The rumors of the Gingerbread told that android 2.3 would have a minimum requirement of 1GHz, which broke many Droid 1. But it’s confirmed that android 2.3 isn’t married to 1GHz only sort of beliefs and in fact, we’ve already discovered the custom ROMs for the original Droid running Gingerbread, ported from the AOSP release. We spotted 2 ROMs, one without Google Apps (ROM 1) and the other with Google Apps (ROM 2), but based on the first one only.
There is a way to install Gingerbread on the Motorola Droid right now, but be careful I remind you that unofficial ROMs might cause serious problems to your smartphone.
ROM 1: Developed by neubanks89 without Google Apps, seems that browser keeps force closing and Camera doesn’t work.
Steps:
- Make a backup first
- Download the file gingerbread_sholes.zip
- Boot your phone into recovery
- Do a factory reset by wiping the data
- Install from the zip file you downloaded
- Reboot
ROM 2: Developed by steinman, nandroid with Google Apps, It’s moree refined form of ROM 1. Camera works and browser works good on Wi-Fi, but crashes on 3G. Accelerometer doesn’t work and you can’t mount the SD Card.
Steps:
- Download the file Gingerbread-4-OG-Droid.zip
- Extract the file and move the folder to /clockwork/backup
- Now, boot into recovery to make current ROM’s backup
- Do a factory reset by wiping out data
- Now, to install the new ROM, restore the ROM you put in the backup folder in Step 2. Go to “backup and restore” in recovery and then select Restore
- Choose the folder (from Step 2) in the backup
