Alright guys, while I patiently await the official ICS upgrade I have decided I wanted to play with some of the roms. I'm a little confused on the whole locked bootloader and stuff that the Razr has. I have the Razr Maxx and wanting to get some pointers on what to do. I want to try MIUI and another ICS build. Should I install Safestrap and then what should I do? I already have it rooted and on .181
Any help I appreciate it, I'm used to installing CWM and going that route but I haven't used a Moto Android in awhile.
collins521 said:
Alright guys, while I patiently await the official ICS upgrade I have decided I wanted to play with some of the roms. I'm a little confused on the whole locked bootloader and stuff that the Razr has. I have the Razr Maxx and wanting to get some pointers on what to do. I want to try MIUI and another ICS build. Should I install Safestrap and then what should I do? I already have it rooted and on .181
Any help I appreciate it, I'm used to installing CWM and going that route but I haven't used a Moto Android in awhile.
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I would definitely install safestrap and get some ROMs' and tweaks going.
To install a ROM follow this guide: http://droidrazrroot.com/droid-razr-hacks/how-to-install-rom-on-rooted-droid-razr/
For ROMs' I would recommend Gummy and Eclipse. Eclipse for a more stock Gingerbread experience with better battery life and performance. Gummy for an ICS feel with lots of features.
Having a locked bootloader means that we can't flash custom kernels and radios until a bypass is found or Motorola unlocks them for us.
Hope I helped!
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I would definitely install safestrap and get some ROMs' and tweaks going.
To install a ROM follow this guide: http://droidrazrroot.com/droid-razr-hacks/how-to-install-rom-on-rooted-droid-razr/
For ROMs' I would recommend Gummy and Eclipse. Eclipse for a more stock Gingerbread experience with better battery life and performance. Gummy for an ICS feel with lots of features.
Having a locked bootloader means that we can't flash custom kernels and radios until a bypass is found or Motorola unlocks them for us.
Hope I helped!
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Ya I figured out the kernels and radios from the bootloader but I also wanted to make sure I don't fubar my upgrade path and be able to upgrade on official ICS when it drops. I know to stay away from some of the leaks from reading what people are saying on here and other forums.
Also if I have this safestrapped, flash a rom and then want to go back to stock the way I have it laid out I can just relock or whatever it is in recovery and it will boot into stock instead of the custom rom?
collins521 said:
Also if I have this safestrapped, flash a rom and then want to go back to stock the way I have it laid out I can just relock or whatever it is in recovery and it will boot into stock instead of the custom rom?
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Yes, if you toggle safe system when your in the safe system/system you have the custom ROM installed on all your data from your original ROm will be restored. Ask questions if you're confused, nobody likes a data wiped phone.
Also, I know this is probably a redundant comment, but be SURE to make a nandroid backup of your stock rom, just so in case things go pear-shaped you can always reflash back to before the problem.
Be warned though that many of the ICS builds currently do have some bugs...
Most notable is the lack of hardware acceleration, which means no Flash or embedded videos until the official ICS is released...Not a hugely big deal for me, but some find this crucial.
I have been using J.Y.Daddy's port of CM9 for GSM and I love it. Very good looking rom, excellent features and intuitive organisation. Overall, 10/10. Definately would bang.
But yeah, nandroid backup is key. Just keep it on a USB stick nearby if you have little space on you SD.
Have a ball with custom roms man! It's what makes Android the best OS in my opinion.
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Hey all,
Been running ROMs on my Hero for a while now but I'd like to give the stock 2.1 a try and possibly stick with it until CM6 is stable. I know I can install the RUU but I don't really want to lose my recovery partition, I had to use the gold card method which was a pain in the ass.
I don't need root, I'd actually prefer to get a non-rooted completely default factory ROM if possible. How would I go about doing that or do I need to install the RUU and re-root it later if I want to? I've seen some "stock" ROMs floating around on the dev forum but all have been rooted and most seem to be running custom kernels too.
Any info or a link would be appreciated if I can keep my recovery part. Cheers
Villain Team has posted the GSM roms. There's pure stock and rooted stock.
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=1973
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Villain Team has posted the GSM roms.
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Ahh brilliant, thanks for that!
