[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
No we are not there yet. I have two issues. Xposed not working and marshmallow does not like my 64 Gb card. I put it in a card reader, Windows wants to scan it, found some little stuff and put it in a FOUND folder. Card works. Copied to PC anyway. Now on to Xposed. I went back to read your instructions,

"You'll need the installer.apk file and the v75-sdk22, arm64.zip files". That was for Lollipop, not Marshmallow. So I flashed the wrong file, anytime I booted up and reached the desktop I got a black screen, backlit, and had to hold power and vol down to shut it off. Big hassle with puttying in and taking out sdcards. I thought I would have to uninstall but I flashed the right Marshmallow file, xposed-v78-sdk23-arm64.zip. That installed perfectly now to boot to a lit up desktop. It was no longer black, but no Xposed and my sdcard not recognized again, this thing is going to format that card, like it or not. So I have it backed up.

After messing up Xposed a few times and fixing it. I got a recommendation to wipe dalvik and cache. That actually helped and got rid of the black screen. And guess what? Xposed is working now! I just ditched GB LP and must find GB MM. Found it, working on it, but awww, my APM+ is not working.

Yeah I am going to do this and make it all work, tonight probably. but this was no "walk in the park" the way you had me believing Baldy. :D

Finish up the modules, format my sdcard (which is best? See screenshot.) Then I guess I can find out and see what all is good about Marshmallow. Seems the same at first glance. Maybe some under the hood stuff? Maybe doing something with Notifications and Interruptions would be nice.

Man I want my APM+ module back, this Power Off only sucks. Oh man, black screen is back, wipe and reboot I hope. There has to be a conflicting Xposed module with MM now. Might be best to shut 'em all off and work on them, one at a time to see what changed. Not even a wipe cleaned up the black screen. I just ran the Xposed uninstaller flash with wipe. Maybe I can remove the modules from the app drawer. Get Xposed to work, and then put them back, one at a time and see if there are any issues with them in the Xposed thread for Modules. I really hope that this MM is worth it man.

Tell me about these layers when I get all this sorted out, K?

Alright, it is 3:00 and I want to get something done here so I have a working phone in the morning and get some sleep. :p

Baldy, I found a list of my Xposed modules and attached the screenshot from Lollipop. I do not use CPUFreq anymore so that can go. Have installed the MM version of GB but have not wiped out the data for it. You see anything in this list you know to cause problems or items you know to be okay?

I am such a dummy. I had Xposed up and running and had my chance at picking through the modules and didn't do it. The ATE is the Android Theme Engine and has NO issues in Lollipop and that is one of the modules that appeared to be working properly. Any tips here would be appreciated. The only way I know of now is to remove/disable Xposed by flash, then remove modules either by app drawer or TiBu, but there are some modules that have no UI and they may not make an app icon to remove. Probably check apps settings for that. Everytime I have to wipe is another 15 or more minutes before I hit the desktop, ...or not. :(

Yeah, anytime I wipe out my Xposed Framwork with the zip flash, I get my desktop back. Some module is not working and is messing up the systemui really bad.

Yeah, it's really late. I did want to get this done tonight. Black screen issues were all incomparable Xposed modules. Here is a good thread to help you guys with this:

[UNOFFICIAL] List of Modules working on Xposed for Marshmallow

Issue settled. Now about formatting my external sdcard. There is no escaping this and it sucks. See screenshot. Marshmallow will not let you have your ext-sdcard as before, to a point. You have to format it before you can use it so copy that entire thing to your hard drive in an empty folder. A card reader is excellent for this. Now you must decide if the card will always be in the phone or if you plan to remove it to say, copy pictures or something. If you say you will keep it, then ALL of your internal sdcard space disappears and all you see is the space on your External SDCARD. The internal space, and I paid for 32 Gb of it, simply appears to "vanish". It does not vanish actually, but it is now assigned to the system and is totally hands off to you, the owner. If you take it out, all data will be encrypted on an ext4 format and you will not be able to read or see anything.

Portable mode is just like it was in Lollipop. I chose Portable and my card got formatted in like 4 seconds. Out of 40 Gb of data, I am now using 1.64 GB out of almost 60 GB. Everything else is gone, but I will put it back.

If you choose to format as a a portable device, you can remove it from the phone and will see internal and external storage in file manager. To understand this, best to read this article about it:

Guidelines for Marshmallow users - formatting options for external SD cards (Portable vs. Internal modes)

Okay man, really late. Last thing is to copy my data back to the 64 Gb card and I am done. Then perhaps I can look around to see what it is that is supposed to be "good" about Marshmallow. 'night guys!