yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Medic97:
Been waiting for this all morning. figured if I'm rooted then i should go all the way.
[Motorola Photon 4G] nunyabiziz:
Wow that was quick! Thank you Yay 4 Juggs!
[Motorola Photon 4G] cali90028:
ok rooted my photon last night with the no-dock root lol and now we have this bad boy unlocked awesome work guys so now i want to try to do this so can someone help me unlock it i have no idea what to do im totally lost, should i download the sbf to computer or straight from the phone?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
download to your computer then run rsdlite click on the little button that has ... on them that will bring up file explorer locate the file you just dl'd and extracted...connect your phone in rds mode(with phone powered off press vol up and power) it will say rsd protocol. from there plug in your device and press start in rsd
[Motorola Photon 4G] cali90028:
thanks so much...
[Motorola Photon 4G] nunyabiziz:
Hey Juggs does this process burn a fuse like most other unlocking/SBF process will do?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Flashed with rsd lite went thru prosses. says flash failed. what should i do?
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
How u do this on a mac?
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
Same here I just powered it up then continued with the unlocking
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
need to know what failed and exact error please.
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
Ok, getting ready to do this...

Before I go ahead, one question : I did a nandroid backup with the bootstrap recovery. Can I unlock, root, install ROMracer's CWM recovery and restore that nandroid backup ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ScandaLeX:
Exactly what I'd like to know. I've read every bit of this and it all feels like a windows foreign language.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
same way you do anything windows related on a mac bootstrap
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
yes bootstrap recovery is no longer needed just flash calks romracer version and you're good to go!!! this is why i love this place!!! 2 min after bl is released...we have a custom recovery to go along with it!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikeyinid:
It is very exciting Juggs! Cant wait ro see some aosp goodness on this beast :-)
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
It just said flash failed. no code.

phone booting up now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
I'm ready to go on a short trip out of state, and was all ready to attempt this but those reports of flash failed are giving me pause.

Hopefully those folks will report back again to let us know if it borked their phone or not. before I have to go 'cause I'm the impatient type when it comes to giving the finger to the man (in this case the manufacturers locking their bootloaders).
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
Mine failed but I just booted it up and continued now I am unlocked with the custom recovery all is well
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
Anything that runs through adb shell can. Don't forget to su before you start running the commands.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
I can't su yet because the phone is nit rooted. The commands are for rooting the phone according to that guide.

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
Just fyi, I install an ssh daemon on my phone and use a traditional ssh client from a pc for this type of work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
hc,

Sorry my brain missed that ;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
LOL It's ok bud. So I guess I need to adb in order to root, right?

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
no just follow the instructions from the link i provided "easiest root method"
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
like what?
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
if you need a tester let me know. im in a 4g area and have access to the tools needed
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
like docks...
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
oh i see.

10char
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Ok, so with your tutorial I need adb to push the file to /data/tmp then run the commands with the terminal emulator?

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
that really isnt outlined that well in edgans tutorial i shall ask him
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
you can run them from adb shell
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
1. from your phone's browser dl the photon-torpedo.tar

2. dl and install

A

ndroid

T

erminal

E

mulator from the market

3. open

ATE

and use this command to move the file from your sd card to /data/tmp

mv /mnt/sdcard/Download/photon-torpedo.tar /data/tmp

4. Run cd /data/tmp

5. Run /bin/tar xf /data/tmp/photon-torpedo.tar

6. Run /data/tmp/photon-torpedo.sh

7. Run /data/tmp/install-su.sh

HOPE THIS HELPS!
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
Yay 4 Juggs, I might not remember correctly but I think when I had to do that battery pull after RSD said that the flash of the Pudding SBF failed, and I did boot up to the homescreen, 4G was already lost.

What I mean is that I don't know for sure that it is the unlock moto-fastboot that makes you lose 4G, I think it is the Pudding SBF that does, if that can help in any way.

Again, my memory might fail me, but that might be something to look into. I bet you already checked that, just trying to help in any way I can.
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
Yay i lose root every 2 days i was wondering if this is an issue? Was i suppose to delete .xo lock? Im unlocked with system.img and everything but every two days i check root explorer and it says im not rooted but can boot to recovery manually is there a way to fix
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Juggs, when I run the first command to move the file, I keep getting a cross-device link error.

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
try mv /sdcard/download/photon-torpedo.tar /data/tmp from the $ prompt
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
yeah i have no idea what the deal is with that...you're the first that has reported this issue.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Same error :/

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
i shall look into this further...
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Ok, I was able to move it with the cp command instead of mv. Btw, whats the filesize on that photon-torpedo.tar file?
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Ok, now when I try to run the third command, the one with the xf command, I get an access denied error. I give up. I will just try it with adb once I get home. Thanks for the help guys.

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] tuxytuxy:
run /bin/tar -xf /data/tmp/photon-torpedo.tar or if you are in /data/tmp, just do /bin/tar -xf photon-torpedo.tar
[Motorola Photon 4G] Nerorising:
Okay, just tried this and got this explanation as to why it came up failed: "Secure_Motorola_Flash" could not be found. The superfile is secure and for reflash;the phone needs a superfile that is not secure and not for reflash. (0x7066); phone connec

Not sure what the heck any of that means...this all makes me long for the days of Epic flashing! Any help any of y'all could provide would be most welcomed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
not to be rude but shouldnt troubleshooting problems with root be under another thread...this is confusing me.
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
I mean im still rooted just have to flash or get to recovery manually. And the only way im able to make it work sgain is flash system.img the other methods don't work. Cant speak for dock method since i dont have a dock. The bootsrap error was "permission denied com.a4-recovery /data/tmp. And cwm will say my su binary is outdated but i updated then when i try to update it force closes. Do u think i should just flash cm5?
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Juggs, finally got my phone rooted. Which busybox should I install from the market... Busybox or Busybox Installer?

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
Any word on the kernel source?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
Use installer and install 1.19
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Juggs, I want to personally thank you for your patience and help. I really appreciate it. =) Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Calkulin:
Well finally got around to playing with the sbf's and here's what I know so far, reverting back to the stock locked bootloader is not going to be an option as it checks, boot, system, recovery, etc image signatures before booting, so the hopes of using a modded kernel, recovery, system with the stock locked bootloader are out the window. Now what I want to play with is the original unlocker sbf that came from motorola to see if what kernel, etc versions it came with, so if anyone has it, please send it to me
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
you should already have it
[Motorola Photon 4G] Calkulin:
The only files you changed in the sbf that you posted are the 2 bootloader files(CG42 & CG47), I need the CG59 & probably CG60 to pull wifi/wimax modules from to test. I would prefer the whole sbf as I also want test radio, etc that is on it.

But if that "other" person reuploads it for me, then I will have what I need, I just figure someone else has to have it as the bootloader was pulled from it
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
i thought i gave you the full sbf check pms
[Motorola Photon 4G] Calkulin:
The only one I got was the pudding_stock.sbf
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
go check now!
[Motorola Photon 4G] darren.wlsn1:
wow nice to see ya juggs, i just got a photon free so i may be pming you here for help unlocking if thats ok. never see ya on ppcg anymore.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
yeah i moved over to where the big boys play...too much drama and politics going on over there.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
thanks for taking a look at it. its greatly appreciated
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
BORICUAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! It's awesome to see you around MoPho land, bro. Only good things will come with you helping out. Suerte, hermano!

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kurupt1:
Calk good too see you here, cant wait to get this mopho goin.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cornelious2:
yea looks like most of the old school guys from the mogul/tp days in ppc geeks are all over here on the photon!
[Motorola Photon 4G] unsane:
Im thinking that is a good thing.....atleast everyone hasnt setup camp over at the evo3d forums....
[Motorola Photon 4G] e-motion:
+1

I almost feel like I'm back on Evo 4G. Come on, a few more Evo 3D dissidents like Netarchy and this MoPho will be on fire! :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] halorin:
Sorry if this has been asked and answered already. If I unlock the bootloader using this method, will 4G be permanently messed up?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
as long as the bootloader is unlocked...if you flash back to the stock rom you can get it back
[Motorola Photon 4G] nextlevel_44:
How do I flash back to the stock rom to regain 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
in windows ....

1. download the program RSD_Lite and the stock .sbf (they are both in this forum)

2. connect via usb in debugging/ charge only modes

3. boot into bootloader while holding pwr + volume down

4. press volume down till you see rsd then push vol up

5. open rsdlite and select file and push start
[Motorola Photon 4G] tuxytuxy:
the way you flashed pudding duhhh. If you mean, which file to flash, then check out the MR3 or MR5 in the other threads.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Right now it's a choice between flashing or 4G. If you need 4G AND a custom ROM try the method in my sig. The drawback is every time you want to flash a custom ROM you need to repeat the method. Sorry, it's the only thing I've been able to come up with til someone fixes the Unlocked 4G issue.
[Motorola Photon 4G] halorin:
This is great. I will try this tomorrow. Thank you.
[Motorola Photon 4G] panamakid:
hey question...

i dont have my MSL number yet but have you guys under ##DATA# - WiMax - have you input your username @sprintpcs?

nvm got my msl number n didnt work
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
do you think that moto will just include an unlocked boitloader in an update like the atrix.....
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
no the ota is the exact same thing as provided in the leaked cm5 i provided last week.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
....let me rephrase that.

will the bootloader come delivered in an ota update (eventually.....)

thats what hapened with the atrix.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
cant say for sure but who cares...we have it...and once the source is released we will have unlocked bl with working 4g...
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
How is Motorola when it comes to releasing source codes for their Android phones? This is my first Motorola phone and I have no idea on what their track record is.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
Expect it on Friday
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Awesome!!! I truly believe this phone is the best Sprint currently has for many reasons. Once the source is released, then this MoPho will really get rolling. Can't wait to OC this puppy and really make it scream.

Sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
That's some nice info

Sent from my PHOTON blaster!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Nextelian:
Can everybody that has borked 4G confirm that they are having the same experience?

4G radio comes on

radio finds 4G signal

radio cuts connection

4G radio is shut off

Sprint's 4G goes thru AAA authentication before you are handed off to Clear. It sounds a lot like a problem we had with some air cards that came from the factory without the certificates installed. I wonder if there is some system checksum that needs to be in place for the AAA servers to authenticate the phone?

Just babbling outside the box here.
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
That would be an accurate description of my 4g experience post unlocked. The current consenses is that the fix will involve a custom kernal. One thing to more is that 4G is restored upon flashing the cm5. Would this reinstall these certificates?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Nextelian:
I'm thinking that it restores one of the keys that are required for authentication. If that is the case then there is no amount of phone-side tweaks that will fix it. You'll have to figure out how the authentication is done and work around it. I don't have any first hand knowledge on how authentication is done, otherwise I would offer more help.
[Motorola Photon 4G] schale01:
That does seem to be consistant with the work around that was provided by lokifish in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1227867 However the process also relocks the bootloader after loading your custom rom. This makes it difficult to tell which process solved the issue. From what I haver read in this thread, someone please tell me if I am wrong here, the only way to relock the bootloader is to reflash the stock sbf.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
I'm not so sure about this. We are loosing 4g with an unlock only, the trouble is most likely in the alterations made by moto-fastboot and possibly how it ties into the kernel. I haven't had the chance to look at it in detail but if you ONLY send the unlock command without any other changes to the phone you loose 4G. My question is what gets altered?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Nextelian:
Think of it the same way that removing one sprint app breaks over the air updates. Your phone no longer meets the requirements for authentication. I've seen this exact thing before, and it came down to devices that fail AAA authentication. The fact that the phone sees the 4G network and attempts to log in tells me that the 4G radio on the phone is working fine. Not trying to say you all are never going to fix it, I'm just trying to throw some more ideas out there. I wonder if I still have the email address of the guy that helped troubleshoot the air card issue we had.
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
Not sure that right I interview with Clear to work in there NOC last year and try to pick the guys brain for the network topo

From that interview I got Clear is standalone wimax network (but COLOed with Sprint) so your wireless 4g leg is your phone to Clear then Clear's network backhauls it to Sprint

Logical in Clear sells wimax service independent of Sprint as a dsl replacment for home and business ...and with voip service
[Motorola Photon 4G] Nextelian:
That's probably true, but the logic is that you have to pass thru Sprint's authentication before you are able to utilize Clear's network. If you are a Clear customer your authentication is based on MAC address or something, so they don't have the same authentication structure as Sprint does even though its the same network. I'm using a Sprint 4G desktop modem right now (I had a Clear one before Sprint offered the service). The funny thing was I had to buy a second modem (anybody want a Clear modem?) because the two authentication systems do not talk to each other.

Not to sound like a jackass, but I work in Sprint IT. I want to see this bootloader unlocked as much as anybody :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] soundworkspr:
Do I need a Dock to unlock bootloader ???
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
No you do not
[Motorola Photon 4G] soundworkspr:
thanks a thought i did ...
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
You did initially. Now you don't.
[Motorola Photon 4G] soundworkspr:
Well in the cmd it says waiting for decive but nothing happens and the device connected and in fastboot, but putting the files with RSDlite it failed
[Motorola Photon 4G] smoothone:
Do i have to flash the sbf now that I have updated ota to the latest or can I just proceed to the second step and unlock? If I have the latest ota I would think I can just proceed to unlock?
[Motorola Photon 4G] joetemp75:
Is the kernel source still expected tomorrow?
[Motorola Photon 4G] DssTrainer:
Is it possible to go back to stock while we wait for 4G to be fixed.. At this time I find it more important to have root than unlocked bootloader... and it seems that is possible without unlocking.. The only limitation is the ability to nandroid but I have a backup now anyway.

It also seems that my 3G speeds took a hit with this sbf version.. maybe its in my head

But the unlock screen delay until home loads is definitely not in my head... it was much faster from unlock to home screen in the stock
[Motorola Photon 4G] beartrap:
You can root and install the cwm bootstrap recovery and not be unlocked. The only limitation is you have to be on AC power to boot into recovery.
[Motorola Photon 4G] DssTrainer:
is there an sbf file to go back to stock? Do you flash it with the rdl lite software just like we used to flash the unlocked

Version? I assume it wipes everything including the custom recovery?
[Motorola Photon 4G] beartrap:
The MR5 flash will do it just follow the instructions in the thread. Its an active thread and shouldn't be hard to find, but all I know is it overwrite my bootstrap cwm - don't know about a custom cwm but it shouldn't hurt anything to find out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
There is one to go back to stock, posted at pudding thread. It will wipe nothing. It also may not work with custom recovery for that reason. Please let me know if it does work because that would be great news. It should definitely work if you've rooted to retain root. 1mb download
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
OK...Ive got everything downloaded and getting ready to do this...but my question is on the fastboot part, where you have

do i just cd to where I personally extract the file that I downloaded, or what? Not 100% sure on my fastboot skills. So any DETAILED info would be great!! MUCH APPRECIATED!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
For what its worth, before I knew any different, I used boot strap to flash the Star Wars ROM and borked my phone. I used the SBF to go back to the OTA version and it was just as I took it out of the box and I rdllite. It wiped EVERYTHING, including root and the bootstrap recovery I had.

Just an FYI...
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Went to flash the phone and it told me flashed failed I needed a super-file or something tried to reboot the phone back to the bootloader now it doesn't even give me tht option
[Motorola Photon 4G] the2dcour:
Of course it did, you used a full sbf.
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
I need a little help with this part. Ive downloaded the files and know how to flash with RSDLite...but I dont know how EXACTLY what to do here? Once I download the files, do I have to put them in a specific place? I would LOVE someone if they could give me some detailed info on how to do this. I realllly want unlocked, but am stuck.

I am currently rooted with bootstrap recovery using a P-ROM that kennethpenn put out.

PLEASE HELP!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/photon4g.motorola/files/PHOTON-4G/4.5.1A-1_SUN-154/

somone should be able to fix the 4g now
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
ooooooohhh
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Sweet! This is exciting, wish I new what to do with it. Lol guess I'll leave that up to the devs.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Whaaaat???? Awesome!!!!

Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
working on it and ty btw
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
Yay:

Thanks for your efforts so far. If you need help with scripting while you are source code wrangling leery me know.

I'm not much of a developer/code warrior but scripting is a daily activity.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
So since the source for released today does that mean we will finally have a unlocked bootloader that doesnt have issues? ??
[Motorola Photon 4G] ooxcfhxoo:
you have high hopes....there is issues with just about every piece of software out there.

i have no idea how to write programs/scripts.....i just know how to execute them....

im willing to bet if the developers have stopped commenting on the forums they are hard at work on all sorts of things....to include roms/kernels .....etc
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
It's possible, but also still to be determined.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
I'm more interested on a custom kernel with all the goodies such as UV/OC/Tweaks
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
and you need the unlocked bootloader for these.

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but that's not going to be the first thing out of the gate.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Unlocked bootloaders we already have... Yes, we lose 4G but very few of us have 4G available to begin with... So I don't see why devs can't start working on custom kernels.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
A working bootloader is not going to happen without a modified kernel so with that being said i am currently working on both facets of it at once. Priority is working bootloader then kernel tweaks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Thanks for clearing that up, Y4J...

Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] zikronix:
Waiting to test this B hopefully we can get this fixed now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
Now that the source code is released yesterday, maybe there is a way to fix the broken 4G when unlocking the bootloader. This has been a deal breaker for me which is why I am holding off until something more stable is available.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
.................................
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
You guys are cold....funny as F%&k, but cold....LMAO!! Those were good though:D
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
Can you enlighten me on this? Has there been a fix for 4G on unlocked bootloader on this because the original post still says that 4G will get borked. If that is not true then that statement needs to be removed and is there a post that proves that. Otherwise I stand corrected...haha.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Its still effd
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
If you had read about 4 posts above your original post, you would have read that it is being worked on.

Sent from my unlocked rooted Mopho!
[Motorola Photon 4G] John Kotches:
The source code was released less than a week ago. The developers work on this in their "free" time.

while this project is not cyanogenmod, I think the first rule should apply here:

There is no ETA, so don't ask.

It will take a finite amount of time and could run into problems. It'll be here when it's here.
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
Guys please dont turn this into a CM7 type thread asking for ETAs every 5 seconds if your on the app set it to 50 posts a page and I promise you your life will be better and useless posts will be fewer

Sent from my PHOTON blaster!