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[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
[MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION] An extremely basic reason why SafeStrap cannot be used without a "stock slot install" is that, since we have a locked boatloader, we cannot actually replace the built in recovery. Instead, SafeStrap "hijacks" the boot process by a means too complicated to get into here, and redirects to the actual SafeStrap binary, which is actually in the system partition on the stock slot! (boot to stock and go look, it's there!) This is why you never want to reboot to anything from SafeStrap unless you have a working stock install, even if it's not OEM stock.

Whenever you install or restore a ROM to stock slot, SafeStrap looks to see if it's already there, and if not, it injects itself. Never reboot without a "successful" message, or you'll be fastbooting again.

- Brian

"But Cap'n, I'm no' a miracle worker! ...Ach, I'll try laddie, I'll try." - Montgomery Scott

All-In-One XT912 Utility to:

Reflash Stock ROM/Root Stock ROM/Install SafeStrap

UPDATED!​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh yeah, you are friends with Hashcode so you would know more about this from the horse's mouth than any of us. For me, it was trial and error. But good looking out, you get Thanks and all that, bra! :good:

Hold on there pardner, I got a question to ask. I like the "boot to stock and go look" explanation, that is something I can do and makes a lot of sense. I actually did go look, oh gosh, no screenshot option in stock rom, and right there in the root directory were .safestrapped (Zero byte file, not even a link!) and ss.config, which is text and I can read it. Interesting file to read. It actually defines the partitions as mmcblk items, which in any 'nix system, is a device. Really cool to read but enough of that. (OMG, my stock rom is barren, I have to fix this up. Notification Toggle app is a "must" in stock.) Here is where I got the problem.

My issue is that at first run of Safe Strap, I did backup my stock rom, immediately. And, while there, restored a cm11 backup to slot1, modifying the partition sizes as we discussed previously. When I was done, I did not necessarily want to boot to stock, but I for sure wanted to have a look at the partition information on stock slot and to see if any adjustments were possible. No adjustments, of course, but I had all ZEROs for all three partitions! Shocking. So of course I will now boot to stock to see what this is all about and sure enough, I got the "Hold on there buddy, you got no OS installed for stock, are you sure you want to do this?" message with a slide lock to make sure you know what you are doing.

Yeah that scared the daylights out of me and I explored every option I had while still in a running environment, albeit Safe Strap recovery. And not a damned thing would work. Could not restore stock backup image, could not flash anything to stock, I was totally helpless and for lack of anything else to do, I ignored the Safe Strap warning, slid the unlock and attempted to boot to a non-existent stock rom slot. Of course my device booted to stock just fine, but yeah, I had to proceed without a "successful" message and I did not have to fastboot to fix it. Not saying you are wrong and I would not believe it w/out seeing it, but yes, that is exactly what happened. And I had no screenshot option or you know I would have grabbed that screen to show it.

So, "'splain that, Lucy!"

...Just kidding, but what do you make of it, Bri? :confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
Screen shot in stock (or anything past GB = volume down+power. In SafeStrap, sorry, no screenshot.

When SafeStrap doesn't report partition use correctly, try going to "backup" and "refresh sizes". That will usually fix it...

- Brian

"But Cap'n, I'm no' a miracle worker! ...Ach, I'll try laddie, I'll try." - Montgomery Scott

All-In-One XT912 Utility to:

Reflash Stock ROM/Root Stock ROM/Install SafeStrap

UPDATED!​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drewski_1:
there are more safestrap files in:

/system/etc/safestrap
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
Recently CM11 has been locking up on me and becoming 100% unresponsive. I have decided to go back to stock as I have gotten sick of holding the power button for 10 seconds and waiting for a reboot. Can anyone confirm this problem? I have been having it for about a week or longer. My phone runs great with the stock ROM. No lock ups and no forced reboots.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] brkahughes:
I saw a lot of this on the recent nightlies, 9/10 was good and 9/21 seems to be even better. Are you running straight cm11? No JBX or other mods?

[MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION], even running Greenify, stock still likes to bog down on me anymore... I don't have much for apps on it, and it still seems slow compared to KitKat! Dolphin Browser, of course; although I keep Firefox around for those sites like crackflasher that just don't play well with Dolphin.

On another note, if anyone on VZW stock 98.72.165 would like a working 1% battery hack or init.d support, I could put together either a tutorial or flashable; I figured that out the last time I nuked my phone and ran stock for a little while. It enables 1% precision, but doesn't change the battery icon, you can see it in battery stats and elsewhere though. If you want 1% icon, use Xposed Framework. The init.d support let's you tweak the system if you know how.

The reason the 'old' hacks don't work is because, among other things, the Spring OTA patched system_UI.

- Brian

"But Cap'n, I'm no' a miracle worker! ...Ach, I'll try laddie, I'll try." - Montgomery Scott

All-In-One XT912 Utility to:

Reflash Stock ROM/Root Stock ROM/Install SafeStrap

UPDATED!​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
Switch to AOSPAL, Paranoid Android 4.6 Beta 2! (newest version) CM11 has always been a laggy mess.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Majkus_:
[XT910] Screen (?phone?) freezing

Hey guys,

I've got a little problem. My Razr randomly freezes. No matter what I'm doing, just in the middle of something. The only way out of the "freeze" is a hard restart. But what really concerns me is the fact, that it also happens in the Safestrap (it might be HW, not SW releated, i know, but don't even think about it)... Does anyone else occour similar problem?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I'm currently on the M9 , will try to upgrade to M10 to see what happen.

Majkus_
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Crumplet:
So what this roms progress? Is it actually use able as a daily driver yet?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
I was having this exact same issue and just figured out what was causing it this morning. I was using Google Now Launcher. I switched back to stock for a couple of days and then when I went ahead and installed Google Now Launcher the phone froze instantly after being fine for 2 days. So I rebooted removed Google Now Launcher and it was back to being stable. I am now back on CM11 with no issues yet after disabling Google Now Launcher. My question is though is what is the real issue? I have been using Google Now Launcher since it came out and only recently (the past 2 weeks) have I been having the random lock up issues. I'm sure that it is an update to Google Now Launcher that is causing it so I guess that we just wait till they release another update and hopefully that will fix the issues.

Note: This is NOT a CM issue and 9-24 is just as stable as 9-21 incase anyone cares. I'm going to test todays build too and try to report back. Also I'm going to flash a newer Gapps too and see if that helps any.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Majkus_:
Oh, thanks for the reply.

I deleted the Google Now launcher and since that it works alright. Still, i ran Catlog, just for sure, if the freeze will happen again.

Thanks once again man ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rgerrans:
I was having some audio issues on 09/21, would loose audio out randomly but figured out that it was caused by bluetooth yesterday since disconnecting and reconnecting to my car which brought back my audio. Saw there were some audio and bluetooth fixes in the latest couple of builds so jumped up to 09/25 last night. 1/2 day in and it seems to be running solid. Saw one short orange bar earlier while connecting to Google Maps but it went away immediately and I had no problem pulling in the search results and getting back to white w/o having to do an airplane disconnect/reconnect. No audio issues so far, so keeping my fingers crossed there. Battery is running in the normal ~4% per hour range that seems to be the best I can get on CM11. And overall phone is getting snappy again after the lags earlier in the month.

I was starting to think about jumping to the new X or Turbo but might hold out longer if things keep improving on the current trajectory (especially since it seems we might have finally got past the orange icons.....)

