[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
GPS, Dalvik, gravity box anyone?

Experts, Developers, People with near perfect XT912 phones, and anyone with ideas based upon experience, please read and chime in if you would.

Hey Caleb or anyone who might know,

I am having a nice run with CM 11 but am plagued by seemingly stupid problems all the time now.

Every day the GPS just stops working. NO satellites at all. If I wipe dalvik, they all come right back, GPS is great.

Gravity Box does not nor has not ever run. When I try, it tells me "waiting from response from System Framework", then gives up and tells me "GravityBox system framework not responding. Exiting." I never fixed that one.

The module that is supposed to have no function other than to load Xframwork modules to the bottom of the System menu, installs, but does nothing at all.

Alright, this is what I can think of right now. I was having problems of "No phone Service" at times when I am in a signal saturated area. Switch to stock, works fine, wipe dalvik and boot to CM11, works again. Phone would freeze up every day, I get no calls or msgs for hours, think it is quiet day, and find phone is frozen. Only thing can do to stop it is to hard boot the machine by holding power and vol down until it goes OFF. Then start up again and works fine.

Last night, I removed rom slot 1, recreated it, flashed a good recovery to it, forgot to wipe cache and dalvik, flashed cm-11-20140124-NIGHTLY-spyder and gapps together, froze during flash, had to hard shut off, went back, wiped slot, recreated, flashed a good working backup (Or so I think), then wiped dalvik and cach, flashed JBX-Kernel-2.1-Hybrid-4.4_2014-01-21, and rebooted. Working fine but for above list.

Something ain't right. I am downloading cm-11-20140125-NIGHTLY-spyder now, but what is the sense in updating it over what I have? Something is broken. What?

Possibilities:

Using Apex Pro launcher, not google or one comes with rom.

I have one or more incompatible apps that are corrupting the system.

I used to flash the wifi patch each time but had to toggle airplane all the time to make it work, stopped doing that, works now, but the backup I am restoring might have this wifi patch in it.

I really hate going from complete fresh to a brand new flash, totally clean, because then I have to setup *everything* again. Maybe this is the only way to get one, known clean proper install?

Cannot think of anything else.

What would corrupt the dalvik every day sooner or later to wipe out GPS? No GravityBox, ever. No idea of what it even looks like. Been 24 hours since last "clean" flash over an existing backup. But I am not sure my two backups are perfect. I know they work well, but do not run them "as is" because they are older versions of CM11.

Main problems in past 24 hours was lost GPS and some Xposed Framework stuff does not work like GravityBox. I cannot have GPS conking out like this while driving. By the time I boot to recovery, wipe and rebuild the dalvik, and system is ready, I am lost or reached my destination already. NOT acceptable.

I have one absolute dream rooted blur VZ rom w/out bloat, came from Matt's Droid Razr Utility. That script gives me a great working rom with NO problems and the included Razr Blade rooter works like a charm so I only need one blur backup. Two CM11 backups but I cannot swear they were installed perfectly now. They are known to work well but like I said, I was constantly flashing wifi even after it must have been fixed because no one else is reporting it. I stopped flashing it, WiFi works perfectly, but I could flash a good, clean one now if I tried.

Delete rom slot 1 and recreate it.

Flash latest cm11 rom file.

Wipe dalvik and cache. Flash pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.2-20140117-signed as they were the only ones that ever worked.

Wipe dalvik and cache again.

Install latest jbx kernel again.

Reboot to system.

Go through entire setup from factory again!

Install to activate Xposed Framework again, reboot.

Install Apex again with Pro key?

Rebuild all my desktops again.

Allow Titanium restore my previous system ID so I can get my paid apps back.

Restore anything missing from Titanium Backup and that may damage if data is installed.

Test for at least 24 hours, if no issues, make recovery backup. (Is this what you call a "nandroid backup"?)

Don't know how to get it any cleaner than this.

I do not restore data in Titanium Backup unless same version of ROM and build. There are a very, very few that I have to restore data with, one or just a couple.

This would give me a known pure system but take forever to setup again and I absolutely dread it because it will take so long to get everything right. And then what if Apex IS a problem and I installed it. I ruined my one and only known perfectly done install?

The wiping and flashing is not the issue, that I can do in an hour. The installing all accounts again, setting up desktop again, letting Google put as much as possible back, making my desktop setup again is what all takes "Crazy amounts of time". I need some way to test this "fresh clean install" before going nuts putting everything back.

Does GravityBox actually work? For sure? All phones done right? What does it do, is it important? Maybe that could be a test, go through all this "fresh setup" and at first chance, try GravityBox to see if all works in the Xposed Modules? Cannot check GPS because it seems to take a day for the dalvik to get messed up enough so I see NO satellites.

As far as I know, the dalvik is the "Virtual Machine" that Android creates to run itself and speed up booting. Wiping it and watching it rebuild at boot seems to clear up all sorts of problems. Dalvik only, not even cache. Just dalvik.

This is really bumming me out man. By now I should have a near 100% perfect CM11 install. Yet, I am plagued by little problems every day now with each flash or restore. Phone locks up totally and I do not know it until I miss many important calls. My GPS goes out while I need it the most. Some Framework modules do not seem to work at all, but most do. Not Gravity box. It has never worked, not once.

Thumbnails of current system attached now, About Phone. Somebody please help me, I am dead tired now and need to slow down and get some feedback before I start spinning my wheels in the sand again.

Anybody welcome to offer tips that have experience or good, solid ideas or thoughts. Thank you.