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[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
have you tried doing the procedure where you open Dialer, type in *#*#4636#*#*, select Phone Information, and Choose GSM auto (prl)?
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
i'm getting UI system has stop working btw and i can't access *#*#4636#*#*..

sent from my MoPho69™
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrmellies:
Should be able to reach a setting to get your notification toggles under menu/settings/system and check notification toggles. Then check how you want them to appear.
[Motorola Photon 4G] vasilisxxx:
GSM here works great, no problem
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
I'm getting the message "Unfortunately UI System has stopped working" when i access settings....i also can't get into the *#*#4636#*#* options....i won't show after dialing it....i'm now using joker's recovery....
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
New Build is UP

It's still 2.5.3, but there were some framework and mms apk changes (haven't had a chance to test out), since the last release, so I decided to build a new release. I also updated the CDMA/GSM/USCC setup again. With any luck, I have it finally fixed :D

CHEERS!

Uploading now...should be up in about 10 to 15 mins. Should show up on GooManager once it's up :D​
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
ROM is running smooth....but i'm having FC using play store...any advice?thanks for the ROM Th3Bill!
[Motorola Photon 4G] szayell22:
hey sorry to ask stupid question guys but can i change this rom radio to GSM? and how to do that?

:confused:
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
Its inside the ROM zip file...you can choose inside the installer...
[Motorola Photon 4G] szayell22:
can u tell me more detailed? im a newbie.sorry
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Before flashing the rom, do NOT wipe or format anything. Just flash do the following (hopefully you're using a CWM recovery and not TWRP).

Go to Advanced Menu

CHoose Report Error

Choose SHow Log

CHoose Reboot Recovery

When the recovery comes back up, flash the rom as usual. In the rom, you'll be asked to choose your wipe option. I recommend FULL WIPE (which will wipe your data, so you'll need to set all back up) if you're coming from any other rom.

Once you've chosen that, you'll be on a screen with 3 sets of options, you;ll want to tap GSM in the top box. I the second box, you can choose the tweaks or not (I usually do use them, as it helps a little with battery sometimes). In the third box, choose whichever storage you want to be primary (your sd card or the phone's internal memory storage)...this is for your saved stuff like pictures, music, etc, NOT the ROM.

THen flash. When you're done, you may see upon the choice to reboot an error about Status 0. Ignore that. Just reboot the phone.

Poof...you're done
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Did you flash over another build of it or was this a fresh install? Also, what Gapps did you use? On this one, I'd use the ones that are the Hybrid gapps..they're set up more for the phone..
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
i flashed over your MIUI ICS build but i did a FULL wipe..when i use Play Store App itself.. it loads but then FCs..then when i use other apps the Play Store FC keeps poping up..hybrid gapps?what do you mean?

sent from my MoPho69™

Edit: Reflashed everything and now everything is smooth....no FCs so far....just having small transition lags and lags on games but aside from that its awesome!

thanks Th3Bill!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Sometimes, I've found that even when things seem to work, they don't...LOL

I actually had something like that on latest AOKP build. Source built it...no errors. Went to use it, wifi wouldn't work. I was using same base, overlay, everything as previous version. Rebuilt the rom (making NO edits)...wifi worked perfectly again. Sometimes just have to do things twice...LOL

Glad you like it. The transitional stuff is unfortunate, but Moto/Google not giving us luv
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
will report any more bugs i can find....thanks for the ROM!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
2.5.4 is UP. As the change in version number is small, the changes are as well...mostly some settings stuff, more mms app work, and some notification work

Cheers!​
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
will check it out as soon as possible man...thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Darn you! ...and to think I thought I was done flashing for awhile. I will check it out sometime today.

Wait, where is it? I don't see it on Goo?
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
+1

can't see it on goo.im either.....
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm not using Goo any more. Started using SourceForge...has some advantages in terms of FAQ, Wiki, Bugtracker, uses multiple servers...

Link is in the OP :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
I'm looking in the OP... don't see a link? Only to Goo.

I dug and found it... I'm sneaky like that. Followed the link from AOKP, looked at your user profile, then found a link to PA from your projects list.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Whoops...you're right! I'll fix it...give me 5

EDIT: Fixed :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Yeah I just bookmarked Bill's profile on SourceForge. Easier that way. I hear update, I just open the bookmark in a new tab. Couldn't be easier. And I check it sometimes because why not.
[Motorola Photon 4G] enigmatl:
I am now using a GSM carrier in the USA and set my Photon up for GSM. Then I installed ParanoidAndroid and used GSM when asked to pick the mode during the flash. It works fine and I can make calls and all.

Problem is, the activation at the beginning every time I boot up. It wants to make a special phone call to activate my phone etc. How do I get rid of this? I've read in other forums that there are files named sprint*.apk in system/apps. But there doesn't seem to be such files on Paranoid but there's still the activation. How can I get rid of this?
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
+1
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'll be honest with you...I'm really not sure about domestic US GSM. The setup that I did should work for foreign. It could be the libmoto_ril.so file (you may need a different one). I'd recommend looking in the thread of the GSM radio and see if anyone mentions using JB and domestic GSM...maybe ask the OP of that thread
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
i'm running the 2.53..do i have to wipe or just dirty flash the 2.54?

sent from my MoPho69™
[Motorola Photon 4G] enigmatl:
Okay. So I saw nothing in the GSM thread so have been doing my best to track it down. So, I adbed into the phone right after booting up and find that killing com.android.phone's process will kill the activation that's on the screen. This is located in data/data.

If I back this up and then delete it, it comes right back. Some other process rewrites it and then calls it on bootup. LOL this is so reminiscent of those windows viruses that everybody loves.

So anyway, I try leaving that folder there but changing the permissions such that there is no access to the folder whatsoever. All that does is on the next bootup, you get a persistant Sorry but com.android.phone has stopped working. You click ok and it comes back over and over forever. At this point, one has blown up their setup and would have to either load a backup or connect via adb and revert the permissions of the /data/data/com.android.phone folder.

So it looks like phone insists on starting at bootup and something in phone (the under the hood actual phone software, not the dialer) is calling on an initialization.

I don't know if this actually adds any information, probably not. But considering all the crazy near impossible stuff that's been done, it just seems more possible to get rid of the boot initialization nag.

Is there a more precise way to look at the processes that are opening on bootup more resembling of old school step by step bootup in windows that might give a clue as to what is actually being called to bring this screen up so that we can both make it not come up anymore and at the same time not annoy another app? It's been done as far as I know for past Android versions. But not ICS or JB as far as I know.
[Motorola Photon 4G] flame7:
Nov14 build is only 31mb corrupted.. Could you re upload it please?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
2.5.5 is UP :D​
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
You could try dmesg. I'd try to test it out for ya, but I'm on CDMA...

You miht check with Lokifish...he may know some tricks for getting domestic GSM working...
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
so whats new?do i dirty flash over previous version?
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
I'm not a GSM user, but there's a thread over in the general forum that I believe may help you, about skipping Sprint's Activation:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265816

EDIT: Although, after re-reading what you wrote, you've probably already seen that. That's for stock roms with the Sprint files intact, but I wonder if the cdmaworkshop method in the OP would work for you?
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Not a critical issue, but I think there is a problem with the layout of the landscape lock screen. This only appears for me when I have my phone docked and the screen times out. I've attached a screen shot.

The unlock circle has appeared cutoff for as long as I can remember on PA. I remember a long time ago trying another one of your JB roms where it wasn't cutoff. It was probably CNA or AOKP, but it would have been long before you were source building them. [EDIT: Actually, it may have even been an ICS ROM]
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
WRT the unlock circle cutting out, it's not just that the circle is partially off the screen, it's also that the bottom (right) three targets are hidden. Not sure if PA has the option, but one of these ROMs has the option to reduce the density of the lock screen elements (or increase the space available). Crank this up to the highest or second highest setting, it'll fix you -- assuming the feature is available. Look for it in your lockscreen settings, maybe your display settings (the one in the ROM, not the main display settings).
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I believe you can do that in the PA settings portion
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Thanks for the reply, but changing the DPI settings for the lockscreen just caused it to be smaller and still cutoff.

EDIT: Actually, as I compare it to screenshots of the JB lock screens online, it appears that even in portrait mode, the circle is lower than it should be.

Please don't get me wrong... I love this ROM. The lock screen works fine in landscape, so its not a question of functionality at all.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
If this were any other week I'd flash it myself and see if it can be done and if so, walk you through it. But I'm only a third of the way through nine back to back 12 hour shifts so...yeah.

But it's not the DPI. It's not in the DPI settings. If it's there it's in the lock screen settings. There are choices like 5x4 and 8x6 or something. It's like your app drawer or home screen grid, more gets you more stuff but makes them smaller. And again, I'm not sure if it's Paranoid or CNA that does it. I do know that AOKP's lock screen works right away however...I have and use all 8 targets.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
There is a lockscreen offset that I think may be borking it in the source. I'm gonna take a look at the source again and see if I can find it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Thanks for the input, both of you. I'm pretty sure it's what the Th3Bill said and it's just an offset, or some other system value that is a little off.

My phone tastes like jelly beans!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
2.99 is UP on Sourceforge. It's still 4.1.2 based, though I do believe that they will be starting to work in some 4.2 stuff soon. CM has been working on it, but their repos haven't been stable enough for me to want to start trying to build off of them (they keep updating them a LOT these last couple days). Once CM is done, this ROM will get an update as well, I am sure :D

Cheers!​
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
2.54 to 2.99. What a jump! So I guess Paranoid 3 will be based on 4.2? Or does it not work like that (e.g. CM10=JB)? Either way. Awesome stuff. Hope you had a good Turkey Day, man.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lilila:
Tried the ROM. Thanks for the good work.

One problem is the TTS engine is not working properly.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'll take a look at it. Can you pull a logcat?

Which app/apps have you tested it with?
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Hey Bill. Just wanted to let you know, I tried 2.99 to see if the landscape lock screen was still cutoff (which it was) and then on a whim I installed PAC Man and the lock screen is fine.

So, since I could just import my PA settings into PAC Mac and could disable the AOKP toggles, I'm happy for now. (Not that I wasn't before!)
[Motorola Photon 4G] lilila:
It's not like it's not working. I used the CoPilot GPS program. The TTS (US English) sounds garbled. Maybe the problem can be solved with some kind of workaround. Maybe I'm too picky. Otherwise the ROM is perfect.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrfcoody:
I saw that you were also a Sprint user trying the 2.99 rom and was wondering if you were having any problems with MMS? Tried sending one to myself and it sent, but was not received (initially the wife was sending me some MMS and was upset that I wasn't replying... because I wasn't getting them).

Just some background:

I was running a CM9. Updated my recovery to CWM-based v6.0.1.5. Flashed the new 2.99 rom... D'oh (forgot to wipe). Did a full wipe, flashed the 2.99 rom, options, and Bluesleep Fix. I'm REALLY enjoying the rom and a BIG thanks to Th3Bill; my personal background in comp. sci. (before switching careers) gives me a bit of an idea regarding what it takes to do what you do!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Thank you for this feedback! This will actually help me with working on a fix for the lockscreen issue, as if it's working on PAC, then I just need to use that edit for PA.

Thank :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm actually a Pharmacist :D

I love toying with computers, and once I get something working, I am usually pretty good at keeping it going. I'm working on the 4.2 now, but it's very tough....mount points changed, and the page for reference on code.google is bye bye. :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Bill, this is the second, maybe third time you've said you're a pharmacist, like it's not amazing.

My understanding is that pharmacists are smarter than doctors. That a pharmacist knows drugs (medicine, not narcotics, haha) and dosage and such, while doctors only know symptoms (with a little crossover). But I've worked in drugstore/pharmacies and I've worked in grocery stores with a pharmacy, and the pharmacist was always the smartest person who worked in the store, bar absolutely none (and the pharmacy techs were pretty sharp, too).

