yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Which app isn't working with root? I ask because if it's simply a root checker, those often only look in /system/app for su.apk. Since it's baked into the rom, it can't be found as an apk, and you will get an issue reported with root
[Motorola Photon 4G] praful:
I did not select Titanium backup while installing from the options chooser, since I have the apk for it and for some reason the version of Titanium backup that comes with the Options chooser refuses to restore my data. So I did a fresh install so I can install Titanium backup from the apk that I have.

Now after installing it when I ran the app it says I don't have root privileges! So I installed root checker and that also said I don't have root permissions.

So I tried the AIO root again and this is the what I get, see the error in bold!

And I have already mentioned the issues faced with the other root methods!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Strange...only thing I could say is do wipe of /system, /data, and /cache or use Wipe-all.zip and then reinstall
[Motorola Photon 4G] Moscow Desire:
Ok folks, at the request of the OP, I'm going to clean up some of the "OFF TOPIC" posts people have been posting. These include all the CWM and root checker apps questions that people have posted.

Questions on how to use a custom recovery (and advanced features) belong in the Q&A forum, or the particular recovery threads. Not in the Rom thread. Although there are times when a simple answer is needed, and the cook tries to answer it. But not to carry on lengthy conversations on topics that do not belong in the Rom thread.

Questions involving "I can't get my phone rooted" definately belong in the Q&A forum, and not posted in the rom thread. You guys should know better.

Now, don't you guys go PM'ng me about OMG! Why did you delete my post??? The answer will be "because it is off topic, and the OP requested it".After all, it's "His" thread. And if posts are not pertinent to the ROM itself, he has every right to request it.

Trust me, it's nothing personal. Just cleaning his thread.

MD
[Motorola Photon 4G] debinnv:
Well, this really is not off topic ( I don't think) But I wanted to thank you Bill for all your hard work you do for this phone. I popped a Sammy S2 on ebay last night so I probably won't be playing with my Moto any more. :( Unless of course the Sammy turns out to be crap. Out of all the roms I tried and I don't just mean on this phone, I have to say your rom is on the top of my list. I love it and everything just WORKS!! Oh sure there may be a hiccup here and there but as quick as you are to fix things, well, it's downright amazing the dedication and patience you have. You sir are a huge asset to XDA!! Have a wonderful day and thank you for all the help you gave me.

Deb
[Motorola Photon 4G] dxl880517:
The new version is working great! Only problem is i cannot sync google contacts anyway...nor can i import contacts from storage. i'll reinstall it and see if it works...
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Does GoSMS work properly without any additional modifications needed?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
@jamie

Yeah, as long as you set the split texts longer than 160 chars to true in the gosms settings.

My apologies if I missed the memo, but is there any reason I'm unable to download any themes? It just throws a download failed error.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm not sure why they haven't fixed how themes show up. Since 2.5.18, the old style themes are no longer able to be used with v4 MIUI. There are only I think 3 or 4 that are compatible (one of which is a pretty click looking ICS one on MIUI.us site home page.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
MIUI V4 Themes

Here you go, guys...some KICK ASS looking themes on this page. All are V4. I have not yet gotten to test them all. I plan to do so today.

I WANT YOUR INPUT ON WHICH ONES SHOULD GO INTO MY RE-UP I DO ON TUESDAY
[Motorola Photon 4G] tetrabyt:
Love the ics blue colors
[Motorola Photon 4G] flyguy914:
I figured it out, i uninstalled the stock sms app using titanium back rebooted and go sms is working correctly
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Excellent! :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] debinnv:
oooh this looks like the rom I want! I have one quick question and please bear with me as I just got my photon (coming from epic 4G ) I flashed that one with no problem and before that it was the moment so I am not new to flashing or anything. I have read a bit as I know there is this thing with locked and unlocked etc etc. My photon from ebay came with 2.3.4 someone confirmed this is a good thing and don't ota upgrade to 2.3.5......okay cool so I know not to do that. But this rom here, or any for that matter, I am always going to want "for unlocked" right? seeing as my phone does not have 2.3.5 ? Thanks for confirming and hopefully I am understanding all this correctly. Torpedo? Electrify? ( which I think is just that it's on a carrier other than sprint) Pudding? :) So much to learn and figure out. I will keep reading but I am soooo anxious to flash and get rid of all this blasted bloatware that just keeps running in the background. I hate that crap. Plus I love all the extra goodies and tweaks you guys put into your roms. A huge thank you to you and all the people that work so hard to make our phones the best they can be.

Oh and whoever that guy is that started going on about who is considered a dev and who is not? Seriously? Some people amaze me, I can't imagine what the purpose of even starting that thread was for, other than to try and start a bunch of nonsense. I for one truly appreciate everything you and others do to give us variety and a CHOICE.

Thank you again to anyone that can confirm for me locked or unlocked roms since I am on 2.3.4. I still have no idea if I will lose 4G. I mean I would if I was on 2.3.5 and had to unlock, I understood that part. ( well hopefully ) Just have not found anything yet that says I will if I am on 2.3.4 and root and flash.

Geeze this turned into a long post :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
This ROM requires both root and unlock to run it. It's based on 4.0.4. It's got a custom 1.3 kernel with an option (if you pick the Aroma version install method) for a 1.4 kernel. You will lose 4G, but the 3G data speeds are better on these roms. Only way to keep 4G is to use a LOCKED rom, but those are all based off 2.3.5. If you want ICS, you gotta give up 4G at this time. If you OTA upgrade to latest firmware, you WILL be stuck with stock only at this time, as it's NOT unlockable, so DO NOT take the OTA upgrade if you plan to do a ROM.

It's really easy once you do it once (unlocking and rooting), and when you get into these roms, they become addictive :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
I'm downloading and I'll try it later and report back.

I didn't get to post in that "what makes a dev" thread before it was closed. I will say that judging others' abilities, accomplishments, and being a label snob has no place in the community. To me you are all devs because you all know way more than me. I'm sure there are many that know more than you as well, but that doesn't negate your contributions to the community, or make you any less of a dev because of it. Don't even bother listening to that crap!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
My biggest issue with it was that it was coming from someone who I feel does very similar work to myself. I'd have been fine if Shabby or Joker decided to call me out on something...they are devs on a level I can only aspire to become.

I think my work stands for itself. I've done some pretty damn good quality work on the Android across the 3 phones I do work on (Photon, Atrix, and most recently, the Infuse 4G). I figure I must have been doing some things right, as Joker approached myself and Spleef about collaborating on Kitchen Sink... :)

In the end, it's all settled, I'm not fazed one bit by it. I will continue to work on my builds and assist any people who contact me to ask for my help. When it comes down to it:

I'm NOT GOING ANYWHERE, SO GET USED TO ME!! LOL :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] nandroide:
Miui

Have any of the theme bugs been fixed? i.e. notification bar, contacts, sms, and a few others? hope so!
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
you know it, it may have ruffled some feathers but its not going to even cause a pause I don't do this stuff for thanks or the hopes of donations I do thus cause I like to and I want to...but back on topic.......looking at those themes and am starting to feel like its time to come and try miui again.....lol.....probably give her a flash tonight
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Some of the themes do a GREAT job of it. Dark Knight best theme-job I've seen so far. Others still have areas of white. :)

Overall, though, it's a LOT of progress. I've got 6 of them on my phone and mix and match the themes :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] naturecannon:
Thats what I was doing. Wish i did a backup first cause now I have a mess of a theme job.:o
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
RUH ROH!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
gapps from both links are giving error status 6 when attempting to flash using joker recovery3 on fresh install. Am I missing something here?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cdrice15:
I love this from....it is by far my favorite. But I have to leave it for another. There is an app that stopped working with miui a couple of updates ago that I have to have for my job. I contacted the dev of the app and is aware it does not work with miui and he "filed it for future investigation". I am going to keep loading each update and see if it starts working but I am going back cm9 for now. I wanted to say you guys have done a great job on this rom and thanks for everything you've done.

Sent from my Electrify
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Hmmm...status 6 is binary....odd. give me a min and let me take a look. I'll re-up in a few mins...it'll have to be a mirror, as for some reason jokersax.com is down :(

EDIT: Damn! I forgot to update the binary when I downed these from MIUI. I always update the binary on the Atrix build...sorry guys. Be back up in a min with a link
[Motorola Photon 4G] andrewrh3:
well said. share the love.
[Motorola Photon 4G] praful:
Anyone having issues with the Foursquare app (Link!) after flashing to MiUi? I tried clear data/uninstall and reinstall... nothing works! The app just refuses to run!

Also none of the camera apps like Camera 360 and Camera Zoom FX are not showing the display from the cam in time. I.e. the change in position of the lens shows up very late on the screen!

And,

Apologoies Th3bill...But I felt that my questions regarding Rooting weren't more on lines of "How to Root my Photon" , but more like "Why isn't my Photon Rooted after flashing to MiUi". So I felt they are very much within topic of the thread!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm not upset....wasn't in the first place. Don't take it to be an "upset" thing. I merely did it so that if someone wanted to read the thread, it would be cleaner. I fully understand your posts....I just needed to put a reason for cleanup :)

If you can get me log of you trying to run JUST foursquare (the more stuff running, it just becomes a mess that's nearly impossible to dig through...LOL), I can try to see if it's something I can fix, or if it's something where the app isn't fully MIUI compatible
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
What model # is the S2 that you're getting? I have some pals who work on it, so you should be GTG with MIUI on most of the Samsung ones (I actually build MIUI for the Infuse...LOL). :)

Hey...no problems...I understand when you change phones...I've done it myself. Got a while before my MoPho is up for upgrade, but honestly, unless Moto comes out with something WORLDLY above this, I may keep it for a bit until they do.

I'm glad you enjoyed using my build. This is the first ROM I ever worked on as a dev, so it is very special to me. I'll probably keep building it even after I DO upgrade my phone (course, my 11 year old will probably get the phone then...LOL)

Best of luck with your new phone, and if it doesn't work out, you know where we are! :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Build is UP

Jokersax.com

Th3Bill

MIUI for Photon

Right now, it's just the Standard Flash.

Aromabase will be up around 8 with any luck

Options Chooser around 10pm

Please do you and I a favor...don't use 2.6.15 Option Chooser on 2.6.22...LOL

CHEERS!!​
[Motorola Photon 4G] debinnv:
Hey Bill, it's the one in my siggy ( In route > Samsung Galaxy S ll Epic 4G Touch. ) If that is what you meant. I don't have it yet and naturally with ebay there is always a risk sooooo. We will see. Like I said I may just keep the moto and sell my Epic 4G (used that one all of maybe a week got it from my upgrade)

ooooh new build ey? well I am gonna have to flash it. Heck it could be a week before I see the other phone LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
FIX for Permissions
[Motorola Photon 4G] naturecannon:
Any Mirrors? Jokersax.com has not been a very reliable source for downloads lately (last few weeks). Hit and miss often when trying to connect.

Thanks for all the hard work Bill!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] darkerhelmet:
I finally got MUI installed. Thanks to everyone that tried to help out but it was the QBKing videos that prevailed.

Anyhow here are the issues I have now:

1. No home launcher choices like in the QBking videos. I short and long press on the home button and nothing.

2. No app drawer anywhere.

3. No icon/widget for the Play store. I have 3 screens of icons, most of which I cannot delete, but none of the typical apps. On the Home screen I have - Camera, Gallery, Music, Themes, Settings, and Tools. On the next page looks more like a bunch of MUI utilities that I cannot delete. On the next page is only a search box.

4. One of the icons on that 'Utility' page, Joker something (get truncated) does not work. All I get is a blank page (?) with poker ads at the bottom.

5. At the bottom of all screens I have a Phone, Contact, Browser, and Text icon only. That is fine and as I expected.

6. On page 1 of this thread post #3 reads, "Explanation Of Options." Where are these options and why is everything labeled by a page #?

