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[Motorola Photon 4G] pbedard:
How do u change it to use the memory card be default? ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] FernBch:
Default for what?

I'm a MoPho-er
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Imperium Initiative 1.0.4 Update is now live.

This is a ROM side update that will wipe your current setup so backup before flashing. A full version (ROM & WebTop+) has yet to be uploaded but I will update full download links when it is. I have not built a v1.0.4 bootstrap version. There is "Something Special" in the planning stages for ALL locked/rooted users.

Update:

ROM Updater is now working. I will be tracking downloads of this version to determine whether of not to continue development. If you have a DL issue PLEASE PM ME and I will provide a different link so as to keep the DL statistics accurate.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Awesome Loki! I really appreciate your work. This rom should be getting much more attention than this threads view count entails as it's phenomenal! I've been waiting rather impatiently for this. Downloading the CWM flashable version now., will report back.

Quick question though, im unfamiliar with ROM Updater. I noticed it has the ability to incremental or full update. I assume the full update will wipe everything. But will the incremental?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully I have a large enough user base to warrant further development as "it's not pretty" is a lame excuse to not use it.

About Rom Updater. Right now both Full and Incremental wipe so back up your stuff. There's some issues with the updater/scripts/server and flash on top updates. If I continue to develop Initiative I will get this fixed.

Update:

Removed vs Stock added to OP
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
I'll definitely be flashing the update ontop of my backup of 1.0.3. I was just getting into this when CM9 came out and I went over to that, but liked what I had if I remember right :D.

sent from my MIUI MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] pbedard:
Default for sd card instead of internal
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
Thanks for the update. Loaded up rom and runs pretty smooth, except a few gllitches. The account email program won't load up, but the other email program will, also some widgets keep disappearing(beautiful Widgets, and Clarus signal) Other then that rom is running pretty smooth.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Not pretty!?

- VTL Launcher (no theme)

- Custom icons

- Widgets (Bobclock, Minimal Text, n7Player)

If it would help increase user interest, perhaps a User Submitted Homescreens section in the OP would help people to see this roms potential. Feel free to use this pic if you desire. Im sure some other people would be willing to contribute their creations.

Again, amazing work. I hope you continue to develop for this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cringer63:
Ok, so I downloaded 1.0.4 incremental via ROMManager, tried to install from there but when it rebooted into CWM it seemed to shoot right back out and boot up like normal, nothing changed. I think I remember this being the case before and you have to manually install it after downloading via ROMManager. So I did that, and it definetly reset things as I sign into my Google account right now and start to put everything back on.

What has me wondering still is possibly just something over looked in the update. I installed the zip from SD, it said installing 1.0.4_update.zip, but at the very end it said 1.0.3 installed succesfully. Anyone else notice this? Just a forgotten change in things?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Yeah its 1.0.4 Loki just didnt update the installer script to reflect the change. Check to see if you now have a voicemail icon in your apps. If so, youre on the right version.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
I installed the 1.0.4 last night, and this morning the phone rebooted by itself, and the home key stopped working. Any ideas. I did a fresh install of 1.0.4, could that have been it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Same happened to me at first, also Google Play wasn't working till i cleared its data and restarted. Boot into recovery, wipe cache and fix permissions. It hasn't rebooted since. I've also found that more often than not a random reboot on the 198_7 roms occur as a result of the high frequency of the processor. Install SetCPU and drop the frequency to 1200max to take a bit of a load off of the processor. You won't notice any performance differences down to 1000 and will save some battery that way.

My only problem is with Sprint VVM, can't seem to get it to work. It checks my account and doesn't throw any errors. When I click personalize and OK nothing happens. Have any advice on this Loki?
[Motorola Photon 4G] pbedard:
How do u change the default storage from internal to sd card? ?? Also do u have the screenshot option fir the power menu
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
I did what you said this morning, and it just rebooted again, and the home key stopped working. Not sure what's going on.

I was thinking, should I install v 1.03 first then install v1.04. I'm coming from joker's skinny, so was thinking maybe since this is an update that I should flash v1.03 first then v1.04 on over it. Going to try that now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FernBch:
If you like try this.

Make a nandroid just in case

Flash 198_6 via rsd then factory reset

Boot then reboot into CWM

Wipe cache, system, and davlik

Flash 1.0.3 then factory reset

Boot then reboot into CWM

Wipe all 3 again

Flash 1.0.4 and factory reset

Boot and enjoy

I know this is long but I thought I read two things about the initiative. First was must be on stock 198_6, second was I thought I read 1.0.4 is flashed on top of 1.0.3.

I'm a MoPho-er
[Motorola Photon 4G] pbedard:
Blahh this forum is no help changinf back to miui peace
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Installing 1.0.3 first shouldn't matter. If I remember installing 1.0.4 it stated it was wiping the appropriate /system and /data partition that would make having 1.0.3 there insignificant. Though i could be wrong... Also, i'm on 198_7 and it works beautifully. There is probably something something being left over that you didn't wipe causing problems.. Either follow what Fern said, which is the more longwinded but potentially successful solution. Or do this:

1) Boot into recovery and run the zip i just attached.

2) Go into advanced and wipe your dalvik cache

3) Install 1.0.4

4) Reboot, let it boot into android fully.

5) Restart into recovery

6) Wipe cache, wipe dalvik

7) Reboot

You should now have a nice clean install. Again, Fern suggesting to flash the sbf is a surefire way to make sure everything is back at stock. But I dont feel its necessary unless you are positive that you are not on at least 198_6. In which case you are probably on 154_ and that could very well be the problem. Good luck, let us know what happens.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FernBch:
Yeah, it's long winded and does have extra steps. I personally have had a couple flashes go sour and started doing that process every time I try something new. Haven't had a failure or bootloop since.

I'm a MoPho-er
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
Thanks guys, right now I loaded it up by first going to setting in the current rom I was on (joker skinny) and formating it. After it booted up I powered off the phone, then booted into reccovery factory reset, wipe cache, wiped dalvik cache. I then loaded up v1.03, let it boot up, then boot back into recovery load the v1.03 update, loaded it up then booted back into recovery, and flashed v1.04. I've had it loaded up now for about 2 hours, so I'll see if it reboots on it's own again. If it does I'll try Ferns method. Thanks guys
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
You question is a bit vague. If you are talking about "Windows Media Sync" in settings/storage, it's no different than stock.

No, I do not have a screenshot function in the power menu but will consider adding it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
Hey Lok, can you add the reboot to recovery option with the press of the power button. So far no reboots with flashing over v1.03 hopefully it works out, cause rom seem pretty good.

-Update

It's been running now for about 15 hours with no random reboots. Looks like flashing v1.03 first worked.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cringer63:
Try out this rom if you haven't folks, it's great. I want to see development continue and the more people giving it a shot the better chance it has. Don't be afraid of the red coloring either, I didn't think I would like it but it's pretty nice. My favorite, fully functional, rom for the Photon
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
I've been using this rom as my daily driver. So far the only problem I found was in landscape mode when I open the dialer, if it was last on my contacts, it get a FC. When in normal mode no problems just landscape mode it FC. Not a biggie, since I hardly ever use it in landscape mode. Different color options would be cool, but I like the red and black. I have beautiful widgets for my clock set to red so it goes really well with the red theme. Keep up the good work Lok. Hopefully you keep at the rom.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cringer63:
One of the things I did for a while to blend with the ROM coloring was in Twicca I set everyone's color label as red, so there was always a red bar running down the left side and all links were in red. Looked good.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jonathanclary:
3g is slower than my stock. Doesn't connect to wifi at all or seems to take a few minutes. Had better data on stock, rooted, and locked at 3g. Gps is a little slow too. Any script changes I can use to change this? Cause I love this rom.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mr_wrong_0:
I've just come back from ICS roms because I missed ubuntop. This rom has ubuntop included doesn't it? I applied the webtop over HDMI hack and when I plug in the HDMI cable it shows as an option but it never starts. I even bought nebtop thinking that might work better but I am still not able to load ubuntop. Any help would be appreciated.

Ok so I flashed the ubuntop zip on top of the rom and I'm good now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
This is odd as data and gps is unmodified from the previous version. I'll see about stripping out all the data tweaks from the build prop and uploading it.

HDMI Mod has issues with newer ROM's. Undo the hdmi mod and only use nebtop.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jonathanclary:
Thanks Loki. I'll mess with them a bit too. I'm a newbie so when all else fails I sbf back to stock and start fresh.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pir8man:
thanks for the update 1.0.4. i installed it this weekend and has done well. i'll run it through my usual whatnot this week. I expect more props to come!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mr_wrong_0:
I have installed nebtop but when I push load it grants superuser permissions but nothing happens.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Thinking that there may be something wrong I installed Nebtop on both my Photons and had no issues. Here's what I did;

Open Nebtop

Click the load option

Connect Photon to TV

Selected the Webtop option from the pop-up list

Watched Netflix (my media center is dying anyways)

Disconnected

Clicked Unload option on Nebtop

When you say nothing I guessing no options popup when you connect to a tv, no hdmi/tv icon in the status bar. Is this correct?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mr_wrong_0:
Correct, I think I need to re-flash your rom again to get rid of the webtop hack compleatly.

EDIT- Well that worked I can use nebtop now, but I wish it hadn't wiped my user data :( better safe than sorry I guess.
[Motorola Photon 4G] DestroyerMTL:
This is a sim card issue. There is a post about it in the photon general forum. You need an updated 128k sim to get apns to stick.
[Motorola Photon 4G] El Shaddai's Wrath:
Is it true you can't use voice commands for bluetooth on this rom? Is there a fix?

CyanogenMod 7.2 Overclocked to 1.4 Photon
[Motorola Photon 4G] vasilisxxx:
hello iam new in photon i have one problem with the wifi its say error i try the fix with the dhd.ko but nothing can someone make me one flashable zip for recovery flash

thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] coolqf:
The SIM on my phone is 64kb (vodafone) eand the APNs stick on all gingerbread roms. They don't always stick on CM9 though.
[Motorola Photon 4G] srkelley:
I'll help contribute to that then. I'm on the border for switching from stock to a rom but it's easy enough to reflash a back-up. From what I've been reading in this thread the past couple of weeks, your rom must be awesome. I'm still going through the earlier posts (i just decided to look at the later ones for a moment) and am trying to figure out if webtop+ or ubuntop would be the best thing to use with a lapdock. Are either of them capable of recognizing and using a usb dvd drive?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jerusry:
any news on the locked/rooted from u mentioned earlier? Looking forward to it
[Motorola Photon 4G] Osirus71:
Hello Fellas. Im looking for a good reliable Rom for my friends Photon that I rooted for him. Is this rom what im looking for? He wants everything working like camera 4G etc....Im and EVO 3d rooted user and am familur with rooting. This photon is a bit different with the locked/unlocked etc...versions out there so any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks....
[Motorola Photon 4G] hoslayer13:
You options would be to flash a bootstrap rom like Loki's beta Imperium rom or Joker's locked skinny rom. You can't flash custom roms without losing 4G functionality. You could try Loki's Deblur mod as it could give you better performance.

Sent from my MB855
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
OC/UV OR 4G. Can't have both. If he want something where he can pick his own launcher and play around with then DeBlur/DeBloat script a good choice.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
As of 23:57 GMT -5 April 20, 2012 I have started the closing of Imperium Initiate website. The final wipe and domain release will occur on April 30th.

This thread is now for reference only and will no longer be maintained.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jerusry:
no. Damn that sucks to hear. Ima download it all asap. No update I take it then?
[Motorola Photon 4G] aikata:
Sorry to see it go. Was a smooth running ROM.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gack69:
Sorry to hear...I have LOVED and greatly appreciated your work! Will you be opening another website for other development for Mopho's? Hopefully your not leaving Mopho development.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gack69:
Are any of the files mirrored? In particular I am interested in: WebTop+ v1.2b with UbunTop Upgrade. I am hoping to flash that over top of Cybiks CM7 for this functionality since Martian Imperium is being discontinued.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mr_wrong_0:
What happened? I hope you're not leaving the MOPHO dev community.
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
if you are removing all files ill get in contact with you, i recently purchased new hosting and a new domain. ill have a mirror for all files needed (besides my holylivingfuck.com ones ) for teh reference guide thread
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
I have found a solution and am up and running again. It's not perfect but does offset running costs so I'll go with it. Here's the updated info.
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
Thanks for another great update.

Been running LPP on this for last few days. With no rebooting and all my widgets running this thing still flies.

Do you recommend flashing to go from 1.0.4 to newest or using the rom updater? I noticed it was taken out of the newest version.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
If you don't need the updated Ubuntop then dl and flash the locked version. If you want the updated Ubuntop then dl the full version and flash that. Because I can't afford to host the update server anymore ROM Updater no longer functions.
[Motorola Photon 4G] CCallahan:
Not sure if you need a special type of server for the updates. Here is a site that claims to give unlimited space/bandwidth for Android Devs to host: http://downloadandroidrom.com/about.php

Sorry if this is not what you need or already have seen it. Just thought I would mention.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
I have a goo.im account and if I ever find the time will start using the goo app for updates and continue to use billionuploads for full releases. My problem is to many projects in my head and after selling off a bunch of stuff my dev cycles are even slower. Thanks for looking out for me though.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrfordwrench:
Ok I flashed the 1.05b and I like it but if I shut my phone off or reboot its stuck at the Motorola emblem...Have to sbf.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cringer63:
Going to flash this tonight. Been needing to do something to get me to clean up my phone. All of the sudden this past week 1.04 has been bogging down on me sometimes which has been weird to see. I got too much **** in there I think. :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] too758:
+1 here.

I flashed the locked version but now I don't see it on the site. Any help?
[Motorola Photon 4G] carrilloevo:
Do anybody has the link for locked versión? I don't see it on his Site... Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Locked version pulled for the following reasons;

Issues with soft bricking on reboot

No dev pc due to HDD failure

No longer have dev mopho so everything is having to be done on my daily device

Am now currently limited to my mopho and an 800mhz Atom MID for deving (zipping takes hours now)

Currently working on Imperium Agent ("Stealth" 2.3.5 leak rooted/unlocked)

Once I am able to get to a point where I can work on the locked version I will fix it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] too758:
Sad to see it go. My Mopho was a fire breather with this rom. I'll check back later down the road then.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
The unlocked version is still available
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cringer63:
Found something real interesting on Loki's website last night guys...a donate button. It works too, I tested it out for him. The guy could use donations right about now I think from what i hear, pretty badly in fact. Do it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cringer63:
Ok, finally got around to getting webtop working with only hdmi...but, should UbunTop work that way? I installed Imperium 1.0.5 last night, and via HDMI only I get webtop as an option which is cool, but see no UbunTop which I would much prefer.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Everthing went to hell as I was trying to upload the Ubuntop/Webtop mode switch files. I will have the zip up in about an hour. The zip will contain the needed files and instructions on how to switch modes. Sorry about the confusion and hope you guys understand.

UPDATE

The UT-WTswitch.zip has been uploaded to the site and also to the OP.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cringer63:
Works perfectly. Very nice work!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Any plans to further this rom to 2.3.5 eh Loki?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
I called sprint to switch phones for my son. The person put the phone on my line instead of his, and I was talking on my phone at the time. She finally straightened it out. But after hanging up, my phone had no data. So I had to restore a nandroid backup of this rom to do a profile update. Forgot what a really nice rom this is. Battery life is sweet to. Thanks Loki
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
UT-WTswitch.zip file needed?

I dont plan on using this feature so do I need to still install it on my phone?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Skaarg:
I ran the ROM just fine before I installed that. So I'd say you'll be okay.

Also I'm slightly annoyed there are no sharing options from gallery. Is there a way I can restore this?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
You need SocialShare.apk. Once I get Unified Ubuntop/Webtop+ done I'll upload a zip containing all the removed apk's.
[Motorola Photon 4G] krnfrk6663:
Anybody have the files to make the dock icons look like they do on LP? I use ADW. Tried to get used to LP but I don't like it as much. Thanks anyone who can help.
[Motorola Photon 4G] wizky911:
SO how do I know I have the locked version????
[Motorola Photon 4G] kurtcocaine:
Cana nyone tell me how its the battery life and performance of this as compared to peetr's rom and CM 7.2?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Imperium and peetrs are pretty on par. Id say imperium is slightly better. Cm7 worse than both but not by much.

Sent from my CM9ed MoPho!
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Has the wifi disconnect bug been fixed? Any other outstanding bugs? I'm getting ready to flash this ROM for the first time. It looks pretty cool.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Crwolv:
well goto jokersax.com and use th3bills ports.way better than most
[Motorola Photon 4G] suhaspatwa:
Bricked, failed to boot 2

I had locked photon with electrify boot loader. and had deblur hybrid rom2.3.5 with 254_12 radio..

I tried flashing THIS rom with bootstrap and it went well, but when it restarted, i get failed to boot 2

what can i do to get this ROM on my photon locked?
[Motorola Photon 4G] stonesaber:
It's not for locked bootloaders. Only works on unlocked.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jleeblanch:
That depends what version he tried. There are 2 versions posted in the OP. One for {unlocked} users and another (right below it) for {locked} users to flash via Bootstrap...
[Motorola Photon 4G] suhaspatwa:
Can you post link for locked rom?? I wonder this post mentioned that this will work on both..

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] suhaspatwa:
do you mean jokercomplete-v1.zip or skinnyrev14gedition.zip

i am confused...plz help thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
In all honesty your better off running Live ROM. It's slightly heavier than Initiative and peetr's Hybrid and retains almost all the stock functionality and looks. It's also far more compatible than any other ROM out there.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Sowd3:
Wow other then being such a bulky file :p I am very impressed with this on the UNlocked Electrify. very fast clean.

Pros:

Fast booting!

Easy to use

Complexity is very minimal

Camcorder is clear but didnt see a zoom option on it?

Fast rom overall

Cons:

camera is bugged. very out of focused

home screen is unique but probably difficult for a noob(saw you were working on Golauncher)<nice

all i can think of at the momnet but very nice rom!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mquinn24:
Very fast and smooth w/ LPP. Thank you
[Motorola Photon 4G] ZeroManArmy:
If you add in multiple colors for the theme I would be happy to flash over!
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Mars is red
[Motorola Photon 4G] ZeroManArmy:
XD I'm not a big fan of the red themes though. Lol when I have time I will flash over.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Fixed camera apk attached below. Replace the one in the ROM using a root browser or adb push.

testing 1.0.1 (Go, fixed camera and some tweaks) and bloody hell it's fast. Out of the box it pulls a fairly consistent 6400 in antutu.)

The Imperium does not recognize colors other than red (well maybe black but that's not a color really). Other than the obvious reason for the theme color, almost everything is indexed color which translates into smaller png's which increases speed.

Suggestion;

A contrasting blue theme for launchers tends to offset the red/black. Think this ROM and blue ICS themes for launchers.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
I installed the new camera apk file using root explorer, set permissions, rebooted and no camera. Went into recovery, wiped cache, fixed permissions, still no camera.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
Same thing for me with the camera, and also the calendar has that 4GHI over it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mambaram:
Hi, auzip the rom and put BlurCamera.apk in the rom/system/app and zip agane - re-flash, it is working with me very good:)
[Motorola Photon 4G] RNSlate:
Big PROPs

Lok,

what a great rom. I flashed it last night after purchasing the original atrix dock last week from local att store for 99.00

What a difference it makes. I appreciate your efforts here. Very Fast and no problems here. Love the pull down bar.

Even though I am new to this I was able to figure out how to get open office on here as well.

NOW my daily driver.:)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gack69:
4G?

I don't have any 4G coverage at home, but I do at work...but wont be at work till Next Monday to see for myself...does anyone know if this has 4G?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
No 4g, unlocking breaks 4g.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Gack69:
That's what I thought...just get a little excited when I see the 4G icon, even though its "zzzz"