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[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
Thanks for this release. I popped it on to play with it last night and have found it to be simply awesome. I've not really put it through its paces yet, but what I have seen I really like.

I've backed up my CM9 install and am back to CM7 for now, but I think I'll be switching back and forth until the camera libraries get cracked..... having the camera is a dealbreaker for the daily driver.

But mad crazy Kudos to DK for getting it to this point. It's absolutely impressive!

-Blu
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
Throw on wifi and it will slow down.
[Motorola Droid X2] dragonzkiller:
You guys may need to wipe your battery stats. Also consider that a lot of your batteries are getting older and my not be a great as you remember. And battery handling is different in CM9.
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
I've never wiped my battery stats. But then again, I dont have that bad of battery life. When wiping battery stats, should the battery be at 100% or does it not matter?
[Motorola Droid X2] Meany105:
this is awesome, i'll dl later today.

But can someone explain to me how this works. Doesn't ICS require some kernel specific things that aren't present in the gingerbread kernel? and since the bootloader is locked doesn't that mean the kernel can't be changed?
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
I wiped my battery stats. Totally screwed them up. Was stuck at 100% til the battery died, then the stats were way off afterwards. Had to nandroid back.

Sent using Tapatalk from my Droid X2 running CM9 ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
Usually, we're told to fully charge, wipe stats, let the phone die out, then fully charge again.

Sent using Tapatalk from my Droid X2 running CM9 ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] trafalger888:
Yes and yes....to answer your questions...DZK can probably tell you better what he has back ported and what he hasn't so some things like chrome will not work but ICS only apps that don't require kernel support will...I know he mentioned somewhere that he has been working on back porting certain things for example the support for the built in data monitor
[Motorola Droid X2] iBolski:
Hardware acceleration is something we won't get until either Moto unlocks the bootloader or else, we get kexec working.

But, we can still get other things from ICS that are not kernel specific and that's what we get with cm9. It's the closest we'll get to ICS, especially since Moto has nixed ICS for the X2.

Tapped via Tapatalk from my Eclipsed 2.2 phone.
[Motorola Droid X2] trafalger888:
Question for everyone...in the security settings there is an option for encrypting the phones data...has anyone tried this to see if it is working...if yes what were the results?
[Motorola Droid X2] blackangel104:
Flashed back to cm7, I miss cm9 already :/ gonna wait till some of the bugs get ironed out before I flash back
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
Idk...how would you test it?
[Motorola Droid X2] trafalger888:
Its in options under security...my phone is not currently charged to 100 percent and has to remain plugged in during the process so I have not been able to see if it works yet or not...will be trying it when I can just didn't know if any one had yet or not
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
I saw that too, but I didnt mess with it because I didnt know what it did.
[Motorola Droid X2] trafalger888:
So I am assuming similar to when you are say installing Linux and have the option to encrypt your disk...this would appear to be similar and didn't know if that was something we would get support for or if it would have been tried...when I'm able to get my phone charged and plugged in for that long I will try to test if no one else has
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
So its like a heavy duty password so no one can get into it any way without the password? Eh, I'm not that paranoid. lol
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
It would be more than a password... it would be encryption. A normal password (like a windows logon/etc) would just prevent you from running the OS, not prevent you from modifying data on the hard drive.

So, your files/etc/everything are completely and utterly useless w/o the correct key. If correctly implemented, w/ a strong password, it would be very difficult to get at any of your data.

Until you're really ready to commit to using CM9, I wouldn't use this option (presuming it works).... as it would hypothetically encrypt your sd card as well, making it .... well.... theoretically at least inaccessible from CM7.

I'm not so interested in testing @ this point, so theoretical all.

-Blu
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
Thats why I said HEAVY DUTY password. lol
[Motorola Droid X2] tprouty:
I would stay away from this unless you plan on starting this from fresh (blank SD and blank ROM) I did this on my old Droid with CM7 ran into issues when i disabled it. wouldnt let me look at apps or load files from the SD card.
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
Anyone try and change the boot animation? I just tried and now I'm getting boot loops. Didnt think a boot animation file would prevent me from booting up.
[Motorola Droid X2] trafalger888:
I understand...and am jot new to encrypting drives and its the same with similar tools ie the encryption that I use on my laptop...this also appears to be an ICS thing at least that would be my guess since the only way to undo is to wipe and start over...but if need be I am OK with that...I would rather wipe and start over than have data that is not secure...not that there is anything on my phone or computer that is worth hiding but I still would rather use encryption if it is available than not....
[Motorola Droid X2] pellet:
Awesome Job DZK!

