yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
i'm new

hi guys, im new to this moto charm (previously sony), looking for some tweaks here. is there any landscape launcher ported from other devices for charm? thanks guys:cowboy:
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
You could try ADW launcher or GO launcher.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Recommended Launchers

I personally like ADW.Launcher as it uses less resources. There is also Launcher Pro!

ADW.Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adw.launcher&hl=en

Launcher Pro: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fede.launcher&hl=en

Go Launcher Ex: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex&hl=en

Enjoy :)
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Are you planning on Rooting your phone? You could root with Universal Androot. And Install CWM from here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14796425#post14796425 to perform Nandroid backups
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
i have rooted my charm n have an overclock in 850 mhz. it works good. only the battery is not so friendly i guess. this sony homescreen works on charm but with some force closes, especeally when adding widget. i have tried some tweaks but can't fix it. anybody helps? http://search.4shared.com/q/CCAD/1/xperia launcher x8

is there smartass governor for charm?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1274027

this thread might help for overclocking.
[Flipout and Charm General] Paul013:
Waitin for anything new n good for the Charm.. :/
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
You and me both...
[Flipout and Charm General] diamond_4g64:
I overclocked to 1.1 Ghz and it has never run better. It stopped heating and it does not drain the battery!!
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
With what vsel?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
The flipside seems to have gingerbread and a partially working ICS ROM from the same person.

The flipside and charm have both the same chipset and hardware specs except for screen size and design.

Maybe someone can try out this ROM for the flipside on our charm.

cm 7.2 gingerbread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1517880

cm 9 ICS : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1692786

Unfortunately my internet connection has issues which will take a week or so to be fixed, so i can't try out the ROM, maybe someone who is accustomed to RSD flashing could try out the ROM.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
I leave my charm at stock so I won't lose anything. I'll give it a try later today. Hopefully it doesn't become brick!

Update: No luck, CWM seems to do nothing...
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Right the the CWM asserts might not let you install it, try changing your build.prop ro.product and ro.device to MB508 and then try again.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
I will give that a try right now. Also changed the boot.IMG with one I dumped from my phone.

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It says Install zip from sdcard completed but my system still boots as is with no changes. Am I doing something horribly wrong? :S
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
hmmm, looks like there is an issue either with CWM or the script which is pushing the system.img, guess we can give it a try later after some modifications.

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did you wipe data?
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Yup and even my cache partition. No luck.
[Flipout and Charm General] diamond_4g64:
At 63 vsel 1.1 Ghz
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
I'll try that as well and see the results. Any overheating issues?
[Flipout and Charm General] diamond_4g64:
No it stoped the damn thing from overheating that was the main problem i had with the phone. It would always go to 40° and drain my batt
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
I decided to do an AnTuTu benchmark today and these were my findings:

(EDIT: I am currently using 1.1GHz @ 72vsel and the performance is significantly better, no longer any heating issues and battery seems to be lasting longer than it did at 1GHz)

1.1GHz @ 74vsel

Overall: 1138

CPU Integer: 639

CPU Float-Point: 165

RAM: 334

1.1GHz @ 72vsel

Overall: 1132

CPU Integer: 625

CPU Float-Point: 168

RAM: 339

1.1GHz @ 70vsel

Overall: 1120

CPU Integer: 629

CPU Float-Point: 159

RAM: 301

1GHz @ 62vsel

Overall: 1024

CPU Integer: 570

CPU Float-Point: 152

RAM: 302

1GHz @ 60vsel

Overall: 1018

CPU Integer: 567

CPU Float-Point: 150

RAM: 301

1GHz @ 58vsel

Overall: 1045

CPU Integer: 576

CPU Float-Point: 152

RAM: 317

[Default] 720MHz @ ?

Overall: 740

CPU Integer: 413

CPU Float-Point: 108

RAM: 219

Also changed my cache size to 2048 KB in SD-Booster and got significantly faster reading speeds.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Nauscar how you Deblurred the charm?This I found from your signature.Can you explain please?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
you can either flash a deblurred ROM or manually deblur.

which is your phone's system version?
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
Dont you prefer just flash a deblured ROM? I tried using a process to deblur, but bricked my phone, after that i flashed a deblured one.

here:

http://and-developers.com/sbf:mb502

i got the:

BASEM_U3_01.12.0

cheers

Devices:

Asus Transformer Pad TF300T - Jelly Bean

Motorola Charm MB502 - 2.1 OS Link2SD Mod

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 - CM9
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Cheers!!Thank you.

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Omayrzanata there is one more link of deblur version for S.E Asia and it is BASEM_U3_01.12.4,can I install this or the one which you have i.e BASEM_U3_01.12.0.What is the difference between the two and one silly question-how to install these ROMs?Can I use SP flash tools OR we need different s.w to flash ROMs in MB 502?Thanks
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
I THINK you can flash any of these ROMs, im not sure but i think they have a couple changes on the widgets, themes, i tried 2 or 3 before choosing, for flashing use RSD Lite

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Motorola_Charm

go to: Flashing, but the RSD there is OLD, get the new one here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1348587

you have to download motorola drivers, charge your phone (thats important), go into the bootloader ( turn your cell off, hold power and arrow up on the keyboard for couple seconds, then let them go) should appear bootloader version, Connect usb cable, open RSD, click show device, choose the .sbf that you want and click Start. Dont do ANYTHING during the process! thats it basically.

sorry about the outside link but this tutorial is very good: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...-using-rsd-lite-flash-sbf-file-correctly.html

REMEMBER: Im not responsible if you brick your phone, before flashing, you should do some googleING,

Devices:

Asus Transformer Pad TF300T - CM9

Motorola Charm MB502 - 2.1 OS Link2SD Mod

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 - CM9
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
which country did you buy the pjone from? Because different countries have different baseband configurations and might not work if you flash a wrong one. if your on windows use RSD lite or use sbf_flash if on linux.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Thank you omayrzanata and hsr0,I bought this charm from India which was previously bought from USA.Currently running baseband version EPU93_U-02.3B.02,Build BASIL_u3_03.90.7,system versionBlur_Version.2.3.9007>MB502.T-Mobile.en.US
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
You can flash the latest firmware (the T-Mobile one which is by far the most efficient) and edit the baseband files after you root. That's what I have done and there aren't any problems as long as you fix the file permissions correctly. See URL below (be sure to read the warnings):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1384837

For as far as manually debluring I used the xls file in this post which is earlier in this thread. Also removed some other bloatware preinstalled by T-Mobile and Google Maps.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18860453&postcount=673
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Thanks again Nauscar,shall give this a try today.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
When I try to flash deblured ROMs from given links,I can flash them successfully-phone reboots but this screen comes-

Bootloader 91.10 Err:A5,70,70,00,1F

MEM_MAP Blank

Service Req’d

Battery Ok

Ok to Program

Transfer mode:USB
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
The version of the ROMs are older than the boot loader version. If you have already done an OTA update or flashed a newer ROM than your boot loader version it has been updated. You can only flash a ROM with the same or greater version as the boot loader (i.e newest T-Mobile ROM). You're not missing out on anything with the old ROMs since the latest one gives significantly better performance and battery life.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Thanks again Nauscar,Yes I can only Flash the latest verion ROM and cannot proceed in older ROMs.
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
Guys, ive tried an overclock at 1.1 ghz, 65vsel and it reboots. Whats the corect combination between this two? Thanks.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Take a look at my AnTuTu results earlier in this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30182976&postcount=1117

I found that you need a vsel of at least 70 for it to be a stable and efficient over clock. I am currently using 1.1GHz w/ 72vsel.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
OverCloclking

1st go to superuser and disable root access to the milestone overclock app.

Now open the overclock app and the reset the custom overclock setting, then use custom 1GHz and 58 vsel, load the module and give root access

Incidentally I downloaded the app a few hrs back and ended with the same problems. when I changed the addr values in the custom section.

Now its stable so far and was stable until I changed those values

Hopefully it might help.
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
Thanks nauscar. I also have a problem with gps here. The gps has a very slow connection. Any tweaks for this?

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@hsr0, im using charm overclock n it works nice. Its stable now at 1.1ghz, 70 vsel. The battery still draining, but i guess its hardware prob. Just wondering if there is some governor tweaks. A smartass governor may be. Is there any?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
I use setCPU, lagging has reduced but its still not super smooth, setCPU is infact underclocking as I never see my rate go above 250 MHz.
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
I use set cpu too. It sets the value and the governors. Ive used a sony w8 before and i use smartass governor. Overnight, my battery dont drop a single percent. Ive seek for this governor on charm, but found nothing yet.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
https://github.com/CyanogenDefy/android_external_bootmenu

Porting this to our phone is the best hope to a custom ROM
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Well, I tried editing the code on the installed bootmenu, but unfortunetly I guess im missing a few important places, I guess the best solution will be to work on the source and compile it for our phone.

But my net connection has still not been fixed which means there is no way I can download the source.
[Flipout and Charm General] jm2k7:
We're in trouble! :D

all applications "google play" are asking minimum froyo or higher.

the phone is stuck at 2.1 and applications like facebook, whassap among other updates have stopped or will stop working.

the phone will soon die without new applications. :highfive:
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
DANG! :/

Let's download and share as many apks as possible somewhere...

I'm already using an old version of adobe reader coz they stopped supporting the small screen/outdated eclair.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
we could always change our build.prop but only problem is android package installer does not recognize apks make for froyo and above. best way possible is start work on a custom ROM or just start repacking apks.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
I hate to say it but it is true: I develop for android and even I don't bother to support eclair recently since the Google Play update.
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Djpry is developing a port of cyannogenmod, lets wait
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
LOL, I will believe it when I see it!
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
and so we wait
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
There is nothing quite like waiting forever LOL.
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
True, but, does anyone know how to develop android? If not, just pray and wait...
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
well, as I posted earlier, if some one can make a working port of the bootmenu which I linked earlier, then preparing a custom ROM would be a lot easier.

It should take only a few changes in paritions codes and appropriate changes to init files to make it work.

Hope fully someone can do it.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Erm, I have been seeing this for a while now, its over 2months since the promised release date. Is there any news on it or was it a another hoax.

I guess the only other option is buy a new phone or just put our complete effort and build a community ROM.
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
I'm gonna ask him right now. I'll post here if he say something
[Flipout and Charm General] schloss:
Tethering

Need your advice.

What's the best app/solution for BT and/or WiFi tethering on Charm?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
use wireless tether app on the market
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
Cant get it working

Devices:

Asus Transformer Pad TF300T - CM10

Motorola Charm MB502 - 2.1 OS Link2SD Mod

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 - CM9
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
get the one with green logo and your phone should be rooted.

the app uses ad hoc connection which means other android phones mostly wont detect it but laptop should detect it.
[Flipout and Charm General] flapflip22:
This things locked down harder than a 8 year old boy at Michael Jacksons beach house.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
The Mods have agreed to a forum merger for flipout and charm, which means we get out own forum! :D
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Do post a link of that new forum once its created.
[Flipout and Charm General] LastStarlight:
We have hope.

My dear friends, we have HOPE.

Yes, indeed, as you hear, we have it.

Motorola has agreed to unlock all bootloaders and **** if we get 15k signatures. There's only 3k missing, with your help and all the help of your friends who own a Motorola (like the charm, the one I own) with a locked bootloader we could make it happen. We could get gingerbread on our beautiful charm.

Let's make it happen.

Just sign on this website

w-w-w. change. o r-g/petitions/motorola-mobility-inc-unlock-all-smartphone-bootloaders-2

(Erase the spaces and the dashes. Well, I guess you get the name of the website. I don't have the required amount of messages for posting outside links, it appears so, but I'm not doing spam)

You can google the thing if you neither trust my link nor get it, just search for "Motorola Mobility Inc: Unlock all smartphone bootloaders."

Pass the message around.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=767

I have seen that petition but that was before it reached 10K, after it reached I found out that it is just a goal set by the starter, each time it passes the goal , it is incremented by another 5k, after 15k signatures it will say 20k, it isn't the goal set by moto but by the petitioner.

sorry for the disheartening comment.
[Flipout and Charm General] LastStarlight:
I see. So disheartening. Well, I've seen they've started doing it although. Releasing blocked bootloaders, so we would just have to wait.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Thank you hsr0 for forum link.
[Flipout and Charm General] jm2k7:
we ran out way forward

I've made ​​a tiny grain of sand, I give my reasons for, and the truth, this is unforgivable, as is possible at this hour still these phones be left lying on eclair. There are millions of phone they have been sold and do not want to provide support. It's a scam.

there is absolutely nothing there for motorola charm. XD
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31366068#post31366068

well no forum for charm didn't exist so the no threads, but I posted a few important threads on those forums and maaybe we could continue discussion of this thread on the above linked thread.
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
Guys, I have problem with my charm here. It starts to have random shutdown. I dont know what cause this issue. I have unrooted it and had a factory reset, the problem still persist. What should I do?
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
it hapens to me sometimes

Devices:

Asus Transformer Pad TF300T - JB Hydro

Motorola Charm MB502 - 2.1 OS Link2SD Mod

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 - CM10
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
Is there anyway to fix it? I have clear cache partition, clear data in recovery. Im testing it now by monitoring ram n system usage. It stops for now. Could it be ram issue?
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
it happened to me when i put Alarm to snooze, random, but happened twice already

Devices:

Asus Transformer Pad TF300T - JB Hydro

Motorola Charm MB502 - 2.1 OS Link2SD Mod

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 - CM10
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
I installed system panel n try to keep the ram above 200. It stops to shut itself down. But Im still not sure.

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Guys, i notice that charm has its default recovery. Try this:

-turn the phone off

-hold the X key on keyboard

-press the power button (keep holding the X key) until u see the android robot

-release the X key and press the power button again

-there u are...use arrow key to navigate and enter key to select.
[Flipout and Charm General] xxxo:
just a suggestion ,clean battery connections sometimes the problem
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Saw something which MIGHT remotely be helpful to the Charm custom ROM scene...

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/huge-milestone-for-the-motorola-milestone-2-and-others/
[Flipout and Charm General] alex170:
2nd init

anyone knows how to start the motorola charm using 2nd init?

would be a breakthrough but I do not benefit us right now if we have not managed to mount the first custom rom our charms: S
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
IDK about that but found something interesting about init.d support without custom kernel. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1933849
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
charm mms

guys, I have a problem here with my charm. I cant't receive or send mms. Anybody help?:confused:
[Flipout and Charm General] Paul013:
Check with your operator.
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
I guess its carrier problem. Strange here, my charm doesnt support my carrier mms settings.
[Flipout and Charm General] Paul013:
Thanked buddy :)
[Flipout and Charm General] UzakaGear:
Hey men thanks a lot for the Recovery but you don't have a update.zip? to install the recovery via the stock recovery

Because i can't access to the Android OS because my phone are bricked, i can only install the recovery via the stock recovery

If you can upload a update.zip, men i will give to you thaaaanks a loooooot :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
[Flipout and Charm General] anasan1991:
Try this

Try using "Apps2Rom" you can easily find it in play store
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
A flashable ZIP wasn't possible given the nature of this hack.

Besides the "stock recovery" on the charm won't flash anything except a signed SBF. So no chance there except to re-flash the rom SBF.
[Flipout and Charm General] UzakaGear:
Ooh okay, anyway thanks for the help ;)
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
http://and-developers.com/sbf:mb502

Download your version of the ROM from the above site, then

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Motorola_Charm#Flashing

Download the above flashing program "RSD lite" from above link.

Boot into bootloader mode, then flash your sbf file. And tour phone will be restored back to stock!
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Telus recovery

TESTING TESTING

Need guys with Motorola Charm from Telus for testing mod recovery

TESTING TESTING
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
thread bump
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=957149
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Clockwork Recovery for Motorola Charm MB502

Looks like i done it

[YOUTUBE]42Hq1Z7cgoI[/YOUTUBE]

Sorry for bad quality, it really moto charm

Some features, like backup, doesn't working.

Modrecovery launched via 2nd-init

Admin, add forum for Charm

upd.

two weeks later I'll buy another moto charm and will try to flash 2.3.2 system.img
[Flipout and Charm General] dvfk:
polovina: WOW that's GREAT work!! Well done :)

Let me know if I can do anything to help!

Which ROM are you running? (and did it help knowing that Telus ROM might be less locked?
[Flipout and Charm General] sgtpep:
Could you explain what does it mean for non-developers? Does it mean that it's possible to install any custom firmware now, or it will be theoretically possible soon?
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Its default rom 2.1-update1

ClockWork recovery allow us flash system.img from 2.2.1 or 2.3.2.

Im compiled 2.3.2 from cyanogen trunk, but think that we need 2.2.1 for testing

and after motorola release official 2.2.1 we can flash 2.3.2 or other version.

Im want to buy another one motocharm, because my girlfriend do not allow me flash it :3
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
>possible to install any custom firmware

Yes, possible.
[Flipout and Charm General] MGA2009:
Great Work!!

Looking forward to the final version with backup working!!

I will send a request to admins so they open a Charm Forum.
[Flipout and Charm General] dvfk:
T-Mobile? - the one that's booting here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhg8fndQl6g&t=7m0s
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Yes.

T-mobile.
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Motorola Charm MBM-recovery

Binary's and script's

Only for people who know what they are doing

How it works?

It work via:

2nd-init

MBM

Preapre your phone

root it

unpack archive into root of your sdcard

next use adb or terminal.apk

cd /sdcard/modrecovery/

su

sh surunner.sh then script will copy some files, mount and remount /system and /

reboot into recovery sh rr.sh

Thanks to:

yakk

koush

Tenfar

Dexter_nlb

Guys, if you want more cool features for charm, please pm xda-admins about open moto charm forum

bugs:

backtrack rebooit recovery

do not touch it

How fix it i dont know today

I found bug.

Temporary removed donwload links
[Flipout and Charm General] dvfk:
Cooool, polo!!

Does this mean Nanbackup works??

And can it install zip-files?
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
In my phone nandbackup nice working.

But I suspect some bugs here.

Need someone who will test nand.

>And can it install zip-files

Yes, u can.

Yeasterday im try flash my phone cyanogen 2.2.1

its looks like working but very unstable.

If anybody want help me

look at

https://github.com/fedya/android_device_motorola_charm

and add it to your .repo/manifest.xml

<project path="device/motorola/charm" name="fedya/android_device_motorola_charm="github" />
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Hi,

I'm an Indian owner of the Motorola Charm. It apparently doesn't have MOTOBLUR.

The device is rooted with Unversal Androot 1.6.2.

Really great to see your efforts polovinamozga and I'm hoping to see custom ROm real soon. Please tell if I might be of any help in any way possible.
[Flipout and Charm General] harishgayatri:
Sir Does MapmyIndia work with your Motorola Charm.

I am planning to get this Phone for my sister.

It is good to hear that Android 2.3 will soon be ported on the Charm