[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] The Solutor:
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Unlike the V1 package this is now a Full ROM, You don't need to install anything before it.

The Rom is in TWRP backup format, so you need to use TWRP to install it

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So, what's inside ?

The ROM v2 is still almost stock but has some more addition/variations if compared with v1:

This is the original v1 description

#1 A couple of C-Spire specific Apps are removed

#2 The chrome Browser and the Gmail client are removed to keep the downloads small (they can be easily installed from the Playstore, if needed)

#3 the stock Contacts app from the C-spire ROM has a white background, so I used the one from the Sprint ROM (i like it black :) )

#4 The static backgrounds are from the Sprint ROM too (i like them more :) )

#5 the hotspot applet is added

#6 the Toggle2G app is preinstalled, is very useful to get more juice from your battery, but is usually impossible to have it on a stock ROM (credits to TheMasterBaron for this nice piece of code)

#7 The whole ROM is translated in many languages (see the image below to know, what languages are included). Most of the more relevant menus are translated, although the translation is not 100% complete (you can expect some English on LTE, NFC, phisical keyboard settings menus, and similar settings)

#8The Swipe OEM keyboard is not limited to English and Spanish anymore, and supports even more languages than the ROM itself

#9 All the Google apps included and the Smartactions App are already updated to the latest available version as today [18/11/2013]

#10 The (ugly) C-spire bootanimation is replaced with the unbranded Motorola "dual core" one.

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And this is what's new on V2.

Fixed the missing "allow GSM data" menu that often prevented to use the data from GSM networks.

[*]Tetheron.sh script included to unlock the stock tethering function.

[*]Operator name in status bar.

[*]Four button navbar mod preinstalled.

[*]arrrghhh'skernel, meant to reach 1.8GHz, modded by me to have the external SDcard as default storage location

[*]Additional translations, some refinements in the ones already present

[*]Updated playstore/gapps/motorola apps

[*]The the network type (G,/H, H+) is visible (in gray) even when data are disabled

[*]Status Led is lit when the pgone is charging

[*]The Xperia home is preinstalled as alternate launcher choice

[*]The Xperia keyboard (great !!) with T9 and swipe function is provided as an alternate input method

[*]I reversed the approach to make toggle 2G working here, in v1 was resigned to match my own signature, in v2 the whole ROM is signed with Cyanogen's, signature. So any future version of T2G should work w/o any modifications.

[*]Additionally, given the Cyanogen signature, some other tools meant to work with the Cyanogen ROMs that needs signature may work here.

[*]Additionally, with the "standard" signature a developer other than me can easily improve the rom w/o the need to contact me.

So the ROM is now more future proof.

[*]Likely something I forgot to mention given the rom was built many months ago.

:D

Now how to install:

(Assuming you are already unlocked and rooted, and you have the latest TWRP recovery already installed)

#0 Do a full backup with titanium backup, likely you need to do a full wipe to use this (likely even if coming from the Rom V1)

#1 Download the four 7zip packages and extract their contents. (its a multivolume archive, just place all four files in the same place and extract the content from the first one)

#2 copy the extracted folder in the right place

/mnt/external1/TWRP/BACKUPS/{phone serial}/

#3 do a full wipe and reboot.

#4 follow the initial wizard (it will give an error at the very beginning, just use the phisical keyboard to get rid of it and choose a language other than English, then continue as usual).

#5 Start to use the phone.

#6 Optionally use Titanium to restore the data and the settings you like to restore.

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All credits for toggle 2g are deserved to to Rangerbry

The rom is provided with a fully working STK (Sim toolkit), maybe for the very first time on a stock Motorola ROM coming from a CDMA provider.

Most of the credits are due to kabaldan for the useful suggestions that made it possible.

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Not mandatory, but you can enable/disable the internal SD emulation editing a line in /system/build.prop

persist.fuse_sdcard = true

persist.fuse_sdcard = false

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Not mandatory but is suggested to freeze com.motorola.storageoptimizer (or remove/rename Fileservices.apk from the /system/app directory)

This apk is responsible of the option to move photos and videos from the internal SD to the external SD, that becomes pointless and misleading using this mod.