yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] colestein:
Am I just dumb?

I had an old school Evo and and Evo 3D, flashing roms was always easy and fun. I'm trying to follow this and feel like I'm the dumbest person alive. I want to keep 4G so I don't want to unlock the bootloader. It looks like I can flash this rom while keeping 4G in tact. Would someone be willing to write a walkthrough or publish it on youtube?

thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
I think joker posted it in the op... You need to flash thru bootstrap brotha.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Both roms include my 1.3 kernel
[Motorola Photon 4G] mecksg1:
What app do you use to undervolt?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Setcpu, or myrt, myrt is better for undervolting
[Motorola Photon 4G] mecksg1:
What do you use to undervolt?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Whenever i can get someone to help with uploading ill post a bootstrap(4g) version. Im basically going to walk the person through step by step on how to update the roms and upload. Btw if you keep 4g you dont get my 1.3oc kernel
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Running test now. I'm leaving it at stock voltage to create a baseline as not all phones undervolt the same.

I'd also help to test and upload fixes for you but just had another quake and my internet is now down. Sorry.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I know some stuff. But not everything though I will still help if needed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Btw my ext4 conversion can convert osh too, but i might just make a new cwm with native ext4 formatting support.
[Motorola Photon 4G] fnztakedown:
Thanks joker, im going to flash soon when my battery builds back up. I do have to say my battery life is really bad about a 5 hour charge at 1.3oc with acs rom so im hoping clearing out my phone and giving this one a try will improve on that. Ill report back:)
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Check your pm
[Motorola Photon 4G] gollyzila:
Hey jokersax11, if it's possible can you add to your ROMs a fix for the auto brightness so the sensor is continuously checking? Here is a video of the current auto brightness bug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhtA39ORk7I
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
whats the link to that script? I couldn't find it...

Sent from my Rooted/UnLocked MoPho running jokersax11's Skinny ROM OC'd to 1.3ghz and UV'd -25
[Motorola Photon 4G] gollyzila:
Dual core script: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264060
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Thanks Golly. I was gonna send him, but you took care of it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
So ext4 might go up tonight after testing, and maybe a new 1.4 kernel
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I'm itching to try it I just wanna get my phone up to a some what decent charge.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jfdebo779:
I am having problems with stock gallery on skinny. I have tried everything frim formatting reflashing 198_7. It loads pics but when I flash skinny over it after I unlock it wont load pictures. Android gallery works fine just not moto gallery. It stays on the loading screen and picture is blurry. Anyone else having this problem.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Im working on it
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
Hey, I have no problems here with autobrightness. And actually didn't have.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Update on ext4 conversion, is 5000 a good number
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So far so good it's booting. So I'll let you know what's up with it once I play with it. :]
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
5000? woohoo
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Real quick, while it's on my brain. once you flash Ext4, the option to wipe dalvik cache no longer works.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
why won't it work?
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Not entirely sure yet. But it's time for me to sleep for the night. I will leave the rest up to Joker and I'll toy with it again tomorrow.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Because data is formatted in ext4 and our cwm doesnt support ext4.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pswin09:
Any update for first post? Willing to see ext4 on my photon because I known the taste of ext4 on my previous Atrix. Cheer... Good job joker....
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
check it now,

wipe cache after flashing

, its in the mounts menu, dont wipe data or you lose ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] pswin09:
Thank a lot. Flashing now..
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
please post results/opinions
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Btw the ext4 file contains a new 1.3 kernel that was optimized more but made on a 32bit system so hopefully no bugs
[Motorola Photon 4G] pswin09:
I checked in terminal... System is still ext3, cache and data are ext4. Speed is a bit improve... responsive...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
while i can convert system super easy, just picture the complaints when people cant flash anything but whole roms
[Motorola Photon 4G] gollyzila:
The problem is the Photon won't auto lower brightness when going from a bright room/outside to a darker room. I've read the Atrix had this problem as well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
I confirm that /cache and /data are ext4, but /system is not.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
but did you try CWM 1.2 ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
This is intentional, however once i update everything ill make a system converter.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
I will now
[Motorola Photon 4G] pswin09:
Good man.... Yes on skinny rom, moto gallary picture always freeze... i try to put back some moto bloats also cannot get it work...
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcowboys2184:
I'm getting insufficient space since ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
W i p e c a c h e

If that doesnt work then factory reset and flash again
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
I have some news. I flashed ext4.zip and cleaned caches using CWM2. Looks like it didnt clean the caches at all. Then I installed CWM 1.2, wiped caches and next boot was long. As I understand, it really wiped the caches, not like previous CWM2.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
You only need to wipe the cache partition.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
I talked about cache partition.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Btw i tested with cwm 2.0 so i know it works
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
ok, may be I was little inattentive when wiped with cwm2
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
As long as it works
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So I followed the hunch I had last night about the launcher and services.jar file maybe screwing it up and aborting the install, no go, they didn't do it, even after I replaced them, still nothing doing. If you got any other ideas, I'm more then game to modify it and see if we can't get it booting.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
btw, this is my mount points.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Im hopeful for an update tonight with some fixes and more tweaks. I might port a few themes to keep a few people happy. I may release a full ext4 mod with 1.2 cwm included after some testing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
When i get to the hotel ill look it over and fix it. I have a few other things to add.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Okay Man. Sorry I couldn't get it fixed, I was thinking about taking the rev 0 apart and trying again. Since there really weren't too many files that were changed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] colestein:
That would be amazing! I always thought myself to be well versed until seeing this thread. :)

I definitely want to keep 4G, that's tops to me. Only reason I went with Sprint to start with.

Thanks a lot. I'll be patient.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So I'm retracing my footsteps to see what got botched along the way. I just put the services.jar and the zeam.apk into this one, and I've zipped it up, once I clear my caches and wipe my phone, I'm gonna try to install it. And see how it goes. Hopefully it'll work this time.

Edit

And nope.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
I'm testing battery thing now on shabby's dual core easy script, 4860 points bench here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264060
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Whats the problem man?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Sometime tonight ill download it and fix and send you what i did
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I swear it has to be the way I am zipping it or something. I can't see any reason it would fail with two changes. But okay. Let me know.

And KT just having install issues. Tried yo update and rezip something and now it won't install
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Not sure, but do you have to compile the apk before zipping it up and installing? Im so new to apk manager, so srry if im just being confusing
[Motorola Photon 4G] tetrabyt:
shabbypenguin's dual core tweak

anyway we can get this in this rom ? Excellent job, Thanks for the hard work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264060
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
No sorry, battery life is a little more important

Sent from one skinny jokermopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] netengineer:
I get a a force close using Google Voice Command search. Is there any fix and or is anyone getting the same issue?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jrebo:
Since there are different rom configurations (locked, unlocked, stock, standard, ext3, ext4), you should specify since each version could have unique issues.

That reminds me. I need to put that in my signature.

Joker skinny, unlocked, ext3 - Not having that issue when searching contacts or web.
[Motorola Photon 4G] netengineer:
Okay, I am using jockerstock rev0 unlocked with the tweak fix. Every time I hit the mic it does the force close. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled. Still the same issue. I even wiped and then did a "data restore" in CWM.

Any ideas?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jrebo:
I would factory reset in cwm and try the voice search before doing a restore to see if another program is conflicting. If it works, then restore/install a couple apps/mods at a time to determine who's not behaving.

I'm thinking of doing that to isolate the root-cause for a forced close that I'm getting for Movies app.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I pulled apart the ROM itself swapped some files then used winzip to get ready to flash. Not using apk manager Man.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
It needs to be updated or needs the stock browser.

I ported some ICS icons if you guys want them
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Jokerstock is stock, so any issues you have would be motos fault.

Sent from one skinny jokermopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Btw i use voice all the time

Sent from one skinny jokermopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] fnztakedown:
@Joker- found this odd glitch when dialing out. I can make a call out as long as it does not have "+1"(XXX)-XXX-XXXX this was also a synced # from facebook so though i would report back other then that this skinny rom is awesome decent 10 hour battery so far with little force closes:)
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
This is a sprint thing, its retarded. Some numbers work some dont. Mainly att doesnt with +1. I had the issue on stock and had to change many of my contacts.

Sent from one skinny jokermopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I had the same issue too. Mostly with my facebook contacts.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Low Power Results

voltage: stock

clock: stock

time elapsed: 23:56:16

battery level: 92%

boot time: 5secs

percentage drop per hr: .33

I'd say it works pretty well. Off to dinner and sleep, been servicing phones at a rate of 2/hr for 9hrs straight.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HooliganAMA:
After converting to ext4 several of my apps refused to install. Switching back to ext3 fixed the problem.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Is that the deep sleep mode?
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Joker, finally running your skinny ROM...nice work! Like the bootanimation...did you make that yourself? What undervolt settings are most people finding optimal?

I will try to use UOT kitchen to tweak the theme..wondering if CWM or Bootstrap is the way to go...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Sure is. There really is no need to turn of the phone now with this feature unless you are in a situation that requires it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
ok wiping cache in cwm fixes this. thats why ive said wipe cache like 30 times
[Motorola Photon 4G] netengineer:
That seemed to work. I went ahead and added my apps in one at a time and still works. Thanks for the help
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
keep in mind that a factory reset gets rid of ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
how do i disable window transitions?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
okay skinny rev1 is out of testing, im uploading two versions, one for unlocked with the 1.3oc kernel, and the other for locked bootloaders that doesnt install a kernel for you 4g lovers out there. a few tweaks were added and i changed launcherpro install location to data so you can update it easier. plus zeam is included as is titanium backup free. this should be very fast.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
awesome. Waiting for try.
[Motorola Photon 4G] HooliganAMA:
I did wipe the cache in cwm through the mount menu. Did not fix it.

Edit: was I supposed to let it boot then wipe after through cwm? I wiped right after I flashed.

Of my 99 apps only about 5 were refusing to install.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
spareparts
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
I'm interested in ext2. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
ok i had to make quite a few changes, im also updating the ext converter for now. the new market doesnt like ext4 on cache for some reason so i changed the script. some of you will still say ext4 on cache, mine does and i have had no issues. also no more need to wipe cache. so hopefully this is a stable release, ill leave rev0 up of everything for a few days till i know rev1 is stable. test away people
[Motorola Photon 4G] jrebo:
I don't see the link for ver 1.

Forget it. Found it.

Moto Photon Joker's Skinny ROM rev0 ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] HooliganAMA:
New ext4 converter working great with your stock version.

Your rom is fantastic. Crazy fast and my battery life has never been this good.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Is journaling enabled in this rom? Disabling it will speed up the phone, and increase battery savings. Just an idea :)....

Only real cons to that are if one installs bad apps or makes some crazy changes...you may experience a series of fc's...so manual backups would be a must.
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
I wenr into my cwm recovery and did the factory reset/wipe option so i could do a clean install of rev1...but i lost my recovery, and lost everything, just thankful i could boot my phone. There were not boot screens, juat a menu with optiin and then a black screen, but it booted

My question, im not home near a computer to reflash cwm recovery, i take it that the recovery cant be flashed from terminal emulator or something similar?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
There is but i wont post it due to bricking possible, just use fastboot to flash your recovery, its the easiest way and safe. You must of wiped recovery by accident or something
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
I left out a couple obvious changes to rev1 versions. Ill just wait till someone notices the change and is like wtf when did this happen
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Acyually it still says im running skinny. Just erased my data and recovery
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
works great.

One thing I would like to point out:

if you flash rev1 skinny + ext4+ya theme, you'll not get battery fix. So, just install it manually after all.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Open the browser and go to a full website with alot of stuff on it and zoom all the way out. Tell me if you notice anything
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Swype beta

Hey Joker,

Seem to have force close issues while installing Swype beta and with Kayak...not sure what it could be...anyone else have FCs?

Best,

K
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
used nvidia site for testing, no lags at all, all quickly
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
It works very stable. About undervolt - do you suggest to use -25?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Every device is different, just have to run trial and error my friend.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
Why? Depending of? How can I detect best for my device?
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Start at 25, if thats stable, go to -50 and so on..
[Motorola Photon 4G] gollyzila:
Yeah! I'm getting FCs with Kayak, ePythia Beta, and Spoty Lite. I think the FCs are related to the apps requires location permissions.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
So no one noticed the font was cleaner
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Well provide a logcat
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Is this on skinny or regular?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
The only thing stopping this is the updater script. I normally hand write my scripts but this time since this is based on yays 1024 deodex i used his and modified it. Im sure its something small im over looking. So to speed up progress i have updated the script and will send it to anyone who wants to help. Just pm me as i currently cant edit the script till later
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcowboys2184:
How you do that every method I tried on here has failed me
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Ok well i fixed it, it was one silly little extra ). So im uploading now and will begin working on a stripped version, if you wish to help pm me a list of system apps you froze/deleted and kept all function. Ill also make a barebones version and strip almost everything and try to replace as much as possible with lighter versions/aosp.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bearw815:
check your pm....
[Motorola Photon 4G] MinceMan:
I'm also very interested.

Sent from my Photon 4G
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
pm me too and ill make it an add on
[Motorola Photon 4G] bearw815:
Before i upload or give out a bunch of info, is this the camera app you all are thinking of...sorry for the poor picture.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcowboys2184:
Yup that's the one
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
ok jokerstock is posted, im slowly working on skinny now and plan on getting to everything in the request list
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcowboys2184:
Is scrollable drop down toggles possible.. I loved that with the epic ..,idk if the lockscreen mod could be possible .. That was also nice on the epic side
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
That is a touchwiz thing however cyanogenmod has something similar so i will be attempting to get it going as i also like the drop down thing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
tweaks fix posted with more tweaks
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
To the 50 something people who have downloaded so far, please download and flash the tweaks fix
[Motorola Photon 4G] pswin09:
Good stock rom with nice tweaks.. I only need to tweak build prop and use along with 3g speed hack from Zipp.. Phone is very stable and smooth.. Ohh.. I want d3 camera though...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
did you apply the tweak fix
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Running fast and smooth. Great work. Applied the tweak fix. Before flashing i was on 198_7, then wiped and flashed cm7, wiped and flashed this. Works great.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pswin09:
Yes.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
awesome work here. I just flashed this rom + tweak.zip + yay theme.

