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[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
Awesome news, but do try to release source as soon as possible, I'm sure Joker and other devs here wouldn't mind helping out or at least taking a look.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
So you need to be on CM7 or CM9 to get this working???

I' friggin confused.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ArchangelRenzoku:
You should really take another one and blip or blur your IMEI tho bro. You don't want that falling into the wrong hands if you know what I mean. User or network administrator alike...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Dsparil:
Good to know. Now I can get out of Sprint contact, and keep my MoPho. :)

With HSPA+, I won't even care about Wimax being unlocked as it's just as fast.

So does this flash the radios or something that needs to be implemented into every ROM?
[Motorola Photon 4G] anaragayevafr:
If it will really work. Ussd codes and other gsm services, i`ll go back to photon stock rom, it the best i think
[Motorola Photon 4G] jbuggydroid:
Man I hope this is the real deal
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
If you release your source I can help with the network issues
[Motorola Photon 4G] edozier:
I'm still skeptical. Even though the network says att the gsm says emergency only. Seems to me if your outside of network they would be required to connect to gsm for emergency calls per regulations.
[Motorola Photon 4G] craby1925:
maybe that's how they spoofed out the radio. If the radio ran in emergency mode than it would except any sim. But this guy should have released his source by now...
[Motorola Photon 4G] anaragayevafr:
I`m beginning to think that there is a secret organization out there which knocks off people who makes development on photon. Because everybody goes silent (except jokersax) after making some progress. (Or i watch too much thriller)
[Motorola Photon 4G] jbuggydroid:
Ha ha ha ha ha
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Yeah those people are get on my nerves always knocking on my door
[Motorola Photon 4G] lroy:
When they knock, just yell that you are not home. works in the comedies. he he
[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
I think you're right. They got Cybik as well. SURE, he claims to have moved on to the Galaxy Nexus and Transformer Prime, but who on their right mind would abandon the MoPho? NO, I bet he was held at gunpoint and FORCED a free Galaxy Nexus and Transformer Prime upon him in order to silence him. Those bloody bastards...

I also heard that Joker also has a ROM backup of MIUI with an iPhone theme in order to confuse and throw those miscreants for a loop...
[Motorola Photon 4G] DethMetalz69:
Im not a GSM user, but this is exciting news.

@anaragayevafr

LOL.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Dsparil:
If this turns out good, will we be getting the voicemail and the AT&T Billing apps from the Atrix?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ScottieRotten:
This sounds to be promising.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jmaserang:
I tried porting a from atrix to mopho and the at&t apps worked with Wi-Fi but I couldn't get it to connect to network it looked like the sim cards were different I'm going to try to get a sim and logcat and see what I come up with if anyone else would like to help msg me and I'll email the zip to you
[Motorola Photon 4G] daddymikey1975:
i reported this thread already.. wondering why it's still open ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] sndtubes:
Why? You're sure it's BS?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Miniassassin23:
I'm sorry guys thundercles went silent on me but I can post what he gave me if that will help u guys he said he was building it off the kiddi source
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
Plz do
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
If you could put your kernel source on github that would be great
[Motorola Photon 4G] thundercles:
Yeah, I intend to start a github release, I haven't made any kernel modifications yet that I can remember, I did modify most of the makefiles of the KDDI source motorola released. I'll start a github specifically for my photonstein project but I plan on contacting the motorola code maintainers and submitting my makefile modifications there seeing as the current code they are sharing is **** and doesn't compile because they didn't update it to comply with new rules in writing the Android.mk files.

tl;dr answer is: yes, when I have a moment I totally will. that will save bandwidth to my webserver which currently hosts all the opensource project's sourcecode, anyways. Once I get an image to boot on someone's phone and connect to a domestic gsm carrier out of E911 mode, I'll focus on sharing everything.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Keep in mind the ril files might need changing as well as build prop adjustments
[Motorola Photon 4G] daddymikey1975:
No not sure its BS but things got quiet and it was in the wrong forum at the least. Now there has been something released. No worries. Now right?

sent via Tapatalk Phrom my overclocked MoPho'kin phone
[Motorola Photon 4G] thundercles:
Ya I didn't have time to come on the forums, I was trying to rush a release out. Ran into unpredicted road blocks like the motorola source code being ****ty. Now the only potential roadblock I see really is I'm unsure about the new basebands. I know the 154 releases' basebands should support unlocking because that's what the japenese phones used, and people in other countries besides japan have reported using it fine across a wide variety of carriers, until they upgraded to a sprint-intended image which we all know is not seeing anything besides sprint-peered towers, and presumably only connects with the sprint sim card although I put a t-mobile sim card in mine and it allowed me to pull up the apns, it just wouldn't do much more then that and didn't see ****. I don't have any sim cards besides a couple sprint ones tho, so It's up to others to test anything I make for the most part, although I'll respond quickly to feedback unless I'm in the middle of working on it already like the past couple days or so.

Edit: and I double checked with the tester to make sure there was a difference and he said he said the CM kernel didn't connect to GSM at all, my thoughts are that it didn't have the appropriate gsm drivers but I'm not sure. If someone has connected with the CM mod kernel in international mode then reply so I can figure out why it is. We don't know exactly what sprint/motorola did to lock out domestic carriers, although we have some good ideas, we just know that a japenese carrier KDDI released this same phone unlocked and I'm using the source code from their release to try and figure it out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Run a diff between kernels
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
Is this real or fake someone say if this works because I tried to look at the file but nothing was there!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
From what I know it's the baseband that's locked. This is a quote from moto internal documents in relation to that "Starting with BP release 01.09.00R, USA GSM/UMTS is disabled as per Sprint requirement. Please see link at the end of release notes for GSMNA BP build for sanity and internal testing."
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
didn't really get killed, I just entered an IDGAF mode because no photon and I wanted to do app programming instead of device management.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
Where is this link?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
No link, internal documents, that's really all that i have in relation to the radio.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
I too have seen these documents
[Motorola Photon 4G] rbeavers:
With my old HTC G1 I could flash the radio, I asume that's not an option with the Photon?
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
Internal document to whom?
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
My issue is where is this document that has this link to look at the source code for the photon?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
The documents are sprint emails to Motorola.
[Motorola Photon 4G] thundercles:
no I'm still around, I was just sleeping.

Looking into extracting the baseband from the atrix... thanks for feedback.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
The baseband note I posted was just at the end of some wimax fixing related instructions. By the way joker did you get and play with the wimax-tcmd script that was there? I couldn't figure out what it did.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
I kinda did. I've flashed the atrix kernel on the photon before but never thought to try GSM. When I looked at the kddi source before I noticed the wimax was different as well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jonas916:
So, I totally have both Sprint and AT&T service. I went out and bought a Photon yesterday so I can help test. This is awesome news! Very exciting! I am downloading the file right now. I'll post any results.

I am running unlocked and rooted stock.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
Let us know. Hopefully there'll be more progress on this thread soon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jonas916:
So, I flashed the ROM.zip and I couldn't get past the Motorola screen. :( I'll try some more things tomorrow. I did full wipe and formats before install. I don't know if I missed something, but I've been unlocking, rooting and recovery-ing all day just so I could try this. I'll get back on the horse after work tomorrow. Thanks to all the Developers that make this possible.

Side note, my Photon hasn't been activated on Sprint. Would it help if I activated it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybericebyte:
Most likely and or insert an activated sim. From att or tmobile
[Motorola Photon 4G] anaragayevafr:
Is this rom works only for at&t and t-mob or other gsm carriers?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Mastajeff:
where is the zip at? I wanna flash it, I have an att sim
[Motorola Photon 4G] jonas916:
Sooooo, I tried to activate my Photon on Sprint and ran into a few problems. I'm trying to sbf back to 154_5 stock image. Once that's finished I'm going to try to activate it again. From there I'll flash this again and maybe I'll get out to boot.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Mastajeff:
Anyone that flashed the rom have any success? Need some feedback :p. Also would a iphone 4 sim work in the photon?
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Yes, if it uses a microSIM card, an adapter would be needed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jonas916:
The iPhone 4 uses a micro sim. I've never heard of these adapters, but with on I would imagine it would work. I tried this with an activated AT&T sim, but I haven't had any success thus far.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Use: http://www.amazon.com/AFC-Trident-Micro-Adapter-iPhone/dp/B003THJQVU

I can vouch for Trident, they offer great products, the people with negative reviews aren't using it properly...

Only $1.16!!!

There are others out there, but I would go with this one if I were you.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Miniassassin23:
Okay so I decided to risk it and flashed some atrix radios on to the photo. And nothing happened and the baseband didn't change either I flashed with fast boot is there any other way besides sbf cause that errors out
[Motorola Photon 4G] Michael443:
it does not work, flashed it with CWM and stayed at bootloop, reflashed again and the same. i dont know if its the version of the photon , think it had sprint latest.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jonas916:
Well, somewhere along the line I flashed the sbf for a Motorola Electrify 2.3.5. At this time there is no way to unlock the bootloader. So I'm gonna try to send it to Motorola to see if they can fix it for me. Until then I'm kind of frozen up on testing this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Mastajeff:
Let me know if you come up with something that needs testing.. id love to help get this done as ill be leaving for att very soon
[Motorola Photon 4G] rdbunch:
This is exciting, like really ****ing exciting (if it works)

I take it when this zip is flashed, you no longer need a subsiddy card/password for ATT/T-Mobile? OR did you never need a sub code for this phone, it was just locked....

EDIT: For any that do not have an ATT sim to test with, http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-ph...rd&q_sku=sku981990#fbid=zNRpmcl0b2w?tabModule check here.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sndtubes:
So is this dead now, too?
[Motorola Photon 4G] rdbunch:
Yeah i think so :/

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[Motorola Photon 4G] Rippa_MD:
The title of this thread is not quite accurate.

Perhaps a more suitable title "GSM has been unlocked on sprint branded Photon 4g! Update Has not been unlocked...WOMP WOMP"

Any news?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Neroga:
I'm a huge fan of Joker's and Turl's CM9 for the ATRIX 4G so I decided to buy a Photon. I have an active AT&T account in the US and I've noticed that when I pop my sim card into the Photon and do *#*#4636#*#* that it recognizes my number and shows AT&T but only for a few seconds. But it flickers back and forth between AT&T and no service and shows I have voicemail and I've even received a text message but couldn't reply to it. If anyone needs testing, I have both an Atrix and Photon and am willing to flash any amount of mods as I would love to use the Photon as my main phone. Shoot me a message if anyone has anything.

Sent from my CM9 MB860
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
Interesting, that might be a possible exploit vector if it can be scripted or something.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Neroga:
I could upload videos to youtube of it if you guys want more proof.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
Go ahead, interesting to see what happens. If you can also get a logcat it might provide some more information as well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] BuddahWolf01:
I now have an active T-Mobile sim card an an active Sprint photon. I'll help out too if possible.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Neroga:
Alright. I'll do that tonight. How exactly would I get said logcat? Never been asked for it nor have I ever gotten one, before lol.

Sent from my CM9 MB860
[Motorola Photon 4G] duplissi:
same here, unfortunately i had to switch from sprint to at&t (had a family plan with my sister and brother in law but they just split) so now i have atrix 2 with a locked bootloader.

anyway with cm9 coming to the photon far sooner than the atrix2 i would like to continue using it as my main phone.

so yeah send me a pm with stuff you want to try.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
Try "adb logcat -b radio > logcat.txt" from a computer with the sdk installed while you are making it try to connect to at&t. Then post the results which should be in your home folder.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
We need a dev willing to help with this. Either something happened to thundercles or he was way over his head.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Neroga:
Sorry it's taking so long. It doesn't do it on Shadow Evolved. Did it on CM7 so I'm going back on there then I'll post a video and the logcat.

