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[Bravo General] bandroidx:
well i havent slept but it was worth it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxwjYj4yF0

sorry for the shaky blurry camness, i used my dx and held it in my hand.

i just got nandroid working which was the last issue and did a full nandroid backup and it appears to have worked perfectly.

yes that is CWM 3.0.2.5 :) the latest and greatest....

i just need to fix a few minor things in the apk and test a couple more things and i should have a release ready late sunday night eastern time. i am going to sleep now but when I get up I will finish the apk and release it after some testing.

I would say it should be ready for general consumption by monday morning (est) at the latest!

so now let the fun begin. i am thinking a rom will be my next undertaking for the bravo. maybe some mods in update.zip form now that we have a custom recovery :)
[Bravo General] heydabop:
Awesome! :D Thanks for all the hard work man.
[Bravo General] sdrawkcab3:
Just as Spring break starts...

Bravo, man - keep up the good work. You inspire me to learn more and more about this device and Android in general.
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
AWESOME!:D:D

Keep up the good work!
[Bravo General] djinn_y:
Yehaaa

You made this!!! My congradulations!!!! :)
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
Thanks :)

Just worked out the last bug (hopefully) in the recovery code. Ended up with a custom custom recovery ;) I mixed the parts of CWM 3.x that were useful and used the older 2.5.x parts for those needing it. the rest in CWM 3 is for honeycomb which I stripped out. its a hybrid of sorts made just for the bravo :)

thanks to heydabop I have some awesome graphics for the apk :)

I am doing the finishing touches on the app and expect to get it online sometime tonight :)

we are finally here people. thanks for all the support. I think i compiled about 65 versions of recovery getting it just right lol.
[Bravo General] zachthepack:
What program are you gonna be using to decompile and compile roms
[Bravo General] MCFarmfresh:
Would love to test if you need any volunteers. :) By the way, congratulations on your accomplishments!! This is very exciting for us bravo users who have waited and are finally getting rewarded. You are a credit to this community. :)
[Bravo General] zachthepack:
Would also love to test if you need somebody. With tho sbf i don't have much to loose.
[Bravo General] Cka3:
:confused:
[Bravo General] silvagroup:
Tonight = soon as possible. As we have all seen there is nothing simple (intentionally, thanks for nothing at&t) to working on making mods on this platform.
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
Yeah you hit the nail on the head. I found a couple of bugs after working out the main bugs. The good news is those are now worked out. This project has ended up being way larger of an undertaking than I ever expected, between my bricked girlfriends phone which required me to get a replacement to the countless little issues and bugs to working around the locked bootloader including the very real (i can confirm) efuse :) (efuse only requires an sbf but we didnt have that at the time)

the main latest issue was the recovery was fully working but adb wasnt working properly in recovery, which is a huge thing to have, now I have adb working, root works, and usb debugging can be on or off (previously it required turning it off everytime before booting into recovery)

I had planned on haveing a couple more testers but I may skip that and just release tonight or tomorrow at the latest. (for real this time :)

heydabop is working on a sick new boot animation (he did awesome graphics for my app) that will be flashable easily with the new recovery.

Alot of you want to know about my rom intentions, just so you all know I havent started on it yet, I have had alot of requests to help or test which are great but if I havent replied to you, that is why, i want to fully concentrate on getting this reelased first.

I have also had a lot of requests via pm and/or email about if i will port my work to other devices, that answer is, maybe, probably not. I have a bravo on hand to test on and as I found out when using heydabop's phone to test my overclock app, its a PITA to do anything with out the device. If you want me to consider porting anything to any other moto phones, you will need to send me a model of that phone to work on and with the risk of it being useless (although unlikely w/ sbfs) when I send it back to you. Also you could risk me needing the phone for a month or more, so keep that in mind before you want to mail me your daily driver. Even then, I will consider each one based on the community for that device, etc. Point is, I am dedicated to work on the bravo at the moment, I also have a Nook color and a Droid X but those devices are adequadtelty developed.

Personally I find the bravo to be att's version of the droid incredible, and moto and att failed hard on promoting it as such.

thanks for the patience guys. Same as the overclock app I will put it on the market for 1-3 days first (donate version) and then will release the free for all version on here (w/ banner ads) . I am trying to recoperate some of the cost of replacing the device, countless hours taking away from my business (i am self employed) etc. if you can get the donate version, that is awesome, if not, please try to click on the ads when you bootstrap (u only get paid if ads are clicked, viewed does nothing) But most important, enjoy the custom recovery.

eta: 24 hours or less if no new bugs are found (fingers crossed)

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[Bravo General] heydabop:
bandroidx has definitely been working hard on this. There have been a few nights where he's been coding and testing, I've gone to sleep and woken up hours later, and he'll still be coding and testing. :P It all looks to be coming together tho, he just wants to make sure he's giving yall a good release, and he is imo.
[Bravo General] sdrawkcab3:
Not gonna lie, I'm glad you're the type that works out the bugs before releasing. I'd rather you deal with them than make me deal with them :)

Looking forward to checking out your work, and seeing what else this nice little piece can do. I've been reading up on ROM cooking, and I'm really looking forward to playing. (I may even start tonight if I can make the time. I just need to do some more reading about the fiendish MotoBlur...)

Also can't wait to see heydabop's work!
[Bravo General] heydabop:
I prolly won't have the boot animation done till sometime next week. Got a lot of school I'm supposed to be doing before spring break, then I'll have free time.
[Bravo General] hippyman:
With CWM, what will I, a semi-inexperienced Bravo user be able to do? This all looks promising, and my main intention is to safely delete motoblur, but I have no idea how, or with what resources. :/
[Bravo General] MCFarmfresh:
Yesss. Thanks for the continued hard work to you and heydabop for getting us where we want and deserve to be as a community. :) hopefully this will be an awesome 3 day weekend for me with this being Good Friday, and anticipating your release. Also I will be taking on the endeavor of reflowing the hard drive of my ps3 as it crashed a few weeks ago with the yellow light of death (ylod). Anyway, I have all the tools to get it done and plenty of time to do so this weekend so I will keep an eye on your guys progress. Good luck, and again I can't thank you enough for all you do!
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
find any bugs?
[Bravo General] heydabop:
1 or 2 small ones, but from what I can tell it's good now. bandroidx said he may have the release version done. Might see a release tomorrow? Don't take my word for it tho :O
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
Hey there,

Would you guys be able yo point me the way to an sbf for the original 2.1?

I just did the latest ota update via att, and I have had no success with the root methods.. :(

I have the latest sbf, and am anxiously waiting a new rom.

Willing and ready to help through whatever means.

Thanks all in advance!!
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
Ok all, waiting is finally over. Thanks for being so patient! I got the donate version up on the market, if you dont have the market in your country or can't make the purchase I will have a free version out (w/ banner ads) in a couple of days once I finish testing that version.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bandroidx.motobravo.bootstrap

Couple of notes:

1) When you hit the bootstrap button the first time, it could take a few seconds, wait until you get a success message before touching the screen again. if you get a force close message, please select wait. Usually it takes just 3-5 seconds. It can take longer though especially if you have just rooted, i recommend rebooting after rooting always.

2) After you bootstrap recovery you do not need to bootstrap again until you update to a new version of my app, after upgrading you should bootstrap once. After that you just load the app and hit reboot recovery.

3) If you are not familiar with the bootstrap process (like on the dx/d2) please be aware this does not replace your stock recovery like regular CWM. The Custom recovery can only be started by loading the app and clicking bootstrap recovery.

Heydabop is working on his CWM flashable boot animation and I am going to start looking into doing a bravo ROM. Thanks for all heydabop's awesome graphics!

Enjoy!

PS. Please rate 5 stars and consider adding a positive comment to help support the app and development :) For those who ask how they can help, if you can pass the info to your favorite android blog or news site to help promote the app to more bravo users.
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
Excellent,

Okay... Got root worked out, I was using stale links, so I ended up successfully using the super one click 1.9.1, on the latest 2.2.1 update..

just donated. Can't wait to try this out. For now out is time for sleep:)
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
Already started work on the first ROM.

Planning on rooted deodexed 2.2 ready to be themed.

then will do the more custom roms like deblurred after. gonna try to get these done fast if i can.
[Bravo General] sdrawkcab3:
Having a rooted and deodexed ROM should generate a bunch of activity. Get people into the ROM kitchen!
[Bravo General] heydabop:
Yay themes! Yay no blur! AOSP ftw.
[Bravo General] akshya11235:
Yah!!

Looking for the cyanogenmod port for Bravo.

Will be really a great development after a long wait.
[Bravo General] heydabop:
Lol, it'll prolly be a while if ever at all before we see cyanogen. I think we would need a different kernal, and that's locked down.
[Bravo General] silvagroup:
Just downloaded and installed, Works great!!!!!
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
Would any one have any problems with removing the following bloat:

all att crap (tell me if u use ANY of it, it seems all worthless)

-including att maps, att nav, att hot spot finder, att familymap launcher,

considering removing the yellow page app and the where app (downloadable from market)

i usually rem the voice suite app on all my phones, its garabage compared to google voice search on froyo, any issues with that?

I am also going to zipalign and deodex all apps and framework and the rom will be ready to be fully themed.

it will include root, busybox, and superuser.apk

this is NOT the deblurred rom, that i will look into next.

I dont think heydabop' new boot animation will make it into the first release, but that will be flashable seperately.

i already am in the process so it looks like this may be done way sooner than i expected, doubt its gonna take 2 weeks like I said.
[Bravo General] MCFarmfresh:
That sounds like a pretty good start. I have no problem with any of those apps gone. really looking forward to what you come up with! Thanks bandroidx :)
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
Thanks, you wanted to test for the bootstrap right? If so, I can prob have you test the rom, its going to need alot more than one or two testers this time.
[Bravo General] sdrawkcab3:
As a starting point, I'd say the more barebones the better. Tabula rasa.
[Bravo General] MCFarmfresh:
Sweet, I'm definitely up for testing. Downloaded the bootstrap from market and its working great. Let me know when you are ready to go. :)
[Bravo General] heydabop:
Being able to connect to AT&T hot spots might be a nice luxury, but I've never actually done it, and with 3G it doesn't matter much anyway. So yea, take all the AT&T away.

I'd like YP and Where gone too. And I've blocked Vlingo on mine, so removing that would be nice too. :P

Deodexed will be very nice. :D

I might be able to get something out quick before you finish this beta, then work on a little more detailed animation or something.

EDIT: Just for a heads up of what to expect, I'm planning on taking the red Moto logo, morphing it into a red one of these sphere things (http://www.flickr.com/photos/heydabop/5221322885/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/heydabop/4983384994/) and then slamming that into the floor and cracking (and hopefully denting) the floor with it. Then the end loop will be the sphere sitting on the cracked floor with it's light slowly pulsing. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do this though, so we'll see. I have a draft video I made a while back of what the floor cracking will kind of look like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3dYrDB2i0U&hd=1 I don't plan on destroying the floor in the boot animation though. :P
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
that is gonna look awesome! thanks:D
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
I will second for the testing...

I've got the forest wallpaper from the atrix which I believe needs to be deodexed(?) Before it its added.. But it its a really slick wallpaper. Will upload as soon as I get to the desktop.

As for the above, removing yp, where, and all att stuff... Go for it. :)

Let me know if there is anything I can help with. Finals are launch out in a week, and I'm taking a summer of for once, so I shall have a bit more time for toys :)

This phone is beginning to look promising.

***Edit:

Okay, it's probably standard that we should ad the latest stable wireless_tether apk, so here you are.. :]

the forestwallpaper.apk is from the Atrix
[Bravo General] Cka3:
We need deblured rom, and if it's possible then it should be with multiple language support. you can remove all of that crap, because we always can take it from 2.2. update.zip.
[Bravo General] notyourstar:
Yes, please remove all of the At&T bloatware, I never use it.

To Timeless: I also have the forest wallpaper apk. It looks really cool, can't wait to install it.
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
Count me in!!

****

Edit:

Here are a few goodies:

grabbed the Moto Atrix ringtones and alarms our Bravo's currently don't have.

also wrapped up the entire 'ringtones' and 'alarms' folders from the Evo, CM7 stable rom

(maybe there are some we already have, then again maybe not; but i know the atrix stuff is 'only' stuff that we don't have on our Bravos')
[Bravo General] zachthepack:
I'll test.
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
thanks much for both posts of goodies. going to add them.

i put together a beta update.zip and i stuck at moto logo but if i can work the issue out (probably a permission i forgot to set correctly) i will have a beta really soon.
[Bravo General] bandroidx:
bandroidx tip:

to bypass blur setup on our bravo:

boot up, when u get to choose language screen hold down menu for the soft keyboard to come up.

then type: e,e,b,l,u,r,o,f,f (not the commas, just type eebluroff)

i fouind info on moto device w/ hard keyboard and started playing to get past. u cant kill blur setup if u wipe data because adb will be off. this is an awesome woerk around!
[Bravo General] MCFarmfresh:
OMG this is the best!! You the man bandroidx! How the heck did you find this??? I guess in your efforts making the rom? I have to educate myself more on this whole process. Wish I had more time lol. Thanks
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
Would it be possible to put the droid x 2.3.3 animations into the rom? They look a lot sleeker than the ones we have now
[Bravo General] silvagroup:
Now that we have an sbf, you have another tester here, would like to keep att voice and vlingo (saves on tickets when driving) and att hotspots (saves money on my data plan) since I actually use those, other than that get rid of the rest of att junk.
[Bravo General] orrorin:
I have a spare Bravo that I can test with. PM me if you're interested.
[Bravo General] cougar694u:
Any chance of a flipside port?
[Bravo General] heydabop:
I think bandroidx plans on sticking to bravo dev for now.
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
If you have access to them and can zip them up, I'm sure we can at least eeeee if they are compatible.. :)

I found a few from the atrix, but am still testing.

I agree, vlingo is pretty helpful, and for the size of the att hot spot finder, it too is worth keeping..

Finals finals finals, hope to see you all soon.
[Bravo General] cougar694u:
I just wasn't sure how close the hardware is and if it'd be simple. I have both phones at home (Bravo & Flipside) and want this on both.
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
here you go, the animations from the anim folder in the droid x 2.3.3 framework-res.apk:
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
Alright,

what is the full directory path these were in?

I will load these up and see how well, and if, which ones will run on the Bravo :]

Thanks in advance!!

Edit:

Can you confirm all of these work on the Bravo?
[Bravo General] silvagroup:
All the audio files should work fine, ogg works on Adorid.

Not sure as to the anim, I am sure it will work not sure either where it goes.
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
they are inside the framework-res.apk

/system/framework/framework-res.apk

[inside the apk] /res/anim
[Bravo General] dynojunkee:
If possible, it would be nice to have swype beta instead of the production version. Icons, maybe? The 3G icon is very annoying to look at. I dont mind doing this post-rom.

Also, I wouldn't mind testing either.
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
From what I hear, and based on personal experience, it is a pain in the butt to install the swype internet edition, on a stock rom which came with swype pre-installed from the manufacturer.. (since the os potentially has customizations built for that specific version/system.

it's my understanding that this first initial rom will just be the striping down of our current stock version.

personally, what are the differences between the two? I don't notice any.. ;)

But I'm just a noob :P

Sent from my MB520
[Bravo General] sdrawkcab3:
Swype Beta is easier on my eyes. It fixes that problem where the tip window keeps popping up (It's only supposed to pop up once). I've also noticed that it works MUCH better in ALK CoPilot than the stock Swype - the stock Swype has problems interacting with the text boxes in CoPilot for some reason. I read somewhere on XDA about some color-themed Swype keyboards, too...don't remember if that was for beta or not, I wasn't interested in color.

In any case, I've decided to use beta on my Bravo instead of the stock version...the only downside is that it unregisters from time to time and I have to select it again with "Input method".
[Bravo General] dynojunkee:
What did it take to install the beta version of Swype? I failed in my attempts.

I'm just hoping for a darker keyboard and a darker status bar. Vlingo is always popping up on me too, I'd like to get rid of that button or at least use it with Google.

Also, I do understand that the production version is pretty embedded in the stock version. I did try, I just couldn't get the beta to install.

The bandroidx tip about bypassing blur, do you factory reset for that or is there another way to access the setup?
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
You have to sign up for the beta program at the swype website. you then get an email later and you download the swype installer. before you open up that app and you put in your username and password, uninstall the stock swype and move it from your /system/app/ folder to your sdcard (as a backup, b/c you cant restore the app through titanium backup). then, through the swype installer, install the actual swype app. the swype installer that register/verifies the swype keyboard, then you're done.

The swype beta uses google's voice recognition NOT vlingo. :D:D

i got to my blur setup after an sbf flash with all the bloatware installed/defrosted (it doesnt show up for me when i have all the att stuff frozen)
[Bravo General] dynojunkee:
Sick! Thank you, that worked perfectly. The advice from the swype beta website got me into trouble I had to flash. Thanks again, considering the simplicity in this, I suppose it could be done on a personal level.

Ive been apart of the beta for a while now, I already had the installer I just touched one too many files. Thanks again!
[Bravo General] TimelesslyPrecise:
So you are saying, the latest swype beta works on top of our stock swype?

If so, i'm on it.. :]
[Bravo General] dynojunkee:
Yup, I suppose it does. Simply follow jorgonv's suggestion and it works perfectly. I simply copied swype.apk from system/app and placed it on the SD. Then I deleted the original file and used the installer to install the beta version. Working good, no errors yet.

EDIT: After reboot I get a constant force close of com.swype.android.inputmethod when swype is running, my apologies.
[Bravo General] heydabop:
There's a libSwypeCore.so file somewhere that you need to remove from the phone too before installing the beta. I forget where exactly on the phone though. I've been running the Swype beta on my Bravo 2.1 and 2.2 for quite a while now.
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
Yeah, i just rebooted my phone, and i'm getting the force closes:(

found it:D: the libSwypeCore.so is located in /system/lib

Here's what i did to get it working:

1. uninstalled swype beta

2. moved the libSwypeCore.so to my sdcard as a backup

3. reinstalled swype beta

successfully rebooted without a f/c
[Bravo General] sdrawkcab3:
I just froze stock swype before installing beta. Maybe I got lucky, but I don't have issues.

Downside would be that I don't have a stock backup.
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
Swype Beta

Here's how you get Swype Beta on your Bravo:

1. Sign up for swype beta at http://beta.swype.com/

2. Move the stock swype.apk from your /system/app/ folder to your sdcard (as a backup, b/c you cant restore the app through titanium backup)

3. Move (don't copy) the libSwypeCore.so (located in /system/lib) to your sdcard as a backup

[if you copied it instead of moved it, just delete the libSwypeCore.so from /system/lib]

4. Download the swype installer from the email you received

5. Open up Swype installer and log in

6. Download the Swype and let it licence

You now have the newest Swype beta :D

P.S. Swype Beta uses Google's voice recognition, not Vlingo :D
[Bravo General] dynojunkee:
Sweet deal. Thanks guys. Running smoothly now. Can't wait to do more stuff!
[Bravo General] MCFarmfresh:
ok so I stupidly only copied it to my sd card instead of moving it and now I am getting f/c. is there anything I can do to fix? tia
[Bravo General] dynojunkee:
Just change your keyboard to the normal one and then uninstall, delete them if they're already copied, reinstall.

I believe that would work.
[Bravo General] MCFarmfresh:
well, I just tried that with no success. how is the file changed when it is copy and pasted, as apposed to when it is moved? if its not too much trouble, could someone get me that libSwypeCor.co to me some how. maybe that will work? and if anyone knowns what is changed in the file by copy/past vs. moving file, maybe i can figure out how to change it back, I would appreciate it. thanks all.

does it change permissions for file? if so what are original permissions for libSwypeCore.so?? and can anyone tell me if /system is r/o or r/w?? thanks
[Bravo General] jorgonv:
All you have to do is delete the libSwypeCore.so from the /system/lib

[moving the file instead of copying was just killing 2 birds with 1 stone. you backed it up while removing it from the /system/lib]