Even though I've been using a Droid 3 since July, I still use OG Droid that I ordered on day one more than two years ago as a streaming media player. Since early this year, the old Droid has been running on various Gingerbread builds from either +Peter Alfonso or Cyanogenmod. After the success I had loading an early Ice Cream Sandwich ROM onto my son's Samsung Fascinate last week, I decided to try it on the OG Droid.
I found an early build based on Android 4.0.3 on the XDA-Developers forum and installed it last night. It's far from complete but it is remarkably functional for what I currently use the device for. The phone apparently works although I wouldn't know for sure since the OG isn't activated at the moment. The WiFi works and apps like stitcher, pandora, google music and reader are all functional. GPS doesn't work right now so no maps. Skype does work for voice calls so the phone could be used over WiFi.
I'll keep playing with it and flashing updated builds, but so far I really like what I see of ICS. Unlike crazed Apple design nerds like John Gruber, I actually really like the way the new Roboto screen font looks on the phone. I also like the new browser, the GMail app and the new UI as a whole. I can't wait until an ICS ROM is available for the Droid 3.
For now though a vanilla ICS build works remarkably smoothly even on this old phone with just 256 MB of ram and rom proving again that Samsung's excuses for not updating the Galaxy S phones is cop out.
Update: You can find the rom files in this forum, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393632 Go through the thread for updated versions.
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Having a OG Droid and a Nook Color I may soon have 2 ICS devices in the household… take that Samsung!
I just sold mY OG Droid. That's impressive that you got that on there. Pretty awesome to see one still kicking it!
+Jason Bautista wait, is there an ICS ROM for the Nook Color already? I'm inclined to think it'll run like crap, but I guess I won't know until I try it out.
+Sam Abuelsamid, I didn't expect you to be quite such an Android nut, heh. You have earned my respect in a matter other than cars.
I wish I had money and hadn't sold my droid 1. Fun to use it as a dev device etc.
The ROM is a work in progress. I'm compiling from the github of one of the CM9 developers. He's opened up his source for those of us willing to compile and run ourselves. I just resynced the repo this morning and will be running a build soon.
That is awesome. I am using the evo 4g.. kinda waiting on camera progress.
+Melina M I'm a general purpose nerd, computers, phones, cars, photography, you name it. As a recovering engineer I prefer using Android over iOS since it gives me more opportunity to experiment and tweak. For my content creation work, I prefer to use a Macbook Pro, but I also use windows.
You sound like a fun person to hang out with. 🙂
I got my of Droid on day one as well. Upgraded to the Droid 3 this past July, and just last week I upgraded to the Galaxy Nexus. However, I did find a ICS ROM for the D3 just before I got the GNex. It's out there somewhere, but I forget where.
+Kevin Jones I found one D3 rom but it was built from the SDK and I didn't want to mess with that. I'll wait for an aosp build. I did root my d3 as soon as a method became available so I could freeze the bloatware