yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
I think it's a more general issue, e.g.,

http://www.pocketables.com/2013/07/google-says-goodbye-latitude-hello-google-location.html

That was back in early July.

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] Joel_Miller:
Airplane mode flickers on and off - cannot activate phone

I tried the CM 10.1 nightly on slot 1 and the AOKP Milestone 2 on Slot 2 several times. My stock ROM works fine and I have used this phone for a very long time.

Whenever I flash jellybean I cannot activate the phone. Whenever I try it says that I must turn off airplane mode. I never see the airplane mode icon in the status bar (top) but when I hold the power button and I get options for turn off, reboot, airplane mode, etc..., the airplane mode icon keeps flipping back and forth from ON to OFF over and over. I have rebooted and reflashed several times.

I may have some kernal that it does not like (from a previous test), but I would be more than happy to replace it if someone has any idea if I can find out what I have and what I should have for the JB ROM. I really like Jellybean and I would like to get this working on my XT862 Droid 3.

I searched all over these forums and google and I don't see anyone else having this same issue that I can see....

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] Jason Roach:
Do you have a sim card installed? If not try putting one in. Don't think it matters what carrier it's from.
[Motorola Droid 3] Joel_Miller:
Thanks. Is this a known issue? I do not have a SIM card and I know they cost. I would not imagine that this would work, but if you have heard of this before or this is a known issue then I would be willing to get one to try.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] Jason Roach:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33778174
[Motorola Droid 3] Joel_Miller:
Thank you! That was perfect info. I bought a new generic SIM card that fit from Radio Shack. When I plugged it in and booted to Stock ROM it said I had no SIM and I could only make emergency call. However, when I booted to AOKP Jellybean it said I had a SIM and seemed to connect to network. I was then able to try to active using *22890 (Page Plus). However, activation failed. I am not familiar with SIM cards. Does that give me a new ESN so I would have to perform an ESN swap with the ID on the SIM card?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] deviousmrtaco:
4.3

Hashcode has posted a 4.3 build to test, it may be flashed in any rom slot,I used rom slot 4 personally.

Notes:

- Using new kernel 3.0.8 from other motos

- Still no camera

- Seems to be a lot faster and responsive

- Must reboot on set up screen to enable wifi

- Internal storage is now defualt

- HD codecs are not enabled (hence why higher free RAM)

- Cant test 3g, phone or text messaging as I have no service

- Keyboards and backlights work

- Virtual keyboard stops working once you use the physical one

- Much better battery life (will post pics later)

http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/solana/cm10.2/cm-10.2-20130814-UNOFFICIAL-solana.zip

gapps

goo.im/gapps
[Motorola Droid 3] michalakis:
Nice work Hashcode,

- Seems to be a lot faster and responsive

yes it´s faster, Google Hangouts runs much smoother.

- Cant test 3g,

dont work (germany o2)

- Keyboards and backlights work

yes but it is a little buggy?

Google maps causes phone to hang and then reboot.
[Motorola Droid 3] calash:
No 3g for me on Verizon. I tried to dial *228 and got a "Cannot complete call" message. Had to flip back to stock for now.
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
Looks good, looks good. As noted, I had the same issues with wifi and virtual keyboard. No problem, figured it out.

- voice calling works as expected

- no 3G -- Network listed as "T-CDMA 64" and Mobile network type as "Unknown"

- Bluetooth doesn't turn on

- is it me, or is every other page of widgets on the Widget screen blank?

- Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] Skreelink:
I grabbed the new CM10.2 rom and built a custom build.prop for XT883 radio users. I DID NOT have to reboot for wifi to work, calls/text work fine, no 3g so far. Network type shows as HSPA on AT&T. I noticed APNs do not seem to save over reboots, maybe this is part of the data issue? On gsm with this rom, signal IS shown correctly, unlike 10.1. It does show 'connecting' under gprs service instead of just disconnected as well.

I will upload the build.prop for xt883 users when I get home from work. As a second note, soft keyboard does not pop up, hardware one works fine. My bluetooth also came on fine, but did not test connecting to it.
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
Another strange quirk is I couldn't reboot back into recovery -- the initial recovery screen showed up (go to recovery vs. skip recovery) but regardless of the choice it skipped it. I had to go into advanced settings and enable the "reboot to recovery" option.

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] Skreelink:
I always just hold M while rebooting for the boot menu and select BP tools to load safestrap.

Also a new note, shift/alt do not work to post here apparently (posting via browser). My APN stayed after inputting it a second time, but the phone does not seem to be using it, thus no data, will continue to play with it.

EDIT: Attached build.prop to this post AND to my Kexec GSM information page linked in my signature.

NOTE IF YOU FLASH CM10.2 WITH XT883 RADIO.

You

MUST

put the build.prop in place via safestrap's file manager and chmod 755 before booting it the first time. YOU WILL BOOTLOOP OTHERWISE.

Attached is NOT a zip, rename to remove the CM10.2.zip from the end.

1: Create romslot

2: Flash ROM

3: Flash GAPPS

4: Move build.prop/set permissions on it. (you may need to go into the mount menu and mount /system)

5: Enjoy.
[Motorola Droid 3] Joel_Miller:
Cannot Encrypt Droid 3 using CM10.1 or AOKP

I have both AOKP and CM10.1 installed on my Droid 3 using different partitions. To access my corporate Exchange email, there is a restriction that I need to encrypt my device. I have done this many times on my tablets and running the stock ROM on my Droid 3. However when I try to Encrypt my Droid 3 while using 10.1 or AOKP ROMs (with a full battery and plugged in) it displays the droid encryption image and does nothing. I have even tried waiting for 24 hours and it never seems to do anything. It just displays that encryption image. I can press 'back' and it goes back to the 'start encryption' screen. Normally, when I start encryption it will reboot, display the encryption image, and give me a status of the encryption. This usually takes 1-3 hours.

Any ideas? Is this a known bug. I can' find anything about this.

Thanks!

---------- Post added at 11:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:49 AM ----------

Thanks! I did not actually need to activate like I thought. I bought the generic SIM card at Radio Shack for $11 and put it in. When I rebooted it was fine. One note - When I booted into the stock ROM with a SIM card in it would not even give me the option to unlock it. The device was unusable with the SIM card installed. When I removed it and rebooted into the stock ROM it was fine.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] brunomcf:
Hey guys!

Just got a Droid 3 with Verizon 2.3.4 stock rom. Is it possible to root and instal a custom rom?

Is cm10 fully working for this phone?

Thanks
[Motorola Droid 3] sd_shadow:
which system version? there are 3 different versions of 2.3.4.

use motofail to root, install safestrap to install custom roms

links in my list

sd_shadow's [Collection] of Links for: Droid 3 (XT862)

read first post in this thread
[Motorola Droid 3] brunomcf:
system 5.7.906.XT862.verizon.en.us

kernel 2.6.35.7-g5fa4155

Is this one rootable and possible to install custom rom?
[Motorola Droid 3] Adm.Wiggin:
Why not just try motofail and find out for yourself?
[Motorola Droid 3] Maribou:
Exactly. You are going to just have to just give it a go. Motofail using zergRush always worked for me. Good luck.
[Motorola Droid 3] nokiabolt:
The rebooted nightlies for Solana work great now. That 20130522 build was pretty good, but had some bugs that have all been quashed for me now. Running 20130908 on my

862. Great work!

Sent from my Lumia 928
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
Was running really slow for a few hours, but next morning -- not bad, not bad.

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] Gilly Monster:
I ran this and it was rather sluggish all together. (Lack of RAM?) I did manage to get GSM working with the correct build prop. But was just slow. Any suggestions?
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
Remember it took mine (CDMA/Verizon) almost a day before it ran smoothly again. Part of the problem in my case was lots of updating apps, but even then I often found the CPU running at 100% with no particular app using it. :confused:

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] Gilly Monster:
I had this as well (on ATT) even after a day it was sluggish. I should give it another shot with the newest nightly then. I found it slow to "wake up" after pulling the phone out of sleep mode.
[Motorola Droid 3] kernelguy:
Can we just update the ROM

There is a decreasing gap between the builds, and I am hoping that it would come to about 1-2 days now.

Question: Would it be safe to just update the ROM, not wipe data/cache, and use something like Titanium to restore system data? Assumption is that one is going from the previous build to the latest build.
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
Which build.prop are you guys using? I made a patch and it works. Find my thread in the general section.

