[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] zealious:
Feeler thread for rom idea/ questions on developing from a complete noob.

MP3 DROID

Like many I have moved on from the og droid.

Like many I use the og droid as strictly mp3 and media.

just a modified rom to work best as a mp3 player. i have been working on perfecting the art of music player on my droid for a while now and I want to share my results. i think i came up with a wining combination of mods, apps, and software removals.

I want to share that sucess but I am a complete noob.

I just want to do something like nlite for windows. I want to do some basic things to a existing rom..

what kitchen is recomended? I have read many noobie guides and stuff and I am not strong on coding.. I took c+ years ago. and only used to dable in cgi and html. what is a good guide for this kind of undertaking?

can some one help me with this. The droid is dead. the mp3 droid will not be dead.

SO mp3 droid is ...

goals.

battle the low ram capacity of the phone.

.no frills or flashy eye candy. simple. modern and so fast. insane fast. you are going to wish the og droid performed like this as a phone!

.so quick and easy that the interface resembles an ipod and anyone from monkeys to grandmas will be able to easily play music.

.batter life? whats that. holy gosh forgetting to charge is not a big deal anymore?

plans / planned

based off of a extreemly fast and stable FROYO version of bugless beast from pete. http://www.peteralfonso.com/

Chevy nova kernel ultra low volt 900 stock with slight modification

all non esential apks removed! I have gutted 70% and this phone blazes!(this makes the big dif in speed)

all phone essential services disabled and striped.

airplane mode with wifi.

only one screen on the launcher (launcher will be zeeam for sure (uses least ram)

higher dpi than stock.

no app drawer

no lock screen

music widget (froyomusic mod) takes up 3 out of 4 rows.

4th row (launcher bar) will list all the apps (will come with rockbox, music mod, album art catcher, opera beta, maybe sticher, listen, tunein radio. I am open to any suggestions that will give the best music experience. streamin google player is obviously out due to most peoples droids not having 3g data. I have tried a lot of music players. music mod is the best on this platform on this device. i would love double twist or winamp but double twist has issues and winamp is just a horrible linux port that will eat up your droids ram like a cookie monster on steroids.

in essence this is the main version of mp3 droid. just a modified rom to work best as a mp3 player. i have been working on perfecting the art of music player on my droid for a while now and I want to share my results. i think i came up with a wining combination of mods, apps, and software removals.

version 2 will be

bb (any fast rom) even more super lightened.

ROCK BOX http://www.rockbox.org/

will be the only thing that will run. on top of the rom.

it will run from boot of rom

essentially a ported rock box player ported as the main os

of course it would make me a lot happier to not even use android at all and get a bootable version of rockbox working on this device. rock box is open source and works on a lot of devices I just dont know what this would entail.