Chris Soyars Gingerbread AOSP Home

I’m not going to go into this in too much detail, you can read a lot more from all the feedback in the Gingerbread AOSP thread on XDA, but below you will find a few screen shots of Chris Soyars’ AOSP Gingerbread port for the Google Nexus One.  We wrote an article last night explaining how you could manually install the Gingerbread ROM, but quite a few things have changed that make it much easier for anyone to install it this morning.  Previously, you had to have HBOOT 35.0017 but more people have been working on the ROM and now it’s much easier to install on any version of HBOOT, it does not overwrite your recovery image and has GAPPS already included.

As the title says, this is an AOSP build and has many features missing, but it runs, connects, and lets you play around with Gingerbread while we wait for a real ROM to be released.

If you want to play with this ROM, I give a word or warning:

There are many issues flashing the ROM that can remove your recovery image, give boot loops and much more, so read the entire XDA thread and get one of the later updated downloads making it easier for you to flash.  They also recommend that you install over another ROM.

** YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED **

It’s running pretty well on my Google Nexus One; I’m browsing the net and much more.  It has the very cool power down animation that looks like an old TV turning off , but you really have to see it to appreciate it.  Overall, I’m not really overwhelmed with what I’ve seen.  There was a lot of hype about how the interface was going to be changed and how it would be such a big step in the Android evolution, but I don’t feel it.  There are a lot of changes underneath that you can’t see that I’m sure make this more significant, but the front end is still plain old Jane Android with a few colors thrown in (not that that’s a bad thing).

Here are a few screen shots for you to browse through: