Hey guys, I'm new to the Android community as of yesterday. (Have been WinMo for years) Well I have the Motorola Devour in hands and been messing with it and so far am impressed. I know it's not as "good" as the Droid, but I love the design over the Droid. So anyways, I am making this post to let any devs or coders know I am willing to help out however possible on testing or getting info from the phone to help with rooting or anything else with the device. Feel free to PM me if there is anything I can do or provide. I know the risk of performaing such tasks, but am willing to take them to help out.
Any XDA hacker port this to moto defy??
http://www.wix.com/palmercurling/project-bootloader-freedom
in a while the download links should be up
Nice, nice... very nice...
it should work on defy, droid2, ms2, x,cliq2, maybe we need to do some minor changes but i think it should work.
This is very good news indeed.
Shift this thread to Development. Everyone have to put in some time to test this. With the new XDA rules coming into effect, it should clearly be in something more concrete and out of reach of novice users.
The game has begun for some much wanted fun. thank you thread starter.
Indeed perfect news.
Sounds very promising!
If we get that bootloader problem fixed so that we can load custom kernels, the Moto phones are really awesome. Good quality and good price!
What do we want more?
DunkDream said:
What do we want more?
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Cyanogenmod and gingerbread would make it perfect
Released first test version: http://aliasxerog.wordpress.com/
Hi, looks realy good!
but how we can build it for defy?
Is the defy slower with kexec??
We r waiting someone to port this on defy.
Maybe will see cm7!!
It's possible with this method!
We need development
Sent from my MOTO Defy
Could someone compile it for us?
Source are there!
Ironically the page at wix.com is an all-Flash web site which can't be accessed from the 2.1 phones* whose bootloaders were never unlockable.
*Yes I know there are leaked builds out there.
http://www.facebook.com/motorola/posts/10150127129950731?notif_t=feed_comment
This getting interesting!!!
MOTO wants to unlock the bootloader!!!!!
Sent from my MOTO Defy
Wow. Really interesting ! I'll paste the Motorola comment here too :
We apologize for the feedback we provided regarding our bootloader policy. The response does not reflect the views of Motorola.
We are working closely with our partners to offer a bootloader solution that will enable developers to use our devices as a development platform while still protecting our users' interests. More detailed information will follow as we get closer to availability
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What about voting it to the Top Page so everyone sees it?
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I hope that Motorola hears us screaming
Regards
I dont believe this!
This might be a fake!
Cant be real!
Why Motorola does motorla change there policy??
Defy is realy a god phone and sells from alone!
Why they do this?
Maybe not for defy!
For next device i guess!!
I hope!
This would realy good!Nice!Best!
Motorola gain bad reputation ,because locked bootloader, from devs.
When the simple user want to try something new on Motorola's phone always get the same "NOTHING".
So they get bored and buy a new phone that has realy support for custom ROMs ect...
This is my opinion, I'm very happy with my Defy,but I'll never buy another phone with locked bootloader!!!
If Motorola does something about that,like unlock this devices then my next phone will be Motorola again!
Sent from my MOTO Defy
demolition23 said:
This is my opinion, I'm very happy with my Defy,but I'll never buy another phone with locked bootloader!!!
If Motorola does something about that,like unlock this devices then my next phone will be Motorola again!
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Well said, same for me here. I'm really looking forward to this module and I hope it will work for the Defy.
Motorola maybe will not be the next, but with unlocked bootloader have better chances.
demolition23 said:
Motorola gain bad reputation ,because locked bootloader, from devs.
When the simple user want to try something new on Motorola's phone always get the same "NOTHING".
So they get bored and buy a new phone that has realy support for custom ROMs ect...
This is my opinion, I'm very happy with my Defy,but I'll never buy another phone with locked bootloader!!!
If Motorola does something about that,like unlock this devices then my next phone will be Motorola again!
Sent from my MOTO Defy
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Totally Agreed.
I love my Defy, but if this "look elsewhere" situation keeps, I'll do it.
Please HTC, make us a sexy durable waterproof phone that accepts custom ROMs!
We could call it... oh screw it, I could never make it in marketing, but someone must have a good name idea.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
This is more of a way to say thanks to all the Dev's and users who populate this forum. If you really compare to the various sub-sections (phones) you really just are underwhelmed by a lack of ROM's. And the Captivate development section is full of great quality ROM's. You almost have an overload of ROM's to flash, so many good ones. And also the great i9000 dev's. They did a ton of work to help get us some great ROM's
Here is just a thanks. Keep up the good work
Say thanks to your dev's in the thread below
i agree. definately not good for anyone with a flashing addiction . lol i'm downloading two new roms as i type. thanks dev team for finishing what att/samsung didnt.
agreed
awesome work, Devs
Part of the thanks goes to Samsung for making it easy
That's also why I'll never buy HTC or Motorola as long as they're in the habit of locking bootloaders.
