[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah, you are right. I have a 16Gb insternal SD Card but ½ of it is "gone" because our phones are locked t reserve that space and we can do nothing about it. 2Gb does not seem like a lot of space for a tasty rom and all of the trimmings that go with it, not to mention hardly ANY internal storage space. I bought a big external SD Card so I would have no room, but Kit Kat stubbornly refuses (Or maybe it is the apps themselves) to use the External card space for much more than storage.

I thought that if I could delete rom slot on AND 2, I would be able to create a "monster slot" of 4 Gb. Didn't work. Once rom slot 1 was deleted, the ONLY thing I could do was recreate it. If I tried to delete another slot, I ended up at the create slot 1 screen. Can't be done. But I could see I had about 4 Gb free on the card so 700Mb is reserved for System, another 300Mb for something else, I forget what it was, and the Data partition I could bump up to 3GB. That would be good, right? Restoring my backup to the new, "mondo slot 1" didn't appear to make any difference. I had pretty much the same space as I did before. Hovering between 800Mb and 1.2Gb at any given time. :(

I reinstalled Greenify again because it seems that the very aggressive memory management on Kit Kat has mellowed out a bit. Radio apps like Slacker, Pandora, Scanner Radio, and other non-essential apps were running and I use Greenify to put those bad boys to sleep until I need them. We only have one Gigabyte of RAM on these phones and that memory is precious. I do not want to squander it, waiting for maps to open while driving, because a bunch of non-essential stuff is running and using memory. I do not think that Kit Kat is "stupid" about memory, it may only be allowing these apps a very tiny footprint in RAM, but for now, it gives me comfort to know what is and is NOT running right now.

I really *love* the latest nightlies and have been updating OTA every day. But my phone started slowing down quite a bit, ended up with black screens again where I tap power, buttons light, but not screen. A couple of times I had to force a power down to reboot. But I am finding that when I tap power and hard buttons light, give it a little time, maybe press the home button or something, and wait several seconds and the screen will light.

I am not blaming this on the nightlies, it must be something with my phone and system. I reverted from 05/29 back to 05/21 which I know was pretty good and am still testing it. I can make plenty of backups and experiment, but for now, I will stay here for a while just to "get a feel for this phone" at present. But as far as I know, the current nightlies are pretty darned good. If you have a recent build installed and are quite happy with it, I would strongly recommend that you make a Safe Strap backup of it, just in case. Oh, and rename that backup. The stupid names that Safe Strap gives these backups is so long it goes off the edge of the screen and gives you no real information.

I rename them like this:

05-21-14--05-24--good

First is the build date, separated with two dashes, then the backup date, then two more dashes for comments like "good" because this was a good build. You do not get much room for commenting so keep it down to one or two words if you can. Thanks for your interest and support! :D

---------- Post added at 01:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:26 AM ----------

I think the new builds are very, very good. I just reverted to 05/21 because I was having black screen and sluggish phone issues, but cleaning up some of the caches might have fixed it, I am going to update back to 05/25 because if I remember, that was a really good build and then take it slowly from there. Thanks for the report! :good: