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[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
8/5/14 nightly (cm-11-20140805-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960_jbbl) doing great on an Atrix HD/MB886, JBBL, Philz Touch 6.19.3/Clockworkmod v6.0.4.7.

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Have had chance to put GPS and WIFI through some paces. GPS and Mobile Data for a Google My Tracks recording, and some VNC remote work via WIFI. Solid. Very nice. Also, battery life seems better. I'm wondering if I configured something different this time around or if that is from the build it's self. Nightly change logs don't mention anything obviously related although there were couple of sensor related items possibly associated with Settings - Display & Lights - Prevent accidental wake. In any event it is running quite well.
[Motorola Atrix HD] TecknoFreak:
Is this already pushed on github?
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
The 8/5/14 jbbl 8960 is the last one visible on the website due to some problem. Here are the links for that one.

DL - http://www.cmxlog.com/11/moto_msm8960/#cm-11-20140805-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960.zip

Changelog - http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=moto_msm8960_jbbl

I don't see the 8/6/14 build there but was able to download it through CM native updater on phone. Supposedly others have found web links to the 8/6/14 jbbl 8960 nightly.

<edit> D'oh! You were talking about a particular fix. Well then there is a lot of stuff you already know in the lines above :).
[Motorola Atrix HD] TecknoFreak:
Ty but im asking if this is push on github so i can build other roms base on this workaround
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Ya, realized that after I posted. BTW - Once I learn how to flash kernel and (restore after flashing) I'm going to try GZR again :)
[Motorola Atrix HD] PaintballerAlex07:
I did a clean install from carbonrom to cm11 and I get uid missmatch
[Motorola Atrix HD] KrisM22:
WHICH CM 11 rom?

did you format /system?
[Motorola Atrix HD] PaintballerAlex07:
Nightly 8/11 and yes I did a new ROM format in philz recovery
[Motorola Atrix HD] KrisM22:
Okay then I'm stuck.

You could try it with 8-8N jbl just to see if it works

http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=moto_msm8960_jbbl

since that's what I'm on...

Otherwise, if it was me, I would reflash stock JB (which has had the 2 getvars removed) , which means you have to either change the recovery in that flash, or flash recovery after. Also have to reflash the boot logo.

To flash stock rom (rsdlite) remember to rename it to some short name and put it in the root of some partition.

yeah, pita. I suppose you could try to reflash carbon...
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
I've bounced between CM and Carbon several times successfully on an Atrix HD/MB886 with Philz Touch 6.19.3/Clockworkmod v6.0.4.7. What phone are you installing this onto?
[Motorola Atrix HD] sobitthen:
Next Snapshot for JBL?

On the 08-18 jbl nightly, tried to update to the 08-21 but it would not take.

Glad I created the Cyanogen account, sure is handy for all the apps to re-install and not have to use a utility to do that.

Had issue in car dock and receiving call, 2 different crashes would occur, posted on the XT926 thread since more activity there.

Was attempting a dirty flash to the 08-21, did a clean to the 08-18 since it would not dirty from a previous...

I see we are on the list at Motorola for Kitkat, but that list is almost 10 months old from other posts, do we have to wait until then to get a stable CM11 build again, aka Snapshot?

I was on the M8 Snapshot but my battery life was diminishing, on this 08-18 it is nearly double, albeit I do have a battery mod.
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
I'm running the 8/18/14 jbbl 8960 nightly which has about same battery life for me as did the 8/5/14 nightly. Both of those seem marginally better than M8 (which I used as a daily for some time). If you are getting double battery life it might be coming from that mod... unless there was recently a specific tweak to some power hungry feature like a sensor that I don't use but you do. I should note that I'm a battery miser (by usage habits and toggle switches) and get nearly 2 days on one charge under modest use.
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
8/23/14 JBBL 8960 nightly looking good on MB886.
[Motorola Atrix HD] mauchito:
2 days with stock battery? How do you do that? The best I have got is 1 day.
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
I think it’s a lot of little things and a willingness to sacrifice certain conveniences.

