yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Babis_ECE:
Wish I knew how to do this my friend. I only know how to install your latest Build. :o

Wish I could be more helpful.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
UMTS = 3G rite?

When u are not actively using 3G, switch to 2G.

2G is good enuff to receive Gmail and Talk msg in the background while your phone is idle and also good enuff for replying to gmail or talk messages.

Only turn on 3G when u need fast connection when surfing websites actively.

Leave the phone on 2G by default and u should see some improvements in battery life.

Just a FYI for those who dunno about how much power 3G consumes.

As u can see 3G uses more power than the cpu.

The level of brightness also affects how much power the LCD is drawing.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] girinovey:
WOW, which app do you use to make those power consumption graphs?

it's awesome!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] scomodo:
yes i usually toggle between 2g/3g for power saving..the point is that with stock rom i usually had 25-30% plus battery life..so i am trying to find out what is the main reason for this!

actually i think the main reasons for battery drain is in order:

3G

LCD

Sync

i also got 50 hours of battery life sometimes but the main usage was for phone call (sync/3g disabled/internet used only in wifi)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
Whenever an app or service wants to sync data from the internet, it uses whatever data connection you are on. So if u went to sleep leaving the phone on 3G and your Facebook or Twitter app is polling data once every hour, it is using 3G once every hour to poll data.

Now compare that same scenario but this time u left your phone on 2G.

So instead of polling data once every hour using 3G, it now uses 2G.... using less battery.

I would like to introduce to you my method of benchmarking battery drain while idle on any ROM.

Overnight Battery Drain Test

I always perform the same benchmark test with any new ROM that I flash to gauge for myself how much battery it drains on idle/standby.

Condition:

Data Connection: 2G only

Google Contacts Sync: On

Google Calendar Sync: On

Gmail Sync: On

Talk: On

GPS: Off

Bluetooth: Off

Wifi: Off

Result:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
It's an old app which I have been using since Android 2.1

The name of this app is called PowerTutor. You can google it for the developer's website for more info.

This PowerTutor app has a few more other functions like displaying in the last 1 hour or 1 day what has been using your battery... it is much more detailed than the Battery Usage in the phone's settings menu.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
As you very well know, wrong ringtones played from time to time is a generic android issue, not something specific to CM7 for Milestone.

So, the direct linking method in database you posted here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13413#c165 is not the ultimate solution, right?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] enrsil1983:
It worked for two weeks, until update to RC6 or RC7. Now this method have a success rate of 75%-85% rather than 50% or less. Nobody replied to my post, as you can see.

I would like to know what causes this problem and try to solve it because contact ringtones are really useful. GoSMS custom notifications works perfectly at 100% rate, and in its configuration file (in data/data/com.jb.gosms) are stored in a xml file with direct linking method (file:///system...) so I tried direct linking also for contacts. This method increase the correct tone picking rate, but only to 75-85%

Now that mediaserver is persistent I changed sys.keep_app_2=android.process.media into sys.keep_app_2=android.process.acore so com.android.provider.contact (the database with contacts and associated ringtones) is persistent in memory. Until now, 4/4 correct ringtones, let's see for how long it will work...

CM6 have about 95% correct ringtone picking rate, and TheFroyoMod 2.5.0 (I tried it for 2 weeks) less than 50% and usually the first call received after boot didn't ring at all. So it's not Gingerbread or Froyo fault, it's something in the ROM that generate this issue.

Could it be the profile app? In the log, I see that when a call is received, are made some profile check and then the ringtone is choosed. I will post logs with correct ringtone and wrong ringtone picked to see the differences.

Should I open another issue on issue tracker or continue here? I'm conscious that it's a common Android problem, but I'm trying to find a solution... I'm sure that it's possible.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] wisefreakz:
Dont get your hopes to high dude. Remember what Kadalban said... its an Android problem... so if google could not solve it yet... sit back, relax and take your time :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Sushifiend:
Last night I was at Wembley, seeing Styx, Foreigner and Journey play the first leg of their European tour. I was really close to the stage so I decided to record the grand finale of Journey's set with the camcorder app. After 10 minutes of recording, the phone decided to reboot itself to the Motorola logo. I'm now left with an unplayable 329Mb file on my SD card which seems to have its headers missing. I can do nothing with it. I spent hours last night googling for a solution, and even trying to add the headers from another 10-minute recording I made once I got home with a hex editor. Nothing I have tried has worked, and I'm so angry and frustrated that I'm pretty much ready to flush my Milestone down the toilet.

You can tell two things from this post: Firstly that I'm older than most of of the posters on XDA Developers. Secondly that I don't have as much patience with malfunctioning technology as most.

Don't get me wrong. The CM team have done great work, and Pavel's (Kabaldan's) tireless efforts to port it to the Milestone has benefited thousands of us, most of whom either take what he does for granted or whine that things don't work as expected. So I'd just like to thank him for all the hard work he's put into this phone.

I've come to the conclusion that the time is approaching for me to retire my Milestone. I've only had it since January 2010, but in that time the state of the art has moved on considerably. The things I like most about the Milestone are the solid feeling, sharp display and the hardware keyboard. However the lack of RAM and internal storage seem to be stifling the phone, and the mediocre camera performance isn't going to improve no matter what software trickery we employ.

In the meantime, if anyone has any ideas on how I can recover my not-closed m4v file, I would greatly appreciate any tips.

SF
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
try playing it with VLC media player
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] indiacam:
Try opening the file in Xilisoft Video Converter and save to new video. If everything else fails...dont flush your milestone in toilet....send to me....:D ha ha ha
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bijixda:
Gallery stuck when starting is still happened in RC8... could it be network/internet related?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] o2xygen:
having modified the hex headers of the corrupted mp4, i assume you have already tried to demux the audio and video using yamb or another mp4box UI.. or try with mp4creator and cutting the video before the corrupted footer.. modifying the corrupted headers might give you a file that can be demuxed sometimes, although i never had any luck with this approach.. mpeg4 and aac audio is a very challenging combination..

otherwise i would advise you to seek some help on doom9 or 3ivx forums, the codec developers might be able to provide some more info on this.. here is a link to a discussion http://forums.3ivx.com/index.php?showtopic=86104

the last place to seek help would be specialists , they charge a fee though
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] risahri:
Video

Just video preview..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GaNY3Na9T8
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] DannyDroid:
Kernels 2.2 (based on Linux kernel 2.6.32), not 2.3 (based on Linux kernel 2.6.35).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
gotta love the lag fest :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hefonthefjords:
i spent weeks on and off trying to recover from the very same problem. i had some amazing footage of christmas snow sports and couldnt recover it no matter what i did. your video is probably gone forever sadly.

i still have my busted file so if you do find a solution please share it.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
Alternative camera apps

For me, I am using both MIUI Camera and LGCamera Pro to avoid the freezing issue when taking video.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] BryanChung:
MIUI Camera works well for me! :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
That's awesome.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] grot84:
My ADW Luncher has not rotate? is that know issue?

Morover, my auto brightness is not working, is that known issue?

If not i will create a tickiet.

Please advise.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] M4zinkaiser:
Hint where TO download miui.or lg camera? I want to try them :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] eighty3:
3rd post of the FroyoMod thread, for muiu camera

mfg

83

Sent from my Milestone running FroyoMod
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] thunderownz:
how i install the update of the ext/2/3/4 from the first page?

thank for the help! :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bandroid842:
What I did was download the zip file, unzip it on my desktop. Browse to open recovery on the sdcard, and find each corresponding folder and past the new/replacement files in it. For example, the new lib folder, copy the files in it, browse to the lib folder on open recovery and past the files there. New files will be added, old ones will be replaced. MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A COPY OF YOUR OPEN RECOVERY FOLDER before tampering with it :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
[youtube]pkYzpopHuA4[/youtube]

Miui Camera

Copy to SD card of your phone.

Then use Root Explorer to copy it into the /system/apps folder

Change permission of the MiuiCamera.apk to rw-r--r--

Reboot phone and you shall see Miui Camera in your App Drawer.

Download link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10439360/MiuiCamera.apk

Google Maps ver.5.1.0

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10439360/Maps_5.1.0.apk
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Smills29:
Browser Crashing

Hmm, for some reason the browser is crashing when I try to go to www.comsec.com.au (an Australian share trading site). I factory reset, wiped all data and caches before installing Beta 8. Anyone else have this problem?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] M4zinkaiser:
Thx a lot, intereseting options (no sound, delay snap) but keep FC if i touch color settings. Fine anyway i like it.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Confirmed, thanks, V8 crashes at that page - segmentation fault...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
any idea why booksphone.apk is included in gapps-gb-20110503-signed.zip? but i can't see the Books apps in apps drawer. how to use it?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
No force close for me.

[youtube]pkYzpopHuA4[/youtube]
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vadonka:
kabaldan: i dont know what you done with the latest update but the black sreen issue is gone in RC9 :)

great work!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] markshane:
Install TitaniumBackup, find the Books app, click on it and select defrost! You'll see it in your app drawer.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] wisefreakz:
New Release available:

7.1.0-RC9-11.06.06 (2.3.4) - "lock home in memory" option is now being suppressed when Camera or GMaps happen to be the front apps to prevent freezes and consequent system_server crash (sd card read_ahead_kb can be set to 2048 again) - camcorder: video orientation hint always set to landscape to prevent video distortion during on-device playback - torch: high brightness mode fixed - logger re-enabled in the hope for diagnostic logs from users to be posted to issue tracker (the logs can be found in /cache/logger) - more ergonomic date and time picker, updated translations, etc.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Fixed in 7.1.0-RC9-11.06.07
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vadonka:
kabaldan: i think i know what is causing my black screen issue.

today my third party batterys kill my sdcard partition, so i throw away to the hell, and use the original battery again, but because the sdcard is ****ed i need to repartitioning as well, so i reinstall the whole rom (i lost the ext2 partition), but i see that the new rc9 come out and installed this, the problem is gone. i do a nandroid backup, revert to rc8 and i cant reproduce the black screen issue, so i think the battery caused. but because the third party battery i disabled the 1% battery step, and i try it again, and booya the issue come up again, but only in rc8, i try to disable 1% battery step in rc9 but the black screen issuse is no more. i dont know this is related or not, but sure its interesting.

one thing is certain, i never ever used third party battery again :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kkrraazzyy:
nice work dude
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vsxed:
@kabaldan

whats the difference in time and date picker? still looks like the old one? Oo
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
See the description here - http://review.cyanogenmod.com/5932
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vadonka:
is there any way to change phone.apk priority, that not popup when an incoming call made? most of the time i use on my phone some important thing, like ssh manage and if i have an incoming call, all program what i used going in to the background and pop up the call screen. later when i finished the conversation try to going back this background app but not running anymore and i lost my progress. this happened specially with a big app, what is need a high amount of memory (i understand that is normal)

but it will be nice that if an incoming call made, just ring the phone or buzz, but not close the actually running app, if i want i closed my app and pick up the call.

somehow i can do that?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] arttree:
thank you for your tip. it's worked!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] cool bean:
Guys everything is working well...except reboot spontaneously once in a while. It doesn't bother me because this ROM has made given a new life to this phone.

Now, I want to update the Skirlaz 1.46 OR. Do I just download a new one (e.g. from say FUFU minimod) with the new update.zip and OR folder and put them over the old ones in my SDCARD?

Anyone see any problem with that? I just don't want to have a dead phone so that my iphone GF won't laugh at me again.

Thanks!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] DannyDroid:
I *believe* someone has written an app that does such a thing, but I can't for the life of my find it.

I saw it here;

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=530
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vsxed:
Thanks!

Will there ever be a framework-mod to get those date and time pickers from SENSE or MIUI-Roms?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] flaviocc:
yes.....same here.

any solution ?

pcphobic ,

FC just on color settings.....
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
What's wrong with the included CM7 Camera? Both wide screen photo and wide screen video are available, Milestone specific fixes and adjustments...

It works very well for me.

Have you tried RC9 without messing with low memory killer parameters, supercharging, bullet proofing home and similar foolery?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] :
Need a little advice with a problem, I installed today RC9 and this time did a full Wipe even the SD card, installed the rom, rebooted, installed gapps rebooted, unckecked DSI fix, everything else stock, loaded some music on the SD, and in the stock AOSP music player the songs list is very laggy, same scroll lag I reported earlier, I'll try to describe more acurately maybe someone has some ideeas for a fix, if I scroll up or down the list the scrolling is laggy, if I keep my finger on the screen and move it up and down but not lifting the finger the scrool lag will go away, but its tricky cause it does not work every time, and the lag is unbearable in Vplayer its almost unusable beacause of the scroll lag, but in winamp for example in the songs list there is no lag at all, so just some of the lists lag, menu inclued, ADW also unusable because of the lag.. :(

I already tried unchecking Dithering, but no change at all
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
I agree that bulletproofing isn't the greatest idea which is why I came up with a more viable alternative that doesn't break anything while speeding things up.

I did this largely because

I really respect your opinion

.

I noticed that your recent builds have been pretty aggressive by your standards.

SECONDARY_SERVER apps used to get killed when ram got as low as 16 mb.

After I came up with SuperCharging, you had it as high as 28 mb and shuffled OOM groupings in a way that I didn't understand.

I've never had those SECONDARY_SERVER apps get killed at such a high level (apart from gaming settings).

Now you have it down to 24 mb after another grouping shuffle which is in the same ballpark as most of my presets anyway.

Sorry to hear that you don't approve of SuperCharging but the fact is that it makes your great rom even greater and more useable.

It's

very ironic

that you call SuperCharging foolish when in fact your recent minfrees are very similar to my Balanced settings when you consider at what point SECONDARY_SERVER apps get killed.

Maybe ironic is not the correct word.

Perhaps hypocritical is.

After all, you now use similar values as my balanced settings and yet call it foolish.

If one were to follow a logical way of thinking,

you are also calling your own minfree levels foolish.

I still highly respect your opinion, but you are not infallible and I have no problem with calling it like it is.

I understand that you are very proud of your work and would rather not have people mess with it, but that's how it is.

That's what tweakers do.

You should know that.

But at least I took into consideration what I think to be parameters that you would approve of - which you probably do, since you now use similar minfree levels.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] M4zinkaiser:
Not yet RC9, trying right now :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
zeppelinrox: Please, don't take it personally. I appreciate your work. And of course, I make wrong decisions from time to time, as any human.

There are simply too many people blindly making harsh changes to the basic system functionality without realizing the consequences of their doing, then reporting issues that are not existent for me, running CM7 in the straight form as presented. That's the main reason why I posted the previous message.

The kernel's low memory killer has to work in synergy with android's ActivityManagerService.

Changing the lmk parameters without consideration of changes to ActivityManagerService can lead to bad things. That's basically all that I wanted to say.

It's too late in my time zone currently, so I'm not fit for a deep discussion of the subtle matters of android's activity life cycle management at this moment. Let's get back to it later :).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] tegezan:
pcphobic using another rom..
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] wisefreakz:
@zeppe / @ kadalb's:

Both of you do great jobs for all of us merely tester that are always looking to have the best for our toys.

I do understand when Kadalban called that all "foolish"... he is not stupid to not pay attention to what others - like you - do to try make it better. Im 100% sure that he implemented some of your tweaks to his CM7... therefore calling those who complain about problem that should not exist trying to accomplish what's already done in the rom.

Hope that both of you move on with the amazing work and collaborate, as i believe that we all do here a XDA.

Peace!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Rotundjere:
I think the current CM7 for milestone is VERY UNUSABLE for playing HD games (eg: PES 2011, Gangstar West Coast Hustle, etc..)

the App sometimes exit automatically when I try to play these games.

IMHO CM6 is better for playing games

@Nadlabak: and also, the stock CM7 camera sometime will hang (several seconds without touch response) ??

:D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] anditias:
I did'nt agree, sorry to say.but I was able to play some HD game from gameloft like modern combat 2, west coast hustle, sacred oddysey, etc and gps working fine too (navitel 5) so I think, I don't have any reason to turn back to CM 6.1.2. CM7 is a great ROM, its fast ,and it has many plus point compared to CM 6.try to stick with kabaldan update, and sure you will notice some differences from built to built.enjoy :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] tegezan:
agree.... love to play Samurai II : Vengeance and Pinball HD with cm7.. :-)

as long kabaldan develope rom for milestone, I will never change my phone.. :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
How on earth did u managed to play Samurai Vengence II which is only for Tegra 2 CPU Android devices?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] tegezan:
1. Install nvidia driver and reduce texture quality with chainfire 3d pro

or,

2. Use Samurai II Vengeance which already hacked to run for all devices..

sorry for my bad language, but for sure google will inform you more :-)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] pcphobic:
You're da best bro!!!

Thanks to your info, I managed to install the non-Tegra device version on my Milestone and playing now... awesome!!!! :)

[youtube]YeEAii7PIbA[/youtube]
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
OK cool.

For what it's worth, I have no problems with CM7s stock camera. It works better than ever.

Google Maps too. heh.

I understand what you're saying about the LMK having to work in conjunction with AMS which you had pointed out previously and all parameters are now matched ie. each APP_MEM value is changed to match it's corresponding minfree value - even on other ROM's and other phones (MEM and ADJ changes are put in local.prop if there is no /system/etc/rootfs/init.mapphone_umts.rc)

It took alot of fiddling and learning in order to perfect my tweaks according to your brief but concise guidance on the issue and I'm pretty sure it's probably as good as it can get.

Have you ever tested a V6 script? I'd actually like to see what you would think about it after first hand experience as well as any suggestion you may have.

It's not BS what I said about respecting your opinion and trying to make it acceptable to your standards.

Trying to get it that good has already made thousands of people (counting other phones ie OG droid, eris, droid x, x2, even evo 4g) pleasantly surprised at how well their phone can perform so any additional ideas would be more than welcome.

edit: btw, do sysctl -w kernel.sched_latency_ns=*, kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns=*, kernel.sched_wakeup_granularity_ns=* really do anything on this rom/kernel?

I've tried adjusting values via script but the result is "unknown key" errors.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Smills29:
Wow, thank you! It works like a charm. Very much appreciated.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nacloud:
All I can say is that I have a fully functional Milestone with CM7 RC9.

Camera works gud with a high daily use.

Games works (not all of course if you want to play HD games smoothly buy a SGSII).

Apps are working gud.

Battery is guuud!

Basically all the cr@p that I have on my phone is running.

Only a few bugs but with some research you will find that is not ROMS FAULT!