yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Atrix 4G Android Development] nathanmurray:
That is the only APN I have on mine after the flash as well. It was working OK yesterday, but I am having issues on and off today so far ... (refer to above post)

Is there a different radio I need to flash with this ROM ?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ItsLunchBOX:
I don't think I am the one that needs to lighten up. I asked a question and the dude asks one question and because he doesn't get an immediate reply he starts being a jerk. I like to try to figure things out myself and only post when I am stuck, this is why I only have 40 something posts in 2 years on this site.

I've been flashing ROMs since the G1, I am not a noob at doing this. There is something wrong. I searched and read over a hundred pages in this thread trying to find a solution. Asking for help was a last resort. It looks like I am not the only one that has this problem as there are at least 2 more people that do as well. I have not seen a solution and being a jerk about it to people that are asking for help is not the answer.

Please know that I am not angry at you, I appreciate you trying to calm the situation. I am running now on Cherry Pie but would like to try Alien. I just want to make it work and noob bashing is wrong. We were all noobs at one point.

BTW, I love George Carlin and thank you for posting the link, It did calm me down a little. :-)
[Atrix 4G Android Development] lilhaiti:
I don't know what that could be. Try the link below...of course doing a nandroid first. First try clearing both caches(cache partition and dalvic) and fixing permissions before changing anything.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1149523
[Atrix 4G Android Development] elite_is3:
Ok. Now my charging LED doesn't come on when charging (while on). Wtf!!!!!!!!!!!

Any idea how to fix this. Clean flash doesn't help
[Atrix 4G Android Development] dcarpenter85:
I appreciate your input, but sadly all of the third party messaging apps adhere to the 1000 message limit of stock.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] d11dog11:
I've never had a charging led come on with this phone. Is there supposed to be one?

Sent from my Att Atrix 4g unlocked.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] EGM92:
I'm having some issues with this ROM, primarily battery life. I went from 100% to 91% in 3-4 minutes of checking my email via wifi with screen on minimum brightness. I'm running faux123's stock kernel so no OC is running.

Also my carrier name is showing up, is there any way to remove it? I'm on Bell.

Are there any tips, suggestions, fixes?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Bruce Lee:
Is auto brightness off?

Haptic feedback off?

Is screen timeout the lowest it can go?

My battery can last two days with this, and my battery mode is at nighttime saver.

Sent from my ATRIX 4G XDA Premium App
[Atrix 4G Android Development] T.C.:
I am still on froyo with ginger blur. Do I need to install another kernel?

Thanks guys!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] EGM92:
Brightness is ALWAYS at minimum, haptic feedback is off, screen time out is set to 2min, but I almost always turn off the screen myself.

I'm looking at the battery usage, is it normal for "phone idle" to be at 51% usage? display is only at 24%.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] coleburns:
this isn't working for me i'm afraid. i used es file explorer as that's what i am familiar with.

followed the process and an app appeared in tibu, messaging (2.3.5) and in the app drawer. it sent sms messages fine but when i tried mms, i just hangs there with the word "sending"

mms.apk is still located in system/app with readable-yes, writable-no,hidden-no.

i have frozen the other message app(2.3.4) which i have 2 of by the way

any help will much appreciated

thanks

used
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Bruce Lee:
Download cpu spy from market and make sure that one of the stats that comes up is deep sleep then watch how much the phone gets deep sleep.

Sent from my ATRIX 4G XDA Premium App
[Atrix 4G Android Development] nathanmurray:
nice !

Alien V4 only gave me 1 apn (AT&T 310 410), and the link you gave me allowed me to restre normal the stock ones.

Only question is, should I select 'att us' or 'att us hsdpa' ? and what is the difference ?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Bruce Lee:
Select the hsdpa one since that will give you better data speeds. Or if that doesn't look right, pick the one with the better data symbol like h, h+, 4g. If you choose one, you can go back and choose a different one.

Sent from my ATRIX 4G XDA Premium App
[Atrix 4G Android Development] JVogler:
APN Manager from the market is what I use...allows you to mess around with anything and not worry about messing things up. Its FREE
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Rantatron:
Not sure if this is a ROM problem, but my phone seems to restart every time I disconnect it from a USB cable; this doesn't happen with my dock, just with a USB cable. Could there be some problem with re-mounting the SD card?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] nathanmurray:
I selected the hsdpa one and did a speed test and got 1.2 kbps down and 300k up. I tried the regular att one and got: 1.0 kbps down and 400k up. So they are pretty much identical.

I am wondering if there really is any difference between them ?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] AnalogXDA:
I don't know if you mentioned this, but are all of your APNs in place? And just to clarify, you're saying that the CM7 app did install, but that it can't send MMS messages (and neither can your other messaging apps)?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] lemortede:
I thought it was not working as well. Then I realized that one messaging was the one I just installed and one was the old one.

I froze the textmessaging 2.3.4 in TiBu.

In the app drawer there is a second messaging app. use that one for your text messages instead. If you used the Cm7 version it has ALOT of options that the other one didnt have. If you are still not working have you updated your APN's?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] daCLOUD:
Calibrate your battery...

In APNs click on menu > reset to default

all 4 of the APNs then will show up.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] lemortede:
Mine didnt show up on their Own. I had to restore them from a backup.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] nathanmurray:
same here ... I had to restore them to get them back. Things are working much better now !
[Atrix 4G Android Development] zoso28:
I remember someone a while back (from at&t IIRC) saying that the different APN's didn't really make a difference. at&t has changed them over the years to suit different phones and devices, but overall there's no speed difference. For example, "wap.cingular" is the main that most devices will use, "phone" was originally for the iphone, "broadband" is for aircards & mifi, etc.. I'm not positive about which is which, but that was his explanation for why there are so many. The one thing I do remember is that he said they're eventually going to have all phones using the 'phone' APN.

And fyi, my Alien v3 just shows the "310" apn & it's working fine, but I'm curious which settings it's using?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] xandr115:
I feel like using "phone" for APN seems faster, but MMS doesn't work on it even after I've copied the exact same settings from the existing 310/410 APN that comes default with Alien
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Swiftks:
Here's an interesting puzzle... I changed the stock Alien/moto symbol boot animation from red to blue. The only thing that changed was the file size of each png, which increased a bit due to editing in photoshop. The images are still named the same, same folder, same size ratio, still pngs, just a little bit larger file size. Replaced my images with those in the standard bootanimation.zip (no compression). However, on boot now my animation only runs through once and does not loop. After the initial run through, the screen goes black until the boot process is finished.

I re-installed Kenn's red images, and it loops just fine. The ONLY difference is the file size; the .zip went from 1.81 mb to 2.09 mb. Why would this cause the bootanimation not to loop??? I've flashed much larger bootanimations that loop just fine. Any thoughts?

*Edit*

Think I may have figured it out... bit depth is different.. why this would matter, who knows, but I'll see if changing it works.... Yep, that was it. For some reason, it didn't like 32-bit depth, had to go back to 24... weird.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] JVogler:
Hitting reset to default does not end up with all 4 APNs for me, and at least a few others that have run into this problem. They need to be restored from backup, entered manually, or I downloaded APN manager from market and it had all AT&T APNs in it's database. Not sure what's causing the 'reset to default' to different on the some ROM..a little strange?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ItsLunchBOX:
So no suggestions from anyone then?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Swiftks:
Have you tried flashing just the Alien ROM and nothing else? Wipe everything first of course with RomRacer's CWM. Are there any issues after just flashing the ROM?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Krshaw18:
This was happening to me too. What I was doing wrong was flashing the theme before I let Alien and the new kernel fully boot up and get my settings and accounts in place. Just flash the Rom and the kernel (if you want a different kernel) and let it boot. Once you fully boot it up and set up your accounts, then go back to recovery, wipe dalvik, cache and flash theme. Should work.

More specifically the steps I used during flashing were:

1. Back up/Nandroid

2. Wipe dalvik/cache

3. Flash Alien

4. Flash Kernel (optional - also I don't wipe after flashing rom which works for me but you could to be safe)

5. Reboot and let rom load up and set up your accounts.

6. Reboot into recovery an wipe dalvik/cache

7. Flash theme

8. Reboot and wait :-) hope this helps
[Atrix 4G Android Development] tacotino:
Someone posted this already.. but i think it should be added on the alien rom#5

TIs just the gingerbread 2.3 luanher but for qHD phones. looks and feels really nice

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1209344
[Atrix 4G Android Development] rknight68:
Just a note..im using gosmspro and have had zero problems with sms or mms.and there are a ton of customisations in this free app
[Atrix 4G Android Development] nathanmurray:
after flashing the At&T APN's back in place using the CM7 pre-beta MMS apk as well, everything seems to be working. The new camera is not quite as good as stock so I may revert back to that though. I can honestly say that battery life is MUCH improved over stock. Keep up the good work KP, you rock !!

Looking forward to v5 with the aforementioned updates :D
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ItsLunchBOX:
I will try it now.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] AnalogXDA:
I *think* it only works if you first replace the Alien /system/etc/apns-conf.xml file with the stock one, change permissions and ownership appropriately, and reboot. Is that right?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ItsLunchBOX:
ok, so that seemed to work to flash the ROM by itself. Will try theme now.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Krshaw18:
Yea, its weird you need to flash theme second
[Atrix 4G Android Development] lemortede:
I use APN manager and had a XML backup I restored. I can put it up if people want it.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] lemortede:
Much improved does not describe it.

Pre-Alien I would end the day at about 20% battery. Some times I HAD to charge it during the day.

Since installing Alien I have been using my phone like I always have, running the same apps and playing the same games when on the crapper and I end the day with 60% battery.

The only issue I have had was with the MMS and I have since fixed it with the CM7 version.

I just got the full Debian working and am playing with it now.

I LOVE THIS ROM.

I am really loving this phone.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] EGM92:
Anyone on Bell using this Rom? I keep getting the carrier name in the notification bar. It sometimes goes away but a majority of the time its there.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Thatkidstevo:
As far as moto roms go, this is by far the best. I've been using since build #1 and it never ceases to amaze me. Great Work! The only issue that I had was after flashing rom#4, it wiped my apn's. After I fixed that up, everything worked perfectly!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] binhk88:
How did you fixed it? I also met issue. Pls show me.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] jzaslice:
I know there has been many posts bout the camera and panorama crashes but I really hope it gets fixed in the next build also when using volume button to zoom in/out it beeps as if your changing the volume up down, not sure if anyone else had that problem. But other than that Alien build 4 has been the smoothest rom yet.

And in case any of you missed it...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1214541

Check it out!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] spuzzum:
webtop mod hack

i have installed the Alien rom v4 and wanted to watch some home movies that i shot from my phone and wanted to watch them direct from my phone to my tv. I see this rom has the webtop hack and i can't for the life of me figure out how to get them to show on the tv. All i get is the red "M" screensaver. I would appreciate any help. thx
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Swiftks:
Need to actually flash webtop, which is not part of this ROM... see OP for link.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] danielponte:
Guys, I'm losing 2% of battery every hour in AIRPLANE mode :(

BT disabled

GPS disabled

WIFI disabled

AIRPLANE enabled

at 2:13 I had 91% battery

now at 7:35 I have 81% battery

What could be causing this? I already tried recalibrating by charing on the A/C with the phone off, turning phone on deleting stats using CWM but no change.. my battery wont last a day! :(

And on regular use, pff, it is HORRIBLE, wont even last like 12hrs :/

I can use my defy under normal use for 2 days and while on airplane mode, it probably lasts like a week i'd guess!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Tennis11:
Your battery life is often killed when flashing ROMs in CWM. For the best battery life, you must drain your device’s battery until it turns off. Plug the device into the AC adapter and let it charge till the image says 100% charged. Then turn it on and use the volume buttons to boot into CWM. Click Wipe Battery Stats under the advanced menu. Then you should charge to 100% and install the ROM. Battery life should be comparable to (if not better than) every other ROM.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] spuzzum:
Thx swiftks...don't know how I missed that.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] spitefulcheerio:
before you go doing all that, try using the battery calibration app for the market. I use it after every new thing I flash (charge to 100% and use the app) and I get great battery life.

