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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] niko626:
1.) Only you can tell what's the best ROM for your phone. But for my Xperia P, I use BrainsROM. It has all the features I need for my smartphone. Battery does not drain that fast and overall performance is good. :laugh:

2.) Hmmm. I am not that pro yet when it comes to kernels, but as I can see, there is a big difference using kernels from Sliding and Thjap from stock. You can see big improvements when it comes to overall performance. Most people use Stock ROM's combined with Modded Kernels.

Sorry for my bad english, english isn't my first language. :good: Hit the thanks button if my post helped you.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
Your question regarding kernel

The kernels provided by thjap and deepunknown are more than just another stock kernel

pre rooted

Cwm integrated

Init.d support

Ooverclocked ( removed from deepunknown's kernel)

Some performance n battery tweaks

And a hell lot of new things
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ilgreco112:
So Are there any cons over custom roms and kernels, like freeezes or reboots or phones stuck? Did you ever experience that ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
I have never experienced any reboots or freeZes on all custom roms that I have tried ( talking about those for unlocked bootloaders)

Most of the roms dun have any lag like our beloved stock rom

Regarding kernels - if its a test release... U cannot expect it to b highly stable...

Bt final releases are stable ( coz they r thoroughly tested by some testers including me

all credits to developers

Some have made it to 6 stable releases in xperia p section ;) )
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ilgreco112:
And you tell me that custom stable kernel is smoother and has better battery life than stock ? How come Sony engineers didn't make it better so ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doctor_droid:
Yes it is :) bt I didnt said anything about battery yet

When I used miui it was superb

Bt battery life was not as much as I expected ( less than stock rom)

Sony engineers - no words for them

Coz they can port jb to xj bt not to xu and xsola... Thats pathetic engineering
[LG Optimus Black] medothe1:
I downloaded a V20S version and it's working fine but there's only 1 problem . the Arabic language is not installed .. Is there a way I can download the language pack ? thanks :)
[LG Optimus Black] SaschaKH:
Maybe try an app like 'MoreLocale 2' but you might need root rights for it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DVJr84:
Yeah that's right turn it off! Seems they just added a tower in my area but I get crappy signal in my house and on HSDPA+ I get full bars. I thought this phone automatically connects to the "preferred network" but LTE in my house sucks and it keeps connecting to it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
cant remember if it works on every radio

goto >system/more/mobile networks/networkmode

pick gsm.wcdma preferred
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DVJr84:
I tried that on multiple radios and can't get it to stick. I also tried disabling it with the optional LTE toggle but even with it off the damn phone keeps connecting to LTE, gives me 1 bar and about a half meg down. I get full bars and almost 10 meg down with H+. Its not just the cm10 ROM because I went completely stock with your very helpful stickies and it does the exact same thing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hotbyz168:
Setting, wireless networks, more, and scan network manually. Set AT&T and than you can change network modes. Rogers or bell radios only. I prefer bell 757 radio. My phone is not unlocked and I'm on aokp.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DVJr84:
That worked for me great. I followed your directions even used the i757 modem and it worked like a charm.

Edit: This also works on att uclf6 and ucli3 radios.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottBroker:
I did a restore and now it just hangs at ASUS. On my SG3 I can hold a few buttons to force it back into TWRP. How do I do this on the TF300T?????
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LittleJoe919:
Hold the power button and down volume while re booting. You should get a screen with 4 options. RCK should be highlighted Give it 5 seconds and hit the up volume button. If you have TWRP on your tablet. it should load.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottBroker:
Thanks
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Hey yall. I had the phone for 6 days before I bricked it. I am wondering if there is any stock recovery mode or anything or what I shsould do? I think something went wrong due to using the root toolbox pro app. I have done some backups within the ap as well as Titanium Backup but now the phone will not boot up and I dont know if/how to put it in factory recovery mode. Soft reset does nothing. The Motorola logo will show on startup but then the screen just blacks out forever, not off, just colored black.

A few details, the phone was rooted with Motofail2go, with no recovery and bootloader still locked as far as I know.

Should I take it to Sprint for a factory reset? Is this even an option? What are my other options?

Next time I will probably use the Moto unlock key so I can open the bootloader all legit like and have a recovery mode...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] UnicronAlpha99:
Try holding power button and the down volume key to power off. Once you power off press and hold them again. This should boot you into fastboot, Motorola's adb shell basically. This can take a couple tries, make sure the phone is powered down completely before hitting volume down and power button to get into fastboot. If you can boot into fastboot you can unlock using this guide: http://www.droid-life.com/2012/08/20/how-to-unlock-the-motorola-photon-q-bootloader/

Once unlocked flash the custom recovery of your choice (I like twrp). You can boot into custom recovery by holding volume up and the power button from a powered down state. Here is the link for instructions on how to flash twrp:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1887070

Then you can download one of the stock backups for the Q posted in the development section and restore them using the custom recovery. Most of the ones I have seen have been compatible with twrp.

The only way to download the stock rom backups is to remove the sd card from your phone, plug your sd card into a PC or other device with a card reader, download the stock backups, and place the stock backup rom files on your sd card. Finally place the sd card with the stock backup downloads into your phone.

These backups and information on how to go through this process can be found in this thread on page 2: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2001226

The key is to make a backup of your existing rom with twrp and then move the stock backups from your sd card to the twrp/backups/yourdeiceserial/ directory. That creates a backup directory which twrp knows to look for backups in.

Don't feel bad, I've been in that state several times since getting the Q, live and learn.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Brandon918:
If that does not work you could drop it in water or something. You have not officially unlocked boot loader so you still have warranty. Or you could just tell sprint it quit working and act completely clueless. At least its bricked with warranty still intact.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] dwaynet89:
Both of the methods above are very effective. When I had the first photon I bricked it and just dropped it in water and did a claim. Depending on the insurance you have that way may cost you $100. The other method should work. When I first got this phone I did the exact same thing and to go back and unlock then flash twrp and in stall a stock backup someone had posted.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Thanks for the response. Is there anything extra extra special about getting into factory fastboot mode? I can't seem to get it done. Is there an official set of instructions anywhere? Does the phone need to be plugged into the PC? It was always my understanding (for the last week) that Power and Vol Down was the soft reset mode which reboots the phone. Therefore it always tries to reboot in normal mode. This is what keeps happening. It never powers completely down using this method.

Anyhow, once I follow your instructions, the Moto logo appears, no Sprint logo appears, the phone "powers on" but the screen is blacked out (not off). After waiting for a while at the blank/black screen, or holding down several buttons like vol or camera I get the first attachment: "Process system is not responding. Would you like to close it?" When I wait nothing happens. When I push OK nothing happens. By chance, I held down power during the notification and the power menu came up behind the ANR notice (second/third attachments). So obviously there are some things working but the main system isn't booting up. And either factory fastboot is nuked or I can't figure it out. When I power down from this accessible power menu and try to do the fastboot (Power / Vol Down) I still havent gotten it to work.

Any other ideas before I take drastic measures?

Since I bought it from Amazon would that be my best route for return or should I go thru a Sprint store?

Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Hi again yall. You know once I got to thinking about it, I decided to check out the return policy on Amazon Wireless. They will accept any device under warranty for the first 30 days and it is up to Moto for the next 11 months of warranty coverage. They email me a packing label and it ships out 1 day and they ship out the new phone 1 day shipping. Hard to beat, just takes 2 days of shipping and some more fun times with my Epic, 10.1CM style, in the meantime.

Who's to say it wasnt some sort of hardware or software glitch that bricked the phone rather than my screwing around? Nobody knows and it isn't up to the consumer to prove his innocence. I bought everything legally, all the apps at the app store, and only ran the motofail2go root method. Wasn't running any custom Roms, Mods, or anything. I don't feel bad after they got me for another 2 grand for 24 months, and since I have been with Sprint for 10 years;l I have spent well over 10k or 15k with them lifetime.

If any other method pops up between now and when I ship it out I may give it a shot but if not, ah well, capitalism.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Brandon918:
Try using adb. If your computer has drivers on it for phone you might able to get into fast boot. If that does not work I would try Sprint store first. Have locked my phone up several times while hacking wife off in progress and have used adb every time. Only time i have been truely scared is when i soft bricked my nexus 7. had to stay at work for two hours after i got off to get it to recover because i was scared of her lol.

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If you get adb to recognize device you could take chance and officially unlock boot loader. Then flash twrp. There is a thread in general section about having trouble getting official update. It has a stock recovery in it. Trick would be moving files to recovery section of twrp
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] UnicronAlpha99:
I have gotten the phone to soft power down and get into fast boot and custom recovery. It's a bit tricky with timing, I usually wait for the screen to go black after soft reset, let go, and immediately hold power and volume down. If you can not boot into fastboot I honestly don't know what you can do either than return the phone.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Thanks for the help Unicron. I think Brandons method might be my only alternative... but you know what? I already have the box packed up to ship back to Amazon! I am still a noob; I dunno if I could go the distance on this one. I have been updating my Android SDK files since I got the phone but I never got it to recognize boot up thru ADB fastboot. disclaimer* I havent tried it in a couple days since all teh SDK updates completed.

I dunno though I am a big time DIYer when possible. If it werent for the massive amount of tape I put on the box and packing label I would already be trying this method. I can't convince myself just yet. Amazon makes it too easy. I could have the *new* phone by Friday. Then I wouldn't be wasting my remaining work week trying to hack into my personal Christmas present in order to make it function...........................................

Edit - Yes I'm impatient. My job is too demanding and I am trying to set a good precedent for 2013. Wasting the first 3 work days on a phone is not how I intend to start off the year. There is probably a valuable lesson to be learned from this as far as hacking experience and to be honest with the responses here I think I could get it to boot up from PC in SDK/ADB mode and go from there. I just didnt know if that was possible until after I made the claim with Amazon. I still have an entire day today and tomorrow if I want to indulge myself. It doesnt matter if I mail the package today or Wednesday, I can still get it by Friday. I believe this thread is still valuable because we have patterns of repeating past failures and I may find use of it when I recieve my new phone and, darn it, it mysteriously bricks as well. in the same fashion.... the only thing I was really trying to do was get all my apps on my SD card... sad huh?

Edit 2 - Opened up the box, tried fastboot and adb, nothing. Off she goes.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] UnicronAlpha99:
I don't blame you, it sounds easier to exchange in your case any way. The main suggestion I have is if you are getting into any type of build.prop or operating system tweaks that have potential to lead to boot loops or cause the phone not to boot, then unlock the bootloader and install custom recovery.

The Moto-fail method seems limited to only be able to run apps that require root. For me this has no use as I want to be able to have complete control over all aspects of the Android OS. There is not a huge mod community for the Q as yet but I believe Cyanogen will be a reality as Interloper continues working on it. I came from an Epic with Cyanogen and soft-bricked it a minimum of 50 times. CWM was very forgiving on that phone, the Q is a lot more finicky and frustrating.

If you have insurance through the carrier then you are going to pay $150 for a refurb if something goes wrong and you hard brick the phone. If you unlock bootloader and install custom recovery then you have a fail-safe in the form of nandroid backups and restores. Then you can mod away with little fear.

Good luck on the new phone and I hope you don't give up after six days of modding with the Q!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] befrosty8612:
FWIW, pressing vol down + power til it resets then pressing the camera button + power once the screen is black gets you to the Boot Mode Selection Menu, where you can start recovery, fastboot, BP tools (still not sure what that is entirely) and some others. Seems to be a fairly reliable/easy method for getting to both recovery and fastboot from any point.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Sure wish I would have known that ahead of time. Does this work without any recovery mode and with the bootloader still locked?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] befrosty8612:
It does work without any recovery mode and I believe it still works without the bootloader being unlocked, I didn't know about this myself until after I had already unlocked it. Sorry I couldn't help out sooner.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Awesome, I am wanting to do the backdoor root method again but, of course, may brick it. I dont think Amazon will keep sending me new ones.... but maybe!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
For anyone concerned, I knew it would only be a matter of time until bricking my new device. This damn Root Toolbox Pro did it to me again, and on a simple, menial task. I am going to be working thru the motions on getting this to work.

Using the instructions quoted I did get stock recovery to work or at least flash on the screen for a split second. Seems like there is a timer on the recovery screen. I am having trouble with the fastboot prompt though on the PC. Do I do it in the "platform-tools" folder which contains fastboot or in the "tools" folder of the main SDK directory? I am really a noob, can you give me the cliff notes of how to get into ADB, fastboot, etc on the Photon Q in order to do a factory reset? I already have Android SDK installed and completely up to date so that is done. And Fastboot is installed. I'm just having trouble crossing the finish line here... I can get the fastboot page opened in the stock recovery but from there I'm lost. I dont know what to type into the command prompt, in what directory, or what.... Also when I open the command prompt in the SDK folder on the PC with fastboot in the directory and type "adb reboot bootloader" it says "device not found". Maybe (surely) that is the wrong prompt?

FWIW my phone is showing the dead android guy. I didnt do anything besides try and clear up my Play Store download list which required a reboot. The phone never started back up. I dont know how much damage was done or info was lost or whatever, but seeing as how I was rooted but still locked, I had no custom recovery. So no back ups. Is there anything to restore or am I looking at a full wipe and restore?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] befrosty8612:
As abnormal as it seems, your situation seems pretty normal... at least from my shoes. I went through the same scenario... I didn't know what adb was, or fastboot, etc. So, here's what I know

the fastboot commands work even if adb doesnt see it in the list of devices attached. Somehow it just works (as long as the phone is in fastboot mode).

If you're able to get to the fastboot mode, things should be okay. Just open a windows explorer window to the Platform-Tools, hold the shift key and right click on a blank space within the window, then click open command window here.

you should be able to pass any adb (if the phone is on and recognized) or fastboot (if phone is in fastboot mode) commands from that command prompt.

Also, if you have a stock recovery, CMW, or TWRP image, this is the folder to copy those .img files to. Once you get your phone into fastboot mode and its plugged into the computer, just type into the command prompt:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

If you're just looking to reboot the phone into recovery

If you have a CWM or TWRP recovery just replace the recovery.img with whatever the .img file that you have. Also, as a tip instead of writing the entire file name, just press the first couple letters then press the tab key within the command prompt, it should fill in the rest. keep pressing tab until you get to the .img file name you want.

To avoid doing this again, maybe I can help... what were you trying to do to begin with? From the sound of it, you were trying to root the phone with the Root Toolbox Pro but it bricked, and then you tried to reboot into recovery and then got the red android... ?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Thanks for the response. So, all I have to do is: go to fastboot and flash a stock recovery image file and it will automatically wipe the phone, cache, everything, and restore the operating system? Sounds awfully easy! I found some stock files in this post : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2001226&page=2 Are these the ones you used before?

Last question: I can flash CWM or TWRP but wont be able to access them if my bootloader is locked, correct? So flashing a stock recovery will allow me to have my stock phone back again, locked and un-rooted? I guess if I cant get it to work with the stock recovery then I can unlock the bootloader and do a CWM or TWRP recovery and then flash the stock .img files?

Thanks again for your help. I already had root with the motofail2go method which I like using but seems like when I try and use some generic root feature from apps from the app store that it will crash/brick the phone cuz obviously those apps are generalized and likely to brick certain percentage of devices....
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Ok what does this mean? Something with the bootlaoder obviously. Does it need to be unlocked?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot flash recover
y qrecovery1.img
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target reported max download size of 31457280 bytes
sending 'recovery' (5962 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.479s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.755s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

And on the phone screen it says "invalid image size for partition recovery" twice for both times I tried this method.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] befrosty8612:
You will need to flash the system image as well if you want those, as the recovery image will only flash the recovery. The files in that link are for twrp only... so you'll have to be able to get there first.

With the custom recoveries, I'm not 100% sure whether or not you will be able to use them without being unlocked. I would wait to see if anyone else can answer that question for you, but if you did try it without an unlocked bootloader, you at least have the stock recovery to fall back on if needed.

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I'm thinking it could either be that your phone is full and the image you're flashing is too large to fit on the space available...

Or you're trying to flash custom software on a locked phone.

Hopefully someone is able to answer that a little better...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] UnicronAlpha99:
You can't alter the stock recovery (flash a custom recovery like twrp or cwm) in fastboot without having the bootloader unlocked. Your options are to unlock your bootloader, flash custom recovery, create a backup of your current setup, download one of the stock working backups, place it in the backups folder for twrp on your external sd card, and restore one of the known working backups in the development section (befrosty linked to one). Or you could use RSD lite to return to stock using a stock factory firmware flash. That involves connecting your phone to your PC and flashing the phone back to factory stock. Information on RSD Lite and links to the FXZ's can be found here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2095536
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Sorry for being such a noob yall.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] UnicronAlpha99:
I bricked a phone by user error involving the asa10 update and returned it to BestBuy. So live and learn man, this phone has a high learning curve and I have soft bricked it 20 times or so. I almost had to return another one until I realized my external sd card was damaged and replaced it. I got lucky in that process as well, twrp restored mangled parts of a backup from a failing sd card.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] whymista:
The method they showed going and reflashing via this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2095536 works.

I used the RSD but you do have to delete the either two or three lines that say getvar and then let rsd do its work. Hopefully you were backed up before.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
I was not backed up, had no recovery. I have been using my Epic with CM10.1 for several weeks now. Waiting for CM 10 or 10.1 on the Q I guess. We have wimax in my area and the Epic works fine. LTE is still a ways out so I'm not hurting. Only suffering from bad CPU performance on the Epic at some times. My Photon Q is stuck at the fastboot menu every time it powers on so I dont know how to get it back to stock recovery screen and then take it in to the Sprint store for repair.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
so I dove headfirst into this today after my Epic broke and when I try to unlock the bootloader it says

"(bootloader) Password Incorrect!

(bootloader) OEM Unlock Failure!

(FAILED) Remote Failure"

Anyone had this happen? Looks like I am going to have to do the RSD lite method. cuz I can't get the bootloader unlocked.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Just wanted to say it was SUPER, SUPER easy to unbrick with RSD lite!!!