I had a crazy idea for getting all of the Android devices up to date. As you all know, most devices in the wild are on older versions of Android than is currently available. With most being on some version of 2.3. The only options for updating are either waiting for your carrier to push out an OTA (Which will never happen for a majority of existing devices) or trying to flash with someones vision of what Android should look like. Personally, and maybe I'm alone here, but I would like to be able to get my device (DroidX) to Android 4.0 in its basest form. I understand that it will probably be slow, but its my choice to make right?
So how do we get there? My thought is to create a GUI, probably a web based app, that will build a ROM for you based on a selection from two criteria, OS version and phone model. The OS Version would select the basic install of that version of Android while the selection of the device will select the necessary drivers to make that OS run on your device. Then you hit a butting which injects the drivers into the code and compiles it as a zip so you yourself can flash it. Of course there would have to be the caveat that your doing this at your own risk and that Google and whomever writes this is not liable in anyway, if you brick your device. Obviously, I have an idea and not the tools to figure how to make it happen. So maybe what I think would be not a difficult proposition is actually unachievable. Maybe someone has already thought about this and discovered its impossibility. But I figured I'd throw it out there in case someone else would like to see this happen and might be able to help us all get there. Thanks for reading! Chad -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
