[ROM][Pre-Pre-ALPHA] Droid A855 ICS Build Attempt

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Bunie89 said:
It sickens me how much people give up on the Droid. Guess we're forever stuck with CM7. Im done following this thread. I had hope for you, Twisted.
Way to let me down. :(
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Take the device folder for the droid build and run it against tpruvot's source with the camera HAL from the droid2 and itll be pretty much done.
Run it against my frameworks and it will only have 900 errors. I didn't "give up" but I did take it down to save someone trying to build it and getting a screen full of junk.
If I were just making builds, then I have no excuse to say "I don't really have the time to rewrite the entire frameworks just for fun" but there is a lot more going on.
I don't expect anyone to understand what is demanded from those lucky enough to be tagged "recognized developer" but it is not the same reward it used to be :/
 
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Hey wasn't a problem with ICS that there was something not working when you called people?
Edit: Ohwait the build I have is old as hell, but its weird.. I'm considering using it as a daily ROM, pretty much everything works except the camera...
 
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Bunie89 said:
It sickens me how much people give up on the Droid. Guess we're forever stuck with CM7. Im done following this thread. I had hope for you, Twisted.
Way to let me down. :(
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Where can we find your build again? :confused: :D

Don't get me wrong, I'm disappointed as well, but at no point did I feel 'entitled' to ICS. Forget indie devs, the firms selling a lot of these phones let us down with slow/no updates, and junky skins and overlays...

twistedumbrella said:
Take the device folder for the droid build and run it against tpruvot's source with the camera HAL from the droid2 and itll be pretty much done.
Run it against my frameworks and it will only have 900 errors. I didn't "give up" but I did take it down to save someone trying to build it and getting a screen full of junk.
If I were just making builds, then I have no excuse to say "I don't really have the time to rewrite the entire frameworks just for fun" but there is a lot more going on.
I don't expect anyone to understand what is demanded from those lucky enough to be tagged "recognized developer" but it is not the same reward it used to be :/
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Twisted, thanks for all your work on the D1, and all those other phones you are working on. Charity work is very often a thankless job, and I am sure the donations you receive probably do not make up for the time you put in.

Also, I think you should leave everything up with a note saying it doesn't work (so someone can choose to extend your awesome work if they choose), but of course that is up to you :cool:
 
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The Milestone seemed to have gotten a pretty working ics build. I hope cushzero succeeds and I hope we have something in a month or two. :)
 
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Isint milestone and og the same thing? In this since I don't get why ics is not yet possible on the og.
 
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Isint milestone and og the same thing? In this since I don't get why ics is not yet possible on the og.
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not quite, the milestone has a locked bootloader so they can't install custom kernels and their ics rom would have a lot of pointless work arounds, and the milestone has a different radio (milestone is gsm, droid is cdma) so their fixes for data and calling wouldn't fully work... The droid can probably use a lot of that rom but the main issues we have now would be the same (a kernel that will allow hardware acceleration properly and phone call audio)
 
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I have faith in cushzero. :)

My contract doesn't end till June or something. Even after that, I'd rather wait till November or December and get a quad core phone...so this Droid is gonna serve me for a while :)
 
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Also, I am currently running Liquid smooth on my Droid 1. Are there any more ICS like/faster roms that are available? Thanks.
 
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podspi said:
Where can we find your build again? :confused: :D

Don't get me wrong, I'm disappointed as well, but at no point did I feel 'entitled' to ICS. Forget indie devs, the firms selling a lot of these phones let us down with slow/no updates, and junky skins and overlays...
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It wsnt personally against him. I've seen like 10 other ICS for Droid threads where EACH developer got to this exact point, and then decided to say the same thing. Too busy with other Devices. What other devices? newer phones? Theres like 20 roms being developed by each of them. For the Droid? None. Theres CrushZero's and he cant even make a fully functional CM7 rom. I understand its a complex task. i was just hoping twisted would be able to pull it off.

i know im not "entitled" to it. but that doesnt mean i wasnt looking forward to it more then xmas =/
 
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So this project is dead? I don't remember what build I put on my Droid but It was working great. I think the camera was the only thing not working. It was just a nightly.

I'll admit I haven't checked this forum for a long time and I didn't read through all of it but what happened to the original poster? He gave the project up to twisted and then twisted dropped it?
 
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