[Q] Updating Cyanogenmod - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, sorry if this question has been asked in this thread before but I had no luck finding it. I downloaded a nightly version of CM11 and it's fairly buggy, sometimes fast, sometimes dead crawl slow, etc. I would like to update to a newer nightly version without losing all of the stuff I've worked this past week to finally get together (tweaks, apps, new pics, memos, etc.) Is there anyway to update the version of Cyanogenmod without changing everything/wiping my data? Such as ROM Toolbox or something like that? Thanks

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[Q] Which ROM

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.
---
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.
---
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.

[Q] Need guidance flashing sammy based rom from aosp

I have an international version of s3. the first rom i had flashed was foxhound based on 4.1.2. after a couple of months, i decided to find other roms to run as my daily driver. flashed a bunch of roms til i come to know of slimbean. flashed the one based on 4.3. after a week or two, wanted to try ultimarom v16. i backed up, wiped everything like i used to before flashing but this time something weird happened. i didnt get all the customizations that the rom is offering, just some minor ones.
so, i was wondering if i had done something wrong and missing anything. tried flashing it again but there were no changes. an example of whats missing is the inability to set toggles on the notification shade. cant even change the tiles on on the shade as well.
its kinda weird cause i read thru the ultimarom thread and those stuff were suppose to be in the rom.
thanks for ur help!!

No GPS with Mokee 4.4.x

Hi,
this is my first post on XDA forums, so I cannot post it to the relevant development thread. Hope someone from the developers finds it here...
I'm having trouble with GPS on my P760 phone (currently sporting Mokee 140712). Ever since I installed a KitKat based ROM, it won't find the GPS signal. Last time I know it worked was two weeks ago on CM 10.2.1, so I guess it's not a hardware problem. Then I started flashing various KitKats, starting with Mokee 140706 release, then SOKP, then again Mokee, the latest 140712 release. No luck with any of these. I did a lot of googling, tried flashing various GPS fixes (mainly edits of gps.conf), playing with FasterGPS (again editing gps.conf), nothing works.
My last ditch effort was letting GPS Status run for more than 20 minutes outdoors, under clear sky - nothing. At times it sees one or two satellites, but never more and never fixes.
Is there something I can do (besides buying a new phone, preferably no LG this time ?
Thanks for any help.
Michal
maybe if you flash the stock rom and update in stock to the last version, because your problem can be the baseband version... or the kernel version..
Hello,
I too have the same issue - GPS does not work with the latest Mokee 4.4.4. Tried with the latest stable version as well as now with the latest nightly. It worked fine with the stock ROM. Also, I am sure this is not an issue with the baseband as I am on V20o baseband which worked fine on stock ROM. Don't know if this is an issue with the kernel of Mokee 4.4.4. However, I am using the Mokee as it came, haven't changed or tinkered with the kernel.
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Anand.

Lollipop / Google probs with PAC ROM

Hi guys,
I'm sad in my NEO V (MT11i/haida) and all ROMs of JB/GB/KK. So I decided to jump onto new way of LP.
Now with ext4 it's amazing space for having all apps working.
I preferred PAC LP (pac_haida-lp-Nightly-20150602) first, because my good experiences in the past with KK. But this last release made me crazy. After installation of ROM and GAPPS I was faced the problem, that GOOGLE Play services will be stopped every time.
In next try I tryed without GAPPS, but even browser closes in crash.
Any suggestions please?

Dokdo ROM M440s

So as hectic as it was for me to find a perfect rom, for some reasons i couldnt find a lollipop one. i am currently using cm12.1+devil kernel (which is giving major FCs during installations of apk's and randoms for some reasons despite clean installs) as thats the only option i had other than dokdo that got discontinued and site/server everything is just down.
Can anyone please provide me file/link/mirror if possible?
i am to use s3 for next 2 weeks and i can really use a cm based lollipop rom, so if you're reading this and can, do leave a reply, thanks.

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