yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
Have yon downloaded the files shownin steps 2 , 3 and 5. If not!, then download!!!

If your phone details is this

System Version : 45.4.13.MB855.Sprint.en.us

Model Number : MB855

Android Version : 2.3.5

Baseband Version : N_01.29.10R (dnt648@fl36bld22 #2)

Kernel Version : 2.6.32.9

Build Number : 4.5.1A-1_SUN-254_13

If it is then proceed with below else skip out

Please note:

It might damage your phone and I will not be responsible. Generally it does’nt happens but for safe side I am issuing such disclaimer, as I am not performing the operation , or is with you while you to do so.

Also, for few days my Wifi was’nt working properly and I was getting frequent blackouts(Complete hang, needs battery pull out). Do it on your own risk…

Just download the softwares mentioned in step 1, 3 and 5.

Also download Tenfar’s recovery. Assuming you have all necessary files and you have moved them into your phone internal memory (SD).

Steps:

1. Power Off the phone and Restart in RSD protocol mode. Volume Up + Power. Navigate through the menus by Volume Up and Down. Look for RSD Mode.

2. Connect phone with computer. Open RSD Lite and browse the path of file mentioned in step 1. Click on flash. After few successfull renuemartions it will fail. Don’t panic its is normal.

Just close the app and pull out the battery. Wait for few seconds and power on . It will take 2-5 minutes till then keep patience. Once rebooted , move the rest two files of step 3 and 5 to phones internal memory.

3. This is rom for electrify. Now you need to root your phone and install tenfar’s recovery. To root follow photon torpedo method.

4. After rooting install the recovery. Connect the Phone with Wall charger (not computer cable charging mode). It should be from 220V AC socket.

5. Open Recovery , click on install recovery and then reboot or reboot recovery

6. It will boot int recovery mode from where , files mentioned in step 3 will be installed, by browsing the options install from internal sd card or external sd card.

7. Reboot phone and then again flash the last file from RSD lite. Wait till RSD lite says 100% successful. Close app and enjoy your new Photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] k_roxas13:
I've gone through all the steps that were outlined.

I flashed to the electrify rom and after researching for hours discovered the torpedo root for my phone

was able to root my phone and install bootstrap

then I followed the rest of the instructions and flashed all the files with bootstrap and RSD lite as indicated.

When I flashed back to the photon my wireless was not working

after flashing the modules my wireless was fixed.

However, I am not able to get onto sprints network.

Thank you for the instructions given thus far they SAVED MY PHONE! but am I missing something in order to get back onto sprints network?
[Motorola Photon 4G] WiredAnim:
Okay I've read through this post and many others and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to flash the USC SBF to my locked photon. There is no Sim Card or SD Card installed in the device. Each time I try to use Rsd lite to flash the file it errors out and it still on the Sprint Rom... I have used stock recovery to do a factory reset and tried multiple times to get this rom to flash with no luck. When it boots it searches for the network and tells me hands free activation failed, when I click "okay" a Sprint app (SprintOmaDm) crashes and it loops back to searching for the network... I had one time that it flashed correctly but I screwed up and can't get it to do it again... Any assistance is welcomed!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Vatel88:
Doesnt work.

Tried this many many times and im still stuck on US Cellular. When i try to install the rom from step 3 the recovery program doesnt see any zip files on my sd card, it sees all the other files just not the zip. I thought this was due to the bootloader being locked but i cannot flash the derpunlock.sbf because i get the re-enumerate fail error. Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling all the drivers, Mopho is being seen as adb in device manager and yet i still can flash sbf files due to re-enumerate fail error. Ive tried using different cables, different usb ports. different computers. and still get re-enumerate error. Ive tried different versions of RSD still get same error. ive tried unplugging/replugging it in during while RSD waits for re-renumeration and got past that part but then get a failure to erase subscriber unit. Im completely lost as to what to do now i think this phone might be hard bricked. Any help would be appreciated and ill donate guaranteed!
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
MoPho4G e has duple memory scheme. Both are represented and SD Card. So first please be sure about the path where you have placed your files of step 3. That is actuall locked bootloader ROM.

