[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah, me. I did an OTA from 06/07 and it looked good, solid, nice. But then the "black screen from hell" showed up and man, this is one beotch of an M'effer. Tap power and hard buttons light, screen dark. Continue trying, swiping the screen, tapping the home button, no dice. Only hard buttons light. Try to force a power cease by holding power and volume down for 5 seconds and let go right before power loss, maybe 3-4 seconds, tap screen and finally, it lights.

It settled down after the first hour and I thought I got away with it and no dice man. I just missed a call from mom over this and had to call her back. This is scary, 911 really would not help much if I was getting murdered and my screen won't light. It came back. I have a backup and can revert, or go clean, or whatever.

Days like this make me want to be "Jake" just for ½ day. Then I could go clean and move on. Jake has more power than a crate of "5 Hour Energy". And he is a very good man. :good:

But before I go nuts, Dwillian had an idea that I think could possibly help, not sure, will try now. He suggests in general to update our pa-gapps package. Now Google services and apps update themselves so I never give this idea much credence, checking About Phone shows that the phone is on 4.4.3 anyway. But check out what Dwillian says:

Just a note for clarification: If you flash updated GApps they will be installed in the system partition and removed from the user data partition (at least that's the way the PA GApps work). This could be important if you are running out of user data space (and have unused system partition space).

Wow, that's good stuff man. Dwillian is having a "Brilliant Moment"! (Everything is "having a moment" after watching Netflix new series, Orange Is The New Black.) The update "could possibly help" and for sure will do no harm. Plus, if it gives me more user space, this is T&A man. Gotta have it so I will do that now and report on it.

But to answer your question directly, yes I did an OTA update from the About Phone Updates menu, did not go clean, and it is BAD, very BAD. And my old friend black screen is back, with a vengeance this time. "Old Blackie" draws blood every time, just like my rescue cat did every time I would touch her for the entire first year out of the shelter. :(

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Hey rgerrans!

...06/13? Really? Oh there is one! Dude, I just OTA flashed 06/11 and am having black screen locks from hell. I get them instead of the APN issues others have. These are really bad, man. Only way out is to hold power and volume down to force an immediate power stop but if I release just prior, 3-4 seconds and swipe the screen, it will finally light. Is that the kind you got? And what is "contact card fc"? I suddenly have issues with my EXTSDCard not being available for file transfer completes WiFi or even mounting in Windows via USB. Is that what you mean?

Anyway I am trying really hard to pull this rom OTA and it keep stopping. Maybe I can pull it from PC and transfer over. If all else fails, I can put the card in a USB reader and for sure get the rom on it. And I think I will include the new pa-gapps too. I hear it will install to system area, thus freeing up user data space and I sure could use some.

Man, I just tried 3 times to pull the new rom and when screen goes dark and I wake it up, the download has ceased and I start over. Might as well try to get it from the web. Anyone else finding OTA update to complete download for 06/13 hard to do?

...wha...? My OTA page shows the download stopped. I tapped to start it again. Re-lit screen and it stopped again. But I have a download toast going on and the pull down shows 2 downloads right now, cm11 06/13 happening at the same time and I cannot stop "just one of them". What did I say, Friday the 13th, right? :p

Uh, if you could answer the two questions that would be awesome, but right now that 06/13 (OMG, that is Friday the 13th!) is sounding very good. I am on it. Thank you buddy! :highfive: