Finally got around to trying this. I'd been in the middle of a move with my pc in a box, but now I've got ICS fully up and running (save for the whole camera thing). Panicked halfway through when I got into a bootloop, but then I wiped everything (forgot the cache the first time) and then everything worked.

I got wifi tether working with the app that was included in the rom, but have any of you had any luck with doing it natively through the settings? I only ask because being able to trigger it from the status bar would be pretty sweet.

edit: did some looking around and it looks like maybe its an issue with shoehorning GSM into a CDMA rom. At least that's the feel I've been getting, I'd love to be wrong.

Thanks for this thread! I hadn't realized there had been developments for the XT-860.

I had unlocked (for use on the Fido network)/rooted my phone and it was working great, then the OTA update from Bell came and I installed that. Now, I seem to have lost root privileges (I guess, obviously).

So, I guess I'm pretty much back to square one.

I would love some advice on how to proceed! I'm thinking of following your directions, and am interested in recommendations for which ROM to install.

What is the problem with the camera with ICS? I use the camera on our phone pretty often so I want a ROM that doesn't break it. Does anyone have some links to some good ROMs to try that work with the XT-860?

Originally Posted by twitchcity

Thanks for this thread! I hadn't realized there had been developments for the XT-860.

I had unlocked (for use on the Fido network)/rooted my phone and it was working great, then the OTA update from Bell came and I installed that. Now, I seem to have lost root privileges (I guess, obviously).

So, I guess I'm pretty much back to square one.

I would love some advice on how to proceed! I'm thinking of following your directions, and am interested in recommendations for which ROM to install.

What is the problem with the camera with ICS? I use the camera on our phone pretty often so I want a ROM that doesn't break it. Does anyone have some links to some good ROMs to try that work with the XT-860?

Use zergrush to root 2.3.6. Picture camera works in ics but you can't record or view video. There's some good gb roms. Give me a few and il shoot you some links

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Starting the process now. Can someone please send me a link or two to a good ROM for the XT-860?

I would prefer ICS (I want Chrome on my phone), but if that causes to many problems, a GB recommendation would be fine.

Bell SBF available at the following URL:

http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_solana/list.php

Originally Posted by ncho2233

How to install a custom rom (eg. CM9, Ice Cream Sandwich, Liberty, Maverick, SteelDroid) to a Bell XT860 without losing the ability to revert to stock later.

If there was any interest at all I would have just made a 100% stock bell 2.3.6 that you flash with CWM and then remove the recovery to be 100% stock but the deodex version seems to be good enough, especially to get a phone with a physical problem past bell/motorola reps. I'm downloading and mirroring that bell sbf right now, very nice find pfak! I made a new thread since you didn't but just linked to your post.

Originally Posted by twitchcity

Starting the process now. Can someone please send me a link or two to a good ROM for the XT-860?

I would prefer ICS (I want Chrome on my phone), but if that causes to many problems, a GB recommendation would be fine.

There are many roms on this part of the sub-forum, just look around or try a search with [ROM] as your query (might not work so hot in the d3 dev subforum )

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Originally Posted by twitchcity

Starting the process now. Can someone please send me a link or two to a good ROM for the XT-860?

I would prefer ICS (I want Chrome on my phone), but if that causes to many problems, a GB recommendation would be fine.

Originally Posted by Willis111

If there was any interest at all I would have just made a 100% stock bell 2.3.6 that you flash with CWM and then remove the recovery to be 100% stock but the deodex version seems to be good enough, especially to get a phone with a physical problem past bell/motorola reps. I'm downloading and mirroring that bell sbf right now, very nice find pfak! I made a new thread since you didn't but just linked to your post.



There are many roms on this part of the sub-forum, just look around or try a search with [ROM] as your query (might not work so hot in the d3 dev subforum )

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I have a number of xt860 adapted roms on my computer. Give me a few days to contact the devs and such and I'll see if I can get a stickied thread with xt860 ready roms to make it easy for new comers. Also willis, ignore my other post to you, I'll include that info in aforementioned thread if I can get it going

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Originally Posted by Endoroid

I have a number of xt860 adapted roms on my computer. Give me a few days to contact the devs and such and I'll see if I can get a stickied thread with xt860 ready roms to make it easy for new comers. Also willis, ignore my other post to you, I'll include that info in aforementioned thread if I can get it going

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You can just use one of the patches (small xt860 patches) to get any rom working on our phones as far as I know.

Originally Posted by pfak

Bell SBF available at the following URL:

http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_solana/list.php

thank you for this it will help a ton of peeps