Motorola Milestone

[DAGr8]

Well Just got mine , a part form the obvious ( phone being GSM instead of CDMA ) there is quite a few differences , not in the hardware I presume , but it seem some features are either disabled on the Droid and some app that weren't suppose to be on 'unlocked versions' or Only available on the droid , seem to be on the Milestone as well .

1st multi touch , yes you can expand pictures ( zoom in / zoom out) with your fingers (like the iphone) that is NOT possible on the Droid . There is also the possibility in the Browser .

2nd Facebook app and Google maps were supposedly only for the droid , while Motonav was to be on the Milestone , well I have both on my phone and Googlemap works with turn by turn and voice and all ...

3rd the market place is suppose to be restricted for Unlocked Milestone users (if your OS is non branded) your IMEI was suppose to be blocked from most apps in the app store , but it seem it has been changed for most unlocked phone ...

4th Droid has the newest update 2.01 and as you all know 2.1 ( from the Nexus ) has already been ported for it , witch brings me to root admin .......

5th Root Admin has been achieved for the droid( witch in my book gives hands down the advantage to the droid ) because they found a vulnerability in the 'update process ' security , that same vulnerability has already been fixed , so we cant expect ( Milestone owners) for our phone to be rooted right away when the next update comes ( finally ) for our phones , but keep in mind once the update is released the countdown will start and the race to the root of the milestone will be indeed very fast .

Lastly .. oh yea MOTO is BACK !!!

[shantanu]

dude thanks for the review

[Casper]

Just hope it comes to SA before September!

Sounds better and better.

[TEPEM]

by the way I have discovered an interesting research carried out by a developer - in his video this guy compares multitouch of Motorola Milestone and Google Nexus One:
it turns out that google needs to consider confidence matters in what regarding hardware suppliers - at least those manufacturing touch panels/digitizers.
to me it seems as an obvious hardware glitch.

[DAGr8]

well as you probably know by now root has been achieved on this bad boy but the locked bootloader is really a problem , had my share with EZX phone , if the phone is not fully open by the summer this will probably be my last moto phone and as you can tell by my sig I been a motofan for long long time ...

[TEPEM]

DAGr8, yup, I know Milestone has been rooted, but as you mentioned the main issue is a signed bootloader - I know that the best option by now is to attack mbmloader cryptographically - however the chances are doubtful since OMAP uses signature based on 128 bit key which is really hard to decrypt
hopefully we shall be finally able to hunt kexec module successfully - once that's done different kernel can be booted easily actually I'm always hoping for the best so let it be a kind of comfoting for you as well since I strongly believe that mental images are normally realized if practiced with descent dilligence
nice to meet a skilled motofan anyways - Namaste!

[TEPEM]

Please mind that below present solution was not verified by me hence I cannot confirm it personally. However I have no doubts in the expertise of junoreactor who originally provided it. ( in Russian)


The following solution should Improve video recorder quality:

1) Download build.prop file from the phone

C:\Users\Junoreaktor>adb shell
$ su
su
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
# cp /system/build.prop /sdcard
cp /system/build.prop /sdcard

2) Open it with any text editor

3) Locate ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=3000000 line
and amend it to ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=8000000

4) Commit changes

5) Put the file back where it belongs to

# cp -f /sdcard/build.prop /system
cp -f /sdcard/build.prop /system
# reboot
reboot

That's it - enjoy!

[sam_fisher]

Can Milestone has send and recive files with bluetooth in 1 time (togetter)

[DAGr8]

Please mind that below present solution was not verified by me hence I cannot confirm it personally. However I have no doubts in the expertise of junoreactor who originally provided it. ( in Russian)


The following solution should Improve video recorder quality:

1) Download build.prop file from the phone

C:\Users\Junoreaktor>adb shell
$ su
su
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system
# cp /system/build.prop /sdcard
cp /system/build.prop /sdcard

2) Open it with any text editor

3) Locate ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=3000000 line
and amend it to ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=8000000

4) Commit changes

5) Put the file back where it belongs to

# cp -f /sdcard/build.prop /system
cp -f /sdcard/build.prop /system
# reboot
reboot

That's it - enjoy!

yes this is proven workin

Can Milestone has send and recive files with bluetooth in 1 time (togetter)

sry not sure .

[sam_fisher]

can Motorola Phone Tools detect milestone and restore backup's on it?