yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Just flashed the newest updat 2.7. TONS of issues....

At initial bootup, when signing into gmail, it wouldnt bring up the keypad when selecting the box to type. So I skipped that. Then from the next screen on, until it got to the main home screen, they graphics are jacked up bad. It looks like a shadow box in the middle of the screen and you cant see anything around it and only the last 2 or 3 lettes of the phrase that starts on the left side of the screen and comes to the center. You only see what actually makes it into the shadow box, until you long press and it will show all the words.

So, once I made it to the home screen, the menus and things there were good until it started force closing. It force closed setup wizard and something else...I didnt catch what it said. After the force closing settled, I sent BACK to menu and all of the custom icons were gone. It was just the standard icons. (example...before force close, the settings selection was a colored wrench and screwdriver....after the force close, just the standard black/white settings icon). I ran with it for a few minutes and then had to restore back to the unlocked stock. Functionality wise it ran smooth...just LOTS AND LOTS of graphic issues.

Other than white on and white and the force closing when going to roaming, the best outfit Ive ran so far is the 2.6 with the Alien Theme. It was smokin fast and looked pretty nice too!!

Hope this helps some...

ps - as for installing method, wiped everything, flashed 1.9, booted to android, wiped cache and dalvik, flashed 2.7, booted to android, wiped cache and dalvik and booted back!
[Motorola Photon 4G] coldblooded79:
I'm ready for that blur2home port:)

Sent from my Motorola Photon 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] DssTrainer:
Installed 2.7....

It is completely b0rked.

- Weird shading on every button

- Shadows on the messaging app

- the Power off menu is basically hidden in a shadow

- Apps load with this shadowing around it

- The market search looks like you are reading it with a flashlight in a dark room

On the bright side, the "brightening" of the context menus has been fixed... but that's about it.

All in all it is unusable.

Let's chalk it up to a whoopsie and stick with 2.6 for now
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Reverted to 2.6 build ands added some cool graphic tweaks

Sorry guys, it worked on the atrix

Ill rework it this weekend I spent a bunch of time on those

Updates , but I must have missed something
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
You're doing fine bro, no worries on the 2.7. You are pushing through all of this and creating us a very nice ROM and you don't even have a Photon. I gotta say that I think that is a class act man. I hope you get one soon cuz I couldn't imagine how cool it would be if you had your own to test sh*t on over and over and then release. At least we got something to mess with until other dev's start creating stuff.

Thanks for your hard work!

-DJ
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
+1 I think this is an awesome idea.

Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Thats kinda what Im doing too. Im running 2.6 with the Alien Theme and its working amazing!! So, since thats my setup right now, will I need to wipe everything, flash the 2.8 and then reflash the theme, or just simply flash the 2.8 update?

Just curious...what have you noticed being different between 2.8 and 2.6? I know that 2.8 is a revert to 2.6, but what theme updates did you notice?
[Motorola Photon 4G] my2cents:
I'd like to learn something here.

I was looking through the changes you made in the build.prop. It appears that you are tweaking the dpi setting for the 4.3" qHD. However, I thought that the # sign in front of the code line prevents the phone from seeing it (for lack of a better way of putting it). So, does changing the dpi setting in this line of code really do anything? I know the density does change, but I am not sure that changes to the dpi value will do anything. Can someone enlighten me a little bit? I would like to learn something today.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikel719:
How much usage with that 35 hours of battery life?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikel719:
Thanks i'm going to have to try it. I'm stock, rooted and have to charge alot because I use the sh!t out of my phone.

Edit: does anyone have the link to 2.6?

