Quarx released a new build for Defy and Defy+ yesterday. I am now running on his Defy+ build because camera in it works with regular Motorola Defy’s with a red camera lens.
Now that everyone has a partially working camera, all Defy/Defy+ users should be quite happy.
If you’ve got a Red lens Defy, and want to run Ice Cream Sandwich and have a working camera, follow the steps below.
First, you’ll need some files.
My post about making Cyanogenmod look like Ice Cream Sandwich has been pretty popular. There are a lot of folks out there wanting to make their Cyanogenmod 7 phone look like it’s running Ice Cream Sandwich, and for good reason. The Ice Cream Sandwich style is very nice to look at.
Sonny Sekhon, the author of the original Ice Cream Sandwich theme for Cyanogenmod’s theme chooser, has released a number of other Ice Cream Sandwich based themes, in colors other than blue!
Sonny has added Ice Cream Sandwich themes in the following colors: green, red, purple, gingerbread color, orange, dark blue, cyan and pink.
All of those are free and can be installed right from the Android Market. Sonny has a donate version available as well, if you like his work and would like to support him, buying that theme would probably make him a very happy dude.
If you’re looking for Ice Cream Sandwich themes for ADW or other launchers, you’ll definitely want to have a look at this post. That post contains a lot more than just Ice Cream Sandwich Cyanogenmod themes.
You can have a quick look at each of the new Ice Cream Sandwich theme colors in the gallery below (after the break). If I missed a theme from another developer, leave a comment and I’ll add it to this post.
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Well lookie here! Epsylon3 has released the first Cyanogenmod 9 nightly build for the Motorola Defy. There’s still a pretty hefty list of things that are broken, but it’s way smaller than it was last week.
Download links for the Cyanognemod 9 (CM9) nightlies can be found at http://tanguy.forumdoandroid.com/. That site contains links to various downloads. If you want to run Cyanogenmod 9, you’ll want this link http://defy-cm.net/ics-test0/.
As expected, some things are still broken:
Don’t think I’m quite ready to try this out yet. I’ll give it a shot on my Defy once the orientation sensor is working properly. Might wait for the camera to be 100% functional too, I use my phone camera often for taking pictures and video of my daughter.
Here are some screenshots:
You can find a video after the break.
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A thread at the XDA Developers forum has been discussing progress on Cyanogenmod 9 (CM9) for the Motorola Defy. The first post includes a video of a Motorola Bravo running Cyanogenmod 9 with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). The Motorola Bravo is running Cyanogenmod 9 for the Defy, but it seems to work. You can see the video here at the end of this post.
In the most recent post in the thread, josuearisty provides a link to http://defy-cm.net/ics-test0/. There you’ll find two builds of Cyanogenmod 9 for the Motorola Defy.
UPDATE 11/29/2011: Epsylon3 has updated his original thread, his first post now links to http://defy-cm.net/ics-test0/ as well. There’s also a new nightly, 111129.
I’m not even going to install it, it probably has a lot of the issues the ROM from Epsylon3 has. It’s still encouraging to see nightly CM9 builds for the Defy popping up though.
I was a little worried about Cyanongemod 9 even being released for the Defy, but the Defy is one of the most popular devices for the Cyanogenmod team, according to the Cyanogenmod stats site anyway.
According to the Cyanogenmod stats site, there’s nearly 50,000 Defy’s running Cyanogenmod. The Motorola Defy is the umts_jordan device.
If you’ve got a Motorola Defy and are really, really anxious to run Ice Cream Sandwich, you now have two options. The AOSP ROM from Epsylon3, or a Cyanogenmod 9 nightly from http://defy-cm.net/ics-test0/.
I’ll be holding off on Ice Cream Sandwich for at least another month, probably more. I need to have a very stable phone, and can’t afford to run bleeding edge software on it.
If you’ve tried Ice Cream Sandwich in AOSP or Cyanongemod form, let me know, I’d love to hear what you think of it. You can see the video of Cyanogenmod 9 on the Defy after the break!
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Meant to post about this a bit sooner, lots of folks have written about it already, like Tony at OMG!Droid. Originally, this Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard was available as an apk from mediafire or some other file sharing site.
Now though, the Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard is available in the Android Market. Looks pretty nifty, but not nifty enough for me to ditch SwiftkeyX. On a somewhat related note, I’m disappointed SwiftkeyX hasn’t been updated with an Ice Cream Sandwich theme.
Some features, from the Android Market page:
This was built by AstronautMillionaire and is in a beta status, but seems to work fine for most folks. This is in no way an official, Google build of the Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard, but it’s the best choice most of us have now.
Not too many phones have Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs available yet. Defy has an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM, but it needs quite a bit of work before I’ll try it out.
If you’re looking to make your device look as close to Ice Cream Sandwich as possible, you’ll be interested in this post I made a few weeks ago, its titled Make Cyanogenmod 7.1 Look Like Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (Kinda).
A video of the Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard in action is available after the break, as well as some photos.
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