Good news for the Motorola Photon 4G owners since the XDA-Developers forum member Yay 4 Juggs has shared the way to unlock the bootloader for your device. With the Droid 3 and Bionic approach their release date, the Motorola Photon 4G’s unlocked news could be very important to the Motorola fans. Actually, the Photon 4G and the Droid 3 as well as the Bionic are different phones but since the unlocking of the Photon has shown a good result, so it could made the chance of both the Droid 3 as well as the Bionic to be unlocked are quite wide opened. However, at the moment the Photon 4G users are the persons who will taste the attempt.
The developer packed the unlocked bootloader into an SBF that is to be flashed on the phone through RSDlite. The method is pretty simple as the developer has made it even more simple for the Photon 4G users. If you guys the Photon 4G users are tempted to try this method, simply follow the steps provided below.
Please keep in mind that you may precede this method at your own risk, you are going to take every responsibility if your device gets bricked or damaged.
Here is the list of the requirements that need to be fulfilled before starting the method:
• Unlocked SBF.
• RSDLite.
• Fastboot.
• System.img. (For rooting purpose only.)
Once the requirements have been fulfilled, you may precede the method by follow the Instructions below:
The instruction set is divided into a couple of parts; one is for flashing the SBG via RSDLite and another one for rooting the Photon 4G once unlocked.
SBF Flashing & Unlocking
1. For the first step, the Photon 4G is required to download RSD Lite and the drivers and consequently install the drivers.
2. The next step is download the SBF package and extracts it.
3. Power off the phone and then hold the Volume Up key and Power button together till you see RSD at the top of the screen.
4. Now, launch RSD Lite on your PC and click the “…” button next to the box labeled Filename.
5. Choose the SBF file you extracted from the MR3 download.
6. Plug the device to the PC via USB and RSD Lite should recognize the device.
7. Hit the Start button and please wait as the files are flashed to your phone.
8. Once the SBF is flashed, the phone will reboot.
9. Now download the Fastboot package from the link above and extract it.
10. Run Command Prompt and navigate to the Fastboot folder, entering the following command:
moto-fastboot oem unlock
When the command has been entered, then you should see the following prompts:
C:\Data\Sunfire\HW\Security_Tokens>fastboot oem unlock
… INFOUnlocking your device can permanently VOID your warranty.
INFOThis process cannot be reversed. If you wish to proceed,
INFOreissue the unlock OEM command containing the unique ID
INFOof your device: ########### (device generated ID will appear in this like not number signs.)
OKAY [ 0.002s]
finished. total time: 0.002s
11. Note your Unique ID and enter the following command (replace ### with the UID):
moto-fastboot oem unlock ###########
Once the steps above have been completed, every time the device is on the active position, it will show unlock written on the screen.
For rooting the device, follow the instructions below:
• For the first step, the Photon 4G users are going to be required to download the system.img file and extract it to the fastboot folder.
• As well as install Superuser from the Market.
• Please make sure that the device that is going to be rooted is fully charged before preceding the method.
• Boot your phone in fastboot mode and connect it to the PC.
• Run Command Prompt, navigate to the location of the system.img file and enter the following command:
moto-fastboot flash system system.img
That’s it. Now you have an unlocked bootloader and also have gained the root access completely. If you had any questions that need to be asked and or are looking for the update, you are recommended to visit the XDA-Developers forum thread.
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