[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
My goodness! What a healthy conversation response we have here. Everyone who replied gets a healthy "Thanks" from me. I asked for a response and I got it. :)

[MENTION=2591917]TheHarbinger[/MENTION] you have gotten some really good answers here and they are all correct. First thing I want to address is the ext-sdcard. Yes, Casper is right, I do have a SanDisk 64 Gb ext-sdcard. And [MENTION=3315635]neoramasay[/MENTION] was right to tell you that ext-sdcard space cannot be used to load roms. It is strictly for storage or if you can setup some of your apps to run from sdcard. Safe strap only uses the internal card space and installs itself to the stock rom slot. The ext sdcard space is excellent for storing your music files or for camera use. Great place to store large video files that you can make with the built in cam app.

How to move your stuff from old 16 Gb card to new 32 Gb card? Well, since it is not part of the OS itself, you can do this by copying the entire card to PC hard disk and then copying it back to new sdcard. Casper is also right about the Android OS being very slow and sketchy when transferring files over USB. Safe Strap does a *much* better job with this under the Mount option in safe strap. Use that to copy your files back and forth instead of with the phone running an OS. A nicer, faster way is to buy a cheap card reader. I got the Vivitar card reader for 10 bucks, and it is nothing but a flash drive shell with a holder for the sdcard. You plug this into your Windows PC and it will pop open like any flash drive. Great to use for formatting the card in Windows to ExFat and copying files very quickly. If you get the card reader, you will find a lot of uses for it, sure beats copying large files like video when you can remove the card and use it like a flash drive. When you are done, remove the card and put it back into your phone.

When I copied my 16 Gb sdcard over to the 64 Gb card, I got help from Mr Glass. He suggested I use the free tool HDD Raw Copy Tool and copy the card to an image file on my hard disk using a card reader. Then, when I copy it back to the new sdcard, I have to expand the new partition to fill the entire sdcard because the transferred image will be the same size, 16 Gb on a 64 Gb sdcard. I need to stretch it to fill the entire card. For that he suggested the free tool, MiniTool Partition Wizard. This did work but was a bit more complicated. If you want to make it simple and not have to buy a card reader, then use Casper's suggestion to transfer all files on old sdcard by USB in safe strap, over to PC, then back to your new sdcard the same way. This will work just fine. Casper gave you good advice.

Google Voice: You know I still do not know what happened to stop Google Voice from working on my phone. It did work and my settings were the same as what Casper has on his phone with voice model and work from any desktop. Those options are now gone and the OK Google does not work without tapping the search bar for me. Why it doesn't work I don't know. I tried several things, comparing the version of the app to what I have now and checking against previous versions. There is a lot of things one can try, wiping the card and reinstalling everything all over again, stopping to check OK Google each time to see if things are different. Go into other forums and try to troubleshoot the app. Try different rom dates, who knows. But this would take an enormous and time consuming effort. AND, it is not worth the effort, IMHO.

Google Voice is a total failure on Android phones and even more so on a Razr phone. It doesn't work the way it should, it is not Siri or Cortana, and does not perform the same tasks. You can do Google searches with it, set timers and reminders with it, allegedly give app and phone commands through it, and none of these things work or when they do, you could have done it by hand in a fraction of the time. It is not a convenience, a time saver, or even a useful app. How do I know this? Because I was like you. I wanted a totally hands free phone that I could use in the car while driving and simply give it commands by voice and not have to touch the phone. It never worked out that way. By the time I ever got navigation help, I already reached my destination or passed it right by. I had to tap the phone anyway and often it would freeze up. If you tap search and even speak "where can I find Chinese food", you get a voice reply with several choices. Doing this by OK Google often got it wrong or I had to tap the screen to make Google listen and try it again and again. It never got dialer instructions or contact info right. It would take many minutes to do anything and often got it wrong. What good is a voice app that in 5 minutes, has still not delivered the appropriate action? This has NO value if you ask me so I am not willing to commit hours and hours and hours to troubleshooting it because I already had my trial of Google Voice and on a Razr, it was a total failure. Maybe on a new, more powerful phone, it would perform faster, but not any more accurate. I also tried several different voice commander apps and NONE of them gave good enough results to use, at all.

If you really want OK Google to work, you can join the Google threads that support it and if/when you finally do get it to work on your phone, you will be bitterly disappointed. I am just trying to save you some pain with getting this app up and running. Ask others that do have it working how often they use it and if it saves them time or if they really use this app all the time. Press them for details and you will probably find they do not, or are still experimenting with it. I did find in Google searches on it, some websites where there are special versions of the Google app to enable it, and then a lot of advanced configuration to force it to work. I am not willing to do it because I had my run with Google voice on a Razr and I was very disappointed. I played with it for over a month and the reality was, I *always* reverted to plain old tap and use in every situation.

Good luck with the new card man! :D

EDIT:

Another possibility is to install a different rom on your phone in an unused safe strap slot. Put CM11 on stock if that is what you want and now you have all the slots free. Casper is using Pac-Rom with great success so install it on slot 1, see if your Google Voice works, and then experiment with it. Take an objective point of view and see if it really does all the things you want it to do. Spend some time with it, weeks, to give it and yourself a fair chance. This could be a fast way to try out Google Voice and find out if it is really what you need and want, before you go nuts trying to enable it in cm11. If you try it for a few weeks and decide that it really does not do what you want then you have your answer. If you find that you do like it, want it, and will actually use it, then download the app and config from the Google searches on "OK Google on android not working" and force it to work in cm11. I have been there, done that, and was very, very disappointed and got tired of missing things because I put my trust in OK Google. Remember, OK Google is NOT a voice commander the way Siri is and it never will be.

Note: This is only my opinion based on personal experience. It does not make me an authority on OK Google or even make me "right". You really need to hear it from others because "I could be wrong".

Has *anyone* here used OK Google on their Razr phones and do or did you find it useful or even at all practical? If so, in what way? Your input here would be very much appreciated with regards to OK Google on your Razr phone. Thank you for participating. :good:

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Wow, thanks [MENTION=5453977]jhb04jhb04[/MENTION]! This is exactly the kind of stuff that I was hoping to find out about. [MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION] swears that Tonyt's AKOP is the best rom and you are confirming it. Nice. And for Android L, you found a suitable, working rom that can run it on a razr phone? Liquidsmooth? This is very interesting. I have already copied the text of your post to a file that I can refer back to. If you have the settings for LMK from welder73 that you find are useful and helpful, I would love to get a copy of those settings.

As you all know, I am a cm loyalist because I like the setup and layout and, the roms have a good history of being really good roms. CM11 was amazing "out the gate" when I first tried it, over a year ago. So fast, so smooth, I never thought I would see this old Razr perform like that again. But this was early cm11, way before any of the features were included and enabled. Now, cm11 is nothing like when it first hit the scene and suffers from lag and smoothness even now that it is finished. And I am still loyal and use it. Whether it is snappy and smooth, or I have to wait a bit to get what I want. CM11 does deliver. I have an older phone, no matter what, it will never run like a brand new powerful phone again. Because it does get pokey sometimes, I would like to install and try something else. Pac-Rom has a good rep. Now this LiquidSmooth is reported to work well with Android L, very promising but, you are using a lot of bailing wire, tape, and chewing gum to make it run the way you want. This is not necessarily a bad thing, if you get the results you want. This is why I would love to see welder's settings so that I can duplicate it.

I have been looking at that Samsung Galaxy S4 in swappa and want it pretty bad. The prices are really good for it, too. I may end up joining you with that phone, that is something I want and is within reach. What kind of connection and antenna issues are you having with it? Need to know, want to buy that phone. Hey, thanks for posting, this was really informative. :D