[6/18/12] CM9 ICS For the Droid Pro

[airon11]

airon, any update on your build?

sorry i've been quite busy these days and haven't checked forum.
i don't have a buil environment, and i don't know how to do a build, what i did is simply install the 3/4 version on my droid pro and manually pussh all the libraries from the 3/21 build, after extracting the zip of the latest build
i also copied the camera.apk from the newest build to the oldest, always with adb push
so i think that you can do the same way to have a good final result...

[r3j2]

Thanks for the info. I've never used adb to push files before, so let me make sure this makes sense before I start throwing things where they shouldn't be:

1. I flash the 3-4 build onto my phone.

2. I unpack the 3-21 zip file and push the "lib" directory to...where? /systsem/lib/ on my phone?

3. Push the Camera.apk from the 3-21 build...ok, I think I need a location for this one too.

Sorry to be a dunce.

[airon11]

Thanks for the info. I've never used adb to push files before, so let me make sure this makes sense before I start throwing things where they shouldn't be:

1. I flash the 3-4 build onto my phone.

2. I unpack the 3-21 zip file and push the "lib" directory to...where? /systsem/lib/ on my phone?

3. Push the Camera.apk from the 3-21 build...ok, I think I need a location for this one too.

Sorry to be a dunce.

Copy via adb push the library files (not directory) inside /system/lib
copy Camera.apk inside /system/app

remember that you need to mount /system in read write before doing this ( you can do it with root explorer)

after the copy reset permission to the files you copied to 644 (rw r r)
after a reboot everything should work!

[r3j2]

Great! Thanks for all the help. Now I have to decide between trying out this frankenbuild and giving Gummy a shot. CM has always been my favorite, though.


EDIT 2: Well, it was a bit of a nailbiter, but it looks like your instructions worked like a charm! So glad to have stable audio, I really need that to get through the day. Thanks a lot for the tip!

[airon11]

I copied the libraries but not the libraries inside subfolders...only the ones in lib..

[r3j2]

Gotcha, thanks. I went ahead and did what you said. So far things seem to be working flawlessly! I was mainly doing this to get sound settings + camera. The stock Music app still force closes; I'm hoping that Last.fm and the other player I have will work. I was having to reboot my phone 3-4 times a shift to keep the tunes going.

[jago25_98]

Hardware differences aside, I'd say no. The reason most of us here use the pro is primarily because of the form factor and the physical portrait keyboard. If those don't matter to you, then there is no reason to use this phone and deal with the locked bootloaders, etc.

Thanks ngtwolf that could be a big timesaver. I like the DroidPro for the smaller screen & keyboard (uprated battery is good so for me the i9000 vs DroidPro then becomes a question of community support)

I was always worried that even if I unlock everything now no problem but then we are (a lot?) more likely to get stuck with CM9 at a later date because the Pro is that much rarer than the i9000.
Of course, GeeksPhone or Synapic-phone would be a better solution long term.

Great! Thanks for all the help. Now I have to decide between trying out this frankenbuild and giving Gummy a shot. CM has always been my favorite, though.

I don't seem to have the same issues as people are having here. The only problem I have is the keyboard so I guess I just need to find the latin.apk for the DroidPro to fix the hardware keyboard problem.

I'm on Kernel 2.6.32-9-g8b456a1w36084@ca25rhe92 #1 <-is this stock?
CM9 version is 9.0.0-RC0-venus-KANG What version is on offer in this first post of this thread?
Build date is Mar 21, IML74K.

This seems like a later ROM in this thread but I see are people with problems here so I don't see what I might again from it.



...Finding it hard to navigate this forum without the ability to get everything on one page...

[ngtwolf]

Thanks ngtwolf that could be a big timesaver. I like the DroidPro for the smaller screen & keyboard (uprated battery is good so for me the i9000 vs DroidPro then becomes a question of community support)

I was always worried that even if I unlock everything now no problem but then we are (a lot?) more likely to get stuck with CM9 at a later date because the Pro is that much rarer than the i9000.
Of course, GeeksPhone or Synapic-phone would be a better solution long term.

There really is no long term on phones... two years is about the best you can do long term. Google is pushing to have companies support their devices for 1 1/2 years, and i think that would suffice as long as that means that you will get the newest operating system upgrades for that time. That's not happening now though. The best "long term" solution is a nexus phone. However, if you don't mind rooting and installing custom roms, HTC or even Samsung are a good route to go. Both companies have very good support over at xda. Heck, my old captivate (which died a slow death) is just about 2 years old now and has a great support community (as with almost all the galaxy s devices except maybe the fascinate). My experience with the pro, and a friends experience with her Cliq, hasn't been so good. Motorola does everything they can to hinder the development community. They don't want the phones to last, they want a specific experience and they want you to buy a new phone to upgrade that experience. That same philosophy is why most of us don't use iPhones and why we choose the openness of Android in the first place.

[Freak4Dell]

There really is no long term on phones... two years is about the best you can do long term. Google is pushing to have companies support their devices for 1 1/2 years, and i think that would suffice as long as that means that you will get the newest operating system upgrades for that time. That's not happening now though. The best "long term" solution is a nexus phone. However, if you don't mind rooting and installing custom roms, HTC or even Samsung are a good route to go. Both companies have very good support over at xda. Heck, my old captivate (which died a slow death) is just about 2 years old now and has a great support community (as with almost all the galaxy s devices except maybe the fascinate). My experience with the pro, and a friends experience with her Cliq, hasn't been so good. Motorola does everything they can to hinder the development community. They don't want the phones to last, they want a specific experience and they want you to buy a new phone to upgrade that experience. That same philosophy is why most of us don't use iPhones and why we choose the openness of Android in the first place.

I agree with your post, but unfortunately, Motorola was the only company that actually put some thought into a portrait QWERTY phone.

[ngtwolf]

based on airon11's instructions, here is a merged zip file. http://www.mediafire.com/?9391bc02odsvh2i

From what i can tell so far, it does seem to work with gsm and with the camera. I hadn't seen the gummy build though, so now I have to go see what that is and if it works with GSM.