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[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dyonas:
What a mess... I stupidly loaded up a stock 2.1 nandroid and checked for OTA updates. I got the 32MB patch that's been mentioned and figured I may as well see what it does. I installed it, booted up and.......... I could see nothing, even the version number in "About phone" was the same as it was previously. After applying that update I checked again in the hope that maybe FroYo had sneaked out early as a test build to some but got nothing.

Figuring I had lost a lot and gained nothing of note I rebooted to recovery and tried to use the update.zip with OpenRecovery on it and it failed. Ugh. No big deal, thought I'd just grab the vulnerable recovery and go through the rooting process again but that gave me other issues. I managed to eventually flash the vulnerable recovery but it still wouldn't let me flash OpenRecovery, saying there was no update file there. I knew there was, it was showing in Windows and using a file manager to view the SD card contents.

It seems that someone else found out the cause and that it had to do with the OTA update placing some file in the system that would reflash the recovery after booting up the phone. To get around it I had to flash the vulnerable recovery and when RSD Lite rebooted the phone I had to hold the camera button down to go straight into recovery and then flash OR. At that point I could go and delete the file from console with "rm -f /system/etc/install-recovery.sh", as pointed out by the guide I was reading, then I restored my nandroid backup. I think that should keep me going for now, just information that I found elsewhere and haven't noticed on this thread.

Oh, one really bad thing I did find in the OTA update that was driving me up the wall is that no matter what USB option I chose it would go back to the Phone Portal after a few seconds. To say that I'm glad to be rid of that bug is an understatement!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] solidus636:
this thing has been driving me CRAZY!

i'm confused as all hell with my milestone.

currently it is running froyo 2.2.1 CyanogenMOD...BUT...the recovery is the original, i've tried NUMEROUS times to flash the vulnerable recovery, but i suppose it never flashes right...i'm not sure.

it flashes the file from RSDLITE, then when it says OK...the directions say to hold X till you get to the recovery menu,

(during this time, RSDLITE is telling me it is rebooting the phone, when it says pass it is already booted into ANDROID, and the recovery may be getting reset as the directions say. however, how am i suppose to let RSD check PASS the phone and also NOT boot into android and have my recovery reset.)

I then install update zip. OpenRecovery folders and update.zip are on my SDCARD, perfect. update-binary wasn't found a few times trying to flash open recovery, it would hang at the 'welcome to openrecovery' thing while installing open recovery.

i placed the update-binary inside the zip file, as well now.

now, it will not even let me install a package, the EOCD failure keeps showing up.

i'm irritated at what to do, i really need some help on this one.

i'm confused as to how i'm running cyanogenmod 2.2.1 but don't have a recovery to change roms!!!!! Rom Manager flashes the clockworkmod recovery file, but doesn't boot into it..the original recovery is always there.

if anybody could lend me some help, let me know. and i have absolutely no way of finding out if my device had an OTA update, because I bought the device with cyanogenmod already installed...

HELP PLEASE! =/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Clockworkmod recovery doesn't work with the milestone, atleast not for me. If you have rsdlite, try flashing a sbf file from here choosing the appropriate file for your area. It includes the VR, so you can run OR without problems. Then try installing CM6.

btw, what's your bootloader version?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] solidus636:
then why on earth is it available in rom manager with the name of the phone as being motorola milestone?! pointless if you ask me.

the bootloader is 90.78, the correct one needed.

i'll get back to you and see if it works.

also, i just read somewhere that in order to finish the SBF flash, i have to hold the DPAD UP so it loads back into the bootloader...i did...and the flash passed in rsdlite, but the recovery still was giving me the EOCD error.

let me try this and i'll let you know, thanks for the quick reply!

edit: okay, so i have a TELUS milestone, i'm sure it's a TELUS..anyway to check? it runs on ATT 3g, i think this is the only version of the milestone that does!?

so this will bring me to 2.2.1? stock? without cyanogen? but with the vulnurable recovery installed...so i can just update right from the recovery without doing anything extra, right?..i REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hope this doesn't brick...anyway to fix it if it does? i'm sure this won't erase the bootloader...i could probably boot back into that and flash again, right?

thanks.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Choose the telus sbf file and flash. Yes, it will be stock, only that the VR is installed. IF you are successful, then you can flash any rom you want over it. Let me know if it works.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] solidus636:
okay i flashed the SBF...unusually long start up time, correct? as always..haha.

yes the telus one...i really really hope this works..i wanna try the froyoSENSE and MIUI...and it is FLASHED!!! :)))

awesome mayn! now lets hope this installing UPDATE.ZIPs worksss!!!! thanks man!, i left an actual thanks on your post :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
IF you are already on 90.78, you should not have any problems.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] solidus636:
i am on 90.78.

i just booted into recovery...it's still giving me the EOCD..dammit!!!! =/ i thought the VR is supposed to be built in? now i'm on a stock rom! =/// crap.

anything else??
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Did you use the GOT 2.2.1 sbf file from the link i provided? If , yes then it has the VR injected for sure. I have done it a no of times.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] solidus636:
well. i downloaded the telus SBF, which what you told me to do...it installed perfect...boots into stock android with motoblur...but the recovery is the same..not a single change...still showing the EODC error...i flashed it and it passed!!! =/

any idea what's going on?..usually android phones aren't a problem for me at all..never have problems like this..but this issue just has me dumbfounded because it works fine on every other phone, but not mine!!!?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
This link should also help with VR doubts. I also suggest to use the androidiani OR from here.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] solidus636:
okay so i got it all working...of course when i rebooted, the openrecovery went away...so now i'm in the process of reflashing the SBF to bring the recovery back again since trying to update.zip from the original recovery for the second time proved unable to be done..signature errors still.

i have put an update.zip on the root of the SDcard, yet openrecovery couldn't find it??! is there a certain folder update.zip must be in? or on the root, just like any other recovery?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
What update.zip are you talking about? The flashable roms zip file go into the openrecovery/updates folder. For example, if you download CM6, the CM6.zip ( or whatever the name ) goes into openrecovery/updates folder. so the folder structure would be like this.

sdcard/openrecovery/updates/CM6.zip

IF it is a nandroid, it goes into nandroid/openrecovery folder. The structure would be as follows. You need to create the folder if it doesn't exist.

sdcard/nandroid/openrecovery/name of nandroid folder/img files+md5 files
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] solidus636:
that's exactly what i was wanting to know! why did they have to make it complicated? i mean i appriciate all the hard work...but why change the filepath for updates?!?!? ha.

okay, MIUI HERE I COME! thanks again!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] jb0072009:
Can anyone tell me why everytime I boot into OR I get the MOto recovery menu and then have to flash the install.zip to get to Andrioni? Phone is rooted and has vlunerable recovery
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
The recovery can't be replaced on this phone, only hijacked.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Fekish:
When we make a backup, is there a way to rename the name, in order to remember which backup is for which rom?

Thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
You can use the option: "start at boot" in the 2.1 or 2.2.1 modding menu. You will boot right into AOR when you boot into recovery
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Just go to /nandroid on your SD card. Here you will see some nandroid backups. Just rename the folder to your liking
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Fekish:
OK thanks so no actual option in Nandroid to name it as we want.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
I don't have seen a option like that, so I think there isn't one
[Touch GSM General] Aadilahmed:
My Htc Touch/elf on switching on shows a black screen with text "smart phone". it happened after the phone got accidently locked and a friend of mine tried to flash it.

please guide me on what to do.

do i need to flash it? if so can i do it myself?

i wana retain windows 6.1, but are there any latest upgrades to it?

What is ROM and is it causing the problem in my phone?

also give me a detailed list of al the softwares i would need to solve this problem and upgrade my phone.

please hurry!!
[Touch GSM General] !Aman!:
please read the stickies in ROM upgrading section
[Desire General] Azurael:
I'm wondering to what extent it is possible to control the behaviour of the USB port on Android devices - clearly there is room for latitude as 2.2 gave us USB tethering. I'm hypothesising about whether it would be possible to a) write an emulation of the iPod/iPhone's behaviour when docked to a car stereo via USB or failing that (which, I guess would take a lot of reverse-engineering) just USB MTP mode to allow USB-supporting car stereos to playback music from the Android phone without unmounting the SD card... (which is a pain as crappy Kenwood stereos dramatically alter the handling of random when playing files from a mass storage device - it's by folder only rather than having an option to shuffle the whole library) If the USB interface driver kept track of what files it was serving to the USB host, you could even scrobble playback information while connected to the car stereo to Last.fm (something I used to be able to do on a jailbroken iPhone and miss on Android.)

Of course, you could just take the easy approach and use A2DP, I guess, but I'd have to buy a new bluetooth module for my stereo to do that, and I'd guess many are in a situation where this would be unfeasible.
[Desire Themes and Apps] chrmrt:
Hey there!

I want to listen to a specific radio channel (P3, a danish radio channel) but it just so happens, that i cannot find it preloaded in any radio apps, and they only broadcast in .wma.. So what i am looking for is an app, that will let me enter the URL for their stream (.pls) and then play it for me. I found radio apps that supposedly support .wma, but they don't allow for custom URLs. I also found apps that support custom URLs, but not wma.. :(

Prease Halp!
[Desire Themes and Apps] djleekee:
Hi m8 - the app i use to stream nearly ANY type of radio station including wma is an app called Xiia Lite.

Ive blogged about it over at my blog

http://djleekee.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/recommended-android-apps-april-2010/

Its second on the list, inlcuding the barcode to get it! Happy scanning.
[EVO 4G General] bcnice20:
http://m.gizmodo.com/5558349/its-like-project-natal-for-your-htc-evo-4g

This looks veryy interesting
[EVO 4G General] MetroKnight:
It seems un-necessary! why wave over the device, when you can just touch the screen?
[EVO 4G General] danknee:
Makes you wonder how fast using both cameras during awake time would drain the battery.
[EVO 4G General] bcnice20:
Just wanna say I can control my phone with my mind and freak a few people out lol
[EVO 4G General] pecosROB:
I checked it out on the marketplace and it seems like no one (of those who ranked it) didn't like it. 1 star when I looked at it earlier.
[EVO 4G General] danknee:
It isn't on marketplace...you were looking at a garbage app this isn't affiliated with this "eyesight".
[EVO 4G General] engagedtosmile:
It will be interesting to see what is implemented with it.

It would be nice to throw the Evo on a HDMI dock, load up a 720p movie and use hand-motions to pause/fast-forward/rewind/volume etc. :)
[EVO 4G General] Dacian:
I gotta agree, Project Natal is changing the way you play games by not using the controller at all while this is pointless cause you could just swipe. With ther phones it'd make sense though.
[EVO 4G General] shizs14:
I'm getting a poor WiFi signal when trying to connect to a WiFi or my laptop connecting to my phone using hotspot. My wife n1 has a strong WiFi connection. Is anyone having this issue and is there a fix for it?

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[EVO 4G General] avalst:
Yeah my old TP would get a solid wifi signal in my living room and in the same spot the EVO keeps dropping the wifi signal :-\ not a deal breaker still an amazing phone but a bit annoying
[EVO 4G General] shizs14:
I agree, I hope there is a fix for this soon.
[EVO 4G General] pecosROB:
I don't have the hotspot app enabled, but my wifi signal sucks too.
[EVO 4G General] engagedtosmile:
The radio update supposedly improves the Wi-Fi signal, not sure if you have it applied or not.
[EVO 4G General] avalst:
I haven't heard of a radio update. link?

Thank you!
[EVO 4G General] swebby00:
I had the same problem until I moved my DSL router into the area where I do most of my work. It was in a back bedroom where I had it originally installed ages ago. Laptops were fine with it there..

I put in a central area and now I'm getting 5Mbs down and 800kbs up.
[EVO 4G General] shizs14:
Was it the OTA update that was release on the day of the launch or is this a new update?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Knobibrot:
Hey guys,

I'm not that pretty sure anymore about the phone.

My main PRO is the big screen and Android.

