[Droid Pro General] donlloreda:
Hello everybody, It´s been like a week since I last posted, a lot of things went wrong in my house and I somehow lost all my computers :(

anyway, back in business again, Last night I had to install the stock Sprint GB sbf, to my surprise it worked Really, Really good.

I´ve had a Defy+ and a Milestone 2, And I remembered having lots of issues with modding aka. no signal, wifi issues (like the cm7 and 9 ones) data issues, system lags, poor battery life, kernel errors on development, Overclocking settings not being saved, recovery mess-ups, and a lot of depicable stuff, most of all kernel-related.

Anyway, last night I flashed the stock rom over cm7 and noticed a real speed, functionality and battery boost, so I thought of just

theming, de-bloating and optimizing the stock Sprint ROM.

Please follow me here:

We will never be able to flash custom kernels (not w/o the help of a reaaaaal good DEV)

CM9 &10, though they are eye-candy, are based actually on Gingerbread kernel, so no new features can be added besides the ones you can get withg new apps.

CM7, though stable, lacks the performance and functionality of the stock rom.

Finally, the stock rom as I said, (and I´ve tested TONS of ROMS in different motorola devices) is the one with the best responsivenness, snappiness and battery life, plus It's almost clean (eg. bloatware is easily removed.)

How will it be done?, you may ask.

Well Our first step, will be deodexing the stock GB SBF.

After deodexing we will be optimizing the build.prop on our phone, to trick apps into installing on our phones, and to make some quick optimizations.

Once we have deodexed our rom, we will be able to run,autorun and theme /system/apps.

Apps like Gnow, the statusbar and other tweaks can be easily (RELLY EASY) ported to deodexed ROMS

So this is the challenge guys, Let´s build our own stockcustom ROM.

So far I´m re-flashing stock sprint GB to continue testing only the essential apps, so we can build from there.

And just for a tease; here is my latest build.prop, with some tweaks and tricks taken from other roms and my personal experience, just make sure you have root access, fire up a file explorer and replace your build.prop

Please Refer to next post for links on how to maybe help me with deodexing the full rom.

And please, developers, dont take this as a shady move towards your development, I just think that the best way to make something is to start from scratch..... there are too many source files, modded files and crap files on cm7,9&10 specially when not officially supported (Because everybody messes with the files and re-distributes them, so a lot of clutter and unneeded files, references and code are injected on some releases....)

So my friends, we have a common goal, By now I have succesfully overclocked/undervolted the phone to 1350/233 mhz (not on recovery!!)

I´ve deodexed system/framework/

and Im stuck trying to deodex system/apps/

Xprt Owners of the world, please come on over here, we can do this...

I´m an architect/artist so I really want this to have a sleek look, but not copying a specific stock look, if you know what I mean....

From now on refer to the "wished features post" for features you´d like

And now my final statement:

Though it IS possible to compile JB or ICS from source to our phones, my experience with this somehow outdated android motorolas, is that you will not get significant performance boosts or super cool functions with new software. The only way to get this functionality is by upgrading the kernel which I again declare IS NOT POSSIBLE on our phone. CM9 and 10 my look like JB and ICS, but run straight off a GB kernel.

Yes you will get a lot of new stuff like menus and graphics, but the functionality will be the same, plus all the eye candy will trade off your new features with lags and possible errors.

Software is built in time with devices, and it doesn´t matter how much you say "but the hardware is capable of more!!", incremental software updates "ignore" some HW features, so they have to be forced or modified to run, which adds more procesess/tasks to the kernel and this will suck your speed and battery.

Let´s build something pretty...............:laugh: