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[WebOS Software and Hacking General] CubeTroll:
Samsung is so lagging with updates to their hardware. This is what scares me about them dropping the ball with webos.

I love webos and it is such a hot topic right now, it could really blow wide open if played out correctly- like simply supporting it and not mucking around with it. It just needs some big dollars behind it, get it noticed and get some solid hardware to run on- like the touchpad- ha-i actually like it a whole lot. That's it, just let it spread out from there. Don't try and tweak it, brand it, or otherwise piss all over it. Sorry bout the rant, but I agree with the above/ previous posts.
[WebOS Software and Hacking General] Tecnica001:
Better samsung then nobody at all I mean face it HP pulled the plug besides homebrew there is no more development for it unless they went ahead and release it open source which they won't so I welcome if samsung did take over as mentioned better then nothing i'd say sure would I prefer other companies no doubt but that's the current rumor. Haven't heard any other company willing to take it over.

Ideally if you can mash up webos frontal interface with the backend application support of android hell that would be a match made in heaven.
[WebOS Software and Hacking General] Sparkz914:
HP just acquired a European based software company to further WebOs
[WebOS Software and Hacking General] fast96:
Now that's an interesting thought. Make the Android for Touchpad "look" like webOS and use the android market apps. Whoot!!:D

Am I the only one who agrees?
[WebOS Software and Hacking General] CubeTroll:
Hp should license webos with specs to make sure it runs smooth like Palm or touchpad or whatever. If such a thing is possible. Believe it or not I don't know if I'd trust webos with anyone other than hp. Ha. In there lack of support for it, they've somehow managed to keep it in this sweet virgin like state.

Let someone else take on the burden of hardware production and os brand recognition and then produce some more tabs/ phones for the newly established fan base following.

Just sayin!
[WebOS Software and Hacking General] Sonnislav:
Endgadget just reported that Samsung has stated that they are not interested in webOS. Take it for what its worth...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xheroxkefx:
Is there any home launcher replacement that puts all the apps in the main screens instead of the app drawer? Like the MIUI roms! I hate app drawers..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince556:
QQ launcher?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maddada:
xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16699684

here you go, just please look harder next time. ;-)

Sent from my Beastly Galaxy S II
[Optimus One, P500, V General] OlinB:
I have the T-Mobile Optimus T. I am new to android so before I go to flashing a new baseband I wanted to get my feet wet with a froyo ROM. After a lot of reading I selected the OpenOptimus build 1.172.1 with the latest Franco BFS kernel. I'm not sure this is the best for me and will probably update to the gingerbread version later, but as I said, I want to play around a bit before fooling with baseband.

Well, after I flashed the ROM and during initial setup, I found that the only "english" locale available was "GB english". Couldn't find a USA locale. This is where my confusion starts. After setting up a few other items I found that I had no data network other than wifi. Following the instructions in the Openoptimus Rom Faq, (well sort of) I obtained an apn file from a different ROM (instructions said to get apn-list.xml but the file is actually named apns-conf.xml). Anyway I put the file in /system/etc and rebooted but there was no change. In fact, looking through the file I see no US T-Mobile info anyway. I'm not at all sure how this works. I "thought" putting the apns-conf file in place would automatically fill in my apn settings. But it didn't.

So my questions are:

Can I just enter the APN info from my original stock ROM (I nandroid restored it). Is this the best way to go or is there something else I should do?

Also, what drawbacks would there be to using the "GB English" locale, if any?

I saw a post somewhere that said using a different country can cause issues with streaming etc. But since I don't know how this all fits together, I wonder if providing the correct apn info will resolve that issue.

Thanks for your esteemed advice. :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] leaird.wedd:
GB English means "Great Britain", so other than some extra U's (eg, colour vs color) this shouldn't change anything.

Entering your own APN is fine, but if you wipe your data you will need to enter it again. The other option is rebuilding the rom with an updated /system/etc/apns-conf.xml which you can get from a cm7 rom or on google. It's possible that your APN just isn't in the apns-conf.xml file you downloaded though.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] OlinB:
Thank you. I just pulled the apns-conf.xml from my stock rom and it matches the one that ciaox had recommended. I guess the tech at T-Mobile must have entered it when I opened the account. I have no problem with the UK spelling. I just didn't want to have any issues with streaming music to my phone from US based sites. I figured they go by the actual apn but, what do I know? (not much on android. yet.)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] leaird.wedd:
No problem. For the record there is an option in the browser settings that lets you pick what 'User Agent' it defines itself as, eg Android/Linux/Windows desktop, IE6 and so on.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
This is a modified OpenRecovery (Skrilaz_CZ) based on Androidiani Recovery (89luca89&Azhad) with some enhanced features for Milestone XT720.

Features

:

Main OR menu streamlined

Most Androidiani menu options have been moved into OR > Other Utilities

Add ext3/4 support (thanks fjfalcon)

Added SD Card Utility (OR > SD Card Utility)

Added preference for display brightness in OR (OR > Settings > Brightness)

Added utility to reinstall orbootstrap (OR > "Other Utilities" > "Re-install orbootstrap")

New sh hijack binary will boot to fastboot bootloader if volume-down is held (OR > "Other Utilities" > "Re-install orbootstrap" to enable). This should be compatible with all ROMs and stock.

nandroid: removed ability to backup partitions that always fail (this means "Backup All" works now)

Fixed OR > "Wipe Dalvik Cache" bugs (previous OR/AOR don't clear them all)

Added OR > "Power Off" (helpful when phone is being stupid about charging)

Minor update to sdcard-info.txt output

XT720 basebands added (OR > Change Basebands)

Please note that although most Androidiani menu options have been included in the Other Utilities menu item, that does *not* mean I have tested them on XT720.

Installation

:

Download link: http://www.multiupload.com/J8Q15SHP4S

Root the phone

Download OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip (it contains /sdcard/OpenRecovery and /sdcard/OpenRecovery.zip)

Extract OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip onto the SD card. This will create a /sdcard/OpenRecovery directory and an /sdcard/OpenRecovery.zip file.

Make sure you're not in USB access mode and install the bootstrap (using adb or Terminal):

su
cp /sdcard/OpenRecovery/orbootstrap/install_script.sh /tmp
chmod 755 /tmp/install_script.sh
/tmp/install_script.sh STR

Upgrading from OpenRecovery

:

Download link: http://www.multiupload.com/J8Q15SHP4S

Make a nandroid and backup your sdcard

Download OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip (it contains /sdcard/OpenRecovery and /sdcard/OpenRecovery.zip)

Rename the old /sdcard/OpenRecovery folder to /sdcard/OpenRecovery.bak

Extract OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip onto the SD card. This will create a new /sdcard/OpenRecovery directory.

Optional: Move/copy all files from /sdcard/OpenRecovery.bak/updates to the new /sdcard/OpenRecovery/updates directory

Optional: Reboot into OR. Select "OR" > "Other Utilities" > "Re-install orbootstrap"

Github

: https://github.com/Mioze7Ae/openrecovery_xt720

Thanks: skrilax_cz, 89luca89, Azhad, fjfalcon
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] S7icky:
Is this the same update that was posted in other topics?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
No, it's not the same, its the next version. The biggest difference is this one merges Androidiani (the previous one was based on vanilla OpenRecovery). Maybe I should bold the new stuff.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
Sorry about this but what does Reinstalling the Bootstrap mean? Don't we already use that for getting in the bootloader? Is it is it gets broken somehow?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
If the bootloader gets broken, you won't be in OpenRecovery ;)

Anyway, I see two reasons to use it. (1) to make 100% sure you can get back to OpenRecovery after you've flashed something experimental (say a Milestone A853 update-based ROM) or (2) you want to upgrade your bootstrap to the new version that lets you hold volume-down to boot directly into the fastboot bootloader. (i.e. in the new version volume-up==OpenRecovery, volume-down==fastboot)

Edit: that reminds me... I should make a version of the bootstrap that fixes volume-down to boot OR on Milestone XT720 running Motoroi 50R...
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] hellmonger:
Very very nice... thx man :)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
Ok so I may have run into a glitch. Hopefully it is just mine, but it has been awhile since I had updated many of the apps from the market and let me tell ya, there was a shopping list. Haha get it. Anyways, I updated them all and decided it has also been some time since I had made a backup as well.

