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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Good man. Here is some help. The first is a really good guide from XDA. The second another how to guide, very comprehensive with plenty of pictures. The third is the "Mac Daddy" of help, the Titanium Track knowledge base, but you have to dig for the help you need. Try the guides first, I will also give you the Google Search Link for more hits on help. Do, it. Learn it. You will grow to depend on it.

XDA Guide

How To Use Titanium Backup For Android [Complete Guide]

Titanium Backup KB

Google Help Search

This will help a lot. Good luck my friend. Oh, and bookmark these sites or save the pages as a pdf file if you have the Acrobat Plugin for it. :cool:

Update:

Alright, I feel compelled to help you and others more with some tricks I know over the years. When you find a really good guide for something like Titanium Backup, you would like to save that as a file you can read at any time, yes? PDF makes a perfect way to save long web pages with pictures that you can read anytime with Acrobat Reader Free. There are several ways to save a web page as a pdf file. One way is to use a free plugin called Fireshot for Firefox, IE, or Chrome. Your choice. It is free, install it, use it. It also saves pages as images too if you want. You can save the visible area or the entire page, however long it is. I will attache a screenshot of it in action for you to see how it works. Link for Firefox below, Google Fireshot for IE or Chrome if that is what you want. This is "Da Bomb" man. Make and keep your own guides this way. And do not waste money on the Pro version. Free is all you need!

Get Fireshot Plugin For Firefox
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
That's true. It still works, but the loading of icons in the play market is typically slower. Also, you have to force gmail to get mail, it wont notify you that you have a new message. Next time it is orange, switch to airplane mode and back. The bars will turn white, and then any messages that you have will show up. If you dont have new messages, try sending yourself one when it is orange and you will see what we mean.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
That was a really good answer. I myself could not wrap my brain around exactly what is wrong with the orange bar thing and shrugged it off, since I did not suffer from it in any noticeable way. I know Google stays connected to the phone at all times and cannot do it. Voice typing often stops because "Cannot connect to Google servers". So what you guys are saying is true, just did not know how it would manifest itself. Good explanation. You get praise! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] chinkster:
You're right. I noticed it a lot more after I read this lol.

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Where can I find the 2/26 or 2/28 nightly since some people say they have no problems with those nightlies at all?? I don't see them on the official cyanogenmod site anymore...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] droidnux:
Do I need flash gsm patch to use gsm/wcdma network in my xt912
[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
Camera suddenly keeps force closing.

Was on 08/03 nightly. updated to 15/03 and still fcing..

Wiped cache and dalvik. must I do a wipe and then flash from scratch?

EDIT: only had 12mb internal storage available. Deleted some unneeded files and it's working again.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
A lot of people here know more than me. You are bound to get a more detailed answer. But it really depends on how long ago your installed cm11 clean. As in total wipe, fresh install of cm1 and gapps. No patches, kernels, helpers, anything. I can tell of my own experience. I love cm11, best thing I ever saw. But it started out pretty rocky. Patches for wifi, patches for camera, jbx kernel to make it work. Within the past, I guess, two months, all that "went away". Updating on top of those old builds caused every conceivable problem at random. Sometimes okay, other times black screens, lockups, camera loss, signal loss, you name it. There is no way to get unnecessary patches and bad builds out, once they have been installed. Only thing one can do is use a recent clean backup or go clean again.

The only fix was to go completely clean. Total wipe, install again on slot 1, cm11 recent and pa-gapps only. No more problems. Even within the past two months, big changes have occurred in cm11. I probably have to go clean again. I do not like it but am in no rush as everything works for now.

Bottom line: if your clean install is old, yeah you gotta go clean. If not old, restore your backup from Safe Strap

(You did make some, right?)

and try again. Not every build of cm11 has been good. We had a few bad ones slip in. Tell us how old your CLEAN install is so that others who know more than me can help you further. You will likely get more precise answers by tomorrow, we have some really good brains in here. But knowing how old your fresh install is, cm11 and gapps only, would help.

Good luck! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] makler1981:
Yes you definitely do!

By the way, I recently haven't applied GSM patch and my xt912 has GSM but no SMS.... after applying the fix everything works like a charm ))
[Motorola Droid RAZR] droidnux:
can you show me the fix patch source or link :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] makler1981:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2369930
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Noe!:
So today's build allows the option of enabling the navigation bar, and disabling hardware keys. Now, to the people that installed today's build, how do you even do that? I can't seem to find an option to do so.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dkahs23:
Has the video can always failed. It takes video but when you stop it fc. Then when you look at the video you took it says unable to playback.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Noe!:
Camera force closes on startup on lastest build (3/16)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dkahs23:
I just dirty flashed the latest and the camera works as well as the video camera. ??????
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
I have the same problem on 3/14. I even moved it to my computer and it still wont play. :eek: My daugther is disappointed because it was her musical... :( That's what I get for living on the edge with you guys... :o
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Noe!:
I did a clean install.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drewski_1:
would be great to have Nav Bar in ROM. it's something I like in other ROMs like Gummy and am currently enabling Nav Bar in CM11 using Gravity Box
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Noe!:
Likewise. Except since CM11 wasn't working properly, I switched to PA and everything is good.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] control187:
For folks using the Nav Bar, why do you prefer over hard keys?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dkahs23:
Yeah, I just wiped mine and did a clean install and it force closes.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jmaclean62:
Most stable nightly CM or other ROM ??

I need to do a clean install on my daughters Razr Maxx Verizon cause her MMS and signal strength keeps getting messed up every few days. Which nightly would any of you suggest that seems to work the best. She doesn't need the latest greatest, just one that will work solid. It could even be a different ROM than CM. She won't really care I don't think. She does like having a hotspot. that is her only stipulation.

Thanks for you suggestions.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zero66:
I like liquid smooth
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I DO NOT update every day for this very reason. The rom is in a constant state of flux. There will be good builds and there will be bad ones. The last stable rom I installed was 03/14. The night before, 03/13 (Maybe it was the thirteen thing?) was a BAD rom, it would not boot. I read about it here before I would update at all and skipped that rom and waited for good reports again to update. Anything a week before, up to 03/12 are good and stable, providing you install pa-gapps (mini-modular is very popular, my choice.) and cm11 ONLY. You cannot flash on top of old installs, at least not very old ones. 2-3 months ago, cm11 could not stand on it's one two legs and required WiFi patch, camera patch, and jbx kernel. Flashing on anything like this will cause an unstable system.but cm11 03/14, and 03/12 and a week prior are good roms. I can tell you this from personal experience and if you go back through the messages to see how things were at that time. I don't flash any updates anymore until someone else does first and reports on it.

People are good here. Many will wipe their phones almost every night to try and report on new builds. If you want to see the downloads, they are here:

Browse Files for Motorola Droid Razr - spyder

Recommended:

03/14, 03/12 and 03/08 and doesn't seem much else I would say are okay on the download page, but for version 10.x.

The M4 Snapshot (Requires a completely clean installation of cm11 and pa-gapps ONLY) Do not update this build with NIGHTLIES!

I don't know about the M4 but all of these have very good working hotspots. (WiFi AP)

I think 03/12 and 03/08 were better but it might be just me. This build (03/14) is good, but Go SMS messages "jumps a bit" on the screen when I send a message. A clean install might fix this. Nothing else bad to report. Did not have this issue prior to 03/14.

I cannot tell you about other roms like liquid and carbon, although there are plenty of reports on them in this thread, you can use search to find them. What I told you works fine on an XT912 phone, as long as you have a clean install or a recently installed, working fine, clean install to flash up over. HTH :good:

UPDATE 1:

Video camera is FC and wonky on 03/14. Reverting to earlier release on backup. Now on 03/09, the camera and everything else is good! :laugh:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dbolton:
3/14 has been rock solid. Awesome guys and Gals
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sharks58:
Background: I run 10.1.3 as daily driver and I do experience the random GPS/sound issues that are fixed with a reboot. It's really not that bad though, with maybe 1 out of 10 reboots resulting in the problem. That's not pertinent to this thread though.

Report: I've been installing these CM11 Nightlies on the side, installing the reported good builds only. Last night, I decided to install the 03/15 nightly instead of the reportedly good 03/14 (Dirty flashed over 03/06, which was dirty flashed over 03/01). Video recording does fail on 1080, 720, and 480 (all) modes. Picture taking (camera mode) and tapping on the screen while recording video did work fine.

Question: Confirmation 03/14 has working camera and video recording please?

Verizon XT912
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drewski_1:
Not sure about 3/14, but 3/16 fixed the issue with video recording
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
That is the build I am on and not that happy with it. I thought the video camera was okay but just tested for you. It seemed to work but was sort of wonky. It did FC on me and go blackscreen. I have backups and will revert to something earlier to update this report. This I do not need.

UPDATE:

Back to 03/09. Camera and everything else is perfect so far! :laugh:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jmaclean62:
Anybody other than Ohmster running 3/12 and find it really stable? No MMS, signal loss issues?

Just don't want my daughter to get too frustrated. I get one shot and then it will be back to Stock if it goes bad.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
I can confirm that 3/16 fixes video recording also, but now MMS dont want to send again... I am hoping that this commit will fix it in tomorrow's build: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/61210/

Also, is anyone else missing group text now?

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I had a tough time getting MMS working on 3/12. It works just fine on 3/14. But then I had a problem with video recording. Let's hope 3/17 works out the kinks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jmaclean62:
my2cents...That is exactly what I am talking about. This has been going on for months. I had a good install back in January before i gave the phone to my daughter, but it seems like there is always a glitch, even with the M versions. How much longer will it be before there is a stable version that will just work?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] chinkster:
3/15 running great. haven't tried video recording yet tho...

EDIT: just tried the video camera and it did force close at the end
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I ditched 03/12 and reverted to 03/09. Someone wanted to know about the video camera so I did a test on it. No good. Wonky at best, FC, blackscreen, no usable videos recorded. Also, I froze standard MMS and use Go SMS Pro. It does work every time, but I get this "jumpy screen" every time I send a text. Like something is wrong, but it does work every time with Go SMS Pro Free. So, I used a backup to revert. I was really happy with 03/09, things got a little ratty around 03/12, for sure 03/13, and 03/14. I am staying away from it until I get good update reports again.

09 is really sweet. It is not like I cannot make up my mind, I am doing test to confirm or deny suspicions of camera, SMS, or whatever you ask if I have the build loaded at the time. These are my reports.

jmaclean62: If you want a rom that is overall good for your daughter, 03/09 is it. I cannot find anything wrong with it, never had, but will dig if you have requests. I do not use built in text, Go SMS Pro Free is like a candy store of SMS/MMS. You can theme it, send audio messages, videos, pictures, block people, anything you want and it is free. Been using it for years. If you request it, I can unfreeze stock text but you cannot send pictures and stuff in it, so far as I know, unless it is an MMS app.

UPDATE:

Awe crap! I see that 03/09 is not on the download page. I got mine OTA, however the rom is still on my phone, copying to PC as we speak. If you cannot find it, even on the OTA downloads, I can make it available upon request.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Meneldur:
Same here, using both stock and MotoX camera apps.

Meneldur @ TF700t
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jmaclean62:
Does SMS pro free have quick reply? Turns out that my daughter likes that feature of stock. If so, I may try the 3/9 build with SMS pro. Perhaps it will work fine with what she is running right now.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Noe!:
Why don't you try HoverChat? It's essentially Facebook Chat Heads but for text messages and MMS. It works really well for me.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
I was able to get MMS working with a dalvik, cache, and android secure wipe. Everything seems ok on 3/16 now, except when I group text the messages come in individual threads and I can't find the setting to make them come together... It is possible that I am just stuipid though! :p
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
There's a group messaging option in settings of the stock messaging app. Guess it depends on what your using.

DROID RAZR MAXX CM 11 JBX KERNEL
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
First one at the top

DROID RAZR MAXX CM 11 JBX KERNEL
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
See, I knew it WAS there. Its not there in 3/16...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Meneldur:
Textra and Chomp have it.

Meneldur @ XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Must be getting tinkered with

DROID RAZR MAXX CM 11 JBX KERNEL
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
my2cents I am running 3/17 from today and have it so if it wasn't in 3/16 its back lol

DROID RAZR MAXX CM 11 JBX KERNEL
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I don't know exactly what that is so I had to look that up. Apparently, it is a frequently asked question. Yes, Go SMS Pro does have popup windows for chat. So far as having them through the lock screen, many say yes. Might depend on the phone or require root. It has been discussed on XDA, have a look:

Go SMS Pro: How can I have popups on lock screen?

The Google Search is more enlightening on the subject.

HTH
[Motorola Droid RAZR] SimpTheChimp:
With previous versions of CM 11, you couldn't move an app to your SD card (i.e. App2SD) - if you did, the next reboot would some how remove the app.

Does anyone know if this has been fixed yet? I would like to move a few of my larger apps to SD in order to free up some internal storage.

-Tom
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
My Verizon app still has problems logging in (it wont remember my info). Anyone know of a fix for this? I tried the fix a few pages back, but it didn't help.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Noe!:
I believe it is fixed. (I assume the same problem persisted when downloading apps that go on the SD card.) But, it is fixed most likely.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
The option shows up on mine, under Apps in settings. See screenshots.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tydiamond11:
I have had that problem for ever lol on every rom I wish someone could fix it. Thanks

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that may work I will test. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I don't know it it is relevant, but the red gear icon represents the xframework module, AppOpsExposed.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Aximander:
Anyone using the latest build?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/89718-iccid-unknown/ Check the first post. It should fix your problem with the Verizon app. The MMS is no longer affected however the widget does not work you still have to use the main app to get access to Verizon which updates the widget for you. I too look forward to a real fix.

I'm flashing the latest build 3-18 right now.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Aximander:
Let us know how it goes

Sent by my Razr, from the mothership
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
I got force closes on the first boot cLock and systemui (dirty flash with cyandelta) but I rebooted and it automatically optimized 9 apps again after optimizing ~125 the first time and now it is all good at least so far I will let you know if I run into any problems.

Edit: everything looks good so far.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] snowcraig:
So can anyone comment on how M4 is working?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
People in here mostly do nightly and experimental builds to keep up with the cm11 development. M builds, or snapshots are typically the first "stable" builds that developers at CM will take bug reports on. They might lack features that are available in nighties but are said to be stable, and get better with each new snapshot. They usually require a clean install and then leave it alone until the next one, then go clean again.

For answers about snapshots and CM11 in general, go to the root of the tree, the CM forums, sign in, read, post your questions in the appropriate forum. They list every kind of phone and where things are at for the snapshots. There are communities for every device and topic.

CyanogenMod Forum

That is "The Official Channel" for cm11 or ALL CM Stable Builds.

You might get some answers here, but that is where you will find most of them for the M builds. CyanogenMod Forum also answers nightly build questions, but you get more real help here with that. People here want the newest, fastest, best builds there are, with more features and are happy to test them out. Disappointment and setbacks are part of the NIGHTLIES process. Many developers come here to find out how the builds are coming along. Some are quiet and do not post, others take a more active role and will work on an issue that is troubling the current build. They provide answers, and especially want LOGS of the event, if possible. I never update "just because there is a new build". People here are dedicated and will report each new build, if it is solid, what is broken, etc. So you can avoid bad builds just by paying attention to the chatter in this forum with regards to nightly builds. It took me quite a while to learn all this, just hope to share my experience with the newbies. HTH :good:

UPDATE:

Don't get your hopes too high for CyanogenMod Forums. I just checked Razr Nightlies and hardly any real answers at all. Mostly "Me too" when someone has a problem. The issue of 03/13 not booting was discussed, a bunch of "me too" replies, someone finally told them to wipe the slot, restore with 03/12 and install pa-gapps. So I went to the "RC/M/STABLE" forums. I found your question:

M4 Reviews

The replies are pitiful. No one has sincerely answered the question. Makes sense. The developers are "developing" and what is left is a huge playground of people, wondering when the recess bell will ring. The post before that one answers it a little better, same issues we have but we are farther along then them.

03/08 M Snapshot

The last URL posted should answer your question. Gosh, I am surprised at how bad they are over there compared to us with helping each other. <shrug>
[Motorola Droid RAZR] emilakd:
the application "so android" consumes a lot of battery.

any solution?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I do not find that to be true. It is comparable to Verizon Stock Blur OS that you get with any Verizon phone. I charge mine when I go to bed and it will last all day, unless I have the screen lit all day and make a LOT of calls. It does not run out, but if used heavy, a spot on the car charger may be necessary, no different than stock.

Actually, there are many tweaks available to Android to improve battery life. Some can be found in the Xposed modules, some with custom kernels. All of which is above the topic of this conversation. This is to "improve normal battery life", not "Cure a very bad one". Typically I spend 1-3 hours on the phone a day, and light the screen to play with other things for another 2 hours. Often not that much. On a dark screen, the charge should last for days if you do not use the phone much or at all, just have it on.

So what is your typical battery life that is so bad? Hours to dead? Hours making calls? Hour of screen lit?

Voice calls and back light lit consume the most battery power on the phone, with voice calls at the top of list, this is why I ask.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] emilakd:
Screen 3hs spends 30%

"so android" spends 35%