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[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
Using the tweaks posted on the OP thread and adding to it V6 supercharger (specially to "lock" launcher in memory) and Greenify app, I manage to have a pretty decent usability out of the Milestone. The battery life also improves vastly over not using Greenify.

Obviously, CM10 uses a bit more ram than CM7. CM7 does the trick (has got less bugs), but if people want a more up to date Android experience CM10 (or CM9) is not bad at all.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
I strongly support you.With the tweaks and supporting applications CM10 is the most smooth speedy, easy to use and user friendly.So there is no point in sticking on a Chuck Norris OS saying it is a stable one even though our phone is Chuck Norris.In this modern fast developing world we also should move forward or else we will be left far behind.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
To the point of Kabaldan´s CM10, with the development as it is, and with the OP tweaks (and a few others users might use) I certainly say it is still a very usefull Milestone and also up to date.

But having said that, I also understand what the user Eiertschik wanted to say when someone spoke about using the 4.2 version of Defy on Milestone. Totally diferent hardware. There will be a point when hardware restrains WILL count, no matter how good software development was made for a specific platform, and by then Milestone will be obsolete. Happens to all phones.

To my personall usage, I find it still suits my needs pretty much for almost all I want to get out of it. Only the telephony error bug as appeard more often than I wanted it to lately. Still, pretty fast phone (I´m using 200 plus apps). One day I will try to narrow down the amount of apps installed (I don´t use probably half of them) and surely the "Stone" will get even faster.

I like CM10´s smoothness a lot indeed. :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
It is a fact that about 2 or 3 months since no software development is in progress for CM10.There is practically nobody other than Kabaldan who is engaged in this work for Milestone.Everybody is depending on him.Even he is not concentrating on CM10.This is not the case in other models which are older than Milestone.

BTW I am not experiencing any telephony error bug for than 2 months in CM10.Ofcourse there some incidences T the initial stage when I installed CM10.But by the time it disappeared totally now without anything done for it.Quidos to CM10 users.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
As someone already said, you won´t loose sd card partitions. Only system data (and some other partitions) on internal NAND flash as far as I know.

By the way, if you try to factory reset using the "stock" CM10 Settings option are you able to go ahead with the reset? Last time I tried it that way it didn´t work. No answer results from me touching the "factory reset" option.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you Ricfil for your prompt reply.Actually I didn't do reset with stock CM10 settings before as a fresh one by resetting it and flashing since I didn't have the necessity for it.Now I plan to give this phone to my daughter flashing CM9 9.1.0d as most of the members in this thread including Kabaldan remarked thatit is the most stable ROM for our Milestone.I am getting a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 which is enroute shipping now.However I won't leave this community which was like a part of my life since the last 3 years and will continue here since Milestone is still in my stable.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] redsrule2500:
Could anyone explain the process of getting from CM7.2.4f to CM10? I already have partitioned my SD Card to allow for more applications in CM7.

Thanks for any clarification. How does it differ from upgrading to various revisions of CM7?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] _crAss_:
The only difference is that you will have to do a complete wipe from open recovery deleting all your personal settings, applications etc. After that you will apply the rom and relevant gapps, boot and you will be ready to go.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] redsrule2500:
That's what I was figuring, thank you for confirming. :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
I´m shure your daughter will enjoy the "Stone" if she does not really heavily uses it. It is still to this day a pretty capable phone. And with CM10 (mind the telephony problem and the gallery bug) it works wonders for me. CM9 is good enought though with some missing features which I learned to love on CM10 (like the multitasking app panel in which you may delete all apps at once).

Hope you enjoy your new phone (Note 2) a lot. Have fun with it :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you Ricfil.Aithough we enjoy (ie,both of us) CM10 I don't want my daughter to face some of the bugs of rare CM10 bugs.That is why I installed CM9 before giving it to her.And she is not aware of the missing features of CM10 that we experienced.

BTW although Note is a super one I do miss some of the handy features of CM10.So I am going to root it.And I will not leave this stable.This post itself is proof of it.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
Actually, the "Clear all" button on recent apps list and "Clear frequents" option in Contacts app have been added and are present in the latest officially unofficial cm9 nightly (20130415). Many other features and fixes as well, I guess that kabladan just didn't find the time to finish and upload. Busy world...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
Did not know that. Thanks for the heads up. A bit of a pain in the ass to move backwards all my info again, but if the only bug that concerns me starts recorring alot I might change back to CM9. The gallery app bug is easily passable as other apps as Quickpic and Ucam do the job just fine for me, but the telephony problem is frustating and appears from time to time.

Thank you :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] _crAss_:
I got HTC 4G slide and waiting for it to arrive from overseas. No matter all the tweaks and so on, still if you got lots of programs 256 MB are too little for today's standards...For this last week before leaving the chuck norris phone i will install Telus lite and try to see what was the gain actually in going up to CM10...because froyo was problematic, CM7 was very good, but after updating all bits (second boot etc, it was comparable to CM10 with all tweaks) and CM9 was something average between the too.

Glad to have been part of the milestone community for all this time!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] _crAss_:
It is very funny...the phone is more close to perfect than ever with the Telus lite rom, even if it is just eclair. The newest version of ADW Launcher is very fast and gives everything that is needed. There is no power drawer icons, but there are apps like Notification Toggle that bring the very useful switches for wifi, bluetooth etc. Also wifi tethering is ok with an external app. I had some trouble with sms in the greek language which was solved with Handsent sms.

The only drawbacks so far is that facebook messenger app is not compatible with eclair (there are other apps that do the same thing) and also battery autonomy is decreased considerably in comparison with CM10. Other than that phone is fast as hell and copes great with multitasking...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hanschke:
The nightly link donkt work for me :(
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
Even if cm7 is more stable and suites the Milestone better, in my opinion after experimenting with CM9 and even more CM10, I simply can´t go back to CM7. :D The multitasking function alone is light years away from cm7. Not to mencion other tweaks that Jelly Bean brought to the table. I´m to used to it´s usefulness to change back I guess.

But I understand what you say relating hardware limitations. There are no miracles in that regard. But I must say, if I was not a "power user" either CM versions would work perfectly for the Milestone. Even today. It is snappy enough when not pushed to the limit.The problem is when we try to keep up with the latest apps and all, and the phone´s hardware simply can´t handle all of that :o

Hope you enjoy your new HTC.

Take care crAss.:good:

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It must be down at the moment. If, for some reason it does not get back up I may link a download link for the files if you need them.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hanschke:
yes will be nice to get the latest nightly :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
multitasking important?

If so... Foyo let's you keep 20-30 apps in memory.

GB 15-20

ICS & JB 5-10 if you're lucky.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
Not the multitasking in itself zepellinrox (since with stock settings Milestone in my expereience does not handle lots of apps at the same time) at least if you use a single "heavy" one in the middle). I was refering to the way CM7 handles the multitasking window. You can´t easily take apps out of the multitasking background using a single swipe like on recent android versions. The gingerbread and before way of doing it is a pain in the ass. Open app managment - look for the apps - click on them - delete from ram. To much assle in my opinion.

Also, cm7, as far as I know, does not handle Greenify (an app I found is just marvelous when it comes to saving battery life).

To outdated this versions of android in my mind. That is why I say whenever someone epxeriences ICS or JB, he/she won´t go back ;)

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I don´t have the latest version on my hard drive. The one I have is probably from last two mounths or so. But it is pretty recent and stable on my Milestone. If you want I can link you to that version. :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Yes but on cm9 or 10, that's pretty much just appearances since there's no way all those apps are in ram.

It would be an interesting test to flash cm6 or 7 with my multitasking mods lol
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
For people who need that much amount of apps for multitasking I believe your mod will do the trick (I´m using V6 and have no complains so far). It works good. But in my case, whenever I multitasked between the four, five apps (the most) I need to, they all worked just fine (were on memory) and restarted right from where I left of. With the convenience of having an actually usefull UI managing the way the user interacts with the multitasking aspect of the system, rather than the "nonsense" of previous android versions.

But it is just my opinion, ofcourse. The multitasking improvements alone for ICS and JB, keep me away from older Android versions. I wish it wasn´t like that, or some dev had recognized this same thing and could have implemented a similar multitasking panel, but unfortunatly it did not happen and the diference is HUGE. :rolleyes: Specially because Milestone needs apps to be out of memory for it to run smoother (I use LOTS of apps on my phone), and having to go to all the trouble previous android versions present users for deleting apps from memory, that alone is enough for me. You simply can´t beat a "swype" and its gone! :cool: At least previous versions could have used the "iphone like" way, with a cross on the app icon for us to delete the app from there. I would be ok with that. What where devs thinking?;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hanschke:
hope the server will come up :silly:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
su

chmod 750 /system/etc/init.d/98 Swapon
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] -FuFu-:
in terminal you must remount /system as rw befor ;)

so in terminal just type in:

su

mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtd/mtdblock6 /system

chmod 750 /system/etc/init.d/98 Swapon

thats it, if you want to use the OpenRecovery Console, you only must type in:

chmod 750 /system/etc/init.d/98 Swapon
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] justforlove:
Hi,

I use terminal and do as you guided above, and this is what it showed for me... What does it mean? what's wrong with my process? Pls have a look and help. Thanks much!!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ngonchan:
Type those commands, dont copy & paste and hit enter key at the end of every command as the quote below.

An easier method is use a file explorer (ES File explorer or RExplorer), mount system as RW and set permissions for 98Swappon like the other files placed in /system/etc/init.d
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Sorry please if I am asking a silly question.I found chmod in sbin. Will it be enough to edit this to 30 output using Script Editor instead of putting commands in Terminal or OR Console?

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nagabushan.c:
try the same without the space in the file name in 98swapon (case sensitive)

su

mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtd/mtdblock6 /system

chmod 750 /system/etc/init.d/98swapon

it worked.

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I'm now applying CM10 ROM, but, unfortunately i'm stuck. if some one can online can any one help me.

this is what i did.

- Didnt used 2ndboot OR,as i had already installed minimod OR by FuFu, just updated with latest version 0.20.

- Using partition menu. made a partition of 1GB for ext2 and rest for fat32 on my 8GB SD card.

- It partioned along with that it formatted my SD Card. hence placed the downloaded CM10 ROM to updated folder in OR (using USB mass storage mode)

- Using apply update applied my CM10 ROM.

now its stuck in 2ndBoot screen. Am i went wrong in any case? should i have to apply CM7 and the update it to CM10?

please help
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nagabushan.c:
Stuck Help please

Is the Boot animation changed for 19/10 CM10?

i'm stuck. Unable to get into OR.

If i remove battery it just boots into 2nboot screen and then "android" boot animation. After sometime the boot animation gets dim.

Can any one help. how shall i proceed. have posted what i have done so far in previous thread.

Note: I have already tried. pressing camera buttong before i get M logo. the Triangle screen just splashes and goes off.. please help
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Your phone doesn't find microSD at all. Did you insert it correctly? Just givi it a look... ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] justforlove:
Ver dated 20/10

Updated to ver 20/10... The big issue on camera still remains... Laggy, slowly and not ready for using!!! Need more improvement for the next version release!!!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Erovia:
Kabaldan found out that "GPU performs bad when 400MHz opp is used", so the next nightly will work on 500MHz instead of 400.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you very much dear FuFu.I came into a dilemma again as you created a new situation.Please don't misunderstand.I used the words in a humorous way only as this thread is full of serious discussions.The new situation you created is that you updated MiniMod v2-0 to v2.1.So if I upgrade my MiniMod from 2.0 to v2.1,whether I need to apply the 98Swapon patch?Waiting with thanks once again,

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Hi all, I needed to reflash my stone, but after a full wipe and rom+gapps flashing I have no google account working. I tried a few times without luck to reflash gapps...

also keyboard and home key do not work, and this reminds something to me that I cannot remember entirely...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you Erovia for the information.Whether the 20121020 Nightly works on 500MHz?

pnsdhrn
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] _crAss_:
This applies in CM10 only or is it the same with CM7 as well?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] damiann69:
I didn't see anybody to mention here and in CM9 thread that disabling "Allow purging of assets" fixes black background problem in Apollo, Contacts, MMS etc.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
This sounds like very helpful information. Thanks, I wasn't aware of it. I'll have a look into the assets management code when I'll find some free time for it.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
The 400Mhz opp was the cause of the occasionally choppy animations. It's common for both CM7 and CM10. How much it was prominent depended also on the CPU governor in use.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] damiann69:
I'm realy honored that I could help you :)

BTW The worst working stock application (except recording) on this ROM is Google Search (it's faster to run Opera), I deleted it and use only reasonable alternative QuickSearchBox. Is there any possibility to optimise Google Search? Just for search, I don't use Google Now.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] justforlove:
I am not sure how to solve this, but reverting to stock ROM 2.1 or 2.2, than upgrading back to CM10 may help.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] LuigiC6:
The server was shut down a few months ago since there are no more changes being made to cm10.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hanschke:
thats bad so I need the latest cm10 nightly zip that is released please :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
Here goes the last one I have (I believe other builds where essencially the same thing, since kabaldan was not working on them anymore). Worked great on my phone. I also uploaded gapps to go with it:

http://www.4shared.com/zip/-CcEWZ9f/cm-10-20130321-NIGHTLY-umts_sh.html

http://www.4shared.com/zip/cCn_vagp/gapps-jb-sd_ext-20121011.html

Happy flashing ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
It is a pity that no developer other than Kabaldan is/was interested in our device unlike other ones.Even Defy has more interest.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Quentin himself:
89Luca89 was and released an awesome ROM known as TheFroyoMod. The difference between the Milestone and the Defy is that the Defy has twice the RAM the Milestone has. Then it is much easier to develop a usable ROM for the device.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Whether the Froyomod is intended for Milestone and is it Froyo based or 4.1 based?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
I do believe as the name sugests, it is Froyo based.

On a side note (which is not that aside I believe) I´ve moved back to CM7 latest build just to see the diference between it and the newer cm9/10 versions, and I must say that, although CM9/10 versions are very stable regarding the amount (or lack of) ram on our device and have a way better interface and multitasking layout, when it comes to overall ram usage, Gingerbread´s based cm7 on our phones is better. With CM9/10 I was managing 60/70 MB maximum available Ram (idle and using greenify and the likes) 37 MB maximum with heavy load. With CM7 I get 70/80/90 - sometimes more than 100 MB! - available Ram when apps are out of memory and 50 with several apps loaded. The result is a snapier response to touch and apps loading faster (specially "heavy" apps like Facebook and Viber). The diference is big.

There is no doubt that Milestone´s amount of ram memory is a big botleneck given todays standarts. Which is a pity. I LOVE the looks on this phone. And the fact it has got a qwerty keyboard. Nowadays there isn´t a single phone that can touch what the Droid/Milestone represented back in the day! In my opinion Motorola let this line die when they released the droid 4 (ugly as fu%$k - with all those rounded edges). Same goes for Photon´s, etc. Ugly phones (in my opinion). The last really beautifull Droid/ Milestone phone was Droid3/Milestone 3 (and even then they degraded the back of it, puting plastic on the battery cover - I have never had problems with the back cover coming off, and you could simply tighten the locking mecanism a bit and problem solved).:rolleyes: if it had been released with 1 GB of Ram that phone would slay! and it would certainly be my next phone!

People nowadays talk build quality a lot, back in 2009 Motorola was already showing how it was done (even prior to the iphone 4 - which many talk about as having lots of quality). :o This phone is a brick! (in a good way). :cool: Just be carefull not to let it fall often. I´ve managed to let that happen a few times and I´ve been lucky:(

Just my two cents on this matter though.:good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Patch it yet?

heh.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
Was the question for me zeppelinrox? If so, I did not understand it:confused:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Yes.

Well I know you've patched services.jar before so asked if you patched the current one (for the multitasking mod)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
Oh, ok. I´m currently on CM7, and I need a fast, stable phone for use at work at the moment. I think you are refering to the multitasking mode for ICS/JB Roms? I´ll still need to back up my current rom configuration (which still isn´t quite at my taste (don´t know why, but some apps did not batch restore on Titanium - it frozze on me everytime) and I had to do a manual install ... tedious stuff! lol ).

Whenever I installed your V6 supercharger via pc configuration (with Ultimatic Jar Power Tools if I remember correctly) that option always went by me. I never was much of a multitasking dependent person. I just need "that" amount of ram memory available so the phone is relatively fast and usable :o.

I´ll have a look at it. Maybe one day I´ll try it out, who knows. Just a bit out of time at the moment. Off course, "V6" is already installed on CM7. I specially LOVE the Lock Home in memory option. Works wonders! :D.

Thanks for the ideas/recomendations. Really appreciate it. :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Glad you like it.

CM7/GB on milestone is why I created OOM grouping fixes and different launcher strengths ;)

If you never read it before, read post 3 of the supercharger thread (that used to all be in the OP)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ricfil:
I´ve come across some lines along what you are refering, but the practical aspect of it is hard to grasp from a non technical point of view. Will have a closer look at the OP thread again. :good: Anything that may save me a few MB in available Ram is welcome. I notice A LOT of diference in having, for example 50 and less MB available Ram and having 70 plus available. The diference is HUGE ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] s27moto:
all download link is dead pls give me the link of last version cm 10 for milestone
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
The activity here seems to be very rare now.Is it because Kabaldan and Skrilax have deserted us?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Quentin himself:
Actually, yes.. No more ROM implies no more discussion. Since we haven't followed the development of the kernel and the Milestone only has 256Mo of RAM, you could be sure that the only ROM that could appear in the future will be CM7 without 2ndBoot, not above (I guess). If my sister didn't want it and if I had enough knwoledge in dev, be sure that I will have continue some dev on it for testing purpose or leraning purpose...

However, it is sad to have seen the forum dying in only few days.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you Quentin himself for your reply and readiness to continue for development .But I really sorry to see this thread dying and the circumstance to leave this good phone and to fetch a new one.