The main CON is: Samsung...

My friends, who already owned a Samsung warned me.

One of them said:"I'll give you 3 month till you send it back, because it's not working anymore."

The missing camera LED, notification LED and the update policy of Samsung are reinforcing my concerns.

I'm currently not sure about buying one, so could you give me your reasons for choosing the Galaxy S over a HTC Desire/Legend or an iPhone?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NZtechfreak:
iPhone - don't like the platform and Apple condescending BS.

Desire - have one currently, excellent phone, reasoning for trying the Galaxy S - better graphics prowess (I like gaming), TV Out & DLNA, more storage space for app installation, WiFi tether, DivX, the screen - both better display characteristics and multitouch, better audio SQ.

EDIT: Oh, and the Desire's bluetooth implementation is anoying with peripherals like keyboards/controllers/heart rate monitors.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ramsey:
You dont need to go for htc or apple. There's the new motorola coming out that also has Arm cpu

http://www.slashgear.com/motorola-xt720-hands-on-video-0788530/

I'm loving the cam on it.. and build quality.. but not super amoled but apparently they have great screens (motorola droids)

i still want the galaxy but build quality is worrying..

edit: just doesn't make sense why accessing the app drawer on the motorola is so sluggish lol... seriously it's just icons... I'm pretty sure it's Android's fault not the phone.

edit 2: btw you just worried me as well Knobibrot LOL with your story. though I've heard many but now I'm really thinking about it since I'll be traveling for a long time, I need a lasting phone that does 720p. and Motorola seems like it has strong build quality and a great camera. And it's still Android so hmm..

edit 3: I don't care about watching movies, I don't watch movies on cell phones. LOL count me in Knobibrot, why should we buy it ? haha Galaxy is a great phone but I am not sure all because of build quality and how long it may last.. since already many errors are being reported..

edit 4: arg it doesn't have wireless n the motorola :( and it's not amoled.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nicolopolus:
Still have my doubts too and am questioning the logic behind leaving out all leds. It does appear to be a long running design choice with Samsung phones from what I've read.

I'm ditching my HD2 due to unreliability issues, so the Galaxy does seem a bit of a gamble when the Desire has so many great reviews. It's that damn screen on the G that keeps pulling me back tho!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] v1rtu4l:
this "samsung-bashing" is really getting boring...

its always the manufacturers fault if the user is too stupid, right ?

would you buy a car without ever testdriving it ? no you wouldn't even if the guy who wants to sell it to you says "its the greatest thing since sliced bread and it does 200 mph" !

but with phones it's seemingly totally different... the manufacturer tells you something and you do believe the **** out of it.. instead of just taking the goddamn device in your hand and use the features you need and check if it is ok for you.

yeah i know, its so much harder to get a phone into your hand than having a test-drive, right ?

oh, and when you save all your money for a phone its the best thing to confide in the manufacturers claims and blindly buy it without testing

either be a man and buy something without testing, because you have the money and don't care if its **** (its still YOUR DECISION to spend the money on something you never used before) or be "smart" and test the device, if the money does matter so much for you...

i owned the i8510 and the i8910 samsung devices and they were both top of the line... i got no complains

and here the reasons for buying the i9000:

big super amoled screen

best videoplayer on a device so far (mkv, avi/divx support out of the box)

720p @ 30 fps so far (not "up to 30 fps" like the iphone 4 ;) )

android os

nice samsung customization with touchwiz
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Simple answer from me.....

If I don't like, then by law under the Distance Selling Regulations I can send it back and obtain a full refund inc postage.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nicolopolus:
Well the whole reason with pre-ordering without testing for me is that manufacturers these days don't seem too good (or perhaps intentionally) at judging demand, so if I'm not getting one in the first batch then I could end up waiting months. But that's why I've been checking every review and user opinion, so at least I've got an idea.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] v1rtu4l:
just watch steven jobs tout his iphone ... don't you think he knows that the iphone is crap in some regards ? yet he sells it to "stupid" folks as best thing since sliced bread ... why would he tell you something he knows the iphone is bad in ? his job is to sell phones and not to tell the truth ... same is with the other manufacturers

even without testing every phone i did not have many complains .. some people really need a reality check if they blame the manufacturers for saying their product was great....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DonAndress:
Now, you see, in my coutry for example they respect this law only if the contents of the packege is intact.

Practice shows that sallers always say that the packege was unwrapped and the unit shows signs of usage and they decline taking it back. And that means weeks or even months of Consumer Advocate work or a lawsuit.

So your suggestion is out of question for me (and I think other unfortunates) and becasue of that I always wait and read a lot before I buy a thing that I can't test properly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Well my heart goes out to you in not having a government strong enough to enforce better consumer laws. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
In that case you will simply love reading this....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TravUK:
Like the bearded one, I shall be returning mine under UK distance selling regulations if I'm not entirely happy with it. But I am cautiously optimistic. Samsung is a big company with a lot of customers, it stands to reason they're gonna have some unhappy ones.

This phone is going to be such a big seller (over 1 million pre-orders in Europe), they will have to get it sorted if there are any little niggles, plus if they plan to be taken seriously on Android they do realize they need to change their support and policy towards upgrades. We've already seen them make a clear statement that 2.2 will be supported.

But my main reason for buying it, there's still nothing else out there that comes close in terms of overall capability.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TravUK:
I've got nothing against Apple, but that did make me chuckle.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cooki3s:
The choice between iPhone and the GS is more a choice between android and iOS. I thought about buying the iphone, but then I realized I hated their push notification system (had a lot of bad experiences with it with my iTouch), the lack of widgets, the lousy multitasking (I use ebuddy a lot, and the multitasking implementation of the iphone only allows for push messages with IM's). The iPhone itself is a great device, technically, but the software just doesn't cut it for me.

The choice between the Desire and the GS is a bit more difficult. While the Desire is the nice looking, better built cheaper phone with the great Sense UI (although the touchwiz UI also has some nice things, like the app list and the ability to take screenshots), the Samsung is better in about every other aspect. For example:

-Better, bigger screen with better multi-touch (the Desire has trouble tracking as much as 2 fingers at the same time).

-Better processor AND better graphics processor.

-Better bluetooth and wifi and higher mobile upload speed (2mbps<5.76 mbps)

-Better media player and sound quality with support for Avi, FLAC, ...

-Extra memory, both ROM and general

I'm coming from a desire myself, because I really had trouble playing games on emulators with the bad multi-touch. The GPU also wasn't able to keep up in games like Asphalt.

With the GS already on amazon for 499 euros, I would definitly choose it over the desire, which is around 469 here in Belgium.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] latraviata:
I've only had one Samsung phone so far (i900 Omnia I) but in the 2 years that I owned it I never had a serious problem, even though I bought it 2nd hand on eBay. The only few times it crashed was when I installed a new app it didn't like.

The main reasons why I'm interested in this phone are the 4" Super AMOLED screen, 8GB/16GB on board storage plus SD card, 512mb RAM, 2GB ROM, 1GHz processor with 1500 mAh battery suggests good battery life (although reports so far are mixed), confirmed update to Froyo (as per gsmarena) and apparently good video player and sound quality. Also, I had good experiences with the camera of my Omnia so I'm hoping this bodes well for the Galaxy S camera (yes, I'm aware that it doesn't have a flash). I hated TouchWiz on the Omnia and would prefer plain vanilla Android on the GS, but GS TouchWiz looks much less invasive and more practical than Omnia TouchWiz so I think I can live with it.

I'm keeping an eye on the iPhone 4 as well, but I'm put off by the small screen (smaller than previous iPhones), no flash support for the browser (not so much for youtube but so many websites use it) and I'm a bit suspicious about Apple potentially hobbling Google sync functions. Also not looking forward to iAds.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ramsey:
Yeah, the performance of the phone and the screen are the things that are keeping me from waiting for another phone.

Hearing about bad build quality from those that tried it worries me.

But then again I come from an HTC Magic which has bad build quality but nothing happened to it in a year except dust under screen, but on Sammy that won't be a problem.