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[Q] Upgrading within CM

First off, like many others here, I would like to thank all the CM devs, the xda devs, and everyone else who has made it possible to run CM on the Skyrocket. I came from stock GB and the upgrade made it a new phone. You guys rock!
My question may be simple and I apologize in advance, but I am somewhat of a newb and I have made it this far without having to post a question. I have been able to search and find all my answers about installing a custom recovery, radio install, CM upgrade, and everything else associated with flashing a new ROM so I don't feel too big a newb.
Now that I have a clean install of 10.1 up and running along with the associated Gapps package, CM is telling me that 10.1.3 is available for download. My question is this...Is it safe to upgrade within CM? I am assuming it verifies the md5 hash to prevent a corrupt file from being installed? And when CM reports that 10.2 is available, how would I go about updating Gapps, since that requires a different Gapps package? Would you have to flash the new Gapps from recovery? Would it install over the older Gapps package? What about 10.2-would it have to be flashed in recovery, or would it be safe to upgrade within CM (once it becomes available)?
Thanks in advance for your replies, and thanks again to everyone who has made it possible to extend the life of the Skyrocket.

I would change CM Updater to show "Stable Only" updates for now until you become more familiar with everything. In a nutshell, yes you can use CM Updater to upgrade to CM 10.1.3.
For CM 10.2, it's currently in Nightly status and the upgrade process is more involved than just allowing CMUpdater to do the work. Go read the thread for more info. Short answer: CMupdater is perfect for nightly/stable updates of the same version (ie CM10.1.x to CM10.1.x). Don't use it for upgrading to release versions (ie CM10.1.x to CM10.2).

Switching Between Roms

I am new with this Asus Transformer TF300T device and i have still lot to learn, but what i have learned is Asus make ****ty bootloaders.
The situation with my device is now with newest nighty CM 11 and Scanno TWRP with Grimlock Kernel. I tested it couple of hours and it crashed one time. I would need the device 95% to play games and rest of time surfing internet. Thats mostly what i do with device and im wondering is the CM 11 best to it or is there something better. This is first custom Rom im testing and there is a little performance upgrade since Stock Rom but not much so im thinking the problem could be the nightly build so i would like to go back to some stable roms. Battery time is not priority 1 because i can charge the tablet daily and i have keyboard to it.
But the question is what is the best and fastest rom and what is easiest way to do it? Should i allways install the latest official Asus update to device that bootloader etc. will be stock and then install TWRP or is there other way? I think Android KitKat still need lot of fixing so i could go back to Android 4.3X or Android 4.2X which have been around very much longer and maybe better fixed. The little advices how to do that would be great same as what not to do.

Matatusku said:
I am new with this Asus Transformer TF300T device and i have still lot to learn, but what i have learned is Asus make ****ty bootloaders.
The situation with my device is now with newest nighty CM 11 and Scanno TWRP with Grimlock Kernel. I tested it couple of hours and it crashed one time. I would need the device 95% to play games and rest of time surfing internet. Thats mostly what i do with device and im wondering is the CM 11 best to it or is there something better. This is first custom Rom im testing and there is a little performance upgrade since Stock Rom but not much so im thinking the problem could be the nightly build so i would like to go back to some stable roms. Battery time is not priority 1 because i can charge the tablet daily and i have keyboard to it.
But the question is what is the best and fastest rom and what is easiest way to do it? Should i allways install the latest official Asus update to device that bootloader etc. will be stock and then install TWRP or is there other way? I think Android KitKat still need lot of fixing so i could go back to Android 4.3X or Android 4.2X which have been around very much longer and maybe better fixed. The little advices how to do that would be great same as what not to do.
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If you really want speed, stability, and reliability, CROMi-x is a really good option in my opinion. I always have had a preference to AOSP ROMs, because of that I use CM or PAC or Omni or AOKP. 4.2.2 based on the stock ROM seems to fit all of your needs, nightlies tend to be more cutting edge, and with that comes unpredictability.

cmendonc2 said:
If you really want speed, stability, and reliability, CROMi-x is a really good option in my opinion. I always have had a preference to AOSP ROMs, because of that I use CM or PAC or Omni or AOKP. 4.2.2 based on the stock ROM seems to fit all of your needs, nightlies tend to be more cutting edge, and with that comes unpredictability.
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That CROMi-x seems to be good rom but im not completely sure will it work with newest stock rom which is 10.6.1.27.5 not 10.6.1.27.1 and how i get back to stock because now i have something other? And is my TWRP wrong? There is many of questions that i cant find answer from forums which is very strange. Usually there are guides for these things.
I would like to do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455922 to my tablet just in case but i dont know is my version right for that.
This is Exactly information from my tablet:
Model: TF300T
Android: 4.4.2
Kernel: 3.1.10 Grimlock CM_0.8
Cyanogenmod Version 11-20140120-Nightly-Tf300t
Build Number: CM_TF300T-userdebug 4.4.2 KOT49H
SELinux: Enforcing
So first things i need is how do i get back to newest stock rom 4.2.1 with 10.6.1.27.5 and will i need to install TWRP in that installing progress or how? Some help would be nice. If im correct the easiest way would be go back to Stock 10.6.1.27.1 and make the device unbreakable then flash TWRP and go to CROMI-X but i need to know how to do that. The biggest question is that TWRP.

Matatusku said:
That CROMi-x seems to be good rom but im not completely sure will it work with newest stock rom which is 10.6.1.27.5 not 10.6.1.27.1 and how i get back to stock because now i have something other? And is my TWRP wrong? There is many of questions that i cant find answer from forums which is very strange. Usually there are guides for these things.
I would like to do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455922 to my tablet just in case but i dont know is my version right for that.
This is Exactly information from my tablet:
Model: TF300T
Android: 4.4.2
Kernel: 3.1.10 Grimlock CM_0.8
Cyanogenmod Version 11-20140120-Nightly-Tf300t
Build Number: CM_TF300T-userdebug 4.4.2 KOT49H
SELinux: Enforcing
So first things i need is how do i get back to newest stock rom 4.2.1 with 10.6.1.27.5 and will i need to install TWRP in that installing progress or how? Some help would be nice. If im correct the easiest way would be go back to Stock 10.6.1.27.1 and make the device unbreakable then flash TWRP and go to CROMI-X but i need to know how to do that. The biggest question is that TWRP.
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Yes, you can do NvFlash Backups for your bootloader, I have them on mine. If you want some clarification, you can look here: [URL="http://goo.gl/aM2M3y"]http://goo.gl/aM2M3y
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You can do NvFlash from the CM11 ROM you are on right now. Once you do that, you can reflash TWRP 2.6.3.1 and then factory reset from the recovery and then install CROMi-x.

Matatusku said:
That CROMi-x seems to be good rom but im not completely sure will it work with newest stock rom which is 10.6.1.27.5 not 10.6.1.27.1 and how i get back to stock because now i have something other? And is my TWRP wrong? There is many of questions that i cant find answer from forums which is very strange. Usually there are guides for these things.
I would like to do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455922 to my tablet just in case but i dont know is my version right for that.
This is Exactly information from my tablet:
Model: TF300T
Android: 4.4.2
Kernel: 3.1.10 Grimlock CM_0.8
Cyanogenmod Version 11-20140120-Nightly-Tf300t
Build Number: CM_TF300T-userdebug 4.4.2 KOT49H
SELinux: Enforcing
So first things i need is how do i get back to newest stock rom 4.2.1 with 10.6.1.27.5 and will i need to install TWRP in that installing progress or how? Some help would be nice. If im correct the easiest way would be go back to Stock 10.6.1.27.1 and make the device unbreakable then flash TWRP and go to CROMI-X but i need to know how to do that. The biggest question is that TWRP.
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CROMi-X works fine and is based from 10.6.1.27.5

Hi!
I cant post to android developement so i have to ask here. Does the CM11 OTA work if i have Grimlock kernel instead of the CM kernel and does it works if some of gapps etc have been deleted?
I would like to have some help how to do this: "You can do NvFlash from the CM11 ROM you are on right now. Once you do that, you can reflash TWRP 2.6.3.1 and then factory reset from the recovery and then install CROMi-x. "
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47902196#post47902196
What if i dont have "That is for stock Android Versions: 10.6.1.15.3 - 10.6.1.27.1." i have 10.6.1.27.5 or at least i had before i upgraded to CM or did the bootloader stays the same when upgrading to CM? Just does not show on the screen?
Sorry that my answering took so long here but i had other issues to do first Now i have time to play with this tablet. But the Cromi-X is what im going to have in my device but i need some help with it.

Matatusku said:
Hi!
I cant post to android developement so i have to ask here. Does the CM11 OTA work if i have Grimlock kernel instead of the CM kernel and does it works if some of gapps etc have been deleted?
I would like to have some help how to do this: "You can do NvFlash from the CM11 ROM you are on right now. Once you do that, you can reflash TWRP 2.6.3.1 and then factory reset from the recovery and then install CROMi-x. "
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47902196#post47902196
What if i dont have "That is for stock Android Versions: 10.6.1.15.3 - 10.6.1.27.1." i have 10.6.1.27.5 or at least i had before i upgraded to CM or did the bootloader stays the same when upgrading to CM? Just does not show on the screen?
Sorry that my answering took so long here but i had other issues to do first Now i have time to play with this tablet. But the Cromi-X is what im going to have in my device but i need some help with it.
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Yep you should be fine. The bootloader is the same for all three Stock ROMs.

[Q] Can't update ROM of xt925 to be able to encrypt it

Hi. After I posted this message, the problem seems to be that my ROM is hopelessly old. But after following the recommendations, I still couldn't update.
I tried to install "cm-11-20141112-SNAPSHOT-M12-moto_msm8960.zip" from ClockworkMod recovery. Got this error message:
Code:
This package is for device: moto_msm8960, xt907, scorpion_mini, smq, xt926, vanquish; this device is xt925.
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
But I was told (and the message on the CM wiki confirms it) that builds have been unified.
What should I do?
Looking for installs for xt925 specifically, the last stable is the one I have, and the few nightlies are very old as well and I doubt would solve the problem.
There is the CM12 nightly for xt925 released today, but since I'm highly dependent on my phone functioning while traveling next week and can't afford things going wrong, I'd rather avoid nightlies and experimental versions unless I have absolutely no alternative to have my phone encrypted.
Advice?
Thanks a lot.

By the way, I prefer to not make a factory reset unless it's necessary.
Is it necessary? Do I have to wipe cache? Wipe dalvik? Some sites say yes, some sites say not needed.
Is the answer different depending on whether I would be upgrading to a more recent version of CM 11 or to CM 12 nightly?
Thanks!

@taylortm Please read again what I wrote to you here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=58132610&postcount=2
You can't use moto_msm8960 CM11 builds nor xt925 CM12 build unless you update your device to stock KitKat firmware by Motorola first.
While your device is still using JellyBean bootloader/modem firmware, you can update only to moto_msm8960_jbbl CM11 builds.

That's right, I overlooked that, thank you. Was able to upgrade now.
I thought that because my Android stock was KitKat before I flashed CM11, that the bootloader would also be KK. It was a jbbl, because now it worked.
Everything seems to be working just fine, was no need to clear caches or data or anything. My compass is also now fixed.
I just started encryption and it wasn't locked in the robot anymore, it booted and now shows a progress bar with 4% complete.
Thanks, kabaldan!
Just one more question, will there be CM12 for moto_msm8960_jbbl later, or if I want to upgrade to CM12 I will have to do this kkbl workaround you mentioned?
kabaldan said:
@taylortm Please read again what I wrote to you here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=58132610&postcount=2
You can't use moto_msm8960 CM11 builds nor xt925 CM12 build unless you update your device to stock KitKat firmware by Motorola first.
While your device is still using JellyBean bootloader/modem firmware, you can update only to moto_msm8960_jbbl CM11 builds.
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[Q] Change LG G2 (D801) to CyanogenMod?

Hi, so i recently bought an brand new (factory Unlocked) LG G2 32gb (D801). It is running stock firmware android 4.2.2. I want to put official CM12 on it. From what I have read, the nightly versions of CM12 are really stable, and they do not have a lot of problems (if anyone has any problems with theirs please share, Im really interested). I am going to use this as my daily driver. My past history of rooting and putting cm on phones only includes the Samsung Captivate (captivatemtd) which I installed CM 10 and 11 (no problems with it). Could someone provide me a detailed, step by step method of installing cm onto the D801? Youtube videos are also helpful. Thanks so much in advance.
P.S. What custom recovery would be better with the LG G2? CWM or TWRP? (I have only used CWM in the past)
P.P.S. Will I be able to update from the nightlies to the more stable build of CM12 (ex. snapshot), without wiping the whole phone and flashing the software from a computer?

mkondrak said:
Hi, so i recently bought an brand new (factory Unlocked) LG G2 32gb (D801). It is running stock firmware android 4.2.2. I want to put official CM12 on it. From what I have read, the nightly versions of CM12 are really stable, and they do not have a lot of problems (if anyone has any problems with theirs please share, Im really interested). I am going to use this as my daily driver. My past history of rooting and putting cm on phones only includes the Samsung Captivate (captivatemtd) which I installed CM 10 and 11 (no problems with it). Could someone provide me a detailed, step by step method of installing cm onto the D801? Youtube videos are also helpful. Thanks so much in advance.
P.S. What custom recovery would be better with the LG G2? CWM or TWRP? (I have only used CWM in the past)
P.P.S. Will I be able to update from the nightlies to the more stable build of CM12 (ex. snapshot), without wiping the whole phone and flashing the software from a computer?
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I can't get it to work either. D801 with TWRP, tried installing the newest nightly and get an error.

GamerDaddy14 said:
I can't get it to work either. D801 with TWRP, tried installing the newest nightly and get an error.
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This method worked fine for me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py4pOmY2YQA

I can't keep KitKat using CyanogenMod

Good morning guys, sorry about the english. So, a while back I installed the 12.1 cm in my GT I9515L (Galaxy S4 VE), the rom was running normally, but i had some problems in some applications that were not compatible with the version BOJ1 (Lollipop). I performed the downgrade of the same for AJN1 (KitKat) to reinstall the CyanogenMod above, the problem is that whenever I go into recovery mode, time to flash the GAPPS, one error appears saying that the version isn't compatible. I performed the test of reset the machine without installing any version of gapps, and the cell was automatically updated to version Lollipop. I would like to ask for your help because I am unable to keep KitKat version in Cyano. I think that it's a litte mine mistake on wipes or in version of cyano, but I googled a lot and found nothing. Thank you guys.