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[Motorola Droid RAZR] vanwho:
I have been on 5/17 off and on for a few days now. I can't find anything wrong so far. Very stable, no ui crashes or freezes, fast and dependable. Battery life is also doing great. I tried slim 5.2, and ls 3.1, and both still have lockups and crashes. It has been a while since CM could win the spot as my daily driver! Great job CM team, and [MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION]!

I have also noticed less orange bars lately. Probably due to Google services update, and Verizon's network update moving new phones to the xlte, and freeing up some bandwidth.

Is there any reason I should update to the latest nightly if this one is running so well? Please let me know if you were on 5/17, and updated to newer, if there are even more performance gains. Thanks
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dshulman:
Ohmster, what status bar app are you using?

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I've been on the 5/22 build for a day and things continue to get progressively better. Every once in a while I get a black screen and it takes a while to cover back. I haven't figured out why this is occurring. I've also been looking at my available memory. It starts around 250M and goes down to 130M the more I used, but it goes back up when I close those apps. Is there a low number that will cause the phone to with erratically?

One other thing I've noticed in the last few weeks is that my email widgets for Gmail and Touchdown don't refresh very often but when I go into the app itself the latest emails are there. Has anybody else seen this? I don't think it was like that on 10.2.

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I use Nova launcher if that would make a difference in the widget refresh rate question. I didn't use it before. I would hope it's the launcher and not CM11.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] GTiceman:
Well my phone has not exploded on 5/22 but i can't speak as to much. It has been stable and smooth for me. I have been mostly on wifi so I don't know if orange is a prevalent color in the nightly. Today I will be testing battery a bit more. Things keep getting better, better all the time.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Orange bars affect both signal and WiFi icons. All the orange color means is that you are not connected to the Google servers. If on WiFi, it will try to establish connection over WiFi. If that fails, the WiFi icon turns orange but still works for WiFi. If not using WiFi, the signal icon itself does the same thing. Turns orange if no connection to Google servers can be made, but works for signal, internet, and phone calls. unless your signal meter drops so low as to zero bars and you "lose service".

I had crashing, bars, signal drops, and so much frustration as to want to throw this thing out the window. But 05/17 was a glowing report, I installed it, no more crashing, but orange bars and signal drops. After 4 days of this, updating each day, I never got past the orange bar thing. Booting to recovery and wiping dalvick, cache, and now, android.secure and rebooting to system cleaned it right up. Toggled airplane just one and the orange bars are now history.

So the phone is smooth, I have good signal for the most part, although I think it needs more work, and if I ever see another orange icon again, it will be too soon. Good luck on your apparent success and please be welcome, GTiceman. All we ask is when you do or try something, install a new build, report on it, how done, any issues, and most important, a one day later drive around followup report on how well it is doing now. Any new issues?

Soon you will find yourself looking for such reports and can rest assured that you have done your part in this thread to earn your keep. It is a pleasure to have and to meet you. Have a nice stay here at XDA! :D

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I have been "chomping at the bit" to get at this update and see what all of the new improvements and bug fixes amount to. See change log for 05/23. There are 36 items in the change log to be addressed, added, fixed, improved. and to be included. Any update this large could be a Godsend or a bad dream of multiple little "problem creatures" skittering all over the place. I want to try this out but of course, before daring to update to something causing this much change, I will make a backup for it first. There is a very real possibility that the Theme Engine may work well enough, one of these days, to be useful once again like it was, "Da Bomb" in 10.2.

Making backup to ExtSDCard, downloaded update, and will apply and test, then report all to you terrific folks here at XDA. Stay tuned....
[Motorola Droid RAZR] GTiceman:
So GPS killed my battery during my run today. My battery life sucks anyway. I got black screened today and yesterday, found if i plugged the phone in i could get around it. Good news, didn't see any orange bars, I am aware they can appear on wifi too but I had that problem only one time many moons ago. Moving to 5/23
[Motorola Droid RAZR] vanwho:
Ok, here is my latest report. CM11 5-17 ran well, good battery, quick for screen to come on when an incoming call comes in, etc. But, it has more orange bars. Updated to 5-22, ran very similar with less orange bars, but screen lag is back on incoming calls. I have carbon installed on my other slot right now, and it seems to have no orange bars, or lag on incoming call, but I don't like some things about it. Has anyone tried 5-23 yet? It is another huge update. I was hoping that it may run smooth, and combine the best of 5-17, and 5-22? I really don't like swapping all the time, but it seems like I always hit one bug or another, and try something else. It will work without the previous bug, but something different is wrong. I guess in a long way around, I don't really know which direction I should go right now? Back to 5-17 and deal with orange bars, or possible unknown bug on the latest nightlies? Thanks for any input.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adistf:
After 2 minutes after restart(i wiped cache,dalvik and android secure)i went straight on running services and i saw this. What's the problem???!

