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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Build Report 11/07/2014

CyanogenMod ROM Build Report 11/07/2014

Nightly Build 11/07 installed yesterday, OTA install very smooth and trouble free. Initial test smooth, fast, and responsive. Next day phone is smooth, fast, and responsive. No apparent issues.

* Multitasking: POOR

* NOTE: Poor multitasking of device is believed to be due to the limits of the hardware and are not indicated in the rom itself. The Droid Razr is an excellent, expensive smart phone, but is quite dated with regard to today's software requirements. A simple comparison confirms the fact (This is for a Razr Maxx HD, using Razr specs):

Motorola DROID Turbo vs Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD

Razr: CPU - Dual core, 1500 MHz, Krait

Turbo: CPU - Quad core, 2700 MHz, Krait 450

Razr: Memory - 1024 MB RAM

Turbo: Memory - 3072 MB RAM

Razr: Internal Storage - 16 GB, 8 GB Available

Turbo: Internal Storage - 32/64 GB

The specs blow away our old dogs. The Droid Razr does run very well on CM11 and is "fast" for single tasks but cannot efficiently multitask very well. Razr phones will never be as fast as a new, modern smart phone.

Example:

Today I had to go fix a computer for someone. To get there, I used my phone for several things while driving.

Turn on Bluetooth to connect to car audio.

Play streaming music through Bluetooth to car audio since the AUX is in use for navigation.

Use maps to navigation for turn by turn driving directions.

While all this is going on, use phone to call client en route to their home.

The Bluetooth worked well. Streaming music worked well. Navigation worked well, took over a minute to get up and running. Making the phone call muted all audio but for call, tap dialer, dialer slowly came up with black dialer window and white spinning arrow for almost 20 seconds, dialed and completed call. Clearly the hardware reached the end of it's limit and I ran out of RAM, causing the device to drastically slow down while using swap space on internal sdcard media for memory instead of actual electronic RAM.

These are good phones, but they will never perform like a new, modern smart phone. But for single tasks, they still work quite well and if you are patient and willing to wait a bit, they can still multitask. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] SimpTheChimp:
Well, folks, this is goodbye. Today went in and switched over the the EDGE program with 10GB of data - with their discounts we will just about break even over two years vs. going with the traditional More Everywhere 4GB contract plan (EDGE will save us about $105 over the two years - yeah that ain't all that much but a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks, and we do get 10GB!)

Most importantly, I now have a brand new Droid Turbo 32GB phone with the black ballistic nylon back! Even though I loved the Razr, this thing SCREAMS! I started downloading my old apps, and they literally were done installing within a second or two - I actually thought they were not installing properly cause it went too fast!! Multitasking is excellent also - but too soon to tell about the battery life, but time will tell on that. I do recommend the Turbo for anyone needing to upgrade.

So my trusty Razr will become a backup phone (just in case) - maybe I will use it as a smart TV remote or something. Anyway, just wanted to say it's been fun, and thanks to all the good comments and help out there - special thanks to Ohmster for all his help with the low memory and reformatting advice. Here's hoping the Razr keeps getting good ROM updates!!

See you in the Turbo forum... :D

-Tom (SimpTheChimp)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Gosh, Tom, sorry to see you go, but, you seem happy and yeah, a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks, alright. I can dig it. ;)

The Razr is good enough for now. CM11 is awesome, and when I get the money, I am going to upgrade to something better too. Only stipulation is it has to be a root friendly device, or, at least have a known, working root so I can get a rooted rom on it like cm11, like, ...yesterday. The Turbo is a nice phone and I could probably get a good deal from VZW, but no more rooting and romming, uh, ...NO. Rooting and romming is like my favorite hobby. I am pretty poor so luxuries are not abundant. If I take my pick of affordable luxuries, it is rooting and romming my device, aside from like, "dating women and stuph". :p

You are in my friend list so don't be a stranger, bra. Take care, Tom. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] feduss:
is true that the 7/11/14 cm11 nightly is the last nightly?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Mr-Glass:
If you go to the Voice Dialer and say "Open Apns" (A-P-Ns) it still gets you to the APN settings that are greyed out in settings - have not had a chance to mess with it yet...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] :
What I meant is I am confused as what to change. In the build prop my APN mcc and mnc numbers were 310 and 004. SO I changed them to what verizon wireless should be 311 and 480

When I go into the APN's they are correct I think? I use offline SIM APN Database Pro to read them.

