Before i get slammed for the title
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072644
nickman529 said:
Before i get slammed for the title
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072644
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Even though I am not developer but I want to do something for Photon Community....
So please consider me part of crew....
for boot loader locking ..CG42.smg file is responsible which is packed in SBF file....
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Cooldevil1989 said:
Even though I am not developer but I want to do something for Photon Community....
So please consider me part of crew....
for boot loader locking ..CG42.smg file is responsible which is packed in SBF file....
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Cg42.smg. got it
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Cooldevil1989 said:
Even though I am not developer but I want to do something for Photon Community....
So please consider me part of crew....
for boot loader locking ..CG42.smg file is responsible which is packed in SBF file....
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Do I have to find it in the sbf file or is it in the system somewhere?
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nickman529 said:
Do I have to find it in the sbf file or is it in the system somewhere?
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This file is packed in sbf file.....
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i wanna help too.. though i dont have much knowledge but still want to learn by contributing.
prab2112 said:
i wanna help too.. though i dont have much knowledge but still want to learn by contributing.
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Read this thread, so you have a solid background in the challenges: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262266
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Read this thread, so you have a solid background in the challenges: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262266
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Sure,.. Thanks
This is a very lofty goal. Moto f*cked this thing so much that we would need a miracle to unlock 2.3.5. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, and with no development experience myself I have no room to talk. I just know that others have tried and have been fruitless, or frauds... I do hope you can crack this **** open, however. This is a devoted community and the ones still with a photon know how great a device we have. I plan on using this phone until it won't boot anymore and I hope that we can bring it to its full potential.
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This is a very lofty goal. Moto f*cked this thing so much that we would need a miracle to unlock 2.3.5. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, and with no development experience myself I have no room to talk. I just know that others have tried and have been fruitless, or frauds... I do hope you can crack this **** open, however. This is a devoted community and the ones still with a photon know how great a device we have. I plan on using this phone until it won't boot anymore and I hope that we can bring it to its full potential.
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Sweet. Appreciate it
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Saw this in the other thread
if you guys need any help ive got a stock photon sitting here for about a year now,its on 2.3.5 and ill run anything on it because otherwise its just going to set in a junk drawer forever.
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FernBch said:
Saw this in the other thread
if you guys need any help ive got a stock photon sitting here for about a year now,its on 2.3.5 and ill run anything on it because otherwise its just going to set in a junk drawer forever.
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i 2nd this. mine is sitting here stuck on the electrify 2.3.5 sbf after my friend borked it
Check the other thread I linked in the op
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Okay ladies and gentleman I know were all looking for a method to unlock bootloader for 2.3.5 on our photons, don't give up. I'm using my photon on family mobile by doing the methods described in a previous thread. I used RSD lite to flash a us cellular sbf file. I followed all instructions and now I'm using my locked photon on 2.3.5. I flashed kddi file and have my GSM radio unlocked with peetr's rom. Its all working smoothly so I say to all my fellow locked photon users ... you can still use your phone on any GSM network. I know we want to flash a ICS or JB rom but for the time being the method works. Don't give up cause it will be a pity if xda lets this awesome phone go.
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Okay ladies and gentleman I know were all looking for a method to unlock bootloader for 2.3.5 on our photons, don't give up. I'm using my photon on family mobile by doing the methods described in a previous thread. I used RSD lite to flash a us cellular sbf file. I followed all instructions and now I'm using my locked photon on 2.3.5. I flashed kddi file and have my GSM radio unlocked with peetr's rom. Its all working smoothly so I say to all my fellow locked photon users ... you can still use your phone on any GSM network. I know we want to flash a ICS or JB rom but for the time being the method works. Don't give up cause it will be a pity if xda lets this awesome phone go.
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Has anyone also looked into a locked ics rom using the gb kernel or writing our own kernels?
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Just stumbled on this. Thread closed. Until development has begun you can stick with the thread in General for your discussions, placeholder threads aren't allowed.
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Ok. Sorry for the newb question but can I flash a custom ROM and keep wimax. The 4G in my area is great but 3G is terribly slow. I've read some but I am struggling to find a straight answer. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
You sure you have read? Please go back and read some more. Just giving you a heads up (Bootloader is lock. Unlocking borks 4g. You have to unlock to flash any rom with CWM. Joker has a rom you can flash with bootstrap)
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Joker is working on something special...he is LEGEN-wait for it...and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!
KTT16 said:
Joker is working on something special...he is LEGEN-wait for it...and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!
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+1
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radrian92 said:
You sure you have read? Please go back and read some more. Just giving you a heads up (Bootloader is lock. Unlocking borks 4g. You have to unlock to flash any rom with CWM. Joker has a rom you can flash with bootstrap)
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Were is the CWM rom at for download?
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Check the Android development threads..look for unlocked cwm recovery
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Hello everyone i tried looking around this forum but cant find what i need do i need to have the bootloader unlocked to have root access and whats the safest way to root my device
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Unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone are two separate processes, and you don't need one to have the other.
As far as root methods and the rest, have you looked here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393519
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Unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone are two separate processes, and you don't need one to have the other.
As far as root methods and the rest, have you looked here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393519
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Im a noob with motorola i always had samsung. Samsung doesnt have a bootloader what is good about unlocking the bootloader sorry for my noon question
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Im a noob with motorola i always had samsung. Samsung doesnt have a bootloader what is good about unlocking the bootloader sorry for my noon question
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Unlocking the bootloader allows you to load roms like CM7, CM9, MIUI - anything that uses a custom kernel. It also allows you to load up a custom recovery.
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Unlocking the bootloader allows you to load roms like CM7, CM9, MIUI - anything that uses a custom kernel. It also allows you to load up a custom recovery.
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Oh ok thank you for that info im gonna stay stock waiting for ics 4.0 comes out in may
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Where did you head ICS in may? Sorry to hi-jack. Just being hopeful here.
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Where did you head ICS in may? Sorry to hi-jack. Just being hopeful here.
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For now, the only Motorola smartphones scheduled to get ICS in 2012 are thr Photon 4G, Atrix 4G and Atrix 2 starting in July. The rest of Motorola's lineup, including the Droid 4 and Droid Razr Maxx are in the evaluation and planning stage, and that means there is no guarantee they will be updated.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/299936/20120216/ice-cream-sandwich-update-ready-motorola-photon.htm
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Somebody is working to unlock the bootloader of the 2.3.5 in the motorola photon, we need to be in the rom kitchen, we want to test the ics or the JB, please save us.
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cxcorpx said:
Somebody is working to unlock the bootloader of the 2.3.5 in the motorola photon, we need to be in the rom kitchen, we want to test the ics or the JB, please save us.
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I don't think they can do anything without Motorola's help
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A few people have some ideas but the risk of testing things like that is too great. If we could get some people to donate a dozen handsets...
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I don't think they can do anything without Motorola's help
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last Wednesday, call to motorola and I spoke to him on our situation, they said to me that he should wait for future updates of its application for desbloque for developers, but I believe that alone sound lies of motorola, we know well that the Photon, on having been unblocked, loses 4G and this would be a loss of money for Sprint in a cell phone that many persons still use it since this one is provided with a high performance.
Android phones is provided a free code system, motorola always like to make us waste our money with a limit systems and locked.
Google need to stop this for the user like us that like to be in the rom kitchen.
Hey guys, its atrixno4g and i was wondering if their is away to rom the atrix running 2.3.6 with .141. Oh and if someone could tell me about this unlocked-bootloader thing is all about ( is it when the phone is unlocked?) and how to get the clockworkmod recovery i think its called.. I recently got this phone and without doing any research i used a program called RSD Lite and flashed some sbf to downgrade or something and instead bricked my phone- but i fixed it now. So basically can someone just give me a brief summary about all this, i dont want to brick my phone again.
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No search
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It would take more of my own time to explain it all and provide all of the links then it would for you to find out yourself.
Search-lazy much?
Sorry but by asking questions like that you are effectively invalidating and making worthless all the hard work and effort put into writing all those tutorials and explanations in other threads. Not nice.
