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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I installed 8/24 nightly (and 8/18 Paranoid Android GApps stock pkg) into newly created ROM slot 1 and so far it has been performing flawlessly. So, you may need to recreate your ROM slot and do a clean install.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Ooooooohhh. I just *knew* this and SO don't want to hear it. Thanks Dwillian. The inevitable is on the way. :crying:

I really need a phone that works, on time, every time. This "tap and wait" is really getting old. Do you experience any lag at all? Even sometimes? Ever? Need to know but I will do it anyway. Thnx.

Krestian made a really good comment, "If you do not use an app for several months, then you really don't need it." Problem is, I really like all the apps I have but they and possibly some of my modules, are killing me. Clean install, basic phone, try it out and

save it

. Add only what I need and use constantly. I hope that Google Play Music does not bog things down too much. I have too many "Administrator Tools". These things can and will impact performance and with so many of them, they can conflict. [MENTION=4977351]DumbleCore[/MENTION] keeps his phone "lean and mean", I really have to learn this and learn it well. :o

...why doesn't this rom come with a "Safe Mode"? Ugh! :p
[Motorola Droid RAZR] gruev:
nandroid

I have currently stock on stock slot and CM11 on other slot. Will it be possible to do a nandroid bakckup of CM11, delete it's slot and restore the nandroid over stock slot? Am I missing something/some steps?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
If you want to move to stock it's best to start completely clean. I tried to restore mine when I moved to stock. Mine failed, but maybe something just went wrong. Either way I was relieved as I knew it would be best to start fresh.

I'm on CM11 M9, and since it's performing OK for me, I have not been updating. But now I'm a little irritated to be stuck waiting for who knows what. I was thinking this morning to create a new rom-slot to test nightlies. And I think I will create it straight after this post.

I've at least been following this thread and have downloaded (and kept) 3 nightlies after M9 (should I strike gold you know).

Generated on a RAZR Maxx (XT910) using XDA's free mobile app.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
XT912 CDMA Spyder / RAZR

I wiped and restored PA in slot 2 without recreating the slot and PA is running fine with no force close of system settings.

I normally start from scratch about once a month, back up a good running nightly then wipe the slot and do a clean install.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] yfz350:
I'm test driving the 8/24 build as of late last night so haven't had long to test yet. I haven't ran into any problems as of yet other than orange bars a couple times on the way into work but it cleared up on its own. Seems pretty quick and no black screen/wake up issues yet.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I only installed the CM 8/24 nightly and Paranoid Android stock GApps package (8/18 version). I had PA GApps remove the stock browser and remove the google camera app (since the CM stock camera has more options on our phones). I also used the PA GApps add-on that updates google play store and google play games immediately after flashing PA GApps (i.e., before wiping cache and dalvik and before rebooting for first time).

I have only used the new install for a couple hours and haven't left home to see how the network connectivity is working. So far it seems pretty snappy. It took awhile to settle down and I did have to reinstall all my apps manually for some reason.

I don't know why google didn't just automatically start reinstalling apps from the play store like it usually does. It is pretty easy to do though if you long press the first app that needs to be installed and then select all the other apps that need to be installed (from google play, my apps, all tab). In my case I installed another 40 apps from the play store so that took awhile.

I will drive around and do some testing today.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
No. Safe Stap, TWRP, and all the rest restore to the same slot they came from. There is no option that I know of to allow you to "pick where to restore to". You should probably use Titanium Backup for your apps and data, Google will put back your market stuff and contacts, make sure you have your Google account installed.

Actually, I don't think it is even possible. Every OS has launcher links and hardware UUID's assigned to the disk and partition. All of this information is deeply embedded into the OS. So "restoring to another partition", i.e.: rom slot, would be like taking your Windows hard drive and plugging it into a different SATA port on the main board. I actually did this once and man, the damage it did to Windows was brutal. There are links and references to the actual partition UUID everywhere so if you change the system location, the system no longer works. This is why you cannot restore to a different rom slot.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I thought that restore always restored to the active slot. When I do a restore (using SafeStrap) I see the backups from my other slots. If you use the default name when you make a backup they will start with something like Stock-, Slot1-, Slot2-, etc.

So, it seems to me, that you should be able to backup a slot, then make a different slot active, then restore the backup from one of the other slots. I have not tried this, but it seems like it should work. Yes?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
That could be, I have not tried it either, but, once you have the backup, one is free to try it. If it does not work, then one could always restore the backup to where it came from. But I use Linux and Android pretty much IS Linux and like I said, Windows too had a major conniption with doing that. It actually seemed to work after blue screening a few times. But things like System Restore would never work again because it uses the UUID of the partition to restore to. By me changing the disk UUID (Location) of the C drive, it just broke important system stuff, everywhere. The UUID of the installed OS no longer matched the UUID of the current partition so it was a major failure. Anything that depended on that UUID for the partition, broke and I had to reinstall Windows from scratch. Linux is like that too, it assigns a UUID to every partition and "knows" where it belongs. It would likely break something, if not ruin the OS.

