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Custom Recovery BootStrapping Pro

That's right... it took sometime and effort and some craziness. I have successfully achieved bootstrap and clockwork recovery on my Dpro!!! Here is what I can tell you so far:
My phone is of course rooted.
It is Deodexed using the manual method described in one of my earlier posts!!!
My sd-card came out of my former droid x that was also deodexed, clockwork modded and bootstrap.
Here what I did and without an sbf it was crazy but sometimes it pays off.
I downloaded the Droid X bootstrap from koush in the android market, applied bootstrap and reboot recovery...
I have yet to be able to access recovery via rom manager but I feel I have made a big step towards getting us to that point... I believe with some tweaking and trail and error, I might be able too...
I will post anything else I stumble into.... I will try to hit koush up to see if rom manager can be tweaked.... here hoping!!!
Also remember you take the risks on your own. there's no sbf out so if it fails you are stuck!

Extra Followup
I successfully bootstrapped and was able to enter clockwork recovery. Here's some additional info:
Droid X bootstrap appears to work... can anyone verify this other than myself?
You can enter Clockwork Recovery only through the Reboot Recovery button in the bootstrap program.
I successfully backed up my Droid Pro with Clockwork version 2.5.0.6 which runs from the bootstrap. I have not tried a restore to see if it works... has anyone?
I have tried to rom manager and flash a new recovery. Upon restart, phone tries to enter clockwork recovery but freezes on load. I tried to get the phone flashed with the same recovery that is in the bootstrap program but no success.
This is where I am at. If anyone can share any new info, please do... I will continue on my side to try different things. I am also trying to get koush and tbh involved to help without success so far.
Thanks Everyone!

Wow...great job!
I won't bother trying it because I can't afford to mess up the phone, and it's not like I would be able to do anything even if it worked, since I have no developing knowledge, but I do know that this is a big step forward.

It's a great effort mate. I hope the chef's can build on this method and improvise. Hence giving us Custom ROM's to play with.

Jibreil said:
It's a great effort mate. I hope the chef's can build on this method and improvise. Hence giving us Custom ROM's to play with.
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Custom ROM? Nah... I just want a stock 2.2 Froyo or 2.3 Gingerbread with the moto blur layer and fixed auto problems. Seems droid pro's can't play music without chopping out / stuttering :'(.

@Class said:
Custom ROM? Nah... I just want a stock 2.2 Froyo or 2.3 Gingerbread with the moto blur layer and fixed auto problems. Seems droid pro's can't play music without chopping out / stuttering :'(.
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x2, the audio is really horrible.

good work!

All we need now is the SBF. I hope it gets leaked soon!

elmemyself said:
x2, the audio is really horrible.
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I know its brutal. I bet Apple is having a good laugh about this one.
"Play music the best way possible. Now with more skips and chops"

You guys don't like your music chopped and screwed?
I actually haven't listened to music on my Pro yet. Is it really that horrible?

freak4dell said:
You guys don't like your music chopped and screwed?
I actually haven't listened to music on my Pro yet. Is it really that horrible?
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It is, even if you plug some phones, you still get very small freezes that are really annoying, I just don't understand how can Moto release a premium phone with an issue like this, and they weren't even capable of releasing a fix...

freak4dell said:
You guys don't like your music chopped and screwed?
I actually haven't listened to music on my Pro yet. Is it really that horrible?
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I have, and there's no skipping or chopping whatsoever
Those with a problem must be using sub-par media cards.

How are your phones set up, and what program are you using to play music? I just tried mine with 2 songs using both the stock music player and PowerAmp, and they work just fine. No skips or anything. This is with both headphones and through the phone's speaker.
Mine is rooted, with LauncherPro, and a bunch of the useless stock apps deleted. Other than that, I haven't done much.

im havingthe audio issue. lots of pops and crackling while listen to any music on any player. tried multiple things but have yet to try a different sd card. maybe formatiing it on the droid pro would help? any body try this yet?

Similar problem - choppiness ... in fact, I think my pro rebooted today from playing music.

@Class said:
I know its brutal. I bet Apple is having a good laugh about this one.
"Play music the best way possible. Now with more skips and chops"
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I think you meant BlackBerry - as BlackBerry is its only competition.
EDIT: The Music and other battery issues will improvise with an OTA Update. Motorola is quite adamant in promoting this Enterprise Android phone as it directly competes with RIM. Hence we can expect OTA updates on a more frequent basis as soon as bugs have been discovered.

Navigation mount with EB13

Does the audio out on the mount work with this official update now?

I just tested it, and no it does not.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

Can anyone else verify that th audio outisnot working on the gps mount?
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won't be able to till tomorrow

I've actually seen a few posts on this, neither the car dock nor the desktop dock have audio out with eb13
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Sh0wNuF said:
I've actually seen a few posts on this, neither the car dock nor the desktop dock have audio out with eb13
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I know profanity is frowned upon, but my brain is screaming a verb (or 'doing' word) directed towards samsung...

Patch from the fascinate
See this from the XDA portal this morning. It might put you on a path to fixing this issue.

Gersonian said:
See this from the XDA portal this morning. It might put you on a path to fixing this issue.
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Damn you beat me to it.

Going to try it out when I leave for school this afternoon, but if this is indeed true, I will be beyond furious. The navigation mount's BOX says that when FroYo is released for the Epic, the audio jack will become functional. WTF

Gersonian said:
See this from the XDA portal this morning. It might put you on a path to fixing this issue.
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I just tried the car_cradle_patch.zip on my phone using CWM, and it put the phone into super slow motion mode when I restarted. I can't do anything, it takes MINUTES for anything to respond. Looks like I'll have to be wiping my phone again.
tw_car_dock.zip added a "car cradle" application, but the music player didn't play out of the line out on the car or desktop docks.

It was built for the Fascinate. Someone would probably have to mod their mod to get it working correctly on the Epic. Try putting a request out there and see if any devs bite. Might take a few days for someone to get to it because I am sure they are working on updating ROMs, etc.

I pulled apart the original and the modded version that were posted and there is literally one line different between the two (assuming I did it right, and I think I did). If it isn't working properly on our phones it's likely something to do with difference between our phone and the Fascinate/standard Galaxy S. Might help if we can get a logcat dump from the phone while the app is doing it's thing.

gremlyn1 said:
I pulled apart the original and the modded version that were posted and there is literally one line different between the two (assuming I did it right, and I think I did). If it isn't working properly on our phones it's likely something to do with difference between our phone and the Fascinate/standard Galaxy S. Might help if we can get a logcat dump from the phone while the app is doing it's thing.
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Sound like it is as simple as changing the audio channel its using. Maybe there is one not listed in the UI that is the usb audio out?

Audio is working with the fascinate mod.
I used cwm earlier today.Just make sure to place the zip in the root of your micro sd card and boot into cwm then select and flash.It is working perfectly with no force quits or lag after a reboot. Are you using the aosp music player patch or samsung music player patch? He has 2 different versions up. The aosp music player patch is the one i was able to use with no errors or lag.If you are using the samsung music player patch that will not work.

So I bought two docks home and car that said it would work with 2.2
Big surprise.......it doesn't. Awesome samsung.
I just spent 2 days dishwasher shopping. spent 800 bucks. guess who was off my list before I even LOOKED at them! That's right, samsung, you didn't even get on the list to start for reasons exactly like this.

Bump for y'all to see rpro95's post.
@ J3ff, if you have nothing constructive to say just hold off on posting as it looks like there are a couple of people in here who are willing to try and get this working or help the Epic users get it working/troubleshoot. I think most people in here are tired of the anti-samsung semantics.
I do not have the dock, but I am just trying to be helpful in this thread by tossing ideas out there. It seems like this is something that, in time, the community should be able to get working.

car dock AOSP audio out fix for music only.
This might work on the home dock as well.test it. I don't have a home dock.I know it works for my car dock.
If you need to have your tunes playing from your car dock do this.It will not work for third party apps.Only for the AOSP music player.You will get a prompt when you dock.Just select and you will get screen showing your dock icons for
phone:Music:Maps and voice search.
1. Need to have cwm to flash this.
2.download the patch from here on xda developers Adrynaylyne mod thread for the fascinate. http://adrynalyne.us/files/patches/car_cradle_patch.zip
3. Put on your SD card. I put mine in root.This worked for me.
4.Boot into cwm. Select zip and enjoy music on your epic through your cars speakers.This might work on the home dock as well.test it. I don't have a home dock.

Here is the solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966588

There is a version of the car home up on the market specifically for epic now.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.spr.carhome&feature=search_result

Geekybiker said:
There is a version of the car home up on the market specifically for epic now.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.spr.carhome&feature=search_result
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That's the version that was out months ago that got pulled from the market. Doesn't really do anything
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[Q] Big music playback issues

I'm very sorry to triple-post it. I do need some help here, and if i couldnt manage to fix this, i'm going to ask for a refund.
I love this phone so much, but i really appreciate music, and if the phone dont fullfill the task, its not of use to me
I just bought this phone and albeit its awesomeness, i've been experiencing some sound issues.
When I listen to music, some of them in random parts just stutter for a fraction of second. Its not much but happens quite a lot and that annoys me. It happens with connected music player and winamp.
I've just formatted the SD card and it still stutters. Swapped my 8gb card with my brother's 2gb one and it keeps stuttering. I'm afraid the problem is the phone...;
I dont know what to do...

Install PowerAMP and check if the problem goes away

Argen2Stone fixed that problem for me. =)
Sent from my Milestone 2 XDA App

Also check whether you've got the latest software update; 2.2 indeed has this issue, they addressed it with 2.2.2

I used to have this problem in the past, and one day I found it in surprise that it fixed itself automaticly, maybe several days before......
And now the only problem for me is that I can't resort my playlists through my stock music player......
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Thanks for the responses, guys.
Aragorn, yes, poweramp fixed this.
w0ndersp00n, yes it's on 2.2, how do i update it?
dangpzanco, if upgrading to 2.2 doesnt work, i'll give argen2stone a chance.

Sowee0 said:
Thanks for the responses, guys.
Aragorn, yes, poweramp fixed this.
w0ndersp00n, yes it's on 2.2, how do i update it?
dangpzanco, if upgrading to 2.2 doesnt work, i'll give argen2stone a chance.
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Up to now, I have seen only one series of moto's ROM is in system version of 2.2.2. Those ROM are produced for ME722, which is milestone2's Chinese version. And its stock language can be set to English.
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http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone2

Which one would you guys recommend?
Just one more thing, even if I update, the touchscreen bug will not be fixed?
Cause that's a serious issue and if it cant be fixed its better for me to return the cellphone and buy a Galaxy S.
Can you help choose?

Depends on your location (to get a working cellphone signal at your country), but flash 2.2.2 with RSD Lite 4.8+:
Argentina/Movistar is for Latin America.
UK is for Europe.
Or flash Brazil 2.2 and apply Argen2Stone 1.9 (for 2.0 you'll need Argentina/Movistar SBF)
Another thing/offtopic:
I just got Defy's bootmenu working here!
Just unninstall Droid 2 Bootstrapper, delete /system/bin/hijack, logwrapper and rename logwrapper.bin --> logwrapper.
Then install Defy 2nd-init Recovery Installer from Market and follow instructions from the app. (Install the stable)
It is a more elegant way to get into recovery/doing nandroids.
=)
Sent from my Milestone 2 XDA App

currently, I think that the MILS2_U6_2.2.16 ROM has successfully solved the touching problems, but I still recommend galaxy s, because milestone2's GPU is much more weaker than galaxy s', and motoblur sometimes slows down your system.
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Thank you all, guys but I'm going to send it back. Loved the phone but i cant live with this feeling of wrong purchase. Maybe i'll regret my decision later...
I'm going to get a Galaxy S and I wish it doesnt have many problems...
I hope you understand my point.

I've also recently been suffering with a Music playback issue on my Milestone 2. Basically, when I play ANY Song, it will play halfway or a quarter of the way through, and then just stop playing. The Music player will still be in the Notifications Bar, but when clicked just bring me back to the Music Library. I'm downloading this PowerAMP App now, to see if this solves the problem, but I doubt it will.
So can any1 please guide me or give me solution to this plz? Thanks in advance

It actually has solved the problem, surprisingly, so thanks A LOT 2 "AragornPE" for suggestin' this app. Greatly appreciated
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Djd10 said:
It actually has solved the problem, surprisingly, so thanks A LOT 2 "AragornPE" for suggestin' this app. Greatly appreciated
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Yep. If it doesnt work, try alternatives. PowerAMP is the best!

I actually spoke 2 quickly, 'cause it seemed 2 have worked and solved the problem, but it still does stop Music playback half and quarter of da way through songs. Randomly. Whether the headphones r in or not.
Wondering if any1 else is having da same problem, and how/if they've solved it? My Milestone 2 is rooted by da way, and I'm sure that is da cause of the problem.
Thanks
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I didnt have this problem, mine is also rooted, and didnt have this problem with froyo, and neither with the leaked gingerbread. Maybe you have installed an app that is causing some kind of problem with the memory.
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Install Watchdog task manager an see if any processes are misbehaving.
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Aight then, well thanks for both of da replies anyway. I'll install dat App, but how will I know wot's "misbehaving"?
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I've installed it, and no Apps seem 2 be "misbehaving", and haven't got any alerts yet.
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Skype with Video - Finally!

New Skype update in the market. We FINALLY get video chat supported on the Xoom! Confirmed working on my Xoom.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skype.raider&hl=en
The following devices have also been white-listed for video calling in this release:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (T-Mobile) HTC SHOOTER (KDDI) Sony Ericsson Xperia Live with Walkman Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V Acer Iconia Tablet (A500) LG Optimus Black LANDSCAPE ONLY LG Optimus 3D LANDSCAPE ONLY LG Optimus 2x LANDSCAPE ONLY Motorola Photon Motorola Droid3 LANDSCAPE ONLY Motorola Bionic LANDSCAPE ONLY Motorola Xoom Motorola Atrix
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nice 8D has been waiting for it since i gt my xoom

Skype working perfectly on my XOOM with video

Wiiii!
Wiiiiiiii finally!!!!!!! Just saw the post checked the market, updated ,just made videocall,works great!

Am I the only one who only gets extremely low audio playback volume during calls? The volume buttons don't do anything.

mine is not working, I only have voice call. It is your version 2.5.0.108??? It is probably because of the new Xoom update from today.

FenixSI said:
mine is not working, I only have voice call. It is your version 2.5.0.108??? It is probably because of the new Xoom update from today.
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Have you gone into Skype settings and enabled video calling?

FenixSI said:
mine is not working, I only have voice call. It is your version 2.5.0.108??? It is probably because of the new Xoom update from today.
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Yea, you need to enable it in settings
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Now if only I had someone to talk to. Kidding. This is going to be great when I go on travel.
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I have a Canadian WiFi Model with the USA Stock image, Skype runs fine but I got two issues not sure how to resolve, one the Audio is to loud and the volume buttons do nothing, the other issue is that I see myself on the Xoom and not the other person at the other end, any sugestions ?

i installed last night and made a few test calls. I found that video works great and audio sounds good too. My only gripe is that there seems to be a very noticible echo that I haven't been able to get rid of. I've tried to lower the volume with no luck. I didn't think to lower the "phone" volume ... ill look at that tonight. Definitely smoother than any other video chat options that I've tried. Hopefully they will fix the echos. Does anyone know if it supports Bluetooth?

bloke said:
Yea, you need to enable it in settings
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Thanks it was just that, I did not know I have to enable it ... it works just fine.

can someone post the.apk?
Market says I'm incompatible. Tried Google and all I could find that would load was the European version, which won't allow me to create my account because of .the

Skype works fine here. I would like to talk via BT headset but that does not work. I can pair the headset but have no sound :-(
Has anyone of you got this work?

arimus said:
I have a Canadian WiFi Model with the USA Stock image, Skype runs fine but I got two issues not sure how to resolve, one the Audio is to loud and the volume buttons do nothing, the other issue is that I see myself on the Xoom and not the other person at the other end, any sugestions ?
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have similar issue - can see the other person but all they can see is my avatar??
Anyone know what is going on there?
cheers..

LPQ (ICS) is just annoying and unreliable.

Seriously don't know how people can endure this build, it's slowly driving me goddamned insane compared to 2.3.3 or 2.3.6
Just to clarify.
Retail outright purchased full unlocked GT-I9100
Android 4.0.3
Baseband: I9100XXLPQ
Kernel 3.0.15-I9100XXLPQ-CL223505
[email protected]#3
Build number: IML74K.XXLPQ
Maybe I flashed something bad over the top to give me root access? Maybe it's a dodgy root kernel or tool or some stupidity :/
I'm having all kinds of stupid, odd problems.
Winamp: Crashes 1-3 times a week
Winamp: Stops playing music, no apparent reason, just stops about 2-5 times a week (headset not pulled out) – go back in to app, pause button is available as if it's playing but timer isn't going, hit pause / play – nothing occurs (re-boot required)
Swype: The 'suggestion' box (bar) row thingo at the top of the letters, dissapears once or twice a week when typing something, literally can't fix mistakes or anything, close message – go back into whatever app I was typing in, still stuffed. (re-boot required)
General use "the animation" especially in Gmail and Google chat is AWFUL – and I think it's tied to Swype – when the bar appears / disapears, it does this pixel in / pixel out animation which is really slow and disorienting as it moves all the words up 1 row to fit in the suggesiton bar. This is SPECIFICALLY only when you're at the very bottom row of an email, I recall a similar issue on GB on my HTC HD2 – it's just bad design. (Can anyone else re-create this? Makes google chat utterly awful)
GPS is significantly less accurate in Endomondo

Its well known that LPQ is just bad
get the XWLP7 works great after clean install

LPQ is old
get LP7 or LP8

Why don't you simply go back to GB or try a custom ROM?
My only gripe about the "Official" ICS firmware is the dodgy scrolling. But I'm on an AOKP based ROM so all I experience is beautiful smoothness
Sent from my Telecommunications Device.

LP8 clean, unbranded.
If your rooted you can easily flash it using Odin Mobile Pro and keep root

Yandvoiris said:
Its well known that LPQ is just bad
get the XWLP7 works great after clean install
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I was under the impression that was the only "official" release from Samsung for unbranded outright phones at this point in time?

Rizur said:
Why don't you simply go back to GB or try a custom ROM?
My only gripe about the "Official" ICS firmware is the dodgy scrolling. But I'm on an AOKP based ROM so all I experience is beautiful smoothness
Sent from my Telecommunications Device.
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You also have the crappy scrolling issue I'm talking about, or some other kind of issue with scrolling long pages / emails?

Mittaa said:
LP8 clean, unbranded.
If your rooted you can easily flash it using Odin Mobile Pro and keep root
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Is that site up at this time?
http://www.multiupload.nl/85NE30K2JZ
EDIT: my PC is weird, laptop can do it, so no hassles.

wizzbang3 said:
You also have the crappy scrolling issue I'm talking about, or some other kind of issue with scrolling long pages / emails?
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Yes that is correct, on the LPQ release scrolling was indeed very weird and I did not like it.
Sent from my Telecommunications Device.

wizzbang3 said:
Is that site up at this time?
http://www.multiupload.nl/85NE30K2JZ
EDIT: my PC is weird, laptop can do it, so no hassles.
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Search for XWLP8 in this thread and get this version.
The one I posted is identical but the download speed is a lot slower.

wizzbang3 said:
Is that site up at this time?
http://www.multiupload.nl/85NE30K2JZ
EDIT: my PC is weird, laptop can do it, so no hassles.
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http://www.multiupload.nl/85NE30K2JZ is up from where i'm sitting

This multiupload link is working for me and already on it's way, so I'll try that.
I just want a reliable phone - thanks for the help guys, I will update if it is bad or not.

wizzbang3 said:
This multiupload link is working for me and already on it's way, so I'll try that.
I just want a reliable phone - thanks for the help guys, I will update if it is bad or not.
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Just be sure to get the XWLP7 kernel so you can root.

victorator said:
Just be sure to get the XWLP7 kernel so you can root.
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Got one you recommend for this file?
http://www.multiupload.nl/85NE30K2JZ

wizzbang3 said:
Got one you recommend for this file?
http://www.multiupload.nl/85NE30K2JZ
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CF-Root-SGS2_XW_XEN_LP7-v5.4-CWM5.zip