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[Motorola Milestone Android Development] The Solutor:
I think that the problem is double.

The battery drains faster due to not perfect kernel/basebands

And

The battery will not charge at 100%, again because a kernel bug.

Facts are saying that a froyo milestone charges from 0 to 100% in about 1h.

Now this is physically impossible.

The Milestone's wall charger can supply about 900mA.

Charging a 1500mAh battery should take more than 2h to charge from empty to full.

So there are two possibilities

A) the kernel shows 100% when the battery is still @50/60%

B) the kernel shows 0% when the battery is not completely drained.

No matter if are right A,B or a combination of the two, a froyo milestone (with the current kernel) can't be on pair with an Eclair powered one.

Also the battery consumption is clearly higher, just try to charge with the datacable connected to a PC's usb port (while the usb tether is enabled).

The 500mA supplied by the port are enough to (slowly) charge the Eclair phone. The same phone connected to the same port, in the same condition will slowly discharges.

So, IMHO, we have some very good froyo ROMs due to the work of kabaldan , Luca, Freyo, Dexter and so on, but the same rom are still crappy on the kernel side.

We have to wait a better kernel from motorola.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] petard:
Guys, I'm having problems with the keyboard.

I searched the thread and others had this issue, but I couldn't find the solution.

I have the Canadian Milestone, and in OR 1.46 I apply qwerty keyboard. Now none of my buttons work at all.

How can I get the keyboard to work?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] petard:
EDIT: Installed Androidiani OR 3.3 and reflashed CM and the keyboards and now it works.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bandroid842:
Please participate in faq

DEAR ALL,

PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN FAQ!

As a token of my gratitude for Kabaldan's work, I would like to volunteer as much as I can to create a FAQ for this project on the link Kabaldan suggested. I already signed up there: https://www.droid-developers.org/wiki/CyanogenMod_for_Milestone

What I will do is basically compile data first into crude segments, then perhaps rearrange and edit them to make them aesthetically pleasing. What I NEED FROM YOU IS THIS:

- IF YOU HAVE ANY "CONFIRMED" PIECE OF DATA that can be added to the FAQ, no matter how small it is, please send it to me via PM. I will add it in a hopefully proper way. Also, if you can SIGN UP and start adding stuff, that would be great.

The aim of the FAQ is to: ANSWER COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS IN A QUICK AND EASY WAY.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
Start with those you can find here on this forum.

Regards,
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bandroid842:
True, and that's what I will do. But going through 222 pages of fourms is not an easy thing. Any confirmed tips of info anyone can send over PM would be greatly appreciated :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
Yea, I agree with you in all those terms.

So let's wait untill 2011, Q1 to have a better froyo ;(

Regards and Thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] amossam:
sorry, my mistake. please ignore

Sent from my Milestone
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] fernandotakai:
Didn't Motorola promised an update in 2010/Q4?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
I can see you are brazilian like me.

so, here it goes:

MILESTONE (Latin America)

Initial rollout of upgrade to Android 2.2 planned for Q1 2011

Source: https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades

:)

Best Regards
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] leobg:
He meant EMEA is supposed to roll in Q4. I don't see that happening. All we need is any of the milestones to get the new presumably fixed kernel. Then we can use it on any region milestone. Unless of course there are customizations to the radio too. Time will tell.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] max_3000:
So my wifi stopped working suddenly today.. it was fine before.

Just shows everything out of range when it should clearly be in full range.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] omegaart:
With this step by step everything is working fine.

Thank you.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] fernandotakai:
Yep, but the European rollout was planned to Q4 (and i can use baseband from Europe…)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] TamirMeiri:
[Q] WiFi on CM 6.1 not working well...

Hi Guys,

Recently installed the latest CM6.1 build, after doing a complete wipe of everything, and all the possible fixes on the GOT Recovery menu.

Everything seems to be working well, except for for the Wifi.

At home and at my parents', as there is no password, and the cell phone has a static ip, it seems to find the router and connect easily.

However, when I try other open networks, they are not found, same goes for password protected networks - they simply don't even show after a scan.

However, if I change the Regulatory Domain from the default 11 to 13 or 14, it scans and finds the other networks, however, it cannot connect, adding a "disabled" after each network I've tried.

I've tried "forget network" - yet no luck.

Is there any solution?

Thanks,

Tamir
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] amossam:
well i have similar problem. if i activate wifi it wont always find networks. then i have to go to setting, wireless and there disable and enable wifi and after that it works....

Sent from my Milestone
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] max_3000:
I installed CM a few weeks ago and everything was working fine but today I suddenly had the wifi issue you were speaking of..

Really hoping for a solution ASAP..
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] TamirMeiri:
Tried that a while ago - didn't work.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vladstercr:
remove /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] TamirMeiri:
And if it still doesn't help?

What does it do?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] amossam:
but then i will lose all configured wifi's, correct? and if im correct, it was working flawless until before few days...

Sent from my Milestone
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] cbstryker:
Not sure if this is the same problem you are having, but I used to get a 503 error whenever loading a webpage from waking my phone up. I got this with the stock rom also and I found the easy solution is to just turn the screen off and then back on again, then wifi works no problem.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] max_3000:
Rather have my wifi back and re entering all my pws.. Hope this works. You can views this file only if you're in a root-enabled file browser right?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] TamirMeiri:
Yes. Try Root explorer or Super Manager (free - need to turn on Root capability in the program).

Let me know if this works for you, I'll try it as well.

I got a recommendation somewhere else to just rename it to wpa_supplicant.conf.old

So I'd have a backup, just in case.

Make sure Wifi is off when this is done

Rename

Reboot, and try

I will only get to try on the network that didn't work tomorrow morning, so I'd be more than happy to know if it worked for you.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Babis_ECE:
You are welcome, glad I could help.

:)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] F_R_I_T_Z:
I'm curious about one thing.

The focus from CAMERA using the default or any other program. ALREADY WORK with options like macro, or infinite? Besides the default one?

Because i was to try a MACRO picture using the default and other 3 programs. And At last mine one seems doenst work. With macro enabled or any other focus option. i do have same result.

Just wondering...

Tanks all..

:-)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] gingalls:
[Q] Help! CyanogenMod 6.1 missing MarketPlace

Hi,

I just rooted my phone and flashed it with the Cyanogen 6.1 ROM and everything is working fine except the Market Place is missing. I am able to manually install APK's but would like to have access to the Market Place. Does anyone know how to get it back on the phone?

Not sure if it matters or not, but I am using a Telus Motorola Milestone (Canada)

Thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] boooourns:
Did you install the google apps update as well? read the fist post in the cm thread for download and install info.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mohitrocks:
Download this - Google apps from cyannogen: http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-hdpi-20101114-signed.zip and put it in the open recovery folder in updates (NOT THE ORIGINAL ONE, the folder that is labelled OpenRecovery, then go into updates and put it in there). Install it, reboot and you are on your way.

The webpage that the Google Apps files are on is: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#Google_Apps (All from cyannogen)

Also, if you don't have reception, you can download this : http://dext3r.komodin.org/baseband/Radio_3G-Canada236-update-nosign.zip and install it as another update, and that should get you Canada reception. For any others who would like the baseband files go to http://dext3r.komodin.org/ and scroll all the way down, then download the file that you need, then install it through update (Remember in OpenRecovery/updates) . To get OpenRecovery I am pretty sure you need to be rooted, and have to have a custom open recovery that can be loaded through update.zip from the original one.

Also, I would recommend getting Androidani recovery because that also has many pre-installed basebands which you choose from through the custom menu. It is also recommended by nandblack (don't know spelling sry D:). (Search through this section to find it)

Thank this post if I helped :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] gingalls:
Thanks guys, will try this over the next day or so when I get a chance. I'll comment if it worked or not.

Thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] max_3000:
Just deleted that wifi file. Everything works now but I have to re-enter all my PWs. No biggy though :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Chad_Petree:
i cant install the new market, were you able to solve it?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Exostenza:
I don't get it. You guys are all saying that the kernel is creating battery issues and we can't do anything about it until the new kernel is out. YET the Froyomod is running 2.2.1 and has no battery issues what so ever.

So where is the disconnect here? Why can't CM 6.1 for Milestone incorporate whatever the hell the Foryomod incorporated to eradicate the battery problems? Everything is open source here so I just don't get it.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Stenlius:
Hi, I have some problems with the latest 12.12 ROM:

1. Camcorder freezes or FC-ses all the time, the camera is working properly.

2. When I or the opposite party end a conversation there is an anoying loud sound coming from the speaker

Never had bugs with the previous releases, apart from the mentioned above the battery life is great and the performance too.

Upgraded from 04.12 ROM, did the cache/dalvik cache wipes, the camcorder is simply not working properly I suppose.

Need help how to deal with it :).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] TamirMeiri:
Well, I've deleted it as well.

Seems like I can see my neighbors' encrypted networks meanwhile.

Will be at the university tomorrow and try to connect to the public wi-fi there and see if it works.

Will report back tomorrow.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
Hi,

I really don't know.

I made an experience. I installed Cronos ROM (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803717) and It seems to manage better the battery.

I installed it yesterday at night and till now I think it is better.

To be honest I prefer CM6, but I just can't keep charging my phone every hour :P

Btw Cronos has a good performance. It's so fast as CM6.

I will keep my tests.

Regards
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vladstercr:
Dont forget that in CM6 you have to reboot after charging so the phone would go to sleep normally! This bug hasnt been solved yet!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] gingalls:
Thanks mohitrocks,

I copied the ZIP file to the OpenRecovery/updates folder, booted into OpenRecovery (Using G.O.T.) and applied the update. Was up and running in less than a minute.

As for the radio, I had that working already, took long enough to figure it out but I got it working using the SDK tool.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
Yes, somebody told me (some posts before).

But it did not look like a fix to me.

I had to charge it twice per day.

Regards
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vladstercr:
have you disabled from -->settings--->location and security

wifi

gps

?

Make sure you have them checked!

I have quite extraordinary battery life on my milestone! I achieved a maximum of 60 hours with light/moderate usage!

Also the oveclocking matters alot. The power that enters in the battery

I found stability with the next configuration:

800mhz

52 vsel

very stable!

Hope I've helped!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
1) see http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod4milestone/issues/detail?id=298

Use the Middle quality for now.

It will be fixed in the next build: https://github.com/nadlabak/android...mmit/8fe996fefd06c2b2302f82bdbcd01d6b31de4280

2) can't reproduce
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Believe me, there's nothing incorporated in Froyomod2 that solves the battery issues. There are many people that have no issues with battery life on CM6 for Milestone. And there are people who have issues with battery life on Froyomod2. What triggers the battery issues has yet to be found, but it's not that some AOSP/CM compiled ROMs are free of this issue and some are not. It depends on some settings or corruption of settings. It's something common for any current Milestone ROMs using the beta kernel/beta proprietary files from the early 2.2 beta leaked by GOT.

Some swear that Cronos is better, some swear that Froyomod is better, some swear that CM6 is better, some swear that the G.O.T. leaked firmware is better.

With any of these ROMs you can also find people that report rapid battery drain.

It's obviously not easily reproducible/traceable.

I don't have any battery issues personally with CM6, so it's hard for me to make any debugging. (I lose only 10% during 8 hours standby when I sleep and I never turn off wifi/gps etc., and I can easily make it through a full day of quite heavy phone use...)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] The Solutor:
I agree, all the froyo rom, based on the latest kernel are more or less on par.

For me the huge nightime battery drain is matter of the past, but in the early morning the first 10/15 minutes call can eat 20% of power.

At least of displayed power (have you read my considerations about the charging time on froyo, few messages back?)

Do you mean that wifi is your usual way to stay connected to the internet ?

This could explain a lot. Wifi on the milestone is incredibly less battery demanding than 3g.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] AliceXES:
A friend has a Samsung Galaxy S with stock froyo (no root, no custom kernel, etc).

Sometimes, the battery lasts for two days with some degree of use.

Other times, it has to charge it twice a day. It even happened that the battery was completly drained out after 4 hours with no use at all.

It's not the kernel.I THINK it's something about froyo.

Edit: He's usually not using WiFi but 3G (HSDPA), and I'm experiencing the same sympthoms with CM on Milestone, even though I usually use WiFi.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bandroid842:
@Kabaldan:

1- I was using a stock 2.1 Eclair here in Egypt before I made the switch to CM6. Battery life remains the same. I do not get the legendary 1.5 days of usage that some say, but my battery life is comparable to stock 2.1 Eclair. I just thought I should note that.

2- I am not getting any help with the FAQ! Try to encourage people to contribute as per my post from a few pages ago, if you agree.

3- Please do try to incorporate the Farsi/Arabic libs we put up in your next build :)

Thanks for the great job.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Exostenza:
I appreciate the answer. Is there any word on the next CM release?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
I absolutely second that...

sadly we can work hard to mantain the builds as more battery-friend as possible...but for now we have a BETA-kernel with BETA-baseband and for now, we cannot do anything on that, we have to wait motorola to release the official one...

(hoping is not bugged... -.-" )

Also on my ROM I do not have battery iussue (personally) but some users feels the drain...

and sincerely I dunno why It afflicts some users and not others...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] keunhuvac:
In my case, the battery issue is gone (cant remember from what version).

I love your ROM. Cant wait for next version ^_^.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] GZ20TT:
@Kabaldan

I just want to add my thanks for all the effort you put into this, as well as the time you spend answering questions in this thread.

I made the jump from GOT to your port of CM6 a few weeks ago. (10-Dec version)

While I was quite happy with GOT - this has absolutely blown me away.

I've only scratched the surface of what you've baked into it - and still playing with ADW - but it's been awesome.

No battery issues for me - equal to or better than stock 2.1 - and equal or better than GOT.

Thanks again.

(Oh - and you could get the new Market working with CM6, that's be great)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] cbstryker:
Does anyone have the apk for the camera app from the stock 2.1? I really liked that one.

The one we have now keeps crashing on me and normally I'm patient with that kind of stuff it's just a bit inconvinient when trying to film something in a hurry.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Fekish:
Hello, after i installed this i have a problem with GPS.When i open Sygic i have a message at the bottom:

"Closed GPS connection

Check hardware settings"

Any idea what is causing this? I am trying to find a solution last week but couldnt...

