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[Motorola Droid 4] ChristianPreachr:
So, now we have it. But we need to look at the new "issues" we're all facing. Because we're going to need some help.

The Good

We lost a lot of Blurr (thank ya Jesus!) We have a faster, better camera. A more optimized kernal for what seems like an OS with lighter thumbprint. Its fast! We can disable dozens of needlessly running apps/services. New gallery is beautiful.

The Bad

We lost the "Exit" button in the browser. Google+ is in everything with options defaulting to send anonymous usage and target ads based on our data. Auto sign-in/up is everywhere. Nova Launcher keeps getting killed by Android :mad: Battery life seems way off. Factory reset is pretty much a requirement. Clock app is super weird. Verizon bloat seems like an extra appendage that won't be amputated. Smart Actions is still broken.

The Ugly

The font is terrible. No amazing wallpapers added.

We have ALMOST a Nexus experience. What are you guys seeing with update, and what problems have you fixed? I'm super concerned that I can't "Exit" the browser. I don't like things running in memory.
[Motorola Droid 4] jimmyhawk:
I love the new update. I got it from the soak test early this week. I did not wipe first. My nova launcher has never been killed and phone is running perfectly for me since Tuesday. Love it!!!
[Motorola Droid 4] huatz84:
I'm loving it. It's so fast and less bloatware. Browser can't "Exit" just like all JB roms on all devices. We also lost sleep mode on power menu. Good to see we still have mass storage usb mode. It's been removed in all Moto new lineups. This is the best ota update I've ever applied on my Android devices. :)
[Motorola Droid 4] supraket:
The Good & Ugly!

Just last evening I checked the System Updates on my unrooted Droid 4 and there it was! Upgraded it.

Project Butter lives upto the mark. Works smooth like butter.

Font, could've done better.

The ONLY UGLY issue am facing:

My data from the network is somehow locked, or in short, not working. Visited Vodafone gallery & they checked the settings, which were fine, but still the data is not working by the network.

NEED HELP!

Please, suggest me how I can make the data work on my Droid 4!

Please!

Currently my phone is technically paralyzed because of this issue!
[Motorola Droid 4] orangechoochoo:
Nova works fine with me too.
[Motorola Droid 4] ChristianPreachr:
Vodafone is prepaid. Did you unlock the phone or buy it unlocked?
[Motorola Droid 4] Guyinlaca:
I have several friends and relatives with Droid 4's and RAZR's. These Jelly Bean updates have been hit or miss with results.

-One Droid 4 was a brand new phone with date code 03/13 and HW B. This phone received the update quickly and smoothly. Operation has been perfect.

-Another Droid 4 had date code 16/12 and HW A, never rooted or modded, update failed 3 times, left the phone soft bricked, had to be SBF'd back to ICS. The new update will just not play nice with this phone, so it will need to be replaced.

-A RAZR MAXX got this update smoothly and battery life has been great, no lags or hiccups.

-A regular RAZR got this update and battery life is horrible, the phone gets hot, wiping cache and data did not fix it. No prior issues with ICS.

I'm guessing that Motorola may have used different components in different batches and some just will not run properly.
[Motorola Droid 4] Morlok8k:
the shift button on the physical keyboard likes to stop toggling occasionaly. rebooting the phone fixes it for a while.

when it stops toggling, you have to push [shift] and [1] to make a "!", instead of [shift] and then [1].
[Motorola Droid 4] pnwsr6:
No tether apps seem to be working
[Motorola Droid 4] StevePritchard:
The stock one works fine for me. I had to use SQL Lite to enable Wifi, but it seems to work, no problem.

Cheers,

Steve.
[Motorola Droid 4] jmagi:
yes i noticed this too. it's a little annoying but i think there should be an update to the update coming out soon. right now id like to figure out how i can reflash with jb possibly using rsdlite as i did with ics but someone said flashing to ics now would brick my d4. im getting random reboots like once a day, but i think it may have something to do with my attempt at installing lbe which sent the phone into bootloop. so i want to clear it all and start from the top.. but how?

