Motorola Droid update to Android 2.0.1 has rolled out and it fixed a ton of stuff. Check out this video to see the highlights.
It seems way smoother than b4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEIP4RBsiqQ

davidmak, may I know how long does the battery last according to your daily usage? Can it last for one whole day?

After installing JuiceDefender on my Motorola Milestone (android 2.1), my battery life increased by a lot.

Today, after using my Milestone for surfing the net using Wi-Fi for 1 hour ++, send some sms, downloaded some apps from Android market...after 12 hours, I'm still getting about 60% battery life.

This is amazing!!!

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Added on May 2, 2010, 12:32 amI've tried Skyfire already. Not 100% true about playing Flash content.

What it does is that it will redirect you to their own server should u decide to play the flash video.

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Added on May 2, 2010, 11:30 amMy Motorola Milestone has been up for 24 hours now with a good dose of usage of Wi-Fi, 3G/EDGE and running some apps.

JuiceDefender app really makes a difference in improving the battery life on my Motorola Milestone.

I also learned something. Wi-fi uses less battery life when you are surfing the net with your Milestone as compared to using 3G/EDGE.

But... when your phone is in standby/idle and you forget to switch off Wi-Fi... then the Wi-Fi drains more power. Bcs when in wi-fi mode, the phone will still need to ping the router once in a while and when u are out of coverage... the phone might keep hunting for available wi-fi networks.

It seems that when in idle/standby mode, 3G/EDGE won't transmit anything unless you have a scheduled background data sync going on.



This post has been edited by pcphobic: May 2 2010, 11:30 AM

DO NOT USE Live Wallpaper. It drains battery life.

By the way, I just tried Tethering with my Motorola Milestone (I'm on RM68 Digi Smartplan unlimited up to 3gb) using PdaNet.

U will need to download PdaNet to your PC and install it on your pc and also on your Android phone.

Managed to get decent download speed in USJ area.

Not yet. All waiting for Adobe to support.

The workaround solution is to use Skyfire Browser. I've used Skyfire browser on my Motorola Milestone. When I see a video posting in my friend's Facebook wall, I just click on the youtube link, and Skyfire will pop up a screen asking u if u wanna watch that video.

What Skyfire does is to process that flash video on their server and then playback that video to your android phone.

It is a bit heavier than an Apple iPhone 3Gs.
The touchscreen and CPU is the same as the iPhone. It is as smooth as the iPhone.





For those of you who found out that the Voice Recognition Search function is missing on your Motorola Milestone (there should be a mic icon), then check out the following posting.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/motorola-...-milestone.html

This post has been edited by pcphobic: May 7 2010, 10:56 PM

Yes, just a matter of a week the price went up. I got it for RM1570 from a seller here in the forum by the name of Terry. Alot of ppl have bought the Milestone from him.

I already intro 3 people to him liao.

Btw, check out Google Translate.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLU1AeE3Vns

I ordered a holster for my Motorola Milestone via Ebay.



Cost me USD $5.99 + USD $.150 (shipping). But since shipping is so cheap, it took about a month to reach me.

I bought the holster for my Motorola Milestone via this link:

http://cgi.ebay.com.my/HOLSTER-Motorola-DR...=item3cab214713

fhfoomelaka,

One had a physical keyboard and the other does not.

You need to determine for yourself if u need a physical keyboard or not.

As for camera, it is faster in Android ver.2.1 as compared to when it was in Android ver.2.0. But it is still slower than a regular proper point and shoot digital camera.

Voice quality is ok. Motorola is afterall a phone company first. They have perfected the noise cancellation technology over the years. It works!

The voice recognition is quite good. I can do a google search just by saying "Search Barrack Obama photos", and the Motorola Milestone will do a google search and return with websites with photos of Barrack Obama.


By the way, the Motorola Milestone has a dual core cpu and a dedicated GPU chip inside.
I bet u can find alot of reviews on the Motorola Droid aka Milestone on the internet.

Here's one:
http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_milestone-review-441.php



This post has been edited by pcphobic: Jun 2 2010, 10:19 PM

Just to share my observation, I noticed Android phones with HTC Sense UI have less hidden menus as compared to my Motorola Milestone.

I was comparing my Motorola Milestone with my colleague's HTC Legend. For example, with the Motorola Milestone, after u install the bar code scanner, u can share your phone contact as QR Code. But for HTC Legend, after installing the same Bar Code Scanner app, he still cannot share his phone contact as QR code.

Trust me. I have 3 friends on HTC Legend, 1 friend on Motorola Milestone and 1 friend on Nexus ONE.

Proven already.. HTC modified the Android to suit their own UI. In the process, they have removed some hidden or extra menu. Got good and bad I guess.

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Added on June 3, 2010, 6:48 pmThat's why, only Nexus ONE and Motorola Milestone/Droid will get the Android 2.2 aka FROYO update way b4 HTC android phones because both NEXUS ONE and Motorola Milestone/Droid are stock plain vanilla Android OS.

While HTC Sense UI is a customised Android.. so not so easy to update to FROYO.

This post has been edited by pcphobic: Jun 3 2010, 06:48 PM

Guys, beware of using any extra phone casing on the phone. I heard those who put on those snap on plastic or rubber casing affected the phone call quality.
After they removed the casing, the phone call quality went back to normal.

Why not get the Holster that was designed originally for Motorola Droid?

I ordered a holster for my Motorola Milestone via Ebay.



Cost me USD $5.99 + USD $.150 (shipping). But since shipping is so cheap, it took about a month to reach me.

I bought the holster for my Motorola Milestone via this link:

http://cgi.ebay.com.my/HOLSTER-Motorola-DR...=item3cab214713


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9MMmK_95s8

Check this out. I managed to have Turn by Turn Google Maps Voice Navigation on my Milestone

As some of u may already know that Google has made an agreement with the US Government to disable the Turn by Turn Voice Navigation for Android phones outside of the USA. So installing the Nav Launcher app alone will not help.

But there is a workaround solution to this problem.

I've tried the following method and it works on my Motorola Milestone
I have Turn by Turn voice navigation using GPS + Brut Google Maps 4.2.0.4210-brut13. (see video below)




Brut Google Maps 4.2.0.4210-brut13


Features:
international navigation using Google Maps Directions
map tiles caching on SD card
force-enable MT. If you're on Eclair or some custom Donut and don't have multitouch zooming, then maybe this will enable it.
force-enable Buzz feature
fix for map shift issue in China
option to hide zoom buttons
installable on non-rooted devices
could be installed beside original app

Credits:
canadiancow for starting a brainstorm; an idea to use maps directions as backend for navigation; great Nav Launcher app; helping and support
TAPP for enabling "Navigate" button; first version for non-rooters
acamar for his research on map shift issue in China
many, many people for testing it, complaining ;-), helping others, etc.
Google for making this great app and service and for not sending C&D to me so far ;-)

Download:

http://ul.to/jpo4al/maps4.2.0.4210-brut13.apk
http://www.mediafire.com/?tm2jnzhecyq
md5sum: 9480c1443850ce201724c39dbf0249fa

Mirror/different versions (thanks to 5m00v3r !):
http://rapidshare.com/users/OJW69I

Installation:

Just download & install. Then you will have both original and modded maps installed at once. If you want to have only my version, check section below.

Note: You may need to download Nav Launcher first from the Android Market to get it to work.

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630887

Recently, me and a few fellow Android friends discovered you can do some cool stuff to impress people with your Android phone using the voice recognition search feature.

We found out that you can tell your Android phone to

1) Call <name of friend> Mobile 1
2) Navigate to <name of destination>
3) Do simple math calculation. For example say "10 divided by 2"

Here's a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hjdOoK9Nk

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Added on June 3, 2010, 4:26 pmIf u do not have the microphone icon when you use the "search" function on your android phone, then you need to install the missing
component.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/motorola-...-milestone.html

Yes it does! It worked for me...well... 90% of the time. Sometimes, if some sunlight get thru between your ears and the phone speaker, then the screen re-activates.

But most of the time, if u cover the sensor properly with your ears, then the screen will blank out thus preventing you from accidentally hitting any keys

I have finally defeated the lock down implemented by Motorola for Milestone running Android 2.1 and also have tried 2 custom ROMS that are running on FROYO like Cyanogenmod ver.6.1 rc 5 and G.O.T using UK Milestone Froyo ROM.

I am using RSDlite version 4.5.7 on Windows 7 (32-bit version). You can google for it for the link to download this free Motorola tool.
Also make sure you have the latest Motorola USB drivers installed on your PC.

This is what you must do.

Step 1:
Download Open Recovery Version 1.46 for Milestone from http://www.modmymobile.com/forums/download...o=file&id=28089

Step 2:
It is a rar file, so use any free software to extract out the contents of this OpenRecovery_v1_46_SHOLS.rar file to a new folder on your desktop.

After u have extracted it, look for a file called vulnerable_recovery.sbf. Copy out this vulnerable_recovery.sbf file to somewhere on your pc for example to the root of your C drive on your PC.

Step 3:
Download from this script to disable the recovery check for signed recovery menu (so that we can apply update.zip later) from
http://modmymobile.com/forums/attachments/...heck_by_ota.zip.

Unzip the file and there should be a file called Disable_recovery_check_by_OTA.sh

Step 4:
Copy the Disable_recovery_check_by_OTA.sh file to a sub folder called scripts that is within the OpenRecovery folder (which we have already extracted earlier) (eg. OpenRecovery\scripts).

Step 5:
Boot up the phone as per normal.

Step 5:
Plug in the phone to PC via USB cable

Step 6:
Change the USB Connection to Memory Card Accessl

Step 7:
Go to the desktop of your PC and open up the folder where the contents of the extracted OpenRecovery_v1_46_SHOLS.rar file is. You should then copy the update.zip to the root of your phone's SD card (eg. SDcard\update.zip).

Also copy the whole OpenRecovery folder also to the root level of your SD card (eg. SDcard\OpenRecovery)

Step 8:
The trick to get RSDlite ver.4.5.7 to detect your phone later, change the USB Connection to Portal & Tool.

Step 9:
Launch RSDLite ver.4.5.7

Step 10:
It will take a few seconds for your phone to appear in the device list of RSDLite

Step 11:
Click on the "..." button and locate and open the vulnerable_recovery.sbf file which we have extracted earlier and had copied out to somewhere (eg. root of C drive).

Step 12:
Click on the "Start" button.

Step 13:
Immediately you would see something in the status progress of RSDlite. RSDlite will switch your phone to the Bootloader mode by itself.

Step 14 (Very Important Step):
Pay attention to the status of the Bootloader on your phone. Halfway thru the progress of flashing the vulnerable_recovery.sbf, RSDlite will initiate a reboot of your phone.

When that happens, you must prevent the phone from rebooting into the normal Android mode and get it to boot into the Bootloader mode by quickly pressing & holding up on your D-pad in horizontal (landscape) position.

I would suggest that b4 RSDlite initiate the reboot, you should be prepared for it by sliding out the keyboard first and hold it in the horizontal (landscape) position and get ready to press up on the D-Pad.

by quickly turning your phone to the horizontal position (landscape) and press and hold up on the D-Pad of your phone. Hold the up key of your D-pad for about 3 to 4 seconds before release it and it should be now back in the bootloader mode.

Do not do anything yet. You will know when the flashing of the vulnerable_recovery.sbf is completed and successful when the result in RSDLite device list window says "PASS".

Step 15 (Also very important step):
Once the flashing of the vulnerable_recovery.sbf is complete (after you see "PASS" in RSDlite), you may close RSDlite and then unplug the phone from the USB cable.

The phone is still in the bootloader mode. Now be prepared to boot into the recovery mode. This is very important. If you fail to boot into the recovery mode then you will have to repeat from Step 8

The technique that I use on my Motorola Milestone to boot into the recovery mode is by using the 3 button technique. I press the "x" key + power button + camera button together at the same time and hold it until the recovery mode icon appears which is a an exclamation mark within a triangle.

Step 16:
While in the recovery mode, slide the keyboard back in. Then press and hold the volume up button first and then press the camera button once and when you see the recovery menu you can quickly release the volume up button.

Step 17:
Slide the keyboard out. Use the D-pad to navigate. If you are holding the phone in vertical position, then to navigate up and down the recovery menu, just press up or down on the D-pad. To confirm your selection, press down on the middle of your D-Pad.

Using your D-Pad, scroll down to the part it says "apply sdcard:update.zip" and press the middle of your D-Pad to select it.

You should see something packages being downloaded to your phone which is part of the installation process of the Motorola Milestone Open Recovery Menu which is not the stock Recovery Menu.

Step 18:
Once you are in the Motorola Milestone Open Recovery Menu, scroll down to the option that says "Run Script". Select that option.

Step 19:
Then you should be able to see a list of scripts and one of them should be "Disable_recovery_check_by_OTA.sh". Select that script.

Step 20:
Once that "Disable_recovery_check_by_OTA.sh" has been applied, the phone will no longer check for signed recovery menus like this Motorola Milestone Open Recovery Menu when ever you go into the stock recovery menu to "apply sdcard:update.zip". This means you can install different types of "Open Recovery Menu" for different custom roms for Motorola Milestone.

Besides using this Motorola Milestone Open Recovery Menu, I have also tried the following 2 "Open Recovery Menu" on my Milestone:
1) Androidiani OpenRecovery 3.3 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796679
2) G.O.T OpenRecovery (for installing G.O.T custom FROYO rom) - http://groupoften.wordpress.com/g-o-t-s-openrecovery/

Important Note:
Before you start to install custom roms please do a Nandroid back up of your phone in case something goes wrong during the installation of the custom rom, you can restore your phone back to stock rom.

The Nandroid back up and restore option is available within all 3 "Open Recovery Menu" mentioned above.