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(Q) MIUI for our GTabs?

I was just wondering if it was possible to get the MIUI rom ported over to our beloved GTabs since we already have a little CMmod ported to it? Scroll down about half way and you'll find pics of the rom. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823494

that is pretty awesome looking. I wonder what it would take to get that ported over to our tabs, great find.

I have been working on porting MIUI over with no success so far.
I have also been playing with a Gingerbread rom, but having too many issues to even call it pre-alpha.
So far I have not released any Roms, I am still developing my dev-fu. Hopefully one of the more seasoned devs can beat me to the punch.

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dharr18 said:
I have been working on porting MIUI over with no success so far.
I have also been playing with a Gingerbread rom, but having too many issues to even call it pre-alpha.
So far I have not released any Roms, I am still developing my dev-fu. Hopefully one of the more seasoned devs can beat me to the punch.
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I figured someone had to be working on this. I've heard too many great things about this rom for someone not to. Hopefully you're not alone in your quest and others are digging away at it behind the scenes. Also eluminx, this rom has been around for some months now. It can from a Chinese developer/rom and was ported over to the Incredible first (*I think, not 100% sure) and then it snowballed from there onto other phones. I never was able to try it on my Droid X because the bootloader was locked and I think I read a custom kernel was needed to get it running. (Can't get that on the X...booooooo!!!!)

kxs783kms said:
I figured someone had to be working on this. I've heard too many great things about this rom for someone not to. Hopefully you're not alone in your quest and others are digging away at it behind the scenes. Also eluminx, this rom has been around for some months now. It can from a Chinese developer/rom and was ported over to the Incredible first (*I think, not 100% sure) and then it snowballed from there onto other phones. I never was able to try it on my Droid X because the bootloader was locked and I think I read a custom kernel was needed to get it running. (Can't get that on the X...booooooo!!!!)
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I'm not what you would call "up to date" on the whole android roms. Needless to say aside from my gtab i've only rooted my mt3g and i have only experienced 2 roms total on that phone. But thanks for the info, hopefully i can get a new phone here pretty soon, and decide to try more roms just for the fun of it.

[Q] Wondering why D2G is ignored by modding community

I went from a Motorola Milestone to a Droid 2 Global. And as much as I am enjoying the Fission ROM from Team DeFuse, I am wondering why there seems to be such low interest in the Droid 2 Global compared to the original Droid 2? Can anyone give me some info as to why this is the case? I realize that with the Droid 2 globals additional radios that that transcribes to more work to get those operational in a custom ROM, I just dont understand why this powerful phone is ignored and left to sit on the curb. Thank you to all in advance.

1. The Global is hard to dev for. There aren't many Global devices to go off of, so the radios are hard to get 100% working on custom roms
2. It was launched silently. No one really knows it exists, so it just didn't receive the initial dev bump that phones usually get when they're first released
3. It didn't sell very well. I can't speak for the whole sales numbers, but my friend who works for Verizon Corporate (or something like that) said the numbers weren't fantastic in New York.
4. Three devices is a lot. Any devs willing to work on the Global probably already work on the Droid X and Droid 2. Adding a third device to the list is just too much for people who do this as a hobby.
That's the best explanation I can give... sorry for how negative it was, lol.
To be fair, the D2G is receiving more support this last month or so. Look on droidforums.net, some good work being done on there (3 or 4 roms available).

I will keep an eye out on droidforums. I was also thinking that with the possibility of 2.3 coming out for it most devs dont (myself included) see a point in making a ROM on froyo when 2.3 is around the corner. Thank you for your input. Its much appreciated

Most of the correct answers were already stated...
Just wated to point out that only people who truly needed global support would buy the D2G.
Droid Pro got play merely because it was targeted at the Crackberry crowd conversion which really didn't work.
Those are the only two GLOBAL phone I know of. Doesn't make sense to make many more with the 4G revolution under way.
Business have bought into the form factor but the Devs they all look at the performance specs and the EASE of development regarding the model.
The biggest issue though is the locked bootloader! Since the boot loader is locked you can not run custom Kernels so any development that could be made is limited to the stock kernel.
All of the Motorola development you see regarding phone with lockd bootloaders are really nothing more than a bunch of stock and AOSP apps and system files that change the look and the startup sequence but the base code that runs the phone pretty much stays the same!
I would love to see more people making ROMs for the unit but what I really want to see is the unlocking of that boot loader.
If we managed to do that then none of us would be worrying how many roms were available or which one updates next.
We would probably all be running Cyanogen at this point and merely wait for the next release of stable! And also be looking for the next great Kernel update to make it even better!

Asphyx said:
Most of the correct answers were already stated...
Just wated to point out that only people who truly needed global support would buy the D2G.
Droid Pro got play merely because it was targeted at the Crackberry crowd conversion which really didn't work.
Those are the only two GLOBAL phone I know of. Doesn't make sense to make many more with the 4G revolution under way.
Business have bought into the form factor but the Devs they all look at the performance specs and the EASE of development regarding the model.
The biggest issue though is the locked bootloader! Since the boot loader is locked you can not run custom Kernels so any development that could be made is limited to the stock kernel.
All of the Motorola development you see regarding phone with lockd bootloaders are really nothing more than a bunch of stock and AOSP apps and system files that change the look and the startup sequence but the base code that runs the phone pretty much stays the same!
I would love to see more people making ROMs for the unit but what I really want to see is the unlocking of that boot loader.
If we managed to do that then none of us would be worrying how many roms were available or which one updates next.
We would probably all be running Cyanogen at this point and merely wait for the next release of stable! And also be looking for the next great Kernel update to make it even better!
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Won't anyone who wants a keyboard on verizon also get the D2G? I mean it's the only half decent phone with a physical qwerty keyboard on verizon, and the droid 2 itself was phased out months ago, 4 months ago when I got my D2G you couldn't get a new Droid 2 at verizon, though I think Best Buy might have still had them, though they were just clearing out stock.
Also I thought fact that everything has to be signed is the problem with the phone. When you don't know how to sign the kernel and other things the phone has hardware to autobrick which is why no one can get around it. Tons of phones out there have locked bootloaders that are gotten around well before or within a few days of the phone being released. If it was just the locked bootloader then I'd say motorola has found the holy grail of security, because everything else out there has been hacked through.

The problem isn't that the bootloader is signed, its that its encrypted. Newer htc phones have bootloaders that require signed kernels and people have found ways around them already, the encryption prevents us from loading custom software on it.
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[Q] Questions about the XT701 compared to another phone

Hello,
I post here because there appear to be no other Q&A boards for this phone and the xt720 is the most similar to the xt701.
I could also have asked in the P500 general board, but since they have a whole board to themselves, I figure it is easier to look for the information there than it is about the xt701 here primarily because there don't seem to be that many xt701 posts or users here to start and the deadline for choosing the phone is tomorrow so I hope at least one xt701 user will notice this post and reply to help me make the choice a bit easier, if not faster.
At this time I'm looking to buy a phone and after a long search and after reviewing many phones, review sites , specs sites, and prices I've come to narow my list to two phones: the LG P500, and the Motorola XT701.
My questions here are about the XT701. After reading a few of the threads here I'm led to believe the xt701 is bootloader locked, is this true?
Also, It seems it can only go up to android 2.2 and in the CM7 thread, while there appears to be some progress to getting 2.3 on it but many features don't seem to work and while there was a link to a chinese post that apparently got it to work, I can't be sure since comments don't seem clear enough on what is working or not. At least not for me.
Any comments about quirks, problems, or annoyances with the phone are welcome too.
One last thing, I don't know if it's because the p500 was cheaper or easier to get than the xt720/701, but the p500 appears to be more developed in what's android and mods than the xt even though the xt has better specs, except for the RAM. I was wondering if someone had any idea as to the reasons behind that or if it's just the lack of users.
Thank you for your time.

From what I understand, XT701 is locked, but it doesn't verify boot.img at boot. This means you can use nandroid to install custom boot.img. There's been a lot of effort to port the XT701 bootloader to other Motorola phones (but no luck so far).
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Mioze7Ae said:
This means you can use nandroid to install custom boot.img.
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Does that mean it can run 2.2 or does boot.img handle something else?
And can it be made to run superuser?

r1c47 said:
Does that mean it can run 2.2 or does boot.img handle something else?
And can it be made to run superuser?
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Like I said, I don't have an XT701. I believe XT701 has CM7 (gingerbread)... see this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1064090
Since XT701 is also officially stuck at 2.1, I imagine rooting works the same as on XT720. Most of the XT701 development happens on Chinese forums from what I can tell.

I see.
Once again thank you for your time.

get a p500. they have gingerbread.

[Q] ICS Port or Other Custom ROM

hey guys, i just got myself a nexus s (switched from a captivate, to galaxy s 2, then to nexus s) and was looking into flashing the ICS port. I had done some reading about locked and unlocked bootloaders, so i wanted to know does it matter whether the bootloader is locked or unlocked if i were to flash the ICS port? i ask because i know there are specific roms for each bootloader in the android development.
also another question, if anyone here could give me some feedback on the daily use of the ICS port, whether they are happy with it. i've watched a couple youtube videos of the recent port and it seems to work quite well, but i wouldn't mind some feedback on it first. lately ive been running MIUI, so im content just using that if the ICS port isn't at that stage yet.
thanks for any input

You didn't do much reading if you don't know the bootloader needs to be unlocked to flash a custom recovery which in turn lets you flash custom roms.
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i guess i may be wrong, but i had read this thread and figured it wasnt necessary
[GUIDE] Root & recovery WITHOUT oem unlock & wipe (2.3.2 & older, plus now 2.3) --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931865

i realize that its for the lower versions of 2.3 but thats what it's running right now. whoever owned it before hadn't updated it. but either way that answers my question, so ill unlock it

in terms of the usability of the ics ports. I've been using Drew Garen's ports for about two weeks now. Extremely usable and stable. Its almost impossible to tell its an sdk port. His current beta 10 has everything working except for bluetooth and a slightly inaccurate gps. He said that he got a true ics rom working using the galaxy nexus dump so that should be released soonish.

Very good port indeed. However, Im having trouble to make whatsapp work properly. Contacts never shown in the app.... anyone know how to solve this?

thanks for your input guys. i did go through and read quite a bit of pages through the rom thread (worked my way from the back forward), and it seemed like it should be good enough for me. i don't really ever use bluetooth, and gps occasionally, so i should be able to manage with it. and i do use whatsapp, so ill install it tomorrow and see if i figure any solution out to your problem jpvalenz

Been a looonnnggggg time since i rooted my og droid

Hey everyone, I dont know how many of you remember the old, archaic, physical keyboard having OG Droid. But I do, and I loved that thing like a son. The last time I rooted my phone was gingerbread, and then I got my bionic. Which we all know how that ****fest went down, what with the locked bootloader which was a nightmare to root. Anyways, I just got a Maxx HD (I think) and I wanna get back into the rooting game. If anyone can compile these three things for me, that would be amazing.
1: How to root the phone, whether easy or not
2: Best rom for it (paranoid android, carbon, zeus, cyan, whatever its called these days)
3: The necessary apps you have and use a ton that use root

stalegummy said:
Hey everyone, I dont know how many of you remember the old, archaic, physical keyboard having OG Droid. But I do, and I loved that thing like a son. The last time I rooted my phone was gingerbread, and then I got my bionic. Which we all know how that ****fest went down, what with the locked bootloader which was a nightmare to root. Anyways, I just got a Maxx HD (I think) and I wanna get back into the rooting game. If anyone can compile these three things for me, that would be amazing.
1: How to root the phone, whether easy or not
2: Best rom for it (paranoid android, carbon, zeus, cyan, whatever its called these days)
3: The necessary apps you have and use a ton that use root
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in order to answer some of that we need to know your current system version and if the bootloader is unlocked or not.

Well if you looked in the development section all of your questions are easily answered man. No one can tell you the best rom. Try for yourself.
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