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Root [ROM] UD 3.0.0. beta released (GB)

Blackdroid has released UD 3.0.0. beta for Droid 1. You can get it from the download section of his forum (The Ultimate Droid - Forums -> Download Manager -> Motorola Droid -> The Ultimate Droid 3.0.0 Beta) or from the ftp-site mentioned here: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/ultimatedroid/113380-ultimate-droid-3-0-0-beta-7-phones.html.

Screenshots can be found here: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/ul...te-droid-3-0-0-beta-7-phones.html#post1163426

change log (for ROM released on 1/10 at 5:34pm):
File Name: The Ultimate Droid 3.0.0 Beta
File Submitter: Guest
File Submitted: 06 Jan 2011
File Updated: 10 Jan 2011
File Category: Motorola Droid

The Ultimate Droid 3.0.0 Beta - Changes Since Alpha (Stock gingerbread themed, UD Theme being remade to work with new theming system)
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- GRH78 Build
- New Market included (blackdroid)
- UD Settings/Extras (blackdroid)
- Long press search button to access UD Settings (blackdroid)
- Gingerbread Google Apps from the Nexus S Included (blackdroid)
- Gingerbread TV out animation (works for on as well, blackdroid)
- Settings to turn TV out animations off (defer)
- AppWidgetPicker (boombuler)
- Ability to hide adb notification (cyanogen)
- Galaxy S Style Power Widget (Pedlar)
- Cytown Phone (cytown)
- Wysie Contacts (sileht/wysie)
- Overhauled music player gingerbread port (blackdroid)
- Long Press back to kill app (Evan Charlton)
- Adjustable performance settings (cyanogenmod)

Things that still need to be fixed:
- Lights
- Camcorder

Things that are still being worked on before release:
- New kernel
- Things that need to be fixed
- New better looking user interface for theme chooser
- Rework shutdown thread from ud to include more options like hot reboot and add in reasoning for rebooting into bootstrapped recoveries
- Remaking UD Theme and Lockscreen to function as instantly interchangeable theme with the new theming system
- Overhauling the UD Settings user interface and adding more features
- New over the air update and theme downloading system
- Forum and News app
- Making more system space available and further optimizing the rom
- and making sure all of the new settings are updated to work in all different languages
Additional known bugs:
* This ROM still has the known 'drop 3G after making / receiving phone calls' issue. Work-around to get 3G back is to enable airplane mode and disabling it again. That should restore 3G.
 
Have you guys noticed the capacitive buttons light up now? Just the KB backlight don't...not yet anyway

EDIT: The Capacitive buttons only work during the initial set up process after the data wipe....Don't light up once you get into the phone and start browsing....

This ROM is the best YET!!!! I mean it's much smoother than the rest i've tried.....

Using in conjunction with Sapphire 125mhz-1100mhz w/ADW Launcher Ex 1.1.....
 
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Just flashed and played around with it for a bit. Some observations:

Install went smooth, however, no market app was restored. Had to use TiBu to get them back but none of my apps is listed in my Downloads in market, so updates probably wont give me any notification. After calls, data connection is broken, had to enable airplane mode and then disable that to get it back. Installing some of the built in apps appeared to get stuck. Didnt install gvoice yet so dont know it that works or not.

Overall, appears to be a decent beta with some of the known GB issues still unresolved. Looks like it is about the same status as the CM7r0 ROM jeffv is working on.
 
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Having the same brightness issue here, and haven't noticed the data cutting out as I haven't made phone calls in the last couple hours. Aside from those issues, everything is working great. It looks awesome and runs nice and fast with the stock kernel. All of my apps updated from the market right away. Can't wait for the last couple issues to get ironed out.
 
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I think its easy to be negative so let me post something positive as I like this rom....I love the power on off animation just like the old crt based tvs...its awesome...I turn my screen on and off just to see it.

Ditto!

And on another related note ... This ROM is really fast! And the new 'select text' feature of Gingerbread is rocking my world! I LOVE IT!!!!!!! Works really well with Swype. :cool:
 
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This version of UD was so worth the wait. It's crazy fast and extremely smooth. Two favorite things so far are the on/off animation and the new select text feature. That's so freakin handy I can't believe we've been missing it all this time.

Only issues I've had are the keyboard and cap buttons not lighting up, which is a known issue. When the market was restoring all my apps a couple failed with a "Not enough storage" error. I just tried them a second time and they went through. I haven't experienced the no data after voice calls issue and I made several calls during the day yesterday. Also, not a single force close on anything yet.
 
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Did it, lovin it.
All apps restored. Google Voice seems to be working fine, put in a call to myself, didn't have to go to airplane mode and back to get wireless working again. In shitty area to be trying 3G so that will have to wait to see if that needs restored.

I'm very SAD that the DROID and DROID X ringtones aren't there =( anyone know where I can snag them?
 
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