[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
What say fellows? Yeah, we got weirdness here. I am kind of disappointed with this build. It is not terrible but there are apparent annoying issues that pop up over time. I have 02/02 now for a few weeks, did not like it at first 'cause I could not OTA to it, got a weird app count on reboot, and it seemed to require some "settling in" to be stable. I dumped it next day, too busy with jobs and appointments to fuss with a finicky phone. But Mr. Chen did give ia a fair shake and liked it. I will say that the manual install went well, everything worked, seems smooth, and even the Power Reboot to Recovery menu was fixed.

I have been looking for just the right, late build of cm11 to put on stock but I don't think this will be it. Some of the builds were really good, ran them for months, like 11/07/14. That one I liked and I never had a problem with it for two months. I don't remember if the Power Reboot to Recovery menu worked, I think it did. I did not get the FC error and it was pretty good. 01/26 is really good but had the bad reboot menu.

The quirks that show up over time are irritating and frustrating. I am texting someone hard to get a hold of, then, my MMS sends are hanging. Astonishing, a reboot does not fix this! I had to reinstall 02/02 over itself to get the messages sent and by then, my chance to text this person could be gone. Rebooting for sound or voice typing, again annoying and if it happens when I am en route to an appointment, that would be bad if I needed it. This is disappointing, man.

I don't get it man. CM11 was "da bomb" and we all stuck it out for over a year. A lot of work went into it and it was a shining star. Then CM12 comes out and CM just abandons it. Wow, freaky man. So close and then what, all for nothing? CM will release a tarnished rom and that's okay? Sad. :(

I really cannot tell you about the snapshots. I got excited about them way back, installed one, found out it was "nothing special" and that the newer nightlies had features and bug fixes the snapshot didn't have so I never bothered with them again.

I am bummed and have to think about this. Now that I have only one phone, I need a really good rom. But I want all the cm11 features. The maps, nav, hotspot, tether, and everything else. To have to experiment with new roms means starting all over again, setting everything up, trying it out, don't like it, try another one, and so on, and so forth. Not looking forward to that, AT ALL.

"Tired of the mess". I hear ya. I am getting tired of it too. What hurt the wost was just abandoning such a good rom that could have served us well for the entire year to come while waiting for this "magic" CM12 to do the Underdog thing and "Here I come to save the day!!!"

I might put 11/07 back to see if the power menu and tether are working. If so, that rom had everything I needed and never gave me an issue. I have it online if someone wants it but I need something that does not require a reboot or reinstall at any time to clear up monkey business. I am too bummed and tired to talk straight about this now. Tired, going to watch TV and fade out for the night. I will look closer into your mod, Jack to see if it does anything I want, need, or even just give it a try. I won't say that 02/02 is bad, but it has let me down a LOT now, several reboots to clear it up and now a reinstall to get MMS to send? Whoa, that is an issue.

I have to think about this and experiment a little more. I will get back to you. Thanks fellows for the replies! :good:

Update:

I had to reinstall 02/02 over itself with new gapps to get my MMS messages sent, a day late and a dollar short. The rom seemed okay. Put on charger last night, used the phone today, and after a call, I wanted to call someone else. My dialer, People app, Dolphin Browser, Camera, and app drawer are all in the bottom bar that appears across any desktop. Now *that* is gone. ...scratch head. I cannot make a call. I can't get to the dialer app because it was on the bar, I cannot get into the app drawer because that is in the missing bar, I had to hard power down the phone to reboot it and get it back.

Wow, this is astonishing. It is possible that to go completely clean and put everything back by hand might fix it, a lot of work, and even that might not work. Ouch, I got to come of with a fix for this, maybe downgrade to 110/7 and test that out. Downgrading might carry crude in the data folder with it. Or find and restore a backup from it, then I lose all upgrades and text messages. Man I am getting a headache. This is not so much complaint as it is a PSA that this new rom may not be all that and a bag of chips that I thought it was. I have others confirming "the weirdness" but no one saying they are running 02/02 for a month and never had a problem with it. Has anybody ran 02/02 for many weeks and never had an issue?