Sent from my DROID4 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Motorola Droid 4] ChristianPreachr:
I heard others say the same thing. I've not noticed that yet.....yet
[Motorola Droid 4] sean9721:
I also have the SHIFT issue. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I also have an issue with SMS. When I am sending a message the green arrow continually shows even though the message has already sent.
[Motorola Droid 4] marlow925:
Matter of fact, I had the phone root'ed, stock tether enabled on ICS. Unrooted the phone to get the update to install and once upgraded to JB, my tether was still working, so the upgrade did not reset the value in the SQL database.

Works brill anyhow.

/M
[Motorola Droid 4] DiMacho:
That is the most annoying bug there is for the JBupdate. Hope someone or MOT can fix this soon.:eek:
[Motorola Droid 4] StevePritchard:
Weird - I'm pretty certain it had reset for me during the upgrade.
[Motorola Droid 4] Damfino2000:
My D4 had the stock rom + the Google Now hacked into it, plus the latest version of Hashcode's CM10, which I'd been using steadily since the Bluetooth bugs were fixed. (Around two weeks ago.) On the stock ROM, I'd always had issues of the phone occasionally (often) going crazy with background processes or something where it would heat up quite a bit and the battery would drain quickly. I also had intermittent Bluetooth issues with my car connection, where it often wouldn't connect, requiring a reboot or toggling BT, and it would sometimes lose the connection after a call.

Running CM, it stayed cool and had much longer battery life, and BT worked much more reliably.

Removing the Google Now hack to install the JB update wasn't going smoothly, so I ended up just using RSDLite and wiping the phone completely then installing the JB update manually (it wasn't showing yet as an OTA.) It's definitely faster, BUT...

The Shift key often doesn't work correctly, as has been mentioned here

Bluetooth is wonky again and I have to tell it over and over to pair with my car

Mobile data just stopped working yesterday, even after rebooting, until I manually turned off and on mobile data

Battery life is atrocious; it has been getting hot a lot and I'm probably getting not much more than half the battery life that I got in CM. Looking in the Battery info, Screen is usually the biggest battery user, but I always have it either set to Auto or to a very dim display. Looking at CPU usage shows nothing obvious. It's common for the battery to get to 95-100' F or higher. Right now it's behaving and only at 72' F - it must know that I'm complaining about it. :)

I'm hoping that we'll soon see (if we haven't already; I haven't checked yet) a CM based on the new kernel, so we get everything working but with the better battery life and such. Video was the only issue that I was still seeing with it.
[Motorola Droid 4] marlow925:
Have you checked, that you APN still is entered in the phone ? Upgrade from ICS to JB removed my manual APN entry. I just re-entered it and all working.

/M
[Motorola Droid 4] highlandsun:
I wonder why they axed sleep mode, I used that a lot. Does CM or AOKP still have it?
[Motorola Droid 4] StevePritchard:
I've noticed that I'm seeing 3G/H notification in the notification bar while connected on WiFi. It didn't do this in ICS. I wonder whether that's just a cosmetic change or whether it has an impact on battery life. I've not noticed the shift problem, but the Caps Lock light doesn't seem to work any more.

Cheers,

Steve
[Motorola Droid 4] problematic:
I'm using stock until Hashcode's updated kexec rom is ready. I had to gut the hell out of it and disable just about every single app that can be disabled in the settings, and there is still verizon/moto spyware bloat crap running. Some of it does not even show up to be frozen. Big props to Google though, you can pretty much remove a good chunk of the bloat and still have a usable phone. I noticed the battery life was horrible by default too, I'm wondering how quickly it will drain without the bloat.
[Motorola Droid 4] pdacev:
Have upgraded the day after the JB had been released.

Pros: faster, less bloatware, some bloatware can be disabled

Cons: Battery life seems worse. Not sure yet thought 'cause I've been playing with it a lot since the upgrade. What surprises me a lot that the coporate email (MS Exchange) went back to the anrdoid 2.x.x level of functionality. Red flags missynced, trashed email has to be synced twice.It worked flawlessly on ICS. :( I think that the missing "smart forwarding" setting in the email might be the cause.

