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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
PA Gapps are recommended and work quite well with CM11. There are several packeges, based upon how much bloat you want in the pack. Most popular and what I use is the "mini-modular" package. It gives everything any typical user would want and use, and is not so big as to fill up the phone. "micro-modular" is another hit download, it gives even less. All is spelled out for you on the page below.

Download pa-gapps

No! Do NOT use Safe Strap 3.6.3!

You must use Safe Strap 3.6.5 for CM11.

Download Safe Strap: Droid RAZR/RAZR-MAXX [XT912]

I learned all this stuff from Jake. Installation, setup, testing, reporting, and configuring is his specialty. He can and will give you any additional help you need. But if you are in a rush, that is the information you need right now. I know what it is like having the time to install something, but not getting the answer I need in time for me to just go ahead with this. Really though, the credit goes to Jake. Hope this helps!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
Thanks for the input and links. Just to be clear, can i install safestrap 3.6.5 over 3.6.3? Will I lose my stock rom slot, and/or my slot 1 and 2?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I do not believe so. This is more of an upgrade rather than a clean or wipe install. Safe strap is just a recovery environment. It should not destroy existing rom slots to upgrade. But look over the screen, read the release notes. Every new version of software comes with release notes, including every single new version of CM11. PAY ATTENTION to the screen during install. If you see something you do not like, see if you can go back or abort.

I am trying to think if I upgraded SS or just installed the current version. No, I am pretty sure I did install the current version. I was SO used to using ClockworkMod ROM Manager that I remember trying to stick with it on the Razr and bricked my phone like 3 times with it.

CWM ROM Manager does not work, in any way, shape or form, on a Razr!

To get my first ROM on the Razr, I did it with a USB cable and some software, might have been ODIN at the time. A real, major pain in the ass. But when I found out you could flash a zip right from the phone itself with any recovery environment, I was in Hog Heaven! No more cables and drivers and all this learning each time. When I found Safe Strap, I was pretty impressed, not to mention EVERYONE said to use Safe Strap for Razr phones and cm11. You could wipe and flash more than one zip at a time. Neat. Not even CWM could do that. Flash only one zip, if necessary, flash the next and so on. What I do not like about Safe Strap and a feature I rarely use is a genuine complete format of the internal SD card. Safe Strap will not do this, it uses a recursive delete command instead, and that is NOT formatting. I recovered a LOT of card space on my tablet and Droid X in CM10.x by formatting the card. It seems that the new install of CM10 did not format the card. Anything you had previously stayed but was "invisible" to the system and any file explorer and the space it used simply "disappeared". So an internal 16 Gb card would only have 7 Gb of space, where did it all go? It took like 6 months of wondering until one guy on XDA decided to format the card, reboot, and allow Google to repopulate his apps. Bam! all the "lost space" came back and I had room on my card again! CWM will let you do that, SS will not. There is an option to use genuine formatting in Advanced settings, but the check cannot be taken out to use the delete command instead. Maybe in the pay version? I don't know. But this is irrelevant to you right now.

Make your stock slot active and boot to stock, then install/upgrade Safe Strap from your Stock rom. It has to be installed from stock rom, regardless.

Those instructions should suffice and are all accurate. Read the hash-of-code notes on the Razr release to see if they mention anything in particular about installing it. They make SS for many different devices. If there is anything special about the Razr, they will tell you. Pay attention and go for it. :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Well put Ohmster. Thanks for stepping in on my behalf. I was at work and can't use my phone there. Been written up too many times in the past lol.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] dtrail1:
What?? Not that as well! Also a Linux girl - or TEACHER?? Well, you wouldn't happen to move to Germany?:p:laugh::D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Lol dtrail. Flirting in my thread :P

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
I love it

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] l8n:
Thanks for testing, must be something unique to my phone. Tried going to a backup of CM Mar 1st and dialer works, but flashing Mar 24 over breaks it again. Also tried multiple clean installs (cleaned system after a factory wipe) and each time it wouldn't dial a number with a plus, but would once I removed it. I did have one success after a clean install of only cm and gapps, no Google account linked, playing with one number on phone storage, when it worked after changing language from UK to US and then rebooting, but I haven't been able to recreate it yet. Couldn't get that one attached to wifi or I would have kept it. Of course I could just drop the plus, but where's the fun in that ..

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] pwood11:
I installed CM11-20140324 on my Motorola XT910 since the research I did says the Bluetooth implementation is better connecting to my cars navigation system than 4.1.2 JB.

It is great that I don’t get prompted any more to pair the phone to the navigation system every time I start the car and it connects automatically.

But now for some reason I haven’t figured out yet I am unable to get my contacts on the phone to download to the navigation system. It is not a big deal I can figure out a work around but since I saw your post I thought I would mention it and see if anyone else is seeing the same thing.

The other problem I was having with 4.12 was that I wasn’t able to get the SMS and e-mail messages on the navigation system. I can now get SMS messages but not e-mails yet. It is not a big deal either.

Even though I have only been using CM11, for a day I am impressed with it and like it a lot. It took me awhile to figure out how to get it installed and eventually used the safe strap method.

Thanks,
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jbag1489:
Hey Jake, I recently updated to the 3/25 build and none of my custom ringtones are showing up anymore. I've checked and the permissions still match. Any ideas or suggestions?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Are they on internal SD or external SD card? Not sure which ringtone folder is recognized by the newer builds but if it's not recognizing one switch to the other.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] jbag1489:
I actually just started dropping them into the /system/media/[name] folders because an old rom (most likely ics days) wouldn't consistently read from the SD folders.

Had no problems on previous builds of cm11 when they were in system folder with rw-r--r-- permissions
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jbag1489:
For whatever reason they randomly started showing up again!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Well glad its working lol

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
On a new flash, sometimes things do not work immediately. Our systems do "crawl" to locate pictures, videos, music, ringtones, and other pertinent media. Give it overnight to hunt our your phone and catalog what you have. In many situations, this has been what happened. It only takes a little patience and not to jump the gun. I know for sure Gallery and other system apps do crawl for media. So it stands to reason that other system apps do the same thing, unless you use a file explorer option to pick the ringtone of your choice. HTH
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
I'm still on CM 10.2 on my Maxx, and I have a strange problem. I'm trying to use the *228 to update towers, but when I dial *228 and the verizon recording says to press 2 on the dial pad, I have no dial pad with no option to return to the dial pad. Does anyone know how to bring up the dial pad in this situation? The only option on the screen is "back" which disconnects the call. Thanks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
My last 10.2 build had the button to bring dial pad unfortunately that was a long time ago. If there is a issue with 10.2 odds are it won't be fixed anymore as the code has been frozen and all testers have moved to cm 11. I would highly recommend upgrading. Even to the m builds if you are not a fan of night lies and can confirm that dial pad shows and can be hidden and brought back up on even newest nightly.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
Thanks, I can't find a work around to bring up the dial pad when using *228. The option is there for any other call. As far as CM 11 builds, I'm a little hesitant, as I posted here before, I'm on Safestrap 3.63, and all is working well, I keep thinking that upgrading to 3.65 to allow CM 11 will mess up my current set up.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Upgrading to 3.65 will not effect your setup. However upgrading to cm 11 will require a clean install as it changes Android versions. If you have titanium backup it makes things easier by backing up the apps you have and can restore them to the new install saving your settings or for games progress for those apps so you lose nothing. Its essential for frequent flasher like myself. Alternatively you can use safestrap to back up just your app data and restore that to the new install. Be sure that is the only one you back up as backing up and restoring system will cause issues with the new version. If you need anything you can ask here and will try to make your transition as smooth as possible. The newer builds have improved signal strength, download speeds, memory management, fluidity and new features like HDMI support. :)

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
Does clean install mean that after upgrading safestrap and before loading CM 11 & gapps that I wipe rom slot 1? Also, I have titanium with full backups, but can I stop google play from forcing all the apps I currently have back on to the CM 11 install? What is JBX kernel, do I need to do something with that?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Yes it does. To stop Google (I do as well) go to the backup and restore menu item in settings and uncheck the auto restore option in 10.2 before wiping and installing cm 11. This will stop Google from fighting with TB for app restore. JBX is a custom kernel that works for our phones that enables over clock and some stability, battery, and other performance improvements and tweaks. I have great experience with it and highly recommend its use. :)

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] sonomazr2:
Just wanted to put this out for Ohmster, as he was asking about the 3.26 and 3.27 builds. I cyandelta updated 3.26 to 3.27 and got a voice dialer fc upon bootup, and voice dialer will now always fc when starting. Not a big deal for me since I don't use it. I am glad this thread is here, as I don't have enough post to respond in the dev section. Went back to CM11 from LiquidSmooth (3.26) as I just got a blank display after voice call on speaker phone. Had to hard reboot. I don't use JBX. XT912 Verizon.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ef141:
Jake and Ohmster

Thanks for your help resolving this!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Not a problem my man that's what we are here for!

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
I just installed Safestrap 3.65, however when I reboot, the safestrap version that loads still says 3.63. Do i have to do something else to initiate 3.65?

I got 3.65 up and running. I tried loading cm11 3/23 nightly and gapps full modular. It fails at opening gapps zip file. Any idea what I should do. Thanks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Might be the gapps. Try this its a no meta data version made for our phones specifically.

http://androidhosting.org/Devs/Dhacker29/omap4/gapps-kk-20131208-no_set_metadata.zip

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
Thanks, I was able to install CM11 3/23 nightly with the mini modular gapps.

A few more question at this time, Can I download and install new CM 11 nightlies on top of my current nightly? Will that mess up all my current CM 11 settings? Will it affect the gapps I have all set up to my liking? How would I flash the JBX you mentioned? Will that cause any changes or problems?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sonomazr2:
Look for Cyandelta in the Play Store. It allows you to update with only downloading the difference between your current nightly and the newest. It also shows you the change log so you can determine if you even want the update.

Yes, you can update the full download on top of your current. Gapps will be fine. JBX is installed in recovery just like CM11.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thank you. Thank you very much. I am so thrilled with 03/25 that I for sure backed it up. I like 03/25 SO much that I tweaked and installed all the modules I like right now, some new ones that are super duper. Up to date with Google, then made an SS backup. I wanted to know if 26, 27 28 were as good, better, or had problems.

I don't now what CyanDelta is so I had to look it up. Oh I see, it can download new roms over slow or limited data connections, bit by bit, or maybe only applies the update and does not flash the entire rom? Linux has stuff like that, Android IS a special, commercial branch of Linux, and Google keeps it free. I have unlimited 4G data all the time so I really do not need these workarounds. But, I am sure that those who need it, really appreciate it.

I updated to 03/27 and am trying it out. I see no immediate change and it looks good. I did get one or two FC on dialer, first call today I could answer but not get the screen to light up, fine after that call. Nothing "Severe" so far so I will test a little more. If too many problems, I will report and revert back to 03/25. Maybe the USB bridge/black screen is coming back, too soon to tell. But I have 03/25 as a fallback.

I will watch for FC and especially with Dialer and let you all know. Thanks for the heads up my friend! :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
Thanks for your help. Can you point me to the correct JBX file for my X912 on Verizon. Is it a standard zip file that i can flash with Safestrap? After install are there any settings I need to adjust or will I benefit from the JBX regardless?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
You download and flash this in recovery:

http://d-h.st/MvS

When you flash it will launch JBX installer. I usually choose most tweaks on the other side except for the additional cameras and the 10℅ tweak. But you decide what you would like to have. ;)

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Just realized that Google Play Music doesn't show the option to save to external SD card. According to Google this is supported on KitKat. Is this a problem with CM11?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
What kind of SD card are you using? If its over 16gb and in exfat then its not natively supported and cm uses vold to display it and that can cause some apps to not show it.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
It's the original 16GB card that came with the Droid Razr. Not sure about the format, but I assume it's however the phone formatted the card originally. Should I try reformatting?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Well it most likely is fat32 so reformatting would erase your data for no reason. I don't know what the issue is but I also don't use Google play music so maybe someone else can chime in here with some insight.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
Thanks. If I flash this and have a problem, will I be able to reboot into recovery and reinstall cm11 in rom slot 1 or will the jbx be permanently attached to cm 11 in rom slot 1. I guess Im trying to understand that if I alter the kernel that I can go back and put the phone back the way it was before I flashed the kernel.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
If you reflash the ROM everything in system is overwritten including the kernel and it will return you to the stock cm kernel.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] aneeshmbabu:
I'm trying to install jbx ROM.I'm 4.4,liquid smooth and parnadroid but when I boot into safe strap and when I'm flashing the zip its showing failed..how this happenening if any help appreciable for flashing jbx kernal
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
If you are using a version of Safestrap older than 3.65 (the current) you must update to install newer builds.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] aneeshmbabu:
Thanks for the quick replay
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
Kind of strange. I downloaded the JBX kernel and saved it to my download folder on internal memory. When in Safestrap, I have rom slot 1 active and select install. When I search for the JBX zip its not in the download folder. Am I supposed to install the zip with rom slot 1 (where I have CM 11) active?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Are you sure that internal is mounted? I think there is a selection up top for which storage that is being explored. It defaults to external SD. Change to internal if so

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Any install you perform will be done to the active slot so make sure you are on the cm 11 slot.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] aneeshmbabu:
I installed safestrap 3.11 ,how to update into version 3.65.., step wise info needed.. I'm I'm confusion .. Reading different methods .. Kindly post step wise howbto update
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
I want to thank you for your help. I got the kernel loaded, I only picked a few options that made sense to me. Are there any operational things the kernel does that are noticeable?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
The kernel will make things smoother and better battery

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Download and install 3.65 apk. Open app click install recovery allow to complete hit reboot to recovery and doneski

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I went ahead and erased my SD card using SafeStrap. I then rebooted and uninstalled/reinstalled Google Play Music. Still can't save music to SD card; the setting isn't shown. Therefore, I suspect this is a CM11 issue.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
I suspect its a Google issue as they are eliminating support for SD cards

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
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Google just released external SD card support in Google Play Music sometime last December. Google states in the online Play Music help site that this function is supported in KitKat. So, it does not seem that they are eliminating support for SD cards, at least not for their own apps.

So, this problem almost has to be an incompatibility with CM11.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Here's an in depth discussion that seems to say that the plan is to let apps write to SD cards, but only in their own designated space. So, it should be possible for Google Play Music to access external SD cards. Since it can't on my phone running CM11 there must be something wrong.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...at-and-even-samsung-may-be-implementing-them/
[Motorola Droid RAZR] EdCarden:
I was having a lot of issues with Google Play Music myself a while back. Even on Jelly Bean, Play Music was constantly missing music I had loaded on my external Micro SD. I finally decided to just ditch Play Music. Apollo player is basically Play Music without the Google streaming service and comes standard with CM. It's a really nice free alternative for playing on device music. Although, I highly recommend purchasing the full version of Poweramp in the Play Store. IMO it's the best player available to play on device music.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
Thanks for the suggestions. Apollo is a good player, but I'm looking for a little more.

I have been looking for a way to selectively load a subset of my iTunes library onto my SD card (my complete iTunes library just won't fit on my device). Google Play Music allows you to load your iTunes library to the cloud and then stream it to your android device. You can also pin selected playlists, artists, albums, genres, and/or songs if you want them stored on your device for those times when streaming isn't an option.

This sounds like an ideal solution for me if I could just get the save to SD card option to work.

Using internal memory isn't much of an option because I have very little internal memory left for music storage. Manually transferring via USB cable to my SD card isn't attractive unless there is a way to easily select a subset of my iTunes library.

Does PowerAmp provide these capabilities?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
I have the CM11 3/23 Nightly with mini modular gapps and JBX Kernel running thanks to your help.

I have not noticed any battery improvement in a day or so, maybe even more battery drain. I didnt select any of the JBX options to help with battery, can I reflash the Kernel without wiping the entire rom slot so I can select more of the options, or is there another way to adjust the Kernel?

Also, Im getting some crashes on some of the google apps, is there any way to reflash another gapps, or do I have to reflash the CM11 rom and gapps?

Thanks for your help.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Reflash kernel to select more options. Gapps you can flash right over as well. It will overwrite any existing.

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
ROM will remain unchanged in both :)

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] ArkBirdFTW:
I just flashed CM11 on my RAZR. Now when I browse my internal storage it has system files from my old ROM. How can I clean these files?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
Backup data if you wish wipe internal in ss and reflash

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
I just downloaded the Trickster app to adjust the JBX kernel. Are the optimum battery saving settings documented anywhere for the XT91? Thanks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sonomazr2:
A real world guide would be really nice for JBX. Even presets like best battery life, fastest performance, best balance, etc. I have just put it on Slimkat, but don't have a clue what I am doing.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
First page on the JBX thread.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/h57jk5kb91cqdv9/JBX Kernel_1.6.pdf

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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
NOTE: Installing or reinstalling Safe Strap should only be done on stock rom slot, while running the stock rom. If you install Safe Strap in slot 1, CM11, it may work, however you will not get a working interface for it. This is what I was told, this is what I found out, and this is what I did. Not meaning to step on any toes here.

Jake is right, download the 3.6.5 apk, boot to stock, and install it from there.

---------- Post added at 08:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:34 PM ----------

I just went over this subject extensively in the cm11 thread. Several posts were made to explain this and provide a workaround with an Xposed module to make it work. I suggest you read it here, the discussion begins on page 359 and goes on for a page or two.

I hope this helps. Thanks for ALL of your help, Jake. You poor guy, you must be wearing yourself thin. If my jumping in to assist bothers you in any way, PM me, we are friends. :good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cigator:
I'm really struggling to get good battery life with CM 11, JBX and Trickster Mod. Do you have Trickster settings that can maximize battery with decent performance? Thanks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JakeDHS07:
I use vr and ktoon clocked low 300 max 1300, battery life has been lacking lately due mostly to the searching radios if your in a bad area. I get decent on my maxx turning off WiFi and GPS when I am not using them so I recommend that. The 10% extra per hour is worth the one or two times I have to swap to quick settings and tap the icon for two secs.

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