yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[RAZR HD General] Board373:
Sorry if that was bad information, my understanding was that this method would work as the original post from Samurai states "if you've SUCCESSFULLY installed the OTA and are now trying to downgrade for any reason, you will brick your locked device." I guess applying the update and getting to the red M/bootloop is considered a "successful" update. Thanks for the clarification.
[RAZR HD General] iBolski:
The quote in red above says it all - if you have a locked device, you will brick your device. He specifies that you can only revert back to JB if you have an unlocked bootloader.
[RAZR HD General] timobkg:
Ok, so if I applied the OTA update, and am now stuck at the red M logo, the update installed correctly and I'm now on KK, it's just FUBARed?

SamuriHL pulled the instructions you linked - seems they didn't work. So I guess I'm already screwed, and would have to wait for an FXZ to be released, or get a replacement phone? Would doing a factory reset from the recovery menu help at all? I guess it couldn't be any worse, right?

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Hey, so were you able to successfully flash back to 9.30.1 with the RAZR HD Utility? Were you able to get your phone working again?
[RAZR HD General] iBolski:
If you can get to recovery, then apply the OTA again. But, the way this OTA works, it replaces the recovery with a new one and the key combo to get to it is different. The key combo is now vol up + power (press and hold vol up and then press power and then let go of both buttons).

Once you get back into recovery, reapply the OTA.

I'm assuming you pushed the OTA to your external SD card and didn't receive it over the network. Otherwise, if you received it over the network, then it would have done all of this for you and you won't have to do anything but just wait. I know for a fact it works this way because as I stated, I reverted back to JB (I have an unlocked bootloader) and then accepted the OTA and it updated the phone to KK for me and I never had to go into the recovery to restart the install.

You only have to restart the install if you apply the OTA yourself manually.
[RAZR HD General] stras1234:
xt926 stock kk fxz available

i just posted here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52845700
[RAZR HD General] timobkg:
See, this is why I'm so confused. :)

I received the OTA over the network. It seemed to install, but then the phone went to the red M logo and hasn't changed from there, so I don't know if it installed or not.

I can get into the bootmode selection menu, and into recovery using the new power + vol up combo. It then gives me the option to apply the update again from sdcard or ADB(?), or wipe data / factory reset, or wipe the cache which I already did.

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Give that my phone is stuck at the red M logo, but I can get into the boot mode selection and recovery, is there any way to connect it to my PC so that I can pull my data off the internal memory card before wiping / flashing?
[RAZR HD General] Grimaldus3320:
For the record, and just a word of warning first. THIS MIGHT JUST BE FOR MY CASE AND MAY NOT WORK AND BRICK OTHERS PHONES. I recived the official update when I was ROOTED BUT LOCKED. after downloading the OTA from verizon it went through the setup normally and when it rebooted I was stuck on the red M. I tried a FDR and it did nothing, I was still hanging at the red M.

In samari's post he does state that if you are locked and the KK OTA installed then rolling back to 9.30 will brick your phone and you will have to wait for the FXZ. But I figured, since I'm soft bricked now anyways and I'm waiting for the FXZ I might as well try it. So I followed his guide EXACTLY and as soon as I ran the RSDLight with his script, when my phone rebooted during the final step of the RSDLight, it actually booted normally. From there I put the 9.30 file he posted on my sd card and again, followed the instructions and I upgraded to KK successfully.

Again, this is just my experience and I don't know if I'm one in a million that wont get his phone bricked for doing this. You fine devs here on xda can tell us how samari's proccess worked for me when it wasn't supposed to.
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
You have no idea how happy this makes me and how much easier it makes my life. Thanks!

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All of you having problems, it no longer matters. Get the FXZ, drop my RSD Script Generator into it, and generate the scripts. Flash the KEEP DATA or UNIVERSAL script and be done with it.
[RAZR HD General] timobkg:
Awesome, thanks! That means I can stop screwing around with getting ADB to work and manually pulling my data - yay!

I'm eagerly waiting for your FXZ upload to finish. :)
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
You could grab it from stras' google drive link. That's how I got it. My upload's almost done though. I don't want to slam his poor google drive. :)
[RAZR HD General] timobkg:
Oh, ok. I didn't know if it was the same file, or if you had to make any modifications to it. I'm grabbing yours now.

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Does it matter which script I use, KEEP-DATA or UNIVERSAL?

Looking at the scripts, KEEP-DATA and FULL seem to be identical, while UNIVERSAL omits the line <step filename="tz.mbn" operation="flash" partition="tz"/>
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
No modifications. I simply rehosted it to save his bandwidth from being squashed.

On a locked device, KEEP DATA is probably more appropriate. You can't downgrade anyway, so, the UNIVERSAL script doesn't do much for you.
[RAZR HD General] jldr:
So this definitely can't be done on a USB3 port? RSD lite doesn't show my device, so I assume it won't flash.
[RAZR HD General] timobkg:
I tried to flash it using RSD Lite, but got the following error:

Failed flashing process. 1/16 flash partition "gpt.bin" -> Phone returned FAIL

UPDATE:

I got it to work. I renamed the VZW_XT926... folder to remove the .xml extension from it, and repeated generating the scripts and it ran successfully using Universal.

Thanks so much!
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
I've only ever seen one person even claim that it worked on a USB3 port and almost everyone that's tried fails and makes a mess of things. So, I'm going with no.

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Yes, I replied in my thread on droidrzr. I need information. Cause this could be INCREDIBLY bad if Moto did what I think they did. I will be absolutely livid.
[RAZR HD General] jldr:
Well, that convinced me to hold off on this update!
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
More testing is required before I can confirm or refute what's happening. I'm having an unlocked user test something for me right now. So far there's no indication of a problem. But when I see a flash failed on the gpt partition is sends up warning signs.

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Ok, it appears it's just timobkg that's having a problem. So everyone can resume being calm and flash away. :)
[RAZR HD General] jldr:
I place all trust in you my liege.
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Look at it this way...if you're already bricked, flashing this won't make it worse. :) Worse case you still have to wait for a 183 FXZ.
[RAZR HD General] jldr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UPt6YHgBC4

Now to root! Thanks so much for your work!
[RAZR HD General] timobkg:
I thought we couldn't root KitKat at this time? Or are you using an unlocked phone?
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Locked phones can't root. But it's confirmed that this FXZ will work for unbricking people. Right, [MENTION=4410278]timobkg[/MENTION]? :D
[RAZR HD General] jldr:
I'm unlocked. It's possible isn't it?
[RAZR HD General] abuttino:
How about going back to CM11 after this is flashed?
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Yes, the instructions are in the thread on droidrzr you've been following.

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Not sure. I know there's a CWM version that works (which is what jldr is going to use to root) so I'm guessing you could flash it with that.
[RAZR HD General] abuttino:
I'm not in a hurry, that's for sure. Just would like to try out tap n' pay
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
I use Google wallet on my S4. It's pretty sweet, I will admit.
[RAZR HD General] killrhythm09:
So if it's possible to downgrade to 9.30.1 with an unlocked bootloader, how would that work? Would it downgrade the bootloader to the pre-KK one?
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Unlocked allows you to flash all partitions except gpt and tz.
[RAZR HD General] timobkg:
Yup, it took me out of the red logo of death and to a working phone with all my data intact!
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Magic. :)
[RAZR HD General] Tomsgt:
Made a little video on how to update to Kitkat for you guys check it out HERE
[RAZR HD General] killrhythm09:
OK, so if I used the 9.30.1 fxz, I would just remove the TZ and gpt_main0.bin steps and it would work? Sorry for all the questions, I just want to get this straight before I try something stupid.
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Or just flash the KK FXZ that was released this morning. But if you're unlocked and downgrading, safest is to generate script for your FXZ with my RSD Script Generator. Or you could manually remove those lines yourself, yes. And I appreciate asking before doing. :) Saves everyone a big headache in the end.
[RAZR HD General] killrhythm09:
OK, cool. Basically what I want to do is downgrade to 9.30.1 while maybe keeping the new baseband so I can go back to CyanogenMod now that I've checked out the KK OTA for a bit.

I found your RSD Script Generator over at Droidrzr. Is "universal" the one I want?
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Yes but why downgrade to 9.30.1 if you're going to install CM? Just install CWM recovery for KK and flash CM. That'll keep your KK baseband.
[RAZR HD General] killrhythm09:
I have that CWM installed but it won't let me flash CM. It throws an error and just aborts. I thought dhacker said something about the new device tree being a problem?

