yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] megawebmaster:
@Lucasm93 - it's not the problem of instability, it's problem with Market itself. On MIUI you'll got the same error, try to clear market data first.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] winettou:
Anybody got problems with launcher Pro? Cause i cant use it since this version...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kv1dr:
I have the same problem. I will try older market, because I had no problems with old market.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] LaDrOIdBoy:
Hi, I see in the cyanogenmod settings for the latest version there's an option to change the brightness by sliding in the statusbar, although i dont understand this so can someone explain to me the exact gesture? Thanks :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] sdtaddey:
Yes, really nice feature by the way.... As simple as you said ... just let your finger sliding from the right hand side to the left and you will see that brightness goes up, and from left to right it decreases. Ah!, don't forget to untick the automatic brightness in settings > display > screen.

Surely you will find it really usefully. ;-)

Sent from my Milestone Powered by Gingerbread
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] bijixda:
Omg... using latest update,

Battery is now 63% left and have been up for 20 hours (well, mostly idle)

Great rom kabaldan!

sent from milestone using xda app
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] LaDrOIdBoy:
Thanks so much! :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mxzas:
Tried RC15 for couple of days now, so far so good, battery life is great.

However there is something that I found happening ever since RC14, when I go on certain websites in the stock browser, it would be painfully slow, couple of websites are : m.evolutionm.net, xda-developers.com. I downloaded Opera and it was loaded within 5 seconds, however with the stock browser it is taking forever. Is there anyone else seeing the same problem? I just cleared cache/cookie/history and it is still very slow. Thanks!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] enrsil1983:
If you use adblock from openrecovery, this is normal.

Delete hosts file in system/etc and retry
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] mxzas:
worked wonders, thanks!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] itox:
Can someone help meeee :D when I use hardware keyboard some letters are shortcuts on programs (without even holding ALT) so when I press E its mail, when I press S its messaging C is Contacts..

I dunno how to turn it off :D help
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zankyw:
Happened to me last week too.

I noticed it happened when I was trying to type in a field which was supposed to display information from the contacts (either the name, or the email in Gmail, etc.)

Restarting solved the problem, but happens randomly.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hahaboy:
i tried to wipe / factory reset, the install 0914 again. but everytime i open market also force close, how to solve it ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ngonchan:
Have you changed language to English yet? This will solve!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] szacuken:
Hello Kabaldan :)

First, I wanted to tell you that I am full of admiration for your work on this rom. CM7 has many interesting and useful options. Generally, this rom has great potencial but in my opinion it is noticeably SLOWER than the rest.

For me the problem is also with the battery which in CM7 has a shorter life than in CM6 or FroyoMOD.

Can you please do something with this in a future update? I would be very grateful :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] hahaboy:
it's english all the time.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eiertschik:
Every time I try to apply an update.zip like "OR1.46_extfs_mmcfix_update.zip" or "OR1.46extfs_update2.zip" using AOR1.46 I receive an error like this:

I can apply updates like GApps and Market Updates though...

Any ideas why?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] megawebmaster:
Of course you can't do that, because its an update to Open Recovery, not for the rom itself. Just unpack it on your SD card and that will be all.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] tofe62:
This ROM is extra.

Thank you
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] HinotoriBR:
Some people in Brazil say it doesn't matter the language, as long as you change it, issue is solved. So you can change to any other language than the one you are supposed to use, then go back, or, after flashing the ROM, select any other language than the one you use, and later on change it to the language you use. Credits for this goes to the people in the ShadowMOD BR Google Groups. :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ngonchan:
Thanks for the info, I think this will help hahaboy :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] ngonchan:
Thanks, mate, but I still love the ADW EX, hope that'll have more options, then, I'll try :P
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] grot84:
There is a new build available.

We can see the change in approach :) Now there is a "nightly build"

What is more important without any information there is more than 1300 downloads.

Thus, I'd say the CM7 for Milestone is one of the most popular :)

BTW

Could anybody post information about the nightly builds? Are there any particular changes or just some fixes mention on the forum?

Moreover, could anybody post some instruction HOW-TO (for dummies - like me) gather and provide required logs with proper problem description?

I had some issues but I did not know what logs (from which location) I should gather.

I think that may speed-up the fixing and stabilizing the CM7 for M.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] rcummings100:
FYI, that doesnt work for me. Changing to English (UK) fixes the market for me but going back to the default breaks the market again. Not a big deal since i'm Canadian, but its still somewhat annoying.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] starkaiz:
hi anyone can help me with this?

i cant seems to flash my milestone at all.

i flash my milestone using RSD Lite to "GOT_RTUK_2_2_1FULL.sbf"

then i unzip OpenRecovery-3_3 and copied the OpenRecovery and Update.zip into the root of the phone.

after that i copied cm7 zip file into OpenRecovery--> updates

when all done i off my milestone and boot it to recovery.

apply update and got into OpenRecovery ( with andriod mario background )

i wipe all the 3 data option.

when all done i go to apply update and chose the CM7 zip file.

when all is done i reboot my phone.

when the phone boot up it stuck at bootloader!

can anyone help me whats going wrong here??
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] walker666:
Hi all!

