yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
I am out for the evening can someone contact the2dcour annd ask him to pull the wimax radio from cm5 and have someone flash it in fastboot to fix 4g loss
[Motorola Photon 4G] fixxxer2008:
congrats guys.
[Motorola Photon 4G] tuxytuxy:
Thanks for this awesomeness! :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
Whoo, Okay. So it sounds like I'm going to have to flash another system file. I really need to get all this terminology down.
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
Did you use rds to flash it or did you flash the one in recovery?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
rsd, but it relocks and everything. i just unlocked again with just the bootloader, saved a ton of time and no fastboot unlocking
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
how again with the bootloader??
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
oops, i hit thanks instead of quote. its the same as flashing Yays sbf. exactly the same, just faster. open rsd, select the right sbf and flash. your unlocked.
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
cool and thanks for the thanks button accident. I hit it for you on purpose
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
bmbmbmbmbbm
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
there isnt one on this phone, as far as i know
[Motorola Photon 4G] RickNY1971:
After unlocking, can I safely restore the entire nandroid backup I made under my rooted MR5 install with the bootstrap recovery? Also, will restoring that nandroid backup put back the bootstrap recovery? The reason I ask is because I'd rather flash the ROMRacer recovery and not have the bootstrap one at all.

Thanks,

Rick
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
Its not the system.img. as soon as i unlock again, no 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] roadster92:
I was just out testing my 4G to make sure that is not Sprint network issue. I went to a couple of area where I used to get the strongest 4G signal (full bar), but I was not able to connect. It does see 4G and connect but disconnect immediately and kept on doing so without sucessfully connect to Sprint Network.

No, I did not flash the system image. I just re-root the device using photon-torpedo.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Anyone not rooted experiencing 4G problems?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Yes, we don't have 4g where I live. Lol sorry, I know that's not what you meant.

Sent from my unlocked rooted Mopho!
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
lol you don't count....since you're rooted :p

I lost 3G signal to for a bit till I toggled 4G

Woah wait no 4G in Akron or just your area?
[Motorola Photon 4G] YBCold:
Can anyone enlighten me on a few things before I dove into this.

1. If I unlock my phone will it still receive updates? (I really want them to fix the silent Call issue)

2. Is there a way to return the phone to full stock setup should I return it before my 30 days.

thanks again!
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Akron, I have to go north about 30mi. To get it. I lost 3g at first too, but all good now.

Sent from my unlocked rooted Mopho!
[Motorola Photon 4G] EvoRocker:
grats on the awesome accomplishment! :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
those that lost 4G

what about prl/profile updates or ##786# data reset reactivation
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
that work for you? tried updating no go
[Motorola Photon 4G] RickNY1971:
OK.. I answered my own question.

This is what I did:

1) Originally made a bootstrap nandroid backup to my external SD card of my rooted MR5 installation

2) Performed the unlock steps above

3) Didn't even reboot when the unlock was complete

4) Flashed the ROM Racer Recovery.img

5) Removed battery, reinserted - Rebooted into recovery with Vol Down/Power - Android Recovery

6) Chose 'Backup & Restore', and then 'Advanced Restore'

7) Did NOT restore 'boot', but restored System & Data.

8) Rebooted device

9) Uninstalled 'System Recovery' (Bootstrap Recovery)

10) Everything seems to be working fine, phone is unlocked, I have root.

11) Made a new nandroid backup so that it has the new boot.img

As for the folks questioning 4G -- I wish I could test this, but I have no 4G in my area. What happens if you try re-provisioning your device by doing ##(YourMSL)#, changing your MIN to 0000000000 and letting the phone go through hands-free activation again?

Rick
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
So 2 questions here. Is a video going to be made on this(unlocking the bootloader)? And is the 4G issue due to the unlocking?

I know its too early to tell but there are quite a few people that want to learn here and this is going to disway many people from taking the leap here. I as well as many others have good experience with unlocking and flashing but this seems to be a bit different than what we have come to use.

It would be much appreciated to see Juggs or anyone that assisted comment on these issues rather than assumptions or misinformation. Thanks in advance and great work to all that contributed here!

Edit: On a note to the 4G issue...does this have anything to do with loss of RSA Keys due to this process? Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Medic97:
My 4g worked great until i flashed all this so it sounds wired to assume towers are down in different citys on the same time. In in NYC and its raining here but can't see why that would make a different.

updating PRL/Profile does noting to fix issue.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
its def not towers. i can fix it and break it just locking and unlocking. Mine just scans endlessly
[Motorola Photon 4G] e240:
i am now unlocked and rooted!! thanks so much..cant wait for cm7!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bandage:
Hey Juggs...was the build prop altered? Noticing some things missing from market that I'd previously purchased.

I took a peek real quick, noticed ro.product.name=moto_sunfire after sys.img flash. Was it listed as such previously? (I hadn't even looked at prop until now)

EDIT: Just looked in system dump .prop....same descriptors. Hmmm
[Motorola Photon 4G] enigmatl:
Hey early EVO users, it's deja vu all over again! This is bringing back bad memories of the first automatic EVO root (not the early command line one I don't think but the one right after). I guess it is safe to assume now that for as long as we are using Wimax, it is easy to break, mac address or something gets lost? I think for all future phones, until people start posting that 4g works, I'll hold off. I was just about to start unlocking when I noticed the 4g messages. I'm glad for those that used recovery that they can at least revert But I think I'll hold off for a while til this is sorted out. Devs, thank you very much for your work. Please, if you would, post anything you learn or change about this 4g issue on your front page including the current status so that new antsy owners ready to do it at the first opportunity may have a heads up. Regardless though, thanks a ton for what you have done. It is amazing work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
luckily, unlike the evo, this is not permanent. i got mine working very easily.
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
I guess the real question is what the process used by mikeyinid to "re-lock" the phone restored that the unlock process removed. Not really sure if RSA keys would fall into that category.

Has anyone tried doing a Data Restore (##72786#)? I don't have my MSL right now but I can give this a shot first thing in the morning.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
re-lock=sbf'ing CM5 from HERE

like i said, its very easy to get 4g working again...
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
so you are unlocked rooted and 4G going?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Medic97:
Does it matter that my baseband is n_01.28.03R?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Whosdaman:
Has anyone tried flashing mr5 to see if it fixes the 4g?

Nvm
[Motorola Photon 4G] alex2792:
No,if you flash the CM5 sbf the bootloader will re-lock.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Ask WDM...he may know lol :p

No 4G bothers me but kinda doesn't at work I get very poor 3G/4G anyways
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
Has anyone had issues connecting to 4g after flashing system.img file
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
read the last 3 or 4 pages of this thread...
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
So just to be sure I read the first post right...Juggs says you need to reroot by using the root methods "OR" by flashing the .img So if you just reroot and not flash, this shouldn't break 4G....would this be a possible solution until the issue is resolved?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
If you unlock your bootloader, 4G will be broken. Even if you dont flash the system.img
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
I made it to my destination and can confirm that 4G was lost after I unlocked right before leaving (I have a Sprint/Wimax tower almost in my backyard so 4G and 3G are full bars at my house)...

I haven't tried to restore 4G yet but I guess this is going to be a catch-22 : if we want 4G we will have to unlock again with a corrected (hopefully) unlock method but then we won't be able to nandroid restore since that nandroid backup done after the borked-4G unlock will probably bork the 4G again. At least we should be able to use Titanium for all the apps.

Here's a question : since the current unlocking SBF seems to keep the ROM I was on, couldn't a full SBF with unlocking and ROM as well as recovery be created ? Of course, that one would also have the 4G issue resolved.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Finishure:
Ive unlocked my xoom but this seems to look a little trickier is anyone willing to put up a video im sure im not the only one who would find this useful
[Motorola Photon 4G] Whosdaman:
Can't we just flash the radio?
[Motorola Photon 4G] krazeekirk:
fOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS AND I HAVE A UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER..NOW BEEN READING ABOUT 4G ISSUES AND MAN AM I MAD SAME THING HAPPENED TO MY PHONE ANY LUCK GETTING IT WORKING ? THANKS
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
Be glad all it takes to get 4G back is to flash the CM5 SBF and re-root with the original methods apparently. Thankfully we're not in the same boat I almost got myself into with Unrevoked on Evo 4G when they lost the 4G for good...
[Motorola Photon 4G] alex2792:
I got my msl and tried changing wimax settings but nothing worked. I think it might be a bad radio flash issue,because the mac address appears to be in tact.
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
Im not sure if I can post this so mod's please pull if I can't ...but I find this video on "How to Unlock the Bootloader on Motorola ATRIX 4G" very useful in getting your head around the

Moto

ways and tools for Unlock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02N4p9vEg0

I know it a diffrent phone but it does give you a feel

Also watch Motorola ATRIX (How To Use RSD-Lite)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu90DEC0Mxg&feature=relmfu

and ANDROID SDK Tools (How-To Install)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6K1XLmafPc&feature=relmfu
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
At this point I'm just asking myself why I wanted the unlocked bootloader so bad since there's no kernels yet...

I think I might just try to nandroid restore but I seem to remember someone posting they couldn't restore the backup made on Bootstrap recovery in ROMracer's recovery. Anyone knows for sure ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] richmc73:
Love how fast the thread on this got locked over at Moto. LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
That is like taking a crap in someone's corn flakes, and a good way for us to lose any kind of warranty at the carrier level faster than speed of light. Dumb move to start a thread there IMO.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Same, I think 4g is broken with the unlock somehow. How about other peeps?
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
Yea...theres an investigation going on for that right now. we have one guy that did his with a mac that claims his still works. Im in a test 4g city so my 4g may not even be on. but im going to see if I can pick it up today. if not im going to relock (which fixes 4g) and reroot using my mac and his instructions.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
ok guys i am back and i apologize as this was one of those unforeseen circumstances that i will be working on til it's fixed!!! my first method of attack was told last night but i am not sure why no one took my advice...I want to extract the radio images from the cm5 and flash those over top of the unlocked.sbf but have not figured out which of the smg's in the sbf are for the radios...another problem i have is i am not in a 4g coverage area so i will need someone to test this method who is in a solid 4g area...
[Motorola Photon 4G] alex2792:
I get good 4g at my house so I can try it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
The test 4g is operating in my city. And much like others it tries to connect but no dice. Ill relock and try the mac rooting method tonight. Unless of course you figure it out later.
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
+ 1 on the 4g issues.

Sadly, I have 4g at the office, but none of my tools to do any work. At home I have all the tools but no 4g.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
I got 4g at work and the tools. just no 4g at home. So Im willing to test, if need be
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
Ill test for you..I am 4g city...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
ok i am currently uploading a radioonly.sbf hopefully you guys will be able to flash it and it will fix 4g and not lose unlock
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
cool cant wait to test it..
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
ive been f5'n this b for like 20 minutes. lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
ok radio only upload is done...it should fail within rsd because you're currently unlocked it will say this phone needs a superfile that is unsecure....just unplug reboot and test 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
downloading now to test flashed and still no 4g service
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
no go here either not connecting
[Motorola Photon 4G] naps79:
rebooting now.

No joy, no 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
did any of your radio versions change?
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
where do i find the radio version at and ill check..Sorry if its a noob question
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
nope still n_01.28.05s.fk
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
menu...settings...about phone...will be listed as baseband
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
No still the same too...
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
im going to just try to relock using fast boot and see if that restores 4g.

right now im doing a nand
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
If you relock your phone it does restore the 4g service..I already tested that out..
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
relocking by just issuing the command or relocking by flashing using the sbf?
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
I relocked by sbf..i cant get it to relock by fastboot
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
ok well im going to try to relock it...and see what happens if not im going to sbf and use my linux box to redo it and see what happens
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
for those testing are you updating profile and prl after reboot?
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
no ill try that now
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
updated both and rebooted still nogo
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
Same here updated everything twice and still no 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
I got 9 minutes left for this sbf to finish downloading. then ill sbf and do the whole thing via linux and we will se what happens. The theory is that rsd sucks. The guy who did it on the mac had no problems with his 4g supposedly.
[Motorola Photon 4G] rrmzr1:
For those who unlocked the boot loader. I didn't read too far back. But did anyone call sprint to have their phone reprovisioned after unlocking to see if the 4g would work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] alex2792:
I reset my data with msl code and that didn't work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
preparing to do the linux unlock.

EDIT:

ok after the linux unlock i tested 4g right away...broken

so now im going to sbf stock using sbf flash and then re unlock using the full hacked file
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
I`ll be available for testing later in the evening. Currently running unlocked & rooted with borked 4G. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread throughout the day and will help as much as possible.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
well that was a big waste of time
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
Did ypu use the 1mb bootloader to do the linux unlock our the full sbf?
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
I used the 1MB the first time, as soon as I flashed and rebooted. 4g didnt work

go back to stock it works fine.

Id like to see the stock boot loader so we can just flash back and forth. And now the one person that said it worked just admitted it didnt work. ASS
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
I hope they can figure out how to get the 4g to work soon
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
Wow. Never saw that coming. Reading his posts made me feel like fixxxer started a new account and was trolling us :/
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
yea...but i was like well maybe.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bandage:
Understandably, the 4G issue is more important...and should be our focus. Just wondering if anyone has pondered this prior post?
[Motorola Photon 4G] pesto242:
I am currently running unlocked + rooted with no 4g and can assist in testing.

I get 4g throughout the city. I would not consider myself a hacker, but as an EE can handle myself and have been rooting + Cyan for about 1 year now with other phones.

Let me know if I can help.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
Intresting...I think I just figured this 4g thing out. Its going to take me at least 30 minutes though to put eveything together to see if my theory is correct.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Medic97:
Waiting patiently to hear how.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
I apologize i thought i answerd this one nothing was changed and my previous market purchases show up
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
I have to rsd my phone back to complete stock...that process is going on right now. Which takes for f'n ever
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bandage:
Odd...most everything shows for me, cept a few skins for Audio Manager. I'll shoot the creator a note, see what he comes up with. Strange that it changed my device compatibility for that in particular.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Medic97:
funny now that you mention it my app that i purchased also went away doesn't even show up. i cleared data and still nothing. Its no big deal for me since i didn't really use it anymore anyways.
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
Stupit question...

I see on the "Root Photon Torpedo, dockless root access" thread that people report 4g broken after rooting this way ...and also people report after unlocking also that 4g is broken

I have not unlocked....but I have rooted via the the first dock method and 4g works fine for me...

So the stupit question is... is the broken 4g after unlocking really because of how people are rooting after unlocking the bootloader or even how they rooted before unlocking the bootloader ? ....

Have any of the unlocked just reset and rooted via the the first dock method then tested 4g?
[Motorola Photon 4G] alex2792:
Rooting doesn't mess with 4g,only unlocking.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Medic97:
PLEASE DONT SAY THAT...

I just came back from the sprint store and returned my dock...
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
Thats actually what im testing now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
I would agree but broken 4G is what now being reported on the "Photon Torpedo, dockless root access" thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1216131
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
there is somthing going on here. because when i went back to stock 100% 4g worked. unlocked and left system alone 4g worked. rooted via torpedo failed 4g didnt work, un rooted 4g didnt work

back to stock 4g worked....idk

my battery is shot so I cant sbf right now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
someone pissed of Motorola.......
[Motorola Photon 4G] beartrap:
This is how I rooted and my 4g works fine. I'm not unlocked yet waiting for a simpler method that doesn't break anything.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
That there was funny.....:D

I am sooooo glad all I have done is root so far...lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
So i took a drive to the only spot in my area with 4g and i am able to scan snd it tries to connect...sits there a bit then just disconnects
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
Outstanding! this does seem to support the bootloader unlocking

not

being the issue breaking 4g but the way you root after ... and there are other way to root that do not seem to effect/break 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
im not done tesing yet :) i got some other stuff im looking a
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
Yeah that was the behavior for me at my house : scanning, tries to connect, disconnects, scanning, rinse and repeat ad vitam eternam.

I'm not in a 4G area right now but when I get home in a few days, like I said before, I have a Sprint/Wimax/3G tower almost right in my backyard, so full bars on both. If it doesn't connect at my house, it won't connect anywhere ;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
I lost 4g after unlocking the phone..
[Motorola Photon 4G] ScandaLeX:
Not to long ago, I turned my phone off/on- then for the hell of it, I wanted to see if 4G would turn on, and it did. I went outside to where I could get a good signal and it was working flawlessly.

I don't know if rebooting the phone had anything to do with it and honestly, I don't recall rebooting after rooting last night.

I wasn't able to install any screen capture apps. All those for *rooted* phones didn't work and I couldn't stay outside too long. Have a 2 yr old inside asleep who quietly wakes up & gets into ish.
[Motorola Photon 4G] brobin111:
I did the torpedo root (USB) and Speedtest reports 1.17 Mbps on 3G and 3.2 to 3.8 Mbps on several 4G tests. I don't know what the 4G speed was before the root but there is a difference. My wife's Epic 4G shows 4.1 Mbps.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
but what did you flash...that is the question
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
i tried this one derpunlock.sbf broke my 4g and i tried pudding_stock_unlock.sbf

it broke my 4g..
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Just started reading, I am always in strong 4g area. Let me know
[Motorola Photon 4G] nao2003:
Let me know. If you need anything tested ill be glad to test for you
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
ok that was a fluke...its broken again. it connected once....after unlock...afer that no dice
[Motorola Photon 4G] ScandaLeX:
After my last post, I've turned 4G on & off several times. It's still working. Single is nice & strong just as long as I'm outside. 4G indoors is the pits.
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
The million dollar question is : did you unlock ?

I never had a problem with just rooting and 4G before unlocking, even though I admit, I only used the "dock required" root twice.

I do remember 4G not connecting right after flashing pudding SBF/failed flash and reboot to the home screens. I can't draw any conclusion though because 4G takes a while to connect and I probably did shut down the phone at that point after a minute or a bit less so I could use moto-fastboot...
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
Ok question

..do you have wifi off while trying 4g?

Because 4g does not connect if you have wifi on...on my phone get a waring to turn off wifi if i try to connect to g4...and 4g willnot connect till i do
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
been there done that
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
Ok things ive tried for 4g

Reflashing unlocked bootloader...no dice

relocking(sbf)....works

doing all this in linux....no dice

unrooting...no dice

some things I have noticed. I think this is a permissions or cert problem.

/etc/wimax has intresting stuff that changes after you unlock

can some one who has 4g working pull the permissions of the files they see in there and the dates?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
Here you go...

certs Owner RWE

Group RE

Others RE

macxvi Owner RW

Group R

Others R

macxvi350 Owner RW

Group R

Others R

mfg Owner RWE

Group RE

Others RE

RemoteProxy Owner RE

Group R

Others R

wimax_oma_dm.db Owner RW

Group R

Others R

wimaxd.conf Owner RW

Group R

Others R

all dated 09aug11
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
what about inside the folders
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
all files in certs

O RW

G R

Others R

in mfg

macxvi.cfg

O RW

G R

Others R

macxvi350.bin

Owner, Group and Others are all RWE