[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=2774395]my2cents[/MENTION]

2¢, again Ohmster gives you *way* too much to read, sorry, but it is in your best interest to read. WE are going to do a cooperative effort to prove or disprove your hypothesis of AdAway causing orange bars. You, Sir, may very well be right. Read on brother...

Hmmm, that's an interesting and credible hypothesis, 2¢. I just installed 05/17 a few hours ago, based on the glowing reports. (Don't you just love it now that the thread is acting as a collective, sharing data, posting test results with details, and is fully cooperating with each other? I am SO impressed, this is beautiful.) For me, it has been all good. I just came off Micheal's unofficial test build 05/16 to test for crashes. Could not get any, but the orange bars were there more than the solid ones, signal would drop to zero and internet data would trickle to a dead stop. So now I am so far really impressed with 05/17, no signal loss, or orange bars. The bars I would have seen by now. For signal loss, I need to do a little driving around to check that and will tomorrow. My update was as I always do updates when I can, OTA through settings, vanilla rom, no custom anything. I follow the KISS rule *Keep It Simple, Stupid!) and it works for me. Yeah I will jack it up custom for me, when the build becomes stable enough to be RC, STABLE, or FINAL. But for now, not worth the effort as no build really stays on the phone long enough, IMHO, to justify the additional customizations.

I *do* have AdAway on my phone. I no longer use AdFree as it is hard to find and AdAway is *much* better. I have no orange bars so far. So, tell you what, I just got through praising the group for cooperating with each other, being nice and helpful to anyone who asks, especially the newbies, so I will let you call this one. I will attach a screenshot to show you my Settings/About Phone where you can clearly see the date and time of the install, as well as the clock to the actual time.

Kernel Version shows the install date and time.

Build Date shows the end of the install process and it lags the Kernel Version by about 3 minutes. All about right.

CyanogenMod Version of course shows the build version, 05/17.

I have NOT ran AdAway yet since installing the update to 05/17. If you wish, I will run it, update the host file, reboot to begin using it, and see if orange bars appear. Then if so, I believe that AdAway has an option to revert to your previous host if you care to do so. If I get orange bars and confirm it after running AdAway, I can then try to use/find the revert to original host file, use it, reboot to get back on old host file, and see if the orange bars "go away" to test and either prove or disprove your hypothesis.

Since I have a rooted phone and file manager as we all do, I can make a backup copy of the /system/etc/host file now, save it to ExtSDCard, just to make sure I can easily revert to the old hosts file. Let's do this as a team effort. When members work together to help each other, we can move mountains.

I have some really nice screenshots for you attached.

Setting/About Phone showing Clock, Kernel Version showing date and time installed, and Build Date showing date and time install finished.

The /system/etc/host file in ES File Explorer showing file size, permissions, and most important, date last modified.

Properties of /system/etc/host file in ES File Explorer. (Root App)

The actual /system/etc/host file displayed in Jota + Root text editor. Definitely created by AdAway in the past.

Aright? I think as a team working together, we can test your hypothesis and see if you are correct. If so, something can be done about it, we may have to enlist or at the very least, inform Stargo, Micheal, our beloved developer.

Let met check time running on 05/17 with NO sign of orange bars. Okay, it has been about 3¾ hours with no orange bars. I will now backup my host file, run AdAway to create a new, updated host file, reboot to put it into action, and monitor the phone to see if we get orange bars as a result. I have been plagued by them so I have a good phone to test with. Plus with me backing up the host file first, reverting back would be a snap and we can see if the orange "goes away". Deal?

Let's do this, as a team, show the thread what cooperation can do. I am on it for you bra. ;)

UPDATE:

Just ran AdAway, yes, there were updates available to the host file at 11:25 PM EST. The app did download, merge, and created a new host file. I am rebooting to put it into action. Now we will see if orange bars appear on my phone. This is not conclusive, mind you, unless we get a few others to do exactly the same thing to ccorroborate the findings, but it would be a great start. Back atcha when I get results. I like your hypothesis, it shows you are really trying to think it through. Excellent approach, now let's test it.

UPDATE 2:

So far, so good, no orange bars. BUT, by using Bluetooth for calls and turning it on and off again, I must have inadvertently hit the Airplane mode. Brrrrr! I took it off, got my orange LTE bars, this is normal and it takes up to a minute to gain the Google connection and restore my colored icons. They came back colored within 30 seconds, normal for this phone. Keep you posted...