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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] FinntheViking:
Just as usable as 10.2. You will need an Xposed module if you want to save photos you take with camera to SD though.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] motorowner:
No severe issues so far. Some configuation options are missing, but no showstopper. Well, if you used Skrilaxs roms you might miss multipress and use-external-sd features, which are neither part of cm10.2 official roms, nor cm11.

Regarding GSM usage, of course. No experiences with CDMA.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] antonyfirst:
Thank you. Well I am still on the early december Skrillax CM10.2 but I don't like multipress and never use it.

I couldn't find the CM10.2 official link, what's mostly different on it (just those two options?), and have they advanced compared to the latest Skrillax builds?

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] motorowner:
There are no official CM10.2 nightlies, since they moved to cm11. There will be snapshots (monthly?), RCs and sometime a release. But no major improvements compared to Skrilax 20131205 ROM so far. So official cm10.2 roms are no option for me currently.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] slimbrady:
I think the options for personalizing your device are pretty even between 10.2 and 11 now. I know a few from 10.2 are still not there in 11 but it seems 11 has some now(1/19/14 nightly is current for me) that 10.2 doesn't.

Like others have said and in some cases threaded about (sprint voicemail, 3rd party vvm sound glitches) the bugs are relatively minor and nothing that has me regretting the switch.....google now is pretty badass..not sure if that can be added to 10.2 (don't believe so) but the hot-word detection gives me a new user experience, especially in the car.

I have had 3G/mobile data drop a few times after updating (i update every day if i can) but I've found that's almost always because my preferred network gets switched in the update to Global and switching back to CDMA+LTE/EVDO fixes it for me...i'm on CDMA of course...

After 5-10 dirty flashes I did encounter 1 other bug where my modem was continually being reset every few minutes and overnight would fill every kilobyte of storage available on my phone with dump files inside "bg folder"......that was annoying....but a clean install fixed it and Titanium backup did not restore the bug with my restored data so wasn't too much trouble once I figured out that not wiping after so many installs can leave you with some nasty ****, lol. Chalked that one down to user error.

BTW: i think the 9016 text messages are related to this build as I don't even have a voicemail app (what I was sure was the culprit before) installed and I'm still getting them every time I get a voicemail! Annoying and blacklisting the 9016 number doesn't seem to do anything....certainly not preventing me from using my phone, though, so it just annoys me but doesn't bring forth the rage as some bugs have done for me in the past lol.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] laigood:
where i can find the CM11 Nightly release note or where i can see the change log of the different CM11 Nightly versions? thinks
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
http://changelog.bbqdroid.org/

Although our device isn't listed for some reason... That is a really nice tool, whenever it does get listed.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] laigood:
thinks, it's helpful!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] slimbrady:
Go to system settings and then About Phone at the bottom. Next select Cyanogen Mod Updates and then refresh the update page (make sure you have it set to show all including nightlies). For each nightly you can click on the name of the nightly instead of the download arrow and get the changelog for all builds of cm on this device but starts with the most recent, of course.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] laigood:
I see it,thinks
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tcrimsonk:
Every time I do one of these updates, from CM11 to a more recent CM11, my phone seems unstable. After I flash, I do a cache wipe, and a Dalvik wipe. Is that all I need to do? Do I need to reinstall any particular apps? re-flash gapps? PRL/Profile?

I know the nightlys aren't to be expected to be stable, but even with the "supported" releases, I'm not sure what needs to be done when I update.

BTW, I'm running TWRP 2.3.6.0

Thanks.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Technically, you shouldn't *need* to wipe anything - you *should* be able to just flash the newest nightly and boot.

Now, you can run into issues dirty flashing - and if you do, try a 'factory reset' in Recovery. You will lose any personal userdata. Use Titanium Backup or something similar to restore apps if this is needed.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tcrimsonk:
clock 5 minutes off

Can anyone tell me why my clock would be five minutes off? I got this replacement Photon and immediately put CM11 on it so im not sure if the rom made the clock off or something else did. Ive been ignoring it for a while now. however, today I started using Google Authenticator and none of the codes it gives me will let me log in to any of the services that it's connected to. My best guess is that the numbers its generating are being thrown off by the incorrect clock. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Benni:):
Do you have the same problem with other smartphones using the network time?

Meaning could your network providers time be 5min off?

As fallback set the time manually
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] brandontowey:
Been using this for a few weeks now, here's a quick rundown of my experience:

- graphics look pretty good, possibly better than cm10.2

- speed seems in line with cm10.2

- battery life is worse. 8-9hrs vs. 13-14 on cm10.2

- bluetooth not playing nicely with poweramp or not working well at all, not sure which as I only use it for music. Speeds up songs, pauses and won't restart, etc.

- keeping getting "swipe down to exit full screen mode" or something like that using WidgetLocker. Annoying for sure

- email client not great, doesn't sync swipe deleted items. Does synn other deletes

- call volume is really low in earpiece, almost inaudible, with volume at max

Basically it's not bad but I don't need the new features so I'll be going back to cm10.2 once I put together the motivation to reinstall everything. Seems like you can't backwards dirty flash otherwise I would have so far
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] rbeavers:
Won"t boot

Can't get past boot animation.

cm-11-20140202-NIGHTLY-xt897

Even restored an old 10.1 NB.

And tried clean install.

?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] niko99:
You have right cm-11-20140202-NIGHTLY-xt897 wont boot, maybe this version need full wipe ( with factory reset ?)

second thing did you try maybe some older version but KitKat not 10.1

If you still will be have problem , download build from 31.01 ( http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/57294/cm-11-20140131-NIGHTLY-xt897.zip ) full wipe all and flesh boot.img what is included in this rom :) and all must work.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] rbeavers:
Downloaded onto phone from CM update, and then again from laptop. Dirty flashed over last recent install and clean installed. Tried flashing over old 10.1 just to see. Did flash boot IMG from last android backup. I'll wait a couple of builds before trying again. Spent 4 hrs. on this one all ready.

Thanks for replying.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] epv:
cm-11-20140202-NIGHTLY-xt897 didn't work for me either, because system_server segfaults somewhere during the startup process. cm-11-20140131-NIGHTLY-xt897 is working fine for me so i didn't dig much into why.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] adamantem:
some one know if the CDMA data works in mexico (iusacell) in the new builds?

o there is a way to fix the intermittent 3g icon???
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] niko99:
All back to normal, lastes cm11 build flash/boot/work good :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tcrimsonk:
Tethering?

I'm still having trouble with tethering. When I go into settings, and check "Portable Wi-Fi hotspot" it says "Turning hotspot on..." and stays that way. None of my other devices see the SSID, and the Wifi icon never shows in the status bar. I've tried running ISWAT Tether Unlocker plus from the Play Store, and that doesn't seem to do anything for me. I've also tried a few of the Wifi Teather apps, but haven't had any better luck with them.

I'm trying to connect a laptop that I only have User rights on, so I can't install anything to make bluetooth or USB tethering an option.

I'm running the latest Stable release of CM11; CM-11-20140104-SNAPSHOT-M2 I'm willing to try a nightly if that's what you all suggest.

Thanks again for everything.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I know wifi tethering works on the latest Carbon... it should work on the latest CM too.

Perhaps try the newest nightly - stable does not always == stable. Reason being, is the CM version might be stable - but if something was up in the air for the device/common trees when they did the stable release... you see my point.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tcrimsonk:
I installed the latest Nightly. Still no luck with tethering. I've tried three different apps, none of them work. The only data connection Sprint has available in my town is 3G; I wonder if that would matter. I can't imagine why that would stop the SSID from appearing on my laptop.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Have you tried the built-in tethering? You shouldn't need to use any 'apps'... that's the beauty of custom ROM's.

All I have in my area is EVDO as well, although LTE is launching "soon". (There's wimax, but that doesn't apply to this device...)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tcrimsonk:
Yeah, I tried the stock tethering option first with no luck. It just says "Turning hotspot on..." and nothing happens. LTE is supposed to launch here sometime this month too, not that I'm holding my breath.

I guess I could do a full wipe and see if I can tether before I install any apps or change any settings. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas.

Thanks for your help.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Stupid question, but you're turning wifi OFF right?

I just tried again, works great. I'll flash CM11 in a bit.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tcrimsonk:
Yes, I have been turning wifi off first. Although I just checked, and when I try to turn on the hotspot without turning off wifi, it does automatically turn wifi off as it tries to set up the hotspot.

I also tried manually setting up the connection on my laptop, just in case the hotspot was being created, but not broadcasting the SSID. That didn't work either.

Also, for what it's worth, I decided to test bluetooth tethering. It's working fine. (I'm using it to post this update.) unfortunately it's still not an option for my work computer, which can only connect via WiFi or a wired Ethernet connection.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] skeevydude:
I tether everyday and I can assure you that WiFi will not turn off or on when you USB tether and that WiFi tethering/hotspot does work. PowerAmp on my Defy decided it wanted to verify its license night before last, turned on hotspot, connected my Defy, verified license, light turned green, and all was fine. Running Latest Carbon then, latest CM now (it works).

My PC has built in WiFi but I don't have the antenna so I USB tether, either Moto Defy or Atrix HD, my home's WiFi to my PC. Been doing that for years and haven't had an 8960 issue since the first or 2nd week of KK.

Dirty flashing will cause the issues you're experiencing.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] NikolauZi:
i also tried to update without updating the recovery, got that message, tried to reboot and now i'm stuck in the recovery... on every reboot, the phone reboots in recovery. any ideas? flash 10.2?

thanks

--edit: answer already in the question: 10.2 did it.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
20140212

Just installed 20140212. DSP works only under Google Play. Equalizer App won`t work without the tunnel hack. But it's fine. I can live with it. Guess I'll have to ;) .

But, since this morning I've been loosing connection. As in, absolutely no signal. Also tried a reboot, signal won't come back. One time it didn't even ask me for the SIM PIN.

I have to say, this is a "new" phone modded by CH. So it could be the carrier, the ROM of the mod itself since I've only had this particular phone for about a week now.

Another strange thing is the battery. I took it off the charger at 100% around 05:10. Installed 20140212 @ 05:15 and after the reboot was left with 80% around 05:50 (made one short call in between). Just rebooted for the fourth time to get a signal back and now it's at 33% 07:03. 67% drop in 2 hours with a 3 min phone call and 20 minutes of listening to music with screen off.

I'm hoping the stats are just off. Will keep you updated.

BTW, why hasn't a mod moved this topic? Any reason to be shared?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Where you would move it to? General seems the best place for open discussion (not all users can post in Dev/Original Dev).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Well since CM10.x can be found in Photon Q 4G LTE Original Android Development I would think CM11 would also find it's home there. Some people (I know, their fault) don't look here. I think you would get more users if this wouldn't be in General but in Photon Q 4G LTE Original Android Development.

Just my 2 cents btw :good:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
The CM maintainers really should start that thread - they stated earlier they did not want to start the thread in Original Dev.

This thread should NOT be moved. The maintainers need to create that thread.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Ahh, you see. There is a reason ;) . Didn't know that. thank you for clarifying that.

---------- Post added at 07:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:25 AM ----------

BTW, Auto-Cap on physical doesn't seem to be working for me on 20140212...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] epv:
In the 20140212 nightly, anytime my phone loses cell coverage for any amount of time, mobile data doesn't reconnect afterward. Phone is in service, but data is not working. Disabling and re-enabling mobile data from Preferences makes it start working again immediately, as does toggling wifi on and off again. It's completely repeatable, I can put the phone in a metal box for a couple of minutes and take it back out and no matter how long I wait, there's no mobile data until I disable and reenable it. I have a long semi-annotated logcat log if anyone wants it. Or maybe someone at least knows who I should ask about this?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] epv:
Ah, another big-ish problem. The hardware keyboard layout seems to have changed, or some layer above it maybe. In VX Connectbot, "OK" button used to act as ctrl-key, and no longer does anything. In fact there's no ctrl key anymore, which sucks. :(
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Which nightly are you on? Nadbalak just fixed the kb layout.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
I can confirm, keyboard fixed this morning. Haven't experienced signal loss today either.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] epv:
I was on 20140212, I will try the most recent and report back. Awesome.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] epv:
Yep, confirmed that keyboard layout is fine again on 20140213.

Don't know about the mobile data disconnecting yet, they'd probably look at me weird at work if i start trying to seal my phone in aluminum foil or something.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] epv:
Bad news is that mobile data still never comes back after a loss of coverage. (20140213 daily) Going into Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks and unchecking "Data enabled" then checking it again brings it back immediately. The unfortunate result is stuff like driving home from work and finding I have no data because I passed through an area of no coverage somewhere along the way.

I guess if nobody else is seeing this I'll try later with a complete wipe and see if it's just some residual cruft I have on the phone.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] epv:
Ok just to follow up with 20140213 daily, after a clean install i'm going to tentatively say it now recovers mobile data connection after temporarily losing service. So I guess it was just something left over from a previous daily.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] :
CyanogenMod 11.0 M3 Release has been announced on February 10th, however it is not available for xt897 until now.

How come our device releases are not in sync with official CM announcements?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
5 days? Is it really that big of a deal? lol.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] :
Serious question. I thought the convenience of having an officially supported device was to get releases at the time when they are announced. But usually they announce a release which is only available for some devices. :confused:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
There should be concern if it NEVER comes.

A few days... give the maintainers a break. They have lives, not everything revolves around Android.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] :
Sure. I didn't mean to push anybody. It was rather a general question regarding CM's release policy.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
Unified CM11 nightlies available! Compatible with all Motorola MSM8960 devices, including Photon Q! http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=moto_msm8960

To answer the previous problem, it's CM team's decision whether to release M-snapshot builds for certain devices. Heck, even GS3 and GS4 variants often miss M-snapshot builds...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
That's great!

Unified builds are nice.

The question is, can we flash from our photon_q build to msm_8960 dirty?

I think it might be better to make a clean flash with all included wipes and backup/restore with something like Titanium backup.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
I dirty flashed from the 0119 nightly to 0219 nightly (unified), and apart from boot animation being surprisingly large and the phone not displaying model number in Settings (due to unified build), everything seems to go fine - WiFi, 3G, etc.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
I will flash in the next few days, atm I need the phone working fine (surfing and stuff).

I think (as you say) that everything will be working fine, maybe we will see a real CM11 thread in the near future.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
There's no need to wipe. (Unless something goes terribly wrong).

Boot animation and model number shown should be the same after you install moto_msm8960 unified build as after previous xt897 build.

Something's wrong with the phone model detection during init or installation in your case.

Is your phone originally coming from Sprint or is it a C Spire device? C Spire could be the reason.

Please post the following:

Using adb shell or terminal:

su
cat /proc/cmdline
getprop

Thanks.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I was going to comment that the phone model detection is working here, shows PHOTON Q for phone model :good:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] niko99:
Finally my phone show up correct carrier name , now see T-mobile ( earlier was PCT o_O )
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
Model Number says "unknown" and boot animation seems to use the 720p version. I bought and use this device in China so I don't know which carrier was it originally on, will check and report back.

Although that isn't much of an issue, since I can modify the build.prop to make it show the correct model number, and replace the wrong boot animation with the correct one - all of which can be done when I'm repackaging the ROM for personal use.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
Please post your /proc/cmdline anyway.

This is a bug that will affect other users as well and I'd like to fix it.

But I need to know the exact values of parameters that are passed from bootloader to kernel on your xt897 model.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
Thanks. So your model is the standard Sprint phone where the model detection is working fine.

What happened in your case is that you've probably messed with the updater_script and left out the part that selects the proper bootanimation:

ifelse(is_substring("240", getprop("ro.sf.lcd_density")), run_program("/sbin/sh", "-c", "busybox mv /system/media/540.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip"));

Also, if you flash some alternate boot.img made for pre-unified build, the old init in old ramdisk won't do the model specific setup during boot required in unified builds.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
It's the latter case then - I flashed [MENTION=420530]arrrghhh[/MENTION] 's kernel immediately after flashing CM11. At least this doesn't matter much, but sure hope this gets fixed with [MENTION=420530]arrrghhh[/MENTION] 's next version of kernel.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] KitsunePaws:
digitizer

Any idea what would cause the touchscreen to reverse axes on the new unified builds? My up is down and my left is right. Very hard to navigate. Worked great on the xt897 builds. It's almost acting like the screen is in upside down. If I touch the upper left, it's recognizing it as the lower right. I am using a replacement screen, could be just because I went cheap, at a loss as to why it would would fine on the pre-unified builds.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Just did a fresh install of today's universal build. Went well. But after boot I could not get an 3G connection. Tried to switch to GSM mode only but even then I could not select the "network mode" tile to force it into 3G. Tried different APN settings but that also didn't help.

Then i tried switching to ART. Phone won't boot now. So I'm dropping this universal build and switching back to XT897.

Again, fresh clean install, wiped everything including system. Since this is not my own system I have to revert back to cm-11-20140217-NIGHTLY-xt897.zip. So annoying i can't test a thing. CPU gets hot and the phone's been stuck in bootloop for 25 minutes now.

So no 3G for me and not sure why the phone wouldn't boot after enabling ART. I've done 4 Photon's with the XT897 builds CM11. flash recovery TWRP, basic setup, test connectivity and immediately after that enable ART. Same ritual on al four phones. The only difference with this fifth one is the universal build...

Formatted the system, reflashed recovery. Doesn't matter what I try. I can get into Recovery. But beyond that nothing works anymore. I can flash, restore, but it won't boot :@ :(
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
So I let it boot over night. Can't paste a link using the app. But there is a topic in Troubleshooting regarding this subject . Let it rest for a couple of hours. Now the phone flies through Bootlogo and boot process. So whatever the reaon was, it took a whole lotta patience.

Lost a whole night to this :( Pretty annoying!

But I'm still not trying yesterday's universal build since I could not get a 3G/H connection. I'm on 20140218 now.

Will try again in a couple of days. These are busy times for me.

EDIT:

On a side note... Anyone here using Hangouts? When in landscape mode I`m unable to select icons/emoticons. I have to revert back to portrait and use the on-screen keyboard. I'm pretty sure this wasn`t the case on CM10.2. Now I`m wondering why this is?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Ad1982:
Stuck on Bootloader Unlocked Screen

Hi guys, did some searching and didn't find anything...anyway, new to the Photon Q (came from an Epic 4G), unlocked the bootloader, flashed superuser, installed CM11 (newest nightly) gapps and no matter what, after a reboot or 2 I always get stuck on the Warning Bootloader Unlocked screen. Not sure why it happens. Sometimes it will boot past that, but most of the time it just sits on that screen forever until I wipe everything and start the process over. Just wondering if anybody had any tips on why that might happen. Tried a couple of different CM11's. Thanks for the help!

Edit: If it's helpful to anybody, what I did was flashed everything with TWRP, then changed my recovery to Open Recovery, and haven't had a problem booting since.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Dude, the last two (my) posts are about this subject...

Just do a fresh install and let the phone rest. I was busy for at least four hours before I let it rest. Fresh install, boot first time. Setup the phone, enabled ART and went too sleep. 5 hours later the phone reboots within a minute as opposed to 25 minutes.