Motorola Milestone Blog

Whats in the 2.1 Update?

Speech to Text , within virtual keyboard
You can now speak in plain English instead of typing, whenever a text-entry box appears on your Android device. Simply press the microphone key on the virtual keyboard and dictate your phrase.

Animated Wallpapers and multiple home screens
This additional wallpaper option enables you to select from a number of wallpapers that can move on your home screen<s>. A selection of animated wallpapers are bundled with the software upgrade – further wallpapers are available on the Android Market.

The number of home screens you can have now also just got bigger – you can choose to have  3, 5, 7, or even 9 home screens – plenty of space for all your widgets and icons.

Facebook App and Widget
A Free Facebook App and Widget is included in this upgrade. The Application enables contact importation including Names, Profile Pics and Status into your phones’ contacts. The Widget can be place on one of your home screens to stream live updates from your Facebook account.

Google Maps Updates
Personalized suggestions: Google Maps on your Android device suggests (autocompletes) locations based on your personal search history on maps.google.com

Sync with desktop: synchronizes starred items between Google Maps on your Android device andmaps.google.com.  Sync and personalized features require a user to be logged in to myGoogle account while on maps.google.com

Multi touch is now also enabled within Google Maps.

Other Enhancements
Help:  A new Help Center app is included that provides mobile access to your user guide, video tours of key features, tips and tricks, and FAQs to help you get the most from your device.

Bluetooth support : support for Bluetooth headset multi function for initiating voice calls
Security: Prevents unauthorized pattern lock bypass, allows for PIN security and local device wipe following PIN error input
Music Player : Album art 3D gallery view supported in landscape orientation
Battery life: ongoing battery life optimization
Email account removal: Improvements to manual removal of email accounts

Milestone 2.1 Firmware released in Hong Kong

The following post and photo appeared on Motorola’s Facebook page showing the roll out of the 2.1 firmware upgrade has begun, this is for users in Hong Kong, how long must the Euro crowd wait before they can get their hands on the update?

So the Hong Kong version is available, but as ever we would recommend you waiting your specific country/operator version update of Milestone for best results. Whilst we cannot provide the specific dates of each of these, hopefully this initial release demonstrates that Milestone 2.1 upgrade iis a reality and the updates are starting to roll….please be patient, we think the update will be enjoyed by many….

Carphone Warehouse now stocking Motorola Milestone

Carphone Warehouse are now offering the Milestone in store on various contracts  http://bit.ly/aLPWuR
If you are contemplating buying a Milestone and want to have a look at one before you buy then a quick trip to you local Carphone Warehouse will allow you such a pleasure.

Gmail Account stopped syncing

After having my Milestone for only 2 weeks, my Gmail account today stopped automatically syncing with my phone.  I could go into the mail application and do a manual sync, this worked fine, but the push feature wasn’t working.  After much trawling around the web I found I’m not the only person to suffer this problem.  For others who may experience this problem here is a list of things I found that may make things start to work for you.  I’m still not convinced that these are permanent fixes merely workarounds which may need to be repeated in order to get the functionality back.

Go into the phone settings from the home screen
Goto applications then manage applications
Press the phones menu button and select the filters option
Change it to display all
You should be able to see gmail and gmail storage in the manage list
In each application clear the cache and data
This should clear the temporary data from the gmail app allowing it to get a fresh clean sync

This has so far worked for me, from my reading this is only temporary and may need to be repeated if it stops working again.

You could if you wanted perform a full factory rest of the phone and see if this makes a difference with the sync issue.

HOME > SETTINGS > PRIVACY > FACTORY DATA RESET
Follow the prompts
Place your shortcuts and widgets back on your desktops
Open market application and select downloads tab this will enable you to reinstall all of your downloaded applications

Let me know what you think and if you find any better solutions to fix the problem

UPDATE (NOW WORKING)

So the above didn’t work for me, I decided to wipe my phone and start again as detailed above.  Not as painful as it sounds. Google has all my contacts and all your downloads from the market place are in your download tab, took me about 20 mins in total to set the phone back up. So far so good…
Disappointingly the Gmail sync issue was still there, so I decided to have a further look at the problem, I seem to have fixed the issue by

GMAIL > SETTINGS > LABELS
For each label set the number of days to sync to the required amount, this should now sync all mail.

Seems the Inbox sync isn’t working for some reason but if i set all of my labels I’m now having my Gmail synced without having to go into the application and do it manually.

Let me know if it works for you!

Hidden Menu in Milestone

I cant claim to be the person who discovered this, or even remeber the source but if you type *#*#4636#*#* into your phones dialler you will be taken to a hidden menu which you wont find anywhere else on the Milestone.  It has a lot of sub-menus showing a wealth of phone information which you may find interesting.

If you have any tips or trick you would like to share why not email them to tips@motomilestone.co.uk so we can share them with the world?

Milestone 2.0.1 Change Log

Updates from 2.0 to 2.0.1

Change log fixes

* OS stability is improved
* Battery life is improved
* Camera auto focus functionality is improved, and time between shots is reduced
* Enhancements for three-way calling
* Audio for incoming calls improved
* When receiving a call on call waiting, the speakerphone now remains on
* Bluetooth functionality is improved; background echo is eliminated
* Improved Bluetooth phone book transfer of contacts to in-vehicle Bluetooth solutions
* After closing a GPS application, the GPS icon will now automatically be removed from the notification panel
* Users can now receive SMS and MMS messages after an EMS message is received
* SMS and MMS may now be sent to seven-digit addresses
* Google contact merging has been updated to accommodate seven-digit numbers
* Visual Voice Mail notices now arrive instantaneously
* The corporate calendar widgets user interface is updated

Milestone UK 2.0.1 Update available

Motorola Milestone UK 2.0.1 update available for download using http://bit.ly/cayOYJ only. No OTA at moment, you need to download the Motorola Software Update Utility and flash via a PC, use the link to get the software.  Watch this space for further developments.

motomilestone is live!

Well we had some trouble with the site, and lost the initial set-up, all looks to be working now, so stick with us!