Also although yesterday i could connect to satellites, today i cannot.

I dont want with internet connection, just with satellites..

Do these have anything to do with GPS?

Additional downloads:

BPSW (it's the same version as in the 2.2.1 sbf released by G.O.T.): http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod...A1.19_0.90.zip

- if you have not flashed the 2.2.1 sbf before, you can use this package to update your baseband processor software

adb_during_boot (for debugging purposes): http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod...ot_enabler.zip

Thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
Hi,

Of course I did. Btw I tried 125-500Mhz using low vsel.

The problem isnt actually about proc, wifi, gps, bluetooth.

It's something draining the battery quickly.

Feeyo from Cronos Rom has fixed it.

CM's "founder" should investigate it.

Regards
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
Hi kabaldan,

Well I think you should read this link http://www.cronosproject.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=477 .

It seems Cronos really became battery's life better.

Untill now nobody had problems of quickly draining with that rom.

I really enjoy CM, but Cronos is a bit faster, even using 700Mhz by default and took a good battery management.

Don't take it to a personal side.

Your work is awesome I am just trying to help you.

Best Regards
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] TamirMeiri:
Okay, so it seems that now it recognizes the networks it couldn't earlier.

But I cannot connect to WPA2 secured networks - any idea why or how to fix it?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] keunhuvac:
I can confirm there is no difference between CM and cronos in term of battery life! I did try Froyomod, cronos and CM, battery can last for 2 days with medium usage. And i dont believe when someone says: this ROM is best battery life, that rom is worse....
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
Did you read my post? There's an explanation for you there.

So yea, there's huge differences between performance, effects, battery's life and etc.

That's why there are *many* ROMs not only one, because each one has its own particularities.

Regards
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
1) Android is a joke at 700mhz. 1ghz minimum, and even then I'm reaching for my iPod touch + Wifi when I can when I'm on vacation. Yeah. It's that frustrating with our 256mb and slow OS.

2) Battery management is the same. Ever heard of placebo effect? :D 700mhz also saves you some power.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
brenobf: These threads were full of this in the beginning of November. I hoped that it was cleared since then. Why to bring this old debate up again?

I'm glad that you have a great battery life using Cronos.

I'm sure that if Feeyo would have found some simple magical battery fix, he would let me know and it would be already applied in CM ;).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
There isn't any magic.

But it's a fact Cronos is a bit faster (even over 700MHZ) and consuming less battery.

Ok If you say the same does *not* happen on *your* device.

But I garantee there are lot of people with the same problem as me.

If you read my recent posts you will see I made a couple of tests.

Since putting my clock to 125~250 till power off lcd, wifi, gps and 3g/EDGE.

I've installed a couple of applications to manage battery, I have put low vsel, turned off screen by an entire day, I've reboot it before charge many times, I left all its battery empy. Well I made lot of tests.

It is a *fact* there's a problem with that rom. If you dont want to argue about that, it's fine.

BTW I am not bringing nothing "up", since last rom was released on December and not November.

I am not trolling, so please be polite.

My answer applies for both.

Regards.

Edit: Ooh, and I forgot to say your ROM is awesome, everything works fine I just think battery isnt "ok" yet. Not kidding you're making a good and pretty work. I just want to help :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] juandpineiro:
For me, the only reason why there are a lot of ROMs is only because there are lots of DEVs eager to build them.

As other users say I've also tried FroyoMod, Cronos and CM and I just can't notice any substancial difference in battery life. I've said it before. I'm not going to leave my phone in standby mode for like two days just to see how much the battery lasts. For me, everyday usage is what's important.

As someone posted before, the camera bug is pretty annoying when you try to take a picture or film something in a hurry. Besides that, I always preferred this ROM :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] brenobf:
What you mean "for you" isn't necessary what really happens :)

But well, that's fine for you? Good!

My battery was totally draining in a couple of hours of no use and it is no fine for me.

I thought it was a problem of some configuration or something else, but people here shared the same problem.

About the camera It was working fine "for me" ;)

Regards
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] lalit79:
i definitely think it is a placebo effect. I think every rom based on the 2.2.1 leaked kernel with cm6 on top of it will have more or less same battery life. Few tweaks here and there might change few %age but not a drastic difference.

I have been a freak with regards to changing roms across nadlabak, dexter, feeyo, froyomod, hono, miui and i can safely conclude that no one rom is better than the other in terms of battery life....

except for dexter almost of all of them are based on nadlabak's work. some battery improvements are seen in cronos no doubt but not drastic.

Btw one thing i have noticed in cronos rom. i dont know how he did it but the battery %age and the display don't match. The battery bar most of the time shows as if it has more battery than the actual number.

finally if not for nadlabak, feeyo's rom wouldn't have been there as well as miui