Is there a way to keep music app locked up in memory?

It often gets killed when I'm running music player in background and using browser(foreground)...

Only good words for ROM. Keep up good work and TY!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] lukas77:
Hi,

Just edit file \system\build.prop and find following lines, you have to type process name of your music app:

# apps to be kept in memory (specified by process name)
# use with caution, RAM is limited!
sys.keep_app_1=
sys.keep_app_2=
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vancuong:
please help me!!!when i update update-cm-7.1.0-RC15-11.09.10-Milestone-signed and others....there is a problem that :the process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.. how can i fix it!!!!!!thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] walker666:
Thank you very much. I didn't know this feature has already been implemented. :)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
This is very wrong approach.

Locking any non-essential app in memory won't do you any good.

To have the music player in RAM all the time, even if it's not playing, is a bad idea.

The player, when playing, is automatically protected from being killed by using very low oom-adj of foreground-services.

What you should do:

1. update your CM7 to the latest build (nightly), it will give you more RAM available for apps because the Google Maps NetworkLocationService won't be running all the time.

2. If you changed any low memory killer parameters (by supercharger script, bulletproofed launcher), try to use the default values that I provide.

3. Consider using Opera Mini, it has much lower memory footprint and is great for multitasking.

4. If you use third party applications that use permanently running services in background, consider whether you really need them.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] indiacam:
CyanogenMod 7.1.0 11.09.21 Working fine for last 24+ hours

QUICK REVIEW AFTER 24 HOURS USE

Was on excellent latest Froyomod 2.9.3. It was always bugfree, fastest and most popular in milestone users. But some of us are.....never satisfied. so.....

Yesterday downloaded CyanogenMod 7.1.0 11.09.21 (nightly) and flashed just for a change and VOILA! Its really cool, fast, smooth and satisfied with battery life for the first time in this series.:)

I was not using CM as most of the, roms in this series did not have good battery backup. But still I flashed again, fully charged and after 24+ hours it is still 30% remaining, which is Impressive...:). Installed all favourite apps (widgetsoid etc)and games. Used 3G internet for 30+ minutes. Few regular phonecalls. 15+ minutes of music. Played with camera app for few minutes, etc. Checked emails of 3 different gmail accounts for 15+ minutes. And still 30% free which is good sign this time. I think the new setup changes of Google Maps NetworkLocationService have worked well and saving some battery life.

Free RAM is also good. I use Advance Task Killer Free and keep it on CRAZY mode with 1 hours CRAZY killing. Does not disturb any work and keeps ram free in the background and I am getting around 65+ RAM free, which is sufficient to me.

Only problem I found is the device got TOO HOT while using 3G. If I keep it on 2G (edge) it stays cool, but I think this is known problem in all previous roms for milestone. Generally I switch to 2G when 3G not required. Widgetsoid buttons help a lot in this case. But....hey.....FYI, THE 3G HEATING PROBLEM IS REMOVED FROM FM2.9.3.

Another observation is that at 1GHz overclock the device operation is not as snappier as FroyoMod. But its only if you compare them, otherwise CM7 is much faster this time.

Dear @Kabaldan, tell me why you did not put any details of this version. I think I am gonna like it. If 3g heating problem is solved, I think surely I will stay with this for longer time.

Note: Today Froyomod2.9.3 is perfect rom in Froyo series and can do everything that is available on GB.

But there are good GB themes. Not yet installed any theme in CM7. Are there any good bugless working themes for CM7 nightly?And how to install them?

I hope this review helps some more people to try CM7 with more confidence... Of course result on different device varies....and everyone have batteries with thier own minds. My battery is original but around 2 years old.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] lukas77:
Thank you for this, is it easy to apply this to stock Froyo ROM?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] o_tom:
Hello

I joined the owners' sphere of Milestone. I do not regret it!

Yesterday morning I bought was 2.2 ROM on it. In the evening managed to install the CM7.

11/09/14 CyanogenMod 7.1.0. GMaps is a problem FoceClose. A video camera and started when using again.

Thank you for the improvements, a very good update.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
indiacam: CM for Milestone has been always open source. So you can see any changes to the source I do on github (=> what I mention in change logs is not that important). Any developer can use whatever he likes from what I put there.

While I have full respect to other dev's work (really!), I can be simply happy just from the fact that any custom, from source compiled ROM for Milestone is based on the work I've released in Autumn 2010 ;).

I do not actually try to compete. I'm glad that you find the current FM so good.

While it would be nice if FM (or MIUI, or ...) was open source as well, what the hell, it's their choice, I don't really care.

I just work on making my Milestone experience as good as possible, enjoying (and participating a little on) the great work of all CM contributors.

If you can point me to the source patch that makes the 3G to use less energy, I'd be very grateful.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] keunhuvac:
Battery consumption under 3G network is alway higher than under 2G network, and of cause, your phone will more hotter. This is common for all other phones so i dont think there is any way that can make phone stays cool when suffering 3G!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
Try running this script...

PPID=$(pidof com.android.music)
echo "-17" > /proc/$PPID/oom_adj
renice -20 $PPID

PPID=$(pidof android.process.media)
echo "-17" > /proc/$PPID/oom_adj
renice -20 $PPID

A droid user (same ram... almost same device as milestone) has great success with keeping music alive while using google maps/navigation

Actually, SuperCharger's multitasking setting is more multitasking friendly than the current CM7 values of 6, 12, 16, 24, 26, 32 which are more aggressive than SC's 6, 8, 22, 24, 26, 28 because the apps that get killed at 24 mb on CM7 (slot 4) get killed later when free ram is down to 22 mb when supercharged since I moved those apps into to slot 3.

Of course, bulletproofing isn't recommended which is why hard to kill launcher is the default.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
zeppelinrox:

After deeper look at ActivityManagerService code, I realized that changing the sequence of ADJ groups in case of VISIBLE and PERCEPTIBLE is wrong and conflicts with the way how ActivityManagerService manages activity lifetimes. AMS presumes that VISIBLE is always lower than PERCEPTIBLE.

To better protect playing media player, I've made a change in ActivityManagerService (since 7.1.0-RC8-11.06.02) so that playing player, which is a foreground-service, is assigned to VISIBLE group, not to PERCEPTIBLE.

So in CM7 for Milestone (using my default values), media player that plays in background won't be killed unless the free RAM (by demands of the front app) gets lower than the value in the second slot, which is currently 3072 (12MB). Lower value here increases the chances for Camera freeze when taking hi-res picture. But I might change it to 2048 (8MB) in the future (given the fact that I recently managed to get rid of the constantly running and restarting NetworkLocationService, also in VISIBLE adj group). But it needs more real life testing before I eventually do it.

About hard to kill launcher: in the usual scenario front app, music playing in background, launcher in background, other apps in background, when more RAM is needed by front app, the first to be killed are other apps in bkg, second is launcher, and only after that (if more ram is still needed) may come time to kill also the media playback.

When you apply supercharger script to CM7 for Milestone, these priorities get badly messed up.

Launcher in background should never have higher [nor the same!] keep_in_RAM priority (= lower[same] oom adj) than [as] a media player that is playing.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] zeppelinrox:
I didn't notice any ill effects when you had perceptible apps the same priority as foreground apps.

I really don't see why the keyboard or gapps need to have a higher priority thaqn the launcher.

None of thr OOM grouping rearrangements breaks anything even tho they maybe "should on paper"

But on paper, a bumble bee shouldn't be aqble to fly - but it does ;)

So theory isn't always reality.

However, that's very interesting info so I will look into it further as well.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nitin_ko:
I have motorola xt800 and am based in india. wud this 2.3 upgrade be ok for my phone ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] wisefreakz:
Nope it wont!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] nitin_ko:
ty for ur prompt reply, which rom shd i go for ?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] n3n00:
If that xt800 is the same as xt720, you should look in other thread for xt720...
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] indiacam:
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[Motorola Milestone Android Development] i2gh0st:
@indiacam

you misunderstood the hole situation.

he asked for help where he can find info about patch...

as i, one didn't found anything i didn't replayed.

edit:

@indiacam by the way you are a moron. you should thank me for saying the truth to you, as an end user.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Sushifiend:
I'm not surprised you're surprised, since there wasn't an ounce of negativity in his post!

Umm... Where did he say or suggest that he was offended?

Talk about getting the wrong end of the stick.

If you prefer that, good for you.

SF
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] indiacam:
Anyways I regret for using bit harsh words. Please dont misunderstand further.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] lukas77:
Hello,

I decompiled stat_sys_battery.xml and I have added 1% battery steps

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<level-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_0" android:maxLevel="0" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_1" android:maxLevel="1" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_2" android:maxLevel="2" />
...
<item android:drawable="@drawable/stat_sys_battery_100" android:maxLevel="100"
</level-list>

then I compiled this file and I replaced 100 png's in drowable-hdpi folder.

After I swapped framework-res.apk I have battery status "Unknown". When I leave stat_sys_battery.xml untouched I have 5% battery steps and battery icons are shown.

What I did wrong?

