[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=1472623]d.casper.b[/MENTION]

Of course I will answer you my friend Daniel. It is quiet here because the release of CM12 literally lit a fire on the new rom to be. Why am I not using it? Because, it is still in it's infancy, so much of it is broken and being worked out. I took CM11 when it came out because I loved CM10 so much, every update was grand, it worked so well, it was powerful and packed with features, yet it was so similar to the stock rom that I had no issues in finding my way around in it, yet one can theme it and change it to look however you want.

So there was nothing left in the OTA updater on CM10, or at least, the very next update was "CM11". And I almost tapped on it too, until I realized it was a full version higher than what I had and I knew the update would totally fail. So I checked out this new "CM11 Thing" and it looked pretty good. Not too difficult to install or try out. But you had to flash a WiFi patch zip and install the moto cam apk because these two items were not working in the new rom. Hmm, not so bad. Let's give it a try. But backup my precious CM10 first, of course!

I wiped my slot and did the install thanks to harkun's fantastic instructions as the OP of this thread. I booted up, did the install wizard, and then finally had my chance to try out this new CM11 thing. ...WOW! Now this was Fast! Jellybean and CM10 was really good but it was bogging down pretty bad by this time. The apps got so big and bloated, then the games and other apps learned some neat new trick to never quit or exit the app itself. You could pretend to exit or tap the Home button to get out, but the app would still run wild, on a system with wide open internet access. A spammer's dream come true. I was getting really pissed about this because aside from the spamming and intrusion potential, the phone was slowing down to a snail's pace.

CM11 took off like a rocket on the very first launch! Such aggressive memory management, it beat down those unruly apps like a red headed stepchild! No more "Snail Phone", this was "da bomb"! CM11 worked so good since day 1 that it became my daily driver right away. Not all updates were good as we soon found out, but one could always restore a backup and with the diligent build reports available, it was easy to keep your cm11 phone up and running, slick as snot. :laugh:

But CM12 is not like that at all. Nothing wrong with that of course, it is a very, very new OS and our phones are already well beyond their expiration dates so I do not expect CM12 to work well on a Razr anytime soon. But Michael will make it happen. I just really need a dependable phone. I just sent Comcast back all of their equipment, they were beating me ten new butt holes with their bills. I never agreed to pay $250 a month, I wanted to pay $120 and made that perfectly clear, but Comcast would hear none of it, make my bills arrive with payment due just before I got my disability, turn off the service, demand well over $200 to turn it back on, and slap me with a $50 reconnect fee every month. When they cut service this time, they cut the customer loose. I won't give them another dime. AT&T is great, I get more channels than I know what to do with, 4 HDTV boxes instead of only 1 with 3 low res "Adapters", plus a 4 stream DVR that can be run from any box in the house. All for the $120 I wanted to pay. Just no house phone because I never wanted it to begin with as I must keep the bills low. So now my Droid Razr is the one and only phone and must be up and running, reliably, all of the time. I cannot do CM12 under these circumstances. :(

Casper, you got your SSD running for gaming, what game are you playing? I had so much fun with Saints Row IV that I downloaded the add on game, "Saints Row Gat out of Hell". And yah, this game is a lot of fun too! You get wings and can fly all over Hell, you can run up the side of huge buildings, run faster than cars and trucks and knock then out of the way, with cool weapons. This is great man. The original game was a little better, it was longer and I picked the female character and put her in the "nearly naked" G string and pasties costume. It was so funny watching her running up the sides of buidlings and whipping these wild weapons out of what, her G string, and kicking butt! :D

So what are you playing, man? Take care Daniel. We are all friends here. You have my email address and are welcome to drop a "howdy do" email anytime. Even if this CM11 thread dies.

I don't think this thread will die for a long, long time. CM11 is mature, everything works, and if you ask me, it is a magnificent rom. People want cool, rooted, always working roms on their phones and as far as CyanogenMod goes, this is it, man. At some point CM12 will become stable enough to use every day and not fear missing anything. It will probably be fairly stable on newer phones rather quickly because they have the hardware to run it. Michael has to do an end run around almost everything in the Razr just to get it running. And he is darned good at it. But for quite a while, CM11 will remain the rom of choice, I am reasonably certain.

So, drop a line anytime Daniel. Or have you still not gotten out of the hammock with the Pina Coladas and dancing girls to play any cool PC games? :rolleyes:

Nice to hear from you Casper! :)