Brightness values of 4%, 6%, and 8% (10, 15,and 20 of 255 respectively in Tasker sliders) with Widgetsoid notification/widget switch and Tasker widgets to toggle between those three modes - and Autobright mode for very brief periods only when needed.

Minimal, mostly black Wallpaper (Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon:)). Dark themes in most apps that offer such.

Data, WIFI, GPS, Bluetooth, Background Data, Autosync, and all forms of auto-updates, data gathering, bug reporting always off. Tasker, Secure Settings, LMT Pie, Nova Launcher’s Activities, and Widgetsoid provide multiple ways to toggle these things on/off with one tap.

Speaking of tap; Home screen arrangement (Nova Launcher) focuses on taps rather than slides to minimize amount of animation. Rather than swiping across many home screens or the app drawer I use categorized folders on one home screen. LOL - it’s like a dozen little Windows Start menus but I can run anything in 2 taps with less animation than using app drawer or multiple home screens.

“WCDMA only” which, in a cell tower dense location, saves battery power otherwise used to scan multiple network types and rarely gets a weak connection. There is a data speed sacrifice here but WCDMA is usually fast enough and I can get into LTE more when I need to.

TBU to freeze any programs that I find in running or cached processes where I did not invoke them and don’t use/need them (default browser, Email, News and Weather for instance).

Running ART gives a slight battery bump, especially since I so frequently change certain states with all of those toggles and often kill apps immediately after using.

When the screen is off the phone is quite idle. Overnight it uses a tad less than 1% per hour. In daily use when I’m of a mind or have a need to conserve power I’ll use a bit over 2% per hour and get those 2 days. When using heavy for work I’m good for about a day and a half. That all said, the phone is 1.5 years old and is starting to dive faster at the end of it's charge.
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
Sometimes battery drains/gains are not where one would expect them to be....

Here's a screenshot I took this afternoon, it shows that my mail exchange and mail app (default cm11) were sometimes (often in fact) get stuck at using between 20 and 30% of cpu power combined. I had 1 goggle account set to sync /1hr and 1 hotmail set to push. Well, I don't know if the app was trying to sync Hotmail while my wifi off (and mobile data off) but it did use quite of cpu power -thats for sure. I even tried to switch to hourly sync: same result... Only once I've removed Hotmail account that cpu % went down. This is a bummer because, when wifi is on, the sync was probably done and the app wd go back to ~sleep mode.

But now I can't use the default CM'11 email as unified mailbox like I used too... It stopped syncing Yahoo from here a while (4-5 months ago / need a vpn to sync - which I do not run everytime im on wifi.....- and now this with hotmail.... disappointing... :(

At least, I should now see better battery backup....
[Motorola Atrix HD] idontkn1:
Any particular reason why you are using push for Hotmail? Can you just set it to every 5 to 10 minutes? Push especially if you are syncing everything and not just the past few weeks with full mailboxes will kill your battery if data is being interrupted in the middle of it.
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
Not really (not that I remember anyway), I wanted to try it out when I got this phone a few months ago and never got to switching back to scheduled syncing.

I don't use mobile data at all and almost 24/7 on a reliable wifi connection. So in this particular case, I remember reading that there might be (battery) savings/advantages to use a constant and low priority (background?) service like push as opposed to syncing too often with 'forefront' regular syncing service... It depends on who you ask: there are advocates for both methods; it's really not clear which way is most battery-friendly.

I sure can but wouldn't anyway; maybe 30 min or hourly max

like I used to have set on GB. But if you read above, I did say that I've tried switching to that for a while and the two services were still running with the sane kind of cpu usage. [Although, I admit, I did not reboot after that and could do more extensive testing - but I'm not convinced that this would change anything..]

And you have that information from?? Personal experience? Read that somewhere? Mind to share?

I'm syncing only one week and really not much to sync from that account anyway.. mostly family stuff -hence why push is nice also...

Push is nothing new; I would have expected that all the kirks associated with it being figured out and fixed by now...

Honestly, I tried push because I thought that it would perform better being almost always on wifi and I also thought that the coding would be smart enough to switch it off when network is switched off (even in the middle of a large syncing job...). But it seems that it's not the case here...

Yahoo! mail does push with no issue at all here....

And now, I use Outlook push for my Hotmail and no issue either and it even let you set 'quiet hours' where push will be completly off.... So again my suspicion is thar some sort of software or user selected "kill switches" are missing in CM11's Email app as far as push goes...
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Indeed. Push, synching and background data are lacking in that regard... They are power hogs that are dumb about state of network connection. Have you ever tried K9 mail? Don't know if it can push like you want but I find it nice for for pop3 and imap access.
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
I've tried it about a year ago I believe and did not really like it; no love at first sight :p and somehow quick uninstall....

Maybe should give it a go again.

But for now, 3 apps for 3 mailboxes, but everything seems in-check.

And not to drip further into the CM11 unrelated country here, but I do agree with all of your [<Edit: 'your' as in everybody here../end_of_edit>] tweaks and trick of the trade battery savings and the fact that every little bit saved counts. But compared to how much power the Atrix HD sucks out of the battery when in 'real use' [gaming, video streaming, VoIP, ...], all those seems a little (how to say...?) marginal...

Even now with 2 apps 'doing push' my battery graph is flat (~1%/hr maybe) whenever I can get my screen if off for that long ;) [and yes, wifi is set to never sleep]. So to me, saving fractions of 1% per hour battery is nothing so meaningful or something I prioritize.

:thumbup:
[Motorola Atrix HD] mauchito:
The thing is that I really need the email sync and, since I don't have Wi-Fi on work (lame), I always use mobile data. That's more usage and there is not much that I can do :(

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I appreciate the answer. That's a lot of tweaks! What do you do when you flash another ROM? Set everything up again? Will try a few of them. Thanks!
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
K9 is a bit clunky but can handle multiple account types. Not as smooth to use but many configuration options, and it has a plug-in to Tasker which can do things with K9 email related variables :)

True that. The amount saved by many of those small tweaks pales next to those big consumers. I don’t play games on my phone (unless you count crossword puzzles) and rarely watch video so it is easier to tip towards the conservation side of things.

To bring this power discussion back to CM territory. One of the main reasons I like CM is that; at idle with the screen on and Watchdog monitoring processor usage, the CM SystemUI process is quiet, rarely using more than .5% processor (that's half of one percent if that much) and the Android System process is also quiet at 1%-2%.

All other things being equal (in new or evolved builds) most combo ROMS (Carbon, PacMan, Validus) have SystemUI using 2%-4% and Android System using more as well. Also, in recent versions of Carbon and Pacman there is a glitch involving use of notification shade and back button which causes SystemUI to consume 25%-35% processor until a certain action is taken.

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Thanks. It's an OCD oriented work model which might not suit everyone but does have its merits, and a few things in it address notable hidden power consumers such as Background Data and weak network signals. As for new ROM setup: Yes - if I commit to using the ROM: After flashing ROM, GAPS, and installing Titanium Backup from Google Playstore, I restore my apps with Titanium backup (though some require manual re-installation). The restoration of Nova Launcher, Tasker and LMT, Pie puts my home screen and Tasker toggle switches back in shape but I do a lot of manual settings changes as part of the build process. Got it under 2 hours for a full build out, and that's with clean flashing, cache clearing, and a switch to ART (which makes things take longer), as well as testing along the way.
[Motorola Atrix HD] sintoo:
I'm sorry if this question has been answered before

Hi.

Could someone confirm : Does HDMI port work with a kitkat Rom (this one or any others) ?

I think the answer is: No HDMI right ?

I think only stock rom or variants -> HDMI.

Thank you very much for your answer.
[Motorola Atrix HD] Fanarkle:
It works for me. I played an embedded video on a website and the audio was out of sync but Netflix worked fine. So I guess it kind of depends what you want to use it for.
[Motorola Atrix HD] sintoo:
T h a n k y o u

Sounds great ! Have you tried to connect a (wired) keyboard (phone micro USB -> usb hub (powered) -> Keyboard ) ?

If it does work, then that means OTG works. That would be Yeehaa.
[Motorola Atrix HD] Fanarkle:
What is OTG? I don't think I have a powered USB hub...
[Motorola Atrix HD] idontkn1:
OTG - "On The Go"

Yes OTG is supported on the Atrix HD, I've used it to attach hard drives and thumbdrives. I've never tried a keyboard or mouse but I would assume they would work as well.

--Edit--

I just tried a wireless keyboard and mouse and it worked without a hitch.
[Motorola Atrix HD] sintoo:
Are you using this custom CM11android4.4 rom or stock rom ?

My guess is the custom rom. That sounds great.
[Motorola Atrix HD] Fanarkle:
Oh, I see, USB On The Go. I use bluetooth or wifi for everything, only plug my phone in to charge or use HDMI since I haven't found a good wireless HD video solution. I haven't tried Chromecast yet, though. Any idea if that would work with this phone/ROM? Anyway, what kind of wireless keyboard/mouse? Do you mean you plugged in a 2.4GHz USB transceiver for the KB and mouse (as opposed to bluetooth)?
[Motorola Atrix HD] idontkn1:
Using Carbon and I have been able to use it with every custom rom I've tried it with. I was on stock for long enough to root my device and flash a recovery so I can't tell you if it works on stock.

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Chromecast is wifi based it has nothing to do with OTG, but it works with the Atrix HD. OTG will work with virtually all usb based peripherals, all you need is a OTG cable. You plug the cable into the micro usb port in your phone and plug any full size usb peripheral into the other end. You can get them from ebay and amazon for less than 5 bucks. I would suggest getting one that has a charging port as well like this. It maybe worth getting it from someone who ships from the US if you don't want to wait four weeks.
[Motorola Atrix HD] Fanarkle:
I know that Chromecast is wifi based, I was just going off on a tangent about how I don't really use wires for anything besides power and video, unless someone knows of a wireless video solution that is just as good as HDMI. Thanks for the info, though. I could probably find some interesting uses for that cable (arduino, raspberry pi, etc). It is able to run any USB devices off the phone's power? Or it has to be plugged into a charger to work? Also, I'm still curious, you tested with a 2.4GHz USB transceiver?
[Motorola Atrix HD] idontkn1:
It will draw power off the phone, so you have to be careful when connected to a plattered external harddrive. It just sucks the life from your phone. That's why I suggested the cable with the charging port. And yes I tested a 2.4 GHz keyboard and mouse without any issue. In theory you could make a decent little roku like box between the micro HDMI and OTG cable.
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
anybody else have no more default SoundRecorder in rheir app drawer on August 29 nightly?

It's in my system/app folder but app disappeared from app drawer. My custom Mms app crash when trying to record audio attachment.

I saw many commits for it on the change lig so maybe something went wrong with that...
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Interesting. I see those commits to which you refer in the 8/27/14 changelog. Looks like they are still chasing it as of 8/29/14 nightly http://review.cyanogenmod.org/71797 or maybe that one is the cause.

Will be testing latest nightly tomorrow and looking out for this. Thanks!
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
Well, thanks for that; it confirms it as someone posted almost exactly the same comment as mine in there.... (I didn't check github and just looked at Aug29 changelog...).

So no biggie: it will get fixed soon I'm sure. In the mean time I just replaced the app with a previous nightly's file (set permissions and reboot) and everythig is fine (I mean like it used to be because tgere are obviously things to fix with that app).

Thanks for (kinda..) confirming.
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Actually thought that might have been you. Issue persists in 8/30/14 nightly.
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
Yep, I saw nothing in regards to that app in 8-30 changelog...

I also experience very annoying screen flickering in various screens/sutuations with 8-29.... I will revert back to 8-26.... dang! :o
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Possible Sound Recorder fix in next nightly: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/72126/

Also, does anyone know what Facemelt Mode is in regards to; http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/72032/? From what I've been able to gather; it has to do with a sunlight enhancement mode (and or high touch screen sensitivity mode for use with gloves) which might not be available on MB886.
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
Anybody can export their contacts on September 4 nightly?

Cause I get a blank screen and a toast popup saying: "No contacts"...

That work before for me...just wondering if I've messed up something or this is from something from the numerous dialer/contacts related recent commits....
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Never even used that feature before but it works in the 9/2 nightly. Will be able to test for it in more recent builds in a day or so. Would not be surprised to find this relates to all those commits EDIT>Particularly 5 or so from 9/4 that relate directly to exporting contacts<EDIT. Also hoping that the massive amount of commits this week is part of ramping up to M10 release ...for 8960/jbbl.
[Motorola Atrix HD] [] AL []:
It was the nightly (Sept 04) I'm now 99% sure...

I've just tried Sept 05 and the option now shows me my contacts list after I press 'export to storage' (and we can now either select all or handpick them). BUT it force closes when I try to export all.... :(

Good thing I have a good full contacts backup from a couple weeks ago... wonder if the import works..? Will try thay at my next clean install...

On a side note: I really hate that contacts are so badly managed in CM11. When I try to export like mentioned above, I get the same contact shown 3 or 4 times even if I took the time to join or hide them both in Contacts (dialer) or in People app.... It is extremely time consuming to go through 2 lists of 200-300 contacts and do all the edits to get everything properly on record.... I also wish that my Skype contacts would be stored and not displayed only when I'm signed in to Skype. And same with those: if I "join" them, why don't they stay join when trying to export??

So many commits in this regard and still contacts are really a pain to deal with....

I understand that dealing with multiple contacts databases (3 email apps, 1 sim card and Skype in my case) is not a trivial thing, but I really wish that CM could just back up/import my contacts info the way it is stored on my phone...

And even that is not right either: one example: if a contact email address exists in Gmail and Outlook, why is that email address is shown twice under that contact in People app?

Anyhow, a very long post...I'm not ranting here, but I really wish that these "basic phone functionalities" would work a little better on CM11...

[And btw: why is this thread so quiet? No one uses CM11 on Atrix HD? I know that maintainers are on Razr HD thread, but still, it is much easier to report issues in here for AHD than to go to a different phone thread where there are even people with JB and KK bootloader versions....]

/AL
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
I think at least one of those recent commits was for the resolution and merging of just such duplicate contacts. Perhaps that is related to this bit of mess.

Don't know if you'd consider this a viable alternative but: Borrowing from the old school cloud-less computer-to-device world: I use MyPhoneExplorer to synch contacts (as well as tasks and calendar) from MS Outlook to phone. It's clunky but you don't have to deal with import/export on the phone and can do that stuff on the computer.

Also, good point about posting here for MB886 and keeping this thread active. Since the unified ROMS started there has been a lot of overlap towards forums for other phones sharing the 8960 ROM and helpful information gleaned from them but it does make sense to post here for the MB886/jbbl.
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
cm-11-20140907-NIGHTLY-moto_msm8960_jbbl

PA gapps, Philz Touch 6.19.3

Atrix HD/MB886

Looking good in short tests and build out of personal junk.

Wifi, gps, mobile data, LTE, sensors, dialer, ART, audio recorder, themed based and custom boot animation, charge while powered off (no more reversion back to Dalvik :)) all OK. Did not test messaging before switching to 8MS.

Export of contacts to .vfc from within People app seems to work. I did not test restoring or explore duplications on the phone but confirmed that the contact data was in the .vcf file on a computer.
[Motorola Atrix HD] KrisM22:
trying to find AHD gurus......

help - need deep tech help - phone diw...

new to me phone w stock 411

rooted with rosenberg one click root.

root checker said rooted.

checked sim and wifi and all is well.

tried to flash recovery 6044 into fastboot and if failed pre verify

tried to rsd stock but fails immediately "failed flashing process 1.22 gpt_main0.bin phone returned fail.

try to boot and it goes to fastboot saying "Flash failure"

fastboot devices return serial number and fastboot.

EDIT: I flashed another recovery and that booted to stock, but I still can't boot to recovery - get android lying down with exclamation point... RSD still fails immediately... TiBkpPro works fine. Used Flashify to flash recovery to 6.43.8, it then tries to boot to recovery which fail with "Boot Failure". Still can't boot to recovery - lying down with "!"

:crying:
[Motorola Atrix HD] idontkn1:
Did you get the bootloader unlocked?