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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Dunno why umts came first. Must be that the umts developer got his code in first. Makes sense to me. :)

[MENTION=3313632]ChungHung.Chen[/MENTION] posted a LOT of detail in his build report for 11/14. With that many hours on it and Mr. Chen is satisfied? Oh boy, that is a must have for me! All you guys give great reports so to hear a good one like this, you confirming it, in so long, makes me very comfortable installing 11/14.

Thanks? I could use a "bump on the Thanks Button", anywhere is fine. I am now trying to break 1,000. I never thought I would see *that* day in sight. Not that this is a game or anything. I am comfortable here at XDA and with a good post/thanks ratio and being very helpful, an RC title or moderator could become a real possibility someday. I like to keep my options open. You too if you want. :)

Here, I will give you one, you give me one. Not that hard, right?

I use RoboForm Password manager because I got it a long time ago and the license lets me sync my two accounts. Now you need a "Roboform Anywhere" account and that costs more money. But any good password manager is good. Nice to not have to "log in every time" to XDA since we come here so often.

Thanks for the confirmation on 11/14 Allen. Sounds very promising to me. Take it easy bra! :cowboy:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ChungHung.Chen:
According to CM's build server, there are almost 20~30 devices failed in lastest nightly build, including spyder. :(

Nightly-141114 is ok to me after one day usage. No problems which in 141111 happen again. In my opinion it's a good build.

EDIT: New nightly build round was started, let's see if new builds up.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Download Link: CM11 11/07

It looks like CM11 NIGHTLY BUILD 11/07/14 is off the server. If you want it, get it here. A very nice, stable build to have on hand. :)

Download CM11 NIGHTLY BUILD 11/07/2014 below

cm-11-20141107-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip​
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
He was referring to this [MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION]

Sent from my Razr XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yep, I had to go double check but [MENTION=3687397]parser[/MENTION] was indeed talking about the runtime, not album art. But, opting out of Album Art is a nice idea. Maybe it was a good, inaccurate interpretation. From what I've heard, ART was supposed to be a good runtime but with hardly any support for it. That is a headache that I don't need. Parser did give good advice.

Good looking out, Welder. :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ChungHung.Chen:
If you're using xposed modules, you can't switch to ART runtime. Xposed doesn't support ART yet.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] parser:
It was a good misinterpretation indeed :) yes I was talking about the runtime. Just don't change it if you want to use the phone :) I have no xposed, just want to try if it really effects the performance. For now I am okay with my crazy phone usage. Don't want any lags (if it happens with xposed)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Here is the link to the build server for anyone interested: http://jenkins.cyanogenmod.com/view/All/builds

I usually open the page then use my browsers find function to search for spyder.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=3687397]parser[/MENTION] I think you are getting the wrong idea about Xposed Framework...

Xposed Framework itself does not affect performance. It is just a platform for which developers can write modules that we use to get certain things done. Unlike ordinary apps, these modules are more like root apps and system services because they have that sort of permission set. Most Xposed modules do not affect the system load at all. Some would work better on a new smartphone with more power and memory. A Droid Razr is an already overtaxed phone because it is old. So we only use modules that we need and that do not have a heavy footprint on the system.

Greenify Donation Pack is the #1 App on XDA and most of us here use it to put apps to sleep so we can

have more system resources available.

That is a very good thing. Some modules are not active. They just apply a theme color to the statusbar or like Advanced Power Menu, they add some additional choices to the power button menu. They do not "run" while on the phone at all.

So Xposed Framework itself is a good thing, with Razr phones we must be judicious in what modules we choose to install and run and not get "carried away with them". If you had a new, powerful smartphone, you could use more of them or ones that might not be good for a Razr because new phones have a LOT more power available. Xposed Modules are just like apps. There are some good ones, some bad ones, some we need, and some we don't. Greenify makes my phone better, not worse. And I can thank Xposed Framework for that. :D

[MENTION=3687397]parser[/MENTION] I do appreciate your heads up on the ART runtime. It confirms what little I already know about it and reminds me to appreciate what I have. :)

Side Note:

The spyder 11/14 nightly builds are still broken.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=3313632]ChungHung.Chen[/MENTION] [MENTION=3687397]parser[/MENTION]

Thank you Mr. Chen. I know it is simple enough to change the runtime on our devices to ART as welder73 pointed out. But is it impossible to revert back to Dalvik w/out flashing clean again? If so, I wonder why parser does not just go back to Dalvik if ART is that much of a problem? I was a little bit afraid of that happening, so I never even tried ART. Dalvik is pretty good when you learn how to optimize it well. I am getting better at that, thanks to everyone's help in here.

I just installed 11/14 on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and it is really nice. Still not out for spyder yet. I get it. With maybe a million lines of code to compile into the new rom, all it takes is a colon or hyphen to be missing or out of place to break the entire build. The devs will just have to go back over the build code and fix it. That might take a while. :(

Heads Up for Safe Strap

For you experienced members, forgive me. For others who don't know, I used the default Safe Strap settings and the "Use Compression" box is not checked. Each backup used 2.01 GB of card space. With compression enabled, the backup took longer but each backup is now 1.29 GB in size. That is a lot, from now on, I will use compression in Safe Strap, despite the little bit of extra time it takes.

Save 700 MB of card space on each backup, enable compression in Safe Strap.

:good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
You go into system/developer options and select use dalvik. It is extremely simple to switch between the two. ART does use a little more storage space for storing the code of an app.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] halfboss:
Hi guys i want to install the last cyanogenmod on my xt910 but i'm wondering if this ROM is stable and for everyday use :) another question is this ROM based on art or dalvik?? Thanks and sorry for my english :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
CM Nightlies are hit and miss. If you get a good one, you might be able to use it as your daily driver, depending on the functions you require. I use CM11 for everyday use, but I don't use a lot of "Bells and Whistles."

I recommend that you install the last Snapshot, M12. It was stable for me. CM uses Dalvik, not Art. The :new Android 5.0 Lollipop is supposed to switch over to Art.

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thank you Bob. I know *how* to switch back, easy like you said. I only heard of a few people that switched to ART and none of them had a good experience. None of them told me what happened later, did they switch back or would the phone crash and burn if they tried. It doesn't really matter as I don't have ART running and have no plans to do so. I was just curious because we have a member using it, hates it, and he does not switch back to dalvik. :rolleyes:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
I am sorry [MENTION=4245858]Ohmster[/MENTION]. Please excuse my linearness. To be honest, I don't even think "linearness" is even a word.:)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] parser:
I am sorry I am answering you always very very late :) I am very busy with my thesis and other stuff at University and it takes a lot of my time. I am using dalvik atm.

Actually I activated ART first time after installation finished and I forgot that totally. That day I thought that the rom was gambit.

Later that day I remembered again that I was using art and changed it asap to dalvik and vola (idk if it's said like that) the rom was as smooth as water :P

I am also using now xposed with some modes to control my battery, habe just 4 modes installed and you are right, there is no effect on performance afa I can tell :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION] [MENTION=3687397]parser[/MENTION]

Thank you Parser, that is very useful. And thank you Bob, now we at least have an idea of what ART does and how to switch it back, that it will revert without crashing the phone.

That's right Parser. The Xposed Modules to work quite well if you are careful to pick useful ones for the Razr phone. If you have questions as to what is good, just ask! Many of the really "good ones" are free to download on XDA to members. The dev would appreciate it if you like the app, donate when you can. :)

I am so bored here waiting on the spyder build that I found Minecraft Pocket Edition on the web and am playing that now just to pass the time. Not my kind of game as I enjoy better graphics, but the game is popular and sure contains enough "busy work" to keep one occupied. I play it on my tablet because the screen is bigger, although I am sure it will work on the phone. Let me try to install the apk...

I like games like this when I am stuck in a waiting room and that actually run well on a Razr.

...yeah, it installs and runs incredibly well and looks great on a Razr phone. Now I have something to do when stuck in a waiting room! :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION] I forgot to say Thanks for your Linux screens and compiling. That has been fixed. Nice job buddy! Thanks for sharing, now I have something else to explore. Be a good Joe and let me know how it goes, K? ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
The screenshot was me syncing the repo. Yesterday I tried to build CM12, but the "breakfast"," brunch ", and " lunch " commands gave me errors.

I'm syncing the cm11 repo, and will attempt a build tomorrow, to see if I can even build on my machine. If all goes well, I will try to port android-5.0.0_r6 branch to spyder.

Seeing that CM12 didn't happen, I doubt I will be able to port/build Android 5.0 to our RAZRs. After all, I just setup my first Android build environment and repo sync on Friday! 0_0

I'm such a noob Dev BTW.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rskyline:
Is normal to not have any signal bar using a GSM network on the XT912? The Verizon one...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
CM11 NIGHTLY BUILD spyder XT912 11/16 is OUT!

Finally a build for the XT912. Get yours now if you want it. Testing it now!

Direct Download: cm-11-20141116-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip

md5sum: 4c7c12269f3a64aa7163727d36f3d707

ChangeLog

CyanogenMod Downloads

Will let you know how it works out. :)

Initial Build Report:

Nightly build 11/16 installs well on XT912, no crashes, very slick and smooth. All apps seem to work well. CM11 File Manager menu not working on tap, swipe finger right for menu. So far, so good. Will see what tomorrow brings. Initial Report Positive :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
For anyone who wants to play around with L:

http://droid.cs.fau.de/cm-12.0/pre-alpha-test/

Things to keep in mind:

Install this in a new slot! Do not upgrade any old system!

This is not a daily driver!

Installing newer cm-12 builds will likely require a complete wipe again (due to SELinux).

Many things are broken (Stock camera, Document browser, graphical glitches, ...). No need to report bugs right now.

This uses a patched version of the updater-binary to install on current safestrap-versions

To actually build this rom, you need to pick at least the following gerrit changes: 76777, 76871, 76936, 76950, 77520, 77673, 77674

The following diff against android_device_motorola_omap4-common is also needed: http://droid.cs.fau.de/cm-12.0/pre-alpha-test/android_device_motorola_omap4-common.patch

One thing would be interesting for me: Does 3G/1X work on VZW-devices in the US? I can't really test that from here...

And does LTE work and actually transmit data?

Cheers,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I don't believe so, [MENTION=4416596]rskyline[/MENTION] but I think we should ask someone using GSM in here or GSM on an XT912.

Can anyone here with GSM or GSM on an XT912 help member rskyline and tell us if there is anything different about the signal icon? It should be the same as any XT912 ore XT910, yes?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ChungHung.Chen:
According to ART in wikipedia, ART uses Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation which will generate a machine code binary during app installation, and improves to app loading and executing by running the optimized binary directly. That's why ART need more space for installation. On the contrary, Dalvik will compile app to machine code and execute in real-time, which will need more time to load and compile in EVERY-TIME YOU USE THE APP but smaller space requirement.

Because of AOT in ART, machine code optimization will be very critical for ART's performance and the optimization is highly related to CPU. Unfortunately TI has stop the development of mobile processors like OMAP series. So we do not have many resources for do the optimization in ART which make no noticeable improvement. AFAIK ART is not available in Google Nexus 7 2012 (nVidia Tegra 3 CPU) until 4.4.3 in stock rom. Our XT910/XT912 have ART support because CM include it, but we can't get much benefits as we expected. :crying::crying:

That's my knowledge about ART, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
Thank you for all the hard work. I never thought we could get even a pre-alpha build this quickly, if at all.

XT910 Install:

I did a factory reset and did an advanced wipe of Dalvik Cache, System, Cache, and Data. (These are Liquid Smooth install instructions).

I tried to install in SafeStrap 3.73 slot2, which I only use for experimental builds. The install failed with:

"mount: failed to mount /dev/block/sytem at /system"

Did I do something wrong, or is this just a pre-alpha bug? I am not put off by this, and can't wait for the next build to try!

I downloaded "cm-12-20141116-UNOFFICIAL-umts_spyder.zip" and checked it against the md5sum hash.

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
Hi,

That's interesting and points to Safestrap. May I ask you to try Safestrap v3.73, this might probably fix this problem: https://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/umts_spyder/safestrap/

I'm using a self-built Safestrap currently, but there should be no changes regarding /dev/block/-handling in it. I'm currently installing the umts_spyder-version on my Droid4 without error in Safestrap...

Regards,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I am running Safestrap v3.73, but I think that it well could be my Safestrap system at fault. I forgot that last week I restored a rom from slot2 to the Stock slot, which may have corrupted Safestrap. I have been updating CM11 since then, but using CM Updater, which is not exactly the same as a new install. Sorry to report a probable user problem! :o

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
Yeah, I obviously can't read ;)

Try deleting the slot and recreating it.

Regards,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] icarome:
Tried it, Installed but didn't boot...

How can I help you? I have a XT910, using safestrap 3.73, slot 2
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
Same result after recreating slot 2. I get the vibrate that usually comes before the boot animation, but that is all. If I wait long enough it reboots with the same result.

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
Display fails to init for umts_spyder, it seems (at least for me on xt894, which might be the cause in my case).

Do you have a working adb installation (no key on the phone necessary, adb is currently running as root without security)?

Can you try to do the following:

power off the phone

run "adb logcat >adb.txt"

power on the phone, connect it to the pc and try to boot cm12

about 20s after the phone has vibrated, please run "adb shell dmesg >dmesg.txt" in another shell

when the phone reboots again, break adb with ctrl-c and send me the logs in a PM.

EDIT: Hmm, if I use the correct atags/devtree for my device, I can actually boot umts_spyder on the Droid4. So I can't reproduce it :(

Thanks & best regards,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] parser:
shall I try it on bmm?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
No, this will definitely not work.

BMM is completely unsupported as the original sources have been lost and it can't be updated to handle selinux (which is a requirement for cm-12). Safestrap works with the patched updater, but BMM will not. I will actually need to release a new Safestrap-version to fully enable SELinux.

Regards,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] AgNO3_92:
No it's not normal. I'm using XT912 with GSM patch on Vodafone Italy.

