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[Motorola Photon 4G] jerusry:
Did you check the proper settings boxes inside the ROM installer? If I remember correct you need to select in the installer which network and data connections you will be using either gsm or cdma or both. Been awhile since I installed an aroma ROM. But just a thought. Most ppl cruise right by the settings panels duringil install.

Sorry if this doesn't help though. I tried.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FernBch:
You're on it. You have to choose which in aroma, but IIRC, it has to be one or the other. You can't have both.
[Motorola Photon 4G] couponfork:
Does anyone know a fix for MMS? I'm on the Sprint network (CDMA), pictures just sit there saying "SENDING"...
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
Did you make sure your APNs are set up properly? Check out this quoted post (couldn't find the original post):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23418587&postcount=28
[Motorola Photon 4G] couponfork:
Thank you for the link!

I tried that, when I click on the APNS settings after, opening "Voice Dialer" and say "Open APNS" it just opens my settings, don't see anything relating to APNs.

I also tried using the "APNs Settings Shortcut" but when I place the widget on my homescreen it just disappears.

Does anyone know how to modify APNs without those two methods?
[Motorola Photon 4G] bray424:
If you're using a launcher that let's you make shortcuts to activities like Apex, make one and go to settings, then APNs.

Sent from my MB855
[Motorola Photon 4G] couponfork:
I added Apex to my phone and went to add a shortcut, after selecting Settings I get:

Accessibility

Apps

Battery

Bluetooth

Data usage

Developer options

Display

Location access

Sound

Tethering & portable hotspot

VPN

Wi-Fi

I do not seem to have an "APNs" option.
[Motorola Photon 4G] damnkids:
How do I install Gapps that fits with this ROM? I've tried a few gapps, I can not. especially playstore (no connection-retry) after install gapps. Then i try to install playstore.apk apparently also can not be opened. can anybody help me?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
I can't able to get in APN screen... If I click APN then its force closed and it returns to settings screen....somebody please tell me a fix for this APN....

I installed gsm tweaked 2.99 PA rom...
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Thanks for no reply... I got it to work the apn ....spent six hrs to fix apn...

Thanks all
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
You're so very welcome.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Haha.... Atleast got reply from you...

This rom is really awesome than miui and beanstalk....
[Motorola Photon 4G] BoominSVX:
Hi guys. I know this may be a bit of a dumb question, but I'm very good on the Epic and not very fluid with the Photon. I have paranoid Android on this thing. The bootloader shows "UNLOCKED" on boot up, and it's rooted. I figured I'd put this phone on my girlfriend's plan for her while I had a minute. She's getting up soon, and I STILL can't get an activation option. I don't want to have to unlock it again as I remember a bad time doing it the first time. What rom can I flash with CWM that has sprint activation, activate the phone with, and then restore to paranoid android? Running out of time here. Sorry to have to ask. Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Don't know if its too late or not, but probably one of MOF's 2.3.5ish ROMs would work. They're designed to run locked, or unlocked and are based on the stock ROM.

EDIT: Oh, and if you RUU back to stock, unlocking a Photon is a much simpler process the second time, at least in my experience.
[Motorola Photon 4G] BoominSVX:
Thanks for the help, but I couldn't find any links that actually worked. I finally bit the bullet and just flashed back to stock 198_7. The phone is now activated and works on the netwrok, but now I have a NEW issue. I cannot find a working link anywhere for the AIO Unlock/CWM install. Everything seems to be down or hacked. Obviously this is not a small file, but I lost the version I had in a hard drive failure and never backed it up. I hate Moto. Absolute crap. NEVER will I touch another after this. I haven't even gotten it unlocked and the stumpy power key is already sinking into the case. How can they release such a POS phone this tightly locked down and expect to survive. I'm seconds away from setting up a high speed cam and sending some 00 buck through this thing so I can replay it any time life gets me down to instantly make me feel better.
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
I'm a bit of a data pack rat, so I should still have the unlock files you need on my laptop. You'll have to wait until I'm home from work, but I should be able to send you a link later. That's assuming the phone is still in working order. If the phone is not in working order, I hope you share the video.

EDIT: Also, if you plan to reflash this ROM after you unlock it again, I recommend the 27NOV build. You can read in the thread that I had issues with the 07DEC build. I later tried the 17DEC "fixed" build, but the I had the same problems. It looks like Th3Bill doesn't have a link to download that version anymore, but I know I still have that ROM .zip on my sdcard. That's what is currently installed on my Photon, even though its been let out to pasture since I've upgraded to a HTC One.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
My phone battery is too low in few hours itself without using anything in phone...

Can anyone tell me good way to get good battery life for my phone?...

If any trik/idea please share
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Check ROM controls for processor speed, lower it from 1300.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
I reduced the speed from 1300 to 1000 but still the battery is getting low fastly
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Check battery stats and see what is taking the most battery. Depending on some apps constantly use internet to update info. Widgets are always using, May also try going to recovery and wiping cache.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FanBoy_Hunter:
Mo-****er. I still remember when we were tied for "Thanks" You've gone along way bud. Thanks for all your hard work. Good of you to take over on this build and the others. I too am going through a pretty crazy move. I was hoping Paranoid would get updated with the current 7.0 base. You and Spleef both. Thanks for all the hard work. This **** ain't no walk in the park.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
I'm on CM 7.2 right now, but I've been itching to get back to ICS. Gingerbread is weak, and the performance improvement I thought I'd see (since ICS requires more resources) just isn't noticeable, which tells me the Photon/Electrify is a beast.

I have a Nandroid backup of Paranoid Android 1.1; would it be better for me to restore that, then flash 1.5 on top of it, or should I do a full wipe of \system, \cache, and \data, and install it fresh? If the latter, should I flash something else first (CM9 0.3.0, CM9 latest, PA 1.1)? Or just 1.5? I don't mind losing the apps from my Nandroid backup. I also have a Titanium backup (I renamed it to "Titanium Backup ICS" and built my library of CM 7.2 apps from scratch (and memory)) so that's not a problem.

Now here's a stupid question. I'm sure there's a great answer for it... And I know we don't have video because of a lack of drivers (which I think will come any time now) but if we can get video through this "Video Illusion" app, what stops somebody from making a bare-bones video record app for CM9? I know there's a lot of work to do in making an Android app due to the "fragmentation issue", but why not make it just for the Photon/Electrify (Sunfire)? Wouldn't making it for just one Android platform make it more straightforward?
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
As for your first question I've been back and forth without any kind of issues. Never had a problem or ever had to flash any older builds. If coming from cm7 just flash whatever cm9 or cm9 based build like paranoid twice after a factory reset/data wipe, cache, and dalvik and it boots right up. I just did this yesterday because I wiped everything to start fresh again and it only took two flashes back to back of the paranoid rom. My SMS and calls work fine (I'm with sprint)

Short answer: wipe and flash twice then boot.

Second question: time and experience is what I'm assuming
[Motorola Photon 4G] tbaybucs:
Th3bill, great work as always. However this particular build had a bad bug i had to do a restore to your miui. i dont have a logcat . the phone force closed but still worked in the background and couldn't hang it up weird, so i wiped-all then re-flashed with exact same problem hope this helps.

edit tell me how to logcat after i restored to a diff rom and ill be glad to get it for you
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
First: Great work! Love this ROM..came from PA1.1 - Thanks Th3Bill!

Just noticed: When trying to install apps from google play from web browser, Google play FC's on phone...anyone else get that? :eek:

Also: I posted a log of the Phone FC when making a call. I'll call, then the phone FC's like the incall display doesn't work, it'll still be connected, but you can't use the dialpad, or have the ability to put on speakerphone..it goes to homescreen, then when going back to phone app it just shows the regular dial pad and not in-call status.
[Motorola Photon 4G] psgarcha92:
Does this ROM have any Data Issues? i mean in CM9 (Joker's 0.6.9.3 build) when the screen turns off or phone is locked, Wifi gets disconnected irrespective of the Power Policy setting on the device......plus, 3G there is not as prominent as on the stock ROM....does this ROM face any such issues? am on GSM. it will be greatly appreciated if someone can confirm the above issues.

PS: If i flash this ROM over joker's CM9 build, will all the Apps i have stay intact? and the gapps to be used with this is the hybrid one right? can the jellybean gapps be used on jokersax website?

Regards
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
- I had the same issue with the phone..I posted the logcat..hopefully we'll find an answer soon!
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
One more question: Is the boot animation still 480x800 or whatever, or has it been adapted for our qHD screens? Downloading now, I can't resist, haha.

Yes. Do a Nandroid and/or Titanium Backup just to be safe, but flash it over (it should only write to \system, IIRC) and when it boots up, after the boot animation, it will tell you that "Android is updating" and it will process your apps (including system settings, it was around 150 for me) one at a time. When it's done, everything should be as it was, but the underlying system will have changed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I think your issue is that you're in tablet mode. I'm not on the build now (I'm testing out my MIUI 2.7.13 I just put together yesterday). If I remember correctly, you need to make sure that you set the tablet mode to Optimized. I used it as my daily driver for 3 days...loved it. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Yup....the dpi settings are not correct for the phone UI to stay functional. It's FCing right as it tries to set the UI DPI for the phone...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
And it wasn't that long ago, either :)

Spleef and I really grew together as a Duo working on MIUI....gotta give that rom some serious credit....it's where I figured out my methods for what I do :)

Now, it's just Joker and I working on ICS for Photon. It's all good....we can do it :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] psgarcha92:
Hey Guys

I installed this ROM and then installed the GSM fix provided in this thread, but it never shows any network at all. What to do now??

Regards
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Testing on US Cellular Electrify...

I wiped \system in Mounts&Storage, then Cache, then Data. (I gotta get that wipe-all flash.) Flashed Gapps-hybrid, and the US Cellular ERI fix.

Boot animation is qHD (540x960). Awesome!

Google setup... taskbar is super tiny but readable. I see it's some kind of Tablet UI, but in Paranoid Settings > Configuration, none are set. I chose Tablet (Optimized) since I saw to do that here in the forum.

For some reason, it's now downloading all apps I've ever downloaded from Google Play. Over 3G. I have a 5GB/month plan, I don't think I'll go over, but this isn't cool, for those who aren't on such a plan, this could cost them a bit. I'm getting a lot of stuff installed that I don't want... I foresee a good amount of time uninstalling apps, in my near future. (This is with the Google Play store set to update only over WiFi.) Okay, just found where I can stop the downloads in Google Play. But now it wants to update a bunch of them. For some reason, it downloaded old versions (that I suppose I had last time... what? I had ICS?). Oh well.

Downloads stopped, downloading Titanium. That will sort it. I suppose I'll use filters to delete user apps (a couple it downloaded I haven't had in a while, and will keep) and then restore the data for the ones I have (if it didn't auto restore my data, that would be neat).

Titanium needs to change the device ID (this happened going from CM9/PA1.1 to CM 7.2, but not from stock Gingerblur to CM9 or CM9 to PA 1.1).

ROMs... fun times...
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Yup - Tablet (Optimized) helped with the phone not FCing. I just wish there were a way to put the status bar at the top, but that's just being nitpicky.. Great work man!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
You can also set the phone dpi independently of system, which may help with fc
[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
So just wondering what browser everyone is using. I know there's an issue with the drivers and it causes some choppyness with most browsers, but are there any that handle it better? Stock and Dolphin HD feel near unusable at times.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FanBoy_Hunter:
I use dolphin HD in full screen and have minimal problems. This issue is fixed in joker cm9 7.0 special though
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Personally I think stock ICS browser frakkin' rocks in tablet mode.

I do not like Dolphin, it's too wobbly for me. A page loads and it fixes its zoom and reloads the page. To go back you have to first go back to the "bad zoom", then back to the previous page. It's sloppy. And I don't do gestures, so I have to dig through the settings to remove the gesture prompt. It's a great browser, it just has issues and I personally don't like it.

I mostly use Firefox now; the last version has been good to me. I like Chrome, but it didn't work on PA 1.1. I have yet to try it on 1.5. Testing... Nope, kicks me back to the home screen when I try to change tabs. Shame, because I use Chrome on the desktop, and I want the sync. Oh well. Stock and Firefox for me for the immediate future.

(Chrome/Google shouldn't be blamed; I have heard it's lack of ICS drivers that break Chrome, not some coding fault. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Special edition has browser stuff somewhat corrected but at the detriment to other portions of the rom. Joker and I work closely together on a number of things, and his advice was for me to not port using Special...so I pretty much have stayed with the orig 0.7.0
[Motorola Photon 4G] FanBoy_Hunter:
Not sure what settings your using with dolphin, but somethings isn't right. I don't have a single one of those problems. I also use dolphin HD red 5.0 though but it shouldn't be any different. As for the gesture tab I don't use it either, it just doesn't bother me. Ive never been a fan of anything Mozilla.

As for chrome, yes. We're most likely going to have to wait till drivers drop. On Joker 7.0 special the force close issues are fixed but it doesn't render anything.

Th3Bill, you know joker was worried that special wasn't going to run well and warned people, but I ran it for a week and the only difference from previous builds I experienced was fixed browser and longer battery. Not to mention sprint visual voicemail worked with out the visual distractions. However I believe some claimed over heating but I never had that issue. Anyhow, can't wait for the next build. Running AOKP milestone right now and I must say. **** ya! Haha
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
My phone restarting while I turn on Bluetooth in this paranoid ROM.... Before that it was worked well in this same ROM itself...

. somebody please give a solution
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Please anybody tell me about ""wiping inside rom'' during flashing.

Wipe afrer booting or wipe after flashing but before booting?
[Motorola Photon 4G] FernBch:
Don't wipe from CWM. Start the aroma installer and wipe from there. After the install completes clear the check box in the last window before you exit the installer. You will exit to CWM, reboot system from there or flash the proper gapps first then reboot.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Thank you bro,

My electrify is 2.3.5 but unlocked:D.

If any thing went wrong and need a sbf flashing, i will definitely loose my unlocked bootloader.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Anybody help me to fix Bluetooth... Pls
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Guys any update in paranoid android from 2.99 to ?????....

Since there is no update from 2012...
[Motorola Photon 4G] not.a.troll:
Did you actually read the thread name? It's PA 2.99 FINAL... FINAL means end, no more.

Le sigh

Sent from my MB855
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
I'm going to back on Official 2.3.5 due to so many issues
[Motorola Photon 4G] sidgallup:
i know is not the right forum but this caught my eye... is the electrify GSM capable just as the photon? how did you unock it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Yes bro

I am unlocked my electrify 2.3.5 using the following method. Download the electrify.zip file. It includes a text file which give details about unlocking.

http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/files/download/6-electrifyzip/
[Motorola Photon 4G] 6thSense:
I am COMPLETELY lost. I've tried this several times, only to end back up at the FAILED TO BOOT 2 screen.

I followed the instructions as given. Rooted phone then used Aroma Prep prior to the (pa_sunfire_2.99-07DEC2012-Final) ROM. It lets me choose options, says it installs, but when I go to reboot same thing.

I read some instructions that after Aroma Prep I should go to Advanced Menu, Select Report Error, Show Log, Reboot Recovery. When I go to Advance Menu > Select Report Error that is it. It loops back....meaning I don't get to see Show Log. When I click Reboot Recovery, then I'm back to the Failed to boot error again. One thing I did notice was it said - "can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1. So such file or directory"

I'm doing everything from an internal sd. Not sure if that matters.

I've tried wiping dalvik cache prior to the steps above, no bueno. I tried advanced > mounts and storage > format system (as well as format data & cache) prior to the steps above. No bueno.

I've tried running the rom without doing the aroma prep part. Nada.

Pretty much at my wits end. I've had to re-root this thing 5 times thusfar trying. Guess I should have posted first but I was at least trying to put in some work. smh.

Any suggestions?
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
I am going to assume you are unlocked, as you did only say rooted. Even without options it should still boot.
[Motorola Photon 4G] 6thSense:
Uh....lol.

Well approach this like I'm a noob and I will pretend like I'm not embarrassed that I work in IT and can't figure this ish out.

It's rooted...not really sure what unlocked means? Up until 3 mins ago I thought rooting was unlocking. Guessing not?

---------- Post added at 01:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:38 PM ----------

Do you have to unlock before you do this process? I did some searches and most of the links for stuff are dead.

Also when going through the aroma install, there is one option for saving to the SD or emmc. I don't have an SD card, but does that also mean the internal drive?
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Unlocking means bootloader unlocking. Rooting is different. Your phone should be android 2.3.4 for unlocking. Otherwise you shouldn't flash roms for unlocked bootloader.
[Motorola Photon 4G] 6thSense:
I am on 2.3.5. Since I posted this I've been browsing through forums. Looks like there is no workaround.
[Motorola Photon 4G] uchithisanka:
Is this also cdma.??

I want gsm jb rom.where I can found that kind of rom?

I tried cna rom its in cdma so I don't like it.please guys help me...!!!

cheers
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Is there any way to chane settings ui from tablet mode to phone mode
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Try a different build. Something was borked in the most recent builds, which are now quite old themselves.

When I was still using my Photon, I found the build from 22NOV12 to be the most stable where all of the PA dpi settings worked.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Can you please provide a link. Th3bills site is down
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Ahh. Sorry. I don't have a mirror for it. I looked in my personal files, but I don't appear to have it anymore.
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Found it on a chinese website
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
When usb connected with computer the data turned on itself. Any defects or virus?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
It doesn't render the same way...I forget if he said it wasn't hardware accelerated. I may do a rebuild based on it...but since it is diff, it may take time to do it....
[Motorola Photon 4G] FanBoy_Hunter:
No worries, joker said he was hoping to be able to work on jelly bean this weekend so I would wait. Any idea how difficult those ports will be? And where does Miui.us stand on Jelly Bean?
[Motorola Photon 4G] FernBch:
I've been running PA1.1 for some time now and just flashed 1.5 today. Under the previous version I had the clock set to be in the middle of the status bar and now it's on the right. Anyone know where the setting is to put it back in the center? I can't find it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
People keep talking about how the visuals in the sprint voicemail app are fixed in the latest cm9 and roms based on it but I have tried cm9, aokp milestone 6, and this rom and nothing. Can someone share some advice on this?
[Motorola Photon 4G] FanBoy_Hunter:
Did you try cm9 special? Also u need the right visual voicemail. U can find the link a few pages back in cm9 thread. I posted it the other day.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jleeblanch:
Not sure what link you posted the other day but a common issue most have with Sprint VVM is the redraw issues from the version found here in the forums. Someone in that same thread posted the link below to an updated version that no longer has the redraw issues and works perfectly! Check it out! I've been using for about a week now without issues!

I hope this helps solves your problems... :)

http://epicaokp.blogspot.com/2012/05/aokpcm9-fixed-sprint-visual-voicemail.html?m=1
[Motorola Photon 4G] rockytruelyrox:
Sorta bored of borky ics roms. :( Need one ics or jbn rom that works for GSM cdma, no battery issues...camera browser borky...fb fc's sick of all this...need functionality more than visuals now :( losing faith if moto will ever release libs, drivers for mopho

Sometimes I feel I was happy with my old sgs
[Motorola Photon 4G] FernBch:
In the OP under "working" MMS is listed but mine is not, anyone have a fix?

Also, my install was not an aroma install, but I did flash over PA1.1 with a davlik and cacge wipe only. Was this right?
[Motorola Photon 4G] FanBoy_Hunter:
Check the cm9 forum. Recent posts has a fix
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Is this post really necessary? Go back to GB if you're all upset about things I CAN'T FIX just yet!

Nobody promised you a 100% rom...in fact, we have stated at least 3-400 times in the ICS threads that things are borked due to libs. We can't MAKE proprietary libs. If Moto never gives them to us, we'll never have 100% functionality...POINT BLANK....PERIOD!

This does NOT help with Development...and frankly, it's a spit in the face to the hours I've spent porting a rom I DON'T USE!!

Complaints like this are a MAJOR reason devs give up on projects. This shows NO appreciation for the time I put into it or the effort it takes. Perhaps if anyone feels that I am doing a sub-standard job, you should learn to port and give a crack at it yourself.

Just to point out that for the thousands of Photon users on here, we have 2...yes, that's right...TWO ICS Devs working on it. Jokersax11 and myself.