[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] SleepyPanchoo:
So I just bought this phone, came in Monday, got it activated the same day, was excited! I had many Android phones and rooted without any problems. This one was far easiest the root. I had the stock ROM of course, followed the easy bootloader unlock method, bam! Phone fully unlocked! Fast boot and ADB were openly available, used ADB to reboot into bootloader again to flash CMW with fast-boot. Sweet, now I have recovery! That was a lot less painful process then I had with any phone. After reaching the recovery menu via ADB reboot recovery, I flashed SuperUser for root, and was cheering in victory, then did a clean factory reset to start using my phone as if new (with SU and CMW). At this point I had no idea I could access CMW without a computer (which I should I knew I could after so many roots and unlocks), and this option for a extended reboot to recovery menu was infront of me, waiting to be flashed. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1884282 .

Now, I went ahead and try to flash this zip for those extended options, and that is where I went wrong. The zip file screwed my phone so that it would get stuck on the Sprint Logo, and then I realized I forgot to make a nandroid backup. I went ahead and try to fix it, I didn't want to deoxed my phone, wanted to keep it as Factory OEM as possible. Look a glance at the guy's update script, and realized he removed a necessary .odex file and did not include it in the stock power menu to flash back to normal, so now I was stuck w/o that necessary .odex file and a phone that gets stuck at the sprint loading screen. At this point I was still okay, but was questioning this uploader's work, he never mentioned that a deoxded was needed, and his "stock" wasn't stock, it was deoxded without the .odex.

I wanted to clean the "contamination" and start over without a clean untouched ROM, which was a terrible idea. Still forgetting to make a nandroid backup though, and went ahead and found a system dump and system images (system.img.ext4, etc), did a FULL Wipe with (no nandroid backup!) And now my system partition and user data partition in wiped clean. Of course I tried flashing the system.img.ext4 and userdata.img.ext4 and what not with fastboot to get back to clean slate but that wasn't the case. Now I got stuck on WARNING BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED, and it will not even go to a sprint logo boot.

Now I realize I never made a nandroid backup, and kept putting myself in a bigger hole without making one from the start. I tried everything, fastboot flashing, I even make a system.zip update file for CMW to copy a system dump directly to the system partition, phone boots up, flickers, goes to CMW (thought that was going to work for a second). Now I'm stuck with a semi-bricked phone not-so-brand-new-anymore Motorola Photon Q, desperately searching for a way to flash it back in working order.

I have tried and flash various system dumps from users to no avail, and there not any full roms available that can get me out of this mess. Is it anyway method I'm missing to flashing these system dumps to get my phone back online, or will I be stuck without a phone until a rom comes out? I have been using these provided dumps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1856456

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1874359 (Bought a Hotfile prem to download this, regular was taking forever, I could reup on my faster FTP if someone wants to give it a shot).

Please help if you know a way to get my beloved phone online! I only had it for a day and I'm in love with it, have no idea where I don't hear more about this awesome phone, I was sold when I saw it in the sprint store. (Reminds me of my old galaxy s1, it was a champ!)

*EDIT*

Problem solved! Thanks arrghhh for his backup files!

1. Use fastboot to flash TWRP to recovery.

2. Make a folder and put these files in that folder!

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12691845/system.ext4.win

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12691845/system.ext4.win.md5

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12691845/boot.emmc.win

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12691845/boot.emmc.win.md5

3. Place this folder in the following directory.

[Root_of_SD_card] / TWRP / BACKUPS / T0695022LP / [your folder] ( so if your folder is called "argh_restore", it should be found in [Root_of_SD_card] / TWRP / BACKUPS / T0695022LP / argh_restore ) , and inside that folder, the files you downloaded.

4. Boot into recovery, I assume you know how to do this since you unlocked your bootloader to mess up your phone in the first place :p.

5. TWRP should load, press restore, your folder should show up, select it, select system and boot, enable MD5 checking, and restore your phone.

**IF YOUR FOLDER DOES NOT SHOW UP, directory may be incorrect. You can make a backup and see where it goes to figure out where to place your backup folder!

6. Reboot your phone, your good to go!!

PS. This backup is NOT CLEAN stock! It is stock with deoxed, battery & toggle mod, and extended menu mod, I BELIEVE. Those are the only mods really available so that's my assumption, but arrghhh may know since it is HIS backup that he provided. So far, I've been using phone all day, seems to be running well. Just like stock! Also, I can't forget, shabby's awesome SuperUser mod for root! (You won't need CMW since you have TWRP, but if you want to swtich recovery, thats up to you. CMW is most popular recovery but TWRP is really great as well)!