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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvcaudill2:
Hello, I'm brand new to these forums, but I've been browsing them for the past week, and Im thinking about making the plunge to CM7. I've never done anything like this before, so could you guys answer a few of my questions, and maybe put my fears to rest?

First off, let me say that I read the Moto Atrix noob guide and updated thread.

This is my phone info:

System Version: 4.5.141.MB860.ATT.en.US

Android Version: 2.3.6

I have had this phone for over a year, and everything is completely stock.

Questions:

1. I have seen various threads about the latest firmware from Motorola causing an inability to change the OS. Is this true? And if not, do all the guides I've read regarding flashing, roms, backup, etc. still applicable?

2. I want to run CM7, but is it better to install CM7 directly from their website, or use some of the versions that I have seen members offering here. What are the main differences? What do you recommend?

3. Is CM7 as stable as stock?

4. Is it possible to flash different kernels to see what type of battery life difference they make, and can you do this without changing the OS?

5. I've seen multiple times of the importance of backing everything up. My only concerns are the contacts and sms. My contacts are stored on "Motorola Services." How can I back them up? As for sms, I use an app called SMS backup and restore. It creates an xml file I think, so when I go to restore my sms messages, everything should be as i was before, right? I'm worried about formatting issues here.

I just want to make sure I understand everything so I dont mess anything up. Thanks for your help!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrphil101:
yep. being a virgin and knowing it has to happen gives ya them butterflies in the tummy. Don't worry, you'll be fine, WE were all virgins at one time also. There will be somone here to assist you if you need it.

1.Follow the automatic bootloader thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1182871

2. Read a little on the roms you are considering. The ones based on cm7 are basically the same. differences will be in themes, and extra/different features like diff apps and launchers & more or less customization options such as for settings. Have to choose which one appeals to you, and go with it. Beauty of this is if you want to try something else, only takes a matter of minutes and you can change to a differnt cm7 rom. In a lot of instances, once you are on cm7, flashing a different cm7 rom, you don't have to erase or lose your data, just wipe system and caches and load new flavor. Only takes a couple of minutes to flash a new rom, or kernal, or radio, and your data stays intact. Changing to a CM9 or a different base rom is when you will need to wipe the whole phone including data.

3. Yes, cm7 was the last revision when devs were still able to use OEM drivers, so they are stable.

4. Answered in #2

5. I don't recall which apps were good for saving your sms stuff on cm7. Seems like ages ago since I was using that! Might want to consider moving your Motorola based stuff over to Google. Contacts will be availabe there and will load automatically when you initiate your new rom. You don't need to do any formatting, but erasing will wipe areas, and will erase personal data if that option is chosen, so your concern is noted. Pay attention to what you are doing, don't wipe data from CWM when flashing if you intend on keeping your user data. You can wipe system and caches and not lose your data.

Yes back everthing up. Make a copy of your PDS folder and stash it away on your pc (do this before starting flashing), this has your phone id stuffs and a couple other valuables. Don't share that with anyone either. Make a nandroid b/u (an option in your new CWM) as soon as you can after installing CWM. You can reload that if things don't go good, and be back where you started. Install SuperuserSU (not the plain Superuser) from google play.

Just do it, you'll like it! become one of the elite!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravilov:
If you ask me... You'll need a custom recovery to be able to flash CM7 anyway, so why not use it to make a proper full nandroid backup too?

I mean sure, you can try messing around with specialized apps to save and restore only the parts most critical to you (like contacts and texts), but if for any reason you'll want to completely go back, at least you'll know you can.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvcaudill2:
Will this full backup allow me to then only restore the data I wanted to keep? Because I know I wouldnt want to restore the whole thing.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravilov:
CWM will allow you to restore individual partitions. So you can, say, restore just /data and leave others intact. It won't let you restore specific folders in /data though. Basically such a backup is most useful if you need to restore the entire phone to a specific state.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] consolation:
Use titanium backup to restore individual apps and their data...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvcaudill2:
what all is stored in the /data partition?

Also, is there some comparison of roms out there? I've been searching through the forum, and can't seem to find any. I see NottachAtrix4G alot. Is this based off of CM7? Also, does the fingerprint scanner work in cm7?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaxK47:
The data partition is where your contacts, messages, settings and apps that you have installed go to.

I'm sure I saw some threads comparing ROMs, even though I recommend you try all the ROMs and see which one best fits your needs. Back when I had my old Milestone 2, everyone talked about the CM7 ROM, as it was the best to the device, but as soon as I tried the MIUI 2.3.7, never came back to CM7 (at least with M2, used it again with atrix)

Nottachtrix isn't based off CM7, it's a stock gingerbread ROM with modifications.

Yes, the fingerprint scanner works (at least on Neutrino CM7).
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvcaudill2:
Thanks for a good answer. I have yet another question though.

Some of the ROMS I have been looking at advertise that they are packaged with a certain kernel. Do all ROMS contain a kernel, or will I have to flash my own depending on which ROM I choose?

Again, sorry for all the questions, I just want to make sure I dont screw this up!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravilov:
Every ROM is a complete system, so it must come with a kernel. In most cases after flashing a ROM you're ready to go. You'd only want to flash a different kernel if for some reason you're not happy with the one supplied with the ROM.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harley--TSI:
I have a problem with almost all games at 3g ... I installed Chainfire3d but the graphics are mostly white ... Can anyone help me about that?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InnerSanctum:
A lot of people think Samsung or Broadcom has not released the full potential of the GPU.

I heard somewhere Samsung is going to release an update to unlock the GPU, but it's just rumors. When i search about Broadcom VideoCore IV (the gpu of this phone), i found the great potential of the GPU in 2D and 3D feature and can record at 1080p, and that GPU is the same of Raspberry Pi.

That's why people guess Samsung has not released all potential. Now, in this phone the GPU is very poor in graphics, we have to wait for more answers.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KaitoWhite:
tick reduce texture quality and use qualcomm plug-in
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harley--TSI:
means new official system solves all the problems around the graphic and video?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] js2892:
well don't get high hopes on any such update!!... For now reduce texture quality in chainfire 3d, install qualcomm plugin and download games at hvga resolution(just google it)...most of the games will work!!

u can check this blog

http://new-aces.blogspot.in/
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genez07:
dinero

mejor cambia d equipo y no tendras ese problema con los juegos
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GermainZ:
@OP

Did you make sure nightmode is disabled? You might have it enabled with a white filter.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harley--TSI:
js2892 je work fine... thanks mann.. :P
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Karim Kahale:
i am having the same problem sadly
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
I just received this message from Motorola:

PLEASE NOTE THIS, ITS THE FINAL VERSION!

anyone else? The problem is that I am on epsilon v3 rom :p I will try to participate anyway, can they see if I am on another rom? Will I be able to join the soak test even thought I am running custom rom?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] malgis:
I decided not to participate this time. I've already flashed the ICS (672.180.33), rooted it and everything seems to work fine. However good luck to you testers. Let's hope the update will roll out before Christmas ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
lololo I just want to know I am able to particapte even if I am running a custom rom :silly:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MHarder:
just got it also but i'm on 226.3 eu. so im a little lost :/
[Motorola Droid RAZR] malgis:
Sure you can, but you need to rollback the factory firmware first (no root, no frozen apks, just factory default firware). At least that's how it was told in the survey you got the link to.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
No way to go back to GB after you have updated to ICS :cowboy:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
LoL...to late Moto, we already switched to ICS and from there to Custom Roms :D

Happy Soak testing :p

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] malgis:
I think that it will be a serious issue for Motorola, since the majority of people who wanted to participate in the SOAK test a while ago, are using ICS already. And a large part of them have already sold their RAZRs to have ICS on another phone.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
Lol mototroll got trolled XD
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
I'll will try anyway :laugh::good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
I just want the source code so kholk can finally release the kexec:highfive:

hahah

I lied:cool:

lol and read this

douchebags
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
I don't believe this yet, i'll reserve judgement until someone pulls the update.zip from their cache folders for others to take a look at.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
yes I hope someone can be able to pull it, I will not participate in the soak test, screw them
[Motorola Droid RAZR] aaatoel:
Can anybody tell me how can I participate in this one? I haven't received any mails so far.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
You had to sign up for it earlier, you can't now
[Motorola Droid RAZR] aaatoel:
Oh, that's too bad... Anyway, I guess I will have to wait for a few more days (hopefully...)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pedrotorresfilho:
At least guys already running ICS can send it's razr for a repair center if needed without worrying about the system running on it.

Cheers
[Motorola Droid RAZR] maarawoe:
Another soak? Omg after the last one I decided to stick with Epsilon....
[Motorola Droid RAZR] frastgr:
At least, can a soak tester tell us what is the version of the firmware?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
I'm waiting this from june ._.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adaimespechip:
When someone receives the update an they pull it and upload please?

Does anyone know if this can be installed over 672.180.33 retail en eu?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
Probably not, you have to install the system from the old gb sbf and a patchet boot.img, but is more easy that you can imagine. Then the update came out i'll make the boot img and yo ucan use the guide hds pilot made for the older leak
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Tommyen:
This is 672.180.41.en.EU
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
can u please pull it and upload it? I see reports from swedish forum that other people have also received it
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Tommyen:
Where would i find it?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
You installed it already?