So I went in and "tried" to make a backup of the usuals (system, data, cust, cache, cdrom and sd). I probably tried 3 or 4 times and it never backed anything up. I even deleted the openrecovery folder and re-unzipped and replaced it and tried maybe another 3 times. It would just hang on the system dumping part for 15+mins (which is way too long).

I rebooted and put the original MZor back in there (the one w/o all the AOR stuff in it-for reference). Booted into recovery and boom, made the full backup in normal time. I ran checks on sd and sd-ext several times throughout and never a problem.

Has anyone else encountered this? I had been using this since it first came out and some of the utilites and all worked fine, but now that I think of it, hadnt tried to make a back up until last night.

***Side question: Since the beginning when I first learned how to make a backup, I read that you should backup system, data, cust, cache, cdrom and sd(if neccessary). My question is why do we and does it matter if we back up the cust, cache and cdrom parts? Wouldn't these get repopulated anyways at first boot? Would everything work if we just restored system, data and sd (again if neccessary)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I don't backup cust or cdrom. I made a backup with Mz's new O.R. yesterday and good thing I backed up ext cause my XDA Special backup would not boot without it. Not much help for ya sorry bud Hope you get it worked out.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] AllGamer:
@Mioze7Ae

can you please compile a standalone APK installer version of the new open recovery for XT720?

after reading the instructions i noticed, it requires an existing open recovery already installed to apply the above updates
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
I tried but my re-compiled version of the OpenRecovery.apk just FC'd.

Thanks for this Mioze7Ae, this is really sweet!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ranggie4:
Am I missing out something here? I don't seem to be able to get the additional OR menu to convert to EXT4. I flashed back to Singapore 2.1 and have rooted. Removed the previous Open Recovery folder but where do I get the OpenRecovery.apk? Do I use back the previous version?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
You can use Dexter's OpenRecovery.apk to install Open Recovery & then follow Mioze7Ae's instructions in the OP to update it.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] R-D:
Not sure what effect it even has, but the set timezone seems to be backwards ... Selecting GMT-7 runs /bin/timezone.sh GMT+7 and selecting GMT+7 runs /bin/timezone.sh GMT-7
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ranggie4:
Hey guys, hope you can provide me with a clearer instruction. I have done exactly as per the instructions and now when I boot into recovery, I don't see the extra option to convert to EXT4. The only things I see in the menu is:

Motorola MILESTONE XT720 Open Recovery

Version 1.46

Created by Skrilax_CZ

Use Volume Up/Down to highlight:

Camera_Mode key to select.

Main Menu

Reboot Menu

Settings

USB Mass Storage Mode

Nandroid

Application Menu

Run Script

Apply Update

Wipe Dalvik Cache

Wipe Data / Factory Reset

Wipe Cache Partition

What am I doing wrong? The phone is still running 2.1 update 1 but it's rooted.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
It looks like you're running the original OpenRecovery. You need to replace the OpenRecovery folder on the sdcard with the version from the OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip.

I think I can see how the instructions about renaming might be confusing so I tweaked the phrasing a little bit.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ranggie4:
Thanks for the reply Mioze7Ae but I followed exactly as your instructions. Here's what I've done:

-Flashed singapore_STR_U2_01.1E.0

-Rooted with SuperOneClick

-Extracted and transferred to SD the OpenRecovery folder, OpenRecovery.zip and the original OpenRecovery.apk file.

-Ran OpenRecovery.apk

-Install Recovery System. Install Sucess.

-Recovery Boot and that's where it boots into the old OR.

It's the same if I use the OpenRecovery folder provided by hellmonger in The XT720 XDA Special Final RC2 "Hellmonger Edition"
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Change this:

Extracted and transferred to SD the OpenRecovery folder, OpenRecovery.zip and the original OpenRecovery.apk file.

Ran OpenRecovery.apk

Install Recovery System. Install Sucess.

To this:

Transferred to SD the the original OpenRecovery.apk file.

Ran OpenRecovery.apk

Install Recovery System. Install Sucess.

Extracted and transferred to SD the new OpenRecovery folder, OpenRecovery.zip
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I think it only affects the naming of the nandroid directories, but I'll give it a look. Nice catch!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ranggie4:
Thanks Mioze7Ae. The last instruction made it clear. It works now. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!:D
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] eejin2:
it was like this in all the versions of open recovery...

+++++++++

Mioze, can you also add a wipe battery stats in your modified openrecovery? comes in handy when we flash a new rom or restore a nandroid so we dont have to use the battery calibrating app.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
You can do this yourself by using Root Explorer and deleting data/system/batterystats.bin It will recreate on its own. I would do it on a full charge though. That is what the app does and presumably what a mod would do if Mz created it.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] eejin2:
yeah that was what i didnt want to do lol. id rather use the battery calibration app from the market to do that. i would put a wipe batt stats in the OR so that its more convenient and i dont have to manually do it when i boot into the newly flashed rom or backup android.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I addition to erasing it, backing up and restoring the battery stats file would probably be useful, too. I'll add it to my todo list.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] eejin2:
nandroid stuck and dumpting system

hi mioze i was doing a nandroid backup today but it kept getting stuck at dumping system and i had to do battery pulls. this also happened when i was using aor. at first i thought my phone was getting too hot and i put it right in front of the fan and kept it cold but it didnt work. help?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] R-D:
I was having all sorts of problems with nandroid in original OpenRecovery and AOR freezing when dumping also.

Turns out it was the crappy SD card that came with the phone. I put in a spare I had (only 4gb but class 6) and it worked instantly and much faster. Waiting for a new 16GB Class 10 to come in.

If possible try another SD card.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
I was also having that same problem with AOR and this one. It actually screwed up my Zipthemer app and I couldn't apply any update.zips at all. One solution I found was to re-unzip file and recopy over the folders with fresh data. Almost like a fresh install. Just make sure you don't overwrite the updates folder or you'll lose whatever is in there.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] eejin2:
hi mioze, can you fix the usb mass storage mode inside this recovery? i know its been like that since the first OR we used but it'd make transferring files easier... thanks!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] fjfalcon:
We don't have new openrecovery in .apk
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] AA1973:
If you want Open Recovery, you don't need an apk for it. Just download the zip one in the OP. Extract as said there and you're done.

Edit fjfalcon was quicker :)

MIUI-1.10.28[DE] Milestone XT720
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] kousik:
Well, I too got stuck as I didn't have the original .apk file, but had my SD card ready with unzipped this OpenRecovery. Now to install this is what I had to do in adb shell:

$ su
# cp /sdcard/Openrecovery/orbootstrap/install_script.sh /tmp
# cd /tmp
# chmod 755 install_script.sh
# ./install_script.sh STR
Installation done.
# reboot openrecovery
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] AA1973:
Just a question while surfing came in my mind. I read an article about partitioning the SD card within a recovery tool, Amon RA, while just using the mobile phone.

I know, Amon RA is for HTC devices, but is it possible to integrate such a feature within your OR tool?

MIUI-1.10.28 Milestone XT720
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] S7icky:
I was wondering the same thing i think... why dosnt our OR have the same partition options as stuff like CWM.. ? just a thought for you MZ lol.

Keep up your kickass work!!!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
Not sure about AmonRA but from what I have gathered in and about Clockwork Recovery, the partition option doesn't work all that well for most devices. It seems to bork the internal SD's that most phones have now days. Actually I have read quite a few articles that say it reformatted the internal SD (which is to be expected) but the for some reason it unmounted it from the device and then also destroyed the link that mounted the external_sd too. Makes you have to do unnecessary ADB work.

