[ROM] [RELEASE] Steel Droid: 5.6 - Ice Cream Sandwich - 6-8-2012

[timovd]

Lockscreen is not showing up.
I tried all different lockscreens, but it's not showing up after power-off.

I have a few Exchange accounts which must be protected by a password. But even without an Exchange Client, the Lockscreen is not showing up.

 

[Dom1000]

Here's what I use, hope this helps!

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im on SD 5.5 and i have experienced this. ive found that if i close the keyboard it comes up or close the virtual keyboard because i have autorotate turned off.

also, ive been using camera zoom fx and i really like it. you can set the volume keys to take the picture instead of zoom in/out if you want to. I like it because it gives me a physical button to press so if my gf and i take a pic of ourself we dont have to search for the button on the screen since the front facing camera doesnt work.

one last thing. on 5.6 is under rom control>performance is there a way to set the scaling governer to ondemand? i switched back to 5.5 because i had really bad batt and i think a few other things on 5.6 that i didnt like right away but i had forgotten about the scaling gov.

 

[chevycam94]

Hey chevy can we get an update on any future updates (5.7 or 6)

Is this ever gonna get updated or is it a lost cause at this point. Just some updates on ur progress would be nice to keep our hopes up

thanks for everything you've done a great job

Unfortunately, I think it might be the end of the line for my support for the D3. Its not as fast or as smooth (by any means) a phone, as compared to other, more affordable, current devices. Im actually thinking about selling my D3, and putting that money toward something newer, like an SGS3, or Nexus 7. I dont really know where my D3 even IS right now. I use it that much. I hardly touch my D1, but its like its made of steel.....DROID! lol It just keeps going, and its always going to be my backup phone (god forbid I actually need to use it for that purpose.

HOWEVER, if I manage to get a kexec build running on my D3, I MIGHT continue work on it, but it wont be much. The VZW Galaxy Nexus is taking up my time right now. Its a lot of fun, and its smooth as hell. I ALMOST like it better than an SGS3 (played with one a month or so ago, and it was great, but just didnt feel sturdy physically, and figured the screen might also eventually get "burn'ins" like the GNex. But other than that, its a very nice phone.

 

[bugglz]

I do have one question before you quit though. I just discovered this and like it, all except for fact the SMS doesn't vibrate when I receive a message. Is this normal?

 

[eroc1990]

Chev, I know you want to move on to bigger and better projects, but we as a community would be very appreciative of you if you manage to complete SDv6.

 

[thorrules]

Unfortunately, I think it might be the end of the line for my support for the D3. Its not as fast or as smooth (by any means) a phone, as compared to other, more affordable, current devices. Im actually thinking about selling my D3, and putting that money toward something newer, like an SGS3, or Nexus 7. I dont really know where my D3 even IS right now. I use it that much. I hardly touch my D1, but its like its made of steel.....DROID! lol It just keeps going, and its always going to be my backup phone (god forbid I actually need to use it for that purpose.

HOWEVER, if I manage to get a kexec build running on my D3, I MIGHT continue work on it, but it wont be much. The VZW Galaxy Nexus is taking up my time right now. Its a lot of fun, and its smooth as hell. I ALMOST like it better than an SGS3 (played with one a month or so ago, and it was great, but just didnt feel sturdy physically, and figured the screen might also eventually get "burn'ins" like the GNex. But other than that, its a very nice phone.

Hey chevy, thanks for all the great work on D3 and SD in general. When I bought Galxy Nexus for my wife, I was confused with so many ROMs, but when I saw that you had one, I just flashed it without any hesitations! Thanks for SD2.8Gnex and also sd5.6d3, sd4.6d3. Btw, sd4.6d3 I think is the best ROM ever for d3. I used to have some gps issues on it, but I clean wiped and flashed and its super smooth on D3. Really appreciate your work.

 

[tpence2177]

Hey chevy,
I would also like to thank you for your hard work. I just got steel droid 5.5 loaded on mine last night and it runs great. Kinda sad that everyone is moving away from the droid 3 now that I finally got it lol. My wife got an iphone 5 yesterday and I got her droid 3. Not the fastest but still miles ahead my casio gzone commando. I had this thing rooted and steel droid 5.5 loaded in an hour. I waited for 6+ months for a root on the commando and it never came

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[tpence2177]

Does anyone know if this rom or any rom for that matter will recognize a 3500 mah battery correctly? I know tbis one will show actual percentages but i didnt know if it would should a bigger battery correctly. If i remember correctly roms wouldn't be any different on a droid 1 as far as recognizing a 3500 mah battery. Thanks in advance

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[Yonnor]

Does anyone know if this rom or any rom for that matter will recognize a 3500 mah battery correctly? I know tbis one will show actual percentages but i didnt know if it would should a bigger battery correctly. If i remember correctly roms wouldn't be any different on a droid 1 as far as recognizing a 3500 mah battery. Thanks in advance

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I run Steel Droid 5.6 with the extended battery with no problem. It seems to read correctly for me % wise, it'll take a few days to correctly read though.

 

[tpence2177]

Awesome thanks! I was gonna hold off on buying one if it didn't. I don't mind the added thickness or anything like that, I just can't stand when motorola phones can't read it right. I don't like sitting on 5% for days not knowing when it is going to die.

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[ovelayer]

hey chevy..
you might wanna update your op in the sbf part..
users of .906 ota cannot use the .890 sbf or they face brick
just an fyi had to help acouple peeps out when they tried to sbf to use your rom

 

[jojoferari]

hey chevy..
you might wanna update your op in the sbf part..
users of .906 ota cannot use the .890 sbf or they face brick
just an fyi had to help acouple peeps out when they tried to sbf to use your rom

then how do we install on 906?

 

[tbone73]

how are the video codecs coming? Need Video camera... please.

 

[Technobuffalos]

then how do we install on 906?

I installed it on 906 but, I had to do a factory wipe to boot up.

 

[gghostboy]

Great rom, installed with no real issues. Have been able to work around most of the problems I have encountered but one. Battery reporting on my droid 3 is incorrect. It will reach 1% within about an hour and a half of heavy use, meaning screen is on the whole time. It will then run for another hour and a half or more at 1%. I have tried several things and none of them have worked. Any info would be appreciated.