[Q] Couple of ROM questions - Motorola Droid RAZR

Just as a quick intro, I'm not a total noob, but I'm no expert either. I had an OG Droid that I rooted and had installed several ROMS before upgrading to a Droid Razr. I decided to root this one also and I'm running CM 10.1.3 with JellyBean X kernel, all installed with Safestrap.
I had some issues with my baseband not working properly with CM, so I decided to try to install a clean version of Jelly Bean to see if that helped the problem. The ROM I was going to download required me to install BMM 3.0.4 which I did. Once that was done, I rebooted and lo and behold the phone booted into the original Verizon version of Jelly Bean. At this point I have not installed anything but BMM. Why did this happen? I thought I had done a wipe when I installed CM. Is this because I installed CM into a second slot and now BMM is booting to the original slot? As far as I know, CM is still on the phone somewhere. How can I get back to it? Is it going to be a problem as far as phone performance to have both of them on the system at the same time?
Finally, like everyone else, my goal is to get the best performance out of this phone. I would like to avoid the stock ROM due to all the bloatware. Is the clean JB a good option? Will this fix the baseband problem (poor to no service)? Is there a baseband fix I can use in conjunction with CM?
Thanks and sorry for all the questions.

Not sure if you are just looking @ AOSP ROMs, but I've done well with the bionx ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45291834:
Its stock based, haven't had any issues and its different with some Xperia launcher and whatnot. Has a lot of options/tweaks in dashboard app as well..
Sent from my XT912 using tapatalk

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[Q] google sky works...photosphere doesnt

any ideas???both use a gyroscope right?
From all I have read, all ROMs running jellybean are still having difficulty with the stock 4.1.1 camera. Until the time comes that the base CyanogenMod or AOKP builds are fixed up there is really no way to get the camera up and running from 4.1.1 much less 4.2. I may be mistaken, but it is all over all the jellybean threads I have read, as well as the ROMs I have installed.
Now this may change with the completion of the kexec ROM source. Kexec is just a fancy name for bypassing the boot loader and installing a custom kernel. Just FYI, if you didn't know what that was already.
Hope this help.
P.S. I think I remember seeing that Max from High on Android had reviewed a ROM called eclipse that may have had the photosphere camera working. Seems like it was an ICS ROM though...
Sent from my CM10 Licorice Bean'd RAZR using Forum Runner
UrbanDroid said:
From all I have read, all ROMs running jellybean are still having difficulty with the stock 4.1.1 camera. Until the time comes that the base CyanogenMod or AOKP builds are fixed up there is really no way to get the camera up and running from 4.1.1 much less 4.2. I may be mistaken, but it is all over all the jellybean threads I have read, as well as the ROMs I have installed.
Now this may change with the completion of the kexec ROM source. Kexec is just a fancy name for bypassing the boot loader and installing a custom kernel. Just FYI, if you didn't know what that was already.
Hope this help.
P.S. I think I remember seeing that Max from High on Android had reviewed a ROM called eclipse that may have had the photosphere camera working. Seems like it was an ICS ROM though...
Sent from my CM10 Licorice Bean'd RAZR using Forum Runner
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thanks but 4.2 apps work on 4.1 only :-\
and i currently have cm10 running and loving it

[Q] cm 10/xperia live with walkman/touch screen issue

Sorry to bring up such a silly issue.
But I never encountered any problem like this. So, pls help me out....
I have a WT19i device which being modded with various custom rom at various time.
for more than 1.5 years I didn't got into any kind of problem. and it all messed up.
Yesterday I was trying to install Super jelly bean 8.0 rom.
to do that,
1. I flashed nAa's kernel
2. Wiped whatever needed.
3. Installed rom's zip and gapps
4. Reboot my device.
Everything working well except i don't have any touch response....!
Then I re-flashed my stock 4.0.4 rom, and then everything working fine. (including touch)
Again I flashed cm10 kernel and then installed Cm10 rom
Same problem again, no touch response.....
I really want to install jelly bean rom to my device.
So, pls give me a solution.
Sry if this [Q] is bothering.

Slimkat Razr Lose Signal

Good Morning People: I have an issue with my Razr XT910. I ve just installed Slimkat V 3.8 (and before 3.4, 3.2 and 3.1) and in all versions i lost signal after a few hours. The only way i have to get it back is rebooting my cell.
I did all the wipes, I delete the cellbroadcaster.apk but the result is the same.
Any ideas? Besides that, the rom is incredible...
Thanks for your help!
Try other rom and see if you have signal problem.
Same problem
I have the same problem on my XT912, I also did all of the wipes (multiple times) and I am still losing service. I have flashed a pacman and carbon rom to test and have not lost service with those roms. I am a n00b as far as contributing to tweaks for roms but hopefully I will come across something. I hope this info is helpful.
Gurrinho said:
Good Morning People: I have an issue with my Razr XT910. I ve just installed Slimkat V 3.8 (and before 3.4, 3.2 and 3.1) and in all versions i lost signal after a few hours. The only way i have to get it back is rebooting my cell.
I did all the wipes, I delete the cellbroadcaster.apk but the result is the same.
Any ideas? Besides that, the rom is incredible...
Thanks for your help!
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GO IN PHONE SETTING AND YOU SEE BASEBAND VERSION,IF YOU SEE UNKNOW YOUR RADIO IS GONE...IF YOU SEE THIS JUST FLASH A NEW BASEBAND FROM HERE... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1863106
IF THIS DOSEN'T WORK,DOWNLOAD AND FLASH AGAIN THE ROM
HOPE I'VE HELP YOU

[Q] Kernel installation overwrites my currently installed Rom

Hey Guys,
first things first: I am Using a European Droid Razr (xt910).
ROM: cm-11-20140627-NIGHTLY-umts_spyder
Gapps: gapps-kk-20131208-no_set_metadata
Kernel: JBX-Kernel-3.3-Hybrid-Spyder-4.4_2014-06-16
Today i rooted my razr and tried to install a custom rom with safestrap. I Did everything like it was explained in this GUIDE and it worked fine. The rom worked but i noticed a faster battery drain.
To fix this i tried to install this KERNEL but after installing it with safestrap the OS (Cm11) i installed before was gone. I am pretty new at this stuff and couldnt find a solution so far.
I wiped my phone a couple of times and everytime i tried to install the Kernel after CM11, my fresh CM11 was gone so i had to install CM11 again and afterwards JBX was gone. Pretty sad :c
CM11 itself is working fine and the installation of JBX-Kernel Hybrid worked fine too, but with the new Kernel my OS/CM11/ROM is gone.
I hope you can help me, i couldnt ask my question in the developers forum cause i just created this account.
You are not wiping your system in the process. Are you?

[Q] Best SIII 4.4 ROM or BTU?

Hi All
Long story short, my phone broke and samsung fixed it under warrantee. They returned it with the vodaphone 4.3 flavor OS which was bloated to bursting point with all the crap-ware they add. So naturally the phone was dead slow, which prompted me to flash it to the 4.3 BTU. The phone is quite fast now, but the updates don't work so I'm stuck with those dreaded initial 4.3 software bugs, wifi connectivity & battery drain to name just 2.
I'd like to know if there are any decent & stable 4.4 ROMs available? I have tried CM11 earlier this year, but that didn't work to well, it was quite buggy.
I'd love to be able to install the 4.4.x BTU, but as far as I can tell, it hasn't been released (yet?).
Advice would be great.
Thanks!
SwiftyZA said:
Hi All
Long story short, my phone broke and samsung fixed it under warrantee. They returned it with the vodaphone 4.3 flavor OS which was bloated to bursting point with all the crap-ware they add. So naturally the phone was dead slow, which prompted me to flash it to the 4.3 BTU. The phone is quite fast now, but the updates don't work so I'm stuck with those dreaded initial 4.3 software bugs, wifi connectivity & battery drain to name just 2.
I'd like to know if there are any decent & stable 4.4 ROMs available? I have tried CM11 earlier this year, but that didn't work to well, it was quite buggy.
I'd love to be able to install the 4.4.x BTU, but as far as I can tell, it hasn't been released (yet?).
Advice would be great.
Thanks!
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I never expirienced any strange bugs like eith new 4.3 uodates, try using some great custom 4.3 roms out here, like archidroid, neatrom, arhd etc. Just search and try, combine it with a custom kernel and your phone will be reborned.
4.4.x ism't and won't be released for s3, because, well, samsung is $#&*, but you have note2 4.4 ports, like QS kitkat Archiport, and s5 themed like Blekota etc. But these 4.4 ports are having graphical glitches which occur for some, for some not, but as I see, Lord Boeffla updated his Boeffla kernel and in new updates graphical glitches are gone, battery life is much better and wifi direct and screen mirroring are working.
So if you want best stability go with custom 4.3, if you want to test out the kitkat experience which should be good now if combined with Boeffla kernel then go with some 4.4 port.
And don't forget, best rom threads are not allowed and will be closed by moderator, you should try what xda world has to offer and then decide.
lsalamun said:
I never expirienced any strange bugs like eith new 4.3 uodates, try using some great custom 4.3 roms out here, like archidroid, neatrom, arhd etc. Just search and try, combine it with a custom kernel and your phone will be reborned.
4.4.x ism't and won't be released for s3, because, well, samsung is $#&*, but you have note2 4.4 ports, like QS kitkat Archiport, and s5 themed like Blekota etc. But these 4.4 ports are having graphical glitches which occur for some, for some not, but as I see, Lord Boeffla updated his Boeffla kernel and in new updates graphical glitches are gone, battery life is much better and wifi direct and screen mirroring are working.
So if you want best stability go with custom 4.3, if you want to test out the kitkat experience which should be good now if combined with Boeffla kernel then go with some 4.4 port.
And don't forget, best rom threads are not allowed and will be closed by moderator, you should try what xda world has to offer and then decide.
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How do I load a custom kernel? I've only ever flashed with Odin and then that was just the ROM.
Just as a matter of interest, 4.4 has been released for the S3 on certain carriers.
Flash the kernel through your custom recovery.
Only the versions of the s3 which have 2gb of ram have kitkat..other versions do not including the international version
Sent from a "Galaxy" far, far away with my Ultra Ray Gun
SwiftyZA said:
How do I load a custom kernel? I've only ever flashed with Odin and then that was just the ROM.
Just as a matter of interest, 4.4 has been released for the S3 on certain carriers.
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Just as Pulseuser mentioned, 4.4 is released only for i9305 LTE variant of s3.
About custom kernel, the easiest method is to root your phone using cf-autoroot, just google cf auto root and download the .tar.md5 for Odin for i9300 S3. Then when your phone is rooted download ROM Manager from playstore and install Clockwork Mod recovery, then reboot to the recovery via rom manager app and choose install zip from sdcard, fin your custom kernel/rom or whatever you want to flash and then tap yes and reboot, but first copy your custom kernel/rom on sdcard.
It is very easy, you even have tutorials on youtube on how to flash something via CWM recovery.

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