[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Clocks and Firewalls

I do not use any firewall at all in Android, at least not personally aside from what is built in. Android/Linux is a very secure OS and the chance of getting a virus or other nasty is, "slim to zero". You can stop Google from gathering your personal information, either by opting out or freezing in TiBu (Titanium Backup), but you will loose a lot of functionality by doing this. Google has never sold out it's customers to advertising, but as a public company now, they do block certain things like ad blockers, etc. Being able to search for "gas" or "pizza" and find one close to me is a very nice feature. By blocking Google totally, you would have to be very specific when you search to find something close or relevant to yourself.

You might want to try turning your firewall off to see what kind of horrible things that might happen. Make a Safe Strap backup first to give yourself comfort with something to go back to, in the event that something you do not like occurs. If you have no way to totally turn it off, freeze it in TiBu for a while to test. You can easily unfreeze the app in TiBu at any time.

You are very welcome, Allen. At a time when I am looking for things to uninstall to lighten my footprint on the OS, I never actually experimented with atomic clocks. I just assumed it to be dead on accurate. My phone clock was, pretty much accurate but off by about 38 seconds. Not "horrible" but for a perfectionist, a bit too much. Easy to correct though, one tap of the sync button in ClockSync and I was back on time. Checking now I see that it has drifted again by almost 15 seconds. Interesting to see these two clocks running and not being in perfect sync. I could make this clock update constantly to be in near perfect sync, but to have yet another service running on an already taxed phone is something I will pass on for the time being. The sync really does work good, immediately corrected offset of 14 and several decimal points of drift. Thanks for telling about the atomic clock. This is a very interesting and handy app to have. :good:

...heh, my local time offset now is -.061 seconds. Such precision! :laugh:

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Awesome, I am downloading it now. If 2¢ has luck with a rom, chances are it will be a very good rom for everybody as he has APN and other issues that are worse than most.

You know, we are all acting in concert these days, testing new builds, helping each other, distributing the "Thanks" tokens as they were made to use. It is really nice to see the group moving like a well oiled machine again. When our developer, Stargo had to lax up on all the attention he spent in this group, and our faithful tester, Jake was gone, we were kind of lost here. No reporting, no one would install new builds and test, waiting for "someone else" to do it. And for good reason, the nightly builds were a disaster and nobody wanted to risk tanking their device on a new build.

But we got over it and climbed out of the hole. Now people are helping, they are testing and reporting, they are loosening up the purse strings and are giving Thanks, and everything just "feels right" again. Way to go, "[ROM][4.4.4][CDMA/GSM] Official CM11 (M9 Snapshot Available)" thread members!

09/05 download complete, installing. Thanks for the heads up and report, 2¢! :good: