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

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ckfalls

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First need to shout out the towelroot method for root and BL unlock: http://xdaforums.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?
 

poppers162

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First need to shout out the towelroot method for root and BL unlock: http://xdaforums.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?

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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ckfalls

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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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poppers162

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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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Cm11 has a working tether setting. I haven't connected anything to the Hotspot but it turns on.

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aaronpw0621

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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

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???
 

ckfalls

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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

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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    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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    First need to shout out the towelroot method for root and BL unlock: http://xdaforums.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?

    I'm running cm11 and I've had little to no lag issues

    Sent from my DROID RAZR M using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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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...

    Sent from my XT907 using xda app-developers app