yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
At least you know how to bring up a command line!

I'll try to dev as much as I can on this today, but I can't promise anything as my Monday's are pretty packed (as far as classes go), but I'll try!
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
Lmao!!!!!!!

Sent from my rooted/unlocked mopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] edgemaster191:
People still use command lines? o.O

i kid i kid! don't hurt me.

you guys are awesome, this will give me an excuse to unlock my bootloader :-D
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
Hey I don't know a whole about program but could you use some coding from in homebase to see if it will help start cm7
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
More than anything dude THANKS for keeping us updated through this whole process therefore keeping all the eta trolls away
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So uh...what's the ETA on CM7? Lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
No problem. I tell you guys what I'm up to regarding this just so you know I'm actively working on it and that it's not dead.
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
I find myself refreshing this thread ever 30 minutes. Thanks for putting a lot of hard work into this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
I have a feeling I am very close to getting this to boot... :) Don't go crazy F5'ing though because if anything happens there probably won't be a push out today.
[Motorola Photon 4G] my2cents:
Thanks for teaching me the F5 trick. LOL! I never knew I could do that! :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
in other news

the Droid 3 got cm7 to boot the other day

maybe theres some similarties u can dig for?
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
oh hell.... thats not cuz of mounts etc, its failing at loading the display driver
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Looks like will have a bootable rom here pretty soon!!! Thanks for pointing that out shabby!
[Motorola Photon 4G] devilsshadow:
Not an expert or anything but may that have anything to do with the tegra chipset?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Good catch. It was 1AM when I posted that and I didn't think that the display driver hanging would be screwing with us. But hey, at least we know what to do now! LET'S GET THIS THING BOOTING!

EDIT

Just want to point out that the ROM I have been testing has been using the Atrix dev/vendor tree as a guideline, but with Photon files. You tested the Atrix one before and it didn't boot, right? Probably the same problem...

EDIT EDIT

Oh and there is something still wrong with the filesystem... I was only able to get that log after formatting /system in recovery and then pushing all the /system files to the phone... so whatever Format /system formats the filesystem to, that's what it should be...

EDIT EDIT EDIT

Alright so I found that our CWM recovery only seems to support ext3 partitions. How did I figure this out? Try mounting system when it is formatted as ext4... you will receive an error. If you format /system as ext3 through recovery, you can then mount it. Opening a shell while in recovery and typing in "mount" will display all mounted partitions as well as their filesystem type. /system is mounted successfully as ext3. I'm going to try telling CM to compile as ext3 and see what happens.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Yes. The nVidia Tegra 2 is a SOC (System on a Chip), meaning the processor and graphics processor are on the same chip. The rest of this should be easier now that we a way to obtain logs.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Cyahnogenmod it boootting!!!!!!!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikel719:
God job man!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Lol ....Its booting!!!!!!!! Omfg!!!! Thanks for all the spent on getting it to boot!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
It boots!!!!!! Only thing right now is com.android.phone keeps force closing!!! But aside from that it's good!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
*Faps at the thought* :D:D;);)

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4G work? KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] rwp1138:
you pull this off you got a sixer on me
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
So I know were all waiting to hear whats working and what isnt.... but lets give this hard working mayne some major thank yous!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
A simple file swap should fix that right?
[Motorola Photon 4G] aikata:
Woohoo!

Thanks for all the hard work :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] iconeo:
Congrats!
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Wow. My photon will be so happy lol. Great job man
[Motorola Photon 4G] bearw815:
Great job! This has to be record setting time.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HooliganAMA:
I just screamed like a girl. Omg... I'm at work and embarrassed...

So happy though. Ty!
[Motorola Photon 4G] htcSlide:
And i was about to lock my photon back up for the sake of 4g.. Best thing ive heard all day!!! Hit me up if u need a tester!! Send me the dl link! I wanna play!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Mustangmatt1966:
Yesssssss this is awesome news! Thanks so much for your hard work on this!!!! :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] the12nv:
this is super awesome new's - I have no idea how you Dev's do it - but I am extremely glad that you did!!!! I knew the Photon was too dope of a phone to not have some custom Roms - Great Job!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
Thanks for your efforts so far. Sounds like just a matter of time. Great job. :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
cool now get twrp 2 working ;P
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
Curious is twrp having a kernel issue as well? I haven't followed your progress on it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
it boots up but then fails and reboots, not really sure whats wrong with it, and i wanna get 1.1 working before 2.0 comes out so that when 2.0 is out, perhaps it will be an easy update to have gui recovery goodness :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
I never use my 4G since I bought the beast Im using to post this so its not needed plus my campus has a dedicated wifi network specifically for phones that starts working as soon as I walk out my dorm so bring on the cyan
[Motorola Photon 4G] rrmzr1:
YEAAA!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
I would help, and I'm not under my non competes any more so I'm finally aloud to work on stuff publicly without losing my job, but my new companies laptop is old and only 32 bit. Hopefully I'll buy a new personal machine soon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jbuggydroid:
Awesome news. Great work man
[Motorola Photon 4G] QuAdS17:
awesome cant wait to use this as a daily rom!
[Motorola Photon 4G] devilsshadow:
This has got to be an even of epic proportions for all Photon users out there! Thank you for all the work you've put into getting this to boot. Also thank you so very much for not giving up!

I'd love to see the faces of the folks on the CM forums when you throw them a fully working CM Photon build in their faces! "Hey look what I just did! U JELLY?"
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcowboys2184:
Lol ... It'll be to easy for them from then on
[Motorola Photon 4G] criptix:
Everybody should submit to portal.
[Motorola Photon 4G] devilsshadow:
Easy or not, we all know who did the hard parts and who deserves the most credit. So even if they do get involved it doesn't matter what they do. Credit will be given where credit is due.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
What a sweet past few days. webtop2sd gets released, I finally get Ubtuntop distributable and get some sleep. Thinking there's more nights involving sleep ahead I check the threads today and !BAM! you have CM7 booting! I'm more than game for helping to get this ready for prime time, can always sleep when I'm dead. :p
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcowboys2184:
Definitely ... Just was putting it in a sarcastic way... Guess i failed at it .. Haha....
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
sweet

so what isnt working

is there a list?

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btw how does cm7 work for global phones

like im in canada, and i use it in GSM mode, will that sitll work
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
There is actually a list of working and non-working functions of the phone in the OP, however they're not complete.

To answer your GSM question, I'm not sure. We will have to see how it will work once we have more bugs worked out. Currently the phone works best without a SIM card inserted... but our intentions are to see if we can figure that out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] aikata:
For what it's worth, I did an install.

Booted up ok.

After removing Phone.apk the FC loop went away.

wifi doesn't enable just returns error

camera/video app works ok but does not allow me to take pictures as it doesn't recognize the sd card

was able to get it to pair on bluetooth with my pc but it wouldn't transfer files

also tried booting with gapps flashed and couldn't get past the setup android

fun stuff :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
so installed it and gapps

boots nicely, but wifi errors, so i cant access market

also i tried removing phone apk it said it doesnt exist

so the radio doesnt work right? can we try phone apk from diff phones/roms

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cmsettings also force closing

but since it booted itll be easier from here right! i remember when the atrix first booted it was this bad but it was streamlined quickly!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mikel719:
Can't wait for this. Wish I could help you in some way but I have no knowledge of deving. Thank you for keeping up with this. I for one appreciate the hell out if it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Expect a very nice update tomorrow once I'm done with classes :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rabidmechanic05:
How dare you leave us hanging like this..... Cruelty on a whole new level....

Sent from one focused MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weasel00:
The orignal booting ROM does flash on a Motorola Electrify as well. I flashed it last night and was playing around. The only thing I experienced when going back to a backup was my phone was looking for GSM networks, but like I said I was playing around in CM.

mrinehart93 - Let me know if you need any help testing this for the Electrify as well. Great Job to you and all that has helped.

Can't wait for the update!

Jared
[Motorola Photon 4G] section8ff:
Glad to see the progress on this, I would help with this process, but lack the experience to feel confident that I would be of any asset. I appreciate all the hard work that everyone is putting in to this build, and to the original dev.

sent from my MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
Holy Crap! my dream was only a few days off! Crazy! lol

now all i need to dream about is winning the lottery ha ha
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
guys, i know its very awesome that we have a booting phone but dont forget this is still a bit away from being a daily driver. this is the first sprint moto phone, this is also the first world phone in cm7.. cdma radios are a big PITA but to have a cdma radio when cm7 keeps trying to connect to the gsm one.. it makes it very difficult. wi2th that being said could one of our international brothers download this and let us know if using their gsm sim card it has what all working?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cobrahicks:
To all those folks who want to help but cannot due to lack of skill, time, resource, whatev. One word for ya, donation. Help keep this Dev motivated and focused to make our dreams come true!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Isnt there a way to reconfigure those settings
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
mrinehart could you please push changes up to your CM Git? I'm attempting to pull some resources together :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Later today I'm going to start a whole new repo... I started from scratch so what is up there won't boot.

EDIT

Oh and hopefully I'll have another update out around 3-ish... that's when my classes end today :P
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
Thanks, I'll check back and pull later today, im building a VM image to boot a 64 bit box when I find one.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Sounds good. I'll PM you/IRC you as soon as I get the repo up again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
I agree. I sent a few bucks today to buy a meal or what have you. i know its not much, but every bit helps these guys.

And this will be a huge breakthrough for CM7. a worldwide phone running CM7?! yes... i just went from 6 to midnight. ha ha
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
CM7 + Worldphone + Photon = disgustingly awesome.
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
GSM user here in Canada

No signal, phone keeps crashing is prob why

airplane mode keeps selecting and deselecting itself

I'm down for a GSM only version :p jks

sent from MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
Wasn't the Droid cdma? It got cm7 no?

sent from MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Our problem is that the Photon supports CDMA/GSM, so it currently doesn't know which to pick over what and then it gets mad and crashes.

EDIT

JI just got the internal SD card to mount as /mnt/sdcard so camera and stuff works, but I can't get the external sd card to mount :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
I don't have an external SD card anyways
[Motorola Photon 4G] edozier:
Got a 32gb class 10 in mine :(:(

I do have to say you guys are amazing! Maybe this will help turn others toward the photon and increase the user base :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
You'd probably have to hack the functionality into the dialer as well. Count on anything Sprint-related being stripped out of this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] surillis:
Excuse my ignorance but how are you loading the gsm and cdma radios? If they are kernel modules why not just disable one or the other. Mind you, having both operational would be awesome, but we have to start some place ;) Thank you so much for your hard work
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
Word

if nething make a GSM rom and a cdma rom

sent from MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] seve1476:
Could this possibly work on the Electrify from USCC?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Yes it could and probably will work on the Electrify :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] seve1476:
Sweet. USCC might get some luv here. Thanks by the way to all the devs on this!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Updated the OP with a new build. More stuff is working... remember to pull the SIM card out before booting!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mike19722:
??

link not working...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
This. And im sure shabby will help with mirrors ;) lol...can we also get a link to the latest gapps aswell posted in the op.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Awesome. Been following this from the begining and it is moving right along. Great job Man.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
i fixed the link
[Motorola Photon 4G] mike19722:
thank you!!

Weird...it says "Server downloading session limit is reached. Please try again in a few minutes.
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
i guess this could also allow ppl to use it in the usa on different carriers

removes the sim lock?

ps is the phone/radio working on the new build?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
This won't allow people to use the phone on different carriers. And no, sadly the phone/radio is not working on the new build :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] 27s:
Have you tried using the phone.apk from the stock build?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Nope. That Phone.apk requires the MotoBlur framework, which CM doesn't have. The phone.apk isn't the problem though, it's just setting up the RIL. TBH, I haven't had enough time to look at getting that to work yet, but I'll look at it when I can.

Oh, and here is a video on the current build I just made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrbk5Ml194
[Motorola Photon 4G] 27s:
Ok, makes since. It has been a while since I have worked on something other than htc stuff, and I ran aosp or cyan on those.
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
so if i understood from ur video, the only kernel that is possible to use right now w cm7 is shabbys, but it breaks wifi.

other then that, and radio

it looks like it would work as a daily driver. im excited bro, entering f5mode

. where can i donate

lots less probs then atrix's first release (camera didnt work, bluetooth, etc..)

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mke sure to keep the 'internal sd card' as the main storage!

i remember in atrix , they had the 'external sd card' as emmc, and the internal storage as the 'sd card' , and it messed everything up (gallery wouldn't load/find the photos)

they released a fix later that let us switch them, in the (vold.fstab) file i think

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PS: Just sent you some coffee money

use them for providing u with the rush to find the radio fix :P

thanks again
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Now that you put it that way, it actually IS really close to being a complete ROM! And I'll need to find the Atrix vold.fstab... I even tried our stock vold.fstab and it didn't work :P If you want to donate (please don't feel inclined to), you can click the "Donate to me" button above my username.
[Motorola Photon 4G] htcSlide:
Thank u for all your time and hard work, man!! I get paid next week.. Ill be throwin u a bone..

Is there a download link somewhere that i missed for your current build?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Thank YOU for the support.

The download link is in the OP for the current build, but here is the link so you don't need to search for it: http://www.4shared.com/file/ttmPmsQw/CM10122011.html
[Motorola Photon 4G] htcSlide:
Thank you!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
heres the atrix vold fstab

it may already be 'rewired' to allow the internal sd card as the main storage (EMMC)

and the external as external

i cant remember if i had it edited or not
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
Be on the lookout for a nice donation soon!! Thanks for putting time in this with class and whatnot. I know midterms are coming up don't lose focus man we'll be here lol. I ran your rom on my heroc so i know you have skills.. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
im hoping i can get wifi figured out so we can at least test if wifi is working or not :(

also.. cant believe no one commented on your hello kitty tshirt in the video :P

>.>
[Motorola Photon 4G] Smoke314:
Just curious...once everything is up and running, would we be able to install webtop or ubuntop?
[Motorola Photon 4G] rohit3192:
cm7 looking damn good on photon.

(mrinehart's you tube video)
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
i watched the new video and WOW! it looks like that thing just blows through the pictures and moves so fast. i find myself moving closer to the screen and sliding off the edge of my chair when i open up this Thread, ha ha.

just a thought...when ICS is released and ported to the Photon and able to utilize the Dual Core more efficiently, Mix that with the new build of CM, plus whatever new hot kernels are out at the time... The Photon is gonna be one wicked MoPho!

I have friends that are still pimpin the first Motorola Droid, I think if all this development happens, i wont be in the market for a new phone for a long long time. Its not like Sprint has anything else to offer for a Worldphone other then $hitberries and we can see in the news why they have just dug their own grave.

And then you have apple on the other side that has finally caught up with Android and added the "Notification" menu. Um... hello apple, Android has had that since... oh forever? lol

Great work and thanks for keeping the Thread alive with Updates! I truly enjoy reading and watching yall work and pass on pointers and ideas. It makes great use of a Forum (the way they should be used)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Are there any plans on submitting this for official review?
[Motorola Photon 4G] devilsshadow:
Quite interested about this as well.

Maybe after a bit more tweaking and such?
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
cm team requires 100% working without breaking anything other phones before they will even consider it
[Motorola Photon 4G] devilsshadow:
I see...

Well then, at least an acknowledgement from them that you guys have this thing booting and more or less working would be good as well. Anything that would give the Photon a dedicated place on the CM forums where more people can look at it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] htcSlide:
I thought i caught a glimpse.. LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] yepitsme19:
mrinehart93, you are my new favorite person. This is just ****in amazing. Just needs data and I will love you forever. Thinking you deserve a pizza or hooker, on me.

One word... MIUI!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Lol there was no hello kitty shirt. It was the redbird (Illinois State University mascot) pointing to a moon or something. I got the shirt from an event at our student center lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] the12nv:
lol...that is hilarious - Hello Kitty - you Sir, are very appreciated for all the hard work that you put into this - thanks a whole lot - beer on me - on friday!!! on a side note - Big 10 Baby - Go Badgers!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
Lol just a grown up hello kitty
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Was planning on starting work on the webtop side of this yesterday but the bloody iPhone launch at work has really hosed those plans. Once things settle, hopefully in a day or two, I'll dive back in. For now it's, get sleep and try not to kill the sheeple.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Thesian:
Yeah, damn iPhone launch has me working bell to bell tomorrow as well. God, I hate that phone sooo much!

But back on Topic, Thanks to everyone who is putting in the effort. I need to get my paypal back up and working, and I'll give a donation, unless you have a google checkout option or something that would work as well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cobrahicks:
FYI

Paypal also excepts credit/debt cards without the need of an account
[Motorola Photon 4G] abowlby:
@ mrineheart

Stay hungry. I took my ET4G back and made a deal to pick up the MoPho, and coming over here I see that a lot of folks jumped ship the opposite direction. Instead of an avoidance reaction, you took this thing head on and are going to reap the benefits of experience. Learning is the profit of experience, and you are taking CM7 into unrehearsed territory. Let that sink in a minute.

You're a MoPhoking Champion of Craft in my estimation. Donation coming your way ASAP.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
Why did you return the epic touch?
[Motorola Photon 4G] craigbailey1986:
Could you still work on miui cause i would really pay for that! !!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Me too for miui
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Same. I've always wanted to use MIUI (even if I didn't use it daily, I just want to try it sometime).
[Motorola Photon 4G] WiredAnim:
I would love to see either CM7 or MIUI on the photon. I love this phone but I miss both of those roms. I am currently rooted and unlocked, if either of you need beta testers I'm all for it. Just PM me.

craigbailey1986 if I don't hear about the beta in the next few days I may end up PMing you ;-)

CYANOGENMOD IS AWESOME!!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Keep up the great work guys!
[Motorola Photon 4G] dgalioto:
I would love to be a tester. unlocked and ready to go.
[Motorola Photon 4G] JCAndroid87:
We will see CM7 and MIUI pretty soon on the Photon guys don't worry lol :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] dreDrennon1:
I am looking forward to miui myself it is my favorite only thing I hope is that the miui has an app drawer
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Dont count on it. Thats what makes MIUI...MIUI! ;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] JCAndroid87:
MIUI will always be MIUI without the app drawer, that's what makes it unique but, you can download an alternative launcher from the market.
[Motorola Photon 4G] SS2006:
ill test. Have experience w this
[Motorola Photon 4G] ianford10:
Id like to give it a go if i can :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] damageplan1223:
nice

i would like to give it a try to im unlocked and rooted
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
>.> i keep looking in this thread cuz its bumped excited and wishing for updates yet every time its people asking to beta test :(

and i know due to my post more people will do the same now :P
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kcarpenter:
Damn you shabby.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
When I have a build completed I'll update the thread title from [WIP] to [BETA].
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Now thats funny right there. Tell ya what.