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Root Two Releases Two Days, Froyo Anyone? - Sapphire 0.6.0

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Froyo was open-sourced at approximately 23-June-2010-12:30 PM CST. All from source rom builders were hit with something new, somethign BIG! The previous vendor setup no longer worked, OH NO! In a race against the clock, knowing that the CM team would be working quickly to get CM building froyo, CVPCS got busy all by his lonesome making his own vendor setup. His goal... get a release out before anyone else finished their Froyo rom for the Droid.

Link to the main Sapphire site: start [CVPCS Sapphire Wiki]

To quote the 0.5.2 release title "Competition in the Open-Source World Drives Software Evolution"

Note: Themes will re-gain support in the next release

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Just barely got it loaded up 45 seconds ago... But here is what I have so far. (This is for the FroYo release.)


First thing I noticed on initial boot... A reboot option! (God how I miss the little things from Cyanogen.) But Sapphire goes one step further and offers a recovery option as well!

Step 2 was to jump into ROM manager and grab an overclock kernel. The jdlfg kernels work flawlessly!

Camera - Works beautifully

Camcorder - Does not. It will load up and you can record the video, but when you end the recording, it force closes and does not save the video.

I am in the process of doing an app restore right now, so I will post back more later. (and after my battery has recharged... its at 10% right now.)
 
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Just barely got it loaded up 45 seconds ago... But here is what I have so far. (This is for the FroYo release.)


First thing I noticed on initial boot... A reboot option! (God how I miss the little things from Cyanogen.) But Sapphire goes one step further and offers a recovery option as well!

Step 2 was to jump into ROM manager and grab an overclock kernel. The jdlfg kernels work flawlessly!

Camera - Works beautifully

Camcorder - Does not. It will load up and you can record the video, but when you end the recording, it force closes and does not save the video.

I am in the process of doing an app restore right now, so I will post back more later. (and after my battery has recharged... its at 10% right now.)

Camcorder issue sounds like the one that was on the CM 5.0.7 test builds...there was a simple fix to edit a file and make a small change - can't remember, build.prop, or? This could be a similar issue, I guess...
 
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Camcorder issue sounds like the one that was on the CM 5.0.7 test builds...there was a simple fix to edit a file and make a small change - can't remember, build.prop, or? This could be a similar issue, I guess...


It more than likely is the build.prop. I know a BUNCH of ROMs that have been released over the past 6 months with the same problems initially.
 
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