External SD cardwill be displayed as SD Cart EXT or Ext SD Card or External SD Card..

Internal Phone Memory will be displayed as either Internal SD Card or SD Card only

Browse your file from desired path.

If you are getting problem while finding the path. Boot into the Recovery Mode and paste here the options. And also the path where you have copied the files.

@Vatel88 :

. Please do not try anything fancy, if you are not sure about that. Same thing I did and I lost my phone for almost 2 weeks.

Do remember,not every phone has same hardware and software versions, depending upon the batch or lot they are dispatched. There are various major and minor version difference that makes every phone stand out to the other phones by same Model and Manufacturer

{ It means the development on other phone ROMs are on full fledged but for few MoPho's, its nothing , except enjoying your beer with stock roms :) }

Also, Unlocking and Upgrading mechanism varies from phone to phone. Earlier I had a Motorola XT502 Greco, which was quite easy to upgrade. It flashes the entire rom in a single shot. But here its not as ez as it was.

Finally , I can say stay connected, I will definitely help you out, just keep on posting what I need. I might be bit slow. But will definitely keep you out.

&

DONT TRY ANYTHING FANCY.. IF WANNA TRY NOTE DOWN SPECIFICATION FROM ABOUT PHONE .. MAKE A BACKUP & HIT IT HARD.. HV FN... EVERYTHING WILL B OK
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
Sprint Error

Are you on Sprint Network or some other. If you are on some other network then I suppose you can remove all sprint related bloatwares from your phone using any system uninstallers like XDA assistant. here in india there is no sprint network , so I generally remove all sprint related applications from my system app list. But be careful while removing such apps.

If you are on sprint you need to flash with stock SBF using RSD lite.

Attract Th3Bill, _peetr , Acvice on this post for more accurate solutions.
[Motorola Photon 4G] fireashes:
Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
Most welcome, glad to know that its helping others. Thanks peetr too as it was outlined by _peetr.
[Motorola Photon 4G] patasolientes:
reboots

how I can fix my photon repair reboots but when using the camera, listen to music or call it off and then turn only there a solution for this?
[Motorola Photon 4G] dtrud0h:
If it helps...

I made a post Here that has the files that I used to unlock my electrify. I did it after the OTA and it worked flawlessly. The link to the zip is on google drive and puts you right inside the zip without downloading it. There is instructions in plain english there which detail exactly what steps to take if you follow them. I reccommend opening a command prompt / terminal window as administrator and cd 'ing to the directory where you unzipped the file to. I use 7zip and extract to "Electrify" directory. Then from windows explorer copy folder location as text , type cd (space) right click in the terminal window and select paste, then enter. your command prompt should end with the direcory name electrify. Then after putting phone into fastboot and pluggin it in do a fastboot devices and your device should show up, then proceed with the directions step by step.

Moto drivers and whatnot have been updated since I got this file and I would reccommend using the files in the zip and doing all commands from the extract directory because that's what worked for me.

To download the file go to the top of the page and select File, download.

Here is a link for this thread to make it easier.

Hope this helps someone.

This is the file I used to unlock my OTA'd USCC Electrify while it was running 2.3.5
[Motorola Photon 4G] MikeYoon:
Help Please

I manage to resurrect my dead photon with the steps listed. But now, when I try to activate the phone, Sprint said they do not recognize the ESN (DEC or HEX). Has this happened to anyone else.

It was activated with sprint before.

Thank you.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cupliz:
i hope somebody has try this method on photon 2.3.5, how the result? im scared bacause im not american people and no Motorola service center on my country..
[Motorola Photon 4G] WiredAnim:
I have a photon that was ota to 2.3.5 and attempted the method listed above. I used rsd lite to flash to electrify stock 2.3.5 to attempt the unlock. It gave the same errors the photon users are accustomed to seeing... I can't remember the exact message produced on the photon but is the same one when you try to do the standard pudding unlock... Thanks for the attempt though!
[Motorola Photon 4G] dtrud0h:
Upon further investigation it seems as though the method I posted earlier will work for 2.3.5, but not the ota. It does work with the shipped USCC Electrify that came with 2.3.5. Sorry for the mix up. Regarding the errors, has anyone tried doing a battery pull when getting the errors, then immediately booting into fastboot and running through the process again. It seems to me that was a requirement to get it to work. Like the first part had to do something, get the file system in a certain state of dis-array, then once the system was rebooted. Into fastboot and run through again the process would take. The key was the battery pull, reboot into fastboot, start over. May be worth a try. Just saying.
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
Want to use CDMA sim on my recovered Photon