Has anyone tried flashing the Opptimizer kernel thing? Does it of?
[Motorola Droid 3] the_linkin3000:
Well, it seems to me that the first line has something to do with the sms central. The sms stopped working because Android applies changes made in build.prop only after the reboot. I would try by getting the build prop to be as it came, in that line at least. Try that, I think it will work that way.
[Motorola Droid 3] thingonaspring:
@niko99 & switchblade920

Thanks guys so much for helping out with this - I now have a working GSM phone on A4. To get it working I used the following method from a clean flashed A4 :-

Edit build.prop and change these values - I changed nothing else in this file

ro.telephony.default_network=3

ro.mot.FTR.33857=true

After that, use #*#*info*#*# on keypad and set network to GSM only.

Then goto settings->wireless&networks, more...->Mobile networks, and set preferred network to GSM only.

Then reboot and use some other phone to call your droid3. Phone will ring, answer it, all good, hang up.

Now you'll be able to make calls on your Droid 3.

@MrObvious

the last opptimizer version I saw was very specific to the 906 or 890 kernels (different binaries for each) so I doubt they'd work with the new kexec kernel. We do have most of the functionality they provided anyway, except the latest versions allowed under/over volting. It would be nice to have that feature back, but I think there are bigger things to worry about right now.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
When he mentions comparing alpha 3 to CM9 I imagine he means comparing the kexec version with non kexec
[Motorola Droid 3] Zmotocescu:
I did a wipe data/factory reset and it worked until the first reboot. I mad no changes to build.prop or any setting.The same problem I had on stock. Anyone has an idea what is changed after the 1st reboot?
[Motorola Droid 3] MyNarwhalBacon:
Yes. You will have yo reinstall gapps and sign in again but your settings and apps will still be there.
[Motorola Droid 3] Zmotocescu:
I tried a few times reinstalling A4 and no success. Not working anymore at 1st boot. This is rather curious: if I set phone on GSM only (like other ppl before me suggested ) I get only EDGE from my mobile data connection. Default is GSM/WCDMA and I get the H+. No sms on any of them. If I dial #*#*info*#*# I noticed that the field SMS Center is empty and refresh returns update error. Could this cause the problem? Or my operator is just too screwed?
[Motorola Droid 3] amedeh123:
i did, and it bootloops on the xt860
[Motorola Droid 3] yus4eel:
Any update on how camera and video progress is coming?
[Motorola Droid 3] dmc_universe:
Direction Sensor NOT WORK（Use GPS Status）,

and the auido sync issue on HW decoding seems not be full resolved in alpha #4(using MX player).

And another big issue: USB storage mode has a very poor write speed no more than 2MB/s......
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
This is probably your best bet, modifiying that to a value from a build.prop that you have that you know works on your phone ...

Ahh, I understand. Thought you were confused about if the 860 patch was working or not :P
[Motorola Droid 3] atlantanetworkguy:
we-tot-id posts from the unsupervised

Wow... sure do feel sorry for the kids. Bet they could benefit from the time you spend on comments like this..um learning or being nurtured by their father... I guess we all have priorities. Oh and you think you're better than that..haha.. very funny. You know... you could actually do something productive to make money instead of begging from people on a forum.. Wish you the best of luck with making something of yourself and hopefully at least some of your kids can break the cycle.. you know.. not pass on the dumbass gene.. wishful thinking I know.. it appears to be dominate. Thanks to everyone for the helpful information over the years.. (yes I have actually been here since the beginning... I just don't have the need to see my comments for me not to want to go shoot myself. I will be resorting to twitter for updates from now on.. If any starts up a thread/forum with actual information about the dev for D3 but without the idiots please let me know. It would be great to have a resource like that ( just like every other DEV forum) and the real thank you is the Hash and all the other people who work basically for free for all us to benefit. Thank you and I will continue to support yall from twitter/paypal. :good::good:
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
Happy Holiday Monday Canadians!! If you want just pure dev info monitor the git?
[Motorola Droid 3] gotoman00:
encountered a strange bug, once in a while after unlocking it takes 5-10 secs for the time to update... beautiful widgets time is updated immediately, but the system clock takes a few seconds sometimes... also i've noticed although the wifi stays connected nicely it often loses connection to google, i use voice so i've been getting sms a little late here and there... pretty sure it's been mentioned but black screen during transition effects too
[Motorola Droid 3] MyNarwhalBacon:
I wish I was Canadian. :(
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Ya im enjoying it with a sublime/public enemy show in a park
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
I wish you were too bra.

I'm not noticing those issues w/transitions, I seem to have full animations(I'm also using the build.prop from a previous ics build which may correct the issue, I attached the whole patch a few pages back so you can grab it from there if you're interested). I'll check out wifi later tonight.
[Motorola Droid 3] switchblade920:
I'm Australian. **** it, every day is a Saturday. *Chugs beer*

In news completely unrelated to this thread: My battery life has been relatively solid. Phone's been on since last night and only at around 60% now. So yeah. YMMV?
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
I noticed that too. Another strange side effect is that my phone had been off since my afternoon break at work and when I checked the battery usage it said it had been off of the charger only 45ish minutes.
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
9/15 build of CM10.1 is up:

http://www.get.cm/?device=solana&type=nightly

Giving it a try now.

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] noleng:
9/22 build of CM10.1 just got posted a bit ago also

http://www.get.cm/?device=solana&type=nightly

-Nolen
[Motorola Droid 3] donharden2002:
Can anyone tell me how to get Wi-Fi working on an 860? Been trying to get it going for fun but no luck.

Wi-Fi works fine on cm9 but no luck with cm10
[Motorola Droid 3] nokiabolt:
Sorry, I only have the 862. Have you tried the 4.3 test build for Solana? I dunno if that works for 860 too but I have been rocking that for a while and find it works great. Fixes my lag issues with 4.2.

http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/solana/cm10.2
[Motorola Droid 3] joefuf:
Can anyone tell me what issues they have with this ROM? I am running Steel Droid 5.6 on my D3 and have been considering finding another ROM for daily use. I don't see many complaints from you guys here...
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
[END-OF-DEVELOPMENT] Sad Farewell to D3 from Hashcode

In case you missed it:

http://blog.hash-of-codes.com/2013/...-droid-3-droid-bionic-droid-razr-and-droid-4/

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] joefuf:
Ahh, I did miss that. I haven't checked HashCode's blog in a while. Thanks for the update, however disappointing.

So is there a stable D3 version you can recommend? One that has working data or camera or wifi (or all three if possible?

Or do you recommend that I stick with Steel Droid/recommend another ROM for the Droid 3?
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
You'll have to forgive me but I didn't stray far from the leading edge of development (Hash's work mostly). So I never ended up with a ROM that had a functional camera, though I didn't have any problems with data or wifi on most of the versions of that I ran. I think other members of our exclusive club will have better recommendations -- especially for ICS ROMs that seem to work all the way around (JB seemed to require a lot of compromises).

EDIT: btw joe, the "you" in "in case you missed it" was supposed to be the collective you -- I wasn't singling you out! :laugh:

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Anything kexec does not have a working camera. Some older ics roms have a semi working camera (stills, but no videos and nothing outside the camera app like qr scanning) as it's a hack. The problem is finding these roms. Gingerbread is the most stable, and I would recommend liberty if you can find it
[Motorola Droid 3] joefuf:
True. Thanks for your help. I'll just have to keep looking for a better ICS ROM. Maybe I'll shell out a hundred or so bucks for a refurbished Droid 4 so I can get something with a little more support and 4G since I still have my unlimited data plan. I can activate that on my line til the Droid 5 comes out or something...
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
In case you haven't explored this option yet: if you have a feature-phone with something like a $10/month line, you can take an upgrade (from any of your lines) and use it to purchase a phone at the discounted/subsidized price (talking 'bout Verizon here) for the feature-phone line, and then switch the new phone to your unlimited line. Just did something like that on 2 lines through Best Buy, and it was quick, painless, and more importantly, other than the upfront cost of the new phones ($50 and $100, respectively) left the total costs on our account unchanged -- plus I still have unlimited month-to-month as well.

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] joefuf:
I've asked so many people how to do that, but for some reason, your response was the first to make complete sense.

My mother has a feature phone, and my sister has an iPhone 5. I talked to Verizon yesterday and they told me that my sister took my mother's upgrade a while ago and my mother took my upgrade in April. My sister's iPhone 5 line is now due for an upgrade, which I could potentially take. That being the case, I don't know if I could take her upgrade without losing unlimited data. I'm not sure if she still has unlimited, although I don't see how she wouldn't because I still do, and I assume our entire family plan would have had to change for her to no longer have unlimited.

I'll probably wait for the Droid 5 then and get it at a subsidized price that way.
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
As I understand it, upgrades are simply transferrable, no baggage attached. I think you can move them as you please with no effect on the line they come from.

I *did* forget to mention, however, that if you put the upgrade on your mom's line -- and then use that line to buy your new phone -- you *will* lock her line into a 2-year (presumably $10/month) contract. But then once the phone is moved to your line, your mom's will return back to just voice and no data plan. So it works like this:

(1) Go to Best Buy (or Verizon if they have the better price on the phone)

(2) Move the upgrade from sister -> to mom

(3) Use mom's line to buy new phone at discounted price

(4) Move new phone to your unlimited line, mom now has 2-year contract at feature-phone rate

Should be that easy. I've been impressed that my local corporate Verizon store was willing to do it, just turned out that BB had a sale both times. Do not try this maneuver at Amazon -- they have some type of 3- or 6-month requirement that the new phone must stay on the upgraded line.

An alternative to consider: I'm seeing dark clouds forming over Verizon's unlimited customers (I think T-mo is about to announce the end of grandfathered plans) -- if you can live with 6GB/month you can also ask Verizon (or BB) to start a new contract on your line with their Max plan (you don't have to enroll in their Edge plan to get Max). That way you can lock in 6GB/month for another two years, in case Verizon kills unlimited (though I wonder if they'll offer a sweeter deal as the end draws near?). Doing that would also qualify you for discounted phone prices.

SORRY TO D3 OWNERS (what...all 9 or 10 of us LOL) for the OT discussion!

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] joefuf:
That explanation was so clear that even my mother was able to understand what I wanted to do/all of the differences between plans. Much appreciated. I was really apprehensive about the upgrade process to keep the unlimited, but that makes a lot of sense.

Will obtaining the phone like this and switching it off to my line make it still eligible for me to get the Verizon insurance on it?

Sorry for the OT conversation on this thread. Hopefully this information helps someone else who is stuck with a Droid 3.
[Motorola Droid 3] gadgetrants:
Hahahahhahahah, yes I speak Motherese! :)

Sorry, I'm not up to speed on the insurance situation -- you'll have to check with Verizon or BB on that -- but it's your money, I'm pretty sure they'll take it. In fact I specifically remember the BB sales chick mentioning insurance.

In the meantime, I just gave someone the same advice on another forum (it worked out PERFECTLY for him) but keep something in mind: the salesperson may claim to that your plan to buy the phone and then move it to another line is "something they never heard of." If that happens just ask to speak to a manager or supervisor. Both Verizon corporate store and BBs should be fine with it!

-Matt
[Motorola Droid 3] cobravnm13:
I ain't even mad. Seriously though, I wouldn't even consider this off topic. More or less helping us out.
[Motorola Droid 3] krasoski:
Has anybody solved the non data connectivity with 4.3?
[Motorola Droid 3] Hobox10:
Any chance 4.4 Kitkat could get rid of the most of the issues with bringing a newer version to the phone?
[Motorola Droid 3] Sztunt1:
I cant enable wifi in 4.3 build i try reebot many time in set up screen but nothing....:/
[Motorola Droid 3] Munckster:
Maybe the problem is not the version, but who would take over the idea... I'm no developer, but I can test if necessary.

Sounds good, btw.
[Motorola Droid 3] krasoski:
Did you succeded to make data connection works? I remember a couple of nightlys of 4.2 that had taht same issue and hashcode said that he forgot to change something, after that worked on the rest updates.
[Motorola Droid 3] Skreelink:
As I recall, I got data on CM10.1, 4.2.2 JB. Data never worked on CM10.2, 4.3 JB. Just check your APNs and everything, I now have an XT907 Razr M.
[Motorola Droid 3] Sloop:
Hello there. What kind of fix is that? I am using Motorola Droid 3 XT862 with Maverick 4.5 and live in Germany with Vodafone as my provider. I am not sure if I need this fix mentioned here. Any help appreciated.
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
https://twitter.com/Hashcode0f/statu...85997740888064

Hashcode

‏@Hashcode0f
[MENTION=5015888]Xback[/MENTION]o The current Moto OMAP CM11 build needs some minor fixes and then it will be compatible for Droid 3. Still no camera tho.

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[Motorola Droid 3] nokiabolt:
Hell yeah! So excited! <3