There might some tweaks and customizations would follow the Motorola Photon 4G in the near future as the method to root the device has been revealed. For those who expect more than rooting their Motorola Phone 4G, today is your lucky day as the custom ROM for your device has arrived. Actually, the custom ROM that we are going to reveal today is the second custom ROM and this should be the latest one. The custom ROM that will be installed on your Moro Blur based phone is developed by XDA-Developers forum member kennethpenn and is named Alien ROM. It is a mix of Gingerbread and Blur with an added green theme to it. Read on this article to learn how to install this custom ROM on your Motorola Photon 4G.
There are few people involved in the development of this custom ROM and each person has different role. According to the source, the kennethpenn gives the credit to Fenrir/Ririal for the Build.prop fixes, Juwe11 for the RAM optimizations, nikademus for the FuguTweaks, sonnysekhon, and Yay 4 Juggs for the leaked firmware.
Just in case you are not satisfied with the theme that the ROM offers, there is still an option to revert back to the stock Motorola theme. Despite it still in the beta version, the ROM still packs various features. Here is the list of features that offered by the Alien ROM:
• Rooted and deodexed with busybox installed.
• SQLite3.
• PNG Optimized.
• Zipaligned (system and data apps).
• HSPA/3G icons are different (reports with accuracy).
• SIP not Wi-Fi only.
• Some bloat removed.
• Skip blur setup option.
• WidgetPicker.
• Battery percentage MOD.
• Network select menu open.
• Menu button lockscreen bypass (when unsecured).
• Google Talk over 3G.
• Dock Settings.
• Modded stock Android Launcher for speed and Blur widget compatibility.
• Inverted applications and Settings.
• FuguTweaks.
• Juwe11 optimizations (modded for Photon).
• Superuser Beta.
• Proximity sensor hack on build.prop.
• GPU hack on build.prop.
• WiFi battery saving hack on build.prop.
• Google Android 2.3.5 application framework.
So if you are tempted with this custom ROM and eager to taste this custom ROM’s features, read on and follow the instruction below to install the custom ROM on your Motorola Photon 4G.
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.
Before starting the installation process, there are three requirements that need to be fulfilled first:
• A rooted Motorola Photon 4G.
• Custom ClockworkMod recovery installed.
• Alien ROM.
Once the requirements have been satisfied, follow the instructions below:
• First of all, download the ROM and copy it to the root of your SD card.
• After that, reboot into recovery and make a Nandroid backup.
• Once the backup has been made, select wipe data factory/reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvick cache.
• Now navigate to install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard and select the ROM copied to your SD card.
• When you select the ROM, the installation will be started right away, so wait for the process to complete, and once it does, simply reboot your device.
Once you have finished with the instructions above, your Motorola Photon 4G should have been running on the custom ROM now. If you had any questions about this ROM or simply looking for the updates, please visit this XDA-Developers forum.
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