Motorola Releases a Maintenance Update For Motorola Milestone, But Pulls It

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    Motorola Releases a Maintenance Update For Motorola Milestone, But Pulls It

    by Quentyn Kennemer on July 6th, 2010


    As many Motorola Milestone users across the ocean (and many Motorola Droid owners here back home) await Android 2.2, Motorola’s gone ahead and released an maintenance update for the device overseas. It’s said that it will improve stability and improve the device’s overall performance.


    Such fixes should see a decline in force closing issues, random reboots, bug fixes for the alarm, and improved music player functonality with enhancements to the device’s audio quality. Furthermore, they’ve tweaked the proximity sensor to be more accurate doing calls to prevent the screen from staying on while it’s up to your ear.


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    Finally, PIN lock improvements have been made to allow more flexibility in setting the lock timer when using Exchange email, airplane mode’s performance has been improved to ensure your phone timely picks a signal back up upon turning the feature off, and using “My Location” in Google Maps has been fixed to eradicate the error of not being able to get a location lock when using Wireless Networks for your location provider instead of the GPS radio.


    Not Froyo, but it should be a welcome fix if you’ve ever experienced any or all of these issues. Unfortunately, Motorola’s since had to pull the update due to another bug, ironically. In the meantime, just know that you should get notified of the update OTA at some point, or you can go ahead and download the update using Motorola’s PC update tool – found on their website – whenever they’re ready to make the update live again.


    [via Motorola Europe Facebook]
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    #1 Shadez, Jul 6, 2010
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    Mine is downloading the update right now, OTA...32.1mb.

    Exciting! But if this doesn't fix the alarm issues, I will be so sad.

    Edit: Update! I just finished installing mine. Right off the bat I got a force close with Launcher Pro...boo. However, I have noticed that my Quickoffice icon in the launcher is different.. I'm not noticing much difference in accuracy of the proximity sensor, unfortunately.
     
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    any chance you can nandroid it?

    i have wiped and then loaded 2.1 i then done an update over MSU which said that i updated.

    HOWEVER! here are the stats from my about screen (~UK user~)

    please let me know what your version is, have i actually got the new one? Or did it get pulled before i got my update. done it about 5:30PM GMT

    -Model Number
    Milestone

    -Firmware Version
    2.1-update1

    -Firmware configuration version
    GAS_EMEA_USASHLS00RTGB_P023

    -Baseband Version
    3GSMEPU91A_U_91.07.4EI

    -BASEBAND CONFIGURATION VERSION
    UCASHMR2EMEAB1B805C.OR

    -KERNEL VERSION
    2.6.29-OMAP1
    A21146@CA25RHE74#1

    -BUILD NUMBER
    SHOLS_U2_02.31.0
     
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    Sadly I have no experience with nandroid...so...unless I get some super detailed/dumbed down instructions, probably not. :frown:

    Anyway, here is my info, at least:

    -Model Number
    Milestone

    -Firmware Version
    2.1-update1

    -Firmware configuration version
    GAS_EMEA_USASHLS00RTINT_P016

    -Baseband Version
    3GSMEPU91A_U_91.07.56I

    -BASEBAND CONFIGURATION VERSION
    UCASHLSMR2EMEAB1B806D.0R

    -KERNEL VERSION
    2.6.29-omap1
    milestcm@il93lnxebld05 #1

    -BUILD NUMBER
    SHOLS_U2_02.36.0

    I hope that is helpful to you!
     
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    Ok cheers for the info, the best way to nandroid it is you have open recovery. G.O.Ts is good. G.O.T.'s Blog

    that version is the one i was already using on g.o.ts, so i might just restore my nandroid i made of that.

    There is an update which needs to be applied before you can use update.zips which is called the vunerable expolit on the boot loader. basically lets us root the phone and then take control over the phone more. I would be interested in using the g.ots version again, i just wanted to get the offical version on my phone.

    from what i remember, (i may be wrong) There was a thing about the build number which indicated which country it was from, I thought 31 was UK and 36 was GERMAN, but where are you from? obviously this may be a bad guess, and G.O.Ts blog mentions the 30 numbers as newer versions.

    Where abouts are you from though, and do you have the QWERTY version?

    i dont think its worth dumping it yet, cos its not gonna be anything new.

    But it does sound very interesting that they pulled the version due to a new bug which has come out of their efforts. They seem to give with one hand and take with the other lol

    cheers


     
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    Can you make a Nandroid Backup...THX!!!!!
     
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    I will try to! But I make no promises. If I need help though, I know who to go to! Hopefully by the morning I will have something...
     
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    If you have root, do you have to un-root before updating?
     
    #9 4iedemon, Jul 7, 2010
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    Ditto.

    And do I need to re-root and also re-install App2SD?

    Thanks!
     
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    I have a Telus Milestone, from what I understand I can apply this update
    Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites! which is the "ITALY Service SBF SHOLS_U2_02_38.0" and:
    1. I will not lose my data
    2. Because its Italy I just have to change my locale back to Canada
    3. I should be able to apply root using the vulnerable recovery
    4. It should fix all the issues listed in the first post

    Do I understand all this right? Because if so I just need the go ahead to apply this update.
     
    #11 dasilva333, Jul 7, 2010
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    You may lose 3g, since they dont run all 3 of the same frequencies aa telus. Flashing a thai version will guarantee you better ressults.

    Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk
     
    #12 Eggos, Jul 7, 2010
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