I would like to ask for battery 1% support.

You're going awesome man!
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
im building skinny now with 1% built in ill reupload jokerstock with 1%
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Hey joker, the non skinny version is the same as skinny without the bloat right? But I have to flash the tweak.zip correct?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
jokerstock is stock with an oc kernel and the skinny tweaks. all rev1 versions do not require you to flash anything extra
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Ok. That's where I was confused cause in the OP it still states to flash the tweaks.zip.

Ima try the stock tonight when I get ny recovery flashed back lol.

Which stock is revision one? They both have the same name....skinny shows rev1 but not stock
[Motorola Photon 4G] jrebo:
yes, very nice. Thanks

Joker's skinny ROM rev1 ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] jrebo:
Started with ver0 unlocked ext4

Wipe data/ factory reset

Wipe cache

Wipe dalvik

Install skinny ver 1 unlocked

Install ext4data.zip

Reboot

Restore apps+ data titanium backup

Reboot

No issues. Very fast. thanks Joker!

Joker's skinny unlocked ROM rev1 ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Oops i edited op for you
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Lol. Thanks man. Still baffles me that I erased my recovery by accident
[Motorola Photon 4G] gollyzila:
I'm using skinny rev0 unlocked bootloader ext3 battery percent fix. I started alogcat, tried to open ePythia, Spoty, and Kayak but they FC and then I stopped alogcat.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
How did you install them? Apk, titanium, root explorer, or what?
[Motorola Photon 4G] gollyzila:
Through the Market. I just downloaded them today.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MisterTedster:
Everytime I try to flash rev14g, I get "Failed to boot". What am I doing wrong?
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Try jrebos method from a few posts back.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
I havnt tested it but what are you flashing it in
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
In terminal

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/name-of-recovery.img
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Ill be home soon, just gonna play it safe with fastboot

So no need to boot up the rom first before flashing the ext4 file? Or should I let it boot up once before flashing it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Are u flashing the correct file? If ur flashing the unlocked only rom and ur not unlocked, u will get that error
[Motorola Photon 4G] MisterTedster:
I flashed the skinnyrev14gedition.zip and ext4 add-on via CWM from stock sbf rom. Only rooted, not unlocked.
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
I might be wrong but I think ext4 is for unlocked only? U try wiping and flashing without the ext4 zip?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Ext4 contains a kernel so yes its only for unlocked. I forgot to note that, i edited op
[Motorola Photon 4G] MisterTedster:
ah, got it. Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] iaccax:
Ok ..I tested the lock skinny version with bootstrap...everything is working great...but I want to know if anyone has a update zip so I can start theme'n this bad boy...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
You already have it
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
Joker - do I need to boot into the rom first before flashing the ext4 zip? Or is it ok to flash it when I flash the rom?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Use the ext4data and yes you can do it right after it
[Motorola Photon 4G] gollyzila:
Following up on the location app FCs. I think the skinny ROM is missing the Google Maps library (says the dev of Tasker). I'll upload another logcat in a few minutes.

UPDATE: Here's the logcat. I first tried to get a list of weather stations near me in BeWeather but it FC and then I tried to make a location context in a profile in Tasker but it FC.
[Motorola Photon 4G] e240:
so if we're on skinny rev0 what is the correct procedure to update to the latest? do we have to wipe data/factory reset or can we just flash over? and if we flash over is it still safe to use the ext4 converter? thanks for this ron by the way its really fast
[Motorola Photon 4G] jrebo:
E240,

This worked for me:

Started with skinny ver0 unlocked ext4

Wipe data/ factory reset

Wipe cache

Wipe dalvik

Install skinny ver 1 unlocked

Install ext4data.zip

Reboot

Restore apps+ data titanium backup

Reboot

MoPho with Joker's skinny unlocked rev1 ext4
[Motorola Photon 4G] e240:
Alright thanks ..I was hoping we wouldnt have to wipe data/factory reset but oh well lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
I take it that we wont be able to do android backups while mounted as ext4 until we have a recovery that supports ext4 correct?
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
That's a good question.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Try it. And check the recovery log.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
The software breaks the lapdock and webtop. It only shows mirroring but I think it is the kernel because I was stock root and flash the new kernel and then the lapdock and webtop stopped working.
[Motorola Photon 4G] phyba:
I did but it fails at the data part "unable to mount /data" and it aborts
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Im working on the recovery tonight when i get time, use some app to backup