Since we know Photon supports both CDMA and GSM network but one at a time. So Is it possible for me to use CDMA sim card instead of GSM on the recovered rom.

Once I have downloaded "Stock 4.5.1A-1_SUN-254_13_2.zip" from XDA links. I want to know what If I flash this rom instead of the mentioned one below in step3 or the step 3 flash works on CDMA as well.

Please help. Currently my mopho bugs me whenever I insert a CDMA sim. One more thing, I try resetting my phone but that gave me error failed to boot 2. So I think CDMA is not working.

Needs help. :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

I follow these to restore my phone:
[Motorola Photon 4G] SlikkRikkDaRuler:
..Any idea if this will also work for the refurbished photon 4g ?? ..VTO 03/05/13
[Motorola Photon 4G] Echoo:
Photon dead.

Hello!

Google translator I write, I can not even little English.

Given a Photon 4G, sealed bootloader, ROM 2.3.5. Yesterday I bought, but I absolutely could not do factory reset, always RSD mode entered when the phone restarts. I got a flash 2.3.5 stock closed bootloaderes ruin, and now I'm there, I get only the Motorola logo, nowhere more. There is no recovery, fastboot mode, it's just the logo. No matter how I try buttons, just the logo. If you plug into a charger off, it also comes in a logo. Brick?
[Motorola Photon 4G] pradeeppk:
Have you recovered from this

---------- Post added at 02:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:22 PM ----------

According to my knowledge sim slot is only for gsm and you need to program the phone for cdma
[Motorola Photon 4G] angga jauh:
please help photon wont boot

hi, mind you telling me, what part we choose in order flashing? I choose RSD and the phone still wont boot :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] slimcane:
See if this helps:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41987845&postcount=88

Full thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41987845
[Motorola Photon 4G] cell0ne:
This thread really helped me to take my photon out of grave,thank you very very much.
[Motorola Photon 4G] 6thSense:
I'm having the same problem as some listed above, but haven't seen anyone address them. Maybe I missed it?

I follow each step with no errors. The only problem is it won't recognize the Sprint network. It just says - no service.

I read somewhere that once you reboot it should find it, but no bueno.

Any ideas?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Tpot74:
Dead Photon 4g

So, to start, I know nothing about rooting or modifying the core program on my phone.

The problem that I have is that it has crashed, and will not get past the Motorola start screen, I can get to the boot menues, using the power and volume keys, but that fails to reset the phone, and it stalls at the Motorola screen.

Is/are there any steps or programs that I can take/use to bring it back from the dead?

I don't know what version of android it has on it, or where to look. One of the things I tried before it completely crashed, however, was to check if the system was up to date. it was, as of 9-5-13.
[Motorola Photon 4G] chamaraaa:
about this rom

don't flash this 2.3.5_254_13 rom on electrify

then u cannot get start your phone

there for

correctly flash on your device suitable ROM

thankz xda
[Motorola Photon 4G] pharaoh313:
Thank You, saved my photon from being a paper weight. Every-time I would flash with sprint it would fail but the US Cellular went through. At first I wasnt sure if it went through just restarted my phone left it on for 1 minute & it booted. : ) I mostly use it as a MP3 player & WIFI device this is perfect
[Motorola Photon 4G] n@veen:
I am able to recover my PHOTON 4g...but is there any way to go back to stock 2.3.4?

Please tell me how can I get back to stock 2.3.4 rom? I have successfully unbricked my photon and on 2.3.5 android right now. Boot strap is installed with root access.

Can I install custom rom like MIUI,CM and all?:confused:
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
If its 2.3.5 via OTA i believe you are locked and you cant go back. See the version in my first post if it matched with your current versions.
[Motorola Photon 4G] n@veen:
I have unbricked the device...description below

I was on 2.3.5 OTA update. then I rooted my phone, installed bootstrap recovery and flashed MIUI rom with that. Then I failed to boot as my photon was not unlocked. Then I had to unbrick the device using the procedure step by step guide to unbrick 2.3.5 photon.

Now my status is back to 2.3.5. Now can I install CWM recovery and unlock bootloader?

I'm desperate to install Custom roms. Please help!
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
Sorry, Photon 2.3.5 OTA upgrade locks your phone and you can install what you are expecting. Yes you can have some Customized stock roms for the same, but you can't use CWM or AOSP or AOKP sort of roms.. Sorry again.:rolleyes:
[Motorola Photon 4G] agentejp:
It works, thanks!!!

Wow! I thought my Photon was dead for ever. Thank you guys for all your support and hard work to make this unbrick possible.
[Motorola Photon 4G] amitranjan:
:o:good: great you got it back
[Motorola Photon 4G] deshwani:
i followed your above instruction and bricked my phone.. now it is showing electrify and wifi not working, no 4g connection,, system recovery having error... what should i do now?
[Motorola Photon 4G] wsimon98:
Bricked...No. But no wifi

It's 2014 and it seems that this many years later there would be better instruction and better roms/flashes out by now. Nope. This method works just fine and dandy, except there are no wifi connections. it pretends to connect, then cuts out, re-authenticating constantly. My advice to anyone with this problem is to flash using rsdlite an original sbf and not touch it after that. and don't use any in this post. the flash here is garbage (wifi issue i stated). you CAN however root just fine using photon torpedo. my issue with my photon is that it keeps rebooting randomly. was hoping this forum post would help:crying:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Daxeroth:
Just did all steps except for 4) and 6) as specified in instructions but I must admit the line "4) and 6) is not needed, if you install rom 3)" sounds misleading and poorly written or just bad english. Should be rewritted or may mislead someone else to softbricking or something.

For people searching for the Droid X2 Bootstrap APK:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y19y123n6tauq7s
[Motorola Photon 4G] Umer Ahmed:
Please Help Me Brothers For The Sake Of God Please Guide Me & Recover My Photon 4g

Hi My Motorola Photon 4g suddenly freezes at the pattern lock screen every time I try to use the phone. I can unlock but I can't use the power button to display the power button menu and the screen stays on constantly. And I Can't Get Into Recovery Mode It Gives Me Error "Failed To Boot 2" Please Tell me Experts What To Do I Want My Phone Working....!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] S.N.@.K.3:
Hi,

This thread is regarding Photon 4g sprint ?

I have to go stock

and then I have to go to fastboot to unlock the bootloader ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Mindinspired:
Photon 4g problems

Have you tried holding down the volume buttons? I know there is a method with the side buttons to get you unstuck. It's just been so long since I've had to mess with mine. Google about the buttons. I know the info is out there.
[Motorola Photon 4G] isaacbarc:
I need those files please!!

Could anyone send me this files? the links are broken. I need the files for step 5 and 6.... I have my phone with data 3g but wifi is not working, error. Please and thank you!!!.

my email is: isaacbarc@hotmail.com
[Samsung Captivate Glide] inthepit:
not that i want to go back, i am loving this ICS leak, but for those that want to go back to stock 2.3.5 can we simply just put in the rom image in odin and flash in download mode?

figured someone was bound to ask so wanted to get it out there.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Crzycoco:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762209

Hope this helps
[Samsung Captivate Glide] inthepit:
not really any help there. rooting is not the issue. didnt know if anything was hard coded into the device with the ics update that prevented anyone from being able to just put the phone in download mode and load up the official odin roms to downgrade.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] rovar:
No, you can use the stock ROM at anytime to flash to GB or back to ICS.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Crzycoco:
Did you not read the second paragraph of the thread?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oohhlala:
Hi all, first i'm sorry for my poor english and thanks to anyone can help me ;) After long time of searching how to modify an apk, i decided to modify systemui.apk to change notification pulldown background. i was very happy when i decompile, modified and re-compile in success. And i put modified apk to phone and waiting for good result.But i lost my statusbar and home button was in wrong position:( ( plz look at attached image ) So i tried 2 way to sign modifid apk : use winrar add META IFF folder straight to new apk and in other way i put back resource.arc file to the new apk after extracted from it. Hmm the resut was not like i hope.

So any one here can tell me which step i was wrong or something like it and how to fix to get better result

:p

Again thank in advance to everyone :good:
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
It's probably the image that's wrong.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavenderdl:
You try to flash the rom or use the Backup and then set the lock screen by the member Xda post
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oohhlala:
Sorry mate, what you mean ? If i remember exactly Themeing tool is your, and u also used it to modify an apk and attention to the notice that you mentioned in your guide before using new apk.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
What have you edited?

Sent from my CM9'd Arc
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oohhlala:
deleting a line in .xml file and put an image.png into drawable-hdpi
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Well there is the issue. Is this from a guide?

Sent from my CM9'd Arc
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oohhlala:
yes, i used themingtool without any error in decompiling and re-compiling, but when put new apk to phone , i dont know how to make it work,
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
What tool, what guide???

Sent from my CM9'd Arc
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oohhlala:
tool from here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1374394

guide from here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1803813
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Upload the unmodified apk and I'll take a look when I get home.

Sent from my CM9'd Arc
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Delete the public.xml and recompile and report back.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oohhlala:
first attached file is original apk and next is the one i modified with deleting public.xml and just re-compile
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
And did it work? I'm on CM9 so can't test it.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oohhlala:
no, it didn't work, the statusbar still disappeared :(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Hey guys, is USB otg ROM dependent or purely root dependent ? I ask because I am hoping my ROM doesn't support it and not that this cable I JUST purchased doesn't work >< BTW running jr6
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] listeruk:
Just root. Or, you could use Nexus Media Importer sans root.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jon565G:
Need root like what listeruk says. You could however use stickmount, then it will show up in your file explorer as usb. Links here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDMsImV1LmNoYWluZmlyZS5zdGlja21vdW50Il0.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sodoecho:
so i was on ebay looking for some new cases and i noticed they were also labeling these items for use with htc one xc. first time i heard of it, so after some research it seems very similar size and everything except the led flash is on the left of the lens instead of the right of the lens for the sprint variation. i was hoping with this xc version, we'd be able to see more cases able to be used on the sprint. sadly that's not the case. :(
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] crzycrkr:
You haven't heard of the One X?!?

Same internals, completely different bodybody
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mexiking713:
HTC One XC is a different phone. Looks almost identical to our Evo LTE.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] crzycrkr:
Whoops, my bad, lol. I just assumed the c was a typo. I obviously haven't heard of it either.

---------- Post added at 09:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:12 PM ----------

I wonder if the image is mirrored. I would love to have that matte top cover
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mexiking713:
I thought the same thing then I googled the name :D It's for China. The image is not mirrored. They change some small things. It looks like it doesn't have a kick stand. Might be wrong.

Sent from my HTC Evo LTE powered by Meanrom
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] MTNS:
or LTE ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mbaseball3:
Flash on opposite side of camera. Gold colored? Weird

Sent from my EVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] wrxlvr:
The gold is icky, but I would take that bottom piece on the bottom (backside of phone) that says "Beats Audio".
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] crzycrkr:
Charging port is opposite side too? We sure its not a mirrored image?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mexiking713:
There are many cases for the phone on eBay and they all have the flash on the opposite side.

Sent from my HTC Evo LTE powered by Meanrom
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mbaseball3:
Yeah I realized that error :p its the gold. It's throwing me off.

Sent from my EVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eXplicit815:
Definitely a real phone:

[YOUTUBE]eJqs5_ZsDwc[/YOUTUBE]​
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Genjinaro:
Reminds me of the Chinese HTC Hero & The GSM EVO 3D theme of international gold themes.