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[Xoom Android Development] dragonstalker:
Very awesome update. Just updated from 4.1.2. Decided today to check if there was a KK rom. I've since getting my Note gave my Xoom to my daughter for school and wanted to check and see if there was anything new. Note for new users. I've tested 3 ways of upgrading, and the best way is to, download all 5 files. Follow the Bigrush directions for repartitioning the Xoom. Follow the steps exactly as is noted in the thread. I did have a drawback. At first it did not work. So i rebooted. Re-flashed the rom, and re-flashed the supersu. Now everything is running smooth. I did have a problem when i set animation as suggested. The screen put red boxes around the screen. Reboot fixed that (note. I read probably half the thread so that has probably already been noted). Now i'm up and running with a Kit Kat Rom. Thanks to the Devs that put the time into this. You guys have my thumbs up:good: and helped out alot.

My daughter will come home from school today and find a KITKat Xoom (not that she understands what that means). Thanks for everybody involved. KUDOS!
[Xoom Android Development] Geeba:
I'm still on 'omni-4.4.2-20131227' from last year.... just downloaded the latest build.... is it ok to dirty flash... or should I wipe? I know it says you dont have to, but I was just curious as I'm so many builds behind.... :confused:
[Xoom Android Development] Vnvjeep:
You will need to start from scratch... 4.4.2 uses the bigpart partition, so a dirty flash isn't going to work. Follow directions carefully and you won't have any problems.
[Xoom Android Development] dragonstalker:
I think he is on 4.4.2. From what he posted, it says he is using the original build first put out a month.

The OP says you can dirty flash if you are already on OMNI. Me personally. I always like fresh flashes. Just gives me a warm and fuzzy knowing that i have something new.
[Xoom Android Development] Vnvjeep:
Sweet baby jebus ... holy dyslexia ... I thought I saw 4.2.2. My bad... yeah dirty flashes will work. Sorry about that fellas. ;)
[Xoom Android Development] dragonstalker:
Lol thought i was the only dyslexic on XDA:good:
[Xoom Android Development] Vnvjeep:
Ha! Won't happen again. Welcome to the party! ;)
[Xoom Android Development] Geeba:
LOL!

Yep I do that as well... squizz read threads and get mixed up on my 4.4.2's and my 4.2.2's :laugh:

I was indeed on 4.4.2 - I did a dirty flash last night... worked really well! Xoom is flying now! but I still have the 'NO SERVICE' on the front screen which makes me think a clean install might of been better.... :confused:
[Xoom Android Development] rman18:
Did you notice any performance improvements? Mine is still stock 4.1.2 and pretty damn slow at this point. Its just used by my son to play some games but thinking about upgrading it.
[Xoom Android Development] Geeba:
Its a huge improvement! - definitely do it! my Xoom has had a new lease of life!
[Xoom Android Development] bjcrj:
I updated my mother's xoom and it made a massive difference. Its a whole new machine.
[Xoom Android Development] dragonstalker:
Definately find it way faster and smoother than 4.1.2. Not really any difference in visual since i use Golauncher but it's a big speed boost.
[Xoom Android Development] Alxoom33:
Please elaborate how to enable Omniswitch? Also, how to use...? Thanks.
[Xoom Android Development] ahmed007:
hope this helps

:good:
[Xoom Android Development] dizzy33:
Do you mean that between the Omnirom 4.4.2 from december 2013 and the latest release there is a big performance boost ?

I am asking that because when I tried the Omnirom 4.4.2 in december I was very disapointed by the performances : a lot less smooth and fluid than 4.1.2 CM10 ROM. So I may give it another try if the fluidity and smoothness have been increased a lot and are now equal to CM10.
[Xoom Android Development] dsbnz:
Ive been using omni since December, and its even better now than the early December builds (but thats to be expected as it was really early stuff back then). Plus somewhere in this thread there's a few settings which will help a bit too. In particular,im using ondemand/row governor settings, animations set to 1.5 and it works great. But thats just the experience i get on mine, everyone has their own personal setting preferences.

