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[Motorola Milestone Android Development] milest0ne2:
I'm using the same build, here are some screenshots (of Andoku) to clarify:

On the left I chose layout "dark", everything's ok, the special areas ("X") are visible, on the right it's the layout "classic", no special areas, not even the grid is complete.

"Why don't you play on the dark layout?" Because I don't like it :)

In Sudoku4ever there's another graphic error: when I tap on a cell, it highlights row and column of that cell - when it does that, not all cells are completely filled with color, some look like the color was "scratched" from them. Unfortunately I can't capture this on a screenshot as the highlighting dissapears after a split second, I may have to get my camera out to catch it.

I suppose this has something to do with CM7 as it worked all right (same apps) with FroyoMOD. Any ideas?

Greetings
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
Try disabling the 16-bit-transparency in Settings > CyanogenMod > Performance and reboot.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] milest0ne2:
You, Sir, made my day! That did it, thanks very much!

Now I know what this setting is for (never played with it): to mess up my game experience ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
It also causes troubles in combination with the app Business Calendar. Messes up overlay colors.

Still I don't know why one would want to keep it enabled - anyone?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] milest0ne2:
I didn't play with those options at all (until now), beats me ... I switched off dithering, too, just to see if I spot a difference.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Scrolling is noticeably smoother with 16bit transparency enabled and 16bit graphic needs half the RAM compared to 32bit graphic that is used for opaque windows otherwise. So users who do not use apps that render incorrectly with 16bit transparency enabled can benefit from this option.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hearts king101:
Hi Kabaldan

Would u plz take a look to above quote. I'm still having it after flashing a new rom ( latest ). Is it related to supercharge script although I've never faced such a problem.

Best wishes ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] lucianoklos:
My milestone back from the ashes!!!

Thanks a lot!!! Its incredible fast and has no reboot issues. Incredible.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mishu28nmv:
search button turbs off screen!

Hello Kabaldan! I use "cyanogenmod 7.2.0 stable milestone" for my motorola xt701 and when i push the search button the screen turns off. how can i repair that?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nitrobg:
This ROM is not supposed to be installed on any device different than Motorola Milestone A853. You are lucky that you didn't brick your device.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] dannorth:
Hi there,

I'm having trouble with the wifi hotspot. Devices connect and DHCP appears to work, but no data makes it to the connected devices. no errors are shown.

I don't have a logcat at this time.

Suggestions?

Thanks.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Maybe your provider is blocking traffic on a mac address basis... no thetering if so... any success with usb connection?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Darkstriker:
Edit: NVM, I was looking in the settings until i realized that in CM7 the Themes weren't integrated there yet.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] extrem0:
Is there a way to avoid phone screen turning on after outgoing call accepted.

It's causing me to pressing buttons with my face.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] cool bean:
I have the same problem. My other android devices (HP touchpad with ICS), notebooks, appleTV all connected fine. Just my milestone 7.2...exactly like your problem. Help!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Lucasm93:
It happened to me a couple of times. Another issue with wifi is that sometimes the phone won't find any wifi network. This problem is solved by turning wifi off and back on.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
The problem seems to have returned.

After like half a day the brightness sensor stopps working (checking via Settings > CyanogenMod > Display > Automatic brightness > Edit brightness levels)

Both the raw and filtered value seem so be stuck - they only change on screen off/on - but not always.

Rebooting solves the problem temporarily.

I already considered MX Player to be interfering with the brightness settings since it has the ability to disable automatic levelling and key lighting.

But I disabled all these options and didn't start the app during the last 12 hours - the problem occured nonetheless.

Any ideas? :(
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
I'm not sure if it is the same problem I had on CM9, but try to toggle Automatic brightness off and on, instead of turning the screen off and on. You can create a shortcut on notification power widget to make is more accessible (and configure brightenss modes to auto and whatever).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Maniaccc:
+1
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
Toggling automatic brightness changes the behaviour - but it's still not quite right.

After toggling auto bright and switching the screen on/off it will adjust brightness levels in some way that seems about right... until next screen on/off :(
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
I've spent some considerable time debugging this ALS (Automatic Light Sensor) issue in the past.

Unfortunately, the conclusion I came to is that it's a hardware issue and I was not able to figure out any workaround for it no matter what I tried.

It's a low level issue happening between the kernel and the ALS chip.

Whenever there is a light change that crosses one of the 4 predefined light level thresholds, the ALS chip is set to generate an interrupt that invokes an action of the ALS kernel driver.

After some uncertain time of the device uptime, usually 48-70 hours in the case of all three Milestones I own (I got two more in addition to my original one to be able to test and compare different builds of different system versions), the ALS interrupts suddenly stop coming to kernel - the ALS chips seems to not generate any interrupts any more, no matter how the lighting conditions change.

When the screen is turned on after being off, the light sensor value is read by the kernel driver even without an interrupt coming in, so the LCD brightness is updated according to the measured light. The ALS sensor still measures and holds the immediate light value in its register when the issue happens, but the chip does not signal the light changes to the kernel via interrupts any more.

I tried to reset the ALS chip from kernel via gpio, but it was not bringing the ALS interrupts back to life, unfortunately.

The only thing that works is to reboot the device and enjoy the time the ALS fully works, until it stops again, then reboot again... ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
Thanks for your detailed explanation, kabaldan.

What else is this ALS chip responsible for?

Some time ago I read that also the notification LED isn't controlled by the CPU directly.

But it's still a mystery to me why this issue hasn't occured with other ROMs...

Maybe it's a sign of the device slowly withering away :(

Hm... last time I had to tinker with brightness settings was CM9, because the brightness levels were to low for my taste...

Maybe that's what pissed off the ALS chip...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] fzelle:
It probably hasn't occured to you before because of (soft)reboots.

With earlier Roms there where alot of them.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
That would be crazy :D

Imagine the headlines: "CM7 too stable - causes long-term problems!"

But the MIUI Gingerbread ROMs also were very stable - running for several days without reboot.

And they're also based on CM7...

I doesn't really make sense...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hanschke:
will there be any update for your 7.2 mod? I know it is much stable and great work but only a question or will you look at cm10 to get it fast like this?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] L3ibnitZ:
Hey guys, i've got a question: The milestone has 256mb ram and with a costum rom there is only 226mb available. Where are the 30mb? What is the memory used for? If it would be possible to make it usable (or a part of it), that would be great.. thats over 10%

Pls don't blame me if the question is dumb..

Thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] extrem0:
I think the other 30mb are reserved for Android os.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
Out of physical 256MB RAM, 226MB is available to kernel, which then allocates necessary resources as operating system requests them. 30MB is reserved for radio (and some other things I forgot). Or something similiar to that ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] L3ibnitZ:
Thanks, but why is the accessable memory of stock 2.2 from motorola the full 256mb?

Pls excuse my bad engl.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
Well, perhaps a lie? I've seen some roms that write physical amount of ram in system info. It might be the case here, but I can't give you a reliable and trustworthy answer to that. Sorry.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
lol cm10 wont run smoothly on your milestone.... i think if you guys are still stuck with this phone it's time to look at new options.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
Anyone facing problems with the 2G data connection on this rom
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] L3ibnitZ:
Nope.. everything is working fine 2G/edge/3G/hsdpa, wlan and tethering also works great for me
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Abu3792:
It isn't working for me , don't know where the problem is?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Quentin himself:
You should re-apply your ROM, but before... check your APN in Phone settings. It happened to me several times to lose Data connection after applying a ROM (obviously you lose network settings after a Data wipe.)

So check that and maybe, re-apply the ROM ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] jerminhu:
Hi all!

Here I've got some questions regarding storage memory management.

Question I.

My phone is running the latest build with apps2ext applied. And I've installed quite some apps on it. Yesterday, I installed a dictionary app which asked me whether I want to download offline database. I chose yes and then it finished the downloading successfully.

But today when gmap is updating itself, I was warned of insufficient storage. Then I checked the internal storage in settings and it was only 23.5MB available. I guess it gets occupied by the dictionary database I downloaded yesterday.

Is there any way to shift it to the sd card?

Question II:

Since I have many apps installed, I started to find out the more apps I installed, the slower my phone became.

After doing some research online, I became aware that some apps had processes running in the background even if they had not been started, which took up precious memory. Some of them would kill themselves after running for a while (such as documents2go and ebay, taking up around 70MB memory), most of which are running some sorts of notification services.But some others even restarted themselves after I manually killed them.

I then managed to slash down some seldom used apps which had unkillable hidden processes running in the background. But there are still 2 apps of this kind running in the background taking up 35MB memory, which I have to keep in the phone.

So, is there a way to keep those processes from starting themselves besides uninstalling those apps?

By the way, what is the optimum settings for Auto Memory Manager? I'v tried many combinations and am currently using 6 8 16 29 41 49. Yet I am still seeing many (go)launcher redraws. Sometimes, when I frequently switch among several memory-hungry apps, I even get the phone rebooted. If you have any memory/performance tweaks, please let me know.

Thanks in advance!

Jermin
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ionutz_nek:
on my milestone 1 with android 2.2 i used "data on demand" to close data conection on screen off. this app was my favourite because it is a lightweight app and uses minimal RAM. now, on this [ROM] CyanogenMod 7.2.0 (Android 2.3.7) [20120616] the app "data on demand" doesn't work. could be a fix for that?

i tried juice defender, battery defender but those use much RAM and keep phone in awake state for a longer time.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nitrobg:
Solution to question 1: add sd-ext partition on your memory card, it will solve all your app-related issues.

Solution to question 2: locate the resource-hungry apps and uninstall them. It's basically pointless to store many apps on this phone, though, it just gets slower with every app running. Method of locating the resource-hungry apps: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30272217#post30272217

Using this, I'm getting an incredibly fast old brick with lots of standby time (0.2 to 0.4% standby drain per hour).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] jerminhu:
Could you elaborate a bit please? I have 500MB space on SD allocated for app2sd, which is now half occupied. How come I can add it back to internal memory?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nitrobg:
Please follow this guide: http://www.mrmuh.com/2012/01/update-a-motorola-milestone-from-motorola-firmware-to-cyanogenmod-7/

Step 4 covers the apps2ext partition, it extends the internal memory so the apps will go to this partition and leave the internal memory free. I'm unclear whether the apps' data is also moved, but it should be, someone has to explain it further.

Good luck. :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mrvek:
Inbuilt app2ext moves only the applications (apk) and their dex files (if dex exists for an app, some apps ship with their own odex which stay in the same dir as apk). CM7 (system) is mostly odexed so corresponding odex files are in system/app along with their apk. Those that are not odexed have their dex files in /cache/dalvik-cache. For user installed apps dex files are in /data/dalvik-cache which is bind mounted to ext partition (/mnt/sd-ext/dalvik-cache).

Data (settings, etc.) is left in /data/data/
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] L3ibnitZ:
Try to use app2sd instead of app2ext for this one application.

And you could also try to enable lib2ext to free some memory but check if you got around 200mb free on your extpartition first.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bejoy_sab:
Please help.Been trying to work on a translation of the 7.2 rom in malayalam language for my milestone..cant get settings.apk to recompile after editing strings and arrays.xmls ..all others apks i have managed to recompile...issue posted here too.. .. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30462315

..

Please help..:(:(
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Just posted in your thread.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] DJPatriX:
QQ

Best regards from Poland, Patryk.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Both CM7 and CM10 for Milestone are under active development, though I've been focused only on CM10 lately.

I'd like to release new CM7 build before the end of August, if all goes well.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hanschke:
great :good:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] DJPatriX:
Can you tell us about your plans for the new 7.2 version? :) Something likie "future changelog" :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] l1f30wn3r:
Good idea!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
nadlabak told somewhere that cm 7 will get ics graphics driver as it fix some bugs of current froyo driver. This propably will be biggest maybe only change. But don't get to excited, at this time on github is zero activity. This will take time. It doesn't look that next cm7 will materialize on August, but nadlabaks cm10 alpha build should do.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Thanks, this info is mostly correct.

Let's clarify:

When it's not about a simple merge from upstream, I work and debug on my local repo first - I usually push to github only after I'm satisfied with the changes, after some real life tests on my phones.

To the point: CM7 for Milestone won't get the ICS SGX drivers, as they are not backwards compatible. But there will be an update to the latest available gingerbread compatible SGX PVR drivers anyway - version 1.5 will be upgraded to v 1.7 (unless I spot some hard show stopper in the next few days).

There's also a number of new interesting updates in CM7 upstream that will be included in the next release.

If all goes well, the release will happen soon. If there are issues, it'll be delayed.

How simple ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mcdevtingz:
LOL how's cm10 running lads?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
I am glad that CM 7 is still in the works it's more valuable for our stones than cm 10
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Way better than CM9, not mature as CM7 :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] d.casper.b:
I just want to ask a simple question regarding the user interface.

I've changed the colour of my notification power widget indicator, but now i want to get it back to default. When I change themes it stays the colour I made it, how do I get it back to normal?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bejoy_sab:
I was trying to translate 7.2, by editing values/res/strings.xmls.... Messaging and contacts work well. But when i press the main phone icon or the phone icon in the top corner of the contacts screen i get an error " sorry the process android.process.contacts has stopped unexpectedly"

Any help.:confused:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] d.casper.b:
Another quick question.

Been on CM7 for a while now, and now I'm finally running out of internal storage space.

Currently have 1.53GB free on SD (fat32 partition); 124MB free on ext3, and 20.5MB free internal storage.

I have around 86 apps installed.

What should I do now to free up internal storage? All apps install by default to the ext partition.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
All you can do is removing apps or clearing some apps data :(

Installing to ext needs a small amount of internal for data and links, so...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] L3ibnitZ:
i guess it's no option for you to uninstall some apps.

but there is another option, you can enable lib2ext:

I'm not sure if 124MB free on ext3 is enough! A Nandroid is highly recommended.

That's how i would do it:

1. Nandroid

2. enable lib2ext

3. see if everything is working and if I'm satisfied.

4.1 satisfied: ready

4.2 not satisfied/something is messed:

safe all sd-data (full backup)

5. repartition your sd-card to get a bigger ext-partition.

6. push your data back to the newly formated sd-card

7. restore your Nandroid

8. enable lib2ext

9. everything should be fine now :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] d.casper.b:
Thanks guys :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] akantoch:
7. 2. 1 is up. On github. Dawnloading now:)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] themajestic58:
Downloading .. Please leave your comments on CM7.2.1
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hanschke:
:victory:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scoutme:
Left my lovely CM10 nightly to give latest CM7 a try... couldn't resist :)

CM7 is so... relaxing :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] LuigiC6:
I'm not finding 7.2.1 that good. Not sure if its something I did (although 7.2.0 ran pretty smoothly with the same settings) but it is a little laggy
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] L3ibnitZ:
For me it's still as smooth as it was with 7.2.0.

@nadlabak: thanks for the update, it's very nice that you are still trying to improve an already stable and nice rom. Thanks!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
Opera Mini seems to runs smother with this one. Other things runs this same. Nothing I use get broken with new driver. I have try Sygic, Maps and Opera Mini that utilize it.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] papadawgg:
i like the new version. everything seems to run smoother than before and the virtual keyboard is bigger now. i also noticed that there are no glitches in animations in the gallery, anymore.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Sandman21dan:
Wow this release does make a bigger difference than I expected, a lot of things feel snapier, virtual keyboard, launcher pro, just about everything... it doesn't appear to have anything broken. Must try out!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nitrobg:
Great update, the phone really feels snappier now. :)

kabaldan, you said that in the next release you're going to merge the character maps into the secondary input method in Milestone Settings. Is it being delayed for some reason?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] dexter_10:
Yes yes yes... This update is great!!! Thi life the battery is long and now i can use google map xD. Wow. Kabaldan thank u.... It's great :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] d.casper.b:
I have just increased the size of my sd-ext partition.

If I enable lib2ext, will it remain enabled after an update (CM7 update)?

Also, how do you deactivate it and move the library files back to the /data folder (lib2ext 0) ?

I am just restoring my nandroid backup now, and then I'll update to CM 7.2.1 before doing any lib2ext.

PS. Thank you so much for the update kabaldan.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] L3ibnitZ:
you should use the searchfunction:

about updating with lib2ext enabled:

about the deactivation of lib2ext (lib2ext 0):