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Gingerbread with 2.2 Kernel

Hi,
Well we have an Froyo Kernel (UK,Orange,Chinese) well the guys at the XT720 got Froyo with 2.1 UK Kernel to Work.
Someone gonna try 2.3 with 2.2. UK/Orange Kernel?
That would be something really nice we could work on
Cause with 2.2 UK / Orange we have perfect working Froyo, now there ist only 720p (half done) ,FM-Transmitter (seems impossible) and finally Bootloader Cracking(really hard work) left for Developers
We could use CM7 or Milestone Gingerbread Port
Regards

the guys that are working on milestone baked a fully?! working gingerbread, can't the same method they used to get it working on milestone be used for our defy? i also read that custom kernels can be loaded on droid x and milestone
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/pr...5-getting-custom-kernels-running-droid-x.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941346
can anybody make an attempt!?

I dont care about pays rom or s.froyo all what we want is stock gingerbread or even cm7 but no more froyo blur roms plz!!!

Bendary said:
I dont care about pays rom or s.froyo all what we want is stock gingerbread or even cm7 but no more froyo blur roms plz!!!
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personal i dislike motoblur!
my defy's rom are deblurred!! the dream its to have a cyano porting for our defy!

Can someone describe to me what a deblur rom is cz it still looks like blur to me.

adi4motion said:
the guys that are working on milestone baked a fully?! working gingerbread, can't the same method they used to get it working on milestone be used for our defy? i also read that custom kernels can be loaded on droid x and milestone
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/pr...5-getting-custom-kernels-running-droid-x.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941346
can anybody make an attempt!?
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Unfortunately I can't find any information that they actually used the kexec method to load a fully custom kernel. I'm hoping they are still hiding it for the public to get rid of bugs. I fear though it's never going to happen. Despite that fear, a true CM7 on our Defy with a Moto kernel would already be quite nice. The custom roms so far are nice, but they are nothing more than adaptations of the original firmware. There is still Moto stuff in them, and don't we all just want to have Gingerbread on our Defy?

Honesty.... Gingerbread is the worst update google has done.. might as well wait for Icecream for some REAL update besides some phone off animations. Before we even got a froyo rom I attempted to port it with advice I got from dexter awhile ago... obviously didn't work.
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All I can say is can't wait for blurless tmous froyo (cue jboogie)

2.3 doesn't seem to do much really...

It would be nice to have the latest ginger just to have the latest ginger to keep our Defy up to date.
I agree with jboogie3, it would be better keep some energy to concentrate our efforts on the next release during this time if you don't like blur stuff I would advise the latest jboogie3 rom which is really fast and as blurless as it's reasonable to be (only miss ginger keyboard which has improvements and drawbacks .
A core CM port would be nice though.
Cheers,
Kribou

I hope Motorola gives defy little ginger, because froyo its close to final release.
I think that Motorola developers will not stop there.
But its only me..
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Jt612 said:
2.3 doesn't seem to do much really...
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Yes, there are few small changes, but if the kernel could be ported that will be nice...maybe in some we could really have fully customizable roms on our defy

I just want 24bit gallery back.

iaio72 said:
personal i dislike motoblur!
my defy's rom are deblurred!! the dream its to have a cyano porting for our defy!
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Unfortunately even the deblurred ROMs aren't running stock apps. They still have Moto contacts, moto dialler, cmp and more at a minimum, not to mention there are moto services you can't get rid of.
It's not that I don't appreciate the work the devs are doing with ROMs but all I really want is a proper Froyo stock ROM, maybe one day I'll get bothered enough to try and make one

bam0 said:
Unfortunately even the deblurred ROMs aren't running stock apps. They still have Moto contacts, moto dialler, cmp and more at a minimum, not to mention there are moto services you can't get rid of.
It's not that I don't appreciate the work the devs are doing with ROMs but all I really want is a proper Froyo stock ROM, maybe one day I'll get bothered enough to try and make one
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Good luck....
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bam0 said:
Unfortunately even the deblurred ROMs aren't running stock apps. They still have Moto contacts, moto dialler, cmp and more at a minimum, not to mention there are moto services you can't get rid of.
It's not that I don't appreciate the work the devs are doing with ROMs but all I really want is a proper Froyo stock ROM, maybe one day I'll get bothered enough to try and make one
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at this moment the most we can do with rom deblur, is to change
some applications aosp with some blur .... not easy to delete all app
motorola, there are some default app that you just replace them, but must rewrite the correct library for it to work properly, such (for example) as a keyboard (or gingerbread Android) ..