I just recently got my Atrix 4G, I'm new to Android. I've done a lot of research relative to custom roms, rooting, kernals. I know how to root, Im sketchy about roms and kernals. I just wanna make my phone ATT stock free. It makes it slow, and I know this device can do so much more. But I just wanna know what I should do. I don't know whether to do these roms:
1: [ics] cm9 by photon dev team. 1/16/12
2: Official cm7 for Atrix Stable Only
3:[rom] cm7-ics-mod2 [11/01/12]
4: [P-rom] Gingerblur v. 4.5
Kernals: by faux123
Gingerbread enhanced stock kernal
Cyanogen 7 enhanced stock kernal
I do not want to hard brick my new phone.
I would like to know what ROM is the best, I like the gingerblur stability but i like the ICS theme. But Cyanogen is well known for great ROM. Just a mess. What kernal would I use for these specific roms? What do you prefer?
first install android-sdk -your pc type
onto your pc include /tools and platform-tools as far as kernals some roms dont like some kernals soo for example of you download and install darkside it has fauxs 1.0 kernal soo dont change it to some strange china built stick with fauxs and you cant go wrong
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So prior to installing the software, what does that necessarily do? Relative to ROMS and Kernal files. I know I need ROM manager and Titanium backup apps with root for backup reasons and stuff.
First of all you will have to unlock the bootloader to install a recovery manager.
The noob guide will help you a lot. You need to first unlock your bootloader before you do any flashing.
Once that is done a recovery like Clockworkmod Recovery needs to be flashed, I'm pretty sure you can just do this through Rom Manager.
At this point, your options are expanded greatly. For most roms and kernels, you just need to download the rom, and drag and drop it into your internal sd card. After that you can go into recovery via Rom Manager. Once there, wipe your factory settings, cache, and dalvik cache (in advanced). Once this is done, do apply zip from sd card then choose from internal card then navigate to the rom you downloaded. Just make sure you want to do this because it will wipe everything from your phone except what is on your sd cards.
You don't need to mess around with the zip files at all when you download them. Just take the file you downloaded and get it to your sd card. The recovery will do the rest. Same goes with kernels. Just make sure that you have the right one for what rom you're on and flash it in recovery when after you are done setting up your new rom.
As far as roms go it just depends what you want. Right now its the motoblur or cm7 and just read what rom has the features you want the most.
Hopefully this helps a little, this is a basic idea of what you have to do. Flashing roms is not as hard as you think. Just be careful unlocking the bootloader. Anything else just ask away.
Well, first of all, since all the posts above have told you how to install roms and such, I won't go through that. I will say that you really don't have to download a new kernel, as most roms come with one that works just fine with them.
As far as which rom to go with, it depends on what you want.
If you want webtop and fingerprint scanner, and most the little blur apps that come with the stock phone with more mods and features go with wet dream, its a pretty nice rom
If all you want is webtop and fingerprint scanner and dont care about blur, go with a deblurred rom, I have used darkside and alien roms and they are both great, but I would say darkside has the most extra features. Aura also falls in this category.
If you want the fingerprint scanner then you can choose CM7 Weekly #4, or Neutrino Rom, which is based off of CM7 W#4, however both have some issues with wifi/bluetooth that you might want to read the forums about before flashing, and also Neutrino requires much more additional flashing for extra features, which is a good and a bad thing, good because you don't have to get any features you don't want and bad because you spend more time downloading and flashing zips.
If you don't care about webtop/fingerprint scanner/blur apps, and just want speed and stability then CM7 Ba2tf is the way to go, its completely stable and very fast as long as you follow install instructions.
As far as the CM9 roms, those aren't meant for noobs, they are in alpha testing and development so they are potentially unstable, so its best to wait for stable releases, or at the very least betas
The rom I am using now is Neutrino, and I am enjoying it alot, but you just have to go through the roms and find out about what they feature and don't feature, and of course there are plenty of other roms in the forum that I am completely ignorant about such as MIUI, so just look around and see what you like
ps when you do use someones rom, be sure to at least hit the "thanks" button at the bottom of their post. They put a lot of time and effort in it and it's always nice to get a thanks
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So prior to installing the software, what does that necessarily do? Relative to ROMS and Kernal files. I know I need ROM manager and Titanium backup apps with root for backup reasons and stuff.
