yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
unlock bootloader = awesomd custom ROMs but no 4G

lock bootloader = 4G stock ROMs or minor tweaked ROMs

thats just how it is..

sent from my MoPho69™
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
This looks pretty rad. What's everyones thoughts on this? And does it support the OC kernel? I may flash this on my Photon. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cyclonesrule91:
This is definitely my favorite rom of all. The battery life on this rom is the best yet of any I have tried. I am using the Easy Battery Saver in intelligent battery saving mode like I have with all the roms and with marginal use in a day off the charger at 6am, I still have at least 35-50% battery left when I put it back on the charger at 10pm. Awesome is what it is........ Thanks to Bill and all who have helped with this rom to help us Electrify/photon users keep our phones.

And I have a noob question for whoever. This is in no way trying to pressure something to get done fast or even remotely close so please don't take as a demand. I have seen comments in the different threads that 4.2 android is out and even got a pm from someone saying it was available as a new rom for the Samsung Mesmerize my daughter had up until last thursday when she got hers wet and it died. Question is what kind of timeframe is there to get these roms coming out at 4.2? Again just asking a noob question.

And I know that 4.0 is ICS and 4.1 is JB........Does that mean that 4.2 will be named something else or am I looking at it wrong?

Thanks again for all you guys do.
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
4.2 is still Jelly Bean. Similar to how Eclair was 2.0 and 2.1.

As for a timeframe... rule #1, never ask for an ETA. It'll happen when it happens.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cyclonesrule91:
Thanks for the info and Got it on Rule #1..........:cool:
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
It's also available on T-Mobile S3 I believe

Sent From My Galaxy S3 With XDA
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
No harm in being asked once :D

I am working on CM10.1 as I write this. THIS DOES NOT MEAN I'M CLOSE TO IT. Unfortunately, the page that Google usually has up that explains the changes in mount points for each version of Android is DOWN, and the build that completed an hour ago didn't boot at all because I was building it under the old, wrong setup. Once it's up (could be a while...I've seen reports that it's been down on code.google that are a week old), I will do my best. I am looking at trying to do it by Xmas. I understand it sucks, but you must realize that it's got a LOT of changes (even being JB) in the frameworks, etc, and without the right mount points, I'm dead in the water as nothing loads up
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
No rush man, you have kept this phone more alive than anything. We can all wait, even us flash junkies.

These are holiday times, and you need to spend time with your immediate family, more so then this family.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
"Us flash junkies" can always flash different ROMs. AOKP M1 b4 is pretty damn stable. Still, battery life for it is kinda fickle. One day I'll get just 8 hours, and have to charge mid-day. Yesterday, I got 14 hours down to 43%. I was real happy with that. AOKP is most of what I want out of a ROM, but I'm tempted to flash this and get the best of everything.

Since this is the thread for the ROM that combines them all... Is there a way to get wallpapers from one (e.g. CM10) onto another (e.g. AOKP)? Or just export them? I want the one in the OP of the CM10 ROM (I think that's the one) where you have Cid's head in Holo blue amidst a diagonal grid of grey Android icons. I'd love to export the wallpaper to SD so I can change his head to Harlequin Green (#0FFF00) so it fits my icons, clock, and status bar (theme is Kiwi Cobalt). Not sure if it's all Harlequin Green but it's close enough. (I really need to be a themer, haha. I have some great ideas, but I suck at Photoshop/GIMP.)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bock Abrams:
Odd how every time I bring this up, nobody notices it
[Motorola Photon 4G] chetansaraf:
... i am no where close to understand what you talked about. probably not my cup of tea. :laugh::laugh::laugh:. But best of luck to you for whatever pain you are taking to bring all the power of android to the amateur people like me ...
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I think that's in the framework-res.apk. I will take a look once I get a chance...trying to fix the mess that MIUI made this past week before they upload another round Friday...LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bock Abrams:
Thanks man, you have no idea how annoying this has been lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I can imagine. It's probably like MIUI has become to me....it's the first rom I ever worked on, so I am not going to abandon it, but it's a pain in my butt EVERY SINGLE WEEK. I swear that Xaomi is intentionally trying to make it so obfuscated and difficult to port that only their official devices will get it....LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] dingo502:
Does this work with GSM?
[Motorola Photon 4G] G69D:
it works fine on GSM..

sent from my MoPho69™
[Motorola Photon 4G] rthibeault:
I apologize in advance if this has been addressed already, but I have not seen it...

Is there a fix for 160+ sms? They will not send for me...

Thanks!

Rom is running quite well other than that. Thanks for the hard work Bill!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
I have this problem on pretty much every ROM I install. Once in a while, the stock messaging app will have a 160 character split option, but I haven't seen that option recently. I just keep GO SMS installed and use that when I need to send a split message or MMS.
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
Unless you push a new Mms.apk to your system, you pretty much have to deal with that unless you wanna use go sms.

BUT. I sort of lied there.

This is not a guarantee, but it always works for me.

You can always try either

a) switch to roaming. If you've already tried sending the message on home and it didnt go through. Long press the message you tried sending. Hit edit, and then hit send, it should go through

b)If you are opposed to roaming. Try simply adding a subject to the message, Yes, it will now be an mms, and yes, it will take just a few seconds longer to send, but it will then go through

I hope either of those help you. Personally, i hate GoSms, and i dont like using third party apps for stock features like sms. So, i found my work around. I wonder how difficult it would be to recompile the Mms.apk to add sms split or mms conversion for 160+ chars. Im gonna have to look into that.

*Cheers*

Signed, T3HG00GLEG33K
[Motorola Photon 4G] runningslow:
160+ texts work for me out of the box. They split by themselves. I didn't have to push another APK, or change any settings. In fact, it works and I don't even see any settings to change it.

For the record, I dirty flashed (wiping everything but /data) PAC Man over my ParanoidAndroid install, but I can't imagine that's why it works.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cyclonesrule91:
I use handcent text messaging and that works great as well. I liked it better than GoSMS but can't really tell you why other than I was used to handcent.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cdrice15:
Which of the ROMs does the MMS.apk come from? I have used them all individually and don't remember seeing theme/customization option in the settings in any of them.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kdog350:
The Youtube app doesnt work in tablet mode :/ everytime i try to load a video it says "an error has occured"
[Motorola Photon 4G] JVital2013:
Works fine for me, maybe try clearing data for the app?
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
A nice alternative to GoSMS/Handcent that really rounds out the custom ROM (especially if you have a Theme as well) is Contacts+ (formerly Contapps). The one on the Play Store is okay, but if you can get into the beta, that app is NICE. It basically integrates your contacts, dialer, call log, and messaging, and it's not flashy like GO/HC. It does push its free IM service like GO pushes paid themes, but I ignore that. Here's what it looks like (ROM: AOKP M1b4; Theme: Kiwi Cobalt; don't remark on battery, it's charging!)

Conversation: Pretty basic conversation list. These are the default colors. I may have chosen the dark theme. Not sure if there is a light theme or not. Unlike GO, you can't choose all the colors. But I like these (would prefer green over blue though). (Since y'all are probably wondering, that's my brother, he has a Photon, but he took the 2.3.5 OTA update. I'm telling him how to root, and how to make his phone most like ICS/JB as possible.)

Conversation, with sidebar options: Swipe left to right to get this. From here you can get to the person's profile, their Facebook wall, Twitter feed, you can Google their name (not sure why you'd want to?) or Google Maps navigate to their address (if one is in the contact). I don't really use these options, but they're nice to have.

Call log: Your basic call log, I suppose. Multiple calls to/from a given contact in a row are collapsed into one and can be expanded. Nothing special here, just showing it off.

Not shown: Contacts page... there are a ton of options, it would take forever to show them all. Contacts displayed as an icon grid or a list, sorted by frequency, or by contact history (most recently contacted first), or of course alphabet, etc. From the contacts page, you swipe right to left to switch to the call log, or left to right for messaging (think of them like home screens, but you can't cycle back around... though that would be nice). The little triangle in the lower right corner calls up the dialer. Or if you open Dialer (they took out the shortcut in the beta, you have to add it as an Activity (e.g. in Nova), it opens the Dialer over the contacts (it only takes up the bottom half of the screen).

I guess it's the HTC dialer Contacts+ is basically copying. That's what I've heard anyway. In any case, it's leaps and bounds better than GO/HC and of course the stock apps. And 100% free.
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
Its from AOKP. I think it was only in the latest rom, or maybe latest two roms.

*Cheers*

Signed, T3HG00LEG33K
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Enjoy this ROM fellas. Tonight I will have to take it down. Apparently paranoid android dev team doesn't want their paranoid preferences being used in the ROM. Without that, this ROM is nothing more than AOKP.

I will work to integrate some of the preferences into the settings apk. If I can get it working, I'll re-upload it. It may not be as complex as it is now, but should have ability to do tablet and phablet.

Sorry guys
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
Well thats cool. Are you roaming or using towers outside of sprint, or does it really work for you on home network?

I decompiled the Mms.apk, and saw that it has multipart sms enabled, but not split sms. I think we would benefit if we just flipped that around. around. I also added a few lines and tried making it convert to mms after 4 pages( for better compatibility between carriers )Btw if anyone has compiled a system app before, i would love if you could help me recompile this apk. It never finishes right. Anyways, im gonna try my old way and hope it works, which will shock the hell out of me, but who knows

*Cheers*

Signed, T3HG00LEG33K

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No worries bill. Some devs are just sticklers with their work and code, i hope they were at least nice and civil about it when you found out. I look forward to seeing what is in store. Best of luck bill

*Cheers*

Signed, T3HG00LEG33K
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
They msged the dev for PAC man. I haven't heard directly
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
Well i hope they were not too harsh about it to em. Oh btw bill, you wouldnt happen to be good at recompiling an apk would you? I assume you would be(pardon if i am wrong to assume) I cant for the life of me recompile Mms.apk. Ive recompiled apps before, but never a system app, and never on jellybean.

*Cheers*

Signed, T3HG00LEG33K
[Motorola Photon 4G] blttalas:
th3bill can you make for atrix?
[Motorola Photon 4G] hightech316:
What happened to open source? :eek::rolleyes:

Thank you for all of your time and effort . Keeping our mopho alive :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] kdog350:
Yeah, I just tried that and when I did, it won't sign into my gmail account on YouTube and then it force closes. What are your settings for the YouTube app?
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
PA isn't open source if they're sending out what amounts to a C&D for using part of their code. Android is open source, but I don't think that means all derivatives have to be. The Motorola Sunfire platform, in fact, has a lot of closed-source components we can't get source to, leading to a number of problems (camera, camcorder, Chrome, HWA).

So I guess this ROM is pretty much dead in the water? I still plan on installing it, but I suppose I'll be sticking with AOKP. AOKP hasn't been updated in a while (and I'm fine with that, it works great as of M1 b4) but the project is alive, I assume working on 4.2...

And also, Firefox is open source, but they've trademarked their name and logo, so derivatives have to change that... e.g. Waterfox, Pale Moon, IceWeasel, and others. The only one that kept the name and logo is "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition", but PortableApps got special permission for that. So maybe just parts of Paranoid are protected?
[Motorola Photon 4G] francescod:
It was silently ;) uploaded days ago....http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacolympus/
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm good for it...what did you need to have done?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Well, they DIDn't say that I couldn't integrate their preferences in some manner into the rom in another way :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Well, I wouldn't want to see you get in some kind of trouble with XDA or the Paranoid devs, though I'm not sure how much they care about a Photon ROM as opposed to a more common phone. I mean they don't even officially support Sunfire, you do that.

