[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Sure, you got a Thanks.

I have only one Google Account. I use it for everything Android, and a lot of internet stuff. But I don't crap it up with joining spamming website emails, coupons, offers, or any type of commercial transaction with a well known major store. My friend is "not hurting for money" so she "shops" for recreation. She is a single widow with a dog and a cat, that is her poison and she is responsible. Only buys trinkets but WAY too many. She watches QVC as if it were a fantastic TV show sometimes! She hires me for computer service, anything technical, or lessons. One thing I could not break her of until too late is she crapped up her one and only main ISP email address with every store known to man, so emailing her would never get a reply, she had to wade through 50 or more spams a day to see if there were any "real emails" that she just gave up. I went online to her ISP account and created her a new Email Account. She also has a Live-Hotmail account that she never uses so I instructed her to NEVER use this new email address for ANYTHING but email to friends, insurance papers, or family. Anything else she signs up with the junk Live account. Now for the first time in over 5 years, she gets and receives real, genuine email.

...getting off track here. Like I said, only one Google account. Titanium Backup does not change *anything* just to run it. It will ask for root rights, grant it forever so it can do it's job and make backups, and that is it. There are Xposed Modules that will allow you to change your system ID, but none of them so far can retrieve your old one. Titanium "Knows" because it finds your old backups, which, by the way, are from CM11, immediately notices the change in system ID, explains that paid for apps may no longer be accessible and asks you once if you want to restore your old ID or keep the new one. I used to keep the new one because I could not see what difference it made, until something I use every day "stopped working". I paid for the British Victoria svox voice because I find it much more friendly and classy than that brassy American woman on Google Maps. I also paid for some other apps but because I do not use them often, would not notice. I checked and svox (Free) was installed but Victoria was gone. I went to download her again. Said "Trial or purchase". Huh? So I restored it with Titanium Backup, got Victoria back. Next day, she was gone again. I am not playing this stupid game, my next install of CM11 I did restore the ID and was allowed to download her as well as any other paid apps. Not ALL Google apps use system ID for verification, some just use your Google account purchase receipt as proof, on file. But with those apps, you can "restore" a paid version to let's say, my tablet and it works fine. So some are now using system ID.

Titanium Backup (Purchased) does not do *anything* to your system other than change the system ID number back to what it finds in your backup files. Nothing else. So for those paranoid about using Titanium when updating CM11, you can and should restore your system ID if you have paid apps. Backups also change *nothing*, only use space on the SDcard, I use External. And I use Dropobox and Gdrive to keep 3 and 4 histories of backups for each, tablet and phone. For phone, stock blur rom and CM11. Deleting my CM10 backup files now as I have no Safe Strap backup of it on the card, have one on my PC, and have some Titanium Backups on PC and cloud drives if necessary. I doubt I will go back to CM10.2 or CM10.1 anyway, CM11 is pretty slick now.

Restoring with Titanium Backup *does* change things. Only re-installs the original app and gives choice to restore app only or with data or just data. If it comes from the same major release such as CM11, you can restore apps safely but should not restore data. I do restore only a few select apps data because they come from a build that is very close to the current one and the data system for apps has not changed. But in general, never restore data, only apps, if you use Titanium Backup to a different major release or if development is very immature like early CM11 where BIG changes in everything were common every day. It is still in development now, but stable enough where I could do a few, choice apps so as not to lose all the setup data, password manager data, or game scores.

IMHO, it is not something to be afraid of IF you use it properly. Guides are all over the place and they all agree.

It had been over 24 hours and this install is smooth as "butta"! I already deleted one backup and replaced it with this one. I now know that my two backups of CM11 came from roms installed when patching everything in site was mandatory and jbx kernel fixed the rest. There is no way to get that stuff back out again so any attempt to upgrade on these backups is like building your house on sand. You build on bedrock, NOT sand, else your house slides sideways into the earth. This is "A Bedrock Build", meaning it came from the 1/27 rom and gapps ONLY. I deleted my slot1, recreated it and bumped up ALL spaces by one notch. I added my accounts, restored apps I need from Google and just a few from Titanium Backup where the data was much to lose. And only very few of those. They are close enough to not disturb the filesystem and it shows.

If I am wrong, it is either the Titanium Backup restores (Not likely) or some not so good xposed module installed or configured wrong. But at least I can run this phone now, enjoy it, and depend on it. I rode around today, testing GPS and Google Music. Tested WiFi numerous times, Bluetooth always works as does the WiFi AP. Camera does save to ExtSDcard, and is definitely High Definition. What is to complain about?

Only by sharing our experiences can we help others who are frustrated, pulling their hair out, and let the devs know what is wrong, what works right, and how clean the install is. I told others with these problems many times to go completely clean, but found swallowing my own medicine to be a very bitter taste. However, it did work, as I though it would. Will keep you all updated, even the bad stuff if and when it comes.

I still think the guy who said some of these nighties may be harmful is right. The devs try something that makes a major fix, with little or no testing, later find out it has serious bugs, and removes the code from the next release. Only problem for us that "just had to install it" have no choice but to "go clean again" to be rid of it! (Or have a known good, "Bedrock Backup".)

'night guys!