This is great news for all X2 owners - especially since this was posted on Yahoo! news today:

"Motorola recently updated its Android release timeline and revealed that certain devices will remain on Android 2.3 rather than receiving an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The handsets in question are both modern and more than capable of running the latest Android operating system, however the vendor claims the latest software won’t “improve” the devices, and that’s why updates will not be released. Both the DROID 3 and DROID X2 will remain on Android 2.3, despite the fact that both handsets run dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processors and were released not even a year ago."

The article can be found here: ht tp://news.yahoo.com/motorola-won-t-droid-3-droid-x2-android-050053844.html

I am going to start getting into Android OS development. I have been a long time lurker here at XDA and I feel it's time to give back by contributing. I have baked my own Windows based ROMS in the past - time to switch gears and start making ROMS for Android.
[Motorola Droid X2] theredvendetta:
Windows based ROMs? Do you mean an alternate shell or what?
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
I think he just meant he's made windows phone roms in the past
[Motorola Droid X2] pellet:
No - When I used to be with Alltel, I had a Moto Q9c which had Windows Mobile 5.5 on it. This was right at the time of the Alltel buyout by Verizon, so none of the Alltel phones would be upgraded to WM 6.0 although the Verizon Moto Q9c did get the update. Since I was still on an Alltel plan, the Verizon settings would not work in my phone, so I took the Verizon version of WM 6.0 and modified it to get it to work on my Moto Q9c with Alltel. It by no means was creating a ROM from scratch but more of modding it and repackaging it so others in my same situation could get the update and still use Alltel's network.
[Motorola Droid X2] diekrazy:
How is this great news to dx2 owners? It means we will never get ICS for our phone. If it weren't for DzK and others like him we would never be able to see what this phone is capable of.
[Motorola Droid X2] lordforex:
This is proof that ICS can be run on the DX2 if only Motorola decided to get off their as&** and support the phone.

I ran this alpha 3 all day at work in order to try it out and even with it connected to my work pc's usb cable the battery still was in the red by the time I left.

Also, the phone will randomly reboot (it happeded twice today). I tested out GPS today too and there seems to be a screen refresh issue with the maps as it tracks my location causing the map to flicker quickly sometimes.

I'm going back to stock for a bit until a more stable version is released.

Thanks again dragonzkiller for your efforts with this rom!!
[Motorola Droid X2] theredvendetta:
Ah, thought you were referring to a ROM for a Windows desktop distro, and that didn't make sense to me :P
[Motorola Droid X2] trevsl95:
Um where is the good news?
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
He meant that this CM9 is good news considering what the article said.

Tapatalk>Droid-X2>CM9-ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] wareju:
I wiped stats on a full charge and didn't seem to have much of an effect on life. Also still only getting percentage in increments of 10, but that seems to be pretty standard. Think I'll reflash and see if something may have went awry during the first flash.

It's a drastic difference from any other ROM I've run and I'm running juice defender in aggressive mode as well, so it seems to be something happening within the ROM itself.
[Motorola Droid X2] theredvendetta:
It's likely that you did nothing wrong. This is an early, early alpha release. I can't stress that enough. There are going to be things that don't work right, like a proper battery life. I'm not saying it isn't safe to use or anything, I love it.

Oh and by the way, wiping battery stats doesn't do anything, no matter what ROM you're on ;)
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
Bold that last statement....I really don't understand how wiping text logs helps battery life.
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
Shhhhh..... HDMI works...... the chinacable that arrived the same day I initially installed CM7 now has a purpose.

Schweet!

-Blu
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
....Mother of God...
[Motorola Droid X2] Tomsgt:
Really!!!!!! Vertical and horizontal?

Sent from my hacked DROID
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
Yes both horizontal and vertical. Now I need to find my real TV remote to get over scan to 1:1......

Didn't notice what TV said Res was.....

Booyah!
[Motorola Droid X2] RyanThaDude:
Exactly.

PS: Here's just one article regarding wiping battery stats. http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
[Motorola Droid X2] dragonzkiller:
Personally, I never said that wiping stats helped with battery life, it just helps with potential skipping or random "drops" in battery that is *indicated*.
[Motorola Droid X2] Cameron1337:
So, I installed the CM7 BSR APK (woo TLA), and now my phone will either boot to recovery (when plugged into the wall), or stay stuck on the red Motorola logo (when not plugged into the wall). Any suggestions? I'm sure that reflashing would fix it, but is there anything else I could do?

Edit: Nevermind, I'm an idiot and accidentally installed the regular BSR instead of the CM7 BSR. It's fixed now.
[Motorola Droid X2] wareju:
It's just that other people were reporting pretty good batt life, so far after flashing again it's significantly better. I'm absolutely loving this, I plan on attempting to run this full time despite being early alpha.

To think I was getting jealous of my wife's fascinate, only because it's running ics.
[Motorola Droid X2] marc206:
update mirror

can someone please post a mirrored link. the update from mediafire is blank when opened
[Motorola Droid X2] Maximinus I:
Battery life is very dependent on each individual. Some people run a lot of constantly updating programs. Some people are farther from towers or use wifi more. Different screen settings you name it. All that plus contributes to each persons battery life. I rarely check my phone and lightly use SMS. Also I don't have any programs that run or update so I have very good battery life. So don't sweat the battery life to much try to analyze your phone use and make it more efficient.

Sent from my CM9'd Galaxy 2
[Motorola Droid X2] CarlosBattousai:
Well progress is always good. DZK got the data usage to work minus thee part that cut your data off when you reach the limit you set.

Wootz He's be making quick progress since this launched.
[Motorola Droid X2] wareju:
Right but it was a significant difference from eclipse, which I had been running for a long time. I don't use the phone any differently than before.
[Motorola Droid X2] Maximinus I:
Two very different operating systems and one that's very alpha. If its that bad you can try and reflash or maybe sbf and reflash to see what that does.

Sent from my CM9'd Galaxy 2
[Motorola Droid X2] RyanThaDude:
I suggest downloading on a computer. Mediafire doesn't seem to be working on any mobile device.
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
Not even when you go into Desktop mode?
[Motorola Droid X2] roland0fgilead:
For whatever reason my battery life has been much better today than it was yesterday. Maybe I had a rogue process or something that was causing a drain? I still might SBF back and see if it's a little more consistent.

I too am planning on using this as a daily driver. After using ICS for a few days, I'll have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to Gingerbread.
[Motorola Droid X2] kenjesse:
Try setting browser UI to desktop I remember someone posting that as the fix for folks having trouble grabing files from Mediafire.
[Motorola Droid X2] csking33:
I had the same issue, change your browser settings to desktop and it'll work.

On a different note, I have been getting a crazy amount of reboots when my phone is charging, probably averaging one an hour. Otherwise very few, if any, when off of the charger. Is anybody else seeing the same thing or am I alone here?
[Motorola Droid X2] lorderrorprone:
If this rom uses the gingerbread kernel then how come we can install and run apps that only work on ICS or Honeycomb no problem?
[Motorola Droid X2] densetsu86:
With stock blur i never had a problem with mediafire (although it usually requires a refresh or second attempt). I find it to be the best dl site. Most sites even with download all files app fails at grabbing the whole file i usually get some 130 something kb file but with mediafire it always downloads the full thing. Either refresh or try clicking the link button again for a second attempt.

Mediafire is my prefered dl site on mobile.
[Motorola Droid X2] apacseven:
You can run ICS-only apps because you are running ICS.
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
I miss car home in this rom... I looked in my backup and it appears to be a system apk. Does anyone have a recommendation for a cm9 equivalent?
[Motorola Droid X2] CarlosBattousai:
Have you tried downloading car home from google play?
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
Back to Cm7 for today. I'd checked last night and didn't see the same version...but I must confess I didn't look hard....
[Motorola Droid X2] tallyforeman:
Thank you for your time and dedication!!
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
I saw someone ask dragonzkiller on his twitter if tethering works. DK still couldnt confirm it, but I just wanted to report again that tethering does work. I successfully did it with my TouchPad.
[Motorola Droid X2] Jayydude_SGP:
I can't download it my browser is saying file not supported. But when I do I'm going to use ics in tablet ui:) like on my samsung galaxy player ^_^
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
After a day and a half, it suddenly started rebooting after about 15 mins the first few times, then 10, then less than 5. It destabilized (or at least that's how it felt) so I'm going to SBF back to completely fresh and head to CM9 straight from stock instead of CM7.
[Motorola Droid X2] kennyb6:
Does anybody else's settings not stick after a reboot under settings/developer options/background process limit?

ICS CM9 X2
[Motorola Droid X2] kennyb6:
Dzk is a god

ICS CM9 X2
[Motorola Droid X2] lordforex:
Well, not quite, but close. ;)
[Motorola Droid X2] blackangel104:
Gonna flash back to cm9, I miss it so! :)

Class of 2012 Graduation day May 22nd!!!!!!
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
Ok, got everything running right, but I lost my home key, it's dead. I've gone through all the Apex and phone settings and can't find anything. Any ideas?

Tapatalk>Droid-X2>CM9-ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] kennyb6:
Apex settings/behavior settings/home key action/go to default screen

ICS CM9 X2
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
Tried it, toggled it, rebooted it, still dead. Guess I need to hunt down the file containing the button maps next.

Tapatalk>Droid-X2>CM9-ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] trafalger888:
Anybody losing notification sounds? Any ideas?
[Motorola Droid X2] kennyb6:
Ya sorry that worked for me hopefully u find a fix

ICS CM9 X2
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
Huh, I did too. Didn't notice til you said something.

Tapatalk>Droid-X2>CM9-ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] jakereeves31:
Getting pretty good battery life, everything is smooth, relatively no force closes, and only about one random reboot a day. Quite amazing for being ALPHA! Gotta love it<3:)
[Motorola Droid X2] UN5EEN:
Been running this ROM for a couple hours am have yet to run into any issues yet. Had a quick question about themes though. I came across themes in the play store but when I try to go into the themes tab in settings it just ends up force closing. Anyone have some input?
[Motorola Droid X2] CptHoovsen:
I have been using this from for a couple days now and thought I'd let you all know what I have found. To begin everything that isn't supposed to work won't work. I found that themes don't work as well, this isn't really a big problem. I have tried several games (Minecraft, Grabatron, and Pocket God.) I have found that games that install on the SD card will only work until the game is rebooted then you have to reinstall. When you try to launch a game in the SD card after reboot it will FC the launcher then the game. This can be fixed by moving the games to internal storage.

As for performance this from seems to run great, maybe not as great as CM7 but its early alpha and I wouldn't expect any less at this time. The launcher only skips a small amount and not very often. Music still skips on Apollo music player but not as much as other rooms.

I hope this post will help someone and hopefully help with the development of this rom.
[Motorola Droid X2] wareju:
Sounds like you didn't flash google apps. Pretty sure that's happened to me before too.
[Motorola Droid X2] Maximinus I:
Themes do not work per op. Its a known issue at this point.
[Motorola Droid X2] Ryno77:
I'm wondering if my battery life on this is worse than what others are getting? I would say I go through a battery twice as fast on CM9 vs. CM7. Is that what everyone else is seeing?
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
DUDE THAT'S IT!

Tapatalk>Droid-X2>CM9-ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
Anyone have some of their apps just disappearing after awhile? My beautiful widgets app and a wallpaper app are totally gone.
[Motorola Droid X2] Ryno77:
We're they on your sd card or internal memory?
[Motorola Droid X2] Tomsgt:
Dk twitter about themes

Sent from my hacked DROID
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
Internal memory. I dont move any apps around.
[Motorola Droid X2] DigitalMD:
I think Beautiful Widgets and most wallpaper apps store a chuck of data and graphics on the sd card. Since access to the SD sometimes goes away on this ROM, that's affecting them. A reboot may or may not bring them back
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
Nice. I already have some themes in mind.
[Motorola Droid X2] lordforex:
Yes, and I even have an extended battery in my phone and my battery drain was very fast compared to CM7.
[Motorola Droid X2] thelowend:
You might be right. The wallpaper apps will disappear but the wallpaper I took from it is still active even after the app disappears. However once the app is gone, its gone and the only way to get them back is to re-download them.
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
Just to see if I could... I synched a bluetooth logitech keyboard/touchpad thing (made for xbox 360) to CM9 on my X2 last night, and was able to use it on my media center TV. Worked perfectly w/ no intervention necessary.

The screen seemed smaller to me afterwords tho.....

I'm really enjoying playing with this build. For an alpha, it is really exemplary.

-Blu
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
All I have to say is I'm glad this phone has a removable battery. These freeze ups are getting tiring. But I'm sticking with it because I'm too stubborn to go back to Gingerbread. lol. I'm hoping this can be fixed and its not the reason why Moto said no ICS on the X2.
[Motorola Droid X2] 6Flip9:
*****

I'm not sure if anyone know yet but when holding the home button it brings up all background running apps.

Cm9 isn't KILLING background apps which is causing a huge draw on memory causing **freezes**.

Just swipe each task to right to kill

Sent from MB870 W/ Cm7.2 Rc1

SUCESS I THINK YES...
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
Yeah. That was one of the big features that came with ICS. Before, you didnt have a way of killing an app and ending the process unless you went all the way into settings. Now swiping them away kills it. One of the better features of ICS.
[Motorola Droid X2] kenjesse:
Dragon already pointed this out. CM9 apparently installs larger apps to sd. If it happens reinstall the app, go to manage apps and move to phone, should then persist thru reboots.

Sent from my CM9'ed DX2
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
I

It also shows apps that were recently opened but not running. If it shows the icon in the corner but the rest of the square for that app black, it's not running. However, if it shows a screen shot of the app, the app is either running or it isn't.

Not sure if ICS is always like that, or just this CM9.

edit: I have my settings set to kill whatever app I'm in by long-pressing the back button. So that's how I usually exit apps.

Tapatalk>Droid-X2>CM9-ICS
[Motorola Droid X2] wareju:
Not sure if anyone's already reported this but SpeedyV7 flashed over this fine for me, may make it a little more stable/improve battery life for now until further development. I'll let it settle in for a while and let you all know how it goes.

edit; Maybe not, the "itworks" file isn't there..
[Motorola Droid X2] 6Flip9:
Curious how the cm7 mashup would do, hmmmmm ;/

Sent from MB870 W/ Cm7.2 Rc1

SUCESS I THINK YES...
[Motorola Droid X2] Oldblackcrow:
That's why I've always liked Go Launcher... it's so well thought out.

Droid X2 CM7
[Motorola Droid X2] dust.:
I think you and I have similar taste in themes. I look forward to you sharing whatever themes you think look good!
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
After my last flash, I installed Chrome so I could move my bookmarks over to the Android Browser. Something went wrong (I still don't know what) and it completely wiped out years worth of bookmarks across every device synced to my account. I happened to have a html file saved from a few months back when I had to export them for something else. Really lucked out there.

Just a heads up.
[Motorola Droid X2] jsgraphicart:
I was actually looking at this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1653549

Or this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonny.theme.lucid
[Motorola Droid X2] Maximinus I:
Chrome won't work on here. As well as most other cm9 platforms. Its not really that great on mobile devices. I tried it on my tab and wasn't impressed.
[Motorola Droid X2] theredvendetta:
He warns that Chrome won't work in his OP.
[Motorola Droid X2] Scur827:
The first time I flashed I used Chrome Beta to move my bookmarks onto my phone flawlessly. The second time wiped it out, and since it was synced along with everything else, it wiped my bookmarks everywhere. I knew Chrome wouldn't run right, but I didn't think it would wipe my Google account bookmarks altogether.
[Motorola Droid X2] UN5EEN:
I can't seem to get my Facebook contact photos to sync to my contacts. Is anyone else having this problem?
[Motorola Droid X2] wareju:
Yes, I've got it set to sync and it won't sync anything - photos, names, nothing.