So I recently purchased the Electrify from US cellular, and it's running 2.3.5.
My first question is, aside from the 4g capability, is there any difference between the Photon and Electrify? Any difference that would be important to things such as rooting/roms?
And then....Can anyone please link me to a decent root guide for the electrify/photon?
Oh, and can i get some suggestions from some fellow photon owners, what do you suggest doing to the electrify after its rooted? Any great roms suggested?
Thanks a ton guys! Any help is appreciated!
Plenty of views and no response...wonderful
only i know: The photon is the worst phone for gsm users
Rooting won't do a lick of good for playing with ROMs. You need an unlocked bootloader for that. Which you can't get with 2.3.5. I have the same (US Cellular Electrify that came with 2.3.5).
You probably can root it, but I haven't seen a straightforward guide that is confirmed working for the Electrify, and I don't trust guides for the Photon that are not confirmed to work for the Electrify as well.
Once rooted, you can grant apps "superuser" (or in Linux terms "su") permission, which lets apps do things the Android system wasn't really intended to let apps do. Such as taking screenshots. Simple thing, but you need root for it. Or blocking ads -- these all work by changing the HOSTS file, but it's effective enough. The best root app by far is Titanium Backup. You can remove all the bloatware, back up your apps (and their data!), and some other cool things.
I don't feel like rooting is really necessary on our phones, but I am curious about it.
Dark Reality said:
Rooting won't do a lick of good for playing with ROMs. You need an unlocked bootloader for that. Which you can't get with 2.3.5. I have the same (US Cellular Electrify that came with 2.3.5).
You probably can root it, but I haven't seen a straightforward guide that is confirmed working for the Electrify, and I don't trust guides for the Photon that are not confirmed to work for the Electrify as well.
Once rooted, you can grant apps "superuser" (or in Linux terms "su") permission, which lets apps do things the Android system wasn't really intended to let apps do. Such as taking screenshots. Simple thing, but you need root for it. Or blocking ads -- these all work by changing the HOSTS file, but it's effective enough. The best root app by far is Titanium Backup. You can remove all the bloatware, back up your apps (and their data!), and some other cool things.
I don't feel like rooting is really necessary on our phones, but I am curious about it.
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Yeah i feel the same way, add me man, and if ya find anything, let me know Hopefully we can help each other out....I got really into messin with ROM's and flashin **** back in the day with the original droids, and things have REALLY changed since then ha
Don't need Titanium to remove Blur/Bloat, just send me a copy of a full bloat /data/app folder and I'll add the final entries to the universal deblur/debloat script.
FYI - I got a 2.3.5 Electrify last week, the Photon Torpedo root method works fine.
Slightly miffed, since I thought I was getting a Photon instead, and bought the phone in part because I was sick of the RAZR's locked bootloader, but whatchagonnado. Hardware is lovely, battery life is good, and this version of Blur is much less intrusive than the RAZR's.
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Crispytoast, add you on what; and how? I would be glad to help in any way once I learn things but right now I am at square one. My first and previous phone was a Samsung Acclaim (Sprint people, think Moment) and I rooted and ROM'd it with help from the good folks over at SDX, and was able to pass on knowledge and help a couple people, but I'm not a modded or programmer of any kind. I built my computer and the one before it, but otherwise my tech level is pretty moderate. I know a lot more than your average novice, but I'm no guru. Still, I will help where I can.
Lokifish, didn't you get all that already, from an Electrify owner? If not, I would be happy to help, just walk me through the steps to do so or point me in the right direction, and I'll get on it when I get home, get sleep, and get coffee, haha.
And I just want Titanium for backups for now, especially since I have a pro license. ;-)
Onslaught, how did you get an Electrify at Sprint? They are the same device except it's called Electrify at US Cellular and Photon at Sprint... and Photon adds the WiMax (4G) chip... and Photon came first. If you got an Electrify you got it at US Cellular. Isn't that correct?
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Onslaught, how did you get an Electrify at Sprint? They are the same device except it's called Electrify at US Cellular and Photon at Sprint... and Photon adds the WiMax (4G) chip... and Photon came first. If you got an Electrify you got it at US Cellular. Isn't that correct?
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Note my location and carrier - I'm using it exclusively as a GSM device.
Hated the ugly silver bezel, too, didn't know the Electrify had that. So I, uh, sanded it off. Looks much nicer. Do recommend.
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Check these guys out:
teamuscellular dot com
I can't post outside links, but I've researched the site and it looks promising for US Cellular phone dev. I'm considering the SG2...
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Hi Everyone,
I know may be you don't like my thread's name, It is my opinion and I want to know your opinion.
The reason why I'm asking this, simply because I rooted my Razr XT910 to ICS and I really regret. You will tell me , unroot, sure I can do. But I want to pass my experience and to everyone cannot wait to root his Razr.
Ok my reasons are as follows:
1- If you are not very careful you simply can lose your phone
2-After rooting from 2.3.6 on Razr XT910 to ICS 4.0.4 and after the tension because of my mistake and was going to lose my Razr, I found the ICS very basic not much to add to UI. Meaning no widgets like contacts favourites and many others so simply you have to keep installing apps either free or buying not like the original 2.3.6.
3- Not fast as expected
4- No enough support for the Razr XT910 very minimal. Everything is for Droid Razr XT912. I did a mistake by installing a rom for Droid Razr and it blocked my phone and I had to use RSD to install SBF.
5- Themes are very poor
Again guys this is a personal opinion, just wanted to share it with you and to think twice before rooting you Razr XT910
My ROM is Razr-AOKP-GSM-J.Y.Daddy
BTW, I tried Eternity project for Razr XT910 and I got Installation aborted message and again no help in its thread how to overcome the issue
There is more to rooting a phone then just install roms.
Some programs need root to give all the benefits they have, like Rootbrowser, System tuner Pro and SetCPU.
With a rooted phone I can set my cpu level during day, work hours and night.
I can freeze and unfreeze bloatware, make backups and optimize my phone as I like to with or without a rom.
That's why I got it rooted.
Mataraty said:
There is more to rooting a phone then just install roms.
Some programs need root to give all the benefits they have, like Rootbrowser, System tuner Pro and SetCPU.
With a rooted phone I can set my cpu level during day, work hours and night.
I can freeze and unfreeze bloatware, make backups and optimize my phone as I like to with or without a rom.
That's why I got it rooted.
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Great thanks for sharing. To add more benefits for everybody why don't you add more explanations on how to do these things.
The current ICS roms are built for GB kernel.. Pretty impressive really..
Also wrong section
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FrAsErTaG said:
The current ICS roms are built for GB kernel.. Pretty impressive really..
Also wrong section
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First of all, thanks for your help earlier you saved my phone from crashing.
Second, I thought the development section is the proper one to discuss rooting matter. Or what do you think?
In addition, how many stable roms are out there for XT910 same like yours. Please mention some.
Thanks
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First of all, thanks for your help earlier you saved my phone from crashing.
Second, I thought the development section is the proper one to discuss rooting matter. Or what do you think?
In addition, how many stable roms are out there for XT910 same like yours. Please mention some.
Thanks
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No, that belongs in the General section. If you want to discuss a rooting that you did in the Development section, then you would comment on the thread where you received your information for the ROM you chose to place on your phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344531
....Wow, just wow. *palm to forehead*
@flupo: You have a rogers razr, I'm guessing, which is why you can't get the leak. Give it time, you'll get real ics. Really can't believe you felt the need to make a thread about this lol.
I have the Rogers Razr as well and I'm running J Daddy's custom CM9. Works very well as a daily driver. I don't have a need for bluetooth and I can live without the video recording function. All users understand that these builds are in development and do not provide all the functions flawlessly. So your only options are to wait for an official build from Motorola or hope that somehow a bootloader bypass/unlock comes around that will allow us to use the kernel+radio from the Chinese/European ICS and have a ROM that is more streamlined than the current development builds.
Rooting is not the same as installing a ROM. Updating from GB to ICS is installing a new ROM which has absolutely nothing to do with "Root" in most situations.
Root is the Linux way of saying Admin Account. With "root" access to a phone, you literally have permission to do anything you want, install anything you want, remove anything you want, and run anything even if it requires permissions that are normally rejected on a unrooted phone.
Apps that require root that I use on a regular basis: TitaniumBackup, AdFree, Terminal Emulator, WiFi Tether, and ES File Explorer. There are many others. None of these have anything to do with installing ICS or not.
Your thread title is misleading and it is in the wrong forum. Developers create threads in the Development section, only. You can reply to one of their threads if appropriate, but to create a new discussion on something it should be in General.
You should read through a lot more threads, ask questions in the general section, and generally understand a lot more before you start trying to modify your phone like this. That should be the warning you tell people. People shouldn't just jump in and start modifying their phone's OS until they know what OS, Root, ROM, and a bunch of other terms mean and what they do.
Lol.I have a galaxy nexus i root the day i got it,i also have a Droid razr maxx that I haven't root yet.Thanks for this thread I'm diff not going to root now.
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Wrong section.
Root 'n rool!
lol
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Dont tell people not to root when your not knowledgable on this stuff
Ohh Canadians, Canadians.....
pedrotorresfilho said:
Wrong section.
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Wrong topic :-D
Everyone remember that guy in class that would stand up in the front of class and tell everyone not to do something because it was "wrong?" even though he didn't even know why himself?
This thread actually happened...
this thread was brought to you by an educational system somewhere on THIS planet. We're sorry.
Lmfao^^^^^^
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Read carefully and thoroughly and you won't have a problem. Rush in and flash the first file you find and you'll quickly end up with a brick. Getting the most out of any device requires an investment time-wise, and if you're not prepared to make that investment you shouldn't be flashing anything.
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Thanks for sharing
Obviously from most of your comments, I did a mistake by making such a question in this section. Sorry about that but I thought it is the right one where people read about rooting.
Second, These are my previous smartphone list which I did rooting for all of them and it went fine with no crashes:
HTC Tytn 2
Sony Ericson Experia
HTC Touch Pro
HTC Diamond 1 and 2
HTC HD
HTC HD2
HTC Desire
So may be from the above you can see guys that I have some experience in rooting and I read a lot about it.
The reason for my thread was to raise the issue that there is no enough support for the great Razr especially XT910. As per Motorola support team whom I discussed with, the upgrade from GB to ICS is in the planing phase and might take about another 3-4 months.
Any how I tried to do that to see if I can solve the issue for having ICS on XT910 or not before selling it and go back to HTC with HTC One X.
Last, it will be great to have a professional forum that has talented people respect each other not like the respectable person whom said "ohh Canadians Canadians"
Everyone of those phones you listed are HTC devices including the Sony Ericson.
That's probably why you stuffed up because this is not a HTC device. Not to mention the majority are native windows mobile phones..
Do you know some one named planetone?
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I cant see what there is to gain by unlocking and installing a rom that only works on an unlocked phone. Why should I give up 4g? Wish I knew how to make my own rom.
Questions should be in Q&A or general, but to answer your question, not everyone lives in a wimax area so what is the point of 4g when there is no signal to use?
^ this. I'll probably need someone to change my diapers for me by the time sprint has 4g in my area. Oops tmi?
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a good sprint locked rom would prolly be a good idea actually since a lot of new users prolly gunna end up with this 2.3.5 bootloader and even later as sprint moves to ics
Whats wrong with mine? Im the only one actually works on them and it seems people dont appreciate them thats why I dont put more time to them
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I live in a 4g area and sprints 4g isn't good anyway so long live the unlocked roms! I mean if you stand in the middle of the street and don't move then it's awesome.
I like yours rocko...have tried them all but the most stable is 2.4..on it now. Tried the 3.5 but it does not have 4g for sprint.
Keep up the good work
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I like yours rocko...have tried them all but the most stable is 2.4..on it now. Tried the 3.5 but it does not have 4g for sprint.
Keep up the good work
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Ill work on that sprint leaked one have a couple testers probably 2night
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I cant see what there is to gain by unlocking and installing a rom that only works on an unlocked phone. Why should I give up 4g? Wish I knew how to make my own rom.
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Since I also live in a 4g area I'm not willing to give up my 4g by staying perm unlocked. Ive been reading and learning and am testing a locked rom just adding the tweaks hope to be ready in a few days.
I dont live in a 4g area, but most of my daylight time is in a 4g area and I use it. Lets face it! We have to pay for it. It should work. There is no way to compromise for me to give up 4g for some of the custom roms out there. I had an Evo before my Photon and I will say that when the time comes I will ditch this Photon and get a Samsung or HTC phone. Shame on Motorola for locking down their phones. Even the company I work for has given up on motorola and went to other radio manufacturers. It just seem there are more people developing on HTC and Samsung for the very reason that they are "OPEN" and not locked down.
Just my 2 cents...
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Whats wrong with mine? Im the only one actually works on them and it seems people dont appreciate them thats why I dont put more time to them
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i can honestly say ive never flashed any of your roms. right now my ideal one would be the 2.3.5 with fixed hdmi.. with that id be happy :/
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I dont live in a 4g area, but most of my daylight time is in a 4g area and I use it. Lets face it! We have to pay for it. It should work. There is no way to compromise for me to give up 4g for some of the custom roms out there. I had an Evo before my Photon and I will say that when the time comes I will ditch this Photon and get a Samsung or HTC phone. Shame on Motorola for locking down their phones. Even the company I work for has given up on motorola and went to other radio manufacturers. It just seem there are more people developing on HTC and Samsung for the very reason that they are "OPEN" and not locked down.
Just my 2 cents...
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you need to look up what open is, as it stands htcs "unlock is getting more and more locked down
I understand what you mean about htc being more locked down...that is why htc was second in my choices of my next phone. But I know that whatever man can lock down can be unlocked. It just take the desire too do it. If I was more of a developer and more advanced in this particular field I could spend more time working on it. But I am still learning and trying to figure it all out.
But thanks for your observations, and you developmental skills. We all appreciate it.
Back to the subject... what advantages do an unlocked bootloader with no 4G have over a locked bootloader with 4G.. rocko's rom is pretty nice and extremely smooth and he achieved that with a locked bootloader. Why flash a gingerbread rom that's made for an unlocked bootloader... I can kinda understand the purpose for an ICS rom because of its custom drivers
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Back to the subject... what advantages do an unlocked bootloader with no 4G have over a locked bootloader with 4G.. rocko's rom is pretty nice and extremely smooth and he achieved that with a locked bootloader. Why flash a gingerbread rom that's made for an unlocked bootloader... I can kinda understand the purpose for an ICS rom because of its custom drivers
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In the defense of unlocking, I don't remember when was the last time I wasn't on a ICS base rom. I have full 4g in my area and everywhere I have to go to work. but I like customizability and choices. sprint 3g is fast as **** here so I don't miss 4g at all. I don't think I've even run a kernel that can't be overclocked to 1.4 in a while also... so, I stay unlocked. Also, Rocko's roms are sweet.. locked or unlocked thanks for all the hard work...
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I dont live in a 4g area, but most of my daylight time is in a 4g area and I use it. Lets face it! We have to pay for it. It should work. There is no way to compromise for me to give up 4g for some of the custom roms out there. I had an Evo before my Photon and I will say that when the time comes I will ditch this Photon and get a Samsung or HTC phone. Shame on Motorola for locking down their phones. Even the company I work for has given up on motorola and went to other radio manufacturers. It just seem there are more people developing on HTC and Samsung for the very reason that they are "OPEN" and not locked down.
Just my 2 cents...
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I plan to ditch my Photon in a couple of weeks for an HTC One but I fully expect it to be locked down after HTC locked down the One for ATT. Im not real sure how I feel about that but the bottom line is I hate this phone. Its laggy, the screen sucks for gaming.. its a great PHONE but its a lousy smart device.
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I plan to ditch my Photon in a couple of weeks for an HTC One but I fully expect it to be locked down after HTC locked down the One for ATT. Im not real sure how I feel about that but the bottom line is I hate this phone. Its laggy, the screen sucks for gaming.. its a great PHONE but its a lousy smart device.
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I'll give ya $100 for it right now.
CCallahan said:
I'll give ya $100 for it right now.
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I have an Otterbox Defender that needs to go with it. If you want to adjust the price a little, we can make it happen. You can check my feedback on Ebay if you want and Ill give you my contact info.. Im a straight shooter. Id even be willing to go back to my OG Epic 4G just to get rid of this thing.
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Rocko,
Your Blur build is what i use when i need to go back to blur Great build! Id run it as my daily, but im a CM addict.
To the OP,
its all in the name of "bc they can." 4G(WIMAX) for me is over rated, 3G downloads emails and all that jazz plenty fast enough. id rather have the latest software then 4G, and ive been glued to CM since my EVO.
MadFlava,
screen sucks for gaming... Solitaire works great on my photon ha ha obviously im not a big gamer. I dont plan to make a move to a different phone unless the devs move. Ill follow them
[rant mode enabled]
(if this affects my chances of ever getting dev status I'm not sure if I care as I've been waiting for almost a year)
Almost every day there's a "I can't find it" thread or post for a file that I personally hosted. Where can these files be found? In a STICKIED thread that I try to maintain and keep up to date. This leads me to believe that the money spent hosting and the work involved in the stickied thread is ignored and unappreciated by many.
People are still flashing 2.3.5electrify pudding on photons after it has been said many times "don't do it". Again this goes back to the previous paragraph. I'm now to the point that if you bork your phone considering that the information is obviously available, you deserve it.
Nobody is developing for locked? Since when? There's three locked ROM's/mods that I know of right now without looking. Rocko Locked to start, which I have said is a bloody good ROM for those that want eyecandy. Imperium Locked is for those that want a barebones ROM that was updated less than a week ago. Here's a surprise for folks. The Deblur/Debloat Script is an ODEXED version of Imperium Locked without the theme change! How many Locked ROMs do you want, or is it that reading and searching are to much of a bother.
Other annoying things are "I don't like the way it looks" complaints and the general lack of "thanks" or support. If you don't like the way a ROM looks then flash a theme. That's what they are there for. If you can't be bothered to flash a theme (and don't say there are none) then don't flash anything. Developing takes effort, time and money. If you are not developing, hitting the "thanks" button or donating then you are leeching, plain and simple.
Also. Why is this thread in the development section? I don't see any development work posted.
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Photon Locked vs unlocked;
Locked ROMs give you the benefit of being very close to the stock base in many cases. Things like PRL and profile updates work and in some cases you can choose to accept an OTA update with little to no issues. You also loose fewer stock features with locked like 4G. The drawback is that battery life is shorter, it runs slower and fine tuning is almost impossible.
Unlocked ROM's give you more choice and greater flexibility with things like full themes, kernels and overclocking/undervolting. It then becomes a choice of need vs want. My daily is my own ROM that is underclocked to 750MhZ single core and NOT undervolted. With the tuning of profiles, my battery fall off is 1% every three hours, video playback is around six hours and during a call my phone never breaks 456MhZ. In short, battery life is insane with a standby mode of 10 days before I get a low battery prompt. This cannot be done with locked. The only thing I loose is 4G but considering the impact 4G has on battery life I can actually transfer more data than if I did have 4G just at a slower rate.
If LTE proves to be more battery friendly then I may change my position but for now I personally choose flexibility and the ability to fine tune over 4G any day.
The DeBlur tool is awesome. I just had to flash back because Im going to participate in the SOAK if I get chosen. Everyone should run the DeBlur tool.
But after doing some searching here it appears that:
- if the Photon is on 2.3.4 it's usable, rootable, and even possible to unlock the bootloader allowing for most any ROM in the development subforum and even updating/upgrading to the KDDI radio to make GSM usage possible here in the US
- if the Photon is on 2.3.5 it's basically dead in the water and practically no mods at all are possible (I'm saying practically no mods, because some do exist) until hopefully someone discovers a root or unlocking method for the bootloader
For all the Q&A things and FAQs etc, it sure seems pretty logical that somewhere, in big banner font that's bolded and italicized that if you have a 2.3.4 Photon MAKE SURE YOU DON'T TAKE THE OTA UPDATE TO 2.3.5. Wonder why that oh-so-simple yet oh-so-valuable piece of information isn't just slammed in people's faces right from the gitgo.
Am I correct in my appraisal of 2.3.4 vs 2.3.5 'cause it's pretty tough to locate a Photon with 2.3.4 on it anymore, the one I just found on craigslist is cheap ($50 with all the original stuff including box too) but it's 2.3.5. I know that's still a fantastic price for a solid Motorola Photon that works without any known issues (even has an 8GB microSD card in it), and I know that Motorola keeps saying they'll be coming out with an official ICS for the Photon (later this year), but... even for $50 is it worth it to get a Photon if I can't do anything but run it pure stock until... well, a miracle happens?
Any info is appreciated, opinions and suggestions too.
Yeah, that's the short version. You are correct.
I think I'd buy it at $50 regardless. If/when the official ICS shows up you'll be glad you did.
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But after doing some searching here it appears that:
- if the Photon is on 2.3.4 it's usable, rootable, and even possible to unlock the bootloader allowing for most any ROM in the development subforum and even updating/upgrading to the KDDI radio to make GSM usage possible here in the US
- if the Photon is on 2.3.5 it's basically dead in the water and practically no mods at all are possible (I'm saying practically no mods, because some do exist) until hopefully someone discovers a root or unlocking method for the bootloader
For all the Q&A things and FAQs etc, it sure seems pretty logical that somewhere, in big banner font that's bolded and italicized that if you have a 2.3.4 Photon MAKE SURE YOU DON'T TAKE THE OTA UPDATE TO 2.3.5. Wonder why that oh-so-simple yet oh-so-valuable piece of information isn't just slammed in people's faces right from the gitgo.
Am I correct in my appraisal of 2.3.4 vs 2.3.5 'cause it's pretty tough to locate a Photon with 2.3.4 on it anymore, the one I just found on craigslist is cheap ($50 with all the original stuff including box too) but it's 2.3.5. I know that's still a fantastic price for a solid Motorola Photon that works without any known issues (even has an 8GB microSD card in it), and I know that Motorola keeps saying they'll be coming out with an official ICS for the Photon (later this year), but... even for $50 is it worth it to get a Photon if I can't do anything but run it pure stock until... well, a miracle happens?
Any info is appreciated, opinions and suggestions too.
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Hello and welcome. Yessir you are right on most everything. Except consider the fact that you still have the ability to use two great actively updated roms. Technically having a locked bootloader just prevents you from using a custom kernel. You can run any rom you want as long as its compatible with the stock kernel -- that means only blurbased roms. Granted youll be stuck in gingerbread, but Peetrs hybridrom is more or less a complete deblur so its just like running a clean aosp gingerbread rom. So given that, if moto releases official ics im positive someone will deblur that aswell, giving you a generally clean ics. Point is, youre not completely screwed intoanything using stock. But even if you were, stock is actually not bad at all and you can still root and mold it how you like. For 50 bucks? You wont be disappointed. And even if you are, you can get much more than 50 bucks off of it if you throw it on ebay.
Yah, I figured as much. The primary beef for me is it being 2.3.4 and having missed the opportunity to install that KDDI radio - I don't use Sprint so I had serious hope of getting it working with that T-Mobile $30/unlimited data plan (I live in Vegas and T-Mobile now finally covers that band here afaik, could be delayed but I'm pretty sure it's in effect now).
Since that's a non-option now, I'll still consider getting the Photon. I played with one a few weeks ago, was somewhat disappointed in some aspects, that Tegra 2 had so much potential but it's so weak by comparison. Irritates me to no end it lacks proper video decoding support for some of the stuff I use (MX Player can play most anything, but it's forced to use software decoding for some of the files I have because the Tegra 2 just won't do hardware decoding of some h.264 profiles and it really sucks).
But yeah, for $50 I suppose it's not a bad deal overall for a dual core smartphone these days. Would rather have an Atrix 2 like I did a few months ago but, can't find one of those under $150 these days. Doesn't stop me from scanning craigslist almost constantly, however.
I am new to this and still trying to wrap my head around all the terms and process' but all in all I am confident in what I'm about to do. But! I wanted to ask a few questions first.
I have a Milestone X2 (already rooted) and a regional carrier (Carolina West Wireless) I want to make a Nandroid backup before messing with ROMS.
I am using ROM Manager and when I am trying to install some required components it asks me to confirm my phone model. The Milestone X2 is not listed, and I want to see if anyone thinks it would be safe to click Droid X2 or should I use another method of backup.
If anyone knows of any good tutorials that aren't too in-depth or similar situations please let me know.
Would this be a good guide?
Thanks in advance!
-Amir
Do not use ROM manager, it is not compatible with your phone
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I own a Droid X2 and all I know is that it is not the same as the Milestone X2. You can't use the same ROMs and mods for both. So whatever you use, make sure it is for your Milestone X2. Stick around here though for questions and tutorials. There are quite a few people in here that use the Milestone X2 and will help you out when they see your post. The link you posted looks like a process to use someone elses nandroid. I think anyway. The files in there look like the ones you would need to at least get started though. And It's been said but I will say it again. Dont use Rom Manager. Its more for unlocked phones. Any mods or ROMs you want on your phone, download them from here. Not Rom Manager.
I appreciate the response guys. I will not use any Droid X2 ROMs and will continue my search.
Damn regional carriers cant get a decent phone, if it wasn't so cheap.
Are there any ROMs that allow everything to work (wifi, 3g, camera) that are compatible with the Mx2? (Don't need anyone to go on a in depth search just seeing if its out there)
shariatiae said:
I appreciate the response guys. I will not use any Droid X2 ROMs and will continue my search.
Damn regional carriers cant get a decent phone, if it wasn't so cheap.
Are there any ROMs that allow everything to work (wifi, 3g, camera) that are compatible with the Mx2? (Don't need anyone to go on a in depth search just seeing if its out there)
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Yes, they are all in this forum. Just look in the development section. After our Droid X2 dev creates a ROM, someone with a Milestone X2 usually makes it for theirs. I think the Milestone has its own SBF file. But the Bootstrap recoveries are all the same I think. Again, dont rely only on what I say since I dont know much about the Milestone X2. But once you get a recovery working for you, you do a nandroid backup with that. I dont know if your new to Android or just this phone but you cannot uses just any file for your phone. It has to be made specifically for the milestone X2. Thats why I say stick to this forum and this forum alone because everything you need is in here. Just got to do a little searching and a lot of reading. Once you get confortable with everything, things will be really easy from then on.
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Yes, they are all in this forum. Just look in the development section. After our Droid X2 dev creates a ROM, someone with a Milestone X2 usually makes it for theirs. I think the Milestone has its own SBF file. But the Bootstrap recoveries are all the same I think. Again, dont rely only on what I say since I dont know much about the Milestone X2. But once you get a recovery working for you, you do a nandroid backup with that. I dont know if your new to Android or just this phone but you cannot uses just any file for your phone. It has to be made specifically for the milestone X2. Thats why I say stick to this forum and this forum alone because everything you need is in here. Just got to do a little searching and a lot of reading. Once you get confortable with everything, things will be really easy from then on.
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The milestone has one sbf meant for ntelos so be careful. you can get other carriers to work with it if your lucky. as for the recoveries you use the exact same ones the dx2 users use. as for everything else search the development section for everything theyll be labled mx2 if they work with the mx2
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back up your apn settings
that is how you connect to your carrier
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Can someone help me with what to do as far as backup before installing a ROM on my Milestone X2? What does it mean to backup apn?
APN Settings
here is literally everything you need
99 percent of the info you will need is contained in this thread...
shariatiae said:
I am new to this and still trying to wrap my head around all the terms and process' but all in all I am confident in what I'm about to do. But! I wanted to ask a few questions first.
I have a Milestone X2 (already rooted) and a regional carrier (Carolina West Wireless) I want to make a Nandroid backup before messing with ROMS.
I am using ROM Manager and when I am trying to install some required components it asks me to confirm my phone model. The Milestone X2 is not listed, and I want to see if anyone thinks it would be safe to click Droid X2 or should I use another method of backup.
If anyone knows of any good tutorials that aren't too in-depth or similar situations please let me know.
Would this be a good guide?
Thanks in advance!
-Amir
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So as I understand it, the Photon has drivers issues which is why we dont have a port of for instant a droid bionic version of moto ICS, or moto jellybean. I am wondering what we need to get a kernel going. If this happened this would open up the possibility for doing webtop on a non stock rom.(Which I really would love cm 10.1 with ubuntop) I have been using linux for many years and am familiar with compiling and modifying kernels and packages I am just still new with android I came from the Epic 4G. I just would like to be pointed in the right direction or maybe someone who already makes kernels has attempted this and we could work together.
Thanks for your time.
You need source from Motorola and whatever company it was that Apple bought. You can try the Compendium thread for kernel links but as of now a new kernel is highly unlikely.
So then maybe we should look into writing our own? I mean if they can do it why can't we?
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So as I understand it, the Photon has drivers issues which is why we dont have a port of for instant a droid bionic version of moto ICS, or moto jellybean. I am wondering what we need to get a kernel going. If this happened this would open up the possibility for doing webtop on a non stock rom.(Which I really would love cm 10.1 with ubuntop) I have been using linux for many years and am familiar with compiling and modifying kernels and packages I am just still new with android I came from the Epic 4G. I just would like to be pointed in the right direction or maybe someone who already makes kernels has attempted this and we could work together.
Thanks for your time.
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There's a thread over in the Atrix 4G forums where some people are working on a port from the Galaxy R kernel. You may want to follow that thread and offer your assistence there, because chances are that any progress that benefits the Atrix will benefit the Photon in the long run.
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There's a thread over in the Atrix 4G forums where some people are working on a port from the Galaxy R kernel. You may want to follow that thread and offer your assistence there, because chances are that any progress that benefits the Atrix will benefit the Photon in the long run.
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In theory that is sound, but the Atrix has a much newer kernel version than ours from the start (not sure how that happened with our device being more recent release). If you're planning to try, make sure that you have device protection or a good number of devices to work with....they've already hard bricked one or two from what I had seen.
What drivers are required, and I assume you mean for a 3.x kernel?
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Unless you want to rev-eng a couple of parts of the kernel to make the GalaxyR kernel exaclty compatible with the Photon, you won't be able to use the stuff. Sorry.
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Unless you want to rev-eng a couple of parts of the kernel to make the GalaxyR kernel exaclty compatible with the Photon, you won't be able to use the stuff. Sorry.
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What ever happened to the magic kernel?
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What ever happened to the magic kernel?
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I was wondering the samething, have heard any news of it, he must not be able to release it.
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I was wondering the samething, have heard any news of it, he must not be able to release it.
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Yeah, he said he had something special for us, but never told us what it was.
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R2DeeTard said:
Yeah, he said he had something special for us, but never told us what it was.
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maybe, jut maybe some day it will be leaked.
after the screwing Moto gave us he might as well post it. wtf are they gonna do? lock our damn phones?
My guess is it just never panned out and the guy didn't want to disappoint us. This was around the time of the Atrix leak, and that never amounted to anything, and a bunch of people got let down. It's my theory, which is far from concrete, that the leak included Photon files as well, that also never amounted to anything, but less was said here, so fewer people will be let down. I'm personally not worried. Come whatever may. My phone may not be able to do MMS or camcorder, or run Chrome or Swiftkey Flow, but I like it. It does the things I want it to. And it looks sexy as hell. I'd appreciate this mystery kernel or whatever, but I'm not gonna lose sleep if some mad scientist is holding out. Not saying that's what cybik is (I actually don't know much about him), just saying neither of the two extremes affect me much. And they shouldn't affect y'all either. If you're locked I'm sorry, that sucks, so is my brother, but you can run Holo Launcher/Locker and use either utter!, Maluuba, or Dragon Go! for voice commands/personal assistant, Notification Toggle for, well, the toggles, and Dolphin for your browser, and that puts you fairly close to Android 4. Motoblur can't keep a WiFi lock to save its life, but there are apps for that... I'm trying to test one on my wife's phone, but I'm not getting very good data from it. If you're unlocked, you have a lot of good choices as it is.
I may be an Atrix owner, but if the 2.6.39.4 kernel that is being dev'd for the Atrix is a success, couldn't you take the post-dev'd 2.6.39.4 kernel and port it to the Photon?