I was considering one of the newer devices but the development sections are non existent. Yes were are spoiled, I agree, thanks to our devs.
MIUI
Necessity breeds invention.
I feel sorry for the people who use stock phones and think that's as good as it gets. Those poor, clueless people.
Thank you, XDA.
Try going to the forums of most other AT&T Android phones, such as the Motorola Bravo, and you'll be shocked that almost 6 months after release, they don't have a single custom ROM, and rooting is still a pain for them!
As for us, we have a ton of amazing devs cranking out awesome ROMs, lagfixes, kernels, themes, etc., so I could never imagine going back to stock again
Mucho Gracias Devs
+100000 to what has been said already. I've learned and gained so much from this forum. I have a real love affair with my cappy! I'm up for an upgrade as we speak, but I can' t imagine a better phone. This is thanks to XDA and the awesomely talented hard working devs on this this forum. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
*Now if I can only get the stupendous battery life others have mentioned, I'd be in heaven*
MikeyMike01 said:
Necessity breeds invention.
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I think the 10+ million galaxy S phones that are all unlocked might have something to do with it too.
ryude said:
I think the 10+ million galaxy S phones that are all unlocked might have something to do with it too.
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Agreed.
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Agree wholeheartedly!! I would never go back to stock, and I am supremely thankful to all of the devs and users out there that have provided custom roms, kernels, and all of the other goodies available. The biggest thing I am thankful for, though, is all of the information the users and devs provide. I have learned so much about my cappy, and android in general, from this forum. IMHO, the best way to show thanks is to keep up the spirit of sharing, and provide your own insight anywhere it may be useful. I am always happy to help anyone out, as long as it is a question I know something about. Again, a big thanks to all of the devs, and to all of the users!!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
I can definitely say that the Captivate Development is one of the best on XDA.
My brother is looking for a new device to upgrade to, he keeps comparing everything to my Captivate. He still hasn't found anything that he would rather have over the Captivate, mostly because of the support available on XDA.
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I can definitely say that the Captivate Development is one of the best on XDA.
My brother is looking for a new device to upgrade to, he keeps comparing everything to my Captivate. He still hasn't found anything that he would rather have over the Captivate, mostly because of the support available on XDA.
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+ two thumbs up
Love the captivate, but it wouldn't be anything withput the captivate android development section
I am so surprised every time I try to check on ROMs for other phones.
I am scared about leaving the captivate, I don't want to be stuck on stock. I was going to go to atrix next, that isn't looking good. Hopefully the SGS II is as easy to dev as the captivate, and hopefully its out soon.
We are so very spoiled. The hardest thing about flashing a ROM for a captivate is choosing which one.
Thanks to all the great devs that make this possible.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
One thing that I think is crazy is that the necessity for a lagfix created something unexpected and amazing in the Voodoo Project (ext4 optimizations, sound, and color), mad props to Supercurio. Not trying to single any dev out, y'all are great and continue to produce amazing ROM's.
I'm glad my phone didn't work as promised right out of the box. I feel sorry for anyone that decided to move on to another phone for that reason. The developers in this section are awesome there are easily 15 solid roms and 10 different kernels to choose from. Sometimes navigating the choices can give a guy a head ache, but Thanks to all the hard working devs in the captivate XDA it's almost impossible to make a bad choice. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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I agree with everyone. I bought my SGH-I897 because a friend bought one for his wife and she loved it (even with stock ROM) and got it free on Black Friday. I came from iPhone original to this and was only marginally satisfied... until the custom ROM I installed a few days ago. Wow, what a difference. The hardware that promised so much is now free to work as it should. Better battery life, smoother performance, more options, more access.
Like others, I feel sorry for those who at one time held this device in their hands then gave it up because of terrible software.
Thanks to all those who take the time to develop, update, write guides, share findings, take risks... for the benefit of fellow Captivate owners. Thanks.
100% agreed.
I want to take this opportunity to thank all developers here in XDA. I officially salute to all of them. They help us without asking payback. I definitely think donation is my way to show how I appreciate their work, time and their unselfishness of sharing.
And also want to thank all memebers here on XDA. They are extremely helpful as well.
Being winmo rom flasher/users for 5 years. As android is totally new to me. After been reading lots of lots of topics, I just recently had guts to flash a custom android rom. And all I can say is wow. Didn't expected a big different like that.
Again, thanks all ppl here in XDA. I know I'm spoiled, and protected too, as long as I am a member of XDA community.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896, happy user of FF2.6 using XDA App
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Love the captivate, but it wouldn't be anything withput the captivate android development section
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Completely agree! Imagine if we were all still on stock firmware with RFS and no mods... Definitely wouldn't be the high end phone it is now. Thanks Devs!
I am just getting into all the technology that is out, most notably android. I understand the idea of it all, i just need to know where to start. Right now i got a motorola spice xt300, i know its not a top shelf phone but is there anything to get me started with modding, hacking, rooting, etc? Any advice would be helpful and greatly appreciated.
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