Here's my finished build of gingerbread, android 2.3.1 from aosp. The build finished successfully and I have it booted on my Droid. I can't guarantee that it is fully functional and it does not include gapps so if you want the market you'll have to push that your system yourself.


Notes:
1. Does not include gapps, I'm not sure if flashing them is a good idea though, might want to push apps manually if anything.

EDIT: Flashing gapps from cyanogen causes a boot-loop so I wouldn't try it

2. The camera doesn't work, browser force closes after loading a page.


Version 1: Download Link: Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!


Please Read:
After some testing, this is far from usable but extremely fast so I'm looking forward to what comes of gingerbread from the development community, the browser force closes and gapps cause a boot loop. Please make a backup before flashing.



UPDATE!!!: Here's my second build including new updates from AOSP and working USB Mass Storage (credit mtwebster, I just built it). Camera and GPS is still broken.

Build 2: http://www.multiupload.com/GDDDLFIPVM

NOTE: You may lose root when installing this one, just drag the "su" file from the bin of any other rom into the bin of this one before flashing. It won't touch your recovery so you don't have to worry about being locked out of your phone though

Awesome! Downloading now!

I cant wait for this on the d2 lol

Awesomeness!

I'm really amazed at how well this runs despite the fact that I could never actually use it as a daily-use rom (after playing with this for a while i'm probably going back to cm with a gingerbread theme until cm 7 comes out). Based on this, Motorola would be stupid to not give us OG Droid users an official version of 2.3. I'm probably not going to be able to work on this very much to get it up to a completely usable status because I'm extremely busy with my job but i can help anyone having trouble getting the source to build though.

Thanks neubanks89!

So when will we expect a working gingerbread for Droid 1. It sounds like its gonna be possible.

The reason why Motorola likely WON'T give us a Gingerbread ROM has nothing to do with it not running well. The reason is that the Droid is End-of-life; and Motorola isn't dedicating any more resources to developing OSes for it. If there is no dev team, there is no release. FRG22D was SUPPOSED to be the final D1 OS; however FRG83D was released because of severe Microsoft Exchange connectivity issues with FRG22D.

With Froyo and its associated Flash compatibility; the Droid now does everything Moto and Verizon ever claimed it would, and they have no reason to devote any more time to it since it is no longer generating revenue for them.

Wow this runs really good. Looking forward to more 2.3 roms.

If I can get gapps onto the phone somehow I could very well stick with this build LOL. thing is blazing fast. Its sorta crazy.

Thank so much Neubanks!! I love Saturdays. Do you plan on continuing working on this or was it more of a see what happens type of situation?

I cant fully talk for the guy, but one of his posts said with his job he has no time to really work on it. Think he was willing to help people though.

Is it possible to run a quadrant score benchmark on this release if you push the app yourself without the market? I would be curious to see how 2.3 stacks up against froyo at stock and clocked.

Awesome, you just saved me about 3 to 4 hours that should be devoted to studying for my college finals lol

I hadnt seen anything yet and was half tempted to download a live cd and compile it myself while i was home for the weekend (I run linux on my computer up at school).

are u gona start building off this?

I can wait to see what custom roms come soon.

sent from my rooted droid

I understand that this is more of an experiment, but when I loaded it the lock animation didn't happen. Can this be turned on or is it not even in this build?

any idea how to push say the market to your phone?

find a working gapps and flash it with recovery or push it via adb

no, sorry. I was just too anxious to see what gingerbread was like that i was going to build it myself just to see what it was like.

I just installed it and I agree with the rest of you, its pretty nice! I cant wait for a full rom to drop.

Does anyone have a link to a working gapps?