DROID RAZR M: 4.4.2 KitKat Update

[The Lip]

I use the standard calendar in my phone. When I have an appointment on my calendar that is at another location, I get a notification when it is time to leave based upon driving time. The notification used to be my default sound ("Dash"). It would sound once, and that was it. After installing Kit Kat, the notification is this annoying, almost grinding sound, and now it repeats over and over again until I tap on the notification bar. I haven't been able to find the setting to change this. I have searched the phone settings, calendar settings and Google Maps settings. If the appointment has no location then, as before, I get my default notification just once; this only happens when there is an address in the "location" field. Any thoughts where I can find the setting for this?

 

[A895]

I think it's time to formally announce my first Android application, SocialFall.

It's been in the market for a little while now as an Alpha release but I felt it was time to move into Beta and to start talking about it a little.

The reason behind SocialFall is that I felt their was no easy way to just watch twitter go by. There's plenty of ways to look at your friends and your timeline but looking at trending topics or the public timeline was never particularly easy. So I set upon a task to create a way that the user could watch whatever area of Twitter they wanted to and do it with minimal interaction. That's how SocialFall came to be.

Its currently still in development which is why I've given it a Beta tag. I'm developing it pretty quickly (it's my only thing on at the moment, besides work) and I'm open to any and all suggestions. I'm ideally looking for feedback right now and whether you feel you'd ever use it (I find it most useful to watch Trending Topics).

Currently you can't log in but that will be coming in the next release and it will add lots more features such as following users you find and watching your timeline.

You may notice this is my first post here but I have been around a little while. Android Central has been my main source of Android news since I moved to Android from Crackberry.

Phone setting maybe under sounds.

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[paswes]

For me personally I use the Smart Actions app on my phone. I never could remember to set my cell on silent anyway and it helped me.

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[A895]

For me personally I use the Smart Actions app on my phone. I never could remember to set my cell on silent anyway and it helped me.

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I'm glad they kept smart actions. Motorola Assist on my Moto X was good, but it's not as technical as Smart actions is. I have a music player launch on headphone plug in profile and a low battery profile.

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[pizza_pablo]

I couldn't find how to add a pic to a previous post.....
This is what the dialer looks like in landscape (like when in car dock), during a call. Hard to choose a number, especially when trying to enter PIN, while checking voice-mail:

 

[A895]

I couldn't find how to add a pic to a previous post.....
This is what the dialer looks like in landscape (like when in car dock), during a call. Hard to choose a number, especially when trying to enter PIN, while checking voice-mail:

Download another dialer.

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[pizza_pablo]

Download another dialer.

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I tried pixel phone, but could not figure how to make it the default, so, incoming calls arrive in the stock dialer.
At any rate, why should it be acceptable for the stock dialer to be hosed?

 

[A895]

I tried pixel phone, but could not figure how to make it the default, so, incoming calls arrive in the stock dialer.
At any rate, why should it be acceptable for the stock dialer to be hosed?

I don't think dialers are usually used in landscape. At any rate, just be glad we even got an update. I was afraid we was going to be left behind for a while.

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[pizza_pablo]

I don't think dialers are usually used in landscape. At any rate, just be glad we even got an update. I was afraid we was going to be left behind for a while.

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Jelly Bean dialer didn't have an issue going landscape.
So, new software is better than usable software?

 

[A895]

Jelly Bean dialer didn't have an issue going landscape.
So, new software is better than usable software?

It's a dialer. You can download another one (I use KitKat Dialer). Its not unusable software, it's a small complaint.

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[jabo052]

Would the fact that I'm still hitting "Install Later" for the 98.18.94 update keep Kit Kat from showing up? I can't find it. May not matter since my M is rooted and bootloader unlocked or that's what I gather from the comments.

 

[A895]

Would the fact that I'm still hitting "Install Later" for the 98.18.94 update keep Kit Kat from showing up? I can't find it. May not matter since my M is rooted and bootloader unlocked or that's what I gather from the comments.

You can't stop it from showing up.

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[jabo052]

You can't stop it from showing up.

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So I have to install that update for the Kit Kat update to show up?

 

[A895]

So I have to install that update for the Kit Kat update to show up?

I don't know. But I do know you can't stop update notifications from showing.

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[Jeffrey Olynick]

Re: RAZR M: KitKat Update

Don't know if Verizon and/or Google scan this site but just in case:

Google is turning into just anther version of Apple and it sucks. This latest update sucks and reduces capability overall. I hope someone comes along soon and kicks both your butts with better software and UI. I refuse to upgrade my phone to this mess...

HERE, HERE! For those of you who are answering "just download another app" - WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO DO THAT!!!!!! I liked my M the way it was before and don't want to have to spend lots of time playing with my phone. It's not that I'm not capable - I'm a technologist as a profession - It's just that I do that stuff every day at work, I don't want to have to do it for my wife's phone when I get home. It should JUST WORK out of the box. Like my S3.

 

[SamuriHL]

Yes... But it doesn't. And no amount of angry posting on a forum that moto doesn't read is going to change that. You can choose to live with it. You can choose to write to moto who I'm sure will be most sympathetic to your cause and immediately push out a fix. Or you can attempt to solve the problem. There's not a lot of other choices.

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[double_0_7]

There's a difference between "It does kinda suck, but complaining won't work" and "It's not that big a deal," which is a895's thing. "Who cares that everything I liked just stopped working, and I need to spend my time and energy downloading second-rate solutions. I think that's awesome!" I don't generally comment on other posts, but it is kinda frustrating.

When you take something that has been working for us for years, then force us to sit by while you ruin it, that's annoying. The whole point of the internet is to have a place to pointlessly complain. The inevitability of it all, the feeling that this train we're all on is headed for a wall and we can't get off is very frustrating.

That said, my actual question is this: Can I just keep clicking 'install later' forever?

And as for how frustrating it is, I downloaded the update, absolutely hated it, then gave that phone to my girlfriend, and craigslisted a 4.1.2 razr m...So I'm not just sitting back, I actually hated the update enough to do something about it.

 

[A895]

There's a difference between "It does kinda suck, but complaining won't work" and "It's not that big a deal," which is a895's thing. "Who cares that everything I liked just stopped working, and I need to spend my time and energy downloading second-rate solutions. I think that's awesome!" I don't generally comment on other posts, but it is kinda frustrating.

When you take something that has been working for us for years, then force us to sit by while you ruin it, that's annoying. The whole point of the internet is to have a place to pointlessly complain. The inevitability of it all, the feeling that this train we're all on is headed for a wall and we can't get off is very frustrating.

That said, my actual question is this: Can I just keep clicking 'install later' forever?

And as for how frustrating it is, I downloaded the update, absolutely hated it, then gave that phone to my girlfriend, and craigslisted a 4.1.2 razr m...So I'm not just sitting back, I actually hated the update enough to do something about it.

Then that is your initiative. I am not saying who cares, I am saying KitKat literally made your phone faster and compatible with all the latest apps and games and under the hood improvements like better web browsing rendering, and lower RAM usage which translates to better multitasking. I have no complaints honestly, and I am not one to complain considering how much better my phone is compared to what it is on 4.1.2.

You can keep pressing install later, I will enjoy my phone for what it is with this update. Nothing stops you from getting another device altogether.

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[double_0_7]

To each his own, I guess...

 

[SamuriHL]

If you're rooted, freeze the updater apk and it'll stop nagging about the update.