The clock and alarm app is useless now. More complicated access to the alarm, no snooze period setting. Awful. Why change (means screw up) something that worked...
[Motorola Droid 4] ghost0001:
PROS: Battery life was increased, but only a little. Faster OS, everything is snappy. Phone doesn't lock up and hang when it has a bad packet(what I like to call it when it tries to get something from the internet and can't thus locking the app for a moment).

CONS: Lost root, I used vodoo's OTA root keeper and now when i try SU i get "access denied". WiFi tether doesnt work with FoxFi anymore. Looks like my $7 app is usless now until I can re-enable the wifi tether. Shift bug present immediatly after update.

Carrier: Verizion

Data Plan: Unlimited(granfathered)

Questions: How can i re-root my phone since OTA couldn't? How can I enable WiFi tether(I use it to get my tablet on the internet when I am not at home)? Is my phone some kind of hybrid root(due to the fact AdFree appears to work)?
[Motorola Droid 4] silverfang77:
The old Superuser won't work with JB. You need to use the Razr Blade utility to regain root.

I have a bad: The camera app resets the flash setting to Auto and I have to manually disable the flash each time I start the camera app. Would one of the kind hackers here please come up with a way to make the flash setting permanent?

Thanks.
[Motorola Droid 4] mancowmilitia:
For anyone who is rooted but doesn't want to do the entitlement hack, I figured out how to get Wifi Tether for Root to work. All you need to do is go into Settings>Change Device Profile and select Generic ICS / JB (wlan1). My device profile was defaulted to "Auto" and this change got everything working again.
[Motorola Droid 4] ghost0001:
I don't see this in my non rooted phone. I know you said it had to be rooted, but does this require more than vanilla root?
[Motorola Droid 4] mancowmilitia:
No - all you need is to be rooted and have the Wifi Tether for Root Users app installed.
[Motorola Droid 4] tliebeck:
So far I love the almost pure "stock-ness" of this thing. From what I've seen it's almost stock JB with a few ugly icons replacing the significantly better looking JB items. At least after disabling/uninstalling the VZW crapware. I even disabled the trio of Backup Assistant Plus apps, so far with no significant effects.

I did see one very nasty issue. The media scanner was getting hung up on a specific image. It was a photo that was taken with some third party camera app (on another phone, two years ago). Photo seems to open fine on any computer (and didn't cause trouble on 4.0.4). But when the JB media scanner discovers it, it causes the scanning service to crash and restart. It then tries again and again, doing its best to keep the CPU warm and the battery empty. Viewing the image crashes my own app (the image viewer in FX File Explorer) without even a stack trace. It gives a nice "/system/bin/app_process: stack corruption detected: aborted" error in the log before killing the process (either FX or the media scanner) indicating something very bad happened in a JNI call (i.e., calling compiled C code in the Android API). This error is low-level enough that it doesn't even an offer a "Unfortunately, the app stopped" error message.

If your phone's android.process.media process winds up using all your CPU for an extended period of time, and you're not seeing your pictures/music available in apps, something like this may be the problem. Regrettably the only solution is to try and find the offending file. I made a new folder, added a .nomedia file, and moved the entire contents of the SD card into it. Then gradually moved things back, mounting and unmounting the SD card repeatedly to trigger a full media rescan and determine the problem. Needless to say, it sucked.
[Motorola Droid 4] ghost0001:
Thanks, rooted with RAZORMAXX's exploit and installed the WiFi tether root. Unfortunately, i lost the use of FoxFi, but now I regained my WiFi tether.
[Motorola Droid 4] pseudox:
I just updated over night and it seems a blue led keeps blinking but there is no txt's or any other apps causing it, anyone have this or now how to stop it?
[Motorola Droid 4] pseudox:
Nevermind this was because of handscent marking all the txt messages as new, hope this might help others.
[Motorola Droid 4] DarkMatterM4:
Here's a bad. The update with erase any and all notes you had written with the default notes application. I wish it warned me before it did that. I had quite a few important notes that I lost.
[Motorola Droid 4] live2pedal:
I had that same bug in ics, seems to be gone with the update on mine though.
[Motorola Droid 4] ghost0001:
I had this issue with Handcent. For some reason i had 186 unread messaages. After going through my texts I remedied the situation. Just go back and view all your text messages.
[Motorola Droid 4] viperwsu:
Same, just open the thread for each user and it'll go away.

I do have one more BAD to report -

I have a 2010 Tundra and used to listen to Slacker/Pandora during my commute. Since the 4.1.2 update I don't get streaming audio anymore. Phone calls work, and the steering wheel controls will still skip a song.

Before the OTA, when my phone was paired with my truck I would see "Paused" on the stereo when nothing was actively streaming - now I never see or hear anything, like the stereo isn't completing the audio connection. I've tried deleting the pairing from both my phone and the stereo, and re-pairing, but it doesn't fix the issue

I've also tried the pairing with an X-Mini Kai speaker that I have and it worked fine.

Is anyone else having issues with Bluetooth like that? Any fixes? Normal FM radio SUCKS here, and my commute is 45 minutes of static and crappy music now.

BTW, Voodoo OTA kept root for me. I made sure it was backed up, temp-unrooted with Voodoo, took the OTA, and then restored root with Voodoo. Worked like a charm.
[Motorola Droid 4] ghost0001:
VooDoo didnt work for me, weird...as for your issue, it must be with the bluetooth. I use the headphone jack and AUX input for my radio to stream slacker radio. I will test this with my bluetooth headset since it can stream audio.
[Motorola Droid 4] Wotta:
My only JB problem has been that both WiFi and cell reception have gone to crap. The stock (back 13 months) and the ICS update were both fine with WiFi, and the signal reception was okay considering it's Verizon, which is very spotty in my area compared to AT&T. But since JB, WiFi is always weak and drops out (it's not just a different signal metric, but the drop outs) and cellular reception is non-existence in many places that I could use it before.

Very annoying. Any suggestions?
[Motorola Droid 4] my_username:
Confirming the terrible battery life issue as well since updating to JB. (Ended up having to use RSD Lite and starting fresh) Battery life for me on ICS was never very good, but just yesterday was literally the first time in my life that I've actually completely depleted the battery on a smartphone while out on the go, doing various errands.

And that was with having it on the car charger in between errands.
[Motorola Droid 4] StevePritchard:
Those people with poor battery life, have you reset your battery stats? I used a battery calibration app from Google Play, and the battery seems to last pretty well.
[Motorola Droid 4] viperwsu:
I'll probably start doing that too. I have to do it with my motorcycle headset, which supports BT phone but not audio. I just didn't want to add yet another cable to the rat's nest that is my center console.

As for Voodoo, I'd started with ICS rooted by mattlgroff's utility. Could possibly have something to do with it?
[Motorola Droid 4] ChristianPreachr:
Battery stats reset everytime you charge your phone. This was confirmed by an Android dev. Not sure how much of a difference that app would make. For my "improved" battery life, I had to factory reset and remove auto brightness. This screen is just too bright all the time. Mine hovers around 23% standard now. It did wonders for me.
[Motorola Droid 4] jmagi:
MOTOPRINT IS GONE!!!! nooooooooooooooo! i refuse to use cloudprint.. utterly refuse. any alternatives? just tried reinstalling motoprint but it would not install. why would they not update such a great app to go with jb update? that was most certainly not bloatware. everyone prints something sometime.

Sent from my DROID4 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

---------- Post added at 08:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:59 PM ----------

problem solved. running send2print. just added company printers and printed without a hitch using it's generic b/w and color drivers on brother machines.

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[Motorola Droid 4] RJT185:
Overall it seems to be a much faster OS in transitions and response time to commands, some hiccups here and there but those I think can be pointed to crappy reception or running too many things.

My biggest problems:

**the darn shift key bug ... I use the physical keyboard A LOT ... so not know when I have to press down while pressing the 2nd key and when I can press and go is rather annoying.

**SWYPE got buggy as well. auto spacing stops all together randomly. and even installing the beta installer and using that more up to date swype keyboard eventually leads you to buggy performance. aside from auto spacing not taking place i noticed wonky sensitivity when swype-ing words.