I figured if it flashed the old device tree it might work. But obviously I'm not an expert, lol.
[RAZR HD General] Faethor420:
Sam, I know I show more "noob-ness" than I actually possess for asking this, but I just woke up, so bear with me. Anyway, now that we have the FXZ, would that make Voodoo or something similar work for retaining root? Also, what keeps some of those "universal" root apps from working? Saferoot or any of those that claim they will work on any phone, all Android, etc?
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Yea, it should work, but, if you downgrade it's going to flash the old baseband, so, be aware of that.

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No.
[RAZR HD General] Faethor420:
Ouch, guess that not only answers my base question but also tells me the rest has likely been repeatedly explained elsewhere and ur tired of sounding like a broken record, which I can respect. "Shoulda done ur research b4 opening ur mouth, Faethor", right? Lol
[RAZR HD General] SamuriHL:
Something like that. lol. I posted in the KK root thread my thoughts on this. There's very little chance a new root exploit is going to come out for this phone. If you want to understand further, find my post.
[RAZR HD General] bweN diorD:
the razr utility has been updated to a full KK version from this fxz for anyone who wants a one click option.

the new version will update you from any version, locked or unlocked, and fixes any borked KK ota installs.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2474393
[RAZR HD General] Playb3yond:
This worked for me. Locked and was running 183.x.x before I soft bricked my Maxx HD. Now its running 182.x.x. Thank you guys so much! I really appreciate your work
[RAZR HD General] jtommyj:
I was running 183 before also. It is probably placebo effect but my WiFi seems better and I am definitely getting more bars on 4G at my home.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mascolel:
Hi all,

I was trying to update muy PA 3.99 to the latest one. Then I did the factory reset and then tried to install it. When I tried to install pa_mako 4.3 - Beta 3, it says that there was an error:

Warning: No file_contextsset_metadata_recursive: some changes failed

E: Error in /sdcard/0/pa_mako-4.3-BETA3-20140506.zip (Status 7)

Instalation aborted.

I already realized that the problem is that I need to update the Clockworkmod b4 doing this. But now my phone won't boot untill home screen... it always goes back to the CWM screen.

I have tried to restore the latest backup, but it says MD5 mismatch.

Also, I can't access my mobile using USB, even with the proper Drivers installed (it won't get recognized by windows).

I am lost.... can anyone help me?

I already tried the Nexus toolkit, but i dont know what is going wrong that it also can't connect to my Nwexus 4.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mascolel:
Desperate mode off haahhaha

Just followed this tutorial:

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-4/help/guide-ultimate-nexus-4-root-guide-t2018179
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blusydays:
You can flash/update clockworkmod while fastboot mode, and then reflash your rom.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wulsic:
Did you installed the usb drivers? Did you tryed to reflash some other rom before 4.2.2

Btw check also device manager or its connected.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 4 met Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] fluther:
Hello everyone.

A few people in the Chaos Kernel development thread suggested that there should be a thread in the general section devoted to the use as opposed to the development of this great kernel.

For those who don't know, Chaos is a CAF kernel developed by [MENTION=3795148]neobuddy89[/MENTION] for use with Cyanogenmod. Rather than being a place for discussing Chaos's pros and cons with respect to all the other great custom kernels available, this thread is for sharing the NXTweaks settings that we have found work well for us, whether this is with a view to achieving great performance, great battery life, or some balance of the two.

My own settings are based roughly on [MENTION=3795148]neobuddy89[/MENTION]'s own settings that he posted several pages back on the dev thread. I'm looking for a solid balance between performance and battery, and I find that these settings deliver both (at least vs stock CM kernel).

Every setting not mentioned is left at the default setting for the built-in 'balanced' profile.

CPU:

PE WQ: enabled

OC: 2.496GHz

Gov: Intelliactive

Sleep gov: Conservative

IO: FIOPS

Sleep IO: ROW

Hotplug: Intelli HotPlug (eco mode disabled)

Colour Profile: Piereligio TrueRGB V7

Fast Charge: Auto

Cron zipalign task enabled.

What do you guys and gals think? (As an aside, I used to be able to oc to 2.576GHz on Chaos 10.2 with earlier CM11 M builds, but since Chaos 11 with M4, 5 and 6, I get an instant kernel panic as soon as I enable this. I'm going to post on the dev thread with my last kmsg when I hit ten posts. I don't talk much!) Specifically, what's your experiences with FIOPS vs ROW?

I find that this gives me an utterly smooth UX across every app, combined with enough battery to get me from 0700 to late in the evening. Sorry I don't have screenshots or SO states (or benchmarks) but I prefer to use the entirely subjective criterion of whether my phone *feels* fast and long-lived.

Hope people like this thread. Also, I'm new here, so sorry if I've got any etiquette wrong.

Edit: I should've said, I'm running a D821 N5 with CM11 M6, and the latest Chaos 12 nightly. I was on CM nightlies but I got sick of it.
[Nexus 5 General] Williamsss:
Kernel: 12.0 5/12

Rom: SOKP MS-1

Profile based: Balanced

CPU:

PE WQ: enabled

UC: 1.728 GHz

UV: -20 MHz

Sleep Freq: 1.497 GHz

Boost Freq: 1.267 GHz

Sync Freq: 1.574 GHz

Gov: Intelliactive

Sleep gov: Intelliactive

IO: FIOPS

Sleep IO: Row

GPU: 320 Mhz

Polling: 14 ms

Hotplug: Cyanogen

DT2W: Enabled

Power key toggle: Enabled

Sound: Custom

Headphone: 260

Speaker: 262

Attenuation: 39

Mic: 260

Camera: 258

Colour Profile: Piereligio TrueRGB V7 / Vivid

Gentle Fair Sleepers: Disabled

Dynamic Fsync: Enabled

Fast Charge: Auto

Cron: All enabled

GPS: North America

Thanks for creating the thread =]
[Nexus 5 General] trungquan_it:
Kernel: Always latest.

Rom: AICP RC-4.0

PE WQ: Enable

CPU Freq: All Default.

UV: -25mV (from Kernel Tweaker)

Gov: Intelliactive.

Sleep gov: Conservative

IO: FIOPS

Sleep IO: ROW

Hotplug: Intelli-Hotplug (Eco Mode Disable)

GPU: Default

KSM: All Disable

Sound: Quality

Color Profile: Piereligio TrueRGB V7

Color Tweak: Stock

Dynamic Fsync: Enable

Cron Jobs: All Enable except Update Ad-Block.

This is my favourite settings and it's running great :D
[Nexus 5 General] neobuddy89:
I have changed back to default settings of default profile with KSM, ZRam (for testing), Quality Sound, TrueRGB Color profile. :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5 General] lezzi:
Trying to change color profile display with nxtweaks but I'm not able to apply it

Used Franco display control and seems to apply correction Piereligio_v7

CM 11 build 05/12 and chaos latest nightly

Anyone?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] giajp:
NXtweaks:

max CPU freq: 1.574

max CPU susp freq: 1.190

min CPU susp freq: 300

boost duration: 0ms

input event boost duration: 0ms

input event boost freq: 1.190

sync threshold: 1.190

cpu governor: interactive

cpu sleep governor: conservative

io sched: fiops

io sleep sched: fiops

hotplug: MSM

boosted cpus: 1

max cpus online: 2

max gpu freq: 200

polling interval: 30ms

gpu governor: MSM

dirty ratio: 20

dirty background 5

set ZRAM to 200MB

swappiness: 80

freq throttle: 65

freq throttle suspend: 60

core throttle: 70

core throttle suspend: 70

TRICKSTER MOD (beta tester app version):

tcp congestion: westwood

read ahead buffer size: 384

GOVERNOR (interactive):

above: 20000

go_hispeed_load: 99

hispeed_freq: 652800

min_sample_time: 20000

sync_freq: 300000

target_loads: 90

timer_rate: 20000

timer_slack: 40000

up_threshold_any_cpu_freq: 960000

up_threshold_any_cpu_load: 90

multicore power saving: 2

gpu max freq: 200

UNDERVOLTS:

300: -65

422: -65

652: -65

729: -65

960: -65

1574: -65

all the other: -50
[Nexus 5 General] neobuddy89:
80 swappiness?? Any diff?
[Nexus 5 General] giajp:
I don't know, try it. I always use this recommended settings by Faux

Sent with my Google Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] fluther:
It seems that some of you are underclocking and undervolting quite aggressively. How does this work out for you in terms of battery? And how much does performance suffer?

[MENTION=3795148]neobuddy89[/MENTION] is there any particular reason why you use KSM and ZRAM, given that the N5 has 2gb of ram already? Also, what's your take on the various governors and schedulers?
[Nexus 5 General] giajp:
With the chaos is the only one situation when the performance doesn't suffer so much (try and give me your opinions). Battery incredible

View attachment 2744321

Half WiFi, half data

Edit: [MENTION=5776992]fluther[/MENTION] i think the ZRAM, on CM11 is indispensable. The memory leak is still too strong, unlike stock/aosp

Sent with my Google Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Darth:
Not to offend.....seriously.....but that is OK battery life..... And with all that under clocking and volting..... You've basically shown it is unnecessary. You've gained little, if anything doing it....and I imagine your performance must be suffering.

I think realistically.... You can under volt or under clock the phone into the ground and at best gain only minutes of screen time....and an hour or 2 overall total life.

Just my experience with it. Never touch clock and volts now.....there's no significant change to battery, yet performance degrades the lower you go. ;)

My 2 cents. ?
[Nexus 5 General] bigdave79:
Yeah, I have the same problem. Not sure why. It used to work just fine when I first flashed the kernel. Let me know if you figure it out.
[Nexus 5 General] fluther:
Hi everyone. I said in the OP that I'm not terribly interested in benchmarks, and while this holds true, I though I'd share this great antutu result. However, I've a question: why the poor integer performance? [MENTION=3795148]neobuddy89[/MENTION] ?
[Nexus 5 General] neobuddy89:
Maybe because we use our own hotplug engine? Someone with more Antutu test knowledge might able to help.
[Nexus 5 General] fluther:
Sorry, I should've said this was using intelliactive and intellihotplug.
[Nexus 5 General] oo0:
guys, got really frustrated with DT2WAKE issue, it could work flawlessly all day long, and all of a sudden it fails to wake the device up.

if i wait about one minute without using the power button, dt2wake works again and keep working for some time - then it happens again.

it happens on freshly installed and wiped system with all the latest nightlies of Chaos kernel + pacman rom.

from DEFAULT SETTINGS i only lower CPU freqs to 1.7

PE WQ on

GPU 320, polling 30ms

MSMhotplug with 2 cores

DT2W enable

color profile TrueRGB

vibrator strength 0

what can POSSIBLY relate to WAKE issue, any apps/settings? maybe nxtweaks are being killed in background? really annoying, especially while driving.

suppose to wake and get to dialer without looking and with one simple action, look at the phone once to find contact and dial.

and its like: look at the phone to check if DT2wake worked, if not try again, then slide the phone in palm to use the power button etc. etc.

i rely on this function and really need it working all the time.
[Nexus 5 General] neobuddy89:
As I told over PM, will clean up that code next week which may help..
[Nexus 5 General] oo0:
[MENTION=3795148]neobuddy89[/MENTION], thanks! it's an old post. also, i guess, no one else has that issue. good thing - i have no SODs like many people reported with any of your builds. tested Furnace kernel for a while, dt2wake works perfectly, but having better battery with Chaos.
[Nexus 5 General] JLO155:
Anyone have a high performance set up that can be used for daily use that they want to share?
[Nexus 5 General] maddes1402:
Interactive governer,

sleep governor conservative

CPU 300-2500mhz

Hotplug see picture

After 2 load circles the battery consumption and performance is amazing (latest AICP nightly) with a sot time of ~5 hours with auto brightness. Regards, Matt
[Nexus 5 General] howard bamber:
The one and only advantage of uc is the phone runs cooler

From the app that F/C's every 10 min....
[Nexus 5 General] [armitage]:
Actually I have the same problem, with kernel v12.

Worked all day yesterday and today it only works shortly after I turned off the screen (don't have the "Power key toggle" option activated).

If I wait about a minute the function doesn't work anymore.

Trying a nightly v13 later on...

EDIT:

Flashed the latest v13 nightly, about two hours ago and tested again.

The new kernel didn't help.

But I did reset the kernel settings to default again and only activated the DT2Wake and set the caf sound control to quality.

Since I did that it dt2w worked every single time I tried it.

Before, when it stopped working I also set the color profil to TrueRGB v7 and activated the battery profil.

Maybe one of theses settings had something to do with dt2w not working anymore.
[Nexus 5 General] ryukiri:
Anyone have a good battery setup that they can share? I don't play any games, no Facebook, google now off, location off. Mainly texting, hangouts, taking pictures, and Snapchat, so a little performance decrease is fine.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Kernel changes will only make a minor difference in battery life. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] ryukiri:
What is the backlight dimmer offset in nxtweaks? I have backlight dimmer enabled and threshold set to 2 but the light on minimum brightness is still pretty bright. (Came from Franco kernel and when I set his backlight threshold to 1 or 2 it was barely visible but I like it when I'm in a dark room)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Sorry, I've never messed with that stuff myself.