Here is the best extended battery I have found for the Motorola Photon: Hyperion Motorola Photon 4G 3500mAh Extended Battery & Back Cover and here is a case that actually fits pretty well when the extended battery is installed! Solid Black Silicone Skin Gel Cover Case For Motorola Photon 4G I have found my battery life to be 2-3 days with fairly heavy use, whereas before the extended battery I was lucky to get a day’s use. 🙂 The price
2012.07.20 UPDATE: So far the battery life with the extended battery is simply phenomenal! I recently purchased a Hyperion extended battery for my Motorola Photon (about $18 on Amazon). Mugen is another popular brand of extended batteries, however, they seem to be $60+. So for now I am pleased to try out this lower cost battery and see how it performs After switching to an extended battery it seems that the Photon will report that the battery is running down fairly quickly
Today I received a notification from Motorola about the availability of an OTA (over the air) update for my Photon. Down below you can find the full details. But first, three important notes: If you have your Photon rooted, reports are that this update removes root. 🙁 There is no mention of a fix for the no-audio problem on Lapdock 500 etc. when using the phone as a WebTop 🙁 This does not update the Photon to ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) 🙁 Details
This past week I installed Webtop2SD on my Motorola Photon and absolutely love it! However, I made the mistake of using a slow Sandisk Class 4 32GB MicroSD card 🙁 Thus Firefox could take up to 20 seconds to load on the webtop, yuck! However, tonight I was able to clone my slow MicroSD card (containing Webtop2SD) over to a new PNY brand 32GB card, this time Class 10 speed! Now Firefox takes just 6-7 seconds to load, which is a
How to install webtop2sd 2.0.1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119555 How to tell if you’re actually booting from the SD card http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294523 Are you actually booting from your SD card? You can find this out by checking the Diagnostics tab in webtop2sd, under “Currently mounted webtops”. If mmcblk1p12 [or similar? -JD] isn’t listed, you’re not booted from your SD card. If this is the case, report what ROM you’re running from. WebTopScripts – Fixing apt-get dependencies on WebTop http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192488 Use this to get a
Q. How do I capture the screen on my Motorola Lapdock 500 when I’m running the WebTop? A. Simply press the “print screen” key! You will webtop2sdbe presented with a “Save Screenshot ” dialog. NOTE: the print screen key is located near the upper right of your keyboard in the top row of keys…
I purchased my Motorola Photon from Amazon for $0.01 USD during their “March Madness” sale. I love the phone, however, I have encountered one problem: difficulty in getting the 6 digit MSL number I knew that calling Sprint and asking for the MSL was an option, but I generally despise calling corporations and I knew there were some well known other methods that are done exclusively on the phone itself. So I tried the following methods: #1 root & then getprop
My Motorola Photon for Sprint arrives today and I am preparing for some lapdock modding! Here are a few good resources related to the Atrix lapdock + Photon as well as some resources comparing the lapdocks in general (LapDock 100, LapDock 500, Atrix Lapdock, etc.) Photon working with LapDock! – xda-developershttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223032** UPDATED WITH PICS ** I just got a LapDock from an AT&T store thinking I can mess with it to make it work with my Photon. After disassembling the