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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
CM11 UNOFFICIAL 03/29 day 3

Okay, going on day 3 for the newest cm11 rom, 03/29/2015 and I said I would try to report on it, day by day.

For those who need the latest CM11 rom, get it from Michael's download site here, newest at the bottom:

http://droid.cs.fau.de/cm-11.0/unofficial/

I am very critical of this rom, I guess I have been sort of spooked with all of the bad builds we have had in the last couple of months. I want this rom to run perfectly, smoothly, be fast, and never need a reboot to clear or repair it. That is a tall order. :rolleyes:

Day 2 required one reboot because streaming music was stuttering and it was not a result of high CPU usage. Rebooting the rom cleared it right up. :)

Day 3 started out okay, but getting in the car to mom's house, I decided to do my multitask test. Turning on the screen I had an FC for com.googleplay, something. Hmmm. Started Pandora and was delighted to be rewarded with Madonna singing "Like a Prayer", no stuttering. Opened Maps to mom's house and Maps "got stuck" and would not show the map or location on screen.

See Screenshots.

Very strange. The spinning circle in Maps would not even turn or spin, what you see in the screenshot is what I saw on the screen, no movement. Maps caused an FC. I did not want to reboot so I tried clearing the Maps cache and stopping the service. Another attempt to use Maps failed, same result. :(

Note that Maps is in the gapps pack and my first FC was googleplay. Then I looked in Play Store to see if there were any updates since googleplay and maps were causing FCs. No, not for those, only updates were Slacker Radio and Greenify. I took the updates. By the time I got to mom's house, about 10 minutes,

Maps still was not working and showed 3 minutes to destination with no map visible on screen while I am sitting in the destination driveway

. Strange. Now that Greenify is updated, I get a statusbar notice to reboot in order for Xposed to update. I do the hard reboot with Motorola M on screen and forgot to try maps on the way home. Checking it now...

Yeah, Maps is working properly. Since this is a google apps FC and might not be due to the rom, I cannot say I needed the reboot to fix the rom. I needed it to fix Google Play apps. So day 3 is still good. Still same rom 03/29. It still runs very good, and is still very fast. Nice. Hard to tell with this rom, further testing required. It is not "a bad rom" so far as I can tell, and it is fast and smooth.

Anyone else running 03/29 care to share? There is not much discussion on it here except for [MENTION=1472623]d.casper.b[/MENTION] and I am hoping to get a few of you out there to tell us how it is going for you guys as well as just myself and Casper. That is all I can say for now, still scratching my head on the rom but want to believe this will be much better. So far, it is pretty good.

...anyone? :confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ChungHung.Chen:
Test report of CM11-UNOFFICIAL-20150329-umts_spyder

<< Basic Info >>

XT910 (umts_spyder) / CM11-20150329 / PA-GApps Micro 20150308 / Fresh install of /system but keep /data from 20140202 / Wipe cache & dalvik-cache

Note: PA-GApps was flashed manually.

<< Report >>

Tested Period : 3 days

Tested Item : Phone call / Bluetooth / SMS / Camera / Mobile data / WiFi / GPS / HDMI / MX Player / YouTube / Light Games(Paper Toss) / Stream Video / etc.

Tested Result : Better than 150202 in my XT910! Very smooth after one day usage and touch response is quick. There are some random and small freezes in 141107 which I tried again last weekend and some slow touch responses in 150202, but no freeze/lag in 150329 in my XT910. Very satisfied with this version, thanks [MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION] for these builds! I'll keep this version in stock slot.

CM's build system build nightlies in alphabet sequence automatically and there are more than 30 devices between "spyder" and "umts_spyder". Sometimes the nightly of our spyder/umts_spyder may not build with same commits and different test results. [MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION]'s build is manual and in same commit point, which is better for us to sync the test report.

Back to [MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION]'s problem with Google maps and Google play service. AFAIK, Google play service is the core of GApps including maps and it will get "silent upgrade" in background. If play service get FC then maps will definitely get error. Reboot is one way to fix it. I don't know if it's related with the ROM or something else, but no FCs during my test.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=3313632]ChungHung.Chen[/MENTION]

Thank you Mr. Chen. No doubt, this 03/29 rom is *way* better than 02/02. I have been very critical on this rom, maybe unfairly so. My gapps FC did not clearly indicate any issue with the rom itself. I flashed the 03/01 Mini-Modular gapps, signed. I know that Google runs more processes and services at any given time than we have fingers to count them on. I have never seen any "core Google services" file to update with, other than Google Play Services which Dwillian was installing. He needed an extra 100 Mb of /system partition space to install this. I do believe that Google does update it's own services quietly, in the background.

That would explain pretty well why I had a com.googleplay.whatever FC, after which, Maps would not run, let alone Navigation. The reboot does clear RAM, absolutely, perfectly. It also might push through a pending update that cannot be applied with the phone running or that is slow to update. Maybe due to Greenify. But the reboot fixed it right up. I have no more issues with this rom, other than a one time next day reboot to clear streaming music stutter, not due to CPU load.

Yes, I went out driving today and did my little multitask routine, only because this is what I normally do, quite often and expect from this rom. Pandora streamed quite nicely over Bluetooth to Car Connect. Contact address to Maps to Navigation all went smooth, and I sent a text message while doing all this. No problem. One thing Navigation is good at is that when the phone is choking, the navigation position arrow will not update smoothly. I can tell I am moving but the arrow is not, then it will suddenly "jump" ahead to catch up. I saw none of that in this rom. Only the googleplay and maps FC. App and gapps issue, not a rom issue.

I agree with you Mr. Chen. Push this rom, cm-11-20150329-UNOFFICIAL-spyder or cm-11-20150329-UNOFFICIAL-umts_spyder to the top of the list as "Best ROM". 11/07 for me is next in line. I will know more in a week or two, but there is nothing wrong with this rom. It is very fast and performance is quite good! :good:

Thanks for the detailed report. You did quite well on this report, as always my friend. :highfive:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Safe Mode in CM11

Hey!

I cannot believe what I saw today. My phone was hanging on some Google App, Play Music came up while using streaming Public Radio on Bluetooth, and when I shut off the car and lost the Bluetooth connection, Play Music came up with Public Radio. I do not want Play Music right now. I could not close the app. Not with App Info - Force Stop, not with Greenify - Force Sleep, and not even by tapping notification to enter app and back out of it. I tried a soft reboot and it was taking too long. I tried a Force Power down with Power and Volume Down Key (I Think?), and the phone kept on booting. But when I hit the desktop, my widgets were all missing.

...huh? No widgets? What is going on. Then I saw it, bottom left corner of the screen. In a small gray box with white letters that said "Safe Mode". Wow! I have been wanting to know how to get this phone on CM11 into Safe Mode for years! Never could get it, thought that maybe Safe Mode was only for stock rom. Not true! CM11 came right up, in SAFE MODE! :confused:

I was so surprised at this that I forgot to try a screenshot and rebooted. But if this Razr on CM11 can do Safe Mode, I want to know how to do it. Anyone here every boot to Safe Mode in cm11? How did you do it?

I will try to replicate this and report how, but I have tried this for years and failed. A little help here would be really appreciated. Thanks guys! :o

EDIT:

I don't know why, but when I did reboot normally, my default SMS app was unset and Hangouts took over. I had a bunch of Play Store app updates when none were available earlier today, my Play Store settings were all reset, and I had to accept the Play Store agreement to get in. Sounds like my whole gapps package got reset. Not complaining, but never saw this before. :confused:

GOT IT! Found a youtube video that shows how to start Motorola Razr in Safe Mode. Method 1 works. I could not test Method 2 because I use an Xposed Module Power Menu. Did not work but video shows it with stock Power Menu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdiaSXH2YVY

...oh this is SO cool, man! :D

Safe Mode:

Method #1.)

With phone powered down. Press Power to turn on phone. When red Motorola M appears, hold Volume Down until boot to desktop. You will see phone is in Safe Mode in lower left hand corner of screen.

Method #2.)

With Phone turned on. Press Power button to get Power Menu. Press and hold Power Power Off until screen shows "Reboot to Safe Mode". Cancel or OK.

