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Motorola Photon - No Service After Flash

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Hello everyone,

I am having a very weird issue. My phone has lost data/voice service and it just shows that its on roaming. Was running on stock rom all this while. So to decided to flash to ICS.

Steps that were done (as shown on the XDA threads) :-

1. Latest 198_7 sbf was loaded

2. Bootloader was unlocked

3. Recovery mod was installed

4. Flashed to Th3Bill's MiUi v4 rom

Now I don't have any voice/data connectivity.

Can you please help me restore the connectivity back.

I am Android noob. This was done by fellow RImweb'ian krispuniq and even he's confused as to why the voice/data was lost after the flash.

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Also noticed another problem. I don't seem to have internal storage :P

The mount storage options is greyed out, cant select that as well.

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Go with the SBF for phton, just google for it

than Flash Prl by CDMA WS & USE NV Dump for Data

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Go with the SBF for phton, just google for it

than Flash Prl by CDMA WS & USE NV Dump for Data

Parin,

So lets say we start the process all over again.. ie.,

  • Flash SBF (at this point check if the data & connection is back, if not then load PRL & NV Dump)
  • Root & unlock bootloader
  • Flash Custom CWM
  • Wipe/Factory Reset
  • Load MIUI v4 2.6.8 ( this ROM was the reason why it all started :P) and check again whether data & calls are working ! (if not working, can we again load PRL & NV dump at this point) ?

How to load NV Dump ? (which tab in CDMA workshop) Do we need to unlock SPC (how) before we try loading PRL & NV Dump?

How to put photon in DIAG Mode ? :doh:

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Finally this thread is moving forward :)

Thank you Parin. Since I'm like the proverbial village idiot who doesn't understand most of this, I hope krispuniq has understood the steps.

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Go with the SBF for phton, just google for it

than Flash Prl by CDMA WS & USE NV Dump for Data

Parin,

So lets say we start the process all over again.. ie.,

  • Flash SBF (at this point check if the data & connection is back, if not then load PRL & NV Dump)
  • Root & unlock bootloader
  • Flash Custom CWM
  • Wipe/Factory Reset
  • Load MIUI v4 2.6.8 ( this ROM was the reason why it all started :P) and check again whether data & calls are working ! (if not working, can we again load PRL & NV dump at this point) ?

How to load NV Dump ? (which tab in CDMA workshop) Do we need to unlock SPC (how) before we try loading PRL & NV Dump?

How to put photon in DIAG Mode ? :doh:

IN CDMA WKSHP under memory you will find nv items below. choose write there and give it the dump file. yes spc unlock first before you

can load anything else nothing would work.

to put photon in diag mode,

Connect the Phone to ur PC Via USB Cable

Turn of the phone

as soon as Mobile restart Press & hold the Volume Down Key

U will see the Fastboot

Now press the Volume down key to navigate to BP Tools

Once u reach BP tools press the Volume Up button Phone will now start in Diag Mode

if the MotoHelper is Installed it will Automatically Install the Drivers

Download Motorola 5.2.0 Driver with MotoHelper*

http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Support/Experiences/Global_Drivers/MotoHelper_2.0.53_Driver_5.2.0.exe

Please click rep_up.png for this answer, it solves your query.

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When I try to connected, its say Failed... COM12 port is busy!

Device manager shows COM12 for Moto Diag!

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are you using windows x p and workshop 2.7 or above

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are you using windows x p and workshop 2.7 or above

Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2

yes I am using Win XP and Workshop 2.7.0

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then it's beyond me, hope experts will through light

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If you are having recovery installed, why not flash cyanogen mod?

If you can boot to recovery?

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^ try using port less than 10. you can do this by selecting Motorola DIAG port mentioned in device manager > properties > port settings > advanced. Use unused port..

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^ try using port less than 10. you can do this by selecting Motorola DIAG port mentioned in device manager > properties > port settings > advanced. Use unused port..

I selected COM2 instead and still same issue! :(

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did you restart the PC after changing the port ? if not, please do and then check..

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Uninstall drivers, and remove all useless driver. It should solve conflict issue.

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Uninstall drivers, and remove all useless driver. It should solve conflict issue.

Tried that with same results yesterday.

did you restart the PC after changing the port ? if not, please do and then check..

I restarted the system after the port number change and that also did not help.

Now on office pc, can't run CDMA WS :( as its detecting it a virus!

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disable antivirus as most antiviruse detects cdma ws crack as trojan or put both the files of cdma ws 2.7 in exclusion list..

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disable antivirus as most antiviruse detects cdma ws crack as trojan or put both the files of cdma ws 2.7 in exclusion list..

Since I'm on office laptop I cannot do any of the above. WIll go home and do this from my personal desktop.

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Wen u get the Phone in Diag mode phone Should be Connected from the Start or else it will show the port but it will not connect in CDMA WS

So keep the Phone Connected while Selecting BP Tools

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Wen u get the Phone in Diag mode phone Should be Connected from the Start or else it will show the port but it will not connect in CDMA WS

So keep the Phone Connected while Selecting BP Tools

Flashed back to stock 198_7 SBF.. then did full wipe by going into the stock recovery and did a flash to 198_7 again!

But phone is refusing to connect in diag mode !!!

USB debugging On, Restarting in BP tools, have all the drivers installed... still says COM Port is busy failed to connect!!

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Update

ok a little relief but problem is not sorted out!

1. Flashed back the stock 198_7 sbf.

2. After that the phone was stuck in booting, so did a full wipe from the stock recovery.

3. Now flashed the 198_7 sbf again.

4. Figured out the COM port busy issue and managed to connect the phone to CDMA WS/NV/QPST

5. Wrote the PRL onto the phone with CDMA WS and wrote the NV items using NV writer.

6. Rebooted the phone, it takes a lot of time for after boot in 'Contacting Network' and then says fails to enable network.

7. Now it shows network, but not able to call any where/send messages.

Can someone tell me how do I figure out the MIN ? And in CDMA WS NAM tab the 'Dir_number' should be my number right?

PS: COM port busy issue - The trick is to connect to the COM port immediately after the PC detects the phone, else the it will show COM port busy. And well there was no need to flash back old sbf, it was all working fine just had to figure out the working out of connected CDMA WS.

PS2: In the custom rom dialer i.e. the MiUi rom, I was unable to get into the ##3282# mode. Any inputs on that?

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PS2: In the custom rom dialer i.e. the MiUi rom, I was unable to get into the ##3282# mode. Any inputs on that?

##3282# or ##DATA# usually works only in stock roms. For it to work on MIUI, you ll have to enable carrier codes by installing a script or copying your existing dialer codes scripts from /system in stock rom to the custom ROM. You can find some patch files shared on XDA which do this. I used such a patch for my fascinate. It should be there for photon as well. Google should help you with that :D

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Biggg Update!

- A HUGE shout out to Hetal bhai for his awesome awesome help! The phone connected back up to Reliance with his help :)

- Another big Thank you to Krispuniq, MatriX1218 & akhileshril

1. After I had updated to stock SBF, PRL/NV update. The phone got activated with Hetal bhai's help.

2. Did the one click root.

3. Unlocked bootloader

4. Installed recovery, and then updated to joker's v3 recovery

5. Used the wipe all photon zip file, but that failed and after that the phone stopped booting. So did manual format for system, data, cache and dalvik cache.

6. Installed the MiUi ROM, twice as mentioned in the instructions

And voila.. I have 'Ice Cold Sandwich' :D :D

Ok I have one issue, well two infact!

1. File explorer can't detect my internal storage. I know this is off the context of the thread starting, but has anyone got any idea about how to fix this? I need to restore back all my apps :(

2. Background data is enabled where? After gingerbread can't find it?

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Congrates pulser. really happy for you. Rimgurus are hats itv, foro tour all.

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sorry typo error. I mean hats off for Rimgurus

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