[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Uh, ...wow! I don't know what to say. Long post, congratulations and thank you, [MENTION=4977351]DumbleCore[/MENTION]. What you are telling me is that you pretty much disabled *everything* and made your phone, ...a barren wasteland. I suppose that is one way to do it. :p

Don't get me wrong, I *did* ask for this advice and it is a bit more than I expected, but it is very much appreciated, nonetheless. Yes, I am going to do something like this. Pretty extreme, I do sync contacts and play store, pretty much everything but I supposed manual contacts with vcf is a way. TiBu does have an "accounts" app that I think if restored, would put back all the accounts, but you are saying not even Google. I like Google Device Manager, it would let me long and loud ring the phone anytime from the web page, show it's GPS location, even wipe the phone remotely if lost. Funny thing now is Device Manager is now saying I have no active devices and my phone *is* in contact with Google.

Having the Google Device Manager is/was a pretty good thing, I get really freaked out if I misplace or lose the phone. Now *that* isn't even working anymore. Heh, Google is suggesting that I buy an android device to use this service. :(

Yeah, I guess starting fresh is probably the only thing I can do. I am hesitant because I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1 with exactly the same OS, build date, and load out and that has a 1GHz processor, but never, ever bogs or slows down. Ever. Why the phone? I have to keep it a barren wasteland or "go clean every two months"? Oh my! I allow app updating because having to download 30+ updates is annoying and does slow things down.

...so you do not sync anything at all? I do need my calendar synced because that is where I keep and make all of my appointments from. Mostly by desktop, then they appear on my calendar. Funny how everything else can work with Google, but not the Google Device Manager anymore. Can someone else please check this link and see if your phone is accessible from your Google account?

There is a Help page for Android Device Manager Here, and I have done these things, yet nothing shows up on the Google page!

Got it! At the bottom of the Help page is a mention of hiding your devices from Google and enabling them again. There is a Play Store Setting page here and when I visited it from my PC, I was logged into Google as my mother (She is 92 and I have to help her sometimes), I logged out and logged in as me and there is my phone and table! Showing in GPS exactly where it is and giving me all options to remotely operate it. This is a really nice feature, DumbleCore. I would hate to lose it. When you ring the phone from here, it is LOUD and lasts for maybe 5 minutes making it very easy to find if lost and in your proximity.

...you have to excuse me, this "no sync, barren phone" is a complete 180 for me. It will take some time to get used to this concept and I will have to allow some things through because I depend on the calendar and GPS navigation. ...phew!

This is so funny, "The Scorched Earth Phone". LOL! :laugh:

Man, if you strip cm11 down *that* bad, NO sync, NO updating, NO accounts active, NO nothing, yeah, I guess it would be a pretty snappy phone as it does not have much else to do. :p

I really have to roll this around in my head and it is a good strategy. I would never have thought of this myself unless I was being a smartass or something. Thanks, for real. :good:

Alright DC, I did ask for this and I am grateful for it. Thank you. Thank you very much. :good: