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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah I heard and have been seriously thinking of dumping Verizon due to their very high prices, but, they *are* The Cadillac of all cellphone carriers. When my contract ended years ago, I made no attempt at that time to switch so the gave me an offer that I could not refuse. They would grandfather me in for unlimited data for life, if I agreed to stay with them. At that time, unlimited data was serious business and now, it is getting restricted again. I just had a talk with them about it before I found my phone was broken. I wanted them to solve my missing LTE and 4G problem and they checked everything! I asked if they were throttling data and got a really cool rep. He wanted to learn all about rooting and romming himself and gave me his private home email address to talk. He tole me that Verizon had not started throttling data yet, but it would start next month. They were only going to throttle those that routinely exceed ten Gigabytes per month. It is that tiny fraction of a percent that they are after. I never use THAT much data, but several gigs a month is not uncommon. Everyone else is not offering unlimited data anymore, the commonly cap you at around 2Gb unless it is a family plan with 4 or more phones then you get a 10Gb cap. Me, I am safe so as long as I get my phone exchanged with my insurance, I am likely to stay. ...for now. ;)

Gotta go finish cooking dinner, take care man! :cowboy:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] csrredcoat:
Heads Up Lockscreen Notifications

I'm loving this rom. I switched from Madhi which was also great. My 2nd AOSP rom. Is there a way to get heads up lock screen notifications? Thanks in advance!:)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
I have been running the CM11 XT910 9/3 nightly for quite awhile. I updated to the 9/15, 9/17, and 9/18 nightlies, but my battery seemed to go down faster than with 9/3. I use DS Battery Saver as a standalone app. I installed the 9/20 nightly today and the battery life is better. I haven't done much testing and I don't use MMS or Hangouts, but the more basic functions work. I have never had trouble with Contacts, wireless, or the phone.

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Hey that's good news, Allen. Many people report on the nightly builds, and we need this information because not all nightly builds are "good ones". I have an XT912 on 09/18 now and my battery life kind of stinks. You think 09/20 is better? Well, I appreciate tips like that, as do most of us. I will update now.

By the way, what is this "DS Battery Saver" anyway? I never heard of it before. Ohhhh,

Deep Sleep Battery Saver

. That sounds like it has potential and I will admit that most of the cm11 nightlies do not have good battery life for many of us. I just did a MAJOR wipe and clean and am running low on battery pretty fast. It might be that I am always playing with it, though. This Deep Sleep Battery Saver seems like it would be a very good companion to Greenify. I will give it a try but must keep my app count down, WAY down. Too many apps is what ruined my last install. As a matter of fact, this is a very fresh install with only one update on it. I must go over my installed apps and remove anything I am not using nor will likely use much. My phone is responsive again and too many apps will take that away, but quick!

Thanks for the tip, fellow. Keep them coming when you have something to share. Good looking out! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
System App Question

Hey Guys,

I have a "clean phone" now and it is fast and responsive. I want to keep it this way. I noticed that I have two identical Email apps, that is the name of them, "Email", icon is a white envelope with a yellow letter sticking out of it. I believe I have two because when I tried to setup the one I had, it would not setup accounts no matter what I did. Add account, user name and password, and it would always fail. So I looked into Titanium Backups and had the Email app, and of course, I had my accounts in it. So I restored App & Data to get my email settings back. What I did not expect was to have two identical Email apps, but the versions are different. The one that does not work is 4.4.4-275034c71e and is a system app. The one that does work is a later version, 6.3-1218562 and a user app. I am trying to use TiBu to remove the "system app" status of the older version and apply it to the new version, but it is taking a very long time to "convert to user app". Still not finished yet but it appears that the older system app is now no longer installed, it shows the line through it in TiBu and is no longer present in the app drawer. I thing TiBu is "stuck", it should have been done by now. I will have to kill TiBu or reboot to stop this.

Okay, TiBu stopped, the early, non-working Email app still has the red ball "system app" icon but is uninstalled. Apparently TiBu was unsuccessful in making this a user app, but it did uninstall it. The working later version has market icons and works. It had no backups so I made one first. I am attaching the TiBu screen showing both apps and the help screen from this Email app. Is this what you guys have on your rom or is this some 'market version"?

Ohhh, TiBu does give "View in market" for each app. The working one is in the market and is a free Google app, installed. The older system apps in market yields "No results found for "pname.com.android.email". This sounds to me like an outdated app that came with gapps or maybe the rom itself.

I think it is really odd that this Google market app has "Nexus" in the help screen. Can some of you find the same app and check version and help screen to compare with mine? Since this is the only general email app that really works and seems to be a later version, I would like to keep this one and make it a system app. But can some of you check yours first so I know what is going on? Do you think it is necessary to make this now in use Email app a "System App"? Thanks. :)

As a side note:

I am installing Facebook and Facebook Messenger now. This has me a little nervous as Facebook is one of the worst offenders of things that bog down the phone. These items I do need from time to time but hopefully, Greenify will keep them in line. Anyone else with tips to manage Facebook and similar "system dogging apps" to keep them out of the way and out of the system until they are needed?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
AFAIK, the only difference between XT910 and XT912 is the radio. 912 has a US radio for CDMA & LTE and the 910 has a radio for other countries that use CDMA. Other than that, they are identical units and thus, development is the same but for anything having to do with the radio for phone and data communication.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sherri:
My two daughters use Facebook quite often. Older daughter has this phone (stock...) and younger daughter has Samsung Galaxy S4. She uses the FB app. Older one uses FB from the browser. She uses the mobile version, and swears it is much better. This way, when she closes browser, it no longer runs. I have tried it both ways on my phone. I use browser version on phone, and the app on the tablet.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH! :mad:

Forget it, man. I am going to have to "Rob Peter to pay Paul" (Means "juggling the bills") to get this new XT912 Factory Rebuilt insurance claim phone, NOW. I can't take it man, I am now "fine tuning" a phone that has to go. What is the point? By the time a couple of weeks go by, I may have an awful lot of things, settings, etc., that will have to be transferred over to a replacement phone. Since losing my LTE chip and ability to get 4G data, it does not make sense to pay this very high cellphone bill with Verizon for "3G" data, a mere drop in the bucket. CM11 gives us this wonderful WiFi AP function that allows me to run my big screen tablet anywhere, anytime so if I get stuck somewhere, like say an airport or hospital waiting room, I can pop in my ear-buds and watch HDTV on Xfinity or Netflix. Not to mention any laptop of computer I am working on that needs, say, a network card driver, which I cannot get, because the computer is missing the network card adapter. This WifFi AP is worth it's weight in gold, not to mention that Verizon charges $20/Mo just to have such a feature whether you use it or not.

XT912 will be here Tuesday. Then, get it rooted and all that. Oh I can hardly wait! :victory:

Hey, I got another question!

Since I really wiped everything off this phone and then restored stock with Matt's Utility, then rooted, then Safe Strap, then cm11. I should have a really empty or at least plenty of room on my internal sdcard. But that is not what I am seeing. I see 8Gb of internal space and 1.7Gb free. Huh? Where did all that space go? It appears that 5.57Gb is being used up by safestrap and sure enough, in file explorer, my /sdcard/safestrap folder shows that the folder and it's contents are using 5.57Gb of space.

But I keep ALL of my backups on ext-sdcard, how can this be? Apparently there is a rom-slot1 folder inside, that is cm11, which I am using now. Inside of there we have 4 files.

cache.img - 1Gb

name - 5 Bytes

system.img - 700Mb

userdata.img - 3.91 - Gb

Yeah, that's a lot of gigabytes, alright. But it takes up ¾ of my internal sdcard space. Is this normal? Do you guys have the same situation on your phones? This is a pretty new install and has not had much time to get all "junked up". So what is going on with your phones. Same thing?

Screenshots Attached.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
I don't use Safestrap but I think that you should erase your SD Card,I did that yesterday,before I flashed the rom.