Okay so for right now I really just want to find my app drawer so I can download some apps.

Maybe my brain just got fried from over an hour trying to get this ROM installed, but I'm sure I am not just overlooking all these missing things.

Thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Goo.im

devs

T

Th3Bill

Photon

Aroma

2.6.22
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Need to flash the Options Chooser. I separated the Aroma install almost a month ago due to huge file sizes just being too cumbersome. There are 5 lanchers in the Chooser

This is in the Chooser Also

MIUI does not come with Gapps installed. Need to either flash MIUI gapps or flash the Options Chooser, which has gapps with Face Unlock in it

Jokersax App....supposed to bring you to the Jokersax.com page. It's currently down because the server is down at the moment...LOL

Standard MIUI...can change these out with other Apps if you like

You need to set up your regular e-mail app first, or else it doesn't work.

Check out the Options Chooser...I think that it will fix most of your concerns
[Motorola Photon 4G] darkerhelmet:
I just updated my original post - was really trying not to keep adding to this already long thread.

GAWD! I go to the first page of this thread and I cannot find a link that reads anything like download "Options Chooser." I also went to this page http://goo.im/miui/sunfire and saw nothing that looked like Options Chooser.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Goo.im

devs

T

Th3Bill

Photon

Aroma

2.6.22

I have no problemo adding to it so long as we're on topic :)

:)
[Motorola Photon 4G] darkerhelmet:
Okay I found it.

1. There is no Aroma.

2. I would have had a better time if you laid it out something like this:

http://Goo.im - devs - T - Th3Bill - Photon - 2.6.22

I saw you post this a couple back and thought, "What the heck is that supposed to be?" And just now, it took me a couple minutes to realize what it was, even while staring at the Goo.im Web page.

Anyways, gonna try to get this running the way I need it. Hopefully without a hitch cuz my brain and eyeballs hurt.

---------- Post added at 01:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 PM ----------

Did not take long.

I get to the first page - now I understand what your post #3 was all about.

English is already selected. I figured out I can use the volume buttons to navigate up and down. Great. I get down to the Next button. Now what? Power button does nothing, screen taps obviously do nothing and volume buttons just move the selection up or down.

How do I get to the next page???

For everyone else who just arrived from Mars on the same shuttle as me - you have to press on the camera button for Next.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Which cwm are u using? If not jokers v3 I can't guarantee touch will work, which is stated in my post 2 I believe :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] darkerhelmet:
Don't remember. I just followed to the letter what the Qbking YouTube video said. As I mentioned using the camera button worked so no love lost but really, my grey matter is fried. So right now I am just testing each home launcher and then I'll spend the rest of the year configuring everything else.

Please never update this ROM because I cannot bear going through this again :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
If you are using joker v3 cwm, touch should work. Other cwms its hit or miss
[Motorola Photon 4G] debinnv:
HA HA, now that's funny. Bill is always looking to bring us the best stuff :)

Hope you got everything working okay, this is a terrific rom. But yes, it does take a bit to get it set up with all your personal prefs. All the roms do though. Or at least that has been my experience. I just save all my apk's (apps) in my sd card so it goes a little quicker

---------- Post added at 05:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:01 PM ----------

The su fix? Is that flashed in recovery too? Thanks nvm I just did it and your a funny guy, ( the su zip at the end) that made me laugh
[Motorola Photon 4G] debinnv:
2.6.22 running smooth Bill .........Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
No matter what combination I use I lose data. Tried just using aroma base and still no data. Also sometimes aroma doesn't work and I have to try it again.

Trying to use miui because gummy doesnt have an extended battery mod and miui is awesome period.
[Motorola Photon 4G] neonjam:
Yeah tried downloading aroma base twice, only comes up no service....
[Motorola Photon 4G] debinnv:
I don't want to take this thread off topic so I am sending you a pm. I had this problem and I will tell you the steps I took which fixed it for me. It may or may not help you. Worth a shot though
[Motorola Photon 4G] tetrabyt:
Noticed using joker's 1.4 of kernel seems to mess up data. Also, settings still don't change.. eg ringtones and notifications don't appear to change but after rebooting they are set. Also, couldn't click off auto brightness. Would also be nice if there was an option in the aroma option Chooser NOT to touch the keyboard.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm gonna work to get us more kernel options.

Not sure what's up with ur phone. Auto bright goes on and off here just fine.

Ring/notifications too. Just changed all of them and tested. Must make the changes thru sounds menu in system settings.

I'll be re uploading chooser in a day or two with more options and newer apks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] praful:
Even I was having issues with the auto brightness feature on 2.6.15 + 1.4 kernel! Had issues with Wifi connectivity as well, it would be stuck in 'Obtaining IP address' mode!

Right now on 2.6.22 with the 1.3 kernel and things look to be much stabler!

And I cannot get the ##DATA# code to work and also I am unable to put phone in diag mode ever since I switched to MiUi from stock!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I am thinking of removing the 1.4 kernel until such time I can find or make one that is based on the current build of CM9. It is the cause of the wifi issue, as it's not 100% compatible at this time.

that data thing is *#*#4636#*#*. Works great on my phone...not sure if it's also kernel related. I use the stock kernel, as it's built with the CM9 base that this is built on top of, and seems to be more than good enough for my liking
[Motorola Photon 4G] praful:
*#*#4636#*#* Works for me :)

But ##DATA# doesnt!

What are the gains of using the 1.4 over 1.3?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
In previous versions, it had worked better, smoother...in this one, nada...actually seems to be a factor in borking things
[Motorola Photon 4G] praful:
Small koshun: I can't find the 'Limit background data option after flashing to 2.6.22' ? How can I get it back?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cpfeifer:
Multi-touch

So recently I a SBF reflash to the latest MIUI to help clear out some small bugs and such (I feel like it runs more stable after doing that) anyways! i was re organizing MIUI Home's icons into folders and such and I realized that you can no longer use multiply fingers to move items around the desktop.

Previously on a pre-ICS MIUI you were able to hold-press an icon in the "Edit Mode" and use a different finger to switch the desktop panels in the background, but now it just drops the icon when I attempt.

Any reason for this or has MIUI v4 just not have that support functionality yet?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
If you look in the Tools folder on the main screen (under clock), there is a "Network Assistant" app. That is the new way to limit data. I removed the Monitor apk as it was just duplicate to what MIUI already had built in
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
I can confirm that it is the 1.4 kernel killing data

Also if your going to change anything on the status bar if you haven't seen it before MAKE SURE TO GO TO HAVE THE MIUI LAUNCHER AS DEFAULT WHEN DOING SO makes it a lot smoother
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Yup....toolbox uses a modded MIUIHome.apk :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jleeblanch:
Excellent job on this ROM man! Very impressed!

I had been using jokers CM9-unofficial-ICS and loved that! Curious about other rooms, I jumped to AOKP and AOKPCB but had an issue with not being able to change internal and external storage. In jokers CM9-ICS there is an Advanced Option to switch to Internal Memory. That option doesn't exist in AOKP or AOKPCB unfortunately and I wish it did!

Earlier today I decided to try out MIUI because a lot of people like it! At first I was disappointed because I ran into the same issue with internal and external storage being swapped! After doing some reading I noticed that you had posted a fix for that on Joker's website. I downloaded and tried flashing that but it didn't seem to work for whatever reason. Someone mentioned choosing emmc option in Aroma but the initial flash I did didn't have it. So I downloaded the options variant and the option was there in Aroma!

All in all, if the above makes sense lol, I got it working and my storage is swapped the way I want it! Not gonna lie, I wish there was a file to swap storage locations on other roms like you made as I like to kinda bounce from one rom to another!

This is my first time using MIUI and I like it! Very impressed with the features and options! Like I mentioned, great job!

**Also, not sure if this has been mentioned... but I get this message randomly when doing some things (and some times legit randomly lol)
[Motorola Photon 4G] pkomarnicki:
I've gotten the “updater has stopped" message a few times as well. Any way to stop it? If not, no big deal.