yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Flipout and Charm General] Sidz4u:
I successfully extracted the sbf using 7zip. Thanks :)

But even the version given in the wiki is not recognizing my Charm :(

I think i am in the wrong bootloader mode. IT SAYS :

Bootloader Fastboot mode

91.10

Battey OK

OK to program
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
try entering the bootloader using adb in desktop

EDIT: i think could try flashing sbf through linux if possible

EDIT2 : wait a sec, fastboot bootloader, is your device unlocked?
[Flipout and Charm General] Sidz4u:
I have been wondering the same all this time :D

Well there's no way that mine would be an unlocked one.

I m pretty sure that if u enter

su

reboot bootloader

in the terminal emulator, yours too would enter the same mode.
[Flipout and Charm General] polovinamozga:
cause our moto cannot into "fastboot" mode.

Just type reboot bootloader, not reboot fastboot
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
I've tested it, if you boot up with power button + up arrow it only says Bootloader 91.10 etc but if you go to terminal emulator and put reboot bootloader it reboots and it says Bootloader Fastboot Mode 91.10.

I don't know if this helps...
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
If i'm not wrong, fastboot allow us to flash our mobile phone with unsigned files. So for example, we could flash the custom mtd partitions to have more userspace. Am i wrong?
[Flipout and Charm General] Sidz4u:
I think u r confusing fastboot mode with the engineering mode.

Btw, is ur RSD recognizing the fastboot mode ?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Well its wierd i tried with normal bootloader mode it didnt detect so then i clicked on show devices waited for a few mins and it started installing drivers and my device was displayed.

Then i tried with fastboot bootloader mode and then when i clicked show devices RSD stopped responding and then by phone just rebooted. :s
[Flipout and Charm General] cpope-11:
i unrooted my charm but i cant seem to get rid of the superuser icon in the app drawer is there any way i can do is i need to return mine

thanks for the help
[Flipout and Charm General] Sidz4u:
Root it again... uninstall the superuser app through root uninstaller or titanium backup then unroot again. This is the only way i guess as the superuser app gets installed as a system app and can be uninstalled unless u have root previlages.
[Flipout and Charm General] cpope-11:
i just flashed the t mobile rom

i have a telus charm and flashed the t mobile rom and got data working seems when you flash the rom it doeant enter the telus apn and you gotta do it yourself it wanna try it

settings/wireless & networks/mobile networks/access point names/menu button/new APN then enter your info

i dont know if this has been posted sorry if it has

and just to make it clear i have telus motorola charm running t-mobile rom with data working....
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
T-mo ROM is a carrier locked one so most likely the default APN data is loaded from the ROM itself. Try in APN menu reset to default option, this could give you the telus APNs.

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Well my 1st attempt at flashing froyo ended in a brick probably because i didnt clear cache and flash userdata also. Let me try some fixes have another go tomorrow.

Upside is RSDlite and the SBF is working perfectly and that my antivirus managed to remove the exploit used in Universal Androot without damaging the apk, the apk actually installed but the rooting part obviously failed. :D

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This is probably because you soft rooted your phone. You can either re-root then unroot or re-root use link2sd to remove that app or use adb shell to manually remove it
[Flipout and Charm General] Sidz4u:
I tried it via adb but still its entering the same Bootloader Fastboot mode

And the device is still not being recognized by Rsd :(

Help me out guys...!!
[Flipout and Charm General] Sidz4u:
Which version of RSD lite are u using ?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
5.6
[Flipout and Charm General] Sidz4u:
So nobody here can solve my problem ? :(
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
The only thing that you can do is to install motorola drivers ( try motodev ones, I've them and they work ok) on another computer, and download the las rsd lite... If not, maybe it's broken or spmething and you need to take it to de reparation service ...
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Any updates on froyo aosp?

#eagerlywaiting
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Well . SO far not so good :(. The one which has proprietary files doesnt even work in emulator( but i guess its not supposed to) and trying to push it in have ended bricking by phone a few times. I guess were are stuck with Eclair for now :(
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
UPDATE : Well no good news from my side but it seems like fliput devs are making some progress into atleast reviving development. So lets Hope :D
[Flipout and Charm General] alex170:
install froyo of mb508(flipside) in mb502

we should try to install froyo flipside of our charm to see how it goes as they are very similar/ is only a idea of a noob like me
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
I was thinking, an AOSP eclair with custom modifications ( I could help with framework) would also be a good start. And since we do have a working copy of eclair thanks to polovinamozga, your work should be easier.

What say?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
you mean like CM5? . i just tried downloading sources. Half the source is missing :/
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Half the source may be mising for CM5 not AOSP eclair.

What I meant was:

1. Running polovinamozga's hard beta

2. Checking for errors and fixing them.

3. Releasing stable AOSP eclair.

4. Making the AOSP ROM considerably faster and better that the latest T-Mobile update. (Which is the current best IMHO)

5. Custom framework/services mods copied over from CM5/other ROMs.

There can be beta/alpha releases whenever each step/partial step is completed.

I know this is a long procedure and I am in no position to guarantee that this is THE correct way. But this is what I think can be done right now.

What do you say?
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
I can be a tester if you need one. I know a little of photoshop for themming if you need me, just send me a PM
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Yes, we could do that, are you guys comfortable with github and linux(or a virtual machine) ?

If yes then we could fork a vendor/device file and start working a custom build of eclair

There is no solution to bootloader.

But i can help you get a almost brand new sbf.

1. Tell me which ROM you want to flash

2. One of us will make a nandroid backup and upload.

3. Bootstrap your phone and restore the backup file we sent you.

If your planning to flash a new one to repair your phone under warranty then i guess you will have to remove the hijack and the root.
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Flashing

I finally jumped on T-Mobil ROM. I was just curious: when I flash a rom, does my device gets wiped out clean? I mean is there absolutely no data which is retained.

I know you cant flash another rom after t-mobil... so I'm guessing that info on bootloader must be retained.

Note: Flashing didn't solve my problem. Touch still goes unresponsive frequently. Maybe its a h/w fault after all. Any suggestions?
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Er, not exactly.

I've been checking out commits for my nook color for a while on github and might just have preliminary idea of its working.

As for linux, I've been an Ubuntu hardy user (once upon a time) but went back to windows. Besides, I don't know many terminal anyways.

So basically, I can't help you out in all the dirty coding work. Sorry! :P

Help from my side is (currently) limited to:

1. Moral support

2. Bug reports.

3. Themes (once other things get ironed out).

4. Testing

I'd really like to help in any other way, but unfortunately I'm not fluent with any programming/android code.

I could try and learn something but that would be time consuming. Still, you can tell me if I can start around somehwere?

EDIT: I'll also post around other forums if you agree to going forward with this idea. Maybe somebody these can help us as well.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
That was supposed to be my job! :P

Anyways, we'll keep everyone posted in this thread in case we do happen to cook up something.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
I have to download all the sources. and the moto sources up on sourceforge also. Maybe we can cook up a ROM
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Also, I believe it would be a good idea to look at polovinamozga's git. He's got some code probably for a bootstrap and other things....idk exacty.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
It happens to me also, usually when some heavy program like temple run or something is running in the background. What i do is use an app killer to kill unnecessary programs and then i use the lock button to switch off display and come back. It usually works

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We would have to prepare a custom vendor/device file to modify sources so that we dont directly interfere with the AOSP sources

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Pardon me if i am wrong, but i thought your on a T-Mo ROM, does thes bootstrap work on it?
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
You mean the bootstrapped recovery? Yes, it works. I can restore backups of only the T-Mo version only though.

This is what I wanted you to check out... https://github.com/fedya
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Yes im aware, lets see what we can do
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
I know it works that way. I intended to find the root of this problem... logcat didn't turn up anything. It is a problem common to many androiders which goes against the notion of a h/w fault.

This was the main reason I flashed a T-mobil rom. Needless to say I'm disappointed.

I will continue my hunt for solution... Its now getting a little personal. I've been laughed at a fair few times due to this nutter of a bug!
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
somewhere i read its a kernel fault
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=808835&page=8

Look at this! It's the Motorola flipout thread, they said there is a mod to install 2.2 on moorola flipout, maybe we could port it to motorola charm
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Yeah. I've read the same.

But it won't be fixed in any custom ROM also unless the boot loader is opened up.
[Flipout and Charm General] akashspeaking:
Its not bootloader I think... Galaxy nexus and many other phones with unlocked bootloader have reported exactly same problem.

I think its with android itself
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
What he meant was that its a kernel problem but since a bootloader is locked we cant flash a new kernel which might fix the problem.

Regarding kernel : im not sure about 2nd init but i think with it its possible to load a custom kernel over the present kernel even with a locked bootloader. But im not sure though
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
3g stopped working

Hello i wiped my cel and installed moviestar ROM from mb502 database and my 3g network is not working, does anyone know how to configure that?

TIA
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Which was your ROM. did you extract the needed files from your old ROM before flashing?
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Hi, I have been following this thread for quite some time now and I am very interested in developing a custom rom for the motocharm. If you need me to assist in anything I would be more than happy to!
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
We do need someone experienced to guide us.

Have made any ROM before?
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
I have never compiled a ROM before however I've done the basics (edited and flashed T-Mobile sbf so that it will work with Telus) so I'm not totally useless but I certainly do not have the experience you are looking for.
[Flipout and Charm General] djpry:
well i could help...i just bought the charm due to its qwerty...quicky understood its faults....i mostly focus on my wildfire....if you want my help...do let me know
[Flipout and Charm General] cuher:
Help me!! Charm stuck at M logo!!

My T-Mobile MB502 turns dead with no omen.

I had Link2SD installed. I removed the sim card, TF card and changed a battery, then it stuck at the first-screen M logo. Since then, Recovery is also dead, however, Bootloader is still accessible.

I charged the battery and started to flash the phone.

MotoHelper_2.1.40_Driver_5.5.0.exe

RSD 5.7

T-Mobile_MB502_02.60.5_1FF_01

T-Mobile_MB502_03.90.7_1FF_01

These two sbf files are used. Checksum verfication passed, and RSD stuck at “Please manually power up this phone." The phone restarted, in the first few seconds, the charging light is on. The light soon turns off, and on the phone screen, Moto logo again until battery runs out.:(

I tried another two ROMs, undoubtedly, Bootloader 91.10 rejected them.

I search the web to find a solution. In almost all cases, phone got repaired after "T-Mobile_MB502_02.60.5_1FF_01" flashed into the phone, but mine is still dead.

Has this something to do with the PDS partition, which is said to have stored the IMEI or vital info of this phone? and most importantly, how could I get this phone recovered?

Thanks a lot!:):)
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1661770

Hey guys, you said you needed some help?, well, this is for unlocked bootloaders, but I hope this can help with the custom room
[Flipout and Charm General] alex170:
motorola charm!

Seria mejor si tratáramos de adaptar el android 2.2 del flipside es cierto para este se requiere actualización de gestor de arranque pero sin embargo e leído en varios foros que android 2.2 se puede ejecutar en el mismo kernel del 2.1, vamos no son tan diferentes estos teléfonos si el Blackflip puede tener 2.2 porque no el encanto??

estoy disponible para testear CUALQUIER modificación que ustedes quieran también para cualquier ayuda que necesiten nuestros encantos tendrán Froyo sea como sea ;)
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
No creo que lo entienda mucha gente si lo pones en español jeje, lo traduzco para que lo puedan entender los americanos.

This is the translation to the message he sent.

It would be beetter if we could transport the 2.2 android from flipside to our charm. It can boot with our bootloader and he sais he is able to help us to have froyo.
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Unlocked bootloader, windows 7 x64 and 2.3 gngerbread....let's see...
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Great!
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Well, I know this is totally different of what we are looking for, but maybe it can guide people who never did a custom rom, or to solve a problem for a future suposed rom for moto charm.
[Flipout and Charm General] jayfrom805:
help

can u please post that link again... and ill let u have my sister for a night...lol
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
What link?

And, more importantly, how does your sister look?;)
[Flipout and Charm General] djpry:
did everyone jst die ????:rolleyes::mad:
[Flipout and Charm General] schloss:
DeadMoto
[Flipout and Charm General] fort13:
went to more powerfull devices :o
[Flipout and Charm General] jm2k7:
death
[Flipout and Charm General] djpry:
i have a wildfire,charm and a zoom

i bought about 7 months back....i still love it for sending mails and texting...music quality is good even ...n audio quality....

i use a custom cm6 ....

vil keep it till it lasts me....coz i love the form factor....;)
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Which uses custom cm6??
[Flipout and Charm General] djpry:
charm ofcource....n on cm6....am tiring to port it fully...but faces boot loop...its working 80%...as soon it becomes more stable...i will post it here....but dont xpect everything functional...camera is broke...so is video ....and equalizers....live wallpapers dont work....due to the graphics libs are not ported properly...and equalizer libs missing...battery consumption has improved....and ya the biggest problem...screen orientation... :(

am stuck there....any helping hand ????:confused:

both he other devices are on icecream sandwich
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
WOW amazing!! I don't know about android developing, but I can test on my charm, and I know how to use photoshop... maybe for porting the images to the charm resolution or something. Anyways, if you need me just send a pm to me. Continue working ;)
[Flipout and Charm General] djpry:
resizing is not required as am porting it from wildfire...both share 320*240 resolution....

if you want you can help us by testing the alpha builds....

anyone with bit of porting knowledge....would be of great help... specially anyone who is is familiar with kernel and lib pack-ports
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
I'll send you my e-mail on a pm, if you need me, just email me
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
SO you have working cm6, i mean atleast do the apps work.

If you do can you post it on github/any open source site. Can you post a uploaded version of the ROM
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
CM6

I would be very interested in seeing a CM6 port if it is possible...

