Liberty on D2G (or any D2 Roms) - Is it possible?!?

[13th angel]

Impressive so far..... any chance of getting a zip of what you have so far to maybe look over? Im like you, dont really know much about droids but eager to give it a crack at it if nothing else.

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[buryboi]

I could probably put that together. I have several Nandroids, but haven't taken the time to put together an update.zip. I'll see what I can come up with in the next couple days.

 

[WoZzY]

I will help you out to bury boy if you put a zip together I have used jedit for awhile I might be a little of assistance

 

[buryboi]

Uploading alpha rom as we speak...

On a side note, I got most of liberty frameworks into a theme for fission. Can't get rotary lock to work...

Wozzy,

I've done diffdog comparisons and many of the xml files are the same between fission and libert frameworks-res.apk. I have a list in xls format if that's helpful...I md5sumed most of the frameworks-res.apk files.

My guess is I missed an .so file related to sensors, or the liberty frameworks are calling D2 sensors, and then soft rebooting when they aren't found. (This only happens at sleep/wake).



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[WoZzY]

just started looking at it a hour ago looks very good so far very impressive so far I still got a lil digging around to do will look @ it for another hour or so then I got to hit the sac for work

 

[bikedude880]

To the 3 - 5 D2G users that have rooted and care to run custom "roms" (Yeah, Yeah, I know there are probably more.) Here is what I've got.

Make that 6! Currently very interested in helping to get this work or at the very least test and debug. Good luck

 

[emarx429]

Seven...

Lol! Quietly stalking...

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[fathcarter]

Yes please bump!! U are awesome. I like fission but need sumthing new pleaaaaase!! Ill donate to this. Plus I heard liberty is awesome

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[Phoenix1224]

Lol, been lurking since the beginning of this thread. I know almost nothing about ROMs, but would definitely be willing to test if someone gave me *very explicit instructions on how to install. I have bootstrap and everything, just haven't taken the plunge to Fission yet.

 

[Mike Dee]

I'm with Phoenix. I'd be willing to play around with a "polished" beta, whenever you get to that point! I just need a foolproof way to recover everything, should the unthinkable happen. I mean, I'm bootstrapped and using Titanium backup, but I'm also paranoid and don't want to mess up my phone, lol. I've learned a TON from this forum, but the fact remains that this is my first Android phone ever, and I probably have a lot of "unknown unknowns", if you know what I mean. Anyway, thanks for doing this!!!

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[fathcarter]

Me as well.. I have had every android phone since the G1. lol I probably have a problem but I have flashed about 500 times,, seriously!! Just let me know

 

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

Guys, pretty much nothing we do to these phones with ROMs is permanent, as long as you know how to SBF. I've done it 8 or 9 times, doesn't bother me any. I also would beta test, if it would be helpful.

 

[bikedude880]

Going to take the plunge and attempt to recreate the Liberty test. Best of luck to me xD

EDIT: Just noticed this on the Motorola "Open Source" site.

 

[emarx429]

Guys, pretty much nothing we do to these phones with ROMs is permanent, as long as you know how to SBF. I've done it 8 or 9 times, doesn't bother me any. I also would beta test, if it would be helpful.

Yah at least twice myself, hell do it just to get comfortable with it... at least the wiki's about it a download all the files/software...

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[buryboi]

Ok, so here is where this is at...

Just for the sake of comparison, I looked at Fission for the D2 vs Fission on D2G. There are 60+ different lib files between the two, and aside from the map related framework, all the framework files are different. That led me to this conclusion... If D2 Frameworks played nice with D2G, Angdroid wouldn't waste his time rebuilding them completely on the D2G, he'd just change the ones that didn't work. So what does this mean for porting so called roms to D2G? We would have to manually rebuild nearly all the frameworks files to be fully compatible.

Now, I took this one step further and compared Fission D2 with Liberty D2. They do share several frameworks, which leads me to believe, those are the device specific frameworks and not necessarily related to a specific ROM.

So what are the options...
Since our kernels are locked, our ROM's are not true roms, they are really just themes. Most (if not all) of the D2 and DX ROMS are AOSP based, instead of Moto-Blur based. To make a "custom rom" all we really need to do is create a themed framework-res.apk and bundle all the apps/features we really want.

While I did get D2 Liberty 90% functional on the D2G, I'm afraid the sensor hurdle cant be overcome without rebuilding at least some of the frameworks. If that gets done, we still may not have GSM support since we are really still running D2 Libs and frameworks on a D2G (I haven't been able to test this).

At the end of the day, it is easier just to incorporate some of the liberty themed bits into a D2G global framework-res.apk. (I've got this basically working without the Rotary Lock screen function.) I've also got functioning Liberty Scripts and Liberty Toolbox. Which means I've got most of what I wanted out of the Liberty ROM running on Fission.

If we created a new Global based "ROM", what features would you people want to see? Personally I like Fission, but alot of folks would like to see the updates released for the D2G that have already come out for the D2 and DX. What features does the update include?

I personally would like to see a Rotary Lock screen! Why did they ever do away with that in the first place?