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[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
I agree this is a joke most apps are larger than this update **cough cough** I mean patch. What is really pissing me off is everything is moto x this and moto x that. I feel like the red headed step child.

Someone else posted this is just a soak test and to wait and see. I get it is a soak test but they usually send the whole update not just one part. So if this is the whole update Motorola is going to get blasted.
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Haha yea I was thinking that too. Maybe they get a kick out of reading the comments of people like us who bug out over leaked software.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Yeah, I actually moved to a Moto X because my Mini was so broken, and I know your pain. So bogus. I think the major thing is that we get double shafted with the Verizon Droid lineup because VZW is notoriously bad at updating, and the Moto X isn't exclusive to Verizon, so Moto has more of a customer base surrounding it. Not to mention that the bigger buzz around the Moto X because it's not exclusive provides an incentive for VZW to prioritize it... which is ironic, given that you'd think a carrier would want to promote its exclusives first. I'm still closely following the updates though, because if I can update my Mini and make it workable that would be fantastic!
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Even though this is not a major update, root survived for me. I just selected survival mode in SuperSU and it was no problem. Just an FYI for those that might be hesitant.
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
I would hope so it's such a small update and didn't change much.

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Did this update give us the new email app and new dialer.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
No new dialer and as far as I can tell the email app is the same. I don't use it but it looks the same

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[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
WOW I'm speechless at this pont.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
I'm just taking what I can get when I can get it. This isn't my first phone or will it be my last. Does it suck about this update not being 4.4.2... Slightly. But at least we are getting an update at all. Nobody promised us anything.

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Not true we were told it was 4.4.2 on G+ by moto rep.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
We were told we are GETTING 4.4.2. Like I said nobody promised us this would be it. Plus it's just a soak test. Not official yet

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[Droid Ultra General] chuck1026:
Thanks! Easy update. Left ART running and loaded via recovery. Took a while but no hic-cups (as usual I didn't wait like I said I would). So far so good...
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
For anyone on this patch, were only the notifications changed to white? Or did they get rid of the ICS blue through out?

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[Droid Ultra General] gfullwr70:
Explain how to install this patch please when I choose recovery I get the red exclamation and it says No Command.
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
Same thing here
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Thanks for the link. Copied and merged to the OP. Sucks its 4.4

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
well when a employee of Motorola tells me we're getting 4.4.2 I consider that a promise.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Are you 100% stock on 19.5.3 build, including stock recovery? Rename the file to update and place on the root of SD card. Boot into recovery. Select apply update from from SD.

Sent From Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Well I'm just passing along something a generous, to remain anonymous, xda member provided to me, so send the thanks his way, anonymously lol.
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
Yes to all of the above, still says "no command" in recovery mode.
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Updated thread title to remove 4.4.2

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
In recovery, hold down power button and volume up button. Release volume up button

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
All it does is reboot the phone? Is there something I'm missing here?
[Droid Ultra General] gfullwr70:
Same here!!
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
I may try a factory reset, but I'd rather not lose all of my stuff.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Power off phone, holds down power button and volume DOWN button to get to fastboot. From there use volume down to scroll to recovery. Use volume up to select recovery. Once you see the android with the exclamation mark hold down volume UP and power button

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"

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Or plug in phone to computer and use adb commands.

adb reboot recovery

Then select update from downloaded location. Most likely downloads/update.zip

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Edit for file location correction
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Once you see the android with the exclamation mark hold volume up and TAP PWR BUTTON! Or vice versa. Can't remember exactly.

Sent From Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] Jaocagomez:
Another let down for verizon and Moto :( , this phone indeed feels like the unwanted son of motorola...

ok if it isnt 4.4.2 tell me three things:

Does it fix the LTE and messages issues???

Does it improve the battery duration??

Does it include de Moto x dialer or kitkat dialer??

thats way more important that just the 4.4.2 release, specially the ones in black

for the ones in active soak test, PROVIDE FEEDBACK PLEASE TELL EM YOU DONT LIKE IT AND MISS THE DIALER OR THE 4.4.2 VERSION!
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
And after that, you simply select "apply update from SD card". If you moved the update.zip file to the root of your SD card (as in, the update.zip is just sitting there amongst all the other folders, not inside anything else), it'll show up at the top of the list of options after selecting the "apply update from SD card" bit.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Not sure about battery because I updated today.

No new dialer or new email app. LTE seems more stable so far but not sure about LTE/messages issue yet

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[Droid Ultra General] chuck1026:
After you copy "update.zip" to your SD on the phone (remember where you put it)...

1. Shut down phone while not charging.

2. Press Volume Down and press and hold it... now also press Power On... Release Power On but continue to press Power Down!

Should see the AP Fasboot screen.

Note... may not work first time so repeat until successful)

3. Press Volume down to select "Recovery". If you go past it press Volume down again until you go "back around to it... must be highlighted by blue bar.

4. Press Volume Up to select.

5. As phone first begins reboot, press and hold down Volume Down until you see the green droid with the red triangle and "No Command".

6. Now press and hold Volume Up and also press Power On. Release Power On then release Volume Up.

7. Use Volume Down to scroll down and highlight "apply update from SD card". Press Power button to select.

8. Use vol down to select subdirectory where you saved update.zip... use power button as "enter"

I think you can take it from here..... Not my fault if you brick or whatever... do at your own risk!
[Droid Ultra General] gfullwr70:
That was it !! Thanks
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Here is my working theory. Moto had an issue with the update David on G+ even said so. The 2012 updates were ready to go and if the 2012 droids got it before us we would have screamed. I am thinking they send us this little update with a new kernel and radio and of course the white status bar icons (everyone wanted). It was to calm us down. I have to beleive that we will get a 4.4.2 update. If not I will never buy another droid again.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
My thoughts also.. I think this is just the appetizer (for lack of a better word) to hold us over for the 4.4.2 that we will get... Who knows when though

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[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
I'm waiting for David to respond on G+ to this situation.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
I'd love to hear him pipe up, but I think the fact that this is a soak test, and one that hasn't been publicly "officially" announced by Motorola, means he might not be able to. If we see him address it, it'll probably be to mention that an update is coming for the 2013 lineup at all at first. Information about soak tests isn't "supposed" to be leaked--manufacturers like to have control over when we hear about this sort of stuff, because as soon as something is announced, they can't un-announce it without a lot of bad press and PR, so they can only announce after they're reasonably certain of an outcome. But still, I'll be watching his G+ page just in case.
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Let not forget this radio is the same one I had already released months ago.

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
yeah I checked that out it's the same as the moto x.
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
Well LTE bug is still present... Home button double action isn't fixed, this update didn't do sh*t but give us white icons. I'm seriously pissed with Verizon and Moto right now.

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Soak testers please give Moto feedback on these issues!
[Droid Ultra General] LeoBloom.:
Does Chrome or the camera app still show a black snapshot when minimized to the recent apps?
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
Yes they do. This update didn't fix anything
[Droid Ultra General] ThorSkaagi:
Just updated. The white icons were honestly all I wanted so I'm pretty satisfied with this, though it would be nice if the home double-action bug was fixed.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
You know, to be fair to Motorola here, I think the white icons were pretty frequently mentioned as a request from users--so if they were going to put out a non-substantial update, that's a pretty thing to have it do, right?
[Droid Ultra General] ThorSkaagi:
Exactly. I'm glad they listened to feedback and corrected themselves.
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
So white icons are more important than functionality? Fix the known bugs first
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Ha, no, of course they're not. But fixing the blue icons is is a non-situation specific issue, while a lot of other bugs are intermittent and happening to various smaller segments of the userbase. Bugs, even crippling ones, can be a lot tougher to fix than changing the color of the notifications icons. So troubleshooting those takes significantly more effort, and sometimes (like in our upgrade to 4.4 yay!) causes still more problems. Let's remember that this was a freaking soak test, and doesn't represent Moto's "official" update schedule at all. Also, if I remember right, Moto has moved to a two-tiered soak testing schedule where an even smaller group of "proven" testers would be involved in earlier and more frequent testing. So, this fits pretty well with all that.
[Droid Ultra General] LeoBloom.:
For those of you with the soak - is it stable/safe to upgrade? Any crashes/reboots throughout today?
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
No issues.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Nope, no issues whatsoever.
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
Aside from the fact that all we got is white icons and no actual bug fixes, no issues
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Lol exactly...no issues besides ALL the issues we already had with 4.4
[Droid Ultra General] kdaz:
Any way to flash this without root?
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Yeah, you don't need root to flash a signed OTA. There's even a lovely step by step guide posted up the thread a ways. The only thing you can't do is flash something that doesn't have the appropriate signature ( which also means no messing with the leaked file)
[Droid Ultra General] Mudvayne622:
Is this safe for us who are rooted?
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
I already confirmed earlier that I had no issues with keeping root. Use survival mode with supersu to be safe

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[Droid Ultra General] Mudvayne622:
Must have missed your post. Sorry about that and thanks
[Droid Ultra General] roidsmith:
If I flash this and they push a different OTA, where does that put me? RSD?
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
When the Verizon accidentally pushed the Christmas droid RAZR ota a few years back, they released two different otas for each version of android that people were running; however, this is different in that we are still on 4.4, so I would think you could rsd back to the official 4.4 with no problem considering this update doesn't change much other than the radio

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[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
And the kernel
[Droid Ultra General] roidsmith:
That's why I ask because I don't want to get stuck ?
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
If you have a Dev edition you obviously won't have problems keeping root, unlocked boot loader.. I think he means for those who kept root from 4.2 on consumer devices

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If anything the "different OTA" would probably be the 4.4.2 update that we were supposed to get. Who knows maybe they just wanted to shut us up so they released a quick soak test/update to change a few things and get the actual update ready
[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
I'm going to take a wild guess that the people who unlocked their bootloader via the Chinese guy has flagged imei with Motorola and that's why we didn't receive an invite.
[Droid Ultra General] kanagadeepan:
Only white icons??? No improvement in battery life?? And No 4.4.2??

Good.. I am not going to flash the update, err patch for white icons... (Though my phone has UnLocked BL)...
[Droid Ultra General] italysfinest327:
I'm unlocked through Chinese guy and received the invite. I just never accepted the install
[Droid Ultra General] stonesaber:
Mine is the dev editon and this is the only soak test for which I didn't get an invite.
[Droid Ultra General] jfriend33:
Is there an official change log? So far all I'm seeing is white icons in status bar and better lte being mentioned.

I am extremely content since I unlocked the bootloader. Now if I didn't have that and this was the end, I'd be upset.

I think it's a great thing that the older phones got a bigger update. They have less memory and needed it more than we do.

The only bugs I have that I can think of are... Well none. The home key taking me to the middle main screen is just fine with me. I feel bad for those with battery issues. I'd suggest a warranty exchange. If root is required then sell the warranty replacement and buy another. What a hassle though.

The moto X kit Kat dialer would be nice. I know it's flushable but you still are stuck with two separate dialers. I want it fully integrated.

One thing I'll be considering when it comes time to upgrade, is multi carrier availability. Exclusivity to a carrier for a device is bad for people who love accessories. Now that Seidio is backing away from the convert series... Sigh. But I am happy Incipio at least made some decent cases.

And I'll end with this. Motorola if you're reading this please make something like a lapdock again! Make something like a padfone. Something that converts my phone to a tablet and tablet to a laptop. Maybe dual boots too.

Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Can we use the 4.4 fxz or will it brick this update. By the way they fixed the OK Google command in search with this update.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
What do you mean they fixed it? What issue had you been having, more specifically?
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
When I had Google search open I had to hit the mic. It didn't search by saying OK Google.
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Someone who is on this soak, can you boot into boot loader and check the version and report back? Thanks

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Will this work?

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[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Pic is a little blurry but looks like 30.b2 still correct?

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
30.B2 (sha-0086aae 2013-10-17
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Thanks. New tether work around coming in about an hour. Testing now. Looks to have fixed the issue with pages failing to load with the old exploit. Tested good on 19.5.3. Will test on this build soon
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Side update. This version doesn't appear to flash a new bootloader version. I was able to safely revert back to 19.5.3 using RSD with an unlocked bootloader. I don't see any reason why locked boot loaders couldn't do the same.
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
That's good to know I deleted a bunch of system junk and would be screwed if I couldn't fxz.
[Droid Ultra General] Jaocagomez:
i dont know if this is update related but i'll say it anyways, i installed the soak test in another droid maxx which is unrooted and locked bootloader.

everything was doing fine, then from the moment i installed the update a few hours later i noticed that the active notifications was failing, sometimes working sometimes not, but 1 hour ago, the screen turned off itself i couldnt wake the phone, even if a pressed the power button, so i tried to restart using power and vol up and it vibrated but i couldnt see nothing, no bootloader, no recovery, no power up, just vibrating sometimes, i just came home and plug it on my pc and it booted straight to bootloader, i dont know what happened, if this was only my device related or a update issue, but my phone was working fine so i dont really know...
[Droid Ultra General] appletonpunk:
My maxx is unlocked and rooted. I tried to flash this in twrp. It said " this package is for obake devices, this device is " ". Failed to install... What's up?
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Its an ota you can't install it using twrp only stock recovery.
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
Has anything been changed except the white?

If so I can't find anything else different or functional changes.
[Droid Ultra General] tehcodeman:
The "OK Google" search hotword now works again! This was the biggest headache of 4.4 (worked in 4.2.2). But now it's back :)

Also, as mentioned earlier, root survived through the update using SuperSU Survival Mode.
[Droid Ultra General] @work:
Its not, this started happening to me about a week ago. The keyboard has also gone wonky on me.

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Its too big to just be white icons so yes it's a good bet that other things have changed. They are most likely under the hood bug fixes.

Btw those expecting the phone to work properly on other carriers in the USA Wil most likely be very disappointed for the remainder of their time with this phone. Motorola adverts have all been changed to indicate that roaming is only supported for overseas carriers. I suspect it has been broken on purpose in the USA.
[Droid Ultra General] Jaocagomez:
happened again, black screen and not working, ota ****ed up my phone. or may be its a punishment for being a non tester.
[Droid Ultra General] s_u_n:
Please share the source of this change. This is quite bad. My phone has just started working on GSM (I am outside US, but still don't want to take any chances).
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
I'm not having any issues with the ota myself.

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[Droid Ultra General] chuck1026:
No trouble with my Maxx (not part of official test group but running soak)
[Droid Ultra General] Just_Jim:
Does usbdisk work?
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
This was never an issue for my phone.
[Droid Ultra General] rhouse1983:
Personally.....

I sideloaded it perfectly without any issues and while there is minimal change (white) I'm honestly not upset. The visual effect of white over blue right now for me is good enough for me to say my phone is on KitKat. Phone works great no issues. Not rooted or unlocked. Battery fine as well.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
After doing some digging through the script and metadata files in the update.zip file, there is actually a ton of patches in this update. It appears to me that the changes that stuck out the most were the ones to bluetooth and the modem; however, there is a patch for what seems like almost every stock apk file.

There are also some changes to the framework for the lte hardware (com.verizon.hardware.telephony.lte) which, along with the modem update, I think could be some LTE stability changes?

Not sure what this update really was all about for us (besides giving us white icons) but I think it's mostly just one big security update with a few minor updates to try and keep us happy (shocker right). I understand that this is ONLY a soak test and is not official yet, but it doesn't quite make sense why they would go through all this trouble to release this and it not be 4.4.2.
[Droid Ultra General] ws6formula350:
Does anyone know if our phone was affected by the Heartbleed exploit? :dunno:

My phone seems more... Fluid since I sideloaded this as well.

I'm sure there will be a 4.4.2 update as well but I'm 100% on board with incremental security and stability patches.

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I can't really comment on the battery vs 4.2.2 because the second day I had my MAXX the Kit Kat soak test dropped and I took the upgrade. I still get more than a day and a half out of it no problem so I'm not complaining. My droid 4 needed charged after my lunch break at work if I did anything with it other than have it in my pocket lol
[Droid Ultra General] reggie14:
I noticed that too. There's a ton of very, very small incremental updates to system APKs and other system files. Most the changes are extremely small.

I also tried to compare the Verizon Moto X 4.4.2 update to this one. No surprise, the Moto X update is much bigger, changes more files, and generally speaking, seems to make bigger changes to the files. I expected to see quite a few files within the updates match. That didn't happen. As others mentioned, the radio firmware update appears to match, but almost nothing else does.

The size difference between the Moto X update and the Droid update is somewhat misleading. The Moto X update includes updates for lots of APKs that can be updated through the Play store.
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
I couldn't run this soak. Gave me extremely bad connectivity issues. Which is weird as I have already been running this radio

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] chuck1026:
Now that you mention it, I noticed my radio doesn't switch modes (wifi to 4G to...) as well now. It gets hung up. Fail.
[Droid Ultra General] tehcodeman:
If you don't use the Google Experience Launcher, then it wouldn't be. Please note that I'm not talking about "OK Google Now" with Moto's Touchless Controls...that was never broken for me either. I'm talking about the "OK Google" hotword for Google Search that was broken with the original 4.4 update.
[Droid Ultra General] 2THEXTRM:
Received pushed update, I did not sign up for soak so must be approved for public release already. Installed without issue. Unlocked with TWRP.

Having white notification icons after ICS blue for so long feels odd lol

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[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
I mean, officially Google Now Launcher isn't supported (although obviously you can sideload it very easily) so it's nice they went out of the way to fix it!
[Droid Ultra General] Metfanant:
Been out of the loop for awhile...trying to catch up on this thread but let me.just get it out of the way and ask...

How does this "soak test" play with rooted users?...

I never unlocked my bootloader, I'm just rooted..still running stock 19.5.3...

- rename to update.zip

- flash in stock recovery

Should be good to go?

sent from my Droid Maxx