yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Its a sunfire. The electrify and photon are almost identical except radios and the electrify is 3g since us cellular is only 3g. I think there is a couple of other minor differences. I know the root and unlock methods work for both.

@joker. Ill flash this in a few and report back.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dmora01:
So is it any benefit of use electrify rom in my sprint mopho?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Different phones.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dmora01:
I installed the skinni4g, I want to know if can I delete the .odex files?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
You shouldnt have odex files as all my roms are deodexed. Look at the about phone and tell me what you see
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
I downloaded and tried to flash with no luck. I keep getting an error and installation aborted. Downloaded agin in case of download error and same thing. Tried to flash from internal and external sd card. Tried just wiping cache and dalvix. Tried wipe data. Still no luck.

I also tried to flash the deodexed rom from the link I posted thinking I needed that first. It wouldnt flash...same error.

I have cwm blue photon2 5.0 same one others use on the electrify with no issues. I can do everything else in cwm...backup, restore, wipe cache.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
do me a favor and try to flash again, after it fails go to cwm advanced menu and click show log and let me know what it says
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
I: checking for extendedcommand...

I: skipping execution of extendecommand, file not found...

Installing: /cscard/skinnyrev1-electrify.zip

finding update package

I: update location: /sdcard/skinnyrev1-electrify.zip

Opening update package...

Installing update...

E: error in /sdcard/skinnyrev1-electrify.zip

(status 0)

Installation aborted
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Ok give me a sec.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
unzip skinnyrev1-electrify.zip into its own folder, you should have three items meta-inf system and boot.img. now unzip attacted file and unzip it. replace the meta-inf folder in the skinnyrev1-electrify.zip folder with the one in attached folder. now zip up the three items meta* system and boot.img and flash
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Ok. Be a couple of hours. Im at work at the moment.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Do i need to wipe data before flashing.?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Can't wait to try this out tonight.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
It just keeps bootlooping showing the cube.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Still wouldnt flash. I tried flashing something else...ics font.zip, and it wouldnt flash. I am using the cmw for photon by romracer. Maybe its bad.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
It flashed just fine with no errors on my Electrify, but bootloops when trying to boot.

I would reflash your recovery...
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
If you want to flash fonts the easy way just download rom toolbox (jrummy) and make sure you have busybox installed. I've flashed about 20 different fonts on my phone (not unlocked) and with no recovery just fine.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
I was just flashing them to test my recovery.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Can someone with an electrify get a logcat of it boot looping and ill see what i can do.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
Not sure how to do that.

I tried reflashing recovery and im still having issues. Im gonna run the sbf and go back to stock and go back through rooting and unlocking before i try anything else.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Does the electrify rom have the scroll view issue as sunfire?...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Ill jump on the logcat when I get home tonight if its not already resolved.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
What kernal is with the electrify release?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Same as skinny
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Is it 1.3ext4?? I flashed that last week with homebase and it just boot looped. Probably the kernal then. 1.3ocwifiedition ran fine with homebase. Still haven't tested. On my way home.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Its ext3 wifi edition
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Hmmm ok well ill run that logcat as soon as I can. Thanks for working on this rom
[Motorola Photon 4G] bfd1513:
I haven't got to reroot and unlock yet. Been a busy day at the firehouse. As soon as i do ill give any info and help i can. Thanks for trying this joker...not much happening on the electrify.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Once i get the logcat ill issue a flashable hotfix for the electrify. As far as photon owners, i am still working on skinny2 but most of my little free time has been going into rewriting the oc/uv code and changing makefiles. Im also adding some features to the kernel for webtop users. I may release skinny2 without any themes at first. Then just make the themes flashable afterwards.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Got hammered last night and ran late this morning with work. Will get this to you in a couple hours. One question should electrify owners be on a 198_7 sbf before flashing?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
No
[Motorola Photon 4G] BAleR:
Sorry but i have a question, i rooted with terminal and flashed the skinny4g version of this rom and i need to know how to get back to stock so i can goto the sprint store, can i just do a factory reset or do i need a computer to flash back to stock. Tha ks

Edit: i have a new question, can i unlock the bootloader through terminal? Sorry for being confusing
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Factory reset should work fine.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Sprint services rooted phones but not jailbroken iPhones.
[Motorola Photon 4G] BAleR:
So does this mean they prolly wont care? Also i changed the boot screen and added the toggles, will a F/R change it back? Thanks for the help
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
No it won't change it back. A factory reset is just a data/cache wipe with a few sdcard directories
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Ok joker I am setup and ready to do this logcat just waiting for phone to charge before flashing. Just so I know because I haven't done a logcat before... do I need to run it in adb on my pc while its bootlooping and export it to a file? This is kinda what I thought to do after taking a look at the logcat extensions. Let me know if I need to do it differently. Thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
I wish cm7 ran this fluid. -sigh- Great job with skinny rev1 joker!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Hmm after changing the folder in the zip folder I am now getting this:

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Installing update...

Installation aborted...

Going to flash back to stock then try again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Try which ever way you did to get it to flash and run logcat in adb and exporting to a file would be perfect. I just need to see whats going on when it bootloops
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
I haven't gotten it to flash yet. Flashing back to stock then will try again after root/unlock. Cythrawl had it in bootloops... anything special I should be doing? I was flashing from a electrify version of Homebase on CWM with dalvik and cache wiped? Still new to this phone stuff luckily I have some embedded systems programming background haha. Let me know if I am doing anything wrong.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MikeyLee:
Does anyone have any screenshots of these Roms and sorry, I'm new to the Photon so if I am rooted but NOT unlocked, which of them would I want to use???
[Motorola Photon 4G] radrian92:
Use the locked skinny version in the op
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

Downloaded skinnyrev1-electrify.zip

Extracted

Replaced META-INF with attached folder from post

Merged META-INF folders(tried both non merge/delete/copy and merge)

Zipped files back into skinnyrev1-electrify.zip

Moved to internal memory on electrify

Booted into CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.3-photon2

Wiped Cache Partition

Wiped Dalvik Cache

Install .zip file from internal sdcard

Followed these steps and got Installation Aborted. When using original zip file I get the same error everyone is getting.

Ideas? About as frustrated as I could be...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
All i did that was different to how joker asked to rebuild the zip was use 7zip, open the main rom with it, open up the meta fix zip he posted with another instance, and moved that folder to the main rom zip. It injected it there and i had no issues flashing it, but it wouldnt boot (no need to unzip anything that way). I have always used 7zip for any modding of rom files as i always get failures with winrar, etc. learned that the hard way..

I have been pretty busy this weekend, and like u i have no idea how to get a logcat from a bootlooping phone. I will be willing to try tomorrow late afternoon however, as i am always up for getting nrw skills.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
I am using winrar... maybe I should try to rebuild it using 7zip. I know how to do the logcat now... just need the damn thing to flash. Are you using the CWM version posted on team uscellular?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
Im actually using the later version romracer posted here on xda
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
Never EVER use winrar for android zips.. Never had any luck with it flashing after winrar gets its mitts on it..
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
OK so here is the log after Installation Aborted

W: failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or directory)

W: failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or directory)

E:Can't mount /sdcard/

What do I need to do here? Possibly format?
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Is it worth unlocking to run skinnyrev1 over skinny4g?

Does the oc kernel make that much of a noticeable difference?

Also, some screen shots of this ROM would be nice. Thanks for all of the hard work on this project!
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
The ROM is stock, but you can obviously use a launcher over it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kernodle:
Wow rev1 with ext4 is very fast, quite the enjoyable experience. Thanks for your efforts.
[Motorola Photon 4G] radrian92:
With the kernel you can undervolt and overclock which is nice
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Joker - just a request if even possible for upcoming rom or kernel. Not sure where this falls. The photon has the same crippling feature the ATRIX as which is the water drop detection on the touch screen feature. It disables the touch screen for a second or 2 if it detects input for more than like 7 seconds on the screen. So if ur playing a game which requires u to hold the acceleration button, the touch screen with become unresponsive after detecting a "touch" for more than the 7-8 seconds. Then takes 1-2 seconds to reset before allowing any more touch input on the screen.

Not sure if this can be disabled but this is the dumbest "feature" I've ever heard of. If its raining outside, im not pulling my phone out....
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
I tried out a fix for that awhile back and its not pretty. Something small got on the edge of my screen near q while i was typing and the phone went ballistic. It was q's everywhere while cleaning it off something else got stuck and added like 500 widgets. I pulled the battery and after it boots it was somewhere else. I had to reflash without the fix or have an immaculate screen. So i think it might be there for a reason. Plus that fix plus charger bug equals possessed phone. It was texting q's to friends and at one point was opening the notification screen at a 1000mph. It was entertaining ill say. It would make a great prank if you super cleaned the screen and installed it on someone
[Motorola Photon 4G] dave0812:
Anything new on the electrify build?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Still need a logcat of it bootlooping
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Sorry Joker still working on getting this rom to flash. Other roms will flash (CM7, Homebase) I don't understand what is going on. From reading around I think I need to repartition my internal storage. Will try to get this done tonight. Want to get you that logcat asap.
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Lmao. Turns the phone into poltergeist 2011 lol. It was worth asking. Still not sure what the benefit of it is...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
My current fix works. Wigglefingereveryonceinawhile.zip
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Lol.org
[Motorola Photon 4G] thegameksk:
Hey. Loving the rom. Its very snappy. Does motoblur (or whatever its called now) not working on the skinny rom? I have the one for an unlocked bootloader. After I set my accounts up and hit next I get a fc message.3

+
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Skinny is like the claritin commercial
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Doesn't look like I will be able to test this ROM... I can install Homebase from zip , but not your ROM joker... I just can't figure out the problem. I looked over the updater script and still can't seem to figure out what the difference is in the two updaters...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
I need more info, locked unlocked electrify/photon rooted not rooted. White phone black phone?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Unlocked rooted electrify running homebase with newest cwm from romracer
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Oh and its a blackish phone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pats4life100:
Hey can u do the prl hack with this phone
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Could someone please break down the main differences between all of these different ROM versions? I'm a little overwhelmed but I appreciate all of the hard work! :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
Love the theme but it drains the Fk outta my battery... ;/
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Whenever i eventually get back to theming ill get rid of the animation.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
What phone do you have and are you locked or unlocked
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rapidlayout:
Any ideas joker?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Have you tried the regular skinnyrev1
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
I have a locked MoPho. I am willing to unlock it if it's truly worth it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] thegameksk:
I am having problems downloading from the market. On wifi it works fine but not on 3g. If I hit download it just keeps saying download but never downloads then a red triangle appears in my notifications bar. Any ideas?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Clear cache
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Do you like fast?
[Motorola Photon 4G] pats4life100:
U you do the prl hack with this phone
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
Damn lol i kinda like the animation lol...no way to keep out from drainin the battery so bad?
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Of course!
[Motorola Photon 4G] pats4life100:
Hey can u do the prl hack on the photon
[Motorola Photon 4G] netengineer:
I am having an issue, I am now on skinny but was on the full joker before and same issue. My phone just reset out of the blue and now my lock screen is gone. I didn't have a pattern or number lo k screen just the basic. I also noticed that when I power off the phone I only have 2 options now. It also resets my setting like Wi-Fi, keyboard, ect. What I did was a complete whip and installed skinny and everything worked fine till I reset my phone and problem came back. Any ideas. (I think I saw something on this issue a while back but can't remember where I saw it) thanks in advance for the help
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Hey joker is JIT enabled in your roms?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Ummm yea all roms 2.2+ have jit
[Motorola Photon 4G] thegameksk:
I clared the cache for the market and its still happening. Now im even getting connection time out errors. Ive cleared cache, restarted, restarted and pulled battery and still nothing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Call Recording Mod

Joker, any chance you could add this mod to one of your roms?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1222368
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Can someone post jokers build prop tweaks?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Skinny2 will be coming soon, im putting wimax on pause and im going to finish my kernels so i can push skinny2. Question, how does everyone want skinny2; a full wipe rom, or a no wipe update for skinnyrev1. Also do you wanted it themed or just basics and let themers do the theming
[Motorola Photon 4G] bridic:
Full wipe and no theme.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
themed...Ummm i prefer the full wipe even tho it sucks restoring everything...i like the thought of a clean slate so to speak
[Motorola Photon 4G] radrian92:
Dang you're putting be in a tight spot! 4G or Skinny2 mhmm...
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
+1

I definitely agree!

---------- Post added at 11:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:06 PM ----------

Any thoughts, joker? This would be a very useful mod!
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Well 4g is nice but skinny2 isnt a theoretical project so it affects more people. Plus originally i was just a kernel dev but the roms were lacking. None of my roms are traditional to what most rom devs cook up. My roms were suppose to be starting points for other people to modify with themes and so on. We seem to have a ton of happy with how it is people using the photon. Once skinny 2 and jokerstock 2 are out the door ill be working on kernels and a secret project loki and i will be attempting. I also am making head way with wimax slowly but no promises. Works been crazy so...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Ludacon:
got skinny rev1 and the 1.4 kernel loaded up, played around with it a bit and i noticed im topping out around 4200 in quadrant, yet you screen shotted at 5K score, is this a kernel not in the wild or am i just loosing benchmarks somewhere
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Convert data to ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
How do i do that joker?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Download my ext4data and flash it. Reboot and flash 1.4 again
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
No wipe?
[Motorola Photon 4G] thegameksk:
Hey Joker. I seem to have problems running fitness apps. So far ive tried noom, cardio trainer, and imapmyrun. Everytime I hit the record/log workout button for either the program will fc. Ive tried wiping and reflashing but it keeps happening. Any idea as to what I need to do to fix? Thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Skinny2 will fix this
[Motorola Photon 4G] thegameksk:
Any idea as to when skinny2 will drop?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Maybe tonight or tomorrow hopefully. If not ill at least release a hotfix for the gallery and gps issues
[Motorola Photon 4G] pastert33:
Nice! Thanks for the work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
I cant get a logcat of it bootlooping...

adb sits there waiting for device while its bootlooping...

Doesnt see the phone...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Ill try again soon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
You got me excited for skinny 2! Can't wait for it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Me too... me too!
[Motorola Photon 4G] slicedcheese:
Any news on the electrify build? I just need to unlock then ill give it a whirl
[Motorola Photon 4G] poopies457:
n00b questions #265981

How do I know if im on 198-7????

My phone is in boot loop of death:(
[Motorola Photon 4G] radrian92:
Go to setting>about phone>build number.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Theme. Full wipe
[Motorola Photon 4G] thegameksk:
Is anyone having problems with Google music on this rom? I cant make any files available for offline use. Ive tried over wifi and 3g and nothing will happen in the status bar. After a while I get "songs cant be downloaded now please check internet connection and try again". I have an internet connections and am able to go on the market and browse but it keeps giving that message.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
skinny2 test run1 uploading now
[Motorola Photon 4G] bridic:
Can't wait.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
I'm at work so ill be ready to download it asap!
[Motorola Photon 4G] pastert33:
Ready to download and test!
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Sorry i didnt post sooner. Its got a nasty bug, after i fix ill repost
[Motorola Photon 4G] pastert33:
Nutten to be sorry about! Just thankful for your work!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
Np man, you are doing a awesome job for us photon owners!
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
no prob at all! thanks for your great work
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Please delete this post, not thread
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Well Man. The woman is asleep. So now I can get to it and flash this bad boy and toy around with it. I'm sure it's gonna be legit. I'm super stoked. Though, I'm probably gonna flash the Alien Theme over it, since it's what I'm used to. Do you have any theme ideas? I like black a lot along with some blue. But that's just my two cents. I'll post back once I flash it and see what's up with it. :)

Edit...

Okay Man, this ROM is pretty zippy, I'm on the skinny, haven't had any issues with it yet, no FC's on any apps, no FC's on the dialer, data works, and I'm pretty stoked with it. Thanks a ton, it's legit. I presume you are gonna work on the 1% battery status deal correct? otherwise super stoked.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MisterTedster:
So with the new version that we can flash via bootstrap, can we just flash over the existing stock rom?
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I would assume so, but I'm not super certain about flashing things via bootstrap. Though I do recall flashing the Laser ROM over stock. So I'm going with yes.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Dont flash alien theme, no themes have been made yet but im trying
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Yes but please follow the instructions, i will make an update.zip just for bootstrap later on. The current method works but was rushed per someones request. I still need someone to test it though as im unlocked.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
absolutely fantastic job, joker, flashed skinny firmware, it's just awesome work, no more words.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Is there a reason you don't want me to flash the Alien theme over it? Will it cause FC's?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Your welcome, this all started because a good friend of mine had a photon and was upset that her phone was "slower" than her friends ET. So i built her a kernel. Then someone requested i build a rom worth shutting up naysayers. So i did. Some people are probably wondering how many roms i plan to do. Well heres the list.

Stockish- jokerstock

Light/bloatless-skinny(made for the same friend)

Aospish-blurbegone

Trueaosp/cm with webtop-(name not decided)
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Its 154 based. Mine is 198-7 based. Im trying to rally themers but i think theyre sleeping.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I wonder if that's why it didn't work on Juggs. Lol. I kept getting FC's on dialer and ****.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
That would be why.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
Just one thing - is the USB debugging activated by default? I didn't wipe.

I just explain - if you're not sprint user (like me), you need to delete the SpintOMADM.apk from /system/app, because in the skinny firmware actually no starting at all, cycle of "contact network" message.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
No, the USB debugging isn't enabled by default on stock ROM's, but looks to be on this ROM.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
If you didnt wipe then your settings are saved. In your case just unzip delete and rezip then flash.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So I gotta find a good program to theme with. Cause I'd like to cook something up for this. What color scheme do you like? Blue/Black and Green/Black are my ones of choice.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
yeah, alright.

I'll wipe better, too good rom. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Actually it is enabled by default on sprint roms, however i changed their start up scripts and it doesnt change it back on first boot(lazy coders).
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Could be the sprint setup trying to start before failing, since you deleted that file. Ill look into making a script for users like you to rid the phone of files needed for sprint.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
I'm wrong, My widgets just weren't updated normally because of internet suck, that's why I deleted message, but you're quickly.

I'll reflash after full wipe now, awesome job.

I'm happy there are no **** in firmware.