[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Wow, Meneldur, you actually took the time to address almost every issue. I appreciate it but it wasn't necessary. But, thanks!

I hope that I "didn't come on too strong". You are a Senior Member and no doubt know at least some of this stuff, how much, I am not sure. But for the sake of "Guide Writing", I have to assume the OP has little to no experience so that I can write a complete guide. I intend to use this same guide, again and again, so I have made a copy, complete with XDA formatting, to repost when necessary. You *are* smart. You *are* experienced. So for someone like you, take the issues that you find the most useful and use them. I am sorry and did not mean to be "insulting" if that is the way I came off.

Yeah, I know. Making backups and restoring them is a bit of a time consuming process. I bought the 64Gb sdcard from Amazon because I intend to keep this phone for a while and can always take the card with me to another phone. Thus, I have more room to keep backups than most. Even still, I do use a USB cable to connect phone to PC and actually, I do it while in Safe Strap because the Mount button allows you to open Windows Explorer windows for both internal and external sdcards where I can drag and drop files. When I get near 15 backups on my card, I pull maybe 10 of them off to the PC and only keep the backups from the past month. I could delete the oldies and probably should, but, I am a pack rat of sorts so I will get to deleting the oldies later, rather than sooner. Just as long as I get them off the device. Learning the trick of mounting your sdcards to PC in Safe Strap is not that hard. You tap Mount, check internal and external storage only, plug in the USB cable to PC and tap "Mount". Often it does not work immediately so I remove the USB cord, plug it back in, and there are my two sdcards, wide open in Windows, easy to do. Whether you do it in cm11 or Safe Strap, it needs to be done. If you are short on space, I would suggest ES File Explorer or AirDroid to move a few over to PC through WiFi, it is not that bad if you do not have too many backups to move.

I think you have the basic principal of what to do now. The guide I wrote may be more than you need, but it is a handy checklist for you to use in the event that you are overlooking anything, I hope. ;)

Android Tuner I thought was really the cat's pajamas at first, but it was a horrible module that stomped on the system so hard I might have well just disabled one of the CPU cores and called Android Tuner. :laugh:

What tools you want to use is up to you. Greenify and Titanium Backup you do indeed have. What to put to sleep is up to you. I do not Greenify Google services as the phone pretty much runs on them. I do knock out Facebook and still recieve the alerts from it with the Experimental features enabled in Greenify. For Greenify working mode, I use "Boost" instead of Root. You may have to recheck this after updates as sometimes it will go back to default root. I currently have every box checked in the Experimental menu of Greenify and so far, it is working well.

Ack! Apollo is back again. If you use it, no need to remove or freeze it. If you do not use Google Play Music, take it out or at least freeze it. You need Titanium Backup for these tasks as this is a system app and cannot be removed or frozen easily without TiBu. I do freeze default SMS app because I use Go SMS Pro. I have no need for the Exchange stuff and download the replacement Email app from the play store and get rid of the 4.4.4 version as it is for Exchange mail.

The entire idea is to install clean and keep it that way. Find what is keeping your phone up with a tool like Wakelock Detector and then put them babies to sleep in Greenify or, if not needed, freeze or delete them in TiBu.

I am not "100% correct here", no one is. But we do the best we can with our own devices and when we learn new tips and tricks, we use the ones that work for us or take bits and pieces and use them like that. DumbleCore has one of the fastest, slickest, and long lasting battery phones I ever heard of. But, his policy is "Scorched Earth", that's where I got the name from. I made it up for his strategy and he actually has the song or band on CD and likes the music so he is okay with it. He literally does take out

everything

that is not required to have a functional running phone. Of course his phone runs great with good battery. It has nothing else to do but "be a phone". Like you, I have too many other things I really need and use to adopt that policy, but I take portions of it like disabling all sync, updates, and auto updates I do not need.

I, like you, started tuning the phone from different areas like the Settings menu, Trickster, GravityBox, and Android Tuner until I realized that these settings are overlapping and I have too many different areas to check and update than I can manage. A good running cm11 rom does not need all of these super tweaks to run well, so I do not tweak in every place I possibly can anymore. That can cause a LOT more harm than good, thus the KISS rule. ;)

I do use the ONDEMAND CPU governor in the Settings menu though because I like it and it makes my CPUFreq in Statusbar module very accurate. I did check out this module very carefully after the Android Tuner Pro disaster and it has little to zero impact on the system, so for me, it is good and it stays.

I think you are going to be alright, bra. You have the skills to pay the bills and now have a handy checklist to refer to when needed. Keep it clean and stop apps like Facebook from running away from you.

Oh! And you are a good member, you did tap my Thanks button for giving you what you believe to be good help. Thank you very much. Good man!

Good luck, my friend! :cowboy:

EDIT:

I could tell by the words you were using and the obvious frustration you were showing that your phone situation is nearly exactly the same as what I dealt with for most of the past year, until I go the new phone and decided from scratch, to build my phone correctly and maintain it that way. Yeah, I would complain like you and got the same answer all the time, "Go Clean". I didn't want to hear it because I new I would be right back in the same boat within a week. So this time, I did "Go Clean" and cut services, updates, removed stuff I don't need or use, and just employed all the techniques I told you about in the guide. This time, I was successful. And I am doing my best to keep it this way.

Oh, and all of those redundant backups I made along the way? I did have to restore some of them because I did not always get it right along the way. At least I did not have to start from scratch and put all accounts back in, etc.

Once you get black screens, FCs, bad signals, lockups, self rebooting, and other bad things like this, it is too late to clean it up and take better care of it. Now you really have to start out clean, all over again, save the clean install so you do not have to go back to ground zero, and build it back up. This time using all the proper techniques. And backing up your progress so you do not have to go back so very far to get your system right again when things go South.

I am quite certain you do not want to hear this stuff now and have no plans to start over again.

But believe me my friend, you will do it sooner or later, depends on how much you can put up with. Once the system is corrupted, you cannot fix it, you have to install it all over again. Once done, with the proper backups, you will be on solid ground again.

But you are experienced, you will know what to do when you have to my friend. ;)