Wednesday, August 24, 2011

This build ONLY will be for those of you who have purchased the TBH app and have the two-part .zip files OR for those who have acquired root using the Droid 3 root method

BEFORE WE BEING, MAKE SURE YOUR BATTERY IS FULLY CHARGED! THIS WILL TAKE AROUND 45 MINUTES TO AN HOUR OF HARDCORE ROMING!

BUGS: Camera does not work yet, DSPManager may force close when you make or receive a phone call

For those coming from a previous version of Cyanogenmod
1. Make a backup of your current Cyanogenmod build, you can use this to make an advanced restore of your data.img so you won't have to redo everything
2. You must SBF back to froyo. Instead of 2.26.60, you need to flash back to 3.8.7
3. Install the bootstrap and install the two part .zips from TBH or use the Droid 3 root method in order to keep root for Gingerbread. This updates your kernel so you can run the new Cyanogenmod builds. You can skip to step 5 on the section below from here

If you're on stock 3.8.7 and you don't want to buy the TBH app but instead want to the use the free Droid 3 root method
1. Download the unrooted 2.3.3 update that I saved on my sdcard when I got the OTA from here
The md5sum of the OTA is 51914928f48f2421438531b0ceeb71d4
2. Place it on your sdcard and rename it update.zip
3. Turn off you phone and reboot into the stock recovery by pressing Power + R + M and select apply update.zip
4. After it updates, download the Droid 3 root method found here and follow the instructions to root your phone

5. After installing, reboot your phone and make sure your phone boots into the rooted Gingerbread; I would also make sure your phone is activated but it's not mandatory! Then proceed reading below

For those coming from TBH's rooted Gingerbread or the update.zip method using the Droid 3 root method
1. If you have the rooted 2.3.3 Gingerbread build already installed on your phone, download the file and put it on your sdcard like you have for previous builds.
2. Use the bootstrap to boot into clockwork
3 Optional but recommended: Now that you're here, I highly recommend making a backup of the rooted Gingerbread if you would like to go back to stock. You WILL NOT be able to return to stock from a previous Clockwork backup as you now have the updated kernel which cannot boot past builds so you will have to return to this rooted 2.3.3 build backup!
4. Now, you ***MUST* go to mounts and storage, and wipe your data, cache, and system*** (I also do a factory reset just in case) has never failed me :)
5. After wiping everything including your system, choose install .zip from your sdcard as you have for previous builds and install this new build called 825GBKernelONLY, after everything is installed, you can reboot and enjoy your new Cyanogenmod build :D

The first thing you should do is rename the folder that contains your Rooted TBH Gingerbread clockwork backup to a name other than the date and time, it will be very confusing to remember which version this is so rename the folder something like TBHBACKUP

After your build boots, you can reboot into clockwork using the built-in clockwork, DO NOT FLASH THE BOOTSTRAP ONCE YOU'RE ON CYANOGENMOD and go to backup and restore and choose advanced restore and choose restore data from a PREVIOUS CYANOGENMOD BUILD, NOT THE BACKUP YOU MADE FROM THE TBH APP!
You can also flash Google Apps here too :D

If you would like to enable the boot animation sound, click here, on the next reboot it should have the classic "DROIDDDDDD" sound

If you have enabled the boot sound but would like to disable the boot sound, follow the directions you used to enable the bootsound, but instead of typing iwantbootsound type idontwantbootsound and press enter


You can download the new build for the Gingerbread kernel here
MD5 Checksum for the build 825GBKernelONLY.zip: 3339531d975d68bac61e9386e77ed649

After installing, you can flash the Google Apps from above to get the market and maps and navigation and whatnot

Keep me posted with the bugs on this thread and I will also post on the main DroidForums CM7 for the Pro thread when there's an update :P

Monday, August 8, 2011

Please tell me the improvement in battery life is not just my phone but yours too!

I took some files from the older builds of cyanogenmod and incorporated them into this build and I swear I noticed a drastic improvement in battery life. I had my phone on for 12 hours and still had 38% and that was when I was at my girlfriend's house where service is absolutely terrible so I can only say it will be better than that which is pretty good in my opinion for the Pro. It should be back to where it was before that month-long gap in the builds

Did anybody try GSM? Post results please and keep the bug reports up I need something to do! If battery life is adequate, I will try to get the voice button and side convenience button working because I remember a few people asking about that


Before installing please make a backup and take note of what version of the stock operating system you were running (if you're coming from stock) restoring an image backed up from the Gingerbread 2.3.3 build may not work if you're restoring from a stock froyo build!

File can be downloaded from here
And Google Apps can also be installed from here

MD5 Checksum for the build 807.zip: 3fce7a729157cf30fc1db1c3787ee949

If coming from a previous build of Cyanogenmod, reboot into the clockwork recovery, go to mounts and storage, and format the system and format the cache. Then go back to where it says install zip from sdcard and choose the zip you just downloaded

If not coming from Cyanogenmod, you will have to do the above steps but you will have to delete your data also (yes, you will lose everything!)

After installing, you can flash the Google Apps from above to get the market and maps and navigation and whatnot

Keep me posted with the bugs on this thread and I will also post on the main DroidForums CM7 for the Pro thread when there's an update :P

Sunday, August 7, 2011

With this new build, I took a shot at fixing the 3G data intermittently cutting out requiring a reboot to fix. If somebody can report back to me on the CM4DPro bug thread listed below if it's still not fixed please do so. So far, it's been around an hour on 3G and it's working fine. Also, the screen orientation while placed in the dock should be correct and i added a few things which should account for better battery life.

If all goes well with the 3G fix, I will move on to making GSM builds for those who don't use Verizon


Before installing make a backup!

File can be downloaded from here
And Google Apps can also be installed from here

MD5 Checksum for the build 807.zip: cefed814d0260c75ffcd0a24da4562c2

If coming from a previous build of Cyanogenmod, reboot into the clockwork recovery, go to mounts and storage, and format the system and format the cache. Then go back to where it says install zip from sdcard and choose the zip you just downloaded

If not coming from Cyanogenmod, you will have to do the above steps but you will have to delete your data also (yes, you will lose everything!)

After installing, you can flash the Google Apps from above to get the market and maps and navigation and whatnot

Keep me posted with the bugs on this thread and I will also post on the main DroidForums CM7 for the Pro thread when there's an update :P

Saturday, August 6, 2011

This new build includes a torch fix and the latest and greatest of the cyanogenmod source code. It also can detect when the screen is off now (useful with CPU clockspeed apps so you can underclock the CPU with the screen off) and better battery life if you'd like to buy me a beer, you can donate here ;)

Before installing make a backup!

File can be downloaded from here
And Google Apps can also be installed from here

MD5 Checksum for the build 806A: C29F057AAAC44CA5434BC4003518FE1E

If coming from a previous build of Cyanogenmod, reboot into the clockwork recovery, go to mounts and storage, and format the system and format the cache. Then go back to where it says install zip from sdcard and choose the zip you just downloaded

If not coming from Cyanogenmod, you will have to do the above steps but you will have to delete your data also (yes, you will lose everything!)

After installing, you can flash the Google Apps from above to get the market and maps and navigation and whatnot

Keep me posted with the bugs on this thread and I will also post on the main DroidForums CM7 for the Pro thread when there's an update :P