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[Motorola Droid RAZR] macroman8807:
Does the utility erase my internal storage?

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] stupidchicken03:
Yea I looked at the troubleshooting and it didnt mention anything about that.

I checked the md5 sums for the utility and the .zip file and bother matched up.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ad720:
Great write up, very detailed and clear. Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Thank Me Later:
Thank you OP for updating the method!! I tried the method in the other thread and it didn't work for me. All the pictures and everything in this method made it a lot easier. I just completed it and my phone just booted up, I now have ICS!!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Spidersmooch:
Home button stopped working

I did this whole set up on my Razr Maxx and I ended up having to do a factory reset for it to work, but now my home button isnt working... Is there any fix to this and if not, how do I revert to GB? Thanks though everything else is great. the phone is a little slow though from lag... Please respond with some information
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Goofypook:
What if I am on 6.14.75 XT912 Android version 4.03 rooted. Do I need to downgrade???
[Motorola Droid RAZR] macroman8807:
Should I back up my internal memory on my computer? Cuz i know the Batman utility erases does this one too?

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Thank Me Later:
One thing I did a little bit different from the instructions is before I "installed the update folder" I did the factory wipe and wiped cache and then I installed the update zip from the external SD card. I installed it like I would a custom rom. Just to make sure everything was clean when I did it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stupidchicken03:
so im still having issues.

I downloaded the .211 update

downloaded both the 1.6 and 1.7 utility

checked all with md5 check sum (all was good)

put the update on the root of my SD card

booted into AP FB

opened the 1.7 utility

booted up and when it said "press any key to continue" i pressed enter and the screen closed.

according to here:http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/2899-droid-razr-utility-17-help-thread/

i added to the PATH

I added to the system path like it says to in the link (pic attached)

so i then tried to boot up 1.7 and again when it tells me to press any key, it just closes.

Then i tried using the 1.6 utility and it just closes as well

Thats as far as ive gotten :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Spidersmooch:
Any way to undo?

I loaded it but had too many problems with the ICS ( like home button not working/no lock screen, etc...) so I need to undo it. I tried the Razr Utility 1.7 option 2 to unstick myself and it bricked me. So i ran it again to unbrick and it force closed after "installing 'radio' " If anyone provides information helping me get back to GB id be more than happy to DONATE! :good:.... PLEASE! i need my phone!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adamlee06:
You can never go back to GB. All you needed to do was reboot a few times, and if that didn't help perform a data and cache wipe. Repeat the guide and you should be ok
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adamlee06:
No it will not
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adamlee06:
Do you mean the internal SD card:? . Matt's utilities don't erase internal storage
[Motorola Droid RAZR] macroman8807:
Okay thanks ima update now :)

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] adamlee06:
I've spoken with Matt about this and he suggested if the path modification didn't work, to try another sideloading method. You will need to be on a stock .181 build and root. You can find the alternate method here:

http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/2871-how-to-upgrade-from-181-to-211-sideload/
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adamlee06:
Since you are still on a GB bootloader/recovery, try to use the guide. If it doesn't work for you, go down to the 1.6 Utility link, use it, then repeat the guide.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Johnnie5000:
Doing this if I haven't gotten the OTA by midnight. Great tutorial. If nothing else I learned a little bit about md5 checksums. :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] joshw0000:
I read the guide and downloaded all the files to do it. Since I was on 4.0.3, I sbf'ed but used an old one - VRZ_XT912_6.5.1-167_DHD-14_M2-5_CFC_1FF_01.xml. When I rebooted, I had to OTA to 181. After that rebooted, I immediately had a .211 OTA.

I'm sbf'ing my wifes phone (which is on 181 stock and hasn't received the OTA) with VRZ_XT912_6.5.1-167_DHD-14_M2-5_CFC_1FF_01.xml to see if it'll work on hers too.

Confirmed: I sbf'ed her phone back. She installed the 181 OTA and immediately received the 211 OTA.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sahem:
my phone System Version "65.1.40.XT910.MERetail.en.06" and the Build number "6.5.1-167-SDP-IRD-40", Is this method applicable for my device???? and if not where can i find one
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Thank Me Later:
I believe this method is only for RAZR/Maxx on Verizon Wireless (CDMA), USA.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sreeman:
Just curious, what are the difference between this OTA and the Asian OTA?

Got a message from Motorola that we will get our OTA by this week. If there would not be any diff, i would rather just use this OTA now and get it over with :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] joshw0000:
Verizon = CDMA

Asia = GSM

They're not compatible.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] danh18:
Download link not working...

Using your computer, download the update from here:

http://www.goiww.com/xbot.html?task=weblink.go&id=29

This link didnt work for me, does anyone have another link to download the ICS rom?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jtsativa420:
ditto
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kshah:
I upgraded from .181 using this method all worked well but radio is broke, now it asks for SIM and CDMA is not working. I can't go past EMERGANCY call screen. :(

Any help please???
[Motorola Droid RAZR] circleofomega:
any such luck with GSM version??

BTW great guide!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] danh18:
restoring your razr

I would just go back to stock condition with the droidrazrutility 1.6 mentioned here. It come with a stock version of .181. Then just do a software update from your phone and it will download and install ics from vzw, and it installs with no problems. Once your back to a stock and working ics then just root with your method of choice.

Thats what i did last night and it worked perfectly. Im not sure if it does a full wipe of internal memory so if you have anything important just move it to your external sd card to be safe.

Good luck!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kshah:
Radio problem Solved

Thanks for suggestion. I am yet to revert to stock

Flashing this way changed phone to RUIM only mode, hence CDMA - provisioning was not read from NV. Using QPST I changed it to RUIM if Available and I could reprovision CDMA radio.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kshah:
Not reverting to GB may be because bootloader is flashed successfully
[Motorola Droid RAZR] aaronr95:
I got the .211 OTA message 5 minutes after I took the phone out of the box, but I spent the last five days trying out the phone, in a virgin, un-rooted Motoblur GB state. I'm pleased with it, and it's bloody fast (first dual core phone, I am coming from a deathly slow 600mhz jailbroken 5.1 iPhone 3GS.)

Update: The update process worked great, and I've been using ICS for 7 days. No slowdown or battery problems. I get 2 heavy days of usage out of my 2 week old MAXX. Thanks for the guide.

I did have a hiccup, and that was when I booted into the ICS recovery before I flashed ICS: it said something about a cache error. I cleared it and rebooted, and it persisted. So I just went ahead and flashed it as it was something minor like a log that couldn't be loaded. Worked out great after I cleared my user and system data from GB.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Sweetlittlehugs:
Thank You! I followed the steps exactly and updated my razr maxx with out any problem. I was on the version before .181....
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fuzzy3000:
Just taught I would share my experience with the manual update to ICS and give solution to problems I encountered. Just to note i use the Verizon Droid Razr (XT912).

Firstly I tried using DroidRAZRUtility 1.6 to revert to factory settings (6.12.181). Then tried to update to ICS through recovery. This did not work. You have to use DroidRazrUtility1.7 for ICS for this to work. Its a 747mb download.

I downloaded DroidRazrUtility 1.7 and ran DroidRAZRUtility.bat. After pressing enter at the yellow font screen, the utility would crash/exit on its own. I ran the task manager and found that abd.exe was running. I end the task and ran DroidRAZRUtility.bat. I was able to get to the blue font screen. (restarting your computer should help, I think)

I followed instructions and used option 1, the "prepare for sideload" was sucessful.

When applying the updte through receovery mode I got the following error "/tmp/sideload.pkg Status (7)". I restarted again to recovery, did a "wipe cache partition" x2, "wipe data/factory reset". Retried the update via SD card. This worked. (I think the phone just had to be restarted.)

ICS was sucessfully installed. But the home and search buttons did not work. I restarted again to recovery, did a "wipe cache partition" x2, "wipe data/factory reset". This worked all buttons are now working.

Root using DroidRazrUtility1.7 worked.

I noticed that the GSM band was enabled with this update. (I use GSM. I enabled the GSM band using radiocomm under The GB rom). I enabled GSM/UTMS, turned off the phone, inserted sim and turned it back on and GSM worked.

Thanks to adamlee06 for the guide.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] acidsoul47:
Thanks! Im glad I took the time to read this turorial before just givin it a whirl.

Also, I had trouble finding a working link for DroidRazrUtility 1.6, so i just used 1.7 for everything and it worked fine.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rzdtxn:
Thank you

Thank you so much!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] gchild320:
Hey all, does anyone still have the files laying around to do this? Links in OP are dead.

Need to get a friend's phone up and running on ICS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tmb993:
Ok so as the topic states I'm at a bit of mental stalemate. I can't decide on which phone to get. Basically I know that the GS3 is a beast, but what keeps taking me back to the Nexus is Vanilla ICS and JB. Is there really anything about the nexus that drives you insane? I'm just looking to make sure that if I decide to get the Nexus I won't be sorry with my decision in the future.

Thanks for the help!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] electronicrice:
Other than the rampant screen issues and the lack of micro SD, the phone is awesome in every way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justin94:
Really? Another one of these?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1738669
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KennyG123:
You would get your best answer discussing phone options here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1642801

Thanks

FNM
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael_P:
Is there any Apps to stream the picture in decent quality from one Android to another? Because I was thinking about getting Allshare Cast dongle but for the same price I can get one of those Android media players, and if I can stream the picture to that it's gonna be even better.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yatbond:
Install mx player and bubbleupnp on the target and install bubbleupnp on the controlling phone/phone.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] treblesum81:
So I've had my new EVO 4G LTE all of about two weeks and have had nothing but troubles with it. I'm currently on the 5th phone (replaced 4 times since the first) and its still got the same wifi / 3g issues that caused me to replace it twice which have both the wifi and the 3g disconnecting for no reason whatsoever and when the 3g works, I get speeds slower than the oldest 14.4k modems unless I'm within about 100 yards of a cell tower. The other two times I had to exchange it because there was dust under the phone's screen.

Because of the connectivity issues, the phone is almost useless to me unless I don't plan on using data at all, or if I'm sitting by a wifi router and don't plan on using that connection for more than 10 minutes continuously. I've tried the 2.4GHz fix, the turning off LTE fix, and even given it a static IP at home.. all without any change in performance. I'm really at my wit's end and would have already exchanged it for a 6th phone if I thought there would be a reasonable expectation that the new one would work correctly.

Is there any other fixes out there that I have yet to try? Do any of the rooted OS's have a newer / better modem that will fix my problem? Should I just return the thing again and switch to a different manufacturer? I chose to get the Evo rather than wait for the Galaxy S3 because I never liked my old Epic, but I'm starting to think that this was a massive mistake...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mtg981:
Are you sure your router isn't acting up? And where you live might be a testing area for LTE? That would cause network issues.

The last thing is-have you removed your back cover to install am SD Card? That cover needs to be on securely as I believe that is the antenna

Location.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mtg981:
Oh, I assume you have done PRL update and profile updates? There are 2 ways to do that. Settings/Updates/PRL and Profile.

Also dial *2 and you can do PRL and Profile updates there you. The *2 also runs a data and voice test, you will see green, or red, check marks.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Steven 1:
I haven't had any problems. I actually receive awesome 3g service (not so much indoors) the EVO connects to my wireless N router flawlessly. I think your automatic disconnection issues is due to htcsmartsync. It's designed to shut off services (like airplane mode) in order to keep the phone in a deep sleep.

I would suggest rooting your phone and deleting the code from your phone. Can work wonders ?

I wouldnt suggest unlocking your bootloader to flash Roms though..reason being, if htcsync isnt the culprit. I don't want you to have a tampered phone and not being able to return it....goodluck. ill post links in a bit
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mikee4fun:
I feel your pain, I have two and both have similar issues. I have tried different roms and get the same issues. My EVO 3D was faster than this phone and I think it may be do to some issue in the firmware. I am just riding it out. I personally am surprised more users have not come forward. My biggest complaint is the lag on the device. I can flash a clean rom install, or flash over an existing base and it is faster, but then lags out and is dreadfully slow after just a few hours.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dmacias:
What type of encryption are you using on the router tkip, aes, wep? Is it wireless n or g?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SoraX64:
Plenty of these phones work. My WiFi and 3G work flawlessly, and I haven't had to exchange once.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] geniustheanimal:
I was having similar issues with my 3G randomly dropping out, but never any problem with my wifi. I updated profile and PRL last week, flashed a ROM with SmartSync disabled, and haven't had a problem since.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] P.Mobile:
when i first got my lte on the 2 i had wifi issues.. but about a week they went away.. phones been runnung perfect for a while now :good:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Spyderekz:
i've never had problems with the device and i find it very strange that you have had problems with 5 devices. perhaps its not the phone but you that is the issue, or your hardware at home or maybe your house in in a Faraday cage or something. either way..
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] NateN34:
No issues here.

3G speeds and coverage are awesome around my work, on the way to work and at home. Also the WiFi is faster than my darn desktop, with the wireless N.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Spyderekz:
Could be, I know I mess up my tv reception when I'm near it, its like my super power

sent from my EVO LTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] treblesum81:
I would think that this would have surfaced a long time ago were it really the case though, as this is the first phone I've ever owned which has had this much trouble with connectivity.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] neopolotin75:
1st thing....I havent checked but isn't the smith.apk still included? 2ndly I had issues with this phone dropping secured connections from afar and found it to be interference witht he witless signal so try changing your frequency....that solved my issues....no lags here. Remember these new phones are designed to drop 3g when possible to help conserve battery.:thumbup:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] treblesum81:
From what I can tell, and I may be wrong on this of course, smith.apk is a logger and not a throttler as people initially thought. Its something I'd probably ensure was removed from any custom OS I install, but its apparently not something that would affect connections at all. That being said, I'm curious just how this "Mobile Network Director" is supposed to know when I need my data connection, but that seems to be on the network side and not on the phone.