But what about the MIUI toolbox? Is there any way to get that in another ROM? I know I should just suck it up and buy ROM Toolbox, or use ROM Fumbler... or just keep using Kiwi Cobalt when I get back to 4.1.2. But MIUI Toolbox offers some cool options.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I can try to integrate that into another rom. That being said, it'll be pretty tough to do. Not saying that I'm not willing to, but I have to find all the smalis that call the given functions, and edit them throughout the entire apk. While it's small in overall size, it is some 200-300 files...LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] sonurajput56:
Th3Bill... i feel jealous to see these roms.. ;) i am stucked in 2.3.5...

do something for unlock the bootloader... :( :( waiting & quite eager to use these... %$%$%$
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm good with roms...haven't a clue on bootloaders, unfortunately. I keep hoping that at some point, Moto will be cool and give us an unlock for it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
A while ago, cybik said that he had something up his sleeve but we haven't seen anything come of that. Any idea what that was about?
[Motorola Photon 4G] sonurajput56:
My wishes with u that u break moto unlock bootloader... beat them.

All d bst..
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
PAC Rom is back up.

Due to a request by the Paranoid Android devs, I have removed the paranoidpreferences.apk from the rom. They have put a lot of work into that app, and I understand that they don't want it used for unofficial uses. I will NOT link it or provide it to you in any way. If you choose to somehow obtain a copy of the file and add it to your phone, I cannot control your actions.
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
Good Man there bill. So without Paranoid in the rom, what is it now? "Yeah man, im running ac rom"

:p

But in all seriousness, Is this rom staying the same (minus the paranoid) or did you have plans on implementing another rom to take paranoids place? No matter, ill be sure to keep my eye out.

So bill, If our photon roms update to 4.2, What do you think the plan would be there. The camera probably wouldnt work at all seeing all they did to it, or maybe with some tweaking it would just need to have the photo sphere removed as well as small other things. Would we have to hybrid the roms? I mean, i don't forsee motorola giving in to our needs for a phone they dropped. So it will be kind of hard using 4.2 without proper libs and what have you. Nonetheless. I guess only time will tell. I really am loving 4.2 on my bud's vibrant, pretty cool, not too much different really, just a few cool new features.

Im rambling, so i think im gonna hop off and get ready for work. LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Well, it will have the P part if you pull the apk yourself and install it. I just cannot include it in the rom from the start.

As far as 4.2, I've built another attempt of it, and when my daughter gets home in about 15 mins, I'm going to see if she boots. I have a feeling we might have to wait for CM to integrate legacy audio support before we can have it useful, as if it doesn't support our drivers, we'll have silent phone, which is...useless...LOL

Camera should be ok, including photo sphere. That doesn't require HWA from what I see (should not be any diff than Panorama in theory). VIdeocam requires the hwa for any real functionality.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Is it really just as easy as pulling one .apk from \system\app of one ROM and sticking it in another?

Well, that was around the time of the Atrix ICS leak. My understanding is that the Atrix leak can't be used due to something missing. I don't follow the Atrix community at all. But maybe cybik thought if the Atrix people could use it, we could utilize it somehow, but since it didn't pan out for them, it certainly won't pan out for us. cybik's just a classy guy, he probably shouldn't have said what he did, but thought he had more than he did and couldn't help it. I would have said a lot more... but then I would have made an ass of myself in the process. That's my speculation anyway.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
yup :D

I know what you mean. I've talked to a number of devs. Without source for the kernel, the Atrix leak may as well have been one for an IPhone...LOL
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
It sucks, but at the same time we do have a great community here that has taken this device very far. I know I will be sticking around, and I just hope that if and when anything of significance is dropped/leaked, we still have some of the awesome devs to take this phone to new heights.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Some folks have this problem, others do not. If you can track down a rom build from 4.0.3 the default sms app will have the option to split sms. This feature was taken out with 4.0.4 and beyond.
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
As soon as i saw that PA didnt want their settings used i was like, hmmmmn, AC rom eh? Not the same ring to it. I was considering trying to port camp. But a) I didnt care for camp at all. b) I dont like miui. c) i think miui would take a lot more work to work in.

Yeah,I just thought id ask because i was bored and tried pulling a few different 4.2 apks from other roms and they all work like a charm, just camera was the only thing that was bugging out on me no matter where my apk was from. The photosphere was laggy like the video camera, and some times, while capturing would just FC or cause a reboot. The camera functioned, but the screen always showed up white(so you could use it, but you couldnt see what you were capturing) I also tried using the apk's from a 4.1.2 to 4.2 zip thing, and it was the same show all around. I think i was just being blond for a minute( not discriminating blonds in any way or anything, just a funny gesture) and not really thinking

I've been out of the game too long to know what im doing any more. I used to be good at modding and coding back when i owned an lg vu, or an early htc phone (like when android first started coming round) So now, i pretty much have started from scratch and am trying to learn ics-jb via comparing scripts, digging through files, and kinda trial and erroring every step. I feel so dumb when im looking at the framework and what have you. Did things seriously change that much between good ol 2.1-2.3 to now? LOL. like i was on another planet or something.
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
Sms Split/Auto MMS Conversion Mms.apk

Pssst. I just finished recompiling this.

+Sms Split for 160+ Chars

+Mms conversion if more then 4 splits.

Enjoy

Just copy to your system/app folder and set permissions to rw-r-r

If you need me to make it a flashable zip, i can try, but i never have so, dont hold me to it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
Thanks a lot for this. I'm on MIUI right now and made a backup before trying it. Surprisingly I haven't run into any issues. It works great!
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
HAHA! Surprisingly? Im appalled!!! Just kidding. Glad its working well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] koushi2012:
Hi Th3bill just now i flashed PAC rom Coming from AOPK

I did Full wipe and Wipe Dalvik Cache zips before flashing rom and after that i flashed Option Chooser latest version

Everything working Fine

But in Play Store whenever i'm trying to update/download any app

it simply showing Downloading and line moves but not downloading..,

Please Help me ASAP..,++

Edit: it Worked out by installing again playstore.apk and restared my phone.so now everything works cool.,

Thanks for your Rom and support..
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Clear your davlik/cache again. Wipe the play store data again.

Then try it again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Euclid's Brother:
Hi guys. Will this Rom improve the functionality of the camera over the latest OTA? Or its that more of a hardware issue?

I'm trying to convince my wife to let me upgrade her phone. She always complains about the camera not being very good.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mrmellies:
Camera was sub par when released . Motorola's mission to f*** consumers made that a permanent issue for photon users thanks for all the time for development @th3bill @jokersax11 @ktt @cybik @th3g33k @Lokfishmarz and @shabbypenguin @cougarcougar. @mof9536 I moved to the gs3 and broke the screen in 6 days. Back to pacman. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] koushi2012:
Thanks for that actually it worked by again installing playstore apk
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Not your fault, but the latest Google Now FCs every time. (Anybody else? Just me?) I can voice search. But click Google, bring up the cards -- FC. If I uninstall the update, it works fine. (I didn't do Options, I just installed the latest Gapps.) So I guess for now I just have the update notification. Not too much of a biggie I suppose. Is that something you'd be able to fix if I pulled a logcat? Or an issue beyond our control like Chrome? (Tried clearing cache/dalvik, clearing data, clearing defaults -- none of that helps.)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cyclonesrule91:
Happened to me as well except it happened when I installed the new AKOP rom. How can you uninstall the update? Google Now app was what originally got me into unlocking and rooting my phone so I could upgrade ROMs that Google now could be run. Obviously I have figured out how much more cool stuff you get when installing Bill's AWESOME Roms but I still love Google Now and especially going against those with crapples so I can put Sirry to shame on regular basis.

Edited: I wanted to clarify something. I was thinking you were referring to the Google now update but got to thinking maybe you were referring to the Rom update. Which one are you referring to? Please and thank you....
[Motorola Photon 4G] 98Slowstang:
Is there a still an issue with with video streaming such as Netflix or hbu to go
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Yes, all hardware issues, with no support.

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Google now update, look for Google search. Uninstall updates
[Motorola Photon 4G] frogman74:
It crashes on my Phone also.

Do anything in Google now after the update and it'll crash.

Even just going into the settings.