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[Motorola Photon 4G] enigmatl:
Okay. Some people are in serious need of a freakin CHILL PILL.

I got my notice of an update a few hours ago. I came here thinking XDA was the place, the hub for this kind of stuff. I checked like the first 20 threads and there was nothing. Neither I nor most other people are going to go through dozens of pages to look for info on this especially when as I typed the subject, XDA's search returned NOTHING.

And a note to the mods, there have been a lot of unfriendly BS answers to very good questions as of late. If a blind eye is turned to it over and over, it is gonna cost XDA it's title in the minds of many that this is THE place for information on the devices that it covers.

So enough of the unfriendly sarcastic BS answers. There's no need for crappy answers like welcome to last week especially when such a post doesn't come with a link.

That said, I will try this one more time. When I try to install the update, it always says update fails. I rooted with the dock method and installed the bootstrap recovery. Does anybody know what could be causing this to happen?
[Motorola Photon 4G] coldblooded79:
If you are having problems then flash this.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1202666

Final build courtesy of the fine folks at MOTOROLA 8/11/11 The sarcasm was in fun. But on your end just think of how annoying it is when this happens on a daily basis. Take a couple of minutes to look through development and see all the crap people have posted. You'll see how cluttered it can get. We do appreciate that you meant well.

Sent from my Motorola Photon 4g
[Motorola Photon 4G] androidus:
Maybe the difference is the bootstrap recovery installation. I rooted with the docking method but didnt install a bootstrap recovery. The OTA update went perfect today. Maybe it succeeded because i didnt have the bootstrap recovery installed? A possibility?
[Motorola Photon 4G] selene107:
If you have updated webtop (dockless connection), your OTA update may fail. Replace the files with your original webtop files and the OTA update should work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] androidus:
OTA update speeded up my photon

My photon is opening apps, emails, and web pages 50% to 100% faster after running the OTA update. :D

Holy smoking photons! My phone is BLAZING fast, google maps and navigation are nearly instantaneous, YELP populates in 1 second!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] gpgorbosjr:
Isn't this just the leak from 8/11/11?

I don't understand the big deal, or why an OTA update of a leaked rom two weeks ago is being talked about in the development board?
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
Did you uninstall any system apps after rooting? If so, those will need to be restored.

When you try the update how far does it get? If the phone reboots and gets to the Android guy with the progress bar just press and hold both volume buttons at same time and it will show you the error message.
[Motorola Photon 4G] arivis:
My Phone was Rooted using the Dock Method... installed the update without any issue and Re-Root it using the Dock method again. Everything still runs like a charm.
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
Wifi ERROR after OTA update

hi yall

if you are not an us resident or you are not in sprint coverage area

dont update! after i was update my wifi getting an error when tryin to connect

try'd anything

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17099202&postcount=9

did some 1 reflash'd the phone and it work'd for him?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Just do a factory reset and you should be good. Although not if you flashed a custom recovery. You should just flash the MR5 that someone else linked earlier in this thread and your problem would be solved.

As for the chill pill I believe you should take some and then reread what was posted. The guy that said that thing about welcome to last week was completely joking and it should have been taken that way. The one thing I like about this Photon group is that right now we are quite small and we do joke with each other quite a bit. So calm down and don't think that just because there is some sarcasm in the thread that it is a personal attack against you, because it wasn't. We're all here to help one another out. You really could have searched a bit longer and found what you were looking for. I do admit some of the forum threads could be titled a bit better, but all in all it is relatively easy to find what you're looking for here.

Hope you got the answered you needed, I really think you should just RSDLite flash that .sbf in that thread you were directed to in an earlier post, that will get you what you want. Yes you will have to root and unlock your phone again, but at least you will be updated.

Good Luck to ya!

-DJ
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
done factory reset 3 times and its not working at all...

i havnt flashed anything yet i just got the phone and updated it with the original

ota update :(.

what can i do? :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
What is wrong with it?

You should boot into RSD and then run RSD lite and flash that sbf file that is in this forum.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1202666

Follow those steps and you should be fine. If you can boot up the phone you can flash this file. Go

-DJ
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
ill try...

if i brick the phone is there any way to fix this?

thanks for all the help
[Motorola Photon 4G] darktranquility18:
Basically being out of the country and performing the update isnt the best idea cuz i think you need to be able to connect to the sprint network before everything else works. The only way wifi works is when you put the phone in airplane mode and restart but the moment you take it off airplane mode, wifi shuts off and says 'error'.

Only solution so far has been to get wifi running on airplane mode, turn off airplane mode quickly and click on 'update motorola software'. Then everything works.

Im in india for a month so guess im stuck with this problem as well. If anyone can come up with a solution, thatd be awesome
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
o.k...cross fingers guy's im flashing with rsdlite again...

hope it wont do harm...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gerigo-Greece:
No Way

Doing this it tells you that software is updated.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gerigo-Greece:
Any results?
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
just flashed the phone and guess what??

wifi working again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! w000ttttttttttttttttt
[Motorola Photon 4G] darktranquility18:
Whatttt!!! Awesome gonna flash now
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
after reboot the wifi error starts again.

that means :( no luck

-------------------------------------------------

i think i have found the bug :

when you getting wifi error go to Mobile network settings and change Network Mode to AUTO

go to Roaming Guards and disable all of them.

now for some reason the wifi works.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gerigo-Greece:
For me it does not.
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
I dont understand what are you reffering 2?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gerigo-Greece:
Followed your settings and the wifi is not working.
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
you still have the problem?

what have you done so far?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikel719:
Did you try reflashing?
[Motorola Photon 4G] GUARDIANBD:
Flash'd now its ok but not perfect

after rebooting it keep saying that the phone is not activated and some **** like this
[Motorola Photon 4G] Telion007:
I am posting this here because I (as I should have expected) lost root with the OTA update. then went through every possible root process such as teh photon-torpedo, the one click, and the Droid 3 variation and I could not regain root even after several factory resets and hard resets.

The lines that were missing were the ones below in the Photon-torpedo method everything else seemed the same. Then it would follow with a permission denied

bash: groups: command not found

root@localhost:/data/tmp#

/data/tmp/install-su.sh

root@localhost:/data/tmp#

finally I realized I had not tried clearing the cache and wiping all data. Once I did this and rebooted I was able to re-root without any issues.

PS Thank you greatly for all of you who are skilled in this area to make this possible YOU ROCK!
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
will this update relock the phone

moine came unlocked via ebay, it works with canadian providers (rogers)
[Motorola Photon 4G] cornelious2:
It was never locked for anything other than US gsm towers.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
Huh..so the bootloader is not locked...FAIL
[Motorola Photon 4G] pantherzfinest:
i just rooted my photon today. unknowingly, i did the update first. when i did the root, i used http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1250697 instructions with the one click root. it worked. verified root.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pIxiLatEd:
Finally decided to update via OTA update and it's failing. All I have done is rooted the stock ROM that came with the phone. Strange, I wouldn't think that would/should cause an issue with the phone applying an OTA update. Did anyone else have this issue? I know I could use the leaded ROM, but don't want to have to deal with the potential of having to call Sprint to get it working on the network again. Boo.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pIxiLatEd:
Just dropped my phone at the Sprint store to have them try to load the OTA update and it wouldn't take for them either after doing a full reset. They were going to swap out the phone for me, but I told them to wait....I might defect to another.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ORam78:
Flash back to the non rooted version...then update. Mine failed and I tried this and it worked.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robafet:
Wanting to use my phone as an alarm, but force audio out through the 3.5 headphone output which I have plugged into the aux input on my hifi, that way I can wake up to half an hour of my fave tunes. Have tried a few alarm apps, but all seem to force output to phone speaker, and don't seem to have any options to force output to headphone socket. Anyone any advice? Is there an app that will allow headphone socket audio out forcing, or an alarm app I may have missed that will allow this.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robafet:
anyone know if the official samsung dock forces all audio through the dock audio out?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nelwyn2:
I have the official car dock and if you tick the option under dock settings it will send all audio through the output if you plug your cable into the dock. Never tried it with an alarm, but I would think it would work.

I tried using the keyboard dock with my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the alarm sound went through the output.
[General Questions and Answers] Tommyg-123:
I flashed my Incredible over to Metro PCS and I installed the Synergy ROM by xda. It is the regular one. My problem is that this rom is disabling me to receive picture messages.. Someone please help! Thanks.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jenjenX:
Before I was running the stock rom. Just now I installed Streakdroid 1.9.1.

The streak booted fine but now I can't install any apps from the market place.

I can open market fine and browse the app, it starts to download but then nothing happens and the app is nowhere to be found. I repeat the process and the same happens.

What do you guys think is wrong?

Thanks in advance!
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Delete the Market's cache and data, then reboot the phone. The Streak getting "stuck" on downloads is actually rather common, and not limited to custom ROMs.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] aliasbody:
Hello everyone,

I would like to know if there is any problem installing a HTC Desire Z rom on the X5 ? what is the worst thing that can happen ?

Thanks in Advance,

Luis Da Costa
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ryronz:
It won't work.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pharpe:
I just flashed the Quick Settings for Official GB OTA (4.06.605.2).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1239820

Now I'm getting the following error every couple seconds. "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly." I have cleared the cache and the dalvik cache. Is there anything I can do short of factory reset or restoring a backup to get rid of this error?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimSnoopOS:
Not likely since you flashed something over top of your rom set up. Just bite the bullet and revert to a backup or reflash the rom.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big_mike_2k6:
I flashed this earlier today and I haven't had that FC issue. Any other mods installed?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pharpe:
I backed up everything with Titanium and did a factory reset. That seemed to fix the problem but after I restored my apps I started to get FCs again. I just wiped everything and flashed McSense v1.2 and the Quick Settings on top of that. Rebooted and everything works good. I'm going to re install everything from market rather than restore from backup.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimSnoopOS:
Also, it helps to backup only user apps and some data. Avoid system days if you were restoring any.
[Networking] bendik18:
Hi guys and girls,

Today, i'm writing my first post on this wonderfull forum. I have a problem.

I have very bad network sensivity on every Android phone i have. I'm kinda new to android but i know at least a minimum.

The questions:

If i buy a phone in a country and then take it to another country, can it lead to bad network?

Can the baseband version of a phone be good in one country and bad in another?

Are the OTA updates specific to a country (scandinavian android updated in a non scandinavian country) or are they different from a country to another?

The actual situation:

I live in Belgium but i'm norwegian and i'm used to Norwegian keyboards with Æ, Ø, Å characters) so I have bought my a SE Xperia X10 Mini Pro in Norway, but i think after i did the 2.1 update in Belgium i got bad network. Now i got a HTC Desire Z also bought in Norway and had perfect network in norway, i updated to the 1.72 still in norway and still had perfect network. Then i came back in belgium and had bad network. Then i updated to 1.82 and then to 2.42 (the gingerbread version 2.3.3) and i still have thebad network problems in Belgium. The rom is still the scandinavian/nordic and i was wondering if there is a different baseband version in the ota update from norway and the one from belgium eventhough its still the scandinavian sense rom.

If this is the answer to my problem.

Since i'm on a gingerbread Desire Z, how can i change the baseband version?

I guess i'll have to root, Is there a easy way to root a GB DZ?

Info:

Android: 2.3.3

Baseband version 12.56.60.25U_26.10.04.03_m

Kernel: 2.6.35.10-g7b95729

Software number 2.42.405.2

If you need more info or anything, just ask me. I really want to solve my problem and help others maybe find an answer to theirs.

Thanks in advance,

Bendik
[Networking] bendik18:
Anybody? Please?

I really need help on this one.
[Networking] shansmi:
define "bad network" are you sure the carriers in each country use the same bands? Radio loads and RILs will make all the difference. Have you tried locking to 2G?
[Networking] bendik18:
Well, by saying bad network i mean i have between 0 and 3 bars most of the time. Even with nice weather.

I have no idea if my countries carriers use the same bands. But what i discovered was that if i use my norwegian sim card in belgium (roaming or something) and i use Mobistar (another network carrier) then i have 4 bars allways. I couldn't try to roam on base (my actual carrier) or proximus (wich is the lands monopol carrier).

The thing about radio loads and RIL's i didnt understand anything.

And locking in 2G doesn't change anything.
[Networking] bendik18:
There are three carriers in belgium: Base (my actual carrier), mobistar, and Proximus (the countrys main carrier)

I ordered free SIM cards from the other belgian carriers.

I got one from mobistar and it worked perfectly.

I haven't tried proximus yet.

Base is the one i have problems with.

So no i have another question: Is there any differences between sim cards from one carrier to another one? Except that they dont allow me to connect to other carriers than the card carrier?
[Networking] bendik18:
I know i may be spamming a little bit but this is kinda important to me.

So please, if anyone could give answers or help me i would be thankfull.
[Networking] the_metal:
I think that not all carriers have the same signal strength in a specific location .

In my country there is three mobile networks and in my home they are not equal in signal strength .

one with zero signal , the second with moderate signal and the last one with perfect signal even though they are equal in the street which is 10 meters away from home !!!

You said that mobistar works perfectly so maybe you should stick with them and ignore the one you use right now .
[Networking] bendik18:
Thanks for answering me.

I really liked base because i had so really cheap bills. Instead of paying 25€ for free texts and ringing and some internet im paying 10€ with my actual one.

I mailed base in case they could help me, and after about 2 weeks i finally got an answer. Theyre working on it...
[Networking] netomx:
Maybe it is the 3g band. Look, here in my city, if I use 2g, it works OK but in some areas i have no signal. If I turn on the 3G, I have a very good signal in almost every corner of the city. Verifiy that.
[Networking] Uhro:
Hello,

-The easiest way might be to contact your actual operator, they should check the 2G/3G coverage in your area. But i guess you can do this yourself, somewhere on their website they should have a map with their signal strenght.

-Change your mobile phone; try the sim card in a different phone. Does it get the same signal strenght? - With this you will determine if the problem is in your mobile phone. If you get better signal in a different phone, you may have a broken anthena in your device or you've messed up something in the settings.