For me i think overall its way better than 4.2 roms.
[Xoom Android Development] Geeba:
Yep its definitely better now... I also had issues with a couple of streaming service in the UK called TV-Catchup and BT Sport which would crash with 4.2.2 and early 4.4.2 builds... both play spot on now.... the only problem I have is the dirty flash I did as I still have the 'NO SERVICE' on the lock screen... I might wipe at a later date.;)
[Xoom Android Development] dizzy33:
Thanks for your answers ! So now, the launcher fluidity is as perfect as it was with 4.1.2 (CM or stock) or is it still a bit laggy ?
[Xoom Android Development] MashBill:
Per the forum rules, search this thread, as this has been discussed MANY times here already.
[Xoom Android Development] dizzy33:
no , it HAS NOT been discussed before, I already searched : but you should carefuly read my own posts before saying that !

Can you find a post saying " since 2014 releases of this Omnirom the fluidity /smoothness has been increased a lot and the launcher is much more fluid than before " ?

No, you did not find it.

So please : stop your useless and polluting police style conversations, and leave to nice people the right to answer to my questions.
[Xoom Android Development] crzychinook:
i tried this on my xoom wifi.. seemed to work .. but when it boots i get the boot screen and it loads the omni screen and then just sits there blinking at me?? did i miss something?
[Xoom Android Development] notbrodie:
did you do the bigpart?
[Xoom Android Development] crzychinook:
I thought i did .. i just need to try again i guess
[Xoom Android Development] MashBill:
How long did you wait? That first boot after the install can take a while. I think mine took over 15 minutes.
[Xoom Android Development] Vnvjeep:
Hi! I'm nice! ;) Truthfully I never use the stock launcher... first thing I do on any ROM is load Nova Launcher... and yes, it has been very smooth. Overall, this ROM is excellent... probably the best one I have ever loaded on here.

-Mike
[Xoom Android Development] crzychinook:
ahhh sh*t really???... prob was good load then... i waited over 5 min i didnt know to wait 15.. well i might have done it right a didnt know it..ugghhh
[Xoom Android Development] matt4321:
If it starts booting and you see the animation bigPart was a success, you wouldn't get that far if it had failed since the patch is in the kernel and that gets booted first so if it had failed, then it wouldn't boot. You just need to wait longer probably
[Xoom Android Development] Alxoom33:
Great! However, it does not seem to be on my Xoom. I have the latest update. So what am I missing?
[Xoom Android Development] crzychinook:
yeah i had big part working like a champ and when it booted the OMNI ram boot screen came on and then switched over to the android blinking at me.. so after 5 min of watching it blink i just thought it wasnt loading correctly... fun fun
[Xoom Android Development] dizzy33:
Thanks to you, nice guy ! But most of XDA users are nice. I searched through all the change logs upto the 5th of January but I could not find any change which would increase smoothness. So your answer is exactly what I wanted to know. I am also a Nova Launcher user, and it's perfectly smooth with 4.1.2.(CM10). When I tried it with 4.2 (CM10.2) and with the Omnirom from the end of december, it was laggy ...

So it may be good to give another try to the latest Omnirom ... But I'm not very confident as the last time it tried it, I could not restore my 4.1.2 nandroid backup (made with CWM recovery) and I had to re-do everything manually ... it took two days !

Since then I changed my Recovery to TWRP, hoping the next nandroid backup I'll do with it will be restorable ...
[Xoom Android Development] Vnvjeep:
Lol. :) Yeah, it's smooth... give it another try. Also, make sure you change upper CPU frequency to 1400Mhz and lower to 456Mhz... I'm using Ondemand, row. I've played with Animation scales, which have ranged from .25x to 1.5x... but now I've just left it at .5x.

Just make sure you've got a nandroid so you can revert back if you're not happy. :) TWRP is the way to go.

-Mike
[Xoom Android Development] badaas:
animation off ftw! :_)
[Xoom Android Development] ahmed007:
do a fresh install not a dirty flash and oo there is a new update out check the new update first if not reflash :good:
[Xoom Android Development] dizzy33:
So I tried again CM11 and Omnirom. Both are good, Omnirom is a bit more fluide than CM11, and that's right : a big smoothness improvement has been made since december on both roms. But none of them does equal the fluidity of CM10 (4.1.2). The fluidity difference between Omnirom and CM10 is not big but I really need fluidity to be to the maximum possible. So I decided to come back to CM10.

Of course, once again my TWRP backup is not restorable ! Nandroid backups never work for me when I try to restore it. CWM is the worst case : absolutly no restoration possible. TWRP does allow me to restore everything except "system", and once all is restored, I am missing many files (like maps for my GPS application for exemple).

Still today in 2014, no serious reliable backup software (with the ability to do a perfect image of our device) do exist for android devices, I can't understand that.

