Motorola Photon support

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Which device (manufacturer, type)?

Motorola Photon 4G

Which firmware is installed?

Current Stock

What version of wireless tether are you using?

3.0beta6 current beta

What steps will reproduce the problem?

This is not an issue per say, but an enhancement request. 

The Photon isn't recognized natively in the latest beta, but there are some 
features that work well. When loading the Motorola DroidX profile, access 
control sort of worked. It would deny connections by default but you couldn't 
access the access control screen to authorize the new connections. Would also 
be good to see a softap connection similar to the one employed for the Epic. I 
sense with the access control this may only need some minor tweaking to 
implement the method used in the DroidX profile and to enable the access 
control screen. 

I haven't tried the bluetooth networking yet, but that seems to be available 
under the auto profile with the Photon. 

Power levels appear to work as advertised. So far, everything else also seems 
to work as advertised. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tragicf...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2011 at 1:53

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Please add infrastructure support to the Photon 4g. This phone has got little 
dev support but rock solid hardware and some of the strongest radios on Sprint.

Infrastructure support would make this phone perfect!!!!!!

Original comment by douglas....@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2011 at 2:33

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Original comment by harald....@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2011 at 11:50

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Infrastructure support for the Motorola Photon 4G would be incredible.

Original comment by fran...@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2011 at 10:51

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Interesting note, I as able to very trivially add nat'ing to iptables between 
the Motorola Portal interface (usb0) and the broad band interface (ppp0) using 
standard nat'ing. Results, I have an instant USB tether, and conceivably wifi 
tether as well since the Motorola Portal is capable of doing wifi as well. So 
it looks as though the necessary modules are built in to the kernel. Curious if 
it's possible to hook into some of that infrastructure?

There are a lot of interesting tid bits with this phone, when messing with the 
diag modes on boot up, I noticed that when I start the phone in BP Tools Mode, 
that it loaded a driver for an LTE Modem. So not only is this phone GSM/CDMA, 
but it also looks like it's covering at least 2 of the 4G radios as well. So 
there's a lot of potential to do interesting things with this phone. If anyone 
has a spare Photon to ship out to Harald, I'm sure it'll prove a fun one to 
play with.

Original comment by tragicf...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2011 at 1:33

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275699

Consider this solved.

Original comment by joshcast...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2011 at 5:51

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Oh, interesting.

Could you guys verify what "joshcast..." (see the link) posted?
"Go into settings and change: 
Device profile - Nexus One
Setup Method - Netd (master)"

Thanks.

Original comment by harald....@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2011 at 6:56

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Yes and No. The app still complains that access control is disabled on start 
up. The app was able to start up infrastructure mode. On 3.1b6, it didn't work. 
On 3.0b12 it did connect to the internet. On 3.0b12, there were two check boxes 
for Wifi Encryption on the settings dialog. So it looks like you have an angle 
to work with. ;)

Original comment by khaw...@yahoo.com on 30 Sep 2011 at 1:32

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This fix also causes the same random reboot and loss of profile issue that the 
Epic is plagued with. I'm almost curious if there's not some kind of Spring 
Voodoo going on here... 

Original comment by khaw...@yahoo.com on 30 Sep 2011 at 6:10

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Anyone found the issues with the tether issue with the photon, my mobile 
devices is not seeing the photon tether but my laptop can see it and connect. 
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275699 tried the 
configurations on this link but my phone would reboot every time any 
suggestions? 

Original comment by kenhatch...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 12:55

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My connection will start up fine and I mostly use the wifi tether for xbox 
live. After being connected for about 5 minutes it disconnects and says wifi 
has taken over the app. I have no idea why this is happening, any tips

Original comment by lllewis...@gmail.com on 26 Nov 2011 at 8:08

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I cant get my ps3 to connect to it no matter wut i do it can find its ip adress 
just fine but it cannot get internet connection and says theres a dsn problem

Original comment by gootchim...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2012 at 11:49

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I agree I cannot connect my playstation 3 either I tried the list of the 
profiles and yet none of them support it, I just rooted a samsung epic 4g about 
5 minutes ago.  I added the wifi tether apk to the phone and the hotspot works 
perfectly fine on the playstation 3. It's sad to see that the motorola photon 
doesn't have a profile yet. It's one of the better hardware phones and no 
profile for this beast. 

Original comment by mixedjen...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2012 at 7:40