yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
I started a thread on the differences between the 2 ROMs in the general forum. Do you think it would be a good idea to update that one instead? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1371359
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
If we can't do a full restore it's not exactly a round about sbf for the xt860 but at least you can restore your data :) Maybe someone on this rom could give a shot into turning it into a safestrap and seeing if you can boot it, you should be able to boot it no problems but I couldn't with xt860 stock and safestrap image.
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Is camera fixed on these Brazilian firmware? Keyboard autorepeat?
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
What's the difference between the bell rom and these ROMs from a users stand point, is the GUI different? Different bloat I assume. Once you've restored your data is it really any different from being on bell rom?

My biggest question though, is now that we have a full recovery does anyone have any intention of making a custom rom, or modifying an existing one to run on xt860

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
These are 2.3.5, 5.2.xx, my bell is running 2.3.4, 5.1.xx.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Ya I get that, but what's the difference to the end user experience? Besides not being able to receive updates from bell, (conversely being able to get Brazil Telecom updates) is there any reason to willingly switch to these 2.3.5 roms?

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] pfak:
"Seems" a lot snappier. Going to leave HSDPA enabled over night on FIDO and see how the battery life is. Has some fixes, has more Blur junk though.

I would use the Retail image instead of the one specific to a telecom.
[Motorola Droid 3] Rick#2:
I wouldn't unless you've semi-bricked your phone because this one hasn't been thoroughly tested yet. So far so good though, but I've only been using it for the last two days.
[Motorola Droid 3] pfak:
It works for me (the Retail one) -- I didn't try any of the other Fastboot files. After leaving the device starting at 80% charge in 3G Only mode overnight with all power saving options for data sync disabled, the device was 80% after 8 hours.

Noticed Radio is a lot less spamier in the adb logcat on the device.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Is cell standby still the biggest consumer or battery in the battery stats

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Just saw your post in the other thread, seems like s vast improvement on battery life which has always been my biggest ***** about this phone

I mean that's less than 10% loss in 8 hours. Currently I lose 10 an hour

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] LaZiODROID:
Neat !! Thanks daywalker.

If anyone has successfully downloaded the retail file, could they please up it to another mirro? Filesonic keeps cutting my transfer off.
[Motorola Droid 3] Mathieu2k4:
For those who are trying it, the answer about the camera app haven't been said.

My question is, if the camera app is better than the one on the Bell rom, it is possible to extract it, to test it.
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
This is referring specifically to the Vivo ROM. I wanted to be on the latest and greatest ;)

The Camera app is much better. Battery life is thoroughly better than the Bell ROM, but I have a feeling this ROM isnt HSPA+. My market downloads weren't as fast when I was doing it over cellular. Any good ways to test that? The indicator also isn't saying H+ (just H). On that same token, that could be why the battery runs so down. So far I have been configuring my device all afternoon and had the cell usage down to about 9% whereas it used to be 25-40%. Instead the screen was taking up all the power at 42%. I dont think the device has been off since 1pm, so it's doing pretty good.

No annoying keyboard represses, and the phone is a lot snappier. The Blur stuff is all in there though, so that is a slight disadvantage of the ROM. I think Bell needs a major update and I hope to go back on the Bell path eventually (of course will need fastboot files, in due time...) but for now I am going to keep this! I think this is closer as to how Moto designed the phone. This rom is like night and day...

I have also included a sample photo from the camera app. The lighting in my place sucks, so this should give everyone a good idea.

I'm also running rooted on the Vivo ROM. Let me know if anyone has other questions.
[Motorola Droid 3] LifeInAnalog:
... Damn, Danifunker, your foot? You wanted to show us how the camera looks by shooting a pic of your sock?!

Was there no bowls of fruit around? ;-)
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but perhaps vivo doesn't have a hspa+ network and as such its not activated in the rom. Perhaps it could be activated by modifying some file, or maybe one of the other fastboot files would have hspa+ anyone using the other roms? What are you experiences with them? If I can have better battery life and keep my hspa+ I'm all over it

Also danifunker, the bell rom we are coming from is full of blur crap, what's different about these roms compared to bell. And can you not debloat as much as it of possible, use a third party launcher etc...

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
I'm missing that blue bell background that came packaged with the Bell ROM, can someone upload that to this thread? Or where in the system.img could I find it? I still have my original nandroid I took before I dumped the Bell version.

Endroid, the Blur crap is sort of removed from the Bell ROM. Under accounts, I needed to add my blur account before I could add a facebook or linkedin account, even my exchange account couldn't be added without the blur integration. It's not like that with the Bell ROM. I have a feeling Moto didn't plan on taking out pieces of Blur which is probably why the Bell ROM is so bad (probably wasn't really developed properly). I've seen a number of new blur screens I never have seen on the original ROM as well such as message screens, FB/LinkedIn Blur integration and other stuff like that. Obviously I've disabled as much as I could, but again, even with the blurryness of this ROM it works a lot better than the Bell one.

Edit:

I found the Blue Background Wallpaper, and am including it on this post. It was burried in /system/app/framework-res.apk. Download the ZIP as the jpg is just a preview.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
This is my first android so I've never experienced blur except the bell xt860. Ive .bak'd as much of the blur software as I'm comfortable with and I find its much faster and more responsive than stock.

I'm very excited about the potential of having decent battery life but I'm hesitant as I don't want to lose hspa+ and.given that I can't go back to bell firmware...

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
The picture of the sock definitely looks better than what it would if shot with the default XT860 bell rom

And if battery is better I'm seriously tempted to switch to this rom. It is unclear if Bell will release update to our rom soon.

The only thing that holds me from doing it is the fact there is no way back and if I have to send my phone for warranty work again it will be a problem. Let's hope somebody will leak Bell SBF soon too.
[Motorola Droid 3] daywalker04:
If your phone is rooted I could use some files for more detailed info in order to try and acquire a Bell ROM.

I need the information contained in these 2 files.

default.prop

build.prop
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
That would be amazing

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Found this interesting

2.3.5

Released on 25 July 2011, Android 2.3.5 included a number of amendments:[41]

Improved network performance for the Nexus S 4G, among other fixes and improvements

Fixed Bluetooth bug on Samsung Galaxy S

Improved Gmail application

Shadow animations for list scrolling

Camera software enhancements

Improved battery efficiency

Could explain. The improved cam and batt instead of the system version being newer. Ultimately irrelevant but interesting

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
For those interested, I just ran a speedtest.net test and here are the results:

Test Date: Dec 3, 2011 6:17:22 am

Connection Type: Hspa

Server: Kitchener, ON

Download: 5885 kbps

Upload: 1102 kbps

Ping: 97 ms

External IP: 74.198.9.215

Internal IP: 25.4.250.87

Latitude: 43.70973

Longitude: -79.39743

A detailed image for this result can be found here:

http://www.speedtest.net/android/109434724.png

Ookla operates Speedtest.net using a massive global infrastructure to minimize the impact of Internet congestion and latency. With millions of tests performed every day across hundreds of servers, Speedtest.net is the ultimate resource for bandwidth testing and related information. Visit it on your computer today to find out why.

Oddly enough, I am in Toronto but my location came up as Kitchener. This was on the Vivi ROM. Can anyone try a speedtest on the Bell ROM and post results here?
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
I'm too lazy to actually do a screen shot. I'm in Vancouver. Test server was Bellingham Washington state. My results were on par with yours

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Can an admin make this a sticky? It will make it easy for xt860 users to find and prevent noobs from accidentally using the xt862 fastboot files. Also the xt862 fastboot thread should have the title changed to include [xt862] we keep getting told we don't need a subforum as long as proper labeling is used. I can accept that but I would like to see the proper labeling used. Thank you in advance

Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] LaZiODROID:
And somebody... anybody... pleeeease re-upload the roms to something like multiupload?? The download links in the original post are now showing a 404 error.
[Motorola Droid 3] Mathieu2k4:
I am doing it, will edit when done.

Estimated time left:

02:07:40

taught it would be faster, but I'm waiting

Damn slow

Estimated time left:

04:21:46

and Yes the link is still working.
[Motorola Droid 3] daywalker04:
The links are still alive.
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
I am using the XT860 Bell Version on AT&T here in the US. As you can see from my signature, my speeds are about on par with what you are seeing, actually a little bit slower.

We do have H+ here in my area though download speeds vary greatly depending on the time of day. Very rare that I see anything faster that 4mb/s down.

These numbers are very similar to what I got with my HTC Desire Z.
[Motorola Droid 3] pfak:
Motorola XT860 2.3.5 (Brasil Retail) Temporary Download Link

p2b_solana_umts_solana_retail_br-user-2.3.5-5.5.1-112_SLU-39M-110926-release-keys-Brasil-BR.xml.zip
[Motorola Droid 3] LaZiODROID:
Thanks very much pfak - I will put on another mirror soon as it's done
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
No need to be rooted. Here are the files attached. Pulled from untouched Bell XT860 4G.
[Motorola Droid 3] daywalker04:
Cool . Thanks.

I still need a little more info.

If you can try to update with Motorola Software Update and then pull another file for me that would be cool too.

After you try and update --- of course there wil be no update ---- there will be a log file called "MSU.txt" in the MSU software program directory.

If you could upload that file for me I would appreciate it. It will contain your IMEI so you might want to edit that before you share the file.
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Here is MSU.txt attached. I have stripped it off a bit to the last log entry as it was full with stuff as far back as from Milestone 1. But I think what you'd need is there. Masked the IMEI too since I am posting on a public forum. If you need the IMEI - let me know.

Edit: is this what is they key info?

Flex File: USASOLNABELB1B2B5CA025.0R
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
Just bricked my phone and flashed this, works great and you can change from spanish to english during the boot rather than navigating through settings etc. One thing though, I'm having trouble finding a working recovery. I skimmed the thread, are you guys using the purchased version of Koush' Droid 3 Bootstrap off market? Sort of unclear. If this info could be added to the first post as well (known working recoveries) I would very much appreciate it as would many other users I assume.
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
I found my first "bug" on the Vivo firmware.

I'm on the rogers network, with Caller ID (and name display I guess). When many people call me it comes up as Pay Phone. I was reading some older Atrix threads and I think this is a specific Motorola problem. I'm just looking for the software mentioned called True Caller but can't seem to locate it.

This bug only affects Fido/Rogers customers with both Caller ID and Name display. I may call up Rogers to take off the name display but I'd rather find a solution first...
[Motorola Droid 3] LaZiODROID:
I have uploaded the Retail version (file name is p2b_solana_umts_solana_retail_br-user-2.3.5-5.5.1-112_SLU-39M-110926-release-keys-Brasil-BR.xml.zip) to multiupload:

Link is:

http://www.multiupload.com/YMPAR7ZGMC

Please add this mirror to the original post if you can, daywalker.

Thanks... cant wait to try this
[Motorola Droid 3] daywalker04:
Done. Mirror added to first post.
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Daywalker, any luck with Bell version?
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
This thread and development is very hopefull .

I mean I'm in Holland and wonder if I actually need the Bell updates. See no reason why I should.

So could just switch to this one.

One thing crossed my mind though. Bell is not updating anything. Maybe they are just waiting for ICS and update then???
[Motorola Droid 3] Skrilax_CZ:
Mirrored SBFs also here: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_solana/list.php
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
It's a rogers bug, are the timestamps on your texts off by ~4 hours too? Common when bringing a phone onto rogers.
[Motorola Droid 3] daywalker04:
Welcome back, sir. It's been a long time.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
I've just flashed the retail version, so far seems snappier and cell standby is way down, camera is faster and no blue tint. Will try booting cm7 later after i get rooted and have CWR installed

Edit: The tweaked bootstrap works for me Droid3CWBootstrap.apk it's not on hashcodes blog anymore but you can google search it

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so CM7 booted up fine, and i adb pushed the new build.prop but com.android.phone keeps FC'ing. Help?

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ok so, i could use some help here

Formatted /system

Wiped data/factory reset

Wiped cache

Flashed CM7 and Gapps

booted fine but kept getting FC on com.android.phone

Removed Sim to see if it would stop long enought o try to do anything

Bootloop and cannot access CWR anymore

so i'm gonna reflash the Vivo this time

Did i do anything wrond up there, ive never flashed a custom ROM before, this being my first android
[Motorola Droid 3] eww245:
Right now its "normal" for CM7s phone to crash when booting up, it's a bug. Unless the phone is completely unusable, it should be ok after the first force close.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
it kept continuously force closing. Even after a reboot

Edit:this was on the retail version, i've switched to the vivo, which is the one mentioned in rick#2's post, well inform of the results, just trying to get CWR working on it
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Ok I have one question.

You flashed CM7 on this firmware. But does that mean we can also flash anything else on it that normally is only for the XT862???
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
not a clue. try. Worst case you reflash the FW
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
You know what. Untill now this wasn't really possible. It's just freaking awesome we can get back to the normal firmware after.

Yey :-) So happy.

The thing is it's my friends phone. I own a SGS2 but if I were to flash his phone I would have to know what I do and do it quickly. So that;s why I asked. But I will give it a try.

I will start reading on how to flash stuff cause I didn't really do it untill now.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
just be aware this isn't the stock bell firmware, we currently have no way to go back to that. As long as your friend doesn't mind that you are free to play. I've reflashed firmware 3 times today already :p

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willis i too had problems getting CWR to work on the vivo FW, i followed the direction about reflashing preinstall and deleting the hijack, logwrapper, still no joy

Seems to work fine on the retail version

can someone tell me the command for moto-fastboot for linux i tried moto-fastboot32 flashall but it asks for a -p option, not sure what i'm supposed to put there, it's getting tiresome switching between windows and linux, since i'm on my third irrrecoverable bootloop today

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here's a little tidbit for you all

i started bootlooping after flashing CM7 and was unable to boot into CWR via BP tools, pulled the batt and was gonna reflash the firmware, plugged the usb in without starting phone and it automatically booted into CWR
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Yeah. I'm aware thanks though.

But as we are in Holland I wonder why I should wait for Bell to finally get us an update lol. :-)

I just wanna check on his phone if he uses H or H+ . So if it's H then this version will be fine.

The battery is for sure a reason to flash and the camera app as well.

I will have to find out how to flash now though. Cause as there wasnt anything to flash so I didn't check that out.

Any help would be cool. If not I will browse through the forum tomorrow.
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
How do I backup my data partition on the Vivo ROM? I can't boot into CWR...
[Motorola Droid 3] Mathieu2k4:
Can somebody post the camera app from this rom?

I Don't want to flash it right now, but I do want to get the improvement on the camera.
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
Thanks for the info, switching to the retail now. What's the kernel version on it?
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
try turning the phone off and plugging into your computer. For me it automatically boots into CWR. It's the only way for me to get into it. On retail not vivo but worth a shot
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
Using the Brazil retail and Safestrap I have cm7 booting off /preinstall on an xt860. World first for me! As Endroid mentioned, phone continuously force crashes but that should be an easy fix.

Edit: It does seem that although I can easily enter recovery (power + M), the phone has to be plugged into the computer or it bootloops
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
Thanks,

That solution worked! I think I'll stick with the Vivo one I have.

Is there an easy way to move your user data around when switching ROMs? It takes me about a day to setup my phone just the way I like it (with all the widgets, applications, settings, etc) and if I'm switching ROMs I don't want to be busy doing that for too long...
[Motorola Droid 3] eww245:
There are three aps that I use AppExtractor, Titanium Backup and MyBackup Root (for calllog and sms if going from/to blur/CM7)
[Motorola Droid 3] LaZiODROID:
This rom is quite speedy compared to the stock ME863 rom.

Has anyone noticed that the gallery sometimes doesn't load images?? I will take a picture, back out of the camera, go into the gallery, then hit Camera Roll, select that photo, and it will just sit on the black screen that says "Loading..." and it won't load.
[Motorola Droid 3] droidian1441:
will this work on verizon's XT862 ?
[Motorola Droid 3] LaZiODROID:
Doubt it will work on an xt862
[Motorola Droid 3] LifeInAnalog:
...who cares about the Verizon xt862. Let them get their own forum. ;)
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
That made me laugh
[Motorola Droid 3] Accophox:
Though, to be fair, it'd almost make sense to separate (xt860/xt862) into a separate forum - or a separate dev forum so people don't get the wrong stuff for their phones. :)
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
We've been singing that song for awhile
[Motorola Droid 3] Skrilax_CZ:
Yeah. Digging around RAZR lately, though I hope to get the Droid 4, if they make Euro version.
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
At this point (we have 3 stock roms and 2 patches spread across 3 threads) with all the dev going on for the xt860 I think it's just easier to assume "wont work on my phone" unless it says xt860 right in the topic. Although now that we can sbf there's no reason to not try.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Perhaps it's time for a naming convention. Require rom dev posts to include which model's running which FW rom is known to work on. People like myself will always test it anyways and notify OP so they can update accordingly.

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or alternatively we can start a list thread of known functioning roms, mods etc such as the current on for droid 3.
[Motorola Droid 3] LaZiODROID:
Has anyone tried to flash back to the Chinese ME863 rom while running this Brazil rom? I tried to flash back with RSD Lite and flash failed at cdt.
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
I actually have read that in a similar post earlier. Can't track it down at the moment but you're not the only one. You might try moto-fastboot to flash image files > partitions, I *think* that's how it was solved before.

Endroid: A naming convention is probably the easiest way to go, although it's not like every post says "use at own risk" and like you said every OP in a rom development thread should state if it's specifically not usable on a device imo. Moot point now, just flash away and if it gets really bad restore with the fastboot files.
[Motorola Droid 3] droidian1441:
Has anyone tried flashing this on the Verizon D3 (XT862) ? I cant take that chance because im out of warranty on my phone.
[Motorola Droid 3] Accophox:
I would caution against it, given that the XT860 doesn't ship with a CDMA radio, so M might have stripped out the CDMA drivers. That being said, the hardware is very similar, so it might work.

Best case - everything works.

Medium case - everything works minus CDMA

Worst case - SBF back to VZN D3/XT862 stock rom.
[Motorola Droid 3] pedroramos:
I tryed to flash this to my DROID 3 and the first try I didn't get it...

http://imageshack.us/f/214/semttulotz.jpg/

now always when I turnon the phone, it enter in the AP Fastboot

I have to turn on it pressing "m" to get the boot menu and choose the "normal powerup" then the phone boots normaly with all my apps and everything...

I don't know if I'm flashing wrong or if there is some problem with my drivers...

any tip to my problem?
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
These are for the xt860, the Droid 3's GSM cousin. If you managed to successfully flash these you would likely lose CDMA which would make your phone useless on Verizon. There is a sticky in the dev section that has fastboot files for xt862(Droid 3)

The post right above yours advises against flashing these on Droid 3
[Motorola Droid 3] pedroramos:
I'm from Brazil and I use GSM carrier so verizon doesn't exist for me...

I read here that someone here flashed the xt862 ROM in the xt860 and it works great.. then he backs to the x860 retail

I downloaded the retail ROM > installed motorola drivers > installed RSD 5.5 > opened RSD > plug the USB on phone > it appears connect on RSD > then I chose the ROM I've downloaded > pressed start

it failed at the same time...

http://imageshack.us/f/214/semttulotz.jpg/

now always when I turn on the phone it automatically enter the AP FastBoot and doesn't boot

to get the boot, I must turn on pressing M to enter the boot mode selection menu and the press normal powerup.. the phone boots and all my files are untouchable and the system didn't change anything.

how can I solve this problem that when I turn on the phone automatically enter the AP FastBoot?