[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Few more April stable builds on the way.

Hey guys,

Yes, another dammed book to read. 's alright. Come back when you have time to read it and possibly help us with our project to save the phones until the builds bet better again and either the theme engine works or it is removed as a "dog" and put back near finish, if there is time for it.

Reverting to an earlier build is not a "magic bullet".

Emil, [MENTION=5685307]ef141[/MENTION] the systems engineer has tons of recent roms to contribute to the cause so that myself and anyone who wants it, will have an earlier April build so they can have a 24/7 usable phone while work is being done on the Theme Engine and all of the terrible, deeply embedded bugs are dug out of the build, one by one, by different members of the cm11 Droid team. I was on 05/01, was not thrilled with "old" but actually "new" bugs were coming back that were deal breakers. Easter Sunday or close to it, April 20, is when the theme engine was introduced into the build. It did not cause problems in April because it was essentially castrated and could not do much. Remember seeing "Themes" for the first time in cm11? One Settings button for Themes and all you had in there was a not so appealing wallpaper.

So, even though late April did have the theme engine present, it caused no real issues until May when the theme developer decided to go for the next step, include theme elements for all parts of the phone including wallpaper, sound schemes, animation difference choices, nav and status bar changes and it is all active, working the phone day and night to comply with the selected theme. Problem with that approach is now you need help and cooperation from the UI dev, the filesystem dev, the database dev, the radio/signal/communications dev, and an entire slew of other developers to make it run fast and still reliable. In April, my most serious problems were orange bars that really did not hurt the phone and apps, and more frequent signal drops. Yes, I still have these problems, but I can live with them. Getting a phone call while the phone is sleeping, buttons light, but screen will not wake up results in a lost call. GPS is navigating through unfamiliar territory and the phone locks up tight, force power down by holding Power and Vol Down will force the phone to completely shut down, graceful or otherwise.'

My 04/19 build works very well. Never lose a call again. Never have to force the phone to drop all power, but the irritating orange bar issue is still there, intermittently. I still see my signal fade to zero and then come back up as I drive around a bit. Still, it beats missing a call from Social Security to inform me that certain medications will not be freely available for the next couple of months, please make other arrangements. The rest of the issues will I can live with or work around.

April 19th, day before Easter Sunday. Build 04/09

Issues:

Signal strength fades very low at times.

Orange Bar icons for provider Notification turning orange quite often. Phone and Google sitll work well.

And that is all I can remember for me on this build. I have been using it for the past couple of days.

Later April builds are still okay.

Even though the theme engine was incorporated, it stayed dormant for a good two weeks before the theme developer decided to activate some of the theme engine possibilities. Once these new theme mods penetrated and modified the behavior of things like UI, wallpaper management, window management, sound schemes, the new problems got severe. So, April 28th might work quite well for you. Or 04/19. I will give you several April builds to pick from and Emil and I are working to only offer known good builds or at least that we can remember.

We all have experience with orange bars, low signal, and in some builds, APN loss. Jake was a really decent guy and came up with Jake's 10 point guide to fix the APN issues that should work, in the event you need it. So by all means, use it, ONLY if you have to.

Note: Some people are calling this APN fix a "cure all" or "orange bar fix". It is not or was not put together to solve orange icons (Loss of constant signal to Google servers). However, it does seem to get the phone on the right track for those that need it and you may very well get your solid signal icons back. Not guaranteed, but it could happen.

That's it, folks. Can any of you report on reverting to an April build helped solve any deal breaker issues you were having in the May builds please? That would help a lot, I do not want to "overdo this" as it is to be a temporary work around until the new builds become stable again. Let's chip in and give each other what they need to get past this. If you did this, it worked or not, report it and I will try to help you myself, or enlist some of my friends that certainly can help you get a stable 24/7 phone that works slick as snot, until it is no longer necessary. Thank you all for your concentrated efforts, we, I, stargo, or you could not do this without everyone participating, and this means you.

Also tip off the rest of the group when you do find a May build that does not "bring down the phone" several times a day. Goodnight and thanks for all of your help. :cowboy:

Goodnight guys and thanks to Emil, [MENTION=5685307]ef141[/MENTION] for pitching in saved earlier builds. :fingers-crossed: