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Root Big things happening?!?

Look what a little birdie just tweeted a couple minutes ago:

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Im ready to turn this froyo update into my whore :)....root method and such will follow shortly after release :)
_mrbirdman_
Stephen Bird

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madAdam said:
Look what a little birdie just tweeted a couple minutes ago:

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Im ready to turn this froyo update into my whore :)....root method and such will follow shortly after release :)
_mrbirdman_
Stephen Bird

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OHH yess Mr. Birdman is the MAN
 
I think he is simply saying he is looking forward to getting the official OTA and opening it up. I look forward to his results. I have no desire to update to the Verizon/Moto update. I want the Birdman version.
 
Haha ok fair enough, but I'll be grumpy about it! :D

now I know bird is helping out with TBH, but is P3 actually helping bird crack the bootloader? I didn't think he was
 
jreed2560 said:
whats happening friday?
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This is from P3's twitter yesterday and I couldn't find it, but I remember seeing that Birdman also said to look out for what's coming on Friday and that he's been doing some work with P3. We can only hope it all has to do with the bootloader and a completely vanilla ROM.

P3Droid
If you have TBH DM, then Friday is the day, something big is coming Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:52:45 AM via web
 
irishpride said:
This is from P3's twitter yesterday and I couldn't find it, but I remember seeing that Birdman also said to look out for what's coming on Friday and that he's been doing some work with P3. We can only hope it all has to do with the bootloader and a completely vanilla ROM.

P3Droid
If you have TBH DM, then Friday is the day, something big is coming Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:52:45 AM via web
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Something is also coming any minute now.
 
Just downloaded it, but from what I understand it's not a full SBF, it will only work if your sent into a bootloop because of trying to theme or remove bloatware. It will not work if you were previously sent into bootloop after installing the OTA and have already tried running the original SBF.

A big, big thanks to P3 for releasing the SBF and Birdman, who I'm sure was involved in this in some kind of way!
 
irishpride said:
Just downloaded it, but from what I understand it's not a full SBF, it will only work if your sent into a bootloop because of trying to theme or remove bloatware. It will not work if you were previously sent into bootloop after installing the OTA and have already tried running the original SBF.

A big, big thanks to P3 for releasing the SBF and Birdman, who I'm sure was involved in this in some kind of way!
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It's basically the /system only. But its a lot better than nothing.
 
Wolfedude88 said:
This is what I am waiting for....

cvpcs
As promised, another obsidian video displaying some of the working features. Check video comments for more details: YouTube - Obsidian Booting... Again about 7 hours ago via web
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I am glad he is making some ground but from his comments it sounds like he still has quite a ways to go.

I am uploading this to show some of the working features of obsidian. You will notice at the beginning that it is a bit laggy, that it being worked on.

Things that do work:
camera, wifi, bluetooth, battery reading/charging, 2D/3D display, market, phone (speaker mode only until audio fixed)

Things that at the time of this video don't work:
audio, gps, screen wake, camcorder, persistent usb.

Things yet to be tested:
3g, bluetooth (more extensive testing is needed)

Namely, there are still some glaring issues that make the build unusable as a phone, which is why there isn't an alpha test release available yet.

Other notes:
1.) this is built from source
2.) it uses the stock moto kernel
3.) it hijacks into a chroot and runs an AOSP init program, jailing the phone into AOSP and ignoring the stock init.
4.) it is based off of the 2.3.13 leak
5.) ETA on release is undetermined as it is based on when i can figure out the problems with audio and screen wake (the most glaring issues right now)
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yeah obisidian may get me interested in my droid x again. since picking up an incredible and spending days running through roms and kernels the x is just sitting idly by.

ruby on the incredible is sick. with no custom kernel ive gotten 1580 in quadrants with it and it runs fast as heck with no lag. with king aosp kernel #1 ive scored over 1800 and its blindingly fast. if cvps fixes the camera being limited to 3 mp and gets 720 p video recording going that ll be may standard rom.

seems like birdman is waiting "for a certain thing to be released" before he releases whatever work he has done on the bootloader. i can only assume he means a full 2.2 sbf file for the countless bricks that will come from playing with the bootloader.
 
nitsuj17 said:
yeah obisidian may get me interested in my droid x again. since picking up an incredible and spending days running through roms and kernels the x is just sitting idly by.

ruby on the incredible is sick. with no custom kernel ive gotten 1580 in quadrants with it and it runs fast as heck with no lag. with king aosp kernel #1 ive scored over 1800 and its blindingly fast. if cvps fixes the camera being limited to 3 mp and gets 720 p video recording going that ll be may standard rom.

seems like birdman is waiting "for a certain thing to be released" before he releases whatever work he has done on the bootloader. i can only assume he means a full 2.2 sbf file for the countless bricks that will come from playing with the bootloader.
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I was kinda hoping he was talking about the first bootloader.
 
nitsuj17 said:
yeah obisidian may get me interested in my droid x again. since picking up an incredible and spending days running through roms and kernels the x is just sitting idly by.

ruby on the incredible is sick. with no custom kernel ive gotten 1580 in quadrants with it and it runs fast as heck with no lag. with king aosp kernel #1 ive scored over 1800 and its blindingly fast. if cvps fixes the camera being limited to 3 mp and gets 720 p video recording going that ll be may standard rom.

seems like birdman is waiting "for a certain thing to be released" before he releases whatever work he has done on the bootloader. i can only assume he means a full 2.2 sbf file for the countless bricks that will come from playing with the bootloader.
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I was thinking that the "certain thing" is the bootloader hack. he is on the old bootloader and the 2.1 sbf works for it

. _mrbirdman_
Im not quitting work on the Dx, I'm just not releasing anything for it until a certain thing gets released.
 
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