I'll have to check into the frequency thing. I remember a long time ago I had to mess with my previous router's channel because it was interfering with my wireless mouse for some reason, but I've not had any similar problems with the new router in the last four years, until now potentially I guess.

As for the 3G turning off when possible to save battery or network bandwidth, I can understand that concept, but it would have to be very broken to shut off any network with a good signal while its actually in use.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] neopolotin75:
I thought it was smith but maybe its the other thing you mentioned but they recently started adding that software to dump people from 3g to 1x to avoid congestion and it was actually installed on the phone itself. I had no issues with WiFi until the ICS stuff started coming out....I had the issue on the 3D and the LTE....the 2 phones didn't seem to like dual encryption especially from afar so I changed the encryption still had issues except for open then I tried changing the channel and that held.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sgt. slaughter:
A lot of misconceptions about that smith apk here.....
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] caspertodd:
I saw in another thread that you had your Epic replaced 5 times in 2 years. Now you are on your 5th Evo? So you have basically had 10 phones in the past 2 years? Have the last EVOs beet rooted at all, or are they completely untouched as far as things like the build.prop goes? Could there be a particular app that you are installing on all those phones that could be causing your issue? If you truly have had 10 bad phones in the past 2 years, then do not buy any lottery tickets! :p

My Evo doesn't drop Wifi at all. It does drop 3G, but only when I am in an area where I get one bar. Make sure Best Wi-fi performance is unchecked in the Advanced Wi-Fi settings, and in Wi-Fi frequency Band, try changing it to 2.4 only.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] neopolotin75:
Not a misconception just had it confused with that new one they started using this year to manage the data connection
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Kujila:
Five new phone replacements with the same exact problem probably means it's not the phone!

Sure it could be the overall design on the phone, but I highly doubt you got five defective handsets in a row!

Did your previous Sprint smartphones work in the area OK?

For wireless issues, try a different router perhaps?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] treblesum81:
My Epic was replaced mostly for physical warranty issues. Except for the first time where it was glitching and rebooting constantly, it had to be replaced once because some plastic covers came out from in between the two halves that caused the screen to massively artifact if they were in any other position than fully closed or fully opened, and then three times because the micro-usb disconnected inside the phone so that the only way to charge it with any charging cable was to hold it in a certain position.

As far as the EVO's are concerned, I haven't rooted them at all, though I've been tempted. I figured I should wait at least until then end of my return period just in case I had troubles like these, or if I decided I couldn't live without the S3 when / if it ever comes out. If this is something that can be easily fixed properly with rooting, then that's something I'll have to think about, especially considering the fact that there is a 99% chance that I'm going to root it on the 31st day anyway. I would think it was me and not the phone, except for the fact that the wifi issues are not confined to my home router, and because the 3G issues and a similar wifi issue have indeed been running around the net here since the phone came out, so I'm sure I'm not the only one with the problems, I just might have the bad luck to have gotten more than one of the phones displaying it.

Also, as I've mentioned earlier, the 2.4GHz fix did not work for me.

Again, its not 5 phones with the same problem, its three phones with this problem and another two with defective screens. Considering the average build quality of electronics these days, I actually wouldn't be surprised if a huge number of people out there had similar issues, but just aren't tech savvy enough to realize it, since to them its a phone and it works even if its slow and disconnects. The sad thing is that I chose to get the HTC rather than wait for the Samsung because a lot of people say they are great phones, I just seem to have gotten a run of bad luck with them.

As far as my old Epic, it had a great 3G connection and even now the wifi is rock solid connected to the same router while the EVO is cutting in and out...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lacrossev:
It could be that the phones are defective, or that there is a design flaw in the wifi itself. Have you tried changing wifi channels and seeing if that makes any difference? If possible, perhaps also reserving the DHCP assignment that your phone gets from the router. You're right that electronics these days are not built with enough precision or care as they should be, but there are so many variables, some of which make no sense, that could affect compatibility between devices that should be compatible on paper but just don't want to play together at all.

I ask about reserving the DHCP assignment because i'm guessing (not a network engineer or anything), but school networks and starbucks will dynamically assign IPs and when the token lease is over it will generate a new IP, maybe theres something up with the way the evo lte handles the DHCP switchover that it just drops the connection and doesn't try to get it back.

All my devices at home have DHCP reservations and they all run without dropping WIFI ever, though i do remember one of them did do the same thing you're describing. I searched around for that problem and it led me to the reservation solution.

Good luck
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Dakidd516:
I wanna add my 2 cents....the issues he is having are identical to mine....bottom line there is a wifi issue with the phone I've experienced it and have done all the fixes other the flash a ROM....I've called sprint and went thru the whole thing....the phone has software issues...I've given up..just waiting for HTC to issue an update....