[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Dude, you get around! :highfive:

I will ask a lot of questions, please do not be annoyed. Everyone wants to know this stuff so you will be helping everyone, not just me. You apparently have a very good experience with CM11 while the rest of us have bad luck or a mix of not so good and maybe usable. I want a useful day to day phone, not a toy to play with when I am bored. Please bear with me and you will help millions!:laugh:

Thanks for the WiFi AP link, got it now. Some folks here are saying they have been doing dirty flashes (Updating from the Settings/About Phone/Updates menu without wiping or prep.) like I did and have had problems. Said they did a clean install, wiped everything, and all works and it is good. Instead of all that wiping, I think that deleting the ROM slot and then recreating it would pretty much wipe all that can be wiped so that is what I would do. I hate having to reinstall ALL of my accounts though, that kind of bites, ...well, you know what it bites and it would hurt. LOL!

Something about the camera? Works, does not work? No video cam, what? Do tell.

I don't care about the HDMI, I do not have the cable and don't plan on buying it anytime soon. It might be neat to have though, but not a dealbreaker.

What about the Settings? I found that under the hard menu button was a Settings entry like before, but it was barren but for wallpaper or some other silly thing. In the left top pull down, there is a Settings option that takes you to the real settings, again rather sparse. CM10.2 let you config the hell out of, what is it called, "Trebuchet 1.0", that's it. You could config *anything* in there! Desktops, how many, transitions, expanded, rows and columns, app drawer, dock, homescreen, general, lockscreen, themes, interface, quick settings panel (Left top pull down thingie), notification drawer.

I could not find hardly any of that stuff, just bare bones config stuff with 3 desktops, like it or not. Is it really crappy like that and you like it or is a clean install magic and really does make all that stuff work? Maybe I am using the wrong files? I will list them, can you confirm? Here is my file list: (Wow, there are new ones already. Man they are cranking them out!)

I initially dirty flashed cm-11-20131212-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip through update menu. No gapps. Did not like it.

Now we have new ones, are these good?

cm-11-20131226-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip

CM11_WifiAP.zip

gapps-kk-20131208.zip

pa_gapps-stock-4.4.2-20131215-signed.zip

Cameras.zip

Okay, there are two gapps and obviously we can only install one of them. The 20131208 I would assume is the normal one, about 103Mb, the pa_gapps is everything including the kitchen sink, about 289Mb. The 20131208 pack leaves out Google stuff you can download like maps, search, voice search, etc, and makes for a smaller package. I think this is the one recommended by CyanogenMod and is probably the one I need so I can ditch the pa_gapps. The ROM is at latest update check on the phone, 20131226. That is like "today", man. They have been working on "something" to release this many packages so fast. Hopefully it is fixing all this reported broken stuff like the WiFi AP or amount of customization available in Settings. That really irritated me because CM ROMs are always highly configurable and that bare bones Settings panel for customizing the phone really bummed me out. Like what, I cannot have 5 desktops? Says who?

Aright Dude, tydiamond11, you apparently have a working CM11 ROM installed on a Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, XT912. You like it, you say everything works, and say it is ready for prime time and that you do indeed use it as a day to day phone. Fine. Take the spotlight for a brief time and help all of us out here, frustrated as hell with this thing.

(I got my spotlight when I heard how to regain all the lost SD card space with the first CM ROM a long way back, format the internal SD card with running system in CWM and sit back to allow Google to repopulate the apps. I lost nothing and got all the card space that somehow mysteriously disappeared back. The ROM did not format the card and just installed over what you had and previous space was just "lost". Posting this for all to see put me in the spotlight for a moment and it was nice to help so many people. CWM does not work with Razr phones so we now use Safe Strap 3.6.5 for android 4.)

Tell us for real what to do to get CM11 installed on an XT912 properly where everything works, barring the broken HDMI. Can you do that please? Just list the basic steps, the rest of us will explain to newbies what it all means. Update from Settings menu, when phone comes back, reboot to SS, wipe dalvik and cache, reboot? Or install gapps after wiping? Else clean install, wipe everything you can find or delete ROM slot and recreate it, flash latest spyder CM11, flash gapps, reboot?

That last option will effectively be a factory wipe so everything we had will be gone. So get CM account logged in, get Google logged in, and let Google repopulate and hope it finishes? Can I use Titanium Backup (TiB) to restore my user apps, data okay? (Because that is where all of our configs and account logins are.) Or no, restore apps only and do all the accounts and setting by hand (Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!)? I want to try and use update.zip to see if it works.

Help us, tydiamond11! "We're not worthy" "...shutup Ohmster, yes we are!" Just lay down the procedure, what to expect, anything working or not working that you know of. You only have to do this once and I promise I will help others find it, even if I have to repost it myself in a fresh post, giving you FULL credit for the install guide. Once it gets copied to a new post, it gets tagged to make searching for it easier, finding this answer on page 134 in a very long thread would be difficult.

What do you say buddy? Basic step by step on how YOU got it to work so well on your XT912? The rest of us will take over explaining it. ...please? Thanks.

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I love ES File Manager and use it exclusively with root privileges. Help me get CM11 up and running right and I will give you a full report. Reply to this post asking for a simple step by step on how YOU got it to work so well is all we ask. Request for help is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48859538&postcount=1341

Thank you my friend. :good: