Hello
I have Motorola RAZR XT910. Used in EU, no sim/carrier lock, about 6 months ago updated OTA to 4.1.2 Android version 982.124.14.XT910.Retail.en.EU. It is GSM version.
I have few questions:
1. In forum downloads, there are 2 verions available: spyder and umts_spyder. Which one is in my EU selled Motorola Razr with XT910 name?
2. What is the latest OTA Android? 4.3? How and where I can dowload this? Phone-settings-about phone-system updates tells me that I am up to date. Which one is working great? Maybe link if there is something newer them my 4.1.2 OTA.
3. How about other ways to go 4.3 or 4.4. Installing ROMs? Going CM 10 or CM 11?
If the last one, then which one is good and stable to use?
I need, that the camera works, video works, caling works, sms works, 2G and 3G works, wifi works, bluetooth works, GPS works ang Google Maps and Syngic and Waze etc. are all usable.
And with all ROMs I can go from my 4.1.2 directly to (example, like) CM11, and it works?
If I go CM11, can always install again and again different verions what I want? Like when I am in CM11 to go back to CM11 or to 4.3 Android?
Why I think about rooting and CM? Because of the short battery usage at the moment, different disturbing adds on screen and cool apps for rooted phones.
Sorry, I am not updates/upgraded my Android before and no rooting and CM, this is new to me, and would like to ask before and maybe get some links, would like to upgrade sucessfuly the first time.
Thank you.
quattroRS6 said:
Hello
I have Motorola RAZR XT910. Used in EU, no sim/carrier lock, about 6 months ago updated OTA to 4.1.2 Android version 982.124.14.XT910.Retail.en.EU. It is GSM version.
I have few questions:
1. In forum downloads, there are 2 verions available: spyder and umts_spyder. Which one is in my EU selled Motorola Razr with XT910 name?
2. What is the latest OTA Android? 4.3? How and where I can dowload this? Phone-settings-about phone-system updates tells me that I am up to date. Which one is working great? Maybe link if there is something newer them my 4.1.2 OTA.
3. How about other ways to go 4.3 or 4.4. Installing ROMs? Going CM 10 or CM 11?
If the last one, then which one is good and stable to use?
I need, that the camera works, video works, caling works, sms works, 2G and 3G works, wifi works, bluetooth works, GPS works ang Google Maps and Syngic and Waze etc. are all usable.
And with all ROMs I can go from my 4.1.2 directly to (example, like) CM11, and it works?
If I go CM11, can always install again and again different verions what I want? Like when I am in CM11 to go back to CM11 or to 4.3 Android?
Why I think about rooting and CM? Because of the short battery usage at the moment, different disturbing adds on screen and cool apps for rooted phones.
Sorry, I am not updates/upgraded my Android before and no rooting and CM, this is new to me, and would like to ask before and maybe get some links, would like to upgrade sucessfuly the first time.
Thank you.
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Yeah man keep calm
1-you are in europa use umts_spyder
2-lastest ota for razr 4.1.2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231289
3-u can get 4.4.2 with cm 11,gummy slimkat or mookee roms in dev section (follow every step from the developer)
you can always go back to stock 4.1.2 see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47502301#post47502301
remeber only stock is full work,cm have no 1080p rec in video,no hdmi..
but the greatest thing of the razr is that you can flash at the same time 5 roms
all you have to do is get rooted and install a recovery (BMM in play store,or ss in xda theme and app forum)
So you can leave your stock rom in a safe place,without delete every thing,and try new roms in other partition system
If you are a noob use SS ( SAFESTRAP) more easy and disasterproof
quattroRS6 said:
Hello
I have Motorola RAZR XT910. Used in EU, no sim/carrier lock, about 6 months ago updated OTA to 4.1.2 Android version 982.124.14.XT910.Retail.en.EU. It is GSM version.
I have few questions:
1. In forum downloads, there are 2 verions available: spyder and umts_spyder. Which one is in my EU selled Motorola Razr with XT910 name?
2. What is the latest OTA Android? 4.3? How and where I can dowload this? Phone-settings-about phone-system updates tells me that I am up to date. Which one is working great? Maybe link if there is something newer them my 4.1.2 OTA.
3. How about other ways to go 4.3 or 4.4. Installing ROMs? Going CM 10 or CM 11?
If the last one, then which one is good and stable to use?
I need, that the camera works, video works, caling works, sms works, 2G and 3G works, wifi works, bluetooth works, GPS works ang Google Maps and Syngic and Waze etc. are all usable.
And with all ROMs I can go from my 4.1.2 directly to (example, like) CM11, and it works?
If I go CM11, can always install again and again different verions what I want? Like when I am in CM11 to go back to CM11 or to 4.3 Android?
Why I think about rooting and CM? Because of the short battery usage at the moment, different disturbing adds on screen and cool apps for rooted phones.
Sorry, I am not updates/upgraded my Android before and no rooting and CM, this is new to me, and would like to ask before and maybe get some links, would like to upgrade sucessfuly the first time.
Thank you.
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I would recommend CM 11. I've been running it for over a month and it is stable (only major gripe is that you can't install apps on the SD card at the moment). New features are coming through in the nightlies as well. With regards to the previous post, 1080p is now working with the latest nightly.
Hi
Thanks.
I took the step and went to 4.4.
First, I had to root the device (original OTA 4.1.2). When rooted, then safestrap. Then files on phone and restart. Installed everything like in youtube video example. Booted up and everything worked.
So now, I am on Kitkat 4.4.2 CM11. Works great so far. No freezes, it is quite quick.
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Sometimes I see, that when I press screen off button, screen turn itself back on again for like 0,5 to 3 seconds and then it shuts screen off again. The last part-my finger is removed from the on/off button. Sometimes it does this, sometimes not. Strange.
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But my biggest concern is battery. About 85 to 90 % of battery drain is by CyanogenMod Account, and android os like 5% and screen 4%.
Why so much? Still I have to charge like once a day. I thought, when this account isn't draining so much juice from battery, maybe it last like 48 hours with one charge.
when I open account, then CPU is 0s, awake 0s, but GPS is taking all the battery. Is it normal? Or there is something wrong? I don't need location finder from cuanogenmod web site from PC.
Under settings-accounts there is an option, that delete CM account. What it does then, when I delete it or log out? Phone stops working?
quattroRS6 said:
Hello
If the last one, then which one is good and stable to use?
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The best/most stable ROM threads are not permitted on xda. Please refrain yourself from asking that.
quattroRS6 said:
Hi
Thanks.
I took the step and went to 4.4.
First, I had to root the device (original OTA 4.1.2). When rooted, then safestrap. Then files on phone and restart. Installed everything like in youtube video example. Booted up and everything worked.
So now, I am on Kitkat 4.4.2 CM11. Works great so far. No freezes, it is quite quick.
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Sometimes I see, that when I press screen off button, screen turn itself back on again for like 0,5 to 3 seconds and then it shuts screen off again. The last part-my finger is removed from the on/off button. Sometimes it does this, sometimes not. Strange.
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But my biggest concern is battery. About 85 to 90 % of battery drain is by CyanogenMod Account, and android os like 5% and screen 4%.
Why so much? Still I have to charge like once a day. I thought, when this account isn't draining so much juice from battery, maybe it last like 48 hours with one charge.
when I open account, then CPU is 0s, awake 0s, but GPS is taking all the battery. Is it normal? Or there is something wrong? I don't need location finder from cuanogenmod web site from PC.
Under settings-accounts there is an option, that delete CM account. What it does then, when I delete it or log out? Phone stops working?
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The screen flicker is a persistent bug related to the display drivers. You can disable the lock animation and it should be fine.
If you don't want to use the CM account, you can remove it. Also if your battery drain is cause of GPS.Keep it to Battery Saver mode or turn it off completely and use it only when you need.