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android-sdk will allow you to use fast boot and adb and allow phone to communicate to the pc in the event it messes up and you will need fastboot and adb shell to root and unlock the bootloader
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thewarhawk said:
Well, first of all, since all the posts above have told you how to install roms and such, I won't go through that. I will say that you really don't have to download a new kernel, as most roms come with one that works just fine with them.
As far as which rom to go with, it depends on what you want.
If you want webtop and fingerprint scanner, and most the little blur apps that come with the stock phone with more mods and features go with wet dream, its a pretty nice rom
If all you want is webtop and fingerprint scanner and dont care about blur, go with a deblurred rom, I have used darkside and alien roms and they are both great, but I would say darkside has the most extra features. Aura also falls in this category.
If you want the fingerprint scanner then you can choose CM7 Weekly #4, or Neutrino Rom, which is based off of CM7 W#4, however both have some issues with wifi/bluetooth that you might want to read the forums about before flashing, and also Neutrino requires much more additional flashing for extra features, which is a good and a bad thing, good because you don't have to get any features you don't want and bad because you spend more time downloading and flashing zips.
If you don't care about webtop/fingerprint scanner/blur apps, and just want speed and stability then CM7 Ba2tf is the way to go, its completely stable and very fast as long as you follow install instructions.
As far as the CM9 roms, those aren't meant for noobs, they are in alpha testing and development so they are potentially unstable, so its best to wait for stable releases, or at the very least betas
The rom I am using now is Neutrino, and I am enjoying it alot, but you just have to go through the roms and find out about what they feature and don't feature, and of course there are plenty of other roms in the forum that I am completely ignorant about such as MIUI, so just look around and see what you like
ps when you do use someones rom, be sure to at least hit the "thanks" button at the bottom of their post. They put a lot of time and effort in it and it's always nice to get a thanks
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As to what you said and the guy above you, do i HAVE to unlock the bootloader? Im always gonna be on ATT. Can I just root, install the needed apps and install CM7?
Anthony04x said:
As to what you said and the guy above you, do i HAVE to unlock the bootloader? Im always gonna be on ATT. Can I just root, install the needed apps and install CM7?
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Well I believe you're confused, which is understandable.. What you're talking about is unlocking the phone by buying a code to put in so you can use any carriers sim card, you don't need to do that
to unlock the bootloader you just follow the steps in the noob guide for unlocking, that will allow you to install a custom recovery, which, yes, is required for flashing any custom roms
Yes you have to unlock the bootloader, install clockwork mod recovery and then a custom rom. there is some work here, it is all documented in the development section of this forum. As for a rom, I am currently on cm9, however for stability I would suggest cm7 by Turl and team Atrix.
unlocking your bootloader IS different than unlocking the phone to other carriers its 2 differnt things and yes
before a custom rom can be installed the bootloader has to be unlocked
(takes 5 min)
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Thank you to everyone who helped with my situation. I'm currently running jokersax cm9 special build w/ faux123 cm9 1ghz kernal and I absolutely love it.
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Hey all,
After attempting to install the gsm ics leak and bricking my phone and having to spend an entire day bringing it back from the dead, I warn you not to go and install that if you have the same phone I do, (but if you do, pm me and I will be glad to help you fix your phone).
Anyways, on to my question: Does anyone know if it is possible to get any functional version of ics onto the xt910 canadian rogers version?
I would settle for CM9 or AOKP because I'm 99% sure there is no way to make the phone work with any leak. Thanks!
Cm9 and akop work on our phones as long as you apply the GSM patch if it isn't already implemented..
its not the smoothest though since you will still be running the original kernel and radio from 2.3.5
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I'm actually on cm9 and everything is smooth, but I've found that if you touch Bluetooth, you're going to have to factory reset your phone using fastboot. Huge pain in the ass if you ask me. Other than that, everything seems ok. Still works better than Arctic.
have you guys tried the gummy ICS rom? Just picking up my phone this week and trying to figure out whether to stick with stock and wait it out OR flash and have fun...
I haven't tried Gummy (not sure why you would want that over AOKP or CM9, though), but I would say this: if you don't stay stock, you don't have much in the way of options. You can run Arctic pretty smoothly, or you can go for one of the ics roms and stay very far away from bluetooth. If you decide to flash right away, MAKE SURE you back up your stock image because otherwise you'll never get a rogers rom back on your device, since there are no fastboot files for it through the eternity project (which means they basically don't exist).