-Ask someone around you with your carrier what strenght does he get. If it is higher than yours and you got the same strenght in more than one phone you may have a wrong sim card. The carrier should change it for you.

Check this and let me know the result;) I'll try to help.
[Networking] thekindladies:
I am very interested to find out what Base does as I am in a similar situation to you though I bought my Xperia 10 mini pro here in Belgium.

When I use my Base sim card I have problems with the signal on either of the tree network settings.

When I use my Slovenian one, I don't have any problems roaming on Base, Mobistar or Proximus.

I always get a good signal when I use my Base card in a different phone though.
[Networking] netomx:
Sounds like the frequency for me! Check the frequency of the 3G band for your 3 operators and then check if your cell phones can handle that.
[Networking] bendik18:
I saw that Mobistar (/the only carrier i get good network on has another band if i understood right)

Im still contacting my actual operator about the issue and they will need another 2 weeks before they can answer me... Of course...

SIM Card in another phone, in a 2G phone SE k550 i have full network. When i lock to 2G on my Android phone, it still has sucky network.

I have a friend (OMG) on the same carrier i had network problems with. he has allways full network, i'll try to see if i can make him come over and test the network with his android phone (acer liquid metal or something)
[Networking] thekindladies:
Ok, let us know how that goes
[Networking] jacky234:
yes,you may lead to bad network.but the chances are little
[Networking] PJ_DnB:
Are you on 3g only?

In belgium, Proximus and Mobistar have the best networks.

Base has 97%coverage of edge, but their 3g network sucks.

Are you certain that its everywhere in belgium that base has a bad reception?
[Networking] bendik18:
I contacted my operator, they told me to try to lock to 2G, i tried it for an hour and still no succes. I restarted my phone after i locked to 2G juste to be sure. Still no success.

I've allready tried in another phone, in my old SE k550 i have full network allmost all the time. I've had the same problem in my x10 mini pro even after a fresh original reset. I really dont think its the phone since i have perfect network when i'm on Mobistar (another carrier that is expensive).

I have a friend that has an Acer Liquid Metal (?) and i'll try to make him come over to test his network.

I have allready changed sim card but they made me pay 10€ for that... --'

Now i'm waiting about a week for another answer from my carrier.

I hope they can do something.
[Networking] bendik18:
I have bad network everywhere except in the subway (underground :O )

I have this bad network with Proximus and BASE.

I'm was in auto HDSPA/GSM and than tried the 2G only, and now back to auto.

When i'm in auto, i think i noticed that in the moments i have Edge i tend to get better network. But when i lock to edge/2G i still have bad network...
[Networking] bendik18:
I tried again to lock 2G and it works with full network. Still contacting the operator.
[Networking] phoneguy 4567:
From a quick search of the internet it appears all the providers listed use the same frequencies, 2100 for 3G & 900,1800 for 2G.

As well as selecting 2G only I would also select the mobile operator manually, instead of automatically which I believe is the default. It is also a possibility that the Android phones sold locally have a different radio version then yours that works better on the Base network, I've run into this in the past with Windows Mobile on HTC phones.
[Networking] bohalloran95:
OTA updates depend in a number of factors. The update is pushed by Google, made by the OEM (original equipment manufacturer HTC Motorola etc.). The carrier generally needs to OK it as updates are generally pushed through their network. Since ROM updates are large files, they are rolled out overtime as not to weigh down the network. While you may bit get updates OTA in a different country, the ROMs should be nearly identical.
[Networking] bendik18:
I got my money back from the simcard i bought. Still no sign of any solution... :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tablighs:
I just bought a used hd2 yesterday, and it came with magldr with ultimate droid rom 3.3. I found out that none of the physical button acts as a Menu and Back button which makes navigation and menu access very hard. I even changed roms but still same thingn

My question is, is hd2 don't map physical keys as menu and back? Or is my unit actually defective? All the buttons work though, only that the Window and Home button does the same thing while Back and End button turns off the screen.

Thanks in advance!

Update: I have manage to get the menu (window) button working, but the back button is more trickier.. it seems thatt the physical button is actually pressing other keys.. in this case when I pressed the Window button for menu.. it will actually press the Home button which will bring me back to home screen. And for the back button, its actually pressing the End button, although I did manage to get it to press its back button, but its quite difficult. Does anyone knows how to fix this?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] maddoc1007:
reply back button

I think that u may have a faulty back button or that dirt got under it thefe are guides on here xda that show u how to fix back button etc but it requires you taking phone apart and you need to read guides totally and follow steps there are also guides on youtube as well. It also sounds that the buttons might have been remapped there is an app called button remapper that allows you to change what the physical buttons do like the phone button back button etc do in other words you can change what every physical button on your hd2 does like for example the volume keys you would be able to change to back button etc. Read about button remapper on google before attempting to use app hope this helps you.