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[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
i read from a lot of ppl tht froyomod 2.7 has the best battery life to performance ratio compared to all the other roms including cm7/miui/icenfire .. is it ???
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] meilstone:
So i dont have much knowledge on the new build. So if i read you statement, i guess that my faked chinese batteries can only work with 10% steps but not with 1%?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
Ofcourse it is better than Gingerbread ROMs. It is Froyo, much faster/snappier than GB (on our Milestone), but has most of the tweaks from CM, including status bar widget, volume/camera buttons music control, 1% battery increments, bunch of themes (thx to basian mile, sileshn etc.) and ofcourse, more free memory(better gaming) and better battery life (could be better in my opinion, but how? xD)

Btw why 2.7 when there is 2.8 lol. For few days luca will release 2.8.1 (I think) with fixes for 2.8, so you can wait or just try 2.8 :D.

P.S.

I don't know about battery life on I&F, skadude was saying it is great, dunno can it be compared to FM.

Exactly. It can work but showing ? means nothing to you. :) You can ask luca to put in option to choose between 1% and 10%, like in new CM7 build.

Luca said that 3.0 will probably be the final version (I think) and he will try to implement most of our requests :) I hope so :).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
hmm interesting .. so wht modifications wud b recommended for this rom .. as in supercharge overclock vsel settings ??? ..
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Yes, iceandfire had the best battery life for a Gingerbread ROM. But it doesn't even hold a candle compared to FroyoMOD. I could get about 13 hours on I&F, with about 20% remaining. At 14 hours yesterday on FM, I was at 59%.

PLUS, I have found that battery temperature is VERY good. I am rarely about 30C when I use my phone.

In terms of performance, you can try a 900MHz overclock using an ultra low voltage, but I don't know how big the difference could be in terms of battery life. For themes, refer to Basian Mile's theme thread, Sileshn has posted his Honeycomb and Gingerbread themes, and I have added some bugfixes to them, look a couple pages back. No need to supercharge as Maps loads fine without it (thanks to to Froyo and its light memory usage!)

Let me know if you have any other questions.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
Don't mind for scripts, they are already modded to free up RAM (most of time 70+ mb for me, I use only 1 widget (Beautiful Superclock) so...)

Overclock is 1GHz@64vsel by default, I'm holding it @60vsel. You can see many overclock .zip files in 3rd post of the thread.

Settings - choose the way you want them to be, there are many optimizations in FroyoMOD Settings.

P.S. turn off animation/copy-paste/glow effect from GB are going to be implemented too :).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
1. so this rom is good for games without superchargin ?

2. shud i get autotask memory killer or some task manager ?

3. will i have to flash gapps ? i guess so but still making sure

4. how to overclock ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
n how wud u compare this to the latest miui rom ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
1- No need to supercharge, also I don't think supercharge will work because of the new memory management Luca implemented.

2-Froyo does NOT need a task manager. Under 2.2 you needed to because Android did not have a smart way of killing tasks, but now, it has its own and I have heard that it even decreases battery life.

3-No need to flash Gapps, already included in the ROM.

4-Overclock can be done by classic way through Root Explorer and editing 10overclock in /etc/init.d or by flashing an overclock pack through OR. If you choose to flash through OR, PLEASE put the stock overclock pack in there as well, in case of bootloops.

EDIT: Have not tried the newest MIUI ROM, but the way I see it, Froyo will always be better for the Milestone as we were never really meant to get Gingerbread in the first place.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
Miui ROM sucks haha
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
its got amazing features in it .. the drop down notification bar widgets is fullscreen and u can long press those icons to go into their settings

thers a guest mode n all

in contacts thers a touch or htc sense and xperia's infinity stuff ..

mayb milestone cnt handle all tht ..
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
That's the point.

U can do that in FM
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
FroyoMOD 2.8 implemented the long press for the notification bar widgets as well.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
froyomod 2.8.0b it is then :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
FM all the way :D! Just ask if u dunno something :).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
surely .. but i must say when i first came on this site with a stock milestone i dint understand wht to do .. all these technical words n all .. slowly but surely i am getting the hang of it .. thnx to all u experts out here .. seriously .. its a great help to all of us .. thnx again
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
Well I am not such an expert, but these are basics for me, as you can see I'm not on the forum for too long but I have many posts xD. Learned a lot :D.

So just for you to know what will be fixed in 2.8.1.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
k so if i flash 2.8.0b nw then when i flash the next update i will have to install all the apps again n set the settings again ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Nope, you should just be able to wipe caches and flash.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] meilstone:
Well i got only 2 more wishes for our milestone.

1st -screen rotation animation. Yes i know android did only implement it in honeycomb. But maybe someone can port this?

2st-nice gallery mayber with something like coverflow.

These are all design stuff. But i think we cannot get more speed out of the milestone because of lucas excelent work. Now we can make it to a lifestyle phone due to lack of memory. But thanks to zeppelinerox for the bulletproof and supercharge script with them i dont have any memory problems ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Svid:
Since i moved from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0b Iv'e noticed some overheating problems

It's me?Or it'c common issue with this relese?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] moviecut:
what about the MIUI-gallery? i read about it on android-hilfe.de. it starts but force closes when a picture is clicked. i didnt test it myself. maybe someone can port it...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
Not over here. Overheat was actually problem in 2.7...

Cmon wthell what animations/galleries, current available galleries are fine, 2d is fast, only should be modded to work in camera instantly, not over menu-gallery

Which rotation animations? You can ask sileshn he was making themes with some animations, maybe he can give you what you need.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
rotation animations got removed from android in 1.5 or 1.6. dunno y. nice to hear that honeycomb has them again. so we will see them again sooner or later ;-)

sent from my current location
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] felipevilasboas2:
When are the themes coming up?

I really miss the gingerbread theme. lol

Also, i just saw the honeycomb theme for 2.8 froyomod, but i couldn't figure out how to install it. I know it's through metamorph, but i want to know if the theme will be avaiable to be installed through open recovery? Thanks.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] tigger-gg:
Can confirm that in 2.8.0 and 2.8.0b.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Sileshn's GB and HCv3 themes have been out for a little while already. Look a couple pages back, I have posted some bugs in them, adapted for 2.8.0b
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mcdevtingz:
Why in the gingerbread theme are the messaging notification icon and the browser icon not themed?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Which Gingerbread theme are you talking about? I'm pretty sure they are themed.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mcdevtingz:
This one. Does the other one have modded status bar icons?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mcdevtingz:
Also how do you calibrate battery in this version?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Thanks but the SuperCharger doesn't work with 2.8.

Well, the minfree levels can be changed but the OOM groupings will stay in the same order because home is

permanently

set to be equal to visible apps (ie. Lock Home in Memory) but

there is no way to turn it off

.

Therefore, no OOM grouping/priority fixes or HTK launcher.

Also, the notification/status bar apps are now killable.

Usually, they are prioritiy 0/foreground app/bulletproof.

Now they can be killed with priority 1/visible app/killable.

So now there are weak status bar apps to go along with a weak launcher...

I tried it out yesterday and I haven't had so many redraws in months.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] m0jo:
+1 for rotation animation

I like gallery 3D, though. Its cool and unique.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
The oom groupings are STOCK...

Except for the home app...

LOL

This is froyo no need of making things unkillable, and also, if the oom groupings are stock how I can make a foreground app (the one in notification bar) killable? They hare not unkillalble in stock android (oom priority 1 not 0)

Yes, Locked Home will be optional from the next release (or from 2.9.0 depends on how much time I have free xD)

I do not have redraws after playng aphalt... Yes I'm sure that if you have music on, browse internet with 6 tabs open desktop version...ok

a redraw its ok for me in those conditions xD

But after a game I do not have redraws, so I think that this way to mantain live the launcher is enough for froyo (yes weaker than HTK launcher obv) but enough for most uses

OBV

For hard gamers, I suggest the Zeppelinrox gaming profile, it can give better results, but I read about someone playing Tegra games in 2.8 O.o with stock MM so I think its a bit more universal way to manage memory
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Perhaps it's probably something that you didn't notice but the apps that usually sit in the notification bar are no longer in the foreground group with priority 0 and are in the visible group with priority 1.

I did think it was weird because you have stated that such changes are not necessary on froyo so it probably is just an oversight.

At least you know what to fix then :)

Edit: Oh I just noticed... so those notification bar apps are usually killable on stock roms? I've never noticed that but I almost never run stock :P All the roms that I've run have had those apps in the foreground.

But I did test with FreeMemoryRecover which kills absolutely everything and really having the status bar apps get killed opens up very little extra ram so I don't think that it's worth it to make them a 1 especially if a music app that sits up there gets killed.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
Probably you're right, but I thought:

This is a rom for everyone, so I have to make a memory managment that can handle well most of the threatments, so I decided to remain (for oom groups) "with google" :D If google choose those Ooms there will be a reason xD

If then anyone feel better with other memory managment, can use that, very simple, but my main goal is not "free mem" as in froyo is ok, but usability, so the locked launcher both in system managment and oom managment (1 is very hard to kill), but with the rest of oom groupings stock, and some little minfree tweaks...

I tried to mantain it simple, clean and stock
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Yes it does.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
I understand. Though like you said, it's not about free mem (above 30mb performance levels out anyway) so I think that perhaps you should make the status bar apps back to 0 and foreground.

I'm pretty sure it will save you messages about music apps and mms apps closing.

I think somebody mentioned that tasker resides up there as well so if tasker gets killed, there will be no end to your grief lol
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Dricos:
about adhoc - wifi connection ....

please. fix..

My device cannot connect to bernacle wifi tether from another device..
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mblaster4711:
Because ive changed only the Icons for the Power Widget Bar, in that 2.7.0 GB-Theme.

Gruß
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Quick update on battery life on FroyoMOD 2.8.0b. 3G/ HSPA and WiFi were always on, battery calibrated using Luca's method!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
I'm not even close to that...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
What do you get? I'm at 53% right now.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
questions

1. for battery calibration i shud use zepplin's method ?

2. in the dock ther is a dialer and a web browser shortcut .. how do i change it ..

i cud use launcher pro but tht wud jus slow down the phone

3. how do i get n install themes for this rom ?

4. how do i check my overclock speed n vsel setting ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Battery calibration for me was done by Luca's method, drain the battery to less than 5%, use wipe battery status in FroyoMOD extras, charge to full by USB (computer)

LauncherPro does not slow down the phone, as that is what I'm running now. Have you tried long pressing on the shortcut?

Themes are applied through OR just like when you flash a ROM, just wipe both caches before and after you flash a theme.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
the dock wher the app drawer icon is also ther i tried long pressing it nuthing happens .. long pressing works only on the normal shortcuts
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
If you're worried about LauncherPro being too heavy and slowing down your phone, set it to a lighter memory preset in Advanced > Memory Usage Settings
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
Well yesterday came down from 100 to 30, just with wifi on all the time, and some tapatalk, facebook(in browser)...

I need to calibrate it more times maybe...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] filchi756:
Can someone please upload to megaupload or mediafire the dsi fix and unfix, 2dgallery,2dlauncher,stock music player.the upload sites on 1st page are all block in my country. Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mcdevtingz:
Can someone link me sileshns gb theme?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] puffo81:
I'm happy with FM 2.8.0 battery.. I lose only 4% overnoght, after 9 hours, with data/sync off. With data on, I lose about 13%.

now, after 22 hours, I still have 56%. but the problem is when I use the phone, the display drains a lot of battery as well as the 3G module! =(

I also bought a chinese battery, branded DEJI: the package is wonderful, and it is stated as a 2000mAh battery. but it give me many problems, heating, the display of remaining charge is not accurate and sometime it has not recognized by the system.. so be aware of that.. choose original! :cool:

EDIT: but the price is good, 4$ shipping included! So if you need a battery for emergency, it could be a good choice!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rrohanjs:
the inbuilt file manager is awfully slow ..

can ne1 temme how to do ext-2 on this rom .. ive neva done it
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] puffo81:
Easiest way is to use a windows partition manager supporting EXT2 partition, like this one:

http://www.partition-tool.com/

then just create an EXT2 partition on SD card-

Remember to do a back up before.. probably it won't fail, but never say never! =)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
display drains battery as hell for me too, but thats normal, i will try to play with the automatic brightness settings, thats what they are here for =D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] -FuFu-:
you forget to say that:

1. partition must be fat and 2. the ext2...

i think i must reflash 2.8.0...

i got modem errors (kernel panic) once a day -.-

but i maybe test if it help when i only reflash baseband...

Send from my Milestone using my own Brain...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] puffo81:
nono, don't do it!!!! ;)

automatic brightness uses a lot of energy, as much as setting brightness to 100% even if it is working at 20%.. better to set it manually.. try and see yourself!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
GB theme with bugfixes included.

Can be downloaded here. Screenshots here.

Includes the bugfixes that skadude has posted and bugfixes for battery icon not shown for battery %'s above 100 & sliders.

Use froyomod extras to change clock/date/notification ticker/PLMN/SPN color to white ( #ffffffff ). It includes themed battery icons with %, so don't use the show % in FroyoMOD extras.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nowforever:
My phone come to totally dark when I set to minimum brightness.

Is there anyway to modify it?

For the others, its work great.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] discotime:
Is there some themes for this rom?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
Did you AT LEAST read the changelog? I do not pretend the topit but AT LEAST the changelog!!!

you'll see yourself...

What problems does it give?

(If it's very imortant try wiping! Your apps will be backupped automatically by google!!)

For now it's not possible, but I'll try to see what I can do!

I implemented the 6 most nice utility over here;

what other utility you users want? (let me know!)

Can you send me the log of the error! Thx :D

As said before, I want to mantain (aestetically) the ROM the most faithful to the original android look! Those additions are to better up the UserExperience! If you see the Rom is completely stock on the Aestetic point of view!

Is there some themes for this rom?

Not yet, I have to work on it, but I have also a private life to mantain I canot work 24\7 on the Rom xD
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
Can you please tell me how to collect the crash log for camera?... sorry for the noob question :))
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
connect to a pc and access the phone via adb shell, then type

stop

start

logcat > /sdcard/logcat

(phone have to be in charge only mode)

then limitate yourself to open the camera and make it FC; then go to the sdcard and you have the file "logcat"; send me via mail or PM!

Or (if you search) there is a Logcat app in market! Try that!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Skoor:
It would be great to have 2G/3G switch and mayby flashlight?

Rom is much more faster than the older version, great job Luca, but the bootanimation... Dancing banana was much more funnier, give me a link to it if you can :-)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
I'm now working on making the power strip scrollable so all settings will be included and no need to choose among them;

but have a lower priority on the RotaryLockscreen for now!

About bananas, I've changed because many of you did not like it xD

You can find it on this link----> HERE just put on sdcard and in terminal/adb type "switchba" and you're on! :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
OK I sent you the log, hope you recived it
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] keunhuvac:
what other utility you users want? (let me know!)

Hmm! I like to have "go to sleep" button!

Thanks!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
(just for curiosity xD)

Why? is like pressing the power button, nothing more nothing less... (it has sense if you have power button broken!)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] stas.green:
GPS not working... pity
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mystichobo:
Ah, I had a brief glance at the changelog but obviously didn't look hard enough :-P

As for features, how bout music control in the notification area?

If you get the rotary lockscreen working you will be my hero. I've been trying to work out how to get it since I got my milestone.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
Actually I do not understand what you mean O-o xD Rotary locksreen is the one in android 2.0.0 the first one seen in droid/milestone, do not understand what you mean!

@ALL

FIX GPS SEEMS RESOLVED; FLASH THE PATCH CONTAINING ALL THE NEW FILES, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY DELETE FILES IN /data/location SO YOU JUST HAVE TO APPLY THE UPDATE AND REBOOT!

aGps (the one giving you the position with an aproxiation of 1000m) fix instant, gps 1 minute or a minute&a half AT COLD! Instant fix after the first fix!

http://www.multiupload.com/RKGHNZBBWO
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] stas.green:
GPS works now.

Thanks for great rom!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] handsomeboy1702:
Is it me or the rom issue that the displaydisplay image next to 'me' in the messaging app is just a gray photo?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] 89luca89:
I'ts the froyoMOD 2.1.0 why did you apply it on v1! O___o xD

Its normal that causes a bootloop....
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] roadracer:
Great job, thanks!

I have two questions, I want to put a black theme for the status bar. I only found how to change the color of the clock and other things, but not the background. Is it possible? Or need to edit the framework-res.apk?

And what about the widget settings in the status bar? In cyanogen it configurable, there can be added 2G/3G toggle and a flashlight, and remove something that is not needed (such as sync). Is it possible?

Thanks again!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mang_mang:
Cannot use Tweetdesk, It alway force close
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Aoi_sora9x:
Flashed, work faster than the flash. (no pun intended)

Anyway perfect rom. However androidiani openrecovery mods do not work for me... I chosed froyo mod 2.2.1 in the OR menu and changes quite a lot of the things but then it puts the phone in a reboot loop... :/ any ideas?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] marvil666:
Very fast rom without any battery drain. New, usable shortcuts next to the menu button but you cant choose what app put there, luca has decided for us (dialer,web) pity. And I have problem with 'Transportoid' app like couple of my friends-app cant be open. ANY HELP? I really need this app!

But THANKS A LOT, I consider this rom as the best so far. BRILLIANT:)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ifiuse:
Hey Luca,

Wich is the file who define the "PowerWidget in status bar", And For change the background? I just want to make a theme, this night im going to do it and i need to know
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10994672&postcount=226

Use the guide only to create the ext partition. Leave the rest.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
yeah u should not go lower than 2 or 3 i think.

rly? never thought bout that.

i think i'm too lazy to set the brighntess everytime manually.

but i will keep ur advice in mind in case the drain becomes worse.

for the record:

i only edited the lowest value because i think the display gets to bright even in dark areas.

disabled filter

use custom on - screen dim level 2 - other levels 0-34 (2 - 255 - 255) / 35 - 99 (20 - 255 - 255))

the rest is default (this is a little dark, but i will customize it over time for my locations.)

Allow light decrease "on" of course

And Hysteresis at default 50.

The first time i use this settings i'm rly interessted in how it will perform...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mcdevtingz:
Apply the theme through or yes?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nowforever:
My phone come to 100% dark after the screen timeout!

How to fix this?

Editted: Sorry, I know the reason. I've modified 'Automatic backlight' level to 1. :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] puffo81:
??? How should it be? :confused: