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[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
Im in on it too
[Motorola Photon 4G] yungwunn911:
$20.

I'd add more, but I'm only a student.
[Motorola Photon 4G] rooder:
i'm in for 20!
[Motorola Photon 4G] kkwus74:
I'm in for $20 too...
[Motorola Photon 4G] mindcanal:
Im on for 20
[Motorola Photon 4G] distantneighbor:
after getting the sim cards working, would that not mean you would have to sign up with AT&T or (gulp) T-Mobile?

ugghhh no thanks if that is the case
[Motorola Photon 4G] iSaint:
Pre-Paid probably ....
[Motorola Photon 4G] unsane:
well for me I have T-Mo corporate phones for work. I do not enjoy carrying 2 phones all day. So for me being able to pop in my sim from the work phone and just switch networks to place busines calls......idk...i loved this feature on the tp2......
[Motorola Photon 4G] shanghei:
Im with ATT and I want this phone badly, its everything the atrix should have been.
[Motorola Photon 4G] farookh:
Can someone Freeze SprintOmaDm in Titanium Backup and see what happens
[Motorola Photon 4G] Radical-J:
I stand corrected
[Motorola Photon 4G] yungwunn911:
would this allow for roaming on gsm towers via sprint service
[Motorola Photon 4G] myphone12345:
For voice calls that's fine, however, be aware that the Photon does not support T-Mobile's 3G/4G (only AT&T's).

No, since Sprint doesn't have roaming agreements with the GSM carriers in the US.
[Motorola Photon 4G] myphone12345:
You would have to sign up with them or get a prepaid SIM. Though as I mentioned above, if you're looking for data, T-Mobile is not a good option for the Photon since it doesn't support T-Mobile's 3G/4G band. Should work fine on AT&T though (voice and data).
[Motorola Photon 4G] myphone12345:
As per two messages above, since SIMple Mobile operates on T-Mobile's network, you won't be able to use 3G/4G data.
[Motorola Photon 4G] criptix:
Simple mobile 2gb then throttled at 59kbs

Ill throw 15 in
[Motorola Photon 4G] wintrxtrem:
Put me down for $25. Cheers-
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
What is the progress with figuring this out?

Sent From NS4G, E4GT, and Mopho all running CM9
[Motorola Photon 4G] AkumaX:
You need to look for phones that support 3G 1700MHz AND 2100MHz (AWS). T-Mobile uses both those bands simultaneously for their 3G/4G to work. If you find a phone that ONLY has 1700MHz, then it wont work.

This phone has 850, 1900, 2100 MHz for their 3G, so it will work w/ AT&T , but not T-Mobile (if this phone ever gets unlocked)
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
What is the progress for unlocking the mopho to work with att?

Sent From NS4G, E4GT, and Mopho all running CM9
[Motorola Photon 4G] chagla:
interesting. this trick has been done by TBH for verizon motorola droid pro, and droid 3. if it can be done on verizon phones, i think sprint phones can be done too.

anyways, willing to donate $10 for this hack.

lets hope someone comes up with a solution. it would be nice to use photon as a gsm phone. :o
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
Count me in for $40
[Motorola Photon 4G] halfevildruid:
GSM in now unlocked on the Photon! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
This unlock was not done by one person, but me and Non¢s were both a big part, don't know if anyone is going to give out anything for the bounty, just putting that out there.
[Motorola Photon 4G] halfevildruid:
I updated the OP on the how to thread for donations to Lightsword and waiting for Non¢s to add a link.... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26338444#post26338444
[Motorola Photon 4G] rbeavers:
"Put me down for $20 But it will be two years be for I will need it."

Paid !!!

10.00 to Lightswords1942

10.00 to halfevildruid

and Thanks to

Nonca and rhgart09.
[Motorola Photon 4G] duplissi:
Going to do the same on pay day next week
[Motorola Photon 4G] myphone12345:
Even if the Photon's GSM radio restrictions are circumvented, you'll never get more than EDGE speeds on it with Simple Mobile using the Photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] shanghei:
lets say it does get circumvented, would you get hsupa on att?
[Motorola Photon 4G] unsane:
The data portion really doesnt matter that much to me......in my area ALL carriers data pretty much is worthless....The only thing I didnt like about the way the TP2 handled it was the switching between radios.....you couldnt have both running at the same time, therefor you had to go into settings and switch between cdma/gsm and then select what carrier you wanted after the phone scanned the airwaves for an available list.....looking at the photons settings it appears to me that the photon would accept any network at anytime....>settings>wireless&network>mobile networks>network mode......it says automatic......I hope that a talented Dev will accept this challenge I personally think it could be done, but then again I know nothing about how android is coded and how the hardware specifically the gsm radios are restricted from US networks......but if they can unlock the bootloader for the photon im sure they can unlock the US gsm frequencies....I think the only problem here is that this phone isnt the "popular one" and all the devs are swarming around the Evo 3d which IMO is a hunk of Sh^t......I had it and returned it for this.......the photon seems to be about twice the phone as the evo3d......to me anyway......I guess the first step here would be to find out if this unlock is even possible.....DEVS looks like we have a couple hundred bucks here and I am sure more to follow should work start on this.......We need a taker!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] myphone12345:
Yes, you'd get HSPA+ on it but only with AT&T. With T-Mobile (or any of their MVNOs, e.g. Simple Mobile, Wal-Mart Mobile, etc.) you'd only get EDGE or GPRS speeds.
[Motorola Photon 4G] abedrn:
Count me in for $10, $20 if your able to unlock before the end of August.
[Motorola Photon 4G] unsane:
Ive contacted cmonex & olipro through PM no response yet. They did the original unlock of the gsm radios for the TP2. Not sure if they are even doing android or Motorola for that matter.....
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
Well belive it or not I do belive you could be on a gsm network and still use your wimax 4G if it in your area....

The Clear wimax 4G is independent of the CDMA/3g network....

test (i did) by setting your phone to gsm only...you will have no service no data...

now turn on wimax 4G, if in your area you will have 4G data even with still no voice service

having set up a few stanalone Clear wimax modems as a dsl replacement I would not be suprise if Clear would sell you wimax network access for the phone (it just a wimax modem) even if you had no sprint account...

So get the Photon GSM working in the US and you could have a cheap prepaid gsm sim for basic voice and but still have wimax 4G...

and get voip account and wimax account and you could have your voice service with no GSM or CDMA cell service on the phone...

==============================================

Any one try this yet? want to use my google voice number on the phone with out using my sprint min on even having sprint service on

Free WIFI / VOIP calls using your Android device by a free hosted SIP server.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS50Fld3y8w

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Fyi just did it....

this does work on the Photon with the stock rom

...but it a little buggy would say force close even when the call went ...but my google voice number (free calls out and ring in) on the phone via wifi ... no sprint service on no sprint min used.... now to get working over 4g....
[Motorola Photon 4G] arozer:
Isn't the app Roam Control what you're searching for?

Sorry if not. I'm a noob just trying to help.
[Motorola Photon 4G] my2cents:
Not really.

Roam control forces the phone to roam to Verizon. Sprint phones will normally roam to Verizon when sprint service is not available. Both of these networks use a standard called CDMA.

This bounty is to get the phone to work on ATT or Tmobile. These networks use a standard called GSM. If someone could unlock/hack the GSM radio for US networks then this phone could possibly work on all four of the major networks - assuming the phone had the Roam Control app and a GMS sim card with service from ATT or Tmobile.

At present day the GMS radio is only programed to work on international networks which largely use the GMS standard.
[Motorola Photon 4G] tbhausen:
I use GrooVe IP for this and it works fantastically.
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
Works on your MoPho with the stock rom no issues?

funny but the more I use this phone my gut tells me of the 3 new sprint 4g phones, the HTC evo3d, Photon, and samsung galaxy s2 ....

the evo3d, & samsung galaxy s2 will get the newbee pop crowd hype (the I Phone types)

But the Photon will be the true hacker/geeks choice as the stealth "sleeper" hardware platform to build on to blow the other two's doors off in the end...one reason is the extra radios the Photon has...it is about being a comm device... combined with the cpu power...memory... and even the docking option to make it be something diffrent...The MoPho is just "diffrent" in a good way
[Motorola Photon 4G] five40:
Have u taken a look at the Evo 3D forum?

