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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Get your 4G icon back

I had to boot to stock not that long ago (Man what a pain, 30-40 apps now "have to update" and I noticed when data and signal are connected, you get that great 4G graphic icon in your status bar. I really miss that icon and wish I could tell at a glance if I am at 4G. I am, obviously. Transfer rates are very fast, over 20Mbps, and 3G is total turd, like one rung above dial-up IIRC. Gravity box has some really nice settings for the signal icons you might want to try out. (By now I know that LTE IS 4g, but I did not know that for very long.)

See screenshots.

For Gravity Box

In Signal cluster settings you can:

Enable the connection state (How good your connection is.)

Enable data activity to see if you have data going up or down on the icon.

Enable H+ indicator. I think that is the 3G thing. It really did not help me much so I turned it off.

Pick your LTE style icon, you get: Default, LTE, or 4G.

Pick your data indicator color that shows up best on your signal icon.

I use Ex-Themer Xposed module to give me the rainbow color signal icons. I like those a lot for signal and WiFi; Picking a data color for that icon can be a little rough, or just leave it out.

For Gravity Box

In Statusbar colors I enabled it, left background color to black, picked my own Statusbar icon color, Picked my own Statusbar icon style (Kit Kat), and Most Important, Signal Color mode:

Do not apply color

.

By not applying color, you can use custom icons that look nice like the rainbow, but when they are orange, it will show orange to let you know. It took me months to stumble on this, to me, the icons were always colored properly, never saw orange at all. Then I found this. Once I chose "Do not apply color", I can really see now when the Google server connection is down.

I hope that at least some of you found this helpful. There is soo much good stuff in those Xposed modules, the problem is finding it all, weeding out the junk, and using the few that not only apply to you, but are things you will use constantly and really make a difference in the way you use and enjoy your phone.

OMG, almost 9:00 and I have fresh flounder in the sink. Thank goodness it cooks fast! 'night all! :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] segordon:
Anyone else running 5/25 and having MMS problems? I didn't really know of this problem because I don't send hardly any MMS messages.

When I tried to send a picture, I get " no apn specified for the device " then " couldn't send due to network problems "

I tried going into the apn settings and resetting it to default, and that made no difference. I tried rebooting, and that made no difference.

I'm running xt912 with CyanogenMod version 11-20140525 NIGHTLY spider

Apex launcher pro

Installed from fresh wipe on stock side.

Need some advice asap.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I am on 05/25 right now. I have yet to EVER experience this issue. Other issues yes. Dropping signal to zero, black screens, but nothing to do wht text messaging with pictures or anything like that, and no APN issues.

Droid Razr Maxx XT912 Verison, US

Jake had posted a very detailed APN fix and many swear by it. I have a text copy of it here someplace, but would like to find you the original post. Give me a minute, hey? :o

Man, this was HARD to find the original post. Guides like this I either copy and paste to a text document and keep in my help section or I make a PDF of the post so that I can click links in it. This may help you. Print it, bookmark it, or save a copy to your PC if you have these issues:

JakeDHS07's APN Fix Originally Posted by JakeDHS07 on 18th April 2014, 11:12 AM

I have no experience with it because this is one issue I never had before. You can get more help with this by asking here or in Jake's Q&A where it was originally posted.

JakeDHS07 and Ohmster's CyanogenMod Q&A Thread

I like to help so much that I often would answer questions for Jake when he was busy. I thought he would be mad at me for answering questions in HIS thread but was quite nice about it and appreciated the extra help.So he added me to his thread name as a token of appreciation.

Go try it out. Yes, it is a lot of work. Just finding the right APN file in step 4 was so challenging that I got Jake to help me find the right file. There is no file in /system/app, the file appears to be carrier based. I looked through the entire list to find mine, VZWAPNService.apk. His was named something else but they all contain the word "apn" and are apk files.

Try it, if you need help, ask in either or both suggested threads. chinkster and mytwocents have both had very good luck with this fix and swear by it. Good luck my friend! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dshulman:
Hopefully you've already tried this, but if you're on Verizon have you checked to make sure you're on RUIM/SIM and not NV? I sometimes need to manually set it when MMS doesn't work.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I try to be simple with my answers and questions, more like the average Joe, wife, or kids. If everything is SO technical about this rom, who would use it other than total geeks? :p

I gave you a much more detailed answer below about Jake's APN Fix. But reading your message right now says that you have not specified an Access Point Name for your phone data. This should happen automatically when you setup the phone. My carrier is Verizon and they set the APN for me. If you have the same service provider, Verizon, and get 4G data, you would check this same setting. Sometimes not every conceivable APN is listed, I think I remember Stargo saying that Verizon has at least 100 APNs. What should be there is your carrier and your service. Set it and see if the setting sticks. Sometimes it doesn't. One fellow picked his APN and it would not set. So he walked away for a while and it finally stuck and he got his ApN back.

You can, however, check and set it manually if you like in Settings/Mobile Networks (Turned On)/Access Point Names.

Mine is listed as LTE- Verizon Internet, which is the correct setting for my device on this carrier. LTE is 4g and that is what I have. Let's see what happens if I try to pick the wrong one. (ALL of the APNs in my list are Verizon because that is my carrier and the phone "knows this". If I were to pick LTE Verizon CBS, that would not be correct but what happens if I try? I have a whole boatload of settings to fill in besides user and password that I could not even fill in if I wanted to. I backed out. But if for some reason my carrier were, let's say T-Mobile and I did not have an APN set, would probably call T-Mobile tech help to find the correct settings for it. Just say the phone is acting wonky and you cannot get internet or send text messages, NOT that you rooted and rommed your phone! He should be able to help you with that.

APN List screenshot attached. Hope this helps! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] segordon:
I have cm11 installed on the stock side so I do not have the stock apns to backup. I will look around to see if I can find stock apns for the xt912.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Who is your carrier??

There is a LOT of information on how to do this on Google, but it goes by carrier. Here is a Google Search for setting APN in general. As you read the links, they give instructions different for each phone and carrier (Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, who?!)

Without it, no one can help you or even give you files as we have no idea of who is your service provider, where in the world do you live (Cincinnati Ohio or Thailand, Lamphun.), Type of phone, XT912>

C'mon man, you have to give us something to work with or you cannot expect any help.

If you ask you a question, "My thing does not go back anymore, can you help me?" Uh, like NO. I have no idea of what "your thing" is, or what "goes back" means, this is just basic information. Without it, "NO Soup for YOU! :laugh:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] segordon:
Still on unlimited data with Verizon in central pa.

When I would go into to apns in system and try to add a new apn using the settings found online, then hit save, the apn I created would not be there. I would then have to restore the default apns to bring them back.

Here are the screenshots of my apns.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] vanwho:
Here is what I do if you can't find it.

Install APN Backup and Restore app from the playstore

Convert it to a system app with Titanium Backup

Use Root Browser to move APN Backup and Restore from System>app, to System>priv-app folder

Copy the backup file that you download or had already saved into the APN Backup app folder on the internal storage

Open APN Backup and Restore, uncheck ics check option under settings

Restore APNs

Select to check for duplicates when the option pops up

I do have the stock 4.1.2 JB APNs backed up and can share with you tonight if you need. I don't have a fast enough internet connection to upload the file right now. I use the method on all ROMs now, and have no APN issues.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Craig Miles:
APN settings

Good morning all!

Would one of you kind XT912 users on 4G US Verizon, with working mms please post a screen shot of your APN settings? Not just the LTE-Verizon selection screen, but the actual mmsc, mms, port etc. values in the "Edit Access Point" setup page.

Very much appreciated!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Let me know if you need something else.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
That was a dammed good answer, Dwillian. Thank you for stepping up to the plate.

I never have these issues so the chance of me helping him is small. But the guys is asking for help, states his problem, but gives us ZERO information on the phone, location, and carrier. All of this is important. A Plano Texas man cannot give settings or files to a user with an XT910 in Lima Peru.

I know he is going to get ZERO help unless I can pry information out of him, if not by me than someone who has dealt with it. If only segordon would give us the darned details! He did, you can NOW help him, and I really hope this works out.

I use GoSMS PRo for text and MMS. In my advanced settings where you can manually enter all the stuff you want like proxy and all that other stuff is blank, totally. I would have to know what to put in each box.

My default text app, "Messaging" is frozen to prevent it from answering text messages and allow GoSMS Pro to do the job. If need be, I can defrost it and see if and what settings there are, after trying it to see if it works.

segordon, PM me your phone number so that I can try a text message to help you work this out. Also put your gmail email address in too so I can reach you in Hangouts, I know for a fact that always works good. I will give you my information too. If, you want this kind of help. Sometimes I just do not have someone at any time of day I can text or send pictures to. I spent the afternoon texting with GoSMS but not sending pictures.

Thanks Dwillian, hope this helps. :cowboy:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] vanwho:
[MENTION=4594669]segordon[/MENTION], or anyone else looking for the stock Verizon APNs to use with APN Backup and Restore, Here is a link to the APNs that I backed up off of my stock ROM.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rcxnpltdbbk983c/apns-20140104204722.xml
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Good man Vanwho. segordon, be a good chap and let us know how you made out. Things like this are very frustrating because it does not affect all of us or enough to dig so very far into it. If you come up with a working solution, shortcut, procedure, or file to replace, be sure and share with us how it went in a report. Thanks buddy! :good:

Oh, can you give us the path to that file, like where it goes and where it came from? Did you find this in /system/etc/ ?

On my phone, I found the apns xml file which is "the mother of all lists, APM" here:

/system/etc/apns-conf.xml

It is larger than yours but is pretty much the same thing. Different name, appears to be for the same purpose, just a lot more entries, from what I can see. I attached mine as a zip attachment. Unzip and you will find apns-conf.xml. Same type file as Vanwho, but this is from South Florida. There maybe different Access Point Names here and lots of them. Unless you get one from the region where you live, this might not work for you at all. Still, it gives you things to play around with and enable you to learn stuff. Let us know how it goes.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] segordon:
At first I did not see the file to place your XML into, so I crested a backup with the app and then the backup folder was there. I placed your XML into the folder and then restored the apns with the app. Then I rebooted and sent a MMS. At first it came up " no APN specified " again. But then the MMS was sent through.

So for now this has fixed it. But we will see. If not I will try the file and instructions in the previous post.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Craig Miles:
Wow thank you for that troubleshoot with excellent repair steps.

That fixed a long running APN problem I have been experiencing with a very good PC texting application "MightyText". I was not able to send mms from the PC app, though it would receive mms. Now it does both!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
Most excellent! I'm so glad it helped you, I've seen your posts before about that.

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] vanwho:
Thanks ohmster. I got the APN file by using APN backup and restore on the stock side, and hitting the backup button. It should be the same as brkahughes, because it is a fresh install from Matt's Utility using the stock ROM slot. I am in a different region, but I don't see how it would be different than what the utility is since I haven't even used stock since using the utility. Thanks for the added details on where to find the file. I just used the app, and took that out of the picture.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] GTiceman:
I have an XT912 and yesterday I lost all data connectivity. Stock slot seemed fine. I am going to see if this is the culprit. Thanks
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
Since this is working so well for my family and a few others, I thought it was time to simplify... Any changes to the apns will be lost with the next update, and some people aren't as comfortable with root explorers, sooo:

BAM! https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qio5qoiiw4jyy7/VZW_APNs-signed.zip

I cooked up a flash-it-and-forget-it for restoring stock apns to CM11. No additional steps necessary, just flash and reboot. Of course, if you have problems (don't see how) after installing this, you can always re-update CM to the same build and this will be gone.

I would still like to hear your feedback, and, as always, if I have helped you, hit me with the thanks button! :cool:

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Craig Miles:
Thank you for that zip creation! - I downloaded it but have not tried it yet.

Using your original APN installation method, (besides fixing the mms), my network (LTE) signal strength appears to be fixed now also. My network signal was constantly hunting up and down, where the stock rom would always be rock solid full strength.

Now it is behaving like the stock rom, with full signal all of the time. :)

(5/30/14 nightly) micro gapps
[Motorola Droid RAZR] segordon:
Does anyone know if CM11 will ever get pocket mode like the moto x and like Liquid Smooth?

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] jeff_roey:
Hate to be that guy but after trying brkahughes' APN approach, it resulted in more orange for me than ever before. :( I'm in SE PA (Philly) and after following the steps outlined above, my bars stayed consistently orange nearly all of the time. During a 35 minute drive from Collegeville to Philly - a ride that maintains 4 LTE bars the entire trip - was orange the whole time - even after a reboot enroute. Signal was there but so were the orange bars.

My best results come with deleting the CM11 APNs and restoring the APNs from my stock ROM using the APN Backup and Restore method outlined earlier in this thread. The 139 APNs restored from the stock ROM consistently allow me to send MMS and result in minimal orange bars.

VZW XT912 on 5/17 with unlimited data and stock kernel.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
[MENTION=2079608]jeff_roey[/MENTION] Did you perform the steps where you deleted the eHRPD APN? I do not recommend that and will edit my original post... In fact, using the recovery flash I posted later will do exactly the same thing as your method, without having to convert the backup app and move it to the private folder. It also ensures that the copy in /data is updated. I'm all about uncomplicated.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] jeff_roey:
I did initially delete the eHRPD APN. Tried it a second way without deleting it - same results.

Interesting observations: After restoring, my list only contains 6 APNs (although APN BU&R restored 139 entries?) and the Verizon Internet APN Bearer is "Unspecified". Clicking on the Bearer field in the APN details shows 3 options: Unspecified, LTE, eHRPD. I attached a few screen shots of my APNs after restoring from my stock ROM.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ChungHung.Chen:
CyanDelta not update??

Hi all,

Does something wrong with CyanDelta's nightly update for umts_spyder?

Since 05/26 I can't get any nightly update from cyandelta, it keep says "version is up to date."

But nightly is still building everyday...

I can't find an email in CyanDelta's web, where can I report this issue?

Thanks for your help.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sha_tan:
CyanDelta is a Play Store app. Why don't you use the email provided there? Or maybe comment with your issue.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
I did initially delete the eHRPD APN. Tried it a second way without deleting it - same results.

Interesting observations: After restoring, my list only contains 6 APNs (although APN BU&R restored 139 entries?) and the Verizon Internet APN Bearer is "Unspecified". Clicking on the Bearer field in the APN details shows 3 options: Unspecified, LTE, eHRPD. I attached a few screen shots of my APNs after restoring from my stock ROM.[/QUOTE]

As Artie Johnson used to say, "Veerryy interesting!" All of those entries are duplicated in the file contained in my flash, and each has an LTE and an eHRPD version, except Verizon CDMA HRPD", which lists the bearer as "unspecified". As to why so many entries don't show up, the APN list IS NOT either carrier or region specific (open it in an editor and look through the list)! The entries appearing in your APN list are determined by your SIM card, based on carrier and region, both of which are specified (MCC 311 (Mobile Country Code), MNC 480 (Mobile Network Code))...

This may help to understand why Cyanogenmod uses an apns-conf file five times larger than the one which comes on a US Verizon phone.

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ChungHung.Chen:
Hi,

I've reported this issue in play store comment and email from play store.

Hope it can be fixed soon.

Thanks for your tip.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
NVM dust under screen protector messing up light sensor.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Noe!:
4.4.3 is out. Hopefully the changes gets merged soon and the builds start rolling out to switch.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I don't know what "pocket mode" is. Could you please take a moment to explain or give links to it please? :confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] segordon:
Pocket mode is from the moto x. When you remove your phone from your pocket it brings up your lock screen automatically. Then you can either unlock it or put it back into your pocket and it will go back to sleep. I think it's called active display.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh boy, it seems that we are making a heck of a lot of progress with APN issues, right here with our very own members of the thread, all pulling together. Thank you everyone, this is really a strong group when everyone pulls together! :highfive:

I notice that we have not one, but two identical copies of apns-conf.xml in different places.

/etc/apns-conf.xml

/system/etc/apns-conf.xml

They are exactly the same size, time, date, owner, and permissions. To illustrate this, I took the time to list files in a terminal window as root user. See attached screenshot.

I used a yellow highlighter to show areas of interest. The directories we are in (Folder), file name, size, date and everything else. brkahughes, which file are you updating or replacing? Just one of them or both? Anyone have any idea of why we would have and need two identical copies of the same system file in two very different system locations?

Since we are really diving way down into this, I thought I would bring it to the group's attention and get your feedback on it, if any. Thanks guys! :D

UPDATE:

I found my own answer. The "two files" are one in the same. Linux (Android) as well as Windows and many operating systems use "links" to files and folders to prevent duplicate files and the possibility of having them differ. No different than clicking "My Videos" in Windows 7 and I end up on drive J:\Videos.

The "etc" directory is actually a symlink (Soft or "Symbolic" link) to the actual location of the etc directory, /system/etc/. I noticed when trying to prove this "double file theory" by using file managers. ES File Explorer shows a small arrow on links, just like Windows does. etc had the small arrow link just like sdcard and sdcard-ext. Those are really located under the /mnt/ (Or "Mount" as in mounted for system and users usage.)

The cm11 built in File Manager does a better job of revealing such details, see the details on screenshot #2. /etc/ is really a symlink to /system/etc/, the "real" location of /etc/.

You know, that terminal window really threw me off course. Android IS Linux but a specialized stripped down and customized version. Linux *always* reveals links with a different color, cyan, in this case, plus an arrow showing "the real location". Android does not do this. Just for show, I have attached a Linux terminal window listing files and you can see the cyan colored links and the way the arrow points to the actual location, plus the permissions list it as a link, indicated by the letter L as the first part of the file or folder permissions. Screenshot #4 shows this in detail for the grub.conf file.

Well, I do not feel bad for being wrong. My only hope is that this will help others working on this to realize that a lot of "folders" in Android are not really folders, but links to "the real file or folder" elsewhere.

So now we know. Goodnight guys! ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
This is why in my original manual fix, I had people replacing /etc/apns-conf.xml, feeling it was easier to find; but in my flash file, if you look at my updater-script, I replace /system/etc/apns-conf.xml, because the symlinks don't exist in recovery mode, only in an operating system. :)

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!

---------- Post added at 08:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:40 PM ----------

And [MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION], since I know you know Linux, we'll give you an off night excuse on that one. ;)

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