**battery life is very inconsistent ... some days it does awesomely and some days it runs hot and drains fast. haven't had to time to trace it to a process or app yet.
[Motorola Droid 4] jsnweitzel:
Yesterday's chrome update seems to help the keyboard issues.
[Motorola Droid 4] inspector_Gadget:
Bad AND Ugly!!! Group SMS is gone. Oh, the horror. No more access to Google Groups when sending Texts. Are you kidding me? Wow.
[Motorola Droid 4] jmagi:
starting to see some bugs i dont like. programs autoclosing after opening etc. sometimes on boot my extended controls panel doesnt load and i have to delete and reload it. starting to have the cons outway the pros in this upgrade in my case i gotta say now. my ics was problem free.

Sent from my DROID4 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Motorola Droid 4] StevePritchard:
What date is that? I'm seeing the latest Chrome update as the 3rd April - has there been a subsequent one?

Cheers,

Steve.
[Motorola Droid 4] Khiraji:
Is the battery life noticeably worse? I have to be mindful during an average day or I can kill my battery...

I'm currently on Eclipse ICS, but I'm antsy and want to upgrade to JB... my strategy was to wait a sufficiently long time after the OTA such that the things that are broken on the JB ROMs out there may get patched with the OTA fixes (if equivalent).

The ROMs are looking great, but I want some JB without hurting my battery even more. Is the battery life about the same with stock JB, or have you guys seen a noticeable difference?
[Motorola Droid 4] sean9721:
Upgrading to JB has been very good for me. I did a SBF to stock ICS before upgrading. After upgrading I did a factory reset on JB. It works flawlessly, minus the shift key issue and sometimes texts get stuck on sending. My battery life is better than any ROM I was using. I don't have anything bad to say about JB. I'm not sure why so many people are having problems with theirs.
[Motorola Droid 4] sikbrik:
I noticed that sometimes my BT turns up a Bluetooth stream (I use tasker to max media volume when docked) and sometimes it turns up a different audio stream. It's like JB adds different audio streams but, depending on the state of pairing, it doesn't know which one is turned up. Try increasing the volume on your phone when you see Pandora streaming and controls work but no sound. Try twice. Sometimes mine gets nutty like that since the update.
[Motorola Droid 4] erfannf2:
Can anyone confirm D4 holds GSM global capability after Jelly Bean update? Thanks
[Motorola Droid 4] tbv2005:
It does. No worries about that
[Motorola Droid 4] marlow925:
Yep. No issues with global use.

/M
[Motorola Droid 4] Tom in AZ:
Major issue!!:

GPS has gone wonky! Google Maps & Navigation used to be flawless for me. Now it is sending me in circles and placing my 1/2 a block away at times from where I was actually at!.

Minor Issues:

Bluetooth for me has also been a little wonky. I can no longer use my Parrot SK-4000 headset to answer calls while on my bike. It will answer the call, but then will cut out every 30 seconds or so, and stay quiet until the Bluetooth re-initializes.

The shift key sucks now that I have to hold the shift key in order to use the yellow keys. I used to just tap the shift and it was stay on for 1 button press, made it much faster to type, etc..

Other:

Battery life is about the same, but the overall system is a little smoother, less lockups.

Questions:

Do I need to be rooted to uninstall Verizon Bloatware?
[Motorola Droid 4] ChristianPreachr:
Yes. Nearly all the google app can be disabled however.
[Motorola Droid 4] supraket:
So am not the only one who's facing the Shift key issue. It randomly toggles.

Had issue with my Data right after the JB OTA update, but working all fine now.

Battery capacity had increased slightly than ICS. But off late it's been draining a lot quicker.

Performance wise, right after the update it worked smooth, but now it seems to take up RAM space. And hence I want to root my phone, since I want to remove lot many preinstalled apps like that of Verizon (I stay outside US, so they're of no use to me) and also Chrome (Am happy with 3 MB Opera than have 60 MB Chrome), etc.

Today tried rooting on a Windows machine, but the method didn't work.

Any help how I can root my phone? Is there any way I can do that from my Mac machine?
[Motorola Droid 4] StevePritchard:
Which rooting method did you try? The Razr Blade method works just fine. What symptoms did you get?

Cheers,

Steve.
[Motorola Droid 4] dadroidfantatic:
I am rooted with LiquidSmooth but I am going back to stock to test this update!