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Tommyen:
Its installing now
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
You should have hit install later and copy it out of your System / cache folder. Now it's to late, have fun ;)

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
darnnnnn we need matt to leak it :victory:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
Interesting, I asked matt to leak a tim version some weeks ago and it was the .41
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Tommyen:
It says Build-dato Mon Jul 16
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
tim one was 14 jul so i think is pretty much the same

edit: i checked again and is from 16 of july, so is teh same plus tim bloatware
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
surely someone else must have pulled it? How big is the OTA?

from motorola europe on facebook
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Death Walker:
it said 1000 would be doing the soak test in the email. am just waiting for it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
I have the update for the tim version, but i doubt that you will ever need that :D

You can find it here: https://rapidshare.com/#!download|3...ion.651.167.27.XT910.TIM.en.IT.zip|371721|0|0

All credit goes to matt that leaked it for me :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Death Walker:
what is this tim you speak of??
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
I also doubt that we would be able to flash it, at least if we are on the latest leak for en.EU as that is a few versions ahead of the one on Rapidshare (which by the way won't really download, so I skipped it).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
operator in italy I believe
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
worst mobile company in italy XD
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Death Walker:
ahhh right lol.. well im hoping it wont be long now before this finally appears...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
If someone is interested the radio is the U_04.10.00R so is the same of the .33
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
So it's better to stay on the 676.226.3 I guess.

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
yes, i wonder why they are using this one :|

the kernel is the 3.0.8-gc00ba37 dated july 16

this kernel should be newer from the one in the 676.226.3. But i can't test the battery life :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
Still your reboot problem? That's bad :thumbdown:

But the Kernel is an newer one, the 676.226.3 is build on 27th June.

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
Yes i still have them ._. i can't use warranty because i'm waiting ics
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
They know that you're waiting and they will release, when your warranty time is over. EVERYBODY HAS TO WAIT JUST BECAUSE OF YOU :D

But let's hope, they will release it this month, so you can get an working RazR again ;)

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Death Walker:
hahahaahaa!!!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
Now i have all the hate of all the eu razr user ahahah XD

I'm sorry to say this, but i'm planning to sell the razr once rapaired, after having a phone unsed for months i don't want to have a motorola anymore XD
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
Sorry to hear that, but I understand you.

I'll wait, what happens after Kexec is released.

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vatazhka:
Has anyone found the logs from automated testing at http://code.google.com/p/motorola-p...2f&r=1f995199e214be73cdf30701350048c282db0e2f ?

Browsing around the repo - I found nothing tangible, but you can track what Moto is working on...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
Why track what they are working on ?

If I want to see people sitting on their hands doing nothing, I can just go into any office and stare at the people there :rolleyes:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vatazhka:
It has logs for the yet unanounced Jelly Bean-running XT907, for example... But not any trace of ICS build for NonEFIGS for my XT910, doh!

Sent from my XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
Do you really think that there will be a JB Update for the Razr ? I highly doubt it to be honest... and if it takes as long to arrive as ICS did, then i'd rather not have it at all, since by that time I will have a new phone with Android 5.0 (presumably).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vatazhka:
No, I wrote I wanted ICS for my RAZR.

Today they were testing the following builds:

Blur_Version.672.180.41.XT910.Retail.en.EU

Blur_Version.676.247.1.XT910.T-Mobile.en.EU
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
"Blur_Version.672.180.41.XT910.Retail.en.EU"

That's not going to be much help is it ? It has a lower version number than the leaks, so I and a lot of others probably won't be able to flash it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
No problem for it, you just need a patched boot.img and flash it with the system from the sbf of gb (like we did for the other leak)

I already have done it coming from the latest eu leak to the "official" ics build
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
And to make it easy just an modified Eternity FlashME.bat with the boot_new.img and the system_signed ;)

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
I hope that there will be a guide for it, because I absolutely suck at stuff like that... I can root and flash ROMs just fine, but modifying stuff is not really right up my alley.

Or maybe someone will make a ready-to-flash version of it...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
Relax dude, until there's no Leak there's no reason to think about that. When it's leaked, I'll modifie my old Guide and all is fine.

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
there is already a guide made from hds-pilot :D

you just need the patched boot.img that i can make, but i need the update file first (i'm not sure that the patchet boot.img from the tim version works on the eu no brand)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vatazhka:
I expect that at some point they will need to push an OTA to the leaked SBFs (incl. .33) since they sold some MAXXes with this preinstalled and they also updated several handsets in few countries to this version via OTA.

Sent from my XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
dunno, a user posed this (maybe he take it from the motorola forum or the soak test mail )

Knowing motorola maybe they will be forever in that version
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Death Walker:
yeah thats what it said and they said if phone is rooted n stuff you have to put it back to stock if you want to do the saok testing as they have not got time to be helping testers with problems because of rooting n stuff you have already done to your phone..
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vahlak:
672.180.41.xt910.Retail.en.EU

U_04.10.00R

3.0.8-gc00ba37

6.7.2-180_SPU-19-TA-11.6

Did they just remove the Russian locale from the UK version?

Can other region soak testers check please?

Keyboard is still there but not locale.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ashenphoenix:
672. ???

My current version is 676.226.3 (the leaked one, a month ago)

How can they test an older version now?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mactron:
Could somebody please post a leak?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vahlak:
Yeah. Build date 16 July. Better than nothing anyway...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adaimespechip:
Has anyone had a thought on how to get this onto a device running .33 yet?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
Obviously it's not an older version since it's the final official ics
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
There is already a way to install it, we just need the update
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
I cant believe that no one has leak it yet?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
I bet some people have it already, but they are either not here or don't know enough to find cache.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Death Walker:
well im still waiting for them to set it up.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Mavican:
Just wondering if Motorola have sorted out the problems the American's were finding on their Razrs.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
any news on this? seems like the razr is getting cooler and cooler, the dev section is dead
[Motorola Droid RAZR] aaatoel:
The gsmarena comments show that nobody has still got the official OTA. Don't know about the guys who participated in the soak test.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
Motorola said on their facebook that will be out on the 21 of august, is pointless to wait it before
[Motorola Droid RAZR] The Sensei:
Can you post the screenshot of Motorola declaring that?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] HSD-Pilot:
It doesn't matters what moto said. I mean, they said a lot about release ICS the whole year :D

Sent from my CustomiZed XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
They didnt say 21th, the only thing they said was this

anyway the important thing is the source code so kholk can release this goddamn kexec :silly::silly::silly:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] suttaroom:
so technically it is possible to get onto this new " final release" even u are on the leak then ??

226.3
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
I think you can simply use RSDLite to flash the last Fastboot-Files, drop the OTA on the SD-Card and flash it through the normal recovery.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
You can't rds gb when you have already ics, but don't worry tou have only have to follow hds-pilot made and change the boot img
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jadephyre:
That's not what I meant.

I meant RSD'ing the ICS Leak Fastboot Files again, that should work (I know that you can't go back to Gingerbread, neither do I want to).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] suttaroom:
right .. could u link that
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1738769

you can follow this guide to install the version of the soak test, but you need to change the boot.img and of course the update file.

we can't make the boot.img right now because we don't have the update file
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Gazblade:
Just received this. Didn't get the soak update tho

Thanks so much to everyone has been posting in our private community about the new MOTOROLA RAZR/RAZR MAXX software. Your comments are being read and investigated by our team. Now we hope to get your survey response. The survey is especially helpful in letting us get an organized view of your views and feedback.

It's very important that you respond even if you failed to get the upgrade. Your information can help us make sure you and others get upgraded.

Please click this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AqibkVJWOajI69JAOP2eOQ_3d_3d to take the evaluation survey. We would appreciate your response by mid-day tomorrow 13/8/12 so we can make our go/no-go decision to release the software for all owners.

Thanks again!

- Mark

Motorola Owners' Forums

Motorola Feedback Network
[Motorola Droid RAZR] malgis:
They are already requesting the feedback today. So IMHO the update will be pushed really soon (I'd bet for less than a week).

Better late then never.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] aaatoel:
Agreed! Since they expect the response until tomorrow, I hope that it is a matter of days! Come on Moto!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Death Walker:
i also received that even tho i never got the update and they were talking about 672.180.41.xt910.en.eu
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
Count me in, let's hope there was no bugs so they can release the goddamn source
[Motorola Droid RAZR] geemacd:
Still nothing in UK for me yet

What happened to the other main thread about this update?

Sent from the UK on my xt910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vatazhka:
It was moved to Q&A: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1732080

Sent from my XT910
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thunderbread:
Does anyone know if there is a flashable zip somewhere to fix samsungs crappy autobrightness? The transitions from light to darker rooms is horrible. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droosh:
I just installed lux and it works well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
Yup, LUX is definitely the way to go.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blackguy101:
I dont want to hi jack this thread or anything but is it worth paying for the full version or is the free version good enough?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] enohand:
i use tasker to adress these issues.

well worth the money (even thou it is 1 of the more costly apps out there)