Method #3.) credit - sd_shadow at XDA Developers

With Phone turned on. Press Power button to get Power Menu. Reboot, Soft Reboot. Hold volume down till you see safe mode on bottom left.

[YOUTUBE]pdiaSXH2YVY[/YOUTUBE]​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sd_shadow:
I selected reboot>soft reboot (Hot boot)

hold volume down till you see safe mode on bottom left.

[IMG="SafeMode CM11"]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/kGVImczM65a7LmiTGOu0U3pfPf4AxJlZrmXll3ZOLtHS9JrjMjC9XeyR4-ZmLSEXvPg1p0wTKjedNW5sp83lBzqNpCqViigke5PWueV9bLE83W7dSmLDCOoFVOk-EYC14DCZvuM[/IMG]

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should stay in safe mode till reboot

also Hotspot/Wifi Tethering works in safemode

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default SMS app, also got reset
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thank you [MENTION=4267571]sd_shadow[/MENTION] :highfive:

Yep. Default SMS app does get reset. Easy fix. /Settings/More/ Default SMS app. Also removes my Transparent Weather Clock widget. Even though the widget has at least 6 different types, putting the widget back on desktop remembers all of your previous settings.

Safe Mode is for troubleshooting as it should disable startup apps and services. I find that Xposed still works so not sure what all is turned off with Safe Mode. But very good to know.

Shadow, were you able to use Method 2 with phone running? I do not have the stock Power Menu so I cannot tell without shutting of my Xposed module to test. Both methods work for you, as far as you know? Oh, you are not sure because this is the method you use? So you really are holding Vol Dn for quite a long time. I was too with the from power off method. I felt the phone shake after the red M appeared (Full Reboot) and the phone does this same thing when performing a forced power off by holding Power and Volume Down until screen flashes and phone does a shake. But no, it kept booting and I started to hold the Vol Dn again until desktop. May not have had to if the phone shake was confirmation of Safe Mode.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sd_shadow:
Not sure, I just saw that you wanted to know if it could be done intentionally.

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So I checked, it had been a while, and several devices since I tried.

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And it can be done.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Awesome, dude! :D

Hey, how come you got 02/02 on an XT912? 03/29 is clearly *much* better. 02/02 had a lot of quirks for me, every day. Reboot to clear, reboot to clear, and even install over itself to get a text message out of the Outbox. Not even a reboot would clear that! :confused:

EDIT:

Oh, I was doing a hot reboot at the time! That is how I stumbled into it, I was using your method w/out realizing it. Well this little gem goes right into my Razr toolbox, thank you very much!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
PSA: Offline Google Voice Typing, getting it to work

For anyone having issues with getting Google Voice Typing to work while really offline, this is a Public Service Announcement to help with this issue. It should work on Razr phones.

As you all know, I type a lot. I send full page text messages. People wonder how can I send such a big text message so fast. I really do not type that stuff at all. Not even for email or TapaTalk. I use Google Voice Typing. It is fantastic and gets it right 99% of the time. Even if you have to correct a mistake or two, that is a LOT better than typing the entire thing on the tiny keyboard. You must speak slowly and articulate your words. (Speak *very* clearly and slowly.) You must say "period" to insert one and start a new sentence. Say "question mark", "comma", and "exclamation point" to insert punctuation. To drop down a line, say "new line" or for a new paragraph, say "new paragraph".

There is an Xposed Module called GoogleOfflineVoice to help with this. You can turn it on and off with a wiglet or just leave it on. I have had this module installed for oh, months and months, but could never tell if it was working. Lately I had some connection problems and when I tap the mic to voice type, no text appears as I talk and I get the message "Offline mode unavailable. Try again". Why? It is supposed to work!

I posted in the XDA GoogleOfflineVoice Xposed Module thread to ask about it. After a little research, I found the answer, tested it by turning on airplane mode and proving that Google Offline Voice really was working! If you are having this issue, please click the link above.

What worked for me:

Go into Language and Input Settings, changed Language at top to English (United States). Previously I had this set to English (United Kingdom) as it was the only way to get Google Navigation to speak in my SVOX Victoria UK Female voice that I bought and paid for.

Settings for Android Keyboard, verified input language checked for "English (US)". Removed the English (UK) check-mark.

Verified "Google voice typing" is checked and set to Automatic.

That is it, tested totally offline by turning on airplane mode and now I can voice type, anytime, anyplace. :D

Original thread that contains the valuable help:

Nexus 7 offline speech recognition - getting it to work

EDIT: I am going to shut off and then remove the Xposed Module, GoogleOfflineVoice. It does not actually make Voice Typing work better. All it does is "force it on" in the event you have a terrible internet connection or WiFi on without internet. I hardly never run into that situation so having an Xposed module tie up system memory for something I will likely never need does not make sense. But for people with "horrible internet" might benefit from this module. :rolleyes:

I hope this helps somebody. I was really pulling my hair out on this one. What good is a module if it does not work at all? Besides, Motorola Razr phones are not junk! Offline speech recognition is build in and should work! :cowboy:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Krauzaa:
After 2 days now i can said that. This is fastest and most stable CM11. 2 days with only 1 restart (After restore all apps) and with ZERO FCs.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] neoramasay:
Hopefully tonight I'll get a chance to put the new build on my phone. It sounds like it's pretty solid at this point.

On an OT note - revisiting my Android on PC question brought up previously - I have uninstalled/wiped clean/re-installed newest release of BlueStacks and either something got messed up in my previous install or something because the fresh re-install is now nice and fast. The only downside now is on the current free platform they push down an app every now and again that auto-installs into the system. There is a premium version that does not do this. In either case, i think for a PC-based solution to run Android on, my vote goes to BlueStacks, even with the random app installs on the free version.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=6303356]Krauzaa[/MENTION] you are a new member? Yep, pretty new. Passed your Junior phase and on to "Member". Let me give you a tip here. When you are speaking about a particular rom or specific build date, please include the Build Date to identify the rom you are discussing to let the rest of us know exactly which rom you are using and happy with. :)

I "assume" you mean the new, UNOFFICIAL cm11 Build 03/29/3015, yes? If so, yes, it is very good. Interesting you said 1 restart and apps. Me too. I had to do a reboot the next day, made me suspicious but not a definite sign of a bad rom. And apps. My gapps were giving me problems, playservices FC, Maps, FC, update some apps, rebooted to find a whole LOT of app updates and now, it seems to have settled down. I had to do "The Agreement" to get into play store to update, so it looks like my system got an entirely new gapps package, background downloads and app updates. :confused:

But yes, this is so far looking like the best cm11 rom yet. I am very happy with it now. I am curious for others to speak up and say how it is working for them. A discussion thread is only as good as the discussion in it. And this cm11 thread has been pretty darned slow and dead, for the most part. Thanks for the feedback! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Crimson88:
Just a warning, installing cm-11-20150329-UNOFFICIAL-umts_spyder with gapps-kk-20150329-minimal-edition-signed causes AOSP keyboard to FC and its unstable.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] God Terrible:
you must instal google keyboard with zip
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Crimson88:
I flashed Swiftkey
[Motorola Droid RAZR] God Terrible:
Oh i'am so sorry
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dwh2o13:
Performance Update on UNOFFICIAL cm11 Build 03/29/3015. Paired with pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.4-20150308

Test Periiod: going on 4 days/GEL used for all 4 days

Items tested include WiFi/Camera/Youtube streaming - chrome casting/app restore with TiBu/various automations though tasker/GPS/multi- tasking between open apps/ general scroll speed and animation speed/half a dozen or so exposed modules/ theme engine/Advanced reboot/ect.

Report: As good or better than cm11-20141107 IMHO. After initial install allowed ROM a bit of time to settle then continued to set up the phone. Gradually added in various customization I typically set my phone up with. This build handled the entire set up without any difficulties. I often use Nova Launcher as it is a light speedy, very feature filled launcher, but for this report I have only used GEL. Everything has been very fluid and quick to respond given the maturity of this phone. Really impressed by the ease and speed of multitasking between apps, settings , gmail, ect... The only stutter I sometime experience is in screen transition occasionally. This usually occurs after initially unlocking the phone. It only lasts for a moment or so and then back to normal. No problems with the play store and updating of apps. This rom is very responsive at this point.

