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 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.
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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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uscell
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...
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
flupo2000 said:
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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So I wrote a wall of text the erased it. I want to build an ICS ROM from scratch for the Droid X2. I know of some of the issues I face. One being AOSP and setting up USB.
Anyone know how I can set it up to work so I can build and test?
Yes I'm new, but I want to do this and I have to start somewhere.
I know I may be biting off more than I can chew, but I want to do this.
I would appreciate help in any form.
Perpetual Void said:
So I wrote a wall of text the erased it. I want to build an ICS ROM from scratch for the Droid X2. I know of some of the issues I face. One being AOSP and setting up USB.
Anyone know how I can set it up to work so I can build and test?
Yes I'm new, but I want to do this and I have to start somewhere.
I know I may be biting off more than I can chew, but I want to do this.
I would appreciate help in any form.
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Wouldn't be bad idea to check out the Atrix and/or Razr forums and see what they have going on.
This would be like eating an entire cookie cake in one bite and one swallow. However, we have one guy working on something similar so it isn't impossible. Just difficult.
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I know that Motorola made a Razr that is for devs. They sell it to to consumers. So they have it good.
I do have another question. Since android is linux based isn't a ROM just pretty much the same thing as say KDE or GNOME? What are the major differences or are there any? To me android just seems like a GUI for the underlying linux kernel.
Stop me if I'm in the wrong forum now.
I received my Razr today and I can't explain how much of a relief it is to own a half way decent phone. I was using the Thunderbolt and I can't begin to vent my frustration for that crappy device...
Anyway, I had some questions because I've noticed a few things that are slightly different in this device section on these forums... Hopefully some of you can clear the air.
1. I see there are some GSM and CDMA ROM's, so I am guessing the Razr isn't just for Verizon?
2. Is there anything I have to do prior to rooting my device? I heard the bootloader use to be locked and it required a lot of effort to get around it... I'm not sure if this is still the case or if someone has made a simple exploit to go around the loader.
3. What is the most popular method of rooting this device today? I see the EternityProject EasyRootICS 1.5 has a lot of views, would this be a good recommendation for rooting?
4. Sort of related to my last question, but I read awhile ago that the bootloader was unlocked but only one core worked. Is this still the case?
5. I looked for JB ROM's for the phone but I don't see any. Is there any other forums that have a JB CDMA XT912 ROM?
6. What else should I expect when it comes to rooting this device?
THANKS in advance!
feered said:
I received my Razr today and I can't explain how much of a relief it is to own a half way decent phone. I was using the Thunderbolt and I can't begin to vent my frustration for that crappy device...
Anyway, I had some questions because I've noticed a few things that are slightly different in this device section on these forums... Hopefully some of you can clear the air.
1. I see there are some GSM and CDMA ROM's, so I am guessing the Razr isn't just for Verizon?
2. Is there anything I have to do prior to rooting my device? I heard the bootloader use to be locked and it required a lot of effort to get around it... I'm not sure if this is still the case or if someone has made a simple exploit to go around the loader.
3. What is the most popular method of rooting this device today? I see the EternityProject EasyRootICS 1.5 has a lot of views, would this be a good recommendation for rooting?
4. Sort of related to my last question, but I read awhile ago that the bootloader was unlocked but only one core worked. Is this still the case?
5. I looked for JB ROM's for the phone but I don't see any. Is there any other forums that have a JB CDMA XT912 ROM?
6. What else should I expect when it comes to rooting this device?
THANKS in advance!
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1. CDMA is for Verizon, GSM is for all the others.
2. Yes, the bootloader it locked, and as far as I'm aware, it still hasn't been able to be unlocked. It is very easy to root the device, actually. There are many threads with many different methods of rooting. Just search for them.
3. If it works, it works!
4. Not sure, I haven't heard that. But I could be wrong.
5. I have searched far and wide as well (including off of XDA) and haven't been able to find any stable ones suited for everyday use.
6. Not sure what you mean by this, but rooting unlocks many new features of this device that really help to unleash its full potential.
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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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atsuisofu said:
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.
runningslow said:
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.
cybik said:
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.
wcherin said:
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?