[DEV] Affinity ROM - Motorola Droid X2

So just wanted to let everyone know I started development of an X2 rom using a similar approach to Minimal X but keeping in the essential apps, such as the calendar and alarm clock. I'm currently alpha testing my first build right now and its surprisingly stable. Here's what I plan to offer in the first initial release.
-AOSP apps (very minimal blur)
-Launcher2 (rather than moto's launcher)
-Recovery Bootstrap app included with install
-Overclocking (still trying to work out the bugs)
It's not a lot offered above, but will help to eliminate all the bloat and still leave you with a fully functioning experience.
Are there any suggestions you guys have for features that could be added in for the first release or down the road. This is my first ROM and being a PHP developer its a completely different world to me.
Thanks for looking and your feedback.
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Thnks for working on the Droid X2. I have a backup phone so if you need a tester im here

I'd be interested in testing for you if you ever were looking for testers. thanks for all your hard work
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Gingerbread theme? Also a must have for a rom for me is the blur task killer, blur camera, and blur alarm clock

Beta test
I can also beta test for you. Thx

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Since my weekend is a little busy I probably wont have a beta out to download and test til Monday, but as far as stability, its pretty smooth. I just want to fix a few aesthetics before I release it.
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Can we overclock?!?! Ill test for sure.
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Awesome!! AOSP, no bloat, and no blur rocks... I just have to have exchange.... Gotta have it for work... That's my only request...
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You got overclock to work?
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Email Verizon and Motorola.
CominWitDaSauce said:
Can we overclock?!?! Ill test for sure.
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Its mostly Verizon's fault, but putting pressure on Motorola will help get the bootloader unlocked later this year. I think I recall an article that said Motorola will/was considering unlocking their bootloaders later this year. As far as i know unless they do, or we hack all the way around it we can't manipulate the kernel that controls the processor. Someone did get 2nd-init, so now we can port all of the popular roms over, but no dice on kernels yet. Complain to Verizon and Motorola. Its your phone you should be able to with it as you please. Verizon should be posting Sbf with tutorials on how to fix your phone after you over tweak.
As far as the rom goes how about including some hacked apk's or a modified version of the blur cam with search button as the shutter button. Anyway you could get rid of the snap to grid on the home screen icons. Could make some sweet home screens if you could move the icons where ever you want them.

For those that have to have certain applications that came default on the DX2 keep your eyes on this post > http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x2-roms/161753-dx2-apk-grabber.html I am working on an app which includes all of the original files so that you can easily re-add them to a custom rom. This helps the developer keep their rom's slim and allows the end user to only get what they actually want.

DAG425 said:
Awesome!! AOSP, no bloat, and no blur rocks... I just have to have exchange.... Gotta have it for work... That's my only request...
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+1 the corporate exchange is only reason got this phone. This and DROID pro were only exchange supported by work
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KKellett said:
+1 the corporate exchange is only reason got this phone. This and DROID pro were only exchange supported by work
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+2, as well as Quickoffice...

Well, the phone really is not our own unless we buy it out-right. It's provided at a lower cost for the promise we will keep their service and I think in that case they have the right to lock it down, but on the other side of the coin I think they should give you the option to unlock everything once the contract term is up or if you buy the phone upfront.
I really like the idea of using the search button to take pictures. Sometimes if you hit the on screen button it pulls over the menu instead of snapping the picture which can ruin a kodak moment.
The snap to grid is really annoying. I would like to place the icons anyplace I fancy. And as a final note, we have an SBF with a guide already.

Overclock would be nice
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I'd love the ability to kill the current app by long-pressing the Back button.
I'd also like to see power control widgets in the notification bar, but since I have Quick Settings tied to my long-press Search button, that's lower priority.
I'd also be happy to beta this!

I would love to help you test this!
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I would be, as well. Not having calendar killed MinimalX2 for me, but I liked everything else about it. And overclocking?
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DAG425 said:
Awesome!! AOSP, no bloat, and no blur rocks... I just have to have exchange.... Gotta have it for work... That's my only request...
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I'd like to second that request....
Mike

zakth said:
Well, the phone really is not our own unless we buy it out-right. It's provided at a lower cost for the promise we will keep their service and I think in that case they have the right to lock it down, but on the other side of the coin I think they should give you the option to unlock everything once the contract term is up or if you buy the phone upfront.
I really like the idea of using the search button to take pictures. Sometimes if you hit the on screen button it pulls over the menu instead of snapping the picture which can ruin a kodak moment.
The snap to grid is really annoying. I would like to place the icons anyplace I fancy. And as a final note, we have an SBF with a guide already.
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So..... will we be able to or not? Hes saying there are just some bugs but it sounds like he thinks he can do it.
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[POLL]What What Do You Want?

Im wondering what people would like to see incorporated in a Custom DX2 ROM, I may throw some of these into CorteX2. Post your every desires in the comments below
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Pull down settings like cm7.
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Reboot options
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Bacon dispenser. Motorola already got the cooking part down.
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Electrodeath0 said:
Bacon dispenser. Motorola already got the cooking part down.
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I second that!
Tardis based storage, you flip the screen up and have several large room of storage to hang out and drink beer in.
Fully debloated,deodexed,overclocked,with a nicely animated 3d theme would also be nice
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Tardis based storage, you flip the screen up and have several large room of storage to hang out and drink beer in.
Fully debloated,deodexed,overclocked,with a nicely animated 3d theme would also be nice
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I'm guessing you haven't looked at CorteX2. It's got half of what you asked for and one thing is currently impossible atm (overclocking).
I would like LED customization for apps. Meaning you define what apps use what color. It was in Ultimate Droid but I'm not sure where he got it from.
EDIT: And I wasn't trying to be a jerk. Just saying you should go look at what he's done already.
Samsung pull downs are pretty sweet.
ability to change the led color, themes.
Zaf9670 said:
I'm guessing you haven't looked at CorteX2. It's got half of what you asked for and one thing is currently impossible atm (overclocking).
I would like LED customization for apps. Meaning you define what apps use what color. It was in Ultimate Droid but I'm not sure where he got it from.
EDIT: And I wasn't trying to be a jerk. Just saying you should go look at what he's done already.
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Yeah saw half of it is in there, and am impressed with whats there already (good work) was just saying a nice animated 3d theme woujld be nice as well. my friend just got a droid 3 and when sliding between screens theres a 3d effect that looks kinda cool, not looking for the same effect but some 3d animations would be nice. I know overclocking isnt possible yet but a most decent overclock programs also underclock which is possible=-) I really like your idea of differant leds for differant things ( it would be amazingly nice to look at the light and know green means txt, red means missed call, blue for email or whatnot. Im guessing no luck on the tardis mode though lol
Fast, clean, and stable. Anything else is just icing on the cake.
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Are we talking GB rom?
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Liberty Rom sounds cool.
Eventhough I know this is related to a Rom thread, I will need to move this general forums since it is not development. Also, this discussion can be perfectly carry out in the rom thread.
Thanks
would like to see CRT tv off Animations
some color (nothing bright or ugly.... simple) but incorporated through the whole rom dial pad, settings, etc.
some widget love! the white stock stuff is ugly would like to see some dark color maybe transparent .....somewhere along those lines ...........
everything else is pretty much a given ......
thanks for asking the users ! good to get an input in and hopefully see some good stuff in your work to come! thanks agian!!!!
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Samsung pull downs are pretty sweet.
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Yeah, that would be nice. Customizable widgets in the pulldown.
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fbm111 said:
Pull down settings like cm7.
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+1
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Also a look into why battery life sux after update.
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A feature to change the screen from PenTile, to SAMOLED+.
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Also a look into why battery life sux after update.
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interesting, Mine is MUCH BETTER after update.
SBF your phone, wipe EVERYTHING and try again.
what i would like to see in a droid x2 rom
personally I really like minimalx... just remove everything possibly without breaking functionality so we can install and use our own apps. just make it blazing fast with a simple black theme.

Anyone working on porting the droid/bionic blur?

Im sure its early for this and i know we dont have our source code yet and even more sure we dont have the droid. 3 source code yet but is this even being looked at yet? I love this phone and the new blur isnt that bad (surprisingly )but i use spb shell. Cant lie though that new blur is pretty sexy
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This would be awesome to see and boy I want that boot animation on this badboy.
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Not only that, but the new Blur, (which Motorola doesn't like to call Blur, and still refers to it as blur in programming), is now the Motorola Applications Platform, but is wonderfully filled with features on the Droid Bionic. Can't wait to see a port of their "com.motorola.blur.home.apk," and "com.motorola.blur.widgets.apk," in addition to whatever other goodies it has to offer.
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here is a link to the system dump from the droid 3
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here is a link to the system dump from the droid 3
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I am seeing if I can deodex the system and make use of anything.
anyone have any luck with this?
Already have a light blue version of the boot animation on my ton! I want the blur 2 home as well. Its not so simple to port.
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coldblooded79 said:
Already have a light blue version of the boot animation on my ton! I want the blur 2 home as well. Its not so simple to port.
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How'd you manage to get the light blue boot animation? If you don't mind me asking.
Think it was posted in the atrix themes and apps.
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Here you go... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17022621
Official Droid bionic Bootanimation (+plus custom colors by Swift)
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[Q] Anyone Porting Bionic/Droid 3 Blur Home to X2?

I know there was a Droid 3 system dump and I'm pretty sure there was a Bionic one as well. Is it possible to port the Blur home from either of those to the X2? Or is anyone working on that? I've been interested in trying the new Blur home.
I would love to see this.
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Meticode said:
I know there was a Droid 3 system dump and I'm pretty sure there was a Bionic one as well. Is it possible to port the Blur home from either of those to the X2? Or is anyone working on that? I've been interested in trying the new Blur home.
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Theoretically, anything is possible. But whether or not it is worth the effort to do so is a better question.
It would be nice though.
Would be cool to see. Eye candy gives me nerdgasms.
I'd love to see the Bionic's blur on the X2, I really like the new lockscreen/home screen transitions.
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i would love to see this.
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<---agrees 100% ... I would love to see a bionic port... Btw zumocast almost fully works on my dx2... With the exception of: I cant update and i cant play video.. But if i could get the overall bionic ui i would be in geek heaven... Or even just the quick contacts widget would be a nice addition.. :d
Would anyone with a Bionic be kind enough to post up the BlurHome2.apk (or whatever the actual name is..). I'd like to see if pushing it to my phone works like the launcher2 did.
I don't wanna see any blur.. sorry
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rsswga said:
I don't wanna see any blur.. sorry
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Very helpful....this thread is about asking to put it on our phones, not whether you like it or not.

[Q] CM7 Beta!

Anyone else in here dying of anticipation for the CM7 beta to be released? I find myself checking the XDA thread and dragonzkiller's twitter like every 10 minutes or so.
Yup! I haven't flashed the alpha but I am most definitely going to try the beta! Can't wait!
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Honestly, I'm running CM7 alpha and it's the quickest responding thing I've ever seen. Once they fix the dumb crap like the SD card and the battery it's gonna be the best thing to happen to DX2 to date and I was a die hard eclipse fan. I would say, try the alpha just to get aquainted, you know the beta release will be here any day.
Can't wait for the beta release. I am also checking twitter and the thread constantly. So excited to see what has been fixed in the beta. Can't wait to flash CM7 to my x2
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You better believeI'm excited. I ran CM7 on my HTC Desire and loved it. Can't wait for Theme Chooser, gesture unlock, fully configurable notification tray power widgets, and (most importantly) the complete annihilation of Blur.
By the way, guys that are running the Alpha, are you noticing more available memory for applications in CM7? I was thinking about giving that SPB Shell 3D launcher a try, but not at the expense of my X2's already limited RAM.
Dragonzkiller and the rest of the team that got us here are rockstars--we should all skip today's Starbucks fix and support them! (If for no reason other than the entirely selfish one that maybe if we show our few devs how much we appreciate the effort, we can expect a CM9 port in a few months...)
I would wait on the 3D shell until the beta. I've tried it and it's really not that much cooler than go launcher. I wound up uninstalling after a week. I do agree however that everyone should be throwing gobs of money at dragonzkiller. There has been a MASSIVE amount of time,effort,and frustration that has gone into getting us to this point with CM7.
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DaveRichardson said:
You better believeI'm excited. I ran CM7 on my HTC Desire and loved it. Can't wait for Theme Chooser, gesture unlock, fully configurable notification tray power widgets, and (most importantly) the complete annihilation of Blur.
By the way, guys that are running the Alpha, are you noticing more available memory for applications in CM7? I was thinking about giving that SPB Shell 3D launcher a try, but not at the expense of my X2's already limited RAM.
Dragonzkiller and the rest of the team that got us here are rockstars--we should all skip today's Starbucks fix and support them! (If for no reason other than the entirely selfish one that maybe if we show our few devs how much we appreciate the effort, we can expect a CM9 port in a few months...)
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I'm running shell 3d right now and it runs smoothly.
Mixer themed cm7 X duce
The beta is out now, but I haven't noticed a 3d shell. Was that a separate app that you all downloaded?
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The beta is out now, but I haven't noticed a 3d shell. Was that a separate app that you all downloaded?
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yes it is. Its on the app markrt.
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yes it is. Its on the app markrt.
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Be forewarned - it costs $15. But, I believe this is because they are marketing it more for phone manufacturers to include as the default shell in their phones. I don't think anyone has take the bait, though.
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Be forewarned - it costs $15. But, I believe this is because they are marketing it more for phone manufacturers to include as the default shell in their phones. I don't think anyone has take the bait, though.
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I read about a couple devices that are launching with it, they're kinda generic tho. No big names... I paid the 15 bucks for it a year and a half ago, never used it for more than a few hours. The Widgets have some decent animation, but the whole thing is rather gimmicky. To get them all going you have to have like 10 screens, and at that point its much easier to just go to the app drawer like any other launcher. Neat but not useful. Plus the dock is atrocious.
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I read about a couple devices that are launching with it, they're kinda generic tho. No big names... I paid the 15 bucks for it a year and a half ago, never used it for more than a few hours. The Widgets have some decent animation, but the whole thing is rather gimmicky. To get them all going you have to have like 10 screens, and at that point its much easier to just go to the app drawer like any other launcher. Neat but not useful. Plus the dock is atrocious.
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Yeah, Honestly, I'm still pissed that I forked over $15 months ago on that launcher. I really don't think it's even as good as some of the $5 and below launchers! I really didn't like it and it was just a big gimmick it seemed.

[Q] new rom ideas

me and a group of buds are wanting to try and do a new custom rom idk when itd be released but we want to try at least
any ideas in features you want
or things you want removed
"i just want this to be a place for flashers to put there idea or wants or needs into a new xda rom it'll probably go on droid x first to see how it is then rezound
and sense or senseless
app drawer or no app drawer
porting a droid-x rom to the rezound will be way more trouble than it is worth.
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porting a droid-x rom to the rezound will be way more trouble than it is worth.
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what i mean is ill do one on droid x then start over onto vigor/rezound im starting on droid x cuz i have 2 droid x's
Idk know if its even possible but I would love USB hosting. Also, I prefer sensless because I love me some AOSP
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Full screen caller id, volume keys skip track when screen off, SMS screen wake, bliss/rhyme quick launch widget,
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