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We want to thank the CyanogenMod team and Jokersax for all the work they have done to get a fully functional CM9 Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich build ported to the Motorola Photon 4G. The CM9 build for the Motorola Photon 4G does have a few bugs but nothing that will effect its everyday use.  To Install ICS on the Photon follow the instructions below.

PLEASE WAIT FOR AN UPDATE TO THESE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE ATTEMPTING.  IT SEEMS THERE ARE SOME KEY ITEMS THAT ARE MISSING.

Prerequisites to install CM9 on the Photon 4G:

How to Install CM9 on the Photon 4G:

  1. Download CM9 and move the zip file to your SDcard (Download Link)
  2. Reboot your Photon 4G into Recovery from ROM Manager
  3. When in Recovery select Wipe Data/Factory Reset
  4. Wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache
  5. Navigate to install downloaded zip from SDcard
  6. Choose zip from SDcard and select the ROM
  7. Reboot your Photon 4G
  8. Congrats your Photon is on CM9 Ice Cream Sandwich!

If you have any issues installing CM9 on your Photon let us know here and we will try to help you out. As always we are not responsible for the use of these instructions and you flash your device at your own risk.

First of all we want to thank the CyanogenMod team and Jokersax for all the work they have done to get a fully functional CM9 build ported to the Motorola Atrix 4G. The CM9 build for the Motorola Atrix 4G does have a few bugs but for most they will not even be noticed and I’m sure that the current beta build will be released as a stable build very soon as it works great.

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Prerequisites to install CM9 on the Atrix 4G:

How to Install CM9 on the Atrix 4G:

  1. Download CM9 and move the zip file to your SDcard (Download Link)
  2. Reboot your Atrix 4G into Recovery from ROM Manager
  3. When in Recovery select Wipe Data/Factory Reset
  4. Wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache
  5. Navigate to install downloaded zip from SDcard
  6. Choose zip from SDcard and select the ROM
  7. Reboot your Atrix 4G
  8. Congrats your Atrix is on CM9 Ice Cream Sandwich!

After you have flashed your device to CM9 you will need to install Gapps to get all of the Google Apps required to access the Android Market etc (Download Gapps).  You will flash Gapps the same way you did CM9 from steps 5 and 6.

If you have any issues installing CM9 on your Atrix let us know here and we will try to help you out. As always we are not responsible for the use of these instructions and you flash your device at your own risk.

And after the ROM is Installed this is what it looks like:

While the Original Droid is a two year old device, there is an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM available for the device. CyanogenMod recently stated that they would no longer support the original Droid although XDA member kfazz wouldn’t hear of it and has Android 4.0.3 available for the device. The ROM still has some bugs to work out but as you can see courtesy of talkandroid in the video above it does run quite nice.

How to Install Android 4.0.3 on the Original Droid:

  1. You must have your device rooted and ClockworkMod Recovery on it.
  2. Flash the Ice Cream Sandwich ROM via ClockworkMod (Download Link)
  3. Install the latest Google Apps via gaps (Download Link)
  4. Congrats you have Android 4.0.3 ICS on the Original Droid!

Let us know how you like it and if you have any issues with the process. As always we will keep you updated to the progress of this project. Also we can see here that if this device can run the highly anticipated Android 4.0 then any device could potentially receive the new Android OS.

We have had many users of the Motorola Atrix ask us if it will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, we don’t know the answer but here is what we do know. The answer is not as cut and dry as we would like but it seems there is a possibility that the Motorola Atrix will get Ice Cream Sandwich. This of course probably would not be an official release due to the fact that Gingerbread has only been on it for a short time. Also Motorola from past experience only releases one OS upgrade per device.

This being said the Motorola Atrix with the Gingerbread update allows developers to do much more than with its previous Froyo version of Android. Now that the Bootloader is able to be modified rather easily we can expect CyanogenMOD or a dev over at XDA to develop a compatible kernel at least to allow for better chances of Android 4.0.

With Ice Cream Sandwich being released in the next month or so we would expect it to be ported over to the Atrix soon after due to the phones user base. We will keep everyone posted as we find any information on Ice Cream Sandwich for the Atrix.