Everyone, could you plz save your efforts with all the blur roms and start baking stock roms cz I believe it is possible but just needs alot of work, so to all the devs here can u all work on the same project of unlocking the bootloader and porting stock roms, plz!!!

are you serious?
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Kribou said:
It would be nice to have the latest ginger just to have the latest ginger to keep our Defy up to date.
I agree with jboogie3, it would be better keep some energy to concentrate our efforts on the next release during this time if you don't like blur stuff I would advise the latest jboogie3 rom which is really fast and as blurless as it's reasonable to be (only miss ginger keyboard which has improvements and drawbacks .
A core CM port would be nice though.
Cheers,
Kribou
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Gingerbread keyboard works dandy on my defy.
There is a port for 2.2 devices...
Gingerbread is all in all a nice update. made my hd2 faster, better looking and added this little orange bumps to the lists...
btw: 2.3.3 enables a lot of apps made for multiple processors.

There are many kernel sources (and more sources) available on motodev
ex:
https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/go/projects.moto_defy/frs.defy_skt.jdskt_u3_02_20_0
https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/...ects.moto_defy/frs.defy_latam.jorla_u3_6_14_5
There are sources of the 2.1.1, but i find nothing related to the 3.4.2 build
but kernel Makefile shows v2.6.29 and not 2.6.32

MIUI for XT720 released!!!!

There is MIUI for XT 720 is released!!! (sorry i'm Korean, so I'm poor at English)
Down load link is here
w1ww.megaupload.com/?d=3QI0U5I0 (Erase 1!!!!!!!)
or
w1ww.mediafire.com/?1ak7sdhs8q667oh
How to installation??
1. copy these files (first unzip!!)
2. Install UK 2.1 ROM (Use RSD)
UK2.1 ROM link (Erase 1!!!!!!!!!!)
w1ww.megaupload.com/?d=WJ4JZUKE
or
w1ww.mediafire.com/?ik579jqkvbtt1tj
3. Root the phone (Use Super One Click)
4. Install System Recovery by using OpenRecovery.apk
5. Run System Recovery
6. Choose Install recovery ( Superuser permission allow)
7. Choose Reboot Recovery
8. In Nandroid - Restore, Choose Miui for XT720, Restore All
*CAUTION*
Some problems was revealed (SD card, Wi-Fi, Usim, Senser, Language ...etc)
This Rom was very very very unstable. so usually fail to boot.
When this situation...solution is.... try,try,try and....try untill success
I'm not Rom developer!!!
This Rom was based on Dexter's Froyo

Why for 2.1 when we already have so much custom 2.2 ROMS?

Vistaus said:
Why for 2.1 when we already have so much custom 2.2 ROMS?
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This Rom is based on Dexter's Rom! so, install UK 2.1 Rom first..

can i know the source of this MIUI...i mean the developer?

@gera_nium,
I'm just as curious as you are. I googled xt720 miui, and stumbled across this...
"http://www.miui.com/thread-16979-1-1.html"
According to Google translate 2.2 is out...but I'm not fluent in chinese so I can't navigate the website to find the stupid rom...
Anyone fluent in chinese please help. Maybe you'll have better luck.
Thank you,
lilhugo

lilhugo said:
@gera_nium,
I'm just as curious as you are. I googled xt720 miui, and stumbled across this...
"http://www.miui.com/thread-16979-1-1.html"
According to Google translate 2.2 is out...but I'm not fluent in chinese so I can't navigate the website to find the stupid rom...
Anyone fluent in chinese please help. Maybe you'll have better luck.
Thank you,
lilhugo
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It is not related. Just a post requesting for miui rom based on kr xt720 rom. U can see the date of the post is dec 2010 when motoroi upgraded to 2.2
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lyfkevin said:
It is not related. Just a post requesting for miui rom based on kr xt720 rom. U can see the date of the post is dec 2010 when motoroi upgraded to 2.2
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miui for xt720 download:http://u.115.com/file/f28c30b22c#
Do not wipe to restore access to the system after.
Can not scan sdcard
Sometimes stay in the first screen. must restart button battery
Media Library can not be used.And can not get online, but can connect wifi

So is this rom usable? Has anyone tried it. Has anyone tried fixing the problems?

Yeah, I'd love to see a usuable MIUI for XT720 if anyone could do it.

Doesnt boot for me no mater what i try

Dang bummer. Ill give it a shot anyway. Hopefully khall or one of the other guys can fix this for us.

easye420 said:
Dang bummer. Ill give it a shot anyway. Hopefully khall or one of the other guys can fix this for us.
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Meh just looks like IOS what else is there?

Eh its somethin different I'm gettin bored with stock I've got about every laucher made to switch it up and miui has some pretty kool features I really like status bar and widget feature. I wish someone would come out with cm7 for this bad boy. I wish I had a lil more time and knowledge. Isant miui mostly framework changes and launcher changes or is it more than that? What if we took the framework and launcher from this and put it into one of dexters newer builds?

Got the phone working but the browsers crash too much it looks like it would be alright if the bugs got fixed I will try working on again later.
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Everything works great for me when I installed it, only question I have is there an English version to this rom ?

I tried it. Got it to work for me to. I changed the language to english but only half is in english. It connects to 3g for me but won't download anything from the market and when I rebooted it wouldn't boot again. Ima try dling the english translation pack and see what happpens

hellmonger said:
Meh just looks like IOS what else is there?
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Has some pretty cool default apps, cool lockscreen, custom transitions through anything, lots of custom themes you can just put on, other tweaks and is supposed to be really fast from what I can understand. It's also a different experience. The launcher and IOS icons is the least attractive thing to me.

Would there be an android 2.3 rom for xt720?

Sorry for being silly,could anyone tell me whether there will be any android 2.3 rom for xt720 someday later and why? Still,i am happy using my xt720 with dexter's froyo and trying out roms from different developers,thank you for all your efforts
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Guess that its pretty unplausible. There would have to be some xt720 2.3 rom from which could be copied.since there isnt its sadly pretty unprobable
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c0mpufreak said:
Guess that its pretty unplausible. There would have to be some xt720 2.3 rom from which could be copied.since there isnt its sadly pretty unprobable
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I think it's more that none of the active XT720 developers have the time or knowledge to do it yet. The Milestone 1 has 2.3-based ROMs without an official 2.3 release, but they are all built from source. I don't think anyone has a working 2.1 or 2.2 ROM built from source yet for the XT720 (although stlifey is very close to a fully working source build of CM6 for the XT701 so keep an eye on him). Once someone figures source builds for XT720 out, progress will be much quicker.

I c,thanks
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Mioze7Ae said:
I think it's more that none of the active XT720 developers have the time or knowledge to do it yet. The Milestone 1 has 2.3-based ROMs without an official 2.3 release, but they are all built from source. I don't think anyone has a working 2.1 or 2.2 ROM built from source yet for the XT720 (although stlifey is very close to a fully working source build of CM6 for the XT701 so keep an eye on him). Once someone figures source builds for XT720 out, progress will be much quicker.
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So 2.3 and beyond is technically feasible even with the locked bootloader - we just need our devs to have more experience?

syrenz said:
So 2.3 and beyond is technically feasible even with the locked bootloader - we just need our devs to have more experience?
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Keep in mind that even though we are using froyo right now, the kernel is still an "eclair" kernel. We need one of two things, either Motorola unlocks the bootloader, or we find a newer kernel that will work with our ROMs. Neither are very likely at this point.

syrenz said:
So 2.3 and beyond is technically feasible even with the locked bootloader - we just need our devs to have more experience?
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Well, we don't know what the hardware requirements for beyond 2.3 will be, but otherwise I would agree. I see no reason that a 2.3 port using source would be impossible, esp. since Milestone A853 which has very similar hardware has done it already. Milestone A853 has exactly the same locked bootloader situation and uses 2nd-init. At this point the only things we can't replace are the kernel* and the partition tables. There are a few of us working on it and there are others (esp. in asian dev forums). I may not be the first--it's still beyond my skill set at the moment but I'm learning a lot from stlifey's XT701 and nadlabak's A853 ports.
*technically we can use our own kernels, but it's impractical (requires manual boot while plugged into a computer via USB)

reverendkjr said:
Keep in mind that even though we are using froyo right now, the kernel is still an "eclair" kernel. We need one of two things, either Motorola unlocks the bootloader, or we find a newer kernel that will work with our ROMs. Neither are very likely at this point.
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I'm pretty optimistic the kernel can be worked around, but you're right. There's no guarantees that the kernel we have has all of the features that might be required in the future. But I think the CM7 for Milestone runs using either the eclair or froyo kernels (with the eclair kernel considered the most stable the last time I checked).

Mioze7Ae said:
I'm pretty optimistic the kernel can be worked around, but you're right. There's no guarantees that the kernel we have has all of the features that might be required in the future. But I think the CM7 for Milestone runs using either the eclair or froyo kernels (with the eclair kernel considered the most stable the last time I checked).
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I would love it if someone would figure out a 2.6.32 kernel, even if it is only fastboot. I would just like to see if it changes anything for us at all.

fxxxing hate motorola,they produce nice phone but they ruin it with their policy

there is a chinese team working on 2.3 for 701
maybe this will help
bbs.gfan.com/android-1260443-1-1.html

wilsonlai12 said:
fxxxing hate motorola,they produce nice phone but they ruin it with their policy
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right...moto ruin everything ...and i don't care about 2.3 that much as long as moto unlocked bootloader so the devlopers can make us newer kernel support swap before it's too late.....damn moto

That's why on their new devices they're giving an unlocked bootloader, while HTC is locking their new phones.

zdfdreamfactory said:
maybe this will help
bbs.gfan.com/android-1260443-1-1.html
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So we can port it again ?

looking forward to seeing 2.3 is running on my xt720 haha if possible

Android 2.3.5 AOSP Gingerbread

I didn't make this ROM. Credit goes out to the developer.
This rom is mostly AOSP besides the bootscreen and CPUconfig menu
All Google Apps are up to date as of 7/31/2011
No need to get seperate gapps zip
http://wonderly.com/bb/DROID/ROM/BETA/generic_sholes-ota-eng.pete.07-26-11.zip

I see u have 6 months with your phone now you post lolz

Thanks for this.

Wonder if this will work on my milestone. Anyone know if the droid and milestone roms are interchangable?

Zaiaku said:
Wonder if this will work on my milestone. Anyone know if the droid and milestone roms are interchangable?
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They won't work at all. Droid's bootloader is unlocked, Milestone's isn't. Flashing this would be a big problem for your Milestone.

Thks for the heads up on it.

running this as of yesterday. super fast, running chevyno1 lowv 1.1 kernel. only thing i miss from CM is the CM parts. gonna push it to my /system/app folder and set things up that way.

Honestly, I've tried overclocking this, and its still terribly slow. That's why I'm sticking to CM7 800mhz oc
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I can actuall run and play Nova 2, of course it has its occasional lag, but playable none the less. Good find
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does anyone have another dl link, the one above is down

Maxi21066 said:
does anyone have another dl link, the one above is down
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The original link i provided is outdated now.
This site should list the current beta's of this rom
http://bb.darkwingduck.org/DROID/ROM/BETA/
Currently the site is down, but it may be back up later

The new link to the GPA17 nightlies, posted on Peter Alfonso's (the developer) webpage, is http://wonderly.com/bb/DROID/ROM/GINGERBREAD/

[WIP][ROM] Eclair (Android 2.1, .32 kernel), need some help ;)

I have picked up an old project I was working on, getting Eclair on our phones.
Now you might think, why Eclair, it is much older than Froyo and we already have Gingerbread!?
The answer is simple, just because we do not have Eclair roms for our phones
Some people here think newer is always better, but that is not always the case
Eclair is already booting, but I have some FC's and launcher does not work correctly. Neither any other things work.
I was trying to get a logcat, but could not connect using adb.
Perhaps someone else can give me a solution for enabling adb?
What did I use to get eclair booting up?
Froyo bootimage
Compiled Eclair using Froyo-libs and kernel.
If you want to take a look at it, here is a pre-pre-alpha where nothing works
It is not the latest, because I'm already solving some problems.

Reserved for future use

Why are you doing this?????

Raffy 97 said:
Why are you doing this?????
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Damn ---^^^open your eyes wide n read d first post!
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First: Congrats
Second: Provide some logcat,maybe you have same problem as mine in OMFGB (missing resources in apks)
Third: Upload to your gitHub,I'll have a look
BTW: Could you check if you have any /build/core/kernel.mk? Really getting mad with that error on CM6.

Could not get any logcat
But it's solved
Launcher is working now!
Updated build.prop, checked if some files existed, but some were missing.
Guess I forgot something in device-files
Now working on sd-card mounting, gsm and wifi, if these are fixed I will provide an updated zip (this zip contains generic build.prop )

_Arjen_ said:
Could not get any logcat
But it's solved
Launcher is working now!
Updated build.prop, checked if some files existed, but some were missing.
Guess I forgot something in device-files
Now working on sd-card mounting, gsm and wifi, if these are fixed I will provide an updated zip (this zip contains generic build.prop )
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Non-working RIL could be caused from three things:
You missed LG services into makefiles/.rc files (if you want I can PM you some strings to add to .rc files)
Wrong libs (easy to check)
Non-prelinked libraries (define TARGET_PRELINKER_MAP (or some like that) into device_thunderg.mk and modify prelink-linux-arm-msm7xx7 or some like that with names of unlinked libs. You can see what stuff isn't prelinked with a debugging-enabled linker you can find into Swift-sense Mur4iK GT540 post. For prelink address,use google because I don't know

Would this have any actual speed benefit?
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You will absolutely encounter speed differences with Gingerbread.
You will even have more space available, romsize is rather small

_Arjen_ said:
You will absolutely encounter speed differences with Gingerbread.
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yes performance will be 2x(low) xD

If you can't contribute anything usefull, do not react here, I was glad SWEATTAIMI has stopped with it after many warnings and now you start
Anyway, Eclair is more smooth than Gingerbread on our phone (at least this version)

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yes performance will be 2x(low) xD
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Sorry for offtopic
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CAF Code right?
BTW,Did you build kernel together with the system? If so check your kernel.mk into /build/core. I'm getting mad at it.
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No, this one is just AOSP with some LG crap
And booting using original LG Froyo kernel for now
Seems most compatible
Perhaps later a custom kernel will be used

Sorry for this off topic, but, good job and good luck ^_^ i hope you can successfully do this i loved the older builds of android an would love to go back to it, i wish i could help in some way and this is the best i can do :3 but good luck

What's up with RIL Arj?

_Arjen_ said:
If you can't contribute anything usefull, do not react here, I was glad SWEATTAIMI has stopped with it after many warnings and now you start
Anyway, Eclair is more smooth than Gingerbread on our phone (at least this version)
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whaa xD what now lmao,
good to see we can use eclair hope the look is as i remember D:

It is still as simple as Eclair is, it still uses the KISS principle

_Arjen_ said:
It is still as simple as Eclair is, it still uses the KISS principle
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It didn't boot for me so i were not able to test
Sent from Mexico

The one posted here just boots to UI but launcher etc FC. (that is why it is called pre alpha)
Got one with working launcher now, but spent some time on OMFGB with Bytecode and CM9.
As soon as all is working I will release a beta.