yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Sounds like great news to me. From what I could understand from google translate, this guy was somehow able to unlock his 2.3.5 through a 2.3.4 pudding (derpunlock.sbf).

Has anyone tried doing this ?

BTW: Am I the only checking this thread daily to see if there's any hope for us on 2.3.5 ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] npaulseth:
I check it multiple times a day
[Motorola Photon 4G] rrusek:
Originally Posted by nekoatama

One [ 643 ] of the users of 2ch forums of Japan is writing that he succeeded in bootloader unlock by the device of sec_exception.

sec_exception is displayed as well as electrify and the device (KDDI Photon 4G Build 4.5.1A-1_KDI-95_MR1-47 Android 2.3.4) which he unlocked cannot write in sbf

anago.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/smartphone/1324383110/643

I am not good at English.

When those with skilled Japanese are, I want you to read the text by all means.

Sounds like great news to me. From what I could understand from google translate, this guy was somehow able to unlock his 2.3.5 through a 2.3.4 pudding (derpunlock.sbf).

Has anyone tried doing this ?

BTW: Am I the only checking this thread daily to see if there's any hope for us on 2.3.5 ?

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The file seems to be located here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ieyjbvy0oubxby/boot_247.img

Please don't shoot the messenger if you brick your phone...

I suggest that you only try to if you are bricked.. Seems like you will have to fastboot this..
[Motorola Photon 4G] nekoatama:
Though regrettable, there is still no success report of those other than 643.

Furthermore, the users it became impossible to brick and fix have increased in number.

The Japanese Photon user is the feeling which is in a graveyard:(
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
So this file WILL brick your Photon?

What's the problem with fastbooting a file in general?

BTW great to hear others check this as regularly as I do : )
[Motorola Photon 4G] ZeroManArmy:
Okay when you say, "

pre 2.3.5 update

" that means I can flash on my 2.3.4 Photon right? I think someone needs to redo the thread again with more hosts.
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Would anyone with a spare Photon/Electrify dare to try the .img posted above? The wait for an unlocked bootloader is becoming excruciating with every day that goes by.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
All Photon users please abandon this thread as a reference source. Most links are dead, the guide is confusing and the tons of random subject posts make the thread almost unusable.

A complete step by step root-unlock-relock guide, including working links, can be found in the Motorola Photon Compendium. If the guide is followed your chances of screwing something up are very slim.
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
So what about people who are stuck on 2.3.5 either on their Electrifies or Photons? I don't see any other thread aiming to find/provide a solution other than this one.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
My post was to address the issue that Photon daily users should not be flashing 2.3.5 in the first place. There are a number of threads and posts where mopho users didn't read this entire thread, or the compendium, and have flashed 2.3.5 and are now stuck. This should have stopped back in mid-December because shortly after 2.3.5pudding was released a warning was posted in the compendium.

In addition to getting my site up, updating the compendium and working on webtop, I'm STILL wading through all the 2.3.5 screwup threads/posts to try and make a foolproof way to undo the damage. It doesn't help when very few people are listing what phone they have, what files were used and what methods were taken in flashing and attempted recovery. Doing so would cut down on having to read every post just to find out that information.
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
I truly appreciate your dedication, but I still don't see how your're providing a solution (in the compendium or anywhere else) to those who have already flashed 2.3.5.

The majority (if not the entirety) of Photon owners (like myself) who had to flash 2.3.5 did it because they mistakingly flashed 2.3.5 pudding, which prevents you from flashing anything else other than a 2.3.5 sbf. So while I agree that this thread should be avoided by anyone who is trying to unlock their photon or electrify for the first time, it's still the only place where a productive discussion for a plausible solution to people stuck on 2.3.5 is taking place.
[Motorola Photon 4G] treetolber:
I'll try it. I hav tried everything else. But where is it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Here you go : https://rapidshare.com/files/2006370063/boot_247.img
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
I tried it....didn't work. I translated the post with Bing....still confusing as hell. Not sure I even did it write.
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Did it do anything to your phone at all?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Nothing. Like said though wasn't sure how to use it but I adb/fastboot it. Nothing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Cool. At least I know it won't break phones. I'll try to flash it later and see if i can make anything worthwhile come out of it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Correction. I think it broke my wifi. Just getting wifi error now. Everything else is fine. Tried it all to make sure.
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Ok, this was one wild ride.

Admittedly all i got was an error message (failed to process command flash:/system error (0x3003) after flashing the file.I tried both "regular" flash through fastboot and moto-fastboot flash. Both produced the very same error. However, and just to be thorough, I tried pretty much every trick I could think of. I tried flashing a 2.3.4 sbf, nothing. Then I tried derpunk pudding, and that also didn't work. Finally I gave 2.3.5 pudding a shot and while that didn't work either it certainly didn't brick my phone or anything.

So the moral of the story is that in spite of being quite pissed at Mototroll-a (and all my greatfullness and props to you OPMOSH guys out there) one can't deny that the Photon is a pretty tough phone to brick.

By the way, nothing in my phone broke. However the flashing was unsuccessful, so it's likely that had the flashing process been completed I might have ended up with a broken wi-fi.
[Motorola Photon 4G] rrusek:
What error messages did you get?

Just curious..

Where any of them Failed to Boot 1?
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Already edited and explained the error. Basically a "failed to flash" error.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Same for me. Tried just about every way on my electrify. Tried reading more of the post on that forum but even after Google translate and Bing translate it was confusing as hell. So I'm not sure that was for 2.3.5. But then again if I spoke Japanese maybe I could make some sense of it. Oh well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] firtermish:
Maybe we should start a new thread and start over from there, but just to make sure, I'll ask again.

Is any dev whatsoever still working on a bootloader unlock solution (either through sbf downgrade, new pudding or whatever other means necessesary) for people stuck on 2.3.5 ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Might be good idea. Personally I think the2dcour has dropped off the face of the earth. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
So I guess the devs haven't been able to crack the code to have 4G capability with unlocked bootloader?
[Motorola Photon 4G] duongthanhcong:
I can't dowload http://mophoforum.com/Roms/rsdanddrivers.zip

helf me :o
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Download "Root-Unlock-Relock" from my site (click on the pic in my sig).
[Motorola Photon 4G] rrusek:
Make sure you use 7-Zip to extract or you will get an error..
[Motorola Photon 4G] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
If anyone needs a newer/different version of RSDLite, here is RSDLite v5.6 :

Download RSDLite 5.6

As of the end of December, this was the latest version...
[Motorola Photon 4G] pbedard:
Hi do u know why it keeps asking for a sudo passeord trying to use the one button
[Motorola Photon 4G] enzyme:
major screw up here.

I used a cwm recory img file instead of the correct file then flashed it with fastboot. Now its bricked at the dual core screen.

Whats worst is, I can not find the correct system.img file, links are down and I can not find any mirrors. I mustve lost track while looking for the DL then proceeded the process with a completely wrong file.

The only I can think of to try to fix this is get the system.img, and flash it again correctly since I can still go into fastboot mode. but now i can not even obtain it. does anybody have that file laying around? In my panic I did impulsively create my own thread on this =(
[Motorola Photon 4G] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
Exactly which file are you looking for?

I keep EVERYTHING so i'm sure i have what your looking for...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jtreez30:
I need moto-fastboot win link...
[Motorola Photon 4G] enzyme:
Oh it was that system.img used for root. That link is dead and I couldn't find a mirror. but I was able to get back to stock and then just went with the one-touch root route instead.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
The root-unlock-relock.zip has RSD 5.6, shabby's AIO, moto-fastboot, stock recovery.img and CWM recovery. It has everything that is needed root, unlock and relock except for stock SBF's.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cwill0303:
I see the2dcour logged in today for the first time in a long time.... Please say you will be releasing a way to unlock the 2.3.5 bootloader!!! If not, oh well, hope everything is well, but if you were to do that, there would be a TON of happy people!!! :) Myself included of course, lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] tbaybucs:
ok i did this as instructed but when i try to enter adroid recovery i get the white triangle ?

all i have is root for the moment
[Motorola Photon 4G] IBMguy:
I doubt he has done any work on the Electrify/Photon, he has been working more with the Atrix (I think that was where it was) If I had the knowledge on how the process works then I would take a stab at it. SO...if anyone knows what process is done to find an exploit, and make a program to unlock the bootloader then I will pick up where the2dcour left off.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Atticustrd:
Wanted to get CM9 Beta on my wifes Photon but it looks like the links i need to unlock bootloader arent working anymore. Any help? Thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cdrice15:
Everything you need is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1393519
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
help...need stock recovery image.....need to go back to STOCK...sold my photon!!!

link doesn't work in first post

what happens if i just SBF over a unlocked and rooted photon???

plz help ASAP
[Motorola Photon 4G] herach:
What ever you do don't SBF 2.3.5 USC ROM. Here, go to this link and download the ROM that matches your ROM and SBF it. It will lock and Unroot it. Do your research before you do it. You don't want to brick your Photon. I am not responsible if you BRICK your Phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20331570&postcount=3
[Motorola Photon 4G] herach:
Hello all. Is any of the DEVs working on unlocking the 2.3.5 Electrify bootloader? Some of us here are stuck on 2.3.5 Electrify ROM and we are patiently waiting for an Unlocking Bootloader method for it. We really appreciated with all the work that you guys do here. You DEVs really do a great job.

Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
I just used rsd to sbf with stock 198-7

Worked like a charm...4g was workin on first boot...only 1.3megs thou..lame

But not my problem anymore
[Motorola Photon 4G] treetolber:
You must not have flashed the USC 2.3.5 sfb before that.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jlew2:
Firstly whoever was involved in the making of this thank you very much.

Secondly is there a more clear set of directions from start to beggining?

I have rooted my phone, and not installed any recovery yet. I want to unlock it and restore 4g. I'm unclear as to what recovery should / can be used after unlocking and restoring 4g.

Thanks again

-josh
[Motorola Photon 4G] daddymikey1975:
Lokifish or the2dcour, I'm wondering if this unlocker could be ported or used with the razr ?

If you would be so kind as to point me in the right direction I'd be happy to have a look at it or get others involved. I currently have a photon bun in 4 hours I will have a razr , that's why um asking. :)

Thank you both for all your contributions to help make this device what it is.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragonfire353:
Is there no hope for a 2.3.5 unlock ;( I miss the speed of cyanogenmod.... was at least triple the speed of stock...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
Best recourse is to complain to Motorola, but I think thats like shouting at a brick wall as well...

I am tempted to sell my unlocked Electrify for the right price.. lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragonfire353:
Lol thanks but I'm a college student :P lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] daddymikey1975:
you can still unlock, then use CM9.. it was fast as hell when i was using my photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] AKDMA:
He's on an Electrify and no, you can't.
[Motorola Photon 4G] horn34:
I just downloaded that file and extracted it. There is no "system.img" file in there. The closest thing is "stock_recovery.smg". Is that supposed to be it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
Never thought I will write here about helping, but I do it.

I got photon which is not working well with pudding.

1. I can't flash normally 154 firmware. I get stuck on "Switching device to BP pass through mode" and I get black screen in the phone, pulling battery doesn't help somtimes, sometimes helps. I didn't get when it makes sense and phone boots.

2. Same message I get when I flash pudding. Same black screen. However pudding flashes normally, I can unlock bootloader. But I get another ****! When I choose reboot device or shutdown in CWM, in CM7 or CM9, I get black screen of death again. 5-20 battery repulling helps to boot phone again.

3. After flashing stock 198_7, with stock bootloader, I never have troubles with booting phone and there is no death screen on reboot/power off.

4. if I flash no pudding, i have no black screens.

Please help somebody!
[Motorola Photon 4G] scriptx:
Add another to the list of those who hold a photon w/the 2.3.5 US Cellular bootloader flashed onto it. I inherited the device and was surprised at how long this has been an issue. Seems the only possible solutions are to get that 2.3.5 unlocked for downgrade, or perhaps a Sprint 2.3.5 would be allowed to overwrite what's already been flashed.

The bigger bummer is that I formatted /data, and now this damned thing is forcing me to activate, but dials Verizon!
[Motorola Photon 4G] pwgerhardt:
These links are broken...mophoform does not exist. Just incase anyone is trying to use this tutorial.
[Motorola Photon 4G] BAleR:
does anyone have a link to RSD lite?
[Motorola Photon 4G] halfevildruid:
rsdlite here

http://d-h.st/ug07spima1mq
[Motorola Photon 4G] felixlecky:
does anyone have a working link to the 32 bit drivers... my phone is asking for flash MDM6600
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-...tware_and_Drivers/USB-and-PC-Charging-Drivers
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
yeah i was trying to unlock my photon but your right the links are gone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] j91hernandez:
sorry???
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
REALLY!!! I spend the time and money to write the compendium, the guide and host the files and you simply rip it, repack it and upload it! Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] j91hernandez:
took it down... my bad

didn't really think about what i was doin?

any progress on gsm unlock?? anyone?
[Motorola Photon 4G] tk161900:
Keep getting the failed error

I keep getting the failed flashing process error and my phone stays at the motorola boot logo until i do a battery pull. I have tried 3 different times and it all happens. The guide says to continue with the process anyway. Does this mean to boot into fastboot and try to unlock it without succesfully flashing the sbf??

Stock Rooted and Locked Photon 4G

186_6

EDIT: I went ahead and booted into fastboot and unlocked succesfully. It booted into the factory settings and everything is working ok except for my 3G. The icon is just greyed out. I knew this would break 4G but why would I be having 3G problems? Rebooting is not fixing this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] the_dark_knighton:
Does anyone have the pudding stock unlock sbf file?
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragonfire353:
has anyone actually unlocked the bootloader for 2.3.5 electrify yet? T_T
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
This thread was abandon some time ago by the2dcour. All the latest files you need can be found in the !!!LOOK HERE FIRST!!! Motorola Photon Compendium a.k.a. all things MoPho 04/10/12. . I personally host the files and maintain that thread.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jkjambo:
so , there is not way to unlock bootloader for motorola electrify with 2.3.5 ?! :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] haloyd1:
electrify uscc 235 shipped

Pudding does work. I just finished flashing clockwork recevery.READ,READ and read some more. xda and team uscc posts. all files are still avalable.:D
[Motorola Photon 4G] herach:
was yours updated to 2.3.5 or you flashed full .SBF file with the RSDlite?
[Motorola Photon 4G] haloyd1:
My phone came with the 2.3.5 bootloader new. I think you could goto a store with a tech and have them flash the full 2.3.5 and the use the pudding root/unlock process. If you're on USCC use the 235puddingrar. If you have the full and you could do it your self. Or let them do it.:D
[Motorola Photon 4G] herach:
Yeah. That is the problem. If your phone came with the 2.3.5, even if you update from 2.3.4 to 2.3.5 you can unlock but if it was flashed with 2.3.5 through RSDlite you are out of luck. I am in that situation. I have the Sprint Photon 4G and flashed the USC 2.3.5 by mistake and now I am stuck with it and can not unlock.
[Motorola Photon 4G] haloyd1:
Did you use the usc sbf file at the front of this thread? That is what i used. Are you rooted? And vol. down+ power, then hit vol. down, do you have any options.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ninjajtm:
US Cellular SBF?

Wheres the link for the US Cellular SBF file?
[Motorola Photon 4G] haloyd1:
on the first page of this thread. linked at the bottom of the first post. 235pudding.rar
[Motorola Photon 4G] herach:
Yeah. I did. It doesn't work. I keep getting error saying OEMinfo unlock not implemented or something like that. Well, I received my replacement device. I am going to ship the old one back.
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
There are only 2 things I can think of:

1) Your phone isn't in fastboot mode or isn't connected to the PC

2) Your computer isn't recognizing the device for whatever reason (probably drivers)

Install the drivers again, reboot your PC, check the connection of the USB, battery pull your phone for like 2 minutes, reboot it in to fastboot mode (VolDown then VolUp after fastboot option appears).

If this doesn't work I am legitimately stumped.

Double check that your phone is being recognized on the PC.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
run fastboot devices please
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
How do i use sbf_flash since i dnt have rsdlite
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sbf_flash
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
ok now im stumped on the flashing the system.img.....my phone screen says failed to process command CNXN error(0x120000) over and over from top of screen to the bottom...and ive been waiting for it to finish flashing the system.img for probably 10 min now...how long should it take and is it safe to pull the battery and start over?
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
Wait, you did get it to unlock the BL finally?

It _should_ be safe to battery pull. You certainly wont hard brick.
[Motorola Photon 4G] criptix:
What's the difference between the two unlock methods?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
his is bread pudding and mine is pistachio...
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
You mean the huge file and the small file? Nothing, except one is a clean full fresh install and the other is a BL unlock that leaves the rest of your system as it was.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
yes i did get it to unlock the BL FINALLY lmao...i also got it to spot with the error msgs while flashing the system.img...about how long should this take to flash?
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
It should not take too long. I'm glad you got it that far but being able to flash things with fastboot is pretty important, like system.img. Stuff like that and cwm are what you unlocked for in the first place ;)

after using fastboot flash system system.img it should say done after a bit

and then you can type fastboot reboot
[Motorola Photon 4G] criptix:
You mean there's no gellato? Thanks for the quick answer.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
As in 15sec or as in 15 min? what kinda not too long are we talkin about and will i see that its been flashed via the photon screen? cuz the cmd prompt screen still says sending and its been about 4 min...
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
Ohk is it something i gotta do wit the sbf-flash.bin cuz i downloaded and the site just says for the latest)

Linux util for flashing sbf files; sbf_flash

The usage is pretty straight forward, simply connect the phone and run:

chmod +x sbf_flash ./sbf_flash filename.sbf
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
if it says sending leave it alone.

maybe 10 minutes but that still seems long to me.

I'm curious, what finally fixed your fastboot issue?
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
lol pressing the vol up button lmao...and this thing STILL says sending ;\
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
c:\>moto-fastboot flash system system.img

'moto-fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

c:\>cd root

c:\Root>cd..

c:\>cd bootloader

c:\bootloader>cd fastboot

c:\bootloader\fastboot>moto-fastboot flash system system.img

< waiting for device >

sending 'system' (262144 KB)...
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
still says sending...its been over 20 min now...
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
Uhh yeah, something is wrong lol.

It doesnt say anything besides sending like you posted above?
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\conns097>cd c:\root

c:\Root>c:\

'c:\' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

c:\Root>cd..

c:\>moto-fastboot flash system system.img

'moto-fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

c:\>cd root

c:\Root>cd..

c:\>cd bootloader

c:\bootloader>cd fastboot

c:\bootloader\fastboot>moto-fastboot flash system system.img

< waiting for device >

sending 'system' (262144 KB)... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

c:\bootloader\fastboot>cc

thats what it said when i unplugged it...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Success! Thanks guys!
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
reboot and retry, too many links is some error I've not seen before. make sure you have like no extra programs open and running when you try again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
ok idk wtf i did but somehow some way i got it flashed now lmao...weird...
[Motorola Photon 4G] xcharles718:
By any chance you have any other apps on your PC that relies on adb, like EasyTether? Make sure the app is killed.

Sent from my Photon 4G using the XDA App for Android
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
I just want to kno where do i need to put the sbf flash.bin to use sbf flash
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
not sure but i think thats what it was...i didnt close it but its closed now and it worked...so more than likely thats what it was...
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
should be in the same directory as the sbf file you are trying to flash, alternatively you can put it in any directory in your $PATH such as /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin etc.
[Motorola Photon 4G] tim-tim:
lol pudding.sbf is just like sex panther

60 percent of the time it works everytime

and the kicker is once its failed and you have to reset from the motorola dualcore landing screen, you lose root.

will re root and see what is causing the fail.

finally figured out what was going on,

will make instructions soon.