Why would they be ok in the APN databbase, but the build.prop still had them different,

Trying to get educated on APNs here...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Semseddin:
Hello, did you install latest official test build ? It records 480P here, no 720p HD.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Brantuck84:
Well 3g works fine on my 912 so that's a plus also after putting APN restore app in priv-app folder it did restore my backup of my stock apns so now MMS works as it should my internal SD mounts as well so far as I can tell my hotspot is the only thing that doesn't work
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ZiViTi_13:
aaa, yes, sorry:eek:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drewski_1:
you can get 720p video with the JBX Kernel
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Semseddin:
http://imageshack.us/g/1/10441310

Just flashed the official test for cm11 umts_spyder along with the new gapps package by dhacker. So far,i'm enjoying it. Thanks to Dhacker and Hashcode for making this thing real. Good fluidity and everything seems to work fine. Is there a hope for 720P video capture in future versions ?

A former bug is still present. When you power down the device, the screen flashes an image of the display before actually turning off.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ktimque:
Link fixed for CDMA thanks for pointing it out guys.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Liamfm:
What have you done to get 3g data to work? I did a full wipe, clean install of the links in the OP. LTE works great, but 3g has no data. Please explain.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Brantuck84:
Honestly I did nothing just looked up and noticed it said 3g and not lte I didn't change any settings but it may have had something to do with restoring the apns from my stock rom
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Liamfm:
How do you go about restoring the APNs from the stock rom? I'd gladly try that!

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
Atm only connecting as media device available

Tapped from my RazR
[Motorola Droid RAZR] CoreyWillWhat:
I'd like to know how to restore stock APN's as well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Brantuck84:
Install APN backup and restore on your stock system and make it a system app. Disable ICS check in app. Backup apns. Switch to your 4.4 ROM and install same app only move it to the priv-app folder in the system directory. Again disable ICS check and restore the backup you made.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] :
Can you tell how you restored your APNs? I am reading about this.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] marlowe310:
I long ago wiped my stock firmware and installed CM11 on the stock slot. Is there any way to get those APN settings for an XT912 without reflashing the official firmware over my current CM11 install? Or should I bite the bullet, reflash, make a backup, and then return to CM11?

Thanks very much.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tydiamond11:
Have you guys seen there is a nightly now? I am going to flash that soon
[Motorola Droid RAZR] :
I did this as you said. But I get an error when trying to restore the APNs from my stock ROM

Says I dont have permission to write APN settings

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Where?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tydiamond11:
On download.cyanoganmod.org
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Don't get excited. The nightly that's there is 10.2.

DROID RAZR MAXX CM 11 JBX Kernel
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xperia-alvis:
No, 11/9 build is the last nightly.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] feduss:
Ah, so i read fake news...thx
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Uh, where did you hear this, [MENTION=5163791]xperia-alvis[/MENTION]? Is there an announcement or news page for it? TIA :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] crackerjack1957:
Think they meant latest not last!!!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
LOL! Yeah, I think so too. Nothing in the Changelog about it.

Hmnmm, 11/07 was pretty good for me, but by day 3, getting weaker signal in home, always 5 bars here, now 2-3? Seems to be lagging a bit and choking somewhat. Play Store is just a white screen. Cleared Dalvik and cache to clean it up and it worked, but this should not happen. Going to take NIGHTLY Build 11/09 next in a few minutes.

Thanks CJ! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
No Root in Build 11/09??

Oh my God! I just updated to nightly build 11/09 and noticed that Titanium Backup cannot work, it cannot get root. I check SuperSU and that has no installed binary. I check /Settings and look for "Superuser" which is right at the bottom of Settings, above "Performance" and Superuser is GONE in Nightly Build 11/09! All CyanogenMod ROMs are pre-rooted, this update just removed my root.

Grrrrr, going to revert to backup and see what happens. I will come back to Edit this post if restoring backup restores root. This is NOT going to work. Anyone else having this issue? Have you lost Superuser and Root after updating to nightly build 11/09?

What the heck is going on? See screenshot and compare to your own phone. Check your install date in About Phone.

UPDATE:

I just restored Safe Strap backup from 11/07 and now have root. Strange, I do not have "Superuser" in the main Settings menu anymore, but do have the Chainfire SuperSU in app drawer and root works. I did install SuperSU on the advice of [MENTION=4977351]DumbleCore[/MENTION] and some other senior members but do not recall losing the menu for it. On my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1 I am running cm11, build 10/08 and do Superuser in the menu, see screenshot #2. Samsung Tablet also has Chainfire SuperSU installed. I do NOT like this man. I want the menu to contain Superuser as a fallback. Looked in /system/xbin/ and both su and busybox binaries are present with correct permissions: root root rwxr-xr-x.

Are you guys seeing "Superuser" in your menu and is root working fine in 11/09? Are you still seeing Superuser at all in the Settings menu? :confused:

Solved 11/09/2014:

The loss of Superuser in the Settings menu was not due to a build update, this was caused by a conflict between SuperSU and the build in superuser binary that comes with cm11. On a Razr, I can have one or the other, but I can't have both. Two superuser apps on any system will conflict and they always did. Once total control was handed off to SuperSU, the built in Superuser disappeared.

Getting back the built in cm11 Superuser required wiping system, cache, & dalvik, flashing cm11 & pa-gapps, wipe system & dalvik, reboot. Deny root to SuperSU. Check built in Superuser works with root checker app, open Titanium Backup, or type "su" into a terminal window and see if normal superuser prompt returns. Then uninstall SuperUS while the built in Superuser still works. Reboot.

SuperSU is a very good su apk, probably one of the best. But I did not want to "break the cm11 system" so I restored the built in Superuser feature in the Settings menu. Ignore the Titanium Backup warnings to install SuperSU and check box to never see that message again. Or, keep SuperSU. SuperSU Pro I think is a better superuser app anyway. :p

See restored Superuser in screenshot #2. I learned a LOT about rooting again today. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
Hi all.

OK, so I tend to stay on one nightly ROM a bit longer these days. But it's good to get an idea of the long-running performance of a ROM.

As always, phone starts getting laggy after a while. I'm still on 10/27. Well, lag started maybe on Friday (7/11/2014). Usually a cache and dalvik clean helps - but I hate having to do that.

When we install a ROM we clean cache and dalvik... so ROM is usually not very laggy at this stage, but after time it tends to become slow (for me at least).

I have (just about) the same amount of apps installed as to when I installed my current nightly.

I decided to clear some junk files with an app to see. I personally hate these type of apps and CleanMaster is just not an app I'm very fond of. What's this, CCleaner ("Crap Cleaner" if you didn't know)? Much less cluttered...let me see.

So, I simply cleaned all app cache files with CCleaner and, well, from what I can tell the phone stopped its lagginess. If I remember correctly it cleaned something like 180mb worth of cache files.

Beats having to reboot phone to clear cache/dalvik.

Just something to look at I guess.

Let me sleep now. It's 12:30am and I must get up in 4.5hrs.. ;)

Generated on a RAZR Maxx (XT910) using XDA's free mobile app.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
11-9-14 nightly

I am running 11-9-14 and it seems to be fine now and su is listed in settings. But, initially it did not run well. I have noticed on a few nightly build that on the initial boot when it is 'optimizing' the apps, sometimes it does not run all of them. Usually for me it lists about 170, but some nightly build will only optimize like 70 apps and those are the builds i have the most problems with. When that happens i go into safestrap and wipe dalvic, cache and secure then reboot and it usually resolves my problems.

Also, looks line the next nightly has some omap4 updates that look interesting.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh thanks Morr. I had that same issue too after installing my last two updates. Anytime the Dalvik VM gets wiped, like after an update, we get that "Updating Apps 27/197" screen. The app count is always right, but on last two attempts, I got the app count dead wrong, less than 100 Apps. The first one was so bad, I reverted to backup. Second time it happened, the rom seemded okay but by next day, choking and even play store was just a white screen. Reverted to backup again. The very last update, from 11/03 (Last good backup I had) to 11/07 worked well, correct app count, and Superuser is fine.

I am getting very nervous with no "Superuser" in Settings so I think I will revert back to some older backups to find my Superuser, and update from there. Will let you know how it goes.

When I see the Updating screen get the app count wrong, I *know* this will be a problem. Thanks for the detailed information. :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I'm on 11/09 and SuperUser shows under settings.

I did do a clean install into a new slot though. I did this because I'm trying out the new Beta 12 version of PA GApps (which works fine BTW).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh thank you, Dwillian. I did some research about this. I see in Titanium Backup, that the last backup for the superuser apk was on 09/25/2014. I also have the paid for version of SuperSU installed. I remember having conflicts with them, one or the other would need an updated binary and the other would prevent it. I may have uninstalled stock superuser back in August because the new Chainfire SuperSU did not need it and caused the conflicts. Recommended in the SuperSU information. I am sure the rom did not cause this, but updating to 11/09 did cause me to lose total root. Scary. Reverting to backup 11/07 brought back root.

SuperSU is a very fine root apk, probably the best you can get. So, I should be alright. Just rattled my nerves noticing it gone from the menu when I looked for it. :good:

EDIT:

Research of examining any build rom from Winzip indicates that the superuser menu item and binaries are not from an apk, but the entire /system/xbin folder file contents are in the rom builds and are pushed over to the device during flash. I must have lost my superuser menu item a ways back, recent restores did not produce the missing superuser menu. I do have the binaries but not the Superuser menu anymore. SuperSU is a very good apk but I broke my own rules with that, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". The built in cm11 superuser is just fine. The TiBu warnings and some "advice" got me to install SuperSU. Not a "horrible" mistake, but now, I know better. ...sigh.

Update: I did manage to restore the built in Superuser but had to take out SuperSU Pro. This took two system wipes, two reboots, and some really fast thinking but I got it right, ...the second time around. SuperSU Pro is a little nicer than the stock cm11 superuser, but I don't want to break my own system if I am going to sit at the Help Desk and preach to others NOT to add or use tools to alter the cm11 rom sytem. :eek:

Excuse me, [MENTION=5362796]Dwillian[/MENTION] I am so "involved" with this missing root on menu issue I didn't even see your answer to me that you did do a new install. So, is it any better? Faster, or anything like that? It may install fast and nice, then degrade as you begin to install things. That is the reason for making several backups along the way. So, how is it man? :)

Also, I did not experience or hear good things about builds 09 and 10 so I am going to skip them and wait for the builds to improve a bit, then update and report. My own experience was not good and what was reported was not very good. :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
My clean install of 11/09 nightly seems fairly good. Battery life is a little better. I'm still at 45% battery after 11 hours of relatively light use. According to BatterBatteryStats my phone has been in deep sleep for 67% of the time. I still get some lag, but it is usually tolerable.

I do see that there is an OMAP4 update in the next nightly. I will give that a try tomorrow once it's posted.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh, 12 hours at 45% is not too bad for cm11. I could not gather battery stats today, was busy with Comcast modem tech and restoring the built in Superuser for cm11. I do not like the 09 update because I found it begin to lag by the third day. The changelog indicates some repairs like you said so I will wait to update again. Then I can get some better stats for you. But really, my phone is in deep sleep for over 90% unless I am fussing with it a lot and lighting up the screen. Either you are lighting it up a lot during the day or you need some more adjustments. I got all the Experimental boxes checked in Greenify and run it in "Boost" mode. Let it sleep most of the day and then check the battery stats. I will do the same now that root is restored and I got my curiosity satisfied. :rolleyes:

Then we can compare stats. Deal? :D

NOTE: BetterBatteryStats, XDA version B3 released today. XDA members get your copy here. Works with CMHOME desktop in Trebuchet and now has a dark theme.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I am fiddling with my phone a fair amount. Screen on time is about 2 hours today. Also, I'm not using Greenify.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
...ohhhhhhh. Hmm. You can go without Greenify but if you want those wakelocks to go way down, you are going to need Greenify. That really was worth the 3 bucks for the Experimental Xposed portion of it and many of the Senior Members in here use it to get good sleep. "Many", not all. I guess you can improve it without Greenify, but that is what gets me all that beee-you-tea-ful sleep, bro. I also install Wakelock Detector and use it when I am tuning up the phone. Those two apps will help you a LOT with getting better battery and more sleep.

Without sounding too much like a "Greenify Salesman", the app does put almost everything non-essential to sleep, including system apps like Google Play books, and all that, with the Experiential donation pack for $3. With such a load removed from the system, I get a lot of speed in return. And the apps do wake right up when I need/want them. It even correlates apps that have to "check in" like Facebook, SMS apps, mail, and others to dot it in a group all at once instead of waking the phone constantly for these apps to "phone home". That is a pretty nice feature to let sleeping dogs lie and does improve battery usage too. But, it is a user preference so it is not like "mandatory" or anything. ;)

But you are making pretty good progress, way to go man. So is it now running better or too soon to say? :confused:

The whole point is to get you satisfied with this rom instead of ticked off all the time. My phone is good. Does not multitask like when it was new without slowing down. But in general, yeah, it is fast and snappy. ;)

So, are you happy(er) now or not yet? :silly:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
Droid Turbo command center circle widget

For those RAZR users who would like a taste of the Droid Turbo command center circle widget an XDA member in a moto g thread has posted a flashable zip with 720 resolution that i was able to get working on nova launcher by changing the home screen rows and columns to 4x4. It is nice :)

http:// https://www.dropbox.com/s/53ai0ad9yviirq8/CircleWidget.zip
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
"Received a malformed request."

This is what I get when I tap on link...

Sent from my Razr XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
That happens a lot trying to open a download link, I usually long press the link and 'open new tab'. You can check the XDA moto g threads for the thread, but here is a link to the thread that should work.

http://xdaforums.com/moto-g/themes-apps/motorola-droid-turbo-circle-widget-t2921411/page2

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/53ai0ad9yviirq8/CircleWidget.zip here is the link to the download again, try long pressing and opening a new tab or copy and paste into the browser. The download is 21.65 MB. It is a flashable zip so you would need to flash it from the recovery screen. I use safestrap and always wipe the dalvic and cache before and after I flash then reboot.

The widget was a little too large but I use nova launcher and adjusted the screen rows and column size to 4x4 and it fits perfect. It seems to be running well so far.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Hey Morr, I don't have a Turbo or know what this command circle is. Can you explain it a little bit? :confused:

EDIT:

Didn't see your new link, but it is a download link, no description. So, little help here on what it is/does? Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I do seem to have one or two apps that appear to keep the phone from deep sleeping sometimes. I'm going to load the free version of Greenify and see if I can get it to auto-hibernate those two apps and see if that makes a difference on battery life and lag.

Generally I think 11/09 nightly may be working better than any of the recent nightlies, but I'm pretty sure that my phone was snappier and had better battery life on some of the nightlies from around a month ago. Hope we can get to that kind of performance (or better ;).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
It's basically the new version of the circle widget clock with weather, battery and calender. It is now one circle instead of three and has expanding side panels.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
Quick update on the new moto circle clock widget aka command center. It is still a little too large for our screens so that when you expand the side panels the edges of the expanded panels go off of the screen. I think the size of the widget needs to be reduced by about 20-30 % to make it fit our screens correctly. I tried to go into it and change the size but do not have enough experience with editing to do it correctly.

I don't suppose that someone here with more knowledge and experience can change the size of the widget so that we can use it?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
Quick question regarding the Circle Widget..

How would one uninstall it? Flash CM11 over again? I assume it would need to be reflashed on every ROM flash?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
You would delete the .apk from System/App.

Yes, it would have to be reflashed every time you update your ROM.