Once we got news that the Motorola Droid X had received its very own custom recovery image, we were patiently awaiting custom Android (well, Android 2.2 Froyo, in particular) ROMs to surface. Today, Verizon’s power-packed flagship Android smartphone has been given some custom ROM love in a video demonstration that proves it’s at least possible to boot a repackaged kernel.The video is just of the boot sequence (and the person’s rather bad taste in music) so don’t expect to really see any realy Android action.
We’re glad to see a ROM surface for the Droid X, but the video just does not do it any justice. The boot sequence is different from the stock boot sequence, but the video doesn’t show the modified Motorola Droid X actually running Android. What you do see, however is that the phone gives the option to launch two home replacements. One is ADW Launcher, which is the default launcher in the new Cyanogen Mod 6 builds, and the other is just named Launcher, which is the stock launcher similar to that of the Nexus One. I wish Google would make the default launcher available in the Android Market, as it’s clean, easy to use, and only those users who are really looking for it would install it. This would allow users who no longer want a custom skin on their device to get rid of it effortlessly.
While we wish we could have seen the ROM in action, the point is that the ROM boots up, and works. How well it works, according to the video, is not known, but a stock OS is a stock OS, and we’ve likely seen it all before. Still, we’d have liked to see this particular Motorola Android phone fully functioning for ourselves, and users thinking about flashing this ROM may want to see it in action before they jump into a potentially buggy ROM that we know little about. Either way, we’re still very excited for the Droid X to get its first AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM.
So now that this ROM is out, we can expect to see some more coming down the pipes in the near future. Those of you who want HTC’s Sense UI on the Droid X may not have much longer to wait, but we’re not promising anything.
Check out the video below!
[Via: UnwiredView]