DROID RAZR M: 4.4.2 KitKat Update

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Instructions are wrong as far as the step @ red triangle... Holding down: tap up : and release down : did not work.. At the stressing android screen I hit the up and power and it took me to the next options page .. Hope this helps someone

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Instructions for what, please?
 

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OK, this is a pain.... I did a factory reset, after KitKat and loaded only one app, My Backup Pro, and am receiving low internal storage warning.
My backups are on my external sd card, but Backup Pro didn't have the correct path mapped and there is no option to browse to the correct folder.
My genius idea was to copy the backup files from external to internal. During the copy I got the full warning.
Now what.... \_0_/
I guess I'll do another reset after clearing cache and go from there.....
 

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OK, this is a pain.... I did a factory reset, after KitKat and loaded only one app, My Backup Pro, and am receiving low internal storage warning.
My backups are on my external sd card, but Backup Pro didn't have the correct path mapped and there is no option to browse to the correct folder.
My genius idea was to copy the backup files from external to internal. During the copy I got the full warning.
Now what.... \_0_/
I guess I'll do another reset after clearing cache and go from there.....

You can use the built in file app toy transfer stuff from the external storage to internal and vise versa.

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You can use the built in file app toy transfer stuff from the external storage to internal and vise versa.

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I looked, there was nothing to transfer. All folders were empty or contained little.
The Adroid OS is taking up half of the space, on the bar graph.
 

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I haven't received the update OTA yet. My father got it on Monday. Our phones are identical and both on the same family share plan. They were purchased together. I decided to give up on OTA and try the Update option under the "About Phone" in settings. Every time I try it, it spins for a while "checking' and then tells me "check for updates is not available at this time". Any clue what this is about? Is this something with my phone or something with their update servers being too busy? Is there any other way to get the update?

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What are you trying to transfer over?

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The Rerware My Backup Pro backup files, because the app couldn't find them. The path was wrong and I can't figure out what to change it to and there is no option to browse to the files.
 

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The Rerware My Backup Pro backup files, because the app couldn't find them. The path was wrong and I can't figure out what to change it to and there is no option to browse to the files.

KitKat won't do any good for it then. Blocks write to external storage by apps.

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KitKat won't do any good for it then. Blocks write to external storage by apps.

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Same thing happened with the app I use for backup--Super Backup. It changed the path to some circuitous mess that when edited back to storage/sdcard1/.... it worked fine. This is only one of the irritations I've found with kitkat. I could live with that, but I can't live with the degraded wifi and 4g performance. Jury is still out on battery, but indications are that it is poorer under kitkat. Sometimes I think that Google wants to keep writing code, just to justify their existence. I wish we had a choice in accepting these "change for the sake of change" updates.
Edit: I thought I'd better post to correct this post regarding Super Backup (SMS Contact backup). Turns out that editing the path back to the old location only worked to read. The app could not backup (i.e. write) to that location. The app's author did his due diligence and created the required folder on the sd card, and that's the only folder it can write to (on the sd card). I now understand the logic for google doing this--it's a security thing. I can live with it, but those who use apps that haven't complied with the google requirement to write only to the specific folder will have to wait for the app authors to catch up. I still don't like kitkat--my battery life is horrible, and wifi sucks as well.

Bob
 
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I believe that I am experiencing reduced wifi and 4G/3G.
Actually I am seeing 3G more often than I used to, in areas where I would have received 4G.

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I believe that I am experiencing reduced wifi and 4G/3G.
Actually I am seeing 3G more often than I used to, in areas where I would have received 4G.

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I am the opposite I have experienced vastly improved WiFi. Did you factory reset?

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I am the opposite I have experienced vastly improved WiFi. Did you factory reset?

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Yes. That's why I was surprised to have no room on the internal storage.
I wiped cache and did another factory reset and there is more room, now.

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