Custom Roms for the milestone

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I thought a thread would be nice where you guys can show us your custom roms and where to download it ;).

There are no custom ROMs for the Milestone, because of his locked bootloader. There are some personalized Nandroid backups, but they aren't true custom ROMs.
However, some hackers are working on a kernel module for the Milestone that could load a customized kernel after the original one starts.

But i thougt i read something yesterday about that the bootloader is cracked now.

Originally Posted by Masterchief14

But i thougt i read something yesterday about that the bootloader is cracked now.

Cracking the bootloader would be very hard, the only thing that is currently possible is a kexec attack, thou it's not ready for normal users ; )
Read more here:
http://and-developers.com/motorola_milestone

this is as good as it gets for now.

http://motofunvn.com/forum/?showtopic=60242

pulsar roms. they arent roms, just a script to add and remove apks. but i think most of the mods are now part of 2.1 oficially realeased.

What abaut just replacing /system partition file by file from some 2.2 ROM and see how it works. Though since kernel must not be touched, many things like WIFI tether will not work this way anyway. But in theory, wouldn't this make an almost 2.2 ROM for Milestone? Like all the spedups, louncher, new gmail app and stuff, that is not related to kernel right?

Sense ui for Milestone

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Theres a sense ui rom that i found, looks like that the developer abandoned it, iv tried to port it into my milestone...but im just a novice user...so dont know how to tune the rom...hope some one here can further develop it...

http://forums.zeusdroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25

Originally Posted by CommanderThor

What abaut just replacing /system partition file by file from some 2.2 ROM and see how it works. Though since kernel must not be touched, many things like WIFI tether will not work this way anyway. But in theory, wouldn't this make an almost 2.2 ROM for Milestone? Like all the spedups, louncher, new gmail app and stuff, that is not related to kernel right?

Applications are not the problem, for that you only have to edit few lines in
/system/build.prop

ro.build.version.sdk=8

and probably all references from version 2.1-update1 to 2.2, e.g.:

ro.build.version.release=2.2

Then you should be able to install android 2.2 apps...

As far as the whole system partition is concerned, there might be some dependencies for some libraries that require parts of the new kernel, you are free to try that out... Just don't forget to create a nandroid backup

Also the "new"-jit-speed up is already possible with the 2.1, it's just buggy as hell

Wifi tether might work, for the same reason that android-wifi-tether works with milestone with only su permissions, because the kernel for 2.0 included the necessary module(s) : )

Originally Posted by CommanderThor

What abaut just replacing /system partition file by file from some 2.2 ROM and see how it works. Though since kernel must not be touched, many things like WIFI tether will not work this way anyway. But in theory, wouldn't this make an almost 2.2 ROM for Milestone? Like all the spedups, louncher, new gmail app and stuff, that is not related to kernel right?

Most of the performance related things and Flash stuff etc. are as a result of the new kernel.

The new Gmail app however...