yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Demonlinx:
would anyone mind posting a stock rom? And I saw that someone said to flash Jokers CM9 to update prl. Is this possible? I thought you needed GB rom.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kevets:
You do, but you can grab one of the 2.3.x ROMs here and update.
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Here is my stock Rom that is cleared of data.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_2cRJGHL18NTzhnalEwRVJ4dnM/edit
[Motorola Photon 4G] Tempest_Inc:
Is anyone having the issue where you can't access either the internal storage or SD card? I've had it with the last two releases.
[Motorola Photon 4G] LocoRobo:
Do you mean you can't see any files in the file explorer?

Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G
[Motorola Photon 4G] kashis32:
I flashed liguid 4.1 twice with full wipe both times then I installed gapps for 4.1. Then I rebooted To check I had data then I flashed the LATEST 4.2.1. Then rebooted and waited for 2min then rebooted and had service. Thats what I did the first time as well
[Motorola Photon 4G] Tempest_Inc:
If I use root explorer I can see some folders and files but I can't navigate to my internal SD (storage) or micro SD . So I can't download files, play music stored on the SD card or internal storage, can't mount and access over usbin Android. Its reported as not mounted. I can however mount it in recovery and connection over USB.

Not sure if that is more clear.
[Motorola Photon 4G] LocoRobo:
Okay so have you tried rebooting? If so, then he try reflashing cm10.1(1/13/13) with full wipe [when choosing options, select ext-sdcard as your primary storage] and then flash Gapps. Reboot and then go back to recovery and now flash cm10.1(2/12/13) with just cache and dalvik wipe [make sure you select ext-sdcard as your primary again]. Reboot and see if that works.

Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G
[Motorola Photon 4G] Tempest_Inc:
In case this makes a difference i didn't have access on the last release either but i'll give it a shot and post back here with the results.

thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Demonlinx:
Got the stock rom, flashed it and updated prl then wiped cache and flashed latest version of CM10.1 when i boot up i still dont get service. I use CDMA and am with Sprint.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Tempest_Inc:
OK, Interesting.... Now i cant flash 10.1 (1/13) as when i do it just sits at the CM loading screen indefinitely. tried wipe and reflash 3 times and it fails. I tried not with flashing gapps and not flashing gapps and still no luck.

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same issue as well

2/22- OK I tried again backing up, then restoring a earlier clockwork mod backup from a stock ROM that was just rooted. Once restored o updated PRL and Profile. Once those were done I rebooted the phone and had full 3g access and it quickly connected to the network. So I rebooted into recovery and restored my backup I created in the beginning of this project. Now im back to having 10.1 up and running but still no cell connectivity. Any additional ideas?

Also still unable to access internal storage, so help in that department would be great. For some reason if I try to flash the 1/13 10.1 ROM I get stuck in a boot loop. It worked fine earlier.
[Motorola Photon 4G] edlee:
Let me start by saying thanks, th3bill, you are one of my favorite devs. I only use this phone when I travel internationally on gsm. Its been a while so I upgraded the phone to cm10.1 with aroma full wipe,gsm, tweaked, then gapps, then copied libmoto_ril.so to system/lib folder and set correct permission. I believe gsm is working .

What is the tweaked option do?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Needs some more fix to cm 10.1

Camera preview is still buggy... horizontal view is not clear and while moving the camera also view buggy...

Bluetooth need to be fixed

Wi-Fi hotspot is also not working:(

Bill..... thanks for you're hard work in Photon
[Motorola Photon 4G] niphoet:
Let the blasting begin. Sounds pretty demanding, dude.
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Bluetooth is known problem. Camera is driver. No drivers. This is known through photon history since cm9.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Camera preview is working fine with 4.1.2....

But in4.2.1is laggy....

And hotspot problems..
[Motorola Photon 4G] edlee:
Is touch sensitivity issues on browser and chrome being looked at? Or is there any way to adjust the sensitivity manually?
[Motorola Photon 4G] westcal98:
Google Now unable to update

Th3Bill - Great work! I love AOKP and wanted to try this rom. It's been great.

I've only noticed a couple things that may make me go back to AOKP.

1. the browser/chrome zoom issue. I know it's still to be fixed.

2. google now from the gapps file will not update. when i update by manually downloading and installing the latest apk it just crashed on launch.

When updating from play store it gives a "package file was not signed correctly" error and says to uninstall current version then install new one. When doing that, I get the error "you cannot install this app because another user already installed this app..."

Any suggestions?

I did a full wipe/factory reset coming from AOKP, and restored from Titanium BU. Thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Kevets:
For Now, turn off the hot word detection to stop the crashing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] westcal98:
Unfortunatly Google Now crashes while loading so I don't get the option to turn off the hot word detection.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rhys'Droid:
Uninstall the update, disable hot word detection, reinstall the update. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
You can also get to that option by going to settings in voice search.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hoslayer13:
Or as soon as you open it, try to access the settings. If you're quick enough, you'll be able to toggle it off before it crashes.
[Motorola Photon 4G] rituel:
so we're not getting the drivers required for running the graphics?? I thought we were supposed to get them in Q4 2012
[Motorola Photon 4G] edlee:
Not for the photon, what is soo crazy is that Google is one of the biggest advocates of open source, and they bought Motorola being one of the most closed source companies after apple. But the change in ownership still has not changed that dynamic. As much as I liked the photon and the devs, I will never buy another Motorola again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
There is word that the original company that made the drivers for the photon got purchased by Apple. So, they can't release due to the patents and such. It's a win lose situation. Though Google, with Motorola is planning on releasing the Motorola X, with unlocked boot loader from the play store for all carriers.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weapon X 20:
I was trying to find a complete guide to unlocking the bootloader, rooting the phone, putting JB on it and all. I found some videos but don't want to go through the steps and mess anything up and my phone be bricked. I did the backup with System Recovery and Titanium Backup. Will I be able to restore my apps, app data and data after I put the JB on my Photon?
[Motorola Photon 4G] MarcquisDale:
you should be able to
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weapon X 20:
Just so I understand, are these all of the steps:

1. Backup data and apps using System Recovery or Titanium Backup

2. Put the Rom on your sd-card

3. Reboot into Recovery

3. Wipe all of the data on the phone

4. Install the Rom from the sd-card

5. Install the gapps as well.

Am I missing any steps?

Thanks for all of your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Step 3, if the ROM is Th3Bill's then do not wipe. It is built in aroma which has the option to wipe in the ROM. Anything else wipe in recovery.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weapon X 20:
Thank you for the info. Greatly appreciate it. Has the data recovery been tested by anyone yet? I just want to know what I am going to have to do after I go through with putting JB on my Photon. I would like to keep my game/app data if possible or would I have no way of recovering that? I know I can backup my contacts and apps but not 100% sure about the data. Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Apps and games are best backed up by titanium backup. If anything recover apps and games without data. Then reboot and backup system in recovery. Restore data through titanium and reboot and see if it all works. If not, you can try recovering parts and work it until it breaks and know which one is breaking.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weapon X 20:
So there are some apps that could break the recovery? Thank you very much!!!!! I want to get at least ICS on my Photon because I'm just over the GB. I just want to make sure that I am covering all of the basis. I have never put another ROM on my Photon or unlocked the bootloader. I already did the backups just in case something does go wrong. I want to try this weekend.

Just want to be sure. 1 more time. After I unlock the bootloader, go through the process of wiping the data, with the ROM or on the phone itself, put the ROM on the phone and the gapps, I would just use Titanium Backup to restore apps and data on to the phone? So all my apps and data that I have now would be on the JB? If none of the apps break the recovery correct?

Thanks again for all of your help guys. I'm a noob just trying to make sure I don't completely screw up my Photon. You guys sure handle your business!!!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Unlocking the boot loader is the biggest possible break. If anything use Th3Bills recovery. Backup everything. Titanium backup.

Install ROM you want. I can tell you Th3bill aokp ROM works real good. I believe it is 10.1.

After setup, before doing anything else. Check the market. Sometimes it will start downloading the apps you had installed before.

Sometimes I let that happen instead of recovering. This way I know there is no problem.

Then recover data of the apps from titanium.

Anything other then gingerbread will have no graphic drivers. Video camera is junk. Use VideoCamIllusion, from the market. Camera works, but be aware there could be some lag.

Some games may or may not work.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weapon X 20:
Thank you very much for this information. I really appreciate it! I think I have it down now. I will try these weekend and let you guys know how it goes. Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Bill

Any positive updates...?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
After updating google now to Google now 2.3.11.575405 version.. it's force closing while loading....

I have tried installing by disabling hot word detection... also but no use of it

Currently th3bill's google now alone working in cm10 .1...so other than that we can't able to update to new version...

Please anybody know how to update google now please share the details,.

Thanks in advance...
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
I know the feeling, it took me quite a while to get into settings to disable hot word detection after the update.
[Motorola Photon 4G] knG333:
Go into voice search and hit settings. Turn off hot word detection. If this doesn't make Google Now work you may have a bad install or something.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Thanks

Thanks Guys ... Now the Latest Version is Working Fine in our ROM..... :) :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weapon X 20:
Went through all the steps over the weekend and was able to successfully install JB.

Looks great and is very smooth! So much better than the Gingerbread that I was on before.

Only thing that I cannot figure out is if you can put a custom font where the network usually goes, top left corner?

How to customize the lock screen?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Bill

this is awesome ROM I've ever used in Photon....

Please fix Wi-Fi hotspot or Bluetooth.....

Really expecting more for this rom.....
[Motorola Photon 4G] niphoet:
Wow, what a way to show thanks.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mk3:
I can go for a placebo ROM. Just to give me something new to flash.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Bill,

Still many are waiting for your reply in this thread...

Thanks again.....
[Motorola Photon 4G] LocoRobo:
+1 that!

Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G
[Motorola Photon 4G] CaliMark1:
HDMI Mirroring

Hey! Bill (hope all is well?)

Quick question about HDMI Mirroring I went to check on this build if it was indeed working (past builds would crash when the phone rotated)

To my surprise it was working pretty good (even tried sending audio over HDMI and that worked too) the issue I am having is that now it rotates on the phone but it doesn't on my LCD monitor, in older builds maybe back to CM9 and stock this would indeed work and I would have a very nice fit for the video to my monitor. Do you or any others have any input or experience with using the HDMI mirroring?

Other issue I am having is that it loses connection every once and awhile, but this could be my cable / monitor connection unless others have feedback if this is happening to them?

Also, i noticed that your website has been down?

Hope all is well...

CaliMark
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Is Bill also left our Photon like the Motorola?....

:'(:(
[Motorola Photon 4G] Weapon X 20:
I am having issues with the battery life and the browser closing on different websites and never coming up at all. I also have a issues with the network connection at times. I cannot connect to some different apps even though I have full service. Should I redo the whole flashing and unlocking the bootloader or is that just pointless because the ROM is going to have some things broken?
[Motorola Photon 4G] niphoet:
Please don't post the same thing in multiple forums.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mk3:
That defeats the purpose of having such a fractured and diverse forum community. How can he expect to get the answer if he narrows his question to one small group of readers?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Bully4x4:
Use Firefox I haven't really had any issues, as for battery life turn off auto sync and turn on auto brightness. Wiping the cache every once in awhile helps me when network issues pop up, some apps just don't work right with this Rom because of driver issues but that it's because of Motorola not th3bill.
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Hey everyone, Th3Bill is still around. He has been very busy as of late. He has some other projects he is working on for the photon and will get those out to us as soon as they are ready. Just keep being patient and holding on.

His site was down to changing some stuff up. I tried recently and it was back up.
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
Havnt spent much time round these parts lately, But anywhom. all you have to do it long press the search key(far right if you didnt know), and while it listens for a command, simply press the menu (far left) and from there you should be able to get into settings and disable it without it crashing on ya. Voila!

*cheers*
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Thank you so much for you're information... we will wait for the th3Bill.....
[Motorola Photon 4G] danko843:
This will give us something https://android.googlesource.com/ke...al/android-3.8/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/host1x.c ?:o
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
Is this for the Tegra 2 chip? I doubt it...therefore this will be useless to Bill.
[Motorola Photon 4G] edlee:
I don't think any other tegra 2 device soc was similar enough to the photons implementation, driver must come from moto.
[Motorola Photon 4G] danko843:
Is there cyanogenmod on which you can switch between cdma and gsm as at the drain?Thank you.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MarcquisDale:
I think there was an option when you installed it, it gives you a choice of whether you want it gsm and/or cdma

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Can someone inbox me a decompiled systemui.apk for some reason i can't decompile
[Motorola Photon 4G] protozeloz:
Is this project dead? There has been no more news lately :( he must be really busy
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
Yes we too in same situation.. we all waiting for two months.....

Bill is very busy... don't know when we get update from him? ??????????????????????????
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Finally fixed reboot issue. I have a couple things I plan to upload soon
[Motorola Photon 4G] LocoRobo:
Hey! Haven't heard from you in a while! Glad your back.

Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G
[Motorola Photon 4G] edlee:
My photon is drooling right now
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
Wat is the reboot issue?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Reason I haven't uploaded anything. Once 4.2.2 came along, rebooting didn't work. Would hang at the Moto screen. Only wiping all data partition would actually get it to boot.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
New ROM is UP. BeanStalk. If you like AOKP, CNA, and CM, it's much like a combo of the best of the 3 plus some. At first glance, it looks like stock CM, but check out the menus...rather than put stuff in separate apps/menus, my buddy Scott who made it integrated all the settings and menus into the existing CM menus :D

This will be updated tomorrow sometime. Have to test a few things
[Motorola Photon 4G] killersiafu:
Nice! Glad to see you're back, Th3Bill!

That BeanStalk looks pretty interesting... I'll have to check that out. Though, it looks like we're still having BT issues so I may wait for that to get fleshed out as I use my BT all the time. Still good stuff! :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
I'm in the process of trying to update our kernel to a newer version so that I can use a patch I found for tegra 2 and the 4329 module we have. Since its the first kernel mod ill have ever attempted, it may take a while. LoL

I'll be releasing cm10.1 and Baked bean tonight for Photon, then ill probably be quiet for a lil while as I work on the kernel.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
Can't wait for baked bean! Using it on my n7 and it's sweet

sent from my Codenamed Jellybean MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] protozeloz:
Yes!!!!!! I thanks a lot for your efforts
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
If anyone has issues on this ROM with mms messages. I found this in a forum that worked perfect.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2015679

Thanks to a baffles for his post. Worked great for me.
[Motorola Photon 4G] edlee:
Thank you th3bill for all your amazing work, any chance there is fix for scroll-zooming on chrome?

Is there a link for the new build that th3bill said he was posting?
[Motorola Photon 4G] edlee:
Does Anyone else have trouble tethering their mobile data connection on this build?

I was abroad and i couldn't get it to start
[Motorola Photon 4G] Th3Bill:
Chrome browser issues are driver related. Unfortunately not likely that we will have a fix anytime soon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ZeroManArmy:
Curios as to what has been going here. My girls phone has been spazzing out and we are getting a new phone now. I assume it's coming with 2.3.5 locked. Has there been any progress on unlocking it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] T3HG00GLEG33K:
there is a team of people i think still trying to work on that, but i havnt heard of any progress, and with such i assume there is none.

Best bet if you are locked in 2.3.5 is flash the hybrid rom. Less buggy and runs better then stock. And it gives ya a few small but cool features.
[Motorola Photon 4G] protozeloz:
Oh dammit :( either way, wonder if will see a new build soon enough O:)
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
Last I heard is that Bill is working on making an kernel update change to try to fix BT. The thing is this is the first time that Bill will be making an kernel update change so it may take awhile. There is no hard deadline so all we can do is wait. For the most part everything else works to an extent on this ROM.

If you need BT..I would suggest CM 10 for the latest ROM.
[Motorola Photon 4G] protozeloz:
Actually.. I don't think I care about BT, I mostly care about camera and performance over everything else
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Find us some drivers for the photon on these ROMS, instead of the gingerbread. As this will always be a problem. Get over it. :P
[Motorola Photon 4G] MarcquisDale:
You animal you haha
[Motorola Photon 4G] protozeloz:
don't get me wrong, I'm on CM10 and woks nice for me on those aspects, I'm just waiting for CM10.1 to be like that and I'm sold
[Motorola Photon 4G] tuxytuxy:
Does google now and google cards work on this rom?
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Yes they do, though if you update you will have to turn off hot word detection or it will crash.
[Motorola Photon 4G] protozeloz:
Where do we turn that of?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
In the google now settings. It should be a checkbox.
[Motorola Photon 4G] tuxytuxy:
How do you update Google Now? Everytime I do the update from Play Store, it says, "File not signed properly"
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Yeah, I had to uninstall through titanium and then reinstall to get around it. The one gapps has a invalid signed Google search.
[Motorola Photon 4G] tuxytuxy:
Hmm, so I did that too, but the newer google search will crash on start for me. How did you get it working?
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
You have to go to settings. Best way click voice search for it, quickly get into settings. Shut off hot word detection.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dwegiel:
Any fixes for bluetooth yet?
[Motorola Photon 4G] playingwithfire:
Alright, I've tried searching through this thread for the difference between tweaked and untweaked, anybody knows the difference?
[Motorola Photon 4G] MarcquisDale:
Tweaked has a few mods i think and untweaked doesnt
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Tweaked is to help with 3g speeds.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MarcquisDale:
Thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] playingwithfire:
Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] tuxytuxy:
Does your guys' phones with CM 10.1 heat up really quickly when Navigation w/ GPS or YouTube is on for 15-20 minutes?
[Motorola Photon 4G] secret.animal:
Have you lowered your processor speed? That will help with the heat
[Motorola Photon 4G] iStayHigh:
Wow I see th3bill is trying his best to keep this phone alive,only Dev pushing out ROMs for this device. It was a good phone but Motorola *****ed out on doing updates for it got scared and ****....lmao ??????
[Motorola Photon 4G] CaliMark1:
Has anyone had any success getting Vine to work on this ROM? I also had a no go with Cinemagram....(at least it loaded!)

Thanks,

CaliMark
[Motorola Photon 4G] antipasto:
When I look at log cat it has issues with a libencoding.so binary that comes with it. This could be that this library was compiled such as to expect system libraries that don't exist, or to be able to make direct calls to hardware using functions that our drivers do not implement or implement in a way it doesn't expect. This could be related to our ongoing driver woes, although it could be something silly and easy to fix I don't know how or where to begin debugging.
[Motorola Photon 4G] antipasto:
New version sort of works except for the camera fragment, which seems to engage the camera and then stops. It also cannot seem to play videos. Some dialogs are messed up, and the sign in from Twitter doesn't seem to work. But I could create an account.
[Motorola Photon 4G] protozeloz:
I wonder if with the CM updates coming to a build close to final we will see some updates soon
[Motorola Photon 4G] CaliMark1:
Thanks, I noticed the same "issues" with the new version of VINE....My guess is next version maybe videos play, I doubt the camera will work with our driver problems...

CaliMark
[Motorola Photon 4G] CaliMark1:
Has anyone had success in getting Netflix to run on this ROM? The app seems to work fine until you ask it to play video! Then it just has a spinning status wheel. Any workarounds? Or is it just me?

Thanks.

CaliMark
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
Umm, the issues with Netflix is driver related. It will NEVER work on our phones until moto gives us the programming

Sent from my CodeNamed Jellybean MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] thither:
Is anyone else having reception issues with the latest build? The 12/27/2012 build was working fine for me, but with the latest 10.1 I can barely ever get reception in NYC (I've tried both tweaked and non-tweaked versions). Like, I don't get regular cell service, let alone 3g.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericdabbs:
Is this CM 10.1 ROM Android 4.2.1 or 4.2.2?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ganeshshas:
4.2.1