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[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
It depends, which boot.img and recovery you are running.

I suppose your boot.img is from stock 198_7 sbf.

You need to flash "locked with microboot and recovery" and 4g should be working.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Awesome, thanks! Is this also true if my boot.img is from stock 198_6 sbf?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Yes, should be fine, if wifi is working for you now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Ok, thanks! :good:

If someone is rooted and running stock, can they unlock their bootloader just by flashing your "unlocked bootloader" through bootstrap and avoiding the traditional pudding derpunlock method?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Yes, it's only unlocked bootloader, which is enough for unlocking. Properly flashes without fail and automatically reboots.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zzelinka:
If we relock after unlocking do we get 4G back or is it lost forever?
[Motorola Photon 4G] creeater:
Yes, you get 4g back if you relock
[Motorola Photon 4G] zzelinka:
That's good to know. I may play around with it unlocked and relock if I sell it. Thanks for the heads up!
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Ok, let me make sure I fully understand your latest goodness. To unlock a stock ROM, one just needs to root and bootstrap your "unlocked bootloader with microboot" then to relock just flash your "locked bootloader with microboot". Correct? When are the bootloaders without microboot needed?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Ok. Let's guess, that you are on stock, you can flash unlocked bootloader with recovery sbf, using rsd lite, you can enter the recovery right after flashing, install some rom without boot.img and lock again by flashing locked bootloader with stock recovery sbf.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
I think I understand now. It is necessary to "flash" your bootloaders (locked or unlocked) with RSD Lite and not with Boostrap/CWM/TWRP recoveries and the recoveries are just needed for custom ROM installation, right?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
These are sbf files, they are always flashed by rsd lite. :)

Except libmoto_ril.so, it's zip.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Yes, I see now. Because these sbfs are zipped, that's what was throwing me off. :laugh:

I thought you figured out a way to make them recovery flashable.
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Yes, I did, but that's another story. You can lock your phone with recovery. But there is always problem with wimax and wifi modules for the right kernel. Let's say, there are at least 4 of them now - 198_6, 198_7, 254_12, 254_13 boot.imgs.

Not sbfs flashable with recovery, but bootloader, to be clear. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
When flashing your "Unlocked bootloader with microboot and TWRP 2.2 recovery sbf", is it no longer necessary to enter fast boot mode and unlocking with the UNIQUE ID? Flashing your sbf does it all for you?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
No, it's not doing this command. But you write this oem unlock command only once and it's unlocked forever. (so technically everyone who was unlocked once, has no warranty :)) Then it's all only about the bootloader. You have bootloader which uses this oem unlock, or bootloader that doesn't care about this oem unlock.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
Understood, thanks! What is microboot and when is it needed?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Hmm, I don't know much about microboot. It's probably one of the lowest level parts, this one lets you turn on the phone providing the reason (charger, power button,...). Probably starts the bootloader in the proper mode, depending on the buttons pressed, etc...
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjamie:
So, when does one need the unlocked bootloader with microboot sbf versus the unlocked bootloader without it from your OP?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
You need to know, if you need it, if you don't know, then you don't need it. The main purpose for flashing is written in the name of that sbf.

With derpunlock.sbf, noone asked, why do you need to flash microboot and why it fails everytime after flashing. Because it was the only one way to unlock. I am just offering another way. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] bosox04:
What do you mean by "

you cannot lock

"? Are you referring to your stuck unlocked situation? What would it take to get this failed to boot 1 and be unable to lock?

I am currently locked running 2.3.5ish rom and would like to unlock and try a modified kernal for a short time while I am travelling and away from 4g service- should I flash the "unlocked bootloader with TWRP recovery" SBF, then flash the blur based modified kernal? and when I want to revert back to locked I would reflash the stock kernal and then flash the "locked bootloader with stock recov" SBF?

I really appreciate this new method. Thanks alot peetr!
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
1)Yes, that's my situation, I flashed dumped kernel with cdt from ota once.

2)Exactly that procedure, I could make sbf with 198_7 boot and modules some time later.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bosox04:
ok after flashing the unlocked with TWRP recovery sbf, I had to do fastboot oem unlock which I didn't realize. This had to be done only once ever?

Then I did a backup of system and boot in TWRP, then flashed oleg kernal. Now I wanted to go back to stock kernal so I restored the backup I did.

Then I proceeded to flash the locked with stock recovery sbf. When I did this I got a failed boot 4. So I flashed just the unlocked bootloader sbf and i was able to boot into system and boot into the stock recovery. I'm assuming I need to reflash the stock kernal, how should I do this so I can relock bootloader? Do I need to do a factory data reset before flashing locked bootloader?

I'd like to avoid using the full 198_7 sbf.

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
You don't need to do factory reset.

Weird is that failed to boot 4.

Try to not restore the backup, but flash this boot.img in recovery - http://d-h.st/HY7

Then flash that locking sbf with stock recovery and write me, if it worked.

But I am afraid, that this failed to boot 4 is problem with system formating.

I suggest to install your favourite rom without formating system, just deleting. You can backup your data, just to be sure, then flash full sbf, flash sbf with twrp and go directly to twrp, flash your favourite rom, but check the option for using rm -rf instead of formating (don't know if it works, your data will be still there. And you can try to lock it again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bosox04:
flashing the boot.img provided did not work.

I am currently downloading full 198_7 sbf, on a slow connection since i lost 4G!, and will do your 2nd method and report back.
[Motorola Photon 4G] solidus636:
so let me get this straight!.... these files are NOT for those that are on OTA 2.3.5 correct? i ONLY want to install the GSM Unlock Files so that I may use the photon with ATT, i don't care about an unlocked bootloader at this moment. can anyone point me in the right direction? how to properly install GSM UNLOCK ZIP through BOOTSTRAP recovery or something?

thank you.

i just bought this thing today, expecting this to go great, didn't realize that i could run into this problem.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bosox04:
This worked- but instead of flashing a clean rom I just restored a backup of system that i did right before flashing the 198_7 sbf but using the rm -rf setting in twrp.

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Good finding, I thought that. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
SBF needede for Updated system Version!...

Hi I am in current version as provided below,

System version: 45.4.13.MB855.Sprint.en.US

Android version: 2.3.5

Baseband version: N_01.29.10R

Webtop version: WT-1.2.0-180

Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 dnt648@fl36bld22 #2

Build number: 4.5.1A-1_SUN-254_13

I don't know where to see MD5sum ....

I don't have sbf for this version.

Actual problem i faced is if i install any other ROM's.... my IMEI number and all system info is showing "unknown"... and mobile network is showing error.... Could you please help me!.. :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
If you are updated the official way, this is not the right thread. Here is the right one - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29366503
[Motorola Photon 4G] processorsaurus:
Hey guys, I'm running Miui 2.9.28

android 4.1.1

Baseband - N_01.28.07R

Pretty much all the info Miui displays...how can I get back to the latest Sprint sbf, rooted/no unlock?
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
You have to be unlocked. If you would not be unlocked, you would not be running Miui.

If you are unlocked, you have to flash full 198_6 or 198_7 sbf to be locked with sprint rom.

Full sbf's are in Compendium.

If you want to return Photon for warranty, flash 198_6 sbf.
[Motorola Photon 4G] processorsaurus:
I literally just got done flashing 198_7 for the second time, no errors from RSD during process. Now my phone shows locked (no custom bootload/recovery) and it just cycles the sprint flash screen....any ideas? Thanks for your help.

Maybe try 198_6? I wasn't sure of the difference, i just went with the newest one, im not returning the phone for anything.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jaemostoriginal:
You have to hold power + vol down and go into recovery. When you see the android with the triangle just press vol up and vol down at the same time
[Motorola Photon 4G] SmartAceW0LF:
Bricked with unlocked 2.3.4 SBF

peetr_,

I am beginning to feel as dumb as a box of rocks here, but haven't given up on this 2 week long project yet. I am unlocked, on 2.3.4. Along the way, somewhere In the process of trying to load a custom ROM, I ended up in a bootloop. Have been studying these forums ever since in an effort to get over this. Currently, as I understand your directions in this thread, I need to flash one of the two radio files -198_7 radio sbf or 254_12 radio sbf- within the RSD Lite application and then flash one of the two unlocked bootloader .sbf files also through RSD Lite. It is my understanding also that there is no way of knowing for sure which of the 2 radio files I need. So, in trying to flash 198_7, it ends with FAIL. So I move on to trying to flash 254_12 to the device. This one seems to be stuck at 0% at the Creating Image File.

So, my question at this stage is twofold. Am I understanding you correctly about the order of procedures as listed above? Also, are there any other steps involved in using RSD Lite that should be done before doing the flash? Things like clearing any previous cache or such?

Error produced by RSD Lite after trying to flash 254_12_radio.sbf is "Failed flashing process. Phone[0000]; Error getting subscriber information. Device API Error: 0xE0030009 Command: RQHW (0xE0831009); phone connected

I also wish to preface that I am not the least bit interested in CDMA or Sprint. I hope to be able to use this phone with Straight Talk here in the United States.
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
I am not sure, what exactly are you trying to do. :)

There are no steps for flashing roms in this thread. This is such a collection of custom sbfs, for people who need them. Flashing sbf radio is needed only for reseting the radio after KDDI flashing or changing baseband. After flashing full sbf you have to flash some unlock sbf, flash recovery, download rom, flash it, wipe data, reboot into the new rom.
[Motorola Photon 4G] SmartAceW0LF:
Just had a V8 moment peetr_. My n00b ass didn't realize that we flash the rom first then install it. But that brings up an interesting point. At this stage of my crazy-quilt journey, seeing as how I have no operating system running on the thing, I have not been able to get the downloaded ROM, which is yours by the way, to the SDCard. However, now that I know this, was thinking about trying to simply remove it and copy the rom through usb straight to the chip.

Thanks a trillion blue million for your efforts my friend. More so for your patience. Have another piece of the puzzle put together now so I will get back to it and hopefully come up with some progress.

Thanks again!:good::fingers-crossed::)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Volstagg.The.Valiant:
hi peetr...i'm rooted..on stock ROM...and i want to unlock my bootloader.which file should i download for this? (sbf file)...
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Just download Unlocked bootloader sbf and flash it.

And type "fastboot oem unlock" in fastboot (only if the phone was never unlocked before).
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aditya88:
Hi Guys,

My sister bought me a Nexus 7 (BTW I live in India). Before sending it to me she unknowingly added her google account (assuming doing a factory reset later before she sends it to India). so the 25$ credit is added to her account now. Is there anything now I can do to get it transferred to my account. Does contacting google helps anything here ? She tried resetting/adding my account. nothing changed at all. Any suggestions for this awkward situation ?:confused:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevron:
My second account told me I have a free 25 credit waiting for me once I added a credit card to the play store so try that maybe?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] janedoesmith:
So, you've gotten two $25 credit on 2 different Google accounts ( one $25 credit per account) using the same Nexus 7? I thought they closed that loop hole.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aditya88:
didn't work mate.:(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Improbulus:
This worked in the UK at least, for me & a friend who bought a Nexus 7 from me after I'd already entered my Google Account details. And no I didn't get the Play credit twice! We each got it.

1. Make sure you have a Play account with a working credit card - make a test purchase of eg a free ebook (like the N7 guidebook!) to make sure the Play store recognises your credit card. Even using an initial instead of full name etc may throw it - make sure the details in your Play account exactly match your name etc as on your credit card. Or you could try buying a cheap ebook or app, but the free one worked to "activate" the account.

2. Once the Play store definitely recognises your credit card on your account, ie if the test "purchase" went through OK, go to your Nexus 7 and do a factory reset - but be warned that this will wipe out all your existing data. (Settings, under Personal it's Backup & reset, then Factory data reset).

3. After the factory reset, enter your own Google Account details into the Nexus 7. That should do it, you should get the email about your credit.

