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[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Anyone else have issues connecting to data after being on WiFi? I flashed this last night after running JB for a few months (wiped system, data, and cache first) and everything worked okay (couple FCs, nothing deal breaking) but after connecting to and disconnecting from WiFi, I couldn't get a mobile data connection. A reboot sorted it.

Attaching a logcat, hope it helps.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
I was having issues also. At work I connect to our open Wi-Fi.some days connects with no problem.other days it connects but doesn't actually connect.just says it connects. I switched roms and now I don't have that problem.
[Motorola Photon 4G] famous84:
the last update 20120923 is running flawless on my MoPho :victory:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Ramonsterator:
Hello!!

Please, please PLEASE - make option to disable active Kickstand!! Or tell me what should I change to get rid of it!!

I use kickstand just to safely hold phone in my hand, and it makes me mad when stupid desk clock app appears!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] jortiz12885:
Settimgs, display options, disable kickstand....not sure if this rom has this option as i recently changed to hybrid v20, because of flash browser issues
[Motorola Photon 4G] Ramonsterator:
Noo dude, this option exists in Hybrid/Stock FQW, BUT I'm asking bout CM7!! There is NO such option!
[Motorola Photon 4G] niphoet:
Dude, you sound like you're getting pretty angry about features in a FREE rom.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Ramonsterator:
Well, a little bit YES, cause it would be better if this function was NOT ported to CM7 so kickstand could be inactive by default.

Hybrid ROM is also FREE mod, but it has such option.

So please, can anyone help?

I REALLY need to make kickstand passive and not to "disturb" phone when opened!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] niphoet:
Why not just switch back to peetr's hybrid rom if it bugs you that much? Or write an app that disables it? Geesh.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Agreed. Peetr's ROM is really good!
[Motorola Photon 4G] scott2020:
Including Wifi staying connected? No DHCP issues?
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
My kickstand does nothing when opened. I must have disabled it on the stock rom prior to flashing.

Try sbf back to stock, disable kickstand, then flash cm7.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Ramonsterator:
Wow, very interesting!

Tell me please - have you wiped data before installing CM7?
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
If coming from stock you should definitely wipe data.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cougarcougar:
Kickstand operation could depend on the kernel used.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
Just a quick note on the sd card thing, my 32 gb is a lexar class 10 and I've had no issues

Sent from my mof'd up MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] wolficus:
Had a feeling that may have been the case... been doing some reading. Seems i need at least a class 6. The larger class 4 is just to slow and the lagg causes issues with larger files.

I put the card in my color nook. Seems happy with it. I will get another 32 but a class 10.

sent from my cm7 electrify
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
No, WiFi does not stay connected. I do not know what the DHCP issues are.

I agree with others, you should definitely wipe data between stock and a custom ROM. Maybe if you were going to a Blur ROM, but by not wiping data between two different types of ROMs, you may have created some issues for yourself. Kudos to you if you got lucky, though.

My kickstand opens the alarm clock.

A search for "kickstand disable" returns 0 results in the Play Store (website). A search for "kickstand" returns a bunch of crap, mostly because a sneaky dev chose "Kickstand" for a dev name. So all his (her?) apps show up.
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
I am mostly bone stock cm7. I added the forced roaming tweak since I venture out of a sprint service area from time to time. As for the kickstand in cm7 it has never worked for me. I think I got tired of it on the blur rom so I turned it off. When I installed cm7 last year I did a full wipe. Since then I nandroid and install the latest version when I want. I think my version is around mid July. All is well except for the dhcp issue. A simple disable then reenable of wifi fixes it every time. I have the power widget on the homescreen so wifi toggle is right there when I need it.

Edit: logcat doesn't say anything when I open or close the kickstand.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Curious about something.. with the ICS and jb ROMs you can flash between each one without a full wipe. Is it possible to flash from mokee to cm7 without a full wipe? Just cache and dalvik?

I ask because I don't have the phone with me anymore. I gave it to my daughters mother and she's completely ignorant when it comes to technology and when I sent her the phone I set it up for her. If I have her factory reset the phone for this then I'll be on the phone with her for hours just setting everything back up for her lol. I'm 3000 miles away...
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
I doubt it. I flashed cm9 over cm7 and had major dialer issues.

You could nandroid and flash away. Worst case you restore the nandroid and you are back to where you were.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
Cm9 is ICS based. Different framework. Mokee is cm7 (GB) based which has the same framework. On other devices this is not an issue and has not been an issue when flashing between ics(cm9) ROMs. That's why I ask
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
Nandroid. Flash.

All is well = rejoice!

All is not well = restore nandroid = back to where you started.

In theory it should be ok, but you never know.

It is always a risk flashing over roms.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
This is the best way to approach any flash, honestly. I flashed peetr's ROM, and it boot looped, but I only wiped system and cache (didn't want to rebuild, LOL). Wiped data and it booted fine. I'm sure it's a good ROM, but looked too much like stock, reminded me why I left. I restored my Nandroid backup and was good to go. Still am. Again, not knocking peetr's hybrid ROM, just wasn't for me. But yeah. Nandroid, every time. I'm going to try the new GB ROM on the block, the Cyan Mobile that was just posted. Same thing. Nandroid then flash.

Also, delete your Nandroids after a while, they take up a ton of space.

Lastly, if TWRP is your recovery, you don't have to back up \system, you can leave that off. \data is all you really need to back up in a proper Nandroid. But if you have a big SD card it doesn't matter much.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
Cybik, I know you mentioned at one point that you were going to try and make a cm9 port once drivers were released for ICS, now that we know that isn't going to happen wondering if you are going to try and port without source/drivers or just stay on cm7?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
CyanogenMOD keeps to the official stance: no build will come from us with hax.

Check the photon Google+ page.
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
But this is not truth! :)

How about Defy, running Froyo kernel hacked by 2ndInit, using modules? ;)

Ask Epsylon or Quarx. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] arturodelac:
I love this rom, just wish it had hdmi in landscape
[Motorola Photon 4G] bhake:
Just curious. Is this still an ongoing issue, regarding the wifi sleep policy? It still happens to me, having to toggle wifi to reconnect after wake. Maybe I missed the solution before, if so, I'm sorry.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
Is it an official-by-CM version? And if so, it's probably running at full-speed without userspace hax, as the appropriate modules are loaded at boot-override kexec time, which is, essentially, overriding everything in the memory. Also, said modules and libraries using them are probably fully-compatible with Froyo; currently, public-available libraries for anything Tegra2 is

NOT

ICS/Jelly-compatible.

2ndInit is not needed by the Photon, as the proof is in the Pudding: fastboot oem unlock is acheivable. But in the realm of userspace, publically-available workarounds involve ugly hax that destabilize the core and/or risk breaking [and probably break] the Android Compatibility Test Suite, thereby breaking compatibility with mainline, and de-legitimizing CyanogenMOD as a near-true-to-mainline-compatible distribution of Android

tl;dr: Userspace hax are teh d3b1l.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lightsword1942:
Well, there are plenty of tegra2 ICS libraries that are availible, xoom, optimus 2x, a500 etc, but is it correct to say those are too different to get to work? I'm curious what is unique about the photon that has been stopping us from using those on the other cm9 and cm10 builds. Wonder if this might help eventually as well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sub2k1:
Just finished a fresh install of last night's release (9/30/12) and everything seems to run smooth except for CyanogenMod settings menu. Any attempts to access the submenus within always causes a force close. Is anyone else having this issue?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Akhileshjj:
Yes even I have the same issue....
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
tegra2 libs are normally quite unique to each handset.
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
Saw teh Google+ post. What's the skinny?
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
While the recent Motorola ICS fiasco for the Atrix/Photon/etc has made me finally decide never to spend any money on their hardware, I'm still quite amenable to donations of used hardware and as the case is, someone offered me a Photon earlier today and luckily it was <drumroll please> still on Android 2.3.4... HURRAY!!!

So I did the usual routine of flashing 2.3.4 clean on it with RSD and the stock SBF, unlocked the bootloader, rooted it, installed recovery, flashed the KDDI radio (using it with T-Mobile rocks now that we have T-Mobile 1900 MHz coverage here in Las Vegas) and now it's running the 9/30/2012 CM7 Nightly but but but... as others have noted in the past few posts, attempting to do much of anything in the Cyanogenmod settings causes a force close so, is there anything that can be done?

Also: do any of the previous versions have that issue 'cause if not then I'd have no issues dropping back to the 9/23 or whatever, just figured I'd ask here before going through a bunch of flashing for no good reason if they're all suffering from the same little glitch there.

It's nice, it's fast, it's Cyanogenmod so I'm very happy with the performance right from the gitgo but, obviously I (and others too) would like to be able to get in there and do some config changes but the force closing is a brick wall at this point.

Any info is greatly appreciated, thanks.

ps (late edit):

cybik, I know this will sound like the dumbest question evarrr but, what ROM do you use on your own Photon as listed in your sig? Just curious... I don't like making assumptions just because you helped create CM7 for the Photon but, I gotta ask just the same. :p
[Motorola Photon 4G] Airwolf79:
The only time I got any fc's was when I started changing some settings on the lockscreen. Otherwise it ran flawless, for me. What settings specifically are causing fc's for u?
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
When I open Settings (and I'm assuming this is the same for the other two people that noted the FC issue), then Cyanogenmod Settings, and I choose some of the available choices (like Performance, etc) it instantly force closes and drops back to the main Settings menu. I'm going to reflash here in a bit and wipe everything clean as a whistle in the hopes that maybe something just got flaky but, so far on this first CM7 install that's what's happening.

Will update this if a reflash addresses it, if not then I'll just wait till cybik has a chance to offer any suggestions. It's not going to kill me, of course, but I do prefer to modify things especially in the Performance tab so it's a bit of an issue.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Airwolf79:
I C. The way I wipe is Joker's Full Wipe zip, then under mounts I format system and data, then wipe cache and dalvik cache (wiping cache formats it as well). Now, I'm no expert, and maybe this is overkill, but it has been working for me every time and I'm going between CM7, Hybrid, and JB Roms regularly. Just my $.02.
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
Try fixing permissions. I am on 7/29 build with no issues.... except occasional wifi not reconnecting. Toggle wifi off then on fixes that.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Will give those suggestions a try here in a few minutes after I redo some things, thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sub2k1:
Here is what you do:

Reboot into recovery and backup your entire phone. Then do a dirty flash of 9/23. Just flash that right on top of your current rom, and then make sure to flash gapps afterward. Go ahead and reboot the phone after that and you should be fine. If you'd like, it wouldn't be a bad idea to fix permissions if you have the time. The cyanogenmod settings work perfectly for me under 9/23 and I downgraded from 9/29 to 9/23 just for that reason.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Just for the helluvit, I went all the way back to a clean SBF for 2.3.4 then did the whole shebang with the 9/23 CM7 nightly, got it up and running and... it works, without issues, can't find a damned thing to complain about really.

Did a Nandroid backup, wiped it, installed the 9/30 again, fixed the permissions, booted into it, rebooted, fixed permissions a second time after the setup, then back into it and... still the force closes in the CM settings menu so, I'm sticking with 9/23.

I can't imagine a whole helluvalot changed between the 9/23 and 9/30 builds so, I'll happy with what I've got at this moment, a fairly rock solid CM7 on a fine device (even in spite of Motorola's issues recently and no ICS coming). A shame, really, but if worse comes to worse it's better than an iPod touch as a PMP I suppose. :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
To answer the question all of you must be asking yourselves:

yes, I'm working on adapting the olympus dump to the sunfire.
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
That was fast! I'm excited to see where this goes. Thanks in advance cybik!
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
this is actually a joke. Not a prank, but the level of detail included in that build is just lol.

Here's an example: the kernel in the Atrix build is a 2.6.39.4, which oh so happens to also be the kernel the Xoom is running.

How can we know this, you ask? There's a config option in the kernel, which should not be activated if you want your kernel to be unreproduced easily. And that option happens to be active on the leak.

My opinion on the matter: devs leaked this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
haha, that is awesome. i was curious about the kernel version. seemed a little odd when epinter mentioned it :P

now i really wanna try out this build.... it keeps looking at me all funny and whatnot :eek:
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
DONE. Screenshots will be posted on my personal Google+.

edit: BOOM MOTHAFOKAZ.
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
you're just too fast sir. too flippin' fast. they ever tell you that? i'll keep an eye out for those photos.
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
hey looks nice.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschoms:
Slide keyboard open to continue

Is there any reason I'm getting "slide keyboard open to continue" when trying to setup and how do I bypass it?

Never mind. I skipped the setup and went into it from another screen and it appears to br good. Thanks for looking.
[Motorola Photon 4G] wolficus:
Anyone else randomly loosing data connection?

sent from my cm7 electrify
[Motorola Photon 4G] wolficus:
Update. Was running 9-23 update when i was having complete data connection loss. Would have to reboot my phone to get it back. Flashed up to 9-30 and couldnt open cyanogen settings.

Went back to 9-09... seem to be running alright now. Will see in time.

sent from my cm7 electrify
[Motorola Photon 4G] Carlosmadiam:
I'm running 9-30, just restored cyanogen settings from previous build on titanium back up. No problems here...

Sent from My Electrify Telcel Mexico
[Motorola Photon 4G] QNXUA:
can you plz upload somewhere backup of TB for CS app?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bhake:
Good call. Was having the wifi reconnection problems. Flashed 9-09 and much better. Wifi stays connected. Thanks.

Edit. Connection stays on after sleep. But when leaving home wifi, for example, and returning it won't connect unless toggle wifi settings. Maybe it's time for a clean wipe and reinstall?
[Motorola Photon 4G] wolficus:
Actually thats hit or miss for me. Some times it reconnects right away.. other times. No. Sometimes all i have to do is unlock my phone and it works.

My guess is it depends in the refresh rate of the wireless scan and when you walk in range.

sent from my cm7 electrify
[Motorola Photon 4G] k2wl:
no new build for cm7???

there is been a while since new version uploaded for our photon by cybik. is he stoped working on it or he may have been superbusy in his personal life.....anybody knows which is it???

anyways good work cybik!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
CM7 for the Sunfire is pretty much as good as it's going to get, that's my opinion. It's fast, smooth, dependable, stable as all get out, and I can't honestly think of anything that cybik could do at this point to improve it.

All the development now seems to be focused on Jelly Bean even above ICS work these days which is fine by me I suppose. The Photon is more than capable of running either OS very well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] badgett:
Call me weird but I am not too crazy about ICS and Jellybean's UI. I like CM7. There is no end to the customizing you can do and everything works. I have lots of themes and I change them often. I am happy.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Chinam4n:
I'm getting FC's when I try to access Cyanogen settings. Any fixes for that, or I just had a bad flash?
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Was having the same issues with the 9/30 build and asked about it a few days ago, someone suggested trying the 9/23 build and that one works pretty much perfectly without issues so, give that one a shot and see what results you get. The 9/30 build worked but the settings would FC on some options, so I flashed the 9/23 and everything works without any problems I could find.
[Motorola Photon 4G] famous84:
wolficus already reported that issue, and Carlos probably has a workaround....
[Motorola Photon 4G] Carlosmadiam:
cm parts

I have pulled the cm parts of my phone, maybe by pushing it to system/app folder, overwrite and reboot phone could fix your problem...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
Has anyone had problems with getting the same texts over and over while using cm7? Is there a fix for it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] frozndevl:
I've had that problem all the time on various versions on cm. It usually seems to be a result of having a bad connection
[Motorola Photon 4G] badgett:
I haven't had this problem but my Galaxy S3 does this on stock rom. So probably not CM related.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
You might be right about it being on cm roms. I'm running a stock rom now and no problems.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
I can confirm that this works. At least, it works when you replace the default cmparts with yours before flashing the ROM.
[Motorola Photon 4G] wolficus:
The only time i have had that with this cm rom... is when my signal bar is around 1 or 2. Even then its rare...

sent from my cm7 electrify
[Motorola Photon 4G] d_man17:
Does anyone know how to get an extended battery to display its proper percentage instead of the battery icon sitting at 1% remaining and then the battery suddenly dies?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jam97:
Info.

Last build : cm-7-20120930-NIGHTLY-sunfire.zip

http://goo.im/devs/cm/sunfire/nightly
[Motorola Photon 4G] d_man17:
So I flashed the late build about an hour ago and I noticed that the battery percentage is still decreasing as if the phone still has the stock 1650 mah battery installed even though i currently have a 3500 mah battery inside the phone at the moment.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
I'd recommend a battery history wipe. That _should_ help recalibrating.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jam97:
For me I've flashed cm-7-20120930-NIGHTLY-sunfire.zip and i got CynogenMod setting FC .

Do you plan for any future (ICS, or JB) Builds, cybik?

Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bock Abrams:
Quick question, the only thing keeping me from using this great CM7 build as a daily driver is my busted proximity sensor.

I've been bouncing between peeter's deblurred and this.

In the stock rom, and stock based roms, I was able to append

To my build.prop to disable the proximity sensor in calls.

Is there something similar for CM7? because that exact var isn't working.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
The issue with the FC on the settings can be fixed by taking the archive (the full cm-7-20120930-NIGHTLY-sunfire.zip file) and replacing the CMParks.apk inside it with the one from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32898781&postcount=512

I and many others have had the same problem with the 9/30 build so I gave that "fix" a shot:

- using WinRAR I opened (but did not extract) the archive

- deleted the CMParts.apk file from the \system\app directory

- dropped the replacement CMParts.apk from that post I just linked to directly into the archive (same directory)

- saved it with an altered filename (so I didn't overwrite the original archive)

- flashed my newly edited one to my Photon and that's about it.

The settings menus all work now, in fact everything does with this ROM so that's a big positive.

Haven't had one FC, one error, not one lick of trouble with it in the past day or two at all. As noted in a previous post, I think this CM7 ROM for the Photon is about as stable and good as we're ever going to be able to manage given Motorola has pretty much blown all of us off now.

Oh well... hope this helps.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jam97:
It works!

Thank you.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
That's the power of this great community! :good:
[Motorola Photon 4G] DankTank:
How can we fix HDMI landscape? It still does not work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
i just flashed this ROM today and its pretty awesome....no FCs so far....i was just wondering if i could OC with more than 1GHz with this ROM?

More power to this ROM!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrmellies:
You will have to flash a different kernel. But yes its possible to over clock up to 1.4 ghz
[Motorola Photon 4G] jam97:
For me ,I'm using cyanmobile_kernel_1.3uv-v4-kraven-btfix ,good battery live ,stable and fast.

link:http://goo.im/devs/thekraven/photonkernels
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
could you give me a link to the page for compatible kernels I could download so I can OC?

sent from my MoPho69™
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
how far can I OC the photon with this kernel?

sent from my MoPho69™
[Motorola Photon 4G] jam97:
up to 1300Mhz
[Motorola Photon 4G] Doballa:
You should not be posting links to other peoples work in this thread, Cybik has asked before not to do this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
is there any stable kernel that can give me beyond 1.3GHz?
[Motorola Photon 4G] badgett:
Why do you want to go faster than 1300 ? You will have really crappy battery life.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Hes right. You will literally see no performance gain going past 1300. Hell, the performance gain even from 1000 to 1300 is negligible in every day use. When your phone runs perfectly smooth on stock clocks, anything over that is really only visible in benchmarking tests. And in my opinion, benchmarking a mobile device in and of itself is more of an ego booster than anything. I personally prefer underclocking and undervolting for the battery gains.
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
what do you guys use for undervolting?
[Motorola Photon 4G] wintrxtrem:
Actually, going from 1300 to 1400 made the difference between 720p eztv torrents playing or not playing on my OG Photon. This is through my home wifi network from a NAS running a DLNA server.
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
Myrt and setcpu are good for undervolting.
[Motorola Photon 4G] DankTank:
I have asked 3 times and it seems to get ignored. Is there a fix for HDMI mirror? It does NOT work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] badgett:
I don't know. I never use it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
No fix. It was never implemented.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Airwolf79:
Cybik, wouldnt the HDMI landscape fix for the atrix be the same on the photon for cm7? I think they've had that working for quite some time now. All ur hard work on this rom is greatly appreciated. You rock!