Btw i am on 23/05
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
One issue that has been moving through the updates for me is the battery status. If I am above about 75% and I plug into my computer to copy a photo over or something, the battery status will read 100% again and start counting down from there. I know it can't charge back to 100% in 2 minutes. Other than that, 5/23 has been pretty solid.

adistf, I am at about 550 mb of ram also... I think that is fairly normal for KitKat though. On stock JB I only had about 100 mb left, so this is much better than what it was on JB.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adistf:
I'm not used it. Usually i am on 450+...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
To gain that level of access, your prompt at the terminal window now looks like this, yes? $

When you enter the su command Super User or "root", your command prompt changes to this: #

Do what you have to do with this # superuser prompt showing and get out of it by closing the terminal window or typing exit on the screen to drop back down to a regular user.

See screenshot. Now you are "God" on the system and anything you type or do, happens instantly, and God help you if you make a mistake. It cannot be undone. So at the # prompt, Micheal wants you to enter (Without a single mistake anywhere!):

fsck_msdos /dev/block/mmcblk1p25

This should fix the error. If you want to feel "Safe" about doing this, make a Safe Strap backup first so you can revert to your backup in the event something goes wrong. Once the command is done, either get out of there or if you wish to explore the terminal window, it is a cool thing to play with, type:

exit

To get your $ prompt back as a non root user and try something like "top" in the window. You will get a list of all running processes with the the highest CPU load at the top.

Hope this helps. You must clean up the errors on your card for it to work properly, give good logs, and before it gets so bad as to "break your phone".

Cheers! :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
One thing I noticed on 05/23 is my battery was draining pretty fast. I had been doing some updates but now I am at less then 10% battery and it will take many hours to charge back up. Car charger barely covers use of phone, never mind charges if phone is not left alone.

Solution to Rapid Battery Drain:

Install or reinstall Battery Doctor if you had it before and took it out. It is a free app, has a few minor annoying things like a couple of ads like "you could save 75% on your phone now, click to install crud remover" or whatever they call it. Battery doctor has a neat quick charge feature that really works a treat. When plugged in, it will ask if you want charging wallpaper. You can say yes if you like or bring it up later. It shows battery level and charge rate. Shows 3 charge rates:

Rapid charge to get you up to near full quickly.

Continuous charge when near full, "normal charge".

Trickle charge when it is full and just trickles in enough juice to keep it full.

To get the charging wallpaper out of the way, swipe and it is gone. Or if you would not rather have it every time you plug in the phone, tap Battery Doctor and see the charge rate and amount of charge. If you want the charging wallpaper up, tap the white << spot, near top, right side of the screen. This charging wallpaper does charge the phone up fast and gives you charging information all the while. You can see a charging history of the past month or months that you have the app installed if you wish. Also form a battery use plan and what to cut when the battery gets low if you want to. I just love that rapid charge, it is a treat to have available. And that "charging wallpaper" really works! If you want your phone charged fast, enable the wallpaper when asked or tap Battery Doctor and tap the << spot to bring it up. Maybe good not to enable it or it will cover your navigation while driving if you plug into the car charger. For that reason, I bring up the charging paper manually. It goes away when charger is disconnected, THEN they try to sell you another product with a very small add where you click NO.

Screenshot #1 is the charging state and rate of charge. You can see the white << spot that will bring up the charging wallpaper.

Screenshot #2 shows the charging history, for me it is not very many days as I just realized that I need this app and reinstalled it. I got my phone charged in less than an hour from single digit percent this way and it would have taken hours on it's own. No, the battery does not get hot when charged this way.

Install it, 2¢ and give it a try. You can always remove it if you do not like, but give it a fair chance before canning it forever. Only a very few sporadic and strategically placed, minor ads for a free product. Nothing trial, disabling, or time out on this version. HTH :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adistf:
After 24/05 it's back to normal again. Not sure if it last's. I will report later
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Memory Manager less agressive in recent Kit Kat

I love useful apps that actually do good things for my phone. One of the very best I actually purchased for a couple of dollars, very cheap, is Greenify. The app is free but for a very low donation, you get access to the Experimental Features in Greenify if you purchase the Greenify (Donation Package). It only costs $2.99 for a lifetime license.

