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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
Hey arrrghhh, I was checking out the camera as this was my first time flashing and I noticed that the camera is terribly grainy compared to ASA14. Flipping to the front-facing camera the image quality actually looked better. I didn't try JB from the soak or official update so I don't know if the camera is like that in the JB update or not. It seems like it might be a problem with the automatic settings as I was eventually able to get shots to look okay making some manual adjustments. I take around 150 - 200 pictures a week so I may end up having to go back to stock within the next few days...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
If you got the settings working, go with it.

I was able to take some decent pictures by clicking on the screen and having it focus. Dunno, I'm no professional either.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
my wifi is back up on the latest build

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is there any news on the overall camera/video progress?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Camera works. Video doesn't. Will probably need a new kernel - as in we're on 3.0.x, and we need to be on 3.4 most likely for video recording to work...

Unfortunately this is a very large undertaking. The process is underway. SolitaryWarrior1 is refining his CM10 build, video cam works fine there.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sk8rguy05:
supersu issues

I don't know if anyone else is having this issue with supersu. But every time I install van app I get a message saying supersu has stopped working. Does the same thing when clicking on it in the app drawer.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] UnicronAlpha99:
I am running the initial release of Twisted Asanti with Arggghhh's Kernel v0.10 and have twrp 2.5 installed. I keep getting status 7 errors when attempting to flash the CM 10.1 5-03 release through twrp. I have redownloaded the file multiple times, tried flashing from internal and external storage with the same results. The gapps for 4.2.2 flash fine, I keep getting the status 7 error with the cm10.1 zip no matter what I do. Has anyone else run into this?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Did you dirty flash...?

No issues here with SU, but I am also using the built-in CM SU, I'm not using a third party app for SU.

Never heard of this before, others have flashed from that version...

I would say the update binary is outdated, but I flash with TWRP 2.5 as well and it works fine haha.

Can you get me the recovery.log? In TWRP, the recovery.log is in /tmp/.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Well first reboot. Still borked, I guess pull logs and revert to a backup... Try to reflash if you have the time, not sure why those core things would be crashing at all for you...

Did you install any apps at all, or is this right after booting into it?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sk8rguy05:
This is after installing apps. It doesn't do it every time just sometimes when I first install an app. But from what I can tell supersu works
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Well, without being able to recreate it myself or seeing any logs, my wild guess of the day is: some app you've installed is not behaving properly... Not that it's your fault, I just can't recreate your issue :cyclops:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] dpwhitty11:
Has he tried going into recovery and fixing permissions?

Also, arrrghhh, have you looked at my latest logcat I sent you?

By the way, I forgot to mention this before. It's just a teeny tiny little bug. The notification light on stock roms pulses on and off, but on CM, it just goes straight to on/off without the pulse.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
These statements contradict each other don't they? The built-in CM root manager is not supersu, so if you do have supersu make sure to uninstall it because I'm sure there's going to be at least some degree of conflict there. If you really do not have supersu it might be a good idea to post a screenshot of the error message or directly quote the error message.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Sorry, been meaning to get back to you... Been working on Carbon :p.

At any rate, I did look at your logs... and I see nothing on the CM10.1 log that even indicates you are plugging in a headset. You should see something like this in the logcat:

05-07 23:51:12.380 V/WiredAccessoryManager( 1640): notifyWiredAccessoryChanged:
when=873122312000 bits=SW_HEADPHONE_INSERT mask=4
05-07 23:51:12.380 V/WiredAccessoryManager( 1640): newName=h2w newState=2 headse
tState=2 prev headsetState=0
05-07 23:51:12.461 V/WiredAccessoryManager( 1640): device h2w connected

Which your stock log has..... Now why this happens, I have no clue. Can you also get me a dmesg? I'm wondering if it's a kernel issue, especially since it is not recognizing the plug at all (it seems). Are you using a special kernel, or the one bundled with the .zip? So strange that you are the only one to report this....
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] dpwhitty11:
I saw the Carbon post, and I did some research into CarbonROM, hadn't ever heard of it before... And damn, that thing looks nice!

How do I get you a dmesg? That's a boot-related log, right?

I'm not using any special kernel, I wasn't even aware we had different ones to choose from for this phone :eek:

I will say however, that my phone has some "issues" with the hardware.... My caps lock LED never lights up unless I pinch the area around it down together, as if it's not making contact with the pcb. Though since the headphone jack works on stock, I doubt it's related, but they're both in the same general physical area of the phone, so who knows. I may finally be taking it into a Sprint store or Best Buy sometime next week to get a replacement.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] topherrjames:
So I've been using the 5-3 build and I've been noticing a couple things. My GPS works, but it has a mind of its own, I always have it off cause I don't use it much, but apps use it whenever they like, because I see the GPS icon pop up every once and a while. Also whenever I get a call the earpiece volume is insanely loud, and refuses to go down with the volume rocker. And there's also a high pitched whine sound.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Same issues here.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Weird...

So of all the issues you have listed, the only one I have even heard of before is the high pitched whine sound - several users have reported this during calls, but I have not been able to reproduce it. Haven't seen any logs, although I'm not really sure what I could do about the high pitched whine since I can't even recreate it...

As for your other issues, let's try to break them down. For the insane volume, do you see the volume meter pop up? Is the slider going up & down, it's just not actually making volume adjustments? Can you try flipping speakerphone on, does it exhibit the same behavior? How about when flipping it back off, still broken?

More generally, does the volume control work? For music, ringtones, etc?

Lastly, your GPS issue - apps can request it at will, and some are worse than others. Most use network location only, but if this bothers you and you can't find the app that is requesting your location, the best thing to do is disable GPS except when you want to utilize it.

The exact same ones? lol. No logs? C'mon guys, I need more than a "+1, me too" to fix things. Especially if I cannot recreate the issues myself :eek:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] matt2k12:
Volume control works but I think its disabled when the phone is in proximity to the face/ear but the display still pops up on the phone. you can adjust the volume but it doesnt do anything for a few seconds, maybe when it is out of proximity to the face/ear.

The high pitched whine has been in all builds.

My GPS is fine.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Thanks for the detail. I can try to test the volume control issue with this information.

As for the high pitched whine... Does it happen on speakerphone as well as the earpiece, or is it only the earpiece? It's only during calls as well, yes?

Either my hearing is just that terrible and I can't hear the whine, or there's still something different between our setups/devices....
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] topherrjames:
The volume rocker does work normally with music and notifications and such. And I just tried your suggestions, the meter does pop up, and moves normally, it just seems like the lowest volume is too high. And I mean by too high as in I have to hold the phone pretty far away from my ear.

As for the GPS what I was trying to say is that is exactly what I normally do, have GPS turned off, unless I need directions or something, which is rare. But the GPS notification pops up like its on whenever apps seem to need it.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] FinntheViking:
I am also unable to recreate any of those issues, except for the GPS thing, but it only flashes up for a brief second, and GPS doesn't actually appear to be utilized in those cases.

Audio is fine, I am able to adjust the volume regardless of proximity, and it does not seem to be too loud.

No high-pitched whining.

To the users experiencing these issues:

Did you dirty flash?

Are you 100% certain you're running the latest build?

Have you tried wiping and reflashing, then trying to recreate these issues before loading any apps?

If you have a stock backup, are you able to recreate the audio issues on stock fw?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] topherrjames:
Definitely running the latest, no dirty flash, I haven't tried wiping and reflashing yet, but if it continues I'll probably end up doing that during the weekend. When I was on stock not too long ago (was trying to get the jelly bean update) GPS and audio worked just fine.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
I have the issue with the high pitched whining and I updated from the stock ASA14 firmware. It is very high pitched so it's possible that it is there and you just aren't able to hear it. People tend to lose high pitched hearing before anything else.

I think all release versions of the hardware are P2B so I don't think there is a way to differentiate there. Looking through the menus I can't even find the hardware version on CM.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I just called myself and did a completely silent call... the only bits I heard in the background were not very high pitched, what I would consider "normal" background noise from compression for cell phones.

I also had someone else listen to my phone, who supposedly has good hearing... I guess I need a small child to listen to it, their ear drums are best suited for high pitch noises :p.

In all seriousness tho, to triage this without being able to recreate it is going to be very difficult. Can you explain exactly the scenario where you can recreate the noise? Is it only inbound calls? Only outbound? Only calls to a certain number? Can you recreate it with speakerphone, or is it only on the earpiece? Do you hear the high pitched noise at any other time, besides during a phone call?

I would say pull logs, which would be nice - at least I can compare them to mine... but I do not know what exactly I could do to resolve it. Pull a radio logcat and a regular logcat if you could...

Radio is logcat -b radio. Do -v time as well if you could... so:

adb logcat -v time -b radio

and

adb logcat -v time

Let me know if you need some more help sorting out how to pull those. PM them to me if you don't want to "cleanse" them - there is personal info contained in logcats, especially phone numbers and such when making calls :).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
With ADB on com.android.phone crashes. For that would you like a regular logcat? Is there a way for this to be written to a text file as it happens? A lot of things go on very quickly so the command prompt reaches it's limit very quickly. I forget which IRC you hang out in and it might be better to communicate there rather than here.

Edit: Actually after I enabled ADB com.android.phone crashes for every call, even after I have disabled ADB...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
There's a few I hang out in, I guess #oudhitsquad is the best haha.

ADB on and com.android.phone crashes? Huh? That's weird... Well you can recreate everything and then take a logcat.

Hop on IRC if you want, I can help you more :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
I've set the logger to be enabled by default in CM10.1 for xt897 for the time being, see https://github.com/razrqcom-dev-team/android_device_motorola_xt897/blob/cm-10.1/device_xt897.mk#L28

So all the logs are continually stored in /data/logger and can be pulled to PC via adb any-time:

adb root
adb pull /data/logger
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
Somebody with the sound problem please put the phone to your ear without actually calling anyone and post whether or not you hear the sound. I was able to hear it regardless of whether or not a call was going on. For me it only happens after a call has been made or received.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Posted an updated build folks. See the changelog... let me know if LTE signal bars are better :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Mordannon:
I noticed the high pitch noise but not all the time. some calls yes, some calls no but never outside of a call.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Mordannon:
Sorry buddy. No dice. Clean flash from stock JB, still only a grey triangle where 4g signal should be. 4g works still just no signal bars. Far from a deal breaker for me though

EDIT: I do notice that when i look closely i can see the little up and down activity arrows working where the signal should show so it is showing activity.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Drat. I'm almost going to need a guinea pig to test out builds, unless I just keep releasing crap that doesn't work until something does!!

Sucks not being able to test it myself :(
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Mordannon:
I can test out builds if you need. I have good 4g coverage at home and at work.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
I'm sure arrrghhh probably hates me by now, but if I select a contact number from the favorite people tab on the phone app (not contacts) I get "Call has ended" immediately. It won't place the call at all and the call timer stays at 00:00. Not really a big bug as I can still enter the numbers in the phone portion of the app and make the call just fine.

I'm a bit curious as to what "Sync from CM source" means in the changelog. My thought would be that it syncs from the official CM source which I would think could be bad since it could change things that have already been optimized for our phones.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I just tried to recreate your call issue, and I cannot... Perhaps I'm doing it wrong? lol.

So I hit the phone app. There's three tabs across the top - I called a contact from 'frequently called', on the far tap on the right (looks like a person, basically the contact list). Now there's a call in the history on the middle tab (looks like a clock). I'm able to hit the phone icon here and it dials out fine. Now lastly in the farthest tab to the left, the 'default' tab which has the dialpad - if I start spelling out this contact with numbers (IE press 2 for 'c') and then select this contact - again it dials out no problem.

Can you explain in detail how you are running into this bug?

Also for the CM sync - that just means I ran repo sync before I did a build. Assuming I have forked everything correctly and setup my local_manifests, all the customization's which have been made for our device will still be preserved - and any new ones will be pulled in :).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
Well with the phone problems I had yesterday I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the only one with it even though I did a clean flash. In this case I have "starred" contacts, so it may not happen going further down into the "frequently called" contacts. After checking under my "starred" contacts it does not show "frequently called" and instead shows all of my contacts. There is nowhere in either the phone app or contacts app that shows a "frequently called" list.

1. Tap people tab

2. Tap picture of contact

3. Tap number of that contact I want to dial

4. Switches to the phone call and shows message stating that the call has ended.

If I tap the little person icon next to the name of the contact it takes me to their contact information with their numbers and those exhibit the same behavior.

I'm running the March 3rd build of CM
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
March 3rd? I think you mean May 3rd... :p

But still, that shouldn't happen. I guess flash to the latest, I just posted an update. I just did that exact scenario you list, and it does not work... while I did not go to that menu via the contact picture before, I just tried... and works fine. Dials out no problemo.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
Haha sorry, as you know I work in Japanese so I don't really use the month's names that often so I guessed XD! Is there a way to flash the newest build without having to reinstall apps and set everything up again? If not I'll just stick to this build for a while unless something breaks beyond usability.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
You can try dirty flashing, but it can cause issues.

Titanium Backup or even Google can backup your apps & data... But of course there's certain things that just can't be backed up.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
Oh well. The 05/03 version will be my daily until I feel like setting up apps and settings again. I'll make sure to help test stuff out when I do, probably a month or so from now.

Thanks for all your work up to this point and I look forward to working with you again in the future arrrghhh (and those who aid in his development)!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] nitemarenet:
Tried with cm-10.1-20130509-UNOFFICIAL-xt897c.zip:

Wiped, installed cm, installed gapps, installed kernel -> reboot results in boot loop. Maybe I'm just doing the wrong order here or something, but no go for me. CM10.1 works otherwise (testing it as of this morning anyways lol).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] nitemarenet:
After tinkering for a couple hours here I figured I'd share my results with some issues in case anyone is looking for answers:

GPS:

After unlocking my phone and ever-so-daringly not bothering to let GPS lock nor update my PRL/Profile (got lucky the data still connected), GPS no longer locked. This must be an issue when unlocking the phone, it most likely wipes/resets something which is why you only have "some" people getting the GPS problem (those who unlock and flash before letting GPS lock, just an assumption but sounding in the right direction).

After following the post from thedarkness000 as mentioned on the first page, I figured why not try and not bother with the OTA updates as a test. I flashed the ICS-Stock rom as mentioned, the modem flash and the recovery flash then rebooted back and opened up Navigation only to immediately see GPS lock dead on. Right after this I rebooted back to fastboot and flashed TWRP back on my phone, rebooted, did the basic wipe, and reflashed CM10.1 which gave me working GPS after it was all booted back up.

Also, if you get an error trying to flash thedarkness000's directions, you need an older sdk with fastboot, platform-tools revision 16.0.2 worked for me.

My 2 cents and hopefully it helps someone else (could be a doubled up post too, I apologize in advance).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Mordannon:
I installed this on 509 and its working great. I did let the phone boot after CM and GApps then brought it down again to flash the kernal. havent tried doing all three at once. Maybe try it that way.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sk8rguy05:
Hi I don't know if anybody else is experiencing this issur but im having major wifi issues with both this rom as of the 5-9 build. My wifi keeps going in and out. Ill have full signal but the data doesnt work. I flashed back to stock to make sure my wifi isnt messing up and it worked perfectly. So its definite issue with this rom and the carbon ROM build 5-7. So u might wanna check out what's happening. And I clean flashed both builds. Guess I'm gonna have to go back to an older build.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
So there's an older build of CM that works?

That doesn't make sense. I use wifi daily, works great here.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sk8rguy05:
Yes there is an older build that works of cm10.1 but I've always had issues on the carbon ROM. So I don't know what happened. It worked every version before til the newest one. I even wiped everything including my internal storage to completely start from scratch. But that didn't help.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
So if you rollback to the 5/3 build wifi works fine?

I will probably need some logs... I certainly have not been able to recreate this. How frequently does it disconnect?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sk8rguy05:
Its not that it disconnects. It stays full bars but just doesn't send data sometimes. Then I have to turn WiFi off then back on to fix it. And its not my internet messing up cus WiFi works on every other device.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Hm, that is odd. I am on the May 9 build, no issues with wifi to speak of... have you installed any new apps recently?

If you can find a build to roll back to that works, let me know. I will probably do another CM sync once I get the custom kernel issue sorted, and rebuild... there's still a few things I want to try for LTE signal bars :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] sk8rguy05:
The build right before this one it worked perfectly. And I'll be more than happy to be a tester if u need it.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] nitemarenet:
As a shot in the dark here, is your wireless access point/router N capable? This sounds more like a signaling issue on the AP side than the client side which is common with N access points (they try to swap between b/g/n with N having 2 separate bands as well). The different versions of carbon may modify settings to work better/worse with your particular AP, but the true problem normally lies in the AP end. Yes disabling/reenabling will fix this, but that's because the AP side is reestablishing the proper capabilities and making a fresh link, removing any changes it made while keeping that link established (AP's will constantly modify their parameters internally to deliver packets, and that can get corrupted/loss of signal with heating and software issues). I personally use 5/9 with no problem at all on the wifi constantly as I run VoIP on it and I also have a distributed a/b/g/n 20+40 wireless network it attaches to and have yet to have a hiccup.

My 2 cents.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] alexwoellhaf:
Video Camera

So any way to get the video camera to work?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Sure, you any good at porting kernels?

We will probably need a 3.4 kernel to get working video camera...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] alexwoellhaf:
Porting the kernel

Um..... Never done it before i can look into it tho

Its linux based so it cant be that hard

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Um wait what kernel is being used right now
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
3.0...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] alexwoellhaf:
So why is everything else working but video camera

And why do i have to wait 5min in between posts?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] gtxaspec:
Why is there a 3.4 series kernel requirement? Is that specific to our device?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Why is anything working? I guess because Skrilax_CZ, nadbalak and to a much lesser extent me got it working?

If I knew how to fix the video camera, trust me, I would. If the aforementioned developers know how to fix video camera, I think they will. When it's fixed, it's fixed.

Please be patient, or use another ROM where video camera is working. Thanks.

As for the post requirement, maybe try editing your posts instead of constantly posting new ones...

Google uses 3.4 in Android 4.2, so it's just my lame guess as to what would be needed to get it working. If anyone has another idea, please have at it.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] alexwoellhaf:
Are there any other roms? I may be able to pull something from them