A big thanks again to the amazing work done by Schischu on this ROM, I hope one day it will equal CM10 about fluidity.
[Xoom Android Development] bigfootnmd:
NETFLIX on Omni 4.4.2-20140207-1805 on XOOM WIFI

Hi,

Some of you may remember me from my "Android Kit Kat 4.4.2 on Motorola Xoom' thread. My Xoom WI-FI now has the latest ROM

4.4.2-20140207-1805+0100-wingray-HOMEMADE. I just loaded this version about 45 minutes ago. Earlier today I loaded the Netflix Android App

from the Google Play store. I started to play an episode of the Netflix Series House of cards. When the episode started the subtitles (captions) were enabled. So I touched the little icon on the screen and I chose no captions. Once I did that the program continued to play without any sound what so ever. So, I tried another program. I chose a Movie that I had never watched on any TV, Blu-ray player or other device.

The same phenomena occurred. Movie played with subtitles on, I turn them off and the sound stops playing. Yes, I even plugged in Headphones.

This Phenomena does not occur when i play movies through my FIREFOX browser on my PC nor does it occur on my TV or Blu-ray player.

So, I called NETFLIX tech Support. They had me try several things (like use another WIFI network in this case the WIFI hotspot on my phone) to see if the problem was related to my router.

The Netflix tech found my thread from January. It is possible that NETFLIX techs will be posting to this forum. So, has anyone had any issues with NETFLIX using this ROM? Now I can of course play anything streaming content from Netflix and not turn the captions off. However on a 10 inch screen captions are small and I really don't need them. Also, I have the Netflix Android app on my SAMSUNG Galaxy 3 phone and I can turn off the captions while streaming content is playing and not loose the audio. Thank you in advance.
[Xoom Android Development] Schischu:
If you need netflix, use the cm-11.0 rom, there netflix works. seems to be a quirks somewhere in omnirom/tegra2.
[Xoom Android Development] divine.impulse:
ok so, thx for the great job ,but i have some problems so far with everest :

-the screen makes some kind of artifacts wen i play simple games like hay day sometimes flashes suddenly,

-youtube app ,when i watch a video even in hd, is squerish and pixelated,

-when i take a video the camera behaves weird and the quality is bad,

-when i play the video i just took it has a very bad quality( i will chek on my pc to see if the video is actualy bad or the playbak on my device)

+no problems on different simcards on 3g everything is ok recognized instantly

+battery life improved indeed

will come back to verify video quality
[Xoom Android Development] jrotert:
Similar prob w/ Netfix

Mine is running latest nightly 4.4.2 build. I have similar issue w/ NF: After I start streaming a movie and try to turn on Subs (I guess default on mine is off), when I resume movie subs are there but no audio. The only way to get audio back is to FC Netflix and reopen it.

Otherwise loving the ROM however,

.

And I just tried Hulu Plus. Subs enable/disable and audio still works fine.
[Xoom Android Development] bigfootnmd:
A little clarification please, and thanks

I am grateful to know that i am not the only one having this issue with the OMNI rom. I have one small question. What do you mean by "FC Netflix?" To you mean to kill the app by using a Task Killer?

Thanks
[Xoom Android Development] jrotert:
additional

You can either kill the app through settings/app/force stop or by long pressing back button in nav bar (I set that option up through settings/bars/, and checking "Long press back to kill app" option).

Also, if you could tell me how you have managed to set your NetFlix to default to subs always on that would be great. I tried to find such a setting on my XOOM and through PC NetFlix with no luck.

Still a small price to pay for KK on our old-school XOOMs.

Just found partial workaround. From Netflix site: Play a movie on PC for more than 5 minutes with the way you want subs set (on or off) and it saves profile as default across all your devices on which NetFlix is installed (and signed into). Just played movie on my PC w/ subs enabled (my preference), and when I opened netFlix app on my XOOM the subs were enabled w/ audio working.

The converse of above should work in your situation, i.e., desire to have no subs on XOOM.
[Xoom Android Development] icebergz12:
I guess the bug for the far right app in dock on the stock launcher is fixed! Now my app doesn't disappear when reboot or screen off/on. Awesomeness. Thanks devs.
[Xoom Android Development] bigfootnmd:
I have installed the CM 11.0 ROM and Netflix works fine. I can turn the captions on and off and the sound still continues.
[Xoom Android Development] aiah:
SuperSU market update not working

I installed omnirom with SuperSU-v1.86, also did an ota update [currently running everest-4.4.2-20140128]

Every thing (or at least everyting i use on a daly basis) works fine

But when i update supersu to the 1.93 version from the market, root stops working..

(reflashed supersu-1.86 using recovery to get root back)

Anyone having the same problem ?
[Xoom Android Development] AlEsC:
EDIT : Working after a reboot, sorry...

Hi,

HDMI is not working for me in the latest OTA.

The TV seems to detect a signal but nothing is displayed (was working before the OTA update, same TV, same cable, same Xoom :))
[Xoom Android Development] b1g1an:
Flash the latest version of Omnirom, SuperSU is built into the settings menu now so no need to flash it separately.
[Xoom Android Development] notbrodie:
use fastboot to install the twrp img file

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Xoom Android Development] TheJeeks:
Ok, I managed in the end, I formatted the **** out of the tablet and wiped everything and then in the end I was able to mount the sdcard. I flashed the ROM and have been restoring apps and settings for the past two hours. Things are great but I am bothered by one thing.

Netflix is working great and even better on Chromecast but when playing on the tablet itself, if I go to change the subtitles language the sound disappears.

I just saw that many have the same Netflix issue, so is the solution another ROM?
[Xoom Android Development] valent|n0:
Omni switch is gone in feb 11 version? Anyone knows why?
[Xoom Android Development] Elite_Deforce:
I just installed this on my Wingray Xoom and it is running pretty well fundamentally but I have some serious issues with it still.

1) My Xoom is incredibly sluggish compared to stock unrooted 4.0.3. I have clocked to 1.4GHz and my CPU is set to ondemand and I'm running ART, but the launcher(s) are still quite sluggish and the UI in general is pretty snail-paced. Nothing like what is being described here. As a Nexus 5 owner, it is actually stress inducing how slow the tablet is not. I don't have anything special installed on it and my install was alright, what gives?

2) I lose audio on some apps randomly. Ex. Angry Birds, I sometimes lose audio if I hit a button. MX Player I will sometimes lose audio and only reboot helps.

3) A few apps give me ANRs. Google+ is CONSTANTLY crashing it seems and it gets incredibly annoying. Dropbox also refuses to open which is somewhat important to me.

Thanks in advance!
[Xoom Android Development] bronisb:
Open OmniSwitch and turn it on:D
[Xoom Android Development] notbrodie:
I also have a Nexus 5 as well, and the xoom UI is only slightly slower. Web browsing is a whole nother matter, though. that is really slow, so I do most of my browsing via reddit or Tapatalk, which both work great. Google+ also works fine for me, no problems at all.

what gapps did you install with? the ones in the OP are a bit out-dated. grab the latest PA full-modular gapps. you also may want to try performing a full-wipe before installing them, but it isn't necessary

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Xoom Android Development] Elite_Deforce:
I did indeed use the OP Gapps. Where can I find those other Gapps? I did a full wipe before installing as well.
[Xoom Android Development] zuckerj:
Here's a link to the gapps thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942
[Xoom Android Development] chykal:
Try the advice notbrodie gave some time ago which I quoted above. I think setting animation speed to .25 should also help.

My experience has been quite laggy when I wake the zoom up especially when I have a lot of apps running. I clear recent apps and that usually helps. Sometimes a reboot is necessary to get it back to being normal.

I hope this helps.
[Xoom Android Development] zuckerj:
Definitely some lag when first waking up. But give it a minute and thing smooth out.

No problems with G+, but honestly haven't used it much yet on Xoom. I'll test it out more.

Definitely have some sound issues. Mainly with my BabyCam app that I can't get to give me sound. Same app works fine on my Note 2.
[Xoom Android Development] istrait:
I have tried that a couple of tines and it never comes up...

Edit: Never mind.. just tried it again and it worked...
[Xoom Android Development] Elite_Deforce:
I was able to do the first two items on notbrodie's post, but not sure how to do the rest.

The lag is still pretty insufferable however. Should I just try to re-flash the ROM with PA Gapps?
[Xoom Android Development] grey.ghost:
I've got the max cpu set at 150400. That's my only change from the recommended settings but I haven't had issues with lag. Haven't noticed issues with sound either.
[Xoom Android Development] icebergz12:
I'm using dalvic. Max 1600-min 456 on demand, row. Animation scale .5x or below should speed things up. I'm even still running Google launcher, its not insufferable to me. I mean ids an old a$$ device running new/ripped/modded software. Many thanks to omni and big part for even making this possible. Oh yeah.. I'm running wingray on my stingray.
[Xoom Android Development] sdthelord:
screen record

Hey,

i wanted to try the screen record feature of kitkat and am stuck with empty files and errors. I ONLY have tried it without ADB, but with the OmniRom feature, REC. and several other apps. Finally I took the manual way with terminal emulator:

root@wingray:/ # screenrecord /sdcard/test.mp4
WARN: Unable to set device connection state for audio submix IN
WARN: Unable to set device connection state for audio submix OUT
Unable to instantiate audio source (error -22)!
Segmentation fault
139|root@wingray:/ # ls -l /sdcard/ | grep mp4
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 0 2014-02-17 13:22 test.mp4
root@wingray:/ # screenrecord --microphone /sdcard/test.mp4
^C^C
130|root@wingray:/ # ls -l /sdcard/ | grep mp4
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 0 2014-02-17 13:25 test.mp4
root@wingray:/ #

1. Errors if not recording from microphone.

2. Empty file 0kb.

3. --time-limit has no effect, i have to use ctrl-c for termination.
[Xoom Android Development] Elite_Deforce:
Unfortunately quite the opposite for me :(. Anyone recommend just re-flashing the ROM and seeing what happens?
[Xoom Android Development] icebergz12:
Couldn't hurt
[Xoom Android Development] SuezieQueue:
I must say I'm truly impressed. I'd thought I optimized my xoom running EOS4 by using Pimp MyROM and changing my governor, disabling sleepers and vsync etc...but

OmniROM using ART is like having a brand new device!!

Smoother than processed butter...

Thank you to all the developers who made this possible and continue to support this 'old' device! !!
[Xoom Android Development] elton.de.nascimento:
Whats ART?
[Xoom Android Development] matt4321:
It's a new way in which apps are dealt with in Android and how they run. It used to be dalvik, and still is by default but in 4.4 Google introduced ART, it is generally more efficient and leads to a better battery life
[Xoom Android Development] Vnvjeep:
Exchange email problems

Devs... could you please help? I have reported this issue several times now, hoping that the latest build will have it resolved, but it continues to be an issue. I have stock email issues where I'm unable to send email to my exchange accounts. I have 4 accounts... 1 exchange 2010, 2 outlook.com, 1 office365.com. I was hoping someone might be able to seriously look at this, because to me, this is the only major flaw I have found on both the Omni and CM 4.4.2 builds. From an email perspective I can receive emails just fine... but deleting, marking read/unread or replying has no effect and does not reflect on the account itself. If I look at my exchange accounts it looks as if the tablet never interacted with the email. It shows I opened/read email or deleted email accurately on my tablet. But when i try to send an email, it never resolves or is sent from the device. When you look at the sync, it says "syncing" and continues to spin... never stopping like its stuck in a loop. This makes my device unusable from a communications perspective and always have to fall back to another device to communicate. :(

I don't have this problem on my stock nexus 7 running 4.4.2.... or my note 3 running stock 4.3...

Help me obiwan kenobi, you're my only hope!

Thanks,

-Mike
[Xoom Android Development] s_u_n:
Need urgent help

After spending the major part of the day reading on how to go about putting 4.4.2 on my dad's Xoom 604 (wifi only version), I am stuck.

Here is what I have done so far:

Based on the first post in this thread, I downloaded the following files into a folder on the laptop:

6,121,968 eos4_wingray_BigPart_boot_image.zip

30,333,755 LAIOT.zip

33,586,888 MotorolaDeviceManager_2.4.5.exe

174,688,108 omni-4.4.2-20140215-1029+0100-wingray-HOMEMADE.zip

218,048,510 pa_gapps-modular-full-4.4.2-20131230-signed.zip

6,830,688 R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3_BigPart_selinux.zip

1,184,318 UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.86.zip

Next, I copied these files into a micro SD card inserted into Xoom.

I followed the instructions to setup the LAIOTools and was able to unlock the bootloader.

Then I thought I should try to root the device through the same LAIOTools which seems to have a nice interface to carry out the task.

But before I can root, I am supposed to flash a custom ROM. In this case, I would like to flash TWRP.

Now, the LAIOTools throws out errors around adb and fastboot not recognized. So, I have posted about that here. While I wait for some solution on that, is there another way to go ahead and complete the procedure?

After unlocking the bootloader and rebooting the tablet to install custom ROM, the tablet is stuck at "Starting Fastboot protocol support." with a big M in red.