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[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Bobsofa:
Hello everyone :),

I currently own a Motorola Milestone (EU) with the most recent stock ROM. In the last days I installed the widgetlocker app, which is very good. But now I got one big problem: my RAM is nearly always full (I have no task killer app), which causes the zeam launcher UI to reload permanently. This is really annoying!

Now to my question:

-Are there ROMs which use much less RAM then the stock version? Cause this would be my main reason to root the Milestone.

-Does the vulnerable recovery still work? If yes, are there working links? All links on page one are dead.

-If there isn't a ROM which suits Question 1: any ideas for my RAM problem?

Sorry if my questions sound stupid, since my last, very dreadful, adventures with the HTC Touch HD rooting (which was a hardware disaster) I was out of the picture.

Thank you very much for your help
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Eclair or Froyo?

If Eclair , Telus lite

IF froyo, FroyoMOD / CM 6.1.2

I will not advice GB roms, but if you want to try them out. CM7

Check out this sticky thread. Rooting is damn simple on the milestone.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Bobsofa:
so it is a promising option for my problem? And how can I check if it runs on Eclair or Froyo (Firmware is 2.2.1)?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Use Telus lite v5.2. Fast, overclocked. You will find memory issues with all froyo roms including the stock ones.

It depends on what you use your phone for.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
Yep check the SuperCharge thread in my signature.

It makes all ROMs fast without launcher redraws by rearranging apps priorities and grouping things differently
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cowboycc:
hi all, i have difficulties when backup my milestone...

when i choose nandroid->backup, it will hang on backup the system part...

i just check my bootloader version, it is 90.73. will it be the issue that it hang when i backup my phone??

thanks.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
hi i just purchased this:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260775845383&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

can someone set me up with the proper files to flash and root so i can flash a custom rom and not brick my phone. thanks. i have the rom i want to flash im just looking for the proper sbf i guess, but feel free to walk me through. id greatly appreciate it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=983516

Best way to get everything done properly. I think you can flash a 2.2 sbf, but I used a 2.1 sbf if I remember correctly.

http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone221

Don't count on that link for the proper sbf, I'm not 100% sure if that's the one you need to use. Once you flashed a VR, I can help out from there :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
Would it be better if I get the actual device. The seller says its.on 2.2
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
How do I do that? I feel like a noob.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
Okay, so I made a bit of a mistake. The link I sent you for the 2.2.1 SBF is if you want to recover. You can still take the one you want in case you need to return it, but what you want is THIS VR: http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

That is all if you have a bootloader version of 90.78, the 90.74 one is there as well.

I wrote myself a big tutorial (was going to send it to a friend, he doesn't want to root :eek:), if you want I can PM that to you?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
Yea I dont mind. I need to read up as much as i can before I get the device so I can breeze thru it when it comes in the mail
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
U can send it over. Thanks alot. I need to perfect it so I can breeze thru it when it comes
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
What I did is remove the FroyoMOD that I had attached in the zip. I rooted using Universal androot(included). But you can also try rooting through AOR after having properly flashed the VR. I've never tried it, so I wouldn't know.

https://rapidshare.com/files/460660911/Milestone_Root.zip

Never uploaded a file before, let me know if the link works.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
So this is simple? Lol. Im being real cautious
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
It looks quite daunting but isn't that bad, really :p

Follow this guide more or less and you should be fine. You can always PM me or post in the forums, we've all been through it before :p
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
Alright thanks. My phone has been shipped so I should have it saturday.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
Alright then, it shouldn't be that bad to get it up an running. The hardest part is flashing the VR and getting AOR running. After that it's all a piece of cake :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CB620:
downloading the file now. ill let u know if it opens up with all the files.

i just checked tracking it should be here sat like i stated. i will get the rooting because im returning my G2x and will use the milestone till the sensation comes out. i will stay in contact. i sent a friend request.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
Accepted! :cool:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Azick:
Hi everyone. I have one critical problem :) I can't enter to recovery menu (not recovery scree with phone icon) I try to press volUP and Camera buttons many time, but no result, only blank screen with yellow icon and phone :( Bootloader version is 90.73. ROM official 2.1, vulnerability recovery installed already. Any ideas bout that ? Thank for any help.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=796679&page=26

There you go... no buttons required.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Azick:
Thanks. But your method needs rooted phone. My phone is unrooted :( For rooting I need enter to recovery, I can't do it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
Uh... root it?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Azick:
Thank you for your link. I've done it. You are the best ;)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] eiubbedin:
I have a problem.I did it, made e backup and reboot.Phone starts and its stuck in Motorola logo.I did the procedure again and phone gets stuck again.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] poy:
ok so I have open recovery installed and using CM6 (latest release) on my Milestone (telus unlocked and rooted). Before I had a blue text with overclocking section. Today I opened open recovery and its now red text with no overclocking section at all. Could I get assistance on how to get back the overclocking section back? I've tried replacing the open recovery folder and update.zip with fresh ones and still nothing. However I did switch from a 2gb card to a 16gb card in the past few days, perhaps this played a role in changing this? :confused:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Which OR did you use? AOR or OR 1.46.

OR 1.46 is red.Earlier versions were blue.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] poy:
Using OR 1.46, also sorta crappy... I decided to change roms and well forgot about baseband change. Also "baseband" isn't available so i can change it to CANADA for usage.

I had a brain fart, AOR indeed it is =) I complained about the wrong OR **doh**
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Swali:
Hi, i'd like to downgrade my Milestone to install all the stuff needed to have a rom, but a file is missing, the "recovery-only sbf" file. Mediafire says the file may not exist on its error page.

Any help please ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
Depending on what version your bootloader is, you can use one of these Vulnerable Recoveries: http://android.doshaska.net/rootable
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Swali:
Thanks, and where can I get the bootloader version ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
When you enter bootloader mode (power button+d-pad up when phone is shut off), you should see the bootloader version right at the top.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Swali:
Thank you, I know can give my phone a second breathe :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
No problem, let's hope it works :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Maroon Mushroom:
Ok, 4th time trying to flash the SBF file. Failed every single time.

I get: "critical error 1337 510B"

Is there a different SBF file that I can try?

Has anyone else seen / resolved this error before?

Any help would be really appreciated.

This milestone has been the biggest headache to mod out of all the androids I've worked with. Aria/captivate/x/incredible/droid2/hero/g1 included :(
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] tase25:
Hi,

The RSD and Bootloader links on the OP are not valid any more. Please update.

Thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] meltwater:
Just following this at the moment, picked up some links:

RSDLite4.6.msi:

http://www.mediafire.com/?cycwzg0j15b

Bootloader:

http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

http://www.mediafire.com/?jzzjmmrvwkz

GOTs Open recovery:

http://groupoften.wordpress.com/g-o-t-s-openrecovery/

http://www.multiupload.com/ORHI6UI34W

Yep all works fine!

Also quite handy if you've lost your standard recovery previously by trying install another recovery.img (the bootloader includes a standard type recovery image it seems).

Ok, just have the issue that it is restored to stock recovery after every reset I guess since I have an old OTA update on there (details http://android.doshaska.net/rootable).

[THE FOLLOWING DIDN'T WORK...]

Just place the Disable_recovery_check_by_OTA.sh [rm -f /system/etc/install-recovery.sh] (from above link) in the OpenRecovery/Scripts directory on the sdcard. Boot to recovery, apply the update.zip for OpenRecovery and run the script (through Miscellaneous->Run Script).

[CURRENT ALTERNATIVE...]

Leave the Update.zip on the sd-card and it reloads OpenRecovery whenever you boot to recovery. ROM updates etc can be applied through the Updates folder, so not really a problem it seems.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] electrified:
Guys i need help. I'm stuck on:

Press Volume Up and Camera button at the same time till you see the recovery menu.