Edit again: nevermind I already had it on my sd Card, i'm a jack ass. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
yes forgot to space accordingly

reposting 2.6 just bc it seemed the best yet
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Dang love the good the bad and the ugly ringtone lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
I have tried this 3 times. unlock, root a couple of time, load the 1.9 rom, loaded 2.6 update twice and now 2.8 update with same issue. After installing the rom i get the process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. please try again. Then i can't click the android guy. what do i do?
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
i am pretty sure i was unlocked fully. I was able to boot into the new rom. This error happened when i installed the new theme.
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
You need to flash the ROM boot into the system and 'let it settle' boot into recovery and then flash the theme. Can't be done in one session.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
I did that. i followed all the directions. Booted into recover, wiped, installed rom, rebooted, rooted, rebooted into recovery, wiped, installed theme, wiped again, and when i rebooted with the theme i got the error.

the only thing i didn't do was let it settle. Does that make a difference. I usually install the rom, reboot, go through the setup and skip everything. root the phone, install recovery and reboot to install the theme.

I had no errors like this installing allien.

Is it possible after installing the theme to install allien over it without rebooting?
[Motorola Photon 4G] 27s:
Fix permissions in recovery. That is what fixed my issues.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
How do you do that if you can't get into recovery. don't you have to be rooted and after installing the theme you loose root? I couldn't get past the android welcome screen to change the settings to root.
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
the OP said wiping cache and dalvik cache not facotry data reset just to clarify.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
What would wiping to factory do?
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
I can't give you a technical explanation but when you wipe data/factory reset it clears out everything from when you booted into the system and let it 'unpackage' itself. For whatever reason at this time it is necessary for the ROM to be flashed in one recovery session and then the theme in another. I have had success with not wiping anything after flashing the ROM and then booting back into recovery to flash the theme.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
Alright. Thanks. I am going to try again; this time I will back up the new rom before installing the theme and update just to remove a step.

I also won't factory wipe before or after installing the rom or theme. Only before flashing to unlock.
[Motorola Photon 4G] trevoc1:
Hey any reason why my camera and camcorder force close every time?? Other than that love the rom.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
Finally got this up and running. Think I was wiping the devise and factory resetting the device. Thanks for all the help. I did still have some issues as stated with the permision and force close with camera and phone. Would up flashing alien over this and that fixed all the issues. Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gh0zt718:
Hey is there a gingerbread theme to this rom cause no offense and I mean NO OFFENSE but I'm very minimalistic and don't really like these themes but I want to try this rom so bad but can't get around the theme like honestly great job on it it looks great it's just not for me
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
You can flash any theme over this rom. I flashed base 1.9 reboot, flash 2.8, reboot flash Alien theme, reboot flash this theme http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1244721 then change the wallpaper. I think you'll like it. You may or may not have to flash the other themes. Maybe only the last one, but I like the ringtones. So I flash all.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gh0zt718:
Thanks a lot really appreciate it I could finally use this rom!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Beknatok:
Hey there - finally took the time to unlock my bootloader and give your ROM a whirl. I flashed 2.6, restored apps & data via Titanium, and am currently flashing the Alien theme. Looking forward to seeing how 2.6 holds up for the next few days.

Thanks again for all of your hard work!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
if thats moderate ill never question again why I cant get these insane battery life numbers you guys report

Sent from my PHOTON blaster!
[Motorola Photon 4G] richarrp:
So you're rom is amazing! Fast and classy. TW is an awesome touch! Question though. All I have is the apps drawer button, is that all I am supposed to have or should I be able to add the dialer and other shortcuts to the dock? Thanks for the effort and work.

*never mind. I'm an idiot.
[Motorola Photon 4G] haitianluv05:
I've deleted my gallery apk and odex file cuz I don't use the gallery to view my pics but now my camera doesn't work but I still have both the apk and odex files for the camera...does anyone have the gallery files in a zip.
[Motorola Photon 4G] VDub2174:
I think I'm finally ready to unlock my bootloader and flash this ROM.
[Motorola Photon 4G] itsallsubliminal:
I think u'll be happy u made that decision. Alien theme is an excellent addition if star wars ain't ur thing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Just a quick question. I'm on the Alien ROM and Theme. Is there a benefit/advantage to this ROM over that one? Anything different/special? Just curious. I'll go read the OP for the details, but incase I miss something info never hurts. Thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
Is this ROM still alive? Is it in working order?
[Motorola Photon 4G] noefects:
I thought i had read that the dev is busy touring with chaimaira and all that i cant wait for some updates for this ill stick with homebase till then

Edit: had wrong dev !
[Motorola Photon 4G] elibaba:
Just FYI : I installed the ROM with the latest update and it work's fine on a Photon in an international network, the sprint activation does not nag anymore! (I'm on Israeli Cellcom UMTS)

The only niggles I could find :

1. Incoming SIP call crashes com.android.phone, avoided by installing sipdroid to take the call.

2. The background of the dock menu is very light, almost white, and so are the fonts - which make it utterly unreadable.

3. i a missing the "slient only" volume step below vibrate (like in CM7).

4. The "H" icon for HSPDA nework appears even if there's no data connection active.

Other than that it's a great ROM, thanks a lot!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cooly1911:
I don't suppose anyone still has a copy of this rom, and the software I'd need to install it? I dug out my original phone and thinking to set it up as a clock, media thing, to just plug in and put on display. Still feel it was the coolest phone ever LoL.

Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] urcboss07:
It looks like I got DROID 3 camera and video after flashing this rom but the highest resolution is 720p

I couldn't get 1080p, does anybody get 1080p? By the way, I just flashed over Alien Photon 1 rom since I had alien rom with 4g working, I didn't have to unlock bootloader again. So, I just flashed thru system recovery.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschachm:
I assume in your directions the fullrom.zip file is this - STAR WARS PHOTON 1.0. Where can i get the lastest update.zip?
[Motorola Photon 4G] halorin:
That's too bad.. I imagine this won't be fixed until developers get their hand on the kernel source.
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Update coming I tried more multi touch edits this time it should work.. Including more theme s and multi touch app jagged edges and loud sounds is last on the list.. Gotta get it running good first then ill,Make changes
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
thanks..you too
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
Dude thanks for taking the time to make sure everything is right

Sent from my PHOTON blaster!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
can't install launcher pro, says bad update package, have uninstalled the apk, is there another file I am missing?? I bought the full version and want that one, not the one you installed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Its just launcher pro.apk

First I Would have gone to settings/manage apps /all /launcher pro/cleardata

Then delete the file under

system/apps

reboot to cwm

clear cache

Reboot

Its bad old data in your anroid.secure folder basically

So navigate there with any file explorer and find launcher pro and delete it
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Is the update taking?

Does multi touch work ?

is settings black?

is your dialer and contacts changed ?

Is your status bar black?

Does the 1% battery mod work ?

What color is your notification bar?

Can someone post a few screens?

Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Thanks man, worked wonders. Appreciate the help
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Can we flash this with boot strap recovery or do we need to be unlocked completely?
[Motorola Photon 4G] shawn328:
The update looks great all the changes seemed to work.But data is broken.When it starts its tries to load an h icon rather than a 3 g one. Then android.phone force closes. Seems like when you altered the phone and contacts you might have left some att files in there.
[Motorola Photon 4G] urcboss07:
Camera and camcorder still have 720p, not 1080p.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ejdavis:
Voicemail stuck in notification bar...says I have 1 message but I don't use sprint voice....I use google voice....also maybe a black themed message app?

Photon...Rooted & Unlocked ....StarWars Rom
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Ill work on data looks like I def left some sys ui elements.. ill fix that

1080p I'll check on next let me get itall up And running theres certain xml profiles that need porting

Also hows multi touch ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ValdreZ:
+1

Agreed!
[Motorola Photon 4G] redhatter:
If the Photon's GSM radio gets unblocked for the US he can use it on AT&T
[Motorola Photon 4G] b-reezy:
Multitouch works. Im only able to use 7 points but that's more than enough.