Screenshot attached.

Regards,

Marco.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] parser:
That means no L for me since I lost my cid :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] icarome:
As my curiosity transpass any thing, i installed the spyder version... It booted but it runs slow, but is a peek and hope growing inside of me now. thanks so much, man. I'll try to help you with xt910 when I get home. I'm here as a tester...

Btw, home button was not working, just saying...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
Ok, found a likely culprit in the initialization of OLED-panels, please try the new umts_spyder-image I just uploaded.

Sorry, can't do anything about it without BMM sources. Is there no way you can install Safestrap?

Yeah, it's not that fast yet.

Thanks for the report of the non-working home-button, this is caused by another "old" keylayout which I missed. I will fix this now.

EDIT: Uploaded a new zip with (hopefully) fixed keys.

Regards,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
I have used adb a few times but not with this Motorola phone. I run adb on Windows 7, where I originally flashed JB with RSD Lite, but I don't know how to run adb "as root without security". I am having trouble connecting the phone to adb. I tried using the Fastboot menu but "adb devices" doesn't show the device. Device Manager just shows the adb interface, and Motorola driver installation says "unknown Device."

So it will be awhile before I can create the logcat and dmesg logs. Maybe Icarome can create these logs faster than I can, when he gets home.

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Hmmm... Not working for me. I clean installed 11/16 into a newly created ROM slot 1 along with PA GApps on my Droid RAZR Maxx, XT912. I get force close (I think it was the phone.android.com process) every time I tap on the touch screen. Completely unusable for me. I had same problem on 11/13 too. I am using the stock GApps. Maybe I need to try a smaller package. Mini modular perhaps?

11/07 is working pretty well on ROM slot 2. I still get some lag. Battery life is just OK. If I use the phone very much I have trouble getting the charge to last through the day.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] farangcm:
Hooray! CM12_11/17 boots on my XT910! I did have to recreate the slot again (my problem). Thanks for my first look at CM12 (Lollipop).

Allen
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
Yay :)

So the problem was that Motorola forgot to initialize a variable which "worked" out of pure luck with the old compiler used to build the kernel (it was alway 0), but with the new compiler this variable had a "random" (not really random, but close) content and a later check if it is 0 bailed out and stopped the display-init. Fixed in http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/77777/ .

Cheers,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
[MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION] thank you so much for all your hard work.

Right off the bat I realized how much faster CM12 is than CM11.

This would be a daily driver for me when the home button and keyboard bugs are fixed. You can get the recents menu my remapping it to the menu key in Settings/Buttons.

Also, i installed the CM12 gapps and they worked just fine. They will fail flashing because the metadata isn't removed yet.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stargo:
Good to hear :)

The home-button not working at all should already be fixed, the wrong default of the long-press is actually a bug in cm base.

As you are on VZW, does data on LTE and 3G/1X work for you?

Regards,

Michael
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
I don't have my razr activated, so let me put in my sim to see if data works.

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Ok, I put in my old VZW sim, and it shows signal bars and Verizon Wireless in the status bar. Yep, it looks like data does work. Can someone please test just to confirm, because my RAZR isn't activated.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Asianism:
[MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION] thank you so much for the pre-alpha-test of CM12 ;) it's so smooth and a lot faster than CM11.

Installed on stock-slot SS 3.73, XT910.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Stick with what you have that works good, [MENTION=5362796]Dwillian[/MENTION]. I have not finished testing 11/16 yet. Today I am showing considerable lag and black screen while running USB tether. (My cable internet is out.) I don't think it should do that and if I keep getting problems, I will join you and restore good old 11/17 my friend. :good:

Disconnected USB tether and it appears to be cleared up. I have cable internet problems today. Still not done with this build though. Get a good 11/07 base installed and backed up anyway. ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I was able to solve the force close problem by doing a factory reset (i.e. wiping data in addition to wiping cache and dalvik cache) right after flashing 11/16 nightly and PA GApps. That's a new step in my process. Not sure why I need to do this now, but it seems to help.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] shirengg04:
love you guys....cm12 is looking so smooth and nice. thanks.

surely you guys will do everything to get us 5.0

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love you guys....cm12 is looking so smooth and nice. thanks.

surely you guys will do everything to get us 5.0
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
[MENTION=4161843]ktimque[/MENTION], do you think you should update this thread to add CM12 info, or should [MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION] just create a new CM12 thread?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anticor248:
For CM12, does gapps exist?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
https://s.basketbuild.com/gapps

They will say flashing failed, but they install just fine. Meta-Data needs to be removed.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anticor248:
Thx man!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Bobcus Leper:
You are welcome.;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Paranoid Android just released an alpha version of GApps. They are looking for testers and feedback. See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=56810851