Stock Restore Milestone A854

[keets]

One quick question. I've never had success getting the apn edited. I also used voice to access it, but when i manually typed in the settings, after a certain setting, the apn i created disappeared. Happened constantly. Have any idea what I did wrong?

Also, I can't seem to find any information on Motorola PDM. With everything I have read, seems everyone uses Motorola CDMA Workshop.

[lunchbox427]

PMD is an enhanced version of RSD for newer Motorola models. Anyway, I can get my hands on a new A854 with all fresh and good settings. buddy of mine has one that he isn't planning on rooting. Problem is, I so far can't figure out how to backup the good firmware with either PMD or RSD Lite so I can post to flash on the damaged one. My theory is: If I can create a backup of the firmware from a non-rooted, working Bluegrass Milestone, we can install that .sbf using RSD lite to fully flash all network settings, original recovery environment, etc and convert it back to stock. This would create a safety net so that we could experiment and as long as it wasn't bricked, you could just reflash the bluegrass firmware and, voila, back to square one.

I am having the same apn problems. When I first rooted and used rom manager by clockworkmods to go to bugless beast, I was able to change the apn for mms without it disappearing. had evdo internet and mms working. I installed an "update" for bugless beast from rom manager and that's when it kicked out all of my evdo, apn, and internet settings. Then when i flashed that CSouth .sbf, it killed all my network settings period. I was able to get in and change all the settings in the MDN programming menu (by comparison to my buddie's) back to what Bluegrass is supposed to be, and had them update my prl over the air. CAUTION: MIN SETTING MAY OR MAY NOT MATCH THE MDN SETTING!

I have been looking all over to try to figure out how to make an image or copy of a working milestone's .sbf and can't figure out how to do it. I'm pretty sure bluegrass won't have it because I think that motorola puts all that in the phones before they send them to the carriers....I think. I doubt they would just give it to me even if they have it, but i'm afraid to ask because I don't believe they support any software tampering, such as rooting.

[lunchbox427]

I was able to get my hands on my friend's Bluegrass Milestone and took a pic of the about screen w/ my cam. Now I have the correct version numbers for the kernel and build to try to look them up. Seems the CS build is a slightly earlier version of build, but the kernel is WAAAY off.

I found another thread on these forums where some guys were talking about building sbf's. However they are still limited to the few kernel versions for the VZW Droid, not anything I can use... Might be worth looking at though.

I at least now have working voice and sms without roaming, and that will have to do for now, but I have got to try to figure out how to get my data settings back in because the techs at the stores said it won't stay powered on enough to flash the evdo and other network settings back into it. It keeps rebooting itself, same thing as when I hook it up to the same flashing program on my pc...

[truck10]

I have the newest milestone from bluegrass. I wanted to update to Ginger bread 2.3 rooted? Is this possible? If so where can I download it? Also I need to back up my stock firmware incase I need to return the phone.

[b00ty_m4n]

So what is the newest milestone from BG the X or what doesn't it have froyo 2.2?

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[keets]

Yeah, it's the Milestone X. I took a look at it last weekend but I think it's do wide for my taste.