So, don't sell yourself short. Hearing that you're a pharmacist makes me respect you more. Plus, jumping from one science to another (medical to computers) is cool.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
:)

I appreciate the compliment. I know that I'm no dummy. It's still pretty damn cool when I see a new build load up knowing that I'm most likely the first on the device to have it :D

Pretty exciting stuff :D

I think I may have figured out some of the issues with 4.2. I am hoping that I can in the next couple of days. Wish me luck. Granted, the only ROM working off 4.2 at this point is CM or full AOSP. PA is starting to integrate some 4.2 features, but it's not fully done yet...heck, even CM is under HEAVY development. Their repos get updated almost constantly this past week.
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Honestly, I wasn't on 2.99 for more than a few minutes. Never had a chance to test MMS.

That being said, I haven't had issues with MMS in ages.

My phone tastes like jelly beans!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrfcoody:
That's awesome... and sorta funny actually. My first BS was in comp. sci. (math minor) and after working for about four years I returned to school as a postbac. I recently finished my second BS in bio. (biochem minor) and currently have applications out for med school. I feel like I sound like a president, "four more years" (plus residency of course).

Well I must say Th3Bill, I'm REALLY enjoying the Tablet UI in PA 2.99 and am using it as my daily. Going forward if there's something I can provide feedback on let me know and I'll see about looking into it or what I can do. Thanks again for your work!

---------- Post added at 10:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 PM ----------

Thanks for the feedback. I tried and re-tried sending the wife some MMS (she has a stock HTC EVO also with Sprint) and she's not receiving them so I'm guessing the sending & receiving is not working for me on 2.99?
[Motorola Photon 4G] findthedr:
who do you think prescribes the drugs with the dosages and such that the pharmacists fill?
[Motorola Photon 4G] lilila:
What a pity. I fill sorry for myself. Got a MS in Computer Science right after 911. Have to make a living by working as a medicinal chemist in drug discovery. With some luck a real drug invented in my lab is on the market after 12 years as a lab labor.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Moving all my files to a new site again. This time, my own site

www.th3bill.com

I got tired of having to try to figure out why SF was restricting me to 14 projects, so I decided to host my files elsewhere and start my own site for all the stuff I want.

It's largely a work in progress. Right now, I'm getting the roms set up. Once that's done, I plan to integrate a LOT of the how to's and other helpful things into it so that we will have it all in one place :D

Cheers

BTW 2.99 Final has been uploaded there :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
What were the changes between the 22NOV and 07DEC versions of 2.99?

Installed 07DEC and I am unable to change the DPI on any apps, or even on the system preferences. All the sliders appear stuck on 0, which doesn't make sense. The system menu and Gapps have all defaulted to the tablet UI (160), which is normal on a clean install. But the Paranoid settings menu is on the phone UI (240), which isn't normal.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'll have to take another look at it. They did some reworking of the rom between the builds. For now, revert and I'll work on it.

Only real change was some navbar/ring stuff...nothing really of any consequence.

Question...does SU work? Can you check that real fast for me? It may just be as simple as fixing SU, as if that doesn't pull up when you go to change dpi, then that's wrong...

I apologize...I didn't fully test this build like I normally do.
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
No worries. Don't mind being a guinea pig, since I always make a nandroid.

I've already flashed back, but I believe SU was working... I used Titanium Backup and Root Explorer a few times and I got the SU prompt.

EDIT: I'm going to give LiquidSmooth a test drive, so maybe I'll dirty flash back to the 07DEC PA and check SU before I go to LS.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Good deal :)

I did test liquid smoth pretty well....nice little ROM...MAKE SURE YOU FLASH GAPPS. If you don't, you'll have haptic feedback but no action from Home key...LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Ok, on 07DEC, Paranoid Settings is getting SU (saw the prompt come up). I looked in the SuperSU app to verify and even updated the SU binary. I also tried to restore a backup of Paranoid settings. No profit.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
So, it's not changing anything, then? Do ANY of the apps change or no? I'm thinking it could be the Home apk. I may have built wrong, as it went from Trebuchet to Launcher2. Hmm...I'm uploading a test fix. If you don't mind checking it once I let you know that it's been linked, that'd be great.
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Well, as it was nothing changed when I imported the settings, and it won't let me change anything.

EDIT--> What I find odd is that all the sliders are set to 0dpi.

I'm using Nova, not the default, so I don't think the launcher is the problem. I'll wait for your fix though before I get flash happy again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
So, the app is basically frozen (ie can't make any adjustments at all)? Sounds almost like it's getting the wrong permissions. I'm going to have to re-look at it. I may put this on the back shelf for a bit until I can get 4.2 booting on CM10.1. I think that should be the focus, as I think that some of the issues are due to the fact that they are making changes to the JellyBean repo for 4.2 and it got put into the 4.1.2 build I did, which won't work right. I'm going to re-upload just the old build and recommend all just use that instead. Sorry guys
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Something else that I haven't seen in awhile: When I connect a USB cable, I now have two different notifications for USB Connection.

One says: USB connected - Touch to copy files to/from your computer.

Click it and it brings up the USB Mass Storage screen with the Green Android. (orange when connected)

The other: USB connection - Select to manage your USB connection.

Click it and it brings up a pop-up menu for Portals & Tools/Memory Card Access/USb Networking/Phone as Modem/Charge Only.

I used to get the dual prompts a long time ago, but haven't seen it in PA for a long time. What can be done to disable either of them?

Edit: Nevermind, I see your post above. I'm pretty sure the 22NOV build was fine, so from my brief experience with 07DEC, I'd recommend 22NOV. I'd love to hear from someone else who may have installed 07DEC, though, just to make sure I'm not crazy.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I did a couple of edits to 2.99 final and am reuploading. I am not saying it's going to work, but it's a good trial. If someone can test it when I report that it's up and let me know, that would be great.

Edit: Test Final 2.99 is up
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
Downloading now. Will let you know.

Edit: No dice.

Also, Apollo is gone. Is that because PA is moving away from the CM code base?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I think that is a huge part of it. My edits are based on the CM centered version, and they are going to a more pure AOSP. For now, I'm taking down the 12/7 one...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Demonlinx:
Love the new site. Are you going to be updating xda, your new site, and sourceforge? Are you going to try and stick to one over the other? Just trying to figure out where the most up to date roms will be. Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Just XDA and my site. I got irritated that SF decided to tell me that my rate of project development was too high. I will keep OP updated here at XDA for new users, etc. I am going to keep my site even more up to date. I plan to pull how tos and other helpful stuff from here and place on the site as well :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] Demonlinx:
Too fast?? Is there such a thing? Oh, well. They lost a good developer. Really liking the site.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I do too :D It's much easier for me to navigate around it, and I don't have to log into 20 different spots to edit different things. I just go to a given page and click on the "edit" tab that is there for me, and I can edit it in 10 seconds :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] rsawoseyin:
I am new to this device. I got one unlocked unit from eBay because I wanted a CDMA/GSM dual-system device that I could use in Nigeria - using the CDMA for data and GSM for calls. I successfully rooted it and flashed this Paranoid ROM. However, I found that the GSM shows NO signal with this ROM. Any reason why? Meanwhile I have restored the original GB 2.3.5 Nandroid which does show GSM signal. I plan to take the device to be programmed into a local CDMA network. Would I be able to use both systems (CDMA/GSM) at the same time? There seems to be very little documentation of how this dual-system works. I had thought it would function in pretty much the same way as the Motorola Milestone XT800 which has dual-standby dual-sim CDMA/GSM, but which unfortunately only has the antiquated Android 2.1 system that cannot be upgraded.
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
is GPS or any other locator borked on this build?i can't seem to make my phone locate me even if i turnes on all options..

sent from my MoPho69™