Hope that helps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] moedin:
I have noticed the stock TW MMS settings display any photo as a "Media" file with a play, pause, rewind, forward buttons and time bar. Also the photo is shrunken, not even full screen! I think this is just senseless because you can't adjust the photo, zoom or anything without first saving it again to your phone and opening it is seperately with Gallery. Thats a lot of work to see a picture of something cool someone just sent you!

Is there a way to change how photo messages are displayed? Any alternative apps I can use? I am finding this to be pretty annoying. :(

thanks in advance!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
The MMS "video" display of pictures is a bug - looks like a new OTA is starting to roll out that fixes it - Sprint getting the love first:

http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-rolling-out-another-update-samsung-galaxy-s3

I also noticed the pictures are small...but I figure it's small to begin with because of MMS restrictions...and with the high resolution of our screen it looks even smaller. It would be nice to at least be able to zoom in though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dirrtyswan:
If you are rooted you should try to put the AOSP MMS.apk on the phone, i find it alot better than the samsung stock app. Its alot more pleasant to look at also, it looks like your GTalk interface.

If not, you can always go with Handcent or GoSMS to replace your native app. Both are great alternatives and provide endless options for customization, including popups and reminders.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] moedin:
Thanks for the replies guys, glad to know it is a bug!

I will have to check out the AOSP app! Is it included in CM9? if so I am switching up stat!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cheetablaze:
Not a very big fan of the stock MMS .apk's for Samsung. Switched over to Handcent and it just seems to handle everything a bit better. The customization is top notch as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] WA_Bob:
+1 - Another good alternative is GO SMS Pro.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gaveup:
I've brought this up before. No one was able to give a good answer except that's just how android is.

If someone sends an MMS with text or more than 1 picture it will display as a slideshow/video. It did this on my GS2, and same thing on the GS3. I've tried every SMS/MMS application out there (handcent, go, whichever) and flashed many of ROMs, as well as all the mms.apks I could find, and it leaves me with the same result.

From what you described it is the same issue and it sucks that I have yet to find a work around
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ind3p3nd3nt:
I pulled the mms apk from Sprint's most recent ota and put it on my vzw gs3 and it seems to be fixed
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drock212:
This is a problem with Android, I experienced it with my Moto Atrix, but with 2.3 (Gingerbread) I could at least tap and hold on the picture then select view to see it full size and to be able to resize it. Do we know if the Sprint OTA at least lets people do this?

Edit: I downloaded GO SMS and you're able to tap on the picture and zoom in or out of it. I'm pretty happy with it and it's ICS theme.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] octahedron:
It's asking about Google's intentions. From what I've seen of the Chromebook after using it, it seems like a glorified version of Android in a laptops shell. It mostly relies on cloud based functions to operate. Why doesn't Google just ditch Chrome and use Android? I'm planning on getting a tablet(transformer most likely) later this year with a keyboard dock that would function pretty much like how they want users to use the Chromebook for productivity. And it'd be a lot cheaper than a Chromebook as well.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vnge:
ISSUE: Generic Bluetooth keyboard connects to Android (CM 9 with nightly build), but I do not get input from the keyboard at all.

I have viewed some of the threads already on this issue, but with no luck I haven't really found a solution. Someone suggested to use the terminal to connect it, but I really have no idea on how to do that.

I have also looked at "Easy Bluetooth keyboard connect" or something like that and I haven't really gotten that to work either, well it didn't really recognize the keyboard.

Any suggestions would be great.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael.seltzer:
I have the exact same issue with my generic keyboard. I used BlueKeyboard JP but that is a clunky solution. I tried the keyboard on cm9 on my phone and it worked fine. Does the official HP keyboard work different is there a way to fix this?
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haxin:
are you checking the keyboard settings in the "language & Input" part of the settings menu?
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vnge:
Yes, it is not showing up. The only thing that shows up is the default keyboard and the google voice one. None relating to the but keyboard at all.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael.seltzer:
If you mean the Input device profile under the bluetooth settings then yes I have that checked. But there is still no input.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfooffroad:
I have had no luck with the bluetooth keyboard or CM9. It works on my phone running 2.3 and on CM7 for the touch pad. I also had a dell streak 7 with honey comb and that did even work with the bluetooth keyboard.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esworp:
Yup, me, too..

