The Cyanogen Team recently dropped a bomb on OG DROID owners by stating they would no longer support the device going forward. Since then, XDA member kfazz has been hard at work implementing Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 for the OG DROID, and while he isn’t finished yet he’s certainly ahead of the competition. I took his ROM for a spin and was pleasantly surprised by it’s performance on this now two year old device. It just goes to show that Android 4.0 is chock full of performance enhancements, and it also serves as reason to believe any Android phone could potentially be updated, either officially or through Android’s many popular “unofficial channels”. See it for yourself just past the break.





So, have an OG DROID lying in your sock drawer? Here’s how you can bring it back to the future.

The process is pretty straight-forward, simply flash the following files in ClockworkMod Recovery and within minutes you should be up and running.

ROM as flashable zip: Latest build: 12/28/2011

This should fix gallery, sound, market, airplane mode, and .. not resets losing radio.

Still no audio in calls, no camera, no gps (libgps is working, as tested by some system profiler on market, seems to be a permissions issue for browser?)

I’ve got overlay code that camera needs working, but I need to port the driver to new camera apis that ics uses. This will take a while, no eta on it.

Still only English until I can free up some space in system. Translations and alternative input methods take up a lot of space.

Google Apps as flashable zip: latest gapps

This fixes some google services logging in, signal bars go blue now. Still needs some work.

Don’t forget, you can buy kfazz a beer here.

[via XDA]



