Root Urgent: RE: KITKAT ROM for Rugby Smart!!!!!!!!!

xander · Nov 15, 2014

Hi Everyone!!!

i heard lollipop is out and i doubt that their will b any for rugby smart anytime soon. but i really want the kit kat for rugby smart.

i heard through the forums that, kitkat is already built for rugby smart on the phone. i currently have cm 9 on my rugby smart and i am totally in need of the upgrade to kitkat. Can you please show me the link to do that please??? been looking everywhere including here and xda, but no luck.

i only found this link but i'm not sure if it will work with my phone, can you confirm if it will please. here's the link.

[ROM] [UNOFFICIAL] [4.4.4] AICP - 7.0 [20141… | Samsung Galaxy W I8150 | XDA Forums

i'm afraid to use their rom as i'm not sure if it will brick my rugby smart. So i'm coming to you for expert guidance on this. please show me the best link to obtain kit kat on my phone please?

also i heard that android release lollipop source code for general availability since november 3... can you tell me how soon rugby user can expect this rom?

thanks and I appreciate it!!

ogalief · Nov 15, 2014

Hey there, I'm really sorry to say this but don't get your hopes up. Though the Galaxy W and the Rugby are very similar, the roms are incompatible with each other. As far as I know, the drivers are different and it will mess up your phone. Right now the highest usable CM is CM9 (ice cream sandwich). This is because of some kernel thing. There is an upgrade to android 4.1 but it breaks the camera and accelerometer. These roms are over a year old and nobody bothered to make any more. Hopefully I can upgrade my phone to 5.0 but unless you or I make it ourselves, (I have no clue how to), you'll probably be stuck with 4.0. Also, cm9 on this phone is super buggy and glitchy but if you have patience, it's better than stock

xander · Nov 16, 2014

ogalief said:
Hey there, I'm really sorry to say this but don't get your hopes up. Though the Galaxy W and the Rugby are very similar, the roms are incompatible with each other. As far as I know, the drivers are different and it will mess up your phone. Right now the highest usable CM is CM9 (ice cream sandwich). This is because of some kernel thing. There is an upgrade to android 4.1 but it breaks the camera and accelerometer. These roms are over a year old and nobody bothered to make any more. Hopefully I can upgrade my phone to 5.0 but unless you or I make it ourselves, (I have no clue how to), you'll probably be stuck with 4.0. Also, cm9 on this phone is super buggy and glitchy but if you have patience, it's better than stock

Yh i totally agree with you on that you definitely need some real patience with cm9, hence y i want to upgrade to cm11. i thought this would be more possible for dev to do this since the size of kit kat os is sooo small and perfect for rugby. sigh.

ogalief · Nov 16, 2014

I know!!! And the rugby smart is such a wonderful phone. Amazing build quality! I had a rugby pro for 61 days before the LCD killed itself. Cheapest built phone I have ever used. The rugby smart deserves more than this. I'm getting to the point to where I'm gonna pay motorhead to find the bug in the new kernal that breaks the camera and to upgrade it to 4.4. I'm on cm9 right now and it sure does have a temper. Its like driving a 90's kia!

Motorhead1991 · Nov 16, 2014

Funny, my Rugby Pro is holding up great. I've dropped it multiple times with no issues.

I've considered revisiting the apache a couple times but I need to find time to squeeze it in

ogalief · Nov 16, 2014

I think the phone I bought was a dud. The only good parts on it right now are the cameras, battery and the motherboard. Everything else began to fall apart on its own. it was a great phone for the two months I had it. And thanks for making such a great cm9 build. It may be buggy from time to time but it sure does beat stock. Very soon I'm gonna be taking classes in unix and various programming languages and I would be glad to help in any way that I can, though it doesn't seem like an easy job at all. Hopefully someday the Apache will get cm11. Thanks so much to you and Kemonine for putting so much time into all of this

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