I am oc'd to 1.21ghz with alien v4 rom and theme, unlocked BL ect and I went to sleep with 75% battery. I woke up at 9am and went to sleep at 12am. I also keep gps, btooth and wifi off all the time along with using setcpu and green power premium to save some battery while my screen is off. Oh and that 25% of battery lost was during moderate use (lots of texting and a couple phone calls)
[Atrix 4G Android Development] lilhaiti:
Another tip for guys having battery drain issues. Check the apps that are running in the background. It's not that any of the apps are "runaway apps" or anything, it's the fact that we have a lot of RAM and resources at our disposal, and the way Android (Linux) is designed, it keeps your most recent and your important processes loaded so that they can be executed fast the next time. The system works great for the phones speed but with as much resources (RAM and CPU) as this phone has, it can keep a lot of processes loaded and you will not even feel it. Well, you do feel it, in your battery life.

My tips is to use some Task Manager to see whats running and kill what you don't need running. I use the performancemanager.apk (that was taken out of this ROM) that comes with Blur. I like it because alone, it does nothing until you tell it to, so it's not arbitrarily closing important stuff that needs to be running. I usually set it to auto close thing like games and media apps that don't need to run in the background and that use a lot of resources.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sagerox:
the battery calibrater app worked for me.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Maxpower57:
I'm getting reboots consistently when, but not limited to, the charging state changes

really annoying. :mad:

Edit: And before you ask: Yes, I did install it with this method followed to the T
[Atrix 4G Android Development] imbecilebychoice:
I definitely like it so far. Haven't run into much trouble as of yet. Thanks for an awesome rom!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] SilverKeiser:
Try a different Recovery

Try RomRacer's recovery. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1204500 and remove Tenfar's. If you have the "System Recovery" interface app that comes with Tenfar's recovery, uninstall it. And finally, delete or rename the install-recovery.sh file in /system/etc.

Install the new recovery (it works in conjunction with an app named Rom Manager if you want a direct interface to start it from the phone) and do a fresh Alien install. See if that helps.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] JVogler:
slowly over the last few weeks ads have been popping back up in the apps that were previously successfully blocked. I didn't flash any adblocking .zip file on Alien. I just manually replaced the hosts file, and it was working great. Is there something else that flashing the .zip does besides replace the hosts file that I need to do...or is the IP list in the hosts just getting outdated and I need to find a more up to date ad-blocking hosts file?

thanks
[Atrix 4G Android Development] kennethpenn:
Panorama mode has been fixed for a while. You'll need to reinstall the ROM completely, though.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Maxpower57:
Completely reinstalled the ROM using RomRacer's recovery this time.

Still rebooting in the same way

It's not a hardware issue, it only does it on this ROM, every other one works fine.

Got any other ideas? :confused:
[Atrix 4G Android Development] DrunkFuX666:
so then does that mean that the alienv4 on brief mobile is the updated zip file...?? download it again...??

Edit: sorry I read it wrong ... idiot I am
[Atrix 4G Android Development] jzaslice:
Wow it is fixed...i guess..I did a fresh install of the alien4 as soon as it was out, I was at the lake yesterday tried taking pics with the panorama view but the pictures werent stitching/and closed out a couple times so I thought the panorama was still faulty. Read your comment didn't feel like reflashing but tried panorama again and it seems to be a working fine!

Very odd tho, didn't work when I wanted to.

Thanks Ken.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] DrunkFuX666:
How come no matter what type of picture you take... as in resolution wise, the pic size is always under 1mb... isn't it supposed to be atleast 1.5 mb... my old 2 mp phone camera pics would be more than an mb :s

Sent from my Motorola Atrix
[Atrix 4G Android Development] JVogler:
I'm getting close to 2 MB picture size when choosing 'Large'. I'm on the older camera from GingerBlur though. It's actually a little different version than on GB because the picture size options are labelled a little different...but mostly the same.

What camera are you running? If you're on the newer one, you might try flashing just the camera again over your install now...there's a whole thread with both cameras on here. I had to flash camera twice before it started taking the correct picture size for setting I chose. Just an idea.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] saywhat4118:
Hey kenneth. Excellent rom here and im getting great battery life too. One problem though, my mobile hot spot isn't working and I have the plan. It connected before and worked on my tablet but now it only connects but on my tablet nothing loads up.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] DrunkFuX666:
Im running the D3 camera that came on the alien3 rom... i had also used the thread your talking about to try to get it to work properly by putting on the original gb camera but it still didnt help... had even mentioned it to the dev... he said he would try to see why... but since then iv flashed to alien4... (fresh wipe instal) and still having the same prob... all pictures no matter what size are around 850kb... iv not tried flashing the old camera again tho since i installed v4... was thinking this isnt normal... :S
[Atrix 4G Android Development] joeavery2:
Anyone confirm that ADB still won't push when the phone is under normal operation? (I mean powered on and using the OS). This was a problem in beta 4.5 and maybe earlier, I had hoped it was resolved in Alien and while I've used Alien since the first release I guess I never tried to push or noticed I couldn't. I have to reboot into recovery then mount /system to push files from ADB.

Maybe it is a kernel issue. I'm going to try kholk's after I get a solid base line on the battery. (I'm on my 26th flash, or at least it feels like it)
[Atrix 4G Android Development] dcarpenter85:
Make sure your phone is taking 5mp pictures. The D3 camera app that ships with this rom is very buggy and always reverts to the lower resolution widescreen image size for some reason.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Zugshad:
Don't think I saw this anywhere.. but on this rom.. how can I tell if the phone is using my H+ i know I have the H symbol.. but if i recall, there is a differance in the H and H+ correct? i think on stock mine showed H+ as well as on my captivate when I had it and my fathers new infuse ... so got me thinking since I can only recall seeing just H on t his.. and same with the OP screenshots.. so, is it the rom not able to do it, or is it doing it and im just not seing the + to confirm it?

Zug
[Atrix 4G Android Development] SilverKeiser:
Indications

Based upon your experiences and reports there is a high probability that you have a corrupted download of the Alien.zip file...
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Maxpower57:
Just re-downloaded it. Same thing :(

It's a shame because I really like this ROM.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] joeavery2:
Did you wipe data and system before flashing? By wipe I mean format them.

First go under advanced and mounts and select format data and format system. Then flash zip.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Maxpower57:
out of habit I usually do a factory reset, but apparently that doesn't touch /system

It's actually looking like this may have been it. No problems yet. still setting it up though, haven't installed the skin yet. Usually it would have crashed by now.

I'll keep you posted.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Wond3r:
I am on stock 2.2.2. Do I IHOP and unlock my bootloader and then flash this rom and then root, or do I have to IHOP to unlock the bootloader, flash my carriers 2.3.4 and then root and then flash this rom?

Or I guess the third option is to IHOP, root, and then flash this rom
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Zugshad:
you need to make sure you unlock your bootloader and root before you flash this rom for sure.. otherwise will run into a soft brick for sure
[Atrix 4G Android Development] VeNuMuS:
+1 I want to see real colors aswell.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] nineismine:
Anyone having any trouble with medias players on this rom? When I use the amazon cloud player I can play one song then it freezes after eventually alas me if I want to fc. After this happens I can no longer use other medias apps. Until reboot
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Maxpower57:
update its still rebooting randomly.

:confused: im out of ideas. Kenneth, has anyone else had this problem?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Phalanx7621:
Ok. Before installing the alien rom and theme. Reboot into fastboot and fastboot erase system,user data,webtop,boot,and preinstall. Then do a fastboot -reboot and boot into recovery and do a factory reset / wipe cache and dalvik cache. Then install rom. Reboot and boot into new rom. Then run the rom for a few minutes. Then reboot into recovery and install theme. Now everything should work.