Done flashing this phone for now.

[k.electron]

1. Motorola has **** policies with their locked down bootloaders.
2. The devs here and at rootzwiki are the true gods of the android world.

Now that those are clear, I think I am done flashing this phone for now. It's my wife's phone and with all the custom roms there is always something that fc's or doesn't quite work right (yes i follow the correct steps). Going back to stock 2.3.5 with root because frankly for her needs stock root is just fine. Unless CM is fully ported over and stable or Fvckinh motorola unlocks the bootloader for truly custom roms, I am not bothering. It's really pathetic that a flagship 3g phone is abandoned by the manufacturer thus leading to poor interest from the dev community (the devs that are working on it, i am highly grateful to and hope their efforts bore fruit).

Once again FU motorola.

 

[Travisdroidx2]

Lol I know what you mean about the wifes phone my wife has the bionic stock and not rooted. I have read the bionic forum and I feel confident I can root it make a nano back up and flash a rom on it. However she has seen me fight with my phone to many times lol. I told her it runs fine and I am always tweaking it to try and get more out if it. But I know the first time she gets a fc I will never hear the end if it. I almost rooted it and flashed a stock looking rom just to speed it up for her but like I said one thing goes and I will not hear the end of it.

But formyself I can say with the x2 i am very happy with eclipse and stock just seems horribly slow. Eclipse 2.02 and v6 supercharger and very stable and happy.

 

[k.electron]

eclipse makes her contacts fc and she has been clawing my brains out. gonna try stock + supercharger v7 this weekend.

 

[Travisdroidx2]

I had contact issues on 2.0 but 2.02 has been great for me. But I feel your oain not worth hassle of the boss.

 

[phieta]

Haha it took me forever to convince my mother that I could make a world of difference on her OG DROID if I ran CM. The first thing she did when I got home from school was hand me the phone. As I'm rooting, I wonder when the first hiccup will occur. She hated to admit how much better it ran when I first asked, but boy did the wrath come when the screen didn't turn on for a phone call.

She doesn't share the excitement for an unlocked bootloader as I do. " Just make sure Facebook is working"...

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[Travisdroidx2]

Lol how do you think I feel I have the x2 wife has the bionic and we just got my son the galaxy nexus and i am the only one rooted and on custom roms. What a waste in my opionion but we all do not share the same opinion obviously lol.

 

[CadenH]

Rooted my fiances phone and debloated it. She's on metro so its way bogged down with nonsense. Now her family thinks im some kind of phone guru lol.

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[phieta]

Ahhh yes. I too hold the title of Expert Computer Tech at home. Pull up the cmd screen and run ipconfig in Windows and onlookers will ask you what MIT was like. I just say I took a few of their summer classes, but it just wasn't working out.

GOOGLE <-- My wisest professor

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[CadenH]

Ahhh yes. I too hold the title of Expert Computer Tech at home. Pull up the cmd screen and run ipconfig in Windows and onlookers will ask you what MIT was like. I just say I took a few of their summer classes, but it just wasn't working out.

GOOGLE <-- My wisest professor

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Exactly

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[k.electron]

i can fight with her phone all i want, and i fight with mine occasionally too, but i dont want her to have to deal with a 100 things crashing and being weird. she doesn't demand the highest quadrant scores or something. she needs a good stable phone. sadly motorola has gimped the **** out of this phone and locked its bootloader. wish i hadn't bought her this phone. never buying motorola again thats for sure, until google starts overseeing their production themselves and makes phones with unencrypted bootloaders.

 

[Rasa11]

Ahhh yes. I too hold the title of Expert Computer Tech at home. Pull up the cmd screen and run ipconfig in Windows and onlookers will ask you what MIT was like. I just say I took a few of their summer classes, but it just wasn't working out.

GOOGLE <-- My wisest professor

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Lol!! too funny.
I get the same stuff.
pull up a terminal and put a few commands in and suddenly you''re a genius who can fix anything tech. related!
amazing what you can do when you just google what you need. lol

 

[nitroglycerine33]

eclipse makes her contacts fc and she has been clawing my brains out. gonna try stock + supercharger v7 this weekend.

Get me a logcat. I cannot reproduce any contact issues.

What apps are being installed that have contact permissions?

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[iBolski]

i can fight with her phone all i want, and i fight with mine occasionally too, but i dont want her to have to deal with a 100 things crashing and being weird. she doesn't demand the highest quadrant scores or something. she needs a good stable phone. sadly motorola has gimped the **** out of this phone and locked its bootloader. wish i hadn't bought her this phone. never buying motorola again thats for sure, until google starts overseeing their production themselves and makes phones with unencrypted bootloaders.

Actually, all the bloat is from Verizon, not Motorola.

Also, Motorola WOULD unlock IF Verizon would allow it. But, for some reason, Verizon won't budge.

However, HTC somehow convinved Verizon to allow them to unlock the bootloader, so maybe Moto should talk with HTC to see what they did.

Motorola wants to unlock them. Verizon is the one being the jerk about it.

 

[k.electron]

Get me a logcat. I cannot reproduce any contact issues.

What apps are being installed that have contact permissions?

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oh crapp... i installed stock 2.3.5 without a nandroid. basically when i opened the contacts app and click a contact, com.motorola.contacts would fc. if i tried to access the contact from like a google voice window or something, same thing would happen. i would have to memorize a number after looking at the contact list and then put into the dialer to make a call.
i think facebook, google voice were the only 2 programs that did things with contacts.

Actually, all the bloat is from Verizon, not Motorola.

Also, Motorola WOULD unlock IF Verizon would allow it. But, for some reason, Verizon won't budge.

However, HTC somehow convinved Verizon to allow them to unlock the bootloader, so maybe Moto should talk with HTC to see what they did.

Motorola wants to unlock them. Verizon is the one being the jerk about it.

htc did it, so should motorola. if verizon can have the nexus on their network, unlocking the bootloader for a phone thats basically forgotten now shouldnt be a problem. and if everyone wants to be such a ****, what are leaks for.

 

[k.electron]

i figured out the cause of the contacts fc-ing. titanium deleting the yahoo mail authenticator is somehow not liked by motorola contacts. but im still glad i returned to stock. speedy + build prop mashup make the phone really fast, and games like fruit ninja lagged on custom roms, that doesnt happen anymore. the aosp dialer was also garbage and did not support name searches which the motorola dialer does. now that i have deleted the 40 or so bloat apps the phone runs exceedingly well.

just wish douchebag motorola would unlock it already so that the stellar devs over here could get good roms going instead of wasting their time with the bootloader.