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Hi everyone!
I hope I came to the right forum with this...
I (once upon a time) was a proud owner of a Milestone (A853). Then I was the content owner of a Milestone running Android 2.1. This turned into a disillusioned and never-to-buy-Motorola-again-ever Milestone owner when it took them ages to release an update to 2.2. Now that they did, I'm just plain angry. Their release is so ridiculously bad, it's a beta version at best. Therefore I have finally decided to finally get a custom ROM.
Now I did a bit of googling and found this forum and another site hosting ROMs (theunlockr.com/category/roms-2/android-roms-2/motorola-milestone-roms/ - can't post real links yet, sorry)
Seems like there are quite a few ROMs to choose from. Unfortunately I have no idea which one would be the best for my needs, nor do I know how I'd get them onto my stone...
Things that are important for my are (in that order):
- long battery life
- stable operation
- email via IMAP and Exchange
- camera, gps for My Tracks & Navigation
- sync with google calendar & contacts
- pdf & doc-viewer
- bluetooth and wifi-tethering (the later with WPA2)
- good performance
So I need help with two things: choosing the ROM best meeting these demands, and getting said ROM onto my phone. The tutorials I found so far were not very helpfull to me unfortunately, since they seemed to asume I already knew quite a few things and had a bunch of tools already installed. Is there something like a "dummies guide to flash your Milestone"?
And can someone recommend a certain ROM to me? Preferably one that isn't to hard to find and is easy to flash?
Also, do I loose the stuff stored on my SD-Card when I flash the phone? There are quite a lot of pictures and My Tracks, well, tracks, that I'd hate to loose.
tl,dr: Motorola sucks, I need help in choosing a ROM and getting it on my Milestone.
Thx,
Alex
You should try APAC.. long battery time
mikicishte said:
You should try APAC.. long battery time
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I think you need to use TheFroYoMod, it's a very stable and battery friendly ROM. I don't want to brag, but I think my guide is very n00b friendly: CLICK
There is also a list of all ROM's available for the Milestone.
I'm using CM7 at the moment and i really love it, you also need to try this one out.
Installing a ROM doesn't touch your SD card outside of reading the install package.
Your choice of ROM is really a personal thing but a pretty safe bet to start with CyanogenMOD 6; it's one of the most common ROM's and it's very stable. While the Milestone is not "Officially" supported by CM, there are a ton of folks around here that have run it, and are quite familiar with it. Check out the link in the Milestone Dev section of this forum. As a first time flasher I'd stay away from CM7 at this time, it's still in development.
A couple of reminders:
-Your Milestone is not a DROID and is not compatible with DROID ROMS or guides.
-Always insure your battery is fully charged before flashing anything. Having a dead battery with a FUBAR ROM is bad.
-Back-up your stuff! Once you have the custom recovery loaded you can create a "Nandroid" back-up of your stock ROM (basically a disk image) through the custom recovery. This will give you something to fall back on if the ROM softbricks your device.
The guide posted above is a great guide. Way clearer then the one I followed originally. I highly recommend it.
thx 4 all your posts!
Actually I already flashed cm7rc3 at about 1:30am on sunday, after I worked my way through a lot of tutorials.
It works quite fine, only the galery-app is giving me trouble, but I guess that could be connected to me havin 1.4k photos on my sd-card. Guess it's time for some cleanup!
Thank you drae52 for pointing out the link (and thank you eXtink for putting it in your sig)! Especially the OR part is really helpfull, as I didn't know until now what all the options do and was afraid to touch any. Now I'm definitly looking forward to installing that adblocker!
Now that OR is set up good and propper and I figured out the procedure I think I'll try some other ROMs too in time. Thank you again for your help!
Alex
I'm new here. I recently bought my first Android device, Samsung Galaxy S. And i absolutely love it, it's so fresh and so so open when compared to iPhone series.
I kept it for few days, and after lurking out i found out about rooting the device.
So i decided to root it. Everything went smoothly, and it is fully functional.
Now as i got it rooted, i can install custom roms! Now, i don't really know which one to choose, the things i look for a rom are mostly;
Stability
Speed
Low battery drainage...?
And that it looks slick and nice :3
Not looking forward to overclock it or anything really. I just don't like the original iPhone clone :V I'd also like to have a clue how to install them (Odin?)
Every ROM page have their own installation guide but all of them are pretty much the same
As for ROMs u have to try them yourself, every user has different experience
i recommend using Juwe's, Debus G1, Tiramisu EVO,
than top it off with Crysis SENSATION
cheers
It's difficult. Almost everyone has their own favourite ROM, and it can be very difficult to actually compare performance. When I first stared, I simply picked a ROM with the most attractive looking screenshots. (It was Tayumata).
deadey3 said:
Every ROM page have their own installation guide but all of them are pretty much the same
As for ROMs u have to try them yourself, every user has different experience
i recommend using Juwe's, Debus G1, Tiramisu EVO,
than top it off with Crysis SENSATION
cheers
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Alright, thanks man! I'm gonna take a look at those ROM's :3
E: Just flashed my S with Darkys. And it was succesful! Thanks guys
most practical way to install with odin
to install rom with odin is very practic and easy...
I am new to LG Revolution (trying to install custom ROM on sister's phone). I am coming from 2 different Samsung devices.