Rom is running super smooth.

Dialer has a notepad icon though?

I ended up flashing alien theme 1.1 until the theme gets sorted out. It fixed the phone fc and any other issues.

thanks for the work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] halorin:
Wait. You can install this ROM and then the Android Theme??

Dear God yes you can. Awesome!
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
Photon is from star trek..not wars lol

Ps yes im a hardcore nerd
[Motorola Photon 4G] ejdavis:
Almost perfect ...camera resolution still at 720p...also theme on dialer makes it hard to know which numbers ur dialing ....

Photon...Rooted & Unlocked ....StarWars Rom
[Motorola Photon 4G] halorin:
On 1.2 with the Alien theme installed. There's screaming fast, and then there's what the Hell this is. This is crazy. Thanks for the work, man. If this is just the beginning then we're in for a great ride with these devices.
[Motorola Photon 4G] 27s:
Ha! This is awesome. I love Daath and Chimeria. I always love to see that I am not the only metal singer geek on the forums. Good work on the Rom brother.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Flashed straight from bootstrap alien rom no problem at all. I will let you now how it fucntions once I get some sleep lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] falcoxda:
You can flash this rom from bootstrap cwm now? Thought you needed to be unlocked and flash with the normal recovery.
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
1.4 breaks hd camera will post the fix in like an hour I saw on my buddies

Photon today so this is being moved from experimental
[Motorola Photon 4G] urcboss07:
So 1.4 should enable 1080p camera function, right?
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Its next im going to fix 720p then keep hacking away at 1080 till I get it

But I'm moving this rom out of experimental, making a new rc final base rom , a new update and

Rolling out updates as necessary
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
Can u fix social networking
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Social networking??? is it broken??
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Yep straight from bootstrap over alien rom
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Just installed. Really like it so far. Thank you!
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Dude thanks so much...that rules
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Thank you again that's so

Unexpected and appreciated

This time with quotes

I love my phone running this rom so glad I can share the fun

I am porting my honeycomb rom next
[Motorola Photon 4G] snoopy1e11:
Cant post statuses or social networking widget is not on there only social status
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Ah just flashed and a new version out. This is enabling my sickness. Flashing twice in one night, priceless! Lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
The way widgets are loaded is just sick. And so many really cool ones. Like this alot!
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
If any of you fine gentlemen would be so kind as to post screens I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Can't find an app that will work to take screen shots. Screen grabber not showing in market.
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
You can get the apk from this thread here.
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
ya h is just a look if you hate it... i can post a fix. but it so minute at this time

hey the way i see it h is bull**** 4g anyway thats really just faster 3g so its almost fitting

but i will make the change .. just eventually

star wars picker is just

long press

home screen then

wallpapers and wallpapers

should be there lemme check it was in the base rom, not the update .. ill start including it in the updates .. 2.2 ill add it

touchwiz well i cant help ya there i just included it , it was ported from some chinese guy i had it just sitting around so i tossed it in. cant be too hard just decompile . add necessary files , recompile and bam

but it also could be kernal related and it being tied to the sgs2 gyroscope . but maybe its jus a setting im missing . will look into it .. soon
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Here you go. The wallpaper is what I selected from live wallpapers. The widget bar at the bottom you need to see in person. Really cool. And thanks for showing me the screen grab app.
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
are they taking though .. both sides and showing swipe animations .

yeah clearing caches is a must also one thing i forgot to factor in was the kickstand. which screen does it show when in kickstand mode??

thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
yeah its all about where i make the cut lines in the drawable9patch tool

i will clean it up, that paired with the lockscreen sounds is pretty sick
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
thanks again for your help

one last question

notepad. as in in the app drawer ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
I remember seeing something about this care to tell me how out where to read thanks in advance
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
check again totally reworked framework(**** i have no idea where i borked it but battery% was so far off it was there in 5 %increments)
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
Does the ROM have the Yahoo and Hotmail enabler removed? If so this is causing the crash on contacts.
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
Just to clarify Yahoo mail authenticator

