yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] GreenRaccoon:
Yes. I always sbf and re-root before I flash a new ROM. People have reported that, for some reason, this seems to fix and/or prevent some weird bugs. I used to have a couple bugs that persisted across different ROM's, but now that I always sbf before flashing a new ROM, I don't get them anymore. Also, I heard that if you DON'T choose "Backup my data with my Google account," that seems to prevent some bugs too.

I'm not sure why these work; :confused: I just know they work for me.

By the way, if you ever have a problem sbf-ing, try moving the .sbf file to "C:\". That seems to fix a lot of sbf-ing problems. I don't know why that works either, but I'm guessing it might have something to do with putting the file under administrator privileges.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
Thanks man! What about the first question as am formatting the sdcard? And my power button isn't working so how do I get to the boot loader and recovery mode without the use of power button ... guys help
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Are you talking about CAMERA button, aren't you?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
No mate am talking about power button
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Try connecting the phone to AC while keeping camera button pressed.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
AC? please explain as am not every good at this
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
Please help me guys with the power button issue that I've had for months now I want flash a new Tom from the scratch but I don't know how to get to boot loader and open recovery
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] shalom06:
Go to Terminal Type su. Then Reboot .Then while rebooting Press x
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Pl go the link given below.Everything is there.

www.motorolafans.com/...milestone/31775-today-we-teach-u-step-b...

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
The link is dead
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Quentin himself:
Just go to the main site and search by yourself. It took me about one minute. You know the title of the article with the end of the link and you know it's about Milestone. So go to Forums and TADA : http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/...-3-ginger-bread-in-ur-motorola-milestone.html
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
No,it is not dead.I went to it even just now.Otherwise you go to www.motorolafans.com ,then forums and Motorola Milestone.There you will find this thread

Today We Teach u step by step how to install android 2.3 (Ginger bread) In ur Motorola Milestone.

Or google for this thread.Definitely you will find it.

pnsdhrn

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If I format my SD Card whether my external partition including ext3 will be lost? And after formatting whether I will have to recreate these partitions again?Somebody please suggest.

Waiting with thanks,

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
currently i am on cyanogenmod 7.2 and all i want to know is how to get to the boat loader and open recovery without actually having to press the power button because my power button is down for months now and i want to flash a new ROM :crying::confused:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] sfahadzb:
try "reboot recovery" in terminal, or restart phone and keep "x" pressed on physical keyboard. This will take you to recovery, from there you can flash new rom.

This is what every1 is trying to explain, i just rephrased.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
here is the step you need,

1. slide out you keyboard > press Alt, Shift(arrow-up with line mark key) & DEL keys down at the same time to reboot your milestone.

2. once see the blank screen, press & hold down the 'x' key, this will bring you to the recovery mode.

hope that will help.

Good day!

.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
Nope it did not but I tried my unorthodox way by pulling the battery out and inserting the battery by holding x and that took me to recovery anyways thanks ....okay I know another there's open recovery by fufu or someone which is better?

cyanogenmod 9.0 by kabaldan download link is dead :eek: mirror links?

I've got mrvek nightly build downloaded ..which is better as I know its based on kabaldan's work
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ashenphoenix:
http://skrilax.droid-developers.org/cm9nightly/umts_sholes/

Use OpenRecovery 1.46 by Skrilax, nothing else!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Nadlabak's CM7 thread

Dear Kabaldan,

Your CM7 thread at xda developers forum seems to be dead.I can't access it from today onwards.Please kindly revive it.

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] LuigiC6:
Works for me...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Works for me too... but maybe that's why there hasn't been posts in that thread for a couple of days.

Still, it don't make sense to be able to access this thread and not the CM7 thread.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] sfahadzb:
Yes you will lose the partition on formatting and will have to repartition.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Actually, it depends on the tool you're going to use. If you don't remove partitions and simply re-partition them with the same filesystem type, you'll have your partitions emptied. If you use windows base tools you'll be able to work on your first FAT partition only.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Then,will wiping the external partitions using MiniMod OR do the same purpose of formating?

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Reformatting a partition using the same size and type gives the same effect than wiping, yes.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] saeed.salek.b:
When we can see full version?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] shalom06:
When an apple falls of a mango tree...

Do not ask for ETA's And what Full Version?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] dexter_10:
Nadlabak pushed to jelly bean :O
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] adistf:
AWESOME!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] xenomorph150:
Nadlabak is our hero oo...!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] papadawgg:
nadlabak, do you think that it might be possible one day to free up enough ram on cm9/10 that it could be at least as usable as your latest cm7.2? thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] adistf:
it's not really possible...CM9 it's usable,but lack of ram memory it's because Android Source Code.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] shalom06:
Defy's hav got Cm10 ...Cant wait for our turn :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
Just flashed the cm9 from çm 7.2 but every now and then I get notification of low internal space but I've moved all the possible apps to sdcard, what else can I do to increase the internal space
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
ClockworkMod Recovery

Whether ClockworkMod Recovery is compatible to Milestone A853?If yes,which version of ClockworkMod Recovery?

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] shalom06:
Its Not
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] shalom06:
Use Ext Partition
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ngonchan:
And lib2ext :P
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] papadawgg:
tested the recent nightly and i must say that this one seems to be the biggest candidate for a daily rom based on ics. everything is smooth and respond much faster than before. the only problem is still our ram. if there would be only rare launcher redraws without any losses in performance, i would use this rom on daily basis.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] xenomorph150:
Wow, nadlabaks commits in the jellybean folder do really look promising. I just love the Atom Feed. (uh and sorry, I won't ask for an ETA :D!) Wishing you all an nice sunday! ^^
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Quentin himself:
Just want to say a big thank you to Kabaldan. This is a freaking awesome work. You are going further and further, it was so unexpected to see an ICS ROM just ported to our Milestone and what a surprise, seeing it working great. I use it for a daily-use and it's great, however the launcher redraws itself sometimes.

I'm really waiting for the, possible, JB ROM, because I heard about the "Project Butter" (right ha ?) and maybe, with the new unlocked feature HWA, it would be smoother ?

Huge thanks to Kabaldan and all his co-workers.

BTW, I've some strange battery issues. It drains in 12 hours to 5%, reboot and : OH, still 50% !
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] GAZ082:
I'm getting spotty signal reception with CM9, had to install CM7. Anybody else with this issue?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
Any compiled JB nightly built that we can test?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Skrilax_CZ's Nightlies

I see Skrilax_Cz's Nightlies reached CM-9-20102716 till today.What are the improvements in this from the last one compiled by mrvek?And whether these Nightlies are German version or English version?I can't follow German if I install it in my Milestone A853.Anybody please confirm.Waiting with thanks,

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Dunnera:
The nightlies are multilanguage like all other android roms.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Nightlies are built automatically and comprehend everything has been released to the main stream to the moment every package is built. So, all you can do is watching github reports and match builds'date with those.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
There were some fixes, I do not remember anymore, video playback or something.

And as scoutme said.

If you want up-to-date cm9 this is the way to go. You can watch changes kabaldan made to source or simply update (not necessarily every day (though there is no /data loss so it's not big of an issue)).

Also, kabaldan explained things very nicely:

here
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Forbidden page

Dear Kabaldan,

From today onwards whenever I try to access your CM7 thread page "http://android.doshaska.net/cm7 " the page appearing shows "FORBIDDEN-You are not allowed to access this page".What is the reason for this?And how can I access this page?Please help.

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] -FuFu-:
same here...

i think he work on the page or server may down or something like that
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
Ah, finally, I'm going on Xperia Arc S... not really high-end (single core) but much better than this. This awesome piece of hardware (really hard, 2 years and only 1 little scratch, 3mm on screen, only seen when screen is off) goes to my sister :). I'll leave it on CM7 cause right now it is the most stable ROM for MM.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
JellyBean

Whether anybody has opened a thread anywhere for JellyBean in Milestone A853?If so,would they please provide the link here so that enthusiasts like me can get an access there?

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] tuxor1337:
As far as I know, Jelly Bean is being worked on by nadlabak. So you just have to stick to this thread. Since 4.1 brings no fundamental changes to 4.0, Nadlabak decided to implement the most important new features directly in CM9 - no big version jump.

Because of nadlabak's great efforts, I'm sure we will soon have the first quasi-stable releases using Jelly Bean technology :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thanks so much dear tuxor to know that and very much eager and glad to see the outcome sooner.Many many aploads to our most reverent Kabaldan!!!

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Richardprins:
Diacritics on double vowels with keyboard

Does anyone know how to disable the diacritics when you double tap a vowel on the slide out keyboard? eg when I tap 'a' twice I get á or a character like that. I'd like it to be simply aa.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
boot sound

In the earlier roms(CM7) I was able to see the line "ro.config.play.bootsound=0" in /system/build.prop.In the latest rom compiled by mrvek this line is not seen.How this line can be added so as to enable boot sound?

Also while referring for bootanimation change all threads are saying to paste the new bootanimation.zip in /data/local. But when I browse /data there is not a folder in the name "local"in which the exisinig bootanimation is placed.There is a folder with name "local.prop" and in it there are some ro commands.Is /data/local folder not present in this rom?

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
pnsdhrn, if the bootanimation fits in /system/media place it there. I do not know if cm9 supports placing bootanimation in /data/local, some ROMs have such support.

Also, you encouraged to use the latest, and most up-to-date, builds (ROM updates) from nightly buildbot service provided by Skrilax_CZ and xvilka (all compilation of kabaldan's work, ofcourse).

And that kind of questions are not for kabaldan's development thread. More appropriate place would be in Q&A or general.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you dear mrvek.In accordance with your advice and in anticipation of better performance I deleted the rom compiled by you and installed the latest one of Skrilax.Every thing was fine except for one thing in which I got into a fix.There is no Playstore or a file browser apk now so that I cannot back up my old apks and the contact phone nos.I did not do a Nandroid Back up.Instead I was using Titanium Backup.The Titanium Back up apk is also stored in my SDCard.But without a file/root browser I cannot access it.If Titanium is got activated I can restore Playstore and others..I tried to download Titanium backup through the Browser of my phone using WiFi..But the Browser is not at all stable in this ROM.It often crashes by not responding to the keyboard.Now what is the remedy to get the Playstore?If I am able to get it every thing will be solved.Will you offer me a way?Sorry to disturb you again.

Waiting with thanks,

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ngonchan:
Have you applied Google Apps package yet? If yes, apply it, if not, re-apply it ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
I have applied the latest Gapps package provided recently by mrvek in this thread.As the Play store didnot appear in it I deleted it and applied the previous Gapps package provided by Kabldan in the first page.This also did not help.

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
Have you wiped data before install? And/or sdext?

Do you have a working Google account?

Is playstore apk (Vending.apk, Phonesky.apk or com.android.vending-number.apk) is the name of the file, depending on version or location) present in phone (/data/app, /sd-ext/app, /vendor/app)

Afaik, no file manager is present on cm9 by default.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Dear mrvek,

Before applying the ROM & Gapps I wiped Dalvik,Cache partition and External Partition.Data wipe/Factory reset is not done.And I have repeated process of installing the ROM &Gapps 2 or 3 times withh doing all the three wipes except Data wipe.I have a valid Google account and it is active in the phone .To the location of Playstore apk I can't either open the Apps Manager in settings.Whenever I try to open it crashes.

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] znetroll:
Just for the record and anyone who is curious, I just built the jellybean branch with some very minor modifications (like removing all but two images from the boot animation and replacing some text2speech-files with empty files to save space - the resulting image is too big otherwise) and it did not make it any further than the Motorola logo.

It was to be expected, really. (But I was curious^^)

EDIT: Of course I wiped /data, /cache and the dalvik cache. I didn't even flash any gapps.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
I have the same issue. But I removed bunch of apps. Tts files are stored in cache so that can't help with size reduction. Would you be willing to reduce system size even more? You can remove live wallpapers, unused dictionaries from LatinIME/Res/raw (leave main and the ones you need to use)

I'd like to know if you can boot. I can't.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
Well, I guess you can try to flash some previous ROM update.

Wiping sd-ext before every rom install is pointless. I do not see what is the purpose of this.

And it might be a good idea to make a nandroid backup before every rom flash. Just in case something goes wrong ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] znetroll:
I did that too, for size reasons I chose Email and Exchange because I never use them anyway

Nope, check /system/tts/ - there's a few megabytes there. I just replaced those for Italian, French and Spanish with empty files.

Yup, kicked the live wallpapers too. I didn't think of the dictionaries, but I did wonder why LatinIME.apk is some 20 megabytes. I also replaced the CyanogenMod ringtones with a random small ogg file to save another few MB. And deleted all but two frames from the boot animation.

So far, no success. Guess I'll just give it a couple of days and try again later ;) I should study for an exam anyway...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
To let you know what's going on:

CM10 (Jelly Bean) boots fine here. A lot has been already done and achieved, though there's also a lot of minor issues that will need more work.

What's important - there doesn't seem to be any show stopper at this point.

CM9/ICS is more or less dead from the moment of JB release, therefore I fully focus on bringing CM10 to omap3 / Milestone now.

(Indeed, CM7 for Milestone will also get a significant update, hopefully sometime soon, when JB frenzy will cease a bit).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
Those files should be moved from system to /cdrom (not /cache, my mistake) during install. But...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
That is, the best of both worlds... CM7 as the most usable rom, CM10 as the edge one :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nagabushan.c:
Very excited to CM10

Can we have a New thread For CM10 - JB - For our Milestone ?

Thank You Kabaldan... <3
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you dear mrvek.Prioitizing to your remarks I wiped Data also and reflashed Skrilax & Gapps.Every thing went fine and I have Playstore now.Only minus point was I have lost all my preinstalled apps and settings.It will take about 3 or 4 hrs to set them back.It was only due to that I avoided Data wipe before.Once it is set up again I will definitely make a Nand Backup heading to your advice.Thanking you once again,

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
touch screen calibration

Is there anyway i can calibrate my touch screen?

After i flash the latest 23 july nightly i found right side of my screen can't scent my touch. so i use builth-in Dev Tool to test. See screen shot below, there is around 80pixel off.

Can anyone help?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] shalom06:
Unfortunately looks like your digitizer is dying.ull have to replace it
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] dexter_10:
same thing happened to me for some time with one version of ics and since then my screen is out of calibration, if you click on that line you see as you press the buttons on the left side, and so far I have not seen as being able to recalibrate the screen u.u

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after analyzing well screen I think is a problem decalibration, I saw that always happens when installing an application or change the rom.

the problem is not damage to that side of the screen, what happens is that there is a touch left, if you press the touch on the extreme right of the button push on the side who are more left and if run the screen.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
I had the same problem.Got it solved by replacing the digitizer.

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
Oh no! my beloved MS, i love this phone very much! Digitizer please die on me yet!

I am still trying to solve this... Will let you know if i manage to solve it.

I am not good to DIY replacing the digitizer... to send to the shop to replace will cost too much, don't think i worth the $... i will use it to the MAX cause i will miss it if i replace it with new phone now.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
Is your phone also have problem on the same area of the screen? Mine is on right hand side(roughly 80 pixels) of the screen in the portrait mode.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alncool:
Hey arttree,

I had a problem with the digitizer too but it was on the middle of the screen. I dealt with it for few weeks and then i found somewhere on XDA someone with a great solution which solved my problem. But be careful of what's you're doing. I won't take any responsabilities if you destroy your precious phone .... blah blah you know what i mean :)

Well, here is the tip:

Use an hairdryer to heat up the screen for few minutes by waving your hand up and down the screen.

I did it while using a multitouch app and tried sometimes to check the screen (be careful to not burn your finger ^^).

At some point the screen goes crasy like simulating random touch and then i let it cool down ..

When i checked the screen again, it just worked !!!!

The whole screen is just working fine now !

Hope this help my friend !
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
Thanks alncool for this tip, will try later when i reach home. pray hard & fingers crossed! :fingers-crossed: :laugh:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Rotundjere:
you know what? chuck norris phone sucks.... my *Stone is dead.. :(

never gonna buy motorola anymore, they're sucks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alncool:
Why did you reply this to me ?

Is your Milestone dead because of the tip i explained to try to recover the digitizer ?

Well, bad luck for you ... it worked great for me ...

Even if Motorola made crasy choises to my opinion (locked bootloader, weird strategies and communication, no update etc) i can assure you that i've never had a phone more resistant than the milestone! Recently i broke my LG Optimus 2X so easily ...

I'm happy to have my chuck norris phone back again ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
I also agree with you alncool. Milestone is like a snake beaten to death.In that ultimate stage even it will find some narrow life somewhere in it(like wagging tail of a dying snake) and from there it will recoup to full life eventually! No other phone has this capacity.

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Lucasm93:
Can't complain about it. The screen is rock solid. Just yesterday I accidentaly smashed the phone in a wood chair arm corner directly in the screen. There are no marks, sctraches or anything in the screen. I have droped the phone around 30 times I guess, there are some marks without the black paint, but pretty small and few ones, mostly in the corners. Only complaint is the camera button, which is white now.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Rotundjere:
according to Android4.0 CCD document, ICS need 340MB for linux user space.

I wonder how kabaldan port ICS to milestone ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] shalom06:
My camera Button is white too ...:D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alncool:
@Rotundjere

Kabaldan recommends to make an extra ext3 partition on SD card to extend system space ;)

Envoyé depuis mon Milestone avec Tapatalk
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
The 340 minimum refers to RAM (kernel and userspace), so nothing to spare with storage and ext partitions.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alncool:
Ok i though it was related to space, not RAM...

So maybe he developped a swap system to fake RAM size limitation?

Who knows ... just optimizations ? ^^