I have VZ6, 2.2.2, rooted. Windows 7 64
Here are my questions:
1) Thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121952
CWM download link gave me a "recovery-cwm-pr1.tar.gz", so I extracted it with 7-zip and get a "recovery-cwm-pr1.tar". How do I get the .img file??
2) What exactly is ADB shell? Where do I find instruction on that?
I assumed installation of Revolt 1.5 is straight forward after I get CWM on the phone. I am just having a hard time to follow those instructions on CWM tho.
Heya,
I'm no professional at all of this, but I'd recommend downloading the revotoolkit. i;ve not used it on vz6, but that is how most of us went about getting cwm. believe there is a thread about it in development (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144951).
hope that helps you
I would get the GB update. Then root with using the post in development by mtmichealson. Then flash Gingervolt.
is the Gingervolt mature?? this is my sister's phone, so I am not going to flash it every week when there is a patch or update... I highly doubt my sister (technologically challenged) will appreciate Gingerbread anyways.
Gingervolt was just released so there will be more releases soon.
If she wouldn't appreciate it just get stock gingerbread on and leave it at that
Edit: not to take anything away from any the developers here don't take it that way please.
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pendragon11 said:
Heya,
I'm no professional at all of this, but I'd recommend downloading the revotoolkit. i;ve not used it on vz6, but that is how most of us went about getting cwm. believe there is a thread about it in development (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144951).
hope that helps you
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Thanks for the tip. Installed without sweat.
Nice to see people are still working on new ROM on this phone. All devs on Droid Charge have moved to Bionic and left us in the cold.
droidfever said:
Nice to see people are still working on new ROM on this phone. All devs on Droid Charge have moved to Bionic and left us in the cold.
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That's gay
Haro912 said:
That's gay
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Thankfully we have dedicated people here, who get excited about the little breakthroughs on this phone. The phone is great, the hardware is fast and responsive, the programming (from what I hear) is a disaster. All the Roms I have tested have been stableish on this phone, a couple force closes here and there, but nothing too intrusive. Gingerbread is perfect, and the Gingervolt from Mtmichaelson is stellar, no hangups, no force closes yet. I would expect themes to roll out soon, and some more stable Roms. I would assume the dream of CM7 is on the horizon now.
In agreement with Haro's comment, you will find that we will not simply give up on this phone, we have been through too much.
No worries, glad I could help. Props to thecubed for that one of course
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Hey all! I'm getting a bionic today and am gonna root and everything, I was just wondering what you recommended as far as battery life roms? Also what process of rooting? I've had an Incredible, Droid 2, Fascinate, and X and all were rooted and running custom roms. I was just wondering what you recommend? Thanks everyone in advance!
I recommend looking around. Browse. Read. Browse some more. Read again.
You'll find that we have very few options for the Bionic. If you're looking for lots of options, you might want to rethink your choice of phone.
With that said.
All you need is 1) Pathsaver 2) Bootstrap (or safestrap) and 3) Eclipse2.1
That should hold you over until there's an official ICS release.
Good choice. Make sure you update to .901. I cant speak about Eclipse because I have no experience with it but I'm getting 17-20 hours on the stock rom with medium usage. I don't think you have to worry about Battery life to much.
As far as development goes we just received great news this week. Custom Kernels might be just around the corner and LTE on the ICS rom is getting a very serious work up.
Welcome aboard.
Helpful links
noob guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455888
.901 guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433783
Eclipse 2.1 rom on .901. Eclispe 2.1 can be found on eclipserom.com
Skidoo03 said:
Hey all! I'm getting a bionic today and am gonna root and everything, I was just wondering what you recommended as far as battery life roms? Also what process of rooting? I've had an Incredible, Droid 2, Fascinate, and X and all were rooted and running custom roms. I was just wondering what you recommend? Thanks everyone in advance!
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Good for you
dan46n2 said:
I recommend looking around. Browse. Read. Browse some more. Read again.
You'll find that we have very few options for the Bionic. If you're looking for lots of options, you might want to rethink your choice of phone.
With that said.
All you need is 1) Pathsaver 2) Bootstrap (or safestrap) and 3) Eclipse2.1
That should hold you over until there's an official ICS release.
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AMEN TO THAT
Looking for the latest version of Hash's CM9 NON KEXEC rom. I had been running this for a year with no trouble. Decided I wanted to play around again and updated to the new safestrap and loaded JB kexec and it's just not stable enough, sleep issues won't work for DD, and gingerbread sucks. Now I can't find my .zip file and don't see it posted anywhere. The non kexec ICS builds were solid, and the camera worked decent. I want to go back. Does anyone have it?
maybe this is useful for you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465297
Nope. That is for the xt860. I know someone has hashcodes non kexec ics roms, if they could just send me a dropbox link or something it would be awesome. Right now I'm using steel droid ics but it seems to have more issues than the hashcode cm9 ics rom I ran for a year.
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Actually that would work you would just have to use the 862 data files from Steel Droid probably.
Let's see if this can be helpful.
I was looking for a good ICS, with camera working, so let's give it a try.
I really need the camera, so that's why I didn't even tried the JB.
Thanks for the link, sm4rty!
you're in luck!
had to hook up the old dev box but found this file, enjoy!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20441294/cm9-droid3-20120101-1600.zip
Found this while I was cleaning up my SD card. Not sure if it's KEXEC or not. It wasn't labeled. I have a feeling it isn't.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/08eyaqskj5041zy/cm9-droid3-20120316-0330.zip
EDIT: Installed it to make sure. It is non-KEXEC.