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Hello
I installed the KANG ROM found in the following thread [ROM][KANG]CM9 ICS 10.1 WiFi Preview 02/08/12 and the boot screen seems to refresh/scroll endlessly. Once the lock screen comes up (which scrolls endlessly as well), if I press the power button to turn screen off and then switch it back on, the display is stable.
I use the Korean Version SHW-M380W (Galaxy Tabl 10.1 Wifi 32GB). I tried Galaxy Task Slim 13.1 and other ICS Roms found on XDA, but the result is same.
Can someone please let me know a fix for this?
Thank you so much.
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Doesn't anyone else face this issue?
I don't think it supports the korean tab
Hmm I saw that if I restore /boot from stock image backup in HC 3.2 this issue was solved. Tried and tested it and worked fine. But when I upgrade to ICS, there is no /boot to restore from. Just tried it with the Hc 3.2 /boot and the system hanged.
Probably different ramdisks as ics kang is based of devices they own and custom via the model as the Korean tab is not part of it you may need to request or hope someone donates one to them, and if it was the official update of ics it would work but these are custom made builds based off the source ics package given by Google so it isn't an official update like HC3. 2
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Thanks
Thank you for your reply.
have you tried romans?
Romans
You mean the AOKP one right? Yeah, I have tried it, but the same issue
I mean, the one from here: http://forum.aokp.co/page/releases
Build 28 to be specific. Strangely, the same (screen jumping) issue was there with CWM as well. And pershoot was kind enough to make a new CWM just for Korean tab. I wonder what changed though (Am quite a newbie to rooting and stuff, so dont really know where to go to)
The pershoots CWM which fixed a screen jumping issue for CWM (not for boot screen though) is found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360588
Thanks bro.
So its all fixed?
Oops, I missed the whole point Actually, I had tried that after the [ROM][KANG]CM9 ICS 10.1 WiFi Preview 02/08/12 version, but the issue persisted. Its only with the bootscreen that this issue exists. Once we go to the lock screen, the issues still exists, but a screen off -> screen on (using the power key) quickly restores the screen back to the non-fluctuating version.
Wait, why havent you used kang by Roman? Its already coming to 4.0.4
Build 29
Thanks Misledz: I tried out Build 29 located in the following page:
http://forum.aokp.co/page/releases
Still the problem persists
I think you need a clean wipe, like generally wipe everything off it, a factory reset and stock firmware flash, then see if it persists.
Only this solution worked for me on EU version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1555984
Tried that but still no luck
snpetit said:
Only this solution worked for me on EU version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1555984
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I guess I have the same recovery. The issue is not with the scrolling recovery, but with the scrolling lock screen. Did it get fixed for you as well? Am using AOKP build 30.
Thank You!!!!
snpetit said:
Only this solution worked for me on EU version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1555984
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Thank you so very much!! The issue which was bothering me for the last three months is now solved. Life saver..
Hello.
I`m using AOKP ROM and I see a lot of new updates every 2-3 days. Can I update the ROM and keep settings and apps? Have some ROM with this ability?
It`s very frustrating get some ROM and see that one or other thing doesn`t work and after some days we have the "bug" reviewed but we need to format the device to get the correction.
I know that it`s differente from an update but I still want to know if we can update ROMs in some way without lose every settings.
And yes, I know that all apps that are in SD can be installed easily again but it`s still boring.
Some help?
You can update AOKP without loosing your settings, however I would advise not to pay much attention to those builds, as they are auto-builds generated from AOKP source and offer really nothing new..
:S
JB development has stopped a little since dhacker got a Droid RAZR HD ......
Olao99 said:
You can update AOKP without loosing your settings, however I would advise not to pay much attention to those builds, as they are auto-builds generated from AOKP source and offer really nothing new..
:S
JB development has stopped a little since dhacker got a Droid RAZR HD ......
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Thank you, Olao99. I didn`t know about automatic generated ROM... :/
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..
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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.
I've tried some kitkat and lollipop roms but a few days after installing the roms my phone starts getting annoyingly slow and sometimes apps will just close in the background. Does this mean my phone's RAM and CPU can't handle the version of Android I put on there?
I honestly don't have time to try out every rom available for the S3 to find out which one is fastest on this device. I just want a fast light-weight rom on my phone which won't get sluggish. It seems the latest official Samsung rom is Jellybean so would you guys recommend I use that? Will any of the third party JellyBean roms perform similarly? Will anything above JellyBean be sluggish?
rimpy said:
I've tried some kitkat and lollipop roms but a few days after installing the roms my phone starts getting annoyingly slow and sometimes apps will just close in the background. Does this mean my phone's RAM and CPU can't handle the version of Android I put on there?
I honestly don't have time to try out every rom available for the S3 to find out which one is fastest on this device. I just want a fast light-weight rom on my phone which won't get sluggish. It seems the latest official Samsung rom is Jellybean so would you guys recommend I use that? Will any of the third party JellyBean roms perform similarly? Will anything above JellyBean be sluggish?
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What are the ROMs have you tried?. Have you done clean install of whichever ROMs you tried?
mpadhu said:
What are the ROMs have you tried?. Have you done clean install of whichever ROMs you tried?
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Currently running latest Archidroid (clean install) and it got slow after about 2 days and apps often close for no reason.
Before this I had CyanogenMod 11 (clean install) and it got slow after about month.
Before that I had whatever stock rom the phone came with. I think it was IceCreamSandwich and I don't recall it being slow.
I may have tried some other roms in between (can't remember). I had the same problem with my previous phone when I flashed a newer version of android the performance suffered a lot. So to me it seems like I need to settle for a version of android that my phone can handle resource-wise.
rimpy said:
Currently running latest Archidroid (clean install) and it got slow after about 2 days and apps often close for no reason.
Before this I had CyanogenMod 11 (clean install) and it got slow after about month.
Before that I had whatever stock rom the phone came with. I think it was IceCreamSandwich and I don't recall it being slow.
I may have tried some other roms in between (can't remember). I had the same problem with my previous phone when I flashed a newer version of android the performance suffered a lot. So to me it seems like I need to settle for a version of android that my phone can handle resource-wise.
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I have also tried Cyanogenmod and it did run well in my S3. You can also give a try on Blisspop ROM, Omega omni and Omega(Stock based) ROMs. I recommend you to try Bliss pop latest stable version.
Make sure you wipe System and Data via recovery before flashing new ROMs.
If you had installed Games of huge memory, their obb files would still be there in the internal memory after flashing a ROM. So try cleaning off the unwanted obb files.
Try flashing minimal gapps which takes less memory.
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I have also tried Cyanogenmod and it did run well in my S3. You can also give a try on Blisspop ROM, Omega omni and Omega(Stock based) ROMs. I recommend you to try Bliss pop latest stable version.
Make sure you wipe System and Data via recovery before flashing new ROMs.
If you had installed Games of huge memory, their obb files would still be there in the internal memory. So try cleaning off the unwanted obb files.
Try flashing minimal gapps which takes less memory.
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I'm not sure why my phone gets so slow then. Maybe it's one of my apps that causes it. I guess I can try BlissPop and then only install my apps as I need them. It looks like the latest stable version is 5.1.1 yet I can only see v4.0.1 on their website.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-blisspop-team-bliss-t3010596
http://downloads.blissroms.com/BlissPop/Official/i9300/
rimpy said:
I'm not sure why my phone gets so slow then. Maybe it's one of my apps that causes it. I guess I can try BlissPop and then only install my apps as I need them. It looks like the latest stable version is 5.1.1 yet I can only see v4.0.1 on their website.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-blisspop-team-bliss-t3010596
http://downloads.blissroms.com/BlissPop/Official/i9300/
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Yes. Blisspop 4.0.1 is the latest stable version which is Android 5.1.1. Install minimal Gapps. Use Greenify app to hibernate less used apps.