I'm having the same issue.

'rm-rf /data/misc/bluetoothd/*' and a BT on/off, then re-pair resulted in no change, btw. :/
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haxin:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1552101&page=2
[HTC Amaze 4G] tnkrer:
My phone - I have ICS - S-OFF Amaze with Energy ROM and I had tried to apply blas0id tweaks.

The problem - In certain areas I don't have phone signal for a few minutes, then suddenly it will show 4 bars for a few minutes. In general the signal seems fickle.

Before ICS upgrade, when I had GB, I always had 4 bars in the same places. I *think* I had good signal with ICS before I did blat0id tweaks, but I am not certain of that. (ICS and the tweaks were within a few days)

My wife's Iphone still has excellent signal in those places. Tmobile Mytouch also has excellent signal in the same places. So something has changed on my amaze and not the cell towers.

What I have done so far -

1. went back to stock ICS by flashing the img file. That did not improve the signal. So then got back to energy

2. Tried another ROM - speedrom. No improvement in signal

3. Tried few apps like fresh network. They did not help

Please help me

What can/should I do? I love my amaze, but if I dont get consistent signal, I will have to replace it

Are there any tweaks that I can try?

How about the custom kernels that have been made for ICS recently, would those help?

Is there a way to increase the power to look for and catch on better signal? I can trade battery life for better signal

Thanks
[HTC Amaze 4G] md1008:
I have same issue but with WiFi only. I never had GB I hope there is a work around :(
[HTC Amaze 4G] tnkrer:
Found a workaround

This was dumb luck, but when I was trying to play around the app opensignal, it wanted me to set 2G for some of its functionality, since that functionality does not work over 3g. So I went to setup and set Network mode to "GSM Only" from "GSM/WCDMA Auto"

And walla! right after that my signal jumped from 1 bar to 4 bars and has stayed there. I went back to WCDMA and signal dropped, so now I change the network mode only when I need 4G. Its a pain, but at least, the signal is good when I need it.

So with that information, can someone help how I can tweak something to get my 4G and also good signal?

Thanks
[HTC Amaze 4G] kenneth11414:
try updating the radio if you have done so, even though you are going to have to go through the process of locking the device again and unlocking the bootloader again, that would be an idea to try, we still dont know what changes R2 radio update has done but its deff worth a shot
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
I would like to kno also but let kno what radio u flash from the ruu
[HTC Amaze 4G] tnkrer:
I checked the version of my software and I think I already have R2

Build number

2.14.531.3_R2 CL373265 release-keys

So not sure if that would change anything :(
[HTC Amaze 4G] Krazex2005:
I have always had this problem as well sometimes I have 4 bars of signal then it drops to the X as in no signal,can't make calls or sends texts until it picks up again, happens totally random don't think it has to do anything with tmobile coverage since I live in the center of Miami. Also most of the time I have 2 bars of signal in most places, I believe it's faulty hardware :(
[HTC Amaze 4G] tnkrer:
Krazex .. did you try to set your network mode and see if that helps your signal stick around longer and get better signal? That is working well for me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] soundping:
I've tried setting my network to GSA and my data speed dropped to 2G.
[HTC Amaze 4G] tnkrer:
yup, that's what this setting is supposed to do, but it increased the quality of my phone signal, that is what I am trying to make better/consistent. Because even after all the bells and whistles, calling someone/receiving the calls is the primary purpose of the phone for me and if that doesn't work, the phone doesn't work for me
[HTC Amaze 4G] hasoon2000:
GSM = 2G

WCDMA = 3G/4G

Get a new SIM card.
[HTC Amaze 4G] RZJZA80:
My amaze won't get 4g in my house whatsoever, only switches to 2g when it feels like it.