yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zankyw:
I can try to help you with GOT's Open Recovery (the one I already tried):

Once you have placed the content in the root of the SD, reboot your phone in the recovery menu, there are two possibilities which you should try in order to access:

A) Camera button + Power

B) X (in the keyboard) + Power

Keep both buttons pressed until you see the M from Motorola, and then release the Power button, but keep the other one pressed (either Camera button or X).

Then you will see a triangle with a warning signal. In this moment, you should release the button and press Volume Up + Camera button.

You will then enter in a black menu with blue letters, use the pad to choose the option you want.

Let me know if it works for you. ;)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] packesel:
Hi! When installing OpenRecovery everything like rooting and overclocking works fine but after the next reboot and me trying to enter OpenRecovery again it will show me the stock Recoveryscreen and running update.zip again will fail with EOCD marker error again.

Any help, pls?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dricos:
Thanks for your help,...

Since I'm not using GOT's Open Recovery,... I can't choose any zip in Recover Mode .
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
@zankyw - I think you answered the wrong question. Dricos needs to use RSDLite to flash the vulnerable recovery as described here:

http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

You will find all the download links you need there.

Why do you need to downgrade your OS from 2.1? This is not a necessary step for rooting, and I'm not sure why anyone would want to do so.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mousiope:
Try to flash a new recovery i tried the one from GOT´s page (firmwares) and i never had that problem again, I´m familiar with it because everytime i had to use open recovery i needed to use rsd lite and flash the recovery ...

And if you do a factory reset (wipe data/cache) this also means you have to flash the recovery using rsd lite again
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dyonas:
I've got one quick question that I want to be sure of the answer to before I start with my Milestone. The instructions in the first post are very detailed but the top says requirements and underneath is a usage / how-to. Are you supposed to go through the requirement steps first? I know it may be obvious to those that have done it before and see no risk in it but this is a new phone and I don't want to screw it up on day 1 :P

Does having the 90.73 bootloader make any difference?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dsixda:
Follow the instructions in the order they are given (#1 Requirements #2 Usage) and you will be fine.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dyonas:
I must be doing something wrong because the "Start" button never becomes available. It isn't an issue now though, I suspect the person I bought the phone off has already rooted the phone because I've been able to run the overclock apk around here. At that time I noticed the SuperUser prompt and felt stupid -_-
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] as_x1:
my big problem that i can not use the recovery restore

1. in recovery mode my laptop does not see the phone.

2. i tried with OpenRecovery and G.O.T recovery, but the phone is stuck in the M Logo, no matter which rom what i try to flash.

i welcome any suggestion! thx
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cliq:
THis file on step 4 is not available. Can anyone please provide this? Thanks!

And the Recovery-Only SBF (which will downgrade the Recovery Partition and not the system)

EDIT: Got the file!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] harriisnotinabox:
recover-only sbf link doesnt work
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] bilguunbayr:
Hi iamdarren,

Is there any way to unlock korean motoroi xt720? Its not rooted and upgarded to 2.1 recently. Help me my friend please.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] snake2001vn:
I've already do all steps (all things are successfull) but why I stuck on M? I'm using FW SHOLS_U2_02.31.0 and rooted using one-root. Can anybody tell me what i'm wrong? (after run update.zip, it enter to GOT but when I reboot phone stuck)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] @ns:
i hav rooted my phone using universal root app...which step shud i proceed on flasing custom roms?

do i still need the vulnerable recovery file on the phone?

or i just download GOT open recovery and do a nandroid bckup then flash the roms?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ipd98:
I did not have any problem to root my milestone from HK version 2.0 to SHOLS_U2_02.34. However, after upgraded to SHOLS_U2_02.36 (HK version), I could not be able to root my milestone at all by using vulnerable recovery + GOT open recovery 1.04a. My bootoader is 90.78. The reason for upgrade is because of SHOLS_U2_02.34 not that stable on the radio part. The line is seriously dropped.

I have tried GOT roms, only UK rom is comparably stable, but the line will still be dropped a few times a day. SHOLS_U2_02.36 HK rom (official) is more stable than the others, but it can't be rooted. Please help!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ipd98:
Sorry, my bootloader should be 90.78ch instead.

Problem solved!

I just flashed back to 90.78 bootloader, then I could root my Milestone.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] raikan123:
anyone can send or let me know where i can find the recover-only sbf ?? and does it mean that when i finish the process my phone is already rooted and can OC ?

are all the function in G.O.T working such as app2sd ?

Btw whats the OC function for ? can i not use it and just use app from market to OC ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dyonas:
OK I still don't see any answer from when I asked originally and I'm still stuck at the same part. For some reason the "Start" button never becomes available while I'm sitting at the bootloader. I have the recovery only sbf selected in RSD Lite, I turn the phone on and go into the bootloader and it says that it's ok to program and USB mode as you expect but "Start" stays greyed out.

Can someone please tell me what is required to get around this? I'm on the 90.73 bootloader and the phone already has root so I'm guessing the original owner has done this and then restored it before passing it on to me. Will MOTO Link prevent the phone working with RSD Lite?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] as_x1:
you have to rename your sbf file to 1234.sbf. it should be working!_a
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dyonas:
I renamed it to "1234.sbf" and that didn't make the Start button clickable, still stuck. Anything else?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] milestonefail:
i had the same problem. go to this site and scroll down to "known issues". i think i saw the fix on this forum somewhere too but i forget

androidforums .com/milestone-all-things-root/75460-milestone-2-1-update-root-guide .html

basically you copy the batch file and the sbf in to the folder, and drag the sbf into the batch file. should work. make sure you read the second "known issue" too.

only thing is, for me, my open recovery doesnt seem to stay loaded. every time i boot into recovery i get the normal one and have to reapply update.zip.... but w.e it works other than taht :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dyonas:
That got it, thanks a lot! :) I've got the same issue as you in that I had to apply the recovery update.zip every time I wanted to access it but I got to try out the ROM. It's good but I switched back to rooted 2.1 since I'm hoping Motorola get on with 2.2 in September as noted on the O2 Germany twitter.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
The Milestone recovery can only be replaced with a signed Motorola image. Anything else and the locked bootloader rejects it. This is why you must branch into custom recovery via update.zip. And the only reason you can even do that is because Moto once upon a time gave us a vulnerable recovery partition. :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] MaDaFGG:
The USB drivers from Motorola link in first page doesn't work with me, I click the http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Support/Experiences/Global_Drivers/USB_Drivers_bit_4.7.1.zip and they say page not found. Any Mirror ~!???
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] chinovido:
Still can't flash sbf file on bootloader mode, mine is 80.89, any ideas?

Got fatal error
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Can this work on CHARM MB502 ME502?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] abauomy:
Recovery-Only SBF link down

PLZ can u provide a new link?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] flakessp:
yeah some link aren't working ((
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] y-fatih:
I cant see the Connected status on RSD Lite aka doesnt find my phone even tho I'm connected with the cable. What could be the reason of this or how do fix it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ulick82:
Rooting And MIlestone 2.1

this sticky doesn't help- tried it all.

Can anyone post a complete Plan to root milestone 2.1 -update1

please
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] hsnmz:
I have applied it and it works :)

I applied GOT Recovery and splited my 8gb card in to fat32 and 1gb ext2. now i want to format my card back to fat32 and remove ext2 partiotion. Can anyone guide how to do that?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] tones81:
Experiencing the same issue. Trying to downgrade version but RSD Lite 4.6, loads up phone connected in bootloader mode but RSD does not detect that my phone is connected (no phone visible in hardware list). Running Windows XP - slightly elderly PC so that could be affecting things!

Thoughts anyone?

If it helps:

Device: Telecom New Zealand Motorola Milestone

Build: SHOLS_U2_02.38.2

Firmware 2.1-update1

**Never mind! N00B mistake alert - issue resolved**
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] jahova:
recover-only sbf mediafire link is down.

Does anyone have a mirror?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mako.sk:
hi all link Recovery-Only SBF not work.... pls reup:):)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] alex_rene:
The link to RSD Lite Tool and Recovery-Only SBF don't work, can somebody please reupload them?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
The rootable recovery links from here still work:

http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

But not the RSD Lite links. You can try:

http://and-developers.com/tools:rsd_lite

Since they used multiupload, there's a better chance that some haven't been taken down.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kgbd1:
I second this. Any options for a recovery image with Nandroid for the Charm?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] MenoDev:
install-recovery.sh is the biest

I had the same problem, whatever i did, i didn't achieve to get update.zip to work.

Until i read by accident that if a device has had an OTA, you'll have a script in /system/etc/install-recovery.sh that will flash on boot when the checksum doesn't match. The solution is to install the firmware with RSD Lite, when the phone reboots you must press the camera button so that you reach recovery modus and wait till the flashing is done. Next you remove the above mentioned script and find something called "Disable_recovery_check_by_OTA.zip", make sure you have that in OpenRecovery/scripts before you take any action, so after deleting the recovery.sh you can finally boot into update.zip, where you want to run the Disable_recovery_check_by_OTA.sh as first thing, once you've done that, you'll be able to do your Nandroid stuff, and enjoy like the rest.

It took me quite some time to figure that out, hope this will help some that are going thrue the same.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] FirstEpic:
Does this work on a Asia Milestone? I'm in SG.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] rand0m_insanity:
Hi, I tried installing apps2sd using the G.O.T. version. I also wiped the Dalvik-cache of my Milestone. Am I doing it right? Thanks a lot
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] applebook:
This works for the HK (Asian) version, but you have to perform the extra steps outlined by Craig here: http://android.modaco.com/content/m...m/308422/milestone-2-1-update-and-root-guide/

I'm running Moto Frenzy FroYo.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] pmjr0987:
I am having this problem now, but i dont know where to find this vulnerable recovery SBF?? how do i get it?

I am trying to do this on a Samsung Fascinate
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vmani:
@masterchief14

The solution is not to let the phone boot up in Android before RSD lite signals "PASS"

So after it goes to bootloader and flashes the sbf, you should hold down the "up" key (or right if you look at the phone vertically) on the d-pad to make it go into bootloader again instead of normal Android. RSD will still signal "PASS" then close RSD, turn off phone and boot into recovery to apply update.zip. Working now, my 'stone is rooted.

Apparently those errors in RSD lite log are no problem I guess:)because I tried this and i rooted my device successfully :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vmani:
The solution is not to let the phone boot up in Android before RSD lite signals "PASS"

So after it goes to bootloader and flashes the sbf, you should hold down the "up" key (or right if you look at the phone vertically) on the d-pad to make it go into bootloader again instead of normal Android. RSD will still signal "PASS" then close RSD, turn off phone and boot into recovery to apply update.zip. Working now, my 'stone is rooted.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] atasic:
Hi everybody,

I was trying to root my milestone but couldn't download recovery only sbf file....the link on the first page doesn't work...can someone post another link for downloading it

Thank you very much in advance
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
http://android.doshaska.net/rootable
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] realerdom:
Hello guys,

can not open my recovery mode,camera and power button presst ,

phone direkt boots.Any help please ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vladstercr:
To enter in Recovery mode you must press and hold "X+Power Button"

Let me know if it works!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] MGA2009:
Hi,

Thanks for the cool guide.

I have a Telus Milestone running GOT 2.2.1 which I flashed thru RSDLite.

So, I have a Vulnerable Recovery.

I wanted to install GOT Open Recovery but the only thing I get is the standard recovery (reboot,wipe phone,wipe cache, install update.zip,etc...) and in the bottom the message "missing cache/recovery/command"

To enter GOT OR I need to flash update.zip and then I can enter but It is not an automatic thing... Is this OK?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
Yes, you will always have to flash update.zip to enter OR. The locked bootloader means we can never fully replace recovery with a custom one.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] DomCowell:
EDIT: Done it :)

Thanks for the guide!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Redneck101:
will this work for my appalachian wireless milestone?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
As far as I can tell, Appalachian is a CDMA carrier. So you should be following instructions written for the Verizon Droid, NOT these ones.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] rophiroth:
links are dead.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CarKey:
I have flashed this sbf maybe about 10 different times now but I still get the EOCD error and I don't know what's wrong.

I have been flashing with RSD once my stone has booted into android because when I try and boot into recovery mode, RSD Lite doesn't recognise my stone. Could this be the problem?

Also, I'm doing what's said in the above quote but RSD never says pass if I boot into Recovery Mode while it's flashing, it says "100%" but also "Please manually reboot this phone" and it's still "In process...".

Any ideas anyone?

I've been trying to root my milestone for about 5 days now.

Thanks in advance.

Car Key
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CarKey:
Okay ignore that above post, I've got it working now (I was being stupid and booting into Recovery mode rather than bootloader mode).

But I've got another problem now, how do I get back into OpenRecovery? I was in, I rooted and backed up with nandroid but then booted into proper Android to make sure the root worked (it did). I wanted to go back into OpenRecovery so I could enable other things like the JiT Beta etc. but how do I do that?

I tried re-applying the update.zip but I'm getting that EOCD error again. Does this mean I have to use RSD Lite to flash the sbf every time I want to go into OpenRecovery (to get past the EOCD error)?

Thanks in advance,

Car Key
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dmc^^:
Hi !

First of all thanks for the great tutorials in this great community! I´ve already rooted and customized various HTC´s and I´m very happy with them =) Thanks alot for your great work down there!

But since yesterday i´ve got a problem i can´t handle:

Bought me a milestone with 2.1 update 1 (with regular manual installed update from the previous owner) and i´m simply not able to use, or root it via open recovery. After flashing the vulnerable sbf via rsd (while doing that i have to repower manually through power + up key while the phone is disconnected) rsd shows me pass. I reboot into recovery, but still got that eocd error which makes it impossible for me to get into openrecovery. I managed to root the milestone via 1 click app, but i´d like to do a nandroid backup what is not possible using rom manager.

Any suggestions ?

May i try to downgrade to a non service 2.0 sbf ?

Thanks for your help
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

Have tried this one?

You may have a version of 2.1 that automatically reflashes stock recovery when you're not looking. There's info on fixing that.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dmc^^:
didn´t tried that till now, caus i had no idea - ill try this evening and give a report.

Thanks =)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kuzeto:
Hi,

Can somebody please tall me how to enable app2sd using OR? I have OR v2.01 and I use EclairMOD V0.3b. Ext2 already exist on the SD.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dmc^^:
re

finally tried that solution, but i´ve got problems...

while rsd restarts i boot into recovery mode, but how do i enter the shown delete command?

just typing it in doesn´t work and i can only choose:

reboot

apply update.zip (which starts flashing vuln. sbf but then returns "failed to verify whole-file signature" and aborts the installation due to signature verification fail.

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

Any Suggestions ?

Thank You =)

edit:

tryed various methods but in the end it worked out well with original OR and changed update zip via method posted by link. Thanks =)

rooting/customizing ms isn´t that easy than HTC devices are xD
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
I guess the doshaka guide was vague on one point... if it's asking you to enter commands in recovery mode, you need to connect using ADB over USB while it's in recovery.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dmc^^:
yes, thats how it worked out!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Crashreptila21:
Hello, i have a motorola milestone and i have a problem, i can't instal all the custom roms for this phone, when i try to restore i have the message "Boot: md5 checksum file missing"

Openrecovery 1.46, milestone 2.1.

Thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] azulay89:
thx

thx alot great guide
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ae3system:
rsd lite cant download.. link down.. other option link
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fenrasa:
That is how I tried it.

I used the new sbf for 2.1 update1 and RSD Lite told me 'PASS'.

Afterwards I directly booted into recovery and I applied sdcard:update.zip, Openrecovery 1.46.

It tells me, that it is launching Open Recovery and that install is complete, but it wont show the menue. Could it be caused by the message

Installing update...
cannot find update_binary

What could I try next?

greetings

edit: I tried to install androidiani-openrecovery 3.3. exact same outcome. android system recovery <2e> and nothing more.

edit: I will try it again with a factory wipe beforehand.

edit: ive got it working now. i had to copy the openrecovery data per cardreader onto the sdcard, not per wlan-ftp-server on the phone.. thanks for working on this project!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] awesome-member:
help a beginner.

ok i am a complete noobbeginner and trying to flash froyomod, but I am stuck.i pass the vunlnerable sbf(vulnerable_recovery_only_RAMDLD90_78.zip) load but get error when i try to install open recovery can any one please upload a video guide.

update:::i now have FroyoMOD v2.2.0 with gingerbread theme:::::. awesome.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ricfil:
New to Android, some doubts here.

Hello there everyone. Like the title says I´m kind of new to the Android system. I have an Spanish Milestone (here in Portugal Motorola ended all kinds of servicing). I´m thinking about going into the Nandroid stuff, just - and most inportantly - because I need the app2sd on it (stupid thing not allowing installing apps on the sd card first hand... Wonderfull Google idea:confused:) ). I don´t want to be fooling around alot with the device, but this feature is a must.

Anyway. I read, and read stuff about it and the only way to root the device is to flash a vulnerable recovery before I guess. Being it a flash thing,there is always the possibility of something going wrong and bricking our phone, right? If that happens may we restore the device flashing a stock rom? Will it be possible that way?. If so, what rom should one get (how we managed to see the one who suits our phone?)

I know the last letters of the rom name indicate the origin country (mine is ES), but what about the SHOLS stuff? What does it mean (I know it´s the compilation number, but does it relate to the choice we should make when picking a rom?)

The specs on mine are as it goes:

Firmware: GAS_EMEA_UCASHLS00RTES_P013

Compilation number: SHOLS_U2_02.31.0

As you see, some doubts here. If guided I WILL get there, I just need the basic starting info on the matter.

Any help will be aprecciated.

Thanks alot everybody.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] nairdat:
I got a problem when i try to downgrade my milestone.In RDS Lite i get this error message " Failed Flashing Process.Phone[0000].Phone is not compatible with multi-interface super-file.(0x703B);Phone connected".What can i do?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ricfil:
I do believe you might need to use this aproach.

Hope it works for you.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ray_jai:
Could someone please update the dead links.

Do i have telus milestone since my phone came with EU charger?

thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9158088&postcount=4

Check the FCC ID numbers in this thread.

If your Milestone came with a Euro charger there's a pretty good bet that you have an IHDP56KC2 Milestone which will not get 3G in North America (EDGE-only on Rogers, Fido, T-Mobile, AT&T; no service on Telus or Bell). My Telus Milestone is IHDP56KC5.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] tase25:
Can you please update the links? None of them seem to work anymore.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] saurabhsaggi:
Help Required

I have an Indian Motorola Milestone which i have upgraded to 2.2 froyo. Only problem is that i did this without doing a Nandroid backup. But now i want to reach to the recovery menu to be able to do the backup of the present mod.

Only issue is that My volume up button on milestone has gone bad and i cant use it along with camera button to reach to recovery menu after reaching screen of Triangle with an exclaimation mark.

Is there any other way to reach to the recovery menu without using Volume up button?

Thanks

Saurabh
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gizmo1908:
Here is the link for the sbf file posted by cmstlist a couple of pages back.

http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

Thanx, was looking for this.