Droid Sector

Many phones nowadays have cameras with 5 megapixels and above. Let’s take a closer look:

Looks like the Nexus One is using sharpening while Galaxy is not. The image from the Milestone is sharp but very noisy.

Now, another test:
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If you’re missing auto-fit functionality in the stock Milestone browser, it’s time to fix it:
http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=1690

Sounds complicated, but you simply need to copy Browser.apk to the /system/app/ dir and set permissions to 644. It can also be done with Root Explorer, if you don’t have ADB installed.

Text auto-fit in action:

Motorola Milestone has been finally rooted by folks from Android-Hilfe.de (English translation).

• Download .zip file and rename it to update.zip.
• Copy file to the SD card (root directory).
• Switch off the phone
• Hold Camera button and Power until / ! \ appears.
• Press Volume Up and Camera button to see a recovery screen.
• Flash update.zip

Download links:

• http://www.android-hilfe.de/data/milestone_root.zip
• http://rapidshare.de/files/49019165/milestone_root.zip
• http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjmmmzmimgl/milestone_root.zip

Just tested it with Market Enabler, it works. Wireless Tether said “No Netfilter”, I guess we need custom ROM now.

After spending a day on forums I’ve found these apps from 2.1:

• Cooliris Photo Gallery
• Music app
• Genie Widget (Weather/News)
• DeskClock

All apps works on the non-rooted Milestone (Android 2.0).

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