When I press that, nothing happens :/

nvm, solved.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Fekish:
isnt it camera and power button?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] FrostyWolf359:
Hi. The tutorial worked perfectly fine for me when I followed it all at the begining of the year, and I have been trying many different ROMs, trying to find the one that suits me best, and then about a week ago I flashed a new froyo .sbf (which other people on these forums had success with and is supposed to be vulnerable) BUT I can now not access OpenRecovery.

I just get the "EOCD marker occurs after start of EOCD" error message, which from what I can tell means that this .sbf is not a vulnerable recovery rom.

Its not the OTA problem with the install-recovery.sh file, as I booted directly to normal motorola recovery after flashing the .sbf, and it still gave me the EOCD error. Please Help, as i can no longer flash custom roms or restore my backups now.

Also, RSD Lite is not allowing me to flash the old GOT_2_2_1 .sbf

No idea why, but the start button just doesnt enable itself with that file loaded. This is precisely the same .sbf I originally flashed to get recovery and custom ROMs in the first place.

I have been able to achieve root via SuperOneClick... but I would like nandroid abilities back...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
Try taking the SBF you want to flash and placing it on the root of your C:/ hard drive and rename it to a one letter sbf like a.sbf.

Try flashing that afterwards.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] FrostyWolf359:
I'll try that, but I doubt it will work, because I have always kept these files in the same place and I have no idea why it worked earlier this year with the same version of RSD, sbf and phone drivers, and now it doesn't. I have not reinstalled windows or anything major since then.

I'm not that bothered right now though, coz I'm ok with stock froyo. I'm more just confused as to how it worked before but won't now.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
It is actually completely possible. RSD Lite is a very finicky program and it's possible that it worked the first time but not anymore.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gopinb:
Does tis Open Recovery work with any android phone like CSL MI-410?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
I'm about to do this for a friend and I have a couple of questions.

1. Does this Open Recovery allow for clearing battery stats like ClockworkMod?

2. Is the Droid and Milestone the same device?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Anil_Trinidad:
Sorry for resurrecting an old thread with a noob question.

I followed the instructions for the vulnerable recovery as in the original post. I never saw PASS on RSD, but it said 100% executed. (I didn't reboot and hold the UP key while rebooting :( ). Using windows 7.

I used the group of ten (GOT) open recovery. That said - I unplugged and was able to get into the VR and run the update.zip file and get into the OR menu. I was able to root the phone - I think (as I can see the superuser app installed). I am on Eclair 2.1 update 1. I tried making a Nandroid backup - but it gets to the point of "Checking free space on sd card" with the LED blinking red and just hangs up. I left it for 30-40 mins - and the phone just gets hot on the upper back.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] FrostyWolf359:
1. To clear battery stats, use "Battery Calibration", or something like it from the Market

2. No.... Droid and Milestone are not the same, you might break your device flashing a Droid image to a Milestone.

I found that I need about 400 - 500mb free on my SD Card for a nandroid to work. Also try clearing the application cache before doing a Nandroid (I think its Dalvik... its the one that does NOT reset the device)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Anil_Trinidad:
Thanks for that Frosty. I will try to wipe the dalvik cache as you suggested. My sd card has 6+ GB free on it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] FrostyWolf359:
Ok, cool. So it should work then. Sometimes you need to just go straight to the nandroid backup without going to other menus in recovery. I dunno... found it to be a little finicky sometimes, but it usually ends up working. Good luck :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Anil_Trinidad:
Well I wiped the dalvik cache and that went fine, then I tried the backup. I selected 'backup all' and it said:

Dumping boot to /sdcard/nandroid..../boot.img...done

Dump of the recovery partition suppressed.

Dumping misc to /sdcard/nandroid..../misc.img...done

Dumping bpsw to /sdcard/nandroid..../bpsw.img...done

And then hung up again... :( When I went into the SD card using ANDExplorer, I could see the files above, with a 'system.img' of 0 bytes.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] FrostyWolf359:
Those last 2 lines worry me.... as I have never seen misc.img or bpsw.img made during a nandroid, ever. Which model of the Milestone do you have exactly? The normal one (at least from what I know) is the A853. It will say a model number on the white sticker on the phone under the battery.

I don't think the "recovery partition suppressed" is so bad, coz OpenRecovery bypasses that anyway coz the real Motorola Recovery image is signed and protected from tampering.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Anil_Trinidad:
Frosty - the sticker doesn't say on the back. It just says "Motorola Milestone. Above that there is another number that says MVQ7-334411A11. Nowhere on there does it say A855 or 853. :confused::confused:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] aldude999:
I'm completely stuck. The links for RSD and SBF are broken everywhere I look. Anyone have a working mirror?

EDIT: Never mind. I found them all.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] lebmb:
by any chance can you provide mirrors for the recovery? all links seem to be down, even from got's website since they use multiupload

thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] aldude999:
I found this searching around but I've not tested the links yet.

http://download.peteralfonso.com/sholes (It seems to have everything needed.)

There is clockwork in there though down at the bottom of the page. I tried SPrecovery when I did it and fair warning with it, you will have a hell of a time flashing zips. The only option you have to flash is update.zip, so say you want to flash CM7 with gapps, rename the CM7.zip to update.zip and flash, then when its done rename CM7 to something else and rename gapps to update.zip and flash it. also the nandroid backup format it saves is incompatible with clockworkmod (from what I can tell), using:

boot.img

data.tar

nandroid.md5

system.tar

Anyway, I'll be backing up the needed files to my site as well, just in case. ;)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] lebmb:
I'm pretty sure that's for the Droid for Verizon, i used to use it before, but now it's my desk clock lol that's not for the milestone

i did get everything from here though

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=941346

in case anyone else needs it
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] aldude999:
If you have a milestone CDMA it will work. If you have a milestone GSM they will not work. CDMA Milestone is identical to the Droid.

Just tried the clockwork recovery on the A854, it works, but it runs quite glitchy. I would suggest flashing the newer version after you flash a ROM Manager compatible ROM (I only say it like this because it doesn't work on 2.1. If it is in your market, it's compatible)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] lebmb:
yeah i know, i have both the cdma and just got an milestone from a friend,

the gsm one is the one i needed the recovery for it, but i found it we are good

what sux with the milestone is that the segment from the search button and above doesn't work, i've seen its very common, but i doubt i will try to fix it, those phones are a pain to the take a part lol
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kenosis:
how can i root milestone? all the links are broken
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
If you only want root, this works

http://www.addictivetips.com/?attachment_id=41115
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] coder2k:
Hi,

I have a small problem:

I have a old Milestone. I followed the instructions on page 1 but i get the /!\ sign and can't continue. I press Volumen up and camara at the same time but nothing happened.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Quentin himself:
Don't remember but I would press only on Volume Up or Down without Camera.

Try to press first Camera (keep) and then Volume Up or Down. Try too to open your keyboard and press X (this last is for going to the step you're so normally it would do nothing.)

Give us a feedback, because it arrived to me several months ago and can't remember what I did ^^
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] coder2k:
I tried almost every combination. No one is working. I put the update.zip on the SD card.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Quentin himself:
You've to put update.zip + OpenRecovery folder at the root of your SD-Card
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] -FuFu-:
to enter Open Recovery, you must press Vol Up (and hold) and then press Camera to open the original recoery menu (when you in recovery an the /!\ is shown)

then select apply sdcard update.zip by using vol keys or dpad and apply by pressing the dpad middle key (the golden one) and then it boot the open recovery...

hope you understand ;) and sorry for my bad english
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] coder2k:
Hi,

The Open recovery is on the sd card. The update.zip and the folder is in the root directory.

If I start the phone I press and hold the x button. Then I see the /!\ sign. I tried to press every combination of volume up and down an the camera button. But I only see the /!\ sign.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Erovia:
Is there any rom on your phone right know?

Maybe the buttons dont even work so you should test them in some way.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] coder2k:
Hi,

yeah it semms to be the stock rom. I can change the volume and take photos. The Buttons are working :confused:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Erovia:
Than i dont know what could be wrong.

Start the phone while holding the X button, when the /!\ sign comes in, press and hold VOL-UP and press CAMERA. I've tested it and works fine on my stone.

I really have no idea... :S
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] -FuFu-:
maybe reflash the vulnerable recovery helps?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] coder2k:
Maybe you could give me a linke? The Link in the first post is down so I tried to find a recovery with google. But I'm not sure if it is the right version :confused:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Erovia:
HERE you can find the latest version.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] coder2k:
It looks like a big Problem...

I tried it many times but it didn't work for me. Flash the sbf file works fine. But then I can't enter the recovery. Only see the /!\ sign.

Is there another solution?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Hi! all the links for the recoverys are broken :/ can someone help me?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Erovia:
What "recovery" are you looking for? Vulnerable recovery image or OpenRecovery?

If vulnerable recovery, read my post #256.

If OpenRevovery, you can find kabaldan's one and FuFu's one in the Milestone Development section. (or FuFu's one in my signature)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
I wanted Open recoverys: other sites rederict us to brocken links :/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] itestai:
I really need help!

i got the milestone from a friend, a used and broked one.

i open it up and fix it.

but there´s the problem.

I dont have the power button, and i cant get on the bootloader screen. so, i cant put any rom i want! =~~

i need help with that.

the phone is working.

When i try to put any thing on the RSD lite, i got the erro 0x7927 error (when im put the vulnerable thing too)

When i try to put the update from the phone, (i try many diferentes files) i got the EOCLD error.

i thing the problem is the bootloader missing! with dose, i think i'll be able to do any thing on rsd without error.

like... when i try to press up when the phone reboots, it just show me a black (with little light) screen, takes a couple min and get me back to M logo and the phone start android normal...

i try all most every thing, peoples on other foruns say to me take the phone to assistence, but i have no warranti any more! ^^

any one knows a way to get the bootloader back?

i try to use apks like quickboot and that kind of stuff, but they do the same, black screen then start android.

any sugestions?

tks! ^^

Versão do firmware:

2.1-update1

Versão de config. Firmware:

GAS_LA_USASHLSRETBRAT_PO29

Versão da banda de base:

3gsmepu91a_u_91.07.50i

Versão config. banda base:

USASHLSRETBRALA02C.0R

Versão Karnel:

2.6.29-omap1

bmqr67@ca25rhe74#1

Numero da versão:

SHLA_u2_03.05.0
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] din0_22:
ROOTED.

Hold on a minute...

i just realized this today.. i've been busy with my Nexus 1 recently..

so telus milestone has just been ROOTED???? does it mean that the bootloader is now unlocked?

am i right?

Does it mean we can flash custom roms and/or an early build of froyo as well??
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] H4s1:
I've tried so but if i want to flash the vulnerable_recovery_only_RAMDLD90_78.sbf RSD Lite says:

Failed flashing process. Failed flashing process. (0x7100); phone connected

Here are the details of my stone:

IMEI/ESN/MEID: N / A

Technology: N / A

Software Version: N / A

Flex Version: N / A

Bootloader Version: v0x009074

DRM Version: N / A

AP Die ID: 1960010bca6e0304000000000400

BP Die ID: 0000000000000000000000000000

AP Public ID: 6a0c4b95d4448a2dc9a300fd91cc9da7f47b79a6

BP Public ID: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Is there anything wrong with my bootloaderversion?