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  • I’d rather they replaced the Mail Access Profile (MAP) that was removed in Jelly Bean.

  • After receiving the update, my RAZR MAXX seems to be running much smother and faster now after I shut it down and restarted. Apps open much faster. At one point I thought I was going to have to do a factory reset to clear out what was making it lag so much.

  • DROID RAZR MAXX HD

    This device will be upgraded to KitKat (Android 4.4)

    according to Motorola theses phones will be getting upgrades just dont know when….. so this news story makes no sense..

  • Kind of surprising the Droid 4 got its soak test before the RAZR; it was always the other way around with the previous updates. Anyone know what is in this update yet?

    • I would guess something to do with security fixes for that Google APK update flaw found a few months ago that was a big deal in the media.

  • Damn, I’d even appreciate Android 4.2.2 for my Droid RAZR Maxx, so I can at least use homescreen widgets…this update is meaningless to me…

  • Can’t believe that its been two years. Still a great phone. Seems to be harder to sell an update. Started switching phones so much. More than satisfied with my N4. Probably till spring. Waiting on the next Moto X

  • This is why I will most likely buy an iPhone or windows phone next go around. How is it Verizon’s requires me to sign a two year agreement to get this phone at a somewhat half decent price. Yet, support wise, the phone gets left behind in a matter of two or three months. If I have to keep this phone for two years, verizon and Motorola should do their part and keep it up to date for two years. The feds need to come down on this racket called wireless companies.

    • I don’t understand your comment. You are complaining that you are stuck with this phone for 2 years but it is abandoned after 2 or 3 months, but this article talks about a new update, now the THIRD update for this phone since it’s release. Your complaint has absolutely no merit.

      • what is the latest OS? and is my phone getting that latest OS? a bug fixer is a given. i’m not talking about update that closes some loophole or adds bloatware. i’m talking about the fact that if i am under a contract for two years, i should have the latest OS on my phone if it can run it (which i’,m sure thats not a problem). I thing my gripe absolutely does have merit.

        • My understanding is it IS a problem, since the manufacturer of the processor (Texas Instruments) did not create drivers for the Droid 4 and OG Razr that are compatible with KitKat. So how do you expect Motorola to update the phone without basically creating their own drivers for a chip they did not manufacture? And they are not in the chip manufacturing game. Trust me, I LOVE my Droid 4 and will use it until they come out with a Droid 5, or what now seems like, forever. And I would LOVE for Kit Kat to be coming to my phone, but I am informed enough about how OS upgrades work with respect to compatibility.

          What I AM upset about and would gripe about is the lack of a Droid 5. FU Google, we want our physical keyboards!!!!

  • Looks like I have to boot up my aging bionic to prepare for a similar update since it basically has the same specs as the og RAZR and Maxx.

  • This phone needs TRIM badly! I had one and unless i ran lagfix every few days, it took minutes to do anything.

    • Yep I had to run lagfix every day, sometimes twice. Had it for a year and a half until just getting the moto x, vastly superior.

      • Someone at Google should be flogged for not mandating Android receive TRIM support back in ICS 4.0 ( if not even under earlier). So many devices could and would have benefited from it. I have had it on my PC SSDs since 2009 and its invaluable.

        • The reason they didn’t include it earlier might probably be the same reason why many Linux distros haven’t enabled it by default until recently. Within the Linux community, there was/is much debate about how to enable TRIM properly. There are currently 2 methods in Linux: setting the discard option when mounting and using fstrim on a scheduled basis.

          Using the discard mount option showed disk performance loss for random writes and mass file deletions while fstrim can put significant disk load and sometimes last 10 minutes (killing battery life). It seems Google decided to go with fstrim on a roughly 24 hour schedule plus some other requirements related to battery level, charging state and others.

          For my Linux notebook, I cobbled together a script that calls fstrim to TRIM at most 1 GiB and depending on the result, it does the next TRIM between 1 and 24 hours later. It also only does it when plugged in. It works okay but it’s like I did any formal tests.

          • Thanks for the info. I had no idea things were stillstill so contentious in the Linux world regarding TRIM implementations.

          • Things are always contentious in the Linux world or at least it’s more public than in closed proprietary software organizations. There are debates over a lot of things. I guess it took so long to find the “best” method so the majority decided to just go with the least bad existing one because doing neither is far worse.

    • TRIM is normally run once a day. That’s how Android KitKat does it. Many Linux users set it up this way for SSDs as well. For usage patterns that has frequent file deletions and/or a slow eMMC from the start then TRIMming more often is probably required.

  • I’m surprised actually, figured Motorola soak test folk still had their hands full with the droid maxx/ultra/mini soak. Yet, they’ve now done two more soaks while that one is still a cluster-%#&$.

  • upgraded my razr maxx last week to the moto x, best upgrade ever. won’t miss that slow laggy maxx at all.

          • I think this soak is different, because I didn’t sign up for the feedback network until after kit kat was released. Also, my phone has been on 4.4 for a while now. Either it’s going to be a fixer, or a bump upto 4.4.2.

          • It just doesn’t make sense to start a new soak with an existing (failed) soak in progress and exclude the current soak members.

            And seems, no offense, like you’re the only one claiming it.