Sent from my CM9 MB860
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcchristopher:
I can attest to the same. I used a Fido SIM card and it very briefly connected to AT&T. So, that whole myth about the networks being blocked at the firmware level is in serious question. I venture to guess that there is an event-based software layer which upon network connection looks at the network ID and disconnects if it matches a list of known US carriers. It could be done by name or code (00-000). Just my two cents.

As far as miniass's claim is concerned, I think it's a lethal combination of overzealousness and ignorance.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
Just an FYI, but it is being blocked by the baseband according to Motorolas own internal documents. The question is really if it can be bypassed or tricked somehow. The baseband may merely let it connect for a second before activating the block. This is the relevant quote from the internal docs "Starting with BP release 01.09.00R, USA GSM/UMTS is disabled as per

Sprint requirement." note BP indicates baseband.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcchristopher:
Thank you for the FYI. That's good to know. I just hope that their quote is a grandiose way of stating "we hacked the BP to render US GSM/UMTS connections useless." Perhaps using the word "firmware" was not most appropriate of me, either. I should have said "hardware", which is what people initially claimed was locked down. GSM 850 is GSM 850, etc. You can't block AT&T's frequencies without blocking Fido's (assuming they were the same; this just a generalized example). Hopefully someone can disassemble the baseband and find where the network names or codes are being checked to trigger the connection drop.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcchristopher:
AT&T network ... going back and forth ...

Here are the screenshots ... I'm in Dallas, TX, no longer with Sprint (but keeping the phone as a WiFi VOIP/email/Google Voice SMS device) using a Fido card (for when I visit Canada).
[Motorola Photon 4G] dcchristopher:
Logcat of radio connecting to AT&T ...

All I did was turn airplane mode off, do a couple of searches for mobile networks, and turn it back on. It gets interesting around line 2512 when it connects to AT&T. Prior to that, it just shows shutting down "CdmaPhone" and turning on "GsmPhone" ... oh, and it even resolved the APNs for Fido which was nice ... in case I need to manually configure anything in the future. Finally, it's interesting how it even got date/time information for me ... except it thinks I'm in Bahia (Mexico) ... I guess even the phones in Texas have a racist sense of humor.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
Did this is bonkers I need to try this out
[Motorola Photon 4G] e240:
Damn can't wait till this gets figured out
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
Why don't we create a bounty like they did wimax on the htc evo. I am willing to give $50 for someone to figure this out. Who else is with me?
[Motorola Photon 4G] duplissi:
Put me down for 25
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheGman125:
Who else is in this. Honestly we need more people because that is going to enough to motivate someone to figure this out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] elessarelfstar:
You can put me in for $25 as well (even $40 if it helps)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
If there is anyone who has a very old SBF file for the photon let me know, something with the BP before 01.09.00R, I have already checked the oldest engineering leak and it's still too new. If you don't want to release it publicly PM me and i will release it confidentially.
[Motorola Photon 4G] duplissi:
so... bump!
[Motorola Photon 4G] XtraWho:
What's to stop us from flashing a atrix build/rom (official) over our photon build/rom?

Its nothing that hasn't been done before on other model phones. We would do this back in 03-06 on Nextel phones changing boost, Mike, Nextel phones from all over using lab and xflash.

There are better programs to flash with besides RSD lite if you know how to get your hands on them.

Has anyone tried doing so? If a full wipe is done stripping mopho down to not having a OS then this should be able to be accomplished.

From what I have read we have the same hardware in the 2 devices.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bully4x4:
I believe the processors are different tegra on the photon and a qualcomm on the atrix
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
We should ask AdamOutler if he can help us out. He seems to know a lot about both hardware and software.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
No, same Tegra 2 processors.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bully4x4:
Sorry I should have researched a little better, I was thinking of the atrix 2 that had a different processor, which is a ti.
[Motorola Photon 4G] duplissi:
What would be required to do so?
[Motorola Photon 4G] XtraWho:
I would think PST or advanced Motorola programing and an original moto build of the atrix.

I had good success using PST changing phones from one model to another like model. Please keep on mind I'm a old school guy we were using those tools and others years ago to change phones like the v600 to v636, v400 to v550 e398 to rokr just about any GSM moto phone could be changed using PST.

I would use lab or xflash for iDEN phones and there was another for CDMA MPT I think wasn't much into CDMA Modding back then other then freeing up an esn here or there.

I'm sure there is a way however finding that way is another subject all together, now isn't it?

If I had the time like I did back then and a few test beta phones I would start the process but I don't have privilege these days.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rippa_MD:
put me down for $25 contribution
[Motorola Photon 4G] photon_man:
i noticed this forum has been empty for a while, is this going anywhere? id be happy to test
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
Where is this going now
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Absoultely NO WHERE. Until, GSM is unlocked, I'm done.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bibbin:
Phooey!!! Saw this thread's title and entered a state of giddiness. FWIW, I pledged $100 in the bounty thread for completion of this project. I'm still in for that amount as it appears to still be up for grabs. I still have faith in you guys. Work a miracle.
[Motorola Photon 4G] chagla:
i pledge $10 donation.

similar things were done wtih verizon droid pro and droid 3. hopefully sprint photon can be gsm unlocked too.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
I wouldn't count on it this tread has been open for god knows how long nobody know what the progress is but if they want to update it I hope they do I like I said I wouldn't count on it
[Motorola Photon 4G] veritasaequita:
I have an extra phone (photon) thats just here just in case. Id be willing to flash anything or mod anything on the phone for the gsm unlock. If snybody has any (good) ideas feel free to pm or post.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
Who's working on this still just curious
[Motorola Photon 4G] JDMpire:
Just a FYI for those who might not know. The motorola Droid Bionic is similar to the Photon in that it has a dual radio setup (CDMA & GSM). It also HAS BEEN UNLOCKED...

...the gsm part btw. I am proof as I am using it now on T Mobile in the US. Head over to the Bionic forums to see. (OK, I'll help you out, click here! )

The phone was edited using a piece of software called RadioComm, anyone here ever heard of it before? Actually there was a recovery flash file that did all the hard work for you, which makes the process even easier! I did it the manual way before I knew of the flash zip.

BTW: The guts of the Bionic, well the parts related to what were talking about, is the radio chipset, in this case the Qualcomm MDM6600 aka Gobi.

In the case of the Photon its the: MDM6600 + Beceem 350

(clarification needed, that info could be wrong, its the best I could find but the source of that info didn't seem too knowledgeable)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
Not sure if this method will be useful, it appears to be a process that enables the GSM radio(bionic not normally a world phone unlike photon), not region unlocking which appears to be embedded in the radio(probably need a modded radio for unlock). "Starting with BP release 01.09.00R, USA GSM/UMTS is disabled as per Sprint requirement"
[Motorola Photon 4G] ryuken11221:
Well I'll see if I can dig something up for the actual parts and what not
[Motorola Photon 4G] halfevildruid:
Not sure if this helps anyone that might be working on this but I am going to start working on it.

ready to bail on sprint and their cruddy data speeds

i restored my stock nandroid and set it to gsm with an active att card. of course no service.

I then restored my aokpcb and rebooted and the phone is still set to gsm. Was on cdma when backed up. This really means nothing other than the software during switching apperently set the radio and it was not set back before my restore.

anyway, I am going to spend some time in radiocomm and see what i can figure out

I am also going to see if I can find a way to unthrottle speed at the radio level?
[Motorola Photon 4G] JDMpire:
Well is there anyway we could get our hands on a version of the firmware prior to the 01.09.00R release version? If so we could try and flash that (is is easy to flash older versions of fW on these devices?) or perhaps reverse engineer it to extract the radio f/w prior to the restrictions being put into place.

Not sure if any of this is possible, just thinking out loud here. I don't know how to do any of that, but Im not totally useless;), I did after all get my photon for next to nothing as it was used, still needs a battery too, but once I get it running, I'll be willing to be a tester for any potential unlock, even at the threat of bricking my device. I figure I really have nothing to loose, the phone is just sitting collecting dust. Why not.

lets get something going here guys...