Photon Fixes and Mods **BEING UPDATED** - Motorola Photon 4G

FIXES AND MODS ONLY
SINCE MIUI V4 HAS BEEN BASED ON CM9, MANY OF THESE FIXES MAY WORK
DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS WITHIN THE THREAD
We already have the entire CM9 main thread overrun by repeat questions.
If you have a question regarding something on here, Private Message either myself or the persons I am crediting so that we may help you without mucking up this Thread with "Can you help me with this?"
Feel free to add Mods and Fixes that you feel might be useful for others.
If you didn't make it, be sure to give credit to the person who did.
Please also post a link to their original post so others can thank them for their work.
Thanks to everyone who developed these fixes and to the devs for putting together a great ROM for our phones.
FYI...I DID NOT MAKE THESE MODS OR FIXES (UNLESS I SPECIFY THAT I DID PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER). PLEASE GIVE THANKS TO THE PEOPLE WHO CAME UP WITH THESE FIXES AND MODS

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Proper Flashing of ROMs (updated 9/6)
PROPER FLASHING OF ROM
Requirements:
Photon 4g-Must be rooted, unlocked, and have CWM on it (I recommend Jokerax's CWM V3)
A ROM ZIP
Gapps .zip
If you have already rooted, unlocked, and CWM'ed, skip 1-4
1) FIRST, go HERE and watch this video. It's how to install Android SDK. This will be important if you mess something up later and need to reinstall SBF. It also allows you to flash CWM to your phone.
2) Unlock Bootloader: Watch the video HERE. The links to the files you need will be in the "show more" area of the video. This will have you unlocked and ready for next step.
3) Rooting/CWM: Watch the video HERE. The links to the files you will need will be shown in the "show more" area of the video. Now you will be rooted and have CWM on your phone
4) Joker's CWM: Since this was made with his CM9 build in mind, I recommend using it for all your CM9 flashing needs. Using other ones can cause problems.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Go to Joker's site (Jokersax.com) and download the "cwm-non corrupted" in the "Cyanogenmod9 for Photon 4G" section, placing the file on somewhere on your phone you can easily find (I usually create a folder in my SD-Card called "ROMS".
Boot into your recovery and select "install zip from sd card"
Find the CWM .zip where you put it, and flash it.
You will now have Joker's CWM on your phone and be ready for flashing
NOW YOU ARE READY TO FLASH
PROPER FLASHING:
STANDARD FLASH ROMS
1) Place ROM zip onto storage on your phone (of your choice)
2) Reboot into recovery
3) Make a Backup (if you don't, it's YOUR bad if you mess up...)
4) Use Wipe All Zip found HERE
or
Wipe /system, /data, /cache manually
This is recommended...some roms you can get away with just Cache and Dalvik wipe, but many require the full wipe treatment
5) Flash Rom zip
6) Flash Gapps (optional)
7) Reboot and Enjoy
AROM BASED ROMS
1) Place ROM zip onto storage on your phone
2) Reboot into recovery
3) Make a Backup
4) Go to Advanced Menu
5) Choose Report Error
6) Choose Show Log
7) Choose Reboot Recovery
***THESE 3 STEPS SHOULD BE DONE ANY TIME YOU FLASH AN AROMA BASED ROM***
8) Flash Rom zip
9) Inside rom, you can choose your wipe option and other options.
10) Install
11) Reboot and Enjoy
CHEERS!

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MMS "fix" (updated 9/6)
cm10 mms fix
NEEDS
1) THIS -apns-conf.xml file that has proper apn settings
2) Tools.zip <--located here
3) Patience
How to Fix:
1) First you will need to edit your framework-res.apk using the How To HERE
2) After decompiling framework-res.apk, you will go to folder /res/values
3) Open file arrays.xml
4) Scroll till you see a section that looks like this : <array name="config_cdma_dun_supported_types" />
5) Change it to this:
<string-array name="config_cdma_dun_supported_types">
<item>default</item>
<item>dun</item>
<item>mms</item>
<item>supl</item>
</string-array>
6) Save the file
7) Go to bools.xml
8) Find line that says : <bool name="config_mms_content_disposition_support">true</bool>
9) Change it to : <bool name="config_mms_content_disposition_support">false</bool>
10) Save the file
11) recompile the framework-res per the above how to....do not skip any steps.
12) Insert the framework-res.apk into THIS file and flash it to your phone in CWM
13) go to the build.prop in your phone in Root Explorer or Root Browser
14) Edit the following lines:
# CDMA Carrier support - Native carrier is Sprint
#ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric=310120
#ro.cdma.home.operator.alpha=Sprint
#ro.cdma.homesystem=64,65,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83
#ro.cdma.otaspnumschema=SELC,1,80,99
#persist.radio.cdma.min=0
15) Change it to look like this:
# CDMA Carrier support - Native carrier is Sprint
ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric=310120
ro.cdma.home.operator.alpha=Sprint
ro.cdma.homesystem=64,65,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83
ro.cdma.otaspnumschema=SELC,1,80,99
persist.radio.cdma.min=0
16) Save the file
17) Place APN-conf.xml above into your /system/etc folder using root explorer or root browser
18) Go to app section of system settings and clear data
19) Reboot into recovery
20) Fix permissions
21) Reboot into your phone and you're done!
EASY, RIGHT?!

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E-Z WIPE ZIPs (updated 9/6)
Hope you all like them...
Wipe-All.zip
Go to the site to download the file
WIPE-ALL.zip
Formats:
/Cache
/System
/Data
Dalvik-cache
WIPE-CACHE-DALVIK.zip
Formats:
/Cache
Dalvik-cache
Just CWM flash them like any other zip. MUCH faster and more reliable than manually doing it...not to mention no chance of accidentally formatting wrong partitions

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Version 0.3.1
THIS IS FOR ANYONE WHO FULLY WIPED BEFORE INSTALLING 0.3.3 AND ARE HAVING DIFFICULTIES WITH IT NOT BOOTING (OR IF YOU JUST WANT TO RUN 0.3.1 ON YOUR PHONE INSTEAD
Photon CM9 0.3.1
If you run into issues with 0.3.3 not booting up after doing a fresh install, do the following:
1) Format /System, /Data, and /Cache (can use the Wipe-All-Photon.zip in POST 6 for this)
2) Flash 0.3.1 from above link and Gapps
3) Reboot and allow phone to come to main screen but do not sign in, reboot back into recovery
4) Wipe /Cache and Dalvik (can use Wipe-Cache-Dalvik-Photon.zip in POST 8 for this)
5) Flash 0.3.(2, 3 +++)
6) Fix permissions
7) Reboot...should work now

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Full-wipe-zip
do not use this before 0.3.2 if coming from 0.3.1 or else you may not have your phone boot

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Inverted Apps and Keyboard
Inverted Apps and Keyboard
I didn't make em...just put em into a CWM flashable zip.
Big Thanks to XCellPhoneSalesRep for posting these in CM9 main thread:
Calculator
Calendar
Email
Google Reader
Google Voice
Music
Phone
Google Plus
Talk
You Tube
Big Thanks to moonzbabysh for posting these below
Inverted Keyboard
Dropbox
Pandora
Big Thanks to hello00 for the following: Thank him HERE:
Gmail
MMS
Facebook
Contacts
Google Quick Search Box
Genie Widget
Big Thanks to whomever posted the Widget App Picker...not sure who posted it
All Apps work. may get a FC on first usage...go to "system settings", "applications", "all", force stop the app, then clear data. App should restart without any problem.
.zip will wipe cache and dalvik for you, so you don't need to unless you feel like doing it doubly
Inverted_Apps_Photon.zip
Cheers!

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Cache and Dalvik Wipe
Really no biggie...this just wipes Cache and Dalvik with a few less button presses
Cache-Dalvik-Wipe-Photon.zip
Go to the website to download the file.
Cheers!

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Here are a few ICS themed apks for Cm9, I did not create these just been going through every phones subsections scouring for ICS themed apks
Gmail and LatinIME.apk need to go into system/app
Clear cashe and data before renaming the preinstalled ones with ".bak" as back ups.
Dropbox and XDA(free version) can go in data/app
Make sure to fully uninstall Dropbox and XDA apps if you've already have them installed before installing these themed apks.
When I get to a computer later and have a bit more time, I'll find the threads that I got them from so proper thanks can be made to them.

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ICS themed apks for Cm9,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472528
hello00 said:
Hello everyone..I would like to share some of the stuff..I have themed almost every google application for those who like black & cyan. If you are going to use my themed applications for whatever reason, please make sure to give me credit..If you guys have any questions don't hesitate to ask.​
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-Google+
-Email
-Gmail
-MMS v2 & v3
-Google Voice
-Dialer
-Facebook 1.8.2
-Contacts v2
-Google Music
-Keyboard
-YouTube (Newest)
-Gallery
-Market 3.4.4
-Calendar v2
-Geniewidgets
-Browser
-Camera
and some other stuff..
more to come!! stay tuned​
black&cyan theme Apps of each one of these are down below for download​
I update every app when I got time, make sure you download the latest version for new changes..​
For the newest Gapps (2.16.2012.) please see post#5​
-Screenshots​
Google+​
Email​
Gmail​
MMS​
MMS v2​
MMS v3
GoogleVoice​
Dialer/Contacts v1​
Google Music​
Calendar​
GenieWidgets​
Keyboard​
Facebook 1.8.2
-Download-​
For ICS 4.0.3 AOSP CyanogenMod 9 Only v2, it won't work if you are running any other version of ICS other than this​
http://www.mediafire.com/?abhuwize1jc2u9x​
This is for ICS Sense 4.0.3 Beta 01
http://www.mediafire.com/?5lb32b6xs78wiif
For Wallpaper go to post #16​
How to Install​
You always wanna do a backup just in case​
Just flash it like you would flash a rom​
Posts that do not contribute to progress are not useful because they make it complicated to find relevant information for people who can help..
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MoPhoACTV Initiative

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Ok, hopefully this can stay as a fix here.
For CWM I also remember reading that Romeacer's 5.0.2.7-photon3 could also be used. I understand that it may also be linked on Jokers site. Later versions will not work.
I'm a MoPho-er

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ICS Pandora
ICS themed Pandora, I didn't make this,
got it from http://www.droidforums.net/forum/yakitori/198676-ice-cream-sandwich-themed-pandora.html

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This is an ICS themed Application Widgets picker, I think this should actually be incorporated into the next Beta build personally.
Download and Install like any other regular APK
Long press on home screen (or press Menu softkey, then select "add") to bring up "add to Home Screen" menu.
Select "Widget"
It'll promt you the option to choose the built in Widgets picker or the new one, click the "use by default for this action" check box and select the new "App widget picker 4.0.3" option.
Then your good to go
I've attached some before and after Screenshots that I tested this on my own MoPho, as I do with all Apk's that I find and post.

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I have a "Fix" for the thing popping up in status bar telling you to "select input method" every time you open keyboard. Haven't seen this covered, if it is by all means remove this post though. Not really much of a fix, but it was something that drove me nuts trying to make go away.
Settings - Manage Apps - All - Scroll to bottom and find one with bunch of Japanese characters - Select disable. You should be good to go from there without annoying status bar message everytime you open keyboard.

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thatguy07 said:
I still get the notification after disabling this :-/ oh well
Sent from your moms house using her XDA APP
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23038577
This worked for me.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

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Th3Bill said:
7) Boot animation. I knot this isn't a fix, but who doesn't love to have options for boot animation? Stock ICS is nice, but I find these a little nicer.
a) CM9 Boot animation: Thanks to Akilldema. If this helps you go here Akilldema CM9 Boot Anim Post and thank him.
Here's a 6mb version of the bootanimation.zip CM9 Boot Animation
It's not much better, if any. I think it's related to the phone booting. Also, when I preview the animation, it plays perfectly.
EDIT: NEW FILE: New CM9 Boot Animation
b) RAZR animation: If you like this, go here RAZR Boot Animation Post and thank.
RAZR Boot Animation
These are not the only ones..they're the only ones I've tested. Others may work, but use at your own discretion...Simply copy these into /system/media (be sure to edit the name of your CURRENT bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.bak so that if it does NOT work, you can always go back ) Upon reboot, you will have new animation.
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Th3bill, you should take down the 6mb version/notes.. the best 2 for us are the 540x960 ones posted here: CM9 Boot Animations. The 60fps is better for me, smoother.

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Gapps are prohibited in cyanogenmod roms. If you want to post your work do so as a separate download like an add on.
Sent from my MB855 using XDA

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Easy Flashable Zip filled with Themed Apps
First and foremost... I AM NOT TAKING CREDIT FOR THIS ROM OR THE THEMING OF THE APPS. IF YOU FLASH THIS, YOU DO SO TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF YOUR PHONE BLOWING UP AND OR LOOKING BETTER THAN IT EVER HAS...
I took Jokers latest update 0.3.1 and his gapps v10 and removed and replaced the following apps with ICS Themed apps
Calculator
Calendar
Gmail
Email
MMS
Twitter
Facebook
Pandora
XDA
Drop box
Google Voice
Google +
YouTube
Inverted Market
CM9 Boot animation
Do a full wipe and system format then install ROM followed by gapps...
Remember that this is a complete ROM and gapps and that when joker comes out with an update that you intend to flash, you must do a full wipe and fresh install before flashing AND YOU WILL LOSE THESE THEMED APPS...
Anyone interested in taking this for a spin...
ROM link: http://db.tt/IlUFCJDz
Gapps link: http://db.tt/U40gNzxj
I'm running it right now... Everything is Iced Out and SHWEEEEEET

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MobileAllStar said:
First and foremost... I AM NOT TAKING CREDIT FOR THIS ROM OR THE THEMING OF THE APPS. IF YOU FLASH THIS, YOU DO SO TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF YOUR PHONE BLOWING UP AND OR LOOKING BETTER THAN IT EVER HAS...
I took Jokers latest update 0.3.1 and his gapps v10 and removed and replaced the following apps with ICS Themed apps
Calculator
Calendar
Gmail
Email
MMS
Twitter
Facebook
Pandora
XDA
Drop box
Google Voice
Google +
YouTube
Inverted Market
CM9 Boot animation
Do a full wipe and system format then install ROM followed by gapps...
Remember that this is a complete ROM and gapps and that when joker comes out with an update that you intend to flash, you must do a full wipe and fresh install before flashing AND YOU WILL LOSE THESE THEMED APPS...
Anyone interested in taking this for a spin... PM me
I'm running it right now... Everything is Iced Out and SHWEEEEEET
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If you need help making an add on just mod one of my gapp zips
Sent from my MB855 using XDA

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MobileAllStar said:
Would modding just the gapps be able to overwrite and replace system apps such as email, calendar, calc etc.?
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It ought to, especially if users first wipe their cache.
a) Include the new files in the appropriate folders within the zip
b) Execute corresponding "rm" commands in the update-script to blow away the existing files
c) After those rm commands, execute the copy_dir command(s)
d) Execute the set_perm_recursive command(s)
It really ought to work.