Thanks
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
Heat 3G issue is more like CPU+3G issue. Mostly when you are using 3G you are browsing the web. This combine two biggest heat generators.

FM is using tweaked conservative CPU governor. With means that it is using lover frequencies more often, but may use them longer. This generate les heat than Interactive governor. Interactive use highest frequencies more often than any other governor. It don't scale back as often as ondemand and almost don't use middle frequencies as conservative does. And it’s default on CM7.

CM7 also use quite high voltages as default to maintain compatibility with all milestones.

On mine with Interactive governor and browsing phone gets warm even on WIFI. On 3G may get hot. This heat can be lowered simply by using different governor. I also lover vessel as my moto run on ULV without any problem.

FroyoMod uses quite a bit tweaks. CM7 is more pure rom. For example FM has jit turn off by default this alone make big difference at app startup and memory footprint. There are lots of tweaks in init folder and elsewhere.

With heavy app Froyo mods will always win, as this android version leaves more RAM to operate for apps. But there are CM7 Ginger advantages too. Among obvious one: touch is even better, wake lock are maintain more wisely, SIP, longer app compatibility, and with CM7 and nadlabak there is almost production quality of the rom.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] HO!NO!:
have you add each png in public.xml ??

I all ready done it in my rom so i will suggest you to decompile my framework and compare to see what is missing from yours.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] parads:
I flash this update with OpenRecovery and after restart Multi Touch Keyboard keep force closing.

I had to reflash the nightly rom again.

Anyone have tried this keyboard? I really want suggestion with HW keyboard.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] vishalmullur:
From few days some apps have become incompatible with my phone. For example I am unable to update stitcher radio cuz it shows incompatible. Firefox is not shown on market.

Please help
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Firefox requires at least 512MB RAM:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/platforms/

No problem to download and install Stitcher here, though.

Have you tried to delete Market app data?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] heorung:
The battery stat on CM7 always jump from 30% to 19% if using 1% battery step , has anyone else encountered this bug?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] BryanChung:
That is quite common I believe.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
often incompatible means that you are in unsupported country. There are bunch us apps that I cannot download because of that
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] HinotoriBR:
There's an app for that, Market Enabler, fake T-Mobile id for almost any application (except tethering ones) not available in your country.

Also check the Toddler's Lock / Rating Limits (not sure about the right way to say it in english as I've never used Market in English, it is the settings where you tell which kind of content should be available), make sure that all ratings/ages are selected, it is quite usual that the new market get updated and start from the scratch with only the apps free for all ages... :p
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] choonyoong:
I encounter it too, not sure if it is cause by 1% battery step. So I try to turn off the 1% battery step settings and see if it make any difference. Immediately after I unchecked the setting, there is pop up showing battery low and auto shutdown my phone, is this normal? After power up it is back to normal.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] w4tchout:
I thought it was just me, even considered calibrating the battery cause thought it had something to do with that.. Seems like it's a problem we're all having then
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kkazakov:
I really love CM7, but I have no idea why it drains battery so fast. In 6 hours without almost any usage, it drained about 70% of the battery. With Cronos 1.6.1, this does not happen. It drains 20-30% in about 8 hours, depending on usage. The problem is that Cronos is not being updated as often as CM7. On both roms I have exactly the same apps, so it's not app-related.

CPU settings are by default: 250 to 1000 mhz, interactive governor.

Any idea how I can see what drains it so fast?
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] HO!NO!:
When you switch rom did you calibrated your battery after?

CM7 got really good battery now you should not have that type of drain.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
How do you calibrate the battery? I try to calibrate using Zeppelinrox's method, but my phone always shows Fully Charged after I put the battery back in after deleting batterystats.bin. I'm at 15% after 5h50m..
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] kabaldan:
Not all. I don't experience any jumps from 30% to 19%.

I'm currently at 26% :).
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
did you full charge phone before calibration? I mean it takes 5h to charge to 100% even if battery indicator shows 100% for 4h

I read post on some german forum, one guy measure that, charging to 90% takes like 2+ h, to 100% takes 5h
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
Yeah, I usually calibrate in the morning after leaving it charging all night. So I'm pretty sure the 5 hours is included in that.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
try that

ful charge overnight, then deleting batterystats.bin, phone restart, full discharge with normal use without plug in, full charge in one run

my third party battery behaved like yours. I have backed to stock one
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] skadude66:
That is with my stock battery as well. Just got a 1700MaH battery from Mugen Power, will try that soon :D
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] alicheusz:
Here is post I have mention earlier

http://www.android-hilfe.de/root-ha...ku-infos-ladekurven-leistungsverbraucher.html

it's extremely informative, it shape the way I am using my phone

stock battery is top quality, maintain its capacity even after long time of use. As in this post.

I think every mielstone user should read it. As it is explaining why some common believes are wrong and what's important for good battery life