          • I understand where you are coming from. This email was a surprise to me as much as it might be to anyone. I’m just posting what I got in my email because I haven’t seen it anywhere else. However, it makes no sense for me to get this email weeks after the OTA was pushed. This is especially true because I signed up fur the feedback network a week after the last soak test. When I find out more, I’ll let anyone interested know what it really is. Anyone who is skeptical can ignore my post. If someone else beat me to this post, I wouldn’t have even posted this. I just thought people would be interested in knowing that there might be an update coming.

  • I rather have security and bug fixes than the new features of the newest flavor of Android. Too bad only so many fixes can be backported but at least they’re providing it, assuming that’s what this update provides.

    Has anyone tried replacing the battery themselves? You can buy the battery online but I haven’t tried it. My battery life has severely dropped now. If only I can just easily pop in ta new battery.

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    • It’s not to difficult to replace, but the back will be loose unless you use glue when you reinstall the back.

    • Yeah, when this phone was updated to ICS, it just added bugs, and then it was upgraded to JB which just brought even more bugs

  • I was just talking to someone at work who said they were having connectivity issues with their OG RAZR, perhaps it’s a widespread issue?

    • Thats not my problem, but mobile and wifi signal strength are very weak using gsm sim cards outside USA.

  • Not trying to get off topic but what happened to the Droid Maxx update, I know it got pulled for bricking, haven’t heard anything else (twiddles tumbs)

    • I got the 4.4 update on my maxx and for the most part I like the update…. BT has been my only real usage complaint as I use BT in my car with a Kenwood head unit and I get chippie audio every now and then, kind of sucks buy over all great update. Also the mix of blue and white JB and kitkat icons are funky but that is a real minor thing. Hope the next update phase is 4.4.2 with bug fixes.

    • Why? They shouldn’t feel bad about it either. In fact, I am impressed that Moto is releasing an update when the phone is 25 months old.

  • How is 4.1.2 more than 4.2.2 that the VZ Toro GNex has currently?

    ?”Hey, that’s more than the Galaxy Nexus got.”?

    • The Galaxy Nexus isn’t even receiving bug updates and was announced dead months ago. This phone was released around the same time and is getting an update (not newer version of OS) when it is over two years old. The Verizon Gnex never even got 4.3, which was supposed to go to all Galaxy Nexus devices (screw you Verizon). The last update Toro saw was in March of last year. With Google washing their hands of the Gnex, that means it only saw support for…15 months?

      I am thinking that was what was meant.

  • Typing on my RAZR Maxx now. It’s amazing how fast these devices get left behind. My phone still feels new.

    • I had a Bionic a few months ago, same phone basically. Had screen issues so I got a free hand me down RAZR m from a family member. I used to think my bionic stayed relatively current (had kit Kat and all), but after using this RAZR m, the performance vs my wife’s og RAZR and the old Bionic blew me away. To think that this RAZR m is now an “old” device is ridiculous. Luckily, it’s scheduled to receive KitKat!

      • You know the RAZR Maxx and RAZR M are different phones right? My dad has the M. It’s pretty nice, but smaller and much shorter battery than my Maxx.

        • Yes, just stating how ridiculous it is that the m is already considered old is all. This is my first snapdragon powered device as well, and I definitely see a difference in performance over my old bionic.

          • It seems like it really is the omap processor that’s making the OG RAZR and bionic feel sluggish

          • For sure. The only way I could make my bionic buttery smooth was to use the performance cpu governor, and even then it was still choppy at times. The stock rom was great for a week each time I reinstalled it, but it always bogged down. Cyanogenmod ran flawlessly though.

          • Phones are considered old a month after you buy them in the android space with how often manufacturers pump out new phones.

          • Yup. The leap in performance between thethe OMAP devices and the Snapdragons powered devices that followed not even a year later is massive.

      • I just recommended the RAZR M to a friend because he wanted to get a smartphone, but wasn’t available for an upgrade, and only wanted to spend around $100. The RAZR M is the best phone you can get for that price on eBay.

        He’s available for an upgrade in February, but he wanted to wait until the iPhone 6 came out to use it. Now that he’s been using the RAZR M for about a week, he’s almost certainly going to use his upgrade for an Android phone.

    • Im sure I wont update until I know everything is safe, I mean I dont wanna lose the ability of rooting and installing roms on my phone.

  • This is probably closing a hole that allowed people to unlock the bootloader or something, you know, because that’s what’s most important on a 2-year-old phone.

      • It could be for closing up SafeStrap (aka the only way to install a custom Rom making the phone moderately usable)

        • Yep that is true.. Hashcode warned of any Motorola updates before the last updates to safestrap..

    • I’m thinking buying a HTC G1 on e-bay but I want kit kat for it. also any way to install a LTE band and fast wifi?

      /sarcasm

  • Where’s KitKat for the 2012 roster Motorola? You promised they would be here soon.

    • That’s what I’m waiting for as well. I bet it will arrive by the end of February. Hopefully sooner, but these things almost always take longer than what you’d hope for.

      • Now, now…don’t be impatient. They are having to work overtime to figure out how to disable the micro SD slots on the 2012-era Moto devices!

        • Actually that would require no work at all – it’s my understanding that AOSP doesn’t support it in any way shape or form. Getting the SD slot working, on the other hand, would require a lot of work.

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