Motorola leaked 2.3 motoblur

[chubb16]

I just read there was a gingerbread motoblur build leaked by Motorola. I guess they are hearing us complain about there software updates, and an official gingerbread build for the defy might be a reality.

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[marhensa]

official froyo takes a long time,
and suddenly now there's a rumour about gingerbread update?

 

[candra_aja]

I just read there was a gingerbread motoblur build leaked by Motorola. I guess they are hearing us complain about there software updates, and an official gingerbread build for the defy might be a reality.

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can you provide the site link?


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[chubb16]

http://www.androidcentral.com/hands...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)

That is a hands on. I say only a matter of time for the defy. It is an insanely popular device worldwide.

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[paijho158]

lol.. he cant found phone application.. of course.. there's no "phone" but dialer..

again. all we have to do is wait. and maybe this build come to defy next year or maybe someone just found the betas as usual..

 

[adi4motion]

quick question, if this doesn't become available for the defy is there any chance to port it to our phone without breaking the signing?

 

[powertony84]

it possible with a nandroid backup but..its necessary see if the hardware its the same etc...etc...

 

[adi4motion]

they have similar hardware but not really the same

 

[Sqoerk]

I won't recommend to install this Droid X update. It should be possible to flash it via clockworkmod, but the bootloader is only half the size than a normal defy bootloader. If everything goes wrong and you can't go into the flashmode (Vol + while starting) you'll never get your phone back running....

 

[naenee]

Indeed. And since it's not the same hardware, I do not see how this will help Defy users.

Furthermore, I disagree that the Defy is 'insanly popular'. Amongst current users, probably. But that's the case for any phone that a user picked out themselves.

That said, the author of the video seems rather .. unused to handling the phone, he regularly performs actions that seem to have no effect with the phone he is holding.

 

[bihariel]

we can do a port from droid 2, but it if gingerbread can not be run on 2.6.32 kernel we will have to wait for a leak, for now there are two leaks( droid x and droid2) so who will be the next one?

 

[ksubedi]

well it would be awesome to have gingerbread on defy, but i dont think motorola is going to release it this early. and i dont think there is going to be a gingerbread rom for defy until the smart guys on cyanogenmod show some love for the lifeproof device. and its not likely that we are gettting gingerbread right now cuz we dont even have official updates for froyo till today. but its motorola, who knows, they might just release the update right now or even years later. lets hope they do it soon.

 

[Jokerchris2000]

I don't think we we'll see an official Gingerbread Update for the Defy EVER. Why should they!? Till now the Defy is not such a high end device as the other Motorola Devices which got Gingerbread already or in near future. I think they only release an Froyo Update and then concentrate on other devices.

Furthermore i guess before they will take some men from their dev team to build a Gingerbread Update for our devices, they will release maybe a device like a Defy 2 with better specs and finally an actual software version.

But how much effort is it to build a official Gingerbread Rom for the Defy at Motorola? They already have a proper Version for the Droid X and the Milestone 2. Therefore it would only be the bootloader with the drivers which they have anyway. Or is it more difficult?

Bye

 

[xabierd]

we can do a port from droid 2, but it if gingerbread can not be run on 2.6.32 kernel we will have to wait for a leak, for now there are two leaks( droid x and droid2) so who will be the next one?

N900 runs gingerbread on an older kernel, I hope that it can run using a froyo kernel

 

[PaY87]

Aslong as the bootloader is locked this isn't easy to just port it..
I really don't like this policy of locked bootloaders..

Also I think before releasing a 2.3 for the Defy they might plan a Defy 2 with 2.3 as a "feature"

 

[shad0wboss]

But about this, as i'm not a developer myself. Isn't is basically possible to sign gingerbread rom on the computer and have the rom in a form of nandroid backup? or a update.zip which you can install from stock recovery?

 

[psicodelico]

But about this, as i'm not a developer myself. Isn't is basically possible to sign gingerbread rom on the computer and have the rom in a form of nandroid backup? or a update.zip which you can install from stock recovery?

To sign you need The Key and we don't have The Key . Motorola's policy.

 

[m11kkaa]

Can't we flash Droid-Firmware's without the bootloader(will the system boot)?

 

[Sqoerk]

Can't we flash Droid-Firmware's without the bootloader(will the system boot)?

Try it...:
- get the droid x zip-file
- delete everything but the system.img
- delete all flashingcommands out the script under \META-INF\com\google\android\
- resign it with signapk
- copy it to your root of your sd-card
- rename it to update.zip
- reboot to clockworkmod recovery
- apply update.zip from your sdcard
- reboot and you'll done

Report back here... doing this won't damage your phone forever...if it does'nt boot any more, you can get it back to life with RSD-Lite and a sbf-file

 

[Epsylon3]

you can also test with the recovery partition .. its another "kernel + initrd (cpio.gz)"