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have you guys tried the gummy ICS rom? Just picking up my phone this week and trying to figure out whether to stick with stock and wait it out OR flash and have fun...
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Gummy is based off the same source as CM9 and AOKP.. with only ROM tweaks, the same bugs apply
xxBrun0xx said:
I haven't tried Gummy (not sure why you would want that over AOKP or CM9, though), but I would say this: if you don't stay stock, you don't have much in the way of options. You can run Arctic pretty smoothly, or you can go for one of the ics roms and stay very far away from bluetooth. If you decide to flash right away, MAKE SURE you back up your stock image because otherwise you'll never get a rogers rom back on your device, since there are no fastboot files for it through the eternity project (which means they basically don't exist).
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Nandroid backup of Rogers System
I have an DROID RAZR XT910 GSM/CDMA with the following stock ICS: 673.94.328.XT910.Optus.en.AU, Version 4.0.4, Build 6.7.3-94_SPI-328 and while looking at all the mods and roms out there I'm not confident in flashing this device because the version numbers are different and I don't wanna brick my phone (at close to AUD$800 I think you can understand why) so need help with getting JB onto it (impatient here in OZ, last round from GB to ICS took 6 months from advertised to actually going OTA here). Phone is rooted, have Titanium Backup and SuperSU installed but:
1: don't know how to back up the whole stock in case of failure and need to reinstall
2: not sure that any ROMs are safe to use in my phone (differing stock numbers etc)
3: what other software needed to make this happen
Can anyone please help!?! (where's that old interrobang when you need it)
SimonTWolf said:
I have an DROID RAZR XT910 GSM/CDMA with the following stock ICS: 673.94.328.XT910.Optus.en.AU, Version 4.0.4, Build 6.7.3-94_SPI-328 and while looking at all the mods and roms out there I'm not confident in flashing this device because the version numbers are different and I don't wanna brick my phone (at close to AUD$800 I think you can understand why) so need help with getting JB onto it (impatient here in OZ, last round from GB to ICS took 6 months from advertised to actually going OTA here). Phone is rooted, have Titanium Backup and SuperSU installed but:
1: don't know how to back up the whole stock in case of failure and need to reinstall
2: not sure that any ROMs are safe to use in my phone (differing stock numbers etc)
3: what other software needed to make this happen
Can anyone please help!?! (where's that old interrobang when you need it)
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Hi!
I'm an Aussie user but bought mine through Kogan (so it's a German phone). If you've already rooted the phone and have Stock ICS I'd recommend installing SS3.11 or BMM and running another JB ROM rather than try to flash stock.
There's heaps of threads with great ROMs on here and the Development thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162827
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028020
Personally I use SS3.11 with CM10.1 as my daily and it's fine. I can also recommend AOKP4.22 which is now officially supported on XT910.
Benefit of this setup is that I can also boot back to stock whenever I want.
Cheers and happy flashing!
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philharmonick said:
Hi!
I'm an Aussie user but bought mine through Kogan (so it's a German phone). If you've already rooted the phone and have Stock ICS I'd recommend installing SS3.11 or BMM and running another JB ROM rather than try to flash stock.
There's heaps of threads with great ROMs on here and the Development thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162827
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028020
Personally I use SS3.11 with CM10.1 as my daily and it's fine. I can also recommend AOKP4.22 which is now officially supported on XT910.
Benefit of this setup is that I can also boot back to stock whenever I want.
Cheers and happy flashing!
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many thanks, as I don't want to touch the stock at all I'm using this method (ss3 and aokp/cm10.1 tri-boot {keeping the stock I'll have three systems})
SimonTWolf said:
many thanks, as I don't want to touch the stock at all I'm using this method (ss3 and aokp/cm10.1 tri-boot {keeping the stock I'll have three systems})
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This is a bit late to see this thread, but there is a thread for the retail.au 4.1.2 official. If you do a search of the forum with "retail" and "au" you'll find it. Stock rom that needs to flash a kernel first.
First be sure to root if you're still on ICS. There's a one-click root tool in the development section.
Requires BMM 0.3.4, from there you can install the recovery and reboot into it. It allows you to do a nandroid backup.
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This is a bit late to see this thread, but there is a thread for the retail.au 4.1.2 official. If you do a search of the forum with "retail" and "au" you'll find it. Stock rom that needs to flash a kernel first.
First be sure to root if you're still on ICS. There's a one-click root tool in the development section.
Requires BMM 0.3.4, from there you can install the recovery and reboot into it. It allows you to do a nandroid backup.
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thx mate, not impressed with AOKP or CM10 so hopefully the 4.1.2 official will keep me happy
Hey, gang! I'm running 4.1.2, happily rooted on my Maxx and everything working fine. I've flashed ROMs a couple times in the past when they have provided features or functionality that are noticeably better than the stock OS, so although I'm certainly not an expert I'm also not afraid to try a few things.
I've recently developed an itch to flash CM10 (using Safestrap, and having a kind of dual-boot scenario where I can boot into either CM10 or stock as needed), but from the videos and screenshots I've been able to find it looks almost identical to the stock ROM. I've done a bit of searching, but have yet to find any major differences from stock other than having the bloatware removed. I know a lot of people love CM10, but why? Can someone enlighten me what sets CM10 apart from the stock? If there are some compelling reasons, I'm in...I just haven't found them yet.
Thanks!
PS - I'm also considering Carbon or Liquid...any thoughts on those, too?
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Hey, gang! I'm running 4.1.2, happily rooted on my Maxx and everything working fine. I've flashed ROMs a couple times in the past when they have provided features or functionality that are noticeably better than the stock OS, so although I'm certainly not an expert I'm also not afraid to try a few things.
I've recently developed an itch to flash CM10 (using Safestrap, and having a kind of dual-boot scenario where I can boot into either CM10 or stock as needed), but from the videos and screenshots I've been able to find it looks almost identical to the stock ROM. I've done a bit of searching, but have yet to find any major differences from stock other than having the bloatware removed. I know a lot of people love CM10, but why? Can someone enlighten me what sets CM10 apart from the stock? If there are some compelling reasons, I'm in...I just haven't found them yet.
Thanks!
PS - I'm also considering Carbon or Liquid...any thoughts on those, too?
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Theme engine, customization options, etc. (In the settings menu). Also, it allows you to have a later version of android than the stock Rom. Hope this helps.
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Theme engine, customization options, etc. (In the settings menu). Also, it allows you to have a later version of android than the stock Rom. Hope this helps.
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Ah, good to know. I'll do some reading on the theme engine to see what's involved. Thanks!
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Ah, good to know. I'll do some reading on the theme engine to see what's involved. Thanks!
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No problem.
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CM10.2 builds are starting to show up now (Android 4.3). We'll never see an official 4.3 upgrade from Motorola, so that'll be the biggest reason to flash a custom ROM, in my opinion.
I don't do much customizing/theming of my phone, but I still prefer CM over the stock ROM. I could probably achieve similar results by just removing/freezing all the bloatware in the stock ROM. Still, CM and other ROMs have features that the stock ROM doesn't.
If you're going to mess around with your phone, rooting definitely gives you the most benefit. Custom ROMs give an incremental benefit. Assuming you're careful and don't brick your phone, there's no downside to trying some of the custom ROMs out. You can even leave your stock ROM intact and switch between it and your custom ROM until you find one you like. I keep coming back to CM10, but I've also tried PacMan and LiquidSmooth. I've heard good things about Carbon and MUIU.
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CM10.2 builds are starting to show up now (Android 4.3). We'll never see an official 4.3 upgrade from Motorola, so that'll be the biggest reason to flash a custom ROM, in my opinion.
I don't do much customizing/theming of my phone, but I still prefer CM over the stock ROM. I could probably achieve similar results by just removing/freezing all the bloatware in the stock ROM. Still, CM and other ROMs have features that the stock ROM doesn't.
If you're going to mess around with your phone, rooting definitely gives you the most benefit. Custom ROMs give an incremental benefit. Assuming you're careful and don't brick your phone, there's no downside to trying some of the custom ROMs out. You can even leave your stock ROM intact and switch between it and your custom ROM until you find one you like. I keep coming back to CM10, but I've also tried PacMan and LiquidSmooth. I've heard good things about Carbon and MUIU.
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That's exactly the kind of thing I wanted to find out. Thanks for your help!
Also the numerous battery and performance tweaks and added security features.
To sum it up, just try it for yourself and you'll know.
neo.ank said:
Also the numerous battery and performance tweaks and added security features.
To sum it up, just try it for yourself and you'll know.
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I think I will, thanks!