That thing has ROm's and developer support coming out the ying yang.

The forums here are nowhere as active as the Evo 3D's.

Even before the Evo 3D got rooted the forums were on the front page of XDA constantly.

With that being said though I've been reading and the Photon does seem to be a better performer as far as signal strength, battery life and global roaming.

I'm going to try one out and see if it all it's cracked up to be b4 i trade in my Evo 3D.
[Motorola Photon 4G] unsane:
I traded my Evo3d for the Photon and I couldnt be happier....Signal and call quality is supreme on the Photon, not even comparable IMO. I kinda miss sense since ive had it since the Mogul basically(my first not HTC phone since the samsung a900) lol. The quality of the hardwarame from the is night and day. The e3d feels like it came from the dollar store, while the photon feels like it came from Nordstroms. IDk to me the original Evo was built 10x better than the new one. I hope we get more attention over here on this forum, this is all a little new for me with the RSD and SBF's of Motorola.......wish I had more to bring to the table.....wish I could write some new radios and unlock the domestic GSM.
[Motorola Photon 4G] rbeavers:
Put me down for $20 But it will be two years be for I will need it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
That what I meant by a stealth "sleeper" hardware platform vs the other two ...if

everyone

know or thinks your the best and jumps on board with you from the get go, how can you be a "sleeper" ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] five40:
I broke down and got the Photon yesterday.

So far I can vouch for the better radio claims i've read, it locks and holds every type of signal better than the Evo (4G,3G,1X & voice).

I have 30 days to decide but I doubt I'll be reactivating my 3D.

Any offers?
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Ill throw in 45
[Motorola Photon 4G] shanghei:
any developments on this? Really would like to get a photon so i can use on ATT
[Motorola Photon 4G] cornelious2:
Why not just get an atrix?
[Motorola Photon 4G] unsane:
Hopefully with the source code just released someone will look at this now........this phone is a beast...imagine if it had domestic gsm on its resume???????
[Motorola Photon 4G] shanghei:
I have an Atrix, I want landscape mirroring and a kickstand
[Motorola Photon 4G] ninjaclipse:
I'm in for 20
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Well I just picked up a Photon today... coming from an LG Optimus S :) You guys better believe I'm going to pick up development on this thing. First goal for me is to port CyanogenMod and after that I'll take a look at enabling GSM. I'm in college and the floor above me is the IT-specialty floor... and some of them up there are really good with C/C++ and assembly :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] eoliveira711:
Good man i got faith in ya! If ya need a tester pm me

Sent from my PhonyDroid
[Motorola Photon 4G] phqchevys:
I'll put $20 in on it! BTW, Best Buy has the Photon's for $99 with new contract!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Yup they do! Too good of a deal to pass up :) I actually used my insurance to get my mom a new brand new phone and then activated the Photon on my line... I love this thing :) Once I get back to my dorm room (2 days) I'll start pulling source code and porting :) I can't wait to get CyanogenMod (even though the stock interface is really nice).
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
Well if ya do get the gsm mode unlocked pm me i hope it really works
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
Whoop! i hope you are enjoying the phone so far. glad you can join us for the adventure.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Well I TRIED to get started on the CyanogenMod but it seems like some assholes breached the kernel.org server and messed around with it... meaning the Android repositories are down :( I'll have to wait until the repositories are back online before I can pull source code :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
My buddy said the same thing, thought he was lieing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] drtotoley:
Im in with 100$ dollars
[Motorola Photon 4G] criptix:
Bounty is at $480 as of this post
[Motorola Photon 4G] chefcesarpr:
Sing Me up for $20.00
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrsato:
Actually, it COULD be useful, and not very costly. As far as legit service, you can buy time from any of the pre-paid GSM providers. But personally, living in Los Angeles, there's no place I get zero signal (which would also include CDMA roaming, which is free) that GSM phones do get a signal. So there isn't much reason for it. However, I have heard of people in more remote regions where only GSM works. That would be a rare case, since Verizon has the broadest coverage in the country by far, and that network (for cell and 3G data) is fair game for free roaming.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
Well i travel between va and nyc alot and i lose service from time to time
[Motorola Photon 4G] lilrepo:
There are a lot of reasons to get this ball rolling, San Diego has been left in the dark in regards to 4g Service.(mrsato) I also Live In Los Angeles , the 4g service here is ok if you are in an area that has it, Downtown LA-Inglewood-Culver City-Santa Monica-Universal City-North Hollywood and Glendale just to name a few lack true 4g coverage. (I would Put in money but I got layed off 6 months ago). I conference in with Motorola and sprint to confirm that the MoPho had the LTE chip in it, they both stated to me that neither could comment?
[Motorola Photon 4G] heldunder:
how is this coming any new news?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Not that I know of. I do have a friend learning Assembly a floor above me though as well as a friend who is competent with C++, so I'm sure between the two they could possibly write a new radio if one is required.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
Ok is there anything going on with this
[Motorola Photon 4G] slmclarengt:
I'm interested in this as well...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Beach_Head:
When the Electrify comes out, can't the radio files just be swapped?
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
That is US Cellular... Who use CDMA not GSM.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
With the release of the Photon in (either China, or Japan, I believe Japan), we may be able to use their radio files...
[Motorola Photon 4G] sapperpipo:
no you wouldnt have to sign up you would just have the ability to jump onto different networks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
I just jumped in here to this last page so forgive me if I'm talking about something different. But if you were to pop a domestic SIM in the Photon you'd still need to sign a contract or at least pay for service of some sort with that carrier.
[Motorola Photon 4G] darocks1999:
Mission here is to use this phone on att or tmobile network using their sim.. Ofcourse you have to have service with them. Wheather prepaid or postpaid.

Since this phone so far cant be use with att or tmobile sim..we are looking for a way to find fix..
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Why switch from the Photon? The first batch of MoPho's were a little off, so if you had problems, just replace it... Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind, why are you switching to a different device?
[Motorola Photon 4G] kothari:
I will increase my contribute to $120 to cover the retraction.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
That is very generous of you. Thanks for your help!
[Motorola Photon 4G] unsane:
ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING on this yet? I wish I knew how to write radios, id sacrafice my phone to get this working.......I contacted olipro and comnex through PM and they never responded....they were the ones to crack the Touch Pro 2......that being a windows 6.x based unit i didnt think theyd be down to do this....im not sure if android and windows radios are even the same source code wise......
[Motorola Photon 4G] Hammerfest:
Id throw $20 in...

Would TOTALLY give me a reason to get the Photon...

Otherwise, its my HD2 4 LIFE!
[Motorola Photon 4G] sapperpipo:
no that would only mean that if you did have another carrier that used a sim you could use the photon with that carrier
[Motorola Photon 4G] darocks1999:
Unlocking is it possible.

I went to this site unlockmotorolaimei dot com. And show they are able to unlock photon. So I sent them email asking wheather this sprint photon can be unlocked for att or not here is the response. can someone please check.

Yes, we can do this :)

You can make an order and we will send you the code as soon as we unlock the IMEI.

Thanks

Gino

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:50 PM, M R Murshed <mail@unlockblackberryimei.com> wrote:

I showing your site can unlock motorola photon. I have sprint mototola phone which accept sim card as well . can you unlock it so i can use it with att
[Motorola Photon 4G] rohit3192:
AFAIK:

the unocking based on imei works where phone is sim locked.

when you put sim of different carrier on sim locked phone it asks for 8-digit unlock code.

But when you put t-mobile/att sim into Photon it does not ask for sim unlock code.

So,only a developer can hack Photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] darocks1999:
i asked them again ..since i know its already an unlocked phone just has instruction to skip us gsm provider.. now they are saying they can't do it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] edgemaster191:
The SIM is "unlocked" meaning you can use an international SIM card in the phone (not just sprints SIM)

The problem is the firmware for the GSM radio, it's programmed to ignore USA GSM bands.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Just a thought... is there a way to modify the SIM card itself? If so, it'd be easier just to set a simple flag in the SIM letting the phone know that the SIM is international and not domestic.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cornelious2:
I swear someone is deleting my posts... nothing at the sim level is locked, its in the actual radio blocking the US domestic towers.
[Motorola Photon 4G] heldunder:
http://androidphon.es/android-news/att-announces-the-motorola-atrix-2-available-oct-16-for-99/

think the right drivers will come with this phone?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Hammerfest:
its AT&T and i want to puke...

I have enough trouble with them considering they are the ONLY option (no, satellite is NOT an option) where I live (and land-line), I would stab myself to death before I PERSONALLY paid for any service from AT&T (I pay a roomate by proxy for DSL, I deny/reject/firewall/ignore any and all inbound proxy connection attempts to my soul)...

That being said, even with Voice only for TMobile, or even the knock-off carriers (simplemobile ect), I would gladly use this phone as WiFi only if only someone could get it unlocked for Domestic friendly GSM Radios...
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
Looks like you guys need to find this guy lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] yungwunn911:
is this dead?
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Any news? How is this coming along? :confused:
[Motorola Photon 4G] myphone12345:
Total BS. 'Cause even if the dude really did unlock it to roam on T-Mobile (not likely), the phone's hardware doesn't support the AWS bands meaning that as a smart phone it will be useless on T-Mobile.
[Motorola Photon 4G] iLLa:
ill prob catch a lil heat for this one but, this thread is borderline retarded. if u have this phone, ur prob under contract. not to mention ur in the states, so why do u even need to use another carrier?

if u only want to use another carrier, get an atrix.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
You're completely missing the point. Some of us carry around 2 phones both personal and company so getting this to work correctly would be awesome! Id love to stick my gsm sim card in and use both lines from one phone. There are phones out already that allow this btw so its definitely possible.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Not only using both lines in one phone, but the ability to use the Photon on another network IF you decide to switch from Sprint is awesome, considering the Photon is a badass piece of hardware and some people may not want to be forced to stop using it. In any case though, just having it unlocked like this would be awesome.
[Motorola Photon 4G] theslug:
If you know how to use radiocomm...

If any of you with the Photon 4G know how to use radiocomm, you might try reading NV item 8258 record 1 with 0 offset and length 5e. On some of the verizon motorola droid phones (2 global, pro), changing that first byte from 0C to 00 would unlock the GSM radio for US towers. I briefly had an XPRT, and the byte was already set to 00 and sitll locked. So I'd imagine the chances of it working on a photon are even slimmer, but it's worth a look to see. Follow the steps described here http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/android-hacks/5156-tbh-droid-3g-hotspot-nvram-hack-4.html in post #50 except read item 8258 only, and don't write anything... unless that first byte IS 0C and you're willing to take the risk!

PS: if this does work (again, doubt it), all credit goes to Team Black Hat. This is the edit that their droid global band unlock performs.
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Thanks for the post theslug but me and a buddy already tried that and it doesn't work.

I am pretty sure it's doable, just need to find the right guy to be willing to spend some time on it. I'd give him $50 personally as well!
[Motorola Photon 4G] frizzit:
digging in radiocomm

Radiocomm 11.11.11

used MA CDMA1x WiMax 6800 with the usb mlink.

Features > NV / SEEM

Upper right drop down CDMA1X_6800_6575_GSM

Action Read

Looks like there are a bunch of settings... some fail to read I might not have the right chip selected, note the memory location of the carrier suppression.

4871, 4872
[Motorola Photon 4G] frizzit:
Anyone know if there is a newer version of radiocomm available?... the Qualcomm MDM6600 isn't exactly in this older software... most of the headings probably remain the same, but I don't want to go changing things if I don't know exactly what they are. QPST might work too but I don't have my SPC, I thought it was the 6 digit number on my activation email... notsomuch. Anyone have any ideas. I tried to contact the people who did this on the D2G, they have no responded yet. I would just like to find out what made them change what i think is "NV_WCDMA_1900_PA_COMPENSATE_UP_R2_I" seem 2042 from 0c to 00... or if it is really something different at address 2042 and the software is to old...
[Motorola Photon 4G] bibbin:
Please don't give up on this project. I REALLY need this to work so count me in for $100 USD towards the bounty.
[Motorola Photon 4G] wesleyyin:
please delete