erm.. i mean the camera flash light.
btw, i tested quadrant advanced for the benchmarking. it seem like moto devices have higher I/O score, the rest not so high.
do you guys mind to try with quadrant advanced instead of standard? tq

Where's this defy_2.2_boot_only sbf file?

U have advanced version to share with me? Need to buy rite?

http://pubftp.goapk.com/1026/defy_2.2_boot_only.zip

hi guys, i want to take the jump from currently using i phone to android, Motorola Defy, however i am reading a lot of feedback on the android marketplace, and also motoblur.

Any defy owners can advice on the motoblur account, any idea on the os upgrade to 2.2 and also on the marketplace availability to Malaysia?

thanks for the advice.

2.2 said to be available Q2 2011. And yea welcome to android if u buy

@irenic, PM sent

Defy camera is not that bad and its not that excellent too but it can focus and snap pictures quite fast so it is handy to have. One thing moto always did with the its phones is lowering the image quality of the pictures. If we install app like pic zoom pro we can see the difference when we bump the quality up.

I believe there is a new superoneclick app that can be used to root 2.51 and there are also quite some activities going on with custom 2.2 for defy.

what you guys will do if you want to send back for warranty?
since the firmware for asia is no where in the web can be see right now.

anyone here have ASIA firmware nandroid backup can upload?

the camera flash light is still not working eventhough I already applied the fix.

all rite. as per your request...i ran the quadrant with battery less than 5% but plugged in to pc usb..

defy @ stock.


defy @ 1ghz.


and yeah.. moto's IO score is incredible.. hmm


Malaysia's Defy comes with motoblur, or blurless coz it has blur widgets, but u dun have to sign in to motoblur account..

offical OS upgrade is scheduled in q2 2011. for custom, there's a CN froyo that is so far runs smoothly (except cemera flash).

market availability? same as other android phone in malaysia.. not as good as app store in terms of number and feature. as android has lesser apps and officially malaysia android market still cant show paid apps (unless u r root though)

This post has been edited by irenic: Jan 17 2011, 02:46 AM

thx for the benchmark. wonder what is the IO here refer to. i mean, is it read/write from/to storage, or memory.
oh btw, any significant improve froyo over eclair you notice so far? other than the camera flash, the rest all working as usual and how's the battery usage? thx

This post has been edited by theng168: Jan 17 2011, 04:19 AM

yups.. in quadrant, the I/O score is calculated from four tests which are file system writes, file system reads, database writes, and database reads.

the improvement isn't that significant. as other android devices as well, 2.2 just brings full flash 10.1, wireless hot spot (which defy already has in 2.1), JIT and other minor things.
in my case, i feel the homescreen and interface scrolling is much faster. and if any of you notice, defy has to be restarted once you apply other launcher as default or else it tends to get laggy a bit (maybe it takes stimes)
but that is not happening with this froyo version..

so far, only camera flash doesnt work.

This post has been edited by irenic: Jan 17 2011, 04:23 AM

irenic, may i know just in case if need send the phone back for waranty, anyway to flash back to the stock rom after install a custom rom in it??

we now have a fully working froyo rom for defy. there are 2 types of rom, 1 is the chinese 2.2 and another is ported from cliq 2 rom. the readme says no bugs so far, so hop on to xda-developers forum for it.

as for me, i need to send my phone for repair first

wondering also.

wow..still have done with ur repair??

normally, software and hardware warranty is different. so in case the hardware goes faulty, it doesnt matter what software u put it in..

but in case it's a software problem, there might be some trouble here. i dunno, but for other phones, we can flash the original ruu from the recovery but so far we can't find on the internet the one that is been used in our device. i have other defy lying around and in case of emergency, there must be a way to create sbf file out from it.

nandroid backup might not possible because our custom recovery can only be access from application. meaning we hv to be able to boot the phone to open the app.

however, we didnt do much wrong here. the rom we install is a signed one, not a custom rom, as motorola locked its bootloader.
so hopefully they wont mind though

actually there is another (weird) way of using the phone for taking calls, if u see at the back there is another microphone that is used for noise cancelling purposes. right now i'm using the back speaker (lowest volume) to hear the callers and the 2nd mic to speak with them. it really raised some people eyebrows when i did that

Saw someone showing that as well somewhere in other forums. An alternative way for broken Defy.

Do you plan to get it fixed before CNY?

What did not work:


- Camera and Compass (fixes not working)

Should I wait for cliq 2 or chinese 2.2?

camera already working...