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[Q] Upgrading from JB leak to 4.2?

Forgive me as I know I have seen something posted about this in the past, but after a lengthy search, I can't find it.
I am one of those that updated from ICS to the leaked version of JB (4.1.1). I rooted after that. Then the OTA JB was released. I'm wondering a couple things:
1: is there a simple method to update to the latest version of JB for our phone if I installed the JB leak? If it's not simple, I may not give it a go for fear of doing something wrong.
2: Did the newer version of JB bring about any noticeable changes?
3: Was there any noticeable improvement to cell phone reception? I'm one of those living in an area that doesn't have the greatest reception. I get around one bar less than my old Droid Pro did.
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Jersey846 said:
Forgive me as I know I have seen something posted about this in the past, but after a lengthy search, I can't find it.
I am one of those that updated from ICS to the leaked version of JB (4.1.1). I rooted after that. Then the OTA JB was released. I'm wondering a couple things:
1: is there a simple method to update to the latest version of JB for our phone if I installed the JB leak? If it's not simple, I may not give it a go for fear of doing something wrong.
2: Did the newer version of JB bring about any noticeable changes?
3: Was there any noticeable improvement to cell phone reception? I'm one of those living in an area that doesn't have the greatest reception. I get around one bar less than my old Droid Pro did.
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I didn't think 4.2 was available on the M yet....are one of the custom roms 4.2?
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I'm pretty sure all the Roms are 4.1.1 and 4.1.2. What was the major difference between the leak and the official update?
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Jersey846 said:
Forgive me as I know I have seen something posted about this in the past, but after a lengthy search, I can't find it.
I am one of those that updated from ICS to the leaked version of JB (4.1.1). I rooted after that. Then the OTA JB was released. I'm wondering a couple things:
1: is there a simple method to update to the latest version of JB for our phone if I installed the JB leak? If it's not simple, I may not give it a go for fear of doing something wrong.
2: Did the newer version of JB bring about any noticeable changes?
3: Was there any noticeable improvement to cell phone reception? I'm one of those living in an area that doesn't have the greatest reception. I get around one bar less than my old Droid Pro did.
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I could be looking to hard into this, but here goes. You could download the update, NOT install it but save it, install Safestrap and install the update to ROM slot 1. Do the whole backup and restore ROM slot 1 to stock and delete the Safestrap folders and you should be fine. You would lose root this way, I think... Otherwise, flash a custom ROM instead. It's better than stock.
I was only on the leak like a month. I just used the RSD program and flashed to stock ICS and performed an OTA update. And I really can't compare cell signal; my area is very strong. Sorry!
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Ah ok. I need to get my versions straight. I finally noticed the original post I had read about upgrading. I have both frozen and deleted some system apps and it said the update does not work if that's the case. If the cell reception is better then it might be worth it, otherwise that seems like a decent bit of work for only some slight changes.
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Can I update to 4.2.2?

Howdy,
So I'm considering updating my trusty XT907 from 4.1.2 up to the new update 4.2.2.
I"m running stock ROM unlocked with Motochopper, using Safestrap 3.12. Removed a mass of stuff, been running it steamlined and smooth. I'd like to update though from what I've read. I've always ran ROMs for years now, but at this point in my busy schedule I can't keep up with the development, and I"m outta the loop. The last ROM I ran on the razr m before stock was the Energy ROM.
My question is, now with bootloader unlocked am I safe to update to 4.2.2 and keep root? Innocent question, hopefully.
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blksheep said:
Howdy,
So I'm considering updating my trusty XT907 from 4.1.2 up to the new update 4.2.2.
I"m running stock ROM unlocked with Motochopper, using Safestrap 3.12. Removed a mass of stuff, been running it steamlined and smooth. I'd like to update though from what I've read. I've always ran ROMs for years now, but at this point in my busy schedule I can't keep up with the development, and I"m outta the loop. The last ROM I ran on the razr m before stock was the Energy ROM.
My question is, now with bootloader unlocked am I safe to update to 4.2.2 and keep root? Innocent question, hopefully.
Thank you -
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With an unlocked bootloader, you can flash TWRP and install CM10.1 from http://androidhosting.org/Devs/Dhacker29
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I see. But I"m curious about keeping the stock ROM.
Leraeniesh said:
With an unlocked bootloader, you can flash TWRP and install CM10.1 from http://androidhosting.org/Devs/Dhacker29
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blksheep said:
I see. But I"m curious about keeping the stock ROM.
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from my understanding, CM10.1 by dhacker is essentially stock. all others are custom variations.

blksheep said:
I see. But I"m curious about keeping the stock ROM.
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Stock has only gone as far as 4.1.2. If you want 4.2.2, you need to run AOSP.
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RikRong said:
Stock has only gone as far as 4.1.2. If you want 4.2.2, you need to run AOSP.
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Many thanks for the tips! However, this last one made me a little more confused - are you saying to be rooted with 4.2.2 I need to run AOSP roms?
Apologies but I just upgraded to the razr M after running my beloved Droid Incredible with CM10 forever -- absolutely loving it but entirely confused by the rooting options.
My ideal is to have the 4.2.2 update, and to still be unlocked and rooted, with no additional rom's, and with whichever recovery is needed to achieve this. Then I'll start having a look at dhacker's and the Orion looks good too. But I just want the stock 4.2.2 with root access first - if possible.
Many thanks for the clarity --

blksheep said:
Many thanks for the tips! However, this last one made me a little more confused - are you saying to be rooted with 4.2.2 I need to run AOSP roms?
Apologies but I just upgraded to the razr M after running my beloved Droid Incredible with CM10 forever -- absolutely loving it but entirely confused by the rooting options.
My ideal is to have the 4.2.2 update, and to still be unlocked and rooted, with no additional rom's, and with whichever recovery is needed to achieve this. Then I'll start having a look at dhacker's and the Orion looks good too. But I just want the stock 4.2.2 with root access first - if possible.
Many thanks for the clarity --
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if you want to get to 4.2.2, you'll need root access and an unlocked bootloader. stock 4.2.2 is AOSP (it's available in the development section).
the latest update (from what I have read) is NOT 4.2.2 update - I believe is to lock the bootloader. so folks are recommending to NOT accept the update.
I would advise to root, unlock, install TWRP. From there, you can choose your flavor of ROM (keeping in mind that 4.2.2 has not been officially released for the M).

blksheep said:
Many thanks for the tips! However, this last one made me a little more confused - are you saying to be rooted with 4.2.2 I need to run AOSP roms?
Apologies but I just upgraded to the razr M after running my beloved Droid Incredible with CM10 forever -- absolutely loving it but entirely confused by the rooting options.
My ideal is to have the 4.2.2 update, and to still be unlocked and rooted, with no additional rom's, and with whichever recovery is needed to achieve this. Then I'll start having a look at dhacker's and the Orion looks good too. But I just want the stock 4.2.2 with root access first - if possible.
Many thanks for the clarity --
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Sorry, I confused things a little, and JCO's post wasn't very clear either.
If want you to run 4.2.2, you need to run an aftermarket ROM. The M has only been updated to 4.1.2. So, you won't find a stock based ROM that's 4.2.2. JCO refers to CM10.1 as being "stock", but it's not. It's the most basic AOSP ROM. As a comparison, the M's stock ROM is Motoblur based.
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RikRong said:
Sorry, I confused things a little, and JCO's post wasn't very clear either.
If want you to run 4.2.2, you need to run an aftermarket ROM. The M has only been updated to 4.1.2. So, you won't find a stock based ROM that's 4.2.2. JCO refers to CM10.1 as being "stock", but it's not. It's the most basic AOSP ROM. As a comparison, the M's stock ROM is Motoblur based.
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well, CM10.1 is the closest to stock (appearance-wise) of all the after market 4.2.2 ROMs available (to my understanding, there is no themeing on it). but I think there a few tweaks in it (hence AOSP).

jco23 said:
well, CM10.1 is the closest to stock (appearance-wise) of all the after market 4.2.2 ROMs available (to my understanding, there is no themeing on it). but I think there a few tweaks in it (hence AOSP).
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Yeah, CM10.1 is pretty bone stock. I just wanted to make sure there was no confusion with the term "stock." I read our posts, and it would've made a lot of people crawl into the corner, crying.

Excellent, many thanks! That was confusing me also - seeing an update available for my xt097 but reading that 4.2.2 is not available for the razor m - I was wondering what the update was.
I'll be flashing to TWRP tonight - cheers again -hopefully no issues flashing over safestrap. That was neat tho - being able to pick between ROMs to run.

If your already unlocked you never really loose root ever
And the latest verzion update breaks the root method and won't let you unlock if your still locked it doest relock you I think that's impossible
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[Q] CM10.2 Problem

Hi all I am new to the xda forums (posting anyways) and I appreciate everyone who contributes on this site you guys are amazing. Anyways I am on a Motorola Droid RAZR M, rooted first with motochopper, unlocked boot loader with motopocalypse, and flashed the latest nightly from Cyanogenmod. I was ecstatic when it worked because tinkering with my old Droid 2 Global didnt go so well and I didn't want to mess up my phone, so I was elated that it worked. A couple days ago CM Updater popped up on my phone and it was CM10.2-20130815. When I saw the 10.2 I couldn't resist and I updated it. Everything was fine until the next day when I updated to CM10.2-20130816. Videos no longer played on my phone. The stock video player wasn't working. I searched and searched for a fix but I couldn't find one so I flashed back to CM10.1-20130813. Everything works now as it should but I keep researching it. Recently I found that the problem started in the first release of CM.10.2 for the xt907. I want Android 4.3 really badly but I can't live without the stock video player. MXPlayer is great but Vine, YouTube, Snapchat, etc. wouldn't work without the stock video player. Is there a fix for this or does anyone know if the newest nightly fixed this problem? Thank you in advance.

It will get better, nightlies are experimental and there are bugs and such
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WillisD said:
It will get better, nightlies are experimental and there are bugs and such
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Thanks! Im thinking about trying Skrilax's CM10.2 ROMs. There are a lot more nightlies so maybe there will be less bugs but I dont know there could be even more. Do you have any experience with any of his ROMs? Ive heard good and bad about them.

It's still cm10.2 just unofficial, I've made a few nightlies myself I'm running the latest nightly now pretty smooth
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WillisD said:
It's still cm10.2 just unofficial, I've made a few nightlies myself
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For the RAZR M? Was it hard to do?

Yes and no, but you have to be on Linux though and there are guides out there
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taylorjared1996 said:
Thanks! Im thinking about trying Skrilax's CM10.2 ROMs. There are a lot more nightlies so maybe there will be less bugs but I dont know there could be even more. Do you have any experience with any of his ROMs? Ive heard good and bad about them.
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I have used Skrilax's builds and have found them to be well built. Keep in mind if bugs exist in CM 10.2 it probably will be so across the board regardless of the dev.
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I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 8 on both of my computers so maybe ill try it. It sounds kind of fun. And yeah I am coming to terms with the fact that i probably wont get 4.3 until a fix is made but its not a big deal. Having 4.2.2 is way better than being stuck on 4.1.2 with Motorola's skin on it. I knew the RAZR M had potential but I couldnt get it to perform well on Motorola's stock 4.1.2 ROM, but with CyanogenMod it runs like a dream. Battery life is better too!

is data working on the unofficial or skrillax's build?

undagullu said:
is data working on the unofficial or skrillax's build?
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On the CM 4.2-20130824 Nightly the camera issue if fixed and has been since at least a couple nightlies back, so that isnt an issue anymore. I cant say about skrilax's or the unofficial but the official nightlies have all data working and LTE is especially fast, but i have not had any problems with any type of connection on LTE, 4g, 3g, HSPA+, & CDMA.

[Q] ROM's for Locked 4.1.2 - 98.30.1

Lost the unlocked/rooted X907, had to replace it with a retail version as I was traveling and needed something immediately and wanted to stick with the X907 - as opposed to getting an older one on ebay which I'm probably going to do now anyway just to have a backup. It's the 4.1.2 - 98.30.1 - as I understand it I'm stuck with it locked. I've rooted it with the SafeRoot script.
I've searched a bit and found a few leads, but was wondering if there were any others in a similar situation that make a recommendation for any 4.1.2 ROM's, and/or provide more links on the subject. It seems to me that there would be many who might have the similar misfortune for whatever circumstance. cheers -

blksheep said:
Lost the unlocked/rooted X907, had to replace it with a retail version as I was traveling and needed something immediately and wanted to stick with the X907 - as opposed to getting an older one on ebay which I'm probably going to do now anyway just to have a backup. It's the 4.1.2 - 98.30.1 - as I understand it I'm stuck with it locked. I've rooted it with the SafeRoot script.
I've searched a bit and found a few leads, but was wondering if there were any others in a similar situation that make a recommendation for any 4.1.2 ROM's, and/or provide more links on the subject. It seems to me that there would be many who might have the similar misfortune for whatever circumstance. cheers -
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My fav is LS 2.37, it works on slot 1 just fine. I have a collection of old 4.1 custom ROMs that will work if you want, but LS 2.37 is the best and still findable without much difficulty

rocketrazr99 said:
My fav is LS 2.37, it works on slot 1 just fine. I have a collection of old 4.1 custom ROMs that will work if you want, but LS 2.37 is the best and still findable without much difficulty
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Cheers - I will give that one a shot.

SS compatible ROMs:
-Early builds of CM10 (way early, like at the beginning of thread early)
-DeadCalm was SS enabled, not sure if it was modified for an unlocked bootloader only
-Energy is SS enabled and never altered for unlocked bootloader
-Flying Jelly was SS enabled and I don't think it was modified to work only on an unlock bootloader
-Eclipse v1.2 was SS enabled, I don't think it was modified for unlocked bootloader
Courtesy of RikRong

Hmm. Couldn't get LS 2.3.7 to boot, installed on rom slots 1-3, SS 3.1.1 with wipes and resets. Blank screen. I'll give these others a shot then try and diagnose what's up.

blksheep said:
Hmm. Couldn't get LS 2.3.7 to boot, installed on rom slots 1-3, SS 3.1.1 with wipes and resets. Blank screen. I'll give these others a shot then try and diagnose what's up.
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Isn't LS for LS-970?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526022

liquid smooth is out for several device's...smh
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ezknives said:
liquid smooth is out for several device's...smh
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Okay.. let me rephrase.. where's the one for the droid razr m? I think there safestrap friendly aren't they or the 2.2.7 was..?

http://www.drdevs.com/devs/teamliquid/Official/2.37/
There you go... I'm not sure if it is ss friendly but that's the 2.37 version
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ezknives said:
http://www.drdevs.com/devs/teamliquid/Official/2.37/
There you go... I'm not sure if it is ss friendly but that's the 2.37 version
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Doesn't work..
So there yah go!

[Q] Root and unlocked BL! Now what ROM?

First need to shout out the towelroot method for root and BL unlock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783157
SO easy and worked. Love it
Now that I have root AND unlocked BL, will be grabbing me some TWRP, backing up stock and trying some ROMs.
Question is: which one? I've read on some posts that only 1 or 2 ROMs work with KK-based phones. Is this accurate? I believe one post I read said only CM11 works, and its very laggy.
So which to grab? Do all KK ROMs under the development page work after the towelroot exploit? CM11, CarbonRom, Google Play Edition etc? Also, which has best,most reliable native wifi tether working? Any other big bugs among the ROMs that actually work?

You can still use the ones that don't support the new bootloader and kernel by downgrading to jb 4.1.2 since your now bootloader unlocked

ckfalls said:
First need to shout out the towelroot method for root and BL unlock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783157
SO easy and worked. Love it
Now that I have root AND unlocked BL, will be grabbing me some TWRP, backing up stock and trying some ROMs.
Question is: which one? I've read on some posts that only 1 or 2 ROMs work with KK-based phones. Is this accurate? I believe one post I read said only CM11 works, and its very laggy.
So which to grab? Do all KK ROMs under the development page work after the towelroot exploit? CM11, CarbonRom, Google Play Edition etc? Also, which has best,most reliable native wifi tether working? Any other big bugs among the ROMs that actually work?
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I'm running cm11 and I've had little to no lag issues
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Kitstalk at droidrzr.com i don't know if I'm allowed to post the link as it requires a registration to download... Always been my favorite...
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Thanks guys. Yeah I know I can downgrade but happy with KK changes, esp full screen over soft keys.
Will look into kitstalk thx. Yeah seems CM11 has good results. Either of these have native WiFi tether working?
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ckfalls said:
Thanks guys. Yeah I know I can downgrade but happy with KK changes, esp full screen over soft keys.
Will look into kitstalk thx. Yeah seems CM11 has good results. Either of these have native WiFi tether working?
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Cm11 has a working tether setting. I haven't connected anything to the Hotspot but it turns on.
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thewraith420 said:
You can still use the ones that don't support the new bootloader and kernel by downgrading to jb 4.1.2 since your now bootloader unlocked
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So the RazrM still can't use current roms even with the bootloader unlocked ??

aaronpw0621 said:
So the RazrM still can't use current roms even with the bootloader unlocked ??
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You can use the new or older roms with unlocked bootloader just now you need to pay attention to what bootloader + kernel your on. The test builds of cm11 coming out won't work on the old bootloader + Kernel and the older ones won't work with the new kk bootloader + kernel

thewraith420 said:
You can use the new or older roms with unlocked bootloader just now you need to pay attention to what bootloader + kernel your on. The test builds of cm11 coming out won't work on the old bootloader + Kernel and the older ones won't work with the new kk bootloader + kernel
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Just to clarify I am using the Droid Razr M (xt907). I had already taken the ota for 4.4.2 before i used towelroot. I have so far only got one ROM from @dhacker29 to boot. Its a cm11 from him. I can't figure out exactly which ROMs to flash. Is it the ones listed for the moto_msm 8960 or the ones listed for KK???

thewraith420 said:
You can use the new or older roms with unlocked bootloader just now you need to pay attention to what bootloader + kernel your on. The test builds of cm11 coming out won't work on the old bootloader + Kernel and the older ones won't work with the new kk bootloader + kernel
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So I'm not used to looking for BL/kernel compatability usually I don't see this in the OP for a ROM, typically only see android flavor it based on, "JB" or "kk", which I thought would dictate whether a ROM would work on a device. Guess we need to look in the post for BL/kernel version (both which get updated during an OTA update?)
Like I said CM11 was the only one I knew of that for sure worked post-towelroot, that's why I was looking to see if others knew which other ROMs worked as well.
I know we can check kernel version in setting, if kernel matches a ROM then were bound to have the BL that matches as well, correct?
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Only ones listed for KK will work for you now since your on the 4.4.2 ota however if you downgrade via fxz to 4.1.2 then you'll able to run the msm 8960 builds currently there are more choices once downgraded.
Downgrade tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53474077