be a heavily developed phone. It has been out for just over 10days and already rooted, strapped, and CM7 under development. However remember the phone does have a locked bootloader so that means no kernel flashing, which sucks but, considering I don't feel the need to overclock just yet and my battery life if wonderful, I just don't see the need for a new kernel yet.
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Wondering why the bionic has a few roms out already and we dont? Do they have a fully working cwm? Am i missing something? Just curious. Thanks.
So far I've seen a deodexed stock rom and an early pre-alpha of CyanogenMod. What else has been posted for the Bionic?
The deodexed ROM is no different than stock for users and offers zero benefits.
The CM7 ROM was created by the lead CM team member of the Motorola Droid and Motorola Droid X (lots of experience with Motorola phones) and because he was donated a Droid Bionic. It's a completely useless ROM at this point as most of the hardware sensors do not work. It boots. Not much else.
Buy cpvcs a Droid 3, ship it to him and he will have a CM7 ROM booting on it within days of receiving it. It'll be just as useless as the Bionic's version....but it'll be there.
Give it time....it is going to be a while before a good solid/stable ROM is released.
First rule of XDA, don't ask for ETA's. If you want a custom ROM, nothing stopping you from trying to cook one your own.
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lordgodgeneral said:
First rule of XDA, don't ask for ETA's. If you want a custom ROM, nothing stopping you from trying to cook one your own.
Edit, hit the thanks instead of quote, they really should move that button
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Where in my post does it ask for an eta???? I was asking why. Its a simple question.
heres the thing...waiting for CM7 will be worth the wait.. mmhmm.
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They can flash, they're using the same flashing method that the D2, DX are using with 2nd init and hijacking. Hashcode hasn't enabled flashing on the D3 recovery yet because he's trying to do something a little different and a little safer from what I understand. From his explanation over in the clockwork recovery thread in development he's working more on a dualboot flashing system where we would basically leave the stock system intact and run the custom rom off a different partition/folder. This would allow us to boot to the stock rom if something happens during the flash process on the custom rom. Since using the 2nd init and hijack and not having an unlocked bootloader, CWR gets loaded into the preinstall partition along with the hijack files, so there's a chance these can get overwrote while flashing if something goes wrong and potentially soft brick the phone.
Don't worry the D3 is the flag ship phone that won't go to much longer with out some kick ass roms. But it is some BS that the bionic is getting roms right off the bat, while we wait. But I would be happy to send a d3 to those guys... if it would help or will bionic development and hacks work for the d3 as well????
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Since when?
lordgodgeneral said:
First rule of XDA, don't ask for ETA's. If you want a custom ROM, nothing stopping you from trying to cook one your own.
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Since when has their been rules on topics asking ETA's on this forum, or any other forum in general? I know it's taboo to ask questions that have already been answered in several posts, but there are several forums specifically about speculating the ETA of not only just devices or OTA leaks, but about the cooking of roms on freshly rooted phones as well. The question of this post is legit, especially for users without the experience that more knowledgable users like tcrew and you (lordgodgeneral) have contributed to answering a question ALOT of people in the droid 3 community are wanting to know. Glad this topic existed, helped me out..
mmsomekid said:
Because the bootloader is still locked. The Bionic will probably get unlocked slightly faster than the D3 because they have more developers working on it, but theyre so similar that i would expect the D3 to get an unlock the same day as the Bionic. Unless Motorola finally unlocks the bootloaders but who knows when that day will come...
Edit: there is an UNL3ASH3D rom now available for the bionic, i didnt think they could flash yet in CWM?
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It doesn't matter if the Bootloader is locked. It will probably never be unlocked.
Its been a rule since the devs on this particular forum specifically asked us not to ask for eta's. We have people cooking roms, were just waiting for our awesome version of CWM to be stable and safe to use. I'm as anxious as any of you, but don't hassle the devs that are working so hard to make our phones the best out there. Give them time.
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Until now I have been more or less bemused by the complaints that the Droid 3 was being somewhat neglected in the development community in favor of the Bionic, assuming that there was more than a little exaggeration of the progress on the Bionic vs D3. Now, however, I am beginning to wonder if the complaints may not have been somewhat justified. I know no one owes the D3 owners anything on the dev side, but to see the Bionic now able to use ROM Manager while I sit with a previously paid app that does nothing on my phone is admittedly frustrating. I keep reading posts saying that any Bionic developments will be followed rapidly by similar progress on D3, so I hope I can use ROM Manager on my phone in a few days.
pgzerwer said:
Until now I have been more or less bemused by the complaints that the Droid 3 was being somewhat neglected in the development community in favor of the Bionic, assuming that there was more than a little exaggeration of the progress on the Bionic vs D3. Now, however, I am beginning to wonder if the complaints may not have been somewhat justified. I know no one owes the D3 owners anything on the dev side, but to see the Bionic now able to use ROM Manager while I sit with a previously paid app that does nothing on my phone is admittedly frustrating. I keep reading posts saying that any Bionic developments will be followed rapidly by similar progress on D3, so I hope I can use ROM Manager on my phone in a few days.
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Droid 3 Bootstrap on Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.droid3.bootstrap and direct download: http://download.clockworkmod.com//test/Droid3Bootstrap.apk (ROM Manager support as well)
bam
If you have already purchased Rom Manager, just install it and have it install the custom recovery for you...
Edit: Maybe not.. it shows it installed CWR but I can't boot into it..
A large PayPal donation to the first flashable Rom!
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Rocinante said:
If you have already purchased Rom Manager, just install it and have it install the custom recovery for you...
Edit: Maybe not.. it shows it installed CWR but I can't boot into it..
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You have to use koush's bootstrap...
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Just curious, outside of no custom kernels nothing else has to be used from the stock system, correct? So custom roms with our 512 of ram will be more than enough.
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OK, I am a believer now. No more pathetic whining by me, at least for the next 5 minutes or so.
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You have to use koush's bootstrap...
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Yeah, I'm guessing there is a special way it boots into recovery with the custom app because I can't get Rom Manager to boot into recovery..
So I saw in the droid 4 android dev section that someone had flashed artic rom or something to d4 just curious to see if they used razr safe strap or not. I haven't tested flashing a rom but razr safe strap seems to be running fine for me.
hooks405 said:
So I saw in the droid 4 android dev section that someone had flashed artic rom or something to d4 just curious to see if they used razr safe strap or not. I haven't tested flashing a rom but razr safe strap seems to be running fine for me.
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I would assume they probably used safestrap. Personally, I would hold off at least until we get some sort of fastboot recovery option though.
yeah i am also holding off until we have an SBF or at least fastboot recovery... good to see that we do have dev support!
Now that we have unlocked bootloader thanks to dan
What all things we can do?
1.have custom recovery?
2.flash different kernels.
This means we will soon have official CM versions and AOKP?
We will no more have to rely on current safestrap... and we can use CWM/Touch recovery and TWRP.
I m a newbie on this and will like you guyz to correct me or add more on this thing.
Thank you.
I think it's too soon to say we'll got a stable CM10 or aokp. But,we have entered a whole new life. This is just a beginning.
Nice to see some devs are still using this phone. Will see some custom roms soon. And we may see some custom kernels too. Rooting our phone is way easier than before. I can flash sbf without worrying to reroot using Ubuntu. Just flash cwm via fastboot and flash supersu. Damn! It just happens too fast. Lol.
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Most important for me: you can downgrade to 4.0 and use lapdock properly!
So we can down grade
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I was wondering if there is a port of android 4.2.2 only. I'm not looking for a rom. I just want the current version of android.
I appreciate everyone's hard work with the roms there are some nice ones for the atrix hd, but I use my phone 80% work related so I think it's best if I don't use one until I get my new personal phone come Christmas,
Thank You!
You can't just port another phones ota. If you want 4.2 go custom.
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deeje00 said:
You can't just port another phones ota. If you want 4.2 go custom.
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I guess that wouldn't be a problem if I actually knew how to do any of that besides flashing another's port.
If you want 4.2.2, your best choice would be to go with a custom rom. To easily install different roms, it would be best to unlock the bootloader, root, and load cwm. Unlocking the bootloader will void your warranty which may be a problem for some users.
The latest official release is 4.1.2 and I think this is the end of the line for updates on the AHD.
I don't know that we're stuck at 4.1 stock I'm sure we'll get 4.2 eventually but that will probably be the last update. As for running 4.2 now I recommend the PAC man rom. I love it. No issues for me I'm running the July 3rd build.
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I've already unlocked the bootloader, rooted, and loaded cwm.
I could care less about the warranty I had a problem with the sim card not clicking in place it would just pop out so I sent it in they had it for a week and half. I got a call asking me what the issue was I explained they said ok simple fix get it shipped back out to you today. I got it back 3 days later with nothing done to it.
you're looking for AOSP. Skeevy is building that soon, is just vanilla android, no customizations, just like google intended. lol