[Motorola Photon 4G] thundercles:
Okay I screwed up and forgot to put everything in a "system" folder in that last zip, use this link instead:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwH9o3eKmuZsZGRkZjgzNGEtMzNjNy00NDU2LWE1NjItMTVhMTM0Mzk1MmUz

here is the contents of the included README.txt

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STOCK PHOTONSTEIN ALPHA 1
by thundercles xda-developers.com

-This rom is called photonstein because it is for the motorola photon, and is a sewn together fusion of pre-compiled sprint and self-compiled KDDI softwares. The
KDDI source code from the motorla opensource release was first fixed so that it compiles, as motorola's source release is ****ty and none of it that thundercles has
tried to compile, has actually compiled without modification. Thundercles tediously edited most of the makefiles in the KDDI source so that all of compiled except for
bluetooth. That alone isn't the full /system, so thundercles found the oldest sbf image on the internet, unpacked the /system from there, replaced all the files in it
that had replacements in the new compiled binary tree, went through and removed all the files that looked suspect or that thundercles felt like removing, as well as
most of the odex pairings to the apk and jar files replaced by the new binaries (as they are deodexed by default, or more properly never were odexed) but left a few in
because the filesize of the new binaries looked a bit small and the file wasn't a vital file for booting and basic operation. Threw the resulting /system in a zip with
a generic META-INF from an upgrade zip and we'll see what happens. see test notes below for more details on testing
THIS IS CONSIDERED ALPHA, TESTING PURPOSES ONLY
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, not to scare anyone away this shouldn't do any real harm that can't be undone by the same recovery that is required to install it in
the first place, but you have been warned just in case.
This includes /system replacement and only that at this time. Custom variation of the stock kernel for the future, but it is hoped the main goals of this rom can be met without
requiring anything changed in the /boot so it will work in locked or unlocked mode.

[email=thundercles@gmail.com] no bots, my e-mail is my name here at gmail [/email]
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@tcles
[url]http://thundercles.haydenmagnet.org/[/url]
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Uploading Rom image to google docs, please test ASAP:
test notes:
This is a full system compile from KDDI source code after I patched the motorola source so it would compile. This only included open source items and code directly derived from the google vanilla source code 2.3.4_r1 so I unpacked the system.img from the oldest sbf I could find on the internet, hopefully it is old enough that these builds are still compatible with the supplemental software.
This is a zip file with meta installer so install through custom recovery, will wipe and replace /system
Don't forget to wipe cache.
Report back what the results of this are, you can play around with various kernels and see what does or doesn't work. If it wont boot, let me know right away so I can put something else togther, if it boots, this is the baseline I'm working from.
If it boots and doesn't view domestic GSM networks, let me know because I had to leave .odex files from the original build in that I wanted to remove, but I applied my changes before deodexing, so I don't know whether it will load the odex or the apk versions. It is probably using the odex versions or the baseband is too new if it wont see GSM networks.
The best way to test this is to flash back to a 154 baseband sbf image in rsd mode. I'm not certain if this will work on the updated basebands, if anyone can flash back to the 154 baseband or still has a photon on that baseband please let me know cause you're tests will be priority.

=ty seth "tcles"

LISTS OF ALL FILES COMPILED BY THUNDERCLES AND ADDED TO THE UNPACKED /system FROM THE SBF ARE INCLUDED IN THE TWO OTHER .txt FILES!!
anything not in those lists was compiled presumably by the motorola developers.
All files removed from the original /system are in the archive Removed.7z which is included. If there is some kind of functionality that isn't behaving properly, OR you want a system app or function that I removed for whatever reason (like anything that started with "sprint" -gone- as most people desiring to use this rom will not be sprint customers. So I included them in here)
Feel free to play around with the ROM adding or removing things from the app and framework folders to try and figure out what everything does, report back if you do so I can make your findings common knowledge.

Special thanks to: dsimms, shabbypenguin, and jokernumbers

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Hope that works, we'll see. I'm goin out for a bit, finally, catch ya'll in a bit.

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