Kit Kat was super aggressive with killing everything in our precious bit of 1024Gb of internal memory. See XT912 Specifications to see just what your phone has and can do. Think about it, only one Gigabyte of RAM for everything this phone does. An errant app is not to be tolerated when it refuses to close or consumes RAM like free chicken wings at Happy Hour.

The new very aggressive memory management of Kit Kat was very welcome. It brought new life to the phone. So much in fact, that I uninstalled Greenify. Another member was praising it because he could force system apps to sleep and this must be done with caution (And the donation pack installed). I reinstalled it and was surprised to see just how much Kit Kat memory management had relaxed. Not terrible, mind you, but now you have more control of what you want running and eating memory and what simply "has to go".) I do not need Facebook running 24/7, when I wish to visit, I will. Facebook messenger I leave running as the footprint is small and I would like the messages.

I am not sure why but any radio music apps like Pandora, Scanner Radio, Slacker Radio, and Tune In Radio just do not want to sleep. What is the reason they stay awake, using memory, when I am not running them and listening to music? Probably ads, to act as a gathering agent and find out what my browser habits are so that advertisements can be much more finely tuned. So these apps, like it or NOT, are put to sleep in Greenify anyway, all the time. So, even with Kit Kat, there is indeed a place for Greenify on the phone.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] CoreyWillWhat:
This was from quite a while back! How'd you dig this up? Haha After doing some research I figured out it was basically corrupt media files that the media scanner was getting stuck on. Took some time to locate them by trial and error. I ran that fsck_msdos /dev/block/mmcblk1p25 command about 40 times and it seemed to clear most of it up but never completely. The media scanner kept getting hung up. I ended up finding a media scanner app that can disable the media scanner's initial scan after reboot. Completely cleared up the problem and everything works great. Better battery life and performance. Thanks for the advice though!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I wanted to reply to this because I do not see "a problem" right away with the first screenshot you posted, other than Google Play Services used an Android Bot instead of the internal icon for it.

Here are 2 screenshots of my App Manager.

#1 is from the top, ends with Transparent weather clock.

#2 is continuation from Transparent weather clock showing Google Play Services.

#3 introduces the Transparent weather clock widget. It shows the date and time, gives a picture icon of the current weather, fully customizable, change font, color, size, and icon sets. This is a really neat AIO clock/weather widget.

#4 is the Transparent weather clock again, this time on my tablet where I spent a bit more time customizing the fonts, colors, and font effects. The actual sun icon is actually part of several weather conditions icon sets you can choose from. Tapping the sun or weather icon itself brings up a full screen forecast for my location as well as any other locations I wish to monitor. As well as how the widget will display itself on the screen such as size, darker areas, etc. This is probably the best "weather at a glance" widget I found that does not contain adware, spyware, or have any push ads build in.

My Go SMS is on top because I use it a lot, it packs more punch than any other free SMS/MMS app that I ever saw. As you can see, my internal Google icons are displayed.

You realize that when you wiped the listed partitions; cache, dalvik, and android.secure, they must rebuild themselves. Dalvik cache or partition, is the "Virtual Machine" for your device. By wiping it, you take away the working model of the running device so it needs a bit of time to rebuild it. This is a pretty neat way for Android to get up and running fairly quickly, it employs the virtual machine and updates it as necessary to reflect any changes. Meaning it takes a bit of time to restore the internal icons.

Any update or install requires wiping the cache (Temp file folder) and the dalvik cache (Android virtual machine). We are wiping the android.secure to try and rid the system of rollover crud that may be causing orange icons, APN or signal issues, or *anything* that might carry over to the new system that we do not want.

Your screenshot looks good. Other than the missing play services icon at first, am I missing anything? :confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] roscored1000:
are all these issues just on xt912?

These guys are amazing, all the developments that are going on its hard to keep up, so just reading and doing a little bit of dabbling on the side. I was just wondering if the majority of issues are with the CDMA version only or do they carry over to the GSM xt910 as well. thanks for the great diligence.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh that is *awesome* good news. I meant to say "God" mode, meaning this is a very dangerous thing to do. You cannot get distracted, make a mistake, leave out a dot or a space, because anything you do as root is permanent, and cannot be undone. Linux, the system Android is based on (Same darned system, just plucked way down to fit on the device and get rid of things that would never be used on an Android device like apache web server. It is SO heavily discouraged to use su instead of a safer command like sudo, (you get to make one root command and lose that ability when your command runs)

At least I got you on the right track. Helping people here does not require one to have a Ph.d, and disclose fantastic secrets to help someone in trouble. All you need is a good attitude to want to help, and if it turns out to be no more than make the member feel welcome, you have done your job and earned your Thanks.

The important part is you got on the right trail, followed it through, and got the answer you needed, in a rather roundabout way. Great stuff. Glad to help, coreywallen! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
Can someone tell me how the themes work. I see lots of work being done on themes, but when I got to settings there is only one theme to chose from. I am guessing that I need to load more themes somehow. Does anyone have the lowdown on what makes themes so amazing in CM?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
You do need to download themes from the play store. There is a thread on XDA that lists what themes are working for each version of CM. There are not many themes available for the 'new' theme engine yet though. The perks of the 'new' CM11 theme engine over the old one are that you can pick and choose which parts of each theme you want to use. Say you like the icons from one theme, the boot animation from another theme, the wallpapers and sound pack from another theme, you can now combine all of the different pieces to come up with a custom theme. It will be better once there are more themes built specifically for the new theme engine.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
Thanks Morr! I dont usually mess around with themes, but since CM has put so much work into this maybe I should take a look at it. I'm running 5/25 and usually stay pretty close to up-to-date. With that said, do you have any recommendations for a nice clean looking theme or themes that I should check out? Thanks again! :good:

I believe this is the thread you are talking about. Is that right?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
Yes that is the thread, post #5 lists themes that are specifically for the new theme engine. I like the thyrus dark ui theme. You can still use old themes, but you can not pick and choose parts of the theme and have to apply the entire theme.

What I have done is apply the cobalt theme from dustinb then go to the dark ui theme by thyrus and add parts of it like the fonts. I have found that I can apply an old theme first then apply parts of a new theme.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Ditto here. 5/23 was giving me a lot of trouble. 5/24 seems much better. I've been actively using it all day without any problems. Been out GeoCaching using nav apps a lot and I haven't had any hangs or FCs.

If you are having trouble try this nightly. I did wipe system, secure, cache, and dalvik. Then I installed 5/24 nightly and 5/24 PA GApps (stock package, but did not install Google Camera).

Cheers for the developers.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] adistf:
[MENTION=5362796]Dwillian[/MENTION] i am on 24,works super great. I'll never change it till a big update. :D battery life is ok too
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=2774395]my2cents[/MENTION] and [MENTION=3687628]morr22066[/MENTION]

Wow, this is *awesome* information. I have to give Thanks and credit to morr22066 for posting and for you, 2¢ for giving the link to the Official CM11 Theme thread. I wonder if these themes are universal to all cm11 devices or are they device specific?

I really *love* the Trebuchet launcher that we had in CM10.2 but in cm11, that launcher went straight to hell. It is only now that the theme engine is active, crash free, and at least somewhat functional. For now I use Apex Pro, and it is pretty nice, but the lure of a fully functional Trebuchet is too strong to ignore. Thank you very much guys, for this very helpful and useful post. I have the theme page bookmarked already! :D

Thank you. :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
May help with orange icon diagnosis

As you all know, the orange icon and signal loss issues have bothered me a lot lately. The system crashes, black screen lockups, and all that were "the worst". But our dev team seems to have put that issue to bed, and as far as I can see, it is true.

I had a discussion with Michael about wiping android.secure to rid my system of orange bars. When I did my fourth update in a row and found NO improvement in the orange icon issue, I got really annoyed. It should have at least "Changed" somehow, yet it did not. So I toggled airplane mode, nothing. I then booted to recovery, wiped dalvik, cache, and android.secure, which really does not seem to have much stuff in it. Michael did enlighten me a bit about android.secure as I cannot find anything useful on Google about it anywhere.

You can see what happens from the screenshot what happens. You don't even "dial" the number, just punch it in and at the very last character, you get the screen sown below so you know if you are connected to Google Servers, you can check the ping and reping it (Ping levels should be less than .0xx to be considered "good" and fast". What else this tool is good for, I am still learning about it. But since I do not currently have orange icons to test with, I must wait in the event it comes back, to try it and see. Perhaps some of you with orange icons can try this, grab a screenshot of what you find, and report back.

To make a simple guide, I provide the following:

[Guide - How to Check the State of your Google Server Connection]

Open your phone dialer appO

Dial in the following sequence:

*#*#426#*#*

See results in the attached screenshots. I know it is safe to Ping the servers, you will see your ping either change or last date/time rise in the tiny stats. But at least you will know if you do indeed have a Google server connection or not if you are experiencing some other conditions.It is a tool, like anything else, and can provide the information that we need to make informed decisions and move on.

I do hope that some find this new tool, courtesy of Stargo, useful in troubleshooting this very difficult problem. Gotta run, 'night guys! :cool: