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[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] 1xinfusion:
Here's one: (from when I first got my milestone, aka, a newb)

I believe it should be added, as a new user to milestone would not know this. I had some trouble understanding this from searching the web when I first got the phone.

Q: What is the difference between the droid and the milestone?

A: See below

BOOTLOADER:

(ability to load custom roms, custom kernels, etc)

Locked on milestone, open on droid.

* we do have some workarounds to modifying the kernel, such as kernel modules, but they are limited...

MODEL #:

Droid: a855

Milestone a853

RADIO:

(what we use for phone calls, 3g etc.)

CDMA for droid

GSM for a853

2g:

Quad band GSM 850 /900 / 1800/ 1900 Mhz

3g:

850 / 1900/ 2100 MHz for thailand, brazil, canada (telus).

900 / 2100 MHz other (europe, hk etc.)

* note motorola canada incorrectly shows that canadian milestones do not support 2100 mhz , but i am able to see wind mobiles network from my phone. however I am unable to join as wind mobile uses two frequencies (1700/2100 aka AWS/2100) for uplink and downlink

Now all this information is coming from the top of my head. I may be missing some information as I do not know what the droid is completely capable of. This may be because I am a milestone user from canada/telus and have only used a canadian milestone, not the droid. feel free to update / criticize the information here. I will update this if needed or when i have time. If you do not feel this post should be here, just delete it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CFORDv:
Q: whats the easiest way to root my motorola milestone on android firmware 2.1?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] larry996:
Is there a guide on how to buy a Milestone and get it to run on ATT 3G network? I know the milestone has the right radios for ATT 3G right?

Can I root and straight up load a Droid image?

Need some help

Thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] 1xinfusion:
Droid and milestone are different from each other, a droid image will not load up on a milestone and vice versa. you can get a milestone from telus (canadian provider) it has the necessary frequencies for at&t 3g.

or a brazillian or thailand version, but those are harder to find..

european milestones do not contain the right freq!!

Milestone bootloaders are locked, so the amount of things you can customize are severly limited, take a look at milestone development forums and then take a look at droid development forums. there is a big difference in the amount of modifications...

there are many guides to root a milestone, but it involves flashing a vulnerable recovery, and then either rooting via update.zip or via openrecovery (openrecovery the easiest)..

make sure you read the guides (search google i'm a little tired at the moment) for a definitive answer.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] amjad_2020:
Why there is not Roms for it's XT720 i have search but i can find any rom ............
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Min Ye Soe:
Is there any quick way to change a milestone boot logo?

Can it be done with terminal emulator?

Thanks for help.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] holdfast043:
Q: How do I change the Boot Logo on my Milestone?

A: **THIS REQUIRES ROOT**

Before making any changes make a nandroid backup using openrecovery.

First find the boot animation of your choice, search google or this site.

Change zip file name to bootanimation.zip and place in root of your SDcard.

Run Terminal Emulator(available in the market) and type the followings exactly as its written.

su

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2/dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip

reboot

You should see some processing as you typed in the third line.

If you see an error, there might be a typo and retype the third line.

After reboot, you will see the custom bootanimation of your choice.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] holdfast043:
A: You can use the search button or just take a look at the

"[GUIDE] Root + Nandroid Backup/Restore with Open Recovery" thread in this

forum.

Follow the instructions carefully and its simple!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] PMDColeslaw:
Asking for a friend

Q: Is there a way to change the font size in the stock email (exchange) app on the milestone? It's 2.1 Update-1, not rooted.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] NateDogg27:
Is it possible to have the US version of the Milestone xt720 with open recovery?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] lokust745682:
how do you install motofrenzy image?

i wiped my phone with openrecovery already . and now i just don't know how to install the images . it tells me to put it in nandroid/adbrecovery , but there isn't a folder in my phone like that . do i make one myself ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] teeli:
Can't open recovery menu

Hi,

I installed G.O.T's open recovery on my Milestone and did a nandroid backup & installed flac support + root (though my phone was already rooted, don't know why I did that :)

Now I can't open the recovery menu anymore. The device boots nicely to recovery mode with power+X, but camera + volume up doesn't open the recovery menu as before. Any ideas what's wrong?

Otherwise the phone seems to work just fine. Any help would be appreciated :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mousiope:
its volume up then camera
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] xxktoxx:
1. I installed Open Recovery GOT mod. However whenever I enter recovery mod, I always have to install update.zip to access Open Recovery. Is this a limitation of the Milestone?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mxzas:
I don't think so, you go into recovery first, that's when you apply the update.zip, you can't just run your own recovery, that would be too risky.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dwnshft:
There a way to change the boot up sound? the beeps are annoying and I'd like to have the "droiiiiiiiiid" sound like i've seen in a few Youtube ROM demo's.

Is it possible?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] hwithv:
Below is the apk file 1.1 I got from the internet:

http://www.mediafire.com/?l8gqi9egdna5vps

BUT,

I cannot install the apk file of Google Earth v1.1. onto Motorola Milestone (non-root). The system informs "application not installed". I uninstalled the apk of v1.0, then tried to install again this apk 1.1. However, it happened again: Application not installed"

I downloaded the apk file v1.1 from the internet. I tried to 3 different apk files, but the same wrong thing: "Application not installed". Though i got the apk v1.0 installation succefully before.

Please help to install!

Thank you so much
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] omegaart:
Q:

Is there a way/is it possible to unlock milestone phone via change of the original ROM img of the phone with a custum img ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vladstercr:
NO!

As far as I know...software doesnt have anything to do with phone lock!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] jackfrost3821:
I asked this question on many forums but never got any replies.Hope I'll get one here :)

Whenever I run applications and going back to home screen it takes atleast 5-10 seconds to load all widgetsand icons.

Is this problem with everyone??

I have milestone xt720.My phone is even overclocked it to 1ghz

fix my problem...

Please
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vladstercr:
Does this happen on 2.2.1 or in 2.1 ?

If you are using Launcher Pro or ADW just apply the "Keep in memory" option from launcher's preferences...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] thesmoth:
I may buy a motorola milestone X720 from wind mobile in Canada.

This is phone good, and can I root this phone and use the roms included on these forums for the milestone (are they they same phone?).

Also can it overclock easily to 1 ghz from 720 mhz?

Overall people are happy with this phone?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ankit360:
i m planing to buy Motorola Milestone A853

i m buying this because it has ARM v7 processor so i can play adobe flash

is Motorola give support to this phone with android 2.2 and adobe flash ?

another question is this phone has 256mb ram but how actual free ram i get on stock rom ?

is divx avi file [pc resolution ] work smooth on this phone with help of third-party software ?

i m currently using samsung spica and need to upgrade to this phone because 5mp camera + high resolution + arm v7 for adobe flash
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vladstercr:
1. Yes...Froyo 2.2 will be released these days. We might possibly get Gingerbread 2.3...but there is a long way until then and it is still uncertain..buy yes... 2.2 is on it's way.

2. I dont understand your question. Either way, RAM management seems to be improved in 2.2

3. Yes...Milestone 1 can easily play divx, avi files.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] humminghockey:
MIUI

Can anyone leave down the step to flash miui.

I tried G.O.T open recovery i coulded find miui in the open recovery
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ankit360:
thanks for reply actually i want to know how much free ram you get on this phone ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Procedure.

1. Download Androidiani Open Recovery from here.

2. Download miui rom from here or here based on whether you want english localization.

3. Extract the contents of the Openrecovery zip to the root of your sdcard. You should have an update.zip file and a openrecovery folder.

4. Copy the miui rom to the updates folder inside openrecovery folder.( openrecovery/updates)

5. Reboot to recovery, wipe dalvik/cache/data, choose apply update option and select the miui rom from the list. Wait till it finishes.

6. Reboot.

If all went well, you should be running miui on your stone.

cheers
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] humminghockey:
Thx , but i used G.O.T recovery instead
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
If you have taken a nandroid backup, the folder is created automatically. Else you need to create the folder manually.

Also note that Dex uses the old format of nandroid backup, ie.. only 1 md5 file for all images. So you should use the appropriate OR while applying the backup. I think he suggests OR 1.14.

Check his post for that.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] b787:
The highest figure I have seen is 100MB, but usually it is about 80MB with all user apps killed (I never kill system apps). When I open the browser and load engadget it drops to about 50MB.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] onesimus7:
Hi Guys,

I've purchased my Milestone, with Eclair installed with it. Then i flashed it to GOT FroYo 2.2.1. I found an interesting Custom ROM (CHARITY ROM), which says it'll double my battery life, it's a lot more faster and stable.

My Phone is already rooted, ROM Manager, SuperUser is also installed but whenever i try flashing the said custom ROM, it never succeeds. Updating process stops on 1/3 of the process then reboots. After several failure attempts, i tried to reflash the original Telus, 2.2.1 and never installed, tried the same procedure, but without any luck. The outcome is the same, it fails in 1/3 of the update process then reboots.

I don't seem to know the problem of my phone. Can anybody help me with this?:confused:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] puffo81:
It doesn't work simply because it's not for your Milestone! =)

it's a ROM for Droid, that even if similar, it's not the Milestone, so the ROM is not compatible..
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ruffian:
im (im)patiently waiting for the official froyo update for my uk milestone, gone from q4 2010 to q1 2011 it seems....

My questions is once its released what is the update process for my phone? as its has the vulnerable recovery flashed and is rooted and overclocked.

Can i just flash that official update and im still rooted and able to overclock?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
You will have to get it back to stock if you want to apply the OTA update. But, some talented dev will get it rooted in no time. So you just need to wait till that happens.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ruffian:
ahhh ok so when it is actually released ill have to get the phone back to stock before i can even flash it? loosing root for awhile..
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] evenelia:
I think that if u flash offisial 2.2 sbf u dont have to go back to stock first.

Edit: u will allso delete all your data...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
It will not apply the update. That's my experience with 2.1.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Lleviathan:
Identify Radio?

I sent my Milestone, bought in Canada, for repairs while living in Thailand. It was replaced by Motorola Hong Kong with a refurb. There isn't 3G signal where I live in Thailand for me to test 3G. What I want is to make sure I have the correct version of the phone, with the radio that supports the 3G frequencies used in Canada. So I have two questions:

1. Is there a way to identify which radio version I have in software, or by reading a model number/imei etc?

2. Is changing the radio frequencies possible when flashing new/different roms or using openrecovery? I have seen instructions in a few ROM guides that mention flashing a certain file for different radio support.

Thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
You can flash the required radio files for the country or area you are in to get the required frequencies.

You can check here for a list of available frequencies. Check the " Quick FAQ- Milestone" towards the end of the page.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Lleviathan:
So the Milestone hardware supports these frequencies, and we just have to flash a file to enable it for the region we are in? That is amazing! Thanks for the fast reply.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] andreju:
Q: did anybody have the common sense/brainpower to fully dump the fresh SDCard from his/her Milestone before using it the first time? I'm looking for a clean SDCard, without *any* modification on it...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] tttt9999:
Project Elite 4.2 installing problem

Project Elite 4.2 installing problem

I flashed GOT_TELUS_2_2_1FULL sbf and

When i install this rom in milestone via androidini open recovery 3.3

It say

E: Error in /sd/openrecovery/updates/ProjectElite v4.2vanilla.zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted.

I came from Cronos mod 1.8.1 by flashing GOT_TELUS_2_2_1FULL.

Please help me as i am new to android.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
That is not for the milestone, its for the droid.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] tttt9999:
game problem

thanks for the reply sileshn. I have one more querry about game and kill app via long press.

When I had froyo 2.3 rom on milestone i installed gangster WCH and copied game data in gameloft->games folder but when i start the game it still says data required.

Now i installed fire and ice rom and i just kept game data as it is in gameloft->games folser and just installed .apk file and game started without any problem

So is there any problem in froyo or it's some other problem.

when i installed this rom "fire and ice" kill app via long press worked but after some reboots when i hold back button the application just minimises
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] i2gh0st:
Question: what happens if you flash a previos version of the bootloader? Can you brick the device?

I'm not sure but i remember reading somewhere that you end up with a brick.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
http://modmymobile.com/forums/564-m.../531506-bl-09-78-downgrade-09-74-09-73-a.html
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] IFLPI:
how many ppl/devs tried to enable SWAP partition by a kernel module ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] adammckraken:
ext2 on SD

Hey,

My question would be, that how do I know that my stone is using the ext2 partition?

I have G.O.T. 2.2.1 ROM, ROOTED, App2SD Pro installed. Made a 1GB ext2 partition on the SD card, but I'm not sure that it is used by Android. When I check the available space in App2SD it always shows the space on the FAT partition, and there is no option to choose which partitions to use.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Install a few big apps, like angrybirds/talkingcat or a few games and check your phone storage. There should not a very big difference. It should come down only by a few MB's. Usually when you install big apps, the internal storage comes down drastically.

You can also check your ext2 partition. As soon as you install an app, it should show up in the app folder of the ext2 partition.

And i don't think apps2sd pro supports ext2. It only works like the stock froyo a2sd feature.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] adammckraken:
Yeah, I tried that, and when I install an app and move to SD, I can see there is less space on the FAT partition.

I have no clue how to check on the ext2 partition, does it have a folder? like there is a sdcard folder for the FAT partition?

I just recently tried this method to make a different partition on the SD, and the only new folder that I have is the "mnt" folder, but I'm not sure if it came with Froyo or it is supposed to be the ext2 partition?!

Also intresting if I go to "/sdcard" or "/mnt/sdcard" I see exactly the same folders, with the same files in both! And the apps that are supposed to be installed to the SD card are fond in "/mnt/asec", so is this the way it should be I wonder?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
For apps2ext to work, you need specific code to be installed on your phone. Check this link for more details. The downloadable code is in post no 37. I suggest you go thru the entire thread as it has some valuable information.

Also, there is no need to move the apps to sdcard manually in apps2ext. They get installed to the ext partition automatically.

If you have linux, then the ext partition shows up when you plug in you phone storage mode.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fahadz:
sileshs u r the best

i read all your post u have much more info about rom etc

i have 1 little issu in my motorola milestone this modle http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_milestone-3001.php

i dnt see market in my milestone menu.i need market so help me pls
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
What ROM are you running?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fahadz:
Offical rom 2.1
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Then how come you don't have market? Check if there is vending.apk app in the /system/app folder.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fahadz:
sileshn our milestone rite now in my amarican lab so rite now is not possiable i'll chek vending.apk. pls give me any tip i need v important market app in milestone
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
If you don't have the market app on your phone, you need to manually install it. You need to use adb to push it into the /system/app directory. Google for a guide. There are many on the net.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fahadz:
thank u so much sileshn u r rock.. if i have any issu i tell you ok
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fahadz:
I USE THIS SETUPS

adb remount

adb push whatever.apk /system/app (put an apk in your sdk tools and replace "whatever" with the name of the apk and this

will push it to your system app folder. You can change the destination as well for example: You want to push Launcher2.apk

to your data/app folder: adb remount

adb push Launcher2.apk /data/app )

but when i type adb remount in cmd show this error

C:\android-sdk\tools>adb remount

remount failed: Operation not permitted
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Check this thread for adb problems.

Use rootexplorer if you are rooted. So much easier to do stuff.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fahadz:
cant download market apps

hi i m success in market install my milestone but when i install any application

from market give me this ERROR. any tip 4 this error u r very halpfull pls solve

this problam
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] onesimus7:
Hi, since there's too many rom. I can't decide which one i'll use. What's the most stable,fast and reliable 2.2 rom out there?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] slym84:
Airplane mode bug????

Anyone experiencing Airplane mode bug where when changed from ON mode to OFF mode restarts your pnone? Turning airplane mode ON works. I'm on GOT 2.2.1 European. Help is appreciated.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
I think it's related to the ROM you are using, because a really old leaked version you are using. Maybe it's better to upgrade to a newer leaked official ROM or a custom ROM. I recommend CM7 or TheFroyoMod. Also you can watch the complete ROM list I made in my guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11902456#post11902456
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] slym84:
So i just flashed the new O2 Germany firmware and the airplane mode bug is still there.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] xenogearz87:
how to improve RAM memory in milestone..?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=991276

That's as good as it gets... which is pretty good actually.

Because you can control how much free ram you have.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] xenogearz87:
orange dot at my screen especially on black background..

i have this dot screen recently.. what is it..? is it screen problem or just a dust inside the screen..?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] elpicard:
If I buy an European phone, the 3G network will work in Latin America? ie: Brazil?

Can it be modify by soft, like the 3gHack in openrecovery? or the freq are a Hardware thing?

Thanks in advance
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
Depends on the frequencies for your country. If they are the same as in Europe, then all you need to do is to flash the correct baseband for your country. You may also have to enter your apn manually.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Lleviathan:
I've had first hand experience with this. Flashing the baseband files in recovery is useful when a mod has been put together by someone whose phone supports different frequencies than yours. Flashing the baseband for your country/provider merely tells your phone to use the hardware inside, it cannot change which frequencies are supported.

In my experience with a Hong Kong Milestone (which supports 3G on 900/2100) flashing different basebands would not allow it to get 3G in Thailand or Canada (which has 3G on 850/1900/2100) the only way you get lucky is if your provider is on 2100 as the only frequency, as both versions of the hardware support that. I did get 3G in Taipei, so they must use 3G on 2100 there.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] :
try z4root
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] bilalbilal:
Just bought myself a virtually brand new milestone, 1 hour old, it was on official 2.1 and it restarted like 40 times a day the phone was unusable. I then updated to official 2.2.1 and the problem was still there but it restarted less. I got fedup so I went and flashed a custom eclair 2.1 rom and now whenever I turn the phone on it restarts once or twice but then it is fine. I turned it on and off to test and it only reboots once or twice on the first start. Could this possibly be a hardware problem? Or can anyone provide a solution, cheers!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] azi:
hi

I have installed launcher 2 2D on my milestone (i have froyoMOD), but now i can't turn off auto screen rotate, it's turned off in settings but still working. On 3D launcher its ok but 3d launcher sux. And I can't change number of desktops... can you help me?

p.s.

sorry for my english
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] jonypoo:
Downgrading from 2.3 to 2.2

Hi guys, right now i'm using HO!NO! mod for CM7 but i'm thinking of downgrading to froyomod so is there anything special i have to do other than wiping data/cache/dalvik etc. etc. then flashing the rom?

Also,can i just flash restore the data part in the nandroid backup or would i have to manually install each app again?

cheers :)