I've been thinking about updating manually to JB because I want to experience project butter and the other things that cone with it. My question is, is it worth it to side load it before the ota is released again? Does anyone know if we'll be able to get the new jb update if its different?
I use my Bluetooth, wifi, and gps a lot so I'll need them to be reliable as they are now. I don't need root at this time and I am not currently rooted.
Any thoughts? Is it faster and smoother?
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I loaded 4.1.2 manually on Dec 25. It's made my RAZR much faster and smoother. I've used Google Now quite a bit. If this is not the final version of 4.1.2, we will not be able to install the official OTA unless Motorola provides a patch.
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But I thought this was the same build that some users got from Motorola ota. They won't be able to get the final build either? Surely they'd release a build that would also work for them too?
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It was an OTA, but released by Moto in error. It may not be the final build of Jelly Bean.
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My question is though, and nobody may know this, but if they is a problem with the builds from December, will the next update install on the ones who got it early?
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The official OTA will install only over the 211 build of ICS. That is why a patch would be needed for those on a non-final build of JB.
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Ok. Well with that being said, i probably should just wait for the official final build then.
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That's a good plan, since the OTA will be out this quarter.
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As for myself, I've got 7 months left on contract. By upgrading via side loading last month, I've preserved possibly half of phone's remaining life (in my possession) for a MUCH improved operating system. If there's any defect in the leaked Jelly Bean, I haven't found it yet. My recommendation is to go for it.
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Right now I've frozen the updater file using Titanium Backup. I received the OTA on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 yesterday and all I can say at this point is I don't like it at all! My Dolphin Browser crashed on me and I cannot stand the new Google search. If there was a way to undo the update on my tablet, I would do so in a heart beat!
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Right now I've frozen the updater file using Titanium Backup. I received the OTA on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 yesterday and all I can say at this point is I don't like it at all! My Dolphin Browser crashed on me and I cannot stand the new Google search. If there was a way to undo the update on my tablet, I would do so in a heart beat!
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I'm the opposite. There's no way I'll ever go back to ICS. I love JB. FWIW, I have 3 devices running either 4.1 or 4.2, and Dolphin works fine on all of them.
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JB's UI animations and transitions among applications are noticeably smoother most of the time. Although others might find it useful, Google Now seems a bit gimmicky to me, although not as annoying as Siri. Unless you root, you will find that using your phone as a free WiFi hot spot is, for now, lost, until utilities like FoxFi catch up to JB. Not much else is new. That said, I would install JB again (rooted). It's not a huge improvement, but it is an improvement.
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Just wondering, other than the "face recognition", what are some of the other major additions to android that come with the upgrade from GB to ICS, ICS leaks etc? And has anyone tried any of them? How are they? Just wondering....
I know you said besides face recognition but I'll have to say using a pin is way faster plus it's really sensitive to light. I turned it off.
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The google voice typing/dictation is pretty good even on 4.0.3 (.75 leak), but you have to select it every time via pulldown menu, i can't get it to be the default.
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I know you said besides face recognition but I'll have to say using a pin is way faster plus it's really sensitive to light. I turned it off.
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It's cool, I wanted to specifically know about that one also
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The google voice typing/dictation is pretty good even on 4.0.3 (.75 leak), but you have to select it every time via pulldown menu, i can't get it to be the default.
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Oh, okay. I was wondering had they improved upon it. Thank you guys for responding.
Just got the notification, downloading now.
If no notification this morning...
Finally now is the time to manually press System Updates in Settings/About Phone. I did not have notification of the update, but given the latest rumor that ICS would be available via the System Updates starting today (the end of Q2), I finally tried that route. Rather than being told that my system was up to date with GB, to my astonishment, I was notified that the update was available for download. I almost fell off my chair. Downloading now.
Me too! Problem is we had severe storms yesterday so my power is out could be for days, no internet or WiFi and if I'm lucky I get 1x on my phone so it will be hours before I know if it takes! Must be a moto plot against me
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my brother is downloading now.
and i havent seen any rain in over a month. be thankful djerk
Share your favorite is settings for the razor!!
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I was in the soak test but I finally got the Upgrade to my Wife and Son's Razr at 1AM downloaded in 5 minutes and up and running in 15 minutes. Now they can reap the same benefits I have had !!!
Any info for xt910 phones?
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Any info for xt910 phones?
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I second that question. My wife's xt910 needs some love.
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According to the site’s sources, the long-awaited ICS bug fix for the Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX may not be ready until September. That’s about a month after the original mid-August target, and if you’re counting the days with us, it is currently mid-August
http://easternmorningherald.com/motorola-droid-razr-droid-razr-maxx-ics-bug-fix-to-be-ready-in-september/1214804/
I don't have the problems they indicate. All about an update to improve what is already good.
Counting the days...I could care less!
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Very interesting as I have 2 phones that out of the blue can't keep any signal and drop sometimes for an hour and then are fine. I tried a new similar and various other things. Wonder if that will fix issues I am having.
Seems strange we've only seen a handful of leaks.
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i hope they keep to their word ics is really buggy on the razr
I have to turn my phone off and on at least every other day otherwise it will go through a bunch off apps like a slide show. Or if I'm texting it will enter a bunch of random characters on its own. It's like the screen is stuck until I reset it. Sometimes the screen doesn't respond at all.
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Look forward it~
no issues on razr maxx, ICS is smooth and fast
Battery Life did take a significant hit and I hope the bug fix does come in september.
Ics typing is a nightmare....inserts spaces randomly.
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ICS and My Razr
I have zero problems with Stock Razr Maxx 4.0.4 Rooted + some minor tweaks to the CPU, FS, and dual boot using boot manager.
Days without rebooting, unless I am messing with it in recovery, battery life is strong, and no dropped calls etc....
The only update I really need is something that makes the camera work better, picture quality is awful. Third party cams do not seem to solve the problem. Someone mentioned a thread that modifies JPEG compression, I was going to look for that today.
I haven't had one problem with my phone since the update, did you all backup your data and do a cache/ factory wipe before the updating? That's what I've always done. Even my old iphones had problems if i did a major update without wiping.
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Lately I have had signal loss.
Not update related. I moved and am in this dead zone. Walk outside the house and signal is like a rock.
+1 on full wipe.
Though smart actions does an annoying glitch but that is something with the app itself or its interaction with data switching on and off.
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I haven't had one problem with my phone since the update, did you all backup your data and do a cache/ factory wipe before the updating? That's what I've always done. Even my old iphones had problems if i did a major update without wiping.
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Factory wiped with matts utility. No problems here either! I do however wish I had the battery from the maxx. Only thing I don't like about this phone. Battery sucks.
no problem
i have a xt910 on android 4.0.4 and dont have problems works fine and fast.
I got new my phone razr maxx.i loaded asphalt 7 and fps is really low.game is frezzing.is anybody try this game? I have ics and eu version.
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no issues with ics here other than i lost audio once. great signal & battery on my og razr.
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I got new my phone razr maxx.i loaded asphalt 7 and fps is really low.game is frezzing.is anybody try this game? I have ics and eu version.
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I think we need a tegra 3 overclocked and a class 10 microsd to run asphalt 7.
Same lag here
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Got some problems with incoming SMS on my PSHAsia Razr, and the battery life is not very good on ICS. Hope this will be fixed.
Also when I turn on auto sync, the process com.google.android.[whatever] FCs. Not critical but very irritating.
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I heard that the new update could include a unlockable bootloader for the international razr /maxx so it can be included in the unlock tool.
Hopefully its true.
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I have my settings to vibrate on touch but for some reason it randomly stops vibrating and comes back randomly.
For instance, right now as I write this there is no vibration when I press the keys on the keyboard.
I noticed it after the first time I rooted the phone. After rooting everything was fine. Decided to go back to stock 211 and unroot for the time being. I was using Matts utility and it froze for some reason. It got stuck on writing the webtop part for over an hour so I knew something was not right.
I turned the phone off, closed the utility and started all over again and it went through fine. From since then I've been able to root, flash roms, revert back to stock 211 all using the utility but my vibrations act funny.
I never had the vibrations on touch turned on when I was on gingerbread so I don't know if it's just my phone or if it was the unrooting freeze or what? I never really complained about it but I would like to know if anybody else's phone does this?
try slapping the bottom of your phone against your palm (kevlar against palm) a friends razr did this and that seemed to work, it went awway after a few days
I might sell this phone and roll with something else.
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I'm experiencing the same issue as well....if didn't start until I Began using motomizer which could just be coincidence
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I have the same issue but I have not rooted it. Also, to get a temporarily fix which lasts for a minute or so, I have to shake the phone. I think the vibration motor is failing.
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It's good to know others have the problem too. I thought my phone may have been defected or else I messed it up trying to unroot it the first time round. I might try to get the Maxx HD. But then again it's better off to wait lol, this phone game is moving too fast.
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It's good to know others have the problem too. I thought my phone may have been defected or else I messed it up trying to unroot it the first time round. I might try to get the Maxx HD. But then again it's better off to wait lol, this phone game is moving too fast.
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I know. By the way can u use a headset with your phone without disconnecting or getting stuttering sounds if you move the headset connection?
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I know. By the way can u use a headset with your phone without disconnecting or getting stuttering sounds if you move the headset connection?
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I never attempted to use a headset with my phone. I've used headphones for music and movie listening and they were all fine. I don't lose data at all when using headphones.
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I had this problem too. I reloaded Arctic from scratch making sure to format cache and Dalvik and that still didnt help.
What fixed mine was booting into Safestrap Recovery, going into Advanced, and selecting Fix Permissions.
I realize this won't help the non-rooted folks.
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I'll keep that in mind if I root again.
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I had this problem too. I reloaded Arctic from scratch making sure to format cache and Dalvik and that still didnt help.
What fixed mine was booting into Safestrap Recovery, going into Advanced, and selecting Fix Permissions.
I realize this won't help the non-rooted folks.
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I tried this and it didn't help. The suggestion above (slapping the back of the phone) seems to be working, though. I wonder if my telephone (Razr i) is defective, this started after rooting and unlocking the bootloader. I tried with the GB and EU JellyBean stock ROMS, and I'm currently using this one, all with the same results, does anyone have a similar issue?
I've dealt with two buddies' RAZR phones (Original, and MAXX) and they both have failing vibrator motors. Seems like a hardware design issue. Good thing I went with the Note 2
same issue
motorola razr max
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boot menu manager
tested on all my custom rom (CM10.1 , AOKP , JB 4.2.1) and same issue
anybody have this issue in OTA update and updated bootloader (JB 4.1.2) ?
I keep going back and forth between eclipse and A3. Can't seem to be satisfied with A3. While it's fun to play around with the themes, that quickly becomes old when not everything is functionable. Mainly the camera. I rely heavily upon it to take pictures of my two kids under the age of 3. They are daily doing new and awesome and funny things that I don't want to miss all because my phone camera is jacked up.
I'm really trying to find reasons to be satisfied on not running jb on this poc phone. It's only best that I stay away from anything non gb.
I'm willing to put up with some of the slowness and lack of customization of a gb rom for a while longer.
Needless to say, I know this isn't the developer's fault. They've done their best with this locked down phone.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions on how to upgrade this phone for less than $50 and without signing another contract, I'm all ears. My contract isn't up until December, at which point I will be ditching VZW and going to Straight Talk using a GSM phone so if I could get one now that would work on both VZW and Straight Talk, that would be awesome.
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What's the problem with the camera? It works great for me in alpha 3
Im in the same boat juice. I love cm10 and or anything jelly bean, i usually use cm10 for about a weekend and during the week i go back to stock(yuck). Cm10's battery life is terrible.
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Im in the same boat juice. I love cm10 and or anything jelly bean, i usually use cm10 for about a weekend and during the week i go back to stock(yuck). Cm10's battery life is terrible.
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i agree, i find myself not being able to deal with gingerbread. it just feels rigid. i have also found that cm9 has a bit better battery life than cm10 for some reason.
Yeah, i really didnt have much time to spend on cm9, im thinking of sbfing and installing later.
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Yeah, i really didnt have much time to spend on cm9, im thinking of sbfing and installing later.
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Its gotten much better. More of the apps have been ics and jb optimized that they actually run on our phones. Like chrome which use to fc
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