yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
I believe we need PowerVR SD data rather than tegra2/qualcomm. I'll see once I download.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
We don't have recovery via rom manager. We only have a bootstrapped recovery by polovinamozga. Find link in Charm wiki

What do you want recovery for?
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Thanx therkr

I already have that bootstrapped apk.

However to get into boot strapped recovery, I have to go through the application.

Any way to start recovery by pressing some button like the default recovery?
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
How did you overclock it to 1.1 ghz? Please excuse my lack of info.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
I don't remember if there was a way to do that on the Charm.

Polovinamozga will be able to tell. Sorry. :)
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Urgent!!

I seem to have bricked my charm. It is not getting past the M logo.

Rsdlite and adb are not recognizing it. It was a deblurred version.

Please help me out. Its killing me. Its the only phone I have.
[Flipout and Charm General] diamond_4g64:
Power+x to get in bootmenu and wipe the phone could do it and to overclock just follow the instructions in how to overclock your motorola charm tread
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Already tried it... no success. Is there an update.zip I can find anywhere?
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
A beta update.sip is available (link in wiki) but how will you flash if you can't get into recovery.

Read few pages back in this thread on how to install sbf file using sbf_flash(or something similar) and restore Charm into workable condition.

P.S. If I'm not wrong you need linux for sbf_flash on you pc.
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
hey guys I need a favour

I am not able to download the deblurred sbf from megaupload.

link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D0YKDVKQ

could anyone please mirror it? or create a torrent... plz guys help me get my phone running.

also that after entering the bootloader, rsd does recognize it but shows no IMEI umber.

Will i be able to flash the rom?
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Ok so here is the latest update.

My phone is fried! pcb is damaged. I have to send it to delhi to get repaired.

Thank you all those who have helped me so far.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
How did you manage to fry the pcb? Of all the fiddling I have been doing this has never happened. Did you OC beyond 1.1GHz?

Anyways, there is a chance they might not repair it under warranty because you rooted your phone.

Good luck!
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
I think so... And yes they are not repairing it under warranty... I have to shell out 1500 bucks plus a waiting time of 10 days
[Flipout and Charm General] xxolloxx:
Longpress instead of ALT for numbers/symbols

Just got the phone --loving it so far. Thank you for the useful info in this thread.

I tried searching for this, but could not find anything:

Is there any way to "re-map" or hack the physical keyboard to longpress keys instead of using the alt + key combination?

In other words, longpress "T" and "5" will type. I've seen this on a lot of soft keyboards.
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
It is not possible to assign long press shortcuts. The keys can be reassigned but they will only take existing values.

For example, you may assign message key as power key, but you cannot achieve functionality of longpress physically. You will need software aid.

Hope this helps.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
I know it's technically possible but I have no idea how to go about it. You may have to modify some proprietary driver/system file(s).
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
thumbEE support

ThumbEE module

http://rghost.ru/35983945

It is optimization module for java-stack from android

Might someone want to recompile dalvik with thumbEE support

link

http://forums.arm.com/index.php?/to...e-what-does-dynamically-generated-code-means/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=990735&page=6
[Flipout and Charm General] huatz84:
Thanks,polovinamozga..:)

Nice to see you comeback with some modifications. Btw,have you tried manually deodexed Charm? Will it work with deodexed method from Droid X?
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Yeah i made russian keyboard.apk via deodexing.

Method must be same as for Droid X or other android phones.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
I read about odexing and deodexing here.

www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-odex-and-deodex-in-android-complete-guide/

@Polovinamozga: are you still making deodexed custom ROM for Charm? Or have you abandoned project?

Please reply.
[Flipout and Charm General] jm2k7:
Hello, is there any way to correct the problem of orientation of the compass in google maps, North is invested. I calibrated the compass but still pointing south.

It would be nice to correct this problem. I wish someone would try to see that the orientation is wrong with google maps. :)
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
I dunno how to correct it. It was a problem with me too. I instead moved to sygic maps.

My device is off for repairing. I will try to solve it once it comes back in 2 or 3 days.:)
[Flipout and Charm General] huatz84:
I've tried it and ended up failing to check files while using step 3. My apk's can be pulled but it won't pass deodexing. :(

Can you describe it precisely? I want to mod the framework so my battery will show one percent step.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
PLEASE PLEASE do share that with us.

Thanks. :)
[Flipout and Charm General] shahinfarhadi:
thanks for the reply, but unfortunately RSDlite does not recognize my device, so i'm basically out of luck. i sent the phone for repair and it should be back in a couple of days.

Is there any way to install nandroid backup on the charm so that i can make sure i wont brick it again?
[Flipout and Charm General] Chahk:
RDSLite will only recognize the phone if it's restarted in bootloader mode. Turn the device off, then turn it on while holding the "Up" key on the keyboard. When you see the bootloader, hook it up via USB and RDSLite should recognize the phone.

In other news, I finally fixed my wife's handset. Apparently you should not remove Happenings.apk because it's tightly integrated with both the BlurContacts.apk and AccountAndSyncSettings.apk apps. Again, many thanks to matteosg for giving me the listing of system APKs off his device :)
[Flipout and Charm General] Gelasius:
I would want the Asian ROM without motoblur. I hope its in English. Can somebody upload it for me please?
[Flipout and Charm General] matteosg:
Its in english, if you can tell me how to dump the ROM.........

Matt
[Flipout and Charm General] Gelasius:
I bet the Asian ROM without blur doesnt have the cluttered widgets on the homescreen, right?
[Flipout and Charm General] Gelasius:
Which site did you buy the unlock code for $20? I really want to unlock mine. Kindly help
[Flipout and Charm General] Chahk:
I used CellUnlocker.net site. It took them a few days longer than usual, but they came through in the end.
[Flipout and Charm General] Gelasius:
Thank you very much!
[Flipout and Charm General] wirelezzz:
lost permissions

just wondering i rooted my Charm it all worked fine and did a live update being noob i lost my permissions, can this be fixed ?
[Flipout and Charm General] Chahk:
Try rooting it again.
[Flipout and Charm General] wirelezzz:
i gues the update is not letting me root again. guess i wait for a new release

tried it keeps saying failed . "Failed ! No ~~~ Fu goo ~~~ "

ls -l /data/local/tmp

opendir failed, Permission denied

ls -l /app-cache

/app-cache: No such file or directory

run mount

rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0

tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0
[Flipout and Charm General] musiknjoyr06:
Does anyone have a walkthrough to extract the sbf from a stock for matteosg ?? Possible motoblur killer here
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
How about modified recovery, spl, radio?
[Flipout and Charm General] shahinfarhadi:
hey guys

i managed to flsh the t-mobile rom into my charm. bad news is, the phone does not detect the battery now! can anyone help?
[Flipout and Charm General] mknewman:
Just bought my daughte a Charm to replace her ageing Blackberry. Nice little phone, she and I both had Dashes a while back so the form factor is nice.

Be nice to get XDA-Developers to add a forum for us. Maybe some ROM development and such.
[Flipout and Charm General] dvfk:
Feeyo might be willing to make a custom ROM for Charm.

Feeyo's Cronos version of Android 2.3 for Hero is really cool - I might donate a Charm to him to get things going:

http://www.cronosproject.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=664&p=23467
[Flipout and Charm General] ayanami2:
Really?

I'm waiting for this so long!
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Now im working for modified recovery.img for charm

after this i can port cyanogen to charm.

http://rghost.ru/4067574 - its recovery kernel for charm

its recovery

http://rghost.ru/4067590

based on clockwork

PLS DO NOT FLASH IT

Its only for development.

if anybody want to help me - welcome to PM or jabber.
[Flipout and Charm General] Chahk:
How are you planning to flash this on the Charm if its bootloader has not been unlocked yet?
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
Only kernel locked for upgrading, if you use default kernel + modrecovery

all will work fine.
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Minimalistic Text app shows the battery with unit percentage step. No other app or even the android utility does that on this device. What is it with Motorola?
[Flipout and Charm General] AntoniusBlock:
Anyone can upload the T-Mobile 03.90.7 sbf on one server works in this days like mediafire, because can't download this filesonic.com/file/2100732954/T-Mobile_MB502_03.90.7_1FF_01.sbf.gz

i appreciate it, thanks!!!!
[Flipout and Charm General] fort13:
Here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22268486/T-Mobile_MB502_03.90.7_1FF_01.sbf.gz
[Flipout and Charm General] kingpickle:
Nevermind. Thx
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Black Notification Bar

Does anyone know how to get a black notification bar on charm? The white one is kinda ugly when compared to the black one.

Has anyone been able to achieve it?
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Check out StatusBar+ light in the market.

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] AntoniusBlock:
Hello everyone I share my list of applications to remove and make perfect our "Motorola Charm de-blur"

Admin Notifier
AdService
Amazon MP3
Android Live Wallpapers
AtCommandService
Audio Postcard
Email v2.1-update1
Battery Manager * (if you uninstall this app disappears thepower menu)
Bluetooth low Battery
Com.Handcent.nextsms
com.motorola.android.dm.plugin.im
com.motorola.android.omadrm
com.motorola.android.wmdrm.dla
com.motorola.atcmd.plugin
com.motorola.settings.anr.provider
Connected Music Player
Cool Down Mode
Date and Time
DLnaSystemService
ESMusica
FOTA
HipHopOfficial
IM
IMOfflineServce
Kodak perfect touch
Live Wallpaper Picker
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Market Updater v1.0
Messages
Messaging
MotoBlue Megamaid
Motoblur Social Sharing
MotoPhonePortal
MtlrDialog
Music Visualization
Maps v4.4.0
Phone Portal v2.1-update1
My Account
My Album
MySpace
My Uploads
News
Quick Tutorial
QuickOffice
Quick Contact v2.1-update1
Revolver Tv
Slacker
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Status
Setup Wizard
Sticky Note
Task Manager
Toggle Widgets
True Country
TTS Service
Universal Inbox
Video Editor Lite
Voice Dialer
Voice Mails
Weather
Work Contacts
Wifi Calling

OMA Client Provisioning v1.0.0
OMA Download v2.1-update1

Greetings from Mexico!!!
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
To anyone who wants to mount their SD card's second partition as a folder...

In terminal,

$ su

# busybox mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /sdcard/sd2

This will let you see/edit files on the second SD partition.

(NOTE: You need to have a second partition created before and an empty folder named "sd2" already present in the sdcard root directory.

NOTE 2: You can mount any number of partitions this way. Just change mmcblk0p2 to mmcblk0pX. Here X=partition no.)

Just throwing this around in case anyone needs it....(also so that I can refer to it later :P)

Due to lack of developer support we need to consolidate and share all we can find to fiddle...
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Hi everyone.I was browsing this thread last night and then I dared to root my Charm and on 1st attempt I successed!Full credit I give to genius members and xda forum,thank you very much indeed.
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
I was rather looking for something at the system level without using any apps. I saw a couple of tutorials but they were all device specific.

Note: I still haven't got my device back from repair. I definitely want to try it on my charm.

Anyways Thanx for the suggestion therkr. I might just use it till I can color my own.

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Rooting is the first thing you need to do. I suggest the following too:

1.Download polovinamozga's bootstrapped recovery apk. (It will help you get nand backup and restore in case you do something wrong) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14796425&highlight=big+recovery+update#post14796425

2.Read back in this thread and install link2sd. It will help you to run apps from sd card.

Do not overclock until you absolutely understand it. I have fried my device and its still in repair. It was a hardware damage!
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Yeah, I know about that problem of all such guides being device-specific.

My suggestion would be to try a guid for some device which has same resolution as Charm and is also on 2.1 Eclair. That is the nearest we can get.

I was gonna try this out but I ain't getting th time...

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Namaste Akash,after posting my 1st post here what I did was-

*Installed Titanium Backup and took a full back up of the phone.

*Also installed link2sd and moved apps in sd card(not in the 2nd partition though;) ).

Is bootstrapped recovery different from Titanium Backup?From the name it looks that it might be backing up the boot string,correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks mate.

---------- Post added at 09:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:13 PM ----------
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Nand backup(through bootstrapped recovery) is a lot different game.

Titanium Backup restores apps and saved data.

Nand backup is essentially a backup of your full device(excluding sd card). Restoring it will restore the system in the exact same state.(Even the wallpaper AND EVEN THE PASSWORD). You can make a nand backup and revert to it if your device starts behaving erratically and you can't root out the problem.

Other options are factory reset and sbf flash which are painful since they make your device brand new.(In Software;))
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Thank you Akash,I shall install it tonite only.Very useful tip you gave me.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
SMS text which appear in yellow conversation background is having small fonts,can I increase this text size?
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Ok so cell0ne has discovered a pretty interesting situation. We can't seem to select text from an email in the email app. I googled up and the problem has been there since 2008!

Can anyone help in this regard?

Note: Forwaring a message does not help
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Use a different app for email.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Like?Kindly suggest.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
WTH?! Use K9 mail or the app from your provider..

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Cool down buddy,I see no need to use wth here.I was just asking a query and nothing else.
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
One tweak to increase free space, go to /system/media there enter in sounds and erase all notification/rings/alarm and others sounds that you don't want, its safe, i've tried it, then go back and go to video, erase the startup video. Finally if you have the build prop tweak to no show the bootanimation, erase bootanimation.zip

Tonight i'll make a list of compatible build.prop tweaks, that makes the phone much more faster
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
@seonora

I was wondering if you got GTA 3 working on the Charm.

I have some info for you...

GTA3 v1.1- CANNOT run. (nor driver for our GPU i.e. PowerVR)

GTA 3 v1.2 - CAN run after using PowerVR SD data, tweaks etc

GTA 3 v1.3: CANNOT run as it requires android 2.2 froyo

I haven't got enough space maybe someone else can try...

UPDATE

I have asked in the Galaxy mini forum for some info. Let's see what they can tell about running the game.
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Well, first of all, sorry for my english.

Here is a list of compatible /system/build.prop tweaks that i've tried, if you know any other please post it ;) , but be careful i've tried someones that makes the wifi stop working and i needed to reflash it D:

3g Speed increaser

ro.ril.hsxpa=2

ro.ril.gprsclass=10

ro.ril.hep=1

ro.ril.enable.dtm=0

ro.ril.hsdpa.category=8

ro.ril.enable.a53=1

ro.ril.enable.3g.prefix=1

ro.ril.htcmaskw1.bitmask=4294967295

ro.ril.htcmaskw1=14449

ro.ril.hsupa.category=6

Save power

ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=1

pm.sleep_mode=1

Helps touch screen performance

windowsmgr.max_events_per_sec=150

Debug.performance.tuning=1

Video.accelerate.hw=1

Better jpeg quality

ro.media.enc.jpeg.quality=100

No boot animation ( boot faster ;D )

debug.sf.nobootanimation=1

Increase dalvik vm

dalvik.vm.heapsize=64m

No persistan nitification of debug usb

persist.adb.notify=0

Fix something with the telephone app

ro.telephony.call_ring.delay=800

ro.lge.proximity.delay=25

mot.proximity.delay=25

mot.proximity.delay=150

Makes ui render with gpu? (Don't know how to explain... my english is not the best), it makes better performance.

debug.sf.hw=1

Makes some apps work

ro.kernel.android.checkjni=0
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
I forgot, I used root explorer to do that, and, be careful if you copy and paste, cause sometimes (don't know why) if you copy from xda and you paste anywhere, the phrases appear with more spaces than it had, so be careful
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
OMG

PLEASE PLEASE, tell me/us what data, and what tweaks did you used, I tried it and i couldn't D:

---------- Post added at 12:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:15 AM ----------

+1

PD: Stupid SOPA :mad:

---------- Post added at 12:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 AM ----------

For T-mobile sbf: http://coveringandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/T-Mobile_MB502_03.90.7_1FF_01.sbf_.gz

Drom here: http://coveringandroid.com/update-motorola-charm-t-mobile-firmware/
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Thank you,useful tips indeed.
[Flipout and Charm General] qiangzhao.cn:
It seems 'pmsleep_mode=1' should be 'pm.sleep_mode=1'.
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Sorry, i'll correct it
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Yeah, no problem running but i dont see any difference, probably because i've automemory killer with all tweaks plus buil.prop tweaks.

I'm going to make a guide with everythin you can do to tweak your moto charm, where is the correct forum to create it?

I'll post it here then.
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Unfortunetly, version 1.2 of GTA3 is for android 2.2 and higher... D:

I've an 8 gb sd card, if someone want me to try a big game, just tell me, i'll try it :D

Come on guys, if everyone post here little things that they discover, we'll make the charm an AWESOME mobile phone :D
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
sorry if I seem a little bit annoying but i've another question, if someone knows the way of remove t-mobile account from the account settings, i'm on a spanish carrier and I've deleted everything from t-mobile, (i think) but it is still saying that it has data from that account on my mobile and it can't be erased.

Thank you
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Okay. How about I "just ask you how to switch off the phone"? It will be just a query but, you know, something quite obvious...

And even if i am that lame to not know (which im not) then also I can just Google it up rather than posting here.

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
You have 2 options:

1. Create a new thread

2. Create a new, proper post right here

Anything you do, just put a link in the Charm wiki. :)

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Then, at night in Spain i'll do it, and I'll upload the charm sbf of TMo to mediafire.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Excellent idea,shall wait for your post eagerly then!
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Freeing up /system is not of so much use. The /data gets filled up when installing lots of apps. So no point deleting these..

What do you think?

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Well, only with deleting these files, the phone isn't going to need to read it when you/anyapp open that folder and it will load faster ( not much, but a little bit), so, i don't know, just erase every rubish that motorola has left on the phone haha, if someone knows more stupid files that can be erased, just post here.

PD: i'll make the post tomorrow if i cant, now i'm hacking my cousin sgs2 :D
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
I found this while random browsing.

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...plained-boot-system-recovery-data-cache-misc/

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
After doing rooting,uninstalling some apps with the help of titanium and disabling background data etc.I managed 70% battery at the end of the day.This too with k-9 mail installed!Thanks to thekr who suggested k-9.

Edit-Msg edited due to typing errors.
[Flipout and Charm General] hobbeshill:
2 things. what? and what?

You deleted titanium for better battery life?

what's the point of a smart phone if you disable background data?

I have my charm(which I HATE) rooted and running V6 super charger and kick ass kernalizer. Tried the charm overclock app but it caused too much instability. Battery life is fine but I need my background data.
[Flipout and Charm General] cell0ne:
Sorry for typo error,I meant uninstalled apps with Titanium,sorry for this mistake while typing.
[Flipout and Charm General] aap9284:
Can u post the CMP.apk again ?
[Flipout and Charm General] frazbox:
the firmware thats posted in this thread cannot be downloaded. i need a new link because the sever is not active anymore.

i also need to know how to get the 850/1900 band working. i did a soft unlock with the method provided on the website, but now i am unable to get my phone to pick up the 3g signal
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
I have more info/ideas for those who want to play around with the charm:

http://amar-padhi.blogspot.in/2011/10/motorola-charm-mb502-customization.html

If anyone wants to thank me: the "thanks" button is there at the bottom of post. ;)

Also, can anyone please upload SBF (South-East Asia version). Its BASEM_U3_01.12.4.

I tried getting from http://and-developers.com/sbf:mb502 but links dont work as Megaupload has been shut down. :(

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
That's THERKR not thekr. Just sayin'...

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] jm2k7:
I updated the rom 2 Deblur links on the page "and-developers":

South-east Asia - BASEM_U3_01.12.4 - Mediafire

Thailand - BASEM_U3_01.12.0 - Dropbox

:)
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Thanks :D

Though I must say if many people download that thailand rom from DB, then they may suspend your ability to post public links..

Sent from my MB502
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Any news about deblurring our tMobile motorola with thailand rom?
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Can you tell me just what did you do that caused problems with your phone?

And If I remember correctly, you couldn't move past the M logo, right?