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drewgaren

Newbie
This is the first RC of my zapX Rom for Droid X. It's fast as @#!*% and is very, very customized. There is still some Blur left, but very little. There are 4 Different versions of this rom, each run 2.2 froyo but run different launchers. This saves more system space and makes the system run even faster.

ALL NEW UPDATED 10/6 BE SURE TO READ NEW INSTRUCTIONS, ENJOY. NOW WITH ADW!

Removed:
-Blockbuster (Bankrupt Company)
-3G Mobile Hotspot (Use Barnacle or Wifi Tether)
-Amazon mp3 (Market App)
-Kindle (Market App)
-(Maps (Market App)
-Street View (Market App)
-VZ Navigator (Market App)
-Skype (Market App)
-Weather Widget
-Digital Clock Widget
-Blur News and News Widget
-File Manager
-Toggle Widgets
-Stock Music App
-Additional Blur
-Additional Files
-VVM (Use Google Voice, If you need it goto my site on how to get it back)
-Majority of Bloatware
-Some Ringtones, Notifications, Alarms, System Sounds
-Camera Click and Video Recorder Sounds

Featured:
-Motorola 2.3.1.5 Fully Deoxeded Froyo (Yummy!)
-Selection of Blur Basically only the social stuff and the universal inbox. Calender is still there, but most everything else is gone.
-Rooted
-Build.prop tweaks (credit to Beesley)
-Optimized
-4 Launchers to choose from
-New Battery tweaks
-New ^3 (Cubed) Music Player by Default for saved space (if you don't like it and want the stock back see my site)

Thank You's:
I would like to take a time out and thank everybody that reported all the errors in the RC1, you guys were great. The first revision didn’t hack it, this update is rocking it out. It’s zippy. Makes me wanna zap myself. I wanna thank Team Black Hat for providing me with the Droid X 2.3.15 update file so I could use the system files especially p3droid for his work as you see I still have given them full credit in the update, and Webst3r at alldroid for the anyoneupdate.zip file.

NEW INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS, VERY IMPORTANT:

***Note: Make sure you have 2.2 previously installed (if not I recommend downloading team black hats app and download Froyo 2.3.1.5 move it from the team black hat folder in your sdcard to the root of your sdcard, reboot recovery and install zip.)***

-Run the Droid X Bootstrapper App
-Boot into Bootstrap Recovery
-Create a Nandroid back up if you like to be safe
-Go into Mounts and Storage
-Format System
-Format Data
-Format Cache
-Mount System (MAKE SURE TO DO THIS STEP)
-Install Zip From SDCard
-Select the zapX rom of your choice
-Select Yes
-Reboot Your System
-The first boot will take a little bit, but then zap, it’s zippy as @#!*% .

Downloads:

zapX RC1 revision 3 (update.zip format) Regular Droid X Launcher -
download
download mirrors
download revision 2 (10/5)

zapXadw **new** (update.zip format) ADW Launcher edition - download revision 2
download mirrors
download revision 1 (10/5)

zapXLPedition RC1 revision 3 (update.zip format) LauncherPro edition - download
download mirrors
download revision 2 (10/5)

zapXzeamer RC1 revision 3 (update.zip format) Zeam launcher edition -
download
download mirror
download revisions 2 (10/5)

I am not responsible for anything that goes wrong with your phone but I will be happy to help out with anything you need you can find me on the roms homepage, or on twitter @drewgaren

you can find my roms site at and help pages here. if you want sounds and apps back on see help zapX Rom site

I'm just an unemployed grad student. I put a lot of hours into this and am going to continue. If you guys want to see more out of me and some more roms please help me out by donating.

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northernmoris said:
I chose LP, it what I like best.

Rubix is stripped down more, I like this cause it has the car dock and some minor stuff. I didn't get to run Rubix long though, so I couldnt give a fair comparison.
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What's the Zeam launcher? I think I'll try that just to see.:D
 
Seems like an interesting rom, kept some of the more useful Blur things I like, if I didn't have 10 hours worth of being at college tomorrow start at 930 tomorrow morning I would try this tonight, maybe tomrrow we'll see.
 
I've noticed a small problem with all these ROMS if you have 2.2 and backup to the cloud. Since it reinstalls all your apps you pretty much have the same ROM installed no matter what you flash.
 
Im trying out the LP version and it says its using 2.3.9...I thought it was suppose to be using 2.3.15?

edit:
I guess I might of downloaded a earlier version.
 
Dark Matter said:
Im trying out the LP version and it says its using 2.3.9...I thought it was suppose to be using 2.3.15?

edit:
I guess I might of downloaded a earlier version.
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It says 2.3.9 but it is still 2.3.15 there is nothing to worry about there. It does not affect the system or market at all.

Guys I will be updating this site as well on the Rom so I suggest checking out the new forum I made which is also updated. You can also visit my site the link is in the thread. If you like the rom, I take donations. I'm just a broke college student who has stayed up since saturday night working on this for all of you guys! Of course I'm going to continue to do so, and I'm also beginning another rom called KennedyX Rom.

For now enjoy zapX!

zapX RC1 Rom fully deodexed and customized, super fast - Droid X Releases - AllDroid Public Board - zapX RC1 Rom fully deodexed and customized, super fast - Droid X Releases - AllDroid Public Board - AllDroid.org > Home
 
Dumb question, sorry came from Windows Mobile. We can install Roms over other custom roms without going back to sbf correct?
 
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