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Root CM4DX - Cyanogenmod

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Here came across this in cyanogen tweet........ http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-news/153469-cyanogenmod-7-ported-motorola-droid-x-video.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+droidforums-news+%28DroidForums.net+News+%3A%3A+Android+News%29
 
Haha I just PM'd the OP asking if that was fine by him/her. I want to clear it with the OP first though since it's his thread and all but I don't think he/she will object.
 
Aggie12 said:
Haha I just PM'd the OP asking if that was fine by him/her. I want to clear it with the OP first though since it's his thread and all but I don't think he/she will object.
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Yep I'm predicting a change in this title soon, I also have a feeling once its changed it'll be exploded into talk about CM4X ... which btw sounds amazing!
 
this news is awesome... i really hope that we will be able to have access to all the tweaks that normal CM users have.

The only downside is that we are seeing this toward the end of the droid x's life... a lot of developers have already moved on to different devices but even still this is great stuff.
 
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right? I just hope it gets completed. Like everything working. I wants it bad.
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Oh, it will be. I've been talking to a few devs about it via PM and Twitter, and, basically, they're saying that since it can boot, it's only a matter of time before it works fully. Getting it boot is the biggest step-- everything else can be tweaked to work so LONG as you can get it to boot.
 
jmoney1353 said:
this news is awesome... i really hope that we will be able to have access to all the tweaks that normal CM users have.

The only downside is that we are seeing this toward the end of the droid x's life... a lot of developers have already moved on to different devices but even still this is great stuff.
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I honestly don't know why everyone talks about a phones "end of life". I meen really. With all the new mods, themes, roms, and now this coming out all the time, your phone can always feel new again. At least it does to me. And besides, everyone that falls into that money pit of " this phone isn't manufactured anymore so I have to move on to the next phone" isn't very bright and must have money to burn.
 
I wasn't implying that the droid x has become obsolete and I plan on keeping mine for probably another year, but rather that it isn't seeing the kind of ROM development that it was earlier on simply because it isn't the top of the line device that it was.

I love the fact that there are still people ROMing and developing the droid but just imagine the options that we would of had if this had happened a year or 6 months ago.
 
hmmm....honestly i probably like the blur enough not to even care if we get a working CM build....unless it could be done with an unlocked bootloader which we know won't happen. I'm not even considering giving Liberty or Apex a try


never the less it is Awesome to see the DX still getting some love especially since the DX's birthday is a few weeks away.
 
You guys are forgetting that this opens a lot of doors should motorola keep encrypting their bootloaders...
 
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Good deal. Maybe that will draw some attention. I thought this would be big news here. I know I'm pumped. I know I've been acting kinda clueless on this 2init method (i am) but assuming that CM makes a rom built on ICS, can we get that actual version through this method or is the OS something that we need to update through the bootloader?

Edit: I found my answer. Apparently the kernel doesn't affect CM7 from getting all gingerbread features available to work. And that the D1 does this already on a froyo kernel. So it appears that the DX is very close to being supported with updates as long as the CM team chooses.
 
jmoney1353 said:
I wasn't implying that the droid x has become obsolete and I plan on keeping mine for probably another year, but rather that it isn't seeing the kind of ROM development that it was earlier on simply because it isn't the top of the line device that it was.

I love the fact that there are still people ROMing and developing the droid but just imagine the options that we would of had if this had happened a year or 6 months ago.
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No worries. I know what you meant. It just reminded me of the talk all the time about how a device is reaching its end of life. It makes no sense to me how a good majority of people can fall for that manufacturing ploy of cell makers.

Manufacturers discontinue a device so they can move on to something else to keep making money, that's fine, but the way they do it somehow makes people think their phone is somehow useless now.

Granted in time they will, and do, stop developing for that model. But that doesn't mean your phone is gonna stop working. And I know it's not so much about having the latest and greatest as it is about having a phone with the latest OS and features that people want to have.

You have to admit, cell makers discontinuing devices worked out better than they could have hoped. Forcing you to upgrade was the idea but man, they got people dropping phones long before development stops for them. I myself would love to have the DX2 but I'm not gonna rush out and spend that kinda money when I just finished buying my DX and learning how to tweak it out the way I like it.

There will be a day when even our devs will stop developing for our DX's. But until the day comes when my little DX is nothing more than a fancy calculator I'm not upgrading. Specially now with CM coming to the DX. I'm looking forward to the possibilities this brings us. And I'm dying to try this out.
 
SWEET I had CM6 on mu D1 and loved it.. I missed some much when getting the DX.. looking forward to seeing/hearing about the progress
 
While I don't pretend to understand how this all works, this is definitely exciting news. It sounds like the next big step in DX development. While the bootloader is still locked (and therefore we won't be able to change the kernal), it sounds like this will really open the door to custom ROMs. Basically we won't have to wait on Moto to leak a google update to get it ourselves. This is especially big as we do get near the EOL of the DX as far as Verizon's official support (and therefore updates) are concerned..
 
now I wonder ifg this will help get miui onto the DX? never liked it on my D1, but I think it would be a much more enjoyable rom on the X.
 
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