There is a good news for Motorola Droid Razr and Razr Maxx device users across the world. Now these can be updated with the latest Android 4.4 based CM11 custom ROM Firmware.
Don’t consider it as an official release of CM11 platform, as you probably know that the CM team had just released the stable version of CM 10.2. Even though the custom ROM is not the official release of CyanogenMod 11, the Firmware is smoothly running on smartphones, thanks to xda-developers who had modified and developed the official Android 4.4 KitKat Operating System especially for Motorola Droid Razr and Razr Maxx devices.
The new official Android 4.4 KitKat Firmware will not be released for these two devices (Mote Razr and Razr Maxx devices), because of hardware limitations. So, the only way to install the new platform on these two phones is to install a custom ROM Firmware like CyanogenMod 11 OS.
As you probably know that, a custom ROM has some bugs in it and in the CM 11 Firmware case as well, there are some minor issues and bugs, but according to its developers these bugs and issues are not so damaging relevant to us. So, you can install this custom ROM based on Android 4.4 KitKat on Moto Droid Razr and Razr Maxx devices for daily use. Additionally, the developers are constantly working to develop a stable and better CM 11 Firmware, so you’ll be able to update the devices with new Firmware where the bugs and issues are solved.
Moreover, the new CM 11 custom ROM has included both, stock and additional applications, features, capabilities, settings especially created for optimizing the devices’ performances, the battery life consumption, to have a better web browsing experience, to gain speed and more.
In order to obtain all these features and capabilities you have to take care of this step by step instructional guide.
Prerequisites:
- First, you need to obtain the root access for Motorola Droid Razr or Motorola Droid Razr Maxx devices. So, the root access is a must have operation. Keep in mind that the rooting access is not an official operation and because of that, the warranty of the device will get void. The warranty can be restored when you want, but for that you should downgrade your smartphone to stock Android Operating System. But once you do this, the root access will be revoked, the boot loader will be relocked, and all the factory restrictions restored in order to restore the initial state of your device.
- After you gained the root access for the Motorola Droid Razr or Droid Razr Maxx device, you need to flash a custom recovery image on it. The CM 11 based on Android 4.4 firmware can be flashed only via a custom recovery image. For this, you should use the latest versions of CWM or TWRP recovery. The custom ROM had tested only by using these custom recovery applications.
- The CWM and TWRP recovery tools represent the most used custom recovery applications for these kinds of actions.
- After that, we are recommending that to perform a Nandroid Backup for your actual system and also to backup all your data stored into device’ internal memory, for saving your data you can use suitable backup and restore applications from Google Play Store to save your contacts, call logs history, personal data, market applications, info, accounts, and everything else that you want to save from the internal storage of the smartphone.
- A computer, a USB cable, and Motorola Droid Razr or Razr Maxx devices are necessary to complete the step-by-step guide.
- On your smartphone, you need to enable the USB debugging option from the following path: Menu-Settings-Developer options.
- Deactivate or disable the antivirus, firewall and antimalware programs from the PC during the installation process. The deactivation or uninstall process of the security programs is necessary during the flashing process, so that it doesn’t not interact with the flashing process.
- Ensure that the device’ battery status is more than 70% before starting the step-by-step installation guide.
- This step-by-step instructional guide works only with the Motorola Droid Razr and Motorola Droid Razr Maxx (both GSM and CDMA variants).
How to flash CM 11 Android 4.4 KitKat Firmware on Motorola Droid Razr and Razr Maxx
- Download the CM 11 based on Android 4.4 update file for the XT910 –GSM model from here, while for the XT 912 – CDMA version from here and save it on your PC.
- Download the Google Apps package from here and save it on your computer.
- Don’t extract (unzip) the files.
- Now, connect the smartphone with computer by using a USB cord.
- Copy and paste the downloaded files on your device’ SD card.
- Next, disconnect the USB cord.
- Power off the device
- Boot the device into recovery mode – you can use this tutorial if you don’t know exactly how to enter into Recovery Mode.
- From the main menu of the Recovery Mode select “wipe data factory reset”, “wipe cache partition” and then “wipe dalvick cache”.
- Now, return to main menu of the Recovery Mode and from there select “install zip from SD card” followed by “choose zip from SD card”.
- Search and load the CM11 firmware file to install it on the Motorola Droid Razz or Droid Razr Maxx device.
- Now, do the same thing and install the Google Application pack on the smartphone.
- When the both files are installed, select “+++go back+++” and “reboot system now”.
Congratulation! You have done it! The manual process of installing the CM11 Custom ROM on Motorola Droid Razr and Droid Razr Maxx devices is complete now.
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