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

[JackpotClavin]

Looking forward to trying it out.On a separate note, can anyone tell me whether 4G is hardware/antenna based or software based? If it is software based as a lot of folks claim is there any hope of getting it worked into a ROM for this phone?

I honestly don't know. I saw that spec sheet and the high-speed caught my eye, but I doubt the hardware is capable of it, and even if the hardware is capable of it, the libraries aren't made for the Pro, and even if they were, I don't know how we would connect to Verizon's network or anybody else's because I don't know much about 4G. Sorry :-(

On a better note, I have the camera working, but not the panorama or the camcorder. It still has that issue with the first picture taken not saving. Annoying but at least all subsequent photos work perfectly, even the zoom. I kinda spoiled myself last week with CM7 because the Pro just isn't meant to run ICS with such an old kernel, but the performance isn't horrid compared to CM7. I'm gonna integrate a fix for the device's WiFi MAC address changing on each reboot, so it will stay the same (as long as you don't wipe data). I have the voice search button working too. Overall it's not terrible, just doesn't run as smoothly as CM7 I will post it in a few days after I test it out some more

 

[desterly]

JP:

not sure if you follow any of the other roms/distros but The "Unofficial CM" for the X/D2/D2WE over on rootzwiki has made significant progress including partial HWA.

I just merged in the DPro files from Gummy (which is based off yours I believe) to that distro and it seems pretty stable. Thought it might save you a bit of time even if you wanted to see some of the changes made to it.

 

[JackpotClavin]

JP:

not sure if you follow any of the other roms/distros but The "Unofficial CM" for the X/D2/D2WE over on rootzwiki has made significant progress including partial HWA.

I just merged in the DPro files from Gummy (which is based off yours I believe) to that distro and it seems pretty stable. Thought it might save you a bit of time even if you wanted to see some of the changes made to it.

Yep that's what I'm using as the base. Very stable

 

[Spectacle.Guru]

I kinda spoiled myself last week with CM7 because the Pro just isn't meant to run ICS with such an old kernel, but the performance isn't horrid compared to CM7. I'm gonna integrate a fix for the device's WiFi MAC address changing on each reboot, so it will stay the same (as long as you don't wipe data). I have the voice search button working too. Overall it's not terrible, just doesn't run as smoothly as CM7 I will post it in a few days after I test it out some more

Downloaded your 6-6 CM7 last night to play with while you are working on CM9. Flashed the zip and Gapps. Goes through the Red M sequence and then the screen blanks and it hangs. I did wipe everything prior to flashing. Ended up reflashing the most current CM9 to get the phone working again. Any ideas?

 

[JackpotClavin]

Downloaded your 6-6 CM7 last night to play with while you are working on CM9. Flashed the zip and Gapps. Goes through the Red M sequence and then the screen blanks and it hangs. I did wipe everything prior to flashing. Ended up reflashing the most current CM9 to get the phone working again. Any ideas?

That's really weird. You wiped everything including the system too? Perhaps it was a bad .zip that got downloaded that corrupted some stuff. Were you able to use the boot menu or did you have to sbf?

 

[fort13]

Goes through the Red M sequence and then the screen blanks and it hangs. I did wipe everything prior to flashing.

I had the same thing with CM7. then formatted DATA and SYSTEM through the mounts and storage -> format system, format data. Now work fine

 

[desterly]

Yep that's what I'm using as the base. Very stable

I ran into a few problems when I did it but TBH, I didn't spend a lot of time on it.

Camera wouldn't connect
Can't play MP3's

I'm assuming that I needed to update a few seeings because of the omap integration. I'm sure this is all a no brainer for you though

 

[mortimermax]

JackpotClavin, RE: ICS Speed on DP, have you heard about Linaro builds of CM9? I feel like 30% faster would be all we would need for a very usable ICS build for our DP, but I don't know how much work is involved in compiling with the different toolchain regarding modifications to the code.

Android is about to get a lot faster thanks to Linaro - Liliputing

 

[mortimermax]

*Probably a better link for Linaro details

https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Toolchain

 

[Spectacle.Guru]

I had the same thing with CM7. then formatted DATA and SYSTEM through the mounts and storage -> format system, format data. Now work fine

That fixed it. Wow, CM7 is much better than I remembered. Unless Jackpot makes some serious improvements in CM9 performance, I might have to stick with it.

 

[desterly]

JackpotClavin, RE: ICS Speed on DP, have you heard about Linaro builds of CM9? I feel like 30% faster would be all we would need for a very usable ICS build for our DP, but I don't know how much work is involved in compiling with the different toolchain regarding modifications to the code.

Android is about to get a lot faster thanks to Linaro - Liliputing

The CM9 team actually already has started looking at some of the patches however I haven't ran across anything that has been approved

One thing that i will note though is the general notice on almost all the patches refers to "won't be compatible with all kernels" which leads me to think that these enhancements may (probably) won't work well w/ those of us with locked boot loaders/fixed kernels.. I'm sure some of the patches will be OK but we probably won't see the increase in performance if we were able to rebuild the kernel

 

[JackpotClavin]

Here's the MAC address fix for your Pros running CM9. If you have had an issue connecting to wifi, it's probably because each time the device's wifi is restarted, a new MAC address is generated which will clog up your router as you can easily run out of IP addresses to lease to each and every new MAC address that's generated each time your device's wifi is restarted. The link can be downloaded here. The instructions are simple:

1. Flash it in clockwork no need to wipe anything
2. "Activate it" by going into the terminal emulator app, typing "su" (without the quotes) then typing "mac-address-fix.sh" (without the quotes). A bunch of weird symbols should come up, but that's normal.

What this does is it auto-generates and writes your permanent MAC address to a file called called nvs_map.bin under /data/misc/wifi/nvs_map.bin. It will remain there and your MAC address will remain the same unless you wipe your /data whereas you will simply have to redo it

Note: if you get an error message in the terminal after doing the fix, make sure your Wi-Fi is turned on and you're connected to a network

For CM9, download --> CM9MAC.zip

 

[ttrevorr]

So I flashed the file, rebooted, went into the terminal emulator and typing in the exactly what you said but I get a whole bunch of errors. Terminal does have root so that isn't the problem. I don't get any symbols but just a bunch error messages.
Anyone else have success?
I might try redownloading and reflashing the file.
Is this going to be included in the next release? Also is there an eta?

Here's the MAC address fix for your Pros running CM9. If you have had an issue connecting to wifi, it's probably because each time the device's wifi is restarted, a new MAC address is generated which will clog up your router as you can easily run out of IP addresses to lease to each and every new MAC address that's generated each time your device's wifi is restarted. The link can be downloaded here. The instructions are simple:

1. Flash it in clockwork no need to wipe anything
2. "Activate it" by going into the terminal emulator app, typing "su" (without the quotes) then typing "mac-address-fix.sh" (without the quotes). A bunch of weird symbols should come up, but that's normal.

What this does is it auto-generates and writes your permanent MAC address to a file called called nvs_map.bin under /data/misc/wifi/nvs_map.bin. It will remain there and your MAC address will remain the same unless you wipe your /data whereas you will simply have to redo it

For CM9, download --> CM9MAC.zip

 

[JackpotClavin]

What's the error? And probably this week

 

[ttrevorr]

$ su # mac-address-fix.sh ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) user_main, start \> Driver/, Connection/, Management/, Show/, Privacy/, scAn/, roaminG/, qOs/, poWer/, eVents/, Bt coexsistance/, Report/, dEbug/, biT/, aboUt, Quit ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) ERROR - Console_ParseString - Device isn't loaded !!! ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) ERROR - Console_ParseString - Device isn't loaded !!! ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) ERROR - Console_ParseString - Device isn't loaded !!! ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) ERROR - Console_ParseString - Device isn't loaded !!! ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) ERROR - Console_ParseString - Device isn't loaded !!! ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) ERROR - Console_ParseString - Device isn't loaded !!! ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 800003, res = -1, errno = 19) ERROR - Console_ParseString - Device isn't loaded !!!