(Obiouvsly) I am a Motorola Milestone owner (I friendly hate touchscreen keyboards) and during this summer holidays I spent a little time to find how to have my smartphone updated to Android 2.2, aka Froyo. Motorola haven’t released an official update yet but I can’t wait …here is a solution (follow these steps at your own risk!) [UPDATED 14-10-2010]:
- wipe your phone/factory reset (always have a backup…);
Download OpenRecovery from here (latest version is 1.04a);UPDATE: download new open recovery here: androidiani-openrecovery, copy the contents of the zip into the root of the sd card;- Download the custom 2.2 Rom,
MotoFrenzy, from here (by now is the version 0.52 and the only issue is a focus disfunction of the camera),CyanogenMod 6 for Milestone from here (here it is the official thread on modmymobile, here the official page from the developer nadlabak), and copy the zip into: sd card/openrecovery/updates/ - Start OpenRecovery: reboot in recovery mode (shutdown the phone, press camera button + stanby button, when a triangle appear press volume up + camera button), now select “apply update.zip” and you are in OpenRecovery menu;
- Install the rom from OpenRecovery menu->nandroid->restore image->motofrenzy (or the name of the directory you copied the rom files of point 3); use OpenRecovery Apply Update menu to install the custom ROM;
- Done! …Enjoy flash (download the flash player from the market), app to sd, jit, etc! Now with working camera and better battery life!