After installing all of the usual exposed modules that I normally use, no additional strain seems to be noticed at this point with performance. Also, note that I am not using Greeenify or any other app hibernating utility. [MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION], I've been meaning to ask you how you normally set this up as I think you use it regularly.. Pretty sure you have a lot more set up on you phone though.... Just wondering if it might make a difference for me with a bit lighter load of apps.

Anyway, that's a quick update on this build. As I'm pretty knew to giving build reports any suggestion are welcome on what might be better. to include, not to include ect. This is a great place and I'm happy to see some further development for this great phone. Let me know if I can help in any way..
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=5212827]dwh2o13[/MENTION] you actually did a very good job here buddy! Took it slow, reported what you see, and that is what we need here. Performance has a LOT to do with how much stuff you allow to run on your phone at any given time, especially when you are not "doing anything with it". One way to get a rough idea is to go in Settings/Apps and slide finger to see "RUNNING" apps. There should not be many. I am checking mine now and see 8 or 9, including Settings itself which I just now opened up. I got a couple of widgets, 2 Google Play services, Dropbox, Greenify, ASOP Keyboard, and Themes. That is 9. Before tapping Greenify, I had 8. Looking at the Hibernated screen in Greenify is practically everything. I do use the pay version and check everything on the Experimental Features menu. That forces things that must sync to wake up and do it all at once instead of constantly waking apps to sync. Just get it done and over with.

There are actually quite a lot more things I can hibernate in Greenify. I do it in "chunks" so as not to have such a huge list to troubleshoot in the event something should not be hibernated. I like that Dropbox instantly puts my pictures taken on my PC. Not sure if that will happen if I Greenify it. Let's try and see. Okay, Dropbox is sleeping now. Test to see if pictures now go to PC dropbox instantly or must wait to be woken up in batch mode. Okay, picture taken. Hmmm... no notification on PC of new pictures. Let's wake Dropbox up and see. Yeah, that did it. Since Dropbox is really low on the list of things Greenify recommends you hibernate and I like the instant photo delivery, I will not greenify Dropbox.

How to add things to Greenify? Start with the + sign to add things to Greenify. It will run the app analyzer and recommend things that will slow the sytem down. Add all of them and put them to sleep. Your phone should run better and faster. Check Greenify every once in a while with the + sign to see what is recommended to hibernate. Hibernate ANY apps running that are not critical to the phone. Hibernate Facebook or better yet, use Facebook Lite. Any user apps running in Greenify add them right away unless you depend on them always running. Check the Settings/Apps/RUNNING to see what, is running and there should not be many.

That's it, really. There are a ton of other things I can Hibernate but they "behave" and do not run when not in use. The Greenify App Analyzer is pretty good at suggesting things that should be hibernated.

I think you are doing a good job. I think that Greenify can help, a LOT, especially if your running app count is high. Mine is typically 8 or so when the phone is not busy. That is GREAT man. Use common sense. If "Calculator" is not running and is very far down on the suggestion list for the Greenify App Analyzer, then it does not run unless called to task and then exits when done. NIce. Apps like this do not need hibernation. Facebook practically mandates it. Use common sense.

Great job man. Thanks for the report! :good: :highfive:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] God Terrible:
thank for last update .

what a feature new update
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Edinho376:
How do i do this? i can zip any apk file and flash in safestrap?

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how do i do this? i can zip any apk file and flash it in safestrap?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
[MENTION=5909787]Edinho376[/MENTION]

There's an add-on from TKruzze you can use.

Download Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!Uc41gRzQ!63yQ8Rw_asJihca1DKPdVf8J-nMuEqDvOVFv-eL3HIc

This post was created on a Motorola RAZR Maxx (XT910).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Edinho376:
Thanks! :good: that other site is awful to downlod... Mega is much easier!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
Actually,they work!

The last rom I've downloaded is [MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION]'s CM 12.1 and I've also downloaded md5 file for it,SS checked it and everything went fine. :)

Sent from my Razr XT910