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[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] dUnstein:
Hmm..my X8 still seems to love Froyo. Games lag on any GB rom. Me on stock kernel.

Live Android. B off d Edge...;)
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] xpraken:
cool with awesome rock for minicm9 :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Samuelgentl:
I have typhoon 3.7.0 clk installed in my HTC HD2. I would like to update it to version 3.8.2.

Clould somebody tell me a procedure how to do it ?

Will I lost all my installed apps in my HTC after update or update has no effect on apps I have installed in my phone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
You won't lose anything. Just make a CWM backup (as a failsafe, you shouldn't need it) then flash the new version over the old version. Don't do a wipe or anything like that, just flash it. After the update is completed, clear the cache partition (from the CWM menu) and the dalvik cache (in advanced in CWM) and reboot. First reboot may take some time but after that it should be as it was before, just with all of the updates to the ROM.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] whiteyaksa:
Just install new ROM

I have some situation like you have, Typhoon 3.7.0 update to 3.8.0! What I did is just pull the ROM to SD card, and then enter recovery choose " install a zip from sdcard" choose your files, and install and it just all set! Your personal data will not be delete!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] combiblock:
i just installed this ROM from MIUI, didnt do task29, installed and wipe cache and dalvik.

i like this ROM but the Cynogen settings keeps giving me FC

anyone knows how to fix it without dong a wipe clean>?

also if i have to do task29 how to backup and restore my data? sorry noob here.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
I don't quite understand your problem with Cyanogen settings, but to backup and restore just use the CWM backup. It will backup literally everything on your phone and any apps you have on your SD card. If you ONLY want to backup your app data and other data which you want to restore onto a different ROM, you can either:

1. Create a CWM backup and when restoring, go to advanced restore and restore data partition

2. Use Titanium Backup to backup apps, Super backup (I think that's what it's called at least) to backup contacts, SMS and call logs and (probably unnecessary but you might need it) APN backup & restore to backup your APN settings.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] combiblock:
Thank you! I will try that
[Motorola Droid 4] Poursinet:
Hi guys,

I've been digging a lot since I got my unlocked VZW Droid4 on eBay last month to get it working on european (french) networks, and finally yesterday I got it working.

I'l try to explain in details sometime but basically (after rooting, updating to 619 build and applied the latest SELFKANG nightly) I first applied the trick found by fragulina on the "Bionic on tmobile" (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25219819&postcount=12), then I applied the GSM patch used by RAZR users (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1495884) and modified the build.prop for our XT894 device.

And it works (voice and data, not sure about 3G as I have a very poor signal here but it *did* showed up sooner today).

I still have to *#*#4636#*#* after a fresh install to switch to "WCDMA Prefered" before the phone accepts my french "Free Mobile" APNs, but that's it.
[Motorola Droid 4] vmu:
THANKS! It works! And I didn't even use the Selfkang rom. I flashed my d4 with Stock motoblur and Applied the GSM patch and applied the Radiocomm adjustment. I didn't even have to wait. It switched to 3g right away!

Call (voice) quality is very bad though, so I'll be playing with my D4 some more this weekend, but... IT WORKS! Woohoo!
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
Just to be clear: Are you guys using safestrap first, before applying this patch?
[Motorola Droid 4] Poursinet:
Yes.
[Motorola Droid 4] vmu:
Yes, Safestrap, and apply the GSM patch as if you install gapps.
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
Cool. I've done the Radiocomm thing (using VirtualBox, glad that worked) and applied the GSM patch on top of the stock 215 ROM. Still using my Verizon SIM at the moment, waiting for the micro-SIM cutter I bought off eBay so I can swap my Irish SIM in and test.

The RAZR-GSM patch changes a lot in /system/build.prop that we probably don't want to change. Has anyone got just the relevant diffs we can look at? I'm going to try to pare down to just the bare minimal diff later. Right now I've only got CDMA working, no LTE, using the RAZR-GSM build.prop as-is.
[Motorola Droid 4] cellzealot:
I am doing a similar analysis of the build.prop in the RAZR GSM patch so we have a proper version for the D4. There are definitely things in there that should not be for the D4. I will have more time tonight to work on it.
[Motorola Droid 4] vmu:
Well, voice quality is bad to nonexistent (Sometimes people can't hear me and the other way around), the keyboard doesn't light up and the brightness adjustments won't work anymore. That's all I could find for now.
[Motorola Droid 4] Nikoloz17:
can you send text messages?
[Motorola Droid 4] Poursinet:
Oh yes I was too excited when I talked about build.prop yesterday and I'm having some friends at home today so I could'nt answer your questions, but I hacked a lot my build.prop since my first tries last month (when I was trying to only change RIL libraries and check the radio log to see what happened and was missing the radiocomm hack).

Did'nt checked voice quality, will try later today, but yes the thing is very sensible to different values in here. If you don't get it right you won't be able to set up your APN's, or you'll return to the VZW "setup data" thing, and so on (but I'm sure you already know).

I did'nt verify everything as you do, never had the patience, but here is mine (I use a 200 dpi in this).
[Motorola Droid 4] zeroktal:
directions for stock rom + gsm

Can someone post a tutorial for me?

I've got stock rom and trying to get GSM working. I don't wan to mess up my phone.
[Motorola Droid 4] calebu2:
Does this mean if i follow your instructions above i can take this phone to europe and shove a vodafone sim in it? Would like to figure this out before i go on vacation.
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
Not working

For some reason the Droid won't accept my simcard. I cut to Micro size using scissors :D . But I keep getting SIM is from unknown source. The SIM works in my Milestone so that's not it. Too bad I don't know any Micro-SIM users. Now I have to order one and see if that will help. Funny thins is when I tried to take it out it showed KPN-NL for a moment. Well I only saw it when I turned the phone around back to front.

So bummer, still no GSM for me. I just hope its as simple as replacing the SIM with an brand new Micro-SIM.
[Motorola Droid 4] vmu:
@zeroktal: I posted it somewhere else on the forum I'll paste it here, mods, don't hate me for cross posting ;)

Still working on it. It's quick and dirty but it does the job for now, more or less ;)

Before you continue I need to say this: Do this at your own risk! I'm am not responsible for your actions, bricking/destroying your phone.

First: Download Radiocomm, install it on your pc and connect your Droid 4.

Download Radiocomm here: http://www.mediafire.com/?du2dimtzztj

1. Ensure USB is connected as PC Tools mode (not Mass Storage)

2. In Radiocomm go to MA->COMMON->MDM 6x00

3. After it comes up, switch to FTM Common1 tab and wait for the phone to enumerate purple or green.

4. On the upper right side in the NVAccess, scroll to NV item 1877 NV_RF_BC_CONFIG_I

5. Read the value from the device

6. Replace the first 8 bytes (16 digits) with: 8703E80400000200

7. Write the data to the device and powercycle.

This will enable GSM/UMTS bands... thanks to Fragulina

If you flashed your D4 You might need to reflash it. And install the GSM patch. These are my test restults so far:

Moto stock: GSM works! No data, just Extremely bad to nonexistent voice

Moto stock with RAZR GSM PATCH: GSM works, Data works. Voice is very bad, but it works.

Chinese ICS modded CM9 rom without GSM patch: GSM doesn't work out of the box but if you type *#*#4636#*#* Select "phone information", scroll down, and select one of the GSM options, it'll work. Its unstable though.

Chinese ICS modded CM9 rom with GSM patch: GSM works! No data, just Extremely bad to nonexistent voice

Gummy: To be tested

SelfKang: To be tested

Applying the GSM patch can be done by installing the zip after flashing your rom (same way as installing gapps)

Download the GSM patch here -> RAZR_AOKP_CM9_GSM_RIL_PATCH.zip (Thanks to shahulvm, Adlx.xda and Spryte)

If the first patch doesn't work, try this patch: -> Eclipse GSM Patch Frasertag.zip (Thanks to Frasertag)

That's it for now. This howto is far from finished. There's a lot to be tested but it's a start. I'll try to update this howto as often as possible.

Special thanks to: Poursinet, Fragulina, (XDA) Disablewong (ANGEEKS/XDA) And many more!