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09/21 and later seem to be pretty solid. Was on 09/21 for a couple of days with minimal issues and running 09/25 now and haven't yet had any issues at all with it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah, as long as you pick a release that is confirmed stable. So far we have 09/10 and 09/21. 09/25 is being tested by rgerrans now, initial reports are good but for the long term, votes are not in yet. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Mr-Glass:
Thanks for the update on the good builds Ohmster - The Razr has been a little neglected lately - not finding playtime... Thought about selling the XT912 awhile back, but must admit I still love this phone for some reason.... Awesome for my VOIP use still...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
I'm on 9/25 also. Seems OK to me. I just figured out that I can install a high quality Google Now voice, so I've been messing with that. It's pretty good. :good: I know, I'm behind the times!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
Does anyone else hava an error when trying to send an MMS with hangouts? "The destination address is not valid." I'm on 9-25-14 now. Will update to 9-27 when my battery charges. I have had this error with CM for a couple of days. 9-24 was doing it too and I think 9-21 iirc.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xperia-alvis:
Well... Can someone confirm whether the headset mic works?:crying:

Coz it's working in stock, but seems not working here... I'm on 9-21.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
You are very welcome, Mr. Glass. Build reports have always been a well respected resource around here. Getting members to participate can take some prodding, but we have good people here. All they really need is some appreciation for their efforts, tap Thanks, say thanks, and they will give what we all need. I hear 09/25 has a new Google Voice. To me, that is interesting and I just backed up my current 09/21 as being very good and stable. So I will install and verify the reports of 09/25 as good or not. Thanks for all the help you have given to me. That is something I do appreicat! :D

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Well if your phone is an XP912, yes it does. I use Bluetooth headsets, one for phone talking and another in the car that allows hands free operation. Both work very well and the car audio is superb. ;)

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Hey 2¢, I just backed up my solid 09/21 rom as being really solid and want to try this 09/25 build. Tell me more about this "HQ Google Voice". Where did you find it? Is it built in or did you download an app, if so where? :fingers-crossed:

Is this it? New high-quality voices in Google TTS

I always use the pay version of SVOX UX Victoria. Now it is free? :confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
Yeah Omhster, that is it! The example doesn't sound that much different but when you ask Google about different things you can begin to notice the difference. I think it will work on 9/21 just fine too. I don't believe it is that new, I just finally started playing around with it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
9-27 is a good build MMS works fine. I tested it by sending a picture to myself.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] my2cents:
I agree. I installed 9/27 late last night. So far so good. The only problem that I had is that I was getting a google services FC. I traced it back to an xposed module. The one about allowing location consent. After I turned that off, the problem is gone and everything is pretty fluid.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thin rom for XT912?

I am trying to run my roms a little "thinner" than previously and it looks like I have a couple of gigs free on internal storage to maybe try another rom. But is has to be a "light rom" that does not require 3 or more gigs to install and run. Can any of you recommend a good, fast, slick, functional rom that does not take a lot of space that you like and actually use?

What do we have?

SlimKat

SlimRoms

ParanoidAndroid

LiquidSmooth

Anything else that I overlooked?

I would like to have something besides my stock rom to revert to in the event I have cm11 problems and need a basic fast OS with basic phone and GPS available to switch over to. It seems that even the stock JB rom is rather bloated and Jellybean itself bogs down quite rapidly. I will go into stock and try to remove all the bloat that I can, but I still want something fast and thin that I can try. Can anyone tell me from experience what is good and what is good/wrong with it? Thanks guys! :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Decon1:
I would certainly add AOSB & Gummy and AOSB. Gummy's Thread says 4.4.2 but it is FULLY 4.4.4 with almost every night updates. Very mature ROM. How could anyone not include AXXION 1.6.0? Nothing sleeker and faster than this and with almost full options.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Alright, this looks nice, IF I have the correct URL to the rom you are suggesting. Can you confirm please? Is this it? Can I fit this on my available slot space? I have just a little over 3Gb left to create another slot. I just created slot2 and deleted it, looking at LiquidSmooth and finding out it will ONLY install on slot3. I do not much care for the "pie finger swiping" if that is how this rom works. Interested in something different as JB stock is really sluggish and I really cannot trim it much more. Thanks! :good:

[ROM][GSM/CDMA][OFFICIAL][4.4.2] Gummy v2.1

This is unsettling unless I am on the wrong URL:

Whats not working...

*Maybe* 3G isn't work in Spyder

Wifi Tethering

I really need 4G AND WiFi AP.

P.S.

Gotta love this new, light footprint Xposed Module, CPUFreq in Statusbar. I see my device just purring at rest, nice green 300MHz most of the time, no sluggish performance. Nowhere near as bad as things were until I did the completely clean install and did not go nuts installing everything. Current build 09/27. CPU Governor set to ONDEMAND in Settings/Performance "Set on boot" box checked. You can see the 300M in green in my status bar. I never had cm11 run this well before. For more information on CPU Governor and I/O Scheduler, see this web page. I am not an expert on these system settings but I am learning to use them with the interface provided in the cm11 rom, without using Trickster or anything else to adjust them. Gotta love this light system stats notice. :)

[IMG="CPUFreq in Statusbar"]http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/image/2014-09-27 23.23.48.jpg[/IMG]​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
I would definitely recommend Paranoid Android! It is so smooth and responsive. Also, it is quite bugless, with some Android "L" looks.(optional)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Decon1:
Both of the below ROMs run in a 3 Gb slot, no worries

Here's where to download Gummy 4.4.4: http://androidhosting.org/Gummy/spyder/NIGHTLY/ I know of nothing that doesn't work in Gummy. As I said it's a shame the Thread can't be changed to say 4.4.4 instead of 4.4.2. IMHO, Gummy is the most complete of all ROMs. No you don't need to use PIE, I don't. MMS works out-of-the-box

Here's where to download AXXION 1.6.0: http://hosting.crackflasher.com/?dir=./Devs/AxxionKat/builds/Motorola/Spyder - UMTS AXXION is very complete You do need the APN_Fix for MMS. The status Bar does disappear on occasion but it comes back. They will fix that in the next release. I have no need for Xposed modules in AXXION but obviously you may have a preference that requires it. Battery life is excellent.

Added: I am Verizon and run CDMA+LTE/EVDO then Home Only and RUIM/SIM I always freeze CellBrodcasts.apk using Titanium BackUp. No orange bars in Gummy or AXXION with these settings.

Edit: Yeah, ya know Bobcus Leper is right. Go with PA and build it back to what you want with Xposed. You'll be happy. Signal strength is tops as is battery. Go with 4.6 Beta 2. Download link: http://aospal.hostingsharedbox.com/aospal/roms/spyder/

Thanks Bobcus!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sherri:
I have AOKP in slot 1, and Liquid Smooth in slots 2 & 3 (Different nightlies...) Works beautifully.

Gummy was gorgeous and would be my choice, except I couldn't get tethering to work. Tablet and my friends iPhone "saw" AndroidAP, AndroidAP "looked" like it was on, but nothing connected. 3rd party apps didn't work either.

Axxion had unbelievable battery life, but led didn't work as needed.

Look at the forums here for Android Razr/Maxx Development. Quite a few ROMs available for this phone.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Awesome! Thank you very much, [MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION], [MENTION=3302486]Decon1[/MENTION]m and [MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION]. I was able to save all of your posts to a single, clickable pdf file so that I can use it to find the rom I want to try out and can then have at least *something* better than stock JB to revert to in an emergency.

[MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION], I did see the warning about WiFi, tethering in, and even LTE in Gummy and those are crucial items. Gummy gets ruled out, for sure. Thanks for the confirmation!

Thanks Guys! :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Decon1:
Yes, sherri had problems...I am unsure why as mine worked perfectly. Tethered to a laptop and wireless to wife's iPad2.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=3302486]Decon1[/MENTION], good looking out on the download URL. Even if Bobcus Leper is right, I might find the wrong link and end up wasting a lot of time, screwing around. Anytime I make a suggestion for an app, rom, or anything, I will always try to include a URL to the target to help the other member get to where he/she needs to be. I remember how frustrating it was when I was a younger member at other boards when people would give me the answer to what I need, but forget to "tell me where to get it". Many thanks to you and [MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION] for the suggestion and URL to the target. ;)

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...really? What about signal in Gummy? They state the rom has issues with 2G and 3G. I could care less about "2G". What is important is 4G LTE. I kept my Razr a really long time and when I lost LTE on the phone, I got another Razr, even though I could probably have gotten something better like a nice juicy Galaxy. But that extra $100 and contract would put too much strain on my budget. I got lifetime unlimited data from Verizon and w/out 4G, it just is not worth it.

Hey! About Paranoid Android, pa_spyder-4.6-BETA2-20140925.zip. This is fairly simple to install like cm11? Download the rom and fresh pa-gapps, then flash in Safe Strap? Anything to watch out for or do afterwards? Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Decon1:
I had 4G. I do live in Idaho so the 4G can be dicey at times. 3G worked for me. LOL! Whats 2G :) Jokin'. Seriously flash a few ROMs and try them. I would love your input and so would the other flashers in the various ROM threads! You are analytically acute. Your comments would help many! Get flashin' there, my friend :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sherri:
As [MENTION=3302486]Decon1[/MENTION] stated, I had no issues with signals. Perfect 4G. Also, WiFi worked fine. Picked up signals without problems. WiFi tethering was the issue. I have a WiFi only tablet. No WiFi in school, so at lunch, to check her Facebook page, my friend uses my AndroidAP to connect her iPhone. (I have unlimited data.... She chose to "upgrade to an iPhone" and didn't know discounted prices meant losing her plan... She didn't care... Does now!) Anyway, on ever other ROM I tried (almost all those listed in this forum...), I just set a password for the WiFi tether (built in) app, enable it, it shows an icon in notification bar. She searches for available WiFi networks, sees "AndroidAP", taps it, enters the password, and connects. I do the same with my tablet. On Gummy, everything "looks" like it was working (icon on in notification bar), but nothing connects. Odd. [MENTION=3302486]Decon1[/MENTION] tried, and it worked for him MO problems.

Be sure to try it. I am currently on Liquid Smooth nightly from 9/23. Except for not booting into Recovery (when I hold power button, I get 2 options : (1) Reboot or (2) Reboot Recovery.... Pressing "reboot) recovery just soft reboots phone...) I haven't seen an issue... If I want to reboot into recovery, I just reboot and choose recovery from safestrap screen...

You will like Axxion. Smooth as butter, but I need the led to work correctly. (it does, just not as I need it...)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I am like you, [MENTION=2971166]Sherri.[/MENTION] I use my phone with unlimited data to power up my Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1. I must have that WiFi AP and have renamed mine so it is not just AndroidAP, but something unique. And I password protect it. Now, I can use my tablet anywhere, any time. Especially good for "camping" like when stuck in a waiting room for a long time, i.e.: Hospital ER, or any kind of public service appointment. Then I put in my earbuds and enjoy HD TV and movies on Netflix and Xfinity. This is pretty nice and I use it a lot. Not to mention I do use the Android 2X client to get on my home PC with Remote Desktop from anywhere. And it is MUCH better on the 10.1 screen of the tablet. Cannot live w/out that feature and stock for sure does not give it to me. ;)

Do you use Xposed Modules? I do and am careful about what I run. One really good, super light one is Advanced Power Menu. It is not an "active running" module. All it does is alter your power menu. I like the Reboot option, it gives Reboot, Soft Reboot, Recovery, and Bootloader (Takes you to recovery.). The icons are all pretty colors, you can add Screenshot, Dial Owner from lockscreen (To return a lost phone w/out being able to open the lockscreen.), Screen record (If you want to make a video of how to do something.) Power off, Disable Mobile Data, more, or less of these things. This is one module I do not want to be without and it has no effect on the system as it runs. :)

Screenshots of Advanced Power Menu attached.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] crackerjack1957:
You all do realize Verizon unlimited plan users are going to be throttled next month (October) if you go over 4.7g

Have you seen their data plan packages lately?

They go up to 100g for $750

All they want is to bump off unlimited users from their contract to make more money & this is what will make it happen.

I have already been thru this once with their 3g unlimited data plan, you go over their data limit, they claim towers are congested and they throttle your speed.

I would say 20g for unlimited is not abuse!!!