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Even if you have no coding experience at all, you can help. Testing is the easiest way to help. There are millions of lines of code and ways to set up these phones. Testing is the most important part of the development process. Without testers bugs will roam free. There are two separate major test categories, kernels and roms. Then minor testing such as mods/themes/etc. Kernels are the brains of the phone. Roms is the body. Both need to be tested and both need to be improved. When you test please do more than just quadrant. Make specific repeatable comments that will help some one fix the issue. Thanks and happy testing
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Ill do some testing.
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Even if you have no coding experience at all, you can help. Testing is the easiest way to help. There are millions of lines of code and ways to set up these phones. Testing is the most important part of the development process. Without testers bugs will roam free. There are two separate major test categories, kernels and roms. Then minor testing such as mods/themes/etc. Kernels are the brains of the phone. Roms is the body. Both need to be tested and both need to be improved. When you test please do more than just quadrant. Make specific repeatable commits that will help some one fix the issue. Thanks and happy testing
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Im in for some testing
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I don't have the time, got a few $$$ to help someone buy a phone. can sens to your paypal Joker?
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I have a photon already
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I don't have the time, got a few $$$ to help someone buy a phone. can sens to your paypal Joker?
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I think he is refering to sending you money to buy a phone strictly for testing.... so you dont brick yours
Oh well i dont mind. Its almost impossible to brick this phone. As long as you dont play with bad bootloaders(*cough yay4juggs *cough).
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I think he is refering to sending you money to buy a phone strictly for testing.... so you dont brick yours
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I do have a project i want tested. On the razr forum there is a project call debtop. Can someone flash my newest hardvfp kernel and test debtop on the photon. I believe i got the kernel to support it.
Edit gentop not debtop
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Ok - I'd love to help, but I'm not sure what your kernel is or the gentop is? I've rooted my phone, messed with a few simple things here and there, but other than that - I'm still learning. I did install a custom ROM on my old Hero, but I haven't messed with the Photon.
I do have time though - I work a lot of night shifts and if shown how to do something, I learn it quickly! If I can be any help, message me and I'll do what I can to help out!
I gotcha bubb. I'm in a 4G area if you you are still working on the bootloader
Hell I will even let you remote control my computer. Just don't go into the folder that says mmmm lol
No need. I actually know how to install a 64 bit operating system. Lol. Im slowly working on it. Its not a bootloader problem. Motorolas official engineering phones with real unlocked factory bootloaders dont have 4g. So obviously we gotta look elsewhere. Its possibly recovery related or some form of security check. Once we find exactly what it we can fix it. The best way is to dd everything. Like dd / lol. Once with stock, then after unlock only then recovey change. Once all three is pulled. Someone needs to run a diff, or physically cross check everything, eek. Once the culprit is found we will squash it. so obviously you can see this will be time consuming. Way more time then I ever get. I would have to take a vacation just to get that kind of time. I can do the squashing after the fact but atm im stuck trying to blindly fix it
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I gotcha bubb. I'm in a 4G area if you you are still working on the bootloader
Hell I will even let you remote control my computer. Just don't go into the folder that says mmmm lol
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Nope wont open that folder
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I gotcha bubb. I'm in a 4G area if you you are still working on the bootloader
Hell I will even let you remote control my computer. Just don't go into the folder that says mmmm lol
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Okay this is to everyone wanting to help. Find me cool patches. Remember your looking for arm no neon stuff the kernel is 2.6.32.9(kinda). I might update to .50 if I can ever find those patches. Most stuff I can manually patch and do, but 2.6.32.* patches are huge and I need .patch's to do that. If you find kernels from other phones with cool stuff please make sure they actually post source. A bfs 400+ patch for 2.6.32.9 would be awesome, so would proper autogroups. Post findings here.
Thanks and happy hunting
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I'm not a programmer but I would like to help if I can. Picked up my MoPho 3 weeks ago, rooted it, and did a couple buildprop tweaks but nothing else. Haven't unlocked it yet, either. I would like to flash a different rom and/or kernel but want to do more reading first. I also need to get the right sbf and such, too. Currently system version 45.3.6.MB855.sprint.en.us; Android 2.3.4; Baseband N_01.28.07R; Webtop WT-1.2.0-160; Kernel [email protected] #2; Build 4.5.1A-1SUN-198.6
I'm a MoPho-er
This is good!
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I'd be happy to test, but I don't want to unlock the bootloader until it doesn't break 4g
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Joker this is just a thought but have you looked at the LTE drivers at all maybe something could be made from that or in any way be helpful
Lte drivers are there. Edit the build.prop
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Joker this is just a thought but have you looked at the LTE drivers at all maybe something could be made from that or in any way be helpful
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Not sure if I can say much on here but try to move the signal to Verizon.
I saw on the zumocast advert on the motorola website the photon was sporting the LTE icon. Maybe a minor error with one of the artists or maybe a hint...
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/07/2...-unlock-bootloaders-starts-with-the-photon-q/
Too good to be true...
SWEET- ...oh.. yeah.. wait.. I knew we've heard that before..
ill believe it when(better yet IF) I see it..
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SWEET- ...oh.. yeah.. wait.. I knew we've heard that before..
ill believe it when(better yet IF) I see it..
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I thought the same thing, remember when they said that about the Photon 4g a couple of months before it came out??? i sure do and we are almost a year into the life of our phones and still nothing. Even if this does turn out to be correct, they never said that this would work for older phone so we might be SOL anyway...
Hope this would work for photons they have to be similar in some sort of way.Al i want is ice cream sandwich, or jelly bean, with 4g intact and so i can use cyanogen
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so what that mean?
does they will offer any better fixes than XDA developers did?
i think if they just released ICS ROM for photon will do the job to have the missed drivers
I suspect that the recent update to the photon was in preparation of this. bringing all the phones to the same bootloader would make the unlock process much simpler. Yes this is optimistic.
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I suspect that the recent update to the photon was in preparation of this. bringing all the phones to the same bootloader would make the unlock process much simpler. Yes this is optimistic.
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I like your optimistic tone. Hopefully you are right. One can dream.
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The first device to receive such glory is the Photon Q
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I hope this is available as soon as possible
I don't think this is true too good to believe it
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They couldn't even release ice in q3 like they said so no I don't think our phones bootloader will be unlocked by Motorola any time soon
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They couldn't even release ice in q3 like they said so no I don't think our phones bootloader will be unlocked by Motorola any time soon
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I agree
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But why do you think, we will ever see officially unlocked bootloader for our phone?
Photon Q will be the first, and upcoming new phones will have it. They promised only this and nothing more.
Alright, I'm tired of this bootloader crap! I need anyone and everyone interested in helping me get this MoPho'in bootloader unlocked on 2.3.5!
We have WAY to many people stuck on GB (after Moto said we'd have ICS ) on this beast of a phone!
Before anyone asks, YES i have the skills to do this, just not enough to do it quickly.
With that said I do bring some skills to the table.
I can program in the Android language and port just about anything anyone can come up with.
I know my tech (to put it short)
Please anyone with the same feeling as me, come help me out in ANY way possible. Even if it's just testing. I would greatly appreciate it!
Please people!
I am not a dev. But I would be glad to help. As a suggestion, Perhaps we could start by finding a solution for unlocking mophos that were factory shipped with 2.35 such as is done with the electrify. It could provide a lot of insight.
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Awesome. I need time to check out the electrify system. I'll post my findings soon
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im not a dev either but if there's anything you need that i can help out with let me know.
Hmm well I learned that sprint was a big reason the BL got locked. The Electrify sbf (Yes i flashed it) is unlockable easily however my radios dont work so i cant have that. I did find some cool things inside the System partition. I rooted it up and got a file browser (ES). The blocks where the BL is has a special file called infooemenc.encf assuming this has to do with our "fastboot oem unlock" command problem. That file however was a fluke. My phone soft reset itself (doesnt like the Electrify rom) and POOF gone... Very suspicious. i had to relock to go back to photon state though
Add me to the crew. I'm happy to help as a dev, or otherwise if we need something else.
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Add me to the crew. I'm happy to help as a dev, or otherwise if we need something else.
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Sweet! The crew is growing! We may be able to get this done!
Could anyone try and help me find the 2.3.5 254_13 sunfire (Sprint) Sbf file i wanna compare the soak to the Electrify unlockable
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Perhaps we could start by finding a solution for unlocking mophos that were factory shipped with 2.35 such as is done with the electrify. It could provide a lot of insight.
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What's funny is that point exactly. We can unlock factory shipped electrifys and ones with the right sbf
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Hmm well I learned that sprint was a big reason the BL got locked. The Electrify sbf (Yes i flashed it) is unlockable easily however my radios dont work so i cant have that. I did find some cool things inside the System partition. I rooted it up and got a file browser (ES). The blocks where the BL is has a special file called infooemenc.encf assuming this has to do with our "fastboot oem unlock" command problem. That file however was a fluke. My phone soft reset itself (doesnt like the Electrify rom) and POOF gone... Very suspicious. i had to relock to go back to photon state though
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wait what?
you do realize the same phone shipped months earlier on a different carrier and was locked? (and then was released later too).
moto's first device to offer unlocking services was a sprint device. rather than jumping on teh locked samsung bandwagon they are still one of teh few companies that have most of their devices unlockable. as well as their tech support doesnt care if you are rooted as if its a software issue they are going to flash stock.
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wait what?
you do realize the same phone shipped months earlier on a different carrier and was locked? (and then was released later too).
moto's first device to offer unlocking services was a sprint device. rather than jumping on teh locked samsung bandwagon they are still one of teh few companies that have most of their devices unlockable. as well as their tech support doesnt care if you are rooted as if its a software issue they are going to flash stock.
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Yes I know but there was a slight difference in the 2.3.5 factory Electrify that somehow caused an exploit (when i said it was easy i meant it was for me)
But still on the current matter we want this BL unlocked and there HAS to be a way! That's why people are joining up. They wanna be out of the hole Moto decided to throw us into. (After lying about ICS)
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Could anyone try and help me find the 2.3.5 254_13 sunfire (Sprint) Sbf file i wanna compare the soak to the Electrify unlockable
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Looking, but also found this along the away:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/photon4g.motorola/files/PHOTON-4G/4.5.1A-1_SUN-254_13/
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Looking, but also fund this along the away:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/photon4g.motorola/files/PHOTON-4G/4.5.1A-1_SUN-254_13/
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This is the Sprint version?! :victory::fingers-crossed:
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wait what?
you do realize the same phone shipped months earlier on a different carrier and was locked? (and then was released later too).
moto's first device to offer unlocking services was a sprint device. rather than jumping on teh locked samsung bandwagon they are still one of teh few companies that have most of their devices unlockable. as well as their tech support doesnt care if you are rooted as if its a software issue they are going to flash stock.
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Oh and also i just dont like how Moto and Sprint are just so mean to us :crying:
No, just files they had to supply as open source.
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No, just files they had to supply as open source.
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Dang I wanna get the full sbf lemme see what files they got here...
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I spy with my little eye a kernel file hehehe wonder what we might do with that??
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Is this the rom you are looking for?
Is this the rom you are looking for?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30332325
To devs:
Instead of trying to find a way to crack the boot loader why can we make a boot able sdcard that works around the bootloader? Like for the nooks the bootloader is still locked but we can run custom ROMs off the sdcard without any problems.. Just a thought..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2063968
Subscribed, glad to see some new action around here.
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Before i get slammed for the title
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072644
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Before i get slammed for the title
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072644
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Even though I am not developer but I want to do something for Photon Community....
So please consider me part of crew....
for boot loader locking ..CG42.smg file is responsible which is packed in SBF file....
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Even though I am not developer but I want to do something for Photon Community....
So please consider me part of crew....
for boot loader locking ..CG42.smg file is responsible which is packed in SBF file....
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Cg42.smg. got it
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Even though I am not developer but I want to do something for Photon Community....
So please consider me part of crew....
for boot loader locking ..CG42.smg file is responsible which is packed in SBF file....
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Do I have to find it in the sbf file or is it in the system somewhere?
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Do I have to find it in the sbf file or is it in the system somewhere?
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This file is packed in sbf file.....
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i wanna help too.. though i dont have much knowledge but still want to learn by contributing.
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i wanna help too.. though i dont have much knowledge but still want to learn by contributing.
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Read this thread, so you have a solid background in the challenges: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262266
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Read this thread, so you have a solid background in the challenges: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262266
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Sure,.. Thanks
This is a very lofty goal. Moto f*cked this thing so much that we would need a miracle to unlock 2.3.5. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, and with no development experience myself I have no room to talk. I just know that others have tried and have been fruitless, or frauds... I do hope you can crack this **** open, however. This is a devoted community and the ones still with a photon know how great a device we have. I plan on using this phone until it won't boot anymore and I hope that we can bring it to its full potential.
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This is a very lofty goal. Moto f*cked this thing so much that we would need a miracle to unlock 2.3.5. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, and with no development experience myself I have no room to talk. I just know that others have tried and have been fruitless, or frauds... I do hope you can crack this **** open, however. This is a devoted community and the ones still with a photon know how great a device we have. I plan on using this phone until it won't boot anymore and I hope that we can bring it to its full potential.
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Sweet. Appreciate it
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Saw this in the other thread
if you guys need any help ive got a stock photon sitting here for about a year now,its on 2.3.5 and ill run anything on it because otherwise its just going to set in a junk drawer forever.
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Saw this in the other thread
if you guys need any help ive got a stock photon sitting here for about a year now,its on 2.3.5 and ill run anything on it because otherwise its just going to set in a junk drawer forever.
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i 2nd this. mine is sitting here stuck on the electrify 2.3.5 sbf after my friend borked it
Check the other thread I linked in the op
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Okay ladies and gentleman I know were all looking for a method to unlock bootloader for 2.3.5 on our photons, don't give up. I'm using my photon on family mobile by doing the methods described in a previous thread. I used RSD lite to flash a us cellular sbf file. I followed all instructions and now I'm using my locked photon on 2.3.5. I flashed kddi file and have my GSM radio unlocked with peetr's rom. Its all working smoothly so I say to all my fellow locked photon users ... you can still use your phone on any GSM network. I know we want to flash a ICS or JB rom but for the time being the method works. Don't give up cause it will be a pity if xda lets this awesome phone go.
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Okay ladies and gentleman I know were all looking for a method to unlock bootloader for 2.3.5 on our photons, don't give up. I'm using my photon on family mobile by doing the methods described in a previous thread. I used RSD lite to flash a us cellular sbf file. I followed all instructions and now I'm using my locked photon on 2.3.5. I flashed kddi file and have my GSM radio unlocked with peetr's rom. Its all working smoothly so I say to all my fellow locked photon users ... you can still use your phone on any GSM network. I know we want to flash a ICS or JB rom but for the time being the method works. Don't give up cause it will be a pity if xda lets this awesome phone go.
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Has anyone also looked into a locked ics rom using the gb kernel or writing our own kernels?
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Just stumbled on this. Thread closed. Until development has begun you can stick with the thread in General for your discussions, placeholder threads aren't allowed.
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I've just switched to an iPhone 5 today, so my old Droid X2 is available for anyone who wants it.
I want a droid x2. Or do you just want to donate it to a dev? I'm not a dev, but I do try roms and test them out.
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Wilsono1050 said:
I want a droid x2. Or do you just want to donate it to a dev? I'm not a dev, but I do try roms and test them out.
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dude you have a bionic. let someone who either NEEDS THIS PHONE or a DEVELOPER have it. greedy bastard.
Greedy bastard, really? I broke my droid x, I was using my friends bionic to post this on here. I am in need of a phone right now!
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He isn't giving the phone to someone who just needs the phone, he is looking for a Dev.
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He said SOMEONE WHO REALLY NEEDS THE PHONE. Like I said i am in need of a phone right now. But I guess its alright.......I'm willing to pay too.
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Greedy bastard, really? I broke my droid x, I was using my friends bionic to post this on here. I am in need of a phone right now!
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sorry if i effected your day in a negative way sir. i didnt mean no harm. i guess it did sound pretty rude now that i read back on it.
Lorenzo VonMatterhorn said:
sorry if i effected your day in a negative way sir. i didnt mean no harm. i guess it did sound pretty rude now that i read back on it.
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Its fine its just that I need a phone. He may already have donated it to a dev. But its cool though.
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Its fine its just that I need a phone. He may already have donated it to a dev. But its cool though.
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If it is still available, nitroglycerine33 needs one. Maybe he will update Eclipse if he has one.
if it's still available?
I'm a Computer Engineer who has mainly done desktop and server development and did some mobile development on Windows CE / PocketPC back in 2000, I've had PDAs and cell phones for years but bought my first 'smartphone' around 2006 that ran Windows Mobile 5. In January 2012, I got my first Android phone which was an X2. I choose an Android device over a Windows or Apple device because it was the cheapest way to get into mobile development (free development tools, no annual fees, etc.). Since I had to stop working in 2008 due to bulging disk, I've been wanting to start developing on the mobile platform some of the ideas that have come to my mind. So, I say all that to let you know that although I am not currently an experienced developer on the mobile platform, it's been my intention to since I stopped working. And although I already have an X2, I'd rather not use my 'everyday' phone as my development phone. So, if the offer still is valid, I'd be grateful for taking advantage of your gracious offer.
Mine's still working stronger than ever, but it would be nice/faster to have a device that I could test my CM10.1 ROM on without losing all my data on my phone.
If someone like DZK, or the dev of Eclipse doesn't take it, and you're willing to, I can put it to use for my 4.2.2 ROM instead of having to wipe mine all the time.