Edit:

I see that you pushed everything back...see if you can log into Yahoo mail. I went through the proceeds of figuring this out yesterday and narrowed it down to this so I am not a hundred percent sure but pretty sure
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
I did a test. Froze yahoo mail authenticator in titanium rebooted and contacts force closed. defrosted it and contacts did not force close.
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
I hate to say it but try flashing the base and religiously delete all caches reboot android then reboot to cwm then. flash update and clear caches again

wallpapers should be there and the dialer icon I put back to original...So I'm lost as to why thE icon isn't showing

Ill make some changes tonight

2.3 moving on up

Also is battery % back and circle battery working?

Kickstand isnt working . K

I was just curious as to if was working though. But since its not

Add it to the list

Next update I will try and fix theme problems...,and more functionality issues

Also these fc's apparently its something with certain mailers being setup or not setup

Was just reading some alien threads.. Same exact issues. Im thinking its like motoblur (for atrix) .sometimes you just have to set it up to get everything to run smoothly. But its hit or miss some peoples contacts fc..

And some peoples dont
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Future fresh starts

just go base to latest update

Earlier updates may cause issues flashing one after the next

Making fixes for tonight gonna go spend saturday with the girl then get to work
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Smal request

Could we get some of the normal ringtones/notifications put back into the ROM? Would be greatly appreciated, thanks a ton.

-DJ
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
Yup ill put them in next update
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Ok...so I am using bootstrap to flash this ROM. Started with 1.9 and it flashed and booted perfectly. Went to go back into recovery, and the system recovery force closes?? How do I get back into recovery?
[Motorola Photon 4G] rukis:
Is an unlocked bootloader required? I have a cwm port installed with a still locked bootloader and want to flash this..
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Newalker just answered this above yours, flash with boot strap is okay.

Also, just wanted to say this ROM is beast, it is super fast!

Curious if you are planning to fix ##3282# problem? Would really like that as i'm sure others would. Thanks, keep up the awesome work!
[Motorola Photon 4G] beyondinferno:
I'm curious why this phone is getting all this Star Wars love... It IS called the PHOTON after all :P

/troll
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
awesome yes will remove launcher from the base rom

good to see no more fcs

##32 whatever it is . will take some reading up on.

its something ive changed thats not allowing it. will read up on it later

ill add the wallpapers to the gb launcher

but ill leave in tw just in case

messaging is the last app to convert so im rounding third on this theme

just need to fix settings now
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Is there any possibility that anyone could put up the build.prop file from this ROM? I would like to see what kind of tweaks have been made. Thanks in advance.

Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
http://pastebin.com/bExXfRy0
[Motorola Photon 4G] HondaCop:
Thanks Max!

Sent from my MoPho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
:) upgraded my internet the other day I can download sh!t fast as fuq
[Motorola Photon 4G] M@XLOL:
according to OP wipe isn't necessary.

btw you have been trouble shooting the hell out of this rom w/ op thanks for helping.
[Motorola Photon 4G] seanzscreams:
should be fine just updating

And thanks newwalker for all the help .. wouldn't be as far along without ya

As for build.prop tweaks. I only made 3 In the latest update

Im trouble shooting this.## 33 whatever so I left

All of them out

tweaks were in the 2.3 update
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Could I take the build prompt and stick it in yays rom or photon laser without any bad effects?
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
cool I was thinkin about just placing the build in one of my extra zips of the roms and getting all the goodies minus social netnowrk problems
[Motorola Photon 4G] haitianluv05:
Loving the ROM so far....I wanted to know is it possible to have sound f or the boot animation...I don't hear anything at all when it powers on...and how do I go about to add a music c controller when my screen is lock..I would like to control my music that's playing even when my screen its lock....thanks for all the hard work.