Fly X ROM for Droid X hits RC1 status

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged android 2.2, Birdman, droid x, Droid X Rom

Remember when they said it couldn’t be done? Birdman, Android hacker extraordinaire, has released the first Droid X ROM, which removes Motoblur in favor of a vanilla Android UI. The release has been giving the RC1 label, so it’s going to be a little buggy. Still, this is a significant step forward in achieving stable ROMs for a device once pegged as unROMable (yes, I made up a word).

The ROM requires users to already be running the leaked 2.2 build, be rooted, AND be running the Droid X bootstrap. Check out the source link to download the necessary files, and for a set of instructions and requirements for running this ROM.

[via Droid-Life)

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Categorized as Android Development, Android Hacks

Comments

bemymonkey

“Remember when they said it couldn’t be done?”

STOP IT!

It can’t be done. It hasn’t been done. It won’t be done any time soon, unless Moto fucked up with their bootloader encryption in a way that makes it incredibly easy to crack.

The bootloader has not been cracked, all that’s happening is the update.zip equivalent of restoring someone else’s Nandroid backup on your phone.

It’s not a custom ROM, get it through your heads!
TJ Tiernan

Technically, this is a custom rom. The only thing that isn’t changeable at this point is the kernel, do to the locked bootloader.
bemymonkey

The unchangeable kernel is EXACTLY what stops it from being a custom ROM.

What’s the point of doing all this when you could just strip your own ROM and add components via ADB on the recovery console? What can you do here that you couldn’t have done by modifying one device and then distributing Nandroid backups?

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