Well isn't there a way to theme the rom so you can use stuff like the rotary lock screen and stuff? And are you saying that the problem with the GSM, is once you port the rom to the D2G the GSM wont work? Cause if that's the case, I wouldn't mind that, cause I don't ever plan on using the GSM band since I don't go out of country (I wish I did lol). Or is it impossible to make the phone fully work without both radio bands?
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The problem with the radio is complex only because it has a HYBRID of two seperate radio systems. Both pretty much rely on the same files which means the files have to be capable of supporting both radios.
There are too few phone like this to draw information from so it makes it even harder when you can't see how someone else gets around the issue.
And if you are familiar with WM flashing at all you know that flashing a GSM phone with a CDMA radio gets you a nice paperweight.
If the D2G simply had one or the other (lets say GSM Only) then you could probably mash together a ROM using some other GSM Only rom as a starting point and simply replace a few .so files to get it to work.
If it was CDMA only then we would be flashing D2 roms right now!
The fact it has to know how to deal with a GSM radio and SIM card PLUS also be able to interface with the CDMA radio makes it a much more daunting task.
One that as BuryBoi stated could be easily solved if we could flash a custom Kernel.
CyanogenMod is capable of supporting all the various devices it does because they only have to write one framework and then include a custom Kernel for each model phone that is standardized to the Clockwork framework yet supports all the features of the phone.
In essence the CyanogenMod is no different than what a phone manufacturer would make for their phone.
Unfortunatly Moto decided not to let anyone else do that for their devices while others didn't really care.
If that bootloader should ever be unlocked then all the problems of Rom support would go away!
