[ROM][AOSP] [Nightly/Release] CarbonRom JB [xt897/xt897c]

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palmwangja

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[Q] is Carbon okay with pulling out a phone number ?

CM has been always problematic in retrieving my own phone number from the SIM and show it in the settings - about phone, and this causes some program not to launch unfortunately.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=886878

I just found out that CM10 on photon Q was not that different, and this is somehow a deal breaker for me.

I don't know why this is happening, and want to know if Carbon is good at this. :highfive:
 
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palmwangja said:
CM has been always problematic in retrieving my own phone number from the SIM and show it in the settings - about phone, and this causes some program not to launch unfortunately.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=886878

I just found out that CM10 on photon Q was not that different, and this is somehow a deal breaker for me.

I don't know why this is happening, and want to know if Carbon is good at this. :highfive:
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As you know, I have no way of testing this... I don't have a SIM lol. Why don't you test it and tell us?

Skrilax_CZ said:
How much is the device repository different between Carbon / CM10.1? Just carbon.mk? Also, arrrghhh, can you check the razrqcom xt897c repo and tell me what needs exactly updating: https://github.com/razrqcom-dev-team/android_device_motorola_xt897c ?
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Yea, there's not a whole lot of difference between the CM10.1 and Carbon device tree's.

I also had to apply those frameworks/base hacks which you applied to CM, in order to get keyboard light etc working.
 
galacticservant

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Okay, so I did a clean install of Carbon and noticed a few issues. I don't know if it's isolated to my device or not, but before I could even use the ROM the first screen asked me for the PUK. Okay, so I had to go back to install recovery of JB and retrieve it. Reflashed Carbon and system was up and running fine. However, I went to make a phone call it dropped after 2 seconds. Then the 4G indicator came up (no 4G in this area) and it was greyed out. No calls, no texts. Huh...went to call settings and chose CDMA only, same problem. Any ideas?
Currently back to stock JB and all is fine.
Sent from my XT897 using xda premium
 
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galacticservant said:
Okay, so I did a clean install of Carbon and noticed a few issues. I don't know if it's isolated to my device or not, but before I could even use the ROM the first screen asked me for the PUK. Okay, so I had to go back to install recovery of JB and retrieve it. Reflashed Carbon and system was up and running fine. However, I went to make a phone call it dropped after 2 seconds. Then the 4G indicator came up (no 4G in this area) and it was greyed out. No calls, no texts. Huh...went to call settings and chose CDMA only, same problem. Any ideas?
Currently back to stock JB and all is fine.
Sent from my XT897 using xda premium
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I have booted this ROM fresh several times... I can't say I have ever had the issues you describe.

I don't even know what a PUK is... you should not need to make any changes - I flash Carbon and literally everything works out of the box. Wifi, data, cell service...

You said you installed clean, so I assume that means you did a factory wipe? If not, make sure you wipe data/cache/dalvik-cache.

Otherwise, I am not sure what the issue could be. Please provide some logs.
 
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arrrghhh said:
I have booted this ROM fresh several times... I can't say I have ever had the issues you describe.

I don't even know what a PUK is... you should not need to make any changes - I flash Carbon and literally everything works out of the box. Wifi, data, cell service...

You said you installed clean, so I assume that means you did a factory wipe? If not, make sure you wipe data/cache/dalvik-cache.

Otherwise, I am not sure what the issue could be. Please provide some logs.
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Since I have reflashed back to JB for now, where would I find any relevant logs? If needed I'll flash back to Carbon to get them...also, the PUK, or PUC, is a PIN unlocked key. It's a code set by the carrier so if I ever lost my pin code for screen unlock I can default to the PUK. Funny though, I had never set my screen lock, oh well. But my main issue remains for the call and text functions, which were not working, and the 4G symbol that appeared greyed out with the signal strength bars down to zero.

Sent from my XT897 using xda premium

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And yes, I not only did a factory wipe, but even wiped dalvik and cache 3x after for good measure. I just flashed it again, and reproduced the same exact problem described above. So where can I retrieve a log?

Sent from my XT897 using xda premium

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Interesting though that I am still able to download via mobile data connection even though calls and texts do not work. I'll download aLogcat and get a log, is that the type you need!?
/dev/main/log?

Sent from my XT897 using xda premium
 
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galacticservant said:
Since I have reflashed back to JB for now, where would I find any relevant logs? If needed I'll flash back to Carbon to get them...also, the PUK, or PUC, is a PIN unlocked key. It's a code set by the carrier so if I ever lost my pin code for screen unlock I can default to the PUK. Funny though, I had never set my screen lock, oh well. But my main issue remains for the call and text functions, which were not working, and the 4G symbol that appeared greyed out with the signal strength bars down to zero.

Sent from my XT897 using xda premium

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And yes, I not only did a factory wipe, but even wiped dalvik and cache 3x after for good measure. I just flashed it again, and reproduced the same exact problem described above. So where can I retrieve a log?

Sent from my XT897 using xda premium

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Interesting though that I am still able to download via mobile data connection even though calls and texts do not work. I'll download aLogcat and get a log, is that the type you need!?
/dev/main/log?

Sent from my XT897 using xda premium
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Wait, you can download via mobile data?

What you describe makes no sense whatsoever... with your penchant for hacking things, did you make any changes whatsoever?

If you can download via mobile data, your cell radio is definitely working. I re-read through this thread, and I could not find one instance of anyone having these issues.

I would be curious what #*#*INFO*#*# says.

I'm not sure why you would wipe 3x. This is my process for flashing, so far it has not failed me:
1. Download ROM & Gapps
2. Reboot to recovery
3. Sideload ROM, sideload Gapps
4. Factory reset/wipe. Basically wipes /data without wiping /data/media. This also wipes cache and dalvik-cache for obvious reasons.

People have flashed from all sorts of different states - so I don't see how that would matter, but maybe try starting from square one and flash the FXZ. I do not understand how anything you changed would be leftover, but you are experiencing issues unique to your device.

As for logs - logcat is always necessary. In this case I would like to see a radio logcat. Dmesg never hurts, but probably will not be useful in this case.
 
galacticservant

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Okay, some weird stuff happening...I flashed normally this time. When Carbon first loaded the 3G symbol came up blue, and all seemed good. As soon as I utilized the data connection in any way, it turned grey and the connection failed. This means browser, Play, Email setup, whatever. But, the radio worked for calls and text. I rebooted the device and when the OS came back on the same, blue at first, then grey and no connection. So needless to say I couldn't download aLogcat. Back to JB. I tried to upload some screenshots, but for some reason upload fails every time to XDA, has for days now. I'll flash the Stock JB update and try this from a fresh start, see what happens. Crap.

Sent from my XT897 using xda premium
 
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@arrrghhh: It would be good to update your repost (scratch the current xt897c and for msm8960-common, xt897 and xt897c from CM10.1 and apply Carbon changes). That way you can just keep merging them as things get fixed.
 
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Loving this rom so far man, thank you for porting it and keeping it up to date!

Sent from my Motorola Photon Q LTE using xda app-developers app
 
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arrrghhh

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Has anyone tried NFC? I can't seem to enable it or download any NFC apps.
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Appears I did not enable it.. hah! There are separate device trees right now for CDMA & GSM, and I missed NFC it seems, thanks!

Skrilax_CZ said:
@arrrghhh: It would be good to update your repost (scratch the current xt897c and for msm8960-common, xt897 and xt897c from CM10.1 and apply Carbon changes). That way you can just keep merging them as things get fixed.
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Yea, I need to chat with you about this mate :)

UnicronAlpha99 said:
Loving this rom so far man, thank you for porting it and keeping it up to date!

Sent from my Motorola Photon Q LTE using xda app-developers app
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Glad you enjoy it!





Edit - I am now rebuilding Carbon with NFC and a keyboard backlight enhancement from CM10.1.
 
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galacticservant said:
Since I have reflashed back to JB for now, where would I find any relevant logs? If needed I'll flash back to Carbon to get them...also, the PUK, or PUC, is a PIN unlocked key. It's a code set by the carrier so if I ever lost my pin code for screen unlock I can default to the PUK. Funny though, I had never set my screen lock, oh well. But my main issue remains for the call and text functions, which were not working, and the 4G symbol that appeared greyed out with the signal strength bars down to zero.
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In a GSM network the PUK really is a PIN unlock key, but it has nothing to do with the screenlock, it is SIM related as the PIN is, if you enter 3 times wrong PIN, the SIM card is locked and you need a PUK to unlock it. It is purely SIM related (not phone related) so you need to ask the operator which issued your SIM card for the PUK.

However, I have no idea how it is in LTE or CDMA networks, where you don't even have a SIM card or the one is integrated only for the roaming purpose as I understand it is in the stock Photon Q in Sprint or that another one US operator.
 
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arrrghhh

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In a GSM network the PUK really is a PIN unlock key, but it has nothing to do with the screenlock, it is SIM related as the PIN is, if you enter 3 times wrong PIN, the SIM card is locked and you need a PUK to unlock it. It is purely SIM related (not phone related) so you need to ask the operator which issued your SIM card for the PUK.

However, I have no idea how it is in LTE or CDMA networks, where you don't even have a SIM card or the one is integrated only for the roaming purpose as I understand it is in the stock Photon Q in Sprint or that another one US operator.
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Agreed, I didn't think Sprint/CDMA carriers even used a PUK.

At any rate, I rebuilt and I now have NFC in the Settings menu! I also added a commit which seemed to break keyboard backlight... yay. So I am not going to release it yet, I need to do a bit more work!
 
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Alright folks, new build is uploading!

Keyboard backlight issue seems resolved (I pulled in some new patches here), and NFC is now enabled!

Enjoy.
 
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bawk bawk.

My Carbon seems to be falling apart, flashed the 20130507-213725-xt897c build clean and everything was great, gps locked perfect, data worked, mms and keyboard lights(no 4g bars of course) and now I can't connect to wifi anywhere, it just attempts once or twice then says avoided poor connection. Data also is spotty as fuh now. I'm probably about to flash the newer build, just wanted to throw some data(possibly inconsequential) your way.




Edit - Flashed 10 days ago, the last 3 have been wifi-less
 
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arrrghhh

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alexwoellhaf said:
Any way we can get the cm rename app feature.
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Not sure what feature this is, but I'm surprised Carbon does not have it... I'll look into it



patrickm823 said:
My Carbon seems to be falling apart, flashed the 20130507-213725-xt897c build clean and everything was great, gps locked perfect, data worked, mms and keyboard lights(no 4g bars of course) and now I can't connect to wifi anywhere, it just attempts once or twice then says avoided poor connection. Data also is spotty as fuh now. I'm probably about to flash the newer build, just wanted to throw some data(possibly inconsequential) your way.

Edit - Flashed 10 days ago, the last 3 have been wifi-less
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No clue, wifi works great here. I think there's an option to disable the avoiding of poor connections.

I saw someone else post a similar issue, not sure if they solved it or not. They were on the CM10.1 ROM.
 
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arrrghhh said:
Not sure what feature this is, but I'm surprised Carbon does not have it... I'll look into it





No clue, wifi works great here. I think there's an option to disable the avoiding of poor connections.

I saw someone else post a similar issue, not sure if they solved it or not. They were on the CM10.1 ROM.
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While on the home screen in cm, hold an app...... you can drag to remove or rename
 
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    Great news!! Been waiting for this. :victory:
    Have you tried storage swapping? If it works just like on TI OMAP devices,it will be a big plus. 5GB won't be enough to store huge game data. :(
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    Camcorder doesn't quite work on PQ yet, but kabaldan said if you swap some proprietary files around it fixes it.

    Should be committed soon, if not I'll try it out myself.

    As for the storage swapping, as was previously stated the TI OMAP devices are not /data/media devices... this is the crux of the issue as I understand it.

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