Could you provide some details?
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Hey, I know an app that forces the orientation of an app, maybe it helps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.Orientator&hl=es
[Flipout and Charm General] therkr:
Alpha tester at your service :D

PM me the download link. I'll report back as soon as I find something....
[Flipout and Charm General] djpry:
good to know that....alpha builts are too unstable...am experimenting with diffent source...i will release a beta version in a week.....till then hang on guys

good to know yew guys still use there charm
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
And the waiting begins...

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] endfull:
Alpha tester also at your service. this is a great little device whit almost full keyboard on it and very god hardware for the price at least in mt country.... keep the good work I will support it while I can
[Flipout and Charm General] endfull:
Hi, How do you overclock your device? Is that safe? I heard that overheat too much the phone, for how long it`s been overclocked, thanks in advance.
[Flipout and Charm General] alex170:
Cyanogenmod 6.0

sorry for the inconvenience but when we have froyo in the charm is that I can not wait ... there will be any possibility of adapting the CyanogenMod 7.2 from flipside? ... teams are very similiar and I do not have many problems.

endfull

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1274027

here is the link so you can overclock your charm
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
I had problems with my phone rebooting at a low vsel such as 58. The default for our phone is 720MHz @ 62vsel so I wouldn't have a lower vsel than that for 1GHz. The method I used was to use the Milestone Overclock app on the market and rename MB502 to MB511 in the build.prop file. Seems stable enough and certainly gives the charm quite a performance boost. Best of luck!

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] Paul013:
Youtube and flash is not working on my moto charm....... What can be the problem??:(
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Try disabling HQ when the video is loading. Our low resolution screen probably just can't handle the output.

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Most of the videos of youtube are too big to be played in our screens, try low resolution, flash does not work on many of the webpages because it's flashlite, I don't know the version, but maybe it's based on flash 8 or 9 and most of the webpages uses the last one, flash 11
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Any news on the CM6 port or is it still not possible to do so on this phone?

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
The user djpry is developing one port, just wait, the ETA was supposed to be this week, so it's release is near
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Forgive me, for I cannot contain my excitement! I guess I will just have to practice patience lol.

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Well he said the ETA was monday i.e yesterday, but seems like he hasnt been online then day before night. :s
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Hi, I stumbled upon this the other day. Does anyone know about this project?

https://github.com/fedya/android_device_motorola_charm

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
Is that a port of Ginger to our chrams? O.o how? It's still locked bootloader.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
It was an attempted port.

and fedya is polowimozga on xda
[Flipout and Charm General] djpry:
sorry to keep you all waiting....am not at my home...as i am on a tour...soon i get back will release the stable cm7...till then enjoy the alpha prime relese

all the best

djpry
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
And where is the alpha link?
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Aha same question as above XD if I ever am able to install any port of cyanogenmod on my charm I will be screaming your name from the heavens lol.

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
And one more thing, cm7 or cm6?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
cm7 and he said he will not work on it anymore.

but on the plus side he will open source the port.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
As long as it boots it is a big step forward.

Sent from my MB502 (deblurred and overclocked @ 1GHz & 62vsel)
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
guys

guys, I've sent a pm to djpri, and he said his tour is going to last a few weeks more, so people who is cheking this post every day (like me) can start a new hobby
[Flipout and Charm General] demonshouter:
guys, i have problem here, ive rooted my charm with superoneclick v2.3.3. It is rooted now but it wont rings on incoming calls, it rings on sms anyway. How can i make my phone rings again? Thanks guys, im new to charm.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
Ringer Issue

Have you tried checking Phone Ringtone, also check out ringer volume in Sound & Display settings because either one of them might have been reset.

P.S: I rooted my phone through Universal Androot directly through an app with any adb without any hassles.
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
I posted a long time ago about a ROM that i couldnt get 3G working, i got back to the oem rom and did link2SD, its much faster now, but still wanted Cyanogenmod r something, does anyone have the key to unlock the bootloader?
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
sadly still a locked bootloader, but the ROM you are talking about was it a T-mobile one or was it actually a custom ROM?
[Flipout and Charm General] omayrzanata:
it was a deblured one, but i couldnt configure VPN
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29454701&posted=1#post29454701

If we post here, we might be able to get a new forum and hence maybe better support.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Any news on an unofficial Cyanogen mod port for this phone? If I am correct it should be possible to do if we use the same kernel and Clockworkmod Recovery.
[Flipout and Charm General] hsr0:
There is hope

Yes there is hope and i believe we will be getting the port very soon.
[Flipout and Charm General] Nauscar:
Is there an ETA or another thread related to this? Can't wait to develop/mod this phone!
[Flipout and Charm General] s0e0r0a:
The last thing the developer said was that he was in holydays on another country, and he would stay there for a lon time so lets wait