And Especially for die bruine (HOLLAND/SURINAME WOOHO)

@Calebu2: Yes. That's what I did and it works (Not perfect yet though, but it's a start)

@Die Bruine: It's not necessary to order a micro sim. Your cutted sim should work perfectly. Heck, my simcard is also cut with a scissor. The "This sim is from an unknown source" error message appears every time and is easy to bypass. When you turn on the phone, you see the android logo with the text to touch it to start. Don't touch the logo but instead, touch the four corners of your screen. Start with upper left, then upper right, lower right and finally lower left. The activation procedure will be skipped. It will search for the motorola servers though. Don't cancel that for it will take you back to the activation screen. Let it time out and continue from there with the following steps.

Good luck!

@Nickoloz: Yes, Texting works and data works.
[Motorola Droid 4] Poursinet:
One of my phone works with a scissored tunisian micro-sim (when I asked the store for a micro-sim, they just cut it in front of me). No problem at all.

On the Bionic thread, users say they have the "unknown source" message but the phone catch signal despite that. I had it under motoblur too, but CM9 never complained.
[Motorola Droid 4] vmu:
@Poursinet, how is your voice quality?
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
So I haven't been able to get passed the Unknown error. I just re-reflased 215 and applied the RAZR patch. Now the phone does recognize my SIM card (in Safemode). I made two calls from Simyo to Vodafone. No voice issues there. However, no data for me yet. I can't choose nor edit APN's. So I'll have to look for my settings. I'm sure I can find them somewhere in/on my Milestone.

First I'm gonna eat something :) . I'll be back in 30 minutes or so with an update.
[Motorola Droid 4] vmu:
@ Die Bruine You won't have data without the gsm patch. You need to apply the patch directly after flashing your rom. If you apply the patch after your boot, the system will be unstable (been there, done that)

Good luck and "Eet Smakelijk"
[Motorola Droid 4] Poursinet:
Not an easy thing to say when you're home alone, friends have gone early before I had a chance to ask them to try out with me.

When I call from the Droid4 on my right to my Droid3 with speaker enabled on my left, voice seems loud and clear but it echoes from one phone to another juste like double-mirrored images. Texting works fine too.

But remember I'm using CM9 latest nightly, I did not try it under Motoblur.
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
Update

Motoblur 215 "Safestrap" version I get 2G and 3G connection. But no internet. I think I know why but not quite sure how to work around it. My provider is "simyo". It's a virtual network on KPN's network. On the Milestone and X10 Mini Pro running CM7.2.0 I "roam" on KPN's network. Hence the APN's work. The Droid 4 shows "simyo". And even though I have enabled roaming, it won't work. Again, my guess is because the Droid thinks I'm not roaming and do not have APN settings for Simyo.

By the way as soon as I flash the RAZR GSM patch Play fc's on me again. Don't matter before or after the boot. Maybe I'll just have to try CM9. I would like a fully functional D4 though.

And about the sound, I can't place any calls. I mean I can place a call, but there is no sound. Tried 3 different carriers, no difference. I had someone calling me from T-Mobile, Vodafone and Simyo. I can hear them loud and clear and they can hear me. When I'm the one calling there is no sound. Sometimes I hear the first two words in slow motion.

I have added the APN's from CM7.2.0. Still no data. And still no luck with sound on outgoing calls.
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
Update working on CM9

Yesterday I installed AOKP 29/4. Again no data and no sound incoming or outgoing no matter who sets up the call. I only figured out this morning I can setup my own APN :o . So I did, and I've got 3G working. Then I remembered Poursinet's build.prop. Once I applied his build.prop I was able to place calls and receive calls, and, my 3G still works! So at least I have a 90% functional phone :D .

Of course I tried applying Poursinet's build.prop to the 219. I suggest you don't do that :rolleyes: . Everything fc's. Haven't tried highlandsun's build.prop yet. That's the next step. I'd rather have 219 working than AOKP because everything works. No keyboard lit or camera closing isn't what I bought the D4 for :) .

@highlandsun is this the complete build.prop you posted? I mean, can I just copy the contents and replace my build.prop? I'm careful because I've got 219 running on my non safe system and AOKP on my safe system. For the time being I will go with AOKP. But again, I prefer 219. I don't mind the bloatware for now. So maybe you and/or Poursinet can help me build a build.prop that can be used in combination with 219 in non safe mode (meaning I haven't flashed the RAZR patch to the Motoblur 219)?

Again, thanks everyone. At least now I can use the phone. Hopefully highlandsun's build.prop will make it work under Motoblur 219.

Forgot to mention: after booting AOKP it takes a minute or so to get a signal.
[Motorola Droid 4] cellzealot:
I am working on a stock 219 compatible build.prop but my problem is that my cut T Mobil SIM does not seem to work in my D4, whereas it works fine in my Bionic. This has created a lot of headaches for me trying to work through the details on the various devices I have.

I am going to try to get a different SIM today and keep working on it.

I am isolating only the changes required for GSM functions, without any other tweaks or edits.
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
I've had problems with my SIM also. Don't ask me why but it took me a couple of boots before GSM was enabled in non-safe 219. It just kept on hammering about unknown SIM. Strange thing is that in safe mode, no matter which OS, it worked from the get go. After switching between safe and non-safe for a couple of times the SIM registered.

Well at least I'm looking forward to your build.prop. I've been playing with the phone for a while now. I like ICS. But when you buy a phone with keyboard and better camera (I come from Droid 1) you want them to function as they should.
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
Die Bruine: no, I didn't post a complete build.prop. I only listed the changes I made to the stock 219 prop file. You could feed it to "patch" and have it apply the changes to a copy of your build.prop if you want to, but you should actually read it first. I didn't reset all of the phone defaults to GSM, I left it with CDMA/LTE since I only need GSM when I'm traveling.

As for your call audio trouble: that happens when you install a ril that wasn't meant for your phone. I saw this a lot when I was writing the HTC ril - it had to be matched to the proper libacoustic otherwise phone audio didn't work. You'll probably be better off just using the .219 ril libraries...
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
I haven't applied any patch to 219 because I wouldn't know how. 219 is my primary system. Also I haven't patched AOKP. The only thing I did was change the build.prop and after a reboot I had working audio.

That is why I hope changing the build.prop will enable ougoing audio calls in 219.

Before I changed the build.prop in AOKP I was unable to place a call or receive a call. In both cases the result was that there was no audio. A connection was made in both cases but that's it.

I am unfamiliar with the build.prop. I have no idea what shoul be in there or not :) . If you know of any guide/how-to I would gladly look into it.
[Motorola Droid 4] fugitifduck:
does someone know wich GSM / UMTS band are compatible?
[Motorola Droid 4] cellzealot:
TBH has made an update.zip installation for the GSM Band Config unlock that performs the NV edit without the need for RadioComm.

It runs from Droid4 Bootstrap recovery but will not work in Safestrap recovery.

Safestrap has update.zip installs disabled in Safe System and won't allow the zip to run.

I need some independent testers to confirm it works before posting publicly.

Please PM me if you are interested in testing it and have a D4 on stock 215 or 219 firmware, rooted with Droid4 Bootstrap recovery installed.
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
Sorry I use Safestrap. But I am curious, did you also modify the build.prop? If so could you send me a copy? I'm not sure about US GSM networks, but there at least 2 European users without working audio. At least not without modifying build.prop.

BTW highlandsun, you could have told me to take a closer look :) . Only just now did I notice your + and - signs :D . Turning off safestrap as I'm typing. Will modify build.prop and let you know the results.

@highlandsun I tried your adjustments. No noticable difference. Placing a call to the D4 works. But when I place a call from the D4 there is no sound. Back to AOKP...

I also tried setting differences between the original build.prop from 219 and the one by Poursinet. That also didn't work. Which I find very strange. Flashing AOKP did not work for me "out of the box". Only after applying Poursinet's build.prop did I manage to get sound in call that I set up.
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
Well, you're a lot further along than I am. On my phone, with my 3 Irish SIM installed (now that my cutter finally arrived...) I get no service. Interestingly enough, the phone is seeing the cell towers - logcat shows that it is getting signal strength reports and Network Time (NITZ) information from the cell network. But the RIL is reporting that several fundamental commands (like REQUEST_GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS) are unsupported. I'm going to have a go at those other libril files now and see what happens.

I have a US T-Mobile SIM here I could try too, but I'm really only interested in seeing if a non-US SIM works. My 3 SIM roams on AT&T when it's in my TouchPro2.
[Motorola Droid 4] zeroktal:
step by step - stock droid 4

Can someone give me step by step instructions with stock rom + 219 update?

I'm not getting this to work, modded radio and razr patch, with tmobile sim, doesn't see towers.
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
Same here, query for available networks always returns an empty list. This despite the fact that it is clearly talking to one of the local T-Mobile towers, based on the results of AT+CGREG... (It shows a tower ID that I recognize, but nothing else valid.)
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
Frequencies

My provider operates in 900, 1800 and 2100MHz.

When I try to select a network operator the phone shows none most of the time. But its still connected. I'm sure it showed KPN 2G, KPN 3G and one time Vodafone. But now it shows nothing. So don't be alarmed by that. I have a working phone that does the same.

Have you tried AOKP or do you just not want to root and use Safestrap? My next step is to replace all the RIL files in 219 with the ones from AOKP. But I'm not sure if that will kill my phone. So I'm a bit cautious since 219 runs non safe. And I just hate waiting between switches.
[Motorola Droid 4] Poursinet:
Could'nt you install 215 in safe using Hascode's http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1528557 and then update it to 219, then you'll can try anything you want in safe mode ?
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
No need to, I found one here. But that will have to wait until Sunday I guess (too busy). But as usual, I will update success or failure...
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
There's something worse going on, which I didn't realize before. With the build.prop and ril patches reverted back to stock 219, my phone is only connecting on LTE. It's not connecting on CDMA at all, which means I have no voice phone service. (Verizon doesn't do voice over LTE yet.)

So apparently I've screwed things royally somewhere along the line...

[edit]Reverting the Radiocomm change got my CDMA service back.
[Motorola Droid 4] cellzealot:
That is interesting but very confusing because I have had the edits in place on my D4 and live and work in a 3g only area and have never had any issues with VZW CDMA/EvDO service or when I go a few miles away and switch to 4g LTE. This is despite the fact that I cannot get the T-Mobile SIM I have to work in the D4.

There is great variability in results and it's really frustrating to try and nail down what is actually happening and what works where and why. I have QXDM so I can do real time monitoring and logging of the radio and it works perfectly on my Bionic, which has the identical baseband as the 219 D4 release and the 181 RAZR release. There is something else we aren't seeing. There are some differences in the NVM and I am still looking at them, but I am not convinced that's where the answer lies either.

It was so easy on Bionic, and all the pieces seemed to be in place and just needed enabling in the NV, it's very frustrating that we can't get a clearer understanding of the variables.

The 1877 8 byte string is the same as on other global Motorola models that are 3g devices except for the 02 in the seventh byte, which is 00 on non LTE global models. Its possible we can try different values in that byte or the others, but we don't have any clear reason to think they should require editing for D4/RAZR.
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
It seemed to be triggered by some other crap I was messing with (and shouldn't have touched... ;) I had been running with the NV edit for a few days already with no trouble. I've now reapplied that edit and the phone is still fine. And I tried again with my 3 Ireland SIM, and still nothing. But at least, now when I revert back to the Verizon SIM everything is working as before.

I'll have to play with this some more when I'm back in Ireland. Looks like my TP2 doesn't get to retire yet.
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
What other global Motorola devices has this worked with? What about the Atrix 4G?
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
By the way, how old is the T-Mobile SIM you're using? I'm pretty sure it needs to be a recent 3G SIM to even have a chance of working. I have a few here. My trusty old KRZR won't read the newer 3G SIMs at all. The new ones have a much smaller contact area than the older ones.
[Motorola Droid 4] Die Bruine:
Tried 219 - not working

Couldn't resist. Just re-flashed 219 in safe mode, clean install. Then I edited the build.prop in the RAZR patch to match the build.prop from Poursinet. Applied the modified RAZR patch. No success :( .

When I place a call to the D4 everything OK. When I place a call from the D4 I can't hear anything on the D4. Strangely though, when I turn on speaker mode, the Mic works slowed down. Meaning the receiving end will hear sounds in a low pitch and slowed down lik slow motion. But still no sound to be heared on the D4 it self.

So unless anyone else has some brilliant ideas I'm out of options and I guess I'll just have to wait for the official ICS and just hope root will work and the build.prop changes in the official ICS.
[Motorola Droid 4] vmu:
I'm also having sound issues. It doesn't matter what Rom or build.prop I use. It's either Low pitched, High pitched or nonexistent. Sometimes the voice quality is ok but it's rare.

I guess I have to fiddle some more with build.prop