Here is an example. My other phone has a 16gb Internal_sd and I have a 32gb External_sd. Right off, I was told not to use the CWR partition option. The Internal_sd card was already partitioned at <2gb where all my apps and dalvik are stored leaving me 14gb of internal for music, pix and whatnot. I installed another kernel that has a lagfix with, guess what, EXT4. So now I have Fat, 2gb ext and my /system, /data and a few other partitions have been converted to EXT4.

MZ, if you want, I can upload the kernel and you and FJ can break it down to see just how it does convert the /system and /data to EXT4. Just let me know.

Edit: Had the kernel in here but Mchlbenner was right. Don't want someone bricking their phone b/c of me and flashing another kernel will definitely do it. MZ and FJ, if you want to take a look at the kernel and how it converts to ext4, just let me know.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] mchlbenner:
You should know if you tell some one not to they I'm a different sbf I have to try to flash it will see what happens.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
It's *probably* impossible to change /system to ext4 unless you always fastboot because of how the 2nd-init works. There may be some sneaky way to make a filesystem look like both ext4 and yaffs--some copy-protected CDROMs used to do things like that. That's way beyond my skill level, though. It might be fairly easy to change /data though.

I contemplated adding partitioning thing a while ago. Support was present (but disabled) in either androidiani or fufu's minimod, can't remember which. In the end I decided supporting it would be a pain. Because of the signature checks, we can't modify the real recovery so we require a working sdcard. Basically, if something goes wrong, you're going to have to repartition by putting the card in a PC anyway.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Similya:
can't download, can someone give a mirror for this? please. . .

---------- Post added at 05:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:06 PM ----------

can't access the download page, can someone give a mirror for this? please. . .
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] fjfalcon:
http://xt720.ru/Files/Tools/OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Similya:
thank you. . . . . . ;-)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
As you may have seen, I been talking about how the XT720 and usb and the sdcards do not seem to cooperate very well. It may just be my sdcards but I have about 5 of them and have the same issues with all. I do not know the technical workings of it all so I really don't know what I am talking about lol. Just stating from experience. One of my biggest problems now is completing a nandroid backup. It used to be easy and always successful but now I can't get one to work. I was successful with backing up stock 2.1 after I flashed it. But not with Bravo or The hhcats new ROM. Bravo is a great ROM when I can finally get a good flash to stick but it's a big aggravating job to do so. I keep getting SOD's and have to do battery pull's. One thing that may be a problem I didn't consider til now is not having a sim card installed. Anyway I just wanted to post here about the nandroid backup failures just in case someone knows something about it.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I snapped a few of these as well in case you night want to move them to the O.P.

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[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
How did you do that? With a camera?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
WOW You mean to tell me I get to teach Mz something??? Lmao! Cool lol

I use androidsdk, open tools then

ddms then you should see your device and then click on device/screenshot
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] nikctsh:
Could open the server multiupload , can you please upload it to somewhere else such mediafire ? Many thanks .
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] fjfalcon:
http://android.fjfalcon.com/Tools/OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] r1c47:
Excuse me for bumping such an old thread but since it hasn't been answered and since there is n mention of xt701 in this thread I'm compelled to ask.

Would it be ok to use this in a xt701, and would it be worth it, or does this add no new features for the 701 so that I would be better off using the original skrillaz one?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] mchlbenner:
It will not it was made for milestone xt720.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I can't remember if XT701 uses the bootstrapped version. Probably not, so XT720 version this is probably a bad fit. Mostly this has bugfixes related to being bootstrapped.

But there are probably much better options--AFAIK XT701 doesn't check signatures so there may be real flashable recoveries available rather than the hijacked ones we have to use on XT720.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] r1c47:
Very well, thank you for your prompt replies.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
The links in the OP are dead.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
http://android.fjfalcon.com/xt720/Tools/OpenRecovery-XT720-01.zip