[ROM] [6/18/12] CM9 ICS For the Droid Pro

[r3j2]

Gotcha, thanks. I went ahead and did what you said. So far things seem to be working flawlessly! I was mainly doing this to get sound settings + camera. The stock Music app still force closes; I'm hoping that Last.fm and the other player I have will work. I was having to reboot my phone 3-4 times a shift to keep the tunes going.

 

[jago25_98]

Hardware differences aside, I'd say no. The reason most of us here use the pro is primarily because of the form factor and the physical portrait keyboard. If those don't matter to you, then there is no reason to use this phone and deal with the locked bootloaders, etc.

Thanks ngtwolf that could be a big timesaver. I like the DroidPro for the smaller screen & keyboard (uprated battery is good so for me the i9000 vs DroidPro then becomes a question of community support)

I was always worried that even if I unlock everything now no problem but then we are (a lot?) more likely to get stuck with CM9 at a later date because the Pro is that much rarer than the i9000.
Of course, GeeksPhone or Synapic-phone would be a better solution long term.

Great! Thanks for all the help. Now I have to decide between trying out this frankenbuild and giving Gummy a shot. CM has always been my favorite, though.

I don't seem to have the same issues as people are having here. The only problem I have is the keyboard so I guess I just need to find the latin.apk for the DroidPro to fix the hardware keyboard problem.

I'm on Kernel 2.6.32-9-g8b456a1w36084@ca25rhe92 #1 <-is this stock?
CM9 version is 9.0.0-RC0-venus-KANG What version is on offer in this first post of this thread?
Build date is Mar 21, IML74K.

This seems like a later ROM in this thread but I see are people with problems here so I don't see what I might again from it.



...Finding it hard to navigate this forum without the ability to get everything on one page...

 

[ngtwolf]

Thanks ngtwolf that could be a big timesaver. I like the DroidPro for the smaller screen & keyboard (uprated battery is good so for me the i9000 vs DroidPro then becomes a question of community support)

I was always worried that even if I unlock everything now no problem but then we are (a lot?) more likely to get stuck with CM9 at a later date because the Pro is that much rarer than the i9000.
Of course, GeeksPhone or Synapic-phone would be a better solution long term.

There really is no long term on phones... two years is about the best you can do long term. Google is pushing to have companies support their devices for 1 1/2 years, and i think that would suffice as long as that means that you will get the newest operating system upgrades for that time. That's not happening now though. The best "long term" solution is a nexus phone. However, if you don't mind rooting and installing custom roms, HTC or even Samsung are a good route to go. Both companies have very good support over at xda. Heck, my old captivate (which died a slow death) is just about 2 years old now and has a great support community (as with almost all the galaxy s devices except maybe the fascinate). My experience with the pro, and a friends experience with her Cliq, hasn't been so good. Motorola does everything they can to hinder the development community. They don't want the phones to last, they want a specific experience and they want you to buy a new phone to upgrade that experience. That same philosophy is why most of us don't use iPhones and why we choose the openness of Android in the first place.

 

[Freak4Dell]

There really is no long term on phones... two years is about the best you can do long term. Google is pushing to have companies support their devices for 1 1/2 years, and i think that would suffice as long as that means that you will get the newest operating system upgrades for that time. That's not happening now though. The best "long term" solution is a nexus phone. However, if you don't mind rooting and installing custom roms, HTC or even Samsung are a good route to go. Both companies have very good support over at xda. Heck, my old captivate (which died a slow death) is just about 2 years old now and has a great support community (as with almost all the galaxy s devices except maybe the fascinate). My experience with the pro, and a friends experience with her Cliq, hasn't been so good. Motorola does everything they can to hinder the development community. They don't want the phones to last, they want a specific experience and they want you to buy a new phone to upgrade that experience. That same philosophy is why most of us don't use iPhones and why we choose the openness of Android in the first place.

I agree with your post, but unfortunately, Motorola was the only company that actually put some thought into a portrait QWERTY phone.

 

[ngtwolf]

based on airon11's instructions, here is a merged zip file. http://www.mediafire.com/?9391bc02odsvh2i

From what i can tell so far, it does seem to work with gsm and with the camera. I hadn't seen the gummy build though, so now I have to go see what that is and if it works with GSM.

 

[r3j2]

I'm on Kernel 2.6.32-9-g8b456a1w36084@ca25rhe92 #1 <-is this stock?
CM9 version is 9.0.0-RC0-venus-KANG What version is on offer in this first post of this thread?
Build date is Mar 21, IML74K.

Yup, locked bootloader means we only have stock (ancient) kernels. You are running the most recent build put out by Jackpot, as well.

I wanted a merged build personally because I want/use my camera pretty often, but I was having terrible issues with any audio application. The music app and my last.fm app would freeze, force close, or crash and required me to reboot my phone several times a day. Since I made a merged build as per airon11's instructions, I have the best of both worlds: stable rom, working, stable sound, and camera support.

I'm a CDMA user, but it's also nice to have working GSM along with all the other benefits as well with the merged build.

 

[claymoses]

So, I've tried them both (GUMMY & CM9), and while there are differences, I don't seem to find any glaring. Other than that danged boot animation music in GUMMY (easily killable, but still, that is apparently what it sounds like when you @#$% rainbows!).

Has anyone else tried both current versions and can add to that? I think I'm preferring the GUMMY version's layout and options...

 

[Freak4Dell]

I'm preferring Gummy right now simply because all the options are there. In CM, some of the options were missing, with just a placeholder stub where they should be. Once that's resolved, I'll likely go back to CM as long as the GSM works, since I've been a CM fan for some time now.

 

[gsu_golfer]

I tried Gummy out and I'm back to CM9 (about to restore my backup) due to data connectivity going in and out. CM9 is the only ROM since GB that I've been able to get away from that with.

 

[Freak4Dell]

I tried Gummy out and I'm back to CM9 (about to restore my backup) due to data connectivity going in and out. CM9 is the only ROM since GB that I've been able to get away from that with.

Hmm...then it will probably be the same for me. I'll be back to my data plan in the States in about a month, so I'll need a ROM with working GSM data at that point.

 

[gsu_golfer]

Hmm...then it will probably be the same for me. I'll be back to my data plan in the States in about a month, so I'll need a ROM with working GSM data at that point.

I'm on CDMA.

 

[Freak4Dell]

I'm on CDMA.

Oh. My mistake.

 

[claymoses]

I tried Gummy out and I'm back to CM9 (about to restore my backup) due to data connectivity going in and out. CM9 is the only ROM since GB that I've been able to get away from that with.

Yeah, you know, you are right. I hadn't really noticed until you posted that. The CM9 version does stay connected/reconnects to my wifi better and faster than the GUMMY coming out of sleep mode. Good catch. I'm using a second Pro from my daily driver to test, so I don't have it data connected, just wifi, but there is a difference in connectivity. Not that the GUMMY is bad - just the opposite - only the CM9 is quicker and more consistent.

claymoses

 

[gsu_golfer]

based on airon11's instructions, here is a merged zip file. NewICS.zip

From what i can tell so far, it does seem to work with gsm and with the camera. I hadn't seen the gummy build though, so now I have to go see what that is and if it works with GSM.

Is music working?

EDIT: Downloaded it to try - doesn't work. I can live without sound settings, but I'd sure like for music to work

 

[ngtwolf]

Is music working?

EDIT: Downloaded it to try - doesn't work. I can live without sound settings, but I'd sure like for music to work

Sorry, I only copied what airon11 mentioned to do, and only tried it a few hours before I wiped it and tried the gummy rom. I didn't even try Gummy that long, the next morning my One X showed up, so I ended up just restoring it to stock and giving the Droid Pro to my son who's on verizon anyway, he won't care about stock vs. ICS and won't need a hacked GSM rom and stock is much better than the Palm Pixi he's been using.