How's Gingerbread Coming

[gudziel1482]

Personally, I would love the TB over my DX. But it feels ridiculously insane to change phones when I literally got this 6 months ago! I'm a tech geek and I know the rate of development vs pricing, so I knew that going in to buy this phone would be cast aside for something better by now. I just hate the feeling of being left behind.

I would love to sell my DX for the TB, and I haven't even held one in my hands yet! I just know that Drod has developed an amazing ROM this time and if need be it will stay on here for the next year until it's time for my upgrade. Hell, by that time, holographic phones will be out!

 

[droidx8791]

Drod said he wasn't leaving just yet. Gingerbread is rumored to drop Sunday at midnight. So hopefully we will get some new roms from that.

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[dfuser312553]

^The official GB for DX?

 

[droidx8791]

Yes but its a rumor as of now.



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[dfuser312553]

Thanks, I thought they were skipping 2.3 for 2.4

 

[drod2169]

Was wondering how Drod was making out with porting gingerbread to the x. I remember a while ago that he solicited for donations on twitter to go to Google I/O and said that he would work full time on the x if he got enough money for a ticket. Lately all I've seen is talk of the thunderbolt and work on a tb rom. Not trying to start anything here but it would be nice to see or here something. Thanks

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Alright.. here's whats going on. Please, don't take this (if it sounds like it) as ungrateful, hateful, rah-rah-rah-do-it-yourself-or-die kind of post.


I promised to work on it.. Never that I would have it functional enough for release, nor a time estimate of when (which is next to impossible to do). I would never release a broken product. rubiX is known as one of, if not THE most stable rom on the DX, for a good reason.

I was working full time on gingerbread for the Droid X. Had it fully booting, AOSP, 2.3.1 Gingerbread. Wifi worked, BT turned on (not sure if it worked, no bt device here), the DX i had had a bad esn, so not sure about 3g/data/calls/sms,etc.

I can almost guarantee that MMS, camera, camcorder, sound didn't work. USB didn't work.

I took a break for a week or so, my girlfriend felt deprived, so I had to give her some of my time, as well as school, work, yadda-yadda, and everything broke when I merged up to 2.3.3. Wouldn't boot.

I came to a stalemate. Couldn't figure out for the life of me why it wouldn't boot. Tried using the proprietary files from the Gingerbread leak that P3Droid was nice enough to share with me (don't ask, I won't give it), and that didn't help, either. The sdcard i had in that dx got screwed. I shared it with my gtab, and my gtab corrupted it. Couldn't read any info off it (also lost a 32GB class 6 SDCard ), and I lost the zip in a make clobber to compile 2.3.3, because, like an idiot, I expected the sdcard to still function (now I have a folder in linux I copy all my successful compiles to after they compile)

It would have been a stand-still anyways, and a lose-lose in my department. If I released AOSP to the status that obsidian is at now (which is what I would of released it as when I got it there), I can guarantee there would have been rants about the unfinished product. I decided to, at the very least, take a break from it, until I get some more time to myself and my thoughts.

I hope everyone understands, and no one is upset about it.

 

[digitalslacker]

Thanks for the explanation. I'm not upset in the least. You can't complain when it's free right?

Question, completely unrelated, why the gTab instead of the Nook? I have both and I'm about to sell the gTab, I really dislike it.

 

[drod2169]

Thanks for the explanation. I'm not upset in the least. You can't complain when it's free right?

Question, completely unrelated, why the gTab instead of the Nook? I have both and I'm about to sell the gTab, I really dislike it.

The upset is more towards the people who donated for me to go to I/O to get gingerbread, and not to help out

Why do you dislike the Viewsonic gTab? I love it. The damn thing never leaves my side!
The tegra 2 alone is a good enough reason for me. The specs are almost identical to the Xoom, minus 512MB of RAM vs. 1GB, and Honeycomb

 

[digitalslacker]

Thanks for the explanation. I'm not upset in the least. You can't complain when it's free right?

Question, completely unrelated, why the gTab instead of the Nook? I have both and I'm about to sell the gTab, I really dislike it.

The upset is more towards the people who donated for me to go to I/O to get gingerbread, and not to help out

Why do you dislike the Viewsonic gTab? I love it. The damn thing never leaves my side!
The tegra 2 alone is a good enough reason for me. The specs are almost identical to the Xoom, minus 512MB of RAM vs. 1GB, and Honeycomb

I think the viewing angles do it for me. They are really bad.

Some of it is the form factor too, for how I use a Tablet, reading eBooks, Google Reader, 10in is not comfortable.

I'm trying to find a reason to keep it around though, I want to see how it runs with Honeycomb but that doesn't look likely at least in the near future now.

What are you running on yours now?

 

[Smittys]

How is this false?

Droid X last OS change (officially) will be to Gingerbread in April or May. It isn't abandoned. Plus, a Gingerbread ROM cant be made because the BL is locked.

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False information.

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[Droid annoymous]

There is a rumor going around saying gb will be released this sunday to business clients then the updates will roll out all next week the build for gb is finished its up to verizon when they want to release it.

Was wondering how Drod was making out with porting gingerbread to the x. I remember a while ago that he solicited for donations on twitter to go to Google I/O and said that he would work full time on the x if he got enough money for a ticket. Lately all I've seen is talk of the thunderbolt and work on a tb rom. Not trying to start anything here but it would be nice to see or here something. Thanks

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Swyped from the best phone in verizon's line up

 

[TRIKOTRET]

Did they say anything about droid 2 Global getting gingerbread love?

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[androidgeek]

Did they say anything about droid 2 Global getting gingerbread love?

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It damn sure better! I just bought my girlfriend that phone for Christmas and seems its already getting looked over. Kinda mad about it.


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[mcp770]

Been through a few phones in my time and the droid x is no exception to the laws of attrition. The market is saturated with android products and the hardware is advancing at breakneck speeds with new and significantly better models released almost quarterly. To date I feel the devs have done a great job working magic on my locked down x in comparison to the stock rom. Thinking the x will have any longevity by way of updates is a pipe dream with our bootloader. Devs are just like the rest of us wanting the newest and fastest roms they can have and we can't expect them to support us for two years when better phones are released.

Personally I view all future updated custom roms as a gift. I don't expect anything mind blowing with this phone anymore but I will always welcome any surprises. The locked bootloaders will indeed sell more phones because we will all want the new best thing and the loaders force us to upgrade to attain this. There is no money in phones like the droid 1, people kept them too long because they could easily mod the unlocked phone. Be happy with the gifts drod and others have given us and be prepared to change phones if you want more.

 

[oldblue]

Was wondering how Drod was making out with porting gingerbread to the x. I remember a while ago that he solicited for donations on twitter to go to Google I/O and said that he would work full time on the x if he got enough money for a ticket. Lately all I've seen is talk of the thunderbolt and work on a tb rom. Not trying to start anything here but it would be nice to see or here something. Thanks

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Alright.. here's whats going on. Please, don't take this (if it sounds like it) as ungrateful, hateful, rah-rah-rah-do-it-yourself-or-die kind of post.


I promised to work on it.. Never that I would have it functional enough for release, nor a time estimate of when (which is next to impossible to do). I would never release a broken product. rubiX is known as one of, if not THE most stable rom on the DX, for a good reason.

I was working full time on gingerbread for the Droid X. Had it fully booting, AOSP, 2.3.1 Gingerbread. Wifi worked, BT turned on (not sure if it worked, no bt device here), the DX i had had a bad esn, so not sure about 3g/data/calls/sms,etc.

I can almost guarantee that MMS, camera, camcorder, sound didn't work. USB didn't work.

I took a break for a week or so, my girlfriend felt deprived, so I had to give her some of my time, as well as school, work, yadda-yadda, and everything broke when I merged up to 2.3.3. Wouldn't boot.

I came to a stalemate. Couldn't figure out for the life of me why it wouldn't boot. Tried using the proprietary files from the Gingerbread leak that P3Droid was nice enough to share with me (don't ask, I won't give it), and that didn't help, either. The sdcard i had in that dx got screwed. I shared it with my gtab, and my gtab corrupted it. Couldn't read any info off it (also lost a 32GB class 6 SDCard ), and I lost the zip in a make clobber to compile 2.3.3, because, like an idiot, I expected the sdcard to still function (now I have a folder in linux I copy all my successful compiles to after they compile)

It would have been a stand-still anyways, and a lose-lose in my department. If I released AOSP to the status that obsidian is at now (which is what I would of released it as when I got it there), I can guarantee there would have been rants about the unfinished product. I decided to, at the very least, take a break from it, until I get some more time to myself and my thoughts.

I hope everyone understands, and no one is upset about it.

I'm not upset. It's nice to know it booted at one point. Take your time DRod. If it can't be done, it'll be time to move on. I have faith, though.


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