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[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hckrnewb:
Thanks A lot I'm finally up and running I tried carbon rom and pac roms haven't tried cm11 yet so far carbon fits me so ill stick with it for a while Thanks again [MENTION=420530]arrrghhh[/MENTION], [MENTION=1258660]---UFO---[/MENTION], and [MENTION=3795653]pfc_m_drake[/MENTION] I am eternally grateful (little green alien voice)

Sent from my flipping phone thats all that matters :P
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
Will the Photon Q be on VoLTE?

Would you please provide a link to right gapps? I thought I flashed the latest gapps, but now I'm not sure.

I have been using only CM11.

Would you provide detailed instructions to clean flash to go to cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip? I am using TWRP 2.6.3.1.

Would I need to upgrade to 2.7.1.1?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hckrnewb:
I used 2.7.1.1

This link should work

https://goo.im/devs/paranoidandroid/roms/gapps/pa_gapps-stock-4.4.2-20140608-signed.zip

Sent from my flipping phone thats all that matters :P
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
I use my phone as music player and often after I've disconnected Bluetooth or the minijack, afterwards the sound does not play over the internal speakers.

This is very annoying because you don't hear the phone ring for example. Sometimes toggling between BT on/off works, but most of the times it doesn't.

Today was one of those days... listened to music via headphones. Afterwards again no sound. No way to get it working again except rebooting the phone.

Anyone know of a workaround? I change volume to test if it happens. I can live with a defenitively working toggle/action everytime. Just can't think of one myself. So any suggestion (apart from reboot) is welcome.

Running M8 btw. Occasionally a pauze freeze during power on and this issue (ever present since CM11) are my isssues so far.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Hm, I listen to music quite often via BT now that I have a motorcycle... and I haven't had this issue at all.

What are you using to listen to music? Does it happen EVERY time you play music, or is there something you can do which induces the issue?

Logs would be helpful, although this may be hard to catch if you can't find a way to easily reproduce it.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hckrnewb:
My phone used to do something similar to that on another rom. i would plug head phones in once i took them out no sound i played with it a little bit and i found that if i made a call w/the head phones plugged in then removed the headphones and put it on speaker momentarily my sound would come back on. I dont know if it will work for you but its worth a shot. easiest way to test is call voicemail and do it because i got tired of telling people its a test call lol
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Every time

Just tried it 4 times. It happens every time I use the minijack.

My workaround for now is pressing UP volume repeatedly and pressing play/pause until I hear the volume bleep. Usually takes 2/3 times to get it right.

I'd be happy to provide any logs, if you're willing to point out which/where ;) . And again, all I have to do is plug the minijack in, press play, pull it out and voila, ringtone sounds (over the speaker) are gone.

BTW Use Google Play, but Apollo did the same. I do use Equalizer (app).

Edit:

Just tried on my other XT897. Happens all the same. Equalizer not running on this one. Plug in minijack, press play, remove minijack, ringtone is gone. Called myself to see what would happen. After I disconnect (from the calling phone, this one is receiving) the sound comes back as soon as I hang up.

Just tried it a few times on both phones. Sound always comes back as soon as I hang up. I can just hear the last half second of the ringtone. Weird ****...

Unless it's cause by the app Equalizer I think anyone should be able to reproduce this. Plug in a minijack, press play in Google play. Remove the minijack, and volume rocker is gone along with the ringtone.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] stevie13.xo:
Anyone notice that opening an incognito tab force closes the browser
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
How do you guys see the video on this ? My top choices, MX Player and Dice player, are either FCed or saying 'not supporting'.... :(
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Al936:
Active display

Does anybody tried Active Display https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motorola.aon ?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
You need a Moto X for that app to work.

Carbon has Active Display from ChaOS in 4.3. It works exceptionally well for me.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] The Solutor:
And Pacman too.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Right, I still need to pick pocket mode == always for them. I picked it for Carbon, but I don't think it made it into 4.3...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] stevie13.xo:
The cm nightlies randomly causes messaging to be unable to send a message... switching back to arghs unofficial 11/29 fixs it
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] The Solutor:
You should include the sdcard as main storage patch to PACman ROM.

It has practically everything and works flawlessly, but the lack of that option is somewhat a deal breaker.. ;)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
I never could get that to work on Carbon, let alone PAC...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] The Solutor:
Oh what a pity...

Even a version defaulted to exSDcard w/o a GUI interface would be nice.

Is not just matter of space available, but happen that I had to format the whole /data partition twice.

So I don't trust the /data/media folder as a safe place.

Out of curiosity do you have a link to the patch from Skrilax that implement that feature on the unoffical CM's ?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
There's a few. This is the one to fw/base:

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/47918/

There's another one which I don't think is really on review under any gerrit currently... and that's basically the userland hook for it. I had this all working in Carbon, but the checkbox didn't seem to "do" anything. I would reboot, and the storage didn't seem flipped at all. Maybe I wasn't checking it properly, I was going to give it another shot in KitKat. I might have different expectations for how the storage swap actually manifests itself vs. how I think it should work.

Edit - here's the commit for the Settings option, in Carbon mind you:

http://review.carbon-rom.com/#/c/590/
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] The Solutor:
Thanks

Indeed that's a good question that I asked to myself when I tried for the first time the unofficial CM, so I really understand what do you mean ;).

Comparing it with the methods used in the past, looks like id does "nothing".

It doesn't switch the mount points, which was by far the most common way to get the intended result, nor it changes any symlink, nor it touches the environment variables set inside the boot image ( the approach I used here)

Btw looking more carefully it does what is supposed to do.

The best way to check if it works is looking at android system info

the screenshot is from a pacman rom so the links shown are the standard ones. With the option enabled they will aim to /storage/sdcard1.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Interesting. Maybe I'll give it another crack and check this setting. Thanks!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] The Solutor:
I bet it will work ( and I'm too lazy to setup the build environment to check myself :o ).

jokes aside, I tried to decompile and and patch the files involved on the fly, to see if is an easy task or not.

It's not easy enough. 75% of the patch can be applied pretty easily, but there are places where the decompiled framework.jar looks too different if compared with the real source, and patching it is out of question, at least for my knowledge.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] SaberMage:
OpenRecovery for Photon Q

Hello everyone. Presently, the original hosted location for downloading OpenRecovery for xt897 is down due to a server HDD failure. Does anyone here have the latest .img for OpenRecovery, and would they be willing to send it to me? Much appreciation in advance.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] niko99:
no problem :) -> https://www.dropbox.com/s/9e8zj679wlupcvm/open_recovery_209_25_11_2013.img
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] mrvek:
Has anybody been switching between cm-11 and cm-10.2 (downgraded from cm11 to cm-10.2 by nandroid restore or simple install)? Which recovery and version were used and did you encounter any issues?

I have some weird problems that I can't solve (e.g, "missing" internal storage, etc.).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] The Solutor:
No problem either in nandroid or plain install using the latest selinux based TWRP/OR.

Obviously if you don't have a a full nandroid backup, and you do a plain install you have to wipe your data partition.

As usual when downgrading.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] tcrimsonk:
Tethering on CM11?

Has anybody gotten WiFi tethering to work on CM11 on the PQ yet?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] palmwangja:
don't know about wifi-tethering, but BT-tethering works like a charm.

You better prefer BT over wifi as it consumes far less juice.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Logcat would definitely be useful. dmesg, may be of use. Grab both.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
I tried that link, but the gapps version is for 4.4.2.

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How do I upgrade TWRP to 2.7.1.1? I am running 2.6.3.1.

Would I do a factory reset to clean flash to go to cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
How did you install TWRP? That same method will work to upgrade. Fastboot flash always works for me.

I'm not sure what ROM you're currently on, but generally going forwards dirty flashes are "acceptable". Going backwards, or to a different ROM, clean flash. Of course, before reporting any issues clean flash.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Logcat +Dmesg before and after

Sorry took so long. Was away for the weekend and didn't think of going online ;)

Just included the logs. "before" is the state where the ringtone won't play over the speaker. music however will play over the speaker.

"after" is after I've played wiht play/pause and volume up and down and the ringtone and volume rocker sound do play over the speaker.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
i got the same issue. i only tried it with the latest msm_8960 nightlies, but i get everytime the message "This package is for "moto_msm8960.xt907.scorpion_mini.smq.xt926.vanquish" devices; this is "asanti". i switched from skrilax openrecovery to twrp recovery - doesn't work either...

i read that the build name will switch back to xt897 - maybe this will help? (but i don't think so)

anyone other experience this issue?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Status 7 and how to flash

Next time, try reading more than the last few posts...

Do not flash any ROM newer with a date later than msm8960-nightly-20140630.zip. The one exception is cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip.

Ensure you are using TWRP v2.7.0.1 at the least. I seriously doubt you are unable to flash cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip in combination with TWRP v2.7.0.1 or above

Try it and let us know what happened. A link to TWRP v2.7.0.1 and v2.7.1.1 can be found in this topic. Try CM and when that succeeds, try another ROM if you want to.

But again, let us know what happened.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
i failed a little, 2.7.1.1 wasnt in the middle of the page, i downloaded the false one. but now i get the following error:

This package is for devices with 4.4 bootloader.

E: Error executing updater binary in zip '/path/to/cm-11-20140720-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960.zip'...

at 2.7.0.1 i get the message i posted before..

edit: yeah, i noticed that the m8-snapshot is the only flashable zip - but its a little bit laggy, the systemui crashes often and the phone often needs more then five seconds to wake up...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Fresh install

Well since it got aborted several times, I would highly recommend a clean install.

I have to admit, I too have an issue with random wake-up lag. But apart from that, and my minijack issue, no problems up until now running M8.

If you're unwilling to perform a clean install at this time, boot into recovery, wipe dalvik and re-flash M8 before it boots. See what happens. If you still encounter these problems you will have to perform a clean install.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
Do I need to delete TWRP 2.6.3.1 that I currently have first before I Fastboot flash TWRP 2.7.1.1? Or does it just write the new version(2.7.1.1) over the old version(2.6.3.1)?

I'm currently running cm-11-20140629-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960.zip and I want to go to cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip. Would it benefit me to do a backup? Should I then just do a factory reset for the clean flash?

What version of Gapps works with cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip?

The link that hckrnewb provided (/paranoidandroid/roms/gapps/pa_gapps-stock-4.4.2-20140608-signed.zip) is for 4.4.2. Would I need gapps for 4.4.4 instead?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
You can flash the newer version of TWRP over the older version just fine. Or flash another recovery, doesn't matter all works the same.

As for flashing from a nightly to a snapshot, I would clean flash. You may be able to dirty flash - rule of thumb is you can generally go forwards and dirty flash, but going backwards can cause issues. Nightlies vs. snapshot builds are kind of hard to pin down on dates as the snapshot could be more outdated than the nightly. As I've said to you previously, you can always try to dirty flash and then if you have issues clean flash before reporting anything.

It is never a bad idea to take a backup of a working setup.

For gapps, I just grab the latest PA 0-day gapps as these seem to be the most updated. Any 4.4.x gapps should work tho.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
I've been using gapps-kk-20131118.zip 131.63MB since it came out. No problems so far :good:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
it's a known bug, the changelog says that they fixed that problem, don't know in which version, but it was after the m8 snapshot, so i think, a clean install won't help (and i have to admit, that i'm too lazy at these hot days :p )
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Well that sucks. Hope the XT897 branch comes up soon.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
i hope too. i have to reboot my phone several times a day, it sucks when i'm listening to music in the metro, and can*t switch the song, because the phone hangs for about 20 seconds...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Same on XT925

Yesterday I got my XT925 back. Performed an format on internal, fresh clean install of M8. Same **** with the minijack. play music, unplug the minijack and no ringtone sounds over the speaker. I have to play/pause the music an rock the volume until I hear the bleep. So it's definitely something in CM11 icw an app I think.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Interesting. I suppose I never noticed it because when I tried to recreate it, that's what I would do is play/pause & mess with the volume - so I suppose I was "fixing" it without knowing it...

Does it happen to your XT925 on the KK bootloader/newer CM nightlies/3.4 kernel?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
XT925 doesn't have KK yet. Otherwise I would have flashed back to stock just to test it.

By the way it also happens when I'm playing music over BT. Well try to figure out how I can reproduce that 100%.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
when i'm listening to music with the headphones while getting a call, i accept the call, plug the jack off and hear the call over the loudspeaker. i have to turn the speaker on and off again, to hear the other side over the earspeaker. its a bit annoying... :D
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
Is there a guide to flash TWRP? I don't remember exactly how I did it the last time. I tried to flash TWRP 2.7.1.1, but I got errors. I put my phone in fastboot and tried

fastboot flash recovery TWRP 2.7.1.1

(bootloader) Variable not supported!

error: cannot open 'TWRP_2.7.1.1'

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How would I do a clean flash using TWRP?

*Updated-Just added .img to the path using fastboot and I now have 2.7.1.1
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
Is cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip the best rom with the least amount of bugs? I'm running

cm-11-20140629-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960.zip. Wi-Fi doesn't work.

Will TWRP 2.7.1.1 flash cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT M8-moto_msm8960.zip?

How do I clean flash using TWRP?

Is the latest PA_Google Apps for the Photon Q here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942?

Why isn't there a microphone button on the screen to press for speech to text for sending text messages?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
If you didn't clean flash, try that before reporting issues.

Yes? It did, didn't it?

It's the 'default' option when you go to the 'Wipe' menu. "Factory Reset" aka clean flash.

Those are the latest PA Gapps no matter what phone you have, yes.

There is for me - you have the 'full modular' package of PA's gapps installed? If it's still not working, install Google Voice Search from the Play Store.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
Okay, since my phone had 2 crashes at night (and the alarm didn't work) i wanted to downgrade. i did it at the badest method - i still installed an older nightly build over the m8-snapshot. of cource, i had problems with the crashing trebuchet launcher (i deleted its data and worked fine again), the same with the telephone. there were crashes when someone called me, so i couldn't get inbounds and text messages, outbound calls worked fine, deleting the data of the phone app didn't make it better. i restored the backup with the m8-build because i had to wait for a call, but will downgrade it again, but flash it clean then.

which build before the m8-snapshot has less problems? i'm not happy about flashing and restoring the data the whole day...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
You can't easily go 'back' in time and dirty flash. You can only dirty flash going forwards - and even then it can cause issues.

Use Titanium Backup or something similar to backup your app data and clean flash.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] enigma9o7:
Ever going to be a new build?

Is there any estimate from CM team when they may release a new rom for our phone? Or any confirmation from them they're actually going to do it at all? It's been over a month now and with known issues in latest snapshot build that have been corrected for other devices (lag, minijack, etc) I've been checking regularly but seems nothing is happening...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
moto_msm8960_jbbl repo (for moto_msm8960 devices with jellybean bootloader) has been forked to CM yesterday and moto_msm8960_jbbl added to build server list - https://github.com/CyanogenMod/hudson/commit/429b5b7e0234ba8aa4c1bc5f4544581959a62952

So moto_msm8960_jbbl nightly builds should start rolling out soon.

Please note that they will use the old 3.0 kernel.

If/when modem issues under 3.4 kernel are resolved, new xt897 specific builds based on 3.4 kernel will appear, but currently it looks like it will need more time then initially expected.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
I did do a clean flash before I flashed cm-11-20140629-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960.zip, but I'm having issues with Chrome and WiFi not working.

I did not flash cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT M8-moto_msm8960.zip yet. Is it better than cm-11-20140629-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960.zip?

The Full Modular package sounds like the best then.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Well perhaps try the latest version of CM, there's a new build coming out soon as you can see above.

Without logs, I really have no idea why you would have issues with wifi and Chrome if you are correctly clean flashing & using a valid gapps package.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Can't exactly tell you what and why. But I for one did not like most of the builds done in the second half of June. Not stable, random lock ups etcetera.

Been running M8 Snapshot since it came out. It's certainly worth a try!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] KoolBurnX8:
the new build tree for moto_msm8960jbbl just came out like Kabaldan said. I'm using Carbon's 20140802 and it works great. Some of the issues i was having have been fixed so far.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
i flashed the 030814 jbbl-nightly yesterday, seems very stable, no wake up-issues anymore. :good:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
Where will the new CM11 updates be for the Photon Q?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Just a couple of threads down...

CyanogenMod 11.0 for Photon Q
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
What does jbbl stand for?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] proletentoaster:
i think, jelly bean bootloader...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Correct. Photon Q is not getting the official KK update from moto.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...qs-fate-android-4-1-2-is-the-end-of-the-road/
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
Are the moto_msm8960_jbbl nightly updates better than the cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-moto_msm8960.zip?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
They are the latest and greatest. If you want a more updated build of CM, it's the only option.

"better" is subjective - some people prefer snapshot builds. Others prefer nightlies.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Fr4gg0r:
Does someone know how to build cm11?

I get the following error:

build/core/product_config.mk:238: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/motorola/xt897/cm.mk]]: "vendor/motorola/xt897/xt897-vendor.mk" does not exist. Stop.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
You should be building moto_msm8960_jbbl, not xt897.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Fr4gg0r:
I tried that, too, but it fails with the same error. :p
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Do you have the vendor files...? vendor/motorola/...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Fr4gg0r:
moto_msm8969-vendor.mk did not exist, but moto_msm8969_jbbl-vendor.mk did.

Changed the file name, should work now..

Edit: Our device number is 69 ;)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Fr4gg0r:
Are people interested in this? I could try to submit to cm.

Currently looking where to put this into Keyguard logic..

(Talking about the unlock screen part, to skip "slide screen" security ;))
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Fr4gg0r:
Is there a reason that the camera button is hidden from the framework (config_deviceHardwareKeys)?

How can one enable it for the photon q without affecting all other devices on the unified moto branch?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
I'm not really sure what the difference is.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hijkl:
EpicSaga, you find all the information you're asking for in the Changelogs - no need for arrrghhh to bother giving you additional information! ;-(
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] EpicSaga:
Where are the Changelogs?

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What is more stable? Snapshot builds or Nightlies? I've heard that the nightlies can damage a phone. Under "type" on download.cyanogen.com, snapshot builds are 2 marks above the nightlies and 2 marks below stable.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] hijkl:
Epic Saga,

again, no question you are raising is new, has not been answered or cannot be solved very very very easily by using the search function of this forum - you know what a search function is, don't you?

The changelogs can be found in the settings by clicking on the version of your firmware, nightlies are newer than snapshots, but might be not as stable.

My personal recommendation to you: first use the search function of this forum. then use Google, do it very very very thoroughly, and then, after hours, maybe days of unsuccesful research, raise your question to this forum, thank you very much!