Sent from my Razr XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
That is exactly what I did, Welder. I wanted this install so clean you could eat off it. I backed up in Safe Strap and Titanium Backup, then saved these backups to PC. These backups all go on ext-sdcard. I inserted a blank, FAT32 formatted 16GB ext-sdcard, formatted internal 8Gb sdcard, and THEN, used Matt's Utility to get a stock rom on the phone, root it, install Safe Strap, and finally install cm11 and pa-gapps on slot1. That's it, this was a totally blank sd-card days ago. Installing Safe Strap I think does create userdata and system img files and these can be very large files. I need someone who has Safe Strap installed to report on what they find in their file managers in the /sdcard/safestrap folder. There are NO backups in there, those are kept on ext-sdcard. So this must just be Safe Strap data. Maybe the partitions it creates to form the rom slots and then all the partitions and filesystems that are used for each slot.

Funny thing happened. After I did all that wiping and installing, my phone no longer has an IMEI ID number anymore, Titanium Backup cannot restore my Android ID anymore, I have NO LTE or 4G anymore, and even my Baseband lacks the LTE information. Everyone says the phone is broken, bad LTE chip, not my fault, nothing I can do but replace it, or, buy a junk phone and take the LTE chip/board from it to replace my own. I ended up putting in an insurance claim and will get a replacement on Tuesday. Then the fun begins with rooting and romming all over again. At least I have some nice backups to restore now. And, the phone is very "lean and mean". I have not restored all my apps and killed auto update on them. With relatively few apps installed and Greenify going, my phone actually works good now. Fast, does what you want without waiting forever, no black screens. ...and no 4G data, either. That is why I have to replace it. :(

Oh, we have a new rooting tool out, Saferoot. I just posted about it maybe a day ago. I hope the replacement phone comes with Kit Kat and I can root it with the new rooting tool and just keep my real stock rom instead of having to install another one. I think saferoot works on 910 phones, too. You should check it out and see, just in case. I found it, here you go!

PSA: Get your new Razr "Saferoot" Rooting Tool here, folks!

That's what I think, anyway. Let's see if we can get someone tonight to report on what their phone has. Thanks for answering and it is good to hear from you again, Welder! :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sherri:
I don't think Kitkat was released for this phone. Last official update was JB, which can be rooted. Then you can install a ROM that runs Kitkat...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
1. Matt's utility DOES NOT wipe internal SD card space, RSDlite does if you use it.

2. Backups are stored in the TWRP folder, not the SafeStrap folder.

3. Do the math, you formatted slot one with a whopping almost 4gigs of data storage space, and a GIG of cache (why?). Whether you use it or not, the container file size is determined when you create the slot, like a virtual drive image file in Virtual box.

Here's what my slot one looks like:

- Brian

"But Cap'n, I'm no' a miracle worker! ...Ach, I'll try laddie, I'll try." - Montgomery Scott

All-In-One XT912 Utility to:

Reflash Stock ROM/Root Stock ROM/Install SafeStrap

UPDATED!​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah, I think you are right, Sherri. Well, I have to return the old one and either break it so it won't turn on or put stock back on and unroot it. It already has a stock VZW stock rom, just have to see if I can remove root or redo Matt's Utility and not root the phone. :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farhan76242:
Major Bug in All CM11 Roms Please fix it..

Everything working fine but USSD code not running like If i dail *444# commands for balance check so It's not working. I trid all CM11 Kitkat 4.4 Roms. And 2nd Bug is Message not sending.. same bugs in all Kitkat rom 4.4.. Jellybean working 100% fine. Dear developer Please fix this major Bug in Kitkat 4.4 spyder nightly (Motorola Droid Razr XT-912) I triad few mobile sets but same problem in all set .. Please help me that How can I fix this bugs.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sherri:
From what I have been reading, you are putting in an insurance claim. If you have the insurance by Assurion (which is what Verizon usually uses..), the phone is covered for everything, including loss and theft. If you did, indeed, lose it, you would not have to return it nor worry about unrooting it. Do not drive yourself crazy. They will take your phone and completely refurbish it. They are not worried about it being rooted.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
I'm pretty sure that this is actually a Safestrap bug. UPDATE: itried an older version and same issue. It may still work on the stock slot though. Also you can access balance and what not using the verizon app instead of the widget if you are on verizon.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sherri:
To check the balance, it is #225... (#bal)... What is *444#?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I did not use Matt to wipe the internal sdcard. I went into Safe Strap and with the USB cord plugged into Windows, you can mount either sdcard or ext-sdcard. I mounted internal, first to copy everything on it to my hard drive and second, to completely format the internal sdcard in Windows Explorer. Total wipe, poof, gone!

As I said, I do not make or keep backups on sdcard, ONLY on ext-sdcard.

Yeah, in Safe Strap, I did bump up the slot size really big. Probably because I am not quite sure how Safe Strap works. AFAIK, I make a 2Gb slot, then all I have for that rom and space is 2GB. So, I make a 3 or 4 Gb slot, I got 3-4Gb of room for that rom, it's content, and storage, ...no? :confused:

Let me get DiskUsage installed again so you can figure it out, I give up man.

...why the heck does my key tap sound disappear all the time, then I have to reboot to get it back. This is really annoying the heck out of me! :mad:

Sigh, keytap sound is enabled, volume set at 40. No reason on earth it should not be working. A reboot will bring it back for a couple hours and then it is gone again. What the heck, dammed near all sound is gone. Settings/Sound/Volume, and move sliders, no sound! Select ringtone, tap anything on the list, dead quiet! Oh man, I cannot restore a backup like this to a replacement phone unless the phone really is going bad in more ways than one! Must be. :(

...but I never saw this happen in stock rom.

Yeah, default notification, none of it. Sound is gone but for media, I think. Google play music: For SURE playing, not a sound. I have been on and off Bluetooth all day though. Not on now though. I cannot believe it, I am watching the mini RTA sound bars bounce in Google play music and not a sound from the phone! This is NUTS, man. Reboot will fix it, but WHY?

(Oh you want the storage picture, let me get it now.)

Wow, not even my pictures are going to dropbox now. Oh, dropbox say low battery, charge to resume! Oh I better charge this up, as soon as I plugged in power cord, screenshot uploaded. But the sound? Let me call the phone and see if the ringer works. Yeah that works, but nothing else does. Oh wait a minute! Once I called the phone, it rang with normal ringtone, and after that, all sound on phone works again. It is almost like "the sound went to sleep". What controls the sound? How to check if it is hibernating or put to sleep? Hmmm, taking check off "Allow system apps to be Greenified" to see if that gives any clue. Why would anybody Greenify the sound or make it sleep, unless I wanted it done?

Oh, one new thing is something I installed to test out, maybe this is killing things on the system:

Deep Sleep Battery Saver

Anyway, DiskUsage image attached, what do you make of it Brian?

P.S. Go easy on me. I am very frustrated. :mad:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
Has anyone tried Boot Manager Pro? Now that BMM and Safestrap are no longer supported? Just checking... There is a lite version too which I'm going to try but if it works well I may try the pro version. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drx2.bootmanager

Is there anything better? Is there anything that is actually maintained? Looks like Boot Manager is out of date too. Also it doesn't install at all on my phone. I can install the apk but if crashes when trying to install the loader.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
You can see how much room you are actually using for your rom slot (versus how much room you allocated when you created the rom slot) by booting into recovery, select Boot Options, Select your rom slot. Safestrap will then show you the amount of memory allocated to each partition (i.e., system, data, and cache) and show you how much free space you have in each partition.

If you have a lot of extra free space you may wish to backup your rom slot, recreate the rom slot using smaller partition sizes, and then restore your rom to the newly created rom slot. I'm guessing that this could potentially free up quite a lot of space on your internal sd card. since your created partitions that are much larger than usual.

Keep in mind that you can always use this same procedure to increase the size of the partitions if you ever find that you are running out of space.

Good luck.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
Thanks for the information. The XT910 is my first Motorola phone (not counting the StarTac I used at work eons ago).The CM11 XT910 build has many more changes than the XT912, at least on this day. Here is the XT912 change log for the 9/20 Nightly:

cm-11-20140920-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip

Fix string (android_packages_apps_Contacts)

added Yota APN (android_vendor_cm)

corrected Smart APN: missing space before "type" (android_vendor_cm)

added Axis, AWCC, MTN, Etisalat, Hutch, MPT APNs. (android_vendor_cm)

added Public Mobile APN, corrected Rogers WAP APN (android_vendor_cm)

added ONO and Euskaltel APNs (android_vendor_cm)

added Cambodia APNs (android_vendor_cm)

added Claro Argentina APN (android_vendor_cm)

And here is the one for the XT910:

Msim: Add Multi sim support for SEEK on Android. (android_packages_services_Telephony)

Support for SEEK on Android (android_packages_services_Telephony)

Cell Broadcast for channel 60 and widget support (android_packages_apps_CellBroadcastReceiver)

vcard: Update SDK version to fix build (android_frameworks_opt_vcard)

Support for SEEK on Android. (android_frameworks_opt_telephony)

MSim: Add Multi Sim support for SEEK (android_frameworks_base)

Support for SEEK on Android (android_frameworks_base)

av: media: Add audio/qti-flac MIME type definition (android_frameworks_av)

av: camera: Generic QCOM camera symbols (android_frameworks_av)

build: qcom: Set QCOM_*_PATH variables for hardware/qcom-* projects (android_build)

init: Allow platform devices directly under soc.0 *HACK* (android_system_core)

IMS-VT: Define IMS group. (android_system_core)

init: Allow target-specific platform device base to be specified (android_system_core)

ueventd: Add bootdevice symlink (android_system_core)

(same) Fix string (android_packages_apps_Contacts)

(same) added Yota APN (android_vendor_cm)

(same) corrected Smart APN: missing space before "type" (android_vendor_cm)

(same) added Axis, AWCC, MTN, Etisalat, Hutch, MPT APNs. (android_vendor_cm)

(same) added Public Mobile APN, corrected Rogers WAP APN (android_vendor_cm)

(same) added ONO and Euskaltel APNs (android_vendor_cm)

(same) added Cambodia APNs (android_vendor_cm)

(same) added Claro Argentina APN (android_vendor_cm)

Improve strings (android_frameworks_base)

cm: CMFota should not be defined here. (android_vendor_cm)

added Lycamobile, Aero2, and T-Mobile Poland APNs (android_vendor_cm)

I think I have the wrong phone :)

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
Disk usage first: as I said, you have an unnecessarily large cache at 1gig, the default is 300 Meg; and no way if you're running "lean and mean" do you need almost 4gig for data, the stock phone only has 3gig of space for data.

Your intermittent audio problem was addressed a little while ago by none other than Michael (stargo), and you're gonna hate his answer: turn off "OK, Google" hotword detection from every screen. I know, I know, that ruins half your hands free fun! But as Michael explained, because our phone never received KitKat, cm11 is built using bits and pieces of proprietary binary code from the stock Jellybean kernel: including the Motorola audio blob! The devs have done a fantastic job making everything work as well as they have, but the audio blob just isn't capable of handling all you're asking it to do at one time: think of the result as constipation. Receiving a call and processing the ringtone signal just got things moving again. [emoji1]

- Brian

"But Cap'n, I'm no' a miracle worker! ...Ach, I'll try laddie, I'll try." - Montgomery Scott

All-In-One XT912 Utility to:

Reflash Stock ROM/Root Stock ROM/Install SafeStrap

UPDATED!​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ef141:
Many of these were in previous 912 nightlies!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
Just did a full wipe as I was messing with SS and BMM. I am back on SS btw but the verizon app doesn't work at all now, error 1000.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drewski_1:
how do you change the Stock Slot partition sizes? :D

that 1GB Cache has always bugged me! :mad:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
No, I don't think you can (really), I use stock and you don't create any "virtual" space to write your system to - that means you can't choose your sizes in SS. Stock slot in SS is the phone's actual space reserved for the system - so it's not created at all by SS like how it "creates" a place for your system when using another slot. You write onto actual space intended and reserved for the OS.

My understanding.

Oh, and [MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION], I think those sizes are decent - sizes I'd use when using a rom-slot.

Generated on a RAZR Maxx (XT910) using XDA's free mobile app.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
I don't know the correct procedure for backing up a rom slot, but I would guess it should be backed up to your PC.

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
Wait, what?

Does your phone still display your IMEI in about phone -> status? Is the LTE baseband listed in about phone?

How did you perform the full wipe? Manual RSD/fastboot? Some other way?

Regards,

Michael