But, if you have a good backup, you can always restore and if the stock slot is empty anyway or you don't care about it, give it a try. But be watchful of things not working anymore. It may not be worth the risk and if it does work, you may have to ditch it later on because too many things could break by doing this. Try it! But watch for FC's and apps not working anymore. Such as camera, when it saves photos to ExtSDCard, the app may not use the path but the UUID of the partition. It will look for "454C7EA92107B64", not find it, and crash. Things like Titanium Backup might not work either for the same reason. That is just one possibility. If it works at all, then don't think you are home free until you see this thing work for a while.

I would really like to know if anyone actually tries this. If it works, that would be really cool. But I would be really nervous for the first few weeks after doing something like that. :eek:

Good looking out, Dwillian for bringing up this point of discussion. :good:

You know something? Remember when that Safe Strap issue came up a little ways back? Where Safe Strap 3.73 was supposed to be no good because of the IPv6 address not right and to install SS 3.65 instead? I remember doing that and I install Safe Strap from stock, so I had to boot to recovery, then make stock active and boot to it to uninstall Safe Strap and reinstall it. I was in a rush and while in recovery, I decided to restore cm11 on slot 1. But, I forgot to activate slot 1. All I remember is that I totally trashed my stock slot by doing that and thankfully, had an old backup of stock to restore. Then had about 50 Google updates coming at me. LOL! :laugh:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] eazha:
sorry off topic:rolleyes:.... Guys,i'm having problem with my JB stock..last few days i'd wiped cache,data,dalvik,then directly flashed razr M launcher three circle widget....once reboot after 1st time login, Home screen not responding message popup....what should i do....wipe cache&dalvik didn't work at all.....or should i reflash stock JB rom?:what::confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
What you should really do is restore your nandroid backup. Be it Safe Strap, TWRP, or whatever you use. Restore your backup. Barring that, yes, you can dirty flash your JB stock over it and see how it goes. Wiping the data partition is not something I usually do. You will lose all the data settings for the installed apps. Not a good idea. If you have Titanium Backup installed, restore your data or apps and data. If that fails, give up, wipe the rom slot and install clean.

I bet you remember to backup that stock slot after this. It would have saved you all this trouble. ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
[MENTION=5362796]Dwillian[/MENTION] [MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION]

I have swapped slot assignments (restore a virtual slot to stock, restore a stock image to virtual) many times. It will NOT work if:

1. you have older than SafeStrap 3.7x

2. You are using any cm10 image (they were hard-wired for slot 1)

3. The image you are restoring is too big to fit any of the partitions you are restoring to

Otherwise, go nuts!

EDIT: Of course, a full wipe of everything except internal and SD is highly recommended before restoring!

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thank you Mr. Huges.

I will talk to you later, my Samsung Tablet and Razr phone are identical with cm11 builds and app/module stock. The tablet is slick as heck and the phone is ready to die. The tablet is a 1GHz device and the phone is 1.2GHz. Maybe there is something "wrong" with Razr phones. The processors are different, dual core Nvidia Tegra in the fast tablet and a Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 in the Razr. Memory and SDCard space are the same. Maybe this "Cortex" CPU is like, not really a good CPU or something? Does not make sense, they are identical with OS loadout on each device. :confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
The RAZR uses a TI OMAP4 processor, and according to Google, that is a dead processor, so they never wrote the code to run KitKat on it. Therefore, all devices running AOSP KitKat on that processor are running a hacked, WIP port of KitKat. Combined with the beloved, closed source binaries we are forced to adopt from Motorola to run our hardware without knowing exactly what they do... There's a lot of room for gremlins yet! If OEM's believed in open source, oh, what a world it would be!

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rgerrans:
I saw a few responses to you but I don't think I saw them give you the exact steps (reading quickly so hopefully not repeating info). You can't just restore the backup over a stock install, but you can replace the stock with CM11. I've done this a number of times. The easiest way that has worked bullet proof for me is:

Backup your current stock slot (just in case ;)

Backup your current CM11 slot

Wipe your stock slot & install the same build of CM over your stock slot as you have installed in your CM11 slot

Boot up to make sure everything is clean (I don't bother to go through any setup), and reboot into recovery (I haven't installed GAAPS in the past prior to first boot thought wouldn't hurt anything if you do)

In recovery, restore your CM11 slot backup over your new stock slot install of CM11

Reboot and you should be good to go. Then you can go back in recovery and delete your *old* CM11 slot to free up some memory.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
Yes, backing up stock slot first is a really good idea. I've had no issues wiping stock slot and restoring anything I desire into it PROVIDED I don't stupidly reboot the phone before restoring something! The one time I accidentally did that, I was reminded that the SafeStrap binary actually resides in the stock slot!!! Motorola logo followed by nothing but unending black screen, the logwrapper has nothing to redirect to! That required Matt's utility to restore stock, root and SafeStrap. After a restore to the stock slot, SafeStrap reinserts itself if not already there.

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] camo_hunter:
MMS not working please help. Also, my data connection quits and I have to restart frequently.

I recently installed CM11 with help from some of you. I have been unable to send receive MMS since I installed. I have a XT912 razr MAXX and I'm running CyanogenMod version: 11-20140810-NIGHTLY-spyder.

Do I have the right version for my phone? I tried reseting the APN a few times and got the MMS to work for a short duration but now I cant get it to work at all. What should I do?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
Do yourself a favor and update to 8/24. It has the updated APN for verizon, which will help solve your problems. http://www.cmxlog.com/11/spyder/
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
[MENTION=1279248]camo_hunter[/MENTION] Also check under mobile networks in settings to make sure your CDMA subscription is set correctly:

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh my, this is just dreadful! I could easily find the specs on Samsung's website for the Galaxy Tab 1 but I could find NO specs for the Droid Razr Maxx on Motorola's website at all. Yeah, they show the phone, give you all kinds of help, user and owner manuals, but NO SPECS! I went to several websites looking for it and many of them are different. But, Verizon is where I got the phone and they *do* list the specs on a totally retarded "½ page" website. The spec page is completely cut ½ off so you cannot really read them, but you can copy and paste them to really see. Dumb!

Here is the Verizon specs on the Razr Maxx CPU and this must be a new version,

we do not have a 1.7GHz CPU

!:

Memory / Processor

Processor: Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System (1.7 GHz dual–core application processor, 400 MHz quad–core GPU, natural language processor, contextual computing processor), Power/Audio Management: PM8921

4FF preinstalled SIM

Memory: 16GB internal memory (formatted capacity less)

I give up, you really cannot get "real specs" on this phone. The only way to find out is with CPU-Z for android. Lets see what is really in this tin can.

Oh, there you go! ARM Cortex-A9 CPU. Wow, this app is neat and really does not run if not checking the CPU. Awesome. Screenshot attached. I cannot take all the screenshots this mini app does, but it gives a LOT of info about the phone. The little sensor info screen is nice, shows how close you must be to activate the proximity sensor, makes a great LUX meter too!

I get so upset to see the Galaxy Tab just whizz through anything I throw at it and this phone chokes so bad that you have to "go clean" every 2 months. I have not "gone clean" like, ever, with the Tab but for the root issue. And it does not slow down, black screen, nothing like that, it "just works" all the time. The root thing made me restore a backup in an attempt to fix it. Hmmm, guess I will have to have a working phone and a cool Tablet. Just stuff I need for a phone and GPS. Maybe Google Play Music too. W/out so many apps, maybe this phone would get somewhat slick again. Thanks for the helpful answer dude. :cowboy:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
Actually, the truth is out there...

Our phones even made Wikipedia;

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Razr

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!

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Now tell me you didn't hear a spooky whistle when you read that. :D

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drewski_1:
phone arena is usually pretty good, i think.

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Motorola-DROID-RAZR_id6026
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
That is a pretty good page, Drewski. AT least they got the CPU right. Man, so many website list different specs. Might be different carriers, different locations, and different years made could explain the widespread differences in the specs. I believe CPU-Z and use their tools on my PC all the time. The latest PC Wizard is not working for me though, some file missing but the older one works. Thanks for the tip! :good:

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Wow, that Wikipedia link is good. I actually avoid Wikipedia in most web searches. Not because they are not accurate but because usually they give me "information overdose". I could look up "Mariska Hargitay" or "Berlin Wall" and instead of a fairly short page of pertinent information, I have to wade through so much text it makes me look short winded. :o

I did click on the CPU link on Wikipedia and did not get the kind of information I want. I really don't want technical information, more like I would find on a web forum where people talk about it and how it performs (Or lack thereof.) against other phone CPUs. Like is this a good CPU, bottom of the barrel, shoot me before I would use one or what. From the performance I have seen over the past couple of years, I would say "poor" and AnTuTu is quick to rub my face in that. :silly:

Moor's Law pretty much puts this CPU as pushing up daises anyway. Well, we do alright with it until better days come around. Man, I sure would like that Samsung Galaxy phone. :laugh: But then I would miss all the cool people in this thread. Can't win, but we will survive. Thanks for the good link! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] krestian:
Here's another one I frequently use:

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_razr_maxx-4417.php

Maybe not so in-depth, but lets you get a general idea and lets you run a side by side comparison between two phones.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
Yeah, I always check gsmarena first, but yes sites do not always list the same specs.

What's this about an X1? How will I get my hands on that -think this (RAZR) is about the last moto here, just not popular :cry: .

Just created 2 new ROM slots, one to test nightlies, and then another to test other roms (PA). Still sticking to M9 on my stock slot though.

Generated on a RAZR Maxx (XT910) using XDA's free mobile app.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
Hi there, was a bit out of business last days, so lean mean? What u mean with that?

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U said once u have 240+ apps installed, I'd sort them out, only left then u really need. To make u Razr faster there a lot methods, u tried init.d scripts, I have some but no idea if they are working! ? Greenify? Disabled keep awake for several system apps in privacy manager?

I said it a few times that I've down clocked the phone to 1ghz and it's acting fast, doesn't matter if PA, CM, Axxion, Slim,Gummy, PAC, Mokee.... yea I tried them all the last weeks to compare, with exactly the same setup, battery life and performance are overall the same, okay I don't care about 200+/- in antutu

Earlier I had the Razr running [MENTION=4339643]800mhz[/MENTION] on jelly bean stock and it was acting even fast with a overloaded setup....

In my opinion you should completely start over, take ur desired build, flash rom and Gapps, skip Google login at start, do this later, also I'm not syncing my contacts, I've vcf backup and restore them manually after I Flashed a rom(I've disabled sync and auto updates for playstore) , after that directly install greenify and xposed, restore only the apps u really need with tibu if u need this app or that app in one time u can always restore it , greenify everything then u dont want to run in background, I've only WhatsApp running, not more for example

I'm also deleting all visualization wallpapers, Apollo, calculator, browser bcoz I'm using my counterparts and have them all greenified too...

Then I'm downloading my hosts files for ADAway and then I reboot once and my setup is done

This is how I'm Rollin after a new flash, seems like a lot of work but I'm editing the rom zips on my computer before I'm flashing them and it took me less then an hour to get the phone like I want it

I hope this helps u a bit and Btw, probably the longest post I've ever done [emoji39]

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Decon1:
WOW! DC...take a breath :) Nice to see so much info. I'll bet many will appreciate it as I do!

===> I have been running CM11 for two days. Seems to be just fine and SMS/MMS now works, as it should, for any SMS/MMS client I try. Nice, back using 'mysms'.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
I'm running N5X now :D nice toy! Based on cm11 :P

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
Wow. Someone put some time into the calendar and desktop clock features in CM... :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] yfz350:
Upgraded to 8/25 this morning everything seemed to work pretty well for me today except still having issues with occasional orange bars. Battery life also seems much better on these later builds. I'll be flashing to 8/26 shortly.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] yfz350:
I use xposed, Nova launcher, chrome and 8sms so I keep trebuchet, browser and messaging apps frozen until I'm ready to update.

This may not be the best way but it seems to work for me. When I get ready to update to the latest nightly, I go into xposed and uninstall framework, reboot then I thaw those built-in apps. Update to latest nightly, clear cache and dalvik. After updating, reinstall xposed framework and my modules seem to be good to go without touching them. I refreeze those built-in apps I don't use and then hope for the best nightly yet.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] morr22066:
Theme problems

I finally traced my problems. I did not delete and recreate the slots in safestrap. I did wipe each slot and do fresh installs. There may have between some changes to the theme engine. Everything was working great until I applied a theme. I tried several themes and experienced different problems with different themes. One would cause system settings to force close, another would cause the phone to reboot when I tried to open some themed apps, etc...

I sent emails to the individual devs but wanted to mention it here just in case anyone else started having some strange issues with the past week of nightly builds.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
I originally posted this over in the Q&A thread, but not everyone on here goes there... So, for all the XT912 owners who have needed/will need Matt's excellent utility:

Well, I kinda pinned myself to the wall by saying I was going to do this; so here we go...

This is a simple update to a great utility most of us know and love, no credit belongs to me, all glory goes to:

Matt Groff (mattlgroff) - this utility!

Dan Rosenberg (djrbliss) - RAZR Blade root exploit

Michael Scott (Hashcode) - SafeStrap

For the incredible help they have been to all of us!

All I have done is:

1. Replace both the phone firmware and SafeStrap with the most up-to-date versions.

2. Address an issue where the phone does not mount partitions quickly enough, causing the root exploit to fail.

I hope this saves a little time when everything falls apart on you, or if you just need a clean start!

Here it is in my dropbox, md5 is included.

*Link Deleted* Please go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2861798

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
You might create a new thread in the development forum so that this doesn't just get buried.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
I had thought about that, but I didn't want to look like I was hijacking anything... Also, I would need someplace to host before too many people might want it! Any suggestions?

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!

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It does look as though Matt's thread is near dead, and he has moved on...

-Brian

Sent from my continually born again RAZR MAXX!