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Hey guys, its atrixno4g and i was wondering if their is away to rom the atrix running 2.3.6 with .141. Oh and if someone could tell me about this unlocked-bootloader thing is all about ( is it when the phone is unlocked?) and how to get the clockworkmod recovery i think its called.. I recently got this phone and without doing any research i used a program called RSD Lite and flashed some sbf to downgrade or something and instead bricked my phone- but i fixed it now. So basically can someone just give me a brief summary about all this, i dont want to brick my phone again.
Thanks.
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I rooted and unlocked my bootloader a few hours ago using the automatic bootloader unlocker tool
But like everyone said you should search because all of this is included in the tutorial here just choose the option 3 for the AT&T version and continue
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Alright i will but what i want to know is how to get clockworkmod on it, a lot of the posts that i been looking at have links that are either outdated or arent their anymore
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Alright i will but what i want to know is how to get clockworkmod on it, a lot of the posts that i been looking at have links that are either outdated or arent their anymore
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Yeah, they are outdated. Like the bootloader thread, its outdated, but its still the way to do it. Theres no newer way. After that, root it. After you root it just install cwm from the market don't follow any threads on it.
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Alright i will but what i want to know is how to get clockworkmod on it, a lot of the posts that i been looking at have links that are either outdated or arent their anymore
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Like everyone has said you gotta search. A sign you haven't even looked in those threads is the fact you said they're outdated even though they have responses that are very recent, indicating people with your version and firmware might be commenting. It's a lot of reading and it should be because if you mess it up you could brick your phone. Read everything you can and then read it again. I can guarantee you can unlock, get clockworkmod working, and flash a ROM onto your phone (my guarantee is limited to the US AT&T atrix)
Thanx for everything guys- now i root first or unlock bootloader?
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I see you're still not too good at searching the forum...
How about you just follow this guide?
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G:_Full_Update_Guide
I recently got a job with Sprint and ordered a photon 4g to use on my employee line so I'll be able to get the next phone when it comes out, what's generally the best method to achieve an unlocked bootloader? I've rooted and unlocked many devices including the Motorola Atrix which I know is very similar.
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I recently got a job with Sprint and ordered a photon 4g to use on my employee line so I'll be able to get the next phone when it comes out, what's generally the best method to achieve an unlocked bootloader? I've rooted and unlocked many devices including the Motorola Atrix which I know is very similar.
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Search youtube for how to unlock bootloader for photon by qbking77
That method i have tried my self and most of users
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kc3 said:
I recently got a job with Sprint and ordered a photon 4g to use on my employee line so I'll be able to get the next phone when it comes out, what's generally the best method to achieve an unlocked bootloader? I've rooted and unlocked many devices including the Motorola Atrix which I know is very similar.
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You won't be able to unlock unless as an employee you can somehow load 2.3.4. Right now, there is no way to unlock 2.3.5.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20331544
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I've used the pudding unlock with success a couple times
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216143
A note: if you get this error during the pudding flash, dont worry, it can still work, I've got the error both times I flashed and it works fine.
"The "secure_motorola_flash" interface could not be found the super-file is secure and for re-flash, the phone needs a super-file that is not secure and for reflash. (0x7066)"
Yeah I have 2.3.5 :/, idk the warning at the beginning of that post sent kind of deters me from it
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its just to cover his ass. If you can follow instructions, its really quite simple. Go for it! Just make sure your battery is fully charged. You will be happy you unlocked it.
Th3 Bill's CM10 in the development section is an awesome rom. way better than stock.
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Yeah I have 2.3.5 :/, idk the warning at the beginning of that post sent kind of deters me from it
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I'm assuming it came with 2.3.5 and not the ota? If ota and you unpick let me know.
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Hate to be the party pooper, but you cannot unlock 2.3.5 254_13 or 254_12. There are many threads covering this. You can root it, add bootstrap, and use one of a few locked "ROMs" (for example mof9336's MOF 2.3.5. Slim {locked} De-Blur 4.5.1A-1_SUN-254_13).
It came with it, I have 254_13
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It came with it, I have 254_13
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You're permanently locked. You'll never see a custom ROM. Besides locked stock ones. Bleh. I'd recommend a new phone. Unless you love it and gingerbread that much.
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