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[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Update coming this morning....just gotta have Spleef test what I did and give it thumbs up.

Things fixed:

Calendar

Keyboard-added in Orange/Black keyboard as well as Swype installer. Swype voice to text works 100%

Added:

Apex Launcher-Just love to have options, and feel it's a bit more configurable than Trebuchet (left Treb in there, just in case anyone wants it)

Removed:

Supermarket (waiting until we can find a non-chinese source for this build version)

UMS (Don't need 2 USB mass storage apps when stock one works perfectly as is)

Root Explorer (I don't think having paid apps built in a good idea)

Originally packaged Keyboard and associated apks (just a mess of FC...and swype works better)

The emmc fix will now properly name your EMMC and SD Card in the phone's system settings (previous fix showed both as USB storages. Now they will show up as SD CARD and Internal Storage). This will still have to be flashed after rebooting into rom, as I'm still working on getting phone to boot when I build it into rom. For now, it works perfectly as an "after-flash". But read: YOU MUST REBOOT AFTER FLASHING TEST9B BEFORE FLASHING FIX...otherwise YOUR PHONE WILL NOT GET PAST THE BOOTANIMATION. Sorry for caps lock, but I have learned from the cm9 thread that people don't like to read sometims...LOL

I'm still working on MMS...it's a deep problem that shares some source with CM9 0.4.0. There are probably close to a million lines of code in this rom, and I have to go through each one to get this fix, so please be patient and use gosms for now. Go into advanced settings, and manually input your apn as http://mms.sprintpcs.com

To give you an idea of the progress we're making, we have a working camera...something both Atrix MIUI and CM9 don't seem to have without issues. This from a couple of guys who just started doing builds recently (spleef's been for a month or two...I just started LAST WEEK LOL) Spleef and I are hard at work for you guys...hope you like our work, but please understand we are still learning some of this :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] bytethegroove:
i have a question for you guys. before i flash your rom, i changed my settings to automatic (instead of home only), I then flash you rom, and its still automatic, but If i flash the next test, then it gets stuck on home only.

since the only way i can get any of these to boot, I first have to install test 3. Ive tried installing test 7 and 8 from scratch, but couldnt get either to boot without first flashing test 3. but having to do double flashing seems to change my settings to home only, then its stuck on home only.

is there any fix for this that you know of?

also after i flashed test 7 or 8 the emergency icon is on the top right of my notification bar, however i am not in emegency mode and i can make and recieve calls...wierd right?

other than that your builds are smooth as butter....only battery is my issue, but thats cause i came off uscc stock 2.3.5 rom which has amazing battery life

thanks

byte
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
its odd that it works just fine on a different cdma carrier once the correct settings are in. I'm pretty convinced that the sprint APNs settings that are floating around are wrong or are missing some important info. This has been an ongoing problem since CM7 with sprint phones. Those who edit the APN there is only like a 50% success rate, its totally strange.
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
that is very weird I am on 8 right now just had to restore to 6 then I flashed 8 on top none of problems you are describing.... in 8 should be able to switch from home to auto should be an option for it in settings/ more in the data area which recovery are you using and what steroids are you taking to flash like what are you wiping reboots and such 8 has to be flashed on top of tests 1-6 , 7/9 can be flashed fresh off they are working funky or don't want to boot go back to recovery wipe cache and dalvick then flash it again then reboot can also fix permissions and wipe dalvick cache after the second reboot kinda messed my phone up for a few this morning which is why I had to restore I tried zeps v6, kak, and 3g not sure which yet probably the kak but phone wouldn't boot so be careful if any of you guys are wanting to try for now I used rc6.9 but my best guess for your situation its get 3 to boot let it boot then flash 8 or 9b on top then reboot flash 9b fix if you went with 9b (will be posting it very shortly) if 8 wipe cache and dalvick cache fix perm(do this after reboot after fix as well) and see what you are working with from there.... like th3bill says we are working on it and it will get fixed

MIUI/ICS for the Photon

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536161
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Test 9 boots by itself....first to do so (as it's build off cm9 0.4.0...previous ones were off 0.3.3, whch had the boot issue) An updated version (B) will be up in a few minutes. Download that one along with the "Fix" that is posted with it. In recovery, format /system, /cache, /data (or use "Wipe-All-Photon.zip from fixes thread", and flash Test9b. Flash it a second time before rebooting (not sure why this is necessary, but it seems to be...LOL) Reboot into phone. Imediately reboot into recovery and flash the "Fix", fix permissions, and reboot. Phone should be good to go :)

I would recommend flashing Test9 or 9b solo, as I'm not sure if anything from previous versions might stick around and bork the phone...CWM ONLY replaces the files in the folder that are changing...so it can leave stuff behind that might cause issues with the new version.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bytethegroove:
the bill, you should add a donation thing to your profile, so i can buy you and spleef a few beers..i dont have much to give, but ill give it anyway :)

peace

byte
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
the button on mine doesnt work but the link in my sig does but its only a link for my donation email not th3bills he has to set his own up but feel free to do as you please donations are accepted but not required.... about to put 9b up its dropbox for now until it ups to mediafire then will replace with mediafire and devhost

k dropbox links are up for 9b and emmc_fix uping to mediafire right now will have it up when its ready thanks guys for being so patient
[Motorola Photon 4G] bytethegroove:
both of ya check your email...

thanks for eveything
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
So I went back to cm9 yesterday, just came back to MIUI. Wiped all, thanks for the zip guys works AWESOME, flashed 9b, wouldn't boot. Wiped all again, restored my test 5, booted, flashed 9b, booted up fine. Went back to recovery, wiped cache/devlik, flashed fix, good to go.

I also went in and force stopped and cleared data for calendar, calendar storage, calendar sync, and the text to speech engine

Love the themed keyboard! Still getting the Google text to speech engine fc though. Its only when the keyboard is NOT open :what:

Other than that ALL GOOD HERE

sent from my MIUI MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
just switch it to another service it will stop fc
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Restoring 5 is what causes the problem. Since there is no apk for google(or any command to remove it from the /system/app in the updater_script), it is still in there. Need to do complete wipe and flash 9b only. :)

EDIT: Explanation: CWM will only remove something if given a command to do so. It overwrites files if they are in the new flash. However, if you don't hae the command to remove the file, whatever is in the folder will stay there. This is why sometimes over-flashing causes unforeseen problems....apps or processes that used to run well are now being read by a different process system, and it causes FC all over the place.
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
i can confirm flashing 9b from fresh works

format system.cache,data wipe dalvick cache [or use th3bill wipe zip]

flash 9b reboot probably hang at the M

reboot recovery flash 9b again reboot

will be a long but not terribly long boot after it boots completely

reboot recovery wipe dalvick flash emmc_fix wipe dalvick fix permissions

reboot phone and everything should be green lights except for needing to switch to pico tts or a app from amrket of you choice the google fc's just switch and it will not fc anymore ive just done this about 2 hours ago exactly how i just wrote and im not having a single issue other than the known ones
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
So I uninstalled the Google text to speech engine with titanium and installed Swype and it seems that worked. I'll install the next builds from scratch so keep up the good work guys!

sent from my MIUI MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
The only reason we needed to install-over before was that we were based on 0.3.3, which was not able to boot on its own...

future builds will be based on 0.4.0 or later, and as long as they self-boot, doing clean install is optimal. Best way to use Titanium for this purpose is to backup the data on the apps, then do full clean install, then re-download your apps from the market (so they set up properly for the system processes in place), then restore "Data only" to the apps you need to restore :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] bytethegroove:
cynthrawl, what did you do to get mms working properly on uscc?, i can send txts, but no pictures.

thanks

byte
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrinehart93:
Is MMS fixed yet?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Still working on it. The phone is correctly set up with the proper APNs...it's just going through the lines of code one at a time and figuring out where it's hanging up. Sending works 100% and nice and fast...it's receiving that's still borked unless you use gosms...

I'm going to work on it tonight once my little one goes to bed....hopefully by late tonight or tomorrow morning, we'll have it working right as rain.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pintopunk:
Is stock camera messing up on anyone else guess its cause mine messed up on the 4.0 release so tried your 9b test witch is built on 4.0 just asking
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
i took the kids to park earlier today to fly kites took at least a dozen shots with stock camera was a little sluggish but no fc's and worked just fine im on 9b with the emmc fix try force stopping, clearing data of the camera app... then wipe dalv. cache fix perm. then maybe wont be bugging anymore
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Was this on a clean install or just wipe cache and dalvik?
[Motorola Photon 4G] pintopunk:
Clean install same prob I had on 4.0 it will open when I take picture it freeze like its saving it but third party apps work fine was just wondering
[Motorola Photon 4G] dave0812:
Wanted to say thanks. Running 9b on uscc with no problems
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Do you have the emmc/SDcard fix on flashed? It's strange, as camera works quite well on my phone...
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
that is odd the camera is our biggest must work! have you tried to force stop clear data reboot wipe dal. cache fix perm. then reboot and then try to use camera again... is good that 3rd party is working but the camera is our number one must work both having kids and families and all we depend on it very much.... i havent had any issue with camera so far other than a bit of lag ..... i know it would suck but can try the steps i posted above or a fresh reinstall..... have you changed any settings or not flashed the emmc_fix? which recovery did yopu use to flash this puppy? romracer or joker? just helps to narrow down the things that could have went wrong. also what steps did you take prior to flash and in between flashes sometimes skipping a step will totally screw you up ... i edited the op with some instructions for flashing 9b, its the exact steps i used and im running so smooth its kind of hard to believe...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Good point on the CWM version...I have ONLY tested this on Joker V3.

Use the Wipe-All-Photon.zip (it's only way I clean my system before an install, and I haven't had any problems with this one)
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
i use them too and they are conveniently placed in the instructions thread for easy dl if you dont already have them... going to call it a night folks will be popping in from phone when i can.. yall have a fantastic night and thank you all for the support and effort everyone is putting into making this function so well

g'nite!
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Running 9b from clean install. Running excellent! My camera is working very well. Everything except mms receiving. Using go sms to make it work for now. And if I get tired of the miui interface, I just use nova or apex, or whatever I want, because they all work great on this! Loving this allot. Thank you both!:D
[Motorola Photon 4G] pintopunk:
haven't done the emmc fix will try fresh install with that and report back and using joker 3
[Motorola Photon 4G] e240:
is there a way to switch the internal and external sdcards on this like on cm9?
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
the settings are different from cm9 there is no choice of where to install but flashing the emmc fix shows you the correct storage and space left I have around 200 apps installed and running perfectly if storage space is an issue for you miui won't affect it at all..... Took me two hours top fully set my phone up after a fresh flash earlier today..... But was totally worth it I couldn't imagine my phone without miui on it.... It's just so damn beautiful and smooth

MIUI/ICS for the Photon

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536161
[Motorola Photon 4G] bytethegroove:
thats the problem, sending doesnt work for me, its sends but never makes it to the person im sending it too, and cythrawl posted earlier that mms was working for him, so i was just curious as to what he did.

I also tried mms with gosms and that didnt work either. sms is fine mms wont work sending or recieving with stock or 3rd party.

just curious

im on uscellular btw

thanks

byte
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
For your phone, I believe you need a login for the apn to work properly. Easy way to fix this. Download THIS file and unzip it. You will see apn-conf.xml

You will need a program that can edit xml files...eclipse works great for this, but is a very large download....notepad++ also will work (or if you want to PM me your username and password for ussc, I will confidentially set it up and PM is back to you)

Go to the line labled "USSC" (it's about halfway down). You will see user="$$$$" password="%%%%" in the middle of the line. replace $$$$ with your username (keep the "s) and %%%% with your password. Save the file, copy it to your phone and place it in your /system/etc, set permissions to rw, r, r, and reboot. This will set your apns up properly.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
Its the same way I have always set APN up since Cybiks CM7

Delete the two production APNS

on the USCC APN edit the following

Username = (YourMIN)@uscc.net

Password = (YourMIN)

So if your MIN is 123456789, your username is 123456789@uscc.net and the password is 123456789

To find your MIN look here : Settings > About Phone > Status > MIN

Test it by sending yourself an MMS or sending it to an Email Address as the recipient.

Thats all you need to do. I found that using GOSMS wont send, but it will send just fine using Stock or Handcent.

Just make sure that ONLY the USCC APN is present and not the others. (if you dont, you will get duplicate messages and other weird crap happening)

You can edit this right from the phone on Test9b under Settings > More > Mobile network Settings > Access Point Names - No need to push the file or anything..

LOVE this new MIUI and why that works just fine (editing the APNS) and not on the new CM9 (upon this is based and you cant edit the APNS on the phone) is beyond me...
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
its voodoo.....lol

MIUI/ICS for the Photon

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536161
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
It's in the framework files. We use CM9 backbone with MIUI framework. Since the "lockout" is in those framework files and not MIUI, we are lucky enough to be able to edit the apns. I've also noticed that the changes made to apns within the phone actually stick in MIUI, where in CM9 when you edited them, they often disappeared after a reboot.

It's funny how people won't try this rom because it's viewed by some as "IPhone for Android"...I guess people forget that you can put whatever launcher you want OVER it and have the best of both.

I'm still working on the MMS for us Sprint users. This is turning out to be a pretty tough little bug to squish...LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
It's funny you say this. It's why I was hesitant at first, but with apex launcher this ROM it's the bomb

sent from my MIUI MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cythrawl:
I know its weird, as its

not

iPhone for Android.. for one you can customize MIUI with themes, different icons, bootanimations, dialers, etc etc all from official MIUI themes.. Try and customize an iPhone like that.... utter fail..

This is my third iteration of MIUI I have tried now..

first was the HTC Desire (small memory made it unusable tho)

Then on a Samsung Mesmerize (which was pretty good)

and finally on the Electrify/Photon, which seems perfect for it spec wise..

Good work guys, this is coming along VERY nicely.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I think that view comes from it not having an app drawer from the "factory". I LOVE the tools within it, and the fact that it's not locked out of anything....not to mention the menus to get to things like apns without having to use voice dialer.

I was fully cm9 before trying this, and honestly only tried it because that thread got SOO stupidly overwhelmed with repeat questions, I wanted to try something different. Also liked my boy spleef's work on shadow rom. Love being able to help direct where this is going. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] the12nv:
What the hell happened the last 3 days.. I have been so busy with school.. work and kids I have not been on here in a couple of days...come back to 10 pages worth of reading and 4 more versions....sssaaawwweeeettttt....just downloaded v9 .. do you flash on its own or over v5???.....I have said it before and I will say it again....I love this thread and the progress....super impressive
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
9b flashes on its own. Full wipe all. Flash twice, reboot into phone. Immediately reboot into recover and flash emmc fix them fix permissions an reboot. Don't wipe after emmc fix...it wipes for you. To built in :)

Thanks for complement. Spleef and I make a hell of a team. :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] bytethegroove:
i still had the 2 productions apn in my list, after removing them i will try mms again.... i did set my user and password earlier, but forget abour removing the productions apns... thanks for your help guys

peace

byte
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
xcellphonerep has come up with another way instead of rebooting after first flash go into advanced and reboot recovery then flash again he gave some more detailed instructions in pm am going to post in op and credit him for tried this myself and it worked np's basically instead of hoping it will boot first time (it might but so far hasn't) and staring at the m going shhhhhhhhhh do that method and your actual first reboot it should work just don't forget to go back to recovery to flash the emmc fix is JuSt another way you can try if the previous ways havent been working for you...... Yeah buddy we sure do has been a blast working with you we have been getting some good things done

MIUI/ICS for the Photon

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1536161
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
That was actually how I have been flashing it. LoL. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
lol not me ive been doing it the shhh everyone quiet its about to boot method.....

about to put new op instructions for 9 putting 8 in outdated since 9 is running and is the most updated version trying to keep op simple but still wanting to display what weve done :)

has anyone successfully got 9b to run on a flashover? if not im taking it down will leave the bit about if on miui use the miui backup but taking down the can be flashed over

op instruct. and details updated heading to eat dinner laters
[Motorola Photon 4G] bytethegroove:
does anyone know, how i can edit the eri.xml file to reflect the correct carrier for me, without having to reflash.

I know i can edit it before I flash, but have it runnin solid atm the moment, and why mess with a good thing... just wonder what kind of .zip i would have to make to only push the eri.xml file, or if you guys happen to know another way.

I have tried the option built into miui but it didnt work, i tried ccname.apk and forced my phone into romaing indicator off and I had no service(thank god for nandbackups). just curious and dont mean to be a pain

peace

byte
[Motorola Photon 4G] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
pppsssshhh yea right.... :p

---------- Post added at 06:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:26 PM ----------

to be honest, didnt even try it :mad: should've tho... MIUI backup wouldnt back me up on 8, keep say that there was a prob. Had to use Ti to back up me apps....
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
not a pain thats what we are here for....lol.... can probably make a .zip with a script to push a framework.apk with the proper edited file like the emmc-fix does. or.......

put emmc into a program like 7zip and take that framework.apk put the edited eri.xml into it then update it then extract and flash like you would the original emmc zip I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS so do at your own risk but in all theory it should work
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Should put the file in no prob. Cwm will overwrite existing files with one from zip.

You can flash just about anything if you set up folders and updater script right. I will do it if you like. What did you want written into the file? I also have a blank cwm flash able zip you can start with(need to edit some...I can help if u need assistance) if u want to do it on your own. Let me know
[Motorola Photon 4G] the12nv:
Question ...what is the USB issue...is it just mounting or is it charging also...???
[Motorola Photon 4G] pbedard:
Rom. Is perfect just persist ant dialer force closes
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
It charges. Just needs the usb.apk from older cm9 to select usb mode.
[Motorola Photon 4G] the12nv:
Thanks...I am on cm7.2 now....through root explorer I copied USB.apk to my SD card...going to flash and see if it works...I'm excited...love MIUI....
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Voice search didn't work either, so I deleted the apk with root explorer and installed from the market. Works good now
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
Yeah next update will have the apps right important thing is we have a great base now to improve upon with most of the big fish fried now is just the little things and try to keep up with their updates whenever they update ill port it again but until then ill keep tinkering on this one to make it smooth as silk so far I've been running it almost 12 hours only issues I've had are the ones mentioned how goes it for the rest of yall

coming from miui on one hell of a mopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] daryl6784:
Running great since about 9 last night and no issues here. Is there any way to get the miui settings like on gb roms? I know battery percentage is working because it shows on my lockscreen but I can't seem to get it on my notification bar
[Motorola Photon 4G] LucKyPunk:
Are you running THIS version? I couldn't download it till this morning... If you pull down the notification shade there is a settings menu (Three dots) set the battery option to percent.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Thanks, didn't know that was there.
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
cool will add that to the tips section sorry still learning how miui works just going to have to play with it..... Yeah I released a test for about 30 then took link down some got it last night I think 6 people if I remember right

coming from miui on one hell of a mopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Try replacing the apn-conf.xml from the cm9 fixes thread before flashing...see if that helps...
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
Did that. Didn't work for me.:confused: